April 18, 2024 • 56 mins
Discover the unshakable pillars of freedom that define the American spirit and how the shifting sands of global politics challenge these foundations. As your host Tony Arterburn, a warrior philosopher with firsthand experience on foreign battlegrounds, I take you on an enlightening journey through the transformative world of conservative thought, military might, and the often perplexing theater of politics. With the sharp-witted Beans the Brave by my side, we dissect my invigorating conversation with David Knight, revealing the pressing need for honest discourse in an age of distraction and political persecution.
The landscape of conservatism is evolving, and with it, the debate over our nation's role on the global stage intensifies. We peel back the layers of foreign policy, questioning the wisdom behind our alliance strategies and the economic currents that flow from our military aid. From the Middle East to the Far East, I analyze the economic tremors caused by outsourced manufacturing and the potential flashpoints that could send shockwaves through commodity markets and industries worldwide. This episode challenges you to consider the true cost of interventionism and the search for economic harmony in an era of uncertainty.
As we traverse through these complexities, we don't shy away from the consequences of global leadership—or the lack thereof—on the economy and society at large. I probe the eerie silence of our current leaders amid escalating geopolitical tensions, offering precious metals as a potential lifeline in the storm. With a candid look at the flawed two-party system and the toll of economic policies, this episode navigates the high seas of international finance, questioning the Federal Reserve's strategies and highlighting the unexpected turn of Zimbabwe towards a gold-backed currency. Tune in for a compelling narrative that doesn't just scratch the surface but seeks the profound truths beneath.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
I'm veteran of three foreign wars, entrepreneur and
warrior, poet, tony Arterburn,takes on the issues facing our
country, civilization and planet.
This is the Arbor RadioTransmission.
Do you understand what I'mtalking about?
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What is our common bond?
Truly, freedom.
Freedom.
Without freedom, you can't be aChristian, no matter what
denomination you belong to.
You can't be a Buddhist, youcan't own a donut shop, you
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can't drive from here to Oregon,you can't be an American,
because that's what it's allabout, and that's the only thing
that it's all about.
Nothing else, nothing else.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
It's about freedom, parapolitics and precious metals
.
This is the official broadcastOf the Apocalypse.
Ladies and gentlemen, it's theHard to Burn radio transmission
Broadcasting in defiance ofglobalist goblins, the neocons,
the new world order, the buildback better, biden BLs above
Baphomet, bilderberg, bohemianGrove, bankster Bunch.
I'm in studio with Beans theBrave, who I had a caller into
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the shop last week asked uh, nowis is beans the brave, is that?
Is that your dog?
Right?
Yeah, that's my.
That's my 12 and a half pound.
Well, sometimes, sometimes alittle over, but we won't
mention that.
That's my Chihuahua mix.
My best friend, spiritual guru,head of security and part-time
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producer Depends on if she wantsto nap or not during the show,
but we appreciate her being here.
It's the 18th of April 2024.
I just got done with the greatDavid Knight on his program.
I go on there every Thursday at930 am, central Time and it's
always a fun conversation.
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It's so fun.
If you watch me on, david, ifyou ever wonder do we plan that
or do we just?
That's just us going, that'sjust a conversation.
I usually show up like a minutebefore and say I read a couple,
this is an article I saw.
And he'll say I saw this too,and then we'll just do the show
and it makes you a betterbroadcaster.
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You get somebody that's soskilled like that with David
Knight, just an intellect likethat.
It makes you a betterbroadcaster.
So I'm always, now that I'mdoing the show on Thursdays, I'm
ready to go Like I could just,I can just do this.
I'm already warmed up, I'm.
This is easy compared to a 30minutes with with Mr Knight.
So I'll be sure and check thoseout and I'm going to add that
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to the podcast feed as well.
Well, where do we start?
Where do you, where do you guyswant to start off?
Should I talk?
Do we going to talk about theelection?
Do you want to talk aboutpolitics?
I don't.
I'm just done with this.
This whole thing is soridiculous.
We're not bringing up theissues.
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Obviously, we've got thissideshow reality TV garbage
going on.
I'm just done with it.
It's sickening that we've fallenthis far in this country to
have, you know, one sidespersecuting the nominee of a
major party, which you alwaysknew is going to be the
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Republicans that had.
If there was any party that wasgoing to get persecuted and
held down and has no way offighting the establishment, it's
going to be the Republicanparty or the Republican nominee,
because it's the most, it's theparty most tied, at least right
now, to what you would considerthe people, the people that you
know, work and keep the lightson and pay the taxes and you
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know, and again, there's somegreat, there's some good
Democrat people out there, butthat's.
That's a demographic shift thathappened a long time ago.
It's one of the reasons why JoeBiden you see people giving me
these clips like you see JoeBiden in 2007,.
He was talking about a secureborder.
Well, of course he was.
He was placating to people thatare no longer alive.
That's what they did.
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They don't believe in anything.
The same reason Barack Obamasaid that marriage was between a
man and a woman.
He was placating to those olderblue dog Democrats, the Reagan
Democrats from years and bygoneera people that thought that FDR
was a hero.
Those people are gone.
They're mostly gone,unfortunately, some of the best
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Americans.
They were just placating tothem.
They didn't believe any ofthose things.
They don't believe in anything.
They're nihilist.
Well, they're luciferiannihilist.
They believe in something.
They believe in the in.
Uh, not necessarily a higherpower, but you understand what
I'm getting at.
They serve a different master.
I think it's pretty apparentwhat you think.
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So yeah, those people wereplacating.
There's no politics anymore.
So the they persecute the guy atthe headlines on drudge and and
Trump's going through all thesetrials and everything else and
again I my eyes glaze over.
You know, you know, we, we wentthrough this and and we had the
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, the.
The vote for the secure borderwas 2016.
And I didn't get a secureborder, I got a new world order.
So why am I doing this again?
I mean, we're going to.
I don't know.
I'm just pretty sick of it.
You can turn me off if you want, but if Trump's reelected, does
President Fauci automaticallyget inaugurated or do I have to
wait?
Do we do this again, or is heplaying 4D chess?
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I have people send me stuff allthe time.
They're like, oh well, thePatriots in control.
Really, can we stop doing that?
It is absolutely nauseating.
Please don't do that.
Please don't fall for that.
I think the key is local, it'syour family, it's closer to the
earth and brace for impact,because this country goes into a
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trillion dollars in debt every90 days.
Folks, a trillion dollars indebt every 90 days.
It took us from 1776 to 1980 orso, to go a trillion dollars in
debt.
We do it every 90 days and,speaker Johnson, don't you love
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it?
At the end of the road, you get, uh, you get this, um, ned
Flanders kind of guy.
Why, why do we always producethese people in this country?
This is Mike Johnson, thespeaker of the house.
He's a wartime speaker.
Did you know that?
Well, pray, tell Mike.
What war is it?
What war did you vote on?
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What declaration of war wasvoted on and approved by the
people?
You're a wartime speaker ofwhat?
The war against us?
The war against the people ofthe United States?
Well, I agree with that.
There's a war on free speech.
There's a war on personalsovereignty.
There's a war on free markets.
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There's a war on sanity.
There's a war on the rule oflaw.
So, yeah, mike, I guess you are.
I guess you're a wartimespeaker.
Let's put this article up.
Let's talk a little bit aboutwar, the dogs of war.
This is antiwarcom.
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Speaker Johnson unveils $95billion foreign military aid
bills.
The legislation includes $61billion for Ukraineraine, 26
billion to support israel and 8billion for taiwan and other
spending in the region.
Well, those of you have paidattention to my show, it's a
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little different.
I know people are going to turnit off because I'm not doing
the uh mind control talkingpoints to set up artificial
teams to make it easy for you.
But this bill makes no sense.
And again, wartime.
What are you talking about?
What does Ukraine have to dowith the United States
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Constitution?
What does Ukraine have to dowith my security?
Well, it has a lot to do,because we parked a lot of
bioweapons and laundered moneyand you know Burisma and we had
to pay off all these politicalfamilies and you know, from the
Romneys to the Pelosi's, youknow the Bidens.
They always get to get theirtake out of Ukraine.
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It's a big kitty, right, it's abig money laundering kitty.
Plus, you get to bolster themilitary industrial complex.
You get to agitate foreignpowers like Russia with it.
So yeah, ukraine, I guess doesinvolve us, but for all the
wrong reasons.
It has nothing to do with tomake us safer or to secure this
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country.
It has everything to do with tobring us into a or to secure
this country.
It has everything to do with tobring us into a wider war.
So of course, we're going tofund it.
We're going to continue to fundthe t-shirt man a wonderful
democracy, by the way having allthe opposition leaders jailed.
On wednesday, house speakermike johnson unveiled three
foreign military aid bills forukraine, israel and Taiwan.
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It's $95 billion A bill thatwas passed by the Senate.
Although Israel will get aboost in military aid, some of
the economic aid for Ukraine isin the form of repayable loans.
Good luck on getting that back.
However, reports say Kiev isnot actually expected to pay it
back.
Of course it's funny.
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After World War I, woodrowWilson, the banker's president,
put in there by JP Morgan.
That was a very sophisticatedelection 1912, to get Woodrow
Wilson, this so-calledintellectual, the only PhD
president, we put him in, we hadto run Teddy Roosevelt as a
third party in the Bull Moose tosiphon off votes from Taft so
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they could install Wilson.
He was the perfect, he was thebanker's president and they
finally got him in.
He got a second term.
He ran on.
What did he run on, folks?
1916, woodrow Wilson he ran on.
He kept us out of war.
And what's the first thing hedoes when he gets a second term?
He plunges the United Statesinto World War I.
One of the reasons is becausehe had a handler.
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That handler was a man namedColonel Mandel House.
He was not a colonel, but helived in the White House.
They called him Colonel House,but he was not a colonel.
He worked for the bankers andhe was to monitor Woodrow Wilson
.
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And what Woodrow Wilson did ishe helped the United States
create loans and the conditionsfor loans for the allies
so-called in World War I.
By the way, the head of thecentral bank in Germany was Max
Warburg and the head of thecentral bank in the United
States was Paul Warburg.
They, they were brothers and ofcourse we went to war and it
was a banker's war and there wasa lot of money borrowed.
Uh.
So, by the time, uh, calCoolidge they called him silent
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cow in the 1920s, when he was uh.
Uh, he actually took overbecause Warren Harding died in
office and a silent Cal Coolidgebecame president and he wanted
the money back.
And he said well, they hiredthe money, didn't they?
He actually wanted the loansrepaid, which is, everyone was
aghast.
Like you, don't we loan themoney?
We don't expect it back?
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Of course we do.
That's what you're supposed todo.
But that's not.
Again, all of it's a ruse tosiphon off money from you, to
take it away from you, theproducers, these government
leeches, and they put it intowars.
And this is all part of thepower structure.
Folks, this is money laundering101, the creation of money to
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fund things that do not make yousafer, do not have anything to
do with national security.
Nothing to do, nothing to dowith the United States
Constitution, except the erosionof it Absolutely sickening.
The Israel bill totals $26billion, the majority of which
will go to supporting theslaughter of Palestinians in
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Gaza and replenishing airdefenses following Iran's
reprisal attack.
It includes $9 billion inhumanitarian aid, which
Democrats said was necessary forthem to support Johnson's
effort.
Can I ask a question here?
Israel and related companiesown about 75% of the NAS nasdaq.
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Why are we giving them money?
Does anybody really know theyhave 300 nuclear weapons, a
first-rate economy, a first-rateair force that they never
almost ever have to, except whenthey're attacking things like
going into Syria or destroyingIraq, having a nuclear energy
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facility that was called OsirisI think it was in 1982.
The Israelis just went and justbombed it.
I know that we're supposed tosee.
Everything's an inversion.
You say Iran.
Can anybody name a country thatIran has invaded?
No, but see what you're, whatyou're doing right now too.
If you're listening to this,you've never heard me.
You're going to say why is hedefending Iran?
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I'm not.
I don't A pox on both theirhouses.
I don't care about any of thisstuff.
I want out of the Middle East.
I want that forsaken.
I want out of all that stuff.
I'm an american.
I live in the united states ofamerica.
I fought for this country.
Nobody asked me how I feelabout paraguay.
I always get this like well,you know, what do you think
about it?
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Are you going to support israel?
Nobody asked me if I supportpanama.
It's like what do you?
What's the latest onargentina's foreign policy?
Where do you?
Where do you stand on Venezuela, tony?
Nobody ever asked me that.
It's always this thing right.
We have to be centered.
This is a neocon.
This is what this is.
This is a neocon distraction.
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This is the seven countries infive years that Wesley Clark was
talking about when he came backand went through the Pentagon
after 9-11.
They were going to hit sevencountries in five years.
What did that have to do?
Not only one with 9-11, butwhat did that have to do with
the United States' security?
Look at where we are now.
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We've just wasted theboondoggles, the grift, the
theft, the criminality of thetrillions and trillions and
trillions and trillions ofdollars that we spent on what in
the Middle East?
I was part of that, by the way.
Did it make you safer?
No, it completely bankruptedthe nation.
It rotated our military intooblivion.
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I thought there was going to besee Paul Wolfowitz and Donald
Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney andBill Kristol and Max Boot, which
all these radio hosts onconservative talk, conservative
talk.
Why is conservative talkdevolved into?
If we're not bombing somebody,we're not great.
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And it always has to do withbombing somebody in the Middle
East.
Has anybody ever noticed that?
Have you ever traced back theroots on that and just kind of
seen where that comes from?
It's to keep you distracted,but they put us in a position.
We're going to democratizemankind, remember, we're going
to get the evildoers.
We're going to democratize theMiddle East and they're going to
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greet us as liberators.
Is that, what?
Is that how you, I wonder?
Was I greeted as the liberator?
Uh, I wish I had the jeopardymusic.
I should have the jeopardymusic Some here on my board.
I just was.
Well, what was shot at?
What was?
What was IEDs liberators?
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Huh Well, that's how they think.
That's the Trotskyite Gosh.
I'm going to do a wholeparatrooper on the origins of
the conservative movement in theUnited States and how it was
hijacked.
It's a complete inversion ofwhat it actually is supposed to
be.
I heard a radio host a popularone once say that George
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Washington was wrong with hisfarewell address about staying
out of foreign entanglement andnot having these alliances that
would drag us into war.
They used to read the farewelladdress in Congress up until the
1930s, and there was a popularhost I him say it that george
washington was wrong because wehave to intervene, because
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that's where this, the so-calledconservative movement, went.
Well, that's.
I think that's pretty telling.
That's why that's how you endup where you go a trillion
dollars in debt every 90 daysand we took our eye off the ball
.
We didn't fight the culture war, we didn't rebuild the republic
after the fall of the SovietUnion, we went on the Crusades,
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and I think this is what you'repaying for.
But $26 billion to Israel forwhat?
And again, why is this ourconcern?
I'm asking the tough questionsbecause you're supposed to be on
a side here, you're supposed tobe rah-rah, especially if you
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want a lot of viewers.
You want a lot of clicks.
And, of course, over $8 billionwill go towards spending in the
Asia-Pacific to prepare for afuture war with China, including
a few billion in military aidfor Taiwan.
Us has consistently soldweapons to Taiwan since severing
relations with Taipei in 1979.
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You read that.
Let's read that again.
Let's highlight it.
I talked about this last week.
Over $8 billion will go towardsspending in the Asia-Pacific to
prepare for a future war withTaipei in 1979, but began
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providing unprecedented militaryaid last year, a move that
significantly raised tensionswith China.
For those of you who missed thehistory lesson, we literally put
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in writing with ZygmuntBrzezinski on January 1st 1979,
that we had officiallyrecognized a one china policy.
Richard nixon and henrykissinger did it verbally with
mao in 1972.
Taiwan used to be known asformosa.
That's where chiang hai-shekfled in 1949 when the
rockefellers and the rothschildsset up the communist revolution
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in china.
So the nationalist leaderchiang Kai-shek fled to Formosa,
which is Taiwan, and allthrough the Cold War, Taiwan was
a Cold War ally.
Then we flipped the script andwe opened China in what was
called triangular diplomacy.
It was an idea from RichardNixon, carried out by Henry
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Kissinger, to put a wedgebetween the Soviet Union and red
China.
It worked, but Taiwan was thebargaining chip.
So let me ask you a question,ladies and gentlemen.
Uh, if you don't think thatthere's some seriousness in the
war clouds that are being builtup by our military industrial
complex and our ruling class,because they backed themselves
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into a corner?
See, it was all well and goodthat all these same minds is all
well and good that we sold ourmanufacturing out.
We sold out the American worker.
I talked about that today onDavid Knight show.
Uh, december 11th 2001, 90 daysafter nine 11, george W Bush
gives China most favored tradingstatus.
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Uh, opens them up to the WTO.
Right after that, we lose55,000 factories and one in
three manufacturing jobs.
We gave it to China.
The Clintons gave missiletechnology to China.
We would give missiletechnology to the Israelis.
The Israelis would sell it toChina.
Everybody's been selling stuffto China.
Everybody's been giving thingsto China.
We gave away everything toChina.
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Gave it away.
They didn't have things toChina.
We gave away everything toChina.
Gave it away.
They didn't have to steal it.
We gave it away.
Our leaders gave it away.
We gave away the industrialbase, the manufacturing marvel
of mankind.
This was the great betrayal ofthe American people by the
political class, and now theywant to reverse it by going to
war with China Over what?
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Something that we alreadyseeded?
We broke relations with Taiwanin 1979, folks, and now we're
giving them an unprecedentedamount of money.
Why is that?
It's a good question.
These are war clouds and thesewar pigs are going to.
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These psychopathic are going todrag us in.
Of course you know, and they'vepicked, like this hodges, it's
a, like a goldilocks.
This is world war three stuff.
You have this, the and I saidthis months and months ago after
October 7th.
This has nothing to do withGaza.
This has nothing to do withHamas.
This is language between nationstates setting the stage.
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They're going to drag us in oneway or another.
If we can't get lobbied into it, we're going to get drug into
it One way, or the kicking andscreaming it appears into some
middle Eastern cataclysm.
For what?
I'm going to read a articlehere at the end of the show from
Michael Snyder about the priceof gasoline.
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You want to know where theprice of.
Everyone wants to know what theprice of commodities and gold.
Forget about that, folks, causewe're we're going into some
weird times with energy.
You don't think that the oilcompanies are licking their
chops right now.
I tell you who's really lickingtheir chops right now?
Credit card companies.
Oh, they're loving it.
They're about to make awindfall, unprecedented windfall
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, a transfer of wealth neverseen before at the pump.
You guys don't know about that.
We'll talk a little bit aboutthat, but but this is what I'm
talking about.
We get stuck on World War IIIand foreign policy, but they're
really doing it.
They're really setting the tolda lot of things and it's going
to be mind control.
It's going to get you to flip ascript and you're with
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so-and-so.
I'm going to put a flag on myFacebook profile or whatever.
You know you're going to take aside, but I promise you it's
all for nothing and it's allterrible.
Like what does our?
Again, I asked the questionsabout Ukraine.
I asked the questions aboutUkraine.
I asked the questions aboutIsrael.
I asked the questions aboutTaiwan.
What does that have to do withus?
The answer is nothing, nothing.
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We don't even secure our borderhere.
I know I'm supposed to go to thepolls again in 24 and vote for
that secure border.
I already did that.
I already did that in 2016.
Anybody with guts would havesecured it.
I said what I said.
I'm not a 4D Chesser, whiteHats, patriots in Control person
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who has lost my grip on reality.
I can read and I can rememberthings and we didn't get that.
So I'm not going back to thepolls in 24 and you can't make
me.
I'm not going.
I think I'll take beans for awalk or something, unless
there's somebody cool like asheriff to vote for or something
.
I'm done with that and this iswhy the country's in such bad
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shape.
We just keep tossing the thingback and forth between
Tweedledee and Tweedledummer.
All right, let's jump into somemore headlines.
You know what I'll do.
I'm going to go to the Rockfinchat and we'll come back, and
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I'm debating on doing anotherforeign policy article.
Maybe we'll do the stuff at thepump, maybe we'll do that.
And then there's something elseon AI.
I have there's one from JimRickards and I wanted to go.
Maybe I'll do that on aseparate show because I've just
ranted for the.
I didn't expect to do that, Ijust ranted for a little bit.
We'll definitely get into somesome commodity prices too.
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Let's go to the rockfin chat.
By the way, we're streaminglive on freeworldfm.
Please go check out free world.
It's a lifeboat for free speech, uh, and we've got so many
great hosts over there.
We're building it.
Go check us out.
I want to say hi to everybody.
On 9, 30 am the answer sanantonio, uh, my, my home station
, who still carries me at youknow, I, I definitely believe
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that I have the most unique viewof any host over there.
You got to get some variety,don't be mad at me, uh, see, uh,
jason barker's over in therockfin chat, by the way,
rockfin r-o-k-f-i-n dot com onthe america unplugged channel
and chris is in the chat.
Gardener, goldsmith, the greatguard, goldsmith, my good
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friends, always supportive, it'sgood to see all of you.
Thanks for, yeah, dystopian,distant.
No one ever mentions OperationAjax and what resulted from the
backlash.
I will mention Operation Ajax,that's Mosaddegh, early 1950s,
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the overthrow of the leader ofIran.
We installed the Shah.
You know something interestingabout that.
I don't know, they're notrelated, but the Secretary of
Defense, James Forrestal, beforehe was, before he quote fell
out of a window at BethesdaNaval Hospital.
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He was the first Secretary ofDefense, I believe too, and he
had a problem with our foreignpolicy, with, uh, our aid to
Israel and other things.
He thought that would be areally bad idea.
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He thought that, uh, that itwould open up and drive a wedge
between Iran and the West andyou got to understand where this
country was post-World War II.
But James Forrestal, uh, wasreading the actual classic, the
Greek classic, ajax, when he waspushed or whatever fell.
I mean, you do the math, jamesForrestal was killed, folks, and
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I don't know if you can go backand look through history and
see what happened for yourself,but in my opinion there was
something he knew, something,right, that's james forestall,
and that that was the book thathe was reading was ajax.
You, you only hear that here onthe art of burn radio
transmission, just a littlething.
That my mind.
I just stuff, that's the littletidbits that I pick up and then
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like, when somebody brings thatup, I talk about it later.
But good job, job, thanks forbringing Mosadek up, because
that's called blowback, but wealways do, we always intervene
somewhere and then like why dothey hate us?
You know, but again, hasnothing to do with actual
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American security.
All right, let's check out thisarticle from Michael Schneider.
Let me shut down this otherscreen.
This is on lewrockwellcom.
This is why the price ofgasoline could soon double.
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Michael Schneider, the EconomicCollapse blog, says Can you
imagine paying $7 for a gallonof gasoline?
Well, I guess in California youalready do.
It could soon happen, because itappears that Israel is about to
strike Iran and that is likelyto cause events in the Middle
East to spiral completely out ofcontrol.
Right now, approximatelyone-fifth of all oil used in the
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world goes through the Straitof Hormuz.
An apocalyptic war in theregion could potentially close
the Strait of Hormuz until theconflict is resolved one way or
the other.
In addition, oil infrastructurecould be destroyed in Iran and
other nations in the Middle Eastas the fighting rages, and that
could substantially reduceglobal oil production for an
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extended period of time.
Our way of life depends oncheap oil, and so if a major
regional war in the Middle Eastcauses the price of oil to go
skyrocketing, that is going todeeply affect us all.
Well, he's so right.
Because we're not payingattention to that, folks?
The Biden administration dumpedmillions of barrels of oil into
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the ecosystem, into the economicsystem, to temporarily lower
the price in the second year ofBiden's presidency.
The strategic petroleum reserve.
Well, the price is up, and sothey're not buying anymore to
replenish their own stock,because when they buy it's going
to raise the price, becausedemand goes up, and I see this
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only getting worse because,again, the economy is going to
suffer.
But there's going to be a fewthat make a windfall.
By the way, countries like Iranand the petroleum-rich nations
are going to do very well, evenif some of their stuff the price
of oil goes up, then they dowell, so you're not hurting your
enemies that way either.
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On Monday, the average price ofa gallon of gasoline in the
United States was just $3.63.
Even though the average priceof a gallon of gasoline has
risen more than $0.20 in a month, I would still consider that to
be a very low level, especiallycompared to what is eventually
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coming.
It's up $0.04 from a weekearlier.
One expert that was interviewedby MarketWatch watches, warning
that the average price ofgasoline in the us could hit
five dollars and forty centsthis summer.
This, uh, this expert estimatedthat a spike in oil prices
pushing us gasoline to fivedollars and forty cents a gallon
would make a recession later in2024 a genuine possibility.
Oh, you think so.
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I think it's been estimated.
I heard this a long time ago,going into um the fall of 08,
and I remember this because Iwas 28 years old, I was running
a high volume convenience storegasoline I mean it had
everything.
It was part of my family's uhholdings and I was running it as
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a part owner and we were doingabout 250,000 gallons a month in
gasoline.
And you just start watchingthose credit card fees keep
going up, keep going up, keepgoing up, and then you realize
then you hit $3, and then $4 agallon and all of a sudden
there's this crescendo where itjust kind of starts to taper off
, and that's when people areunable to do anything anymore.
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Right, so the wheels and allthe mechanisms of a consumer
economy and the money velocitystarts to die Again.
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If you have economic problemsaccompanied with a war, it's
going to cause both inflationaryissues and deflationary issues
at the same time.
That same expert also warnedthat the price of oil reaches
$125 a barrel.
It could push the US economyinto a recession.
Well, yeah, crude prices areour chief concern, but we are a
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long way from $125 a barrel, alevel of West Texas intermediate
oil that would almost certainlycause a recession if sustained.
Gasoline prices are thetransmission mechanism between
Mideast conflict and the USeconomy.
When pump prices increasequickly, consumers must cut back
on other spending.
That's exactly right.
Personally, I think such aprojection is wildly optimistic.
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If Israel and Iran startlobbing thousands of missiles at
one another, we could easilysee the price of oil surpass 150
a barrel and it is likely thatthe average price of gasoline in
the U?
S would shoot past $7 a gallon.
And if nuclear weapons are usedin the middle East, there is no
telling what might happen.
Well, that's the dream.
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That's the dream of the.
The neocons are licking theirchops.
They're ready for this.
They're ready for this.
They're ready for theapocalyptic showdown.
That's what they want.
That's what they've beenpushing.
Every so-called conservativethink tank, you know, right down
to almost every conservativeradio host pushing this, even
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subconsciously.
Maybe they don't even know thatthey're doing it.
They're pushing it Right now.
The financial markets arewaiting to see if Israel chooses
to retaliate.
If the Israelis strike Iran andoil infrastructure is targeted,
that will definitely send oilprices up.
If Israel does retaliate and itbecomes a full-fledged conflict
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, that's a different story.
And maybe Iran's platforms,refineries, are taking out or
taken out, and that would sendprices up.
This is from the analyst andMichael Snyder says.
I think that is what is going tohappen at this moment.
It is being reported thatIsrael is preparing to retaliate
.
When that occurs, the price ofoil will go nuts and people all
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over the US will blame Israelfor the high price of gasoline.
No, not really.
They'll blame Iran, and I thinkthat's the whole point.
Right, because we have a.
Iran is connected to Russia,right?
Iran is three times the size ofIraq.
Iran is oil rich.
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You only have to look at theplan that they've had, the plan
that was hatched by the Bushadministration, which is really
the neocons after, after andbefore 9-11, but especially
after the seven countries infive years.
You got to go.
Look at what Wesley Clark saidthat they were planning on
September 12, 2001.
They're not done here yet and Ithink they're throwing Hail
Marys.
It's like the dollar is losingpurchasing power at a rapid rate
probably not expected.
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You have the emergence of theBRICS nations.
Folks, gerald Cilente is rightwhen all else fails, they take
you to war.
Do you guys see this?
Where are the adults?
I keep asking this.
They used to have off-ramps forthis kind of stuff and there
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used to be summits Hell, we evenhad.
We used to have gosh, we thiskind of stuff.
And there used to be likesummits hell, we even had, we
used to have gosh.
We have the worst likeentrepreneurs and see, oh, I
don't even call thementrepreneurs, whatever these
figureheads or silicon valley,uh, degenerates and weirdos that
we have, that aren't even.
They're not.
They're not the, theentrepreneurs of old like henry
ford.
Henry ford, like in the inworld war one or leading up to
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that, he tried to send out anenvoy.
He chartered a ship and triedto get people of different
backgrounds and with influenceto go and try to create an
environment for peace.
No one does that.
That was a private citizen whojust happened to be an
industrialist.
We don't have any of those.
There's no off ramps anymore.
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They don't have an off ramp forpeace in ukraine.
We just have crazy like peakfluoride people screaming to you
know, uh, how gonna, we'regonna raise a rainbow flag in
moscow tomorrow.
You know, that's they.
They don't care what happenswith nuclear war, it doesn't
matter.
We just we got to get there.
They took the, the vaccine chipout and put the war chip in in
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the back of their npc head andthey're ready for a total
annihilation, that war is sewnup for them.
So we're not even talking aboutpeace there.
We're not talking about peacehere.
Nobody's meeting for there's nosummits.
Where in the hell is the unitednations?
I thought that, you know.
I thought they were about peace.
I'm doing this tongue in cheek,folks.
(37:26):
The United Nations building wasbuilt on a Rockefeller piece of
property.
You know what the UnitedNations building used to be?
It was a slaughterhouse.
So it's kind of apropos, it'snot.
It's not it's.
It was a slaughterhouse.
That was the original locationof the united nations building.
Where is that?
Where is that entity right now?
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No one that was.
That was what was sold to usafter world war ii.
We had to give up sovereignty.
We had to join thissupranational body.
We had to be part of the UnitedNations to end all wars.
Isn't that why?
Wait?
Wait a minute.
We did this before.
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This was League of Nations withWoodrow Wilson.
I thought it was the war to endall wars.
I guess the point I'm trying tomake is, if you're really paying
attention and you know anythingabout history, it's really
weird that no one wants peace,no one Anywhere.
Weird huh Kind of.
(38:33):
In that season.
Yeah, iran has steeply raisedoil exports, the main source of
its revenue, during the Bidenadministration, after they were
severely reduced to do measurestaken by the Trump
administration.
The White House has argued itisn't encouraging Iran to raise
exports and is enforcingsanctions.
Lower Iranian exports wouldlead to a further rise in oil
prices and the cost in gasolinein the US, which would be a
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politically sensitive issue.
Instead of using their oilmoney to fund terror
organizations, the Iranianscould have lived in luxury, but,
to be honest, iran could havebeen one of the most prosperous
countries in the entire planet,but instead they have foolishly
chosen a much different path.
Well, can I be on nobody's sidehere and having my whole life
(39:23):
just having to constantlyconcentrate on where 26 of the
world's oil output comes from,can we just move away from that?
Can we just maybe we do our owndomestic drilling?
We look for other ways?
It's only 20, it's 24.
It's 24 of the world's outputtotal in the region.
I looked that up when I was 20because I was like does all the
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oil come out?
Does it look like majority?
It's not the majority, it's 24%.
But it takes 90% of our foreignpolicy focus to put on the
Jeopardy music again.
Why is that, tony?
Why are we constantly focusedthere?
It's kind of weird.
Huh, you do the math.
(40:08):
Yep, one-fifth of all the oilused goes through the Strait of
Hormuz.
I remember my dad talking to meabout this in late 90s.
This exact scenario, by the way, like everything that's
happening right now, like thisexact scenario.
One-fifth of all the world goesthrough the Strait of Oil, goes
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through the Strait of Hormones.
We are in uncharted territory,says the author, michael
Schneider, and we could soon seea level of panic in the
financial marketplace that wehaven't seen in a very long time
.
Meanwhile, economic conditionsin the US just continue to
deteriorate.
Earlier today, I was saddenedto learn that even Tesla has
(40:49):
decided to use mass layoffs 10%of its global workforce is going
to be laid off.
Things are definitely not goodnow, but they will get a whole
lot worse if a major regionalwar goes interrupts in the
middle east.
It takes energy to makeproducts, transport products and
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sell products.
The price of oil has anenormous impact on literally
every sector of our entireeconomy.
If an apocalyptic war in themiddle east were to cause the
price of oil to double, it wouldsend us into a horrific
economic tailspin.
So let's hope for the best, butlet's prepare for the worst.
Well, I like again.
(41:32):
I don't like doing doom andgloom.
I just look around and I go isanybody paying attention to this
?
They literally have no.
There's no prospects for peaceand nobody's calling for that.
There's no summits.
Where are the summits?
Where are the leaders in thisworld?
When you go back to the 1980s,you had Pope John Paul II, you
(41:55):
had Margaret Thatcher, you hadRonald Reagan, I mean okay, and
even we were lucky because theyhad Mikhail Gorbachev.
That was head of what Reagancalled one time the evil empire,
the Soviet Union, and that wasthe big power stuff.
Basically, nothing happened onthe planet unless those four
(42:16):
people said so.
Now you there.
You had the premier in china atthe time, but they weren't
anything like they are that we.
They were fledgling power.
They had new china, had nuclearweapons in 1964 because of
their direct ties to the sovietunion, but they really weren't
an economic.
We had to build them up firstand that was post-Cold War,
(42:39):
after Tiananmen Square.
That's when we really startedto open up our markets for China
, but nothing really happenedunless, again, reagan, pope John
Paul II, thatcher and gorbachevallowed it.
Not, really we have.
(43:01):
We're in a free fall now.
There's nobody in charge.
Just, I mean, I guess you couldsay the leaders now the world
are.
I mean, putin has some degreeof leadership somewhere.
Xi Jinping, right?
Is it the people you want incharge?
There's always a vacuum.
(43:23):
And as our country has gottenmore corrupt and, of course, as
we have the duopoly of thetwo-party system and the
stranglehold on our politics, wedon't fight back.
We have in the United States,and especially in, like Texas,
we have the Republican party andunfortunately they neutralize
(43:43):
all of your outrage and turn itinto nothing, and that's been
going on for so many years.
Now it's starting to reallyshow.
So these are open questions.
Folks Watch out at the pump.
Strange times, I coulddefinitely buy that and then it
won't matter.
Like you know, it's not just.
(44:05):
There's a human cost to risingprices.
I think it was the movie theBig Short, you know, and I think
it was Brad Pitt's character,and he stops them from
celebrating that they're rightabout this collapse.
I forget the scene, but he waslike people die.
This is going to cause death inthis country People on fixed
(44:30):
income, people that have tochoose between meals and
medicine, and the central bank,the federal reserve, just prints
money into oblivion anddevalues the currency.
And people on fixed income?
Those are the first people tobe hit by economic uncertainties
, inflation, shortages, risingprices.
(44:52):
That's not just, it's going tohurt, it kills.
So why don't we have anybodycalling for peace?
Well, you're not going to getSpeaker Johnson.
He says he's a wartime speaker.
That's funny.
You're my age, mike.
Why didn't you go fight in anyof the wars that you supported,
boy?
There's so many chicken hawkswith that same mentality.
(45:15):
I see you guys from a thousandmiles away.
They're all over our politics,they're all over the radio,
they're all in TV.
They're my age.
You love war so much.
Why didn't you fight in them?
How do you live with yours?
How can you square that?
How can you like war?
But you didn't go?
(45:35):
He live with you.
How do you?
How do you?
How can you square that?
How can you like war but youdidn't go?
But he's a but, he's a goodchurch-going man.
Uh-huh, all right, one last time.
It's been a different kind ofshow.
Uh, let's cover a little bit ofuh headlines.
(45:57):
Oh, I talked about on on davidknight's show today, the, uh,
the bank of zimbabwe.
Now, if you know anything aboutfiat currency and how it's been
a laughing stock zimbabwe gotinto such trouble over I think
it was in the 90s and so on.
They they had a trillion dollarnote, they had a trillion
(46:18):
Zimbabwe currency units and thatwas like the laughingstock.
It was always you're goingZimbabwe.
Well, zimbabwe learned fromthat and they recreated a new
currency.
They have a gold-backedcurrency now and they have said
implicitly that we will notcreate more currency units than
is backed by our reserves ofgold.
(46:39):
That's Zimbabwe.
If only the US would learn.
And I said this too on DavidKnight Show.
And these are some key things totake away from the economic
news from today.
The Federal Reserve the peoplethat make the money, the people
that literally make the moneyhad a balance sheet loss of $948
(47:04):
billion last year.
They have a net operating losson the books of $948 billion.
Now, how do you make the money,the books of 948 billion?
Now, how do, if you make themoney?
I know I'm asking is myquestion too simple?
Or do I have to have all thesecomplicated theorems and
algorithms and I have to run itthrough three different think
(47:24):
tanks to get the answer?
Do I have to run it throughthat machine, the Whopper on war
games from with MatthewBroderick.
Do we have to run it throughJoshua's the machine to get to
this?
To like, what is it?
How do you, how do you lose$948 billion on your balance
sheet when, literally, youcreate the money?
(47:47):
That's pretty bad.
That's like having casinos thatgo bankrupt.
How do you do that?
How do you?
How do you bankrupt a casino?
The house wins.
I mean, what did you do?
These are all show for a pair ofpolitics and precious metals,
but a silver lining.
(48:08):
If you will, let's put this onthe screen.
I am.
(48:28):
If you're looking for,searching for value, you want to
see something cool.
This isn't something that isn't, uh, talked about a lot.
This is on kitco.
So, while we're talking abouthigh gas prices and talking
about economic uncertainty I getall that and it is a strange
(48:49):
time but there are also littlestories like this where peak
your interest like okay, well,if you, what do I need to be
setting aside?
Well, here's something to lookat Kitco silver to see.
Second highest deficit in 20years.
A record industrial demandrises 9% in 2024, says the
(49:10):
Silver Institute's World SilverSurvey, world Silver Survey.
So what this means, folks, thatthe amount of silver that is
above ground and I'm scrollingthrough the article now Metal
Focus has noted that theindustrial demand continues to
(49:31):
dominate the silver market andis expected to hit another
record high this year, rising 9%, and again this is raising the
deficit to over 200 millionounces.
That means that they have to gointo what's already above
(49:53):
ground and in the supply,reaching in there to make all
the industrial uses, jewelrybeing one of them, but
industrial, like solar, likebatteries, right, and of course
you know there's 40 pounds ofsilver in a Tomahawk missile
(50:13):
You're going to talk aboutdefense related.
This is going to be.
I think this is where there'sgoing to be a tipping point,
where the exchanges and themonetary holdings of physical
silver will start to show thatwhat we've long suspected is a
lot of these paper markets don'thave it, they can't really move
(50:37):
it.
Physical silver will not bedelivered on demand because it
can't be, and then this wholething gets reset.
So I think silver is cheapright now, not investment advice
, it just is.
I don't have to tell youinvestment advice, you can just
go look at the price charts.
But it's supposed to be againestimated for this year it's up
(50:59):
9%.
Last year was 184 millionounces.
That was a deficit in 2023.
So we're definitely inuncharted territory when it
comes to the actual supply aboveground.
The gold and silver ratio ismessed up.
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It's the 18th of April 2024.
I just got done with the greatDavid Knight on his program.
I go on there every Thursday at930 am, central Time and it's
always a fun conversation.
(02:51):
It's so fun.
If you watch me on, david, ifyou ever wonder do we plan that
or do we just?
That's just us going, that'sjust a conversation.
I usually show up like a minutebefore and say I read a couple,
this is an article I saw.
And he'll say I saw this too,and then we'll just do the show
and it makes you a betterbroadcaster.
(03:12):
You get somebody that's soskilled like that with David
Knight, just an intellect likethat.
It makes you a betterbroadcaster.
So I'm always, now that I'mdoing the show on Thursdays, I'm
ready to go Like I could just,I can just do this.
I'm already warmed up, I'm.
This is easy compared to a 30minutes with with Mr Knight.
So I'll be sure and check thoseout and I'm going to add that
(03:33):
to the podcast feed as well.
Well, where do we start?
Where do you, where do you guyswant to start off?
Should I talk?
Do we going to talk about theelection?
Do you want to talk aboutpolitics?
I don't.
I'm just done with this.
This whole thing is soridiculous.
We're not bringing up theissues.
(03:54):
Obviously, we've got thissideshow reality TV garbage
going on.
I'm just done with it.
It's sickening that we've fallenthis far in this country to
have, you know, one sidespersecuting the nominee of a
major party, which you alwaysknew is going to be the
(04:15):
Republicans that had.
If there was any party that wasgoing to get persecuted and
held down and has no way offighting the establishment, it's
going to be the Republicanparty or the Republican nominee,
because it's the most, it's theparty most tied, at least right
now, to what you would considerthe people, the people that you
know, work and keep the lightson and pay the taxes and you
(04:38):
know, and again, there's somegreat, there's some good
Democrat people out there, butthat's.
That's a demographic shift thathappened a long time ago.
It's one of the reasons why JoeBiden you see people giving me
these clips like you see JoeBiden in 2007,.
He was talking about a secureborder.
Well, of course he was.
He was placating to people thatare no longer alive.
That's what they did.
(04:59):
They don't believe in anything.
The same reason Barack Obamasaid that marriage was between a
man and a woman.
He was placating to those olderblue dog Democrats, the Reagan
Democrats from years and bygoneera people that thought that FDR
was a hero.
Those people are gone.
They're mostly gone,unfortunately, some of the best
(05:20):
Americans.
They were just placating tothem.
They didn't believe any ofthose things.
They don't believe in anything.
They're nihilist.
Well, they're luciferiannihilist.
They believe in something.
They believe in the in.
Uh, not necessarily a higherpower, but you understand what
I'm getting at.
They serve a different master.
I think it's pretty apparentwhat you think.
(05:42):
So yeah, those people wereplacating.
There's no politics anymore.
So the they persecute the guy atthe headlines on drudge and and
Trump's going through all thesetrials and everything else and
again I my eyes glaze over.
You know, you know, we, we wentthrough this and and we had the
(06:03):
, the.
The vote for the secure borderwas 2016.
And I didn't get a secureborder, I got a new world order.
So why am I doing this again?
I mean, we're going to.
I don't know.
I'm just pretty sick of it.
You can turn me off if you want, but if Trump's reelected, does
President Fauci automaticallyget inaugurated or do I have to
wait?
Do we do this again, or is heplaying 4D chess?
(06:26):
I have people send me stuff allthe time.
They're like, oh well, thePatriots in control.
Really, can we stop doing that?
It is absolutely nauseating.
Please don't do that.
Please don't fall for that.
I think the key is local, it'syour family, it's closer to the
earth and brace for impact,because this country goes into a
(06:49):
trillion dollars in debt every90 days.
Folks, a trillion dollars indebt every 90 days.
It took us from 1776 to 1980 orso, to go a trillion dollars in
debt.
We do it every 90 days and,speaker Johnson, don't you love
(07:09):
it?
At the end of the road, you get, uh, you get this, um, ned
Flanders kind of guy.
Why, why do we always producethese people in this country?
This is Mike Johnson, thespeaker of the house.
He's a wartime speaker.
Did you know that?
Well, pray, tell Mike.
What war is it?
What war did you vote on?
(07:31):
What declaration of war wasvoted on and approved by the
people?
You're a wartime speaker ofwhat?
The war against us?
The war against the people ofthe United States?
Well, I agree with that.
There's a war on free speech.
There's a war on personalsovereignty.
There's a war on free markets.
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There's a war on sanity.
There's a war on the rule oflaw.
So, yeah, mike, I guess you are.
I guess you're a wartimespeaker.
Let's put this article up.
Let's talk a little bit aboutwar, the dogs of war.
This is antiwarcom.
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Speaker Johnson unveils $95billion foreign military aid
bills.
The legislation includes $61billion for Ukraineraine, 26
billion to support israel and 8billion for taiwan and other
spending in the region.
Well, those of you have paidattention to my show, it's a
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little different.
I know people are going to turnit off because I'm not doing
the uh mind control talkingpoints to set up artificial
teams to make it easy for you.
But this bill makes no sense.
And again, wartime.
What are you talking about?
What does Ukraine have to dowith the United States
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Constitution?
What does Ukraine have to dowith my security?
Well, it has a lot to do,because we parked a lot of
bioweapons and laundered moneyand you know Burisma and we had
to pay off all these politicalfamilies and you know, from the
Romneys to the Pelosi's, youknow the Bidens.
They always get to get theirtake out of Ukraine.
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It's a big kitty, right, it's abig money laundering kitty.
Plus, you get to bolster themilitary industrial complex.
You get to agitate foreignpowers like Russia with it.
So yeah, ukraine, I guess doesinvolve us, but for all the
wrong reasons.
It has nothing to do with tomake us safer or to secure this
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country.
It has everything to do with tobring us into a or to secure
this country.
It has everything to do with tobring us into a wider war.
So of course, we're going tofund it.
We're going to continue to fundthe t-shirt man a wonderful
democracy, by the way having allthe opposition leaders jailed.
On wednesday, house speakermike johnson unveiled three
foreign military aid bills forukraine, israel and Taiwan.
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It's $95 billion A bill thatwas passed by the Senate.
Although Israel will get aboost in military aid, some of
the economic aid for Ukraine isin the form of repayable loans.
Good luck on getting that back.
However, reports say Kiev isnot actually expected to pay it
back.
Of course it's funny.
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After World War I, woodrowWilson, the banker's president,
put in there by JP Morgan.
That was a very sophisticatedelection 1912, to get Woodrow
Wilson, this so-calledintellectual, the only PhD
president, we put him in, we hadto run Teddy Roosevelt as a
third party in the Bull Moose tosiphon off votes from Taft so
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they could install Wilson.
He was the perfect, he was thebanker's president and they
finally got him in.
He got a second term.
He ran on.
What did he run on, folks?
1916, woodrow Wilson he ran on.
He kept us out of war.
And what's the first thing hedoes when he gets a second term?
He plunges the United Statesinto World War I.
One of the reasons is becausehe had a handler.
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That handler was a man namedColonel Mandel House.
He was not a colonel, but helived in the White House.
They called him Colonel House,but he was not a colonel.
He worked for the bankers andhe was to monitor Woodrow Wilson
.
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And what Woodrow Wilson did ishe helped the United States
create loans and the conditionsfor loans for the allies
so-called in World War I.
By the way, the head of thecentral bank in Germany was Max
Warburg and the head of thecentral bank in the United
States was Paul Warburg.
They, they were brothers and ofcourse we went to war and it
was a banker's war and there wasa lot of money borrowed.
Uh.
So, by the time, uh, calCoolidge they called him silent
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cow in the 1920s, when he was uh.
Uh, he actually took overbecause Warren Harding died in
office and a silent Cal Coolidgebecame president and he wanted
the money back.
And he said well, they hiredthe money, didn't they?
He actually wanted the loansrepaid, which is, everyone was
aghast.
Like you, don't we loan themoney?
We don't expect it back?
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Of course we do.
That's what you're supposed todo.
But that's not.
Again, all of it's a ruse tosiphon off money from you, to
take it away from you, theproducers, these government
leeches, and they put it intowars.
And this is all part of thepower structure.
Folks, this is money laundering101, the creation of money to
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fund things that do not make yousafer, do not have anything to
do with national security.
Nothing to do, nothing to dowith the United States
Constitution, except the erosionof it Absolutely sickening.
The Israel bill totals $26billion, the majority of which
will go to supporting theslaughter of Palestinians in
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Gaza and replenishing airdefenses following Iran's
reprisal attack.
It includes $9 billion inhumanitarian aid, which
Democrats said was necessary forthem to support Johnson's
effort.
Can I ask a question here?
Israel and related companiesown about 75% of the NAS nasdaq.
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Why are we giving them money?
Does anybody really know theyhave 300 nuclear weapons, a
first-rate economy, a first-rateair force that they never
almost ever have to, except whenthey're attacking things like
going into Syria or destroyingIraq, having a nuclear energy
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facility that was called OsirisI think it was in 1982.
The Israelis just went and justbombed it.
I know that we're supposed tosee.
Everything's an inversion.
You say Iran.
Can anybody name a country thatIran has invaded?
No, but see what you're, whatyou're doing right now too.
If you're listening to this,you've never heard me.
You're going to say why is hedefending Iran?
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I'm not.
I don't A pox on both theirhouses.
I don't care about any of thisstuff.
I want out of the Middle East.
I want that forsaken.
I want out of all that stuff.
I'm an american.
I live in the united states ofamerica.
I fought for this country.
Nobody asked me how I feelabout paraguay.
I always get this like well,you know, what do you think
about it?
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Are you going to support israel?
Nobody asked me if I supportpanama.
It's like what do you?
What's the latest onargentina's foreign policy?
Where do you?
Where do you stand on Venezuela, tony?
Nobody ever asked me that.
It's always this thing right.
We have to be centered.
This is a neocon.
This is what this is.
This is a neocon distraction.
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This is the seven countries infive years that Wesley Clark was
talking about when he came backand went through the Pentagon
after 9-11.
They were going to hit sevencountries in five years.
What did that have to do?
Not only one with 9-11, butwhat did that have to do with
the United States' security?
Look at where we are now.
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We've just wasted theboondoggles, the grift, the
theft, the criminality of thetrillions and trillions and
trillions and trillions ofdollars that we spent on what in
the Middle East?
I was part of that, by the way.
Did it make you safer?
No, it completely bankruptedthe nation.
It rotated our military intooblivion.
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I thought there was going to besee Paul Wolfowitz and Donald
Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney andBill Kristol and Max Boot, which
all these radio hosts onconservative talk, conservative
talk.
Why is conservative talkdevolved into?
If we're not bombing somebody,we're not great.
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And it always has to do withbombing somebody in the Middle
East.
Has anybody ever noticed that?
Have you ever traced back theroots on that and just kind of
seen where that comes from?
It's to keep you distracted,but they put us in a position.
We're going to democratizemankind, remember, we're going
to get the evildoers.
We're going to democratize theMiddle East and they're going to
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greet us as liberators.
Is that, what?
Is that how you, I wonder?
Was I greeted as the liberator?
Uh, I wish I had the jeopardymusic.
I should have the jeopardymusic Some here on my board.
I just was.
Well, what was shot at?
What was?
What was IEDs liberators?
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Huh Well, that's how they think.
That's the Trotskyite Gosh.
I'm going to do a wholeparatrooper on the origins of
the conservative movement in theUnited States and how it was
hijacked.
It's a complete inversion ofwhat it actually is supposed to
be.
I heard a radio host a popularone once say that George
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Washington was wrong with hisfarewell address about staying
out of foreign entanglement andnot having these alliances that
would drag us into war.
They used to read the farewelladdress in Congress up until the
1930s, and there was a popularhost I him say it that george
washington was wrong because wehave to intervene, because
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that's where this, the so-calledconservative movement, went.
Well, that's.
I think that's pretty telling.
That's why that's how you endup where you go a trillion
dollars in debt every 90 daysand we took our eye off the ball
.
We didn't fight the culture war, we didn't rebuild the republic
after the fall of the SovietUnion, we went on the Crusades,
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and I think this is what you'repaying for.
But $26 billion to Israel forwhat?
And again, why is this ourconcern?
I'm asking the tough questionsbecause you're supposed to be on
a side here, you're supposed tobe rah-rah, especially if you
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want a lot of viewers.
You want a lot of clicks.
And, of course, over $8 billionwill go towards spending in the
Asia-Pacific to prepare for afuture war with China, including
a few billion in military aidfor Taiwan.
Us has consistently soldweapons to Taiwan since severing
relations with Taipei in 1979.
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You read that.
Let's read that again.
Let's highlight it.
I talked about this last week.
Over $8 billion will go towardsspending in the Asia-Pacific to
prepare for a future war withTaipei in 1979, but began
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providing unprecedented militaryaid last year, a move that
significantly raised tensionswith China.
For those of you who missed thehistory lesson, we literally put
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in writing with ZygmuntBrzezinski on January 1st 1979,
that we had officiallyrecognized a one china policy.
Richard nixon and henrykissinger did it verbally with
mao in 1972.
Taiwan used to be known asformosa.
That's where chiang hai-shekfled in 1949 when the
rockefellers and the rothschildsset up the communist revolution
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in china.
So the nationalist leaderchiang Kai-shek fled to Formosa,
which is Taiwan, and allthrough the Cold War, Taiwan was
a Cold War ally.
Then we flipped the script andwe opened China in what was
called triangular diplomacy.
It was an idea from RichardNixon, carried out by Henry
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Kissinger, to put a wedgebetween the Soviet Union and red
China.
It worked, but Taiwan was thebargaining chip.
So let me ask you a question,ladies and gentlemen.
Uh, if you don't think thatthere's some seriousness in the
war clouds that are being builtup by our military industrial
complex and our ruling class,because they backed themselves
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into a corner?
See, it was all well and goodthat all these same minds is all
well and good that we sold ourmanufacturing out.
We sold out the American worker.
I talked about that today onDavid Knight show.
Uh, december 11th 2001, 90 daysafter nine 11, george W Bush
gives China most favored tradingstatus.
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Uh, opens them up to the WTO.
Right after that, we lose55,000 factories and one in
three manufacturing jobs.
We gave it to China.
The Clintons gave missiletechnology to China.
We would give missiletechnology to the Israelis.
The Israelis would sell it toChina.
Everybody's been selling stuffto China.
Everybody's been giving thingsto China.
We gave away everything toChina.
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Gave it away.
They didn't have things toChina.
We gave away everything toChina.
Gave it away.
They didn't have to steal it.
We gave it away.
Our leaders gave it away.
We gave away the industrialbase, the manufacturing marvel
of mankind.
This was the great betrayal ofthe American people by the
political class, and now theywant to reverse it by going to
war with China Over what?
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Something that we alreadyseeded?
We broke relations with Taiwanin 1979, folks, and now we're
giving them an unprecedentedamount of money.
Why is that?
It's a good question.
These are war clouds and thesewar pigs are going to.
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These psychopathic are going todrag us in.
Of course you know, and they'vepicked, like this hodges, it's
a, like a goldilocks.
This is world war three stuff.
You have this, the and I saidthis months and months ago after
October 7th.
This has nothing to do withGaza.
This has nothing to do withHamas.
This is language between nationstates setting the stage.
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They're going to drag us in oneway or another.
If we can't get lobbied into it, we're going to get drug into
it One way, or the kicking andscreaming it appears into some
middle Eastern cataclysm.
For what?
I'm going to read a articlehere at the end of the show from
Michael Snyder about the priceof gasoline.
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You want to know where theprice of.
Everyone wants to know what theprice of commodities and gold.
Forget about that, folks, causewe're we're going into some
weird times with energy.
You don't think that the oilcompanies are licking their
chops right now.
I tell you who's really lickingtheir chops right now?
Credit card companies.
Oh, they're loving it.
They're about to make awindfall, unprecedented windfall
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, a transfer of wealth neverseen before at the pump.
You guys don't know about that.
We'll talk a little bit aboutthat, but but this is what I'm
talking about.
We get stuck on World War IIIand foreign policy, but they're
really doing it.
They're really setting the tolda lot of things and it's going
to be mind control.
It's going to get you to flip ascript and you're with
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so-and-so.
I'm going to put a flag on myFacebook profile or whatever.
You know you're going to take aside, but I promise you it's
all for nothing and it's allterrible.
Like what does our?
Again, I asked the questionsabout Ukraine.
I asked the questions aboutUkraine.
I asked the questions aboutIsrael.
I asked the questions aboutTaiwan.
What does that have to do withus?
The answer is nothing, nothing.
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We don't even secure our borderhere.
I know I'm supposed to go to thepolls again in 24 and vote for
that secure border.
I already did that.
I already did that in 2016.
Anybody with guts would havesecured it.
I said what I said.
I'm not a 4D Chesser, whiteHats, patriots in Control person
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who has lost my grip on reality.
I can read and I can rememberthings and we didn't get that.
So I'm not going back to thepolls in 24 and you can't make
me.
I'm not going.
I think I'll take beans for awalk or something, unless
there's somebody cool like asheriff to vote for or something
.
I'm done with that and this iswhy the country's in such bad
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shape.
We just keep tossing the thingback and forth between
Tweedledee and Tweedledummer.
All right, let's jump into somemore headlines.
You know what I'll do.
I'm going to go to the Rockfinchat and we'll come back, and
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I'm debating on doing anotherforeign policy article.
Maybe we'll do the stuff at thepump, maybe we'll do that.
And then there's something elseon AI.
I have there's one from JimRickards and I wanted to go.
Maybe I'll do that on aseparate show because I've just
ranted for the.
I didn't expect to do that, Ijust ranted for a little bit.
We'll definitely get into somesome commodity prices too.
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Let's go to the rockfin chat.
By the way, we're streaminglive on freeworldfm.
Please go check out free world.
It's a lifeboat for free speech, uh, and we've got so many
great hosts over there.
We're building it.
Go check us out.
I want to say hi to everybody.
On 9, 30 am the answer sanantonio, uh, my, my home station
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that I have the most unique viewof any host over there.
You got to get some variety,don't be mad at me, uh, see, uh,
jason barker's over in therockfin chat, by the way,
rockfin r-o-k-f-i-n dot com onthe america unplugged channel
and chris is in the chat.
Gardener, goldsmith, the greatguard, goldsmith, my good
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friends, always supportive, it'sgood to see all of you.
Thanks for, yeah, dystopian,distant.
No one ever mentions OperationAjax and what resulted from the
backlash.
I will mention Operation Ajax,that's Mosaddegh, early 1950s,
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the overthrow of the leader ofIran.
We installed the Shah.
You know something interestingabout that.
I don't know, they're notrelated, but the Secretary of
Defense, James Forrestal, beforehe was, before he quote fell
out of a window at BethesdaNaval Hospital.
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He was the first Secretary ofDefense, I believe too, and he
had a problem with our foreignpolicy, with, uh, our aid to
Israel and other things.
He thought that would be areally bad idea.
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He thought that, uh, that itwould open up and drive a wedge
between Iran and the West andyou got to understand where this
country was post-World War II.
But James Forrestal, uh, wasreading the actual classic, the
Greek classic, ajax, when he waspushed or whatever fell.
I mean, you do the math, jamesForrestal was killed, folks, and
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I don't know if you can go backand look through history and
see what happened for yourself,but in my opinion there was
something he knew, something,right, that's james forestall,
and that that was the book thathe was reading was ajax.
You, you only hear that here onthe art of burn radio
transmission, just a littlething.
That my mind.
I just stuff, that's the littletidbits that I pick up and then
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like, when somebody brings thatup, I talk about it later.
But good job, job, thanks forbringing Mosadek up, because
that's called blowback, but wealways do, we always intervene
somewhere and then like why dothey hate us?
You know, but again, hasnothing to do with actual
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American security.
All right, let's check out thisarticle from Michael Schneider.
Let me shut down this otherscreen.
This is on lewrockwellcom.
This is why the price ofgasoline could soon double.
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Michael Schneider, the EconomicCollapse blog, says Can you
imagine paying $7 for a gallonof gasoline?
Well, I guess in California youalready do.
It could soon happen, because itappears that Israel is about to
strike Iran and that is likelyto cause events in the Middle
East to spiral completely out ofcontrol.
Right now, approximatelyone-fifth of all oil used in the
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world goes through the Straitof Hormuz.
An apocalyptic war in theregion could potentially close
the Strait of Hormuz until theconflict is resolved one way or
the other.
In addition, oil infrastructurecould be destroyed in Iran and
other nations in the Middle Eastas the fighting rages, and that
could substantially reduceglobal oil production for an
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extended period of time.
Our way of life depends oncheap oil, and so if a major
regional war in the Middle Eastcauses the price of oil to go
skyrocketing, that is going todeeply affect us all.
Well, he's so right.
Because we're not payingattention to that, folks?
The Biden administration dumpedmillions of barrels of oil into
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the ecosystem, into the economicsystem, to temporarily lower
the price in the second year ofBiden's presidency.
The strategic petroleum reserve.
Well, the price is up, and sothey're not buying anymore to
replenish their own stock,because when they buy it's going
to raise the price, becausedemand goes up, and I see this
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only getting worse because,again, the economy is going to
suffer.
But there's going to be a fewthat make a windfall.
By the way, countries like Iranand the petroleum-rich nations
are going to do very well, evenif some of their stuff the price
of oil goes up, then they dowell, so you're not hurting your
enemies that way either.
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On Monday, the average price ofa gallon of gasoline in the
United States was just $3.63.
Even though the average priceof a gallon of gasoline has
risen more than $0.20 in a month, I would still consider that to
be a very low level, especiallycompared to what is eventually
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coming.
It's up $0.04 from a weekearlier.
One expert that was interviewedby MarketWatch watches, warning
that the average price ofgasoline in the us could hit
five dollars and forty centsthis summer.
This, uh, this expert estimatedthat a spike in oil prices
pushing us gasoline to fivedollars and forty cents a gallon
would make a recession later in2024 a genuine possibility.
Oh, you think so.
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I think it's been estimated.
I heard this a long time ago,going into um the fall of 08,
and I remember this because Iwas 28 years old, I was running
a high volume convenience storegasoline I mean it had
everything.
It was part of my family's uhholdings and I was running it as
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a part owner and we were doingabout 250,000 gallons a month in
gasoline.
And you just start watchingthose credit card fees keep
going up, keep going up, keepgoing up, and then you realize
then you hit $3, and then $4 agallon and all of a sudden
there's this crescendo where itjust kind of starts to taper off
, and that's when people areunable to do anything anymore.
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Right, so the wheels and allthe mechanisms of a consumer
economy and the money velocitystarts to die Again.
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If you have economic problemsaccompanied with a war, it's
going to cause both inflationaryissues and deflationary issues
at the same time.
That same expert also warnedthat the price of oil reaches
$125 a barrel.
It could push the US economyinto a recession.
Well, yeah, crude prices areour chief concern, but we are a
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long way from $125 a barrel, alevel of West Texas intermediate
oil that would almost certainlycause a recession if sustained.
Gasoline prices are thetransmission mechanism between
Mideast conflict and the USeconomy.
When pump prices increasequickly, consumers must cut back
on other spending.
That's exactly right.
Personally, I think such aprojection is wildly optimistic.
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If Israel and Iran startlobbing thousands of missiles at
one another, we could easilysee the price of oil surpass 150
a barrel and it is likely thatthe average price of gasoline in
the U?
S would shoot past $7 a gallon.
And if nuclear weapons are usedin the middle East, there is no
telling what might happen.
Well, that's the dream.
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That's the dream of the.
The neocons are licking theirchops.
They're ready for this.
They're ready for this.
They're ready for theapocalyptic showdown.
That's what they want.
That's what they've beenpushing.
Every so-called conservativethink tank, you know, right down
to almost every conservativeradio host pushing this, even
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subconsciously.
Maybe they don't even know thatthey're doing it.
They're pushing it Right now.
The financial markets arewaiting to see if Israel chooses
to retaliate.
If the Israelis strike Iran andoil infrastructure is targeted,
that will definitely send oilprices up.
If Israel does retaliate and itbecomes a full-fledged conflict
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, that's a different story.
And maybe Iran's platforms,refineries, are taking out or
taken out, and that would sendprices up.
This is from the analyst andMichael Snyder says.
I think that is what is going tohappen at this moment.
It is being reported thatIsrael is preparing to retaliate
.
When that occurs, the price ofoil will go nuts and people all
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over the US will blame Israelfor the high price of gasoline.
No, not really.
They'll blame Iran, and I thinkthat's the whole point.
Right, because we have a.
Iran is connected to Russia,right?
Iran is three times the size ofIraq.
Iran is oil rich.
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You only have to look at theplan that they've had, the plan
that was hatched by the Bushadministration, which is really
the neocons after, after andbefore 9-11, but especially
after the seven countries infive years.
You got to go.
Look at what Wesley Clark saidthat they were planning on
September 12, 2001.
They're not done here yet and Ithink they're throwing Hail
Marys.
It's like the dollar is losingpurchasing power at a rapid rate
probably not expected.
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You have the emergence of theBRICS nations.
Folks, gerald Cilente is rightwhen all else fails, they take
you to war.
Do you guys see this?
Where are the adults?
I keep asking this.
They used to have off-ramps forthis kind of stuff and there
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used to be summits Hell, we evenhad.
We used to have gosh, we thiskind of stuff.
And there used to be likesummits hell, we even had, we
used to have gosh.
We have the worst likeentrepreneurs and see, oh, I
don't even call thementrepreneurs, whatever these
figureheads or silicon valley,uh, degenerates and weirdos that
we have, that aren't even.
They're not.
They're not the, theentrepreneurs of old like henry
ford.
Henry ford, like in the inworld war one or leading up to
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that, he tried to send out anenvoy.
He chartered a ship and triedto get people of different
backgrounds and with influenceto go and try to create an
environment for peace.
No one does that.
That was a private citizen whojust happened to be an
industrialist.
We don't have any of those.
There's no off ramps anymore.
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They don't have an off ramp forpeace in ukraine.
We just have crazy like peakfluoride people screaming to you
know, uh, how gonna, we'regonna raise a rainbow flag in
moscow tomorrow.
You know, that's they.
They don't care what happenswith nuclear war, it doesn't
matter.
We just we got to get there.
They took the, the vaccine chipout and put the war chip in in
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the back of their npc head andthey're ready for a total
annihilation, that war is sewnup for them.
So we're not even talking aboutpeace there.
We're not talking about peacehere.
Nobody's meeting for there's nosummits.
Where in the hell is the unitednations?
I thought that, you know.
I thought they were about peace.
I'm doing this tongue in cheek,folks.
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The United Nations building wasbuilt on a Rockefeller piece of
property.
You know what the UnitedNations building used to be?
It was a slaughterhouse.
So it's kind of apropos, it'snot.
It's not it's.
It was a slaughterhouse.
That was the original locationof the united nations building.
Where is that?
Where is that entity right now?
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No one that was.
That was what was sold to usafter world war ii.
We had to give up sovereignty.
We had to join thissupranational body.
We had to be part of the UnitedNations to end all wars.
Isn't that why?
Wait?
Wait a minute.
We did this before.
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This was League of Nations withWoodrow Wilson.
I thought it was the war to endall wars.
I guess the point I'm trying tomake is, if you're really paying
attention and you know anythingabout history, it's really
weird that no one wants peace,no one Anywhere.
Weird huh Kind of.
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In that season.
Yeah, iran has steeply raisedoil exports, the main source of
its revenue, during the Bidenadministration, after they were
severely reduced to do measurestaken by the Trump
administration.
The White House has argued itisn't encouraging Iran to raise
exports and is enforcingsanctions.
Lower Iranian exports wouldlead to a further rise in oil
prices and the cost in gasolinein the US, which would be a
(38:56):
politically sensitive issue.
Instead of using their oilmoney to fund terror
organizations, the Iranianscould have lived in luxury, but,
to be honest, iran could havebeen one of the most prosperous
countries in the entire planet,but instead they have foolishly
chosen a much different path.
Well, can I be on nobody's sidehere and having my whole life
(39:23):
just having to constantlyconcentrate on where 26 of the
world's oil output comes from,can we just move away from that?
Can we just maybe we do our owndomestic drilling?
We look for other ways?
It's only 20, it's 24.
It's 24 of the world's outputtotal in the region.
I looked that up when I was 20because I was like does all the
(39:45):
oil come out?
Does it look like majority?
It's not the majority, it's 24%.
But it takes 90% of our foreignpolicy focus to put on the
Jeopardy music again.
Why is that, tony?
Why are we constantly focusedthere?
It's kind of weird.
Huh, you do the math.
(40:08):
Yep, one-fifth of all the oilused goes through the Strait of
Hormuz.
I remember my dad talking to meabout this in late 90s.
This exact scenario, by the way, like everything that's
happening right now, like thisexact scenario.
One-fifth of all the world goesthrough the Strait of Oil, goes
(40:28):
through the Strait of Hormones.
We are in uncharted territory,says the author, michael
Schneider, and we could soon seea level of panic in the
financial marketplace that wehaven't seen in a very long time
.
Meanwhile, economic conditionsin the US just continue to
deteriorate.
Earlier today, I was saddenedto learn that even Tesla has
(40:49):
decided to use mass layoffs 10%of its global workforce is going
to be laid off.
Things are definitely not goodnow, but they will get a whole
lot worse if a major regionalwar goes interrupts in the
middle east.
It takes energy to makeproducts, transport products and
(41:11):
sell products.
The price of oil has anenormous impact on literally
every sector of our entireeconomy.
If an apocalyptic war in themiddle east were to cause the
price of oil to double, it wouldsend us into a horrific
economic tailspin.
So let's hope for the best, butlet's prepare for the worst.
Well, I like again.
(41:32):
I don't like doing doom andgloom.
I just look around and I go isanybody paying attention to this
?
They literally have no.
There's no prospects for peaceand nobody's calling for that.
There's no summits.
Where are the summits?
Where are the leaders in thisworld?
When you go back to the 1980s,you had Pope John Paul II, you
(41:55):
had Margaret Thatcher, you hadRonald Reagan, I mean okay, and
even we were lucky because theyhad Mikhail Gorbachev.
That was head of what Reagancalled one time the evil empire,
the Soviet Union, and that wasthe big power stuff.
Basically, nothing happened onthe planet unless those four
(42:16):
people said so.
Now you there.
You had the premier in china atthe time, but they weren't
anything like they are that we.
They were fledgling power.
They had new china, had nuclearweapons in 1964 because of
their direct ties to the sovietunion, but they really weren't
an economic.
We had to build them up firstand that was post-Cold War,
(42:39):
after Tiananmen Square.
That's when we really startedto open up our markets for China
, but nothing really happenedunless, again, reagan, pope John
Paul II, thatcher and gorbachevallowed it.
Not, really we have.
(43:01):
We're in a free fall now.
There's nobody in charge.
Just, I mean, I guess you couldsay the leaders now the world
are.
I mean, putin has some degreeof leadership somewhere.
Xi Jinping, right?
Is it the people you want incharge?
There's always a vacuum.
(43:23):
And as our country has gottenmore corrupt and, of course, as
we have the duopoly of thetwo-party system and the
stranglehold on our politics, wedon't fight back.
We have in the United States,and especially in, like Texas,
we have the Republican party andunfortunately they neutralize
(43:43):
all of your outrage and turn itinto nothing, and that's been
going on for so many years.
Now it's starting to reallyshow.
So these are open questions.
Folks Watch out at the pump.
Strange times, I coulddefinitely buy that and then it
won't matter.
Like you know, it's not just.
(44:05):
There's a human cost to risingprices.
I think it was the movie theBig Short, you know, and I think
it was Brad Pitt's character,and he stops them from
celebrating that they're rightabout this collapse.
I forget the scene, but he waslike people die.
This is going to cause death inthis country People on fixed
(44:30):
income, people that have tochoose between meals and
medicine, and the central bank,the federal reserve, just prints
money into oblivion anddevalues the currency.
And people on fixed income?
Those are the first people tobe hit by economic uncertainties
, inflation, shortages, risingprices.
(44:52):
That's not just, it's going tohurt, it kills.
So why don't we have anybodycalling for peace?
Well, you're not going to getSpeaker Johnson.
He says he's a wartime speaker.
That's funny.
You're my age, mike.
Why didn't you go fight in anyof the wars that you supported,
boy?
There's so many chicken hawkswith that same mentality.
(45:15):
I see you guys from a thousandmiles away.
They're all over our politics,they're all over the radio,
they're all in TV.
They're my age.
You love war so much.
Why didn't you fight in them?
How do you live with yours?
How can you square that?
How can you like war?
But you didn't go?
(45:35):
He live with you.
How do you?
How do you?
How can you square that?
How can you like war but youdidn't go?
But he's a but, he's a goodchurch-going man.
Uh-huh, all right, one last time.
It's been a different kind ofshow.
Uh, let's cover a little bit ofuh headlines.
(45:57):
Oh, I talked about on on davidknight's show today, the, uh,
the bank of zimbabwe.
Now, if you know anything aboutfiat currency and how it's been
a laughing stock zimbabwe gotinto such trouble over I think
it was in the 90s and so on.
They they had a trillion dollarnote, they had a trillion
(46:18):
Zimbabwe currency units and thatwas like the laughingstock.
It was always you're goingZimbabwe.
Well, zimbabwe learned fromthat and they recreated a new
currency.
They have a gold-backedcurrency now and they have said
implicitly that we will notcreate more currency units than
is backed by our reserves ofgold.
(46:39):
That's Zimbabwe.
If only the US would learn.
And I said this too on DavidKnight Show.
And these are some key things totake away from the economic
news from today.
The Federal Reserve the peoplethat make the money, the people
that literally make the moneyhad a balance sheet loss of $948
(47:04):
billion last year.
They have a net operating losson the books of $948 billion.
Now, how do you make the money,the books of 948 billion?
Now, how do, if you make themoney?
I know I'm asking is myquestion too simple?
Or do I have to have all thesecomplicated theorems and
algorithms and I have to run itthrough three different think
(47:24):
tanks to get the answer?
Do I have to run it throughthat machine, the Whopper on war
games from with MatthewBroderick.
Do we have to run it throughJoshua's the machine to get to
this?
To like, what is it?
How do you, how do you lose$948 billion on your balance
sheet when, literally, youcreate the money?
(47:47):
That's pretty bad.
That's like having casinos thatgo bankrupt.
How do you do that?
How do you?
How do you bankrupt a casino?
The house wins.
I mean, what did you do?
These are all show for a pair ofpolitics and precious metals,
but a silver lining.
(48:08):
If you will, let's put this onthe screen.
I am.
(48:28):
If you're looking for,searching for value, you want to
see something cool.
This isn't something that isn't, uh, talked about a lot.
This is on kitco.
So, while we're talking abouthigh gas prices and talking
about economic uncertainty I getall that and it is a strange
(48:49):
time but there are also littlestories like this where peak
your interest like okay, well,if you, what do I need to be
setting aside?
Well, here's something to lookat Kitco silver to see.
Second highest deficit in 20years.
A record industrial demandrises 9% in 2024, says the
(49:10):
Silver Institute's World SilverSurvey, world Silver Survey.
So what this means, folks, thatthe amount of silver that is
above ground and I'm scrollingthrough the article now Metal
Focus has noted that theindustrial demand continues to
(49:31):
dominate the silver market andis expected to hit another
record high this year, rising 9%, and again this is raising the
deficit to over 200 millionounces.
That means that they have to gointo what's already above
(49:53):
ground and in the supply,reaching in there to make all
the industrial uses, jewelrybeing one of them, but
industrial, like solar, likebatteries, right, and of course
you know there's 40 pounds ofsilver in a Tomahawk missile
(50:13):
You're going to talk aboutdefense related.
This is going to be.
I think this is where there'sgoing to be a tipping point,
where the exchanges and themonetary holdings of physical
silver will start to show thatwhat we've long suspected is a
lot of these paper markets don'thave it, they can't really move
(50:37):
it.
Physical silver will not bedelivered on demand because it
can't be, and then this wholething gets reset.
So I think silver is cheapright now, not investment advice
, it just is.
I don't have to tell youinvestment advice, you can just
go look at the price charts.
But it's supposed to be againestimated for this year it's up
(50:59):
9%.
Last year was 184 millionounces.
That was a deficit in 2023.
So we're definitely inuncharted territory when it
comes to the actual supply aboveground.
The gold and silver ratio ismessed up.
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