Finish The Game Story

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You remember John Tusville? Remember the stories you tell us about the three children playing Phantan? Someone runs up to him and says, Hey, the world is coming to an end. First one says, Well, I best go to the mission and pray. The second one says, Well, hell, I'm gonna go buy me a case of Mescal and six horns.

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And the third one says, Well, I shall finish the game. I shall finish the game, Doc.

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Going through my archives and uh setting up the show, and I thought, what is that file? And it's something I used back in twenty twenty-three. Apropos for where we are uh in twenty twenty six, ladies and gentlemen, this is the Arterburn Radio Transmission. I am your host, Tony Arterburn, and I shall finish the game. I've got Beans the Brave uh just off-camera here to protect us from woodland creatures, bad vibes, and intruders always uh keeps the broadcast safe. Uh it is the 2nd of July 2026. You were listening to the official broadcast of the apocalypse. Uh, welcome back. Thanks for being here. My support group. Interesting times.

Greenspan, Gold, And Fiat Collapse

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I had a great conversation with David Knight today. Uh always keeps me on my toes. I never know what we're going to talk about. We we talked about uh the passing of Ben Bernanke, and uh I I was able to go through the Rolodex of my my memory bank and uh pop out a story. It was funny. He's like, I never heard that before, but uh if you noticed uh uh Ben Bernanke passed away and um, or not Ben Bernanke, uh Alan Greenspan, gosh, man. I'm my sometimes the wires cross, but uh Alan Greenspan passed away and he was head of the Federal Reserve after Paul Volcker, and uh he wrote a book on gold, you know, but he was a gold bug, and you know, it was a devotee of of uh Ayn Rand and all of that stuff. So libertarians and objectivists really couldn't stand him because he can't went to the dark side, like like Darth Vader, and you know, was very much a Keynesian. And uh one of the stories that I remember was Ron Paul uh going up to him at a White House dinner in the 80s and then handing him his own book to sign that he wrote on gold the gold standard while he was head of the Federal Reserve, which you know, folks, that's why we're in the mess that we are on so many levels, not just economically but socially, spiritually. Uh fiat currency is uh it really is the genesis of the collapse of a society. Like it to create value in something that has no value. And I was reading a tweet from Gold Telegraph today, and it really sums it up. Like the dollar used to be backed by gold, then it's by oil, and now it's belief. Now it's now it's psychology. That's probably not something you want to base a medium of exchange off of, you know. Um the the whole premise of you know, the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. That might be true, uh, but there's no value in something that is created out of thin air, infinitum forever, and backed by the full uh faith and credit of a crumbling empire. You don't really want to put stock in that. So I think we're in a we're in a completely new level now, and uh, it is July 2nd. Uh we'll talk. I've got an article, if we can hopefully get to it, uh, by Judge Napolitano uh today. And uh it's just covering some of the history of the founding of our country and then where we are today. And does this even make sense? Would this even remotely look like the outcome of 1776? You know, it's interesting, like

Illuminati Origins And Enlightenment Myths

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it's so funny. I I get I'm halfway between the esoteric and the rational. Um, and you'll find me like pushing back on stuff that in the realm of alt media that can be really stupid. Uh like there's a lot of clickbait stuff. You guys hear me talk about that all the time, but it's like real research followed by something just completely outlandish, you know. Especially the folks that think that there's like uh uh people that never die, you know, and they're like like Sam Tripoli is supposed to be Sir Francis Bacon. I can't wait to see him again in person because I I wanna I didn't know I was actually sitting down with one of my favorite philosophers all those times. Uh I gotta bring that back up when we meet next time. But the just stupid stuff like that. I mean, just completely intellectually bankrupt, uh, bad history, all that stuff that floats around. But it is interesting, you know, 1776, May 1st, you had the the birth of the Illuminati, you know, Adam Weissau and uh the Bavarian Illuminati and what that actually meant, you know. If you read the history of the Illuminati and like their uh their origin stories, and it's it's really murky. They're backed it, you know, I think pretty clear uh clearly they were backed by the Rothschilds and others uh financially to create this new order, and they used it to infiltrate groups like the Freemasons, which are most of our founding fathers, I think um, at least like what uh half or more of the signers of the Declaration of Independence for Freemasons. So, I mean you you can make this argue all secret societies are bad or whatever, but if you look at the actual uh intellectual origins and what the Illuminati wanted, right? It's not what Freemasons were wanting. It's not like uh there was the there was the Enlightenment at the time. You had um philosophers like Locke and Voltaire and Rousseau and all these, like the liberation of mankind from superstition. And you know, that's the reason you had groups like the Freemasons because they had these guilds, like they would hide and like and you had to have secret oaths and handshakes and all that stuff, so you could communicate inside a safe place to exchange ideas. I mean, you literally would be burned at the stake. I mean, you'd be a heretic, you know, for thinking about um, you know, how the how the earth revolves around the sun or scientific ideas, or you know, just think anything that superseded the supposed supremacy of the church was one of the big reasons why you had that order, but the Illuminati was not that. The Illuminati Illuminati was something different. It's kind of like when you think of Lucifer as the light bearer, and that's what the name means, uh, or the shining one, or you know, the most beautiful angel, you know, and then like the Promethean myth, how Prometheus gave fire to man. See, like to the Illuminati, the good guy in the uh Garden of Eden story is the snake, because he wants to give knowledge to man. Like, don't keep man in the dark, you gotta give knowledge to man to choose. You can you can be as gods, right? You can uh know between good and evil, right? So it's like this discernment or understanding, and that's why you say like ignorance is bliss, not knowing those things. But that's what the archetype for the illumined ones is, right? That's a singular thing that happened in 1776, and you can see like there's no accident that May 1st is also the celebration of communism, worldwide communism, because it you basically repeat yourself, the Illuminati, the system behind that is also about control, it's about the uh deconstruction of faith and tradition um because it suppresses them, you know, because they have a different set of morals. Like that's why there's no God in the Soviet Union, right? There's no God in communism, right? They take that completely out because God supersedes the state. The state is all powerful. It's an operating system, you know. And I think the Illuminati was, I'm not quite um, I was only like 50 or 60 years old by the time that uh they funded Marx, you know. Same group, pretty much. It's they had they had this shadowy group called the League of Just Men. And they came out in uh, I know this it's I think just is uh it's supposed to imply that they're fair, but I don't know. Uh that might be a good uh boy band name or something, I don't know. But uh that's what they they came up with, uh Marx, you know, and uh we should do a I need to do like a paratroop or like a complete breakdown on the life of Marx. It's fascinating stuff. Um just a total loser. And and you can see where his life is influenced satanically, but there's that that uh birth of the Illuminati in 1776, and then you also have the American Revolution. So don't confuse the two things, they're two separate things. And

French Terror Versus American Revolt

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a lot of people think that the American Revolution should be tied in some ways to the French Revolution. I think they're two separate things altogether. Uh the French Revolution was just like this awful terroristic bloodletting. If you read the Tale of Two Cities, and as a matter of fact, they guillotined everybody. I mean, even the guy that the Robespierre, who was so adamant about guillotining everybody. I mean, they shut down churches and turned them into the church of reason, like and they reburied or dug up people and reburied them. I think Descartes was one of the people that it's all of these philosophers and thinkers and uh people that they were uh wanting to repatriate into whatever new cult that they were building. Uh and you know, Thomas Paine was supposed to get the guillotine. Thomas Paine, who wrote Common Sense and the Rights of Man and all that. I mean, uh American revolutionary, uh, they were gonna kill him too. He just got they made a mistake, and the bureaucracy broke down uh at the Bastille and they put the wrong code on his door. I think they marked it with an X or something, and it was supposed to be a circle, whatever the hell it was. But um, yeah, Thomas Paine escaped the guillotine by an accident. But Robespierre, interestingly enough, and the way that a karma works or the way that energy works, perhaps, or just this life in general, uh like you cheer things on, you know, like if you cheer on war, uh bloodletting or the death of your enemies. I mean, it should be if you have to go to war, you go to war, right? If you have to take on your enemies, then you do it. And, you know, uh indifference is probably a better uh emotion, but probably more like a stoic have to uh is probably the best thing because if you're like Robespierre and you're really pushing it that you're gonna uh behead all your political rivals, well, guess who was the last person to get guillotined? It was Robespierre. And he'd been shot in the jaw uh prior to them take taking him to the to the platform, and so he's all bandaged up and he's trying to rattle, you know, rouse the crowd again. So he's it must have been excruciating because you used to control the crowd, now the crowd controls you. And he screamed out, they said it sounded like a dying tiger. So they had the French Revolution, then there's the American, totally different, and it was a conservative revolt. So never forget that. You know, the why we lose ourselves in the Declaration of Independence and other things, and uh love Thomas Jefferson, just absolutely adore Thomas Jefferson. Um he had so many great revolutionary statements. Um, but really the American Revolution, if you if you weigh it in the balance, it was a conservative revolt. I mean, the British, who you know, you had uh the concept of the Magna Carta and parliamentary rule, and uh the king became more of a figurehead in so many ways. Um they crossed the boundary of being, you know, a uh constitutional monarchy or something akin to that, to an empire. And then they just wanted to rule over, you know, that's the whole saying that the sun never set on the British Empire, you know, you had India, you had Africa, you had the colonies all over the world, and uh the Americas, you know, they basically took control of that, and then there's no taxation without representation, all that stuff. So this was this was a conservative revolt because the British had reniged on their promises and their tradition, left the Americans uh to start thinking for themselves because they didn't feel like they were integrated into uh the British system. So there's a lot of things that are interesting about the founding of America. And one

July 2 History And Strange Coincidences

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thing is today is July 2nd, which is actually the day that everything was uh ratified or the signing of the Declaration of Independence. It was formally done on July 2nd and then released to the public on the 4th. And uh, of course, you know, famously written um by Thomas Jefferson, although so many things like life, liberty, and property, you know, was taken out and uh Franklin had inserted um pursuit of happiness, you know, and things like that. Which turns out, you know, if you knew that, I've learned this from Donald Jeffrey's book, but uh supposedly that was one of Franklin's pickup lines. If he was at if he's in a pub a pub or a bar or something, he would uh talk to a lady and talked about the we wanted to join him in the pursuit of happiness or something like that. Um that you know they I think um Jefferson called the uh group effort of his like to correct him on his writing mutilations, like the mutilating the document. But that was uh July 2nd, so 7 and 2 is nine, and then July 4th, 7 and 4 is 11, so 9-11. So, you know, there's there's your esoteric weirdness. If you want to, it's kind of like Trump is the 4-5 and the uh 4-7, so 9-11 president. Something about that. Numbers are funny. Uh I think it tells us in the coded part of what we do, and you can get dumb on it, by the way. Like you can read in it too much, but I think it's probably uh a tell, kind of a wink from whatever, you know, from the creator, from the system that God put in place to like just you're not in randomness, it's not completely random. There's fate and there's also uh purpose and there's design in it. You know, something like that. You're you can pick that up through years of uh looking at history the way I do anyway. All right. Uh let's see. I will go to the chat today. If you got any questions or anything for me, I'd I'd love to uh to engage with the chat, which I I try to and then I forget. We get into articles and then I just lose the thread. Uh another story before I jump into an article, just a little bit more history, but another story of uh I don't know if you guys knew this, but Thomas Jefferson and John Adams died on the same day. I've said this before on my show, if you catch it, on around the 4th of July. Um but they died on the same day, 50 years to the signing and uh release of the Declaration of Independence. So 50 years to July 4th. Both of them died on the same day. And it's interesting, um Thomas Jefferson died right because they were separated by um a pretty long distance between Massachusetts and Virginia, but uh Thomas Jefferson died just shortly before Adams, and the last words that uh John Adams had fifty years to the day on July 4th, dying on the same day, is uh Jefferson survives. I always thought that was uh it's interesting, right? History has a lot of those uh strange coincidences, and uh I think America it shows what you know what man can do, right? It's like highest ideals, and we fall short

Power, Cynicism, And Broken Conservatism

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of that. And the problem with humanity is that uh psychopaths, sociopaths, if if you're willing to do anything, it's kind of like um Lyndon Johnson would say of his 48 campaign when he was up against the wall and you know, he had all these uh big donors like Brown and Roode and others that wanted him to become the next senator, you know, and he won by like well, he didn't win. He he won, but he didn't really win. He had a a box of fake votes out in Duval County. One of the things he always said was uh if we do anything, we'll win. If we'll do anything and everything. And if you're willing to do anything and everything, some yeah, you can win, at least in the short term. But then you look at him, you know, I think he's a classic example of like uh you want to choose peace over power. You know, it's a loot, it's it's very seductive, I think. If you want to, you know, if it's if the ego needs it. But if you look at Johnson and like years later, like right before he died, and I think he died in 1973, and he's uh before a conference in Houston and talking about the Great Society, you know, one of his failed ideas, and he's just popping nitro pills because his heart's like, you know, having he's having such bad angina, you know, because he had heart issues. But he's just popping nitros. And I thought, wow, is that where you end up? But supposedly he went a little crazy too. He grew out his hair and was smoking pot on his ranch. Like he just completely, you know, distress and all that stuff, even though you know you can bury your bad deeds, I guess, long ago, but somewhere in the human condition as a conscience, somewhere. I don't know if he really had one or if it's just all the bad energy got back to him. Who knows? You know. Uh, we shall see. This is uh this is an interesting part of the story for America. And I, you know, we're gonna be talking about that in the coming years. I mean, I trying to make sense of where we're headed. I I've been thinking about that a lot. You know, I look at uh our current political system, I look at where people are lurching towards, like what you know what opportunities have been put before people. And some of them are just false, you know, like conservatism in the modern sense uh has been a god that failed. Like it's completely failed, like the Fox News version of opportunity for all Americans. Like it it's because they have fruit of a poisonous tree. Like you go on to talk about having fiscal uh sanity, but also war forever. Like you can't do that, you know. You can't have war forever and fiscal sanity. You can't have you know opportunity for all and uh you know population replacement. You can't have uh, you know, you can't have a balance sheet, you know, you can't have uh people having savings in the American dream, but not want to do something about our monetary system. I mean, there's all of this stuff, you know, like again, it always just crashes against the rocks because I don't think that modern conservatism was built uh to actually achieve goals. I think it was just built to capture a people that instinctively want to do something based on tradition and then make sure that they are neutralized. That's my opinion. I've been following this game uh my entire life, and I've seen no positive changes. Like we just don't you look at the newest Supreme Court ruling. And that we rolled the rock up the hill for this. You can give us, you know, that birthright citizenship, you know, like what does that even mean? Like, was that really intended by the the 14th Amendment? Is that really what we what we're here for? You know, like is America just exists, like if you're in the inside the borders of the U.S. and you just happen to be pregnant and you just happen to be here and you have a child, so on the land, that isn't a naturalized American citizen. I mean, I that is it does that make any sense to you? Like, you know, just do I is this is this unique? I think it has to be unique on the globe. No other country would be so suicidal. No one would do that. I mean, you could literally infiltrate America, which I'm sure is happening. I mean, they have like the Chinese tourists who like they get their pregnant women to fly over here just in time, you know, all that stuff. I mean, and it's I mean, if you're a a migrant worker and you're on the lower end of the economic strata and you try to get your family here, I mean, hey, kudos to you. You're doing the best job that you can. You know, we allow it, so it happens. And you know, you just created a chain of migration at that time. It's just absolutely insane where we are, folks. And like there's no there's no stopping. In the train. I mean, the only thing that gets us to a place where we can start having a conversation about what actually matters is economic pain. And right now there's a float. You know, you can still, we have a meme coin economy. We have a meme coin stock market. You know, everything's a meme coin. All that stuff, all the fake on top of fake, it's built into the system. Our politicians are meme. We have meme politicians. Meme. Right? There's just nothing. It's empty calories. Like uh Diet Soda Congress. Like it's like, hey, at least with real soda, you could you get calories or something. You get you can you can burn something up. What is it that we're getting? Just completely fake. And I think a long enough timeline, you just you'll have to deal with that. Uh, and then we can have a conversation. But right now it's just not there yet. All right, let's uh let's jump into some stories. All right, let's see. Uh this was this caught my eye. Let me put this on the screen. This was over on Natural News, something to pay attention to. And I'll also do, I'll do, I'll just like machine gun through the headlines for on KitCo, and we'll go over that. Just a little bit of financial stuff. I know there's a couple of jumping off points. There's an article on on uh activist posts I want to talk about that kind of reinforces a thesis that I've been talking about uh for a while on cross-border payments. And then uh we'll see if we can finish with the Napolitano article. But yeah. Happy almost fourth. Uh you're doing this around the world. This is an interesting story to pay attention to.

Project 2029 And Digital ID Trap

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Democrats embrace digital ID agenda in Project 2029 plan citing child safety. Again, naturalnews.com. Who wrote this? Let's see, uh Douglas Harrington. A liberal policy group known as Project 2029 has released a plan that would ban social media accounts for users under 16. A proposal first reported by Semaphor as part of what it calls the Kids Over Clicks Initiative. Uh, the group described as a mirror image of the Conservative Project 2025 aims to set a standard for Democratic presidential candidates in the 2028 election cycle. Executive Director Chad Meisel, an Erstwell advisor to former president Joe Biden and New Jersey Senator Corey Booker, stated: we're going to see many people running for president, and we want to set the standard in terms of type of ambition that we want to see when it comes to solving these problems. Okay. It's interesting. Um you can tell like the veiled purpose of this is to get digital ID. So like everybody has to identify themselves. Uh, the internet slowly being choked off from freedom and anonymity and privacy, which is the whole point of it. You know, it's kind of like the whole point of cryptocurrency and cryptography and the cypherpunks and all that was to create anonymous money, you know, because uh privacy is freedom, things like that, you know, like this is the whole point of the internet, but they got to do something about that, that way they can curate. And they'll use the children as a backdrop. And I'm pretty sure I know why. The proposal is framed as a public health measure. Psychologist Jonathan Haidt, a supporter of the plan, called it the tobacco moment for social media, adding, the science is in, the lawsuits are succeeding, and public support is overwhelming. The agenda gives policymakers no excuse not to act. The plan also includes modifying Section 230 liability, capping data collection on minors, and prohibiting targeted advertisements directed at children, according to the report. The kids over clicks proposal, as outlined by Project 229, would ban social media accounts for anyone under 16, cap data collection on minors, outlaw targeted ads, and modify section 230. Yeah, and then age verification requirement and implications for anonymity. To enforce an under-16 ban, social media platforms will need to verify the age of every user, often through government ID, facial recognition, or digital credentials. Age verification systems act as a Trojan horse for government and corporate surveillance, according to global academics. Well, there it is. And it's funny, you frame all these things like for the children. Like you think of a group of people, uh, I mean, just politicians in general that don't care about kids. I mean, do you realize what kind of sociopathic, narcissistic, like toxic, devolved, degenerate you have to be to mask up, like put, like make sure that children who have not yet their brains have not started to notice on a subconscious level the all of the uh the subtleties of the human face structure and moods and everything, and then just mask them up for 2020. I mean, just that and give them shots and other things. I mean, all that stuff, right? Lock them down, put them in digitized spaces, like keep them out of classrooms and sports. I mean, you're really they ruined these kids' lives without any science or data or backing up of anything. I mean, in theory, shouldn't I be dead? Like I did like it's all all this. That's so funny. Like, I remember going through 2020 thinking, is there any, you know, one of the funniest things I remember, I was on air at the time, I was doing five shows a week. And I remember asking people, just write me, you know, if somebody's got this thing, you know, like let me know. I'm not seeing this all through 2020. And no one ever did. You know, I've been talking, I go on WWCR, I was on AM out of San Antonio. I mean, I was at another relay deal. I mean, plus my streaming, and like no one's like, hey Tony, yeah, I the whole thing was obviously just completely concocted. And we the collateral damage was all the kids, not just business owners and adults. I mean, you rob children of their ability to grow up healthily. You didn't have to do this. It's not, it wasn't, it wasn't necessary. Like that would be like a last resort of a last resort and a maybe, you know. It's like people always say, Well, it came out of a lab, Tony. I'm like, I don't care if it came out of a meteor. The response was the issue, not the thing. That's what they did, you know, to kids. Uh we uh collectively as a society, I mean, we give the Aztecs all this, you know, they would cut out people's hearts and cut off their heads and roll them down the steps, and you know, they they have their um sacrifices, or we're bad on the Phoenicians. I mean, they pass their kids through the fire, but I mean, we're racking up like in the West, we racked up some serious numbers. I mean, you think like 60 million uh aborted children? Like, I mean, that the Aztecs didn't have that. I mean, we we we we went way beyond, but we did it, you know, uh, we did it in a clinical way. So it's cool, you know. It's not, you know, it's not exactly, we're not exactly celebrating it, except they are, you know. So don't like I when I hear something for the children, like I know exactly what you're trying to do. And this is this is what this is. This is a Trojan horse to get lawmakers and other people that really do care. Like some people do care. Like, you know, let's yeah, we got to keep kids away from social media, which uh yeah, absolutely. I mean, you want to go ahead and ruin your life now or later, you know, like you want to go ahead and like feel the most like we have the unhappiest society in history because people think that social media is real. You know, these kids are they're not sophisticated enough to I mean, most people aren't sophisticated enough. Uh, and I it still can affect me. And I don't like I already know it's fake. I mean, I've been and seen people where their wife's yelling at them, you know, like just berating them to get into a happy mode, and then they'll take a family shot and everybody's smiling. I've seen it, and it's fake. You know, they want to portray like this we're having the best time. No, you are not. And people look at that and think, wow, I'm not doing so hot. Um, so I get it, you know, and then there's creepy stuff with social media and all this stuff. Uh, so I get that, but shouldn't that be, you know, I think that's something that you could do an ad campaign. You could just have uh parents, you know, be empowered to help their kids. There's there's some things you can do. It's the mandated problem and the issue of ID and all that stuff. I think that's what's next, right? They're gonna use this as like a jumping-off point for verification and then curation of the net. Australia enacted an under-16 social media ban in December of 2025, resulting in the shutdown of nearly 5 million accounts in the first weeks. Platforms like Facebook and TikTok must implement strict age verifications, including facial recognition or government ID uploads or face fines up to 50 million. However, Australia's Senate later passed a bipartisan motion to block mandatory age verification for search engine users, citing serious privacy concerns. Well, then you can get some window dressing and push back on it. Remember the left and the right paradigm in America. The left moves the agenda, right? And the conservatives or cuxervatives, they make sure that whatever is moved is conserved. So don't move much farther, and then they move farther, and like, okay, but just don't move much farther. I mean, that's my whole life. You know. Um we're in the the weak men create hard times. I think I said that last week. I think we're we're somewhere in there. Uh but that's you know, the country's not available for real people to have any sort of power. Um just won't tolerate it. The you know, we we don't truly understand the origin story of how we got here, you gotta look at uh kou bono, like who benefits, like who controls the country, who controls the elections, who controls access to capital, all of that stuff. You gotta look at that. And then it becomes a lot clearer, like, you know, that's why. Is it really the people? You know, is it really, do we really have a choice? Are we really making those choices? I I I'm not 100% sure. I still think America is a great place. I think like collectively, I think it's still a great place. I think it has still has a destiny, just because I mean the government is not the people, you know, the ruling class is not the people. Uh and I think more and more it just becomes, you know, you used to say that uh Washington, D.C. was was Hollywood for ugly people. And that's where you go, like, I just I don't even think that works anymore. I mean, uh people just despise it. Just despise it. It has a what did I say a couple of years? Congress has a lower approval rating than liver cancer.

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All right.

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Well, we can see this is um it's on the horizon. So be watching Project 2029. I know I will. Uh don't know, I don't know about I guess I can are libertarians, are you guys still around? You know, like somebody's to somebody needs to check on the libertarians, make sure that they're okay. See nothing out of them anymore. They just have it's so sad. They worked all those years to get a ballot access and then uh then Gary Johnson, right? All right, let's uh let me go to the chat real quick.

Chat Check And Community Updates

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I don't want to miss anything over in the chat. Sorry guys, I know I say I'd I'd get to you and then I get into articles. All right, let's get over into the chat. Uh yeah, I knew Shelly would tie it. Shelly Olmsted says uh libertarians are okay. I just I never see them anymore. I mean, they I know that they exist and they're some of the best people. I'm I'm more of a libertarian than anything. Um I should probably change my party affiliation. I think I'm I don't know where I'm. I guess because if you vote in the Republican primary and I ran as a candidate, I'd probably associate with Republicans, but I love libertarians. Um I just think they they're such uh individually minded people, it's hard to like have a coalition. The last thing that even come close was Ron Paul. You know, like that was a real thing. Like I love seeing that. Some of the best times of my life is watching Ron Paul and the debates. Uh let's see. Uh I'm not even I think some this is an assigned uh YouTube name. The Supreme Court is a joke. Birthright citizenship was only to incorporate slaves as American citizens. Yeah, I know. I know. And it's been bastardized and used by the um the international order of things, folks. That's our our own uh constitutional and our our sins. I mean, that was a sin. Like it was never um this should not have been a part of our founding. They did the best they could, you know, and uh we had to have a civil war over it. There was and they became the whole the the Jefferson said that about slavery. We have a wolf by the ears, you know, we dare not let it go. I mean the wolf will turn, and it did, and it's it's gravity finally has to kick in, and and it did, and it's a severe price to pay for all of it. And then you know, you have the 13th, 14th amendment. And um now it's being used uh for globalist ends. Uh let's see. Uh Travis 7984 says, Good afternoon, Tony. Thank you for Wolfpack. I've had my subscription for 10 months now and couldn't be happier. Well, that really uh makes me feel honored, and I appreciate that. Um you know it's funny as an entrepreneur, I look right and know that like we I could be so much do so much more with Wolfpack, and I think uh we we eventually will get there. It's a daily struggle. Like we do the best we can with what we've got, and uh to see positive feedback is always very helpful because I I worry about it every day. Like there is no there's no days off. Um I was in um Mexico and uh my girlfriend, she was she's talking to me about how I'm always on the phone. She took a picture of it, and I'll have to put it up sometime. I haven't done any social media lately. I just do my shows, but um that was one of the funniest things was just the entrepreneur. I'm always on the phone, even when I'm on vacation, we were handling things. I guess I I guess I'm built for it. Uh but thank you though. And then I see Kenny Effing Powers. Great handle for life, like Kenny F and Powers for life. You know, I need to watch he's bounded down just to just good for the soul sometimes. Uh I'm just I'm reading through the chat. I'm I gotta check Rumble too, guys. Oh, I'll be right back. Let me check Rumble. You guys think I forget about you, but I don't. Birdhouse blues. On Independence Day, the wise wolf always salutes the stars and snarls. That's true. How'd you know? Good to see you, Birdhouse Blues. Real Jason Barker says, I'm not sure what I am. I hate social programs because it takes all of our money, so we can't handle our own affairs. Yet people have paid in, so they should get something for that. Well, I mean, I I think that a social safety net is a wise idea uh at some level, and uh history shows us that every great wealth concentration is followed by revolution, and the way that you stave off having a massive revolution is you have uh some sort of uh safety valve. It's just the way human nature works. There are going to be some that will use their wealth and influence to create more wealth and influence, and eventually, like the robber barons, you know, had uh at the end of the 19th going into the 20th century here in America. Um, you had people like Jack London, who was the author of The Call of the Wild, which I highly recommend, uh, a biography written by James Haley called Wolf about Jack London. It's really good. And he was a socialist, but he'd also worked, you know, had been a worker. It's not like he didn't want to work. It's just like the the disparity between wages and ownership was just so massive. And uh so it it did leave room for argument that this system doesn't work. You know, capitalism in and of itself should work as long as you have equal justice under law. Like the law has to kick in. Unfortunately, those with the most buy off things and they end up skewing the whole system. It's why we have fiat currency today, folks. It's why we, you know, like the wealthy don't have they don't have pallets of cash like a tin-pot dictator or a drug cartel kingpin. They have assets, they have buildings, they have businesses, they live off debt. They love this thing. That's why you think of all that money and all that lobbying power. If it, if the income tax affected the rich, you think they'd get rid of it. They don't fight at all for it. Have you ever heard of anything like that? I mean, what used to be there'd be tax revolt people, like, you know, taxes was their big like platform. I don't even see that anymore. I mean, all that's been erased. Like, we just live in a meme coin. I just got that on David Knight this morning. We just live in this meme coin market society where everything's fake. And you don't even see them fighting for that anymore. So all right, let me uh let me get back to the last part of the series of stories I wanted to uh oh Shelly says, I speaking of Rumble, I can't find your channel on there. Um just go to America Unplugged, Shelly. If you're gonna go to Rumble, it's the America Unplugged channel. That's where uh we do a show on Saturday with Billy Ray Valentine and uh Donald Jeffries, the legend. You gotta go over there uh to uh to Rumble. America Unplugged. That's just I mean, I could have my own channel, but I'd rather we all broadcast together on that. So America Unplugged.

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Uh let's let's cover some more news.

Central Banks Buy Gold To Exit Dollars

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Uh yeah, I today when I talked to David Knight, and uh I mean, just the same kind of like just to refresh, like a little bit of stuff that's going on in the monetary stuff is uh over on Kitco, you have a couple different surveys from central banks, and you know they're buying gold. So, I mean, I I my thesis, and I'm gonna get to something here in a second that's gonna reinforce what I've been talking about for the last year. But my thesis is that it it hasn't caught on yet, obviously, the public or the greater buying market, but central banks are just gonna continue to buy gold. They're very bullish on the price, but that price isn't really the point. Um, they're de-dollarizing. It's they're replacing their holdings that they currently have. Uh, like I gave uh David Knight a stat this morning at last year, of all the central banks in the world, 71% held gold. Now it's 82%. So some of them are much smaller. You know, you're talking about every central bank in the world. Some of them are much smaller. So you had like most of them then would would conduct business in dollars and local currency or have other holdings, right? Treasuries, things like that. And uh they've dumped them. They're dumping them. Like, so it's like from in one year go to go from 71% to 82% ownership. Well, that just speaks volumes. So the all of that to say we're the new system's being built. And so that's pretty much. I mean you can look at all the price predictions and stuff, but uh I'm not worried about that. Uh if you know what's if you know what happens next, like in the in the game theory of all this, um they have a new system. And I think the ni new system is not based off an a currency that replaces the dollar, not a currency, it's a system. So let me put this up. Just happened to notice this over on Activist Post.

Putin, ASEAN, And National Currencies

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I'll cover just a second of it and then I got a couple more stories and then it's like I I went way long today. I messed up and went a little long, so I don't think I'll get to the Judge Napolitano article. But so this is over on my friend Charlie Robinson's uh site, Activist Post, which I proudly sponsor. If you haven't go over to Activist Post and subscribe, great newsletter. Uh Putin urges ASEAN to expand trade in national current currencies. At the uh Kazan Summit, uh Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday called for increased trade between Russia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, ASEAN, using national currencies, according to remarks made at the conclusion of the two-day uh summit in Kazan, Russia. The summit was attended by leaders from Brunei, Cambodia, and Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, uh, Myanmar, the Philippines and Singapore, East Timor, and Vietnam. Putin stated that Russia would continue supplying the countries with food and energy products and expand exports of higher value added goods, including fertilizer and pharmaceuticals. He emphasized the importance of switching financial transactions from the dollar to national currencies to improve trade structure and expand mutual investment. And this is background on the de-dollarization efforts. Moscow has accelerated efforts to move away from Western-dominated financial systems, according to officials. By the end of 2025, 85% of Russia's international transactions were conducted in currencies other than the dollar and euro, according to Maskim Orkishon, deputy head of the presidential administration. Aishan members have increasingly embraced national currency trade, the report said. Russia and China have long pursued alternatives to the dollar-dominated system.com noted the importance of Russia's announcement at a BRICS meeting regarding a new gold-backed trade currency, stating that China and Russia now know they must come up with a better alternative if they are to move or remove the dollar from their sphere of influence. Well, just a quick note there. This is we're living in clown world. Like the financial news, like you know, we I I was like when I was a kid, I was like, this is the smart set. Whatever. Like you've been proven wrong so many times. I mean, it's just and if even if you're right in the short term, like you're perpetuating uh an illusion. Like it's just it's like uh in the Dutch, you know, in the 1600s, like I got a lot of these tulips, you know, I'm doing really well, you know, and you should get tulips too. Maybe you or maybe you're doing well for a minute, but then it goes to zero. It's the same thing with the um the casino economy, and we're just not paying attention to this stuff. Like, you want to know where the wealth is, it's in the periodic table. Like you look at the Belt and Road Initiative, you look at what China's actually doing rare earth minerals, gold, silver, platinum, palladium, uh, you know, lithium, cobalt, all this stuff. That's what that whole program's for. And we're out, you know, fighting wars for Israel and uh blocking off the Strait of Hormous. I mean, just suicidal stuff. Like, we're not expanding trade routes, we're not expanding deals, we're we're threatening countries with a hundred percent tariff if they don't use the dollar. Like, hey, why don't we just really accelerate our demise? Uh look at what Russia's talking about. I mean, if the world doesn't use the dollar, see the dollar is like Tinkerbell, right? If you don't clap for Tinkerbell, Tinkerbell dies. Read Peter Pan. That's that's always a you know, I got that analogy from Christopher Hitchens, and I always thought, not about the he didn't use it for the dollar. Um, but I always thought it was fun. And I'm glad I use it. Over time, it it really works well. But it's true. Like we have this illusion uh that uh it just goes on forever, and it doesn't. I mean, I'm telling these are the stories that are hitting, and I'm just trying to show you in real time, like the structures being built, they're gonna use, and once that happens, and they won't tell you, you know, because they're gonna build their golden parachutes and all their stuff, they'll get together at their eyes wide shut parties and they'll figure out what trades they're gonna make. And you're just left holding the bag. Uh, I mean, I don't even know what's a great investment right now, other than something that produces. Like, that's where I mean that's like I said on David Knight this morning. I I could do and like investment stuff at this point. I'd make more money, but I don't want to. Uh that's not what I making money isn't the goal. Not necessarily. Just making lots of it. It's not the goal. I'd rather just produce something. And I think that'll pay off in the long run. You only have so much energy during the day. All right. Uh let's uh let's let's go to the final story of the day here. Okay, let's go to let me put this off the screen. And I think next time I come back up to Branson, you guys would laugh if you could see what I see. I have this, it's my grandfather's desk, and uh I've had it since he passed away in 05. And uh it's this really big flat top, and I on I've got two big screens, and I've got uh you know a desktop that I bought for somewhere along the way, about a year or two, no, two years ago, like the screen stopped working, and I don't know why, and I haven't had anybody fix it. So I've got all this apparatus and set up, and I'm literally just doing this off a laptop. I used to have so much more. I have to have a mouse moving, and I could switch screens, and I'm doing it off a laptop now. Uh, but we make it work, and I appreciate you um being here. Let me uh even with my laptop, even with the unsophistication. Let's do last story.

USS Liberty Resolution And Political Cost

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And I always regret when I can't get into a long article, but I we did we did some stream of consciousness today. Hope it serves you. It's always my intention. This is a press release I got off of uh anti-war.com. A rep Thomas Massey introduces House resolution to honor the crew of the USS Liberty. This came out a couple of days ago. Um today, Representative Thomas Massey introduced legislation to honor the men of the USS Liberty. The Massey resolution recognized the fallen members of the USS Liberty's crew by name and urges the president to declassify and publicly release all records related to Israel's unprovoked attack on the ship. 59 years ago, June 8, 1967, Israel attacked the USS Liberty in international waters, said Rep Thomas Massey. 34 Americans were killed, and 174 were wounded by the Israeli Defense Forces during the unprovoked attack. It is long overdue for the House of Representatives to pass legislation recognizing the sacrifices made by the USS Liberty crew. I am asking the House to urge the president to declassify and publicly release all records related to Israel's attack on the USS Liberty. You know, I've covered this story for years, and it never ceases to break my heart that we allowed um this to go uninvestigated for a reason. You know, we allowed this, and again, you read it unprovoked. Like they had to like the apologists, especially in the Israeli first conservative con conservative media, will say, well, they didn't know. They're unmarked, you know, uh aircraft that were supposed to look like they were Egyptian, right? So like the false flag got botched. But they came back again and again and again. Like this was uh clearly thought out. Like this wasn't an accident, like they didn't just come across the ship, think it was something else, and light it up. No, no, no, no. This was meant for effect during the Six-Day War, drag America in to take on Egypt and other things. Like uh the false flag didn't quite work. You know, we'd had the Gulf of Tonkin a few years earlier, and we're able to, you know, we're able to push that. But yet, you know, Vietnam going on. There's a lot more heightened uh awareness of things. I just for whatever reason they didn't get it right, it was clearly identified. And we have they have always pushed this to the fringe of like, well, this is like if you're some sort of like uh you know uh Nazi sympathizer, because you believe, or you're some sort of uh anti-Semite or something like whatever it is, they throw you, I throw out some pejorative. This has always been pushed to the corner of the the public consciousness because it tells a story, doesn't it? And I it and this obviously tells something too. There's a reason why Thomas Massey uh would they spent and just the money that's counted, right? Like it's the highest ever spent on a congressional race to oppose a sitting congressman by his own party. Like the none of this stuff has ever happened, but they it shows you like this kind of press release, like we're not gonna see another one. You understand? Like until we have, until, like I say, there's like a uh a new type of party or new political coalitions, like new I it can't be the Republican Party that represents the outrage of the American people, or that people that just thinking people, you don't even have to be a traditional conservative or something, you can just want a country, you know. And uh unfortunately the Republican Party is a conduit for that and to make it inert. And we see that because you get somebody like Rhett Massey, and they literally just throw him under the bus. The most uninspiring candidates, you know, it's not like he was taken on by somebody who was, you know, really great. It was all that money. And I do believe the voters got rid of him, and like primary voters are, you know, I've I understand it. Uh, but the interesting thing, you know, and good for us about uh it's well it I think it's a good thing in the end that um Massey got taken on so publicly, and then you get to see how just how dirty things are. It's good to you know get that dose of reality. You you really want that. You want to understand how things actually are, not just pretend and you know uh just go go into a trance and you know tap your shoes and say there's no place like home. It it's there is uh a beast system, right? That you have to you have to acknowledge. It doesn't mean it's all powerful. But people have have confused, they're like, well, why is Massey smiling? You know, why does he seem so jovial over it? Well, gosh, I mean, I would be. You get to leave DC. Uh you've got your congressional pension, you've already served, you're a martyr. They've spent records amount to destroy you, and they succeeded with like, again, uh whatever that guy's name, gal, right, whatever his name is, that they got rid of you with is a trained seal, and I mean like circus seal. Like David Knight says. I I think uh if you put yourself in his shoes, it's a it's a great honor. I mean, why wouldn't you want that? Now you have now you're in the catbird seat. You can literally just say what you know, people will listen because you were taken out by the machine. Machine doesn't like you. We're run and it needed to be exposed and needed to be said. This is what runs the country. Right now, you know, and the public will and the change happens slowly, and that's the thing, is the way all this stuff works. But the consciousness, every time you raise consciousness, every time, you know, if you expand a mind, it can no longer shrink back to where it was. So like once the new once the mind's accepted that the idea is real, right? That oh, this really happens. This isn't just a myth, it can't go back. So you start seeing the world in a different way. And then, you know, it's one of the I go back to the article I read why they want to start curating the internet is because it it expands ideas. You find shows that you go, I never heard that before. And then you can't unsee it. You know, not not everything is uh not everything's good, not every idea that you get expanded to is good, but most of it is, especially when you expand consciousness. So anyway, appreciate you guys being here today.

Ways To Support And Closing

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Uh, wolfpack.gold for precious metal subscriptions. Artiburn.gold is my website. Uh, you can go there. You can contact me if you got show ideas, anything you want me to talk about. Uh I probably will do a show earlier next week uh because I've got a doctor's appointment I have to go to. I've been waiting forever to get in, finally gonna get my knee looked at. Uh I've I've spent years taking care of my knee. I was 16 years old. I had it redone and I was able to go win world championships and jump out of planes for the army. I did everything, but I'm I'm 46, and so it needs it needs a little help. I think it's uh time for a tune-up. It's taking forever to get in, so I probably missed the transmission next week, but uh I will put out something. Okay, so be patient with me. I didn't give up on you. Uh, but you guys take care of each other from Beans the Brave and the crew here uh at the shop in Branson. You guys have a great weekend. Have a great fourth end of transmission.