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We have before us the opportunity to forge for ourselves and for future generations a new world order. Good evening, folks. We're listening to the hour of the time. I'm William Cooper.

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Veteran of three foreign wars. Entrepreneur and warrior poet. Tony Araburn takes on the issues facing our country, civilization, and planet. This is the Aarburn radio transmission.

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To conduct the show. She's going to keep us safe from Woodland Creatures, Bad Vibes, Intruders, all of that. It is the 4th of June 2026, ladies and gentlemen.

Money Begins As A Warning

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You know, uh Harry Truman said that the only thing new under the sun is the history you don't know. And I was driving up yesterday from Texas. I was listening to a history of money, and one of the chapters was about the first debasement of coins in Rome. And it was Nero who first debased the coinage. And I thought it was apropos because we're talking about the $250 Trump bill. If you look at the history of what actually money is and the root of it, uh you'll find this fascinating. It's one of the things like history itself, it speaks to us. It's a way to decode the present. And you look at the history of the Roman mint, uh, you go back to uh around the third century BC, and they had a temple for the goddess Juno, who was the patron goddess of Rome, and they were under attack by the Gauls, which are now the modern-day French. They were under attack by the Gauls, but before the Gauls could reach this uh citadel, they'd reach this palace and a temple for the temple of Juno. There was a flock of geese that flew over and warned the Roman soldiers they were able to repel the Gauls. And so they renamed the temple for Juno Moneta. So it's the goddess of warning. Moneta means warning. And that's where you started to see like the first Roman gold and silver coinage. That's where you get the term money, it's moneta, which means warning. So the root of all money is warning. And there's a lot to be said for that. I've talked about that for years, but the more that I dive into the current headlines and you look at uh the infrastructure that's being built, not only the AI surveillance state through these data centers and other things, but the new world is being constructed right now. And to distract you from that, it's funny, they they really do, they run the same plays. We'll talk about

Spectacle Politics And Modern Distraction

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this. Let's let's put up the headlines of of Drudge, and then I want to read you something that stuck out in my mind as soon as I saw this, and and David and I were talking about a little bit about this this morning. Kind of been a P.T. Barnum since. Let's put this headline on Drudge and talk about it for a second. The uh President Camacho uh rollout of the Gladiator White House spectacle. And of course, the top investor is a Saudi, which of course it is. The Don's birthday meltdown and all the rest of these. This is the um the headline on Drudge, and it shows the the octagon and all the stuff built for the UFC fight and everything that's gonna go on at the White House. And it just kept rolling around in my mind. There was a a series on, I believe it was A E years ago with Kelsey Grammar. And if you know anything about Kelsey Grammar, he's very intelligent and he he understands uh the conspiracy theory of history from from some some insider knowledge I've been told from people that actually know him. And um so he understands the conspiracy theory of history. Well, there was this show called Boss that he was on, and he plays the mayor of Chicago. I it it's not for kids, but if you ever wanted to like it is very well done as like a political drama, it's it's dark, and but there's a lot of realism in it and realpolitik and like how things actually work, and especially as something like it's kind of mirroring the way the history was with mayor Daly, you know, of Chicago, and who had so many ties to the mob and helped Kennedy get elected and was a force unto himself. I mean, Kennedy was afraid to cancel on Daly, right? Well, the the show has this scene, and he's and I don't want to ruin if you ever want to watch it, but he's like he's got this brain disease where he kind of like floats off and does like stream of consciousness in the middle of something. And I remember him saying something once and he repeated it, and so I just stored that away. I'm talking years ago, but today when I looked at the headline of Drudge, I remembered this scene, and so I I took some of the key phrases of what he's he's muttering and I typed it in to see if it would link up with anything, and it does.

Juvenal And The Logic Of Bread

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And it was a quote from the Roman poet uh Juvenile. Let me pull this up for you real quick. I want to read it. Let's see. Yeah, this is hold on a second. This is from the around 55 A.D. And this is the Roman poet Juvenal says already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the people have abdicated our duties. For the people who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office legions, everything now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for two things bread and circuses. And the reason I put that together in that scene with Kelsey Grammar is he's he's looking at the way things are being run and all the grime of politics and nothing happening. And he's like, we have neglected our duties, and we have replaced them with bread and circuses. And so much of that is absolutely true. I mean, what are you being distracted from? What are these spectacles that we're being shown? You know, there's a lot of data that's coming out, and uh, thanks to David Knight for mentioning me yesterday on his show. I've been talking a long time, and we're gonna get into some articles today that solidify that.

Fiat Inflation And AI Reality Checks

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But the new infrastructure for the world's reserve currency, which is gold, by the way, the new world's reserve currency is already gold. I said this two years ago, and then I watched more and more of the infrastructure being built. But they're looking at metrics, folks, of inflation data and then using AI to extract real data. And how bad is inflation really? Like, first of all, you can't gauge inflation truly with a fiat currency. Not really, because you're not talking about a static thing. You could have some inflation in a bi-metallic system, especially if there is, like, say in the 19th century where we had the Comstock load, where there's a lot of silver being put into the system, or the 49ers, or there was an explosion of gold across the world. And you can have an uptick and you can have some semblance, and albeit very minimal, but you can have inflation. But when you have a fiat currency, and then that fiat currency links up worldwide with other currencies who also become fiat, there's really no way to gauge how bad inflation truly is. So you go and look at things like assets and you look at the stock market and other things, and so much of it is absolutely fake. And so a lot of these metrics with AI now are coming out. So there's something happening right now, folks. I underlying all of this, whether it's the bread and circuses, uh, with the spectacles, uh, the lure of the casino of traditional markets, uh, you know, the papering over of things, just telling you and calming you down everything's fine. You know, nothing to see here. You know, the price of energy, the price of everything. So you have multiple things going on at once. You've got rising prices in the face of energy and supply shortages, by the way, manufactured uh almost no doubt on purpose to create an energy crisis if you reverse engineer it. You've got that, but you've also got the replacement of the dollar going on in real time. Another metric I talked with David Knight about today was the fact that gold is a risk asset. And you look at how countries use it, not just countries, but multinationals and others, it's a risk asset, and it's also a liquid asset. So when you the war kicked off uh on February 28th, gold shot up temporarily and then came back down. There was a lot of sell-off of gold, and that was because of the price of oil. So there was a huge uh sell-off, and there was uh purchases of crude and other things to cover overages that happened to not only companies, but countries. So you had this go on, and at the same time, the data just came out where even with all that sell-off, central banks net bought and added 17 tons of gold in April. 17 tons. Even with all of the sell-off, even with all of the volatility. So that's why the bread and circuses need to be even more pronounced. That's why the spectacles need to be bigger. That's why the news and the stream and the constant barrage of information that most of the time is useless to you has to be increased. The volume has to be increased, the noise has to be increased. Whereas I have uh my interests, and this is something I learned as a young man. I mean, I I didn't want to pay attention to what I didn't want to pay attention to. My grandmother noticed that about me. I if I want to, you know, pay attention, I will. If not, I probably will block it out. And I have, thank God, I have somewhat of a gift. So I stay pretty myopic on this stuff. And the reason I bring it in to discussions all the time is because it is the focal point, it's the fulcrum of everything that's next. So if you're really paying attention, you know, you have historical forces happening right now. So you can see in real time that you're being distracted for a purpose of all the things that are happening to move away from the system that we grew up in. And it's not a theory. Now you look at Hong Kong, Hong Kong is building the infrastructure for the physical storage of gold. And that's so other countries and multinationals can use it as a hub. But it's not just Hong Kong, it's Singapore, it's the Shanghai Gold Exchange. It's it's everywhere. They're building physical storage houses across the world and satellites, so this can be used as the new currency system. So what happens to the dollar? What happens to all of that? Well, it's going to be replaced, it's going to be repurposed. The dollar's not going to zero, it's going to digital, the digital system. But you've got to have the excuse. You have to have the boogeyman first, you have to have the energy crisis, you have to have all the things that support uh the great reset in that functionality where other systems take its place. There has to be a creative destruction of it. Maintaining the dollar is not going to happen. Not like it, not in its current form, and not what we understood it as we grew up or as we came of age. I mean, I'm now, you know, pretty much an old man at 46. So I I've seen a I've seen a lot of in my lifetime, and I've seen the decline and fall of dollar hegemony.

Bill Cooper On The Roman Circus

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It's just not there anymore. Uh let's speak of bread and circuses, let's uh let's play a clip by the legendary Bill Cooper. Put this I found this on YouTube and I just remembered again, this it's not really surreal when you've lived through what we've lived through. Um, but the fact that so much of history, you know, uh what did Twain say? It doesn't uh repeat itself, but it often rhymes, you know. There's so much to say about that because they do the same things. Human nature doesn't deviate that far from the script. It's just come up with the same because it works, right? I mean, if something works, you just repeat it. All right, let's uh let's put this clip up by the uh the great Bill Cooper real quick. Let me find this. And I will go to uh the chat here in uh in a little bit. I've got an article from Natural News. We're gonna get a little bit more into an announcement by the European Central Bank, and then some some articles by Dave DeCamp up on uh antiwar.com to talk about what's what's happening with Operation Epstein Fury. That's uh let's see where where do I find this? This is uh so many tabs open. There we go. Okay. Let's listen to the great Bill Cooper dollars a year.

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That's why they pay athletes these fantastic salaries. I was listening to the radio the other day. They just contracted to pay one one player on one team six million dollars a year. Can you believe this? And why is that? It's the Roman circus. What does the emperor do when the people become resties, and when the people are asking questions, and when the people don't like the policies of the emperor? He sends them to the circus, he creates a circus, he builds a giant Coliseum, and he begins to throw the Christians to the lions. He has great chariot races and football games and basketball games, all to keep the idiots preoccupied with things that don't mean anything in the scheme of the entire world, so that they don't have the time to learn what the truth is, so they don't ever get smart enough to learn how they're being manipulated, so they don't ever question the emperor. That's why they pay a player on a football team or a baseball team a million or two million or three million dollars a year. It is the Roman circle. I know men who don't know anything in the world except who plays third base for the myths. And they think that's a great accomplishment. And they meet and pat each other on the back and follow and go have cocktails and talk about what this guy that plays third base for the myth did in last night's game. It's sad. It's really sad.

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Oh, it is sad. I wonder what uh William Milton Cooper would think about today's time. Uh, we're definitely down the rabbit hole, Bill. I it's coming up, I think it's gonna be in November. There's a picture behind me of myself and Mr. Anderson. We went out to Eager, Arizona on the 20th anniversary. That's five years uh coming up in November. We went out to Eager, Arizona, drove out there, I did a uh show or at least uh about a 15 or 20-minute broadcast uh from Bill Cooper's old driveway where he was uh murdered, you know, by the police in 2001, uh, November 5th, 2001, uh just after 9-11. And I did a uh uh interview with Donald Jeffries of all people, which is where one of the places that I read about Bill Cooper was in uh Donald Jeffries' work, Hidden History. So it was a crazy uh couple of days and uh interesting. Had a you know, we went to his his graveside, and I have a great picture of uh myself and and Mr. Anderson with that. I'll play that show again uh sometime. But we had a we had a good show. Uh the interview with Don Jeffries, and then we did a show from uh the hotel room just down the street. Uh but it's a lot of adventures here in broadcasting. All right. Uh let's uh let's do one article and then I'm gonna go to the chat and we're gonna talk a little bit about foreign policy. Any questions that you guys have today? Anything that you want to talk about or steer the conversation into, you're welcome to either on on Rumble on the America Unplugged channel or on the YouTube channel. Uh, I'm open to it. Okay, I'll go through the comments if you guys got something you want to talk about or something. I need to check my phone. I still have the the dad line uh for the old man. He said he would uh he would text in if I'd forgotten anything. So I will definitely uh be checking the phone and see if if uh Tony Sr. wants to chime in. But let's go to uh natural news.

ECB Data Shows Gold Taking Over

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Again, I think this news that's coming out is bigger than what is perceived uh in truly understanding. You know, you're not gonna be picking up a lot of this uh information from the mainstream either because they're complicit in papering over it or they don't understand it, which are maybe a combination of both. Uh let's go to naturalnews.com. One second. Let's go to natural news. Where is it? There we go. European central bank, the ECB. Gold surpasses U.S. Treasuries as the global reserve asset. Gold has overtaken U.S. Treasuries as the world's second largest reserve asset held by central banks, according to a European Central Bank ECB report. Bullion accounted for 27% of global central bank reserve assets at the end of 2025, up from 20% a year earlier, the ECB said. In contrast, U.S. Treasuries fell to 22% from 25% over the same period, while Euro dominated reserves remained unchanged at the 15%, the report stated. The shift makes for the first time since 1996 that gold has surpassed treasury bonds as the largest reserve asset held by foreign central banks, according to a separate report. Holdings of gold are near 4 trillion compared to 3.9 trillion in treasuries, the report added. Well, it's more than that. And it's more than just the metrics. One of the, if you like a reverse engineer and you go back through the timeline, folks, what you'll find is it's kind of like the philosopher Schopenhauer's level of truth, you know, like uh the three three phases the truth goes through. Uh first, it you're mocked. Second, you're violently opposed. And third, it's thought of as self-evident. Like it's just, what do you mean? What it's just always been the truth, you know, like the sleight of hand. That's the three phases of the truth. And that's what's happened with gold just in the last four years. You know, it started out uh at 2022, the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, we place these massive sanctions. And not that the trend was already moving away and de dollarizing anyway, but that was an accelerant. It's like pouring, you know, gasoline on a fire. And the ruble, you know, it had a temporary, it fell back. The ruble fell. But then you had a massive repurpose of uh ruble acceptance and all the rest of the stuff that went on because they uh linked it up with, at least in theory, they linked it up with gold in Russia. So the ruble backs bounced back. The dollar usage started to wane uh massively. It went from like 56% into the 40s uh within like a year. So at that time, and I think about 2023, the European central bank said that gold itself was a disruptive element and was destructive to the monetary system itself. It wasn't that long ago. And they've been repeating that for a while. So all of the metrics started to shift with all of the central bank gold buying, with dollar held reserve assets. So this is a massive story. It's one of the things that I keep pointing to, saying, like, if you're paying attention to this, you're really following, you can understand like where the whole system is going. And it's literally just leaving the dollar behind. There will be, I mean, the dollar's gonna be around in 10 years, folks. It's not like it's not gonna be a collapse, but the system itself and what everything is built on is collapsing. ECB president Christine Lagarde said geopolitical tensions continue to drive central bank demand for gold, according to the report. Many countries are diversifying away from the U.S. dollar following the freeze of Russia's dollar reserves in 2022, a move that analysts described as the greatest financial blunder in history for having weaponized the dollar. It's funny because if you've been listening to me, I said that in real time. Like it is unprecedented. If you're paying attention to this stuff and you're focused on it, it was such it's earth-shattering news. You know, the teleprompters and the hairdoes and the people that, you know, the cocktail party folks, like uh, you know, they they they don't really know. I don't think they don't understand it. They take the system itself for granted. Western sanctions, which included freezing approximately 300 billion of Russian central bank assets, were intended as a knockout blow, but instead proved a catastrophic strategic miscalculation. Despite the shift, dollar-dominated assets still represent 42% of global reserves, remaining the largest share, the ECB said. However, the dollar's dominance is under pressure as China sold a record $53.3 billion in treasuries and agency bonds in the first quarter of 2024 alone. You have to remember that the the shift and the bend in the river for all of this is when the United States became, went from being the world's greatest creditor to the world's greatest debtor. Like the the the debt, the the debtor will always be a slave to the debt holder. It's the way that all of this works. Now you can get around it with some fancy things sometimes, and if you're really good, you can become so in debt, like kind of like a Trump or something, which he used that the leverage was so massive that without you, that the banks are in trouble. Like that's a pretty rare thing. Most of the time, and even him, he needed to be bailed out by Rothschild agent Wilbur Ross and stuff in the 90s, you know, with his casino failure. So maybe that point doesn't even hold up. But it's pretty much at every level, you're a slave to the debt holder. And we made that transition from being production, manufacturing, wealth, technology, sound money, uh, arsenal of democracy, manufacturing, all that. We we abandoned that, flipped the script, became consumptive.

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That's how it's funny, consumptive. That's how you describe somebody with like tuberculosis in the 19th century or something. You have consumption, it's consuming you. You we went and made that transition, and it was a it was a quiet one. You know, you had the Midwest and the rust belt was made rusty, you know, kind of hollowed out. A lot of these manufacturing towns and places where you could find a living wage. And if you look at them now, like Appalachia and other places where you know we had a different economic system 60 years ago, and now you look at it and it's depressed, and there's an opioid epidemic and loss of soul and loss of you know purpose and all that stuff. Like it was stripped away from America. And this came like it wasn't necessarily overnight, but it's a long arc, right? And so when you become a consumption nation and you just consume, and your economy is dependent on the creation of more debt. Like eventually mathematics catches up. So you can have, it's funny, there's a there's an example of of this. One of the bands I like is Alice and Chains, you know, back from the 90s. I like the I like all metal and grunge and stuff like that. But one of the albums that they had uh from Jerry Cantrell, the leader of Alice and Chains, he wrote a uh the title of the album is called Jar of Flies. And he tells a story like when he was a kid, they had an experiment. He had two jars of flies where they would feed one jar of flies half as much food as they normally got, and the other, they feed them twice as much. So at first, the jar of flies that ate twice as much and got twice as much food, they flourished, they became bigger, they looked healthier, and then continuing to get more than they needed. And again, um out of balance, they died. But the jar of flies that got half as much, they did really well, and they lasted a long time and longer than the flies that got a normal amount. And he took something away from that. You know, if you look at the unnecessary things and floating through our economy and what, you know, and even our system, our culture, what is considered valuable, what is not, right? It's based off the fakeness, the illegitimacy of our currency. I mean, and everything tracks back to it. I mean, you look at that website WTF happened in 1971, and you look at like the social metrics of it. It's why it's so important. Like where I talk about it all the time. But that system, folks, is coming to an end. It it is being replaced right now. The infrastructure is being built, and the metrics are showing it, just like I've been talking about it for years. Years. This is being supplanted, pay attention. All right, let's finish out this article. Then I'm gonna want to go to the chat. Central banks hold more than 36,000 tons of gold, approaching levels not seen since the Breton Woods era, according to the ECB report. The World Gold Council reported that gold held by foreign central banks was near 4 trillion in January, exceeding their $3.9 trillion in U.S. treasuries as noted. Sustained buying by China, Poland, Turkey, and India helped reshape portfolios with Tether buying over 100 tons in 2025. And we're going to be talking about tether and stable coins. You've got to remember, tether has a $187 billion market cap. It's literally a coin. It's a stable coin that tethers itself. I mean, the words, I mean, the name says it all. It's tethered to the dollar. Uh, but it has a $187 billion market cap. I mean, think about that. So there's something being built here, folks.

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Uh over the past century, the US dollar has lost 99% of its value against gold. And it goes on to talk about uh you know two twenty dollars and sixty-seven cents per troy ounce in 1932. And then in 2020, it was $2,067. I remember when we were at August 6, 2020, when I was hosting for Day but Night, live InfoWars in Austin when it broke 2,000. The decline has accelerated. Gold prices recently traded near $44.64 per ounce. And remember, it's it's been more than a thousand over that, reflecting continued erosion of purchasing power. As one commentator noted, it now requires $4,000 to purchase one ounce of gold, underscoring the dollar's devaluation over time. Yeah. An ounce of gold used to be $20. And if you know anything about world population, economic growth, gold added to the system. Uh if you look at the, I think Alan Estrada was telling me about he wrote the history of gold. It's like twice as much gold as ever been mined, has been added since 1990. So you could add in all of that. And still gold is worth about the same than it was in 1932 relative to what commodities it can purchase. And this is the magic trick. The ECB report confirms a structural shift in global reserve holdings that has been underway for several years. Central banks are increasingly prioritizing gold over U.S. treasuries, driven by geopolitical risk and the desire to reduce reliance on the dollar. While dollar-dominated assets still continue, the largest share of reserves, the trend toward gold accumulation shows no sign of slowing. As one financial analyst observed, gold and silver provide a tangible store of value that continues to appreciate over time compared to depreciating fiat currencies. The implications for global markets include potential upward pressure on gold prices, reduced demand for U.S. treasuries, and gradual reshaping of the international monetary order. Huge story, folks. Like this is the stuff that history is made of. Let me go back to my screen here and take this off. Yeah, huge shifts happening right now. And I didn't want to spend the whole time on like a gold article. But these kind of metrics, and when it's great to when you have people like your heroes, when David Knight uh says that you were right, it's it's it feels good. I was driving up yesterday from from Texas, uh gonna pick up a load of silver and all the rest of the stuff that I do. But I was driving up and uh just listening to the show, listening to David Knight's show, and he brought up my name. It's like Tony Arterman was talking about this two, three weeks ago, you know, and yeah, it finally makes some headlines. But those metrics are being surpassed. I I think it's probably I think it's way worse, probably, for the news itself, and you got to understand keeping you distracted like is the

Watch What Elites Buy

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point. Keeping you in a market, whether it's the stock market or the it's the casino, as my friend Donald Jeffrey says, you know, 80% of people have to lose, so 20% can win. This is the guy that wrote survival of the richest. Go check out Don's book. But it is true. And keeping you involved in that system, like a Ponzi scheme itself, is imperative. While the parasite class, you know, the Epstein class, while they build their golden parachutes, you know, and what are they doing? Don't look at what they say. Not so much. Look at what they do, right? Isn't that the most important part? Like actions speak louder than words. Watch what they do, watch what they buy. You look at Peter Thiel recently. Anyone paying attention to this guy? Like moving to Argentina and having, you know, all these the escape hatch, the bunker, all that stuff, the the uh obsession with the Antichrist, and the guy runs Palantir and has all these ties to intelligence and uh data mining and all of this stuff that goes like the surveillance state, the monster, and this guy's bailing out. You know, sometimes, and maybe they are, you could get like a Howard Hughes type eccentric or something, but generally there's something that in the nervous system of the world economy, and it starts with the financial class, you can see like a uh an immune system response. Something I've noticed like at the end of 2019, that you had the largest exodus of CEOs in history. Just um at a whim, last quarter of 2019, everybody's leaving. Where are you going? And that's the same time that we were just injecting trillions into the overnight markets called the repos. And this is again, a lot of these things are. I mean, we're we've already, I hope you've arrived at that. Like not everything is uh organic, right? Not everything is an organic phenomenon. Like a crisis, never let a good crisis go to waste, right? We didn't let uh COVID-1984 go to waste, right? We had our dark winter, and we had all that stuff that was uh used um for many like to hide stuff. And uh it was said then, even with like when we were I was covering it, saying, I don't care what anybody says, like you're not gonna see the full effects of the damage done to not only the supply chain, but to the currency. You're not gonna see that for years. It's not gonna just show up. I mean, it's too big, the system's too big, but now we're seeing it. And then you add in like, what's the pin that pops the balloon? Like the this the straight of whore moves. Right? You you get a you get a fragile system based off float. You have zombie corporations. You know, there's like hundreds of zombie corporations still left over from like 2008 or nine. Like I I read that in Jim Maher's work, Trillion Dollar Conspiracy, like 10 years ago. Still around. Like they have they propped up companies that just too big to fail or jail or whatever, like dependent on the system. We actually have zombie corporations in America, folks. That's still going on. Like the fragility of the system without constant currency injection will implode. And that's what we're watching. You're literally watching it in real time. All right, let's go.

Chat Check And Platform Housekeeping

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Let's check the comments. I don't know if I've got anything. It's the second week in a row. The old man told me to pay attention to my phone, and I and I have dad. So this is the second week in a row. Uh you're welcome to join it. You'll catch up eventually. Uh, Rhonda Tate is in the chat and Nicholas Wiley. Nick Wiley, good to see you, my friend. Uh Bronkstopper. It says afternoon, all, and then Bob is in the chat. Bob 9509. Thanks, Bob. Good to see you, everybody. Anybody have any uh anything for me you want to join in the chat? You're welcome to. All right, and oh, Gorilla Underground. I know who that. I don't know who the Gorilla Underground is. You know, uh Billy, if you want to join the show, you're welcome to. I'm gonna be covering some anti-war stuff here in the uh last little bit of the show. So you're welcome to jump in the stream or send me a comment or a question. All right, let's go to Rumble really quick. One second. Yeah, you can also find my show on the America Unplugged channel over on Rumble. We need some new subscribers over there. We're at uh 812 as of the as of today, so go over and and join the America Unplugged just in case something happens. It's inevitable, by the way, with any any other platform that I'm on. So go and join all the channels. Let's see. Uh Harps is in the chat and uh let's see. I'm trying, I'm trying to read if there's any uh Amity is in the chat. Yeah. Alexis with the Bricks and MiniFig scandal, along with the uh PSA grading scam, collectible coins are hard to stick in a mailbox. Yeah, they are. You know, it's interesting. We've um recently had some dealings with some customers who've taken uh coins to like local dealers and they find like they got some collectible value. Uh, we're fine with that. Like when you we're just trying to get through and make sure that we got real gold and silver. And my my staff works around the clock. I'm really proud of them and just making sure we verify everything. But people ask, do you grade coins? No, I don't I don't grade coins. Uh we just don't have the time or the manpower. So a lot of times when you join Wolfpack, you know, you'll get a silver dollar worth, you know, technically by the book, maybe two or three times. And it's not guaranteed, but you will get stuff and you will get collectibles and you'll get barber dimes and you know uh barber quarters and seated liberties, even you'll get all kinds of crazy stuff. Um, just because we'll we'll put it through. Uh a dime is a dime, or a quarter is a quarter to us, or a half dollar. So you'll see a lot of that kind of stuff anyway. Appreciate everybody. I'm gonna jump on to the next article.

Stillness As A Modern Superpower

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All right, let's uh let's go over to antiwar.com. Go back over and turn this up here. You know I really need to get my screens fixed up here in Branson. I have a nice studio, as you can kind of see, but I'm I have to run everything off my laptop. I've got two double screens. I miss those days, and it's been every week I say I'm gonna do it. You get every you know, it's funny. My I look up and I'm like, oh, it's Thursday, I gotta do my show. Like it's every week kind of bleeds into the next. I'm sure a lot of you can understand. I think it's like the the zeitgeist or the energy or whatever it is right now. And of course I've never been this old either, but it it does seem like time is different. And as much as I want to pay attention, and I I think if you can in this time frame, and I tell myself, and by the way, I'm guilty of not doing it, but I know instinctively if you could sit and think for longer periods just inside without a device, if you could just sit, you have superpowers in this in this time frame. It we're in a historical period where rational thought and not reacting is a superpower. Like if you can just, and you give yourself more options too, like the longer you can wait to react to something, the less that you are controlled by the narrative. There's a reason, too. Like they call it a news feed. It's like where you feed cattle. Like, like that's there's the feed, go give them the feed. Like you consume it. When you are more selective, and then you can be still. I I want to do it more. I know that when I I am that way, I'm I think, oh, why did I why don't let's do it this way? Like it'll my mind will heal because we're getting bombarded with too much stuff. It's why this show has never been bells and whistles and fancy stuff. It's stream of consciousness. You're gonna get a little history and a little bit of headlines. And then hopefully, you know, we suss out what's important, at least in like the the snapshot that I'm giving you. But that comes from just literally thinking about something for 30 minutes instead of like reacting to something.

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This is also these uh next couple of articles are are trends, folks, like where I believe you can glean a lot uh politically, uh socially, and uh militarily from what's next. I I thought these were important. All right, let's go to antiwar.com.

Iran War Powers And The Constitution

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The House passes Iran War Powers Resolution. The House on Wednesday passed a war powers resolution that would direct President Trump to end his war with Iran as the U.S. continues to enforce a blockade of Iranian ports and trade attacks with the Iranian military despite a nominal ceasefire. The bill passed in a vote of 215 to 208 with four Republicans, Rep Thomas Massey. Well, hey, that's why he's got fired. Rep Thomas Massey, Warren Davidson, Tom Barrett, and Brian Fitzpatrick joining Democrats in support of the effort to end the war, which Trump launched without congressional authorization in violation of the Constitution. The bill now heads to the Senate, where it has a chance to pass a similar Iran powers resolution advanced in the chamber last month. The resolution would not be close to getting a veto-proof majority, but passing it through both the House and the Senate would send a message to the administration that could make it more politically difficult to restart the full-scale bombing campaign against Iran. Yeah, all of this is immoral, uh, unethical, unconstitutional, unnecessary. And it is rooted in something very treasonous. If you look at the uh the motives, like again, you can take the Fox News talking head, you know, commentary, and you know, if you have a head wound, and then you want to and you believe it. Um They're going to tell you things like, you know, imminent Iran nuclear weapon, greatest state sponsor of terror, like, you know, wh whatever, whatever Sean Hannity was saying 20 years ago or 30 years ago, like he's saying the exact same things with the exact same metrics and the exact same cadence. Like it's these people are bots, you know, because they're bought and paid for. But you take that aside, like there is no imminent threat. And even, you know, if you are rational and you think about it for two or three minutes, like Iran can't project power, can't destroy the United States of America. It's not the Soviet Union of the of 1984. You know, like it's not, this isn't an existential threat, no matter what, even if it did have intent or anything, like it's not an imminent threat, which is the constitution. The reason you have a commander-in-chief, like Thomas Jefferson, who sent out uh John Paul Jones and other, like when he sent out the the Navy after Congress left to take out the Barbary pirates, right? That was a mission. Like, you know, the Barbary Pirates would extract a toll or a ransom uh for our ships, you know, and you know, you have uh right of passage, right of the sea, and all the rest of that. That's why you have uh the legend of that, you know, going in and and uh into Libya and fighting the Barbary pirates, and our first national anthem, by the way, to the same music was an anti-Muslim screed about making uh the turban head bow. Go look it up. Uh actually, I should pull it off the shelf sometime and read it. Like I found that in a Christopher Hitchens book. But that's where you get the you know, the term leather neck for the Marine Corps, where they had the they had like these uh straps that would go around their neck because they're fighting these, you know, with the triple E sword. That's where also I've got a triple E sword that was my grandfather's is hanging up in here. He was a first lieutenant in the Marine Corps. And the reason they have that sword, it's Tripoli sword from uh from Tripoli, from the shores of Tripoli, you know, Libya. So that was a war conducted by a president, uh, not needing congressional authorization for war because it was a direct operation and they were threatening Americans. So you could take that, but it's not, it's not whatever this is, right? And this provocation, you know, to create an energy crisis by us. And uh you leave in the factor of the of APAC and the Israeli and their self-interest and all the rest. We're gonna get to that here in a second, too. Uh, but it totally outside the purview of the Constitution. And we haven't declared war since World War II. Um, you look at uh Truman called Korea a police action. Um Johnson used the Gulf of Tonkin incident to get congressional authorization, but not a declaration of war uh to supply South Vietnam and uh advisors, and that that just escalated. And you have McNamara running the war and all the the bureaucracy of it and uh all the smart guys that created this quagmire, and that's where you get the term, you know, um from Vietnam itself. And a lot of this is you know coming back to 1973, Congress was like, hey, we can stop these in the future, which is really sad. Um if you watch the movie Platoon by Oliver Stone, he was uh an infantryman in in uh in Vietnam, and that's what the movie's about. Like Charlie Sheen kind of plays quasi-Oliver Stone character, but at the end of that movie, uh he talks about making sure that the next generation doesn't forget what what Vietnam was like, what what everything was about, like the corruption and the pointlessness of the war and everything else. And of course, we forgot, you know, and it's easy to forget because we had uh you know 9-11, we had you had the the fear tactics and uh the mind war, all that that culminated after uh September 11, 2001, and just kind of reset everything and forget about Vietnam, forget about uh the that previous generation and everything that we went through and the lies. So Congress hasn't used this until now. Like the fact that they did, I mean, and that's a completely different Congress, you know, going back to the early 70s. Uh, but it was uh, you know, a point in American history where people were just absolutely tired of fighting a no-win war and and it couldn't be properly explained. And um, you know, if you look at it now, it's bizarre. You have, I've even noticed this, you know, because of our trade policies, which I'm I'm glad we have trade with people, but I've seen I've gone on been on hunting trips with Vietnam veterans, and I've looked at like their coats and stuff, and they're made in Vietnam. Like I've I pointed that out to them. Like you had a Vietnam vet I was with once, and I said, Let me see that coat where it, because I could tell it was a certain brand, and it was made in Vietnam, like this real tree hunting camo. I thought, how bizarre, right? Like with this mortal enemy, and we got to go fight and die. And so a lot of these things are just built on absolute lies, had nothing to do with American security. So they totally are outside of the purview of the American Constitution. And you know, what it what are we fighting and dying for if not for the the coherence of the Constitution and having Lex Rex, you know, where the law is king. Like what is the point? You know, and so I think these are good moves, you know, whether they have lasting power or or whatever, uh still a good, even if it doesn't completely pass everything um and doesn't become law, it's still a message, right? The dissent is good. And yeah, you can have all the bread and circuses that you want and uh and push for that, but we're still bogged down in an unconstitutional unnecessary war. All right. Uh another article on uh let me take this off the screen here. Another article that's up on antiwar.com. Something very disturbing. Let me pull this up. I'm sure you guys have have heard about this. Uh you know, I'm still waiting. Uh you know, you had uh congressmen show up after uh October 7th, 2000 uh was it, 23? Um you had congressmen show up, you know, in uh IDF uniforms because they were dual citizens. Um, do we have any like uh what about the lawmakers in the south, you know, southwest region? Do we have any uh uh dual citizens Mexican dual citizens? Or uh what about what about federales? I haven't seen any federales yet. Can we get some of those? What about Canadian mounties? Can Ted Cruz uh wear a Canadian mounty uh outfit? Can we get to do he would be well he's uh I think he's an honorary dual citizen of uh state of Israel. It's funny. I saw a somebody sent me a meme of uh it's like the the Star Wars one uh with uh with Anakin and his his wife, you know, and it's like I work for this Ted Cruz. Like, I'm I represent the Lone Star State. She's like, You mean Texas, right? And then he doesn't say anything. You mean Texas? Uh it's true. All right, let's share a screen real quick. I'm gonna pull this up.

A Deeper US Israel Military Bind

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Uh antiwar.com. Yeah, this is probably one of the most disturbing things I've seen in a great while, folks. Uh U.S. Congressman introduces a bill to change US Israel relationship based on Netanyahu's plan. I mean, color me shocked. On Wednesday, rep uh Marlon Stutzman introduced a bill in the House calling for a change in the U.S. Israel relationship that's based on a plan put forward by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. An all-around great guy. Amid growing skepticism among Americans about the U.S.-Israeli relationship. Netanyahu has suggested that the U.S. could eventually end its military aid to Israel and transition the relationship to a more partnership-based model that would further intertwine the U.S. and Israeli militaries, making the special relationship even harder to unravel. What a special relationship it is, too. It brings so much prosperity and peace, so much more freedom. I know I'm more free since September 11, 2001. I know that you are. I mean, just ignore the Patriot Act. Ignore the fact that we've fiscally destroyed ourselves, ignore the fact that we've given away our sovereignty, ignore the fact that we conduct foreign policy on the behalf of a foreign nation. Ignore the fact that you had dancing Israelis on 9-11. Go look it up. They spent 70 days in federal prison and were finally traded out for other things in conjunction with our special relationship to Israel. And then they went on Israeli television and said they were there to document the event. You can look it up. It's the F FBI.gov stuff that is released on that as well. Uh, so special relationship. Stutzman's bill praises Netanyahu. Man, they Stutzman, he, you know. Uh what do you think? Um what's what's that? I need to play that clip from the whitest kids you know. It's one of the funniest things. It's uh a comedy skit about somebody running for president. Uh, and it says, My soul is terrifying. I wonder if Stetsman's soul is terrifying. Uh it's coming up for the idea that calls for the U.S. and Israel to form a new memorandum of understanding to replace traditional military assistance with a framework of joint defense co-development, uh, co-production, and mutual investment that will strengthen both nations, defense industries, and military readiness. Oh, I can feel the beta backbiting energy from here. I just, you know, politics is full of these kinds of folks. I I used to have like uh immune reactions to them when I get, I'm thinking, like, what this guy feels there's something about a weak guy that I know is so dangerous. It's not like, you know, it's almost never like the like the lone biker type, you know, with a beard and tats and stuff like, you know, that's bot. He's just uh wanting to have a nice time. The guys with suit and ties that are just kind of smiley smile, uh, they'll kill you. And they won't do it directly. They'll murder your cur character, they'll assassinate you first, they'll do something like it's Machiavellian backbiting. It's not the art of war, it's the art of manipulation. Like they just that's how they get by. I mean, you have to like how they climb up the ladder. Like their sense of power doesn't come from the sense of masculine strength or stoicism or uh you know spiritual strength. It comes from the overpowering of people indirectly. Kind of like a Frank Underwood character in House of Cards. Although he has some likable moments, but I find like this kind of stuff, this is this is the in-run around sovereignty that these people make. It makes you want to puke. Under the current US-Israeli memorandum of understanding, Israel receives at least $3.8 billion in military aid from the U.S. each year, though it has received much more since October 7, 2023. The purpose of Netanyahu's plan is to remove public-facing military aid to reduce criticism of the U.S.-Israeli relationship and to make whatever aid and support Israel receives from the U.S. under the new arrangement much less transparent. Well, it's not just the aid. It's like you realize, aside from these Republican lawmakers and these little backbiters, like the public sentiment is shifting rapidly. I wouldn't jump on that train. Like, you want to be a part of the past, go ahead. Like the trend in the future will be they'll have to hide stuff. I mean, they they're doing it out in the open now because they can. I think a lot of the Iran war is that way. It's like a hurry-up offense. But they will definitely go after the 4-8. But you know, it's funny, you go back to a different world uh back when I was running for Congress, and uh, Rand Paul had put out a bill, and I actually talked to APAC about this. I asked him directly in their offices why they did this. Uh, Rand Paul put out a bill, or want or proposed it, was like, you know, uh, we stop all foreign aid to countries that burn the U.S. flag. I mean, okay. I I'm against all foreign aid, but let's just say he was trying to make a point. You know, be selective on who you give money to. So if you are hostile to the United States, if you export, you know, terrorists or that we fund or whatever, but if you on paper, right? And you know who the biggest opponent of stopping, you know, of having that implemented where we stop giving aid to countries that burn the U.S. flag was APAC. They killed the thing, they killed the bill. I asked them that. And like, well, we we just don't we believe in foreign aid, is what they told me. So even if it's just for you. But you'll still you won't even let the United States be fiscally responsible. I mean, it's just the logic here, which there is no logic, you're talking about like outside of the realm of reason, and hell itself is the absence of reason to quote Platoon again. Oh, folks. Uh Stutzman introduced the bill one week after a meeting with Netanyahu in Jerusalem. What about your district? I mean, the United States. We the people of this country and they need leadership and help. A lot of the districts are falling apart. Have you driven on the roads lately? Have you gone to the airports? I mean, what these trips to Israel, this it's so it's so apparent. And by the way, I know I'm right. Just fast forward ten years from now, it won't be like this. Uh I don't know if it'll stop Republicans like this from getting elected eventually. They might just be might have like an empty constituency. They seem to have a life of their own, especially in Texas. Uh I'm I was glad to receive your proposal congressional resolution endorsing my plan, said not Netanyahu, for the U.S. Israeli defense cooperation from aid to partnership. Well, how about the answer is not yes? How about we start with that? Yeah, the great the greatest threat. I mean, Iran can't do that. Think about that. Think about giving I mean Thomas Massey in that article I gotta end the show, but Thomas Massey was against that. Say, no, we're a we're a we're a sovereign nation. That's the whole point. No entangling alliances, peace, commerce, honest friendship. America was not designed to go abroad in search of monsters to destroy, ladies and gentlemen. All right, we're gonna end the show.

Final Takeaways And Where To Follow

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