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

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The chair is against the wall. The chair is against the wall. John has a long mustache. John has a long mustache. It's 12 o'clock, Americans, another day closer to victory. And for all of you out there on or behind the lines, this is your song.

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Veteran of three foreign wars, entrepreneur and the warrior poet, Tony Adiburn takes on the issues facing our country, civilization, and planet. This is the Adiburn radio transmission.

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He is traveling out in LA for another episode of the Tinfoil Hat uh show with Sam Tripoli. So I'm filling in for him. And my understanding is that he will be back next week. And I'm gonna go ahead and check the chat. So let me know if you can hear me okay. I would really appreciate that. And I decided to challenge myself today for a solo episode. So fingers crossed that all goes well here. And we are live on, excuse me, we are live on WWCR Worldwide Christian Radio, YouTube, and Rumble. So please feel free to let me know if you can hear me okay. I will be looking for that. I assume that you can. And I also wanted to make sure that I shouted out Tony's work so you can find him at wisewolf.gold for your crypto and metal needs, as you probably are very familiar. So be sure to check out uh wisewolf.gold and make sure that you like, subscribe, share, comment, review the show, all of those things that help support Tony as he is growing the show. And the other reason I'm feeling in is that Tony has communicated throughout this year that he wanted to make sure that no week went by that he did not have an Artiburn radio transmission. So we're trying to keep that going. Now,

Escaping The Victim Mindset

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um there's a lot to get into today, and I kind of have um a little bit of a game plan, and I I like that Tony has the warrior poet, the philosopher mind. So I have my own quote that I brought today, and I feel like it's timely. So in these crazy times, one of the things that I often think about is because you hear people saying, What can we do? What can we do? So I do think that there is some measure of control that we have, of course, our own autonomy. Number one is getting out of a victim mindset, a victim of a system. I think that is truly how we can start to take back our autonomy and enjoy the life that we have here, our God-given life. And so um oftentimes when I'm processing what is actually happening and trying not to become fearful of what we see transpiring, whether that's the surveillance state, whether that is the, you know, a lot of people in this space are saying that we are um that we are uh I lost my train of thought, my apologies. That, oh, we're talking about the oil crisis, that we're we're always on this precipice of the next crisis, which is probably true. Um, but I think that if we can not live our lives in fear, then that is a huge help to us in our day-to-day because we don't know what's coming down the pike. We don't know when, you know, the financial reset may be happening exactly. Like we do know the plans, we know the signs are there, we know the the frog is boiling, but I still think that we have we have the ability to enjoy the life that we have and that we are given right now. And especially when um, I know it's tough out there, but things are for a lot of us, things are okay at the moment. And so I try to think about that and enjoy and appreciate the time that we have where something major isn't going on because I've reflected back on during, you know, the the pandemic times that I probably wasn't grateful for my day-to-day life. And then everything changed. And then I regretted that. So I tried to learn that lesson and going forward, appreciate what we have, when we have it, and to not live my life in fear based on the current events that are transpiring that we don't have any control over. Some things we do, some things we don't. And that's kind of going to be the theme of some of these events that are happening on the grand scale that is difficult for us to affect change, and then getting into some other kind of positive things and some um perhaps malicious compliance that can be, you know, uh a difference maker in at least kicking the can. So before I get into that though, I want to uh read this quote. This is from Robert Jordan, who wrote the Wheel of Time series. And this is topical for me because on my show tonight, Think Change Repeat on Rumble and YouTube, I am going to be talking with my friend Jen the Ninja about the Wheel of Time book series. And this is something that I often reflect on is when we are looking at themes and archetypes in fiction, where do those come from? Is there kind of a mirror of what we see today and what lessons can we learn from that? And without further ado, I'll read this quote. The wheel of time turns and ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend, legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the age that gave birth comes again. In one age called the third age by some, an age yet to come, an age long past, a wind rose above the great mountainous island of Tremalking. The wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings of the wheel of time, but it was a beginning. And I think about that quote all the time because I I look at the world that we are living in and what we're seeing transpire, and I just think maybe it's the wheel of time. And I I bring, you know, I get some peace from that, just thinking that humans and society and the earth and everything is cyclical, and perhaps that's just where we're at. So I, you know, I do derive some peace from that. And something else that I've been thinking about, uh, last week, Franco from The Angry Tiger's Den was speaking with Gregory Manorino. And Greg said something that resonated with me, and I thought that it was also comforting, but basically that we, you know, we're here on earth by the grace of God, and we are given this time and anything that we have is from our creator. And we can't take these things with us. So I think that just kind of and uh to echo maybe an AA sentiment, let go and let God. So that's something that I have been working on. I'm not here to preach to you and tell you how to handle, you know, the how you process current events, but I just wanted to share a little bit about how I've been thinking about these things and how I try to manage my concern for what we see transpiring. So without uh further ado, we are going to move on to a couple of issues.

Iran War Narratives And History

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So, one thing that I wanted to establish is this very weird situation that the United States finds itself in in regards to the conflict or the war with Iran. So we know that the narrative, and this is one of the things that I want to get into are what are the narratives that we're seeing, and not necessarily one side or the other. I'm not trying to be um, you know, I'm actually trying to be quite neutral when I say this as far as just simply what do we see? What are the facts? The facts are that the United States had participated in the 12-day war uh months ago, in order to remove Iran's capability for creating a nuclear weapon. That was the story that we were given. And then months and years before that, we know that the United States had carried out the assassination of one of the generals in Iran, which was uh Suleimani. So we also know that the United States has been involved in the affairs of Iran for a very long time. We have Iran Contra, we have uh coups that had taken place as far as regime change. And then circling back, this is one of the narratives that we are seeing again today, which is a regime, the United States wants regime change, or Benjamin Netanyahu and the nation state of Israel want regime change in Iran because Iran is a threat to Israel. Now, I know there are some people out there who are and have responded back, and that's totally fine. I appreciate the information on the egregious things that the nation-state of Iran has has done over the years and you know, human rights atrocities and things like that. But I would say, first of all, that is not the concern of the United States, you know, from looking at it from the libertarian perspective, why would the United States be the world's babysitter, the world's parent? You know, I would say that if that is actually transpiring, then that is for the people of Iran to manage and deal with, in the same way that the atrocities committed by the United States are for the American people to deal with. And if people want to provide examples of Iran killing citizens and things like this, well, let's talk about the United States in the conflict in the Middle East, like in the Gulf War and the death and destruction that has happened in Iraq. 500,000 civilians killed, including children. And that was on our hands, right? Um, let's look at the Vietnam War. Oh, approximately, the numbers are not exactly known, but somewhere between two and three million Vietnamese people were killed during that time. And that I is on all sides, but I'm just saying that is the United States being involved in a conflict with a mass amount of human life. And I think there was about 60,000 American soldiers who were killed during that conflict. There was approximately 2 million American soldiers that were drafted. We had McNamara's Folly, which was Project 100,000, where they lowered the mental and physical requirements for the draft in order to have people that were previously considered not eligible to be drafted. They did that. And what kind of help and preparation did those people had? And they came back here and they suffered. And all the soldiers, or maybe not all, I'm not trying to be hyperbolic or um incorrect here, but many of the soldiers came back here and they had a very hard time. And we know this is one of the most unpopular wars and conflicts that the United States was ever involved in. All that to say is that we are also implicated. So does that mean that someone else should be the babysitter and come in and try to manage the affairs of the United States? That's my line of thinking. So um, in order to move us along here, I want to get into some of the narratives. Okay, so that was part of it is the we wanted to prevent Iran from having the new nuclear weapon and that the Iranian state was a great threat to Israel. So the United States bombs Iran back in February, and ever since then, we have been dealing with the consequences, although I don't know that we have fully realized the consequences of this conflict. So some of the other narratives that have come out of this, of course, or not even narrative, it's just what is happening, is failed negotiations. Many, many times. Recently, we had the one that sounded like it may actually be the best at the time, which was the memorandum of understanding, which was of course violated and broken almost immediately. Part of the Iranian stance, at least in my understanding, is that they want to end the uh what is happening in Palestine. They want to end the war in Gaza, and they also want Israel to stop bombing Lebanon. So Lebanon has been continuously bombing, or excuse me, Israel has been continuously bombing Lebanon for really on and off for years, but has really kind of amped up in the last several months, coinciding with the Iran conflict. And that has been done in the name of fighting Hezbollah, but there are actually civilian structures that have been being bombed in Lebanon. So this was part of what Iran is wanting, which is to cease this involvement, this bombing that is happening from Israel. Now, also heating up recently, once again, is the attacks between Saudi Arabia and Yemen. So we kind of, this is something I've talked about before, is that we see this bubbling cauldron really. The pot is simmering, and it feels like we're one, and I had described this before as one assassination of the Archduke of Ferdinand away from a really major conflict, more than we are involved in at this time. And the United States currently has been utilizing bombing as their method of approach in this particular conflict. And there's been a lot of debate that I have seen from military analysts as far as what would the United States actually need if they wanted to definitively end this conflict by increasing aggression, which would be troops on the ground. My understanding is that you're not going to be able to win a conflict purely on bombing alone, and that the United States would have to commit ground troops in order to facilitate that. The problem is that Iran is, in my understanding, geographically, it is very insulated. It's essentially a rock bowl. And that the Iranian people, and they've been preparing for this conflict and approaching it in a measured way, but they have um underground bunkers, they have a lot of things from as far as weapons, munitions, things like that stored underground, and they're using the geography to their advantage. First of all, second of all, it's a big country, it's heavily populated. So my understanding from watching military analysts is that if you are an invading army, that you need a three to one ratio in order to win. Now, I'm not an expert in these areas, and I'm not claiming to be. I'm just kind of aggregating the news, the talking points that I've seen from some of the analysts and working on building my knowledge of military conflict and various approaches, successes, failures, etc. So I'm not trying to be or claiming to be an expert here, but I just wanted to kind of put that out there that that is what they are saying. So that would essentially make a ground invasion a very horrible idea. Never mind the actual weather that is um the climate conditions that are in the Middle East, which would be extremely hot, extremely dangerous, especially if you're um, you know, a soldier and you're carrying huge backpacks and supplies and things like that. It just is really not practical, is my understanding. So where does that leave us?

Strait Of Hormuz Oil Fallout

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That seems to leave us in this constant back and forth, back and forth. The problem is that Iran is saying that the Strait of Hormuz is closed for all intents and purposes to the United States. And the problem with that is that the Strait of Hormuz was facilitating 20% of the world's energy reserves in and out, out of that port. So that potentially is leading us off the cliff of an energy crisis. And then the narrative surrounding that has been gross incompetence. I feel like there the narrative has been that the United States is working on behalf of Israel, that uh Donald Trump is owned by the Israel lobby and that Benjamin Netanyahu is the boss of this situation. Maybe that is so, but I'm just saying this is what has been presented to us, and it is going to be for us to determine and history 2020, hindsight being um for us to see if that is actually what this uh ends up shaking out, if that was actually what was happening in this conflict. And I don't think that we know that from a speculative uh perspective. I think that this if you wanted to set up a worldwide energy crisis, if you wanted to begin to change markets and uh facilitate some sort of recession or depression on a global scale, if you wanted to facilitate lockdown-like situations as far as restrictions of movement, restrictions of travel, then this would be a good way to do it. I am not claiming that that is what happened, but I am saying that if you wanted to do that, then this is a good way to do it. So then incompetence has been ascribed to the Trump administration. And I'm also not saying that that's not true. You know, I do believe there's a high level of incompetence in some elements, but I also think that there are people who, of course, have to realize what is going on. The other complicating factor is that we have the Israel lobby. So we do have these people, the the Merriam Adelsons and the Jared Kushners and uh uh Steve Whitkoff that are ardent Zionists. So, of course, we had the Sense Pass, Lindsey Graham, and these other neocon warhawks. So there's a lot of different factors and agendas that is playing out here. So I don't mean to present it in a way that makes it sound really simple, or that I fully understand it all. That's not the case. I'm just trying to go over the narratives and understand some of the pieces that are adding layers of complexity to what we're seeing here. And I'm just scratching the surface. So the other thing is that we have been seeing mixed messages from the administration constantly, constantly messages from Donald Trump that the, oh, we totally control the Strait of War moves, we're working with Iran, then we'll immediately have a denial from Iran that any negotiations are happening. And there has been definitely manipulation as far as the um, you know, what some would call insider trading in the stock market. So we have a certain narrative that is coming out during the week, and then by Friday, certain other narratives coming out, and then wouldn't you know it somebody was able to cash in on the stock market based on that particular information and make huge amounts of money. And supposedly those things are being investigated, but I think that there is a wealth transfer element to this and almost everything else that we see on the global stage, my opinion only. Now, uh, so the American people are constantly getting mixed messages as far as what is actually transpiring, who's talking, who's not talking. We also have the the uh the BRICS influence as Iran is aligned with BRICS, and then we have, of course, from there the Russia and China factors, then the United States Israel factor. There is a lot transpiring here that makes it a complicated situation. We have the continuation of the conflict between Ukraine and Russia, and the United States' involvement in that, the United States' support of providing munitions to Ukraine. Meanwhile, circling back to the narratives that we're seeing in regard to the Iran conflict, we are now hearing in a lot of different places that the United States is running low on certain types of missiles. And this is tying in with the incompetence narrative. Now, maybe that is the case. Maybe Heg Seth and Donald Trump and all the other people that are the decision makers here and the showrunners, maybe they truly. Are so incompetent that they don't care or are not aware of the perilous state of these missiles that we're supposedly running low on. It seems very odd to me. And now, as somebody who was around during the first Gulf War and has paid attention in some way to all the conflicts since then, I personally have never heard the messaging that the United States is running low on munitions. So I find that to be an interesting bullet point for consideration in how we're looking at what is currently transpiring. Why would that be? Again, if you're getting into the speculation territory, and of course that's what it is, if you think that there are people who would be deliberately trying to set up the United States for failure, wouldn't that be a great way to do it? If you were trying to facilitate a massive change on a global scale, if you were trying to sun down the United States as the world's superpower, then this would certainly be a way to do that. I'm not claiming that's what is happening, but my conspiracy brain, of course, is going in that direction. But I also want to be fair and just say that's my speculation in trying to connect dots and have pattern recognition. However, I think it's difficult in some ways in today's day and time to actually recognize patterns because we are bombarded with so much news constantly. And even in this one story, we have a constant changing of the narrative. We control the straight of four moves. We're going to have a deal, the deal's off, all of these things. It's difficult to keep track of and to actually have pattern recognition in short, in a short time frame. So some of these things, we really are only going to know exactly what happened in retrospect when hindsight is 2020. So the other thing is the narrative that I have been seeing a lot is that Iran is a superpower. We have created a superpower. Now, I don't necessarily deny that or know what the full implications of that would be, but I just find it another interesting bullet point in all the things that we're looking at for this conflict. So we've already talked about the Strait of World Moose, that it has 20% of the world's oils passing through there. And the United States is oil-rich, but I'm sure many of you or most of you know this. But as far as that goes, first of all, you have refry refinery and infrastructure limitations because this is something that Don Jeffries talks about a lot, which is how much has the United States invested in infrastructure in this country? Not much. I think that a lot of us would agree that the infrastructure is, if not crumbling, it is in, it could use some help. I will say that. Bombing Iran prevented a great deal of the world's fertilizer production, which will certainly facilitate famine conditions in certain areas. This is as serious of a problem as higher energy prices, certainly. And that's one of the things, too, as far as not only the um, not only the the fertilizer issue, that of course is huge. And then um TCCTY2Y is tying that into the that that would be a bigger issue than the energy prices. And I would agree. Now, I was watching a video from I think it was infographics yesterday, and it was talking about, and I guess this should have been obvious to me, but it was like, if we are in this oil crisis, then what happens when we're out of oil reserves? That the United States oil reserves are actually below 50% at this time already. Gregory and Manarino was saying we have weeks before the reserves are out. So then what happens? And how do you get food to grocery stores for people? Now, I don't want to dwell on that necessarily, but I do think that this is these things are intimately evolved, involved, and tied together. And this is it's a huge concern. It is a huge concern. Now, I'm back to trying not to be fearful of what is happening, but I'm worried about that. And I'm worried about people in this country and over the world, honestly. But yeah, that's a great point. The um fertilizer situation is a concern as well, and that is a concern from the Ukrainian perspective. In my understanding, that was called the breadbasket of the world. So it it's terrible that that particular, I mean, in any location, we don't want war, but that is a very bad area if it's called the breadbasket of the world for us to uh for a conflict to be happening. So um, yeah, I have a comment from Bronx Stomper here that said, Ashley holding down the fort. I'm trying my best. And he said it blew a tire on his truck yesterday because of the terrible road conditions on I-65 in Kentucky. And I think that, yes, many of us can attest to the poor conditions on our highways and the infrastructure not being maintained in the world's wealthiest, most prosperous country, supposedly. Why is that? Why would that be? Um, okay. Let me go over a couple more of my narratives. So that I wanted to point out the fighting in the Middle East, I had already mentioned this, but we're really seeing a bubbling of what is happening because it was the, you know, the things are heating up between Saudi Arabia and Yemen again. Obviously, we have the Oman factor because they are next door neighbors with Iran. We have Iran and the United States and Israel conflict, and then of course we have Israel bombing Lebanon and um and Gaza, and there's a lot more. That's my own simplification. So I have to communicate to you that there is so much more happening and it's changing day to day, and I'm sure that you know that. So, all that to say, we have established an incompetency from the United States perspective for sure. We have established recklessness because if us, the regular, everyday people, can identify that these things are huge problems and would never have been a good idea, then why wouldn't the highest levels of the American government, including our president, including Pete Hegseth, the secretary of war, why wouldn't they be able to foresee what we are foreseeing and discussing right now of the problems? So um Michael Burnett says, but we pay taxes to fix that, wonder where the tax money is going, if not to improve our country and economy. Exactly. And that's one of the things. So from my perspective, for many years, I have been in the liberty, libertarian, anarchist, agorist line of thinking, which I think I have enough reasons to back that up. I'm not saying that somebody should be something else, it's not that. But I am saying that in that space, you know, one of the most famous talking lines is taxation is theft. And I still agree with that. But I if our taxes that we're paying actually went to help the United States and our infrastructure and people and food insecurity and clean water, I would complain a lot less. Okay. So I do care about people. Americans are generous. Americans donate

Division Narratives And Algorithms

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a ton of money to charity, and that's in spite of all the taxes that we are already paying. And I think that ultimately we've had a huge amount of division and division narratives. I mean, we have algorithms that are putting people in silos. We have them, you know, sort of not only dividing people, but I think moving people in more extreme directions. And I think that that also is a slowly boiling frog. So you probably don't even recognize it. I didn't. So now when I see a specific narrative, whether that's covered on, you know, the quartering or ten foil hat or Candace Owens or some, you know, Unicorn Riot, whatever that is, I, or the mainstream or Judge Napolitano, and I like Judge. I'm not saying that, but I'm just saying I am trying to be aware of this is being presented to me and just do my own critical thinking. One of the things I also have given up is considering other Americans my enemy. One of the examples that I give is not only the fact that, you know, we are all Americans here, but when crisis happens and the government fails you, and if you a specific example that I discuss is when Hurricane Helene ended up causing a huge amount of devastation in West in the Appalachian Mountains in general. It was Western North Carolina. There was severe devastation there, but also East Tennessee, they didn't get off the hook either, and um basically everything up on the way there. There was a devastating event, devastating flooding. The topographical map was basically changed. And I know that you all know that, but the reason that I'm bringing this up was because when people in Western North Carolina were suffering, people from all over the South, the country, whatever, they sent supplies and money and they donated. And nobody cared about what side you're aligning on politically, whether you did this or you didn't do that, or whether you're a conspiracy theorist or you're uh, you know, a um a crazy leftist or an extreme rightist, whatever that was, like people didn't care because we saw Americans, our friends, family, and neighbors suffering. So that is something that I try to remind myself of. When I'm seeing these, these division kind of topics out there. I just try to recognize that as what it is. And then in my own life, I think to myself, I am not going to stop talking or loving my friends and my family and my neighbors because of something that I saw online or because of a news story that I saw or something like that. I'm not doing it. And I think that that has also brought me uh more autonomy, more personal liberty. Because now I can circle back to the beginning of this episode. And as TCCTY2Y said, do the best you can with your allotted time. And that that's on earth, right? So I think that my it serves me to not be angry at someone because they have a certain political ideology. And in many cases, many of us have been so deceived. And this is something my friend Billy Ray Valentine talks about a lot, is that um it because he he has had a transformation as far as his perspective on conspiracy and things like that. And some things we agree on, some things we don't agree on. And I'm trying to be more measured and really consider that. But one of the things he says is that you're not awake, and I'm not either. And I think about that because I think, yeah, what am I not awake on? I think I'm awake, I think I'm aware. But what what we need to understand is that whether this is coming from advertisers or a social media platform or a political entity or some merging of all of the above, which I tend to think that it is, that we know that algorithmic manipulation is absolutely a huge factor in feeding you a story. Like if you log on to X or you log on to Instagram or Facebook or whatever that is, like that is being curated for you without really your consent as far as what you're being shown. Why is that? So something that I keep in mind there now. Um back to what is happening in Iran. We see these, we're hearing uh another narrative that I wanted to communicate to you is that there is conflict among the higher up. So there's there's this um, and again, I'm still learning these things, but uh I believe it's Admiral Bradley Cooper, like that he has one approach, one um uh more pro-Israel, more using up the weapons while we have them. And then there are other people that do not subscribe to that ideology. So all of this to say there's so many different narratives, and I just wanted to kind of run through as a summary of what we're seeing in that way in this conflict. I don't have a solution, but I'm just wanted to present that to you to kind of keep track because again, I'm trying to pay attention to this every single day, and every single day there's there's weird stuff, new narratives that are emerging. But certainly these are some of the highlights that I find to be very interesting in regards to this conflict.

USS Lincoln Deployment Strain

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Now, um, one thing that I wanted to bring up here before we move on to some more positive news, and I'm going to share my screen here, and this is coming from the Military Times.com. So the title of this is that multiple USS Abraham Lincoln sailors have tried to go overboard amid extended deployment, families say. So the reason that I bring this up, not only do I find this to be a horrible tragedy that this the conditions that these soldiers are living in, and we're gonna get into that, but I also tie it in with early in this conflict, we also heard similar rumblings about the uh, I believe it's the USS Jimmy Carter. And if I'm wrong, please correct me. But that essentially we had people who the soldiers were, what did they say? Uh essentially sabotaging, you know, there was dryer fires, there was clogged toilets, there were people that did not agree ideologically with what was happening. So this is just another instance of when we're hearing about weird conditions for the military members that are dealing with the conflict now. And this is also not the only story that I have seen about people, the soldiers having essentially disgusting food, not really having enough food, and certainly the quality is very, very poor. So again, I don't necessarily know what to make of all this, but I just want to present these to you for you to consider. And before I get further into this, I'm gonna check over on um Rumble. So we had harps over there, LT Oracle of Truth, What Word Spell, Nostra, and I think that's it for that. And then over here on um YouTube, I had Flatlander, um a Marco 7453, TCCTY2Y, Bronck Stomper, and Michael Burnett. So if I miss anybody, my apologies. I'm trying to catch everybody as I go and uh keep track of that. So back to our story. So we have this transpiring from the military, the USS Abraham Lincoln. And this says that Annabelle Loma has spoken with her husband only a few times since he attempted to jump overboard from the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln during his current deployment. Communication has been difficult to come by, and he is now on medical hold. Loma, who lives in San Diego, said her husband had been repeatedly overextended before he tried to jump from the care the carrier. He's scared, Loma said. He thinks he'll get a dishonorable discharge and just because he was burnt out. His 13-year career is ruined, just like that. That's not fair, that's not right, that's not what he should be worrying about. Loma said she initially received a call from the ship's ombudsman, I'm not familiar with that word, after the incident, but has not heard from anyone with the Navy in recent weeks. Lincoln's roughly 5,000 sailors and Marines remain on deployment that on a deployment that began on November 21st. The carrier has been deployed for more than eight months while supporting U.S. military operations in the Middle East against Iran. The deployment, which was anticipated to end in May, has it been extended with no publicly announced return date. In a separate incident aboard Lincoln, a sailor on watch saw a shipmate preparing to go overboard as he intervened, according to the sailor's wife. Rodriguez said her husband called out to the sailor before reaching the individual and grabbing their arms, pulling them onto the deck. Her husband told her the sailor had not yet gone over the side when he got there. Three other sailors heard the commotion and came running to help. So, not I don't want to read every single word of this article, but I just wanted to give you an idea of what we are seeing transpire on the USS Abraham Lincoln. And I saw a video of that was shared on Judge Napolitano, it was in the last couple of days, and he was saying the the video that they were sharing was talking about how unprecedented really this amount of leave is because they have not only not had days off, but they have not seen land. And that the normally they have a fairly set timeline of actually returning to land and being able to take a little break, and that we're really dealing with a situation of psychological harm because of the amount of time that they have been out to sea and that they have been deployed without having breaks. So this is something else that I find very concerning. And of course, my heart goes out to the people that are on the Abraham Lincoln, but also their family members, particularly when it seems like communication with those families from the military is not very good. Um, so that's one thing that I wanted to go over and feel free to check that out on your own. And if you have any other sources that you want to um make me aware of, please feel free to do that. Now, okay, I'm out of that. The other thing that I wanted to get to is that excuse me, this is an article from anti-war, and this goes to it proves our point that we've been talking about today, which is Iranian officials or Iranian official denies there have been talks between the US and Iran on extending the memorandum of understanding ceasefire. An Iranian source speaking to Reuters said there's nothing to extend since the U.S.-Iran MOU fell apart due to U.S. violations. So this is an article by Dave DeCamp, and he says an Iranian source speaking to Reuters has denied that the U.S. and Iran had agreed to extend a 60-day ceasefire under the US-Iran MOU since the deal fell apart shortly after it was signed. The official was responding to a report from Turkey's Anadullah agency, my apologies if I mispronounced that, which cited Pakistani government sources who claimed that the U.S. and Iran had agreed to extend the ceasefire for another 60 days before it expired on August 17th. So we're rapidly approaching that expiration date. And I don't know if that's going to be of some importance or maybe it's already deal off. I'm not sure. There's no talk of an extension because the United States had violated the interim agreement 48 hours after it was reached and withdrew from it days later. The Iranian source told Reuters. One of the issues that is being discussed via mediators is the U.S. returning to the interim agreement and defining a time frame for implementing its commitments. There has been absolutely no progress on this issue. So I think that that says it pretty well. Again, I'm not going to read the entire thing. Wanted to put this on your radar as far as referring to some of the um some of the narratives and the bullet points that we can put on our corkboard to try to make under or to try to make sense of and have an increased understanding of actually what we're seeing in regards to this conflict. Bronx Sumper said, this has been, this has only been a thing since the end of Korea. Before that, you were deployed essentially until the conflict ended or you were injured. So that is a good point. And one thing that we do know about the soldiers in Vietnam is that many of them did serve up to a year as far as their deployment. And I know I don't know all the details, but I do believe that that would be similar to what we saw in some of the Middle East conflicts. Although I think that some of them were supposed to be able to go home maybe once or twice a year. So somebody can let me know. But um either way, not a good situation with that. And I think that the morale issue is concerning. And, you know, we've also heard that that the United States has lied or kind of fiddled with how they identify soldiers that have been killed in this conflict. And that's just one other thing for us to consider is what actually is going on on these, you know, on the USS, uh, Abraham Lincoln, or any of the other ships that. We're talking about or anything else that's happening with troops that maybe morale and food and just uh like basic care issues that are that are happening. Now, moving on from the conflict specifically, but I wanted to bring up another document

IEA Oil Shock Restriction Playbook

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here. This was issued from the International Energy Agency, and this is a white paper that they had produced maybe in the last couple of weeks, sheltering from oil shocks. So this concerned me because I am wondering if these measures that they lay out are going to be something that may be implemented in a like pandemic style um throwback, or if they simply are recommendations, or if we're going to be seeing these recommendations coming to us from more official government sources in the coming days and weeks. Before I do that, um Dad Thulu said when they first started the conflict in the Middle East, they did a stop loss, and there was people that were over there for 18 months on rotation waiting for their next unit to relieve them. That's why they started activating the National Guard like crazy, but they had to get everybody certified. Okay, thank you for that um input. So I'm going to go over the bullet points, the summary of this paper. So this says that the conflict in the Middle East has created the largest supply disruption in the history of the global oil market. Due to the near halt in shipping traffic through the strait, we've talked about that. Some 15 million barrels of crude oil and 5 million barrels of oil products typically traverse the strait each day, equivalent to around 20%, which we've already talked about, of global oil consumption. These flows have slowed to a trickle. The loss of supply is having significant impacts on global markets, which we we know that we're experiencing that. Um, pushing up prices for crude oil above $100 a barrel. Now, another thing that I wanted to say is that I again I wasn't an economics major. So demand destruction is a phrase or term that I have recently learned about, which is many of you probably already know this, but bear with me. Essentially, that there is a point where oil can go up and be high for us as consumers, but that would be more reflected in increased cost of our goods and services. But then if we cross the threshold into demand destruction, that is where the cost of the oil is so expensive that it's actually prohibitive to even venture to ship us goods and for people to, you know, pay for the diesel to move the 18-wheelers and get us the products that we're used to. So that is the the reason that I'm bringing that up is because they said that uh pushing up prices for crude oil above $100 a barrel. So it, I believe, is like in the $150 mark, if I recall, that is passing into that demand destruction area. So certainly something to keep an eye on. And I know people like Tony are keeping an eye on that when they're checking uh prices every single day. So uh it's leading to much higher prices for some refined products, notably diesel, jet fuel, and liquefied petroleum gas, aka L P G. Concerns are growing about the impacts of higher prices on households, businesses, and the broader economy. So these are a summary that I'm gonna go through with what they're suggesting we do. And to me, some of them sound like overlap with pandemic measures. Decide for yourself. Let me know what you think, or let Tony know what you think in the comments if you're listening later. So, uh work from home where possible. Working from home can significantly reduce oil consumption from commuting at the national level. Three additional remote work days for those whose jobs allow it could cut oil consumption from cars by 2 to 6%, with average potential reductions of around 20% for individual drivers. Reduce speed limits on highways by at least 10 miles an hour, lowering the speed limit on highways by 10 kilometers per hour can reduce an individual driver's oil consumption by 5 to 10%, and overall oil use for private cars by 1 to 6%. Heavy freight trucks can save around 5% due to their already lower speeds. Encourage public transportation. Now, this is another thing that I would say I have a huge issue with is because, again, discussing the United States infrastructure, this is something that Don Jeffries talks about all the time. The infrastructure in the United States is not where it should be for the world's superpower or former superpower, and that places such as Europe, such as China have much better public transportation options and high-speed rails and things that they have actually invested in. Now, again, however you feel about that, I understand either way, but I'm saying this could be an option for us and it could help people fly less. If that was really an issue, then help us get somewhere faster. You know, I've heard that if you're trying to take a train in this country, it's gonna take you forever. There is no high-speed rail. So, you know, for long distance transport. Um, so encourage public transport. Well, give us some public transport to use. Alternate private car access, or excuse me, alternate private car access to roads in large cities on different days. This sounds like some 70s type restrictions. Limiting cars access in designated zones to specific days based on the their number plate could reduce traffic congestion, engine idling, and fuel-intensive stop and go driving with savings of 1 to 5% of national car oil use. Increase car sharing and adopt efficient driving practices, efficient driving for road commercial vehicles and delivery of goods, divert LPG use from transport. Around 2% of the global car fleet runs on LPGs, switching on gasoline and converted vehicles or bifuel ones can preserve LPG supplies at for prioritized uses such as cooking. For air transport fuels, cooking fuels, and industry, avoid air travel when are where alternative options exist. A reduction of around 40% of flights taken for business purposes is feasible in the short term and with very high participation in work-related flight reduction campaigns, could reduce jet kerosene demand by 7 to 15%. Where possible, switch to other modern cooking solutions, leverage flexibility with the petrochemical feedstocks and implement short-term efficiency and maintenance measures. Prioritizing the processing of oil feed stocks with higher volumes available can release pressure on other oil products. Optimizing equipment operations and maintenance can reduce oil use in individual facilities up to 5%. So I know that was a lot of reading at you. My apologies, but I just wanted to say that I find this to be a really interesting document that they put out because some of these measures do sound like the 70 preservation or the 70s, and some uh the work from home idea that was became very mainstream during the pandemic times. And then one of the biggest issues that I have with that is that they are, of course, telling the regular everyday person that they have to sacrifice, that they have to drive less or alternate days or work from home or whatever that may be. And I think that obviously we have much larger uses of fuel at higher levels that could be addressed. And certainly this is a problem that I have with the um, you know, the 1% or the 0.01% or whatever, because they in their think tanks, in their messaging, has been for us regular people to change our lifestyle to accommodate X, Y, and Z. And yet it doesn't seem like they ever are required to change their extravagant lifestyle, uh, such as flying commercial, you know, things like that. Okay. So I wanted to put that on your radar. Now I have a couple minutes left before we end with worldwide Christian radio. So I want to get into the next thing that I wanted to share, which is solutions. I don't know that this is necessarily a solution, so to speak, but this is back to what we can actually affect when we feel like the powers that shouldn't be are are creating situations that make it more difficult for the average person.

Tokenization Fears And Pet Chicken Pranks

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Now, some of the think tanks, such as a World Economic Forum, uh, have been talking about tokenizing. You have people like the Ice Age Farmer and years ago, even Allison McDowell, and this goes back further, I'm sure, to like the Rosa Quar uh people that identified kind of the green mask, this what was happening, but this idea of merging our food supplies and almost everything on the planet, tokenizing it so that people from these think tanks and the 1% or whatever you want to refer to them, that they could not only have more control over the regular everyday person, but could continue to benefit financially. Now, how much how much wealth do you need? I don't know. That's a good question for them. So the idea though of when these policies that nobody is asking for from a regular person perspective are presented, there are sometimes things that we could do in that would fall under malicious compliance that can throw a wrench in the gears. So this was a story that I saw on the Telegram from IceAge Farmer. And he said this, so the actual story is from the Daily Mail, but Defra left with egg on its face in online revolt over chicken database crashes website as pranksters list rubber chickens and chicken nuggets as pets. So this story originally came out in October of 2024, but it's the first time I'm seeing it. But it this was when, and you may remember this when they were like, they want you to register your birds. So this was also coinciding with like the bird flu um thing that was going around. We saw large culling of uh of birds, chickens, things like that from our food chain. But also this there was a push in the UK for people to register their backyard birds. Now, this is something that I don't think they're trying in the United States yet. And I do think in the last several years, there has been a huge push for people to um have some food independence, whether that's just having some chickens and and being able to have fresh eggs every day and sharing those with your friends and family, whatever that looks like, there has certainly been a rise in that. And so, but they they said in the UK that they wanted people to register their birds. And this article goes on to say that people who keep chickens in their garden now face prison and large fines if they fail to register them, all under strict new rules brought in to tackle bird flu. So, again, this was from 2024. So I want to be clear about that. But within hours of the new government database going live on October 1st, protesters and pranksters managed to crash its website by listing as pets everything from rubber chickens to chicken nuggets. The controversial clampdown, which also applies to keepers of pigeons, ducks, geese, and birds of prey, has been introduced as part of a UK-wide effort to prevent the spread of bird flu. Previously, only flocks of 50 or more had to be registered with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which is DEFRA, and Animal and Plant Health Agency. So, um, but it had been expanded to all owners who keep birds outdoors, even just a handful, who now face six months' imprisonment and fines of up to 2,500 pounds, I guess, for each unregistered bird. Outraged by the petty regulations, several posted images of birds they had just registered, mostly wrapped in plastic with cooking instructions attached. One commenter on X registered himself dressed in a chicken costume. However, another observed so all the people who tried to register their roast chickens from Tesco have managed to crash the DEFRA website, and now it's not working. It's not big or clever. Stop snickering. So I definitely snickered at this, and I think that registering your roast chicken is maybe a good act of defiance. And if something like this does come our way, then I think that malicious compliance could be a way for us to at the very least kick the can and vote our displeasure in that way. Now, the last thing that I wanted to get into before we wrap it up for today is actually uh this is coming from Facebook, so bear with me one moment here while I pull up my screen. And while I do that, I'm going to check in over on um Rumble. So Nostra had said news reports state that there is trouble on the USS Abraham Lincoln with morale for sure. And opossum King said midshipmen swimming with fishes. Yeah. Unfortunately. Very unfortunately. Okay. So this is what I wanted to share

Local Pushback Stops A Mega Project

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with you. This is an instance of victory at a local level. In our conversations that we have had, you know, on nights of the storm or uh other platforms, we have talked about the issues of data centers. And sometimes communities are able to come together to say no to a data center that they don't want. Sometimes NDAs are signed and this is actually done behind their back and there isn't much that they can do, but we still can affect things at a local level. This is an example, not in a data center, but of a town in North Carolina that did not want a huge development of 600 homes in their county, in their area, uh, because it was a violation of the county statute that every lot should be almost an acre at least. And they were trying to cram 600 homes into this area. And the community ended up speaking out. So this project is known as the Iron Gate Project. And from the Lincolnherald.net. So this is in Lincoln County, North Carolina, in Western North Carolina. And they said that we say no to the Iron Gate subdivision. And as of two days ago, I'm gonna share my screen here. Okay, uh before I do that, I think it's ending for worldwide Christian radio. Thank you all so much for tuning in. And you can finish the broadcast over on YouTube and Rumble on America Unplugged on Rumble and Tony Artiburn on YouTube. Thank you all so much, and I really appreciate you being here today. Okay, now I'm going to wrap up with this last story here. And okay. So uh this is a little bit small. I'm gonna try to bring that up. Okay, so this says the planning board voted unanimously this evening, which was two days ago, that the Iron Gate subdivision is unreasonable. The planning board's statement will go to the board of commissioners on September 21st at 10 a.m. It is now up to the board of commissioners to decide. Let's make sure they know their constituents are still watching, waiting, and expecting them to say no to the Iron Gate subdivision. And you can see their graphic that they made in order to kind of get the word out to communicate that it was coming up September the 21st. And I I like what they're saying here. Make sure they know their constituents are watching, waiting, and expecting them to say no. So this is an example of now, this thing is not totally dead in the water yet. I'm not saying that it is, but I think that to get the planning board, who are an important part of this process, to vote unanimously that this particular subdivision or whatever they're trying to do is unreasonable is a victory. And I know that uh driving through there, people have their yard signs up all over. They have been expressing their displeasure for months. Whenever they had meetings about this, people turned up to show their physical support, but they were also vocal. And they made good points. They said that the infrastructure is not there for this many people. And that includes medical infrastructure, educational infrastructure, the roads do not accommodate the people that already live here, in addition to the people that you're trying to bring in. This is a rural community. So whenever they had the initial meeting with the um the contractor, the person that was trying to get this project off the ground, they expressed to them that the community members said, okay, you're wanting to put in a roundabout. A roundabout does not work for us. We have horse trailers, we have tractors. That is not going to work here. So they showed up and they said, This is not going to work, and this is why it's not going to work, because it doesn't work with the lifestyle that we live here. And they have not let them off the hook since then. The people of Iron Station in Lincoln County, North Carolina are staying on top of this and they are actively involved in making sure that if a subdivision or if new development is put into their area, that it is done so in accommodation with other things, such as the health infrastructure, the school infrastructure, and the road infrastructure. And there was a comment. Um, I had talked to someone who was at the meeting and they said that somebody had said, we do not think that progress or development is, we never thought that it was never going to happen here, but it needs to happen in a way that is accommodating for the people that already live here and is done in guidelines with the county ordinance, which in Lincoln County, my understanding is that a property needs to be almost close to an acre, maybe like 0.9, 0.8, something like that, so that the homes are not on top of themselves and not only for aesthetics, but also, as we said again, for traffic and infrastructure reasons. So this is an example of people recognizing what is happening in their community, coming together. People who are concerned about Iron Gate are not worried if you're a Republican or a Democrat or this or that. They as a community have concerns, real concerns, and they have good points that they're making, and they are showing up and pushing back. So I think that that is a story of victory, and that is something that I find to be very positive and uplifting in spite of all the crazy stuff that is um that's going on in in the world. So we have why you 1984, who said hey now, hey there. And uh I think we are wrapping

Where To Find Us Next

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up for today. So I tried to catch everybody at some point in the chats. We have Ronnie Omletz there as well. And thank you all so much for being here. Thank you to Tony Ardburn for allowing me the opportunity to host the show and fill in today. I know it's not the same without the wisest of all wolves, but hopefully you got a few elements of Tony Style show and maybe some food for thought. And I hope that you found benefit in what I brought here today. Fingers crossed. So without further ado, I'm gonna be wrapping up the show, but I did want to remind you go to wisewolf.gold. There you can support Tony. You can get gold, silver, crypto, all the things. Tune in to Tony's episode with Tenfoil Hat, Sam Triple E that is coming out. I think it's supposed to be Friday. Make sure that you check that out, support him there. And um also don't forget to like, subscribe, share, comment, all the things, and let Tony know what you thought about today's episode. Um, you can also leave a five-star review for Tony on Apple and the America Unplug guys as well. You can leave a review for them and our friend Billy Ray Valentine over at the Gorilla Underground. All those things you can do that supports their show, helps them be, you know, presented more in the algorithm. And uh, you know, it's just the it's things that we can do to support the people that are bringing us content. As far as me, I'm Ashley Think Change Repeat. You can find all of my links, everything I have going on, which is kind of a lot at the moment, over on Linktree. And it's just think, change, repeat at Linktree. That's it. You can find everything. You can figure out how to get in touch with me, X, Instagram. Um, I think I still need to add the Nights of the Storm, but the show that I'm doing with my friend and co-host Sean is called Fool Me Twice. And that is where we're getting into hidden history, some conspiracy stuff, some uh paranormal, you know, whatever. We have a lot of things that we're looking to cover, uh, propaganda, all kinds of things. And then my show, Think Change, Repeat, is conversations that I'm having with people on the internet. It doesn't have much of a theme. It's kind of just conversations that I want to have, and I'm still figuring out how all of that is um, you know, what the flow of the show is gonna be in the meantime. I'm talking to my friends and people that I think have interesting stuff. So tonight, 8:30 p.m. on YouTube and Rumble on Think Change Repeat, I'm gonna be talking with my friend Jen the Ninja about the Wheel of Time series that I kicked off this particular episode with a quote from because I find it very interesting. There's a lot of interesting themes from, you know, just a fictional perspective, the archetypes, but I often wonder if fiction is mirroring real life or vice versa. So having said all of that, thank you so very much, everyone. I hope you have a wonderful rest of your day. And as Tony would say, end of transmission.