Cold Open And Host Handoff

SPEAKER_00 0:03

We have before us the opportunity to forge for ourselves and for future generations a new world order. Good evening, folks. I'm William Cooper.

SPEAKER_01 0:40

That's when I have to leave one entrepreneur and water power. I'm trying to celebrate my radio trying to do it.

SPEAKER_00 1:58

I heard he's filmed the new movie, The Hunt for Glitch McConnell. It may take a while. So filling in today is going to be myself, uh Jason Barker, and Miss Think Change Repeat herself in her new home, Ashley. What's going on, Ashley?

SPEAKER_02 2:12

Hello there. How are you doing today? Um very happy to be here, very honored to ask to fill in for Tony. And yes, as you can see, my um my setup is not finished, not even close to finished. I have the basics, very sparse, but we're trying to make it work and do the best that we can with what we have and uh hopefully bring, you know, maybe a couple things that are not on the radar today. And I I don't know. I don't have much to say about precious metals except for you should probably try to buy some if you can.

SPEAKER_00 2:45

Yeah, I do want to talk about that today, but since we talked about Mitch, um, I know you got some stuff that fell off the radar, Ashley. You want to get to today, and I'm very excited to hear that because I have not been keeping track. So I need to get myself up to speed. So we'll jump to that. Uh, but let's

Mitch McConnell Health Blackout Questions

SPEAKER_00 3:00

go to Mitch real quick. I had some questions I wanted to ask you and and the audience. And you can leave your comments over on Rumble uh after the fact or even in the live chat. We got the live chat up. I see Harps is in there. Uh, what's going on? Harps. Australia is not real, but we'll just take your word for it, I guess, for now. But anyway, uh, so as you're aware, Mitch McConnell had a um not a stroke, but uh like a cardiac arrest event. And he's been almost a month now. Has it been a month already that he's been MIA pretty much?

SPEAKER_02 3:31

I think it has been close to that. And there's a lot of speculation surrounding the actual condition that he's in as far as his health goes.

SPEAKER_00 3:41

Right. And I'll go, I'll start there. You know, our friend Handy, he's an EMS from Georgia. Uh he's been on the show, and uh he contributes to David Knight with um information and observations. He's been for over two decades working EMS and uh he knows his stuff. Uh he says that um, you know, from all of his years of experience, when there's a cardiac arrest, already um the prognosis is not good. You're gonna make a full, full recovery. Uh, but the fact that they found him in the morning uh begs the question what time did the event occur and is there brain damage there? So that's the speculation going out there around right now. Handy seems to think that, you know, unless it just happened right before they found him and then called um for EMS support and stuff, that likely he's gonna be uh either brain dead or uh diminished in some fashion. And there's been a big blackout or silence on, you know, people are saying that they talked to him. Matter of fact, I got some articles here I can kind of read a little bit. Um, and I found out a lot of information about Mitch, which uh kind of made me respect him uh for what he's done in his life uh with the challenges he's gone through. And and I might get to that. But uh anyway, let me read this real. This comes from AP. Uh the senator's unspecified health issues comes after several hospitalizations in recent years. And as Senate Republicans are already navigating a narrow majority in the final months before the midterm elections, and pay attention to that because the midterms are coming up, so there could that could have something to do with it. And uh Bronxtopper, uh, our friend Derek um was mentioning in David Knight's chat earlier today that there's uh there's another state uh um that was going through this as well, where it seems like they're trying to kick the can down the road because it's gonna be so so fine. However, uh, I was reading that Mitch had planned on retiring after this term. Um, so I've kind of seen conflicting information on that, on whether he would run again or but regardless, we have at least one or more states that have no active representation um coming up on these midterms and stuff like that, and what it was going on all over the world, you know. So uh that's kind of concerning. Um, I think uh what was it? Derek had said that there is no replacement assignment in Kentucky, but uh there has to be a special election held. So maybe that's too much stuff that they want to deal with, um, that they don't want to deal with. So they're just gonna like whatever the condition Mitch is in, and we pray for him, of course. We pray for his his healing, but uh it could be just something to to as a placeholder. I mean, what are your thoughts on that, uh uh Ashley?

SPEAKER_02 6:19

I I agree. I think it's going to be really difficult for us to know, like so many of these situations, until we have the benefit of hindsight, unfortunately, because there's a lot of moving parts as far as the political situation. So we know that Kentucky is was recently on the radar for the um the re-election of Thomas Massey, and that supposedly it was massive, massive Zionist funding support that allowed him to be defeated. And so we have that element of just putting Kentucky on the radar and figuring out really what is gonna transpire here. Then, as you said, we have the issues with Mitch McConnell's health, and this is going back several years. You all established that, but there's a couple of instances where he did appear to just freeze, like he he couldn't, he appeared to be having some neurological issues on camera and not be able to speak or answer, and there's some other footage of him falling and things like that. So I don't really know. I think it's pretty clear, and it has been for a while that he is not in a position to be in his role at this time. Obviously, he's older, his health is not good, and it I don't think that this person should be, you know, I think he needs to retire. Now, having said that, what you're also talking about is the fact that we're having almost this weird media blackout. We had one member of Congress say that they spoke to him, then it became an internet meme. People on X and uh Instagram were joking around, and everybody was saying, Well, I spoke to Mitch McConnell, and I uh we talked for about 20 minutes. And that was the whole thing of this original tweet that went out, and he was very clear. And so Thomas Massey even put out one that said that he had spoken to Mitch McConnell for about 20 minutes, and he said that we should end the war in Iran and that we should um, you know, stop supporting the Zionist regime and stop supporting Ukraine, and he was sorry about his election. So there was kind of a joke element, but in all seriousness, it is very bizarre to clearly have something going on with a public figure such as Mitch McConnell and not have a clear idea of what's going on. Then you have other people like Marjorie Trader Brown, uh, Marjorie Taylor Green, who is saying that Mitch McConnell's wife is a Chinese spy. Apparently, she went to China after he had his health incident and or she was there and she didn't return home. So there's just a lot of weird things going on. And then I think we also have to keep in mind that we are headed into midterms and there's a lot of speculation about what the Republicans' game plan actually is. And I don't know, I don't understand. Obviously, the decision to attack Iran a few months ago was very unpopular. It appears that Donald Trump's approval ratings are some of the lowest ever, maybe ever, for any president. People have absolutely had enough. The average consumer is feeling very treaded on, you know, after coming out of the COVID years and the financial and familial workplace hardships that that caused for a million different reasons. And then to come into this situation now where people's gas prices have gone up, inflation has continued to rise, and now we've started wars with Iran. The war in uh Ukraine is still continuing. We were told that was going to stop. And the alliance between the United States and Israel is obviously stronger than ever. And that has allowed a lot of um, you know, geopolitical unrest, of course, because of the continued bombing in Lebanon, the destruction in Gaza. I mean, we really have a mess. So, what part is this situation playing in all of that? I don't think that we know yet. We can speculate and we can see where it's headed. I have had a theory, this is theory only, that the powers that shouldn't be were deliberately, you know, the narrative managers were deliberately trying to remove any sense of cohesiveness within the conservative umbrella or the Republican Party. And I think that that has borne out now, whether that was intentional or not, it has factually happened because we had the division of uh once Trump was introduced to the milieu, and we had never Trumpers, and then we have seen them be divided somewhat on uh Israel. We have seen some of the people that appeared to be more common sense, a little more constitutionally minded. And I'm saying this as an anarchist, okay? It's not like I was just in love with Thomas Massey or Marjorie Taylor Green or anything like that. But as far as what we're looking at, they were people in some ways that appeared to try to adhere more closely to the constitution from the conservative perspective, especially Thomas Massey. So, and we've had them be ousted really from the from the good graces of President Trump. We now have the introduction of Tucker Carlson talking about a potential third party. So to me, this looks like a setup. I have no idea that is speculation only, but we've seen a ton of division within the Republican Party. We had obviously the very adamant MAGA crowd, and then we had Q, and it's really been broken up into pieces and scattered into the wind at this point.

SPEAKER_00 12:04

I think that's a very astute observation. Um, the division, and we saw this when Trump first ran, and we had what is like 15 Republicans on stage, and they were all uh pointed it at Trump, didn't like Trump, didn't thought it was a joke, but then they turn around and they've supported him, and now they're fracturing again. And if we're talking a third party, what we're really talking about here is a blue wave, and uh, you know, uh possibly um the midterms and possibly the next presidential election, if if we go all blue, and then they turn around and use those same policies that were set up as precedent under precedent Trump, uh, like you know, gun control uh through executive order, everything through executive order. Um, and I'd like to talk about the war if we get to get to that, what's going on in um at the Strait of Hormuz and with Iran. Uh, I want to touch touch on yours first, but first let me let me backtrack a little bit. I do want to talk a little bit about Mitch McConnell um because I feel we should respect him. You know, he's ill right now, hopefully not dead. A lot of people are speculating that. Uh, but anyway, while he was uh Republican leader, this is some of his history. You talked about him having injuries in the past. Uh he was hospitalized with concussion in March of 23, missed several weeks of work. Uh after falling in a Washington hotel, he returned. He twice froze up during news conferences that summer, staring vacantly ahead for colleagues and staff to come uh before colleagues and staff came to his assistance. A year later, he fell and sprained his wrist while walking out uh of a GOP luncheon. He also tripped and fell in 2019 at his home in Kentucky and underwent surgery for a fractured shoulder. Now I looked into this and I and I have a a couple of questions I want to ask people. Um he had polio in his early childhood. And this is the reason for his uh difficulty in walking, is what they're saying, right? So he's prone to um I don't know, maybe he has a vertigo issue or maybe he has uh bone issues or something like that. And it also mentions in this article he often was using a wheelchair to get around. So now why I have empathy for that, and I'll say, okay, maybe um you know, I gotta have a little bit, like I said, empathy for his condition. We have to also take a look at, as you alluded to, Ashley, are these folks qualified physically and mentally to perform their duties to the people? And as an example, um, you know, I don't want to be hard on Mitch. I don't want to uh point at him and call him Mr. Turtle Man, Turtle Turtle, because he kind of looks like uh Dana Carvey in the uh what is the Master

Fitness Standards For People In Power

SPEAKER_00 14:45

of Disguise movie, uh, when he's got that anyway. Uh I reflected on when I joined the military. When I joined the military, and a lot of people say if you're in the military, uh you're dumb or you're a criminal, you couldn't do anything else in life, that couldn't be further from the truth today. When you join the military, the first thing you got to do is take a NASVAB test to qualify for certain jobs, right? And if you don't pass it, you can't even get in the military. But you have to have at least what I'm trying to say is that there is a mental evaluation or a knowledge evaluation that that takes place. And depending on how well you do, is what jobs you're offered. All right, and there's another aspect to it. Um, most of the jobs now in the military require some form of at least at a minimum a secret security clearance. Now, a security clearance, and then let's take a look at our politicians. I'm just trying to mirror this what it's required for a soldier, uh a private E1 soldier in the army who's maybe 18 or 19 years old, uh, versus uh, you know, a 57-year-old senator. Um anyway, uh, you have to go through the rigorous process of both obtaining and maintaining a clearance, which takes a look at your criminal history, it takes a look at your debt, it takes a look at your your credit score. There's a lot of things that you have to continually maintain, but do we apply these to our politicians, right? Can do they get audited on their financials? Um, Mark Young, he's in the chat right now. He he left links on uh the bribes that all these senators and congressmen get. It's a list of, you know, they don't call them bribes, but they're campaign donations, right? And then I'm sure if we cross-reference that with recently awarded um contracts for the military, military, uh, the medical for whatever, I'm sure that we'll see a return on investment ROI off of those bribes, if you will. But anyway, I just want to know the people's thoughts. I'd like to get your thoughts. Um, and and by the way, in the military, uh physically, you're continually tested twice a year, every six months you have to pass. Um your mental you know, cognition or whatever you want to call it, your mental ability is somewhat challenged. You get uh a monthly counseling statement that annotates, you know, E1 through E4. Uh, you get a monthly counseling statement that annotates everything you did, whether you did it good, whether you did it bad. So that's kind of in a way a uh cognitive type evaluation. Once you get into your NCO ranks, which is E5 and above, and I'm speaking of Army only here. I don't know, uh I know the Marines, the Air Force, and the um Navy have similar uh stuff they do. But once you reach the NCO ranks, that becomes critically important. You're supposed to get a quarterly counseling, which builds your annual report, minimum of annual. Sometimes you'll get them more often if you have a change of command or something like that. But that is a way of continually making sure that you're not losing it, if you will, that you're continuing to function and provide um assets to uh your unit. Uh, should we do this for our politicians? That's my question. I want to ask everybody. Please leave something in the comments saying how far should we go? Should there be an age restrict uh restriction? Should we start looking at term limits? Should we start looking at, oh, you've earned way too much money over the past two years? Um, there needs to be an investigation. So your thoughts on that, Ashley.

SPEAKER_02 18:18

Of course. But I think that these people should be required in the positions that they are in to be mentally competent. The problem is, and it has been for time immemorial, at least it as far as the United States is concerned, specifically, it is rules for thee, but not for me. And we obviously see that within uh these Congress critters, uh, people that make life and death decisions for other people. They have no, they have no skin in the game, so to speak, whether that is from a declaration of war, if it even gets to that point. It obviously is supposed to get there, but that rarely happens in today's day and times of forever wars. But they if they make disastrous decisions, there is never accountability for them. And this is uh specifically in this example, let's look at the Vietnam because that's what I've been, you know, I've been studying that. And there were many disastrous decisions, there were many atrocities committed. And of course, the other side did that as well. But I'm speaking about what happened under the rule of the United States. So we had these incredibly callous and disgusting uh events that transpired. So one of the ones that I think is one of the most egregious is Project 100,000. And that was under McNamara. And this was where, and you and I have talked about this, they lowered the IQ and physical standards that would be required to admit someone into the military, and they did that so they could send bodies to Vietnam. And there was never accountability for that, nothing ever happened to McNamara. Many of these people, maybe they had privately somewhat of a conscience. We don't know that. One thing that we do know is that um Lyndon B. Johnson in these tapes, tape recordings of him privately, he knew that it was an unwinnable mess. That's the best that I can say for these people. But as far as any other type of repercussions for them, they didn't exist. And that even happened in the My Lai Massacre. It was a middle-of-the-road person who really did not orchestrate the My Lai massacre that was held accountable for that. And even that was not what the situation deserved. If you're looking for justice, the other thing is that the My Lai Massacre was not an isolated incident. And I think in in some cases, some some things like that perhaps are discussed and allowed to be discussed because it gives the appearance of an isolated incident versus this is how business is being conducted all over this war theater. So just to tie back to what we're talking about, there should absolutely be standards for these people. There should be all kinds of standards, but here we are. They they really are are non-existent unless there's some some sort of political advantage to making an example of that person or to making them uh meet basic standards of mentation and cognition.

SPEAKER_00 21:39

I I would go once there was one thing I forgot to throw in there um on dual citizenship. My personal opinion is you cannot make an oath to the constitution if your allegiance lies elsewhere as well. Uh and we have a lot of problems with that right now. Uh I I had no idea we had that many uh representatives up there. in DC that were dual citizens with various nations. So yeah, in the chat and the comments, let me know what you think about dual citizenship. Should they have to renounce their citizenship to take a public office? And I'm talking all the way down to your um your local sheriff, you know, your county sheriff. I think that um you can't serve the people and another nation at the same time. I think that's a conflict of interest, in my opinion. So just wanted to throw that question out there.

War Powers Loopholes And Iran

SPEAKER_00 22:30

But uh going back to this and and we're gonna jump to your stuff first, but I'm gonna jump ahead real quick. I want to talk about because you mentioned the forever wars. We know that the this memorandum of understanding that has been thrown out now and now the ceasefire is called off this is a reset button that Trump keeps using. Right? They try to get out of the forever wars. Now I get I completely get it. If you are the Department of War, the Department of Defense, whatever you want to call it, and something happens, you need the ability to respond immediately to stop that action. We could take a look at Pearl Harbor we could take a look at um you know if they attack places overseas which I don't think we should be there but the point is if we're there and we get attacked or if if we're in a treaty that says attack one is an attack on all and we have to go assist an ally because we obligated ourselves legally to do that, then I can understand that we have to go now we don't have time to do a vote to go to war, right? That's supposed to come next as we're doing the initial reaction. But uh the War Powers Act and I I had it up here I can't find it now. Here it is. Okay so because of um you know Vietnam and other things like that uh the or just like forever wars as you said Ashley they enacted the war powers resolution of 73 and I'm just gonna read this right off of here it was a central legal framework governing the 2026 U.S. military conflict with Iran triggering a mandatory 60 day clock for congressional authorations uh that expired on May 1st 2026 so basically because of the war powers resolution um Trump had 60 days to get approval to continue operations there so what he's done is instead of having one long event which I have an article here where they absolutely 100% mention that this is a 110 day long war. It's referred to as a war over and over a war a war but we don't have a declaration of war and according to the war powers resolution we can't do anything anymore but what what we're acting as if these are all individual incidents you know we go to a ceasefire and then Israel lobs a missile now we're back at war and then we go to another ceasefire and then um one of our boats or some boat is attacked and then we go back to war. I think that this is a loophole that Trump is using to keep this conflict going and I think it's absolutely uh against our our laws but what is our Congress doing about it? Do you know what I'm saying? So I don't know it's kind of um and I don't want to get into the Iran thing too deep because I know you have some other stuff but um what are your thoughts on like because you're gonna talk about uh Ukraine we've pretty much got the same thing going on in Ukraine now they can tell us we don't have boots on ground there in Ukraine but we do because we're giving them missile systems that require people to be there to supervise it. They're just maybe like saying just push that button you know hey Ukrainian guy come over and just push this button but they're maintaining it so if we have boots on ground there and they know they also play games with boots on ground if I got people over in Poland so say I got 500 500 people there and I send only a hundred over into Ukraine to be advisors right advisors and advisory role um I'm not boots on ground until I reach over 50%. So they play those games constantly plus we also have we can send um civilian contractors over there as well so there's a lot of games they play to say that we're not at war but if we actively have American citizens citizens over there killing people from another nation or assisting then I would argue that we are at war and we need to have a declaration your thoughts Ashley and then we can go into the Ukraine stuff that you have for us uh that people have kind of um fell off their radar or

Patriot Missiles And Ukraine Escalation

SPEAKER_00 26:30

whatever.

SPEAKER_02 26:31

Well that was that was one of the things that I was going to say is that the um that Donald Trump has so there's an article from anti-war that Trump says he will allow Ukraine to produce patriot missiles and this is quote an escalation but an escalation that could end the war in my personal opinion only I of course think that that is BS um and the other thing about this situation so the you had mentioned this Jason that in Ukraine they're planning on starting to produce these weapons the uh Patriot missiles and I just did a search as far as what what is distinctive about a Patriot missile compared to what they have um right now like what what would be the benefit to them so this is just a general for it maybe well I'm sure um but this is just a general search but it said the Patriot which is the MIM 104 is a mobile long range surface to air missile system designed to intercept aircraft cruise missiles and critically for Ukraine ballistic missiles the last part is rare most air defense systems can handle slow moving drones or aircraft but shooting down a ballistic missile screaming in at several times the speed of sound in its terminal phase is a much harder engineering problem and how it's different than other systems according to what I'm reading here and I'm relying on this because I'm certainly not a weapons expert or an expert on anything. So uh it says that multi-target radar tracking is phased array radar can track and engage multiple threats simultaneous simultaneously rather than needing a separate radar lock per target. It's different interceptor types on the same launcher. So a PAC two missile uses a proximity fused warhead which explodes near the target while PAC three missiles use hit to kill. So they physically collide with the incoming missile which is more effective against ballistic missile warheads specifically so and this says layered defense that batteries are typically networked together so if one missile misses another can be fired. And obviously they feel that this is important for Ukraine at this time because uh from the Russian ballistic perspective the missiles that they have are the Iskendar and the uh Kenz hall uh forgive my pronunciations I'm sure I butchered those words that's also why supply has been such a bottleneck um patriot interceptors are expensive and slow to manufacture which is the backdrop for Trump's announcement this week that the US will license Ukraine to co-produce them domestically rather than relying entirely on shipments from existing stock. So I think that this is interesting that it is being framed as an escalation from the United States support for Ukraine. Obviously we were told when Trump was coming back into office that he was going to end the Ukraine war day one. Here we are all this time later nothing has happened except for escalations now apparently these uh Patriot missiles are not effective for cheap drone swarms so that's still a potential benefit if you happen to have cheap drone swarms but I think it's problematic because obviously the funding coming from the United States so anytime the United States is funding Ukraine or Israel or anywhere else then we are funding a proxy war. And then the other factor is exactly what you said we're able to make we're able to skirt around guidelines to say that we're not there or we're not doing X, Y, and Z. And definitely the mercenaries, even though they don't like being called mercenaries, the mercenaries are certainly um uh potentially a very important piece so we have these military contractors um and I'm sure that they have an intimate relationship with the you know with the civilians that are are going over there that are working for like a Blackwater or something like that. There's also precedent from the US military working with intelligence in order to say it's called sheep dipping. I think everybody knows what sheep dipping is at this point. But essentially my understanding is that the precedent for sheep dipping was actually set in Vietnam because we had illegal wars happening alongside the war in Vietnam in Laos and Cambodia. And the way that they were able to say that these you know these green berets or these special forces or intelligence is allowed to be here is because they're not in the military. And then they would cleanse the paperwork and they would make it look like they were no longer part of the military but actually they were working with special operations and intelligence. So there's a couple of different ways and precedent has absolutely been set. We don't know exactly what is transpiring at this time but I think we can use our deductive reasoning pattern recognition to say that it's probably going on.

SPEAKER_00 31:46

Oh yeah they've been doing that they did that all throughout um Afghanistan um they beefed up all the contractors so that the boots on ground number because I mean we have uh you know MOSs that people test fuel they pump fuel we have mos that people build stuff we have mos where people do plumbing uh where people can cook we have all these jobs in the military so why were they then all contracted out? Because the American public would be very it would be very unpopular to say we have 8000 troops deployed right when we could say oh we have 3000 but there's still the same manpower on the ground and we wind up just babysitting for the most part I know people were out there running missions route clearance missions and kicking indoors and stuff but the vast majority of people in Afghanistan were there to occupy and babysit the contractors and the contractors are there to support with food and shelter the babysitters so it's a big money laundering scheme and yeah they play with numbers.

SPEAKER_02 32:44

Yeah and I'm sorry to sorry to interrupt Jason I just want to say that's true. In all these conflicts we need to look at qui bono who benefits because as I am reflecting back on almost every single event especially when it comes to uh these the military and military contractors who is benefiting often these things are a wealth transfer they're not the it's not the only purpose so I'm not gonna say that it's only about money because I in my opinion it's about a lot more than that but who benefits is an important factor. So we do know that military contractors are getting rich off of this but in the case of to tie this in with Iran and the fact that the MOU, the memorandum of understanding is dead in the water at this point and we continue to see this back and forth this will we won't we be at full scale war with Iran we know that market manipulation is happening every single time there there have been many instances where we're close to a deal or we got a deal and then somebody gets a giant payout from the stock market because they clearly had insider knowledge of the deal that was about to happen. So a lot of times this will happen on a Friday somebody gets a huge payout and then by Monday oh we're we're back at it and it's like this tit for tat, you know, rockets here and there with Iran it's not really full scale supposedly what is transpiring right now is less severe than what was transpiring at the very beginning. But I think that we don't know because we're not there we do not actually know what is happening and how bad the um the retaliation from the United States is in Iran. So it's it's difficult for us to make a judgment on that. But I think there's wealth transfer opportunity every single time and then of course every single time we have some sort of peace agreement or a deal then and Iran is attempting to include protection for Lebanon in that then we see that Israel will go and violate the peace agreement and then they'll say something like oh well we didn't know that was part of that or it was a misunderstanding or whatever. But essentially they're continuing to bomb Lebanon specifically South Lebanon up to Beirut and it's all done in the name of fighting the terrorists Hezbollah but um of course there's many that speculate that this is about a lot more than that that this is about a uh a land grab for the Greater Israel project once again I think that time will tell that's going to be our you know the way that we truly know and the other thing is that the the situation in Lebanon is that the government is the government is considered by the Lebanese people is my understanding and from speaking with my friend Rawad that the government first of all does not have a strong military. Second of all they are kind of cooperating with Americans and Israel and that Hezbollah is the uh you know the force that is trying to prevent the encroachment from Israel in the Greater Israel project. And so we have a really kind of a divided situation as far as the people the government so the government's complicit in letting their country be bombed by Israel. So all these things work together and I think that there's a lot of benefits for the predator class.

SPEAKER_00 36:27

Yeah and I want to get to that market manipulation because this is uh parapolitics and precious metals so I have some info on paper gold and how that's affecting the physical gold market and how um supply versus demand rules like the physics of it are just not working right now. And I think that's by design. But I don't I want to back up a little bit about this Patriot missile um thing because that was something I wasn't tracking when I was excited when you said you had some information on that um it fell off of a lot of people's radars right because we're distracted. But what is to stop uh Ukraine from uh once they have our technology and the production capability from building and selling those to other nations uh how often have we seen uh to profiteer off that right and you know the Zelensky and his family will make the money um but we have seen many times remember when ISIL ISIS whatever you want to call it uh that apparently is still around after Trump destroyed it uh you know after Obama destroyed it and then Trump destroyed it yeah they destroyed how many uh images did we see of them driving our equipment Humvees LMTVs uh using 50 cow weapons uh you know if we start throwing our our technology out there inevitably it's going to be used against us we could take a look at um the Iran was it the um uranium one deal or whatever how much of our refined purified uranium that could be used to make a bomb is in the hands of adversarial uh adversarial nations uh because of that deal um I think we should just stay at home like defend you know close allies maybe uh assist them when needed but we really should be focused on the home front and I do agree with uh Nostradamus said we need term limits ASAP that was his contribution on that I agree we need term limits uh I think a term limit should not just be to one office because they'll just move to another office I think it's total public service in its entirety uh including military so we need to get rid of these crusty old generals that no longer have to take a PT test um and make room for the new people to to move up the ranks that's that's a real hard thing in the military by the way when people are locked in forever and they don't want to retire there's nowhere to move up uh sometimes they'll make up a BS position that's why we used to have what three or four generals in World War I World War II now we have hundreds and hundreds of generals doing what you know what I mean but um yeah yeah I think that's a a valid question and yeah I do think that's a it's a good question to ask about what could potentially go wrong with allowing Ukraine to manufacture these patriot defense systems.

SPEAKER_02 39:12

Now my personal opinion is that that is not going to happen without the blessing of the intelligentsia coming from the United States but probably the five eyes intelligentsia or certainly NATO right you know you Zelensky wants Ukraine to become part of NATO. That was the whole crux of the conflict that we're seeing right now is that there was an agreement with Russia that NATO would stop encroaching on their borders and this is what has been transpiring and they have the support of NATO even if they're not officially a member so I think that if this does go awry and they end up selling weapons to people that shouldn't have them which neither should they certainly could happen depending on the next you know the next event or crisis that that is uh coming our way so I think uh it's you know it's concerning and the other thing is concerning to hear this war that's been going on I think four or five years at this point to be escalating and then a lot of pundits have been talking about the restraint that Vladimir Putin has shown in this conflict. Now I know there's also their critique of the other side in that did he have to declare war? What's really going on here? And I have those exact same questions. I'm just looking at it from the these particular pundits who are maybe a little bit more uh pro-Russia and they're saying that Putin has showed a lot of restraint in this conflict but they feel that perhaps that is drawing to a close that there may be an escalation from Vladimir Putin's part and Russia. And then the other factor that we have is I I think the stage is being set for conflict with Russia and Europe. Now I hope it it does not come to that and I but I've just seen the rhetoric out there that you know just the just some rumblings and that's one of the things that I'm always looking for no matter what side whether it's alt media conservative uh liberal whatever that I'm trying to look for what is the narrative what is the messaging what are they as Monica Perez used to say the dog that doesn't bark what are they leaving out you know in the presentation of their story so I try to keep that in mind but one thing I am trying to pay attention to is just generally what are people saying. And I do think that the stage perhaps is being set for a conflict between Russia and Europe.

SPEAKER_00 41:56

So I I'm surprised that we're not there yet and I think the reason we're not there yet is because uh the European nations are at war with their own people and you can only push people so far. You've got um they're hammering the farmers um you know they're not getting fertilizer they're they're uh hoarding resources they're putting mass surveillance in there they are taking the first steps out there uh towards internet ID and um the people are up in arms and we've just seen that I I have some stuff we probably won't get to today I was going to talk on the flock the flock war uh that we we talked about flock a couple weeks ago I had an update on that um court ruling and what happened over the 4th of July weekend uh people went nuts so we're starting to see that same pushback here and I think that pushback because they pretty much reach their tentacles out too far into too many directions and people are fed up so going to full out war is not going to be popular it's not gonna be popular whatsoever uh people want their problems here at home taken care of first um that's how that's what how I feel anyway and I think that that's why we haven't seen uh more of an escalation and and again you you had mentioned um you know we need to produce more of these more high high speed missiles um these higher tech missiles I think that they do think that um Putin has held off and he has more capabilities because now they're gearing up for an actual strike and I'm telling you right now um rush Russia could have wiped Ukraine off the face of the earth if they wanted to a long time ago there's no doubt about it. When the wintertime comes they could have just done an old fashioned blitzkrieg when the ground's frozen over and rolled their tanks in and just annihilated whichever areas they wanted to annihilate. That that's no doubt. And we actually talked we we war game that I was still in the military then and we war gamed what would happen if Russia did an all out attack and that was one of the things they mentioned it's going to come in the winter because that's when they can get their tanks through this I guess it's kind of swampier murkier Whatever in the spring and summer, and it's gonna be problematic for you know their forces, tanks. That's what they are. They're a tank nation. Um, so that was one concern we had, uh, at least during the war gaming portion.

SPEAKER_02 44:12

So yeah, I think that's a valid point to consider at the very least, and to think that it seems very likely, as what you said, that Russia is the superior military, but obviously we're in what appears to be a stalemate, at least to me, right? Back and forth, back and forth, but nothing is really changing. And I have to wonder, you know, I know that this may be conspiratorial of me, but I think that I am going to be, when this is all said and done, if I live to see it, then I want to see exactly what transpires because something that I'm always cognizant of is what moves are being made to establish perhaps the like we've talked about this before in 1984, this multipolar world that some people are referencing, which would obviously make sense in that context, the North American technate versus the um, you know, versus BRICS or versus uh Asia and China and Russia would be part of that um, you know, part of the Asia stronghold, whatever that looks like. And for people that are skeptical, I understand that. And I think that that's totally fair to reserve judgment. And and I'm not saying that I have proof of this, but I am saying that we saw these countries operate in lockstep. We know that think tanks have the catchphrase and the documents referring to lockstep. And we saw many, most major countries in the entire world completely comply with everything. There wasn't questioning of the narrative, there wasn't um questioning of the, you know, two weeks to flatten the curve and six feet apart and you know, wear your mask to protect me or whatever. Like it was lockstep. So at the very least, I'm not saying that I'm proving anything, but I'm saying, why would that be if there is not cooperation at the higher levels that exclude the pleb class? I think there's enough information for us to at least say that's going on. And I think that that could possibly be the case with what's happening in Russia and Ukraine at this time. I don't know. My speculation only.

SPEAKER_00 46:29

I I think that you're onto something, you know, the lockstep thing is uh it's a thing. All right. And it can, as soon as the the Russia-Ukraine thing kicked off, every Western nation that uses Facebook had a Ukraine flag on their profile. So I think what this is, I think that they are ready to go because uh I think Russia is, you know, against any particular single nation, Russia is gonna be dominant in all of Europe. But if they can get everyone to attack at once, then maybe, just maybe they can take Russia out, um, because it's gonna be too many fronts for them to deal with. And and I think that Ukraine is just the um the grenade pin to launch it all off. And it's it's just been taking a long time to pull that pin out. And I think that's because, like I said, I think the people are unhappy, they're war weary, they're more worried about being able to grow food and and have energy and you know, put food on the table and and have a job, you know, and you got this mass migration thing going on that's got a lot of people upset. Um, it's it's just a powder keg, you know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_02 47:34

It is a powder keg for sure. And um I think that this is just going to remain to be seen where this is all headed, but I feel that is very geopolitically important, probably for the entire world. And um I don't know, just hope for the best.

SPEAKER_00 47:53

Right on. Well, I'm glad you brought that to us. I have not been tracking Ukraine. It was the distractions have worked with the Strait of Hormuz, you know, and uh and a little bit of what's going on in Venezuela. Um, you said you had some info on Cuba. I mean, I want to get to the gold and silver stuff, but we can save that and I'd rather know what's going on near home here.

SPEAKER_02 48:11

Well, why don't I just make it quick, Jason, so then we can wrap up

Cuba Grid Collapse And Pressure Campaigns

SPEAKER_02 48:15

with uh gold and silver conversation. So essentially, this past, let's see, Monday, July 6th. So this past Monday, the uh Cuba's grid collapsed again. Now, this is not something that is just a collapse and it stays that way. It is similar to what we've heard about as far as rolling blackouts. So I'm sure that most people are familiar, but basically, this goes way back to the uh the oil embargo on Cuba, which dates back to 1962. So we have been here and had these types of policies in place for a very long time. But recently it was escalated by the Trump administration in that they could actually pursue punitive measures against countries that were supporting Cuba. For example, this is what transpired in Mexico. So Scheinbaum, Mexico, whatever you think about her legitimacy, whatever, they were offering support to Cuba. But because of the threat of punitive tariffs and other measures from the Trump administration, they have stopped supporting Cuba. So we have the oil embargo that is taking place. So, and and the the Trump administration has really cracked down on support for Cuba, making the situation worse. So we've had these blackouts happening from time to time, but basically the whole thing went down on Monday, and people are suffering. The problem is, even leading into this, it was not as hot as it is now. We know the phrase it's hotter than the 4th of July. That's not because you have great weather at the 4th of July. It's because it is hotter than the fiery pits of heck at the 4th of July. We know that we have had incredible drought, at least in my neck of the woods in North Carolina. You've heard all about Jason, and extreme heat. It's not that weird to have almost 100 degree weather for weeks at a time in the southeast or even other places in the country. It's not weird. But this is the time of year that that happens. So now we have people, some of them part of the vulnerable population, whether that is young children or elderly people or people who are having, you know, medically, they are in trouble. This is putting the squeeze on the entire country, but those vulnerable populations are susceptible to not having access to electricity. And it's not just for like fancy AC. This is for keeping their food from spoiling. This is from for running hospitals. And um, so the Cuban people are suffering. Now, the other factor that I find very interesting here is that it definitely appears from the Trump administration that Lil Marco is being set to be the manager of whatever is happening with Cuba and then what is happening in Latin America. Now, here's something that I didn't know, probably everybody else did, but basically Cuba was also getting support from Venezuela. Now, you may remember a little coup that happened earlier this year that now prevented Venezuela from offering any support to Cuba. So that was another kind of nail in the coffin of putting the squeeze on them. And it seems to be that there is some theory that they are trying to make things so bad that the Cuban people revolt and reject the Communist Party, which has been under the Castro regime since the 60s, and that they they want them to reject that government. Um, now I obviously I don't buy that. I think if you really wanted to get Cuban people to side with the United States, then you would offer them help. You would say, your government's not helping you, but we are helping you. And if you're like, well, the United States shouldn't be offering foreign aid, uh, yeah, I agree, but we are. We send on the books $3.3 billion a year to Israel. They have health care. Americans don't have health care unless obviously you're going through the private sector. But I'm just saying, like, there's a bunch of hypocrisy here. So if you want to win over, win the hearts and minds of the Cuban people, then maybe making sure that they don't have electricity in the hottest part of the year is not the way to do that.

SPEAKER_00 52:44

Yeah, and you know, it's it's important to note that um peace doesn't make money, war makes money, and you need enemies to have war to get public support. And I want to go back to before we really got entangled with Venezuela, when we're just blowing up, you know, we renamed the Gulf to a Gulf of America, at least that's what it says on Google Maps and United States and Canada, not the rest of the world. Um, we basically claimed the entire Gulf as our own, even though America is more than North America or more than the United States. The perception that people have is it's ours now. And and I was looking into this and I mentioned this right away. I said, wait a minute, this has to do with energy somehow. Okay, the fact that we're going in there, we're blowing up these boats. It's not about drugs, it's got to be something to it. And and I was talking, I think it was on America Unplugged uh on one of Tony's other shows. Um I think it was talking with Don about it or something, but I said, Look, China had just signed a lease with Venezuela to drill their oil. Now, where does Cuba get their energy? They get it a lot of it from the Strait of Hormouth, right? Um, if and you said um Venezuela is supporting Cuba. Well, if formerly supporting uh Cuba, well, if China gets in there and gets a lease, guess what? Some of that oil is gonna make its way down to Cuba, and and that's where their energy problems are with their blackouts. I don't know if they run um uh LNG uh power plants or what they run off diesel generators, I'm not really sure. I just know that their power problems started when the energy flow got restricted. And anyway, so I I said that back then that I thought this was a move towards the energy, and I get it. We gave Venezuela technology they needed to be able to produce the oil. We had BP in there, we had ExxonMobil in there, um, starting to get some of this oil. So it's kind of a trade-off, right? We're gonna get our folks in there to drill the oil so we can um sell the fuel and we're gonna give you the technology, but then because of um coups and things like that, that you know, they stopped drilling the oil there, and then China comes in. I can understand why people would be upset with that. Like, hey, we gave you the technology, now China's gonna benefit from this. So there's a lot of dynamics there on why we do what we do, but one thing that I can tell you is not what Fox and CNN, it's not the reasons they're telling you. There's always something behind it, and as you like to say all the time so correctly, they function stack this stuff. So, anyway, we got about five more minutes till we're gonna lose uh worldwide Christian radio, uh, which we go out over over there. By the way, we are on Twitter, we are on um uh YouTube, I believe, Rumble and Worldwide Christian Christian Radio going out over the airwaves. Um can I jump into this gold thing real quick and try to get that in before because this

Gold ETFs And Market Manipulation Claims

SPEAKER_00 55:35

is interesting. I watched I watched the the gold and silver prices because I'm a wolf pack member and I slowly accumulate. Um, and I got some some numbers I was gonna talk about two weeks ago that I'll go over because I've been I have 40 invoices now. That's how long I've been. I've been a Wolfpack member from the beginning, and I absolutely love it. And I did a cost analysis breakdown um with over that 40 months. But here, um, everyone's saying gold and silver are gonna go down, they're gonna go down. Well, they shouldn't go down. I'm gonna share this screen here, or I'll just read it. Uh, this comes from Kitco. That's a website Tony uses a lot. That's where I believe he pulls the real-time pricing as well. It's from Kitco, which you can see on his website. It says, while quarter two was the worst quarter for gold in 12 years, with spiking energy prices raising inflation. Now keep that in mind spiking energy price uh prices and inflation. Um expectations and introducing the possibility of rate hikes, central banks demand uh central bank demand will help gold finish the year on a positive note, according to the new quarterly gold outlook from in Invesco. And I will show this. This is I don't know why everyone's freaking out about gold and silver dipping. This is one year, you're still sitting well above where you were a year ago, you know. So I don't know what the freak out is. But what doesn't make sense to me is why it's going down. Um well, here's something that's interesting to look at. I took a look at the ETFs, the paper gold and silver. Uh says investors flee. This is also from Kitco, another article. Uh, investors flee gold ETFs in June as hawkish Fed expectations drive liquidation. So, what happens when you have a lot of something and you're trying to sell it all off at once? The price nobody wants it, so the price goes down, right? Now, the ETFs reflect physical, which they should not. This is used as a manipulation tool. So, my my prediction, this is just my prediction, this is Jason Barker here thinking, I think this is all intentional. They're using all these things that are going on geopolitically uh to cause a panic, and people are driving the price down so that they can snag it up on sale. I'm not telling you what to do, I'm just telling you what I'm doing. I'm getting it while it's on sale. Uh, so I'll read this. This is about the ETFs. Although gold prices, and then what gives this away is the supply and the demand, like who wants it and who wants to get rid of it, is a dead giveaway that this is all artificial. It's all artificial. It's it's a pump and dump, if you will, um, or a dump and then pump, however, you want to look at it. You make money when it goes up, you make money when it goes down. If you're in the no. Okay, although gold prices are holding um support above 4,000 an ounce, June provided to be a difficult month as rising opportunity costs continue to push investors out of gold backed exchange traded funds. That's your ETFs, right? Uh, supposedly there's real gold out there somewhere, but you don't get to touch it. You just get a certificate saying you own a portion of it. Nobody knows if they've sold, oversold the paper versus the physical. Nobody knows. Uh, and that's from a report from the World Gold Council. Let me go ahead and I'm gonna say goodbye to worldwide uh Christian radio. We're gonna be cutting off from you. You can go check it out. Uh, if we cut off, you can go on Rumble, uh, on Tony's Rumble or YouTube or Twitter to catch the tail end of this. We're gonna keep going, all right, Ashley?

SPEAKER_02 59:00

Yep, sounds good.

SPEAKER_00 59:02

Okay. Uh in its monthly ETF report, um, the World Gold Council said that 74.3 tons of gold valued at nearly 9 billion flowed out of the ETF market last month. What does that mean? Does that mean that my paper is worth less gold now? I don't know. It's just something to think about. However, despite the ongoing liquidation, the global ETFs ended the first half of the year on a positive note with net inflows of 17.6 tons valued at 8 billion. So basically, there's about a $9 billion where they went down and came back up, and they're still uh in the red there compared to where they were uh by 1 billion. Uh here we go. This kind of gets into it. Uh, signals and the US-Iran conflict push inflation fears up, expectations intensified of higher interest rates ahead. The anticipation or anticipated uh contribute oh anticipation. I can't speak today, actually. This anticipation contributed to rising uh real yields and strengthening dollar, pushing up investors' opportunity cost of holding gold, the analysis said. I think that's all I had on that. But what I'm um, and I had there was more in here, I'm not gonna read it all, but if you take a look at the banks going after physical, and this is where I say the supply versus demand doesn't make sense. The banks are going after physical. Um everybody's trying to dump their ETFs right now. Uh that's driving the price down. So, of course, banks are gonna go after the physical. Why aren't they buying up the ETFs at pennies on the dollar? No, they're buying the well, not pennies on the dollar, but you know what I mean. Uh, at a discount rate, why are they buying the physical at a discount rate? And the physical aspects, I'm gonna jump over to silver real quick. Um, well, let me get your thoughts on the gold. Uh, do you do you think that this ETF thing and the war and everything they're using all these excuses to manipulate the ETF so they can manipulate physical? That's kind of what I'm getting at.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:06

100%. I think that it's at least a possibility that I subscribe to, right? That we have people, power players or members of the predator class that are in a position to manipulate the market to their advantage. So if we truly are headed to a financial reset, which we've heard a lot about the great reset, the digital dollar, the this, the that, the blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. If that is where we're headed, and it certainly seems to be, then wouldn't it behoove the powers that shouldn't be to squeeze every last drop of actual wealth from the regular people and from the market, any way that they can get it. So that's going to probably look like physical metal. It's gonna look like real estate, property, all of these things that when you have that much money, you're able to secure for yourself. So they are they are securing real assets for themselves and their family down the line. And I 100% believe that that is one of the huge elements of almost every single event that we are seeing in today's day and time. So it's not only these geopolitical plays which are important, it's not only messaging and probably psyops and propaganda and regime change and whatever else, but it's also a wealth transfer.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:33

100%. I agree with that. Uh, let me jump over to the silver because silver tracks with gold, you know, it goes up. I mean, the disparity between it is actually quite huge, but it goes up when gold goes up, it goes down when gold goes down. Um, but silver to gold, ounce to ounce, um, it's it's off. It's pretty off from historical. But I'm gonna show this chart here. So this is our um our silver price, real silver. Um, it says 625. I don't know if this page is updated, but you can see that the pattern here, the the the rise, the high spike, and then the dropping down. Um this that we saw in gold as well. It's about the same. You're still doing better than you were last year. Here's the the ETFs. This is uh SLV, um uh the exchange slv silver, paper silver looks about the same. Um, but here's what I wanted to talk about. Um uh silver is kind of on sale right now. Uh I remember getting into it when I started Wolfpack. I want to say it was like somewhere in the neighborhood of 18 to 20 an ounce. I did the $50 a month, and this, yeah, this is gonna be a commercial for Tony because I really endorse what he does. Like um, you know, mentally, I think it's great, it's a great service he offers. But um, yeah, I got into it at about 18 or 20 bucks an ounce. So if the thing goes down to 30, I'm still ahead from from then, you know. Uh of course, you can we want to keep accumulating it over time, and then you can kind of when it dips down like this. If you if you ever played the stock market, you know that sometimes when a stock dips down, you actually want to buy more. That way you bring your average cost down. So let's just say I bought a stock. Yep. Well, I didn't know that. My dad had to teach me that um when I when I used to play around in the stock market. But if I buy a stock at say 10 bucks a share and it drops significantly, you buy a whole bunch of more stocks and you you can get your average cost down to like 850 a share. Well, if it goes back up to 10 bucks, I'm not even I'm ahead now, right? And and that's how these people play these up and down um you know games to make money. So the reason I wanted to talk about silver because we have the same issue um with the paper silver, is it really there? And physical silver, why is it so low? So I just looked up some quick stats. I want to talk about what silver is used for, and that's what I go for. I I can't afford gold. Um, I mean, I probably get the little chiclet things, you know, uh the little fractional that you break off like it like a Hershey bar. Uh once in a while I'll get one of those in the Wolf Pack, by the way. And I got I got a few. So that's kind of cool.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:07

You're like the gold back dollar, right? Oh, yeah, but right here.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:10

Did you know they make they make two dollar? Um, here's one right here. It's a two dollar, and they go all the way down to a quarter.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:18

Oh, that's cool. Yeah, so I didn't I didn't I didn't know that either. But yeah, I mean that that is certainly an option, but from the perspective of of people that are in the space, like Gregory Manorino, for example, and obviously Tony, they're big fans of silver. You know, they think that that's really where it's at, and it's a lot more affordable for the average person to gradually slowly stock up here or there when you can.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:42

Yeah. And this is why I really like silver. I've you know, I used to work in the communications industry in the military um my first time in, and and I knew what you know, how electronics work. We had to go through school and stuff like that. And silver's a big, big deal, right? Uh back then they used to actually gold plate like your. Chips and stuff like that. They would gold plate the little fingers on there. But um a lot of uh industrial stuff is silver because it's the best thermal conductive um you know conductor out there. Um, so anyway, I'm just ran through some stats here. So let's take a look at solar. They keep pushing solar, solar, solar. All these flock cameras have solar on them. They got, you know, the solar industry consumes roughly 150 to 190 million ounces of silver annually. So, how can the price not be going up when you talk supply and demand when you are um consuming that much silver? Uh okay, so this accounts for up to 19 to 20 percent of the world's total yearly silver supply. That's pretty significant. On average, a standard two square meter solar panel requires about 10 to 20 grams of silver, depending on the advanced cell technology. So, solar, okay, let's take a look at something else. Uh, cell phones. Annual silver usage in cell phones is estimated between seven and a half thousand tons and thirty-five million ounces. I don't know if that's that's the same, I'm not really sure. Um, but it says on average, a single smartphone contains between 0.2 to 0.35 grams of silver, primarily in circuit boards, microchips, and displays. I did not know they used them in displays, and I forget what the 2.2 to 0.35. That's I think that's a little less than an ounce. Uh, I don't have the math in front of me. Just saying that we're we're making um 1.5 billion smartphones a year, and the rest go in the trash. I'm I'm foreseeing that in the future uh you're gonna see more of these little kiosks that you can go get paid for your cell phone and they're gonna turn around and recycle it. But recycling right now to get those precious metals out, it's a kind of a messy and expensive process. Um, you got to use nitric acid and and some other stuff. Uh very chemically intense. Okay. Uh, and then I looked at uh what is this electric cars with this EV push. Uh it talks about how much silver is used in electric cars, which is actually surprisingly a lot less than I thought it would be. A lot of it's used for the battery, but then you have all these other systems that have electronics in them. So I've got, let me see, I think I had a list here. Okay, yeah, they use uh the silver and electric vehicles, battery management system, onboard charging modules, power distribution centers, inverters and converters, advanced drivers assist technology, which I'm sure we'll talk about on Saturday on our show with Eric. Uh, sensor switches, anything pretty much electronic. Um, it's okay. Here we go. A standard EV, 25 to 30 grams, uh luxuries about 50, and then the hybrids and plugins is 18 to 25. So it's a little bit lower uh on the hybrids. But there's also with the EV push more because you have your charging stations and all the infrastructure that goes in behind being able to keep those EVs charged and topped off. So, and it says right here powertrains, charging stations, autonomous driving tech uh with LIDAR stuff, all uses silver. So uh it says here this article, and where's this from? This is from Gibraltar. I have no idea what that is. Uh, but anyway, as demand rises, so does the opportunity. Silver isn't just a precious metal, it's becoming a strategic metal. That's why I don't understand the demand is rising, the supply is not there. Why is the price going down? That that breaks the laws of of you know trade of physics, really, when it comes to financials. Um, so here's the the challenge is it says silver supply constraints. That's a challenge that these folks um are worried about uh from mining or geopolitical factors, recycling inefficiencies. They talk about recycling, getting the old stuff out, and then um here's one kind of a negative on silver innovation risk, future breakthroughs might reduce or replace silver usage, uh, but still, the caveat is still for the foreseeable future, no other metal matches silver's unique conduct uh conductivity, reliability, and performance in EV components. And you can say the same for computers, cell phones, everything like that. So I don't know. That's just some food for thought. Um also, I looked up military drones, they use a lot of silver, uh, several kilograms per drone uh for the high-end reconnaissance or combat drones.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:37

That's interesting because that is one of the things that is supposed to be um, you know, obviously, we've heard about drone warfare for a very long time. We did hear about that in the Middle East, but this has been one of the ways, supposedly, that Hezbollah has been more effective against the IDF, is because they have kind of a sophisticated drone um program. And that, of course, has also been uh quite a major factor in the Russia-Ukraine war as well. So it is very interesting, and uh there's obviously a lot of demand for that in these areas.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:16

Well, you know, that's interesting. You should bring that up. I didn't even really think about that, but we are trying to move to the Army of 2030, and I'm uh seeing us instead of having aircraft carriers, having drone swarm drone carriers, which will have drones that can vertically take off, you know. Um when they built the large hedron collider over at CERN, there's a there's a story on this. I wish I could find the story. I've talked about it many times. They artificially manipulated the price of copper so they can accumulate enough copper to build the thing. And then when they finally stopped manipulating it and copper went to its natural state, now that there's a shortage, that's when people started ripping copper pipes out of walls and copper wiring out of walls because the price skyrocketed. Now, looking at how you know we're speculating that maybe they're manipulating intentionally um the prices of metals, not just gold but silver, using ETFs and uh geopolitical scares and things like that to drive the price down. Maybe that's for an accumulation at the best price possible for these kinds of initiatives, like building drones and surveillance networks, you know, stuff like that. That's you know, that's one possibility. It could be a grab to get the physical stuff, not just to make money, but to get the physical stuff for a project that they want to accomplish. It's quite possible.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:37

Exactly. I often think that it's not just about money, that is a huge piece of it. But especially in this time, like I was saying, if we are headed to the financial reset, which I subscribe to, then they are are gathering assets at you know bargain basement prices, basically.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:57

Basically, I did want to mention one thing. Um antichrist co. in chat uh mentioned, and I I didn't mention this, but um I think co. An artist. I thought I said, Oh, I read it wrong. Sorry. Uh, silver has antimicrobial properties, it's good to have. And yes, when I lived and I lost at least one or two ounces of silver for this, but we had a water conditioning system in our home in the garage, like a water softening system. And I dropped some silver coins in there, some um 999 silver coins, because I had read somewhere that if you put those in your water, um, just a little bit of of that, those atoms or whatever kind of come off in your water. And um, yeah, I would just that's kind of interesting that I didn't uh didn't talk about that, but yeah, the medical industry uses that burn cream and stuff like that has um silver in it, stuff like that.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:52

And also you can just get colloidal silver and you can take a little bit of that, or you can use it as a um like what she was saying, uh antiseptic or something like that. But during the uh COVID times, I was taking colloidal silver as part of my health routine to try to stay healthy, or if I did get sick to try to get better.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:14

So I had a friend that started taking that when I was in Okinawa. It's the first time I heard of it. Um, and he didn't get sick for the longest time. But he I don't know if it's true or not, but he said if you take too much, your skin can turn blue.

SPEAKER_02 1:14:28

Definitely, definitely. There was there was a documentary about a woman who had started a cult basically, and she appeared to be she was pretty young, but she was dying from end stage liver disease due to alcoholism. But the treatment that she was getting was just a ton of colloidal silver, and she literally looked blue by the end. Wow, documentary on HBO, and there's also a connection to media monarchy because this gal went to college with James Evan Plotto and his wife in um West Virginia, and so she ended up starting this cult and she passed away at a young age due to her alcoholism and liver disease. But the treatment that she was receiving was a ton of colloidal silver, and she looked blue in the documentary. It's quite disturbing.

Silver Demand From Tech And War

SPEAKER_00 1:15:26

That's not too smurfy. Um, anyway, so before I jump off this gold and silver thing, I wanted to bring out that like two weeks ago. Uh, like I said, I did an audit of all my um invoices, which I have exactly 40 of them. I got one in route here pretty soon, so it'll be 41. Uh, so I did a complete tally. Now I only did the $50 a month thing, because that's you know, I was getting at least one silver round every wolf pack. But now, you know, once it got above uh $50, um, I went I upped it to the next level. So um in 40 months, which is what that's about uh 24 uh four uh le what is it three and a half years roundabout? I've spent forty eight hundred and fifty dollars. Now, if I had bought from the competitor and Tony's um when he does the price cost analysis, he actually goes to one of the best priced places, and I've I've fact checked this right away to make sure that you know Tony was legit. Yeah, it I came up with the exact same to the penny if I ordered that exact amount from that company. Uh so 4850 is what I spent if I spent with the competitor, it would be 5,412.73. So the the price difference over that three and a half years is I save $562.73. Um, so that's just basically free uh metals in your stack uh of you know that's quite a percentage, actually. Uh and um I don't know, I thought I'd share those numbers with you that I over the long term, and the reason that that this is possible is because he's pooling all of our money together. So, like if I if me and Ashley each went to buy $200 worth of silver from an online place, right? We're gonna get so much. If we pool our money together and get $400 worth of silver together, we're gonna the premium's gonna come down. So we get a little more, and that's kind of what the wolf pack is about. Um, so anyway, let me plug Tony right quick. And I am gonna do one more thing here uh before I'm done. Uh I was gonna forego the flock thing, but there's one important thing I want to share with everybody about the flock. Uh so anyway, you can go to um artiburn.gold or arterburn.news brings you to the same website, and you can see where to see Tony, where to find him, and stuff like that. But if you're looking to get the wolf pack, um, you can even do it as a one-time. I do them for Christmas gifts. You know, I'll get the $50 one or whatever, or $125 one as a Christmas gift, and they'll ship it right to where you want it to go. And you could do it as a one-time so it doesn't keep charging you. Um, so yeah, you can go to wolfpack.gold. If you do do this, use promo code 1776, and Tony's gonna throw you like a free 90% silver, maybe it's silver dollar, maybe it's a couple of quarters, whatever. Uh, sometimes they can be collectible. Um, but yeah, I wanted to cover this real quick with the flock. Uh, we talked about it a couple weeks ago, but there's basically a war going on right now, and I had a bunch of videos to play, but I can't play the audio of people. They're looking for people that have been cutting these things down. Now they're captured on the flock camera, cutting them down, but they don't know who the people are. So, how effective is flock? I don't know. It's supposedly really good at identifying your vehicle, and I've seen them uh have now facial recognition ones. We talked about that a couple weeks ago. If you want to see that episode, um, go check out Knights of the Storm. It's called uh America Flock. Yeah, uh, it was like two weeks ago. But the one thing I wanted to share, and I'll get off of here, is that um let's see, the update, two things I want to share. The update. So we talked about a Supreme Court ruling, and I won't get into the whole details. We talked about that two weeks ago. Um, but the gist of it is that two people tried to sue Flock saying that they had were tracked because they were captured an insane amount of times, and they basically could recreate their routes, what times they were where they went, um, and they consider that a fourth amendment violation. The judge, the Supreme Court judge at the time said that it wasn't a violation of the Fourth Amendment yet. He used the word yet, but there's something that's come up since then. Um there was another case, uh, as what they built, what Flock built their case on is null and void. What the judge ruled on is a null and void, uh, what do you call it, precedent that's null and void. So this is gonna go back to court. And we may see some actual legitimate. I was gonna show videos of people cutting these things down and damaging them. Don't I'm not suggesting to do that. You don't want to make yourself a criminal. Um, you can call your your representatives if they're not somewhere hiding in a hospital, uh, you know, or whatever. Call your representatives, tell them how you feel about it. Uh sometimes these grassroots, you know, uh things can can take hold. But uh to make it quick, there was a murder, can uh a murder trial. And to pick up this murderer, what they did was they cast a dragnet, uh, a geofense um phone dragnet, and they had nabbed everybody's information. They didn't do a warrant for that, they did it. Then they identified who this person might be, then they got a warrant. Right? So this guy, and he was guilty, he got, you know, he got charged with it, but in the defense, um, this murderer who's a did an armed robbery and ended up murdering a guy. Um, his lawyer had argued that the initial nabbing of the information was a Fourth Amendment violation in and of itself. So it doesn't matter if they had a warrant later to come arrest him. The initial thing was, and and there was actually um, it was a pretty big ruling. It was, I'm seeing find it, I'm skimmed my notes. It was like a six to six to three Supreme Court ruling where they sided with that. And they said that the police conducted a Fourth Amendment search when they obtained um the guy's name is Chattree's location data, because as the opinion put it, an individual has a reasonable expectation of privacy in his cell phone location information. Uh so the same thing as we we won't have a reasonable expectation of privacy when we're out and about. Now that kind of goes away when you're in public, but the sheer amount of surveillance kind of negates that. It's it's not a reasonable expectation. You know, um, the thing is that uh they had ruled that even though they pulled just a narrow bit of information, it was still a violation of the Fourth Amendment rights. So now with this ruling on the flock stuff, they're saying, hey, this ruling superseded or negated the ruling that y'all used as your defense for your flock. So I'm gonna keep a close tab on this and I'll let y'all know where this is going. Uh, but this could be really good. And and if um this goes through and these people win this case, then we need to contact the representatives and say, hey, I'm gonna start suing. Um, unless you go ahead and do something about this. Let's make this the precedent for the rest of the nation. You know, I I'm not for or I'm sorry, I'm not completely against some of these surveillance technologies. And I had a video, like I said, I can't share the audio on this browser, but um using drones. Okay, so we we know that the police have drones, right? And they have spied on people, they got busted spying on people, no for uh no warrant to be spying on them. They're just kind of watching the activity of people, and then they use that to get a warrant. This is kind of falls in the same realm. But what they have used it for, uh, I had a video of a girl who was lost, a little girl who was lost in a field, and they used an IR or thermals or something like that with a drone to find her and then guide somebody in to get her out of this field. So, and that's what I had taught when this drone stuff started coming around. I told all the people in the army, my soldiers, that maybe uh they couldn't pass the physical demands for the jobs they were in, they're gonna have to reclass or something like that. They had an injury, but the army would let you stay in if you move to a less intense MOS, things like that. I said, Go into drones, go into drones. I said it's gonna be news outlets are gonna have them to get that up close video. Um uh uh search and rescue, fire departments, um, all kinds of places will have legitimate uses for them. I don't think the police department should have them. I think that the fire department should have them and the police call on them to assist when legitimately needed. That's what I think. I don't think that anyone who has that authority uh to charge you with a crime should be using drones at all. That's my personal opinion. Unless, you know, leave that to search and rescue um EMS if they need it. Maybe they need to find, you know, somebody got called and they can't find the person because it's like an abandoned rail yard or something. I don't know. Um, legitimate purposes. So I'll take your thoughts on all that, and that's all I have today,

Flock Cameras And Fourth Amendment Fights

SPEAKER_00 1:24:35

Ashley.

SPEAKER_02 1:24:36

Yeah, I mean, I think that the problem is that these technologies can be used in ways that are beneficial sometimes. However, it's a slippery slope every single time, and obviously it is more dangerous in general for certain services to have access to this buy technology, and it shouldn't exist anyway, you know, it just shouldn't exist in this type of public-private partnership. It is really horrifying, and we what we see is this merging of you know the uh Palantir and flock and the telemetry data and tracking on our phones and everything. Um, and these types of things are merging. Of course, some people predict that this is all going to tie into a social credit score and you know, with the the financial reset. So, overall, not good. Um, and I think that the I don't know, it's it's dangerous technology to us regular people. And of course, we know that these are also being abused. So, for example, if a police officer wanted to spy on an ex-girlfriend, they can do that. They have access to these tools that regular people don't have, and that person doesn't even know it. That's literally stalking. Stalking may sound like it's not a super dangerous crime, but it actually is very dangerous, not only for harassing the person who's receiving it, but oftentimes this will escalate and is very dangerous to the victim. So it allows that kind of stuff.

SPEAKER_00 1:26:06

Um, so there's a lot of cases of that, and they they don't just stalk their ex-girlfriend ex-wife, but the people she's hanging out with as well. And so many cases of this, you're right. It's it's coming out too. That uh, and this information isn't contained to the municipality. All of these flock cameras, 100% of them, are sending real-time information to an Amazon web server where it's all stored together in the cloud. And then you throw a Palantir into that. Look, maybe they're not doing it right now, but you give them the tools and eventually they will. I remember a story when I was living in LA, they had a traffic camera on the 605, which I lived near the 605. And when they were doing the news to give you the traffic report, sometimes they would go to that camera. Well, they went to the camera one time, and guess what it was? It was panned over into a neighborhood looking through somebody's back window. Live on air, they caught that. So somebody will abuse it. Uh, they're talking about restricting who has access and stuff like that, but still, uh I don't think the police should have that kind of stuff, and I don't think Palantir or Amazon should have my information. Sorry, Ashley.

SPEAKER_02 1:27:16

Sorry, I was muted and struggling with my uh new desk setup, and that translates to problems with my mouse. Anyway, um, yeah, so I think it is dangerous and concerning for a thousand different reasons, and it is wide open to be abused by the people who are the worst people that we want abusing the technology. Um, I did see this pointed out, and I thought it was an interesting point that even if people were to damage a flock camera because of the technology of the mesh network, that it basically renders that completely a worthless attempt. Now, this is one of the thoughts that I had is perhaps there is some proper Propaganda out there about people damaging flock cameras. And not that I condone that at all. But also, would I get mad if I saw someone doing that? Not really. Um, but I don't condone it. But if these types of things are trending and viral and being made public, and like the video that went very viral of the guy that's like, oh, everybody should have a you know, a handsaw or whatever, things like that. Is that a way to get people in? You know, we have the problem reaction solution, right? So the problem is that we now have people damaging flock cameras. The reaction is that it's for our safety. And then the solution is that we end up having more legislation, probably over-the-top legislation, about protecting these types of entities. I don't know that it really matters either way, but I'm just saying it could be if our algorithm is showing you something, then maybe there's a reason for it. And it's probably not because it's in the best interest of the regular people.

SPEAKER_00 1:29:08

How long do we have flock cameras pointed at flock cameras to protect the flock cameras? I have one more thing, one more thing, and then we'll we'll plug everyone and get out of here. Um, I forgot that I wanted to share this. I gotta get my screen back up. This is kind of cool. Let's see, share screen. I don't need the audio. Oh blah blah. Okay, here we go. So I came across this and I sent this in our group chat. Um, this website is called Flockhopper. Um, and the website is don't get flocked.com slash maps. And you can actually, it only has a couple hundred mile range, but I plugged in here from my house to my aunt and uncle's house, which is down in Springfield, Missouri. It's um 86.8 miles most direct route. What this does, this integrates the known flock cameras that are out there, and it routes you around to where you won't get your license plate scanned. So for me, it's I live right off the highway, and they live not far off the highway. So it's just a straight highway shot for me. I would have passed three cameras. Now, now, me personally, I don't care. Scan my license plate, but some people may not like that. You know, I'm not exactly in that mindset that if you're not doing nothing wrong, there's nothing to worry about. I think that that's that's a lame excuse. But if it's going to be there, you know, what am I gonna do about it unless I'm contacting uh legislators about it um or filing a personal lawsuit? So in this instance, it routed me around where the cameras would have scanned me. Because these not only know where the cameras are, they also know which direction they're facing. And it would have added uh was it only a few more miles to my trip. So instead of an hour 26 minutes, it'd be an hour 53 minutes, um you know 20, 30 minutes more, if I was that concerned. So I just wanted people to be aware this was out there, this flock hopper. Um, and I wouldn't mind taking the scenic route, by the way. Uh, but one thing I did have one video also that showed if you want to know what these flock things are really for, and this was, I'm sure y'all probably saw it on Twitter, saw it this morning. A guy uh was watching them put up a flock camera at a sporting goods store that sold firearms, and the camera rather than face the parking lot was faced directly at the front door. So just think about that. These things can be used more, and they admit they're more than licensed plate readers. They're building profiles of your car. Um, what I witnessed in Iowa to go back to the episode we did on Nights of the Storm, every single intersection and all since I first noticed it, every town after that, every single traffic light had a camera, a flock camera. There's about three different types that they used, and I'm verified they were flock, and they were facing the front of your car. The interesting part is that Iowa, not I did I say Iowa, I meant to say um um not Colorado. My brain is not working today. I needed extra coffee, but uh anyway, uh that state is a rear plate only state. So what benefit is it to have a camera facing the front of your car? Just think about it. And this is on every single intersection, on every single light. So no matter what lane you're in, what direction you're going, you are getting a front shot of your vehicle, right? And that was in Kansas, by the way. Um, take a look, go through Dodge City. Um, I think Dodge City is where I first noticed it. Uh, but anyway, yeah, that that blows my mind. So are they building a profile of your car from that? Are they doing facial recognition? Who knows? But it's definitely not reading your license plate. That's impossible. It has to be pointed the other direction. So, anyway, that's all

Tools To Avoid Plate Scans And Closing

SPEAKER_00 1:33:00

I have, Ashley. Um, why don't you talk about uh your new show?

SPEAKER_02 1:33:05

Okay, I'm gonna try to keep it. Sorry, I'm getting some uh my just take it away, Jason.

SPEAKER_00 1:33:17

Okay, all right. Well I'll talk, but check out Ashley tonight. Think, change, repeat. Uh, if you go to our uh our website, thenights of the storm.com, we have a link on the friends page. But uh Ashley will be live tonight at 8 30 p.m. Eastern over on her channel. I do run it on our channel as well, Nights of the Storm. Um, but make sure you go if you want to chat and give the thumbs up and support her channel, please do so on hers. And I usually drop a link when it's running uh tandemly on ours. Uh and then also uh Tony's other show, America Unplugged, one of the best shows on the internet. I love it. Um, Billy, uh Billy, Tony, and Don talk about the stuff of the day. So uh come check that out. That is at noon Eastern on Saturdays, and then we follow up with our show um at 2 p.m. Eastern over on our channel. So that's all I have. Um any final thoughts before we end the transmission, Ashley?

SPEAKER_02 1:34:14

Nope. Thanks everybody uh for tuning in and thanks for or thanks to Tony for the opportunity to um hold down the four while he is busy. We really appreciate it. And it's been nice seeing everybody in the chat. Always great seeing y'all.

SPEAKER_00 1:34:28

Yes, thank you so much for being here and God bless everybody. Uh have a great rest of your week. End of transmission.