Patriot Power Hour #291

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[00:01:08] This live episode features the situational awareness you need to practice self-reliance and independence. Introducing your hosts, Ben, the Breaker of Banksters, and Future Dan, the editor of FutureDanger.com. Patriot Power Hour. We are live once more. Episode 291. It's January 15th, 2025. Ben, the Breaker of Banksters here with Future Dan.

[00:01:40] Future Dan, come in, sir. What's going on this week of pre-inauguration of the second Trump term? What are you seeing out there? Well, we could talk more about the fires. There's a lot more information that's come out. We, of course, touched on it some last week. But certainly the fires in L.A. have been taking a lot of attention. And it's certainly newsworthy as well.

[00:02:08] But looking forward, we have the inauguration coming up in five days. Less than five days. Like four and three quarters days as the crow flies. I don't know. But it's coming very soon. We have a lot of financial news I want to get into as well. We have health news, natural news. All across the board, really. Nothing just like so urgent, out of control. But a lot of simmering fires, no pun intended, honestly.

[00:02:38] But that's how I've always looked at it is these are just simmering, waiting for an accelerant. Yeah, it's relatively calm, though, internationally and domestically. Quarter trillion dollars in damages in L.A. They're still searching homes. It's going to be dozens of dead. Major catastrophe on the West Coast wildfires laying waste. But relatively burned out at this point in time. Not raging like it was.

[00:03:06] It was really just the worst had been yet to come when we broadcast last week. Certainly. And it was almost happening while we were broadcasting. So we were seeing numbers from six or 12 hours prior, which were bad. 1,000 plus structures, a few people dead. But now 10,000, even more I've seen structures, dozens dead, missing, et cetera. Now, one thing as the breaker banksters, I see this as a human event, certainly.

[00:03:36] But I see it as a financial event. A quarter of a trillion, that's a lot of money. That's what I want are, you know, powers that be. If they're going to help and deficit spend and bail out. It's in a situation like this. It's not shipping a quarter of a trillion in foreign aid. It's not trillions and trillions to too big to fail. Right?

[00:04:05] So we've already run up our credit card is what I'm trying to say as a nation. And now we have a real crisis where we need real help. And I'm sure they'll make it happen, but that's just going to dig even deeper into the hole. From a big picture, a quarter trillion, though, is not even that much money compared to national debt, Fed's balance sheet, et cetera. So keep that in mind. It's a big number, but it's actually not. Nobody said anybody was going to pay for that.

[00:04:34] Well, they've said that. It does not mean it's been passed. And, you know, the Congress has. We're talking about the losses. Like in today's dollars, that's the losses in property. A lot of that is not covered. It won't be covered. And let's back up because I disagree that that's what our federal tax money should be for.

[00:04:57] Why can't California, which if it was an independent country, would be one of the top ten economies in the world, have its own accounts and its own savings to cover its own natural disasters? Why doesn't our federal system work that way?

[00:05:19] If your state is prone to flooding or prone to hurricanes or prone to tornadoes, prone to earthquakes, why is it that regions of the country that are not are paying for that? Great question. I'm just arguing in their paradigm. I'll tell you this. Someone asked me if I'm donating. I said, hell no. Sorry. You know how much I pay in taxes already? I don't have any. I'm being crowded out.

[00:05:45] My donation is being crowded out and put into my own preparedness and people close to me. Sorry, I'm not shipping my money out to California. Just like I'm not shipping it to Israel or Palestine or Ukraine. My own personal money is not being donated. And that's a travesty because charity is actually more effective. So I do donate some. But I'm not donating for this particular cause. Right? I do other types of donations. But even then, I have less resources to donate.

[00:06:14] So I just want to keep that in mind, too. Like, government assistance is not even supposed to be, like, a primary, whether it's federal or state. But while we're at it, talking about it, I thought I'd throw that in there. Yeah, absolutely. And I called it a man-made disaster last weekend. The evidence of that is even clearer tonight. Oh, yeah. Of all the things that, let's just say California in the 1960s, this didn't happen.

[00:06:44] It just didn't happen. They could take care of these matters. That region of that state, at a minimum, resembles New Orleans during Katrina. Right? Just hapless and incapable of taking care of itself. That alone is dangerous. Right? I have so many threads we could go down. And we'll go down a couple, maybe at a high level.

[00:07:12] But we're, of course, going to get the news blitz and tons of other stuff going on here. But whether it was arson, that's a whole thread we could go down to. Whether that arson was purposeful by a state actor, domestic or foreign, or otherwise. Or it's just the homeless problem and the destruction of society generally, where people want to see things burn like the Joker. So that's a whole thread we could go down. Mismanagement of the force, that's a thread.

[00:07:41] How is this being used for climate change propaganda? That's a thread. So I don't know if any of those piqued your interest. Or there's others. But, yeah. I don't know. We could do hours and hours on the show about this, or at least I could. Yeah. No, I think others are out there making all these points, you know, extremely well.

[00:08:05] So California is a bit of a basket case, you know, state, as are most of the Democrat-run states. We know this, right? So it's part of our reality. And a lot of people hoping that people in California will wake up to the reality that their government's not going to be good. At saving them during natural disasters.

[00:08:29] And for a state that is at risk of, you know, the largest possible earthquakes that anybody could predict in our country. It's about time that that state, which used to, it always had Democrat legislature, but it used to alternate. And Republican governors, you know, Schwarzenegger and others before him, they could gain power because that's a popular level across the state.

[00:08:57] There's still enough people that would say, look, got to have some kind of fiscal sanity, but this could be a wake-up call or not. But it's a terrible disaster. It was a preventable disaster. One way I look at it, well, actually, before I forget, the earthquake angle. I talked briefly about that last week.

[00:09:25] Like, holy cow, can you imagine if LA got an 8.0, 8.5, 9.0 earthquake? The fires that would break out and just the ravishing of that. Of course, we may not have 100-mile-an-hour winds, which were a huge part of this, but there'd be just way more chaos, destruction, confusion on a grander scale. This is a large area and a lot of people affected, but it wasn't like downtown or in Compton or in the very urban core.

[00:09:54] The great majority of LA wasn't even burned out. The great majority of the money and acreage may be a good portion. So, yeah, I think they were ready for a 9.0 earthquake or even an 8.0. I don't think so. That would inevitably result in the type of emergency that would put the Army and the Marine Corps on the streets. There would be martial law. There would have to be.

[00:10:24] The reports of looting in LA this past week during the fire. Like looters dressing as firemen and being arrested and caught in the act of looting in the scenario that you're describing would be 100-fold. So here's a question for you. Do you feel there was a lot of arson involved with this?

[00:10:54] Was it natural causes? Was it a combination? There was beyond negligence in the management of everything, but let's just call it it was just incompetence, even though I think it was more than that. Let's just say it was incompetence. But when it started, do you think it's potential that it was Chinese actors that started this up or arson of someone else, even just a homeless gang that decided to start it up and they knew the winds were coming?

[00:11:22] Or, I don't know, the origin. What's your thought on the origin? I think the most likely explanation is it's going to have multiple causes, multiple. And some of them might be completely coincidental. Just a combination of events. Some of it is malicious.

[00:11:50] Some of it is just out of ignorance. And some of it is straight up accidental. But when enough goes wrong at the same time, everything can come apart at the seams, which is kind of what the Future Danger Heatmap's about. And kind of the thrust of this show is we're looking at the polycrisis, the emerging polycrises, really.

[00:12:16] And, you know, big country, powerful country. It's going to take several things simultaneously happening from many sources to really bring us to a historically dangerous moment. But Southern California is a microcosm. You know, once something gets out of hand, nobody was, you know, protecting those.

[00:12:42] No one could have protected those properties once the fire grew big enough. Like there's no known firefighting force that could ever have put it out once it got going the way it got going. Right. So that's my analysis. I wouldn't want to try to pinpoint anything. From a prepping standpoint, I saw several big gun saves, some of the fireproof saves that worked. So make sure you got that in your house.

[00:13:09] Also, I just think diversify your assets, whether that means different stashes for different prepping gear and gold, silver, firearms, food, whatever. I've been curious of the condition of those firearms. You know, the saves will obviously preserve paperwork. But I'm wondering if they get hot enough to – or they keep the – Warp metal or something? Yeah, any kind of – especially like optics.

[00:13:39] I'm not sure you're pulling them out of that. They've been in an oven, right? I'm not sure how fireproof some of those saves are, right? Because gun saves are predominantly designed to just keep the gun secure, right? I don't know. There's probably high-end ones that no problem. Grab your weapons right out of it. They went through X thousands of degrees burning, and they're fine. But I'm not sure all of them are like that. I want to be the person testing them out.

[00:14:09] That's actually a great, like, prepper question or something. I'm sure there's some YouTube videos on that. But great question for sure. Great, you know. I mean, how hot before – forget it. It's going to melt, right? You can melt metal. You can't throw a safe into a volcano. But, you know, those are some fierce fires, right? Very true. You know, very concentrated. And as you said, 100-mile-an-hour winds, that's because of the fire, it's causing those winds to blow that fast.

[00:14:37] It's just sucking that oxygen into the fire is what was happening. Yeah, I have a fire going right now in my wood stove. And you can simply see how oxygen zooms right in. The hotter it gets, the more flow it brings up. And then, obviously, it shoots up the chimney, and it has its own mini windstorm firestorm within your fire.

[00:15:04] Same thing, except thousands and thousands of acres at once. And they already had very high winds, so it just accelerated it. And there's these different valleys where it just channels it. It's like – oh, gosh, I forgot the exact name. But, you know, you can blow into a fire. I have one of them. And spark that. Bellum. There you go. Yeah, exactly. You have the hand ones or the little ones you can blow out. I have a telescoping, a few of those telescoping. Good for preppers.

[00:15:33] But, anyway, anything else on the fire? Then maybe we can just hit the dashboard and keep on running from there. Yeah, Los Angeles had 117 million-gallon water reservoir bone dry when this happened. So pay attention to your local government. You may have friends. You may have a job. You may have a career. You may have gone to high school. You may have a social network, you know, location in this country with a government that is that very negative – you know, negligent.

[00:16:03] But to, you know, be in that situation knowing you could have just moved away and ridded yourself of that threat, hard to deal with if you didn't do it and you lost anybody, you lost any property. You've got to be in safe places. That's my message to the audience. And Southern California, when it's fire season, not one of the safe places.

[00:16:29] I have not seen a crazy drawdown in the stock market or some sort of panic that this would have destroyed so much assets that they had to sell off their stocks to rebuild. I haven't really seen much hype, let alone actual effect of that. I do wonder how many priceless baseball cards and memorabilia and even, like, artifacts from hundreds if not thousands of years ago were burned up in some of these rich folks' homes.

[00:16:58] That's just how it goes in history, though. Things burned down. You know, there you go. All right. So with the fires discussed and obviously with the fatalities and loss of life, it's not a good moment in American history. But next Monday will be a historic moment in American history.

[00:17:20] Four years ago to the same day, yours truly was broadcasting live from the mall and the Capitol for Prepper Broadcasting Network. And I've had my say on what I saw happen at January 6th. But I want to let it be known that there is video that I took that has remained under lock and key for four years.

[00:17:49] And at the right time, especially after pardons are granted for those who are jailed for much less than or, you know, for much different charges oftentimes than exercising the First Amendment free in the press rights, which I definitely was. I'm going to make that. You know what? Probably just do it on StreamYard.

[00:18:14] Probably put a montage together and talk through what I saw four years ago come Monday. There you go. Let's make that happen. We'll talk about the technicals, how we can make that happen, how I might be able to get my hands on that at some point in the next week, I guess, two weeks. Different ways we could do it. So, wow. Breaking. I didn't even know you were going to say that. So this is breaking. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:18:44] Dave's seen it. You've seen it. But our audience hasn't. And there are things that need to be discussed. Actors in the crowds that I filmed that need to be discussed. And it's really, you know, a preparation for what should be a massive revelation by the 46th president of the United States.

[00:19:14] Or actually 47th, right? POTUS 47 is coming in. He was also POTUS 45, right? But, you know, if he follows up, if his administration can manage to gain control of the Department of Justice and, you know, disclose the amount of informants that are in the crowd that day, that'll – this is a preview to that. Because I'm pretty sure I got footage of some of that happening.

[00:19:44] Nice. With that said, folks, let's go to the news blitz. We already talked about the fire. But let's just go through it. 12,000 structures or more destroyed. 24 plus dead. Looters disguised as firefighters. 29 arrested. Other weather. Worldwide, there was an earthquake in Mexico.

[00:20:14] 6.2. And a 6.8 in Japan. Gosh, could L.A. even take a 6.8? Almost wonder. In Bolivia, 17 dead. From intense rains and floods. Volcano eruption in Indonesia. Not much news out there about pandemics.

[00:20:43] We certainly, by this time of year, had seen a lot. Back in 2020, that is, by mid-January. Had already seen a lot about COVID coming through. But not as much right now. We do have something on COVID-19, though. No. Founder admits that the federal government pressured Meta to censor posts about COVID-19 vaccine side effects. That's, of course, Mark Zuckerberg. Yeah.

[00:21:12] Admitted that he was pressured to censor posts. Well, I had posts censored. Also, had one of my channels on YouTube shut down. I know Meta's not YouTube. But same thing. All about COVID-19. So, there you go. Highest grade news tonight. It's actualized. It's SHTF. It's smoking proof.

[00:21:42] News blatantly censored. Move on. Security. North Korea launches a projectile. Second launch of the year. They blew up a lot of their bridges across to South Korea. Been saber-rattling a bit more than usual. Keep a close eye on that. But, inauguration, January 20th.

[00:22:12] High noon, Eastern time. Braces for the worst with troops, drones, and fences. Economics, federal government budget deficit grows 40% year over year in January. So, the amount that the government is overspending, or you could say undertaxing.

[00:22:40] They're going to try to tax you more, and they're going to spend more. But, that deficit since January 2024 up 40%. Holy cow. $711 billion for the quarter October 1st to December 31st. So, the fiscal year, first quarter, October through December. $711 billion deficit.

[00:23:08] That's almost three Los Angeles fires worth of deficit. So, they're just adding a fourth on today, I guess, or, you know, this week. Money supply growth accelerates. Hits a 27-month high. This is super urgent. It's bad enough when the money supply grows 5%, 6%, 7% a year. That causes some big-time inflation.

[00:23:33] But, I mean, COVID was just unbelievable. Since COVID, this is the highest amount of money, money supply growth, let's call, in 27 months, more than two years. Inflation is still pretty high. A report did come in today. It was a little lower than maybe expected.

[00:24:01] Could that be the last window dressing on a Biden report so they can try to tank after that and expose all the skeletons in the closet, make it look bad for Trump? We'll talk a little bit about that. Real quick on the markets. Let's start with gold. $2,700. It's up, you know, since last week. Gold's up at least $80.

[00:24:29] It's not at $2,800, which is the all-time high, but it's at $2,724. Silver, up nicely. Pretty much at its 10-year high. It's at $31.60. It's had a nice bounce back. Just before Christmas, it was $30. Now it's $31.60. Bitcoin has had crazy, crazy volatility all 2025 so far.

[00:24:57] Less than a week ago, Bitcoin hit a low of $89,000. It's at $100,000 now. So if you really liked Bitcoin at $108,000 when it was hitting all-time highs, and you were patient and just waited a month or two, you could have snagged some up for $90,000. Bitcoin's back above $100,000 already. So that's an easy 10%, 11%, 12% gain. I don't suggest selling for such a gain. I say, hold on.

[00:25:25] Feature Dan, that's the news blitz. Yeah. You see any patterns? You see anything you can glean from looking across all of this? Financially, I just can't believe they'll be able to keep this going much longer. They're trying to keep the lid on inflation while not falling into a recession or even depression in the labor market. But that's why they had to start cutting rates, right?

[00:25:53] But they're just such between a rock and a hard place. Listen, I've said a few times that I still think they have a few wiggles they can do, a few bailouts they might be able to finesse. But they're running out of steam, and I think it's perfectly primed to Hoover or Trump. You think that won't happen for a few years. I don't know if they could keep it from happening that long. And if it goes that long, maybe he could try to make a soft landing. Maybe that's a silver lining. What's your thoughts? Oh, he could be the hero for fixing it.

[00:26:24] And he'd blame it on Biden. And that's why I don't think it could happen until it's the end of his term. And then history could be left to judge him as being the one whose economic policies brought it about. Speaking of his economic policies, last week I was pretty harsh on this idea that Trump advocates out loud at least about how tariffs will make us rich again.

[00:26:51] And us being the federal governments put a dent in the deficit. But you just read the number, right? Three quarters of a trillion dollars every 90 days. The tariffs can't fix that. It's going to be austerity or nothing.

[00:27:11] And with the House of Representatives so closely divided between parties, the compromises necessary to pass anything mean there's going to be more of this. We're going to be running massive, massive deficit during his term, at least until midterms.

[00:27:33] And then maybe if there was the presence of the Democrats in the party were – or in the Congress, if Democrats took a massive midterm defeat, which would defy history, right? Because usually the president in power, his party suffers at the polls, right?

[00:27:56] But if somehow the Republicans gain the votes necessary to bring about spending cuts, then maybe this financial cliff could be avoided. But the way it's running, I don't see it happening. No, even reducing it by 50% would be a great, great effort. And I would support that, you know?

[00:28:22] But I also think that's damn near impossible. And the only other option is just to continue to debase the currency. Here's something for you, future Dan. Do you know that the U.S. dollar is actually strengthening compared to other currencies? The U.S. dollar has been very, very strong the last couple of months. That's kind of funny, don't you think? Yeah.

[00:28:50] The strength of the dollar in the last few months, you know, it's just getting cheaper. That's what you mean, right? Well, here's my take on it. The DXY and what they call the strength of the dollar is compared to other crappy fiat currencies. And they're having a free fall. You think inflation and depression level collapses right at the gates here in the U.S.?

[00:29:20] Well, think about Europe where they've been under massive austerity in their own way because they've been at war. Natural gas in Germany has just been so much more expensive and it's just caused so many problems there. Plus, you know, Europe's not the engine of growth, I wouldn't call. Then, Japan. They've... It looks like something's snapped. We reported on it a few months ago. I should do more research into it. But long story short, the yen has collapsed.

[00:29:46] And it's finally that carry trade seems to have fallen away, meaning printing their way out has failed for Japan. And that'll happen to us pretty soon as well. And then, of course, China having a lot of problems. Their growth is still high. It sounds high, right? But it's their lowest growth since, like, 2008 on an annualized basis.

[00:30:15] So, they're still growing, allegedly, but at the lowest rate. And, you know, I don't trust those numbers. So, put that all together and plus a little bit of fear, people are actually flocking to the dollar. But the dollar compared to gold, silver, real estate, Bitcoin, it continues to drop. Just not as fast as the others. That's my take. Yeah, I mean, about China's numbers.

[00:30:43] I mean, those economic numbers are national security issues for the Chinese. Like, that's not even – no one should even pretend that those are, you know, not completely manipulated to whatever the interest of the Communist Party of China, you know, happens to be. You know, it's never not been, you know, exaggerated and inflated.

[00:31:10] As a thought experiment, would they ever try to convince the world that their growth was low on purpose as a feint while maybe they ramped up for a war, for example? I can't see why they would do that. That would damage their economy at the time when they would want it to be at its peak possible strength.

[00:31:36] I mean, like, just the numbers and reports temporarily before it could come out the truth. No. Well, to temporarily report, you know, lower economic numbers, less, you know, contraction. Well, you know, not even just growth but, you know, negative growth. I don't think that regime would ever do that. I can't understand how that would be an advantage to them.

[00:32:03] You know, so with that said, we got to assume the best possible – you know, what they want to do is make it as high as possible, the growth number. And if the best they can do is this bad, then how poor are they really, really, really doing? It could be a lot worse than they're showing. If their only incentive is to boost, which I pretty much would agree with, they're hitting this low in numbers.

[00:32:30] Their propaganda machine can't even boost it higher than this. That's really bad. I think the mistake that people make is to look at those economic numbers and pretend like, you know, that's a free economy. So, you know, it's all state-owned enterprise to some degree or another. So, they can fake a lot for a long time. We know the Soviet Union did.

[00:33:01] And then it all fell apart. Well, I also think when these numbers fall apart enough, they're just going to stop releasing numbers and then it'll just, you know, they're going to go back to their natural state of statism and totalitarianism and a little bit less veneer of free market. So, yeah, I think they'll quickly be falling into that. I'm almost surprised they're releasing these numbers. That's kind of what I'm like, hmm, why are they even showing such bad numbers?

[00:33:31] And how much longer will they show them? And if they get worse, what will they do? We'll be reporting here on Patriot Power Hour for sure. Yeah, I think one of Trump's prime objectives is to disconnect us from the Chinese economy. Yes, nice. Let's do it. And I'm not sure how much that can – any president has the power to do it, but he's got a lot of power in terms of setting tariffs.

[00:34:00] Congress just basically wrote laws that delegated that power entirely to the executive branch. And he did it because most other countries' executives had the same power. So it was on purpose to put our president on equal playing field.

[00:34:23] But in the time that those laws were written, it was the philosophy that lowering trade barriers, lowering tariffs. Worldwide, general agreement on tariffs and trade, the GATT, and NAFTA, which was just North America. But the entire idea of a European Union that removed custom borders internally, right?

[00:34:48] Big, big, big movement after the end of the Cold War to free up the economies. And as I've said many times on this show, I'm a believer in that. As long as you're trading with free countries, right? If you're trading with communist regimes, it doesn't work. No, no. And we talk about this quite a lot, and I agree with you wholeheartedly.

[00:35:17] Now, past China, let's real quick touch on North Korea. We got North Korea troops confirmed in Ukraine and in Russia during the attack by Ukraine into Russia in that small area. North Korea at least seems to be speeding up or increasing the number of launches. They've done a lot in the past, so it's not like this is unprecedented by any means. What's your take on the Korean Peninsula?

[00:35:49] I think those actions by the North are designed to get Trump's attention, to get Trump to the negotiating table, and they're not particularly dangerous. I think North Koreans must be aware of how well the military capabilities of the United States of America

[00:36:16] served in preventing Ukraine from being overrun. I don't think there's anybody in North Korea with any power that seriously wants to fight to invade the South at this point. Well, we saw how difficult it is to take ground with modern drone. I'm not a military man. Is it ISR? Is that the proper acronym?

[00:36:47] Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance. It's kind of this acronym for, by any means necessary, knowing where the enemy is, knowing what it takes to target them. And the ISR umbrella over Ukraine has been historically effective in preventing that country from being overwhelmed.

[00:37:13] In fact, it helps target insider Russia, right? Lots of strikes in Russia. You know, that's all space-based assets letting the Ukrainians know exactly where and when to launch the munitions that were given them. The long-range strike. You know, so basically a Ukrainian pushes the button, but everything else was set up to succeed for them in a tremendous way. Sure. Sure.

[00:37:42] In South Korea, not only is that a much smaller border than Ukraine and Russia, it's very well surveilled and mapped out for generations and locked away. But conversely, and I've been to South Korea and flew into Incheon, which is where they landed. The U.S. forces landed on Incheon to the west of Seoul and marched across and saved Seoul's ass.

[00:38:11] But long story short, the border is only like 10 miles away. Okay, so think about from New York City, a city actually probably larger than New York City or damn near density-wise, 10 miles away from North Korea. So if North Korea does attack, I don't think they would be able to actually invade and take anything over, but they might just destroy all of that city and infrastructure and make L.A. fires look like nothing.

[00:38:39] Of course, the retaliations would be crazy, and that's pretty much mutually assured destruction if they unloaded all their artillery and missiles, don't you think? No, it's not mutually assured destruction. That's one of the controversial things Rumsfeld did when he got to be Secretary of Defense for the final time. He'd been Secretary of Defense under Ford, but he came back under George W. Bush.

[00:39:06] And some of the operation plans for the Korean Peninsula were relatively not aggressive. And he said, no, we're changing that. We're going to have plans that if the North Koreans ever do anything to break the peace, that's it. We're going to end that regime. And that was in the early 2000s, right? The capability to do that now has only grown.

[00:39:35] The North Koreans have not kept up with any – yes, they're – that's why they strive really hard to get – and probably do have some nukes in submarine-launched capability, like a second strike capability, something to hold some of the assets in the South at risk.

[00:39:55] But generally speaking, the North Korean regime would cease to exist within – pretty quickly if it tried to have a war, which is why, although we watch under the indicator of the Korean War restarting, these minor, fairly routine over the course of the decades, kind of fire a missile here, do something with the roads or the bridges or do something near the DMZ there.

[00:40:25] That's just – that might be the regime in the North's overtures, like starting plays towards a negotiation. And it could result in a crumbling of that Stalinist regime, just like at the end of the Cold War did for Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, and maybe even the prospects of a peaceful reunification of the peninsula.

[00:40:52] Of course, the difference is there's China, right? And China has had – North Korea is a buffer state and propped it up for a very, very, very long time. China does not want a unified Korea that's aligned with the United States right on its border. So, you know, in all likelihood for the rest of our lifetime, the Korean Peninsula is going to remain, you know, pretty much the way it is. All right.

[00:41:21] Here's one for you. As a purveyor of news or I don't know what you want to call yourself as owner of futuredanger.com, what do you think about the founder of Facebook, now Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, admitting that the federal government, Biden administration et al, pressured Meta to censor posts about COVID-19 vaccine side effects. And, of course, they did.

[00:41:50] That comment out and the fact that you may be – I don't know. Do you consider yourself being shadow banned in the past, right? Maybe even straight up banned. What kind of stories do you have? What do you think about this news blatantly censored? And is the pendulum swinging back to the good guys here? Facebook definitely banned Future Danger's link.

[00:42:15] And there was a point when articles and posts from Future Danger posted automatically. And that was absolutely shut off at the time of Trump's first election right afterwards. But I don't really care about the private side of this. And I don't really care whether you believe Zuckerberg or think he's completely fake in this kind of turn.

[00:42:46] I don't care about that. What I care about is the news that says that the executive branch of the federal government pressured a private company to censor. And I'm hoping lots and lots of information comes out to make that absolutely an abhorrent low point in American history that everybody's ashamed of and never lets be repeated.

[00:43:15] Well, I hate to look at it this way, but I am in insurance, risk management, et cetera. I try to disassociate myself a little bit. But as more and more deaths and injuries come from the vaccine, you pair that with the censorship about the side effects. And baby, you got a case. Yeah. At some point, though, you know, how big before it's unprosecutable? Well, it's too big to be prosecutable. So exactly. I'm not.

[00:43:45] Exactly. Those people still try to sue about it. But you're right. It's just damaged society so much and billions, if not trillions in damage. It's practically uncalculable. Horrible. I'd say in that. But yeah, no, it's not insurable at all. Yeah. Well, I think it's a good direction.

[00:44:07] Whether you believe Zuckerberg is just the poor victim of the pressure of these agencies or he was all for it until he was against it, like John Kerry. I don't care. It's a setting example of what the Biden regime was.

[00:44:25] And then, you know, one thing you can count on is whatever amount of time in the future when somebody tries this again, and they'll try, that it's going to have to morph and change for them to get away with it again. Because the way it was done during COVID was so nakedly, you know, you know, just Trump's reelection is a repudiation of that. Right.

[00:44:52] What I'm hoping, and I know this is true to some, some extent is a lot of people wake up because of this, whether they're 60 years old or 18. Because my big, probably the biggest stage of my awakening was the financial crisis, 2008, 2009. And because of that, let's just say I learned about a lot of other stuff. And without that, I might have just been your average finance bro saying, hey, invest in a U.S. dollar.

[00:45:22] It's a good yield right now. That would be pathetic. I hope I wouldn't have turned out that way, but sometimes adversity turns, you know, could turn into a good thing. And now I'm the breaker of banksters. Well, maybe there's someone out there that's in med school who in 10, 20, 40 years will make a big difference in the next scam because they're learning about this now or in the future will. That's how I look at it too. Hey, I want to be optimistic about Trump.

[00:45:48] I just see this as a speed bump towards the plan to enslave and kill off most of humanity. Maybe Trump can turn it around. I know he's going to slow it down, expose a lot, but it's what's done after that, you know, in the year 2028, 2030, 2040. That's going to be just as important or more important, I think. So, yeah, the more we can out now, the more that in retrospect can be pointed to lessons learned and other people waking up and stuff, you know?

[00:46:19] Yeah, I think it was obviously the Hitler Youth was an example, but it was really the Cultural Revolution in China where an entire generation of Chinese that were born after the revolution in 1950 would be, you know, pitted by, you know, through government indoctrination.

[00:46:39] And against their parents' generation, that to absolutely wipe out the last, you know, privately held sentiment against the brutal, brutal communism of China, right? And that was an example to our opponents in the West because it doesn't matter to them what an outcome of any particular election was.

[00:47:06] If they can seed in the mind of the next generation, the children unborn and the ones, enough of the unborn or the ones too young to appreciate what, you know, just little kids, they don't know. Get into their minds, get them on track to the next power grab, right?

[00:47:26] Or continue to convince them that, you know, the mere act of reproducing and having natural families, you know, evil or not worth it, right? You know, that won't relent. That much I know. There's a dedicated worldwide movement to that that is not going to stop in our lifetimes, Ben. And we just have to fight it every week on Patriot Power Hour. Couldn't say it better myself.

[00:47:55] Anything else on the dashboard or any other topics you want to hit on tonight? Well, we talked a little bit. Just getting a little bit, you know, out of the envelope, right? And when we first spoke to James Walton about joining Prepper Broadcasting Network, you know, he kind of, you know, gently let us know that, you know, wild conspiracy theory isn't really what he was looking for on the network, right? Yeah, definitely.

[00:48:24] But I still want to come back to the Green Beret who supposedly set off a cyber truck in front of Trump's casino in Vegas and what he was apparently saying in his manifesto or his last words about weapon systems that can defy gravity. Well, you know what? It's been about five years since we joined. I think next episode is our five-year anniversary on PBN.

[00:48:51] But I think you're due or, you know, you can take the liberty today to hit this. Well, I was thinking about before the show. If 100 years from now, there's no such thing. There's been no scientific breakthrough. This was all pure fiction and just a, you know, urban legend that, you know, quickly passed. That would be, you know, sort of a testament to how destabilized the entire society is.

[00:49:21] That these kinds of ideas are actually, you know, being discussed more widely. But I'm thinking that if there was a scientific breakthrough that explored how to do that with lighter than air aircraft that, you know, can defy gravity through some means.

[00:49:38] Maybe absolute revolution in micronuclear, you know, power technology that would, you know, be able to concentrate that amount of electricity in a space where gravitational fields could be disrupted, changed, right? You could start having, you know, Star Wars imperial cruisers floating over the horizon, right?

[00:50:03] You know, that's what this Green Break claims, that the United States has the technology and that China has it now, right? And if Trump knows this, right, he's got a major opportunity, right? He can declassify anything at an instant as president of the United States. That's a fact. Constitutionally, that's a fact.

[00:50:29] So if these exist and payloads can be placed anywhere in an opponent's territory with little to no ability for them to, you know, resist these things. If they're stealth and they can be, you know, suddenly appear places, just like dozens of sci-fi movies you talked about, you've seen about alien contact.

[00:50:55] You know, and if indeed, like atomic weapons, the United States of America has had them first, I would say that every nuclear arsenal in the world, perhaps not our allies, because, you know, we know where their stuff is and we trust them, right? You know, and the blowback of, you know, surveilling them, you know, later wouldn't even be worth it because they already tell us where their stuff is.

[00:51:22] But every nuclear arms, every sensitive location in China and Russia and North Korea and Iran, you know, we may very well have surveilled it with ISR packages on vehicles like that. You know, forget about weapons payloads, right? Just, you know, we know where everything is in a way that we, you know, never could know for sure during the Cold War, right? And we could take it out.

[00:51:49] You know, we could put a drone of this type over nuclear silos and just know if you're even contemplating using nuclear weapons, right? If we had that level of awareness, it might go a long ways to explain how we were not, you know, did not fear the Russians in supporting Ukraine. That, you know, the Russians are really checkmated if they don't have the same technology.

[00:52:18] But honestly, everybody's checkmated if the superpowers have this technology, right? It would be unthinkable to launch devastating nuclear war because it's absolutely assured that it will occur to you in return, right?

[00:52:37] If that's true and this technology exists, you and I have talked about the kind of revolutionary breakthrough in, you know, in economics and commerce that it would take to witness the growth necessary for our current budgetary and, you know, federal debt issues to really not be as bad as they seem.

[00:53:06] Any amount of, you know, absolute economic growth could, you know, really, you know, not make the debt we've incurred that bad. If those vehicles exist, if Trump could somehow cause them to become public knowledge, maybe negotiate treaties and bring that technology to the commercial sector, imagine the turning point that could be. I love it. I love it.

[00:53:35] A little conspiratorial, but I don't think so. Even if we don't even talk about those exact drones, there's just so much technology that's not being publicly available for commercial use that could really boost the economy. It'd be huge. And I've always, I had a little bit of an epiphany when I was in undergrad at school, but honestly, it started back in grade school playing games, whether it was like Oregon Trail or Masters of Orion,

[00:54:03] which is kind of like Civilization, if you ever played that or SimCity. Like, I realized the only way to progress is you got to get your technology improved and it's always a race. And then in undergrad, I learned about Malthus and the Malthusian model of growth and how he said there's only finite resources. So we can only support a certain amount of population. Otherwise, you got to cull the population, whether it's herd animals or humans, whatever.

[00:54:33] And while there's a little bit of substance to that, what I learned, and I remember my professor talking about it too, but what really stuck is the variable that's not accounted for is technology and technology can grow exponentially, not just linear. So if you outgrow it with technology, you might have a chance. So that's what it all boils down to. And so that's why I definitely appreciate what you said there and great stuff.

[00:55:01] With that said, this is episode 291. I think it's one of the better episodes of all time. Definitely a great episode here in 2025. Future Dan, any other topics? Otherwise, take us out. Yeah, I'll take us out. And I'll say this. During Trump's first term, he hinted at being briefed at absolute super weapons that were totally classified. And it made the deep state really nervous because he even mentioned their existence. Could this be that?

[00:55:29] Anti-gravity, gravitic transport systems? Are we on the breaking point to seeing something like the Internet, which was first planned in the U.S. military, come along and revolutionizing our economy? Stand by. We're going to track it every week on Patriot Power Hour.

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