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It's exactly one year ago.
I was on a tinfoil hat.
I was out in Hollywood.
That's when we announced we'regoing to have the Wise Wolf,
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and I remember I pointed at theprice of gold.
I was watching the ticker thiswas live and I said, hey, check
this out, look at the price ofgold.
I was watching the ticker youknow this was live and I said,
hey, check this out.
You know, look at the price ofgold and it was $2,200 an ounce
or some change.
You know between $2,200 and$2,300 an ounce.
And I said what you're watchingis not the price of gold going
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up.
What you're watching is thepurchasing power of the dollar
diminishing.
What you're watching is areal-time inversion.
It's the opposite of what youthink, I go.
Stocks are going up,something's going up in value.
Well, that's not really what'shappening.
What you're watching is ademise of a currency.
Now we're going to get into alittle bit of that.
There's some metrics on thisthat are absolutely astonishing
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and things that I didn't thinkof, and certainly there's an
accelerated acceleration, uh,ration going on.
That's it's.
Uh, what is that?
Our buck, mr fuller called itaccelerating acceleration, where
it's happening, everything thatyou think is like on track, but
then it just takes off, andthat's where we're.
What's we're watching the?
The headlines on drudge are, ofcourse, with the liberation day
.
We're watching the headlines onDrudge are, of course, with the
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Liberation Day.
We're going to get into thattoo with the tariffs.
And then, you know, I talk aboutmy experience in politics and
years ago gosh, it was 20 yearsago, folks I started, or more,
and I started studying economicnationalism and it just made
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absolute sense to me.
I got it, like at a core level.
I just got it.
I was like so that's what builtthe country.
You know, if you look at ourhistory, the second act out of
Congress was the Tariff Act.
That was the second from 1789.
The second thing we passed outof Congress was the Tariff Act
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and Alexander Hamilton.
You know he had read Adam Smith.
He'd read the Wealth of Nations.
That came out in 1776, by theway, same year as Edward
Gibbon's decline and fall of theRoman Empire, ironically.
But he read Adam Smith and ittalked about the invisible hand
in free markets and free tradeand he signed off on 95 percent
of that and then kept thetariffs because that's what.
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That's what how nations operateand we're watching now.
This is a very mixed bag.
So I want to talk a little bitabout the history of how we got
here, because this I don't thinkwhat we're watching is not
actually what I've been talkingabout.
This is like a funhouse mirrorversion of that and it's
something I think.
There's some creativedestruction going on.
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There's a controlled demolitiongoing on.
This is language that is notnecessarily economic, my opinion
.
But you go back to the history.
We're a nation built on tariffs.
When did everybody get soqueasy on tariffs?
Well, when you abandon soundmoney, when you abandon what we
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had, which was a dollar as goodas gold, you abandon that and
you abandon what made thecountry and you turn it into a
fiat circus and you know again,a funhouse mirror version of
itself.
You invert the entire system.
Well then, economic nationalismlooks really scary.
That's how we built the country.
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All four presidents on MountRushmore supported tariffs.
Every historical figure on ourpaper currency, from George
Washington to Ben Franklin,supported tariffs.
Wes Grant supported tariffs.
Andrew Jackson supportedtariffs.
Matter of fact, andrew Jacksonran as a populist and a
southerner.
And you talk about the historyof tariffs in the country.
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They had something called theTariff of Abominations.
This was 1828 in the UnitedStates.
The North was industrializing.
Even then, I think, the Northhad, you know, they had less
slavery right and especiallypost-1820s, they started
importing immigrants.
That was their labor, you know.
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And then they had the Irish andthe Polish and every other rest
and they imported them and theyput them to work in the
factories and they wanted hightariffs to protect that industry
.
The South was agrarian and theywanted low tariffs, so this
caused this was an opening salvoto the Civil War.
This was the difference betweenthe free trade South and the
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pro-tariff North.
And again, even Andrew Jackson,though, who was a Southerner,
kept him.
He kept the tariffs because hewanted the revenue.
Thomas Jefferson talked aboutthat.
Thomas Jefferson used thetariff instead of taxing imports
.
He's like no man knows the taxman, and he was proud of that.
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The third president of theUnited States Didn't want any
internal taxes, except for alittle consumption tax, but most
of the government was funded bytariffs, and that's how we
built the nation.
But most of the government wasfunded by tariffs.
That's how we built the nation.
But at the end of the 19thcentury, going into the 20th
century, the banksters werehungry.
They had a plan to retake andhijack the monetary system, and
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one of the ways you do that isyou got to get control of the
money supply.
So in 1913, you had the fourhorsemen of the political
apocalypse, as I called themwhen I ran for office.
You had the 17th Amendment,which is the direct election of
senators.
All right, and the legislatureused to pick the senators, which
was a very good thing, kept alot of checks and balances and
it made the legislature a lotmore powerful and it's more
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close to the closer to thepeople.
But when you go to the directelection senators, you have all
this.
You know bankster money thatflows in.
The big companies get involved,the power brokers get involved.
They pick your senators right.
So that's the 17th Amendment.
Then you get the 16th Amendment, which is the income tax and
the Federal Reserve.
Of course, 1913, but alsosomething I talked about and
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just now is getting brought upin the popular discourse which
was 1913 was the year that wefirst got free trade policies in
this country.
Because those all go togetherAn income tax, the Federal
Reserve and free trade all goestogether.
You want to know why?
Because they're principles andtenets of the Communist
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Manifesto.
Bet you didn't know that.
Do you know who one of thegreatest proponents of free
trade was?
And when I'm talking about freetrade I'm not talking about you
know, if I'm in Texas andyou're in Louisiana, and I want
to send you something acrossstate lines.
We shouldn't pay it.
I'm not talking about that, andI'm not even talking about
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equitable deals between nations.
I'm talking about the idea thatthere's no boundaries and
everything crosses over andthere's.
It incentivizes multinationalsto take their companies, to take
their factories, to take theirwealth and just supplant it in a
Darwinian contest of survivalof the fittest.
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It doesn't keep a strategiceconomic incentive in play when
you just destroy thoseboundaries in play, when you
just destroy those boundaries.
And yeah, it looks good onpaper and in a libertarian fever
dream.
I'm a libertarian in many ways,but it doesn't work in reality.
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But one of the main proponentsin the 19th century for free
trade policy was Karl Marx.
He wanted it.
He said that the I'm doing thisby memory.
I could never I was.
I remember first getting intoradio and talking about this and
people were like, well, that'snot, that can't be real.
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Yeah, marx supported free trade.
He said the the protectivesystem meaning tariffs was
conservative and that freetrades system meaning tariffs
was conservative.
And that the free trade systemhastened the revolution because
it brought up all the antagonismbetween the ruling class and
the working class, which is whatthey wanted.
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It's creative destruction.
So we had this great systemthat was thrown away, and I'm
going to get to the point of whythis is weird.
What we're watching is like Ieven mentioned on David Night
Show today.
I said now, I've alwaysadvocated for this, except
there's something that's missingwhich we're going to get to.
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There's something that you gotto also have when you have
tariffs, which is again thewhole point of it.
But that's how we built thecountry.
We didn't have.
You know these, like the incometax, the income tax is not part
of our American experiment.
The founding fathers would havenever.
I mean, that was something.
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That's a way that you stiflegrowth.
That's the way you use.
You know the ruling class usesit for control, which is why we
have it now.
You don't build economies withan income tax.
You don't do that.
That's how we built.
We became the manufacturingmarvel of mankind.
It was very rich.
That's why the system had to behijacked and they took it over.
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1913, the four horsemen of thepolitical apocalypse were
unleashed on America and we'reseeing this is things take time
and this is an endgame to that.
So, complete control of themoney supply.
Overall, I mean, we started tosee the decline in our
manufacturing base post-WorldWar II.
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One of the things that happenedwas, you know, europe was in
ashes.
We dropped two atomic weaponson Japan and we opened up our
markets to both you know, europeand Japan and we dropped our
tariffs and we did all—we had 5%of the world's population,
which we still just about havethe same.
We had 50% of its wealth at thetime.
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There's a reason for that.
And the rest of the world, youknow, with these, you know,
tariffs, they're just using ourold playbook.
Every nation does.
They all preach that we'regoing to have, you know, free
trade and no barriers, butnobody really practices except
us.
We lowered all these barriers,starting post-World War II and
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then really accelerating afterwe opened China in 1972 and the
birth of the TrilateralCommission in 1973.
1974 was the last year thatthis country ever ran a trade
surplus.
Folks, I've followed this for along time and I never thought
I'd see headlines like this.
I never thought we'd be lookingat tariffs across the board and
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something called Liberation Day, and I'm going to get to this
article and then we're going totalk about what this means,
because, again, I've been anadvocate for this.
But there's something missing.
Let's go to this article.
This was Zero Hedge, and I'mstarting at trillions lost, by
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the way, in the markets.
401ks other things crashing.
What did the Rothschilds say?
You wait until you buy whenthere's blood in the streets.
There's certainly blood in thestreets Zero hedge.
This is yesterday, but they'veupdated it since Futures tumble
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as President Trump deliversDeclaration of Economic
Independence.
Trump began his addressexclaiming that this is
Liberation Day.
April 2nd 2025 will forever beremembered as the day American
industry was reborn, the dayAmerica's destiny was reclaimed
and the day we began to makeAmerica wealthy again, trump
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said.
For decades, our country hasbeen looted, pillaged, raped and
plundered by nations near andfar, both friend and foe alike.
American steelworkers, autoworkers, farmers and skilled
craftsmen we have a lot of themhere with us today.
They really suffer gravely.
In a few moments, I will sign ahistoric executive order
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reciprocal tariffs on countriesthroughout the world.
Reciprocal, that means they doit to us and we do it to them.
Very simple, can't get anysimpler than that.
Trump lays out his theoriesthat tariffs will bring back a
golden age for the US, a phrasehe also used in his inaugural
address.
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Okay, well, that's true, he wason the Joe Rogan show.
He mentioned William McKinleyand he mentioned tariffs and we
didn't have an income tax.
The Supreme Court had ruled, Ibelieve in the 1890s I think it
was 1898, that the income taxwas un operating system.
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The policy of the US wastariffs and no income tax, and
then I talked about 1913.
So that's what's missing here.
There's another thing we had atthe time of tariffs that was
called a gold standard.
We had sound money, for good orfor ill.
I mean, a lot of people wantedfree silver.
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There was William JenningsBryan.
That's where you get theallegory in the Wizard of Oz the
Cowardly Lion, the Yellow BrickRoad, all that Dorothy's silver
slippers, not her ruby slippersin the L Frank Baum book.
I've covered that onParatruther.
There was a huge populistuprising at the time.
They wanted to weaken thecurrency a bit by flooding it
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with silver dollars.
But we still had a bimetallicsystem.
You still had sound money.
So you had sound money and noincome tax.
Now what's wrong with this?
Well, we're doing this, whichis going to be.
It's already starting to showas a massive economic tsunami of
uncertainty.
Finally, trump announces histariff plan details.
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As a declaration of economicindependence.
Trump announced a baselinetariff, a rate of 10% for all
countries below the 15%consensus and 20% worst-case
scenario.
Beginning April 5th.
Trump confirmed the 25% tariffon all auto imports, but
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specific reciprocal tariffs forbad actors starting on April 9th
.
Tariffs for bad actors startingon April 9th, and he noted
they're not full reciprocaltariffs and some of them are
just half like China's tariffs,and this could be across the
board.
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But 67% were at 34%, europeanUnion 39%, we're at 20%, Vietnam
90% and this could be.
It's a mixed bag betweenagricultural things like Canada.
Canada has like a 230-some-oddpercent tariff on dairy, but
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what's missing here?
Well, what's missing here?
What's missing is the economicconditions have to be laid for
these countries and othercompanies and multinationals and
those who have capital to buildhere.
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You have to take away withoutabolishing the income tax,
halting it, suspending it.
You could suspend the corporateincome tax right now and just
say, for all companies, if youwant to move here and build here
, here's your chance.
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But we didn't do that, Nothingchanged.
Here's your chance, but wedidn't do that, nothing changed.
So, if you're looking at thisas an economic, a strategy, if
you're looking at somethingthat's going to boost the
economy?
Where's the?
It's just stick and no carrot.
So it begs a larger questionwhat is actually going on here?
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Well, if you look at some of themetrics, I want to read some
headlines on the X account ofGold Telegraph.
There's something else going onhere.
This is of march 31st.
Gold closes at a record high interms of us dollars.
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But let's continue to dig intothis.
The dollar share of totalallocated exchange reserves fell
to 57.8 at the end of 2024, thelowest level since 1994.
Us bank stocks are headed fortheir worst quarterly decline
since the regional bankingcollapse two years ago.
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And then this is what I wantedto talk about.
I wanted to talk about In thepast one year, the US dollar has
lost nearly 40% of itspurchasing power measured in
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gold.
40% gone.
It says the thesis of gold wasearly but not wrong.
I think what you're watching islanguage, kind of like the
language that we had withKhrushchev during the Cuban
Missile Crisis.
The blockade was language.
There's a famous scene with theactor that plays McNamara, the
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Secretary of Defense, robertMcNamara, and they're putting up
the blockade, you know, andhe's talking to one of the
admirals there.
He says what you're watching.
He gets mad at him.
He's like this isn't just anormal blockade, this is
language Talking about in anuclear world, you know, a
nuclear-armed Soviet empireversus the American empire 1962.
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That was language that was on abig chessboard Our ships
stopping Soviet ships and therest like who will do what?
That's what this is, but juston a larger scale economically,
and this is across the board,all countries right.
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This has never happened before.
While I applaud economicnationalism in every way, I
think the issue here is I don'tthink that's what you're
watching.
I'd like to go on record forthat.
I don't think this is a toolfor leverage.
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If you look at the metrics ofwhat's happened to the dollar in
2001, 75% of all financialtransactions went on in dollars.
After the invasion of Ukraineby Russia and all the sanctions
passed, plus what had beentrending since that.
You been trending before thattime, since 2001.
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So 2001, 75%, 2022, 54%.
It's in the low 40s.
Right now, the world isabandoning the dollar At the
same time that we're puttingtrade partners in countries like
Canada, mexico.
We had NAFTA.
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The elites loved that.
Ross Perot called it a giantsucking sound because it sucked
the jobs and technology andwealth out of the country.
Why do you think there's a RustBelt?
Why do you think we have anopioid crisis?
In the Midwest and other places, people lost hope.
They can't support theirfamilies anymore.
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The rich, the multinationals,their profits are at record
highs.
Pat Buchanan called it theGreat Betrayal, wrote a book
about it.
I ran for Congress on it, by theway.
I never thought I'd see thisday.
I was an outlier.
The Dallas Morning News laughedat me.
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I was sitting next to JohnRatcliffe, now the head of the
CIA, in the meetings where theywere wanting to know our
politics and judging thecandidates, and I talked about
this.
They thought it was silly.
It's not even on.
Neither party was going to doanything remotely adjacent to
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tariffs, because they bothagreed that free trade works.
It siphons off jobs, itenriches multinationals and
that's who funds them.
So what is this?
And at the same time, again,the carrot is not there, just
the stick.
You could do away with theincome tax.
Tomorrow they should.
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There is no more fiscalbalancing of budgets.
We go a trillion dollars indebt every 99 days.
They print it.
It's out of thin air.
So why even have taxes?
It's not revenue neutral.
When I said that, by the way,when I was advocating economic
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nationalism, the debt of the USwas about $12 trillion.
It's not that long ago, folks,it's 12 years ago or 11 years
ago.
Think about the acceleratingrate of that.
So that's what we're watching.
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We're watching something else.
This is language, if you lookat.
I'm going to get into some otherstories too.
Today on foreign policy,antiwarcom, lots happening and
it's not exactly what you thinkit is.
On the headlines I mean Drudgecan do its Operation Mockingbird
all day long.
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They have some funny ones.
Terrifying, that's goodTerrifying.
Trade war begins.
Dow is down 1,200 points, usaemerging as biggest loser.
Republican rebels to stop Trumpright.
Neither party is for this,neither party, you can say the
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Republicans are.
They don't even know whatthey're talking about.
I know this because I've workedinside the machinery of
politics.
It is agreed upon by bothparties that free trade is the
way to go.
Nafta, GATT, the GeneralAgreement on Trade and Tariffs,
all of that.
It's the greatest transfer ofwealth in human history.
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So they agreed on it.
Nafta you know the people thatfought against NAFTA were so
underfunded it was.
You know it was like athrowback.
You had all the lobbyists.
When you go back and I knowthis history backwards and
forwards.
I know who voted for NAFTA.
If you go look at the historythey had like just working-class
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people trying to lobby Congressand then you know all the big
companies were there pushing theNorth American Free Trade
Agreement you realize the damagethat's been done is criminal.
That's all true.
But this is something else Iwant to get into.
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We'll get into some foreignpolicy stuff too.
I want to make sure Iacknowledge the chat as well.
I see Guard Goldsmith over on X.
It's good to see, guard.
I need to jump on the show,guard.
I've got to text you my friendLiberty Conspiracy, guard
Goldsmith.
Go check him out Monday throughFriday over on his X.
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I hope he's on Rumble.
Shoot me your Rumble channel,guard.
I'm looking over on the Rumblechannel for America, unplugged
Birdhouse Blues over there.
Harps is in the chat.
Good to see you guys.
Opossum King Trumpps is in thechat.
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Good to see you guys.
Possum King Trump should plantsome money trees.
They already have that.
They have the magic money tree.
They have the modern monetarytheory.
It's the magic money tree, asDavid Knight would say.
Birdhouse Blues says After thebillions of taxpayer money going
to israel, I was unaware ofisrael penalizing our country
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with tariffs against us.
Yeah, it is really interestingthat people didn't know this and
I I've known this for years andyears, like countries that they
preach free trade, but everystatesman knows that that's not
how reality works.
It'd be one thing.
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The way that you would havefree trade in a utopian sense is
that everybody's on economicparity.
Basically, texas is on economicparity with Ohio, so we can
just trade.
It doesn't matter when we havea unifying currency, so that
makes total sense.
They have trade barriers there.
It stifles economic growth.
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But when you have poorercountries run by dictatorships
that have no environmentaloversight or anything like that,
these multinationals just pickup and they say I can get back
in tax-free, I'll just go buildthere and send it back Again.
It's a Darwinian contest ofsurvival of the fittest.
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That's what that's about, andthe multinationals applaud that.
Yeah, junior Barner over at thechat on Rumble says exactly Tony
, you can't have tariffs withoutproduction, which we have none.
That's my point.
There's something, this issomething else, and if we get
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caught up, I try.
That's my first lesson to allof you.
If you see major headlinesgoing on like this, the first
thing you center yourself andthen ask what else is going on,
because even for me, you'redangling this.
I totally agree with it, exceptthe fact that the other
conditions haven't been met.
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If you read like read PatBuchanan's the Suicide of a
Superpower Ironically, thesubtitle of that book I read in
2011 is right before Iofficially got into broadcasting
and politics and the rest.
The subtitle of Suicide of aSuperpower is Will America
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Survive to 2025?
And it was laying all thegroundwork, showing you how we
had this unsustainable path.
The major theme of thateconomic nationalism was having
production and wealth and otherthings that you build through a
production economy.
We're not doing that, and ifyou look at the metrics,
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buchanan laid that out and thenI don't know if the numbers
still hold, but it was basicallyif you put a 25% across the
board tariff on manufacturinggoods, it would raise about the
same amount of capital andrevenue as the corporate income
tax.
So you could do away with thecomplete corporate income tax
and make it profitable forsomebody to make something here.
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Incentivize them buildingfactories here.
Incentivize them investing inhere.
You want to know the tell here,the tell in all of this if you
wanted to make the US economyexplode with growth and have a
renaissance like you've neverseen before.
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Abolish the income tax, justabolish it.
You can still raise revenueother ways.
We could have partialconsumption, you could have a
tariff, you could have all sortsof things.
It's like when Trump wasrunning for office and he said
I'm going to make Mexico pay forthe wall, remember that.
And everybody said that'simpossible.
Well, they're going to writehim a check.
I'm like they have no choice.
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You could put a 10% tariffacross the board on
non-agricultural goods.
If it's not food or somethingcoming across the board, just
put a 10% tariff.
It'll pay for it in three years.
I did the math.
They had no choice, but theynever brought that up.
I don't know why anybody didn'thave a calculator in their
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pocket or just like just do themath, do the simple calculations
.
They never did.
I mean, tariffs can be great.
You could raise the revenue wedon't have.
There would be I've talkedabout this before there would be
economic growth like we'venever seen, but we're not
talking about that.
This is just a new tax, and itpains me to say it Because I'm
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for tariffs, but I'm for tariffsif you get rid of the other
taxes.
If not, it's just chaos for thesake of chaos.
You understand, and while it'sexciting to watch the price of
gold go up, it's exciting to seeall these commodities turning
loose and all the rest of thisand seeing the true value in
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stocks, which is marginal atbest.
What's the real?
You talk about a hundred timesearnings or whatever the hell
these stocks are based off.
I remember my dad talking to mein the nineties.
You know, at the time my dadwas doing.
You know he had 50 conveniencestores and fuel contracts and
properties, all he's like.
You know, if they valued mycompany at whatever hundred
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times earnings, it'd be a bill.
You know billions of dollars.
That's what they do on wallstreet.
Because that's why I don'tinvest in wall street.
I invest in what I can see, Ican build, I can touch, I can do
and I can create somethingmyself.
I invest in myself.
I don't have stocks.
Think about how much fake andeverything's built on.
That's why you can losetrillions.
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Where does it go when you losethe trillions that have like?
This is the headlines right nowtrillions vanished from 401ks
in minutes.
Well, what happens if you justhad some gold or silver?
What do you had physical stuff?
What if you didn't have allthat paper?
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It's on paper, folks.
It's called counterparty risk.
That's the risk.
It's a casino.
So much is being exposed as fake.
If you don't fix the monetarysystem, if you don't fix that,
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if you don't get away from theCommunist Manifesto.
Isn't that funny?
History is not what it's.
A History is a pack of liesagreed upon.
And if you really dig into theideology of the ruling class,
the oligarchs, the lizard folk,they love communism so much and
(01:08:38):
they implement it.
I mean, the World EconomicForum has nothing to do with
economics, or at least noteconomic growth.
They're like killing economies.
I mean they want to make surethat nobody like the standard
base is 15%, like lowest forincome tax.
They love income tax.
(01:08:59):
Can you imagine the pariah youwould have been at the
Constitutional Convention if youwere part of the founding of
the American Republic, if you'dbeen like well, first of all, we
need to have an internalrevenue service.
Can you imagine?
Imagine anybody that built thiscountry saying that no, that's
for the destroyers, that's forthe Council on Foreign Relations
(01:09:22):
Cocktail Party, ivy Leagueelite.
It's like Thomas Jefferson saidmerchants have no country.
It's like Thomas Jefferson saidmerchants have no country.
It's interesting to watch.
That's why we're the officialbroadcast of the apocalypse.
(01:09:42):
I'm definitely not to do.
You know how easy it would be,because of this narrative, just
to jump on the bandwagon.
I'd have you know I could 10xor 100x my views.
I definitely would 100.
I'd do crazy stuff for mybusiness.
It'd be temporary, plus I'd bewrong.
I'd rather just be right, or atleast I'd have the best.
(01:10:02):
Honest with myself, and I don'tsee this as what especially the
sycophants see it as I'm goingto call balls and strikes.
I think that a lot of this canbe good, but you have to have
the incentive for thesecompanies to move here as well,
(01:10:25):
not just the punitive actions oftariffs.
All right, I saw this articleover on Kitco and I want to jump
over here too.
I saw this article over onKitco.
This is, I think, a smart pieceand it's about a new book
(01:10:45):
that's out.
We can discuss a little bit.
It has some good points in it.
By the way, go to Arterburngoldfor all the updates.
I'm working on the websiteright now.
You can also uh, talk to davidknight.
Today I was announcing thatwe've got wise wolf bitcoin as
well.
We got, uh, those those twothings wise wolf gold.
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So lots of announcements there.
I was trying to make it just aseasy as possible to get out of
Luciferian Bankster notes folks.
All right, this is Kitco Soundmoney or collapse, lawrence
Leppard warns.
Nothing stops.
This train Sounds like me.
United States is hurtlingtowards a monetary breaking
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point and, according to soundmoney advocate and investor,
lawrence Leppard, the clock isrunning out.
Leppard laid out the corethesis of his book, the Big
Print what happened to Americaand how sound money will fix it,
offering a scathing critique offiat currency, federal reserve
policy and the politicalestablishment.
(01:12:12):
We've built a financial systemon a bedrock of sand, not sound
money.
It is collapsing, leppard toldKitco.
According to him, the inflation,debt, inequality and social
division that define Americatoday are all symptoms of a
deeper monetary disorder thatbegan decades ago.
The greatest issue of our timeis the broken monetary system
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which leads to enormous wealthinequality.
It's inherently unfair whensomeone can click a mouse key
and create money that's whatI've been saying.
The criminality money that'swhat I've been saying.
The criminality, thecriminality of that is what
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makes all this other stuffirrelevant.
It's all right, this is what Ido all day long.
I look at these headlines andtry to dig into things, and this
is my doing this for so long.
So my, my thesis, I believe, iscorrect Until you fix this,
everything else is a sideshow.
You realize what's going tohappen, right, like you lose
trillions in the 401k markets,in the S&P, in the Dow and all
(01:13:24):
this stuff, and it goes down.
Well, you have a crisis.
Margin calls happen.
Margin calls happen.
Guess what Fed has to step in?
Too big to fail, too big tojail Picking winners and losers,
creative destruction.
Ladies and gentlemen, that'swhat happens.
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And you know, when they do that, they're going to go back to
quantitative easing it's calledQE.
They're going to make new, likethey're not already doing that,
but they're going to make newcurrency units.
And when they do that, itweakens the dollar.
It creates a trade and resetsthe trade imbalance, and
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temporarily that's good, butuntil you have a sound monetary
system.
It's just going to go into lessand less purchasing power.
It's the perfect opportunity tocreate something else.
You understand?
This is not about tariffs.
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According to data from thefederal reserve bank of st louis
, the us m2 money supply grewfrom 663 billion in 1971.
Think about this is this is anamazing metric $263 billion in
1971.
Think about it, this is anamazing metric the money supply
in 1971.
Now what happened in 1971?
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Oh yeah, we went off the goldstandard.
Nixon closed the gold window onAugust 15, 1971, interrupted an
episode of Bonanza, which is,ironically, a show about people
going out west to find gold andsilver.
Am I the only one that evernoticed that Life's funny that
way?
So the M2 money supply $663billion in 1971.
(01:15:29):
By late 2024, the M2 moneysupply was $21 trillion.
Let that sink in.
That is amazing.
Now what did that do?
Did that make the dollarstronger and more resilient and
(01:15:52):
did it hold your purchasingpower?
Or did you have to go out andchase value, trying to
constantly house value in yourwork and your energy in things
like 401ks?
Oh, but the 401ks just losttrillions and the IRAs and the
stocks and, following Jim Cramer, mad money and slamming the buy
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button.
That's what happened to theAmerican dream folks.
That's where the criminality is.
If you're chasing our politicsand our duopoly of the two
parties, it's not talking aboutthis.
(01:16:40):
This represents a compoundannual growth rate of nearly
6.8%, a monetary expansion thatLeopard says is the true driver
of inflation, not corporategreed or external shocks.
No, it's not corporate greed.
Corporate greed In Wall Street.
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You know you had MichaelDouglas Great movie 1987, oliver
Stone.
Oliver Stone's father was astockbroker and he did the movie
Wall Street.
You've seen Michael Douglas'speech.
You know greed for lack of abetter word is good.
It's an interesting take onthings, very Atlas-shrugged.
(01:17:21):
You know objectivism and allthe rest, but that's not even
how they operate anymore.
Let that sink in these bigmultinationals.
You have something called ESGenvironmental, social governance
.
You have these people likeLarry Fink at BlackRock.
They're talking about modifyingbehavior through the financial
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system.
They'll lose billions.
They do it all the time.
All these conservative outletsare like you go woke, you go
broke.
I'm like actually you don't.
You lose a lot of money butyou're close ties to the fiat
central banking system.
Now hear me out.
They get funded liquidityventure capital.
(01:18:04):
Once you're tied in, if yourbehavior is correct, you'll stay
in business.
But they're not chasing profit,because profit would have
something totally different.
That's the insidious part ofcentral banking right.
It creates an environmentsocially, economically,
spiritually, scientifically.
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It's completely out of linewith the balance of reason.
It's not just about money, it'sliving like Solzhenitsyn.
You know, live not by lies.
You're living a lie with fiatcurrency and it bleeds into
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everything else we're doing.
And this I need to quoteShadowstats more of.
He quotes john williams ofshadow stats.
Leopard argued that the officialconsumer price index, the cpi,
under reports real inflation,distorting the public's
understanding of economicconditions.
Inflation is always a monetaryphenomenon, he said, echoing
milton friedman's assertion thatthe government has every
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incentive to lie about it.
Leppard believes America is inthe final phase of what he calls
a decades-long monetaryexperiment that began with the
Federal Reserve Act in 1913 andaccelerated when the US
abandoned the gold standard in1971.
He sees mounting debt as theaccelerant.
We're now at 120% debt to GDP.
(01:19:34):
Historically, once a nationcrosses the 130% threshold, a
currency crisis becomes a nearcertainty.
Well, that's it right.
Well, that's it right.
What do you do in a situationwhere you're in a looming
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currency, devaluation and crisis?
If you know this.
You don't think that the rulingclass hasn't set up
sophisticated simulations,trends tracking using AI and
other things, wargaming that out.
Three years ago or so, thePentagon ran a Bitcoin Gen Z
(01:20:22):
revolt wargame scenario of Gen Zabandoning the dollar for
Bitcoin, other things like that.
That's where you nationalsecurity is tied to the monetary
system, folks.
I mean the continuity of thecog, the continuity of
government, is tied to ourfinancial system, our monetary
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system.
They know that's how that works, which has me baffled in so
many ways.
Because are the calls comingfrom inside the house, like I
always say, are they doingcontrolled demolition on it?
Because they certainly don'tseem to be propping it up.
They're accelerating itsdecline.
Is that to replace it withsomething else?
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The consequences, according toLeppard, include either a
deflationary collapse, rampantinflation or a full-scale
monetary reset.
Right, he says we're in what Ilike to call the debt doom loop.
Interest costs drive deficitswhich require more borrowing,
(01:21:39):
which raises interest rates.
Again, it's reflexive.
He even underscores the fourthturning framework by historian
Strauss and Howe.
The question at the heart ofthe crisis is what is money, he
said.
According to the fourth turningtheory, every 80 to 100 years,
western societies undergotransformational upheavals.
Ebert argues that we're deepinto that cycle now, and what
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emerges on the other side willredefine the global monetary
order Exactly.
So go back to the headlines onDrudge.
What are we watching?
We're watching language andwe're watching communication.
(01:22:22):
It's not necessarily abouteconomics.
It's an underlying thing.
We're resetting the globalgrand chessboard.
The dollar is fighting for itslife.
The BRICS nations Brazil,russia, india, china, south
Africa and you've heard me saythis a million times.
They have 25 other nationswaiting in the wings to join.
(01:22:46):
At least Nations like SaudiArabia waiting in the wings to
join.
At least Nations like SaudiArabia, iran, iraq.
You got all these oil-richcountries.
They're not talking aboutgetting a BRICS currency.
They're talking aboutabandoning the dollar system.
They can do cross-borderpayments.
That's the all these peopletalk.
They're going to come up with anew currency.
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It's what Trump said.
Trump said if they come up witha new currency, I'll put 100%
tariffs on everything that thesecountries do.
They're not doing that.
They're making it easier forthem to trade cross borders in
real time outside of the SWIFTsystem, outside of the dollar
system.
That's what this is about.
And you know what the world'sreserve currency is it's gold.
(01:23:34):
All of this is a sideshow, andit's unfortunate Because
whatever happens here, when iteventually comes to a head and
it won't be a good thing They'llsay look what nationalism did.
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See you, america firsters, younationalists, you guys, you're
isolationists.
See what you did?
You isolated us with thesetariffs and things.
This is what the language thatwill come back.
See, we were right, the liberalnew world order was right and
(01:24:15):
you messed it all up withnationalism.
Maybe that's the plan all along.
Just dump it in the laps ofthose of us who advocated this.
Again, I'm not being acontrarian.
For the sake of it, I wish ithad other.
(01:24:37):
If we went and abolished theincome tax right now and
incentivized companies to movehere, this would absolutely work
.
The Dow would go up, the S&P500 would go up, the currency
was stabilized.
At least we can have aconversation about remonetizing
it, doing something different.
But where's that language?
I don't see that in any of thearticles.
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That's not coming out of theWhite House.
All right, last story of the dayand we'll get into some foreign
policy here.
I want to thank everybody forjoining us.
I didn't mean for it to go solong between shows.
I'm planning on being hereevery Thursday.
(01:25:20):
Moving forward, I had somestuff to take care of.
Then I got sick.
I was being murdered by gain offunction.
I'm still feeling it.
I hadn't been sick since 2016and, uh, I let myself get run
down.
I just put too much on thedocket.
I'm just traveling and tryingto, you know, take advantage of
(01:25:44):
the space and history that Iknow that we're in.
I pushed myself too hard.
Even beans was like are.
Like, what are we doing?
Let's stay home for a week andI should have, but I got sick.
I ended up fighting that back.
But I'm back, better than ever.
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Let's look at some of theheadlines over on antiwarcom
Very important to watch.
Like I said, anytime you seethe headlines over on antiwarcom
Very important to watch.
And, like I said, anytime yousee the headlines, always ask
what else is going on.
I'd like to check over onantiwar.
If you want to get a good doseof reality, that's awesome.
(01:26:27):
If you want to, no spoonful ofsugar either.
This is just straight upmainlining reality.
Uh report trump preparing tobomb iran with israel more.
Us airstrikes hit yemen'syemenis, the, the hutia.
One civilian killed usofficials.
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Don't't expect Ukraine peacedeals soon.
Ukraine energy truce inquestion after both sides claim
violations.
Israel attacks sites in Syria.
Message to Turkey.
China wraps up drills aimed atparalyzing Taiwan, paralyzing in
quotation.
(01:27:10):
Up drills aimed at paralyzingTaiwan, paralyzing in quotation.
Trump's 10% global tariffs withhigher reciprocal rates.
Yeah, important to understandthat.
You know we are watchinggeopolitically an unraveling of
the old order and an ushering inof the new, and you know there
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is always a possibility.
This is God's.
You know, everything is God'screation.
So we could, maybe we'll,escape a global cataclysm.
But you know, history tells meto pay attention to it.
It beckons me.
It says, hey, look what I didme.
(01:27:57):
It says, hey, look what I did.
It's never a utopian, wonderfulsunshine and rainbows.
Okay, human nature is humannature and we are entering the
last throes of a very disgustingperiod in history, especially
the lie that's built on a lie,which is our currency, that's
built the deep state that'sbuilt the military-industrial
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complex that has enriched thecorruption, the corrupt class
that has entrenched them.
And you think it's going to beeasy to get rid of it.
And this is global, not just inthe United States of America.
It's global.
A lot of people have thingsriding on the current order of
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things and you see Chinaemerging because we gave them
everything.
I mean, we gave the Chinese thetechnology and we gave them the
manufacturing.
We gave them the funds.
We opened it up in 72, goingoff the gold standard.
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And as far as trade, I'm allfor that.
This is something totallydifferent.
This was a plan.
You know.
You got the, the tech, not thetechnocratic vision for the
future, as maybe it's a.
Like Orwell said, it's a bootstomping on a human face forever
(01:29:26):
, but that's what they.
They want total control.
They're offshored face forever,but that's what they want total
control.
They're offshored.
And this was a plan to moveaway the power and the strength
and financial stability of theUnited States of America to a
foreign nation.
This was done by our elite,those, the ruling class.
They pawned America's soul.
This was done on purpose.
(01:29:47):
So in the 11th hour, you knowyou have Liberation Day and then
these tariffs.
What do you think is going tohappen?
There's another headline overon Natural News.
Just when you think you're outof the woods, you get stuff like
(01:30:09):
this you know we're going tocontinue to talk about this.
Nothing's off the table.
This is natural news.
Russia warns of catastrophicfallout if Trump bombs Iran.
Escalating global tensions.
If somebody can, you know it'sfunny.
If somebody can, you know it'sfunny you have.
(01:30:36):
I used to follow Mark Levin overon Freedom 1160 in San Antonio.
I had a daily show and I'd goin live, go in the studio after
I closed the shop.
It would go live at 8 pm andyou get like people would.
So they'd call Mark Levin.
You know they were excitedabout anything we were doing
foreign policy-wise A lot ofthat demographic.
They love to bomb people andI'd get on air and start to read
(01:30:59):
antiwarcom and the phones wouldjust die.
There would be no calls.
Nobody wanted to call me.
They always wanted me to talkabout we were bombing.
So it's a hobby horse of thefox news devotees.
For whatever reason and this isagain the headline the kremlin
warns trump's threat to bombiran's nuclear sites could cause
(01:31:21):
catastrophic regional andglobal consequences.
Russia, iran and china arestrengthening alliances with
iran, supplying drones to Russiaand conducting joint military
drills.
Russia condemns US ultimatumsas reckless, urging diplomacy
over military action.
Well, it's hard to argue withthat.
Hard to if you ask the averageperson on the street.
(01:31:47):
Like what?
How does Iran threaten us?
Who have they invaded?
Who's?
They're the number one on thestreet.
Like what?
How does Iran threaten us?
Who have they invaded?
Who's?
They're the number one sponsorof terror, you say.
But we have to.
It's like that meme is likelook at, iran wants war with us.
Let's see how they put theircountry so close to all of our
(01:32:10):
military bases.
Don't fall for it, folks.
That's a neocon pipe dreambrought to you by the Israeli
lobby and I will oppose that anyaction there.
But I don't think anything'sgoing to slow down that.
We're definitely lurchingtowards that as we reset the
(01:32:31):
chessboard.
So we will be back next week, besure, and tune in to America
Unplugged on Saturdays here onthis channel and Billy Ray
Valentine, the great DonJeffries.
We will be going over theseheadlines and breaking those
down.
Arterburngold is my website.
Go check out the new Wolfpackmemberships.
(01:32:53):
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So we've got a nice breakbetween the $5,000 and the
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mix and I'm trying to make itas easy as possible to get out
of those Luciferian bagsternotes, get out of that fiat and
into something real.
But I appreciate each and everyone of you.
(01:33:15):
I'll be back next week for sure.
So take care of each other,okay.
End of transmission.
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Good evening folks.
You're listening to the Hour ofthe Time.
I'm William Cooper.
The chair is against the wall.
The chair is against the wall.
John has a long mustache.
John has a long mustache.
It's 12 o'clock, americans,another day closer to victory.
And for all of you out there onor behind the lines, this is
(35:12):
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Veteran of three foreign wars,entrepreneur and warrior, poet,
(35:32):
tony Arterburn takes on theissues facing our country,
civilization and planet.
This is the Arterburn RadioTransmission.
So I love the headline.
(36:14):
On Drudge it says it's WorldWar Fee.
You know, if you live longenough, folks, you see some
pretty amazing things.
This is the Arterburn RadioTransmission.
I am your host, tony Arterburn,broadcasting in defiance of
globalist goblins, the neoconsand the new world order.
(36:35):
Here, from deep within theheart of Texas, I've got my
co-pilot and co-host, beans theBrave.
It's the 3rd of April 2025.
Beans to Brave it's the 3rd ofApril 2025.
It's exactly one year ago.
I was on a tinfoil hat.
I was out in Hollywood.
That's when we announced we'regoing to have the Wise Wolf,
gold and Silver Adjacent Studios, as my friend Sam Tripoli says,
(36:57):
and I remember I pointed at theprice of gold.
I was watching the ticker thiswas live and I said, hey, check
this out, look at the price ofgold.
I was watching the ticker youknow this was live and I said,
hey, check this out.
You know, look at the price ofgold and it was $2,200 an ounce
or some change.
You know between $2,200 and$2,300 an ounce.
And I said what you're watchingis not the price of gold going
(37:19):
up.
What you're watching is thepurchasing power of the dollar
diminishing.
What you're watching is areal-time inversion.
It's the opposite of what youthink, I go.
Stocks are going up,something's going up in value.
Well, that's not really what'shappening.
What you're watching is ademise of a currency.
Now we're going to get into alittle bit of that.
There's some metrics on thisthat are absolutely astonishing
(37:43):
and things that I didn't thinkof, and certainly there's an
accelerated acceleration, uh,ration going on.
That's it's.
Uh, what is that?
Our buck, mr fuller called itaccelerating acceleration, where
it's happening, everything thatyou think is like on track, but
then it just takes off, andthat's where we're.
What's we're watching the?
The headlines on drudge are, ofcourse, with the liberation day
.
We're watching the headlines onDrudge are, of course, with the
(38:05):
Liberation Day.
We're going to get into thattoo with the tariffs.
And then, you know, I talk aboutmy experience in politics and
years ago gosh, it was 20 yearsago, folks I started, or more,
and I started studying economicnationalism and it just made
(38:30):
absolute sense to me.
I got it, like at a core level.
I just got it.
I was like so that's what builtthe country.
You know, if you look at ourhistory, the second act out of
Congress was the Tariff Act.
That was the second from 1789.
The second thing we passed outof Congress was the Tariff Act
(38:51):
and Alexander Hamilton.
You know he had read Adam Smith.
He'd read the Wealth of Nations.
That came out in 1776, by theway, same year as Edward
Gibbon's decline and fall of theRoman Empire, ironically.
But he read Adam Smith and ittalked about the invisible hand
in free markets and free tradeand he signed off on 95 percent
of that and then kept thetariffs because that's what.
(39:13):
That's what how nations operateand we're watching now.
This is a very mixed bag.
So I want to talk a little bitabout the history of how we got
here, because this I don't thinkwhat we're watching is not
actually what I've been talkingabout.
This is like a funhouse mirrorversion of that and it's
something I think.
There's some creativedestruction going on.
(39:35):
There's a controlled demolitiongoing on.
This is language that is notnecessarily economic, my opinion
.
But you go back to the history.
We're a nation built on tariffs.
When did everybody get soqueasy on tariffs?
Well, when you abandon soundmoney, when you abandon what we
(39:57):
had, which was a dollar as goodas gold, you abandon that and
you abandon what made thecountry and you turn it into a
fiat circus and you know again,a funhouse mirror version of
itself.
You invert the entire system.
Well then, economic nationalismlooks really scary.
That's how we built the country.
(40:19):
All four presidents on MountRushmore supported tariffs.
Every historical figure on ourpaper currency, from George
Washington to Ben Franklin,supported tariffs.
Wes Grant supported tariffs.
Andrew Jackson supportedtariffs.
Matter of fact, andrew Jacksonran as a populist and a
southerner.
And you talk about the historyof tariffs in the country.
(40:41):
They had something called theTariff of Abominations.
This was 1828 in the UnitedStates.
The North was industrializing.
Even then, I think, the Northhad, you know, they had less
slavery right and especiallypost-1820s, they started
importing immigrants.
That was their labor, you know.
(41:02):
And then they had the Irish andthe Polish and every other rest
and they imported them and theyput them to work in the
factories and they wanted hightariffs to protect that industry
.
The South was agrarian and theywanted low tariffs, so this
caused this was an opening salvoto the Civil War.
This was the difference betweenthe free trade South and the
(41:23):
pro-tariff North.
And again, even Andrew Jackson,though, who was a Southerner,
kept him.
He kept the tariffs because hewanted the revenue.
Thomas Jefferson talked aboutthat.
Thomas Jefferson used thetariff instead of taxing imports
.
He's like no man knows the taxman, and he was proud of that.
(41:45):
The third president of theUnited States Didn't want any
internal taxes, except for alittle consumption tax, but most
of the government was funded bytariffs, and that's how we
built the nation.
But most of the government wasfunded by tariffs.
That's how we built the nation.
But at the end of the 19thcentury, going into the 20th
century, the banksters werehungry.
They had a plan to retake andhijack the monetary system, and
(42:12):
one of the ways you do that isyou got to get control of the
money supply.
So in 1913, you had the fourhorsemen of the political
apocalypse, as I called themwhen I ran for office.
You had the 17th Amendment,which is the direct election of
senators.
All right, and the legislatureused to pick the senators, which
was a very good thing, kept alot of checks and balances and
it made the legislature a lotmore powerful and it's more
(42:35):
close to the closer to thepeople.
But when you go to the directelection senators, you have all
this.
You know bankster money thatflows in.
The big companies get involved,the power brokers get involved.
They pick your senators right.
So that's the 17th Amendment.
Then you get the 16th Amendment, which is the income tax and
the Federal Reserve.
Of course, 1913, but alsosomething I talked about and
(42:59):
just now is getting brought upin the popular discourse which
was 1913 was the year that wefirst got free trade policies in
this country.
Because those all go togetherAn income tax, the Federal
Reserve and free trade all goestogether.
You want to know why?
Because they're principles andtenets of the Communist
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Manifesto.
Bet you didn't know that.
Do you know who one of thegreatest proponents of free
trade was?
And when I'm talking about freetrade I'm not talking about you
know, if I'm in Texas andyou're in Louisiana, and I want
to send you something acrossstate lines.
We shouldn't pay it.
I'm not talking about that, andI'm not even talking about
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equitable deals between nations.
I'm talking about the idea thatthere's no boundaries and
everything crosses over andthere's.
It incentivizes multinationalsto take their companies, to take
their factories, to take theirwealth and just supplant it in a
Darwinian contest of survivalof the fittest.
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It doesn't keep a strategiceconomic incentive in play when
you just destroy thoseboundaries in play, when you
just destroy those boundaries.
And yeah, it looks good onpaper and in a libertarian fever
dream.
I'm a libertarian in many ways,but it doesn't work in reality.
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But one of the main proponentsin the 19th century for free
trade policy was Karl Marx.
He wanted it.
He said that the I'm doing thisby memory.
I could never I was.
I remember first getting intoradio and talking about this and
people were like, well, that'snot, that can't be real.
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Yeah, marx supported free trade.
He said the the protectivesystem meaning tariffs was
conservative and that freetrades system meaning tariffs
was conservative.
And that the free trade systemhastened the revolution because
it brought up all the antagonismbetween the ruling class and
the working class, which is whatthey wanted.
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It's creative destruction.
So we had this great systemthat was thrown away, and I'm
going to get to the point of whythis is weird.
What we're watching is like Ieven mentioned on David Night
Show today.
I said now, I've alwaysadvocated for this, except
there's something that's missingwhich we're going to get to.
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There's something that you gotto also have when you have
tariffs, which is again thewhole point of it.
But that's how we built thecountry.
We didn't have.
You know these, like the incometax, the income tax is not part
of our American experiment.
The founding fathers would havenever.
I mean, that was something.
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That's a way that you stiflegrowth.
That's the way you use.
You know the ruling class usesit for control, which is why we
have it now.
You don't build economies withan income tax.
You don't do that.
That's how we built.
We became the manufacturingmarvel of mankind.
It was very rich.
That's why the system had to behijacked and they took it over.
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1913, the four horsemen of thepolitical apocalypse were
unleashed on America and we'reseeing this is things take time
and this is an endgame to that.
So, complete control of themoney supply.
Overall, I mean, we started tosee the decline in our
manufacturing base post-WorldWar II.
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One of the things that happenedwas, you know, europe was in
ashes.
We dropped two atomic weaponson Japan and we opened up our
markets to both you know, europeand Japan and we dropped our
tariffs and we did all—we had 5%of the world's population,
which we still just about havethe same.
We had 50% of its wealth at thetime.
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There's a reason for that.
And the rest of the world, youknow, with these, you know,
tariffs, they're just using ourold playbook.
Every nation does.
They all preach that we'regoing to have, you know, free
trade and no barriers, butnobody really practices except
us.
We lowered all these barriers,starting post-World War II and
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then really accelerating afterwe opened China in 1972 and the
birth of the TrilateralCommission in 1973.
1974 was the last year thatthis country ever ran a trade
surplus.
Folks, I've followed this for along time and I never thought
I'd see headlines like this.
I never thought we'd be lookingat tariffs across the board and
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something called Liberation Day, and I'm going to get to this
article and then we're going totalk about what this means,
because, again, I've been anadvocate for this.
But there's something missing.
Let's go to this article.
This was Zero Hedge, and I'mstarting at trillions lost, by
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the way, in the markets.
401ks other things crashing.
What did the Rothschilds say?
You wait until you buy whenthere's blood in the streets.
There's certainly blood in thestreets Zero hedge.
This is yesterday, but they'veupdated it since Futures tumble
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as President Trump deliversDeclaration of Economic
Independence.
Trump began his addressexclaiming that this is
Liberation Day.
April 2nd 2025 will forever beremembered as the day American
industry was reborn, the dayAmerica's destiny was reclaimed
and the day we began to makeAmerica wealthy again, trump
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said.
For decades, our country hasbeen looted, pillaged, raped and
plundered by nations near andfar, both friend and foe alike.
American steelworkers, autoworkers, farmers and skilled
craftsmen we have a lot of themhere with us today.
They really suffer gravely.
In a few moments, I will sign ahistoric executive order
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reciprocal tariffs on countriesthroughout the world.
Reciprocal, that means they doit to us and we do it to them.
Very simple, can't get anysimpler than that.
Trump lays out his theoriesthat tariffs will bring back a
golden age for the US, a phrasehe also used in his inaugural
address.
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Okay, well, that's true, he wason the Joe Rogan show.
He mentioned William McKinleyand he mentioned tariffs and we
didn't have an income tax.
The Supreme Court had ruled, Ibelieve in the 1890s I think it
was 1898, that the income taxwas un operating system.
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The policy of the US wastariffs and no income tax, and
then I talked about 1913.
So that's what's missing here.
There's another thing we had atthe time of tariffs that was
called a gold standard.
We had sound money, for good orfor ill.
I mean, a lot of people wantedfree silver.
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There was William JenningsBryan.
That's where you get theallegory in the Wizard of Oz the
Cowardly Lion, the Yellow BrickRoad, all that Dorothy's silver
slippers, not her ruby slippersin the L Frank Baum book.
I've covered that onParatruther.
There was a huge populistuprising at the time.
They wanted to weaken thecurrency a bit by flooding it
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with silver dollars.
But we still had a bimetallicsystem.
You still had sound money.
So you had sound money and noincome tax.
Now what's wrong with this?
Well, we're doing this, whichis going to be.
It's already starting to showas a massive economic tsunami of
uncertainty.
Finally, trump announces histariff plan details.
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As a declaration of economicindependence.
Trump announced a baselinetariff, a rate of 10% for all
countries below the 15%consensus and 20% worst-case
scenario.
Beginning April 5th.
Trump confirmed the 25% tariffon all auto imports, but
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specific reciprocal tariffs forbad actors starting on April 9th
.
Tariffs for bad actors startingon April 9th, and he noted
they're not full reciprocaltariffs and some of them are
just half like China's tariffs,and this could be across the
board.
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But 67% were at 34%, europeanUnion 39%, we're at 20%, Vietnam
90% and this could be.
It's a mixed bag betweenagricultural things like Canada.
Canada has like a 230-some-oddpercent tariff on dairy, but
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what's missing here?
Well, what's missing here?
What's missing is the economicconditions have to be laid for
these countries and othercompanies and multinationals and
those who have capital to buildhere.
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You have to take away withoutabolishing the income tax,
halting it, suspending it.
You could suspend the corporateincome tax right now and just
say, for all companies, if youwant to move here and build here
, here's your chance.
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But we didn't do that, Nothingchanged.
Here's your chance, but wedidn't do that, nothing changed.
So, if you're looking at thisas an economic, a strategy, if
you're looking at somethingthat's going to boost the
economy?
Where's the?
It's just stick and no carrot.
So it begs a larger questionwhat is actually going on here?
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Well, if you look at some of themetrics, I want to read some
headlines on the X account ofGold Telegraph.
There's something else going onhere.
This is of march 31st.
Gold closes at a record high interms of us dollars.
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But let's continue to dig intothis.
The dollar share of totalallocated exchange reserves fell
to 57.8 at the end of 2024, thelowest level since 1994.
Us bank stocks are headed fortheir worst quarterly decline
since the regional bankingcollapse two years ago.
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And then this is what I wantedto talk about.
I wanted to talk about In thepast one year, the US dollar has
lost nearly 40% of itspurchasing power measured in
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gold.
40% gone.
It says the thesis of gold wasearly but not wrong.
I think what you're watching islanguage, kind of like the
language that we had withKhrushchev during the Cuban
Missile Crisis.
The blockade was language.
There's a famous scene with theactor that plays McNamara, the
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Secretary of Defense, robertMcNamara, and they're putting up
the blockade, you know, andhe's talking to one of the
admirals there.
He says what you're watching.
He gets mad at him.
He's like this isn't just anormal blockade, this is
language Talking about in anuclear world, you know, a
nuclear-armed Soviet empireversus the American empire 1962.
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That was language that was on abig chessboard Our ships
stopping Soviet ships and therest like who will do what?
That's what this is, but juston a larger scale economically,
and this is across the board,all countries right.
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This has never happened before.
While I applaud economicnationalism in every way, I
think the issue here is I don'tthink that's what you're
watching.
I'd like to go on record forthat.
I don't think this is a toolfor leverage.
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If you look at the metrics ofwhat's happened to the dollar in
2001, 75% of all financialtransactions went on in dollars.
After the invasion of Ukraineby Russia and all the sanctions
passed, plus what had beentrending since that.
You been trending before thattime, since 2001.
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So 2001, 75%, 2022, 54%.
It's in the low 40s.
Right now, the world isabandoning the dollar At the
same time that we're puttingtrade partners in countries like
Canada, mexico.
We had NAFTA.
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The elites loved that.
Ross Perot called it a giantsucking sound because it sucked
the jobs and technology andwealth out of the country.
Why do you think there's a RustBelt?
Why do you think we have anopioid crisis?
In the Midwest and other places, people lost hope.
They can't support theirfamilies anymore.
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The rich, the multinationals,their profits are at record
highs.
Pat Buchanan called it theGreat Betrayal, wrote a book
about it.
I ran for Congress on it, by theway.
I never thought I'd see thisday.
I was an outlier.
The Dallas Morning News laughedat me.
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I was sitting next to JohnRatcliffe, now the head of the
CIA, in the meetings where theywere wanting to know our
politics and judging thecandidates, and I talked about
this.
They thought it was silly.
It's not even on.
Neither party was going to doanything remotely adjacent to
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tariffs, because they bothagreed that free trade works.
It siphons off jobs, itenriches multinationals and
that's who funds them.
So what is this?
And at the same time, again,the carrot is not there, just
the stick.
You could do away with theincome tax.
Tomorrow they should.
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There is no more fiscalbalancing of budgets.
We go a trillion dollars indebt every 99 days.
They print it.
It's out of thin air.
So why even have taxes?
It's not revenue neutral.
When I said that, by the way,when I was advocating economic
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nationalism, the debt of the USwas about $12 trillion.
It's not that long ago, folks,it's 12 years ago or 11 years
ago.
Think about the acceleratingrate of that.
So that's what we're watching.
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We're watching something else.
This is language, if you lookat.
I'm going to get into some otherstories too.
Today on foreign policy,antiwarcom, lots happening and
it's not exactly what you thinkit is.
On the headlines I mean Drudgecan do its Operation Mockingbird
all day long.
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They have some funny ones.
Terrifying, that's goodTerrifying.
Trade war begins.
Dow is down 1,200 points, usaemerging as biggest loser.
Republican rebels to stop Trumpright.
Neither party is for this,neither party, you can say the
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Republicans are.
They don't even know whatthey're talking about.
I know this because I've workedinside the machinery of
politics.
It is agreed upon by bothparties that free trade is the
way to go.
Nafta, GATT, the GeneralAgreement on Trade and Tariffs,
all of that.
It's the greatest transfer ofwealth in human history.
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So they agreed on it.
Nafta you know the people thatfought against NAFTA were so
underfunded it was.
You know it was like athrowback.
You had all the lobbyists.
When you go back and I knowthis history backwards and
forwards.
I know who voted for NAFTA.
If you go look at the historythey had like just working-class
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people trying to lobby Congressand then you know all the big
companies were there pushing theNorth American Free Trade
Agreement you realize the damagethat's been done is criminal.
That's all true.
But this is something else Iwant to get into.
(01:00:55):
We'll get into some foreignpolicy stuff too.
I want to make sure Iacknowledge the chat as well.
I see Guard Goldsmith over on X.
It's good to see, guard.
I need to jump on the show,guard.
I've got to text you my friendLiberty Conspiracy, guard
Goldsmith.
Go check him out Monday throughFriday over on his X.
(01:01:16):
I hope he's on Rumble.
Shoot me your Rumble channel,guard.
I'm looking over on the Rumblechannel for America, unplugged
Birdhouse Blues over there.
Harps is in the chat.
Good to see you guys.
Opossum King Trumpps is in thechat.
(01:01:38):
Good to see you guys.
Possum King Trump should plantsome money trees.
They already have that.
They have the magic money tree.
They have the modern monetarytheory.
It's the magic money tree, asDavid Knight would say.
Birdhouse Blues says After thebillions of taxpayer money going
to israel, I was unaware ofisrael penalizing our country
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with tariffs against us.
Yeah, it is really interestingthat people didn't know this and
I I've known this for years andyears, like countries that they
preach free trade, but everystatesman knows that that's not
how reality works.
It'd be one thing.
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The way that you would havefree trade in a utopian sense is
that everybody's on economicparity.
Basically, texas is on economicparity with Ohio, so we can
just trade.
It doesn't matter when we havea unifying currency, so that
makes total sense.
They have trade barriers there.
It stifles economic growth.
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But when you have poorercountries run by dictatorships
that have no environmentaloversight or anything like that,
these multinationals just pickup and they say I can get back
in tax-free, I'll just go buildthere and send it back Again.
It's a Darwinian contest ofsurvival of the fittest.
(01:03:05):
That's what that's about, andthe multinationals applaud that.
Yeah, junior Barner over at thechat on Rumble says exactly Tony
, you can't have tariffs withoutproduction, which we have none.
That's my point.
There's something, this issomething else, and if we get
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caught up, I try.
That's my first lesson to allof you.
If you see major headlinesgoing on like this, the first
thing you center yourself andthen ask what else is going on,
because even for me, you'redangling this.
I totally agree with it, exceptthe fact that the other
conditions haven't been met.
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If you read like read PatBuchanan's the Suicide of a
Superpower Ironically, thesubtitle of that book I read in
2011 is right before Iofficially got into broadcasting
and politics and the rest.
The subtitle of Suicide of aSuperpower is Will America
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Survive to 2025?
And it was laying all thegroundwork, showing you how we
had this unsustainable path.
The major theme of thateconomic nationalism was having
production and wealth and otherthings that you build through a
production economy.
We're not doing that, and ifyou look at the metrics,
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buchanan laid that out and thenI don't know if the numbers
still hold, but it was basicallyif you put a 25% across the
board tariff on manufacturinggoods, it would raise about the
same amount of capital andrevenue as the corporate income
tax.
So you could do away with thecomplete corporate income tax
and make it profitable forsomebody to make something here.
(01:04:56):
Incentivize them buildingfactories here.
Incentivize them investing inhere.
You want to know the tell here,the tell in all of this if you
wanted to make the US economyexplode with growth and have a
renaissance like you've neverseen before.
(01:05:17):
Abolish the income tax, justabolish it.
You can still raise revenueother ways.
We could have partialconsumption, you could have a
tariff, you could have all sortsof things.
It's like when Trump wasrunning for office and he said
I'm going to make Mexico pay forthe wall, remember that.
And everybody said that'simpossible.
Well, they're going to writehim a check.
I'm like they have no choice.
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You could put a 10% tariffacross the board on
non-agricultural goods.
If it's not food or somethingcoming across the board, just
put a 10% tariff.
It'll pay for it in three years.
I did the math.
They had no choice, but theynever brought that up.
I don't know why anybody didn'thave a calculator in their
(01:05:57):
pocket or just like just do themath, do the simple calculations
.
They never did.
I mean, tariffs can be great.
You could raise the revenue wedon't have.
There would be I've talkedabout this before there would be
economic growth like we'venever seen, but we're not
talking about that.
This is just a new tax, and itpains me to say it Because I'm
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for tariffs, but I'm for tariffsif you get rid of the other
taxes.
If not, it's just chaos for thesake of chaos.
You understand, and while it'sexciting to watch the price of
gold go up, it's exciting to seeall these commodities turning
loose and all the rest of thisand seeing the true value in
(01:06:47):
stocks, which is marginal atbest.
What's the real?
You talk about a hundred timesearnings or whatever the hell
these stocks are based off.
I remember my dad talking to mein the nineties.
You know, at the time my dadwas doing.
You know he had 50 conveniencestores and fuel contracts and
properties, all he's like.
You know, if they valued mycompany at whatever hundred
(01:07:10):
times earnings, it'd be a bill.
You know billions of dollars.
That's what they do on wallstreet.
Because that's why I don'tinvest in wall street.
I invest in what I can see, Ican build, I can touch, I can do
and I can create somethingmyself.
I invest in myself.
I don't have stocks.
Think about how much fake andeverything's built on.
That's why you can losetrillions.
(01:07:31):
Where does it go when you losethe trillions that have like?
This is the headlines right nowtrillions vanished from 401ks
in minutes.
Well, what happens if you justhad some gold or silver?
What do you had physical stuff?
What if you didn't have allthat paper?
(01:07:52):
It's on paper, folks.
It's called counterparty risk.
That's the risk.
It's a casino.
So much is being exposed as fake.
If you don't fix the monetarysystem, if you don't fix that,
(01:08:14):
if you don't get away from theCommunist Manifesto.
Isn't that funny?
History is not what it's.
A History is a pack of liesagreed upon.
And if you really dig into theideology of the ruling class,
the oligarchs, the lizard folk,they love communism so much and
(01:08:38):
they implement it.
I mean, the World EconomicForum has nothing to do with
economics, or at least noteconomic growth.
They're like killing economies.
I mean they want to make surethat nobody like the standard
base is 15%, like lowest forincome tax.
They love income tax.
(01:08:59):
Can you imagine the pariah youwould have been at the
Constitutional Convention if youwere part of the founding of
the American Republic, if you'dbeen like well, first of all, we
need to have an internalrevenue service.
Can you imagine?
Imagine anybody that built thiscountry saying that no, that's
for the destroyers, that's forthe Council on Foreign Relations
(01:09:22):
Cocktail Party, ivy Leagueelite.
It's like Thomas Jefferson saidmerchants have no country.
It's like Thomas Jefferson saidmerchants have no country.
It's interesting to watch.
That's why we're the officialbroadcast of the apocalypse.
(01:09:42):
I'm definitely not to do.
You know how easy it would be,because of this narrative, just
to jump on the bandwagon.
I'd have you know I could 10xor 100x my views.
I definitely would 100.
I'd do crazy stuff for mybusiness.
It'd be temporary, plus I'd bewrong.
I'd rather just be right, or atleast I'd have the best.
(01:10:02):
Honest with myself, and I don'tsee this as what especially the
sycophants see it as I'm goingto call balls and strikes.
I think that a lot of this canbe good, but you have to have
the incentive for thesecompanies to move here as well,
(01:10:25):
not just the punitive actions oftariffs.
All right, I saw this articleover on Kitco and I want to jump
over here too.
I saw this article over onKitco.
This is, I think, a smart pieceand it's about a new book
(01:10:45):
that's out.
We can discuss a little bit.
It has some good points in it.
By the way, go to Arterburngoldfor all the updates.
I'm working on the websiteright now.
You can also uh, talk to davidknight.
Today I was announcing thatwe've got wise wolf bitcoin as
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All right, this is Kitco Soundmoney or collapse, lawrence
Leppard warns.
Nothing stops.
This train Sounds like me.
United States is hurtlingtowards a monetary breaking
(01:11:52):
point and, according to soundmoney advocate and investor,
lawrence Leppard, the clock isrunning out.
Leppard laid out the corethesis of his book, the Big
Print what happened to Americaand how sound money will fix it,
offering a scathing critique offiat currency, federal reserve
policy and the politicalestablishment.
(01:12:12):
We've built a financial systemon a bedrock of sand, not sound
money.
It is collapsing, leppard toldKitco.
According to him, the inflation,debt, inequality and social
division that define Americatoday are all symptoms of a
deeper monetary disorder thatbegan decades ago.
The greatest issue of our timeis the broken monetary system
(01:12:36):
which leads to enormous wealthinequality.
It's inherently unfair whensomeone can click a mouse key
and create money that's whatI've been saying.
The criminality money that'swhat I've been saying.
The criminality, thecriminality of that is what
(01:13:00):
makes all this other stuffirrelevant.
It's all right, this is what Ido all day long.
I look at these headlines andtry to dig into things, and this
is my doing this for so long.
So my, my thesis, I believe, iscorrect Until you fix this,
everything else is a sideshow.
You realize what's going tohappen, right, like you lose
trillions in the 401k markets,in the S&P, in the Dow and all
(01:13:24):
this stuff, and it goes down.
Well, you have a crisis.
Margin calls happen.
Margin calls happen.
Guess what Fed has to step in?
Too big to fail, too big tojail Picking winners and losers,
creative destruction.
Ladies and gentlemen, that'swhat happens.
(01:13:45):
And you know, when they do that, they're going to go back to
quantitative easing it's calledQE.
They're going to make new, likethey're not already doing that,
but they're going to make newcurrency units.
And when they do that, itweakens the dollar.
It creates a trade and resetsthe trade imbalance, and
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temporarily that's good, butuntil you have a sound monetary
system.
It's just going to go into lessand less purchasing power.
It's the perfect opportunity tocreate something else.
You understand?
This is not about tariffs.
(01:14:40):
According to data from thefederal reserve bank of st louis
, the us m2 money supply grewfrom 663 billion in 1971.
Think about this is this is anamazing metric $263 billion in
1971.
Think about it, this is anamazing metric the money supply
in 1971.
Now what happened in 1971?
(01:15:03):
Oh yeah, we went off the goldstandard.
Nixon closed the gold window onAugust 15, 1971, interrupted an
episode of Bonanza, which is,ironically, a show about people
going out west to find gold andsilver.
Am I the only one that evernoticed that Life's funny that
way?
So the M2 money supply $663billion in 1971.
(01:15:29):
By late 2024, the M2 moneysupply was $21 trillion.
Let that sink in.
That is amazing.
Now what did that do?
Did that make the dollarstronger and more resilient and
(01:15:52):
did it hold your purchasingpower?
Or did you have to go out andchase value, trying to
constantly house value in yourwork and your energy in things
like 401ks?
Oh, but the 401ks just losttrillions and the IRAs and the
stocks and, following Jim Cramer, mad money and slamming the buy
(01:16:15):
button.
That's what happened to theAmerican dream folks.
That's where the criminality is.
If you're chasing our politicsand our duopoly of the two
parties, it's not talking aboutthis.
(01:16:40):
This represents a compoundannual growth rate of nearly
6.8%, a monetary expansion thatLeopard says is the true driver
of inflation, not corporategreed or external shocks.
No, it's not corporate greed.
Corporate greed In Wall Street.
(01:17:01):
You know you had MichaelDouglas Great movie 1987, oliver
Stone.
Oliver Stone's father was astockbroker and he did the movie
Wall Street.
You've seen Michael Douglas'speech.
You know greed for lack of abetter word is good.
It's an interesting take onthings, very Atlas-shrugged.
(01:17:21):
You know objectivism and allthe rest, but that's not even
how they operate anymore.
Let that sink in these bigmultinationals.
You have something called ESGenvironmental, social governance
.
You have these people likeLarry Fink at BlackRock.
They're talking about modifyingbehavior through the financial
(01:17:43):
system.
They'll lose billions.
They do it all the time.
All these conservative outletsare like you go woke, you go
broke.
I'm like actually you don't.
You lose a lot of money butyou're close ties to the fiat
central banking system.
Now hear me out.
They get funded liquidityventure capital.
(01:18:04):
Once you're tied in, if yourbehavior is correct, you'll stay
in business.
But they're not chasing profit,because profit would have
something totally different.
That's the insidious part ofcentral banking right.
It creates an environmentsocially, economically,
spiritually, scientifically.
(01:18:25):
It's completely out of linewith the balance of reason.
It's not just about money, it'sliving like Solzhenitsyn.
You know, live not by lies.
You're living a lie with fiatcurrency and it bleeds into
(01:18:50):
everything else we're doing.
And this I need to quoteShadowstats more of.
He quotes john williams ofshadow stats.
Leopard argued that the officialconsumer price index, the cpi,
under reports real inflation,distorting the public's
understanding of economicconditions.
Inflation is always a monetaryphenomenon, he said, echoing
milton friedman's assertion thatthe government has every
(01:19:12):
incentive to lie about it.
Leppard believes America is inthe final phase of what he calls
a decades-long monetaryexperiment that began with the
Federal Reserve Act in 1913 andaccelerated when the US
abandoned the gold standard in1971.
He sees mounting debt as theaccelerant.
We're now at 120% debt to GDP.
(01:19:34):
Historically, once a nationcrosses the 130% threshold, a
currency crisis becomes a nearcertainty.
Well, that's it right.
Well, that's it right.
What do you do in a situationwhere you're in a looming
(01:20:00):
currency, devaluation and crisis?
If you know this.
You don't think that the rulingclass hasn't set up
sophisticated simulations,trends tracking using AI and
other things, wargaming that out.
Three years ago or so, thePentagon ran a Bitcoin Gen Z
(01:20:22):
revolt wargame scenario of Gen Zabandoning the dollar for
Bitcoin, other things like that.
That's where you nationalsecurity is tied to the monetary
system, folks.
I mean the continuity of thecog, the continuity of
government, is tied to ourfinancial system, our monetary
(01:20:44):
system.
They know that's how that works, which has me baffled in so
many ways.
Because are the calls comingfrom inside the house, like I
always say, are they doingcontrolled demolition on it?
Because they certainly don'tseem to be propping it up.
They're accelerating itsdecline.
Is that to replace it withsomething else?
(01:21:09):
The consequences, according toLeppard, include either a
deflationary collapse, rampantinflation or a full-scale
monetary reset.
Right, he says we're in what Ilike to call the debt doom loop.
Interest costs drive deficitswhich require more borrowing,
(01:21:39):
which raises interest rates.
Again, it's reflexive.
He even underscores the fourthturning framework by historian
Strauss and Howe.
The question at the heart ofthe crisis is what is money, he
said.
According to the fourth turningtheory, every 80 to 100 years,
western societies undergotransformational upheavals.
Ebert argues that we're deepinto that cycle now, and what
(01:22:01):
emerges on the other side willredefine the global monetary
order Exactly.
So go back to the headlines onDrudge.
What are we watching?
We're watching language andwe're watching communication.
(01:22:22):
It's not necessarily abouteconomics.
It's an underlying thing.
We're resetting the globalgrand chessboard.
The dollar is fighting for itslife.
The BRICS nations Brazil,russia, india, china, south
Africa and you've heard me saythis a million times.
They have 25 other nationswaiting in the wings to join.
(01:22:46):
At least Nations like SaudiArabia waiting in the wings to
join.
At least Nations like SaudiArabia, iran, iraq.
You got all these oil-richcountries.
They're not talking aboutgetting a BRICS currency.
They're talking aboutabandoning the dollar system.
They can do cross-borderpayments.
That's the all these peopletalk.
They're going to come up with anew currency.
(01:23:07):
It's what Trump said.
Trump said if they come up witha new currency, I'll put 100%
tariffs on everything that thesecountries do.
They're not doing that.
They're making it easier forthem to trade cross borders in
real time outside of the SWIFTsystem, outside of the dollar
system.
That's what this is about.
And you know what the world'sreserve currency is it's gold.
(01:23:34):
All of this is a sideshow, andit's unfortunate Because
whatever happens here, when iteventually comes to a head and
it won't be a good thing They'llsay look what nationalism did.
(01:23:55):
See you, america firsters, younationalists, you guys, you're
isolationists.
See what you did?
You isolated us with thesetariffs and things.
This is what the language thatwill come back.
See, we were right, the liberalnew world order was right and
(01:24:15):
you messed it all up withnationalism.
Maybe that's the plan all along.
Just dump it in the laps ofthose of us who advocated this.
Again, I'm not being acontrarian.
For the sake of it, I wish ithad other.
(01:24:37):
If we went and abolished theincome tax right now and
incentivized companies to movehere, this would absolutely work
.
The Dow would go up, the S&P500 would go up, the currency
was stabilized.
At least we can have aconversation about remonetizing
it, doing something different.
But where's that language?
I don't see that in any of thearticles.
(01:24:58):
That's not coming out of theWhite House.
All right, last story of the dayand we'll get into some foreign
policy here.
I want to thank everybody forjoining us.
I didn't mean for it to go solong between shows.
I'm planning on being hereevery Thursday.
(01:25:20):
Moving forward, I had somestuff to take care of.
Then I got sick.
I was being murdered by gain offunction.
I'm still feeling it.
I hadn't been sick since 2016and, uh, I let myself get run
down.
I just put too much on thedocket.
I'm just traveling and tryingto, you know, take advantage of
(01:25:44):
the space and history that Iknow that we're in.
I pushed myself too hard.
Even beans was like are.
Like, what are we doing?
Let's stay home for a week andI should have, but I got sick.
I ended up fighting that back.
But I'm back, better than ever.
(01:26:05):
Let's look at some of theheadlines over on antiwarcom
Very important to watch.
Like I said, anytime you seethe headlines over on antiwarcom
Very important to watch.
And, like I said, anytime yousee the headlines, always ask
what else is going on.
I'd like to check over onantiwar.
If you want to get a good doseof reality, that's awesome.
(01:26:27):
If you want to, no spoonful ofsugar either.
This is just straight upmainlining reality.
Uh report trump preparing tobomb iran with israel more.
Us airstrikes hit yemen'syemenis, the, the hutia.
One civilian killed usofficials.
(01:26:50):
Don't't expect Ukraine peacedeals soon.
Ukraine energy truce inquestion after both sides claim
violations.
Israel attacks sites in Syria.
Message to Turkey.
China wraps up drills aimed atparalyzing Taiwan, paralyzing in
quotation.
(01:27:10):
Up drills aimed at paralyzingTaiwan, paralyzing in quotation.
Trump's 10% global tariffs withhigher reciprocal rates.
Yeah, important to understandthat.
You know we are watchinggeopolitically an unraveling of
the old order and an ushering inof the new, and you know there
(01:27:32):
is always a possibility.
This is God's.
You know, everything is God'screation.
So we could, maybe we'll,escape a global cataclysm.
But you know, history tells meto pay attention to it.
It beckons me.
It says, hey, look what I didme.
(01:27:57):
It says, hey, look what I did.
It's never a utopian, wonderfulsunshine and rainbows.
Okay, human nature is humannature and we are entering the
last throes of a very disgustingperiod in history, especially
the lie that's built on a lie,which is our currency, that's
built the deep state that'sbuilt the military-industrial
(01:28:18):
complex that has enriched thecorruption, the corrupt class
that has entrenched them.
And you think it's going to beeasy to get rid of it.
And this is global, not just inthe United States of America.
It's global.
A lot of people have thingsriding on the current order of
(01:28:42):
things and you see Chinaemerging because we gave them
everything.
I mean, we gave the Chinese thetechnology and we gave them the
manufacturing.
We gave them the funds.
We opened it up in 72, goingoff the gold standard.
(01:29:04):
And as far as trade, I'm allfor that.
This is something totallydifferent.
This was a plan.
You know.
You got the, the tech, not thetechnocratic vision for the
future, as maybe it's a.
Like Orwell said, it's a bootstomping on a human face forever
(01:29:26):
, but that's what they.
They want total control.
They're offshored face forever,but that's what they want total
control.
They're offshored.
And this was a plan to moveaway the power and the strength
and financial stability of theUnited States of America to a
foreign nation.
This was done by our elite,those, the ruling class.
They pawned America's soul.
This was done on purpose.
(01:29:47):
So in the 11th hour, you knowyou have Liberation Day and then
these tariffs.
What do you think is going tohappen?
There's another headline overon Natural News.
Just when you think you're outof the woods, you get stuff like
(01:30:09):
this you know we're going tocontinue to talk about this.
Nothing's off the table.
This is natural news.
Russia warns of catastrophicfallout if Trump bombs Iran.
Escalating global tensions.
If somebody can, you know it'sfunny.
If somebody can, you know it'sfunny you have.
(01:30:36):
I used to follow Mark Levin overon Freedom 1160 in San Antonio.
I had a daily show and I'd goin live, go in the studio after
I closed the shop.
It would go live at 8 pm andyou get like people would.
So they'd call Mark Levin.
You know they were excitedabout anything we were doing
foreign policy-wise A lot ofthat demographic.
They love to bomb people andI'd get on air and start to read
(01:30:59):
antiwarcom and the phones wouldjust die.
There would be no calls.
Nobody wanted to call me.
They always wanted me to talkabout we were bombing.
So it's a hobby horse of thefox news devotees.
For whatever reason and this isagain the headline the kremlin
warns trump's threat to bombiran's nuclear sites could cause
(01:31:21):
catastrophic regional andglobal consequences.
Russia, iran and china arestrengthening alliances with
iran, supplying drones to Russiaand conducting joint military
drills.
Russia condemns US ultimatumsas reckless, urging diplomacy
over military action.
Well, it's hard to argue withthat.
Hard to if you ask the averageperson on the street.
(01:31:47):
Like what?
How does Iran threaten us?
Who have they invaded?
Who's?
They're the number one on thestreet.
Like what?
How does Iran threaten us?
Who have they invaded?
Who's?
They're the number one sponsorof terror, you say.
But we have to.
It's like that meme is likelook at, iran wants war with us.
Let's see how they put theircountry so close to all of our
(01:32:10):
military bases.
Don't fall for it, folks.
That's a neocon pipe dreambrought to you by the Israeli
lobby and I will oppose that anyaction there.
But I don't think anything'sgoing to slow down that.
We're definitely lurchingtowards that as we reset the
(01:32:31):
chessboard.
So we will be back next week, besure, and tune in to America
Unplugged on Saturdays here onthis channel and Billy Ray
Valentine, the great DonJeffries.
We will be going over theseheadlines and breaking those
down.
Arterburngold is my website.
Go check out the new Wolfpackmemberships.
(01:32:53):
We just launched Sigma Wolflast week.
That's at $750.
So we've got a nice breakbetween the $5,000 and the
$1,000, and you can do one timeand you can pick gold, silver or
mix and I'm trying to make itas easy as possible to get out
of those Luciferian bagsternotes, get out of that fiat and
into something real.
But I appreciate each and everyone of you.
(01:33:15):
I'll be back next week for sure.
So take care of each other,okay.
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