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#524 Governments Are Moving The Metals, Not Markets · The Arterburn Radio Transmission Podcast

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SPEAKER_00: New year.
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SPEAKER_00: Of course, last time I was on the air, you could buy an ounce of silver for less than you could buy a barrel of crude oil.
2:03
SPEAKER_00: That's no longer the case, is it, folks?
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I took um the remainder of December off after my December, I think that's we were in the first week of December, we ran a show.
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SPEAKER_00: And I just looked at the landscape and I called David Knight and I said, I'm gonna take the rest of the month off of broadcasting.
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3:02
SPEAKER_00: So I think more than ever, just the macro.
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SPEAKER_00: It's so important to understand the changing landscape of the macroeconomics of things, the geopolitics, big picture stuff, which is what we usually cover here uh on the Arterburn radio transmission, but it is parapolitics, precious metals.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm at my Denison, Texas location, along with my co-pilot, co-host Beans the Brave is here.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, so we've got I've got a complete crew uh to back me up here for the next hour, and uh, we are open for business.
3:45
SPEAKER_00: So uh this interesting time to be alive, ladies and gentlemen.
3:49
SPEAKER_00: Um let's just dive into some things.
3:52
SPEAKER_00: So let's talk about what has happened in the last um couple of months and and especially the last quarter of 2025.
4:02
SPEAKER_00: And you see, right now, the I'll give you the spot prices right now.
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SPEAKER_00: As of right now, the 15th of January 2026, the spot price for gold is 4,608 Luciferian bankster notes, make a troy ounce of gold, and$91.38 is the spot price for the white metal, also known as silver.
4:25
SPEAKER_00: Unprecedented.
4:26
SPEAKER_00: Uh, we hit uh, I believe$94 an ounce, uh, maybe late last night, early this morning.
4:33
SPEAKER_00: It's dropped back down a little bit.
4:34
SPEAKER_00: Uh, but these are uncharted waters.
4:36
SPEAKER_00: And, you know, I talked to David Knight this morning, and we're gonna be this theme is gonna run strong through everything that I'm doing in media this year because we're in the quickening.
4:47
SPEAKER_00: The our bookminster Fuller called it accelerating acceleration.
4:52
SPEAKER_00: Um, I mean the wheels are off, and you can clearly see it.
4:56
SPEAKER_00: And this is beyond market forces, you know, this isn't CNBC stuff.
5:01
SPEAKER_00: This is governmental, fourth-dimensional warfare that's going on right now.
5:05
SPEAKER_00: In real time, you're watching, and I I brought this up if you've been listening to the show a couple of years ago.
5:11
SPEAKER_00: I said, hey, Russia put silver on their balance sheet as a strategic reserve asset.
5:17
SPEAKER_00: Does anybody else find that to be highly uh unusual?
5:23
SPEAKER_00: Does anybody else find that to be really interesting or a harbinger?
5:28
SPEAKER_00: Because I certainly did.
5:29
SPEAKER_00: That was one of the biggest headlines, and it was a blurp.
5:31
SPEAKER_00: It was nothing.
5:32
SPEAKER_00: And I thought, no, this governments can move prices.
5:38
SPEAKER_00: Just like our central bank and our uh oligarchs and our overlords kept the prices suppressed for so long on gold and silver.
5:47
SPEAKER_00: Why do you think the Hunt family got deep stated?
5:51
SPEAKER_00: Okay, that's that's a term I use it.
5:53
SPEAKER_00: That's I coined it, right?
5:54
SPEAKER_00: You can uh it's TM, but you can use it anywhere.
5:57
SPEAKER_00: Deep stated, it's it's a verb, I think.
6:01
SPEAKER_00: You can use that.
6:02
SPEAKER_00: Uh that tactic was used on them because they exposed the weakness in the dollar via silver, late 1970s.
6:10
SPEAKER_00: And nobody ever picked up that mantle again.
6:13
SPEAKER_00: You know, it wasn't just Paul Volcker raising interest rates to the teens in the late 70s, early 80s, and contracting the money supply that brought inflation under what seemingly control.
6:24
SPEAKER_00: It was the it was the underlying threat that if you continue to mess with this and show weakness in the dollar through gold or through silver, that uh you're not going to be our favorite.
6:35
SPEAKER_00: So nobody ever touched it again.
6:37
SPEAKER_00: And uh that went on for, again, to all to our present time.
6:42
SPEAKER_00: Fast forward to 2022.
6:44
SPEAKER_00: Russia invades Ukraine.
6:46
SPEAKER_00: Uh, the United States reflexively puts more sanctions on Russia, unprecedented amount of sanctions goes goes full bore into that.
6:54
SPEAKER_00: The the ruble tumbles.
6:57
SPEAKER_00: Then all of a sudden, uh there's some chatter about uh basically they want to completely decouple from all dollar operations.
7:05
SPEAKER_00: The finance minister for Russia said that dollars are candy wrappers to us, and that what that's uh that's a pejorative in in Russian, it's like toilet paper.
7:13
SPEAKER_00: It's like the worst thing.
7:14
SPEAKER_00: You don't you don't use it anymore.
7:15
SPEAKER_00: It's just a thing that's uh discarded.
7:19
SPEAKER_00: So they made that very clear.
7:21
SPEAKER_00: They were moving away, started doing all sorts of other deal deals with uh China brokering direct, you know, crude to gold and India and the same thing using gold.
7:29
SPEAKER_00: And then all of a sudden, the ruble bounce back and the dollar starts like it it boomeranged back on the dollar, and you start seeing global usage of the dollar start to decline.
7:41
SPEAKER_00: Well, then central banks record breaking, they already, by the way, they were already buying gold at a breakneck pace, but it just increased exponentially in 2022, um, then the following year, and we're gonna go into 24.
7:56
SPEAKER_00: Uh, gold supplants the Euro as the second most held reserve asset by central banks, right?
8:02
SPEAKER_00: Because you know, the Basel, Switzerland, uh the Bank of International Settlements makes took gold from a tier three to a tier one asset.
8:10
SPEAKER_00: So all these things are happening at once.
8:12
SPEAKER_00: But I thought this interesting move a couple of years ago by Russia.
8:17
SPEAKER_00: And I thought, wow, that's interesting.
8:19
SPEAKER_00: And then you just see uh all these headlines coming out.
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SPEAKER_00: Like there's a headline today.
8:25
SPEAKER_00: China is putting restrictions on uh exporting silver, same thing they've always had with gold.
8:31
SPEAKER_00: You know, China has 60,000 gold mines, folks, and they nationalize that stuff.
8:36
SPEAKER_00: See, they're long-term thinking, right?
8:39
SPEAKER_00: This is rare earth minerals, belt and road initiative, all that stuff consolidating outside of the fiat system, which is ever accelerating, losing value because of the massive amount of money printing and debt and corruption and everything that goes on with uh a central bank-run society.
8:57
SPEAKER_00: So China goes in in the same direction that Russia goes.
9:03
SPEAKER_00: India goes in the same direction that Russia goes.
9:06
SPEAKER_00: And you know, this is undercurrent about exposing the dollar.
9:11
SPEAKER_00: Well, again, that's just a micro the the precedence was set in the late 1970s.
9:17
SPEAKER_00: And that this is governments doing it to us.
9:21
SPEAKER_00: And the same, well, and it's around the world, it's exposing weakness in every currency.
9:25
SPEAKER_00: You know, if you look at gold, it exposes the weakness in the euro.
9:28
SPEAKER_00: But the dollar is king dollar, it's the world's reserve currency.
9:31
SPEAKER_00: And the reason it still exists as the world's reserve currency is because of money velocity, the amount of people using it, which is declining.
9:41
SPEAKER_00: Governments, less and less, still, you know, used as cash.
9:44
SPEAKER_00: It's still traded around the world, and you still have the stable coins that are propping up and doing all the rest of that with the dollar and buying treasuries and hoarding gold and all that.
9:54
SPEAKER_00: But this is a system that's clearly in decline.
9:59
SPEAKER_00: We're watching this in real time, but it's not just traditional.
10:02
SPEAKER_00: I need you to understand this is not just traditional market forces.
10:06
SPEAKER_00: This is governmental.
10:09
SPEAKER_00: Yes, it's institutions because the silver's going somewhere.
10:12
SPEAKER_00: I have two shops in two different states.
10:14
SPEAKER_00: My phone literally, I don't know.
10:15
SPEAKER_00: If it could melt, it would.
10:17
SPEAKER_00: We have people, I have somebody solely dedicated to answering the phone, and we can't keep up with phone calls.
10:22
SPEAKER_00: And what it is is people trying to sell me silver.
10:27
SPEAKER_00: 90% of it.
10:29
SPEAKER_00: And the people walking into my shop to buy silver, it's not what it used to be.
10:34
SPEAKER_00: Or the people calling me.
10:35
SPEAKER_00: Now, this there's the smart money, that's what they're doing.
10:37
SPEAKER_00: They're thinking you've got to think long term, because this is still gonna be super cheap in the long run.
10:42
SPEAKER_00: I mean, you've got to remember, uh gold and silver have no top because fiat has no bottom, right?
10:49
SPEAKER_00: If what is a how many angels can dance on the head of a pen?
10:52
SPEAKER_00: I mean, you're talking about value based off of what?
10:55
SPEAKER_00: It's perceived psychological value based off, and it's in conjunction versus a finite earth mineral, you know, a precious metal.
11:06
SPEAKER_00: There's a reason they call it precious, right?
11:08
SPEAKER_00: It's just not around, but they continue to make trillions of new dollars.
11:12
SPEAKER_00: So somebody's gonna win, right?
11:13
SPEAKER_00: It's gonna be gold and silver or Bitcoin is gonna win against the dollar.
11:17
SPEAKER_00: But it's got to think long term.
11:19
SPEAKER_00: A lot of these plays and there's profit taking, and you know, I will never come on air and tell you that uh we're gonna have this price and it's gonna go here.
11:27
SPEAKER_00: And, you know, you don't even find the word investment in any of my sites.
11:30
SPEAKER_00: I'm in the protection business, not in the investment business when it comes to gold and silver.
11:35
SPEAKER_00: But let's let's dive into some of these murky areas like rumors and things.
11:42
SPEAKER_00: Somebody called me yesterday and said to listen to my show, and I really appreciate it.
11:46
SPEAKER_00: And they asked me that if I knew anything about this, and I was going to look into it for them.
11:50
SPEAKER_00: This is zero hedge.
11:51
SPEAKER_00: Let's put this on the screen.
11:55
SPEAKER_00: I've got my real studio set up here in in Texas, uh, at least someone, right?
12:02
SPEAKER_00: It's a lot better than the laptop, but uh I'm glad to be back on air.
12:07
SPEAKER_00: Glad to be with all of you.
12:09
SPEAKER_00: It's uh not good for my brain just to do, I can't survive off gold and silver transactions alone.
12:16
SPEAKER_00: I need to do some media.
12:18
SPEAKER_00: All right, this is zero hedge uh silver, U.S.
12:22
SPEAKER_00: mint delays and Costco limits surface.
12:27
SPEAKER_00: Rumors circulating on X this week that certain entities are restricting U.S.
12:32
SPEAKER_00: coin sales have not been confirmed by the U.S.
12:35
SPEAKER_00: Mint or the Treasury, but the chatter has coincided with reports of tighter dealer allocations and uneven retail availability across parts of the bullion market.
12:47
SPEAKER_00: 2026 proof silver eagle is delayed from January to late February of 2026.
12:55
SPEAKER_00: Shortages have also affected governmental mints.
12:58
SPEAKER_00: The U.S.
12:58
SPEAKER_00: Mint delayed the release of the 2026 American Silver Eagle coin from January to February.
13:04
SPEAKER_00: The one-ounce proof coin will be sold in limited quantities, and subscriptions are already sold out.
13:13
SPEAKER_00: The U.S.
13:13
SPEAKER_00: Mint has issued no statement announcing new limits on Silver Eagle or other coin sales, and its official product pages show no broad policy changes.
13:23
SPEAKER_00: Market participants say, however, that some downstream distributors and retailers have adjusted inventory policies, delivery timelines, or per customer limits, citing elevated prices.
13:38
SPEAKER_00: Well, a lot of this stems from the price discovery, folks, and the supply, the supply bottleneck.
13:45
SPEAKER_00: If you wanted to get, you know, in the trenches with me.
13:50
SPEAKER_00: So I'm here, you know, two states and a national dealer.
13:54
SPEAKER_00: We're not a big player, but we're a player, you know.
13:57
SPEAKER_00: And we got people selling me silver at a breakneck pace.
14:02
SPEAKER_00: Well, I had to have somewhere to sell it to, which you have to bypass most retail now.
14:06
SPEAKER_00: So you have to go to institutions.
14:07
SPEAKER_00: You go to the big wholesalers, you go to the mints, you go to the trading floor.
14:12
SPEAKER_00: Those places are backed up weeks.
14:15
SPEAKER_00: That means if I write a check for something, uh, and I won't say how much I've got in wholesale right now, but they owe me a pretty good chunk of change.
14:25
SPEAKER_00: So if I write a check and uh I want to get paid for that, I can expect a two to three-week delay.
14:32
SPEAKER_00: But the customer, you know, is gonna need that paid out now.
14:36
SPEAKER_00: It's it's affecting every aspect of what gold and silver exchanges do.
14:43
SPEAKER_00: And yes, you can have a you it's simultaneously, you can have a massive amount of supply hitting the market and also shortages at the same time.
14:52
SPEAKER_00: Like these two worlds can coexist, and they are because of the unknown.
14:58
SPEAKER_00: Like this is uh like the chaos injected into the the market and how things work are are what is most disconcerting for those who just want some like normal market behavior.
15:12
SPEAKER_00: The US Mint has issued no state statement announcing new limits on silver, eagle, or other coins, and its official product page shows no broad policy changes.
15:23
SPEAKER_00: Well, just remember that.
15:26
SPEAKER_00: Yet and this is uh looks like one of the people on X Silver Dagan.
15:35
SPEAKER_00: U.S.
15:36
SPEAKER_00: Mint suspends all sales of numismatic products.
15:39
SPEAKER_00: Well, it starts with that.
15:42
SPEAKER_00: Due to metals costs, pricing adjustments are being uh evaluated across numismatic products.
15:49
SPEAKER_00: In addition, rapidly rising silver prices may result in silver numismatic products being temporarily removed from sale while pricing is updated.
15:57
SPEAKER_00: That's again, it's following the pricing.
16:00
SPEAKER_00: We're in price discovery.
16:02
SPEAKER_00: Here's another one of those headlines.
16:04
SPEAKER_00: Uh, same thread.
16:05
SPEAKER_00: Uh China tightens its grip on silver.
16:09
SPEAKER_00: The Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China has issued an announcement 2025 number 68 opposing stringent conditions on the expert of export of three critical minor metals tungsten, uh atimony, and silver.
16:28
SPEAKER_00: For the period of 2026-2027 already.
16:36
SPEAKER_00: And then final story of this thread Costco is losing money.
16:42
SPEAKER_00: Meanwhile, there are credible reports that Costco has limited purchasing volumes for buyers of silver bullion.
16:51
SPEAKER_00: Costco is not facing a silver shortage, at least not yet, they are admitting publicly.
16:57
SPEAKER_00: Instead, it is tightened purchase mechanics limiting transaction size while allowing up to 10 transactions per day.
17:06
SPEAKER_00: The adjustment reflect reflects rapid price increases that have outpaced Costco's ability to reprice inventory in real time.
17:14
SPEAKER_00: You don't say.
18:02
SPEAKER_00: Limit of one transaction per membership with a maximum of 10 units per 24 hours.
18:09
SPEAKER_00: A separate listing for 10 ounce silver bars also shows one transaction per membership up to 10 units per day.
18:20
SPEAKER_00: Well, you can just call Wise Wolf, you know, you can just text us.
18:24
SPEAKER_00: Somebody from my team, you don't have to go to Costco.
18:27
SPEAKER_00: And um we might be able to get you depends on what walks into the shop.
18:32
SPEAKER_00: That's the cool thing about knowing us, and you know, people are always gonna sell to us, at least that's the hope, right?
18:38
SPEAKER_00: I don't we haven't we haven't ran uh any shortages of people selling to me with the last that's why I haven't been here.
18:47
SPEAKER_00: Um it's definitely made things really interesting, to say the least, but we're still here.
18:55
SPEAKER_00: All right, let's keep uh let's stay in this vein.
18:59
SPEAKER_00: Uh I want to carry uh some parapolitics today and cover some of that.
19:04
SPEAKER_00: I want to get into some regime change and some internal stuff.
19:09
SPEAKER_00: You know, it's interesting about I'm so focused on the macro, and uh, I'm not even noticing the color revolutions and the psychological operations that are happening right here internally as much as I used to.
19:23
SPEAKER_00: And uh then I'll flip on the news feed and go, oh, I forgot.
19:27
SPEAKER_00: We're we're we're being we're being primed to uh to fight over things that may or may not even be real, uh, while the um lizard folk, um the uh upper echelon, uh oligarchic uh overlords uh start consolidating and again forcing us into a one world totalitarian socialist government uh to channel build.
20:00
SPEAKER_00: Cooper.
20:01
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, let's let's keep going down here.
20:03
SPEAKER_00: I'll talk in finance, and then we're going to get into some parapolitics.
20:07
SPEAKER_00: There's an article up on Activist Post.
20:09
SPEAKER_00: My good friend Charlie Robinson runs.
20:11
SPEAKER_00: I highly recommend you go over to activistpost.com, sign up for his newsletter.
20:17
SPEAKER_00: He has got some great content up there, and it's an article from Michael Snyder.
20:21
SPEAKER_00: I want to go over today, just kind of talking about what happened in Minnesota.
20:24
SPEAKER_00: Now we've got the headlines on Drudge.
20:27
SPEAKER_00: There's another ice shooting, all the rest of that.
20:29
SPEAKER_00: And there's some underlying tactics there from the powers that be to divide us.
20:40
SPEAKER_00: Here, let's put this up on the screen.
20:41
SPEAKER_00: Again, this is more gold and silver talk.
20:45
SPEAKER_00: But very important, if you understand what's happening in this price discovery, if you understand what's happening with market forces, then you will understand the geopolitical landscape.
20:57
SPEAKER_00: This is a direct correlation.
20:58
SPEAKER_00: This is not, this is not your dad's stock market.
21:02
SPEAKER_00: This is not your grandpa's market condition.
21:06
SPEAKER_00: This is none of that.
21:07
SPEAKER_00: This is fourth dimensional warfare, ladies and gentlemen.
21:11
SPEAKER_00: Gold will hit$5,000 an ounce, silver 100 an ounce by March, but gold will be vulnerable to correction afterward.
21:18
SPEAKER_00: This is coming from Citigroup and available through KitCo.
21:23
SPEAKER_00: Gold prices will rise above$5,000 per ounce in the first quarter with silver reaching 100 per ounce.
21:29
SPEAKER_00: But while silver and other industrial metals will likely continue to outperform, gold prices could take a significant hit later in 2026 as global tensions ease, according to analyst at City.
21:42
SPEAKER_00: Well, that's um that's uh supposing that we have eased global tensions.
21:49
SPEAKER_00: Strategists led by Henry Who raised their zero to three month target for gold to$5,000 per ounce and silver to$100 per ounce on Tuesday, as the Wall Street firm projects the ongoing bull market for precious metals to continue through early 2026.
22:07
SPEAKER_00: The strategists cited heightened geopolitical risk, ongoing physical market shortages, and renewed uncertainty on Fed independence as the reason for the upgrade.
22:19
SPEAKER_00: And while both metals have set all new all-time highs, City reiterated its expectation that silver will outperform gold, though they expect the base metals to eventually steal the spotlight.
22:33
SPEAKER_00: Well, I think what we're doing here, folks, this is the revaluation of all commodities and all things.
22:43
SPEAKER_00: I mean, not to get too deep into the weeds here, but it's kind of like when the philosopher Nietzsche talked about the transvaluation of all values, like just surpassing all values and all systems and traditions and everything else.
22:58
SPEAKER_00: This is the revaluation of all things.
23:01
SPEAKER_00: And because it's priced in fake.
23:06
SPEAKER_00: And you know, we have become so accustomed to living under that.
23:10
SPEAKER_00: I mean, my whole life has been living under that fiat regime and central banks, you know, currency.
23:19
SPEAKER_00: It's just the season that we're in.
23:22
SPEAKER_00: This is a repricing of all things.
23:24
SPEAKER_00: We're in price discovery.
23:27
SPEAKER_00: The strategist also noted ongoing tightness in the physical market, particularly in silver and platinum group metals, saying that delays and uncertainty around the upcoming critical minerals section 232 tariff decisions pose large binary risk on trade flows and prices.
23:46
SPEAKER_00: Remember that.
23:47
SPEAKER_00: That was the this whole thing kicked off.
23:51
SPEAKER_00: Where I'm talking about 2025, 2026.
23:55
SPEAKER_00: The opening of 2025 was the threat of tariffs, not even the imposing of tariffs, it was the threat of tariffs and the unknown, the black swan, will they be tariffed?
24:08
SPEAKER_00: And those bullion banks started to clear out and then repatriate gold and silver.
24:14
SPEAKER_00: What happened?
24:15
SPEAKER_00: Well, contracts were called.
24:17
SPEAKER_00: It's a domino effect.
24:18
SPEAKER_00: And that's what kicked all of this off because the supply wasn't there.
24:23
SPEAKER_00: It never was.
24:25
SPEAKER_00: The physical supply for the paper market, all the rest of that backed by what?
24:30
SPEAKER_00: The supposed value of a physical ounce.
24:33
SPEAKER_00: Well, those ounces are being called to the carpet, those ounces are being ordered, those ounces are being demanded.
24:40
SPEAKER_00: And it shows and it's showing up in the price discovery.
24:43
SPEAKER_00: We're just getting started.
24:47
SPEAKER_00: And I think when uh my friend Charlie Robinson, when he texted me the other day, he says, Does anybody know the price of silver?
24:57
SPEAKER_00: And I said, I think Vladimir Putin does.
25:01
SPEAKER_00: And I meant that tongue in cheek because of governments, folks.
25:07
SPEAKER_00: City warned that a high tariff scenario, physical shortage was could worsen, potentially triggering extreme price spikes as metal is shipped into the U.S.
25:18
SPEAKER_00: But once there is tariff clarity, these metal inventories would likely flow back out, easing the physical tightness in the rest of the world and putting downward pressure on prices.
25:29
SPEAKER_00: Maybe.
25:31
SPEAKER_00: But you got to think uh through that issue too.
25:34
SPEAKER_00: You've got not only you've got the easing could happen, at least the flood of the market for physical to hit, would it bring down prices a little bit?
25:44
SPEAKER_00: But then you've got to think about long-term storage of these things that's gonna be going on.
25:49
SPEAKER_00: What stories did I cover uh going back into mid-part of last year, which was the not only um the Shanghai gold exchange and the expansion and JP Morgan moving their gold office over there, but the building of gold, physical gold, silver storage facilities outside of the airport in Hong Kong.
26:11
SPEAKER_00: So China gets both of those, right?
26:13
SPEAKER_00: It seems like they're different, but they're really the same thing.
26:16
SPEAKER_00: The world is going to physical folks.
26:19
SPEAKER_00: In a world where the trust is diminishing.
26:24
SPEAKER_00: Uh the silver strategist warned that a collapse in silver prices due to S232 driven outflows could lead to a tactical sell-off across other precious metals and base metals, but stress they would view that as a dip buying opportunity.
26:39
SPEAKER_00: Well, good, because that's what it would be.
26:41
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you see any dip here, but you got to remember long-term, this isn't 1980.
26:47
SPEAKER_00: Silver went from$52 to$2.
26:49
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
26:50
SPEAKER_00: That's not gonna happen this time.
26:53
SPEAKER_00: It's not gonna happen to gold.
26:54
SPEAKER_00: There will be sell-offs, sure.
26:55
SPEAKER_00: There'll be profit taking, sure.
26:57
SPEAKER_00: There'll be pullback, sure.
26:59
SPEAKER_00: But there won't be anything like that.
27:01
SPEAKER_00: We're not gonna go through the 80s and 90s again.
27:06
SPEAKER_00: You know, presuppose that there's trust in the markets.
27:09
SPEAKER_00: There's not gonna be another 2011 again.
27:12
SPEAKER_00: You know, Ben Bernanke showed up and gold was about to hit 2,000 and in 2011.
27:18
SPEAKER_00: And the same thing with silver, it broke 50.
27:21
SPEAKER_00: And the Federal Reserve stepped in and said, hey, we, you know, this won't happen.
27:26
SPEAKER_00: You know, don't worry about the quantitative easing.
27:29
SPEAKER_00: We're gonna do quantitative tightening, we're gonna be a lot more responsible.
27:32
SPEAKER_00: There won't be any big bailouts, it won't be tarp and all the rest of that.
27:35
SPEAKER_00: And of course, they they lied, you know, and it's and on a massive scale.
27:41
SPEAKER_00: So you can't put that genie back in the bottle, folks.
27:47
SPEAKER_00: City's updated outlook assumes geopolitical uh tensions will ease after Q1, reducing demand for precious metals later in the year with gold most vulnerable to a downside correction.
27:58
SPEAKER_00: However, the bank continues to expect industrial metals, particularly aluminum and copper, to perform well in the latter half of 2026.
28:06
SPEAKER_00: Well, again, what is that last part?
28:07
SPEAKER_00: Is again how we opened up the article.
28:09
SPEAKER_00: Um, you presuppose that there will be lessening tensions.
28:15
SPEAKER_00: Well, we're in a fourth turning.
28:16
SPEAKER_00: Um, and we don't have do you notice any easing of tensions?
28:21
SPEAKER_00: Uh I surely don't.
28:23
SPEAKER_00: Uh, when's the last time we had we were having summits?
28:26
SPEAKER_00: And I get this isn't the 70s, you know, like we're not doing the SALT treaty, we're not doing the strategic armed limitations agreement.
28:33
SPEAKER_00: We're not uh this isn't the upper atmospheric test nuclear test ban that Kennedy did with Khrushchev.
28:38
SPEAKER_00: We don't have those anymore.
28:39
SPEAKER_00: We don't have any, we're just accelerating.
28:41
SPEAKER_00: Oh, you this treaty lapsed, so we're gonna build more nukes, we'll do this, we'll create new hypersonic weapons, do all those, or you know, the noise weapons and EMFs and all the you know all that stuff that we're doing and other governments are doing.
28:56
SPEAKER_00: You think there's a uh this is it's showing up in the price of our metals.
29:02
SPEAKER_00: All right.
29:04
SPEAKER_00: Let's jump into some geopolitics and uh definitely want to cover if we have time.
29:13
SPEAKER_00: I want to cover some headlines on antiwar.com.
29:16
SPEAKER_00: I think uh that's one of the most important barometers to watch.
29:21
SPEAKER_00: Because in the macro picture, you know, this is how governments, when they get into a bind, you know, they always uh go for the the button that says uh start a war.
29:32
SPEAKER_00: You know, that's is the that's how do it cover up your sins, you know, like the uh war is the health of the state.
29:41
SPEAKER_00: And that's how they do it.
29:42
SPEAKER_00: That's how they you know mask their own deficiencies, their own failures, all the rest of that.
29:47
SPEAKER_00: And then uh they're able to do a lot.
29:48
SPEAKER_00: You can fight your domestic enemies, you can call them terrorists, you can do all that, you can uh put uh put them in jail, like we did in the early 20th century with Woodrow Wilson.
30:01
SPEAKER_00: And uh, you know, they had the uh espionage act, they had all that just, you know, if you're a reporter, you just happened to be a little too much to the left, a little bit too much to the right, you know, you didn't support whatever cause.
30:13
SPEAKER_00: You weren't buying, you know, the you weren't buying the bankers' wars that are being forced down your throat, then yeah, you were enemy number one.
30:24
SPEAKER_00: So they get to do a lot when they create a banker's war.
30:28
SPEAKER_00: And uh if you ever see me supporting some one of these, you know, you know I've been uh I've been cloned.
30:35
SPEAKER_00: Um something has been something has gone wrong.
30:41
SPEAKER_00: Ever supporting any of these things I find highly ridiculous.
30:46
SPEAKER_00: Um let me check the chat really quick.
30:48
SPEAKER_00: Uh it's been it's been a while.
30:50
SPEAKER_00: Thank goodness you guys uh stuck around and didn't completely abandon uh the transmission.
30:57
SPEAKER_00: Uh Tony, what would you what would that make pre-1964 silver coins worth?
31:05
SPEAKER_00: Uh oh, and today's spot prices?
31:08
SPEAKER_00: Well, that's a good question.
31:09
SPEAKER_00: Uh we could do the math.
31:11
SPEAKER_00: Matter of fact, Yekka texted me earlier before I went live.
31:15
SPEAKER_00: I can give you the melt value uh of a 1964 face value.
31:22
SPEAKER_00: You want to get into the weeds, we can do that.
31:24
SPEAKER_00: Uh Yekka texted me and was wanting to clarify on how much silver is actually in an ounce or how much silver is in a face dollar.
31:33
SPEAKER_00: So, you know, with 1964 and back, when you have dimes, half dollars, uh, quarters, and dollars, that's the way you price those is they go by face.
31:43
SPEAKER_00: So, like 10 dimes make one face dollar, or four quarters make a face dollar.
31:47
SPEAKER_00: And every face dollar, whether it's one silver dollar or four quarters, or ten dimes or two half dollars, has the same amount of silver in it.
31:55
SPEAKER_00: That's the way that the founders set that up and the gold-silver ratio, how the country was founded monetarily.
32:02
SPEAKER_00: So if you've got uh, I was just thinking the other day, you know, used to you could take 20 Morgan silver dollars and you could trade that in for a$20 gold piece.
32:13
SPEAKER_00: Now think about that.
32:15
unknown: Right?
32:15
SPEAKER_00: $20 gold piece is almost an ounce of gold.
32:18
SPEAKER_00: It's 0.9675 ounces of gold.
32:20
SPEAKER_00: So you almost had a an ounce of gold for 20 Morgan silver dollars.
32:24
SPEAKER_00: You can't do that anymore.
32:26
SPEAKER_00: But but the ratio is closing.
32:29
SPEAKER_00: We were we were at 100 to 1 last year with gold at$3,500 an ounce and uh silver at$35 an ounce.
32:39
SPEAKER_00: It was$100 to one.
32:40
SPEAKER_00: Now we're at$50,$50 to one on the gold-silver ratio.
32:43
SPEAKER_00: So that's breaking.
32:44
SPEAKER_00: But I'll give you, I'll answer your question real quick:$91.55 times$735.
32:49
SPEAKER_00: So you got$67 worth of meltable silver at a face dollar.
32:54
SPEAKER_00: So just divide that by whether you've got dimes, quarters, or half dollars.
33:00
SPEAKER_00: All right.
33:02
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I wanted to check the chat a little bit more.
33:06
SPEAKER_00: Uh Kenny F and Powers in the chat.
33:08
SPEAKER_00: I love that.
33:09
SPEAKER_00: Love that screen name.
33:10
SPEAKER_00: If if you're a fan of eastbound and down, like I am.
33:14
SPEAKER_00: We all we need some we need some Kenny Powers, man.
33:18
SPEAKER_00: Uh he needs to release that book.
33:20
SPEAKER_00: Um, you're Fing out, and I'm Fing.
33:24
SPEAKER_00: I need that book in my life.
33:27
SPEAKER_00: Um, that needs to be for real.
33:30
SPEAKER_00: Uh let's see.
33:31
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, Kenny Evan Pass.
33:32
SPEAKER_00: Uh, Kennedy Half is 3298, currently insane.
33:36
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
33:38
SPEAKER_00: It is currently insane.
33:41
SPEAKER_00: Always great to hear you on the WWCR Worldwide Shortwave, Tony.
33:45
SPEAKER_00: That's uh at 804 Marty.
33:47
SPEAKER_00: Thank you for reminding me of that.
33:49
SPEAKER_00: I texted uh folks over at WWCR and said I will be back.
33:52
SPEAKER_00: It's great to be uh broadcasting on shortwave.
33:56
SPEAKER_00: I remember you know, reminded of the old days when I had a five-day-a-week uh show and um of course uh learning about WWCR, uh reading about Bill Cooper and uh his legacy.
34:12
SPEAKER_00: So really cool to be over there and thanks to everybody who's listening.
34:16
SPEAKER_00: Okay, uh in the spirit of this show, let's uh oh man check rumble too.
34:21
SPEAKER_00: In the spirit of this, let me jump on to uh this article over on natural news.
34:29
SPEAKER_00: We don't have many commercial breaks, do we, folks?
34:31
SPEAKER_00: We don't there's not a usually an ounce of fat on the transmission.
34:36
SPEAKER_00: Okay, let me put this up on the screen here.
34:42
SPEAKER_00: Talk a little bit about regime change because it's gone so well in the past.
34:49
SPEAKER_00: US regime change abroad, a century of intervention from Iraq or Iran, excuse me.
34:56
SPEAKER_00: Well, uh stay tuned, from Iran to Venezuela.
35:01
SPEAKER_00: Uh this is by Raymond Tomy, naturalnews.com.
35:06
SPEAKER_00: The abduction of Venezuelan President Maduro is presented as the latest in a long consistent pattern of U.S.
35:13
SPEAKER_00: regime change operation justified by protecting economic and security interests, but often with devastating outcomes for the targeted nations.
35:24
SPEAKER_00: A historical blueprint is established through several key examples.
35:28
SPEAKER_00: The 1953 coup in Iran over oil, the 1954 coup in Guatemala over land reform affecting a U.S.
35:38
SPEAKER_00: company, the 1960 assassination of Congo's uh Patrice uh Lumbata, um over minerals, the 1973 coup in Chile over nationalized copper, and the 2004 removal of Haiti's president.
35:57
SPEAKER_00: It's interesting, you know.
36:00
SPEAKER_00: The uh I always I always want to bring this up just uh the way my mind works and just share this with you because if why would you listen to the show if you didn't like at least my the chaos of my brain?
36:10
SPEAKER_00: But the 1953 coup over Iran that uh the CIA ran, you know, the US uh versus um uh Mozadek and um the ousting of their leader, it was called Operation Ajax.
36:27
SPEAKER_00: And I always found it uh like an historical irony that James Forrestall, the first um Secretary of Defense, who was um, if you really think, you know, if you think through an issue for more than five minutes and don't, you know, let your mind become mashed potatoes because you went to some you know Ivy League school and you actually understand how the world works, uh, he was pushed out of a window at Bethesda Naval Hospital because he didn't support certain foreign policy interventions in certain nation states um and uh nuclear proliferation and all sorts of other things.
37:05
SPEAKER_00: And he was anti-communist and all the rest.
37:07
SPEAKER_00: But he, you know what he was reading before he was uh silenced?
37:11
SPEAKER_00: He was reading the Greek play Um Ajax.
37:16
SPEAKER_00: And that was right before we had this uh policy of regime change.
37:21
SPEAKER_00: Interesting.
37:22
SPEAKER_00: I wonder if that was a wink and a nod to him in some sort of weird way, kind of like how they put Kennedy on the last silver coinage, the last silver half dollar to ever run.
37:34
SPEAKER_00: And he was uh a president who wanted to keep the silver in the coinage, right?
37:38
SPEAKER_00: He was uh the executive orders to keep uh silver monetized and in the system.
37:47
SPEAKER_00: These operations follow a recurring method when a foreign leader defies U.S.
37:53
SPEAKER_00: corporate or geopolitical interests, Washington acts covertly or overtly to install a more compliant regime, often using propaganda and destabilization.
38:04
SPEAKER_00: The consequences are depicted as uniformly negative, leading to long-term instability, brutal dictatorships, genocide, economic plunder, and deep anti-American sentiment rather than the democracy or stability obstinatibly thought and sought.
38:22
SPEAKER_00: Well, isn't that true?
38:24
SPEAKER_00: I remember these uh, if you listen to the show long enough, you know I was uh I and for many years I've talked about the the neocons, how just how satanic and dangerous these people are.
38:36
SPEAKER_00: Because not only they're just deceivers, like shapeshifters that show up in uh conservative circles or traditional Christian circles, but if you really start paying attention to what they're saying, they're revolutionary.
38:50
SPEAKER_00: You know, they don't believe this, they don't believe in the uh spirit of Christ, they don't believe in peace, they don't believe in example or anything like that.
38:58
SPEAKER_00: They believe in the perpetual revolution.
39:00
SPEAKER_00: They're they're fruit of a poisonous tree, too.
39:02
SPEAKER_00: Like the intellectual outcroppings of the neocons all come from Trotsky.
39:09
SPEAKER_00: And that's like you get these modern so-called conservatives, and it's it's it's fine to it's you know, it too.
39:17
SPEAKER_00: I say it's fine.
39:18
SPEAKER_00: I was gonna say I'm okay with it, I guess, but the collapse of modern conservatism, I mean, it is sad to watch um because it it's eating itself, and because it has it serves two masters, it can't serve traditional American values and then also a revolutionary uh and serve a you know foreign governments and other things that it's doing right now.
39:41
SPEAKER_00: So you're watching this this implosion of conservative thought, and all this reminds me too, this regime change.
39:50
SPEAKER_00: It never goes the way like the unintended consequences.
39:54
SPEAKER_00: It was like an episode of the Twilight Zone.
39:56
SPEAKER_00: Like there's there's always some uh Ironic uh ending, you know, some twist like you didn't expect because you, you know, unintended blowback.
40:08
SPEAKER_00: I mean, even the CIA has a term for the things they already do.
40:11
SPEAKER_00: It's called blowback, and they put it into motion.
40:16
SPEAKER_00: But remember the the whole class experiment from the neocons was that uh we'd be greeted as liberators, you know, in Iraq.
40:25
SPEAKER_00: And um, hey, uh I'm here to tell you we were not.
40:30
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
40:31
SPEAKER_00: Uh well, maybe that's how you greet liberators, whatever the hell that means.
40:36
SPEAKER_00: But um, you know, just uh do people roll grenades, throw grenades at you, um, or take shots at you, or set IEDs out, or you know, is that is that your liberation uh thank thank you note?
40:51
SPEAKER_00: I didn't see any of that.
40:52
SPEAKER_00: Not one bit, by the way.
40:54
SPEAKER_00: It was indifference at best.
40:56
SPEAKER_00: Um, but mostly, you know, again, you shouldn't have been there.
41:01
SPEAKER_00: That's uh the one thing you learn when you're in a foreign, a foreign land uh like that is uh I'm not supposed to be here.
41:08
SPEAKER_00: This isn't my home.
41:10
SPEAKER_00: This isn't where I'm from, this isn't what I'm supposed to be doing.
41:12
SPEAKER_00: You start to question a lot, and then you wind up at you know 46 in uh in inside right smack dab in the middle of the uh great reset.
41:22
SPEAKER_00: You kind of notice some things.
41:26
SPEAKER_00: All right.
41:28
SPEAKER_00: The underlying motive is framed as primarily economic, driven by elite interest with the Venezuelan case linked to control over oil revenues, continuing a history where interventions advance corporate profits and globalist control under humanitarian or diplomatic pretext.
41:52
SPEAKER_00: The abduction of Venezuelan President Maduro by U.S.
41:55
SPEAKER_00: forces earlier this month marks the latest chapter in Washington's long history of regime change operations abroad.
42:03
SPEAKER_00: From covert coups to outright invasions, the U.S.
42:07
SPEAKER_00: has repeatedly reshaped foreign governments under the banner of protecting its economic and security interests, often with devastating consequences for the nations involved.
42:18
SPEAKER_00: Well, yes, uh, our track record is abysmal with that.
42:23
SPEAKER_00: Now you can go back, and I think this is where they say, well, what about Japan?
42:29
SPEAKER_00: You know, what about Europe?
42:32
SPEAKER_00: Well, we had a Marshall Plan, and you also had MacArthur as a viceroy, you had these wise people.
42:39
SPEAKER_00: And uh they'd also, you know, gone into the these were first world nations, by the way, with tradition.
42:45
SPEAKER_00: And then, you know, they kept the emperor and Japan.
42:48
SPEAKER_00: There's all sorts of factors that aren't the same as doing something ham-fisted or using this Machiavellian tactics of overthrow or regime change or installation or any of these things that are really not something that we had done in the past.
43:06
SPEAKER_00: And then you're talking about different traditions, different cultures.
43:10
SPEAKER_00: All there's all sorts of factors here, but the track record isn't good.
43:13
SPEAKER_00: Everything past World War II is uh in this same category.
43:18
SPEAKER_00: And you can, I mean, that's why you had the installation of the Shah in Iran after Operation Ajax, and it ended with the Ayatollahs.
43:26
SPEAKER_00: It ended so 79 was really important because that's when you get Saddam Hussein, uh, head of the Baath Party and in Iraq, you know, the Sunni faction.
43:36
SPEAKER_00: You get the um Iranian revolution, the hostages, the American hostages held for 444 days.
43:43
SPEAKER_00: And then you also get the birth of Al-Qaeda.
43:45
SPEAKER_00: You know, Al-Qaeda means the database, it doesn't mean the base, it was the base of database of Musha Hideen fighters and uh Muslim Brotherhood that were left over from British intelligence and passed on to us.
43:56
SPEAKER_00: And uh that's when we got to work with Tim Osman, who was uh Osama bin Laden, that was his code name, and he went to the Pentagon many times, and uh we created that.
44:08
SPEAKER_00: So that's where you get you get all of this, and of course, the the collapse of Iraqi society was I mean there's um there's worse crimes in history, but it's right up there.
44:23
SPEAKER_00: I mean, you're talking about Colin Powell said that, you know, he's like, you break it, you own it to George W.
44:29
SPEAKER_00: Bush.
44:29
SPEAKER_00: And you know what I found really interesting is uh I guess this comes to mind when you're somebody like a George W.
44:36
SPEAKER_00: Bush uh that you guys remember it was about what is it uh a couple years ago, George W.
44:43
SPEAKER_00: Bush comes out and he's giving a talk, and he's trying to reference um Vladimir Putin.
44:51
SPEAKER_00: And uh he says, you know, that this um dictator, this uh his uh brutal invasion of Iraq, I mean Ukraine, that kind of Freudian subconscious layer, you know, uh in his mind uh still uh turns that over.
45:12
SPEAKER_00: But yeah, that's the really if you get the birth of ISIS and uh the amount of violence.
45:18
SPEAKER_00: I lost one of my friends that I was, you know, my roommate at Bragg and served two different wars with, and it was very for many, many years very close to.
45:29
SPEAKER_00: And uh he carried that war home with him, and he didn't um didn't live past 43, and uh it's really sad for for his family, and uh he was a good soldier, good man.
45:41
SPEAKER_00: And um, but I I remember uh that what what effect that had on him.
45:48
SPEAKER_00: You know, and we go back and and we you know I remember his uh his awakening, you know, I always started to notice things, how how different uh things were, you know, the perception of what we were doing versus the the reality.
46:04
SPEAKER_00: And uh it's interesting, interesting to watch.
46:08
SPEAKER_00: I mean, we're just going through a lot of these same motions here with Venezuela and other things and this heavy-handedness, and it never it never works out well.
46:20
SPEAKER_00: And there's always consequences, folks.
46:26
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, the abduction of Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro by U.S.
46:30
SPEAKER_00: forces early this month marks the latest chapter in Washington's long history of regime change operations abroad.
46:36
SPEAKER_00: From covert coups to outright invasions, the U.S.
46:40
SPEAKER_00: has repeatedly reshaped foreign governments under the banner of protecting its economic and security interests.
46:49
SPEAKER_00: The Monroe Doctrine of 1823 laid the ideological groundwork to declaring the Western hemisphere as a U.S.
46:57
SPEAKER_00: sphere of influence.
46:58
SPEAKER_00: Over the next two centuries, the doctrine evolved into a justification for intervention, whether to annex land, suppress leftist movements, or secure corporate profits.
47:09
SPEAKER_00: The methods have varied, but the pattern remains consistent.
47:12
SPEAKER_00: When a foreign leader defies U.S.
47:14
SPEAKER_00: interests, Washington acts sometimes overtly, often covertly, to install a more compliant regime.
47:25
SPEAKER_00: Well, we certainly have.
47:26
SPEAKER_00: And the Monroe Doctrine is a, I believe, from everything I've studied about history, is an acceptable foreign policy.
47:35
SPEAKER_00: However, you have to be an example.
47:39
SPEAKER_00: You know, you have to be a good steward of the values of liberty, the constitution, uh, human rights, uh, sovereignty.
47:48
SPEAKER_00: It's very important.
47:49
SPEAKER_00: We just violate those things.
47:50
SPEAKER_00: And then there's always, I think there's always a better way to do a deal, especially when you have an administration that's the whole thing that was built on.
47:58
SPEAKER_00: We do better deals.
48:00
SPEAKER_00: And this kind of heavy-handedness always has unintended consequences.
48:04
SPEAKER_00: And again, you look at what did people learn from the Iraq war?
48:08
SPEAKER_00: Well, they learned what did other countries learn?
48:10
SPEAKER_00: Well, if you don't have a nuke, you better get one, because no country that's ever possessed nuclear weapons has been invaded.
48:16
SPEAKER_00: Period.
48:17
SPEAKER_00: So that's what they learned.
48:18
SPEAKER_00: You've got to get one.
48:19
SPEAKER_00: It's a race for nuclear proliferation, saying, you know, uh Syria wouldn't have been invaded, Libya wouldn't have been invaded, Iraq wouldn't have been invaded, right?
48:28
SPEAKER_00: And then no country that's possessed them has been invaded.
48:31
SPEAKER_00: That's the lesson.
48:31
SPEAKER_00: So it's a race, you know, trying to get to the point where you can have that fail-safe.
48:37
SPEAKER_00: So that's the lessons learned.
48:38
SPEAKER_00: Or the lessons learned from the kidnapping of Maduro is other countries like the British are saying, well, you know, uh, could we just kidnap Putin?
48:46
SPEAKER_00: You know, or the Russians are saying, can we can we kidnap Zelensky?
48:51
SPEAKER_00: That's what they're asking.
48:52
SPEAKER_00: Like, why don't we just kidnap him?
48:54
SPEAKER_00: You know, and then this the South had that idea about Lincoln, supposedly, which, you know, the the Booth conspiracy, um, financed by bankers, by the way.
49:06
SPEAKER_00: Um, what to do a paratrouter on that?
49:09
SPEAKER_00: Because that's a that's a weird rabbit hole.
49:13
unknown: Yeah.
49:14
SPEAKER_00: 1953 coup against Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed uh Mossadek, backed by the U.S.
49:21
SPEAKER_00: Central Intelligence Agency, set the template for future interventions.
49:24
SPEAKER_00: Mossadegh dramatic uh democratically elected, had nationalized Iran's oil industry, threatening British and American corporate dominance.
49:35
SPEAKER_00: Now he thought it was all about democracy.
49:37
SPEAKER_00: Well, you know, it's like Smedley Butler said, I didn't uh go to South America to make it safe for democracy, I made it safe for the United Fruit Company.
49:47
SPEAKER_00: But what does he know?
49:48
SPEAKER_00: He was only the most highly decorated uh Marine in history.
49:54
SPEAKER_00: Up to that point.
49:57
SPEAKER_00: A CIA orchestrated propaganda campaign painted him as a communist sympathizer while U.S.-funded mobs and military factions destabilized his government after Mozadek's overthrow.
50:08
SPEAKER_00: The Shah Muhammad Reza Pahlavi returned to power, ruling as a U.S.
50:14
SPEAKER_00: ally until his own ouster in 1979.
50:19
SPEAKER_00: The coup's legacy, decades of anti-American sentiment, and the eventual rise of Iran's Islamic Republic under the leadership of the Ayatollah.
50:30
SPEAKER_00: Guatemala, 1954, and this is the United Fruit Company.
50:35
SPEAKER_00: United Fruit and the death of democracy.
50:37
SPEAKER_00: In Guatemala, President Jacob Arben's land reforms targeted the vast holdings of U.S.-based United Fruit Company.
50:45
SPEAKER_00: Washington fearing communist influence authorized Operation PB Success, a CIA-led coup that installed military dictator Carlos Castillo Armas.
50:58
SPEAKER_00: What followed was a decades-long genocide against indigenous Mayans with U.S.
51:03
SPEAKER_00: backed death squads killing hundreds of thousands.
51:06
SPEAKER_00: Guatemala's democracy never recovered.
51:10
SPEAKER_00: Congo, 1960.
51:13
SPEAKER_00: Lumba's murder and uh Mabuto's dictatorship.
51:17
SPEAKER_00: Uh Patrice Lumba, Congo's first democratically elected leader, sought to nationalize the country's vast mineral wealth.
51:26
SPEAKER_00: You can see a pattern here.
51:30
SPEAKER_00: Do you see the nationalization um pattern?
51:34
SPEAKER_00: It's not good for um the tea and biscuit company.
51:40
SPEAKER_00: Uh Lubato was uh deposed in a CIA coup, tortured and executed by firing squad with Belgian and U.S.
51:49
SPEAKER_00: complicity.
51:50
SPEAKER_00: His replacement, uh Mubotu uh C.
51:54
SPEAKER_00: Seko, ruled as a brutal kleptocrat for over three decades, decades, plundering Congo while enjoying Western backing.
52:05
SPEAKER_00: I always think about when I think about Kennedy, John F.
52:10
SPEAKER_00: Kennedy, I think about his final days.
52:18
SPEAKER_00: Just all the time.
52:20
SPEAKER_00: But I think about uh Ziem, the leader of South Vietnam, who just we just took out, you know, like it was uh certainly had our our hand in it.
52:32
SPEAKER_00: And um that's so like it bothered because in the final day it really bothered him.
52:38
SPEAKER_00: I think he knew what it meant, you know, like it it was not he didn't order it.
52:42
SPEAKER_00: So it's like this thing when Kennedy talked about uh smashing the CIA into a thousand pieces and scattering it to the wind, you know.
52:52
SPEAKER_00: If you really want to know why he was murdered in broad daylight um by the deep state uh Luciferian faction weirdos uh psychopaths, go look at his uh I think it's June 1963 uh speech at American University.
53:12
SPEAKER_00: Just listen to it.
53:14
SPEAKER_00: Nobody talks that way anymore.
53:16
SPEAKER_00: We become like this fun house mirror version of ourselves, you know, like this uh I I used to think uh if something happened to this country, uh uh some kind of turn happened in my lifetime where I let's let's do two Italian references, you know, because you know because of Columbus, right?
53:34
SPEAKER_00: But two Italian references.
53:36
SPEAKER_00: I I used to think of the country like in the age of uh of Reagan, and not that we were perfect, and we were definitely, you know, we were doing some really backhanded uh, you know, things, but um, the general mood of the country and what we saw as ourselves was more like Rocky Balboa, like Rocky IV, right?
53:54
SPEAKER_00: This one Italian, like you know, um, and then we morphed into Tony Soprano.
53:59
SPEAKER_00: So we kind of we became Tony Soprano when we were Rocky Balboa, you know, and it was like the the underdog, the winner, you know, we we would go against uh uh overwhelming odds.
54:10
SPEAKER_00: We work hard, you know, there was grit and character.
54:13
SPEAKER_00: And then this became this Machiavellian underhanded, you know, death dealer.
54:19
SPEAKER_00: And that's what I think, you know, especially past uh the point of September 11, 2001.
54:26
SPEAKER_00: It's like you just lose, what did we lost?
54:28
SPEAKER_00: Whatever that was.
54:29
SPEAKER_00: In America, you still go on the heartland, you still drive around and find, you know, because of like where I'm at right now, this is still America.
54:36
SPEAKER_00: But uh it's hard to, and I'm I'm not gonna be able to cover the domestic stuff I wanted to cover today, but you guys uh get the point, right?
54:45
SPEAKER_00: We're we're being targeted.
54:47
SPEAKER_00: This isn't organic.
54:49
SPEAKER_00: Like what's happening in the streets and what's happening between ICE and what's happening with the left and what's funding it, you know, and um if you understand, like there's there's things that work.
55:01
SPEAKER_00: It's not just one side, it's like a this is the problem.
55:03
SPEAKER_00: The problem is this is an operation.
55:06
SPEAKER_00: And uh you know, meant to divide us, meant to uh get people separated into uh categories, you know, where you dislike this and I dislike this, so we're separate.
55:21
SPEAKER_00: All that's meant to distract you from the larger things you know it's happening.
55:25
SPEAKER_00: Like you're we're losing the thread of everything that tied us to the historical origin story of what it meant to be an American, what it meant to build this country, who we are, what we're here for, our values and everything.
55:42
SPEAKER_00: It's being ripped away from us, but you're distracted by everything that's going on in your news feed.
55:47
SPEAKER_00: And there's a reason they call it a feed, right?
55:49
SPEAKER_00: It's where like when you send cattle to go feed, they feed you that.
55:54
SPEAKER_00: You're being farmed.
55:56
SPEAKER_00: And there's a reason, like I guess my soul, like when I wake up and I see the head, I don't jump to any one of the places.
56:04
SPEAKER_00: And I think that's a good, I hope that's good.
56:06
SPEAKER_00: I I'm focused on big picture and macro.
56:08
SPEAKER_00: I'm not sure what you can do besides the local level or just changing yourself, you know, working on you internally, because I think this is more where we are, is more of a spiritual, metaphysical task than it is a physical one.
56:22
SPEAKER_00: I could be wrong.
56:24
SPEAKER_00: I mean, we only have a limited time here on on planet Earth, and I'm certainly as every year that goes by understand that uh even more brutally.
56:32
SPEAKER_00: But I think that's the the task here.
56:34
SPEAKER_00: So I I don't know if that makes me I certainly would have a lot more listeners and uh if I took sides and beat the hell out of you with it, you know.
56:42
SPEAKER_00: But I don't, I don't it doesn't animate me.
56:46
SPEAKER_00: Like I see the big stuff.
56:47
SPEAKER_00: Oh, I see what's happening, like the underpinning, not like the prices of metals, folks.
56:54
SPEAKER_00: That's not normal, right?
56:55
SPEAKER_00: This is not normal market conditions, this isn't free market stuff, this is warfare.
57:02
SPEAKER_00: So plan accordingly.
57:05
SPEAKER_00: All right.
57:06
SPEAKER_00: I'm just out of time on uh I like going over big picture uh macro geopolitical stuff.
57:14
SPEAKER_00: It's fun, it's what the Arterburn radio transmission was built for.
57:18
SPEAKER_00: I used to say I got this uh from a Megadeth song when I was a kid.
57:23
SPEAKER_00: I always loved the lines Welcome to Tomorrow.
57:25
SPEAKER_00: It has so many different, it's it's based on a uh a movie about a nuclear exchange.
57:31
SPEAKER_00: I think the movie is Dawn's Early Light when they use it.
57:35
SPEAKER_00: And uh when I heard it first in that song when I was like a 15 or 16, I was like, that's a cool line.
57:40
SPEAKER_00: So I used that, but now we're like way smack dab in the middle of the tomorrow land.
57:45
SPEAKER_00: I mean, a lot of times uh we're coming up on a hard end of the show, but uh I think we live in an age of um you know disintegrating institutions and a fourth turning, and then you have this rise of things like AI and other things.
58:02
SPEAKER_00: And the AI uh is so interesting.
58:06
SPEAKER_00: You know, I I even asked it, um I'll end with this when I was uh in Mexico, and I just thought, I'm gonna ask it um what it thinks about my theory of fourth-dimensional warfare.
58:19
SPEAKER_00: And uh, by the way, my AI for whatever people say it cheerleads them, it doesn't cheerlead me, it doesn't do any of that.
58:24
SPEAKER_00: It disagrees with me all the time.
58:26
SPEAKER_00: But I laid this case out and it was like, you're absolutely right.
58:29
SPEAKER_00: And it gave me like 10 pages of why I'm right about uh governmental forces moving the prices of metals.
58:36
SPEAKER_00: And I was like, oh, okay, well, good.
58:38
SPEAKER_00: Well, we're on the same page, you and I uh robot.
58:41
SPEAKER_00: So uh all right, folks.
58:43
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59:02
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59:14
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59:23
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59:28
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59:31
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59:33
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59:36
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59:39
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59:42
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59:44
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59:50
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59:52
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59:53
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