The Prepper Broadcasting Network - Patriot Power Hour #276 - Calm Before The Storm

Episode Date: August 28, 2024

Each week on Patriot Power Hour, Ben ‘The Breaker of Banksters’ and Future Dan explore the latest Liberty, Security, Economic & Natural news, providing the situational awareness needed to execute your preparedness plans. Questions, Feedback, News Tips, or want to be a Guest? Reach out!Ben “The Breaker of Banksters” @BanksterBreaker on Twitter; [e-mail] Future Dan@FutureDanger6 on Twitter

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How y'all doing out there? August 28th, 2024. I will be going solo this week, but Future Dan will be joining in next week. I believe next week will be our season finale as well. So August 28th, 2024 right now, we'll be live again on September 4th, God willing next week.

And more than likely going to take off September 11th. No particular reason, not because of the seven, not because it's September 11th, but I've had actually many shows on 9-11 but just because I've got other stuff going on that week and we always take about 1-2

weeks off per quarter per season if you're new to the Patriot Power Hour but this is episode 276 I know a lot of listeners have been with us for quite a while at least since we've been with PBN. So glad to make it another episode in the books tonight.

We'll definitely get to the news blitz in the second segment as always. But without future Dan here, I guess it's up to me to come up with a topic. Right before the air, which is where I do my best thinking. What does it say? Necessity breeds innovation. Something like that. I thought to myself, hey, this is a good topic. Labor Day is coming up.

And sure, it's the start of football and end of summer and there's parties. You go to the pool last time, whatever. I'm not going to be doing all that. I will be doing a little bit of it, there's parties. You go to the pool last time, whatever. I'm not going to be doing all that. I will be doing a little bit of it, but not much. I'm going to be spending most of the weekend prepping. There's two major tasks I'm looking to take care of this coming weekend. Number one, unpack and then repack all of my bags. Because there's some items that need replacing.

Not many, but medication, for example, that expire, right? Or I want to rotate out some food. Things like that. So I have a few different bug out bags or just generally bags where I keep things. I got them in different tiers, right? I got my, if S really hits the fan and I need to go hike 50 or 100 miles,

I got my big ass pack. But that's not my everyday carry. I don't often bring that with me just on my day-to-day travels. If I'm going out of town, I will. But then I have my everyday carry pretty pretty hardcore it's still it's it's heavy it's like 30 plus pounds but it's not the 50 plus pound ruck so that 30 pound one repack that one then i got a couple miscellaneous bags where i just keep different preps and also could be a grab and go and or if there's people with you here's something

i live alone except for my dogs. I try to think of this though. If stuff's really getting crazy, I might have neighbors that want to come with me. Or my friend might be over. Or I might go to the Jones Homestead first. I don't know. Or vice versa. They come here.

I don't know. My point is you might need more mouths to feed. But you also might need more firearms to distribute. packs to give out that could carry stuff so i always have a few spare backpacks of stuff that could be useful but it's usually my like secondary or tertiary version of things right so y'all i was never in the military but i do know from Future Dan himself saying it many times, as well as NBC guy, both vets, that two is one and one is none, and that's certainly a prepper adage as well. So if I have like three or four Leatherman multi-tools,

I'll have one just that stays at my home at all times, one that goes into my big-ass ruck, and then one that goes in one of those miscellaneous bags in my vehicle perhaps, right? So I distribute them, and that's always worked for me. So anyway, it takes some maintenance, and so some of these things you want to cycle through. Some things you want to just take inventory. We as preppers just like to take inventory and look our things right i'm hoping it's not too crazy most my bags are already well packed and there's not that much stuff that's going to expire

right a little bit of medications perhaps i'm not going to go into a full like what my bug out bag is about so don't worry about that there's millions of youtubes and podcasts and of course awesome episodes on prepper broadcasting network Network about bug-out bags. Whether you're on Spreaker.com listening to this or on a podcast app or whatever, just search bug-out bag under Prepper Broadcasting Network. Guaranteed you're going to find some episodes. Anyway, that's something big I'm going to do this weekend. But number two is winterizing or just getting ready for winter preps.

So I'm not getting my log pile topped off yet, but that will be something I do in like mid to late September. But getting my clothes rotated out, right, getting warm weather gear in some of those bags I was talking about. Oh, another big thing about those bags, I want to rotate them a couple times a year at least to change from like spring-summer gear into fall-winter. Because ask the freaking Nazis. If you have summer gear going into Russia in the winter, it's not going to work too good.

And so if you're a prepper. And you're going into the summer. And you only have winter gear. That's going to kind of suck. But it's definitely going to suck. If you're trying to bug out into the winter. And all you got is a rain jacket. As your thickest clothing.

Or protection. While you're out there in the elements freezing your ass off. So, those are a couple big things I'm going to be doing. And with those also come getting the vehicle just up to snuff. Making sure it's got the basic things like oil and getting the tires

pumped up or whatever, right? But other things too. I'm actually, another good thing, Things like oil and getting the tires pumped up or whatever, right? But other things too. I'm actually, another good thing, rotating the gas. Now NBC guy rotates his gas often. And he's got a huge cache of gas and diesel too. And propane. So I don't have anything close to that.

But I do have some. And so I'll rotate that out as well, for example, this weekend. So Labor Day, work for yourself. That's kind of what I wanted to leave it on. Don't work for the man. Work for yourself on Labor Day as a prepper. And, of course, if you're a family person, you can hang out with the family. That's a great way to work on your family, have great relations with your family. You don't have to do prepping this weekend.

Do it the next weekend. I don't know if you guys watch NFL or football. When I do, I'm always multitasking either working out, prepping, cleaning, or it's muted and I'm talking to my mom on the phone. I don't know. If you need your SOMA, your football or basketball or whatever, your TV show, mindless TV show or whatever. Try to multitask when you're doing that at a minimum, right? But Labor Day, I'm going to be dedicating a good majority of the weekend to this.

So I'll be putting in, you know, honestly, Saturday I'm going to take Saturday off. But Sunday and Monday I'm going to be putting in between 7 to 10 hours each day. Just like a normal work day, but working for myself. Working for prepping purposes and all that. So there you go. That was my topic. That's about all I can beat out of that dead horse. So we're going to go to break.

We're going to come back for the news blitz. Got a good dozen or so headlines to go through maybe a little less it's actually kind of quiet that's why this is the uh calm before the storm podcast not that there's a lot of not a lot of things going on because there are a lot of important things going on but compared to what i think things will be in like September and beyond. You know, kind of crazy. What I think is coming across in the future. But long story short, kind of calm. We do have some news that we'll go through, of course.

I got a few topics I want to hit on. I think we can still get pretty darn near an hour out of this show. We'll try our best. It's a power hour. That means it could be a little less than or a little more than an hour. Anyway, folks, going to go to break. Check out the sponsors and also, of course, go to pbnfamily.com

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That's Ammosquared.com slash PBN. Patriot Power Hour back at you. Time for the News Blitz. 8-28-24. August 28th, 2024. Episode 276. Let's start with one of them. And we're going to talk a lot about it after the Blitz.

So I'm trying not to linger on it. But this is SHTF. Red on black. Really the most important article of the week. Department of Health and Human Services links fluoridated drinking water to a between 2% or 2 point, that is, to 5 point IQ drop in children. Let's try that again. Department of health and human services links fluoridated drinking water to a two to five point IQ drop in children.

So it's the children big time. If your average IQ is 100, well, they're losing 2 to 5 points. So 2 to 5%. But in fact, it's way more than that. We'll talk about it. That's under the health column this week. Fluoride effects exposed.

week fluoride effects exposed economics honestly pretty quiet gold is stuck around right at 2500 silver just under 30 bucks bitcoin about 60k all these numbers have been right around those levels, maybe. Bitcoin a little higher, a little lower. But they've been kind of hanging out there, waiting to see what the Fed does in September and beyond. Waiting to see what happens with the election and waiting to see if there's any war. So I will say this, there's not much going on from a headline perspective that's currently dangerous that we try to focus on here in Patriot Power Hour. There are, of course, earnings coming out. Salesforce beats earnings and all these other things. That's the 5,000 or 500 foot view.

We're not looking for that right now. There is one article of note, though, actually. Better not skip this one. Federal government debt now equals all the money in the world. What? That sounds crazy. And again, we will review this in more detail, but the debt is now equal to all the money in the world.

How is that even possible? We'll talk about it. Is now equal to all the money in the world. How is that even possible? We'll talk about it. Don't forget about what? Six, seven weeks ago. Trump was almost murdered.

Live TV. Geez. How things would be changed so much right now. If that had happened. You know. If he had actually been killed. Or permanently incapacitated. A little bit of news still coming out. Now the committee is getting full force in Congress.

Investigating the assassination attempt. The FBI is investigating. And the father of Thomas Crooks has hired a lawyer. And who wouldn't if that was my kid? Oh, my gosh. Can you believe it? He's hired a lawyer, and the FBI is investigating. I'm sure it's in great hands.

geopolitically, Chinese military plane breaches Japanese territorial airspace for the first time. They've breached Taiwanese and other airspace before, but not Japan, their bitter rival nemesis, especially going back to World War II. bitter rival nemesis especially going back to World War II US kinda brings their own volley into the

mix US destroyer sails through Taiwan straight so between China and Taiwan as China steps up war plane incursions around the island so China's saber rattling at Taiwan and Japan and the U.S. generally. And America's still like, hey, we'll still mess you up.

I guess U.S. destroyers are sailing through that Taiwan Strait where tons of maritime traffic goes through that strait. But, you know, that would be like kind of going up into New York Harbor almost. Damn near. All right. Here's where it seems like a real problem. And we've talked a little bit about it. Here's where it seems like a real problem, and we've talked a little bit about it.

But Israel and Iran are just on a head-on collision, have been for eternity it seems, but things are really starting to spiral it seems. Israel assassinating in all different countries, including in Iran. Also airstrikes, just wanton destruction. Not saying that they're the bad guys or the good guys because obviously many in Israel have been killed not only on what was October 7th, I believe, but maybe it was October 6th, but rockets from Hezbollah are now starting to land

there's been evacuations in the West Bank now Gaza's been getting totally destroyed so it's starting to heat up to say the least IDF strikes hit Lebanon as Hezbollah fires hundreds of rockets at Israel some getting through the Iron Dome

and Patriot systems and otherwise. But, at this point at least, knock on wood, not World War 3 nuclear right now at least. Some might say we're in World War 3 though. I don't know. No headlines here about Ukraine, but don't worry.

I'm going to be talking about Ukraine in a little bit, too. Because that is a hot war for sure. Finally, Democrats sued Georgia Election Board to block voter integrity measures. Yep. They don't like voter integrity. Voter integrity measures. Yep. They don't like voter integrity. Now, this is straight out of the last 24 to 36 hours. Paxton in Texas has purged, I think, like a million or more illegals and dead people and fraudulent entries on the voter rolls in Texas.

So like a million, something like a million, 100,000 or somewhere around there. Also arrested and indicting people who are signing illegals up to vote in Texas. That's nice. I'd like to see that. I don't want to police state where they just round up everybody with no evidence, but let's just say there's a lot of evidence, a lot of bad things.

Some people should be getting arrested and investigated. It seems like they're on track. 1.1 million on the voter rolls. Holy cow. That's a news blitz. Let's go through a few of these articles specifically, and then I got a couple other, again, topics that aren't on the dashboard necessarily. And why are they not on the dashboard?

Because they're not necessarily happening right now. They're not threats or actualized right now. That's what that dashboard's more like, breaking news of something that's threatening and maybe even worth executing your preparedness plans. If, if enough of these are active at once or affect your area, your region,

et cetera. All right, we're going to do a reverse order because I'm gonna leave that fluoride thing to the end. So I think I talked enough about the Democrats soon, the Georgia election board, but I probably should not go source some more information about Texas, but I heard it on multiple

radio shows today. Wasn't able to read much news today at work, but on my commute, I got a nice long commute, unfortunately, but I get to listen to a lot of radio podcasts and audiobooks, so turn lemons into lemonade.

It's a working stiff with a long commute. But anyway, that is good news. Here's the question. How could Democrats not want to do that? You want to make it fair and keep things up to date? Just from a data person. I have a master's in finances. I like to remind everybody all the time.

I swear I'm not trying to be a jerk about it, but this makes a lot of sense. I just want clean data. I just want my database and all the users that have access to my database, or in this case, voters, to be as perfectly up-to-date as possible where old ones are purged or inactivated, new ones are added seamlessly, been properly and double checked and quality assured and audited.

That's good data integrity. Okay, so data integrity and voter integrity, same thing nowadays. So there, that's where my master's in finance comes in today. Data, because data, statistics, numbers, super important but easily manipulated. Just like we saw last week, more than 800,000 jobs just went poof. Yep, I know we talked about it last week, but I might as well rehash it super quick now that I'm onto it.

818,000 jobs from March up through, I think, probably end of July, but don't quote me on that. But over a few month period, they had been overestimating, or just lying, about how many jobs were being created under Biden administration. just lying about how many jobs were being created under Biden administration. And they actually had to revise it. They bring it into almost reality by cutting out 800,000 jobs. That's more than half of a percent on unemployment. So if they thought unemployment was 4%, now it's four and a half percent instantly. I still think it's kind of odd that that happened right before the election.

I do think some of the banksters or a faction of the banksters want Trump to win. I really do. Probably not most and definitely not the socioeconomic terrorists out there who are a particularly nasty faction of the banksters and make their hay with the Democrats a little bit more than Republicans, I could say. But yeah, I digress. So how about the Iran and Israel action going on now? I mean, a couple of few weeks ago, folks were thinking it was going to be the Samson option, which is Israel just nukes the hell out of all their neighbors

because they're going to get overrun from all sides. So they preemptively nuked everyone. Luckily, that didn't happen in the last few weeks. People were talking about it. It was possible and perhaps the best option for Israel before Iran attacked. So that hasn't happened. It's been cooling off a little bit but the proxies are ramping up their attacks on israel again hezbollah oh and by the way this is breaking news today

let me hit this the houthis in yemen which are separate but related cluster, you know what, of the Middle East. A tanker, an oil tanker, was hit, and many have been hit over the last few years. But one of these tankers is on fire, still been on, it was hit last week and is still on fire. Could be leaking oil into the Red Sea. It may be the biggest oil leak of all time. And it's four times bigger than the Exxon Valdez. You remember that? What year was the Exxon Valdez or Valdez, whatever? It was like the mid to late 80s.

And as a kid, that was like the thing they tried to scare us with all the time. Because honestly, I grew up, let's see. All right, here we go. 1989 was Exxon Valdez. Okay. And so I was like, you know, in kindergarten or preschool at that time. But by like second, third, fourth grade, we were getting hit hard by some of the first waves of the eco-terrorist propaganda. Now listen, I love the environment.

I grew up in Colorado. It's beautiful. I don't want to destroy the environment at all. But the global warming, the climate change, man-made in particular, plus carbon credits and the whole thing from there is just such a scam. I don't even want to get too deep into it right now. But there are major problems and risks to the environment for sure and i'm all about that but improving that but long story short when i was a kid exxon valdez was the worst thing that ever happened ever ever ever ever ever they didn't really talk to us about chernobyl too much when i was like in elementary school that is that. Maybe that was old news because a few years

before Valdez. Remember the weekly reader? Did you get a weekly reader? I guarantee Exxon Valdez was on that. I also remember the Hubble space telescope being screwed up and they had to go fix it. That was one of my weekly readers. Anyway, worst thing ever.

Exxon Valdez. Well, this thing's four times bigger. It has 150,000 000 tons that's crazy think about it think of one ton of crude oil one ton i don't know what that looks like exactly but it sounds like a hell of a lot a ton of crude oil i go pick up a quart of oil right and you're like okay that's a quart of oil. That's a quart of oil. I don't know how much a ton is, but it's a lot more than that. Then multiply it by 150,000. This is probably dozens of freaking

Olympic swimming pools of oil just spilling out. US State Department warned in a statement. The State Department in a statement, so the State Department in a statement, warned on Saturday, that the potential spill could be four times the size, but hey,

it's in the Red Sea, instead of Alaska, so who cares, now just one more negative side effect, of the massive wars, everybody's always trying to get into, I'm telling you, the worst thing for the economy, is the massive wars everybody's always trying to get into. I'm telling you, the worst thing for the economy is the damn wars. And also the worst thing for humanity.

So, okay, let's continue on. Oh, be remiss if we didn't talk about RFK putting his weight behind Trump. Several states are refusing to remove RFK Jr.'s name from ballots. In the swing states, he is trying to get his name off of that so people will vote for Trump instead of him. Whereas in the ones where Trump or Harris have clear wins. RFK is going to stay on those ballots. Because it doesn't really matter.

I guess it's kind of like a statement thing. But in the swing states where he might pull away. More than likely if he was going to pull from Harris or from Trump. It would be from Trump. More than likely. Seems like it. Now he's supporting Trump. It would be from Trump more than likely. Seems like it. I mean, now he's supporting Trump and he pulled out on those swing states. But some of these states have refused to remove his name from the ballot.

Michigan, Wisconsin, Colorado. And you can expect Colorado to do that. My great state, rest in peace. But yeah, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Colorado are refusing to remove RFK's name, which are de facto helping Harris. So would they keep this same energy? Okay, so kids that are younger than me, because anyone younger than me is a kid. You know how it goes, everybody out there, right?

Anyone younger than me's a kid so kids these days say keep that same energy right i'm too old to say that like it'd be cool saying that but anyway i doubt that michigan wisconsin and colorado would keep that same energy about not removing trump if If he withdrew, I bet they would have that fricking right off instantly. Oh, Trump's withdrawn his name from the ballot or if he had been killed. Oh,

we're taking it. I guess we get killed. It's probably different than they probably would take it off pretty easy, but maybe not the killed example, but if, if in the 0.00001 chance trump told them to take the take his name off the ballot in these states never never would happen but if it did they would do it instantly i guarantee i don't think they're like standing on principles so much that they'd be like no

maybe they are maybe they are doubted though so anyway interesting on the politics front only a couple months geez it's august 28th and it'll be november or excuse me september 28th october 28th and by the time we're on october 28th we're there so two months two months or less that's like probably like 10 weeks or something maybe. Countdown is on to say the least. I think that's all we'll talk about with regard to

geopolitics and national security. Yeah, definitely hope that more and more comes out and some people get held accountable for the let it happen on purpose minimal. What happened with Trump. Hopefully he calls them out big time when he returns to Butler, Pennsylvania. I believe he's doing that in September. I'm not sure when exactly, but here we go. This one, I've been waiting for this.

Federal government debt now equals all the money in the world. What does that even mean? All the money in the world. I'll try not to get too nerdy about it, but this is from the American thinker.com David Walls Kaufman. Here we go. Our biggest national expense is interest service on the debt. But did you know that the $35 plus trillion we have represents all the money in the world. Well, this author, David, decided, hey, I'm going to go look it up and try to figure out how much money there is in the world. What does that even mean, right? Well, the World Atlas says all the money in the world equals $37.8 trillion. So what's the exact definition of money? Well, there's M1, M2, and M3, which are

the Federal Reserve and U.S. government's definition of money. Then you have like the dictionary definition of money. And it's actually kind of hard to say what money is but let's just say for now it's very liquid right and usually can be non-fungible so it can't be replicated it could be divided into very small units and it's pretty easy to transact with so your house is not money your 401k really isn't money all the debt on your company's balance sheet not really money the value of stocks that your company might have or companies that you invest in or whatever it's not really money now in some regard you could say it is or could be converted into money but blah blah blah apparently when you say all these different factors put together, the World Atlas says that actual money, not all these other types of assets,

if you put all those other assets together, it's hundreds of trillions of dollars. But just the money, just like the money in people's bank accounts and corporation bank accounts and in your pocket and under your mattress is about $37.8 trillion. Well, that's equal to what our debt is. So that's all the money in the world versus just the U.S. government's national debt, not even counting personal debt, local debt,

municipal debt, state debt, etc. So keep that in mind. Even if you had every freaking dollar in the entire world of actual dollars without withdrawing from a 401k or any of the other things I said, you couldn't pay off the national debt. What the hell is going on? And it's growing massively, by the way.

So, the rest of this article. Talks about how. The spending got out of control. The Democrats were a huge reason for this. The good old. Bush administration. Definitely started. Screwing us over pretty bad. But Obama.

Biden certainly didn't fix anything. Trump somewhat. Putting it on a better path. COVID certainly reversed any ground that was gained and knocked it even worse backwards. Don't forget the STEMIs. But, I mean, what can I say? The biggest factor in this is the military spending.

So $300 billion a year. That was back in Reagan. It was about $300 billion a year in Pentagon. Now we're up to trillion plus acknowledged. And a lot of that goes to U.S. companies and salaries for U.S. citizens, so it's not like wasted per se, but, you know,

still quite a lot, but instead of defense spending being the largest outlay, now it's actually the interest on the debt, so you can't even blame the military anymore. The left can't blame the military. The right can't blame Medicare and Social Security. Because guess what? Actually just the aggregate debt.

And the interest on that debt. Is more than any of those things. By themselves. So. Yeah. Yeah. I mean how much did they say Afghanistan. Iraq war cost?

Like 3 trillion. And we left like 80 billion. With a B. yeah, I mean, how much did they say Afghanistan, Iraq war costs, like three trillion, and we left like 80 billion, with a B, worth of equipment, and ammo, and shit over there, oh my gosh, I won't even get into it,

I don't want to, NBC guy's probably, freaking mad, he was mad earlier, he did a daily audio catcher, earlier this week, on the three year anniversary, of Afghanistan, withdrawal, it's just pathetic, Daily Audio Cash. Earlier this week on the three-year anniversary of Afghanistan withdrawal.

It's just pathetic. They want to take our firearms, but we'll leave. Black Hawk helicopters and high explosives in Afghanistan. Okay. All right. All right. Stop ranting. Here we go.

Back to the news. What sanctions? China imports a record amount of Iranian oil. So we try to put sanctions on Iran. We try to put sanctions on Russia. Try to put sanctions on other countries and organizations and oligarchs and people and families. Put them on the list, right?

Trust me, they don't like it. It hurts them. But China's reaping rewards. They're getting cheap prices, and it's helping out the Russians. It's helping out the Iranians, and it's driving all of them closer. And they're not going to need the U.S. dollar to trade amongst each other like they've been doing the last 50 to 60 years, right? to trade amongst each other like they've been doing the last 50 to 60 years, right?

Now, this has been a long time coming, and it's pretty much already taken place, but the U.S. dollar is no longer a reserve currency for anyone except for NATO countries and a few kind of neutral-ish countries. So anyone who's even partially adversarial to us is moving away or has already moved away from U.S. dollars and U.S. treasuries, whether that's into the yuan or, in El Salvador's case, into Bitcoin or into gold.

Many countries are stacking tons and tons, literally tons of gold. I was talking about the tons of crude oil. Can you imagine tens of thousands of tons of gold? China's been buying, and so has Russia. So anyway, oil Exports were Gosh dang in Trump's time They went from Let's get this right

Let's see It's a little seasonal But I'll try to pull the average out About 500,000 barrels a day, 500,000 barrels of oil per day, up to 1.5 million per day, so 3x.

And this is what China was importing from Iran. So they were always importing some from Iran, but instead of it being 300, 400, 500,000 barrels a day, which is a lot, a lot. But China has not much oil at all. So they need the oil really bad. And they used to be buying a fair amount. But instead of buying a few hundred thousand, 400,000, 500,000, they're buying 1 million, 1.25 million, 1 point. It looks like even 1.7 million in the most recent month.

It's growing quick. It went from 1 million to 1.5 million just in the last like 10 months. So, and it was damn near zero around COVID. Now everything was locked down. So that's part of it, but it's also part, partially the Biden administration

allowing this to happen in different ways and the sanctions that totally failed and just the oil was able to squeeze out a hole right into China's pocket there you go couple other random articles. Let's knock them out.

I have these kind of bookmarks here. Telegram. I've used Telegram a bit. Not a ton, but it's an encrypted message service. Well, the Telegram CEO charged with criminal use of the app. Not allowed to leave France. Charged and released, but again, unable to leave France.

There's been all types of charges in there. Some include alleging child porn, drugs, all types of corruption. Not exactly done by this guy. But done on his platform. And he has not or would not or could not cooperate with the authorities.

Because it's an encrypted private platform. And they said, okay, you're not going to work with us and give us the secret master key. and they said, okay, you're not going to work with us and give us the secret master key, then you are complicit in the spread of child porn and all this other stuff. This is a tough case for sure. I'm a proponent of if you get a warrant and it's properly serviced

and everything's right with it in America, then you should have to give up your surveillance video, for example, or even your telephone, I guess. There's a right way to do it in a wrong way and should be very specific what they're looking for and all that stuff, right?

It's like the bill of rights, you know, these should be secure in your papers and all that. But if they got a proper warrant, and especially if it's an imminent threat, and all these things, very specific, then that's important for society to kind of have that authority granted in limited fashion.

There you go. There's my libertarian take on it. But, I don't know know this seems like a stretch he's definitely a political enemy of them so kind of kind of same thing would they keep this same energy with uh zuckerberg or some of their other big tech cronies where nefarious things happen on their networks or websites or services would the french arrest them well at this point they probably would arrest elon musk but i don't know about zuckerberg and trust me a lot of bad things happen on facebook too

so i'm not defending this pavel durov for all i know he created telegram and worked with it just so we could get away with all this horrible stuff. He could be a horrible, horrible person. Or he could be getting totally railroaded and totally, I guess it could be total BS. I'll keep investigating into it, but I wanted to point that out. And more and more pressure is being put on free speech, say the least because this is free speech a huge free speech issue again i believe in warrants and the french say they have the proper warrants and stuff so i don't know i don't know but uh some free speech advocates

have pointed out that this is tantamount to holding google executives legally accountable for every single criminal communication that ever happens on Google platforms. So everything on Gmail, everything that was ever done bad on YouTube or stored on Google Drive, right? All that crap. So slippery slope and detailed, but yeah. Seen a lot of this type of stuff lately. There's a, I don't know this FinTech giant, but they are out of Sweden.

But they got about 5,000 000 workers so not a small business for sure 5 000 sounds like a lot but it's not a ton but it's fair enough but they're expecting to cut nearly half of their workers in the next three to five years. As it transitions to AI. For customer service and marketing. Well, you know what? If you work in the customer service or marketing. Or even adjacent to customer service and marketing at your company. You better start learning either how to use AI.

Or other things that could be useful in the marketplace. Because they're probably not going to need you very much anymore if you work at a call center. In five years, they're just going to have AI with a nice, pleasant voice act like they are a real person answering your call. They're already probably there half the time. So if you are in a call center or IT it help desk that's very basic work on your skills asap and work your way up the ladder because ai is chasing you and by the way focus on human

interaction that's a big part you either got to go two ways with AI. That's how I look at it. You can go both. I'm going to try to go both. But one or the other or both. Either become really, really, really good with using AI. Top 5% in your industry. Top minimum 10% of your industry, of your job title or type. Be the best. So if you have 10 of your peers in the room, you are the best at AI.

That'll help you a lot. And, or just be really, really, really, really good with working with people. And that could even, if you work in the government,

that could just be kissing ass and, you know, but there are legitimate, uh, people jobs in, in the world, in America. So in my job, without going too deep into it, I don't think AI could do it for quite a while. Maybe someday. But I've got to deal with all different types of human personalities and nuances and interpretations that are just like super difficult for an AI to take care of right now.

Who knows in the future, though? So, yeah. But keep that in mind. Truck driver, I'm telling you, 10 years from now, by 2034, I bet half the truck drivers are automated, you know? I think so. I think by 2034, half of, let's just say, interstate trucks. Maybe not your average truck that goes from one part of the city to another city or whatever. Oh, my dog's going crazy.'m gonna go check it there's a bear

in my front yard last night the first time i saw one my dogs were going ape you know what barking at it and all i saw was like a dark splotch in the yard and i'm like let me get the flashlight and oh there's a big-ass bear 40 yards from me. But then he literally just looked at me and then just started lumbering off. He just walked. And he walked into the fucking road. Oops, I'm going to have to hit explicit now. But I was like, you're just going to walk into the road,

and then someone's going to drive down there and see a bear in the road. Well, that's not my problem, I guess. I better remember to hit explicit. I'll let an F-bomb drop. Usually I'm good at not doing that. But when I'm just by myself here, sometimes I get a little crazy. But that bear, that was crazy. So anyway, my dogs are not going too crazy, so I don't think it's a bear.

I mean, they were going really crazy. They don't bark much. I mean they were going really crazy they don't bark much heck we're up to nearly 50 minutes live I got a couple more articles might as well hell going even back into my somewhat personal professional life

like I've said before I work in the insurance industry commercial insurance and if there's a a work comp injury or an auto accident or your factory burns down or you get a cyber attack all these different things you get sued for different things you may or may not have insurance

for it well one thing that's gone up big time in price big time and you know this from your own personal auto insurance i'm sure but auto insurance costs doubled for businesses in the last five years and personal probably as much i don't deal with personal insurance but i know my own insurance has gone up somewhat i don't have that expensive of a car, thankfully. But anyway, here's an article that explains, oh, here's a tangible dollar figure

associated with illegal immigrants. Venezuelan migrant driving for Amazon hits mother and four-year-old child and flees the scene. Now, I know this is anecdotal, and I told you so so but i've also been hit and run by an illegal i got the uninsured motorist and the police got involved and apprehended him after i chased him a little bit they got him later and he yeah he was undocumented illegal

immigrant hit and run on me well this venezuelan migrant was driving for Amazon, ran over her mother, hurt her severely, catastrophic injury. So I guess she didn't die, but she was dragged. So who knows if she's even able to walk ever again or anything. So this mom was walking her infant and family dog in Miami when they were hit by an Amazon truck. And then the Amazon truck ran off. The tourist visa expired in 2021. So tourist visa.

But this person did get a temporary protected status in 2021. I think that's the Biden administration. Wow, that's screwed up. I almost dropped the F word again. The driver briefly stopped to upright the stroller, placed the baby back in its seat before fleeing the scene. That's almost worse. Like, oh, I hit a baby.

Let me go put it in a stroller and then drive off. I don't know. That's horrifying. So that's going to cost Amazon several million dollars. Luckily, they got this person or they knew who it was. Hey, 90% of illegal immigrants might be super great, awesome people. But that 10% can ruin it for everybody with shit like this. Right?

This is going to cost millions and millions of dollars. Not to mention the pain and suffering of the mother, the infant, his mom is pretty much dead now, the infant might be hurt pretty bad too, so, yeah, yeah,

so, that, guess who gets to pay for that, you, as the insurance purchaser, the insurance company will have to pay it out, but guess what, they're going to rack up those rates on everybody.

Insurance always gets their money. So there you go. Another way illegal immigration is costing you right there. People don't think of it, but it's true, man. My entire career, my entire life working, I'll make less money before taxes than that one claim will be right there

that we just talked about if it gets paid out properly. It'll be 10 plus million dollars minimum. All because one tourist visa denial was not followed up on. Imagine what's going to happen next year, three years, or five years, or ten years from now. For all the people that just came in the last year or two. This person came several years ago and just overstayed.

We got brand new people who are even, and way more of them who are integrating even less than this person. It's going to get rough, people. That's about it. I think a couple other topical news articles, but I'm telling you, a little bit of calm before the storm, even though there's some activity. Obviously, Trump almost assassinated, and the Democrats just got rid of weekend at Bernie and just

threw up Kamala instead of Biden all this summer. So it has been actually quite an active summer, but this past week or two, a little more back to quiet. It ain't going to be like that into September and beyond into the election. And, uh, whether it's war,

the election, a black Swanan or two. We'll be ready. We'll be reporting on it. I'm going to be prepping my ass off this Labor Day weekend. I hope you are too. I'll be listening to Prep Broadcast Network while I prep as well. Catch up on all the podcasts, audiobook

drama, audio series drama. Really, I'll go into the archives sometimes, especially if I'm on like a long ass prepping day, cleaning, just getting things ready. And I run out of like recent articles or not articles, podcasts. Then I'll go search for a particular topic going back two, three, four years,

even further on Pepper Broadcasting Network on Spreaker or my podcast addict app. So that's cool. We'll dive into the archives. Another cool thing about PBN. All right, folks, I won't belabor the point. I'm going to get out of here. We'll be back next week.

Patriot Power Hour. Future Dan will be back. It'll be our season finale. God willing, the 5th of September. But for the last episode of August 28th, 2024, I'm signing off. Ben the Breaker, Banksters. See you next week.