Patriot Power Hour #342 - Incredible News On This Spring Season Opener

M hmm, man a purpose. Should I email you? Should I put this on your action item? Listen? You decide your own love love involvement. We are the Proper Broadcasting Network. Mhm. You are now listening to the Patriot Power Hour, the newest show of the Prepper Broadcasting Network. 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 Future Danger dot Com. Patriot Power Hour. We are back. We are live. New season April tecond twenty twenty six, Episode three forty two. Ben the Breaker Banksters here with Future Dan. Yeah, springs season, been looking forward to it. The heat mapp dashboard of Future Danger is as loaded as with news as we left off two weeks ago. A lot of it the same, a lot of it knew, lot to cover in this spring premiere of Patriot. Power really some of the biggest news we've seen. But as compared to the last couple shows we've did, I think our last one was, oh the eighteenth of March, full refresh but mostly in the same threads and just continuation, but also a lot of brand new things coming almost out of nowhere. Do you just want to hit the dashboard straight away? Yeah, go for it, Ben, all right, I'll try. To be pithy, wish me luck. We'll start with economics. Oil closes the highest prices since twenty twenty two when the Russian invasion took place. Brent oil heads for monthly record surge. WTI settles above one hundred for first time since twenty twenty two, where I'm at gas just above four bucks for the first time today, and nationwide the average of about four dollars as well. Don't want to bury the lead though. The biggest most dangerous headline on the map SHTF level Economics, Foreign central banks, treasuries in wake of Iranian war. International official holdings at the New York Federal Reserve fall to the lowest level since twenty twelve. Let me tell you what. There's a lot more debt out there than twenty twenty twelve, or than twenty twelve, but international holdings of our debt is down to the lowest level. We'll talk about that a lot more, but that's big, big news. Private credit funds stung by February losses. Trapped in private credit, many investors are waiting in line to pull out their money. Up to five billion dollars is trapped, just a drop compared to what could happen Federal Reserve and occ approved Morgan Stanley risky trading structure. Back to private credit Blue Owl. We've talked about them many times. Well even more of their investors trying to get money and even more being gated or essentially locked out. Only five percent of your redemptions are allowed. Trying to pull out your money. Yeah, maybe you'll get five percent. DHS shut down longest in US history. Of course, that's been you know, rectified to subdegree. But TSA lines and a lot of other issues were felt as a result and linked at pretty much everything we just said. Borrowing costs surging, all types of interest rates going up, not a great sign. That's economic. Gold, silver, bitcoin all down pretty badly recently. Still gold silver much higher than they were year every year, but well off of their record about a month month and a half ago. Let's pivot on over to geopolitics security. This all falls under foreign black opsis, and we have a half dozen articles tied to SHTF level indicator. Tonight, let's go straight through another woman tied to US scientific secrets vanishes. Meanwhile, FBI director's personal email, photos and documents hacked and released. Barksdale Air Force Base was the target of a drone swarm disrupting operations. Nine top level scientists die or go missing in the last year, and as we just talked about, another one's added to the list. Who's spying on America's nuclear triad. All these are articles y'all need to check out on future danger dot com right now. Each of them we can talk about for twenty minutes, but let's keep going. California Congressman sends cease and desist to the FBI over China probe files. Lots of tremors, lots of evidence of foreign black ops even here on the homeland. War Secretary asked Army chief of staff to take an immediate retirement. Another big piece of news under Japanese conventionally rearmed japan deployees destroyer capable of firing Tomahawk missiles. Didn't expect to see that, probably ten years ago. China supporting Iran sharing intelligence. Meanwhile, warships and jets of China are conducting patrols near the disputed US out China Sea. They haven't made their move by any means, though, even with a huge amount of military force being put into the Middle East. Let's look at this marine and paratroopers deployed to Middle East over thirty five hundred troops, but actually a lot more than that. I was just one tronch, third aircraft carrier Carrier Strike Group ten hit on a few more articles for sure under security. Remember this is domestic and international security. So an improvised explosive plot was foiled out of Florida base. The suspect was from China. Extensive analysis of winter twenty twenty six fireball surge raises questions secret weapons, space weapons, what's going on? I've seen some pretty interesting videos future dance sent Wisconsin woman arrested for killing pro Trump coworker, brutal political violence back internationally or geopolitics and national security. Nuclear weapon tests are going to resume by the US and well. President has been tearing into NATO over the last week or two. The Paper Tiger says they need to step up. They need to pull their weight strongly, considering pulling the US out of NATO. Secondary of state issues veiled threat after France, Italy are the latest NATO allies to block US military flights for the Iranian war. So alleged allies France and Italy not allowed military flights for the Iranian war, and Spain also closed in airspace US warplanes. So a lot of stress with allies or supposed allies as well going on. I believe that's it for this column. That's definitely the busiest column of the night and one of the busiest ever for this particular column. Let's go to well, the liberty column, all about liberty, Bill of rights, all that very important stuff that we cannot forget about. Well, we're getting a test here of what is war? Is it constitutional? What does that even mean? Iran conflict hits a month, not formal declaration. President Warren's Cuba's next. There's been eleven thousand plus targets struck in the last month. It's eleven thousand. The White House says the original four to six week operation timeline is still in place. It'd be a couple more weeks around tax Day would be the end of that. And in Ecuador you have special forces oversea cartels getting absolutely crushed and exterminating. Don't forget Ukraine continues to grind on, lots of money being laundered. In my opinion, Ukraine government schemed to funnel war aid to Biden campaign just one example. And under elections stolen skid row fraudsters caught paying homeless people to forward signatures on ballots. Let's go to Natural News and Health to kind of finish it out for the night on the news. Blitz unusual storm system puts war torn Middle East on high alert. Here in America, early season wildfire surge already one point five million acres burned and it's not even fire season yet. Kremlin asked us for ceasefire at Iranian nuclear plant so that it can evacuate the remaining Russian staff. Car up pitches cloned human bodies to transfer your brain into. We don't see this indicator too much, but it applies here. Life spans unnaturally extended. Get your clone, put your brain into it, live another life. I don't think it's that easy. Massive Saharan dust storms sweeps across Morocco, Algeria, and Mauritana. Lots of dust storms and crazy storms going on both North Africa and Middle East right now. An asteroid passed extremely close in the last week, less than ten percent of the distance between here and the moon. Speaking of, they did launch artaments two to the moon to circle it yesterday. Successful launch. Severe drought triggers water restrictions in southwest Florida. Here's another one related to cloning and re engineering nature, organ farming. There's a that wants to grow headless human organ sacks. Pretty much. You grow the just the organs. It's a live sort of and then you can transplant those organs. Organ farming. Sure, that's already going on. Why do so many young men suddenly have a rectile dysfunction? Well, future Dan, that's the last article that I mean to end on that, but there we go. Why do have Why do so many young men suddenly have ED? Well? I got potential reasons, but you know, it is a real health problem, whether it's the food or whether it's electro magnetic field effects exposed. So that's the news feature, Dan. Could be both, right, could be both combinations. Combinations is what it's all about. Zoom out. You got that row of black happening now indicators, and I think what we got five Grade one happening now right now? And all you know, we do have five and three of the five have multiple articles under them and a couple of them have four or five six articles under them, so that quantity is intense. Yeah, and some of those article headlines are about the same topic, but in other cases there about diverse topics. The espionage in black ops suspected it. You know, it's laid there right now that we are in some level of of you know, non kinetic warfare with many many state simultaneously right now. Well, I've never been a fan of the police state, but at this point, you know, you certainly hope that they're doing something to stop terrorists before they might attack. To all the cyber attacks being thwarted, hopefully by the cybersecurity. National defense has been put in place. I mean, we put a lot of money into it. Hopefully it's working. So where's the Iranian sleeper cell? Boogeyman, you check it under your bed for the Iranian sleeper cells. I don't think there's anybody under the bed. That's a good thing. I hope not. I'm caring more often, let's just say that. But my hope and guess is the threat was less than we hoped or not hoped, but thought it could be. But number one, but number two, there's been a lot of takedowns that were just you know, either classified or hushed up, and maybe will come out that there were some cells that were you know, busted up in the last few weeks. Well, well that would be your securities apparatus that you're paying for. But I don't think that would go without publicity. And they ain't there there. That was never a thing. This Iran's regime is, you know what on the fourth or fifth tier of leadership in some areas right you know, every aspect of their security state, their their military, their their their clergy that rules all that is just the there's nothing left over there right now. And Trump spoke last night. It's not a headline here, but essentially said the plan was, where there's uranium, we're gonna just stare at it with satellites and hit it with missiles anytime we need to. If an Iranian goes anywhere near it, and it's gonna be a push button more, he's gonna just flick the switch and stop the strikes and see what comes. Well, he said that the straight of horror moves, which is all on the news in the past month, will open itself at some point. Yeah, it'll open naturally. I guess it will. But really to just say the Europeans and everybody in Asia and all the Gulf states, you solve it and just pull back, is what he said he's gonna do tomorrow. That's gonna that's a certainly a power move. Do you think that's his ultimate head fake before he does put troops on the ground tomorrow or you believe them are hard to say. The only troops you're gonna hear about on the ground are already going to be on the birds headed back to safety or landed. Right if there's raids and there may have already been raids as far as we know, you know, if there's raids, they're not going to announce any of that until it's safely over putting occupying terrain there. You know, I'm not sure how well they've directly gone after the armed forces of the ground, armed forces of the Iranian military. If they had gone after those troops, the scenes that you would be seeing in media about just just casually dead everywhere, but you don't see that. It's the most amazing part about the war is that the precision, right, they're hidding buildings with leaders in them, and the buildings come down where the bunkers collapse, and there's no pictures, right, where's the people pulling babies out of rubble and holding them up in the air like you used to see in Beirut. It's not happening. So I know they haven't struck you know, the conventional forces along the coast of the Iranians. Otherwise you'd see bodies, right. So for that reason, I can't believe Trump would put ground troops in. I think, yeah, headfakes. I mean, he's the military deception campaign. Usually that's like planned by the military commander, and it's like the White House is not part of that, right, But Trump is leading the military information operation all the way through this. It's a war. It's unconstitutional and had there been a vote in Congress, I would have been all for it. By the way, do you think people like Lindsey Graham saying, oh, if we need to put thousands and thousands, we could do it. We did that in Iwajima, Like that's ridiculous. I think he said that though. Is he just posturing and you know, peacocking around like a senator does, or is that what some some of these neocons that are still around trying to convince Trump to do or what's going on with that. I don't think what he's saying in those regards matters. He was a military officer though, But I mean, I mean, he's right if you know enough of the wrong circumstances came about. But let's go back to the future danger heat map dashboard. You can scroll the whole homepage and look in every indicator in the security column. There is no indicator that of danger that war with Iran starts. And I set up that system in two thousand and fourteen fifteen timeframe, it's obvious, you know, fighting in Iran is not dangerous to us. We were gonna stomp them then, we're stopping them right now. We could stomp them again in ten years if they if they don't change their government, right, if the Iranian George Washington doesn't show up, then it's gonna just seep back into the same regime and just have to do it again someday. Well I'm hoping this will just I don't know, it won't resolve soon, but there's just so much other battles that they need to take place. I feel like, and this is not good for interest rates, not good for oil price. So if it, you know, calms down in the next few months, I'm not gonna say no harm, no foul, but it could be absorbed. But if we see oil at one hundred hundred and ten hundred and twenty plus, like I've been saying all through the summer, that's going to really hurt, you know, the stats, the economic stats particularly, uh, you know, it's not all about economics and stuff, but with midterms coming up, people are gonna just be crying and complaining about five dollars gas all summer. That ain't gonna be helpful. Yeah, I don't know if it'd be dangerous if he starts to be all time high gas prices, oil prices, fuel prices. But we were not there at all. Yeah, I don't think. I don't think this is gonna be a blip in the radar. I'm pretty sure. Well, I said, if they were pretty much done by Easter, at least the main majority of was Easter, then maybe, you know, that's not such a long time. But if it keeps drawing out, it's only gonna get worse from at least from the economic standpoint. Anything else you want to hit on with Iran or even pivoting to China or keep talking about this foreign black ops. We could talk about that for hours. Probably. Yeah, I thought your presentation of heat map dashboard was one of your finest tonight, really on it not kept at pithy and and waited until now to pontificate it was excellent. Now and he in with one area for improvement because he did miss the headline, just one and there was a lot. So again I'm not playing here. I got it. It's good, good, I appreciate it. But the California congressman who is about to have the FDI throw out all the files showing that he was a Chinese asset, right, that that headline got overlooked. But it was like the sixth or seventh of several very important ones. Drones, drones swarms around Barkstell is a serious matter. It's a really serious matter that that there's anybody who can put drones up in this United States. And it's because China and Russia must have intel assets in here, trained in you know, in the top levels of espionage, putting people in that can last entire lifetimes and be activated. Iranians could never do that. They didn't have sleeper cells I never believed it. It's not happening, it doesn't exist. But China, Russia definitely, definitely can have people here that would do that. Can Could they have intelligence agencies that can recruit Americans to do it? Right? Oh, for sure, there's enough out there that would We've already seen will join their side of any any time they can. Let's go to this Barksdale real quick, Parksdale Headquarters the Air Force Global Strike Command. It has interconnolent, intercontinental ballistic missiles and strategic bomber forces. You know, that's the responsibility of Global Strike Command. And actually at the base itself, B two, B one and B fifty two aircraft pretty much directing all these forces throughout the country and through the world. This is in Louisiana, so unprecedented threat. There were waves of twelve to fifteen units and they loitered over the base for four hours. That's the crazy part that they just were allowed. I guess there for four hours. Yeah, you wonder, you wonder what it takes a you know, it's such an expensive defense budget, but the anti drone technology that that niche of defense industry is red hot right now. Anybody can show up with capability that can you know, defeat drones. Our military is rate to pay for a solution, many solutions. I don't think this is one of those things, like it's gonna be like hey, back in twenty twenty six, that happened at Barksdale, and five to ten years from now, it's gonna be virtually impossible. It's been a cost, though, we're gonna we're gonna invent a way out of it. You know, we're America, right we got we got people going deeper into space than ever before, right now, like we're gonna fix this. Well right now, it's a vulnerability for sure. And the base did trial electronic countermeasures to disable GPS and data links and that failed to disable the sophisticated drones. So sure they probably have better stuff that they could have used, but maybe not. But this would be a case study and motivation, like you said, for the next decade of R and D, and so many power points are going to be focused on this to make sure this doesn't happen again. The first anti drone laser turret vehicles, they're just coming online. I think I saw an article that one of them was going to be put into DC. So obviously Barksdale needs one. Vanderberg in California. We've had the headlines about it. Very sensitive US Air Force, US Space Force base right definitely involved in ICBMs. It's had the same thing going on. So this is something like it happening now if other really bad things all happen, that's where you get into, Hey, this is starting to get towards collapse, you know, like take warning now. This is unlike ever before. We're not there right now, and some of these things are solvable, so you know, I don't think you'll see you know, those types of bone swarms in the future, but in contemporary with a lot of other things going on, including in you know, war and Iran. Yeah, it's it's a dangerous environment out there right now. Yeah, lots going on. To say the least, let's see one more for the foreign black ops suspected the top the nine top level scientists that die or go missing, as well as this other woman. Let's look at her first, New Mexico woman who is an administrative assistant. Okay, but at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. So let's just say administrative assistants probably get a little bit of exposure to things even if they're not supposed to. I'm not saying super top secret. Put the fact just the fact she disappeared is a huge security threat. I'm sure she had a clearance, et cetera. So Okay, that's one person, but we have several people since June twenty twenty five, that's only it's less than a year. Six of those people, of the six, five had ties in nuclear research or missile technology, and four of them had some sort of connection to each other. I'm sure it's just a small world in that industry, so to speak. But uh, yeah, this is not coincidence. It does not seem future Dan. Yeah, yeah, And what do you do? How do you what do you do about that? Like you just can you pay all those people more so they can protect themselves, or if you do those kinds of jobs, you have to live in you know, secure installations. Like there's a foreign intelligence agent he just you know, whacking our scientists, making him disappear. We got that that stuff didn't even really happen in the Cold War, right Like the Soviets, they they they knew that there were certain lines where things would get seriously out of hand and coming to the United States and whacking our scientists, something that kg B never, you know, never never did widely right, I'm not sure if all these disappearances are actually that happening, but if it is, it's a serious matter. Certainly, rates is important and dangerous as a trend someone will keep watching on Patriot Power Hour. Where do you want to shift to next? We're about halfway through the show. Oh, I can probably go without talking about headless meat sacks for the rest of the episode. But uh uh, take us, take us wherever your interests might might be been. All right, let's just head straight into the economics then, but particular interest rates. I won't get too wonky about it. But a couple of things going on here. First, the foreign central banks are selling US treasuries and international holdings at the Federal Reserve in New York, meaning international money trusting the US trusting to deposit it, for lack of a better term, at the Federal Reserve. That's at the lowest level, even though as I said, debt and money supply is at all time high. But anyway, diverging, what does this mean? That means there's less demand for debt. Less demand means what price goes down. When price of debt goes down, that means interest rate goes up. So interest rates up. What have we heard all from Trump? This entire time? Too late, Jerome, we need zero percent rates. You know, people can't afford mortgages. All the debt's too high for corporate even the government, I mean the national debt. You add an extra one hundred basis points interest rate to the national debt, we're paid another one hundred plus billion every year in interest, probably more. Anyway, long story short, this is bad for really general recovery. At least that's you know, that's one way to put it. I think at some point we've had way too low interest rates, so we need to take our medicine. But I don't know if it's this this is the way future? Dan, So this is getting gnarly from an interest rate perspective. Now tell me how Bow's falling apart. Is it tied to this? Well, let's try to take a look at the actual stats. And what did they get sideways on is the question. I'll say this, There is a huge put meaning they bet it to go down. Interest rates out there, and when interest rates go up, there's gonna be a lot of people on the wrong side of that trade, and that could cause you know, a lot of problems, whether it's a private credit or otherwise. But this particular what's going on with Blue Owl and all that, I would not say is tied directly to the interest rate stuff. We haven't seen that work its way through the system. That's just gonna have a lot more stressed down the line. Let's see, there's been I don't know if they have exact reasons. They're not talking about a certain fund that went down, and. So I can't find it. I can't find it. But the general malaise is what they're saying. Now. These don't necessarily say they're losing money. Yeah, it's that's not out in public. Everybody involved in that and all those investors that are getting ready to cling to whatever wealth they can with, you know, for dear life and and hoping the whole thing doesn't go down badly and get you know, contagent. That's what we should be talking about. Ben is contagent. If there's Blue Owl and there's another I think there's another private equity, you know, how how far does that spread? Right? And they're not talking right now? Is this stuff that after a layman and you know, you know Bear Stearns, it was it was weeks, months, years before we actually knew how that was. They're not We're not going to get to know that. The billionaires with their money get to sort that out. And I'm wondering if, in truth, how ugly is it under the surface right now? That's that right there, and the foreign treasury is being sold. I'm not sure that's as dangerous as it had been in the past. But a bank run, you know, cotagion in the financial sector, if I'll say it right now, if it happens this year, if it happens before the midterms, then let's think about it. Is that strategy to wipe out the Republicans at the midterms but leave Trump with emergency economic power for two years knowing he can't do anything, or does it signal that you know, this isn't planned. This is actually, you know, just financially coming apart the seams, and nobody is in control and can stop it. We'll find out. I have a feeling it will get a little bit more towards the ladder where it's running out of control, and especially if the interest rates blow out, then here's the analogy I came up with, how about this, You're standing in a pool and you got cement shoes on, so you're stuck in the pool. But you know, you're about let's say you're six foot tall and the water's at like five and a half feet, so you're all right, but slowly but surely, the water keeps rising, and that is the interest rates just keeps going up and up and up. So you at six foot maybe you'll be able to breathe, it's up to your chin. But someone next to you that was five foot nine, they're drowning and they're dead, well least private credit Asie Jamie Diamond at JP Morgan said, they're the cockroaches, right, So they're the ones. They're the really the short guys that are drowned already at this But if interest rate goes up even higher, big trouble. And I kind of to cap this now that I'm thinking about it. We talked about this two three months ago when the Japanese yen carry trade ended. That kind of signaled the very end of easy money, free money. And from then on the water's just gonna keep rising. And you know, some of these scammers, like they deserve to drown. I don't want to bail them out, but the contagion could be crazy, and before you know it, you're gonna get bailed in. Your four to one K will be non redeemable and you'll get a haircut. That's where it leads in my opinion. Yeah, yeah, financial collapse another one, a bigger one than the last time. You know, we've been had an eye on Calm three every single Patriot Power Hour episode. We never take our eyes off the money. We sometimes argue whether the money is the most important thing or if there's some other things that are just more fundamental. Might have those disagreements on Patriot Power, but we never disagree that you got to keep an eye on it. And tonight, you know, I think that Security column a lot of hot news, but it's manageable. When you start seeing redemptions being stopped on Wall Street among millionaires and billionaires, that kind of I'm not gonna let that go by like I did in two thousand and eight when I didn't know as much as I do now. Sure, you got a simple way to think of it. Maybe too simple, but hey, if the rich people are getting haircuts, they're gonna try to pass as much of that down to the peasants as possible. They're not gonna take all the pain and not let that get down to Middle America. They're gonna do their damn just to socialize the losses. As we say, Well, I had a metaphor for you. If you're gonna do swimming pools with concrete. Shoes, I gotta go for it. But this is coming back to the Iran War, all right. So you know when I look at these situations when we're we're in combat, right the United States of America, US Armed Forces, we're in combat, I I kind of look at like, you know, let's imagine that you know, our country. We're a family. So in the family, there's you, your brothers, your your your your male cousins, and your and your father and your uncles, big crew go out right, and then you know, you're enjoying yourself sometimes like life's good and and you're in you're in a in a place at a time, getting drinks' opportunity. It's it's it's a it's gonna be a fun night. And then one of your uncles is getting into a fight, right like with somebody that you know, you you look at it and be like I could, I could see why he wants to fight, but not now, like why is this happening now? But you know what, it's the family and your uncle's in the fight, so what are you going to do? Right? It gets to kind of that kind of famul you know, familial loyalty, and in this case, you know, uncle Sam's in a fight. Congress didn't vote for the war, and they have their reasons for not voting for wars because they can they can pick either side afterwards. Now in Korea, Congress is known just don't vote, just don't just don't make the call. Then you can always, you know, kind of run for reelection in the opposite direction how it went, or or with it with if it goes well, you were always for it. If it didn't, you're always against it. It's kind of pathetic, but that's what became of our Republican system. But for me, when when the US is in a fight, the family's in a fight, and it would be really dangerous just for us to lose a fight, right, which Trump's right, I mean, they're they're demolished in almost every aspect. But you know, if we ever get into one of these again could happen again with him as president. Really dangerous for us for our military to show weakness or a loss. I mean, that's what happened in Vietnam, and the Islamic Revolution was what six years later, and you got a you know, very vicious, nasty tyranny on earth for forty seven years as a result. All right, well, I'm not sure what's going to happen this weekend. I what you started the show with more of a push button war where yeah, there's still strikes daily, but no troops on the ground and hopefully some oil getting through. I'm not too concerned about the oil because, as Dave Jones himself says, Hey, here in America, we produce a hell of a lot of natural gas and oil, which is great. It's just the knock on effect with the interest rates, knock on effect with inflation. And while you're making more than we're making more. According to Trump last night, we're producing more oil and gas than Russia and Saudi Arabia combined. Right now, I heard that last night. I'm like, that is literally big if true, it's Trump. So how'd you measure that and how you came up to those numbers. People will always dispute him, but let's just give him the benefit of the doubt right now on the spot. If we're doing more than Russia and Saudi when in your lifetime did you ever think you'd hear that? That's pretty impressive. Well, I'm glad we're doing that. I would like to use all that instead of exporting it and necessarily making money. How about we use that reduce inflation actually, maybe get prices down and then invest a bunch into infrastructure for electric and with nuclear power. That would be better. But I don't know's yeah, right, guns and butter? The guns and butter. It's the first thing they teaching economics, like, Okay, you want to allocate to butter and consumer goods or do you want to allocate the rifles in military? You can't have one hundred percent of either for sure realistically. But where is it on that spectrum is the question. Well, I'm not a fan of centially planned economy, so I'm not sure I'm down with the guns and butter. We don't know. Centrally planned economy is the military? So that's one hundred percent centrally planned. Well, our military is the greatest on earth. Because the capitalism that propels it. True, yeah, it does propel it, but it's directed obviously, that has to be done. That's only why a military can be done. But you allocate more to that than it becomes more of a centralized economy. But but competing for contract dollars to produce the best possible you know, products and services for the military. China can't do what we can do. They're centrally controlled state. Look at Russia, Russia. Russia at the beginning, we thought they could overrun Ukraine and they were importing Iranian drones within a few years because they couldn't keep up command. Economies are weaker than our capitalist system, our capitalist system. Compare it to our European you know, the European industrial base. We procure way better than the French and always better than you know, places like Italy and in Spain. Germany might you know, has a capacity, always has had it. Britain too, but we're still way way way better at building and making weapons of war. And it's because of our capitalism. It's it's you know, I've always listened to people complain about the you know, the military industrial complex, you know, and and aspects of what Eisenhower talked about are absolutely true. You've got to guard against it becoming you know, big but ineffective. But that's not what we have right now. We got a pretty lean, productive one. Lots of companies andro volunteer challenging the traditional Boeings and Northropes. It's definitely showing up in the air space and naval domains right now. Have that that tension between them. As long as it's true tension and true competition, that's a good thing. Well, how about this to cap it off? If it prevents the thermonuclear war, it's worth oil to be one hundred dollars one hundred and fifty two five million, right, But you know, would you convince me that if we didn't do all this and Iran there would have been nukes. It's pretty hard to convince me of that. So, yeah, your uncle got in a fight, but and you got to defend his ass, and you got to get in there, and probably you'll end up getting in a bigger fight than him. That's what happens in my experience, the second guy and usually gets in it worse. But uh, and that is what it is. But was this the right decision for your uncle to get in there and start to fight. I don't know, doesn't seem like it, but I don't know the real facts of what's really going on, so it's hard for me to really make a decision, I guess. So you used to be able to read up on what we're we're considered, you know, leaked op plans, operational plans there, you know, for all around the world, what the US military would do in this situation, in that situation. Many of them from the Cold War are now declassified, so you can see and read about what we would have done if the Soviets invaded you know, West Germany all that, and it's you know, the current plans. You don't get to know. They're highly classified, but it's it's very you know, well well known that the op plan to you know, fight Iran, and many different variants of that you know, have been it's been trained, it's been part of the generals and admirals when they do like computer simulation war games to judge, you know, put them in situations where they got to fight very large formations which you obviously in peast time can't take an entire core out to the woods, and you know, reenact the war for the general right, it's too expensive, too much, you know. So, but but they do the military simulations, you know, so that they get their training and the role that they're in. The takedown of Iran has been we have been paying for that, being ready for that, because they are an adversary. They always got to be concerned that they were going to invade a neighbor, attack a neighbor. It's been been on the books since forty seven years. I would argue that you know, this is Trump's lifetime, right, He's seen this. He was a young man when when when the Islamic Revolution happened, and he from him. I guarantee you someday you're gonna hear this argument from him that it was a cost saving measure in the long run, to finally put that down to you know, the lower all the costs and all the subsidies that go to the Middle East to arm everybody that has to be armed against Iran in the long run, I guarantee that Trump would make the argument that you know, he's gonna save America a lot of money by just taking care of something that no presidence since nineteen seventy nine would. And get all that rich oil money over there, that's just enjoying their lavish palaces and they're you know, huge condos and Doha and all that. They can spend a little money in a little manpower to keep their region in line. I like that. But man, it's definitely playing with fire, I guess. But that's that's life right now. I don't think it's fire. In fact, it's a proxy war against both of our peer adversaries on the planet, China and Russia. And China and Russia cannot feed the Iranian regime any intel, any equipment, any support to prevent it from becoming what it's become. The third and fourth years of leadership all above them. You know, dozens and dozens of Iranian regime leaders they're gone, they've been hit, they were targets in a you know, and and they're not with us. So it's a real statement to you know, Russia and China. This is a big flex. I think Trump definitely is doing it, you know more for that reason and the economic damage to China by by the shutdown of the oil like it's it's been a big deal Australia throughout the you know, Philippines, throughout the far East. You know, fuel rationing, that's where all the person gulf oil goes, right, So for for a month of it shutting it down, it's a real message to China, don't think you're as powerful as you thought you did during the first Trump term because it's not true. Well, one thing I like to see here on the future Danger dashboard, for sure was total extermination US Special Forces oversea cartels getting crushed in Ecuador. So hopefully even though all the tension is in the Middle East, all the attention is in the Middle East. Uh, what's going on in Mexico, Ecuador and just really the Monroe doctrine of our hemisphere. Don't overlook that. It doesn't seem like they are. But I'm much I'm as concerned or more concerned about our border and all the drugs and all that stuff as I am in the Middle East. So keep that up what I want to see. Yeah, we can do we can do multiple things at the same time that I mean, it's pretty obvious now heg Seth putting the chi the top army general into retirement. That was breaking news tonight. We don't know exactly why that happened. I think there'll be rumors about it probably by the time we've finished this episode of Patriot Parer, but that news only broke an hour before the show. And it's another purge of a senior general. It's the type of thing that in the past, during the Cold War with the Soviets, presidents didn't do that sort of thing because they thought that from a Soviet point of view, that would look like a mutiny that United States had had a leadership breakdown and it was fracturing, and it could be very dangerous to give that, you know, put that into the mind of the Soviets, or so we thought totally. During the you know, Cuban missile crisis, Kennedy and JFK and RFK talked about firing some of the chiefs because they weren't necessarily doing what they were told to do, and they didn't to do it because of this. Now Hegseith doesn't care the top army general get out of here. You're fired, that's tonight. But it could be and for all we know, it could be a you know, some kind of a few a further rouge, right or rouse. You know, they wanted to get rid of him anyways, so they saved it now tonight they're firing him to just get you know, Iran and their advisors in Russia and China, they're all confused about what's happening next. Well, breaking news not on the dashboard. Also today Pam Bondy out as an attorney general. But I think this is bigger news. Army Chief of Staff Randy George stepping down immediate retirement. Whether it's a ruse or not, it's sure is interesting timing everything leading up to this weekend. A lot of people think there will be an invasion this weekend. I'm not saying that necessarily, but. There's certain there's certain indicators, and they happen in the economic calm and the security column, which involve you know, disappearances, firings, terminations, losses, assassinations of certain you know, government officials or Fed officials in calm three economics and the pursing of generals is something that we have not seen in the eleven years of or ten and a half years of future danger. But this administration is certainly willing and able to do it, and doing it, you know, like this during war. It's gonna this is gonna be in the news cycle for the next seventy two hours. With everything else, people are gonna be wondering, you know, what, what would that? What would that Army general not do that got him fired? First thing I came through my mind. So you're right, though, we're looking at the indicator general officers purged going back about a decade, and the only indicators we have are from February twenty twenty five to present. And there were a lot of firings early on in POTUS forty seven's administration Chairman Joint Steve's Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Chief Naval Operations, Air Force, Vice chief of Staff, but that all happened early. Then there was kind of another round. The three star admiral was fired almost exactly a year ago, for he was representing yet US to NATO. I could see why. Now, of course they brought all or yeah, eight hundred generals and admirals to Quantico September last year. Southcom commander resigned in October, and yeah, two dozen generals and admirals over the last nine months was headline in November. But you got a under like, Okay, if they were gonna get rid of the Army chief of Staff, they would have done it two months ago, six months ago, a year ago, but apparently not. Yeah, the Army chief of Staff doesn't directly command fighting units, right, so the central command commander who right now is in you know, Admiral Cooper, right, he orders forces and to fight, right. So the Army chief of Staff is like like what George Marshall was during World War Two. He was back in you know, the Pentagon or the built it was Pentagon was getting built at the time. But you know he's he's running, running the entire force at the as a as the top guy back home, right, So what he what this general decided to you know, how he got on the wrong side of the Secretary of War. It's going to be quite lots of intelligence agencies would like to know exactly why. Right now. I bet. He was nominated the position by Biden, confirmed by the Senate. Normally they serve a four year term, so he would have been holding the position until next year. And the current Vice chief of Staff was formerly Hess's military aid. He was the commanding general of the eighty second Airborne which is over in Iran right now, just off shore, in twenty twenty two and twenty twenty three. So yeah, that is brand new breaking. I mean the article we're looking at literally came out two minutes, three minutes after we went on air. Yeah, with South Com commanders and Stentcom commanders and European commanders are fired that they're employing troops to fight. Those make sense that if they won't fight the way the president wants or they're not doing a good enough job, that they get you know, asked to step down. Army chief of staff is you know, just they did a top sailor the Cno, they did the top airmen, the Air Force chief. There goes the Army chief and in and of itself not terribly dangerous news, but on a heat map dashboard where it's just another fully actualized indicator, you know, it's one of the five that makes this probably the most dangerous night of news that you and I have covered since this, you know, basically March or twenty twenty COVID. Yeah, I think so. Even though our last couple episodes we did in middle of March and early March might have had equal or more headlines and indicators, I feel like this is a little bit more dangerous, and a lot of these trends are continuing, but other points of info are just kind of popping out, and are they related? Are they not? What? That? Wasn't smart enough to be an engineer, but I know systems. When you add add more variables to a system, there's just a lot more unpredictability. So we try to bring that all together here on Patriot Power Hour. I thought we did a pretty good job today. Were there any other topics or articles you really got to hit on tonight? No, but. Let's talk about our future plans of Patriot Power are the immediate scheduling, Let's do it. You're traveling next week, so should we plan for a show on a particular day in this particular way. You make the call, I'll make it happen. I'm available Wednesday or Thursday next week, same bad time, same BAT channel, but I will not have my really high quality system and microphone. I can broadcast from a phone, so we'll work on the back end see if we can both access via phone or if not, we'll set something else up. But given how everything is, we're not going to take next week off. I can just say that, given how things are, we need to up our prepper game too. So in the future, this this season of patriot power. We we got to exercise some systems with variables that I don't feel as though I have complete control of all those variables right now. And I don't think I'm going too far to say that my co host on this show agrees with me that his system's need a little exercise. That's a little tease, a little preview. We've got some stuff planned coming up, but paying attention to this news. You know, sometimes you're training and then the training slips into you know, actually operating. And I'm not going to try to say that. You know, there's a crisis tonight. This heat map dashboard is dangerous and we got to keep an eye on it. YEP. I won't give it away because it's a little bit of a secret. We're going to surprise folks, I think. But it's something we've never really focused on at all in a practical application, and long time listeners know we've done what at least four exercises odds or highland type exercises, but this is something let's just say this. It feels like, oh, I'll do this someday. It's not a big deal, but at some point it'll be too late to do it. Kind of like Jones and Walton to say, they say, yesterday it was your last day to prep. No more time to prep. So long story short, We're gonna light a fire under ass and I'm continuing my normal prepping for sure, and I'm gonna you know, shift that into higher gear this quarter. But we're looking to really explore and get our stuff together on I think it's it's gonna be a lot of fun and it has a lot of practical use. And when we show you guys what we're putting together, I think it's going to have a big effect on the network. So look forward to it. Yeah, and the backdrop is probably gonna be news just as serious as we got right now. So it's gonna be you know, contemporary and uh maybe not. You know, I'm every night, I hope that every single heat map indicator cools down blue. No news, go over to the go to computer check out there, you know, hit the websites, hit the sources, hit the X sources, hit the X lists looking for news. You know, I'm okay, when we get on Patriot Power, we only got five articles to talk about. And you know, now now we got you know, a chance to really step back and reflect. We've had those episodes before last summer. In fact, we had episodes like that, but that's not the case right now. We are in a very dangerous news environment. We could be breaking out with a special Patriot Power Hour at a moment's notice. If some of this goes you know, sideways. Or down, you know it for sure. And now we got to make time. I'm to prep. It's not just oh, we got a little bit of extra time on our hand, let's talk about this, let's do it. No, we gotta stay on the ball and double down. So that's what we're gonna do. This is the season opener, just the start, and we'll be here, rain or Shine, Future Dan. Another good episode in the bag. Yep, talk to you next week, rain or Shine. I'm with you, yes sir, all right, everybody, another great episode. We'll be back next week. Patrio Power Hour, Signing off,