The Arterburn Radio Transmission Podcast
The Arterburn Radio Transmission is a blend of cutting edge commentary, fused with guests who are the newsmakers and trailblazers of our time. Your host Tony Arterburn is a former Army paratrooper, entrepreneur, and historian. Tony brings his unique perspective to the issues facing our country, civilization, and planet.
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#506 While You're Distracted by Headlines, Central Banks Are Hoarding Gold
Thank you. I seriously have no idea the amount of technical difficulties I've had, like the last three weeks with between texas and missouri and road casters, and I'm on my laptop right now in my home studio in branson, missouri, where I have all the sophisticated equipment and I had to plug in the laptop. Folks, it is, uh, it's. I've gone into disrepair for the Arterburn radio transmission my fault. I've been traveling, I've had conferences to go to, beans the Brave and myself have been all over this planet themes and I'm just going to have to take some time to redo everything. And I was kind of looking at the landscape today and I don't even know if I'm on. I'm supposed to be streaming out on my Twitter and I can't see that that's going on. It's so funny. I just I'm being tested. I love it, I'm embracing it, I'm going to give it a big kiss on the mouth. It's fine, I'm not going to lose my patience. I'm good. I thought about hey, how do I want to open up the show? You know something profound. Do you want to do a poem, tony, that you haven't been on in a month? Do you want to do something? You know you want to leave people with something to think about. No, just my technical difficulties, but I did want to do something a little different. I regret not having the all the bees. Remember the bees? It was so much fun. The build back better. Uh, biden, beelzebub, baphomet, bilderberg, bohemian grove, bankster bunch. And then melissa told me she's like you know, you just replace biden with the big beautiful bill, because Biden's irrelevant, and maybe he always was. Maybe he always was irrelevant. But you know, maybe the big beautiful bill, we'll put that up there. Uh, in all the bees, maybe I'll start off the show next time. I've just got to that's a lot of repetition. You know that, uh, you got to remove one of the words and then get three new ones. I think we can do that Speaking of, and then get three new ones. I think we can do that Speaking of. Hey, how's the headlines going? I mean, are you enjoying your psyop? Is it sinking down into your subconscious? Are you afraid? Yet that would be the end goal of the overlords trying to project that into your mind.
Speaker 1:You know, if you don't know history, if you don't know previous political cycles, if you're just like, um, what's that movie? The memento, where he has to tattoo all the things? Uh, because he has to remind himself. What was that guy, sammy jenkins? He had to write down all the things that happened the day before, because he has no short-term memory or long-term memory. He has nothing and, um, he wakes up and he has to remember and so he uses the tattoos.
Speaker 1:I, I remember things and um, not that I'm not that I'm some sort of, uh like, genius or a savant. I'm far from that. Uh, I'm a paratrooper who likes books, but I remember previous historical cycles. So a lot of the stuff that I'm seeing now it's just a repeat of previous things that happened. And you have to remember what the Hegelian dialectic is. You have to remember what problem-reaction-solution is, folks, and you look at stuff like the riots and other things, folks, and you look at stuff like the riots and other things and we've seen this before, if you recall, and 2020 was a good example. 1992 is another good example kind of stirring the pot, post-cold war, about to deliver you to, or deliver bill clinton to you via, you know, ross perot and all that happened in 92, the LA riots and all this stuff that's happening and some of it's organic, but a great portion of it is not and these are things that are happening.
Speaker 1:I listened to a podcast today that made me think I didn't agree with it per se, but it made me think. That I made me think I didn't agree with it per se, but I made me think, and it was carrie luntz and he. It's a good little podcast about finance and, um, smart guys, a former attorney has good guests on, but he talked about ai and the use of ai in this last election by the trump team and how they anticipated different threats, already had things pre preset for responses on whether it's lawfare or or the election process itself, and it does make a lot of sense that ai was used and, um, there's been a lot of offset of the, the continuity of the deep state which I've seen, you know, and I think a lot of the response is coming now. It's kind of been slow to move, but, uh, 2020 was a, you know, a complete op and then by may of that year, if you guys remember, it's the summer of love and everything's burning down. It's, you know, fiery but peaceful protests. Remember that. Uh, remember the pallets of bricks and nobody asked, uh, who put them there or who's funding this. See, that's what I always ask.
Speaker 1:So we're looking at this. You know what's going on in la and what's going on elsewhere, and I do pay attention to that, but I'm more interested in what else is going on, because what else is going on is the reality and that's more, I think, more important, which is the big macro picture. Macro, ladies and gents, worldwide geopolitics this is what you're needing to look at because that's what's going to affect you a year from now, five years from now. Um, these other things will wane and they'll go away. And we always need to be vigilant when it comes to government overreach or tyranny or the use of the military against civilians and all that. I mean we've gone through this. I remember the Obama administration when Rand Paul did a filibuster asking whether or not the Pentagon and the Department of Defense could drone, could use a killer robot to murder an American citizen without a trial, and never got an answer. Yeah, we're already there. I mean, this stuff has been asked and it's going to continue to be a challenge for all of us. But look at the macro pictures.
Speaker 1:Matter of fact, if you look at the headline of drudge and we'll go there, hold on, you know. So I'm on my laptop. This wonderful, I have this. I have this massive setup in here and all I have is my computer plugged in. That's so much fun. But if you look at the headline of Drudge and I'll share my screen I want to show you something that they're showing you. This is, I think, apropos for where we are. Here's the headlines. It has all the right gear and everything that's happening in LA and kind of setting you up for the next phase of division. But you keep going down. Of course you look at the airlines scary things, you know, airline crashes and stuff. But here you go right to the right. It's got the all-seeing eye.
Speaker 1:Bilderberg Group. It meets in Sweden amid US-Europe tensions. Well, there you go, folks. That's what else is going on. That's what's always going on. You have the Bilderberg Group meeting set up in 1954. Very secretive. All your favorite people go. You're not allowed to see transcripts of that. They have the Chatham House rules is uh, everything kind of stays within, you know, within the bilderberg group or or bohemian group, that same thing. Right, they have the same. It's a big club and you ain't in it.
Speaker 1:And I was looking up earlier, just just a little history of the bilderberg group. I found a couple of articles that, first of all it. It harkens back to 1954, and they wanted to post-World War II. And this is after the dust settled, after Operation Paperclip, the hunt for all the best nazis, not to punish them but to bring them to work for us. You know, to build our rockets and our uh bio labs and you know to infiltrate and, you know, use them for the intelligence that they had. All the men the nazis had this massive network of scientists and, uh top of the line stuff, like bernard von braun, you know he. He eventually got his own like disney program. You know that, like that's the v2 rockets.
Speaker 1:Uh, it's so funny when you reverse engineer war and you're supposed to this is the good war. You know, this is what you're supposed to have. You know, world war ii was 50 million dead and a cataclysm and europe in ashes. Japan smashed, you know. Again, 50 million people perished and the reason we went to war was to because Hitler invaded Poland and at the end of the war, after all that, we gave Poland to Stalin. So you know, if you know history, reality looks a lot different. But this is 1954. You get the Bilderberg Group, which is what's happening now. So all this stuff is still going on New world order carving up the world. You get the Bilderberg Group, which is what's happening now. So all this stuff is still going on. New world order carving up the world, new monetary great reset, all that's happening.
Speaker 1:But you only have so much bandwidth so you cannot yet pay attention to the politics. Hey, what are the Democrats doing? What are the Republicans doing? What's going on with this or that? It is important, but try to pay attention less to it, because it's just going to do its thing. But what's the macro picture? That's what's world changing right now, and they're deciding a lot of things that you don't get to be a part of.
Speaker 1:A lot of times democracy is touted. It's a it's, uh, it's, it's a virtue. Right, karl marx loved democracy, um, and you hear that all the time. It's, it's like a god to be worshiped and they put it out there, but it doesn't really ever get practiced. Not really, I mean, because the super they tout democracy but then they go behind closed doors and decide the fate of mankind.
Speaker 1:During World War II, the Nazi effort to unite all of Europe and ultimately the rest of the world through war failed miserably. When the war ended, those that believed the dream decided, another approach would be necessary. Instead of war, a united Europe, dominated by Germany, would be achieved through international treaties and diplomacy. In 1957, the European Economic Community was established, and it began with just six countries Belgium, france, italy, luxembourg, the Netherlands and West Germany. Since that time, it has expanded to 28 nations and become known as the European Union. More about the European Union in a minute. But the idea of a common currency that the European Union uses today the euro was conceived and developed by the Bilderberg Group. This organization has always been at the forefront of European unity, but most people have no idea where it came from. It says the truth is, the Bilderberg Group first met in 1954, and one of the key founders of the group was Prince Bernard of the Netherlands. Not only was he a founder, prince Bernard actually served as the organization's chairman until 1976. So why is this important. Most people do not realize this, but Prince Bernard actually belonged to the Nazi Party.
Speaker 1:Okay, so just fun history. That's Operation Paperclip. That's what's going on. Those are the actual headlines, and you know I try to stay focused on the macro, especially with this show, and guys appreciate all your patience.
Speaker 1:I went to the Bitcoin conference. It's another thing that happened. I was out in Virginia. I was speaking at a homesteading, a sovereign living farm. It's really cool. People were going to learn how to better grow a garden and raise chickens and other things, and I spoke about my wheelhouse, which is gold, silver and Bitcoin, and there's just a growing trend of people, I think, being more and more aware of just how much change is happening, and it seems like, well, every day kind of blends together and it seems like it's the same. I promise you it's not.
Speaker 1:There's a few articles that I want to get to today, and then I want to talk about the other macro issue. I think that is the most important. If you want to talk about politico headlines and political headlines, and that's foreign policy and war and the threats of that. I think that could affect everything. It would definitely throw a wrench in whatever timeline we're on right now, so we want to pay attention to that. I want to bring up, though, in the realm of precious metals economics. There's some stuff happening right now. If you've noticed, silver is having its breakout moment and I gut level believe I've been in this a long time.
Speaker 1:I want to put this article up from Kitco. To put this article up from kitco. I, gut level, believe that this is probably on the uh the spectrum for where the historical shift happens, like where we start seeing, uh, the true price revaluation. I was talking to travis knight on the david knight show this morning. He's got me thinking about that. I mean, do we we take for granted we've had this suppressed silver price for so long? And there's a whole host of reasons. Maybe we answer ourselves, you know, as far as who's responsible, like why did we have, why did it stay like this for so long? Um, but a lot of those entities aren't able to control it like they used to, and I think, a lot of analysts. And this is. We'll throw this up on the screen real quick. Yeah, this is kitco.
Speaker 1:Let me go back to the article so I can scroll through it. Silver will see a mini squeeze event to address london. New york imbalance price could hit 40 this year. This is td securities. Golly, that's coming up that, after gold sustained rally to a succession of all-time highs over the past two years, silver prices have finally started to break out over the last two weeks and the unresolved market distortions between new y and London could see the gray metal hitting new highs in its own long term, according to Daniel Ghaly, senior commodity strategist with TD Securities. He says right now the silver market is buzzing with excitement because prices broke through $35 an ounce. That's very difficult to break through over the last several years. That's very difficult to break through over the last several years. The last time silver prices broke through this level, we traded at $50 an ounce within six weeks. So of course, the excitement is building and what he's referring to is the 2011 run, where silver hit $50 an ounce and again it's all time high is 1980 at $52 and $50 an ounce, and again its all-time high is 1980 at $52.50 an ounce. I bring that up because this breakout, this metric, where, when it breaks 35 and the momentum starts to build, I think what the cascading event which I think was trying to be avoided was a lot of the paper contracts that have been the ability for the larger holders of physical silver to suppress the price. I think a lot of it's going to be set for on-time delivery and all these other I think it's going to wheels are going to come off.
Speaker 1:This is my opinion and I'm not giving you investment advice. This is not an investment show. This is about history and parapolitics. This is about intelligence. Well, this is about I try to be as intelligent as I can, but it's about intelligence, folks.
Speaker 1:And you look at the timeline. It makes no sense. When you hit a ratio of 100 to 1 for silver that's what it was a couple of weeks ago, three weeks ago it's $3,500 an ounce gold and $35 an ounce silver. It's 100 to 1. And no part of history is even remotely close to that. It's always been 10 or 20 to one. The united states had it at 16 to one, that's ounces of silver to make one ounce of gold. This has stayed skewed for too long and I think that's going to start bending back because even geologically it's 17 to 1. I mean, it just makes sense. There's about a 20 to 1 ratio which is probably conservative, okay which takes and revaluates silver to its actual price and mining becomes profitable. There's too much of a deficit that's been sustained for the price to continue to be that low. So just giving you a heads up, I think this is part of you know.
Speaker 1:You look at the BRICS nations in Brazil, russia, india, china, south Africa. You look at their race towards getting commodities, rare earth, minerals. The Chinese with the Belt and Road Initiative and all of that. It's a race for commodities and we live in a we're awash in a fiat world of fake currency and they want to trade and get into and I'm going to talk a little bit about AI here in a second. They get into hard assets over their fiat currencies and I think that's going to be the trend and something to watch would be silver. We think it's been a long time coming, he added, and we think that the current market structure favors these kinds of mini-squeeze events going forward.
Speaker 1:He says the breakout itself when we crossed through that $35 an ounce level, it was a future-led breakout. He said the contrast, this contrast with what you might expect, given that there were now five years running into a structural deficit. That deficit has eroded physical inventories and you would expect such a breakout to be led by the physical side. That hasn't been the case. Breakout to be led by the physical side. That hasn't been the case and, as a result, it suggests more speculative activity in silver markets, which makes it more difficult to forecast what might occur as a result. So he's saying, even with the physical deficits, that really hasn't driven the short-term price, so that's not even factored into this, according to him. According to him, I think, that ultimately the physical shortages and the reality kicks in, and I don't know this to be true, but it's estimated that for every 250 ounces of paper silver traded, one ounce of silver actually exists in reality, in the real world. This demand is doing just fine.
Speaker 1:The one thing I will say, since the threat of the trade war became more apparent, is that most analysts out there expect a downturn in demand for raw materials, a downturn in the global economy, and we've not seen any sign of that yet. Now and I want to get into it's interesting A lot of this is happening faster than I'd anticipated. I wanted to read you a tweet. Is that what you still could? You still call the x things tweets, but first of all, you always get your tomorrow's news today over here because, um, I told you a while ago that the, the gold, supplanted the euro, is the second most held reserve asset by central banks, and that's a headline on kitco. So I feel like either I jump timelines or I've just been reading that for a while it's been over, like a year or more. But, yeah, gold supplanted the euro and only one more currency to go. Only one more. The first held reserve tier one asset held by central banks is the dollar. But that is eroding slowly. The dollar, uh, but that is, uh, eroding slowly. Now let's, uh, let's jump over to this article on ai, and this is kind of what I've been thinking, but this is just a little. In this. We're trying to do trends here, folks, it's an art, not a science. Well, apparently, because I have to broadcast off a laptop with my roadcaster, let's, um, let's share this, let's go to zero hedge. Just an interesting, interesting piece here. Something to think about Now, if you want to.
Speaker 1:I always thought, you know, back in 2000, I was 27 and 07, and this is right on the cusp of the, the great recession and the housing bubble and all that stuff that happened the subprime meltdown and TARP. I was paying attention. I was running a real estate company, so I had like six agents or so and I remember all of a sudden the phone stopped ringing. There just wasn't any deals and it wasn't like I didn't have marketing, I had all that. So I just kept watching this trend, watching this trend, and I would tune into financial networks and they'd be like everything is great and the market is strong because they're always selling that. You know they're selling the strength of the market and everything's great. And I thought, wow, this is really weird because I'm not seeing that. I wasn't old enough yet to realize that most of that's just garbage and I kept listening to financial radio. I wasn't old enough yet to realize that most of that's just garbage and I kept. I listened to, you know, financial radio. I'm watching the shows, I'm like I'm trying, I'm reading the wall street journal Everything's great, everything's great.
Speaker 1:One day I walked. I trusted my gut, though it was like beginning of 08. And I just went in and pulled the plug and I just told the agents I'm like I can't sustain this. So you know, I'm not going to like keep putting it on the card. I'm not going to keep betting on this market that doesn't exist. If the deals aren't there, they're not there. So I just slowly started to back up and lo and behold, you know, here it comes. I think it was like September, october, going into 08. We all remember. And then, you know, you had Hank Paulson begging Nancy Pelosi for $750 billion. George W Bush, what did he say? This sucker's going down. But I kind of anticipated that and it was based off just reality, like what was happening. I'm doing the same thing with.
Speaker 1:You know I don't reject technology. I think it can be wonderful. It's in the wrong hands, it's kind of like a gun, you know, like if you have a or any kind of weapon, if it's in the wrong hands, then it can be used for evil. I think technology in and of itself can be good, and this article up on Zero Hedge, I thought was just a glimpse. I thought it was just well done and a little bit of a glimpse into what the future could look like, because it's not going to be like the past. I mean, there's certain things you know. History doesn't repeat itself but it rhymes, so you can glean a little bit of knowledge from it. But that's not, especially with technology. You can't always rely on that.
Speaker 1:Ai is going to generate a massive boom in hard assets, so that in and of itself, I think is a smart headline, because I've been saying that Artificial intelligence, ai, is going to ignite a boom in hard assets. This is by Phoenix Capital Research. As I've said in the last few articles, the AI revolution is moving into the next phase, physical AI. This is the phase in which AI software is integrated with physical hardware robots, appliances, automobiles, etc. Some recent developments Tesla is preparing to launch a robot taxi, full self-driving, that can transport a passenger anywhere, even through pedestrian-clogged cities, without assistance assistance. Meta has launched a new ai model, vg jepa2, designed to interact with the physical world. The model is capable of understanding physical reality to the point of acknowledging that items out of sight continue to exist and move, and nvidia introduced a physical ai software update, the, the Isaac Group Dreams I don't know what that means that will be used to synthesize motion data for robotics. Thus far, we focused on tech aspect of these developments, namely tech companies that are investing in and developing this technology. However, there's another component the physical AI revolution, hard assets and energy. Robots, cars, appliances, etc. All require tremendous amounts of materials and energy for development and manufacturing. The IEA, the International Energy Agency, forecast a 160% rise in electricity demand by 2030, driven by ai related items.
Speaker 1:You notice that you don't hear anybody complaining about bitcoin not really about bitcoin's energy draw anymore. You know, as it kind of just went away, it used to be like a big thing, like we can't use Bitcoin. Cryptocurrency takes too much energy. Energy usage is not an issue. You just got to make more ability. You have to make the ability to produce energy. That's your task. It's not to use less energy. It's to make better, cleaner, more efficient energy, not less. That's. That's the difference between the, like the uh world economic forum, getting your pod and eat bugs for greta crowd, because they just want you to go away. They don't want them. They really don't want more energy. But then it's, they got to run their ai stuff so they don't know what to do. So they don't complain about it anymore, because AI uses a lot of energy. Robots, cars, appliances all require tremendous amounts of energy for development and manufacturing.
Speaker 1:Ai data centers alone are expected to account for 21% of all global energy demand by 2030. And that's not even accounting for the impact of physical AI. The AI revolution will create massive demand for copper, aluminum, tin, steel, silver and a slew of other natural resources. Put simply, the AI story is not just about advanced tech. It's about the commodities and hard assets. This is true.
Speaker 1:So, again, this is just another example of what I've been saying, because it's the reset of the global monetary order. So what are these central banksters? What are the countries? What are the multinationals doing? They're acquiring hard assets. That's why, if you only have a certain amount of bandwidth, pay attention to the macro to the best of your ability. That's what I try to do, because these little sparks and things that go on, they are important, but careful how much you pay attention to them and not the big picture, because what's going on? You're still inside the great reset.
Speaker 1:It's a fourth turning the cyclical history. You know, 80 years ago, at the end of world war two, and we had the IMF, was created, the World Bank, gold was pegged at $35 an ounce and then the dollar was made the world's reserve currency and by 1971, we abandoned that Bretton Woods Agreement and created what we're in right now. So there's going to be another. It might be the Mar-a-Lago Accords, it might be something else, but there's going to have to be because of the massive amount of currency creation and debt. There has to be, and they've called for and they have the plans drawn up for a reset of the monetary system.
Speaker 1:So that's what I'm paying attention to, and even the ai revolution is pointing towards the use of hard assets. That's not going away, whether it's silver copper you talk about platinum today on the David Knight show. I think that's probably an outlier too. It's funny. People ask me what prices are going to go up, and I'm like all of them, hard asset prices will go up. And I'm like all of them, hard asset prices will go up, uh, against the dollar. And I know silver is that weird thing that's been suppressed a long time. And uh, you know, believe me, if a conglomerate of billionaires got together and decided they wanted to corner the physical silver market and drive the price up to hundreds of dollars an ounce, they could, easy, you could expose the weakness in that market anytime. Nobody's done it, because the last people to do it were the hunt family in texas and they were deep stated because they were exposing the weakness in the dollar by showing you that in 1980 you could get silver to go over 50 bucks an ounce, and I remind you that $50 an ounce in 1980 is like $300 today, in purchasing power at least. Right, what could you get for 50? But you go into Safeway in Garland, texas, in 1980 and come out with a whole bunch of groceries. You go into Walmart today with 50 bucks, you might come out with half a bag bunch of groceries you're going to. You're going to walmart today with 50 bucks, you might come out with half a bag full of stuff. So you know, do the math, folks.
Speaker 1:All right, let's see if I've got any comments before we jump on to to foreign policy. Oh, let me read this first. Let me go. I want to read this tweet because I I talked about the european central banks but I thought this was good. Let me see. This is june 9th, I think, over on gold telegraph. A great, a great account over on gold telegraph. Let's see, yeah, gold is on the offensive. This is from June 9th. Central banks are hoarding Costco can't keep it on the shelves. Brics is eyeing a new precious metals exchange, by the way they are. And China is expanding the Shanghai Gold Exchange. Yeah, they're doing that to satellite offices for physical. Even the European Central Bank fears gold demand could crack the system. The writing is on the wall. See, that's. That's a concise tweet. There's a lot of wisdom in that. Let's go to.
Speaker 1:We haven't I'm sorry guys, we haven't streamed over on rumble in a long time. Some got that stream up and running. I see guard Goldsmith over there and nights of the storm. Thanks, guys. Guard Goldsmith said I love Kitco, me too. They always have good articles. Good to see you guys, and I think I had some. Uh, I think I've got some comments over on YouTube. It's just, you know, I wanted so badly to run my show off my regular network but I couldn't today. Freethinker 59. Hey, somebody reposted the stream. That's good. So I am streaming over on Twitter. That's good. So I am streaming over on Twitter. That's good. All right, that makes me feel better, because that's where my audience at Worldwide Christian Radio picks up the transmission so it can go out worldwide on shortwave. So I wasn't too sure. All right, guys, let's jump over.
Speaker 1:Now we're going to cross over into some parapolitics. At least all these kind of stories come out that I'm going to take you to, because we know what the headlines are. First of all, we'll look at antiwarcom, and then I'm going to go into this article. Going to go into this article, by the way, just for a little bit of more intel. Wells Fargo is predicting $3,600 an ounce gold into next year. So always conservative, let's see. Yeah, this is antiwarcom.
Speaker 1:We'll do a couple of these headlines, and then I want to take you to the article that I thought was most relevant, because there's some history here that we need to talk about US anticipating potential Israeli attack on Iran. Iran warns it will hit US bases in the region if attacked Inside. And this is what we're going to talk about inside the MAGA versus HAWC battle to sway Trump on bombing Iran. And then Iranian media says docs show IAEA an instrument for Israel, that's the International Atomic Energy Agency. Let's, let's this. This is a politico article. Stop the screen. This is the one that they're inside. Inside MAGA versus the Warhawks. There's some history here, though. Pull this up real quick. Yeah, this is brings back memories. One second I may have to Too many articles open and selling me doesn't like me anymore. Let's go back to this one more time. And this is Politico not that I like Politico articles, but they've kind of broken down what's happening inside the MAGA vs Hawk battle to sway Trump on bombing Iran.
Speaker 1:Trump allies are trying to counter a private pressure campaign to ditch Steve Witkoff's diplomatic effort and join Israel in attacking Tehran. An influential group of GOP hawks has launched a behind-the-scenes lobbying offensive pressing President Trump to not only back off his administration's quest for a nuclear deal with Iran, but greenlight an attack on Tehran by Israel. The campaign is raising alarms among Trump and his allies, who have launched a counteroffensive to keep the president's diplomacy on track. During a private lunch with the president at the White House last Wednesday, conservative talk show host Mark Levin told Trump that Iran was days away from building a nuclear.
Speaker 1:First of all, are you tired yet? I saw a? Uh, a great video by this guy named sultan of savage over on instagram. This is an older guy, just gives men advice on living in this world and, uh, it's interesting fella, you know I like him smart. He's got a beard, you know, and he's like he took a poll and it said, um, just ask people. Um, you know, are you, are you interested or are you willing to send aid and military efforts to help other nations? Are you worried about the struggles of other nations or are you more concerned with the United States and infrastructure and your own life and what's going on here? It was like overwhelming. It's like 80% to 90% of people overwhelmingly said, oh no, I care about here. But then he said well, that's not what goes on, though, because we're more focused on what's over there. This has always been my problem, because what that says is that we're not in charge. It's not a majority. The majority is not being accounted for. You have no representation. Your will is not being carried out because, again, this is a small group of influencers. If you will, that put us on track for these disastrous wars and a lot of times it's never good enough.
Speaker 1:I mean, I remember reading stories about Reagan. Anyway, you can read Don Jeffries on Reagan and if you want to read Hidden History not perfect, but Reagan believed in the total abolishment of nuclear weapons. Yeah, he called the Soviet Union an evil empire. He created the well, the semblance of SDI, which was the Strategic Defense Initiative, and then Star Wars, you know like, with this supposed technology so we can intercept nuclear weapons and ICBMs and all that. But luckily he had Gorbachev and Gorbachev was willing to work with him. The Soviet Union was hurting financially. They were bogged down. In Afghanistan we had the CIA and the Musha Hadeen and Tim Osman, osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda killing Russians, and they were bogged down. And you know, economically we were with the Saudis. This was part of the petrodollar and Reagan basically put the Soviet Union out of business. So that's pretty much what it is. It's like they couldn't compete with us in the Cold War.
Speaker 1:And again, some of this is papered over a little bit and I'm painting a broad brush. I understand that. But even then, when he was signing deals with Gorbachev, you'd have people at the White House, like part of the order of things, like the staff and stuff, that were such staunch Cold Warriors that they would turn their backs on him, like during the signing of things. It's like it's never good enough and you got to think where did those guys go like during the? And, by the way, a lot of the, a lot of the, the virulent anti-soviet Soviet Cold Warriors in the 1980s became or were neocons. They were neoconservatives and it's not because they really opposed communism, they opposed Stalin's version of it, because they were Trotskyites. The Bolshevik Revolution produced Lenin and then Stalin and then Stalin and Trotsky right. These were part of this. Like there was a breakaway and Stalin eventually had Trotsky killed in Mexico by the nice pick in the 1930s. Well, there was an intellectual cast of people that were born out of that. They were called Trotskyites and they eventually became neoconservatives. You can look this up, by the way, the wing of the Republican Party that I'm talking about here, whether they know it or not and I think they do, because Bill Kristol, his father, is Irving Kristol Trotskyite these are revolutionaries that believe in Marxism, just the perpetual revolution of it. They abandoned a lot of the Marxian things, but they're still Marxist and it's why it's important to understand that Like why do they want to? A lot of them are Zionists too, or actually the majority of all neoconservatives are, and you wonder why they're so fixated on them.
Speaker 1:During a private lunch with the president at the White House last Wednesday, conservative talk show host Mark Levin told Trump that Iran was days away from building a nuclear weapon. Ok, I remember it wasn't. Go back to like the mid 90s and you have Netanyahu saying you know Iran getting the bomb is imminent. Do we need to redefine the word imminent? First of all, it's an old technology. It's 80 years old. You know the mere fact that pakistan has one, like you know india has one. I mean, come on, north korea, whose gdp is 40 billion okay, has one. I mean, come on, north Korea, whose GDP is $40 billion okay, supposedly has a bomb. Pretty sure they do.
Speaker 1:Levin has been waging a public war against Trump's longtime friend and special envoy leading talk, steve Witkoff, who's attended the meeting. They were joined by GOP mega-donor Ike Permutter, the one-time Marvel Entertainment executive Okay. On a separate front, maga loyalists have been warily eyeing Rupert Murdoch's papers, particularly the New York Post, as they've savaged Witkoff, suggesting at one point that he's another mouthpiece for Qatar. The allegations have infuriated some in Trump's inner circle. Oh yeah you get. If you're for trying to keep the semblance of peace, you will be destroyed.
Speaker 1:Adlai Stevenson that happened to him during the Cuban Missile Crisis. He even knew he's like I'm going to you ever seen anybody slit their own throat before. If you know who Adlai Stevenson was. In the 1950s he ran for president against Eisenhower and lost twice and then eventually, when Kennedy won in 1960, they put Adlai I think he was the governor of Illinois at one time and just, I mean, if you look at him, he's a thoughtful man, he's well-educated, self-educated too and was thoughtful. I mean he wanted peace in a nuclear age. You know a sane person? And Adelaide.
Speaker 1:When they found out there was missiles in Cuba that were 90 miles off the coast of Florida and there was nuclear missiles pointed at us or about to be armed, everybody wanted to do airstrikes followed by invasion. Nuclear missiles pointed at us are about to be armed. Everybody wanted to do airstrikes followed by invasion. You know which? Basically world war three. You know like, even though we had missiles in Turkey pointed at the Soviet union. They went and that was, seems it was seen as an offensive action.
Speaker 1:And in the meeting Adlai Stevenson, who was a man of peace, said um, is there any way we could have a communicate what? What can we trade? So he suggested it at first and then that basically ended his career, although he had one more. Um, he did really well in the UN and Kennedy thought about the maxim of Sun Tzu that the battles are won in the temples long before they're fought. And he put Adlai up there and he did a really good job confronting the Soviet ambassador.
Speaker 1:But that's neither here nor there. You talk about being dispatched to a wasteland. You know, be the one who's trying to keep peace. They're trying to push the president to make a decision, since it's not what he wants. A senior administration official told Politico. This person, like others in this story, was granted anonymity to speak freely.
Speaker 1:There's clearly a lobby for war with Iran versus those who are more aligned with the president that know he is the one that has to be able to bring them to the negotiating table. He is the one that has to be able to bring them to the negotiating table. The lobbying has triggered a coordinated effort to defend Trump and Witkoff's diplomatic posture. Hours after Levin's meeting with Trump, tucker Carlson, who had clearly been alerted to the gathering by someone familiar with what happened, took to X to accuse Levin of trying to bully the US into war. And this is Carlson. There is zero credible evidence, intelligence that suggests Iran is anywhere near building a bomb or has plans to None, said Carlson.
Speaker 1:So why is Mark Levin once again hyperventilating about weapons of mass destruction? To distract you from the real goal, which is regime change, young americans heading back to the middle east to topple yet another government. Well, thank you, tucker carlson, because it's exactly what that is. You understand that there's a powerful lobby, a foreign entity in the united states that pushes us and because of self-interest which they have a right to do, by the way, and we have a right to call it out for their own interest of chaos in the Middle East, regime change. And what's the latest? From Saddam Hussein, you know, or Gaddafi or Assad Assad, you know, they use Western intelligence. Along with Assad, they use entities like ISIS and al-Qaeda. Matter of fact, al-qaeda means the database that was the database of Musha ad-Din fighters to take on the Soviet Union in 1979. It's run by US intelligence. They use these to create either boogeyman or affect regime change. And you've got to ask yourself why.
Speaker 1:The private lobbying and public sniping highlight a vast breach in the GOP over US foreign policy just months into Trump's first term in the GOP over US foreign policy, just months into Trump's first term. While many hawkish members of the old guard have viewed Witkoff's diplomatic effort with skepticism, the more restrained wing of the party has been adamant about diffusing tensions with Iran. Well, let me tell you what I think too. Not that I ever hold back, but I believe that there are so many pitfalls ahead for this administration as far as holding and seizing power. And you know, with trade tensions and the, it's almost an impossible game to win anyway, even if you're playing it perfectly Because of the conditions that already have been set for you with the de-dollarization and breakdown of the US empire. But there most likely will be a big Democratic sweep coming soon which will tie up this administration and impeachment here. That's what we'll do. We'll do like nothing will get happen. It'll just be wave after wave of impeachment hearings and there'll just be one thing after another on that front.
Speaker 1:So, so if, if you're Israel and you want to hit Iran and affect regime change or do something like that, that's what you would do, you would do it sooner than later. That's why there's like why now is it? Is it because Iran's em imminently getting the bomb? And, by the way, what if they did? Can we live with that? It's silly. When you actually put on the board about nuclear proliferation, which I do not agree with. I don't. You know. If you can stop the proliferation of nuclear weapons, it should happen. But does that mean that we have to do? We have to sacrifice our military, our sons and daughters and blood and treasure, bogged down in a Middle Eastern war with no winning. For what? And Iran is. Look at the landmass of Iran compared to Iraq, which was a holy hell to try to run. I mean, you're going to do that. It is, once you break it, you own it. And it looks like you know we're being pushed right now to get into this thing, and it may be because they're trying to do a hurry-up offense in some way To get into this thing, and it may be because they're trying to do a hurry up offense in some way In the Middle East, in the middle of the tug of war is Trump, who ran on a promise of ending what his followers see as an endless US foreign adventurism and war.
Speaker 1:Some Trump allies believe the president will stand his ground and even predict the pressure tactics are starting to grate on him. Levin and Murdoch are all over Trump all the time. I actually think they hurt their case because I know Trump said one time long time Trump confidant. Well, I hope they're correct. I don't really see much of a distinction. I'm glad that there is the semblance of trying to do a settled negotiation or something, but on the other end you have Israel who wants to hit. They'd rather us do it. You know, just like when I was in the Middle East never saw an Israeli troop, saw me and all the Americans.
Speaker 1:We're always going everywhere in the Middle East, if you notice. Or they'll just send Al-Qaeda and ISIS in, like they did in Syria with the white Toyotas. They always had the best Toyotas. They always had the best Toyotas, yeah, so again there's infighting and there's a lot of push.
Speaker 1:Right now you need to understand the history of who pushed us into the Iraq War. By the end of his presidency, even George W Bush called them the bomber boys. You had Bill Kristol and William Bennett, charles Krauthammer, all these the bomber boys, and they were all Arden Zinus and they were all very much neocons and you have to understand what a neocon is. If you truly grasp that, then you understand US foreign policy is. If you truly grasp that, then you understand US foreign policy and you understand the left-right paradigm and just the total nonsense that's built into that. It's not real, right? It is not real. It is real. All right, let's do a little bit of gold and silver pricing.
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Speaker 1:So let me pull up gold and silver prices real quick. Go back to stop screen. All right, hope everybody has a good Father's Day too this weekend. All right, gold is up today. Silver is holding its ground over 36. Let's put this up on the screen and if you want to check gold and silver prices, you can always go to wolfpackgold. We have a ticker there, but I pulled up this just kind of being neutral.
Speaker 1:Goldpriceorg 3,384 Luciferian Bankster notes to make a troy ounce of the yellow metal. Gold's up $59.46 since opening of trade in the last 24 hours. Silver's $36.21. Again, it broke that $35 an ounce range, which means there's a lot of underlying supply issues and I think this is, as we read earlier in that article, like a mini shock. I think that's just a mini supply shock and the bigger ones are ahead, so pay attention to that, all right. Also, we've got a deal right now as I close thanks for letting me plug as we close up. We've got a deal right now If you go to wolfpackgold and you check out our subscription service, we're going to be getting promo code 1776. We're giving away free silver, but we've also got a flash sale going on right now and it's going to be closing out.
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