The Prepper Broadcasting Network - Patriot Power Hour #277 - Summer Season Finale

Episode Date: September 5, 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

Thank you. Not too long ago, two friends of mine were talking to a Cuban refugee, a businessman who had escaped from Castro. And in the midst of his story, one of my friends turned to the other and said, we don't know how lucky we are. And the Cuban stopped and said, how lucky you are. I had some place to escape to. And in that sentence, he told us the entire story. If we lose freedom here, there's no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth. This is the last stand on earth.

The last stand on Earth. The last stand on Earth. 🎵 ¶¶ You are now listening to the Patriot Power Hour. 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. Episode 277. September 4th, 2024. Ben the Breaker of Banksters here with Future Dane. Awesome. I'm tweeting out the show announcement tonight under the hashtags

Patriot Power Hour. We own it. Future Danger. And Prep Broadcasting Network. Tagging you. Commander. Episode 277. Mark marking this one in the history we're calling this a season finale right yes sir i'm going in there right now to retweet it and uh guess what x is actually really a bastion of freedom these days.

I remember five, ten years ago, it was just kind of a stupid social media site, but it literally is one of the only places where free speech is somewhat acceptable on social media these days, at least of the big five or ten sites. So you must have seen that ahead of time, and or you just saw the functionality of being able to use hashtags

and search and filter. But long story short, I need to get more active. I need to do a pledge of allegiance myself or a pledge of improving my Twitter sphere. But you definitely are out there kicking butt. So eight years ago, right before Trump's first election, it was very much an influential open space. In the last seven years until Trump bought it,

intervening six, seven years, it was, I can't blame you for not going near it very much, but I would, I would say it's alive and well right now. So many official accounts, that's the thing, right? The fed has accounts. The department of defense has accounts, state and local government has accounts. All the mainstream media have accounts. There's all kinds of blue check marks that said they were leaving, but they didn't. accounts there's all kinds of blue check marks that said they were leaving but they didn't and there's a lot of inner a lot of opportunity to see things that are happening first in x i just gotta say it's always been that way so i never gave it up

yeah great job uh spotting ahead of time and putting your mark in there, putting your roots down on the social media aspect. And obviously, Prepper Broadcasting Network is on there as well. Prepper Radio, all strung together, no underscores or dashes or any numbers. Just Prepper Radio, and you'll get notified whenever an episode of not only patriot power hour but any pbn show goes live so there you go that's our x not twitter plug for the day oh i'm bankster breaker and i will post more i promise i need to get it together so that's my new resolution uh once we start the next season how about that that? Awesome, awesome. And I'm at Future Danger 6, number 6,

tweeting out all of our Patriot Power hours each week so you can just catch us live, usually Wednesday nights earlier than right now, but we're making it happen for the season finale. What's at the top of your current affairs radar, gangster breaker? I don't even know where to go with it because there's a lot going on, and I think it's not even getting started yet. I'm always thinking geopolitically, but also looking at the markets.

We had a little bit of a jump in the volatility index yesterday, but seems to have been abating a little bit. I don't know. I don't want to just talk about economics and the Fed, and is the Fed going to lower rates. They probably will between now and our next episode, hint, hint. But we won't necessarily be here. I will say, if anything crazy goes down, like another Trump assassination attempt,

we will be live before our next season scheduled, September 18th. Oh, I made the cardinal sin of having my notifications on. Sorry about that. All right. So we had, I would say, a quiet start, then a pretty dangerous middle, and now perhaps a cooling-off finale to the summer. Or July, of course, with Butler, Pennsylvania being probably the climax of the season in terms of things getting really dangerous. But really, if you look back at Patriot Power Hour over the last eight years

that we've done this, that was a harder, more dangerous summer than we've had perhaps in the last eight years. Yeah, and it really does center around the assassination attempt, but there were other big pieces of news, whether geopolitical or kind of a flash crash in the market that sort of corrected itself the last few weeks, but that was something that normally doesn't happen in july or early august either so yeah it was uh certainly no march of 2020 in terms of craziness probably the peak of all time so far on pph but it was uh if you had to look at it in a three-month segment or a season as we would look at it, it was probably the most busy of the summer seasons we've ever had, or at least right up there.

Like maybe summer 2020 was right around there, but that's about it. Yeah, exactly. You know, Israel and Iran exchanging strikes on their own territories. The Ukraine war raging with Ukraine taking and still holding Russian territory. There's a lot to be paying attention to, but how to translate that into prepping harder, faster, stronger, better? Well, that's the tough part. I can't see any particular direction or any particular trend in the news that would shape your preps, right? Not more than any other one. I guess my prepping philosophy has always been to prep for almost everything, but really I look to prep towards the banking system being down

or just totally collapsing, number one. And then number two, maybe a little more hardcore, is a massive power outage. So I think if you prep towards not having access to the bank for a while, meaning having some cash, having some food, having some things that you can survive 30, 60, 90 days, that's one step. And then the next step might be a little bit more of preparing for COVID or a little bit tougher, no power.

But, yeah, there's so many threats out there right now. Prep for everything or maybe, on the other hand, just make it simple and just prep for a couple eventualities, which I think power outage and financial collapse are pretty likely outcomes of almost any major, you know, catastrophe down the line. of almost any major catastrophe down the line. So we've talked about preparing for risk, but also preparing for opportunity.

And that most likely comes in the arena of column three economics. So if you've got a nest egg ready to go into property, it does seem like the, I wouldn't say the real estate market is melting down, but it seems to be seizing up. Well, we're not seeing 20, 30, 50% reduction in prices everywhere, but we are seeing it in a couple of spots, especially down in Florida. Now those places have been red hot since covid and really if you think about it going back to 2008 they darn near collapsed but since then have been tripled in prices some of these places in miami or all around florida and anyway they're regressing

to the mean but even places in colorado starting to slip. So not a wholesale crisis, but certain regions are starting to see the pressure. And it's something I'm monitoring big time for my own purposes, for potentially buying a land or home or homestead or all of the above. I've seen, it seems like some properties stay on the market a little longer than they would a year or two ago, and I've seen a little bit of price cuts, but at least in my area, you could say it's plateaued but hasn't fallen, at least where I'm at, though. Yep.

On the firearms freedom front, you have ample opportunity to get where you need to be to be armed. Fortunately, we haven't witnessed in recent quarters draconian laws, at least not in the states that you don't expect it. And the rulings, the Supreme Court and other lower court rulings are barely consistently striking down radical gun laws. So that's, I'll put that in, consider that an opportunity for preparedness. Because it's not going to stay that way. But the window of opportunity to get armed the way you need to be remains open. Great point. open great point and whether that's getting another firearm or upgrading what you got or hey what i'm this christmas i'm gonna do it i'm gonna be getting myself uh maybe a new ar-15

platform with some some night vision you know like you're not gonna bite at night vision for a while you know forever if you're talking about things that are available now that might not be in the future um i don't know that's it's expensive but it's gotten really good over the years and uh yeah point is every day that the power's on i say is a good day and prep on but you know what to prep for it seems like a lot of stuff. And actually looking at the dashboard today, it's pretty disparate in terms of the news and the severity as well. Yeah. I always, when people talk about the grid down,

it's not the first order effect of I don't have electricity that gets me concerned. It's the second and third order effects of what else wouldn't necessarily have electricity that could bring about absolute societal chaos. Sure. And as Dave Jones is fond of saying, you know, if your preparedness plans involve having electricity, you might want to rethink that, right?

So I don't advocate necessarily stocking up on tremendous amounts of fuel to run generators. That would be a convenience if you have the wherewithal to do it. But even at some point, that could be limited, right? Unless you've got a gasoline refinery with a source of crude oil, right? So, you know, and solar only gets you so far. So thankful that there's an opportunity to prep. But I would say these times to prep, it's, you know, the materiel preparedness is one dimension, but the skills and just being able to go without electricity and live as though we were thrust back 120 years for some period of time. That's more of a skill set than a material solution, and I advocate for that.

That's probably something I need to work on you know i cannot hold my own with an amish carpenter by any means and if you're a real prepper you should at least uh nail a few boards together and mend defense and i do a pretty piss poor job i'm you know i'm not totally worthless, but that's something I should work on now and have at least some basic skills before. So that's actually a weakness I've identified and probably another thing I need to work on while the lights are still on. Yeah, I'm stuck up on candles, though. I got a lot of candles.

Also, well, I mean, without further ado ado we're going to go to break super quick come back with news blitz and i think we'll be off from there because there's so much to talk about what do you say let's do it Thank you. © transcript Emily Beynon 🎵 Are you prepared to be the family doctor in a disaster or emergency? This is the Intrepid Commander, and I'm holding The Prepper's Medical Handbook by William W. Forgy, M.D. In this great book, you'll learn how to prepare for medical care off the grid. You'll learn about assessment and stabilization. You'll even deal with things like bioterrorism response, radiation, and how to build the off-grid medical kit at home. Look, 2020 taught us a lot about the limitations of our medical infrastructure in America. Get the Prepper's Medical Handbook today at Amazon.com. Again, that's the Prepper's Medical Handbook by William W. Fortin.

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Pennsylvania court decides officials cannot reject mail-in ballots with incorrect dates. Open AI agrees to run GPT, i.e. chat GPT, models past the U.S. government to evaluate them for safety. Get that government rubber stamp. For censorship, federal court upholds ban on Let's Go Brandon shirts in high school. Again, the federal court upholds the ban on Let's Go Brandon shirts in high school.

holds the ban on let's go brandon shirts in high school the dean of berkeley law school berkeley out there in california the land of fruits and nuts berkeley law school dean says that the constitution is outdated and threatens the United States. I got some things to say about that, but let's move on. We'll come back, don't worry. Trump suggests he'd release Epstein files if re-elected. Going into geopolitics and security. Ex-top aide. Actually, the deputy chief of staff for multiple New York governors exposed and arrested and charged with being a Chinese agent, money laundering, and working for the ccp not for america yes ex-top aide i.e deputy chief of staff for the new york governor

exposed as a chinese agent that's pretty highly rated we got a lot of these not the highest of highs but darn near super important articles actualized here's one for you japan is collapsing economically well they got a record 59 billion dollar defense spending request now that 59 billion includes satellites drone security a lot of other spending much higher than they've had since world war ii per capita you know adjusted for inflation etc so japan conventionally rearming economically pending home sales crashed to a record low. Job openings dropped to lowest level since January 2021. Kind of flatlining here.

Meanwhile, numbers are in, as we've been covering for quite a while here. Meanwhile, numbers are in as we've been covering for quite a while here. Inflation's been rough. American food costs up 22% since 2020. Restaurant prices up 27%.

So just since COVID, up between 20% and 30%. I've been cooking at home a lot more, I'll tell you that. Social Security faces $63 trillion with a T in unfunded liabilities. Well, every Social Security check you get get be happy with that too spend it on preps asap all right natural disasters in nature some activity floods in niger claim 217 lives. Phoenix set a new record, 100 straight days of 100 plus degrees. I don't care if it's a dry heat. 100 plus days of 100 plus degrees.

Plus days of 100 plus degrees. Senate defense bill looks to automatically register women for the draft. FDA authorizes new COVID-19 vaccine without clinical data. And Japan is going to release self-replicating mRNA vaccine starting October 2024 there you go future data that was the news blitz for September 4th 2024

first episode of September there's a very dispersed set of headlines. Almost all of them can be categorized and looked at in pure isolation. Now, nothing's purely isolated, but they are very, at least seemingly on the surface. Let's see if we can make any connections though. Here you go. Just in the two geopolitics security articles here. What is it?

Geopolitics security articles here. Ex-top aide and New York governor exposed his Chinese agent and Japan's record defense spending. What are those both related to? China. Definitely Japan is spending all that money because of China, right? Those two are related, indeed. Let's see. Let's see the suit.

So we can put together, just kind of like that matching game that was on TV all the time. That game show, uh, maybe like, uh, yeah, I forgot the name, but anyway,

try to match them and clear the board. You know what I mean? Let's get some more pairs here. Uh, what do you think about a hundred straight days of a hundred degree weather in Phoenix? I mean, that is a little more highly rated than just topical news under extreme heat waves hit. But, uh, you know, does that really connect with anything? The only other real weather event we has, we, we, we see here are floods on the other side of the world even.

So don't see any connections there. No, but if there was a grid down, that kind of weather would be fatal in an extraordinary way. So it's adjacent to other indicators that are not actualized right now. So we're not at a full crisis level tonight, but it just goes to show that, you know, that now what was there a hundred straight days of a hundred degrees Fahrenheit in that part of our country, in that part of our country 200, 400,000, 10,000 years ago? Of course, right? We haven't measured temperatures for that long. We can only estimate them before they were actually recorded with mercury

about 150 years ago. So, you know, in and of itself, obviously it wasn't fatal. You know, Arizona had fatal. Arizona had electricity. Phoenix had electricity. But if they didn't, that would be bad news, bad place to be trying to survive if you weren't prepared. And a lot of people won't be. So getting away from people who aren't prepared is probably a chief concern

if you're in that area. Sure. aren't prepared is probably a chief concern if you're in that area sure you know i see this as two potentially correlated but not really correlated events that a leftist especially a green energy eco-terrorist might consider proof of global warming and man is destroying the world with this record heat and floods killing 217 in Africa. I would come back and say correlation, causation, not the same thing, especially on the other side of the world. And yeah, there have been warming and cooling periods on this earth. I don't think a carbon tax and paying an international fee on carbon is going to do anything to fix that.

And that's about where I would end that analysis. But I definitely could see a lot of folks all around the political spectrum, but especially on the left, saying, oh, well, there are floods, there's record heat, of course it's global warming, these Patriot Power Hour guys are just totally underplaying this. Do they work for big oil? What would you say if they asked if you worked for big oil there?

I don't, and I can't think of a field of academics that's as corrupt as climate science. And it's proven, right? So you can't investigate it in any meaningful way because 98% of all reports satisfy the conclusions that the funding agency wanted to have concluded. That's what that science has become. Economics, if you call it a science, it's a social science. It's probably just as corrupt, but hard to think of many more that maybe if you really want to go out there on a limb, ancient archaeology and what has existed and what's being overlooked might be in the same realm as corrupt, but less meaningful to most people's daily lives than economics and climate science but of course every one of these headlines that says something like 100 straight days of 100 degrees record record record record is just always going to be used to reinforce the the cult of climate change. The fact you brought up

ancient archaeological excavations and pretty much what happened before written history, etc. Kind of goes hand in hand with the example I was going to bring up about the Green Empire. So I'm listening to a book on tape i'm you know i like listening to books on tape because then i can do other stuff at the same time get a lot more in so this

is from yuval noah harari who's currently the head of the world health organization he wrote this book new york times bestseller about eight to ten years ago i think it was 2014 uh it's called sapiens a brief history of humankind it's about 16 hours i'm about halfway through and for for the first uh few few uh hours few chapters goes pretty much what you were just talking about, what happened before writing, before there was agriculture, before what he calls the cognitive revolution. And the thing is, there's not much evidence. So whether it's archaeology or climate science or economics even, and I do know a fair amount about economics,

it all matters about what is the data that you're able to actually look at. And the less open the data, the easier it is for them to fudge the numbers or gatekeep. Like basic physics, you can't gatekeep basic physics because anyone can run a basic Newtonian experiment in their basement, right? But studying and determining what the best human civilization construct is based off facts and figures that no one really has access to. But the banksters and their economists at Harvard kind of pretend that they have data and science behind it. Yeah, it's a black box. And even if they're trying their best, it's super hard to do.

But it's a black box and even if they're trying their best it's super hard to do but yeah it's a slippery slope and and uh yeah that's just like perfect timing though because i'm listening to that book and i'm going to be on the road and finishing that in the next uh day or two while i'm driving so uh it's a it's an interesting one oh and last one he was talking about empires so the age of empires and our empire is all evil and bad and he pretty much says that about empires, so the age of empires, and are empires all evil and bad? And he pretty much says that all empires are pretty much bad, but good things can come out of them. And he said, straight up, this is in 2014, I don't know if he would write the same thing, or maybe he's proud of it. But he said, it may be that the color of the next empire is green. And he was talking about carbon taxes.

He was talking about, I don't think he talked about pandemics. It would have piqued my interest. But it was all about how everything's becoming more centralized, more global, all the way from little villages all the way up to the UN.

And the next phase may be green. Maybe, you know, meaning saving the world is the only way humanity can come together. So he said that in his 2014 book. Anyway, that's my diatribe, but hopefully that kind of brings it together. That's how we interpret this dashboard here. Yeah, absolutely. You know that last headline you read about self-replicating vaccines being tried in Japan, I think there's more to that. mRNA vaccines. Some of the earliest headlines that you'll find in the archive on futuredanger.com under the indicator vaccine effects exposed. Go back to other vaccines that were being brought out, especially infant vaccines and childhood vaccines and the potential effects of them.

And Japan was one of those countries that was actually banning the use of certain vaccines that were being pushed in the United States. So when I see that headline tonight that they're going to be the place where self-replicating mRNA vaccination is attempted first. Something doesn't connect there. And Japan's a relatively conservative country. Not one you think of as having, you know, dramatically different political opinions over a decade. You know, things change. The consensus changes slower in Japan, I think. So I can't square the circle on how my impression was that they were reluctant to vaccinate their youth with, you know, less, you know, vaccines that were, didn't have a significant

amount of clinical studies to show that they were relatively safe. And then we see this headline tonight. But I can tell you this, that headline of self-replicating mRNA, that's going viral in the alternative media spheres right now. So more to follow on that headline, I think. Yeah, this self-replicating it actually they call a printing press in this article a biological printing press so we've we've heard about the spike protein and the mrna

and how it can replicate the spike protein well this apparently takes it another step where it could fully replicate the entire uh pretty much the entire not just the spike protein but replicate itself and then stay in your body indefinitely it won't wear out you don't even need boosters i guess is is the point of this or at least you need less of that because it's it's not just uh you know replicating those those spike proteins but this entire the entire ecosystem uh that that's injected into you is replicating itself and yeah kind of crazy another keep an eye out on we've talked about and heard about bird flu, monkey pox, blah, blah, blah. Well, these self-replicating RNA vaccines, kind of the foundation or the spine of them is cross-species. So they're really worried that, quoting from this article,

genetic material from the vaccine could recombine with other viruses, either in a lab on purpose or accidentally in nature, through insects like mosquitoes that kind of, you know, they get blood from all different types. It kind of mixes up. So long story short, you get one of these vaccines and it's going to be coursing through your veins. It's not really going to dissipate. Who knows if it passes to

others. If you're in close contact, I don't know. That's kind of worrisome. And then these viruses mixing together either whether it's in a lab by a nefarious actor or just a freaking mosquito definitely sounds worrisome to me so if you're conspiracy minded it's really easy to see that

something like this this technology could be like the ultimate way to deny privacy and autonomy to the individual. Meanwhile, Japan has a $59 billion defense budget because of China. And some portion of that $59 billion inevitably is dedicated to intelligence operations, to know what the Chinese might be doing in the biological warfare sphere and anticipating ways to protect against it. So it's a perfect, perfect example of how one of these issues can fly on both sides of one coin. And if you're super cynical, it sometimes clouds your judgment when you think that, I mean, what would you do if you were, you know, in the deep state in Japan,

in the security apparatus of Japan, and you were a Japanese patriot, and you were concerned about what mainland China might do next? You got to get that money while it still spends and put it to something that could hopefully defend or deter attacks. And or if you're not a patriot, you come up with as many boondogles as possible and try to steal from the coffers before it all collapses. So there's two sides of this coin there. Well, part of the reason that's a headline on future danger is step back for a moment.

I mean, Japan conventionally rearming in a very significant way, that could be dangerous, right? They adopted our ideals. right? They adopted our ideals. They adopted, you know, a constitution and elected bodies, and they were reformed after World War II. But that, you know, with their neighbors and where they sit in the world and the vulnerabilities that an island nation like Japan has, if the United States ever looked like it couldn't guarantee Japanese security, what that nation could do in terms of rearming could be really dangerous to the world as well. They love robots.

Robot army. I mean, they have an entire genre of movies and comic books about future Japanese robot armies. So not even uh joking here like good point and that's what it's under can you let's go can we deep dive real quick japanese conventionally rearmed because that's the indicator can you explain that indicator and there actually has been a fair amount of activity especially recently like in the last well there hasn't been much in the last year,

but since COVID, there's been a heck of a lot of activity under Japanese conventionally rearmed. How did you pick this as an indicator for future danger? Well, Japan was our enemy in World War II. Japan summoned a lot of military power in the 1940s. Now, of course, Germany did too. But Germany's effectively still thoroughly occupied by Britain and the United States. and the German populace is so thoroughly socialized that taking away their socialized welfare state to pay for their own defense.

Yeah, you can make the argument they've been rearming. They certainly have a vigorous arms industry and are feeding those arms into Ukraine and they emptied out their arsenal to Ukraine and they're going to replace that with modern weapons. So Germany's rearming, but Germany's right in the center of the NATO structure. And that's, in my opinion, thoroughly controlled by the United States. Japan, if it ever lost any kind of trust that we could guarantee its security could go its own way. And they might

decide they had to because they live right next to North Korea and more importantly, China, right? So I just don't think it's the same. But we're looking at two countries, Germany and Japan, that were powerful foes in the past and i i don't know what the latter half of this century might hold for you know changes in sentiment in those in those regions of the world they've been our enemies before there's other states that obviously you could point to and say the same thing but not ones that have the industry of those two countries so i was looking through the through the archive on futuredanger.com one of the great great reasons to come to this site and guess what literally one year ago september 4th 2023 we have an article japanese defense ministry seeks record budget so this must be

japanese uh budget time uh because exactly a year ago they were requesting more than 52 billion so now it's 59 that's almost i mean that's like eight percent increase in one year and actually in last year's article, they wrote that they want to increase it, not, not just from 52 to 59, but all the way up to 68 billion by 2027. So they are just cranking it up. They, uh, were the ninth largest military spinner in the world, but if they actually make it to $68 billion, they'll be the third, only after U.S. and China. Correct.

Potentially even higher than Russia. I don't know about that, but the point is they're going up big time. Even the $52 billion was much higher than it was 10, 20, 30 years ago. I don't have those numbers in front of me, but it's increasing 5%, 10%, 15% per year, every year for the foreseeable future. That's what they said last year, and they're right on track. And even if you thought it would be just too far-fetched

in anybody's lifetime that's alive today that Japan would ever be a foe of the United States. The fact that they feel as though they have to rearm like this is in and of itself dangerous. Great point. They'd cite North Korea as well, so it's right. And a lot of people are pretty, let's just say and russia pan japan's neighbors have a couple uh axes to grind for what happened in 1940s and 30s so

yeah philippines don't like japan let's say that korea nope china nope all of them would like to take a piece out of japan so yeah like you said just the fact that japan is doing that uh is troublesome and they don't have the money for this they don't they don't they've been debasing their currency and that scam is running out we've talked about the yen carry trade collapsing and seems like that's all out but they're gonna still crank up the defense spending hey they probably can keep doing that but overall quality of life in japan for the average civilian is certainly gonna collapse but hey that's why you gotta prep on it's not just about surviving power outages it's about keeping your standard living where

you might want it to be or at least mitigating the loss. That's part of prepping too. So on that note about the Pacific Rim, South Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, and Philippines, I don't think have ever been as close to Japan as they are now. Yeah, there's a lot of historical bad blood, no doubt. But the World War II generation, the people that witness it,

they're very old, and soon there won't be any left. And now all the younger populations of these countries are really focused on China. So it's not quite like you might think 10, 20, 30 years ago. But if you look at Japan, like right across the Sea of Japan, that's China, North Korea, and Russia, all powerful militaries and dangerous to Japan. So hopefully, you know, Japan spending and they could modernize pretty fast and they could lower their population standard of living if they had to, to fund a war machine.

And that war machine would be top notch, right? would be top-notch, right? They could do things with $59 billion that most other countries can't do for that value, right? So just one more indicator that, you know, a war with China, a Japanese-Chinese war, a Chinese-Taiwanese war, both of which could have a strong probability of provoking a U.S.-Chinese war. That's where that indicator kind of fits into the puzzle on future danger.

Sure. And heck, almost all that spending is going to be for high-tech stuff. I mean, there's definitely some basic soldiers and ammo and whatnot but satellites and cyber and as you even noted probably some some cash in there for bio warfare defense or otherwise so all right uh time's flying here on the finale of the summer season we're going to be off next week it's actually going to be 9 11 as well so but we're going to be off that uh week unless something goes totally awry then we always reserved a right to come back live but looking to start next season september 18th. So with only about 10 minutes left in this season, if all goes well, what do you want to touch on before we get out of here?

Well, one more footnote on Japan. Their offensive space capability is probably not shabby either. Yeah. I think I'm telling you, man, those robot armies the gundams watch out metal gear solid like so and uh i i don't know if we had this conversation but we we can revisit it i could use 10 minutes to tell a story about it because i just don't see ground, maybe naval, maybe air, definitely space, but not ground robotics. Not in your lifetime or mine, trumping what we got now and have had for a century, right? Armed men and mechanized warfare on the ground. And the reason for that is in my professional history, I

was privy to unclassified military studies on technology. Again, unclassified. Not black, not anything that existed or was immediately underdeveloped. It wasn't for classified purposes. It was more of studies about what U.S. Army's infantrymen would be able to take into battle in terms of advanced electronics, mostly advanced sensors, uh, all kinds of war fighting technologies for the infantry, the men with the rifles, right. And, and the armor that they could wear and in all of it.

And so this, you know, helps a prepper, you know, stay oriented out of the science fiction realm, I believe. What are the findings? And this happened 20 years ago, 20 years ago. So put that in perspective. At the time, the Army was very hopeful that it could move towards a system that it had called Land Warrior. And Land Warrior was the idea that every soldier carried some kind of transceiver, could send and receive voice and data, and had night vision of an advanced state beyond just near-infrared, fused thermal-type devices, which exist now, and other, again, unclassified range finders, laser pointers, designators.

The whole package was being explored. What would be possible so we did studies and uh we modeled a uh 48 hour mission of an infantry platoon in like 2028 maybe and it was in a part of the world that was innocuous. It didn't matter. I'm not going to name the place, but it was like a scenario meant to be non-provocative to any other country, almost like fake countries. But the findings that we had, the way we did it is we had actual veterans and active duty soldiers role play, leadership positions in the platoon. And they, and we did it in, you know, basically a turn-based modeling event, a map exercise.

And the, um, the leaders inputted what they would use for equipment on their own ensemble and estimated what the troops immediately under them would, would, would also use for equipment on their own ensemble and estimated what the troops immediately under them would also use for electronics. And we collected that data, and we pushed it turn by turn, 10 minutes at a time. And we did this map exercise over a course of a couple days, all day long, eight-hour days. We walked through that scenario. And part of the scenario is that that platoon was isolated. It was operating in a distributed manner. You used to use the terms behind enemy lines, but that's not necessarily accurate anymore.

It's like you're putting a 40-man infantry rifle platoon into a battle unto itself, and it's coming with very advanced technology, right? Well, at the outcome of this exercise, I'll never forget, never forget the scientist from Natick Soldier Center in Massachusetts, which is the Army's research facility for these kinds of technologies for the regular force. Again, not classified, not black programs, not special operations, just for the entire Army. He stood up at the end and had seen the inputs from the role players on the power usage. And the engineers had all told us an estimate of what all these devices would require for electricity.

And the scientists stood up and said, two things are going to have to happen if a platoon isolated for 24 hours is going to use as much electricity as as you just expected to do one one thing that needs to happen would be a material breakthrough in physics material science to have any kind of batteries that could hold that much electricity yet still be light enough right for 40 men to carry on their backs and and we're talking like early technology writing this level like someone has to come along like einstein and figure out something new to get any material that we know of or could make to hold that much electricity, he said.

Or we're going to have to find a way to put a nuclear reactor on the back of every soldier to have that much electricity. That was 20 years ago. You see Teslas driving on the road. All you're looking at is the perfection of lithium ion battery technology, and it's just about peaked. Those two things that that scientist said that day are still true. And if you're playing video games where there's an electronic tank rolling around, like electric

tank, that's not happening. We don't know how to do that. And if you're one of those people that say it's just suppressed technology, the government invented it, and they're keeping it hidden so that Exxon has big profits, I would say to you that if any military could figure out how to get past combustion engines for its vehicle fleets you know obviously the exception of nuclear submarines and nuclear aircraft carriers of any land vehicles they would

they would immediately do it right because of the war fighting advantage that would come from not having to have that much petroleum product to fuel your vehicles but it it hasn't happened because they don't know how to make it happen. That's a good thing for now. That means Terminator armies aren't coming from the ground. I know you already said that caveat from the air might be different, and that's where I could see Japan just bringing drones and satellites to a whole new level. But you've got to also think they're probably working hand-in-hand with the U.S.

So is this just an extension of the Pentagon's defense budget, or you think Japan's trying to get some independence here? What would your gut feeling be on that? The dangerous part is that they have to do it independently, and all countries' governments could fall. So who gained control of that military if times got really lean for the Japanese? If the current generation of Japanese who have no memory of hard times came upon hard times on an island nation that could be entirely dependent on trade, yeah, that could be dangerous. But yeah, they could probably kick ass in the air and space.

And there's no reason why you can't put nuclear-powered spacecraft up. I'm sure they're there. But ground robot armies, you're going to have to show me something I don't know to get me to believe that one anytime soon. Well, normally I would just say we got to get out of here, but there's just too many articles we didn't hit on. I think we're going to have to do a real blitz here.

I'm going to name the headline and maybe go 15 to 30 seconds on it. I got like three or four of these. You ready? Hot takes. Yeah, let's do it. Hot takes. Yes. We've talked about this one a little bit, but I really wanted to get your hot take on

the ex-top aide to the New York governor exposed as Chinese agent. Democrat Party's thoroughly infiltrated and makes you think that how much of the FBI is actually controlled by China right now. California bills seek to ban deceptive AI images around elections. There's been some stunning Kamala Harris communist generated memes out there. And they only know one response to political satires, to try to ban it. And it'll fail when it gets to a court that upholds the First Amendment.

But meanwhile, for some period of time, that kind of repression of freedom of expression will probably happen in California. Berkeley Law School Dean saying that the Constitution is outdated and threatens the U.S.? He's only a dean, so that only gets you to grade three. But when people in Congress are talking about that, it gets up to grade two hot.

And if they start trying to pass bills in Congress in any manner along these lines, then that's truly dangerous obsolescence of the Constitution being discussed. Here we go. OpenAI agrees to run its chat GPT models, pass the U.S. government to evaluate for safety. It's tyrannical. And you can't really build a large, successful, publicly traded business without just having the NSA and the FBI and the CIA walk in and make demands of you.

No joke. All right, wild wild card last one are there any headlines or topics you wanted to hit on before we end the season because it's the last chance yeah i do i want to talk about an anomaly on the back end of future danger right before this show okay i found an article breaking tonight there was a school shooting in georgia 14 year old killed four people wounded more another school shooting right off the bat fbi says that this person had been interviewed by the fbi in the past year throwing that in there under the indicator, false flags exposed. Just grade one topical news. Wanted to get on the record as saying that the FBI already knew about this shooter. That headline entry rejected on my back end.

It was a CBS News link. Couldn't add the headline. And I'm seeing that more often. Some news sources are just causing future dangers back end to choke up. So it's what we deal with, but they can't stop me from talking about it on Patriot Power Hour, episode 277. No, sir.

No, sir. Well, I think the next season is going to be just interesting, to say the least. It's action-packed, but we will be off over the next week. So enjoy some of that time off. Get some of that research done. Get some other projects done around the house maybe. We'll hit it real hard. We'll come back on the 18th, all right?

and we'll hit it real hard and we'll come back on the 18th, all right? September, the most volatile month in stocks history is underway. So for the audience of Patriot Power, don't be surprised if we're jumping back on. It's going to be for a crisis situation. But in the meantime, I'll do exactly what you said, Ben. Deal. All right, folks, be sure to support Prepper Broadcasting Network, pbn Ben. Deal. Alright, folks. Be sure to support Pepper Broadcasting Network pbnfamily.com

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