#496 Power Shifts: From Middle East Conflicts to Economic Revolutions

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Ladies and gentlemen, it's the23rd of January 2025.
I feel like I'm trying toconsume the news through a fire
hose.
It used to be, you know, when Istarted in radio, it was one,

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two, three things a week tops,and now it's just overload.
I looked across the board and Ijust kind of selected four or
five things we could talk about.
We have lots to get to.
It's funny.
I heard Michael Savage say onetime whenever a host tells you
they have lots to get to, theyhave nothing to get to.
But I actually do.

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I don't know if I can cover allthe articles that I have up
today, but we will certainly try.
I'm in studio with Beans theBrave.
She's here to make sure that wehave protection from bad vibes,
intruders, woodland creatures,anything that would disrupt the
transmission.
Glad to have her here.
Much, much to discuss.

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I was on the David Knight showthis morning and we were talking
about leading up to theinauguration the second
inauguration of Donald Trump.
He launched a meme coin and Ithink it has like a 30 some odd
billion dollar market cap.
So, out of the blue, there's ameme coin and I'm going to be
talking about that throughoutthe year, trying to distinguish

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the difference between theactual crypto space, which is
decentralized, tokenized moneyright or should be, and a way
for you to be outside the system, and then something that's just
clown world, which is thesememe coins that are ubiquitous,
they're everywhere, they're pumpand dump.
If you don't get in in theright time, you get left holding

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the bag.
We sell these celebrity coinsand things.
I'm in the crypto space.
I love it.
I love Bitcoin.
I think it's an innovation thathelps humanity.
I think that the vision ofwhoever or whatever Satoshi
Nakamoto was is good for theworld, because it's the
antithesis, at least in theoryand on paper.

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What Bitcoin is?
The antithesis, the nemesis, ifyou will, of fiat currency and
central banking, which is trulysatanic and evil.
It robs people of their work,it robs people of their
creativity, it enriches the veryfew, it fuels the military
industrial complex all the stuffthat you hear me talking about.
There wouldn't be a deep stateif you didn't have fake money, a

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lot like it is now.
You can't lose trillions ofdollars like having Donald
Rumsfeld coming out on 9-10 of2001 and couldn't account for
$2.3 trillion.
You don't have that.
So Bitcoin offers somealternative, at least in the
digital age, along with gold andother things that are money in

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and of themselves.
But I'm very concerned withthese meme coins.
I'm going to continue to talkabout that.
I know it's not a popular thing.
I don't invest in them.
I don't traffic in them.
I definitely wouldn't be aproponent of any meme coin, even
though it can make you filthyrich, which you know it's funny.
There's just a lot moreimportant things than being rich
.
Okay, it doesn't't if you makea certain amount of money.

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I'm just wondering what is yougoing to get?
A nicer meal, you get a nicerflight, what is what?
Is it that you need that?
You need to sell your soul fora meme coin.
So I'm not a fan of any of thisstuff.
It doesn't serve a function.
So whenever you're looking at acryptocurrency, are you
wondering about that?
Does it serve a function?
So whenever you're looking at acryptocurrency or you're
wondering about that, does itserve a function?
Well, some people could say XRPserves a function, right, or
because it integrates withcross-border payment systems

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between banks, or that Ethereumserves as a function because of
contracts and things.
Well, there's arguments forthat.
Or smart contracts, whateveryou want to call those things.
There's arguments for that.
Or smart contract, whatever youwant to call those things.
There's arguments for that.
But I'm just being theharbinger of being the ghost of
Christmas future If you look atsome of these meme coins.

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That's to me, that's the kissof death.
When you're talking aboutinnovation, new spaces remember
the dotcom bubble, folks OK, nowthis is parapolitics and
precious metals.
So we go into a little bit ofthat, right, we go into some of
the wealth and warfare.
I'll be talking a little bitabout foreign policy today.
Lots changed since the uh,since monday.

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Oh gosh, um, lots of executiveorders flying around, some good
things, the J6 prisoners werereleased.
Wow, that took forever, didn'tit?
What an awful, just blemish ascar on the face of America that
we did that.
You know, we turned pettymisdemeanors into treason and

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sedition and whatever the youknow attempts to overthrow the
government.
They called it General Milley,who's supposedly a tactician of
the highest order on warfare andyou know, four-star general and

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head of the Joint Chiefs ofStaff, said that J6, we almost
lost our Constitution becausepeople were in a building.
I find that to just be welltragically stupid, and if he
meant that even worse.
I don't think he did.
I think it was a way to getpeople to accept a judgment of
the gravity of the situation,which it was not, because I've
always said well, if that's thecase, if you can take over a
country by occupying buildings,why didn't we just occupy the

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buildings in Iraq and say,hooray, we won.
Because there's no power in abuilding, it's simply a space.
In order to control something,you have to control the military
, the codes and the finance, andso on and so forth.
So just a black eye across theboard and that's being reversed,
which is good, and Ross Ulbrichof the Silk Road website and

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Bitcoin Pioneer also released.
So that's good.
These are some good things, andwe've got troops going down to
the border, which is not enoughI called on when I ran for
office.
I said we should have animmediate withdrawal of the
troops in South Korea as a ColdWar relic, and other places

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around the world and put them inSouth Texas.
And it needs to be humanitarian, but there needs to be rule of
law and needs to be like ademilitarized zone in some, in
some capacity, like a MarshallPlan, where people that are
legitimate seeking politicalrefuge in this country,
political asylum, can be hurt.
This is one thing I don'tunderstand about government in

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Texas.
I mean, if you're the governorof Texas, why aren't you at the
border?
I mean that is the existentialthreat of the entire state.
That is again the elephant inthe room.
Nothing else matters if youlose control of that because you
don't have the control and flowof a lawful entry into the

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space in which you're supposedlycontrolled.
I never understood that, but hemade it into a joke.
You know, greg Abbott bustspeople to wherever or Martha's
Vineyard, or, you know, putsthem into sanctuary cities in
the or Martha's Vineyard.
Or, you know, puts them intosanctuary cities in the United
States.
Well, we live here, this is ourcountry.
I find that to be I know it didwell in the polls because you
have to think a little bitfurther, you know, than just oh,

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that sounds funny that you gavethem to the people that they
say they want sanctuary cities.
So I'm looking at the borderand thinking well, we have to
have troops there, and that's agood thing, don't necessarily
need a wall, but we needcontinuity, we need a little bit
of rule of law, we need theability to keep dangerous people

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out.
That's the whole point ofhaving a border.
If you don't have a border,you're not really a country at
all.
Well, the first order ofbusiness.
I wanted to get to an articlethat's up on lewrockwellcom.
It came out yesterday and, as Iwas looking through articles,
seeing what I was going to talkabout today, but it's by Michael

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Snyder of the Economic Collapseblog and he writes about five
historic emergencies that Trumpwill be confronted with
immediately when he returns tothe White House.
And of course, this is from the21st, but it holds true three
days later.
Right?
Number one he has a major war.

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He says Iran has gottenextremely close to being able to
build nuclear weapons, and oncethey're able to do that, it's
inevitable that Iranians willdistribute such weapons to
Hezbollah and other terroristproxies.
Joe Biden had been consideringa preemptive strike on Iran's
nuclear program, but heultimately decided not to pull
the trigger.
Now it's Donald Trump's turn.

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According to the Wall StreetJournal, a military strike on
Iran's nuclear facilities hasbeen under serious review.
Well, with this I disagree withMichael Snyder.
I don't think that theyautomatically will turn over
nuclear weapons to Hezbollah andother terrorist proxies.
I think that is a little bridgetoo far.

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I don't think that's anautomatic.
That's more like a suicide pact.
And I don't think that Iran isa suicide nation.
I don't think they're an entirecountry that's wrapped up in a
suicide vest.
And that's not what I read fromhistory.
Because you can't other thanthe Iran-Iraq war.
Can you name the countries thatIran has invaded?
No, you can't.

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I mean they fight a proxy waragainst the House of Saud in
Yemen, but that's interestingbecause the Saudis and the
Iranians were doing jointmilitary exercises.
So I agree that he's got amajor war on the horizon, but
this is something that's of ourown making.
As a matter of fact, I coveredtoday on David Knight's show,

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something that wasn't covered inthe mainstream media.
But Iran and Russia just signedan agreement, an economic pact
that is very historic agreement.
An economic pact that is veryhistoric.
And it's based off commoditiesand it's based off payment
systems to be outside of thepurview of Western financial
oversight.
This is where we're headed.

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It's part of thede-dollarization phenomenon
that's going on worldwide.
The military strike optionagainst nuclear facilities is
now under more serious review bysome members of his transition
team who are weighing the fallof the regime of President
Bashar al-Assad.
We forget about that quickly.

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You know, you realize that theUS and Israel, along with their
al-Qaeda allies, overthrew thegovernment of Syria, overthrew
the government of Syria and thatjust kind of just went away.
You don't think that this hassomething to do with a softening
up?
Of course, you know being aShia stronghold in Syria and of

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course that has ties to Iran.
These things flow together andit's interesting.
These things flow together andit's interesting I thought about
that over the last couple ofweeks that that story just
disappeared.
But literally we've beenworking on that.
You know Western intelligence,you know, along with the

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Israelis, have been working todestabilize the Assad regime for
quite some time they usedthat's where ISIS comes from,
that's where Al-Qaeda again justmeans the database.
These are proxies used onbehalf of those governments to
carry out regime change.
That's why, when these thingswere floating around on these

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podcasts and people were sayingthere's a thousand, you know,
there's intelligence agents aresaying, well, uh, there's a
thousand al-qaeda here, I'm like, yeah, well, you would know,
you literally make them.
And uh, you know, alex jonesused to call, call it al-ciada
for a reason.
Yeah, I'm not buying the newnarrative and I do think, and I

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like michael snyder, but this isway too far.
I mean, what, what, what pointsto you automatically seeing the
government of iran which, bythe way, the bomb?
This is old technology.
I mean, I'm sorry to tell you,but nuclear proliferation.
You stop that with agreementsand economic outreach and you
have to be a leader like JFK.

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It's one of the reasons thatthe deep state murdered him in
broad daylight is because he wasfor peace.
He didn't want nuclearproliferation.
One of the countries that hedidn't want to expand into a
nuclear program was Israel, andhe told him that and it made him
really mad.
He made all these people mad,very angry.
But this is an old technology,folks.

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This was from the the end of thelast fourth turning.
Every 80 to 100 years you havea.
You know, there's four turningsin a cycle for human history.
This is the cyclical theory ofhistory.
Strauss and Howe wrote the book, the fourth turning in the
mid-90s, but every 80 to 100years.
And so that's why you have theAmerican Revolution, and 80 some
odd years later you have theCivil War in America, and 80
some odd years later you havethe Great Depression and World
War II, and then at the end ofthis is the next fourth turning.

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That's why everything's sostrange, because institutions
are thrown on the ash heap,things are redone.
There's a massive upheaval, ifyou will, but the end of the
last fourth turning culminatedin the birth of the atomic age.
It was 1945.

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It's an old technology, ofcourse, if you are determined.
India possesses nuclear weapons, pakistan possesses nuclear
weapons, so they will obtainthem if they already haven't.
North Korea has nuclear weapons.
These are old technologies andto say that just because they

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obtain them, I disagree withthat.
That just because they obtainedthem, they'll automatically, I
disagree with that.
If it wanted to blow itself up,that's a good way to get it
done.
I don't think they'll need anexcuse.
I think they'll get hit anyway.
I think that's what this is allabout.

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You keep watching and we'll talkabout Ukraine.
You keep watching Ukraine,we'll talk about ukraine.
You keep watching ukraine andyou look at that.
But the real energy is going tobe over here on iran, like it
or not.
Number two says michael snyderis a new pandemic.
Says if you thought the lastone is bad, wait till you see
what's coming next.

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Well, that's funny.
That's because what Bill Gatessaid he said something along
those lines.
Well, wait till you see what.
The next one, and he gets thesmile.
According to NBC News, the Bidenadministration and Trump's team
have been working together toformulate a response to the
escalating bird flu outbreakspreading in the United States.
Amid an escalating bird fluoutbreak spreading in the United

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States.
Amid an escalating bird fluoutbreak spreading in the United
States, federal healthofficials have begun to brief
members of the incoming Trumpadministration about how they've
responded to crises so far.
Well, it's never the thing.
It's how you respond, just likeCOVID-1984, it was the response

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.
It was the Rockefeller lockstepworldwide war against the
people by their own governments,putting us on lockdown and
you'll never be able to convinceme, because I was looking at
the actual numbers.
If you go back to the end of2020, I was on InfoWars I read

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an article by Bill Sardi.
He was a researcher of, Ibelieve, the highest intellect,
one of the smartest guys I'veever heard.
He's now since passed away, buthe wrote an article that I
thought he said it was submittedwithout comment was the title
of the article, and it was thetotal deaths of people in the US

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.
And guess what, in 2019, in2020, they were basically on par
, adjusted for age and so on andso forth, about the same.
So you know this whole thingthat the world is on fire and
you know it's the worst.
It's, it's the black deathdivided by Ebola times, aids or

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whatever.
No, but you know what happenedthe next year.
That's when you really start tosee a problem and guess what
was introduced.
See, that's when.
That's when you get the CEO ofOne America, the life insurance
company, going gosh.
We had a 200-year event.
We got people from 18 to 64,and they're dying suddenly why,

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we don't know, maybe it's COVID.
You have to think a little bit.
Apparently, part of thatresponse is $590 million in
additional funding to pushModerna's messenger RNA-based
pandemic flu vaccine towardsapproval.
Oh well, there you go.

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The federal government hascommitted an additional $590
million to push Moderna'smessenger RNA-based pandemic flu
vaccine.
Well, there you go.
And, by the way, I mean we haveto be serious.
I mean, if you don't know bynow, like the Moderna has, like

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that's DARPA written all over it, and then they had, if you
recall, they had a breakthroughand then they had, if you recall
, they had a breakthrough.
They were the first.
They've been pushing that, andmode RNA is what it means.
Mode mRNA is what that means,moderna.

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So they were pushing throughDARPA and never actually made an
actual vaccine until thePresident Fauci era.
Number three economic trouble.
Inflation is starting to reallyaccelerate once again, and this
is particularly true for foodprices.

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He says this there isn't onefactor.
Bird flu is killing chickens,cutting egg supplies and sending
wholesale prices to a record.
Extreme heat and dry weather inthe world's coffee grown in
regions have sent the cost ofbruise surging.
Chocolate and cereal makershave raised prices of their
products too, but we never quiterecovered from the lockdowns or

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the disruption to the supplychain either.
He says no president canmagically zap the bird flu out
of existence or cause it to rainin areas where it isn't raining
.
The truth is that there is noeasy solution on the horizon,
and prices on some key staples,such as eggs, are expected to go
much higher.
Well, prices will go higher.

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The dollar is weaker, that's agiven.
You can destabilize a supplychain pretty easy by shutting it
down, and that's what we didfour years ago or so, but we
will see.
Number four a historic naturaldisaster is now being projected,

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that the fires in Los Angeleswill be the costliest natural
disaster in US history by a widemargin.
Unfortunately, this is a crisisthat is far from over, because
extremely high winds areexpected to return to Southern
California this week.
Yes, there's always that, though, and we always have.

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Back in the mid-1800s, I wasthinking that everybody thinks
that the time they live in, justbecause it's the human nature,
you know, you're alive, you'rehere, it's a very special time
and a lot, of, a lot of thetimes.
You're right.
Um king solomon said there'snothing new under the sun, but
you know, sometimes there issometimes it's a a variation.

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History doesn't repeat itself,but it often rhymes.
There was times that you know,and there was earthquakes in the
mid-19th century united states.
One time it was so severe thatthe uh mississippi river ran
backwards.
These are things that reallyhappened.
You imagine if that happenedtoday it would be?
You know, they've always hadvolcanic eruptions.

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During the American Revolutionit was a mini ice age.
A lot of crops were lost inEurope and others because it was
so cold and that had to do with, I believe, his volcanic
activity and dimming the sun.
They didn't have the chemtrailsand stuff, and then Bill Gates'
balloons, whatever he wanted todo.

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Number five is a government atwar with itself.
Trump says he wants to drainthe swamp and make major changes
to how the federal governmentoperates, and Michael Snyder
says that's great.
Unfortunately, about half ofthe people that run our federal
agencies intend on resisting him.
Well, you don't say.

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That's what they did last time.
And of course, we'll see aboutthe new hires.
Eighty-nine percent ofRepublican federal employees
said they would either somewhatsupport or strongly support the
administration, while 73 percentof Democrat bureaucrats
surveyed they would eithersomewhat resist or strongly

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resist.
Well, that's about right.
Our federal government isliterally going to be at war
with itself.
Government is literally goingto be at war with itself.
He says.
The good news is, 2025 willcertainly not be boring.
Yeah, may you live ininteresting times.

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That's the old Chinese curse.
Yeah, right off the bat, thoughI mean something I spoke with
David Knight about today you gotto take a sober look at the
metrics the metrics on where weare as a country in debt, where
we are geopolitically.
Just take a sober look.

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You're going to take yourpartisan hat off, take your team
hat off and look at it.
And I was talking to David andI said do you realize and we
forget this because we're in thecycle but if you look back and
you look at the numbers, thedebt of the US, that's something
to watch very closely.
You know again, when I was born, it was a trillion dollars.

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By the time I reached 20 yearsold, it was $5 trillion.
So you know five times by thetime I was 30 years old, it was
$10 trillion, and when I was 38or so, it was $20 trillion.

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You see where this is going.
And now I'm 45 and it's 36trillion, and we go a trillion
dollars in debt every 90 daysand the rate is accelerating.
Now what that means is just likeI told David this morning you
look at the central banks.

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There was 60 different centralbanks that all cut rates at the
last quarter of 2024.
What that spells is that theonly way out for these
governments and the centralbanks because they've built
everything on fake is they haveto cut rates to expand the money
supply.
When you do that, your currencyloses purchasing power because

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it becomes more ubiquitous inthe system.
That's what inflation is.
Inflate means to increase.
Inflate the money supply.
We're going to have to do that,except on a much grander scale.
So, when you see the writing onthe wall, to me is the debt's
not going to decrease, it'sgoing to increase and spending

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is going to decrease.
It's going to increase andspending is going to increase.
A lot of these things, like Ijust there was an article up on
the wall street journal vivekramaswamy has left doge and this
is the supposed to be like thenewest, coolest thing.
We're going to have doge.
We're going to cut spending.

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We're going to cut regulations.
The biotech company founderdeparts Doge after his initial
goal of trimming regulations wasovertaken by Musk's priority of
cutting spending.
So already you know a defunctthing.
That's what it looks like to me, so it's not really about

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cutting anything at this point,uh, and we'll see.
You know these are good ideasand we got to have something
outside of the box.
But that the governmentspending the the course is not
going to correct itself.
You have to go to a completelydifferent reality in order to
have the political will to dothat.
It's not going to happenovernight.
So the spending will increase,the money supply will increase

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and therefore, ergo, you losepurchasing power in the dollar.
Trump even likes a weakerdollar.
He said that.
But there's other things on thehorizon you need to watch and
we're going to get into that.
A lot of it's the some of theeconomic fallout.
Let's go to uh first.

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I'm going to check the chatreally quick.
I haven't.
I don't do that enough, likepeople always ask me.
Did you see the comment?
No, I'm sorry, there's a harpsover on uh rumble good to see
you harps.
And then we've got on rockfin.
Got a pretty good amount ofchat over on rockfin.

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It's good to see everybody.
Ronda tate, uh.
Ghost bow says you need tomarket uh a beans meme coin,
maybe.
So Maybe I do need to market abeans meme coin.
The problem is I wouldn't beable to live with myself because
there's no inherent real valueto the meme coin.

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It would just be a thing.
What does it do?
You could say that aboutBitcoin, but it's a
decentralized network propped upby infrastructure all over the
world that is promoting energy.
It's finite.
It can't be controlled.
I mean, there's all sorts ofarguments you can make for
Bitcoin that you can't make fora meme coin.

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Dustin Helm says howdy Tony,and Mark Young Hi Tony.
Good to see you guys, good tosee everybody.
I appreciate you being here.
All right, let's uh, let's jumpinto some more articles.
This was, uh, on my kind of a,a segue, and I want to talk a

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little bit of foreign policy toobefore I get out of here, but
this is just a segue intosomething on Bitcoin.
This was up on Natural News.
Bitcoin goes global nations eye.
Strategic reserves as Trumppushes crypto revolution.

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The 2025 world economic forumin davos has become the
epicenter of a global financialrevolution, with finance
ministers seriously consideringbitcoin as a strategic reserve
asset.
The trump administration'ssupport of bitcoin, including
the proposal of a us strategicbitcoin reserve, has
significantly influenced this,moving from skepticism to

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advocacy.
Yeah, you folks, if you haven'tbeen in this space, like I mean
, if you don't realize how hugethis is and what a turn this is.
It almost is such a turn thatit makes me.
It gives me a lot of pause,like I'm certainly like
listening to Jamie Demon.

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You know Jamie Diamond ofJPMorgan Chase.
He's all for the tariffs nowand we'll get.
We'll talk about that.
That's crazy.
You realize what a shift thatis.
That is absolute insanity onthis timeline.
That means there's somethingelse going on.

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The us and switzerland's moveshave sparked a global trend,
with countries like germany,hong kong, russia, brazil and
poland exploring bitcoin as astrategic asset driven by the
fear of missing out asset drivenby the fear of missing out.
Bitcoin's adoption represents abroader cultural and

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geopolitical shift, symbolizingfinancial independence and
challenging traditional systems,particularly for authoritarian
regimes.
The push for Bitcoin reservescould trigger a global crypto
arms race, with nationscompeting to secure a strategic
advantage, highlighting theincreasing influence of
cryptocurrencies in the globaleconomic order.
Well, this last point this isthe most precarious, Because,

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while I agree with the term gametheory with Bitcoin maximalists
, with the term game theory withBitcoin maximalists, and
there's a reason why Larry Finkof BlackRock is calling and
saying there's going to be$700,000 Bitcoin that means that
Bitcoin is eclipsing the marketcap of gold, and Larry Fink's

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not a fan.
So if you look at this, soberly, take out your biases.
There's something strange goingon and it could be good, because
if you have an old system,bitcoin shows up on the scene in
2009 or so, but if you have anold system that is based off

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debt and right now the world isbankrupt on paper, if you look
at the amount of debt worldwideversus the amount of so-called
assets, I mean that is based offdebt and right now the world is
bankrupt on paper.
If you look at the amount ofdebt worldwide versus the amount
of so-called assets, I mean alot of those assets aren't
assets.
You're talking about a $400trillion worldwide.
Whatever that is, however youwant to label that, gold only
has a $16.7 trillion market capand silver is 1.4.
Bitcoin is about 1.5 orwhatever.

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It is now 1.6.
I don't know, but it'ssomewhere in that realm.
I think it's just a little oversilver.
There's something to this.
Where the governments be ableto put that on their balance
sheet, they could reset theircurrencies, but Bitcoin doesn't
offer them the ability toextract unlimited resources from

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whatever they're doing, so it'salmost like they want to ride
the crash down.
I'm skeptical of all of thisstuff, but there's possible
silver linings, if you will.
There's possible positiveoutcomes from all of it.
Just be aware.
There's possible positiveoutcomes from all of it.
Just be aware.
In a stunning turn of events,the 2025 world economic forum in

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davo, switzerland, has becomethe epicenter of a global
financial revolution.
Finance ministers from aroundthe world are now seriously
considering the adoption ofbitcoin as a strategic reserve
asset, a move once dismissed asa fringe idea.
You know, I just have to say, inthe time that I've been in

(33:16):
public life and done, I startedout with all fringe ideas and
now they're pretty mucheverywhere.
Like it's not even like I toldyou at the beginning of the show
, I said welcome to tomorrow.
I took that from.
That was my old opening line towhen I restarted my radio show.
This is the when I did thisArterburn radio transmission

(33:38):
because I was so outside of thebox and I said this is going to
be, we're in the tomorrow land.
And I said this is going to be,we're in the tomorrow land.
You know that started to departknown, uh, acceptable
narratives, that comfortingthing.
You know you have to stepoutside of it because you're no
longer in it.
If the longer you stay, theworse off you'll be, because

(33:59):
you're playing and you'reoperating off of uh fallacies
and I wanted to do somethingdifferent with my show, so I'd
talk about future events likeI'd be talking about the Great
Reset in the last quarter of2019.
And it was just this.

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Not many of us back then.
I talked about the FederalReserve creating $6 trillion out
of thin air to prop up the repomarkets.
There was a lot of things.
I was talking about.
The largest exodus of CEOs inhistory.
I noticed things going into2020.
This is the great reset decade,folks, and it was a fringe idea

(34:44):
.
It was a fringe idea.
Coinbase ceo brian armstrong, akey figure in the crypto
industry, revealed the growingmomentum during a panel
discussion at davos.
The energy was palpable throughthe room.

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Armstrong be it certainly is anew age.
The question is and the dangerhere is that will it be co-opted
?
Will there be a hijackingfurther of this revolution?
This is a, I believe, aspiritual revolution, because at

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the heart of fiat currency ispure evil.
It's about control,decentralization and human
innovation doing what God wantsyou to do.
You're created in the image ofGod.
You're supposed to be a creator.
That's what God does.
He makes things, creates things, life right.

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The opposite of that isstifling human innovation,
controlling peoplenon-organically, like a
totalitarian socialist state.
Right, that's anti-god.
That's why the first thing todo when you have a communist
revolution is they ban religion.
They ban, uh, they take god outof it.
The state is god.

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Reminds me of that joke thatronald reagan told about the the
commissar showing up to thepotato farm.
And uh, commissar, isinspecting the potato farmer and
says you know, I want to seehow, how the crops is.
Oh, great, commissar, we'vedone fantastic.

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And just keeps asking him youknow, have you met the protocols
?
Have you?
Have you exceeded expectationsfor the state?
Yes.
And finally he says can yougive me a number like what, how
much, how many potatoes, whatare you going to yield this year
?
And he says well, if we couldstack the potatoes as high as we
could, the crop would reachheaven, it would reach God.

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And the commissar says this isthe Soviet Union.
There is no God.
And he said that's great,because there's no potatoes
either.
It's all living in illusion.
The Trump administration'sembrace of Bitcoin as a
strategic asset has sentshockwaves through the global

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financial system.
Once a skeptic, trump hasbecome a vocal advocate for
Bitcoin, proposing the creationof a US strategic Bitcoin
reserve, an SBR, to hedgeagainst inflation and a
weakening dollar.
This bold initiative hassparked intense debate in
Congress, with supporters likeSenator Cynthia Loomis arguing

(37:46):
that Bitcoin's finite supplymakes it an ideal addition to
national reserves.
Switzerland is also lookinginto a strategic Bitcoin reserve
.
As one country adopts Bitcointhis is the game theory others

(38:09):
are feeling the pressure tofollow suit.
The fear of missing out is notjust a phenomenon for retail
investors.
It's now a powerful force amonggovernments.
Countries that fail to act riskbeing sidelined in a rapid,
rapidly transforming globalfinancial system.
Germany, hong kong r, russia,brazil and Poland are among the
nations exploring Bitcoin as astrategic asset.

(38:35):
This is what I've been saying,and I think that the problems
that Bitcoin solves, along withand, by the way, along with and,
by the way, there's aninteresting asterisk to put on
this, because, if you see, thesegovernments might even start to
advocate that you have some, orthat people get into the market

(38:58):
.
They in and of themselves, it'san endorsement of Bitcoin.
The issue I have with all of itand this is why I do what I do
is you don't hear them say thatabout gold.
They buy it in massivequantities.
The central bank Not us, notthe US and not Canada, but other

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countries that want to get awayfrom the dollar.
They buy it in record space.
Well, the open question is whydon't they advocate people
owning gold?
They certainly look likethey're advocating a Bitcoin
race.

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It may be one of many things,but I do know that in a global
economy where I said earlier, ifyou're bankrupt on paper and
there has to be and they've runthe simulations, that's why they
call it a great reset, and thisis where my wheelhouse this is
what I think about they knowthat they have to get out of the

(40:02):
system that they built, have toget out of the system that they
built.
They want to leave, I think,the average person holding the
bag and they'll blame it onoutside forces or boogeymen or
speculators, like Nixon did in71, that the speculators were
screwing with our gold reservesor making a run on the dollar.
So it's unpegged closing thegold window.

(40:24):
That was just a way to get usfrom having to stop converting
dollars into gold, because wedidn't have it, because we'd
inflated the money supply sobadly during the Cold War,
vietnam, the space race andother things.
We didn't have it.
Other countries called ourbluff.
We took the silver out of ourcoinage starting in 65.
That's called debasement.
So watch this really closely.

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The world is witnessing afundamental shift in the global
economic order.
The rise of cryptocurrencies,coupled with the growing
influence of emerging economieslike the BRICS nations, is
challenging the dominance of theUS dollar and reshaping the
geopolitical landscape.
Trump's proposal for a Bitcoinreserve could trigger a global

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crypto arms race, with nationsrushing to bolster their
reserves and secure a strategicadvantage for governments
hesitating to embrace Bitcoin.
The message is clear Adapt orrisk being left behind in a
world where Bitcoin sets therules.
Well, interesting piece Again.

(41:37):
That was by Will Ohtahi over onNatural News.
Make sure I gave attribution.
That's where we are, folks.
Um, in this decade you will seea supplanting, a total
supplanting of the financialsystem that you grew up with,

(41:59):
and it's not because I wish it,it's because it's accelerated.
It's there like right now.
Gold already is the world'sreserve currency.
That's what nations are using.
That's what they're basingtheir futures off of.
It's not dollars, it used to bedollars and it has to do with
money velocity and thecurrencies that are held by

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central banks.
In 2021, the Bank ofInternational Settlements made
gold a tier one asset from atier three asset, and tier one
is currency.
So after that, gold supplantedthe euro.
That was used to be number two.
To be like gold, it'd be likethe dollar, the euro, the yen.

(42:43):
So when they made gold a tierone asset instead of a tier
three asset, it bumped up tonumber two.
So it's right behind the dollarin reserve assets held.
And the reason that the theystill hold the dollar is not for
stability.
It's because a lot of thingsare denominated in dollars.
That's the petrodollar folks.
But we didn't renew thatagreement.

(43:09):
So when you're talking aboutlike tariffs and other things
that really aren't for what, Ilike tariffs because it's
supposed to be economicnationalism, like bringing jobs
back.
You're supposed to have a.
It's a strategic advantage foryou to protect industries is why
they call it protectionism.
I like that in theory, and thereason I like that is because

(43:33):
Karl Marx loved free trade.
He told you why he wanted itBecause it hastened the
revolution.
The more that you have freetrade, the lower the wages go,
the more that the proletariatwould join the revolution.
He even said tariffs wereconservative and that free trade
hastens the revolution.

(43:53):
That's why I said that's KarlMarx, because he believed in the
revolution.
It was basically to get peopleassigned to the state instead of
making a living wage, becausein a living wage country you can
support a family.
That's western civilization,that's the nuclear family,
that's values and you don'tworship the state.

(44:13):
But in a communist utopia, thestate is god, so you have to
kill it with creativedestruction.
That's why I've always beenagainst things that sometimes I
mean, even as a free market guy.
I like free markets and I like,don't like, regulations.
Uh, because I think ingenuityand the human spirit builds

(44:35):
things.
That's what I talked aboutearlier.
That's why we're created in theimage of god.
However, when I see jamie demonstart saying that tariffs work
uh, let's see if we can pullthis article up yeah, this gives
me pause, and it's not justbecause I'm a contrarian folks.

(44:58):
I have an issue with this.
Like, what is he even saying?
Because this is foreboding.
You're not supposed to advocatethis.
He says get over it.
Diamond backs Trump tariffs asgood for national security.
Jamie Diamond of JPMorgan Chasein Davos yesterday stated that

(45:19):
US tariffs are an economic toolor an economic weapon, and I
would put it in perspective ifit's a little inflationary, but
it's good for national security,so be it.
I mean, get over it.
Our grand macro strategy reporton economic statecraft,

(45:39):
published after President Trumpwon re-election, stressed that
political realists, not economicidealists, tariffs are always
about national security, raisingnational savings and key
related investments and foreignpolicy goals, and both Trump's
and US history said we would beseeing a lot more of them.

(45:59):
As Bloomberg puts it, thecurrent state of play is that
Trump could potentiallyintroduce sweeping changes to US
and global trade policy, givinghim a quote loaded weapon of
tariffs for national securitygoals and new capital
investments in the US or foreignpolicy goals.

(46:31):
Indeed, following the threat ofa 1 February imposition of 25%
tariffs on Mexico and Canada andan additional 10% on China, all
for national security reasons,president Trump has stated, if
Russian President Putin doesn'taccept a peace deal to end the
Ukraine war, the US will imposetough sanctions, taxes and
tariffs on Russia's energysector, which, by implication,
might even extend to thosebuying from Russia or working

(46:54):
within it.
Well, this is a lot differentthan what I was talking about.
This is not economicnationalism.
This is weaponization of thedollar by other means.
Doesn't mean that it can't work.
The issue that you take awayfrom this, though, is this is

(47:15):
not what economic nationalism isbased on Peace, commerce and
honest friendship.
You know, thomas Jefferson,those things were, you know, in
Washington's farewell addressthat we used to read in Congress
up until the 1930s noentangling alliances.
Yes.

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As the Economic StatecraftReport also stressed, in
realpolitik, politic, thingsaren't static.
If President Trump escalates toeconomic warfare to force
President Putin to end physicalwarfare, russia and China if
it's third party neutral tradingnights, also detailed in the
report and are penalized, canrespond with their own economic

(48:01):
state craft or two other twolegs of grand strategy alongside
of it, political and militarystate craft to up the ante,
that's, as the Financial Timessays, china is shipping sodium
pertrot to Iran to fuelballistic missiles, which we'll
see some in the US go ballistic,and a report claims two

(48:23):
undersea cables connectingTaiwan to its outlying island of
Matsu were mysteriously cutyesterday.
Lots of language going on here,folks.
Bloomberg reports that, one byone, world leaders in Davos fall
in line with Trump.

(48:44):
I think I can think of a fewwho don't want to Right.
This is President Zelensky says.
Even if Ukraine peace deal issigned, it would require 200,000
US troops in the country toprove sustainable.
This is all on the heels ofTrump's inauguration and being
in Davos.
Well, and I want to cut to thattoo there's a lot to pay

(49:13):
attention to like this we're.
I can't even believe this.
They're working.
The era of tariffs.
I remember this is not thatlong ago.
I was looked at as just likesome kind of strange mutant
talking about economicnationalism.
This is a lot different.
It's part of our history tohave tariffs, but this is

(49:36):
something completely.
This is a departure, and we arein the.
There's a lot of things goingon.
Things going.
I read something earlier thateven the Gulf of America is
starting to show up in officialdocuments.
A lot of things happening veryquickly.
There's decades where nothinghappens and weeks where decades

(50:01):
happen, to quote Vladimir Lenin.
Well, here's another Vladimir,and let's talk about this.
Let me stop the screen.
Put this up as we end withantiwarcom.
Zelensky says US troops must bedeployed to Ukraine for a peace

(50:21):
deal.
So the t-shirt man is giving ussome a breakdown and, what's
funny, that's the same number oftroops that lindsey graham
wanted to go to syria.
The unfortunate thing about meremembering so much is that I do
remember this, like it juststicks in my mind lindsey graham

(50:41):
calling for 200 000 us troops,200,000 US troops, to be in
Ukraine or to be in Syria.
And then I'm you know thiswhole this overlaps into this
new memory that I'm creating.
This fold in my mind whereZelensky, the t-shirt man he

(51:02):
said he wants US troops must beincluded in a Western
peacekeeping force that he wantsdeployed to Ukraine as part of
a potential peace deal withRussia.
Speaking at the World EconomicForum in Davos, switzerland,
zelensky called for 200,000European troops to be sent to
Ukraine to uphold a peace deal,an idea that's a non-starter for

(51:24):
talks with Moscow.
That's a non-starter for talkswith Moscow.
We need contingents with a verystrong number of soldiers.
Zelensky said Well, this is thewhole point.
Okay, we just forget about thisbecause people don't know
history, especially thecommentators and the people that
read teleprompters.
They don't really understandthat the reason that we have

(51:46):
this war in the first place isbecause we expanded NATO.
Understand the North American.
North Atlantic excuse me, theNorth Atlantic Treaty
Organization.
Nato was a an alliance to carryout George Kennan's long
telegram idea that was fusedwith the Truman Doctrine about,

(52:09):
idea that was fused with theTruman Doctrine about communist
containment.
It was about the alliance inEurope and it was on the heels
of the Marshall Plan.
I know I just said a bunch ofthings that the news outlets
don't understand what I said,but this is where, zelensky, the
whole point of why you have thewar in the first place is
because you had NATO expansionand you had those in Ukraine,

(52:30):
and others in the United Statesin the neocon faction were
calling for Ukraine to be addedto NATO, which means that if you
know the way that NATO works isany NATO country that's
attacked is supposed to be bytreaty.
All other NATO countries thatare in it would respond to that

(52:51):
attack and come to their aid.
That's why it'd be like Chinasetting up another Warsaw Pact
and then including Mexico.
So if we have any kind ofborder dispute with Mexico and
we have any sort of trade, thatwe're automatically dealing with
China.
That's the whole point.
So for him to bring this upthis is very Think of how many

(53:20):
people died because of thisarrogant evil man.
And it's just like Sun Tzu saidan evil man will stand on the
ashes of his country, will reignover it, reign over the ashes.
We, we need contingents with avery strong number of soldiers.
Zielinski said from all theeuropeans, 200 000.

(53:42):
It's a minimum, otherwise it'snothing.
Well, he's you.
He said us troops need to beinvolved involved or the
Europeans wouldn't want to beinvolved.
Well, the United States alwayswould carry that burden.
Well, again, this is a dead end.
It's going to have to be solveda different way.
One of the ways would be forZelensky not to be involved at

(54:05):
all.
That would be a good start.
Somebody who hasn't won I mean,how could you not want a peace
deal?
Do something.
You're not going to win thatwar and if you have some
semblance of strategicallywinning it, it's going to mean
you're.
And this is what his one of hisadvisors that was interviewed
back in 2018, 2019 says we'regoing to get into NATO, but

(54:27):
there's going to be a major warand a big portion of the country
will be lost, but at the end,we'll be in NATO.
You've got to understand howthese people think.
Folks, it's not about the goodof the people and it's certainly
not patriotism.
This is corruption of thehighest level.

(54:48):
It is absolutely criminal andsick, and that's what I see
every time I see something likethis, I mean just calling for
that means we have ademilitarized zone forever,
instead of something that wouldactually solve the problem.
All right, let's see the lastlittle bit of the transmission.

(55:10):
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(56:19):
All right, let's take a look atgold prices.
At gold prices Right now, goldat 2,758 Luciferian Bankster
notes per troy ounce, 2,758Federal Reserve notes, fiat

(56:40):
currency notes per troy ounce.
It's within striking distanceof another all-time high.
I think that's only just thebeginning, folks.
We've got a lot to watch on themetals markets.
Right now, silver at $30.50 anounce.
Pay attention to that.
I think those numbers willstart adjusting soon.

(57:03):
Again, non-investment advice.
I just think the gold-silverratio will start to become
historically more in line whereit's been in previous centuries,
decades, not where we are now.
That's a number that I think isartificial, based on supply.

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