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Then outspake brave Horatius, the captain of the gate. To every man upon this earth, death cometh sooner late. And how can a man die better than facing fearful odds for the ashes of his fathers and the temples of his gods? Lord McAllah, you are listening to the Artiburn radio transmission.

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Next level production here if you waterburn radio. Everything's okay. Nothing is wrong with your financial system. Well, I was doing some digging here before the show and confirming a little bit of what I already thought, which is um accelerating acceleration, to quote our buckminster Fuller, the futurist, who wrote a book called Grunch of Giants. He was a genius. Um he invented the geodesic dome, where you see like an Epcot center. He died in the early 80s, but he wrote a book called Grunch of Giants, and it meant gross universal cash heist. And what it really harkened back to was the the ultimate scam of fake money and how it infects everything. And that's why, through all my research and everything that I do in my professional life, it all really goes back to that. And I'm really fortunate to be a small part of this historical wave that's happening. And a lot of people, if they listen to me, uh I hope that it uh seeps down into their subconscious mind and they do their own research. Don't just listen to me, go out and find this for yourself. But the world is changing rapidly when it comes to the financial system, which infects everything. It changes policy, it changes direction, it changes reality. The need to do something heinous probably increases, I imagine, when you're not when you don't have sound money, you don't have a sound system. I don't mean a sound system in your car. I mean with integrity. You know, fiat currency is the proverbial screen door on the submarine, okay, when it comes to integrity. So watching some insane things right now. It's the 9th of October, 2025. This is the official broadcast of the apocalypse, by the way, ladies and gentlemen. Headlines and hidden history. I thought about that this week. I need to bring back Paratrouther. And the reason I haven't is on a busy schedule. And Mr. Anderson, who I'd love to have as my co-pilot there on that program, he hasn't been available. He's been working, he's a scientist, and uh without disclosing too much, very busy. And uh we've been discussing some topics, and when we do dig back in, we might do a live show, but uh don't tell Mr. Anderson I have to I have to confirm that with him first. But we're gonna dig into some headlines today. Um, interesting, interesting uh stuff across the board. And then the way that I look at it, we'll do some financial stuff first, and then we'll talk a little bit about geopolitics. I I I took a few days to marinate over this decision for National Guard and troops and the deployment of federal forces into these cities and blue states and all the, and it could be any state. And I have some thoughts on that. There's an article that's up on Activist Post uh by the Mises Institute, which I think is really interesting. Just, I mean, a a perspective that is based on liberty, and I'm starting to see a pattern, and I'll discuss that with you. You are my support group, by the way. Um, a lot of people go to uh meetings and other things, or they go to their closest friends and family. I call I talk to you uh on worldwide Christian radio and uh the technocratic control platforms, so long as I have them. If you're wanting to watch me on video and you're hearing my voice, you can find me for now uh at Tony Arterburn on X and at Tony Arterburn on YouTube. Can't believe it. I'm also over on Rumble on the America Unplugged channel. So let me let's dig into some financial stuff first. Let's let's get that out of the way. It's funny. Uh I wasn't able to do the David Knight show today. I really needed to catch up on some work. And I told David, I said, let's let the next week unfold because every time I go on the show, I say, well, we just hit another all-time high. You know, it's just another week, and then we kept, you know, we'd read price predictions from these major firms who have massive amounts of intelligence. I mean, I'm gonna put this in quotations. Uh, they have lots of simulations and sophisticated software and everything, and they'll be like, Well, we're definitely seeing we could be eyeing$4,000 gold by you know the second quarter of 2026, and that's the next week, and it breaks$4,000 an ounce. Yeah, uh, you're a little off on your metrics. And now those things again accelerating acceleration. That's what it's about. These the met the numbers and everything that was held up, right? This house of cards, and I'm looking right now. Let's just go to goldprice.org. Let me put this up on the screen. Live gold prices here at uh 11 07 Central Time. Let me put this up on the 9th of October. So just give you some data.$4,019.30 uh for one ounce of the yellow metal,$4,000 Luciferian bankster notes make a troy ounce of the yellow metal. So we're crossing into we've already blown past$4,040, I believe,$4,050. We we are in uncharted waters, folks. It's funny, my team last couple weeks, they're like, is this right? They're running the calculations. Is this right? Is this right? Because because we never seen these numbers, right? In gold, especially, you know, we you get into some some math, especially when you're buying scrap and other things like jewelry, it's it's insane. Uh, silver,$50 and 16 cents per troy ounce for the white metal. Folks, I think, as I've predicted, not investment advice. I don't do investments. Uh, I do I give protection advice. If you're gonna take your fake money and put it into an asset, physical gold and silver is a good way to go. Uh, you know, other things too. Uh, it doesn't have to be just gold and silver. You can't eat gold and silver. But look at this is money, folks. This is a reflection of value. This is a reflection of energy. And economics, although it may take a while, you know, sometimes you can suppress something. But this is economics, folks. This is coming out in full force. And I can tell you something really interesting about this$50.20 an ounce silver price. We're just getting started. Some things, and I say things, are buying silver at a record clip. I mentioned over the past year the decision for Russia to put silver as a strategic reserve asset on their books officially. There could be other governments doing that, the BRICS Nations, especially, anybody who's eyeing to look at that gold-silver ratio and go, hmm, I wonder what's wrong with that. See, you don't have to be a genius to figure that one out. You know, I'm 100, not 90, not 85. And so there's something wrong with that. Geologically, Earth it's 17 to 1. So if you're dabbling, it's a pretty good bet that something's wrong with that and it's going to readjust sooner or later when the paper markets and some of the magic tricks wear off, and people start calling these contracts for delivery. Yeah, something's with that. And I think we're just getting started. The reason I say that that things, entities, what did Mitt Romney say? Corporations are people, my friend. Just an idiot. He said that at the I think at the Iowa caucus or something, or it was the Iowa straw pole. I'm like, why would you do that in front of working people? Say corporations are people. He's a vulture capitalist, not a venture capitalist. But anyway, the the entities are buying. And if you're a current Wolfpack member, you are dollar cost averaging. Very smart. You're doing a good job. And that's a good way to buy gold, too, is through something like Wolfpack, where we buy it for you, and then you get to see some of the price, and we're gonna talk about this in a second, some of the price fluctuations that are bound to happen. You're gonna have profit taking, and people say, Oh, see, it was just uh it was just a bull market, it just run up. No, this is this is history, folks. This is the change of the monetary order of things. You're witnessing it in real time. It's fascinating. So$50.17 as of right now for the white metal, and we are just getting started. I have people by my business is inverted. I mean, you'd be smart to give me a call and trade in some of your fiat for silver right now, because I don't think we're gonna, I think when we blow past this, we're almost to the all-time high. It took us 45 years to get here. My entire life. 45 years to get to this all-time. We're gonna blow past that. And I think that will open up a floodgate of things. Because$52.50 in 1980, it's worth about$300 today in purchasing power. Something is amiss. I even ran the gold-silver ratio to what gold and silver were to each other in 1980, which was probably the correct metric before massive intervention by the Fed and Paul Volcker and interest rate raising, and then you had Reaganomics and all the stuff that papered over. It's 16 to one. I found that out running a doing the calculations live on the David Knight show a couple weeks ago. I said, Oh, see, that's that's where it was correct, was 45 years ago. So something is amiss, still so cheap. And I promise you, like people are selling massive amounts of silver to me right now, and I'm having to sell it to the trading floor. Don't make me do that. You can just give me a call. Get in between those deals and the trading floor, and I'll give you a great deal. Because right now, and by the way, this is some little intel. Um, used to we get spot. You go to a wholesaler, can't get that anymore because they're buying so much silver and they're offloading it to, again, multinationals, central banks, other places. I I don't know. I don't have that access. I just get it to the trading floor and then it goes somewhere because if it wasn't, the price wouldn't be nearing all-time highs. And gold certainly wouldn't be breaking all-time highs. But now they're taking a week to give me credit. So people are offloading stuff, and you know, I have limited capital. I'm just small business. I got two locations, I do what I can. But I'm telling you, there is this is history. I've never seen this, but I'm built for it. It's fun. I don't have Beans the Brave today. Uh, she is uh in the Ozarks, she's protecting the homestead. He's hanging out with Charlie, who Charlie the Chocolate Labrador has a cone. And uh I don't I think the cone got taken off, but she keeps going deep in the woods and finding things to fight with. The sweetest dog in the world and uh likes to fight a little bit. So I got beans there as a backup for char char today. All right, first article of the day. Hey, we're 13 minutes in. I'm gonna go to the chat too, and we'll we'll definitely go to the rumble chats. You got questions, you want to talk about any of this stuff in the headlines. I was uh right before we went live, I sat down and I hit the live stream button, and I was going to find the music time on my laptop, and I just this thought clicked in my head. I'm like, I need to talk about the Hobbesian war of all against all. I haven't even thought of that in years. But uh that's where we are, folks. Let's go to the first order of business. Oh, I need to put this on the screen. Hold on. Just being my own producer today. All right, this is Kitco. Folks, gold will hit 4,400 by Q2 in 2020. That's a nice uh that's one of these projections. So any correction is a buying opportunity. So says TDS Bart Mellick. Gold's definitive move above 4,000 an ounce could create some volatility in the marketplace, but there is very little to stop this bull market's momentum, according to one market analysis. In his latest note on Gold's rally, Bert Mellick, head of commodity strategy at TD Securities, said that given the speed and magnitude of gold's rally, there is a risk that some investors will take profits in the near term. He noted that gold's breakout in August prices have rallied$670 an ounce, rising more than 20% in two months. Folks, gold was$1,100 an ounce in the first quarter of 2020. I just want to remind you that. So it rose since August,$670 an ounce. At the same time, with spot gold last trading at$4,043.80 an ounce, prices are up more than 50% since the start of the year. The yellow metal looks overbought, which suggests anything may question the speed of the Fed's easing or an increase in volatility could generate a robust downside. That's basically a fancy way of saying profit taking or the illusion that we're not in a transference of wealth like we've never seen in the history of man. This is because you can't tell that to people. You can't come out and say, oh, by the way, we're gonna replace all of this system, this experiment since 1971. We're gonna replace this with a blockchain digitized system that's a public-private partnership, which is the definition of fascism, by the way. But if we're gonna replace this, this system that you've known and you've grown up with, and there was a big, you know, there's a lull in the volatility of it because one, we were the Cold War victors, which I'm gonna talk about a little bit today. There was this hegemonic dominance of the dollar, and we kind of did what we wanted, and we racked up the debt from 1 trillion when I was born to 37 trillion now. Unfunded liabilities and the what quadrillions or whatever it is, and then a foreign policy of absolute bankruptcy and tripwires set up by people no longer alive, committing Americans yet unborn to fight in places that most people can't find on the map. So a lot of genius behind the decline and fall of the American Empire. Way to go. Looking at the growing downside risk, Mellix said that given gold's gains, there is a potential for prices to fall as low as$3,600 an ounce. I don't disagree with that. But again, the best way to buy right now is to do something like Wolfpack or one of my competitors or from the local shop down the street. I'm that's not an infomercial. I'm just saying that kind of buying, if you can dollar cost average, because you will see some dips. Don't listen to people that do some crazy metric, like you're gonna have this, it's always up and to the right, and you know, silver's gonna be 5,000 announcer or some crazy number. I've been hearing that stuff for my entire career. While risk of a correction or building, Mellick also sees price lower prices as a buying opportunity as he expects gold's uptrend to remain intact through the first half of next year. Yeah, I just I think this is a decoupling. So you don't turn the average financial talking head on one of these next networks, you know, went to a fancy school and they have all these degrees and they have all this stuff and they read the teleprompter. But they're not talking about Basel III, they're not talking about the Bank of International Settlements in 2021 that makes took gold from a tier three asset to a tier one asset, which is a currency again. And then by that metric, after the invasion of Ukraine by Russia and the sanctions that blew up in our face called blowback, gold surpassed the Euro as the second most held reserve asset. So they stopped holding those currencies. And even the European central bank came out and said, uh we think that gold is a threat to the to the financial order. You think so? Then why don't you hold your own stuff? Do you hold your own currencies? That's kind of weird, isn't it? That these currencies held by these central banks. Like, why I thought your own why isn't you you create the money? Oh, you hold something else. That's interesting. Looking uh through near-term volatility, TD securities forecast gold prices to average around$4,250 an ounce next year.

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While broad central bank gold demand has created long-term value in the gold market, TD securities said that momentum is now being driven by investment demand as the Federal Reserve restarts its easing cycle. Yeah, quantitative easing. That is currency creation. And it's not like they have a reserve. There is no reserve at the Federal Reserve. It's currency creation, also known as money printing. Um you can call it anything you like. It's an injection of made-up funds into the system. And the closer you are to the money printer, the better off you are. That's why all these um big multinationals stay really close to the gravity of that. It's not real entrepreneurs. They always get bailed out. Gore Vidal said it. I love his quote from years ago. We have socialism for the rich and free enterprise for the poor. If you're listening to this show, by metrics of people that are close to the central bank, we're all poor. We're a few paychecks away from not being able to make payroll or make our mortgage or make our car payment. We don't have access to a printing press. And the closer you are to that velocity, the better off you are in the, I guess, for the foreseeable future until that system gets replaced with something else. The way you hedge against it is when that trickle down flows down to you and you get your green pieces of paper, which are energy transference. Read Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars. First chapter. When you get that energy transference, you put it into something that houses value, something finite. I have a little bit of I try I wanted it one of these articles I look up. And then you'll reach one of these sites, it's a pay site. Just stop it already. Do people really do that? Do you only subscribe? Like it puts a link out on its social media, like the Financial Times or one of these. And you can never read, you have to have to join to read the Financial Times. I mean, come on. And then uh what's the ethics of that? Are you do you get access to the article because I read it? I don't I don't like it. There shouldn't be paywalls on stuff. Not like that. It's a paper. You know, have advertising, have something. Give you give you a few articles. I don't know. Subscribe. It's it's ridiculous. But I couldn't read it. It was about Bitcoin and gold miners. And uh gold miners are having their day. Meanwhile, TD Securities expects that central banks, led by China, will continue to diversify away from the US dollar and into gold even after China's aggressive purchasing program since 2022. Melick noted that the central bank's gold reserves represent about 7.6% of total reserves. China has way more gold, folks, than it's on the books. They started buying off the books secretly at the beginning of the 21st century. Now, why is that? Do you know that on the anniversary of when uh Hitler declared war on the United States, exactly, I believe 60 years to the day, uh, which that was December 11th, 1941. Uh, George W. Bush gave China most favored trading status for nations and got them into the WTO and did a sweetheart deal with China. And then under the Bush presidency, we lost 55,000 factories, one in three manufacturing jobs, and it was so bad, it was so catastrophic, that the Bush administration started putting uh fast food workers as manufacturing because they built sandwiches. Go look that up. There is much more room for China to grow its gold holdings when compared to the US is nearly 75%, Sherry said. I don't believe that, but this is like this is standard conventional knowledge. I've read again, because China's a net importer, not exporter of gold. They have 60,000 gold mines. 60,000. So they're working around the clock to amass gold because there's a race for value. Yeah, they don't tell you that on TV. But the Chinese know it. And uh they're racing towards that. They're getting more and more gold. I've read estimates that they have between public-private around 16,000 tons, which is what we supposedly had at the end of World War II. We're supposed we have 8,000 and a half tons right now. That's neither here nor there. But it's not this, it's not 7.6% of the total share. All right. Yeah, it says this suggests that if China is truly diversifying from US dollars, its purchasing program will take many years. Well, I think they've accelerated that. Every once in a while you uncover some thing where gold transferred away and it why were they buying it secretly? Governments keep their assets, true assets, secret. You know, they keep it more secret than where their nuclear weapons are held. It's the golden rule, folks. He who has the gold makes the rules. I don't like that rule. But we live on planet Earth. Alright, we're gonna jump into some domestic and then foreign policy, and I'll I'll do a little hodgepodge. It'll it'll be fun. It'll be a hybrid. But I wanted to discuss Thomas Hobbes. Very important philosopher. Wrote Leviathan. It's interesting, you know, that book, and I haven't read all of it, but I've I've got it on my shelf behind me. I've skimmed through it over many years looking at quotes and different things that Hobbes said. Don't agree with Hobbes a lot, but on this particular matter about the war of all against all, it really does ring true. And he named his book Leviathan, which is supposed to be the ship of state. And in the Bible, a Leviathan is a giant crocodile. And I don't know why people don't put that together. It's the same thing, you know. Um as Nietzsche said, uh the state is a cold monster. Let's go to the chat really quick. I always get into these shows and then I don't look to the chat enough. Jody Leslie says, Hobbes, try Kant, if not Aristotle outright, Tony. Too much coffee there. Oh, I love all of them. Um I like uh I love Aristotle, love the golden mean, and I'm I'm wearing Frederick Nietzsche. I didn't do that on purpose, I just like the shirt. Let's see, Bronck Stomper 111 says, My boss started talking to me about gold and silver out of nowhere a few weeks ago. He's now a member of the Wolf. Thank you. I got the next iteration of Wolfpack. By the way, folks, I need your prayer. This is the I feel like I'm in the twilight zone because I'm in the middle of a monetary revolution, and I just I cannot get my systems. I say this is not the right language. Let me retrace my steps. I've had the hardest time just finding the right fit to fix some of the e-commerce stuff that I have. You would not believe the amount of people that I my team and I have gone through, and it's just this one continue. It should be so easy, but it is not. I built the the site, I built Wolfpack on a site I shouldn't have built it on. I didn't know. I just thought the internet was the internet, you know. I didn't know. I didn't know. I thought, well, you could have all these apps and they plug in, they're universal, they're not. And we could have been already five times as large as I am right now. It's fine. We do okay. But the next iteration of Wolfpack, and uh you can take this to the bank. I will make this happen is the the ability for everyone to be an affiliate, everybody. You can just sign up, and if you want to get a referral fee, and then we can just you can see them accumulate and we pay based off that. I'm happy to do that. That's the way that we're gonna break it because we can't do uh normal marketing with normal things for some reason. Like it's just doesn't work. We spend a lot of money on radio and other things, and like it's just a zero percent return. Like it just has to be people that know us and see the product, and it works. Let's see. I see Billy Ray Valentine in the chat. He says, sir, you don't have to call me that anymore, Billy. We've uh we've been friends for years. You can stop with the formalities. All right. Let me see. Digital uh uh Demonto Force? Is that right? Uh that's what's up, Tony. I see BRV is watching too. He he is watching, he's always watching, always watching us. Let me check the uh rumble chat as well, and then we're gonna dive into some domestic policy. Let's see, Skunk Hollow Rose Guard. I like that name. Is that a place? A good final stake through the heart of the dollar would be a new release, Jimmy Carter$20 bill. Um well, you know, poor Jimma. He was a you know what it's funny. Um my mom called me about six months ago or more, maybe it was longer, but uh, she runs an antique mall. And she said, I've got a signed picture of Jimmy Carter that's going up on Oxford. And it was like for a great picture that's actually signed, like a legitimate sign. And I bought it and I hung it up in my kitchen in Denison. And I love that picture because Jimmy Carter was is or was a good man and um was a was a terrible president. Um and it's it's kind of a reminder to me, and maybe I'm being a little bit getting off into the weeds a little bit. But you gotta have a little bit of he didn't have the whatever that is, that little bump of the darkness. You gotta have just a little, just a taste of it to know what you're looking at. I don't think he really had that. I mean, he he was a brave guy in some way, like you know, he is a Navy veteran and he went to Three Mile Island during after post-meltdown. I don't I don't think he was without courage. I think the issue was he didn't know what he was looking at. That's my opinion, you know, with Zignu Brzezinski and the trial these people, he was part of the Trilateral Commission. They they had recruited him, you know, but I don't think in his heart that he was that way. Um and he you know stood up against uh you know, he wrote that book on Israel, Peace Not Apartheid. I thought that was uh, you know, pretty he wasn't just a fall-in-line kind of guy, but it just reminds I think good man wasn't built for that. So I read a story once that after he was uh briefed, uh, this like first briefing, somebody walked in and he was sitting in the Oval Office at his desk just crying. Because basically they you know came in and told him, you know, you're a figurehead. And uh this is how it really works.

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I'm just checking the chat. Steve says, I sure missed you on the David Knight show. I I missed me on the David Knight show today, too. I just texted David yesterday. I said, I gotta catch up on work. I've been at a drive yesterday to get back up to Missouri to transport stuff and do all the things. Dustin Helms says, I'm gonna try to make it to the grand opening of the new Denison store next week. Maybe Tony will be handing out samples. I think we have samples. Uh Yeka texted me this morning about some things we may give away. And uh that is on the 15th. And everybody's invited. I think it's at three o'clock. You can email us for confirmation. I think it's in Denison. We're wise wolf gold, silver, bitcoin in the old bank. The new the new old bank. We are open and ready to go. So that's Wednesday. Come see us. All right. Steve's wise wolf gold at the$50 level, perhaps 90% quarters and dimes going forward. That's a good way to go. We got deals on those. I'm telling you, we got deals on, you get a constitutional wolf, 250 bucks. And we're we're trying to load those lower packages up with some variety, too. It's just getting tougher and tougher. The packages get lighter and lighter. Charlie Robinson said, I think you can just put the Alpha Wolf in like an envelope now. And it used to be a box, you know. And I said, I know, man. You know, it's the prices. So if you've been with me for a while, you're you're doing good. And I think you'll continue to do well in the coming reset. Perhaps nothing great about it. All right. Let's go to Bronx Stopper 111. Damn, I'm pretty sure I've got three to four people to sign up over the last few years. Well, just email me and uh we're we'll look into that. Maybe we'll get you uh some of those free samples, okay? I like to take care of my people. All right. Um, let's go into so the headlines, you know, we've got Activist Post and the Mises Institute. This is the domestic issue. I want to try to cover all of this. Hold on, let me put this up. Get this on my screen here. We know we got these deployments, and I want to discuss that a little bit. You know, we have uh those of us in that study the conspiracy theory of history, I mean really study it. Not we don't watch TikTok videos for our research. I mean, people that actually read books still. Um how many of us are there left? But that those of us who can that subscribe to that, that believe that not everything's organic, that at the top, you know, you make decisions and uh there's things called false flags. There's also things, if we just crossed the anniversary of October 7th, and it's hard to know what's real anymore, right? But I saw, I believe, a real video of Charlie Kirk talking to Patrick Beck David about a stand down order that Israel, you know, is that was it a stand down order on October 7th, you know, was it a stand down? As I look at this uh issue with the Trump administration and a lot of the things that uh Billy Ray Valentine's brought up about this lurch to the supposed right. I don't necessarily think it's to the right, I think it's to um the totalitarian sway or whatever you want to, the centralized power is what it's lurching towards. And you look at the um the deployment of National Guard and the crossing of borders with you know, the commander-in-chief takes over from this is a states' rights issue. But I I just really think, and I'll let you guys think about that. There must have been think of the law fair, think of everything that went into stopping the second Trump administration. Think of all of the raiding of Mar-a-Lago, the I talked about this as it was going on, the the law, the lawsuits, the the prosecutions, the all this, the all that, right? And everything, and nothing ever went anywhere. It's like a putting something on a trajectory. You know, it's the the strategy of tension, if you will. It's like the putting him out, he has to be the one. It's the one under fire, this is the one under siege, it's the one under this being persecuted, and all of the rest. And then you get to the election, and of course, everybody comes out later and says, Oh, well, Biden was um, we just didn't know, you know, Joe Scarborough was like, This is the best Biden ever. He's cogent. I remember all this. I've never seen him so spry, you know, all that kind of stuff. And people just lied. And then it's just uh that what July debate in 24. And it's just apparent the guy, you know, it's just this hollow shell of his former self. I mean, and he wasn't even great back in the day, but it was just terrible. I mean, awful. It's like watching it's elder abuse, and then they just kind of stand down. I mean, that you have all the money, you have all the power, but you just kind of stand down. And I'm starting to think as we get into this article on the Mises Institute, I'm starting, I think this is a temporary aberration that whatever if MAGA really isn't awake and if they feel like they're winning, you're not winning. Because this is setting a precedent. It's like David Knight says, this is precedent Trump. He sets precedence. If this continues to go this way, and it seems like, by the way, this is like token response, too. They the other side wants this because it sets the precedent, because this country shouldn't even really have a Republican president. Have you read that have you looked at the actual numbers? It's a it's it's so close to call. Trump only won by 80,000 votes spread over four states in 2016. I mean, you gotta you have to be terrible to lose to him. And that's if even now if you want to question the validity of elections, which I'm right there with you. I mean, read Don Jeffrey's Hidden History about vote scam. I mean, I'm not voting. Unless it's in a local election, I mean I'm close to the earth on it. I'm not, I'm not gonna vote in a presidential election. I'm just not. I don't see any evidence that it I'm what am I voting for, by the way, at this point. But start to look at this in that paradigm. This is this is something over days and days I've been thinking about, like when I drive in silence with beans, and you know, we I just take an hour just to not think about anything or answer the phone and just drive, right? You know, or just whatever, or just sit. There's something to that because this is precedence. We're gonna set a precedent for totalitarian power grabs. And this country, by the way, on purpose, is being reset as a coast-to-coast California, which has permanent rule by one party. And that party is the Democrat Party, or whatever you want to call it. It's like they stood down and they want this precedent to be set because you have to agree with it, right? And you have to cheer it on. I saw something that Sam Tripoli reposted the other day by some idiot, and it said it was talking about how based Trump was because he wanted to have public executions of whatever drug dealers or whatever. He said it was based. And I thought the correct reply to that tweet should be um also the Epstein client list, the one that doesn't exist. Maybe we should public execution of that too, right? Right. These people are brainwashed, like you can't see the fascism that they're rolling out. Well, just for the record, I see it. Billy Ray Valentine says we don't have a Republican president. Oh, that's true. The Republican Party checked out years ago, by the way. If they ever really were a thing. You know, they started in the 1850s in Wisconsin as a um proto-communist commune. This Republican Party has its roots in supporting Karl Marx. I literally go look it up. It's interesting. Fruit of a poisonous tree, perhaps. All right. I'm gonna get into the article, or I never will. Again, activist posts. Go see all the stuff that my friend Charlie Robinson's putting up over there. Good great site. I happily sponsor it. Trump's National Guard deployment centralized power and undermined federalism. So says the Mises Institute. Ryan McMain. In recent weeks, the Trump administration has deployed or threatened to deploy National Guard troops at least five American cities, including Chicago, Portland, Los Angeles, and New Orleans. Many of Trump's supporters have cheered this, claiming that it is the responsibility of the president to send federal troops wherever he determines they are needed. In some cases, deployments have occurred over the objections of the governments in the states where the troops are deployed. This has led to a complex legal situation with the governments of California and Oregon suing the administration over the deployments. Judges, pundits, and lawyers were surely continued to argue for some time over the current legality of these deployments, as interpreted by federal judges in federal court. The fact is, this is a matter of debate at all. However, it illustrates how far the United States has come from the American revolutionary's vision of federal of a federal republic with a greatly limited and decentralized military force. In the founding era, Americans feared the existence of a standing army that could be deployed at the will of the federal officials. Moreover, Americans demanded that the states maintain their own independent militias that could not be subjected to federal control without the cooperation of state officials. This attitude is now long gone. Instead, we find that both left and right in the United States now generally support more federal control, depending on which political party is in power or which group is on the receiving end of new federal prerogatives. At this moment, it is the right that is in power. And so it is now conservatives who are clamoring for more federal power to deploy troops, expand federal law enforcement, and further bury the last few vestiges of the sovereignty once enjoyed by states' governments. You know, states don't have rights. States have powers. Decentralization is the only way that you have a functioning republic, which we've, I don't know, you can argue that that that Rubicon was crossed a long time ago. No pun intended. States have powers, and you know, it's like much like Congress, it's the muscles of atrophy, these states just getting federal money. It's like, you know, they're in the COVID era, the 1984, COVID-194. You had the whole all the trillions that were being passed out, and all these governors, you know, doesn't matter. Blue, red states, all the same to fund the lockdowns. And you had places like Texas, you know, Greg Abbott's been in power since 2014. How's that border, Greg? Doing a great job. You have the power not only to call up the National Guard, because that's the state's prerogative, again, because of the militia. And they don't. Now they don't do it properly, or they'll use it for window dressing. And again, it goes on to talk about the dangers of a standing armory and the creation of a decentralized military in America. In the very early years of the United States, American political sentiment was heavily against any standing army under federal control. As summarized by Griffin Bovey at the Journal of the American Revolution, few ideas were more widely accepted in early America than that of a danger of a peacetime standing army. This anti-standing army sentiment motivated colonial opposition to post-French and Indian War British policies, intensified after the Boston Massacre, influenced the writings of most founding fathers, and remained politically relevant well after the Revolutionary War ended. This sentiment remained largely unchallenged until the introduction of the U.S. Constitution for the public ratification. The Constitution's Army Clause, which allowed the U.S. Congress to raise and support armies with biennial funds, sparked a nationwide debate that pitted tradition against innovation, precedent against necessity, and federalism against nationalism. This has always been a great contention. And even Eisenhower spoke about it in his farewell speech where he talked about the military-industrial complex. You know, he says in the past, we've always been to able to, you know, beat our uh plow shares into swords, you know, and uh respond to outside threats. This is, you know, this was like the the citizen soldier. You're going back to the Texas Revolution, this was it was uh a great debate on who was in charge, was it Travis or Bowie? You know, Travis was in charge of the regular army and Bowie was in charge of the militia. They eventually worked together towards their their demise. But that was the that was the difference. You know, Andrew Jackson was a general of the militia. And very powerful. This is like the standing militia. This was a but it was a different a different sect of the military than just the regular standing army. And it's interesting too and I you know opening up talking about this, we're crossing so many like we've departed from where we've been in the past with uh federal overreach and decentralization of power. But Congress, just like these governors, have atrophied. They've abdicated their power. It's kind of like, oh, now I have this reflexive need to defend my my territory and have sovereignty, and I'll use the Ninth and Tenth Amendment. Like, oh they don't even know that language, it's just left them. But all of this about this is not part of our history. And I don't think, you know, even these federal agencies, you know, people have this is the United States of amnesia. People don't have these memories like they used to. I'm go back to 2020. They you think the power structure or the ideals, the ideology of has changed from these alphabet agencies, they still thought, even while Portland was daily being, yeah, they had Molotov cocktails being thrown at them and the DHS agents. I remember this. They were removing their name tags because they were so intimidated by Antifa, they didn't want to be doxxed. Like the families of DHS, you know, they didn't want to, and then they were like, no, this the most, you know, the the threat domestically is the right. They didn't even mention the left. I don't think that that is changed much. I think this is a grab for centralization and for power, just disguised as something else. Much like the war in Venezuela is not a bad. It's funny. Uh I I was doing some research before the show began, and this kind of bleeds together the war, the Hobbesian war of all against all. I want to read you a little bit of that. No industry, no culture, no, no navigation, no knowledge of the earth, continual fear and danger of violent death, and the life of man shall be solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. And this is where there's no cohesion, there's no order of things, right? This is where you get the Hegelian dialectic, uh, the bigger the chaos, the bigger the order, you know, or order ab chao. And that's where they reinstall the order after all the chaos, but you have all the domestic, and then you have the foreign policy. So I looked up a little something for you today. And it has to do with Venezuela, because I was like, you know, where does Venezuela fit in all this? Venezuela holds the largest proven oil reserves on earth. 300 billion barrels right there in the western hemisphere. And of course, Caracas started doing business in Yuan, rubles, gold, and they've been doing that for quite some time. This isn't about cartels. The um point of contention, and I looked it up because I wanted to talk about the Wolfowitz memorandum. And part of the Wolf the post-Wolfowitz memorandum was about energy backdrop. And this is where you get the addition to this chess piece, which is I've talked about before. I'm looking for the actual um phrase that was used when I looked it up. If you'll bear with me. Again, it's fits with the Wolfowitz memorandum, and I want to talk to you a little bit about as we close the show. Back in 1992, Paul Wolfowitz, uh neocon. This was a leak mem memorandum. The key points of the memorandum, this was uh at the Pentagon, Paul Wolfowitz. I think he was one of the people that George W. Bush called the the bomber boys. Uh I had to pull security once for Paul Wolfowitz when he came to briefly uh look at the damage that his ilk had done, the uh neocon uh boys, the smart set, uh his class project known as the Iraq War. And then he wrote this memorandum that was leaked, and we're not deviating from that. As a matter of fact, you know, this antiwar.com has three different articles about where we're headed with NATO and war in Europe. Nothing changed. And if you think the Venezuela is part of uh something about cartels, this is the misdirection. You know. It's like, do you think that the troops being sent into these cities is about immigration or something uh akin to that, or law and order, or whatever? I don't buy it. This is the strategy of the Wolfowitz memorandum. The strategy reasoned that after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the U.S. would be the world's only superpower, and the challenge would shift to preventing any other state from rising to challenge that status. The memo argued that the U.S. must maintain its military dominance, so the sense of the world order is ultimately backed by the U.S. and credible. It asserted that the U.S. should be able to act independently when needed rather than always relying on multilateral frameworks like the UN. The draft proposed the U.S. should sometimes strike first, i.e., preemptively, against threats, even before they fully materialize, especially in cases involving weapons of mass destruction. In fact, one draft said the U.S. should be ready to preempt the use of nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons by any other nation, even where our interests are otherwise not engaged. So that means the whole world. This is in a post-9-11 world, but especially from Russia. The memorandum explicitly warned against allowing Russia, then still a Soviet successor state, to re-emerge as a military or geopolitical rival. It stated the first objective of U.S. policy in the post-Cold War era was to prevent the re-emergence of a rival new superpower, either in the territory of the former Soviet Union or elsewhere. Our first objective is to prevent the re-emergence of a new rival that poses a threat to the order. The memo argued that Eastern Europe should remain under the U.S. and Western influence to prevent Russia from regaining dominance. This meant supporting NATO expansion eastward, even before it was officially on the table in the 1990s. And NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, was created to thwart the Soviet Empire. They also had the Warsaw Pact. But when the Soviet Union collapsed, the Warsaw Pact collapsed with it. But somehow NATO expands. And you know, there was a great line from the Soviet propagandist that at the end of the war, uh Cold War, uh, the Soviet Union was collapsing. And he said, We've done something far greater to you than than defeat you. So we've taken your enemy away, and now you were lost. I've always remembered that line. Yeah, it's about preventing regional hegemons, Russia, China. Russia was the archetype of a regional hegemon that could dominate a vital area in Eurasia. The memo suggested the U.S. should be willing to use force, alliance, or preemptive policy prevent any such power from rising. This has always been the Wolfowitz memorandum. That's where their thinking lies. The neocons never went away. It's all uh smoke and mirrors, folks. How's that how's that peace presidency working out? Got everything back on all wars back on the table. It never was off. Funny, huh? Yeah, it was a secure energy backyard. That was the phrase I was looking for earlier about Venezuela. And that's part of the hemispheric energy chessboard. That's uh actually what I typed in. I was looking for hemispheric energy dominance. And that has to do with uh the Wolfowitz memorandum. These things are interlinked cartels.

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I mean, not that they these alphabet agencies need cartels really much anymore. You used to, when they had budget oversight, you know, when Wild Bill Donovan and Jesus Jones, Angleton, and all these guys at the beginning of the formation of the Central Intelligence Agency when they were selling uh dope uh heroin to the you know the jazz clubs and stuff and bringing in heroin and other things. When they did that to fuel their black budgets and black ops and stuff, I mean they had to like raise capital and the same thing through the you know into the 70s and 80s. But then they would then we just started hitting that printing press, the real crackpipe. And there's no more oversight. So they just do what they want. And I don't think they really need to run drugs. I guess they can if they want, but um not a need for it when you have the printing press. All right, well, I appreciate each and every one of you. I'm uh I'm gonna plug for 60 seconds. You've got uh I didn't realize the time. Um always great to be here with all of you, and uh and I'll look forward to being back next week. I'll run a live show as much as I can. I didn't want to do one today. I was uh just tired of traveling, but uh appreciate you being here. It means a lot to me. Wolfpack.gold, uh precious metals delivered directly to you, not paper. We uh will send you precious metals from my shop in Missouri, and I source them from all over the country, but uh mainly Texas and Missouri. And uh get your hands on some dollar cost average, real money. Okay. Uh interesting, interesting times ahead. May you live an interesting time. Uh, we'll be back next week. Uh tune into America Unplugged uh on Saturdays, 12 Eastern. Billy Ray Valentine, Donald Jeffries, myself, and uh possibly Beans the Brave. Maybe she'll be back in studio by Saturday. We'll see you guys then. I hope you have a great weekend. Take care of each other. End of transmission.