The Prepper Broadcasting Network - Patriot Power Hour #342 - Incredible News On This Spring Season Opener

Episode Date: April 2, 2026

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episode 342, Ben the Breaker, Banksters here with Future Dane. Yeah, spring season. I've been looking forward to it. The heat map dashboard on Future Danger is as loaded with news as we left off two weeks ago. A lot of it the same. A lot of it new lot to cover in this spring premiere of Patriot Power Hour. 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 18th of March, for refresh, but mostly in the same threads, 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 at highest prices since 2022 when the russian invasion took place brent oil heads for monthly record surge wTI settles above 100 for first time since 2022 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 bear the lead, though, the biggest, most dangerous headline on the map, ShtF-level economics, foreign central bank sell U.S. Treasuries in wake of Iranian war. International official holdings at the New York Federal Reserve fall to the lowest level since 2012.

Let me tell you what, there's a lot more debt out there than 2012 or than 2012. 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 $5 billion 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 dated or essentially locked out, only 5% of your redemptions are allowed trying to pull out your money. Yeah, maybe you'll get 5%. DHS shut down, longest in U.S. history. Of course, that's been, you know, rectified a sub-degree. But TSA lines and a lot of other issues were felt as a result.

and linked to pretty much everything we just said. Borrowing costs surging. All types of interest rates going up. Not a great sign. That's economically. Gold, silver, Bitcoin all down pretty badly recently. Still gold, silver, much higher than they were year over 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 ops suspected, and we have a half dozen articles tied to SHTF level indicator tonight. Let's go straight through it. Another woman tied to U.S. 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 you all need to check out on Future Danger.com right now. Each of them we can talk about for 20 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 rearm Japan deployed destroyer capable of firing Tomahawk missiles didn't expect to see that probably 10 years

ago. China supporting Iran, sharing intelligence. Meanwhile, warships and jets of China are conducting patrols near the dispute of South 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 3,500 troops. But actually a lot more than that. just one tranche. Third aircraft carrier. Carrier strike group 10. 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 2026 fireball surge raises questions, secret weapons, space weapons, what's going on? I've seen some pretty interesting videos. Future Dan 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 U.S. And, well, the president has been tearing into NATO over the last week or two. A paper tiger says they need to step up. They need to pull their weight. Strongly considering pulling the U.S. out of NATO. Secretary of State issues veiled threat after France, Italy, are the latest NATO allies to block U.S. 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 U.S. 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 warns Cuba's next. There's been 11,000 plus targets struck in the last month.

That's 11,000. The White House says the original four to six week operation timeline is still in place. It would be a couple more weeks around. Tax Day would be the end of that. And in Ecuador, U.S. Special Forces oversee cartels getting after. 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 forge signatures on ballots. Let's go to natural news and health to kind of. finish it out for the night on the newsblitz. Unusual storm system puts war-torn Middle East on high alert. Here in America, early-season wildfire surge, already 1.5 million acres burned, and it's not even fire season yet.

Kremlin asks U.S. for ceasefire at Iranian nuclear plant so that it can evacuate the remaining Russian staff. Startup pitches cloned human bodies to transfer your brain into. We don't see this indicator too much, but it applies here. Lifespans unnaturally extended. Get your clone, put your brain into it, live another life. I don't think it's that easy. Mass of Saharan duststorms sweeps across Morocco, Algeria, and Maritana.

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, uh, week less than 10% of the distance between here and the moon. Speaking of, they did launch Artemis 2 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 reengineering nature, organ farming. There's a startup that wants to grow headless human organ sacks.

Pretty much you grow just the organs. It's alive, 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 erectile dysfunction well future dan that's the last article did not 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 that's future dan It 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, 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, they're about diverse topics, the espionage in Black Ops suspected, you know, it's laid bare right now that we are in some level of, you know, non-kinetic warfare with many may 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, bogeyman? 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 carrying 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 we'll come out that there were some cells

that were, you know, busted up in the last few weeks. 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. That was never a thing. 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 military, their clergy that rules, all of that. It's 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 going to 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 going to be a push button more. He's going to just flick the switch and stop the strikes and see what comes. Well, he said that the straight of Hormuz, which is all on the news in the past

month, will open itself as some point. What's your thoughts there? 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 going to do tomorrow.

That's going to, that's certainly a power move. Do you think that's his ultimate head fake before he does put troops on on the ground tomorrow? or you believe them or hard to say the only troops you're going to 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 uh putting occupying terrain there you know i'm not sure how well they've directly gone after the army forces of the ground armed forces the Iranian military. If they had gone after those troops, the scenes that you would be seeing in media about just casualties, dead everywhere, but you don't see that. It's the most amazing part about the war is that the precision, right? They're hidden 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 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, 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 Lindsay Graham saying, oh, if we need to put thousands and thousands, We could do it. We did that in Iwo Jima. 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 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, he's right if enough of the wrong circumstances came about. But let's go back to the Future Danger HeatMap dashboard. You can scroll the whole homepage and look in every indicator in the security column. There is no indicator of danger that war with Iran starts. And I set up that system in 2014-15 timeframe. It's obvious, you know, fighting Iran is not dangerous to us. We were going to stomp them then.

We're stomping them right now. We could stop them again in 10 years. if they don't change their government, right? If the Iranian George Washington doesn't show up, then it's going to 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 take place, I feel like, and it's not good for interest rates, not good for oil price. So if it, you know, calms down the next few months, I'm not going to say no harm, no foul, but it could be absorbed. But if we see oil at 100, 100, 10, 120 plus, like I've been saying, all through the summer, that's going to really hurt, you know, the stats, the economic stats, particularly.

You know, it's not all about economics and stuff, but midterms coming up, people are going to just be crying and complaining about $5 gas all summer. That ain't going to be helpful. Yeah, I don't know if it would be dangerous. It starts to be all-time high gas prices, oil prices, fuel prices. but we're not there at all. Yeah, I don't think this is going to 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 going to get worse, 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 HeatMap dashboard was one of your finest tonight. Really on it, kept it pithy, and waited until now to pontificate. It was excellent. Now, with one area for improvement because he did miss a headline.

Just one. Okay. And there was a lot. So again, I'm not playing here. No, no, I got it. It's good. I appreciate it. But the California congressman who is about to have the FDI throw out all the files showing that he was the Chinese asset, right?

That headline got overlooked, but it was like the sixth or seventh of several very important ones. Drone swarms around Barksdale is a serious matter. It's a really serious matter that there's anybody you could 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. They have the intelligence agencies that can recruit Americans to do it, right? Oh, for sure. There's enough out there that would, well, we've already seen.

We'll join, join their side of any, anytime they can. Let's go to this Barksdale real quick. Barksdale headquarters of the Air Force Global Strike Command. It has intercontinental, intercontinental ballistic missiles and strategic bomber forces. You know, that's the responsibility of Global Strike Command. and actually at the base itself, B2, B1 and B52 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 12 to 15 units, and they loitered over the base for four hours. That's the crazy part that they just were allowed, I guess, to stay there for four hours. Yeah, you wonder why it takes a, you know, it's such an expensive defense budget. But the anti-dron technology, 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 ready to pay for a solution, many solutions.

I don't think this is one of those things. It's going to be like, hey, back in 2006, that happened at Barks. and five to 10 years from now, it's going to be virtually impossible. It's going to cost, though. We're going to invent a way out of it. You know, we're America, right? We got people going deeper into space than ever before right now. Like, we're going to fix this.

But right now, it's a vulnerability for sure. And the base did try 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&D, and so many PowerPoints 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 D.C. So obviously, Barksdale needs one,

Vanderberg in California. We've had the headlines about it. Very sensitive U.S. Air Force, U.S. Space Force Base, right? Definitely involved in ICBMs. It's had the same thing going on. So this is something like 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 drone swarms in the future. But in contemporary with a lot of other things going on, including, you know, war in Iran, yeah. So it's a dangerous environment out there right now. Yeah, a lot's going on to say the least. Let's see. One more for the foreign black ops suspected.

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.

But 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 2025. That's only less than a year. Six of those people of the six, five had ties to nuclear research or missile technology. And four of them had some sort of connection to each other. I'm sure it's a small world in that industry, so to speak.

But, yeah, this is not. not coincidence it does not seem future Dan yeah yeah and what do you do what do you what do you do what do you do you do you do you do you do 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 agency just you know whacking our scientists making them disappear we got like that's that stuff didn't even really happen in the Cold War, right? Like the Soviets, 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 was something that KGB 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 as 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. I don't know. I can probably go without talking about headless meat sacks for the rest of the episode. But take us wherever your interest might be, Ben. All right. Let's just head straight into the economics then.

But particular interest rates, I won't get too won't get too won't get too won't. about it. But a couple things going on here. First, the foreign central banks are selling U.S. treasuries and international holdings at the Federal Reserve in New York, meaning

international money trusting the U.S. 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 0% 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 a extra 100 base. points interest rates of national debt were paid another hundred plus billion every year in interest probably more anyway long story short this is bad for really a 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 of 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 getting gnarly from an interest rate perspective now tell me how bowels falling apart 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 going to 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 even seen that work its way through the system. That's just going to have a lot more stress 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. I can't find it. I can't find it. It's just kind of a general malaise is what they're saying. Now, these companies don't necessarily say why they're losing money. I admit, yeah, 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, you know, for dear life.

And hoping the whole thing doesn't go down badly and get, you know, contagion. That's what we should be talking about, Ben, is contagion. If there's blue owl and there's another, I think there's another private equity, you know, how far does that spread, right? and they're not talking right now. This is the 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 the sort that out. And I'm wondering, 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, contagion 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 a 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 at the seams and nobody is in control and can stop it. We'll find out. I have a feeling it's getting 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 rate she 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 he's private credit as jimmy jimmy diamond at j p morgan said they're the cockroaches right so they're the ones They're the really short guys that are drowned it already at this. But if interest rate goes up even higher, big trouble. And 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 is just going to 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 going to get bailed in. Your 401k 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. Yeah. We've been had an eye on column 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 going to let that go by like I did in 2008 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 going to try to pass as much of that down to the peasants as possible. They're not going to take all the pain and not let that get down to middle America. They're going to do their damnedest to socialize the losses, as we say. Well, I had a metaphor for you. If you're going to do swimming pools with concrete shoes, I got to 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 in combat, right, the United States of America, U.S. armed forces, we're in combat. 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, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, your male cousins and your father and your uncles big crew go out right and then you know you're join yourself sometimes like life's good and and you're in a place at a time getting drinks there's opportunity it's it's it's it's 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 you you look at you you

look at it and be like, I can 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 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 pick either side afterwards now since 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're you were always for it if it didn't you're always against it's kind of pathetic but that's what

became of our republican system but for me when when the u.s. 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 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 and you got a you know very vicious nasty tyranny on earth for 47 years as a result 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 david jones himself says 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. We'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'm not, I heard that last night. I'm like, that is literally big, if true. It's Trump. So how do 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 who 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 make money how about we use that reduce inflation actually maybe get prices down and then invest a bunch into infrastructure for electrifying with nuclear power, that would be better. But I don't know. It's the guns and butter.

The guns and butter. It's the first thing they teach you in economics. Like, okay, you want to allocate to butter and consumer goods, or do you want to allocate to rifles and military? You can't have 100% of either, for sure, realistically. But where is it on that spectrum is the question? Well, I'm not a big fan of centrally planned economies, so I'm not sure I'm down with the guns and butter.

We don't have... Well, the most centrally planned economy is the military. So that's 100% centrally planned. Well, our military is the greatest on earth because of the capitalism that propels it. True. Yeah, it does propel it, but it's directed, obviously. That has to be done. That's the only way a military can be done,

but if you allocate more to that, then it becomes more of a centralized economy. But competing for contract dollars to produce the best possible products and services for the military. China can't do what we can do. Their centrally controlled state, look at 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, the European industrial base, we procure way better than the French and always better than, you know, places like Italy and Spain. Germany, you know, has the 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.

I've always listened to people complain about the military industrial complex, you know, 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've got a pretty lean, productive one with lots of companies, Andrew Pallantir, challenging the traditional Boeing's and North, it's definitely showing up in the airspace and naval domains right now have that uh 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 a thermonuclear war it's worth oil to be $100, $150, $200,000, $5 million. right but you know would you convince me that if we didn't do all this in iran there would have been nukes it's pretty hard to convince me of that so yeah your uncle got in a fight and you got to defend his ass and you got to get in there probably you'll end up getting in a bigger fight than him that's what happens in my experience the second guy it 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 It 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 considered, you know, leaked op plans, operational plans. They were, you know, for all around the world, what the U.S. military would do in this situation, that situation. Many of them from the Cold War are now declassified. So you can see and read about what we would have done at the Soviets invaded, you know, West Germany, all that. and it's you know the current uh plans you don't get to know they're highly classified but it's it's very you know well well known that the the op plan to you know fight iran and many different variants of that you know have 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 peace 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 in 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 that you always got to be concerned that they were going to invent. a neighbor, attack a neighbor.

It's been on the books since 47 years. I would argue that, you know, this is Trump's lifetime, right? He's seen this. He was a young man when the Islamic Revolution happened. And from him, I guarantee you someday you're going to hear this argument from him that it was a cost-saving measure in the long run to finally put that down, to lower all the costs and all the subsidies that go to, you know, the Middle East to arm everybody that has to be armed against Iran.

In the long run, I guarantee you Trump would make the argument that, you know, he's going to save America a lot of money by just taking care of something that no president since 1979 would. And get all that rich oil money over there that's just enjoying their lavish palaces and their, you know, huge condos and Doha and all that. They can spend a little money and 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 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. Like 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 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 the shutdown of the oil. It's been a big deal. Australia throughout the Philippines,

throughout the Far East, fuel rationing, that's where all the Persian Gulf oil goes. So 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. Special Forces Oversee cartels getting crushed in Ecuador. So hopefully, even though all the attention is in the Middle East, all the attention is in the Middle East, 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 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 multiple things at the same time. I mean, it's pretty obvious. Now, Hegseth putting 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 Power,

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 right that that would that would look like a mutiny that united states had had a leadership breakdown and it was fracturing and it could be you know, 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 dare to do it because of this. Now, Hegseth doesn't care. 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, you know, some kind of a further rouge, right? Or ruse.

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, but also. today, Pambondi out as Attorney General. I think this is bigger news,

Army Chief of Staff, Randy George, stepping down immediate retirement. Whether it's a ruse or not, it 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

I don't know what this is. There's certain indicators that happen in the economic column and the security column which involve you know disappearances, firings, terminations, losses, assassinations of certain, you know, government officials or Fed officials in column three economics. And the purging of generals is something that we have not seen in the 11 years of, or 10 and a half years of future danger.

But this administration is certainly willing to be able to be. able to do it and doing it, you know, like this during war, it's going to, this is going to be in the news cycle for the next 72 hours with everything else. People are going to be wondering, you know, what would that, what would that Army General not do that got him fired? First thing that 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 2025 to present and there were a lot of firings early on in potus 47's administration chairman of joint steves chairman of the joint chiefs chief of naval operations air force vice chief of staff but all

happened early and there was kind of another round the three-star admiral was fired almost exactly a year ago he was representing u.s to nato i could see why now of course they brought all or Yeah, 800 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 the headline in November. But you got to wonder like, okay, if they were going to 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 direct.

command fighting units, right? So the central command commander, who right now is an, 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 II. 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 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 Hague-Sed military aid. He was the commanding general of the 82nd Airborne, which is over in Iran right now. We're just offshore in 2022 and 2023. 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 with southcom commanders and scent com commanders and european commanders are fired they're employing troops to fight those makes sense that that that that if they won't fight the way the president wants or they're not going a good enough job that they get you know asked to step down army chief of staff is you know just they did the top

sailor the cn o they did the top airman the air force there goes the army chief and uh in 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 of 2020 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? I wasn't smart enough to be an engineer, but I know systems. So when you 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 a hit on tonight? No, but let's talk about our future plans of Patriot Power Hour, the immediate scheduling. Let's do it. Go for it. You're traveling next week. So should be playing for a show on a particular day. particular way, you make the call. I'll make it happen. I'm available Wednesday or Thursday next week. Same

bat 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 season of Patriot Power, 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 systems 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, you know,

there's a crisis tonight. But this heat map dashboard is dangerous, and we've 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 that 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,

Ozor 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 say, they say, yesterday was your last day to prep. No more time to prep.

So long of story short, we're going to light a fire on her ass, and I'm continuing my normal prep for sure, and I'm going to shift that into higher gear this quarter. But we're looking to really explore and get our stuff together on. I think it's going to 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 going to be news just as serious as we got right now. So it's going to be contemporary. And maybe not. You know, every night I hope that every single heat map indicator cools down, blue, no news. Go over to the, go to computer, check out the, you know, hit the websites, hit the, Hit the X sources, hit the X-sources, hit the X-list, looking for news.

I'm okay when we get on Patriot Power Hour. We only got five articles to talk about. And now we got 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 to prep it. 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 got to stay on the ball, double down.

So that's what we're going to do. This is the season opener, just the start. It will be here. Rain or Shine, future Dan, another good episode in the bag. Yep. Talk to you next week. Rainer Shine. I'm with you.

Yes, sir. All right, everybody. another great episode. We'll be back next week. Patriot Power Hour signing off.