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

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And we discovered that last week when I ran a live stream with a person on it for almost a year. I don't think I've missed one. And I I promise people in 2026 there would be no live stream without a human behind it or something. And I had to run a best of. I was in Las Vegas. I woke up and I realized there was something wrong with my website. And I kept getting reports, something wrong. And I I decided to uh tackle that and get out in front of that because, well, without the website and without Wise Wolf and Wolfpack, uh, there is no show. So I had to go to Source and fix that. And I hope you will uh appreciate that and and uh know that I didn't uh neglect my audience. It's even um way past due, I thanked um Ashley. I was going to do that last week when I was uh going to go live. We had lots to talk about, but I'm back this week. I'm in Branson uh in the uh Ozark Mountains. Uh the sun is out, Beans the Brave is here, the shop is open, and uh it's gonna be, I hope, an interesting show for you. It's August 27th, 2026. This is the official broadcast of the apocalypse. I am your host, Tony Arterburn. Um we're gonna dig into some uh revelations of mind war today. Things that um the stuff that rattles around in my brain, maybe even while I sleep, and I wonder like how much of what I believe is is real, like how much of what um I've held sacred for a long time, how much of that is backed up by actual fact? And I think that's probably healthy as um someone who does this type of show and in this type of space. Um there is a a freedom to being able to sponsor my own show. So I'm I'm not basing anything I do off of clicks or popularity. If I did, I'd be I'd be bankrupt um because this isn't a great model for that. This is um mainly an archive of what I actually think for the truth, and um and I enjoy the ideas. I was on with uh Sam Tripoli. We did like a almost a three-hour tinfoil hat in LA uh a couple weeks ago, and I uh I will encourage you to go over and and take a look at the show. It got a lot of great feedback. It's just Sam and I, and of course, uh Johnny and XG. Uh Beans was there and uh she slept through most of the episode. We had a great time, and then uh Sam and I went out to get some uh chicken in an Armenian joint um about 10 minutes away, and uh it's looked over, and Beans is riding in Sam's lap, and uh he's driving talk to me about the uh word war debate that's coming up. And I was like, I have a surreal life sometimes. It's funny because uh I listen to all these shows too, and I try to surround myself, and I think I've been successful with people that are absolutely genuine and um and to the cost of their own fortunes a lot of times, you know, saying something that they believe to be true instead of what the audience or the uh masses want to hear, which is um interesting because I think about you know what my analysis is going to be. I mean, I always say it's weapons grade truth or weapons grade analysis, and uh, you know, take it or leave it. It's not backed by anything that is self-serving. Uh there's no agenda uh in my broadcast other than let's get to the truth and maybe we can help each other out, and maybe we can better um survive market turndowns or government crackdowns or just be immune to propaganda. But there's a couple of stories today I I definitely want to dig into that uh highlight that we should always be cautious about uh what is presented to us as news, as fact. And I've also noticed a couple of things. One of the things I always say is, hey, when a big story drops, you should also ask, what else is going on? You know, especially when they do something that's very divisive uh or put out because you're like, oh, cool, there's a murder trial and I know about it, but there's you know, thousands and thousands of murders, you know, like why do I know about this one? You know, or there's a missing child, and you're like, that's really awful, it's a tragedy, but why do I know about this missing child? There's hundreds of thousands, you know, like those are things that you'd always ask yourself, especially when there's something divisive going on. And I try to keep that muscle memory in play. And um, we'll we'll get into some of that here uh in the second half of the show. I do I will go to the chat today. I've neglected the chat and I don't forget about you. I'll be over on Rumble if you got questions, anything you uh want to talk about, or have me um shed some of my uh analysis, or I don't know if I would call it light. What would you call it? Uh when you run it through the the chaos of of my mind. And then uh a lot of times though, you know, in a weird way it comes out and you're like, oh, I I think I understand what this is. And it's like I almost speak lizard at this point. Uh I'm not a globalist. I understand more and more why they think the way they do, though. I that I think that's an important distinction. And it's it's something that I've tried to do of being uh a student of Sun Tzu, is like know your enemy. You know, know your enemy, know yourself, a thousand battles, a thousand victories. Like follow that line, like know who you're dealing with. And there's a method to it, right? I don't agree with it, uh, but there's a method to it. So we'll we'll definitely dive into some of that today. And uh some of the stuff I didn't get to talk about last week that I uh said publicly that I would, and I had this great Las Vegas show uh lined out. The reason I uh we have uh CPAs and stuff, and most of my companies are Nevada corps, you know. So I uh that's uh an entrepreneurial lesson 101 I learned when I was about 22, 23 years old, reading about setting up uh through the Rich Dad Corporation, put out a book called Own Your Own Corporation. And one of the guys that wrote the book was all about uh making it a Nevada corp. So uh I go out there for business and I had a whole Las Vegas show, and uh, of course I like to play Blackjack too, but I had a whole Las Vegas show. I had a clip from Fear and Loathing that I usually play when I'm out there. I didn't get to do that, but uh next time, and I it won't be long, and I'll be back out uh and hopefully it'll land on a Thursday.

A Family Story And A Loss

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But I wanted to talk a little bit before we go into the um some of the news on the markets, but uh I'm sitting at a desk right now that was owned by my grandfather, Jack Gammel. Uh he was my stepgrandpa from the time I was well from the time I was born uh in 79, uh married to uh my mother's mother. And um I learned a lot from him. He was one of the great mentors of my life. Uh I was so thankful to have him in my life. And and it was brief. Uh he passed away the day my son was born when I was 25 years old. Um, but I always looked to him for you know advice and guidance and other things. And he was he'd been a really interesting guy. Like he'd he'd been a wildcatter, he'd you know, been worked in the oil fields, he was a salesman, he'd been in the army, was uh a colonel's driver like me. Um, or rather, I was a colonel's driver like him at Fort Bragg, same same duty station, had all kinds of crazy stories about the military. And just an interest, like I learned a lot about books and things. He was one of the people that um books on self-improvement, like Think and Grow Rich. And I learned a lot of that from my dad too, uh, you know, Tony Robbins and other things that uh mindset and entrepreneurial activities. This was I was very fortunate growing up. I had a lot of great people surrounding me, and it it tends to rub off. Uh, but he passed away when uh I was 25. And uh one of the things that happened right before he died, and I've never talked about this on air, it's you know, just kind of a name-dropping. I didn't think it was relevant. Um, but he got a call um uh about, I guess, about 12 months before he passed away. And he was relatively young, he was 69 years old, so he wasn't uh very old at all. I had a call from a man and said, I'm I'm your son. And uh you you and my mom were together before you went to the army, and I think it's corpus Christie, Texas, so this is like late 50s, early 60s. And um he got pregnant, never told you. And uh she told me later in life, I looked you up, and so they formed a connection and come to find out, you know, my grandpa Jack has a granddaughter, and uh it was Hayden Penitere. Um of all things, it's crazy to get a call, like, oh, and by the way, you know, your your granddaughter's a movie star and um, you know, very well known and and and such a talented person. And I always thought, well, maybe in in my travels through podcasts or media or something, I'll get to uh I'll get to meet her and I'll tell her about her grandpa. And then of course uh she passed away. And uh a lot of the news that's coming out on that, a lot of people and alt media picked up on it too. I mean, she had I wasn't following that. I um always, you know, if something I saw would it present itself, I'd read an article about her. But it's it's been many years since I looked into it. But uh I just thought that was uh a really sad turn of events, and so I posted a little bit about it, so we had a grandfather in common, which was absolutely true. And uh I wanted to elucidate a little bit, just to give you a little bit of background on that. But yeah, sad story, and uh, you know, the the entertainment industry and you know, people that especially go through at a younger age, you know, there's there's a lot of drawback there. I I'd I'd pause before I'd have you know uh my child go through anything like that. I I I don't know that I would. Um I don't know that any of it's worth it, you know. But um anyway, I I wish her family well and and prayers and all that, just her baby girl, all all of the devastating news of that. And uh I'll never get to um have that conversation with her. So uh I wanted to share it with with all of you.

Gold Signals And Market Shockwaves

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All right, let's jump into some markets. Uh I was talking to David Knight this morning, and uh we always have it's funny. I show up in the I guess you call it the green room, you know, when it we have like 30 seconds and it's like, what do you want to talk about? And um that's a that's the extent of our pre-plan. We've done this so long now, it's it's literally, it's nobody even, you know, the the texts are just I'll see you tomorrow. You know, so uh showed up and and I said, you know, uh some weird things happened over the past week or so with the Treasury Department, and I think there's something um uh uh uh massive going on in the monetary system, the shakeup and it's showing up in the markets. I mean, the price of gold uh you know had a had a run in the last 10 days, uh silver's up, Bitcoin went up like 20%. So these crazy um uh rises in in the in the price. But um there's a reason for there's a backdrop, and it's not just interest rates, which it's almost like the Federal Reserve is like becoming almost, I don't know if they're trying to be irrelevant at this point, but like people are watching it, but they're not watching it like they're watching the Treasury. And the reason is because Scott Bessant, the Treasury Secretary, um very aggressive and has come out and said dropped some things, like just in interviews, like, well, you know, the U.S. um used to back its currency, acknowledging that it was backed by gold. You know, it's not something that's ever really been discussed. Most of the time, it's just interest rates and monetary policy and modern monetary theory and Keynesianism, like that's what's discussed. But he mentioned that. Then he mentioned the gold at Fort Knox and it's been audited. And then he mentioned uh the revaluation of that gold at like 1.2 trillion, which is interesting because it's not valued at that by the Treasury itself. I mean, once we went off gold, the gold standard in 1971, um, there was this brief interlude where we went from $35 an ounce to $42 an ounce, and then the Treasury capped it at that rate for what's held on the balance sheet and no more. And I there's a reason for that. There's a psychological reason for that, because the value is supposed to transfer to the to the currency, even though the currency has no value, right? And so a lot of these things that are going on, uh the mentioning of that, the it's almost like a hint, uh, and you have to follow the logic here. It's not like the the press release is never going to be so forward and so bold that you go, oh, I get it, and you start, you know, taking notes. It it's it's language and it's indirect. Another thing that they did, they made an executive order to push gold uh to be a strategic uh uh mineral, uh mentioning it uh you know, for the United States through an executive order that um President Trump just signed. Uh that's a a massive move. So the end the uh uh mentioning of gold as a sanctionable uh monetary asset. So we're way uh past you know the uh it's like the uh the hidden uh understanding, the wink and the nod to the yellow metal, right? Which is the basis for all the the modern economies, right? There was always this, yeah, I get it, you know, it's it's money, but we keep it over here. It's this um like you know John Maynard Kane said, it's a barbarous relic. So we keep it over here. And then after 2008, 2009, you had this accelerated uh purchases of gold by central banks. So something I wanted to bring up to you, and I think that was the uh the theme of what David and I were talking about, it's not so much Jackson Hole anymore or the Fed or what Warsh is going to do with interest rates. That's I'm sure that will come up. Uh, but with the Treasury buying its long-term bond holdings back and they're starting this program, and it was like four billion, and it's it's a probe. It's just to see how the markets react. That is quantitative easing. That's liquidity injection into the markets. That's not just uh, oh, we want to have a healthy bond uh yield, you know, or it's interest rates that they find that are too high to sustain the market and they need liquidity. You have to understand the entire system is debt-based. And it's no longer based off of assets, it's no longer based off of uh currency strength and stability. You have to continually inflate the bubble. And so these people that come out and say, well, um, you know, they're they're possibly gonna have to raise interest rates because you know, when we struck Iran and they uh tied up the Strait of Hormuz, it caused, uh at least in the oil, futures to skyrocket and go above $100 a barrel, which causes inflation. I mean, aside from just the you know printing of more US dollars, it caused inflation. It's worldwide. It's not just United States inflationary uh issues, it's worldwide systemic, it's metastasizing. So the ability to raise interest rates in the face of that with rising prices and a broken supply chain and all the fear, uncertainty, and doubt, the FUD that comes along with it, um, the answer is not yes. They're not gonna be able to do it. They're not gonna be able to raise interest rates, maintain, maybe. But at the end of the day, this monetary system, the contraction is not gonna come from uh rising rates, they can't do it anymore. And Besson said, you know, that 40 trillion is not a magic number. Well, it kind of is though. You know, if you look at um, this is what I study, if you look at the consensus among amongst most uh economists, even though you know most of them are Keynesians, right? But they believe that um debt to GDP, so debt to gross domestic product ratio, uh, it stops being healthy at all, and you start running real economic risk at about 90%. We're at 144. And that's like past where we were at the height of World War II. So it's like 120%. Our debt to GDP is not supposed to be here. It's not supposed to be in that range. And Besson says we can grow our way out of it and all the rest. But my message to you, and um, we're, you know, the precious metals or the uh uh stable currencies, you know, the things that we talk about, the sound money systems that I try to get you to think about in the future and what's coming around the bend, this is important to understand. Because they're not going to be able to do the same things that they used to do, not with 40 trillion in debt. They were able to raise interest rates in the in the late 70s and 19 early 1980s because um we had a a debt service, uh, overall debt of 1 trillion, and now we have 40 trillion and growing a trillion every 90 days or so, adding to the balance sheet. So you can't service that debt and raise interest rates and keep it an economy that isn't mad max. Okay. So just something to think about uh as you see like the rise in Bitcoin at 20%. That's something to look at. Um, why is that happening? Well, yeah, well, you have more and more adoption, you have more and more consolidation of buyers, and those buyers are multinationals. It's retail is almost nothing. The same thing with uh gold inflows to ETFs, exchange traded funds. It's almost, I mean, it's positive, by the way. Both of them are net positive. Bitcoin and gold are both net positive in ETFs, but retail is almost nothing. The people haven't caught on yet. Maybe you do, but the governments have, the multinationals have, the giant banking cartels have. Watch what they do, not what you know Jim Kramer says to do, not one of these CNBC analysts or something. Like they're selling their Bitcoin at you know 50,000. And meanwhile, the the moves are being made. There's a reason why Tether is a central bank, basically now, the the stable coin company is a central bank. And then you know what they're buying? They're buying gold. And they have Bitcoin too, but they're buying gold. Why why would a you know a stable coin company own another asset because gold is money? And you know, if you reevaluate all this stuff, like it's it's astronomical. If you talk about if it's just one percent of the world moved into gold and holdings, if you look at how tiny the gold market is and how much of it's gonna support the new economic world order, if one percent moved in, it goes to 25,000. Like overnight. And who knows what else. I I've read crazy price predictions on gold over the years, and I'm not gonna make one. I'm just telling you like the mathematics of where we are right now. So something to think about. All right, see where are we? Where are we on time? I just noticed Beans the Brave came back in the studio. She was hanging out uh in the front with my ladies who run the shop, and uh she enjoys the attention. But when I I close my door, she wonders where I went, and she has to come in. So she's keeping us safe from woodland creatures, bad vibes, and intruders. All right.

Chat Questions And Fiat History

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Let me um let me see where we I had I haven't checked the chat yet in the show. I'm over on YouTube and we're broadcasting on WWCR. So uh appreciate everybody on Worldwide Christian Radio tuning in every week. I hope you enjoyed the show last week. I ran a best of which was a good show of um uh myself and Alan Herrera wrote the history of gold fast. Fascinating stuff. One of the most detailed histories I've ever read. And a very smart man. So I hope you enjoyed that. You can find that up on my podcast as well. And it was uh on the Wise Wolf Golden Crypto show. Let's see. Bob M9509. Afternoon, Mr. Arburn. Well, afternoon, Bob. Bronx Stomper111 is in the chat. Afternoon, all. Let's see. Yeah, he says Bronx Stomper says, I'll have to check the show. Enjoyed uh the last episode. We had a good time. And Sam had some really marketable clips this time of I I just had a good time. It was just Beans and I in LA. And when you say that the Hollywood Roosevelt there on Hollywood Boulevard, I I like to stay at that hotel. It was right across the hall from the old uh Marilyn Monroe suite where she stayed at the cabana. And uh I just I'm an oddity. I'm walking around with a megadeth shirt and a chihuahua. You know, I don't know people know what to make of me. But uh Beans and I just hung out and uh enjoyed some sunshine, a little bit of a little bit of pool time. I didn't get in the pool, uh, but we had the um the Roosevelt, you know, and they they're still they're great with dogs, they're cool with with having my dogs. So um just got some California time, which is always fun. Let's see. Let's see. Uh Tony, have you ever watched some of the YouTube silver channels? All they do is push SD bullying. Yeah. Well, I I'm not able to break into a lot of the metals uh shows. And it's funny how many podcasts turn me down to have me on. We already have a metals guy. And I'm like, well, I can talk about anything, which is funny because on Tinfoil Hat, we talked about almost anything but the monetary system or metals or anything like that, just in case you you know if you want to know what I talk about. We get I'm pretty versatile, okay? Um, because there's a I guess there's an upside to having the amount of chaos in my head. Um there's a lot of stuff rattling around up there, especially hidden history. Uh let's see. Uh Rhonda Tate says, interesting story. Hey, Tony. Well, thank you. Let's see. I'm just making sure I get at least uh a snapshot of everybody. And then uh A Marco7453. Uh SOL outperforming BTC big time. Yeah, probably. Uh there's a I mean, I I'm not giving investment advice or anything, and I'm I'm not even talking about stuff going parabolic. I just think the thesis is correct about finite things versus infinite. And I mean, I don't think you have to be a genius to figure that out, especially where we're headed and what is in front of us. It is going to be the greatest monetary revolution in human history thus far. And uh those in in control, I think they're building their golden parachutes, they're building and constructing the new systems that will absorb the reset, uh, that volatility, they're gonna just try to back it with something. And I don't know how that's going to play out. Maybe they don't either. Um, but there is going to have to be because of systemic global debt and because of the inability to maneuver, like I said, you can compare the charts from the 70s, late 70s, early 80s, you could do a lot more. You can't do those things now. And uh, you know, Trump is talking about raising the debt ceiling uh by another $5 trillion. Um, I think they will just stop the debt ceiling altogether. They will probably just do some sort of uh legislative maneuver to eliminate the debt ceiling because we don't talk about the debt anymore. Because why? You know, because deficits don't matter, according to Dick Cheney. And, you know, or people like AOC or most Republicans or just Washington in general, it's the modern monetary theory at play, just basically based off of energy, and it's based off of money velocity, and really what it it looks like to me is Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars. Go read the first chapter of Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars, the document that was found in an IBM copy copier in 1986 in an estate sale. Go read that chapter. Uh, it wasn't meant for public consumption, it's a weird document. Uh, don't know that it's real, or maybe it's a copy of something that was real. It was uh published in May 1st, 1979. But there's a uh a chapter about the banking dynasties and the Rothschild family and how they understood basically energy harvesting through currency. So go check that out. I've always found that. I've read that maybe 10 years ago. I've always found it fascinating. All right. Uh let's go check Rumble really quick. I don't want to neglect Rumble. I think by next week I will have the disciplinary courage for uh putting Rumble up on my actual feed. And Jason Barker's been kind enough to instruct me how to do that, and I have uh not followed through. Or at least I've tried, I think, and then it just didn't work. Uh Harps is in the chat. Good day, Tony. Good to see you, Harps. And real Jason Barker, who um always is great. I by the way, I texted Jason last minute to try to fill in so I wouldn't break my promise. It was just all so late. I I thought I I thought my website might have been under a malware attack, and it wasn't it wasn't that. It's just um a lot of things can be buggy, like stuff stops working, like you have to go back and reconnect buttons. Um, you can't set this stuff and forget it, to my chagrin. It doesn't work that way. It's it's kind of a lot like Liberty, you know. It's a the price is eternal vigilance, so you have to always be on. Uh let's see. Nostra 321. Good afternoon, peoples. Yes, good to see all the peoples here. If I miss you, it's not because I don't like you. Uh and Chris is in the chat over on Rumble. If anybody has anything you want me to bring up. Oh, so we have a question. Nostra 321 says, Tony, we have been kicking the can down the road for 20 plus years. What do you think we can not do it for another 20 years? Why do you think we can not do it? Um, I think what I mentioned earlier, and I'm not one of these uh metals guys, uh, like a chicken little that says the sky is falling. Obviously, we made it this far, right? Um, there is probably there's some wisdom in modern monetary theory or in Keynesianism. I say wisdom, uh, it's almost like you would describe a neocon, and I think it was Pat Buchanan that said they were often clever, never wise. There's some cleverness to it. Like in like temporarily, you know, when you inject money into or a currency into a system and you don't have to account for it, like there's no unit of measurement, you can have a real economic boon. Like it um, same thing with what like John Law in the early 1700s with the French. I mean, he was a Scotsman who is a gambler and a murderer, and he's like, hey, I can help you with your uh monetary system and your debt and how to get out of that. We'll just create you know these notes and we'll have a you know, the bank will be set up of the uh Banque de Royale, you know, we'll set it up through the French government, and that's where you get the Duke of Orleans and that's where you get New Orleans from. And one of the underlings from the that worked for the Duke was I wanted to impress him in that new American territory. So uh that was the genesis of what we think of as fiat currency, and they ran that, you know, the Mississippi Company and they ran that scheme and oversold everything, and then uh they wanted his head on a platter when people realized he made it illegal to trade in gold anymore or redeem stuff in gold, and the entire system collapsed because you were supposed to believe that um it was real, and you know, you can it's backed by something. And there is a temporary uh increase in prosperity, but it's always you know, what goes up must come down. So there's this this crash that comes afterwards. We've experienced a different kind of reality because of post-World War II and uh being the reserve currency of the world and um everything that's gone on. We're just losing that status. And so I mentioned earlier, like it's weird, right? The um Treasury Secretary coming out and uh talking about like sanctionable assets, which is gold or crypto or aviation, um, mentioning our gold holdings, mentioning that we have the supposedly the most in the world. I don't believe that anymore. Um, I think you have to look to what China buys off the books. I mean, China's more strategic about its gold reserves than it ever was about its nuclear weapons, which it got in 1964. Okay. It's like there's something to pay attention to. Well, the rest of the world is the same way, you know, and um so we're in a post-trust era. And you can see where the game that's being played is not the traditional game. So it's just something to pay attention. Why I bring it up, I think it's probably the most important story of our time. It'll affect it affect all of us, you know, regardless of the um, I'm about to get into something, I think, too. It's beyond partisan politics and which isn't even real, by the way. A lot of this stuff that's that people get caught up on uh as we're about to see is just total nonsense. You know, it's like these div these divisive things that we're supposed to take sides. Uh those aren't even real. But I the things I hope that I'm talking about, the things that will you know be the most um consequential of subjects to discuss.

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All right, let's see. Okay.

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Well, I appreciate everybody. Thanks in the chat. If you've got anything else, you know, shoot it over my way, especially over on YouTube, and I'll see that first, and then uh the great Jason Barker and myself will fix my my stream yard. I think Matt uh Ashley will be uh filling in next week too, because I I may have to travel again. Uh we'll see what time I have to go. But um all right, let's let's jump into some more stories.

Fake Think Tanks Gaming AI

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And how do you like that first uh hap? I didn't even I didn't pull up the story that was associated with it, but I'll give you the the title if you want to go. Uh I thought it covered most of what we talked about, Zero Hedge, and it's uh the U.S. has designated gold as a weapon and money uh by capital, Phoenix Capital Research.

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So something to uh to explore there. All right.

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Uh so this was we'll get into uh this is something is a story popped uh across my screen a few days ago, and honestly, I've been thinking this stuff. I'm gonna do them one at a time, and it just kind of goes to show how careful you have to be as a guardian to the doorway of your mind what is real, you know, what is a a uh a challenge, what is a a manufactured uh crisis, which I guess most of them. Um like even our politics. I'll I'll show you. I'll show you what I mean. And I've long suspected this, by the way. Uh just how let me just get into it.

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Uh let's let's put this up on the screen. All right. Stop that screen, put this one up. This was even funnier than I thought.

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Just the the entire uh headline made me laugh. A fake US think tank set up and funded by Israel uh sought to game AI for propaganda. In an effort to prime chat box to make pro-Israel arguments, the site published 124 reports, over 560,000 words in nine days, the Guardian uh analysis shows. This is again from the Guardian. A pro-Israel managing website badged with the name of a think tank that does not exist, has published more than half a million words in nine days, built on a commercial platform that promises to optimize content so that AI chatbots will cite it. This is the another one of the dangers in this is what's known as search engine optimization and then in AI integration into that. So you're creating these blogs, right? We have to do this in business, which I haven't done a great job with. I mostly just talk on podcasts. But if you really want to get the narrative going in your favor, or have uh the chat bots and other bots and platforms cite it, well, then you just you create a fake think tank.

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You know?

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Uh there's an evil genius in that. The site gives Israel's position on subjects including the torture of Palestinian prisoners, Israeli war crimes, and whether Israel has deliberately starved Palestinians in Gaza, all presented as a neutral research. The New York media production company, Pyro Inc., filed this uh the site with the U.S. Justice Department this month under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, FARA, a 1938 law that requires anyone working for a foreign government to formally disclose it as material as it disturbs for the or distributes for the Israeli government. The site publishes the name of the Hanover Institute for Public Policy, which apparently does not exist as a legal entity in any jurisdiction, has no physical address, and carries no name staff and no bylines on any of its reports. Its own terms of use are governed by the laws of the state in which the institute is established, which they declined to name. So this one was caught. Right? This one was caught and obviously brought up. How many are? How many things are cited? I found this out running the show five days a week in the height of COVID 1984. I found out just how much garbage. Like you try to get citations, you find a who said that? Where was that said? Especially today. We talked a lot about this on Tenfoil Hat just in a different way. But it is getting harder and harder to distinguish, especially with AI, and especially with um, you know, if the it's the indirect way. I mean, it's it's a zombie uh that is also terminal that is being devoured by itself. I mean, it's it's truly a monster. It's still a behemoth, it still has an effect, but not like it did. So they're looking for other ways. How do you influence narrative in a decentralized system? Well, you become the decentralization of it, right? And but death by a thousand different cuts. You put it all over the place. The existence of the site was first reported on 14 of August. Since then, the institute has added a page-headed funding which states an earlier version of this page said that the institute operated without external funding, and that was true when it was written. This site is one part of a broader effort financed by tens of millions of dollars from the Israeli government and routed through third parties, including the European advertising group Havas Media, to prime chatbots to make Israel's arguments for it. A contract between Havas and another American firm working on the campaign commits to its deployment of websites and content to deliver GPT framing results on GPT conversations. The Guardian contacted Pyro Inc., Havas Media, and the Israeli government advertising agency Lapam for comment. Comment was also sought via a contact email address published on the Hanover Institute website. It comes at a point when Israel's standing in the U.S. public opinion has collapsed. Well, that's just one of many things. I think that's the that's a foreign government. And I think, you know, thank God. Like we're finally having this conversation because of things like entropy. Like it's the second law of thermodynamics. Everything slows down. Like there, you can't have that major influence under the current forever in the United States of America. And I mean, you can even see it in our our politics, and people are like just completely turned off by it. Like, oh, you're just a you're acting on behalf of a foreign government, putting, you know, like Ted Cruz, you know, like I mean, I never thought in the short time since I've been covering all of this on media that we'd be having, we'd see a meme that floats around that has Ted Cruz, you know, that famous uh you know, the prequel Star Wars one with uh Anakin Skywalker, you know, and he's you got the one where he's like, You you represent the lone star state, right? And uh you mean Texas, and you mean Texas, right? And Ted Cruz is just looking. He he means the other lone star, the other lone star state that he represents, which is interesting, right? And we finally get to the bottom of it, and it's so hollow, like intellectually, like Mike Huggaby getting interviewed by Tucker Carlson or or Ted Cruz or anybody else, like that position is intellectually bankrupt. Like there's no basis for it. It's not even biblical. Like you just made that up because like you're like the Manchurian candidate. You heard that in Sunday school, you know, 60 years ago and uh 70 years, and it's somehow it's just in your head, you know. Um none of it's real. That's that's the funny part. It's not even in the Bible, and it doesn't even what does that even mean? Like the whole point is it's idolatry, it's it's all the worst parts of of religion in the United States or in general, you know, because you're not thinking, it's not about any sort of logic at all, or um especially if you're Christian, like aren't you just reading the New Testament? Aren't you looking at what Jesus said? I mean, wouldn't that be the most important thing? I don't think Jesus would be cool with genocide or you know, just bombing people or war or greater projects to expand territory. I don't think, I don't think that's what was mentioned in there. I don't know. I read the Bible every day. I'm not a scholar, um, but I do read pieces of it every single day. And I have for years now. Um, but I don't consider myself a scholar, and I don't think I'd send anybody to war on behalf of it. Actually, I know I wouldn't.

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Influencers Tied To The War Machine

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SPEAKER_01 41:35

Uh let's go to the second story, which is which is even weirder.

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All right. Put this on the screen. This is uh let me find it.

SPEAKER_01 41:52

I got a lot of I got a lot of stories. But this this caught my attention. I sent it over to Billy Ray Valentine. I'm sure you've heard of this if you it was linked on Drudge. Uh but in the context of what I'm talking about, it's it's fascinating. MAGA Influencer, by by the way, it's media.com. MAGA influencer outed as a Pentagon employee in a bizarre bizarre turn after botching scoop from the State Department, the Spokes gave her. Jenica Pounds, who is more well known as a MAGA influencer, data Republican on social media, was outed as a special government employee of the Department of Defense on Monday. Pounds' Pentagon employment came to light after a bizarre incident in which she claimed she was being set up by the deep state, but it was revealed she merely botched a scoop. She was being handed by a State Department official. Up until June, Pounds was a member of the credentialed Pentagon Press Corps. She has not disclosed her new gig with the Pentagon itself. Jennica Pounds, aka Data Republican, a Department of War employee, alleges that the Under Secretary of State, Sarah Rogers, is attempting to entrap Pounds by providing her with information to quote unquote leak under the guise of offering her a scoop. Okay. Whatever that means, right? I the the entire thing is a is a comedy wrapped inside a tragedy. I'm not sure where to start. When I saw the headline, I'm like, so the the the scoop thing and all that doesn't matter. What what's up with the and I'm gonna get there's another story after this, by the way. The story began to blow open on Friday, August 21st. When the ex-account for the far right outlet AP Post wrote, Jenica Pounds, aka Data Republican, is a Department of War employee, alleges that Under Secretary of State Sarah Rogers is attempting to entrap Pounds by providing her with information to leak under the guise of offering a scoop. The the bigger um story, the the MAGA influencer part. And it made me think, because my algorithm, after if you've run for Congress and you do it in a high-profile district like I did, and you put yourself out there, I think at one time, uh like back in 2013 or so, like I was very experimental. And like in this was social media 2012-2013, which was not what it is today. Like you could still break free. I think I was raked like in the top 100 of candidates in the United States at one time. Like we had a pretty big social media reach, and I got there mostly organically by follow, followback, shares, and hashtags and all of that stuff. It was not easy to get there. And then I started realizing like the algorithm would feed me things, whether it was partisan, uh, you know, I'd see things by these like weird sites that were so partisan they're stupid. Like, you know, I can understand, like, I take this like pro-life and I'm a you know pro-life advocate. Okay, I get that. Or I'm pro-Second Amendment or whatever, you know, or I'm for higher wages, or you know, I'd see that kind of stuff and that looked legit. Then it comes like the trolling ones. And you had to wonder, like, who's behind that? And my algorithm would feed me things. And one of the things that the first thing I thought of when I saw this was how little I see of that anymore. And I'm talking about the the extreme partisanship. I don't see it quite as much. Like it's it's probably down 60, 70% in my algorithm. And the profitability must be down, but bigger than that, you have a MAGA influencer who's an employee of the Pentagon of the War Department, okay, which can't be the only one. I'm gonna get to a story here in a second. It's not the only one. What happened after USAID was shut down, or supposedly shut down, or repurposed, or whatever? Do you know there's like a whole host of things that happened, not just our soft power, we were doing a lot of things with soft power around the world, and I agree with my friend Billy Ray Valentine. He's like, you know, there was a lot of things we were doing with soft power with USAID. I agree with that, but we were also funding internal things. You know, a lot of rap artists, like people that normally would have been really important or picked up on, like nobody bought their albums when they released them after that. Like a lot of people in the pop culture, people that were just showed up in pop culture that you didn't know about, and then all of a sudden you know about them and you're supposed to follow their lives, and then all of a sudden they sell 2,000 albums instead of 2 million after USAAID shuts down. And you know what else I noticed? Those partisan sites from both sides shut down. Or they're not as prominent, or they don't show up in my feed. And I don't have any direct correlation, but it is something to think about how much of this is being fed to us. And that's why they call it a news feed. It's literally your feed. Like you go at the cattle go to the feed, you go, you know, consume. So you were being fed that. How much of that partisanship? I when you look at something, it looks dumb now, doesn't it? Like those liberals don't want us to have our unlimited war with Israel. It's like starting to look pretty dumb now, isn't it? Like all the things I remember floating around, it was uh 2018-2019, and have like uh uh a meme of Bill Barr, who by the way was like Bill Barr's dad gave Epstein his first job. You know, kind of weird that the modern coronavirus is called Epstein Barr, but anyway, he gave him his first job. So then he doesn't kill himself under Barr's uh reign as attorney general. He also worked for George H.W. Bush, you know, and the first Bush administration and defended Lana Rucci, who shot Vicky Weaver uh in the head while she's holding her baby at Ruby Ridge. But you know, the Q people were like, hey, you know, Bill Barr is scaring everybody. He's coming for you, you know, deep state. At least to see stuff like that. And then you don't see that kind of stuff anymore. And I wonder how much of that was internal funded. Like, how much like this has to be like a microcosm? And it only slipped up because of whatever, you know. Supposed to get a scoop and I didn't, and it now it looks like uh, you know, whatever. How to even decipher that is dumb. Like I have to like I have to like huff on some ether or something to figure out, like have to sniff glue to figure out what that headline means because it's so dumb. But who knows, right? We'll go to the to the um final story, and then I want to cover a little bit of foreign policy. Um second. Let me get out of it. I'm on I'm still on my laptop. I know you guys will be like, Tony, you do this every week when you're in Branson. I know. I know. I'm working, I'm gonna get the the studio fixed up. It'll be a little bit easier. Let's put last story or second to last story. We'll see if we can get two more. Kind of in succession of this mind war it's so important. Like, don't whatever I say, verify. Okay. Um there's a reason why there's not like three extra zeros on my follows. By the way, I know what to say, by the way. I could do it, I just couldn't live with myself.

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Let's put this on one second. Well, let's see. Where is it?

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There we go.

Paid Vaccine Posts And Narrative Control

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Too many tabs, folks.

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That's a representation of my psyche, uh, which is Greek for spirit. Uh the US government paid social media influencers to promote the C V 19 vaccines. Records show. The federal government funded an $80 million project that paid 496 social media influencers to promote the CV19 uh VAX, according to a project report obtained by investigative journalist Natalie Winters. The project run by Public Good Projects, PGP. Well, that's weird, PGP, and Hispanic Communities Network from September 2021 through April of 2022 was 100% funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC and the Department of Health and Human Services, HHS. The campaign produced 1,000 posts with a potential reach of 37.2 million people, according to the report, but the document did not name the individual influencers involved. Federal records indicate the broader effect to push vaccine uptake was part of a much larger taxpayer-funded campaign. The investigation reveals 57 influencers and their paid posts. Again, this is just the beginning of like when you find something like you gotta this is systemic. And I think the larger point is it's not just one side, like pro this or pro the anti-stuff gets funding too. You'll find a lot of the groups that, you know, I think a lot of these racist groups and hateful groups, or if whatever you want to call them, are ops. You know, they get the the dregs of society, they get that fringe element, right? Which is good for like data collection and all the rest. But it also helps the so-called affected groups raise money. Right. And it helps create the narrative, you know, and keep the narrative rolling. You know, we live in a you know a racist society, or there's just all this, like these hate groups. And and then you can associate, then you can blemish kind of like they did in the mid-90s with the men cherry and candidate Tim McVeigh. That was a that was a legit movement in the United States, you know, um, post Ruby Ridge, post Waco, post post Brady Bill, uh, post-assault weapons ban. Like there was a lot of Americans going, hey, this isn't right. You guys got way too much power. You're running the debt, run us into a fiscal off a fiscal cliff. You know, I think we need to have a uh a lot more uh pushback. And, you know, there was people talking about the Constitution and the militia movement and you know protecting their communities, and then you have to have the Tim McVay guy. And there's a reason why you have to have that, because they already had the Patriot Act drawn up on the bones of it. It's written by and co-authored and set up by people like Joe Biden, and it just wasn't enough, you know, Oklahoma City wasn't enough. Uh 9-11 was, and they already had that pre-packaged, you know, so they already had it set up. But you needed that movement, you needed that moment, excuse me. You needed that moment uh in April '95. You needed that moment to make sure that the movement stopped. Because you have to stop it. Uh so you discredit stuff with these kind of things, too. So there's oh, it's a a tangled web we weave when we practice to deceive. This is what it looks like.

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Influencers, uh left and right, or so-called. What what is up or down? Right. Pay attention to that. Then you'll start seeing a lot of these people that are promoted that seem to walk between the raindrops and you know, even when their numbers uh plummet. It's like I asked um uh Sam, Sam Triple, and he's like, Well, you just get a lot of reach, you know, when you're in like a Ben Shapiro or something. And I'm like, Yeah, but now what reach into what? That's a diminishing demographic. Like there's a certain amount of boomers that you know uh the Fox News viewers that'll you know, hear, hear, and uh give you an attaboy, but like that's even diminishing. Like, reach into what? Like you got the platform, but you're talking to nobody. You look if you look at where where their actual reach is going. So something to think about, we and I'm probably this covering just the surface level of how extensive the mind war is, how extensive the PSYOP is, and it's not just one way or the other, and that's where it got people. It's where it got alt media. They believed that it was just one side. And it's both. The original position of the duopoly uh is bad. You know, the left-right paradigm, that was the correct stance. And even Sam says, you know, you're he called me a political atheist. I said, well, maybe, because I do believe in core things. You know, I believe in the Bill of Rights, the Constitution, I believe uh in the sanctity of human life. Um I'm non-apologetic on that. I don't think the state has to be involved always. I'd like to promote a culture that protects life. Um the right to keep and bear arms, the right of free speech and assembly, and the right to express yourself, the right of due process. Like all these things are sacred to me. I I have positions I don't budge on, personally, that I think everyone should. Free markets, prosperity, peace. Um war should be a last resort, not a first resort. Like things that I core principles, I have a core, but uh politically I'm I don't have a horse in the race, a dog in the fight. This it doesn't exist. Not yet. I think there'll be closer things in the future. But right now, the way the duopoly is, it's I mean, and Texas has been like one big grift, like parasitic, you know. We could have the state should be ten times as wealthy as it is right now. Have way better infrastructure, way better everything. Um, but that's the way politics works. You know, they kind of literally hold a gun to your head, you know, so because if, well, you better like me because the other guy wants to take everything away. They do these, you know, they'll pick two or three subjects where you just like, man, I I have a hard time compromising on it. Like, I like what the other guy says, but you know, this wants to take all the guns away, or whatever, you know, uh doesn't respect this, wants to do partial birth abortion or third trimester abortion. Like there is a different way, maybe a middle path or what uh uh Aristotle talked about, the golden mean. Maybe that would be um the wisdom, not just these two extremes that probably aren't real to begin with. And I think uh our last uh 30 minutes of of airtime shows that all right. I'm not gonna be able to get to uh the last article, but it was uh maybe we'll talk about it on America Unplugged, but um the head of the CIA, John Ratcliffe, um, they just released a verification that he he'd flown to Moscow. And uh that really hasn't happened since the Cold War, if I'm mistaken, and especially in the nature of it. Something uh something's interesting there, uh, and I wanted to talk a little bit about it uh given my congressional history and um knowing, you know, having met John Ratcliffe and all the rest of that. It was interesting time. I know we're talking about his background and and what possibly that meant, but uh, maybe on America Unplugged.

Where To Follow And Final Thoughts

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