The Prepper Broadcasting Network - Patriot Power Hour #344

Episode Date: April 24, 2026

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Live once more. April 23rd, 2026, episode 344. Ben the breaker of Banksters here with Future Dan. 344. Let's do it. Let's do it, Ben. Let's roll right into it, man. How about we just hit the dashboard?

Unless you have a topic to start with. I want to hit the dashboard because there's a lot just looking right at us. We got black on red, grade one, but they're different. New things emerging. Yeah, let's get into it. Let's see what's going on. Well, earlier today, James Walton himself talked about SPLC, Southern Poverty Law Center,

indicted by DOJ for fraudulently funding extremist groups, charged with defrauding donors, with payments to informants, simultaneously funding, raising money to fight, and advising law enforcement on how to arrest the same, quote, unquote, violent extremist. POTUS 46 directly involved. Yep, another Alex Jones was right. I remember him talking about SPLC 15 years ago when I first started talking about him. And, of course, with Charlottesville, that was a big one.

So that's one of the ShtF. Let's keep rolling in that column. We'll identify a couple of the other extreme. news items later, but we're starting with potentially the biggest one of the day. But some other big ones under riots erupt, mob wrecks, fiery havoc on New York intersection. Lots of news in the foreign black ops suspected. We've been seeing this heat up big time in the last year, really in 2026 generally. FBI to probe cases of missing scientists.

yet another NASA scientist dead nuclear propulsion expert found charred inside a crashed Tesla FBI is officially investigating the reports and as we've covered all the staff are secretive government are at government laboratories many are scientists but even one was an executive assistant to very high level other foreign black ops Iranian woman arrested for helping Iranian regime sell drones. A Chinese national was arrested after photography, after photographing U.S. Doomsday plane and other military aircraft at OFID Air Force Base. So lots of smoke. Where is the fire? We'll keep on it. Pacific Commander says victory over Iran needed to.

deter Chinese attack on Taiwan. The U.S. and Philippines launched the biggest ever drill with a large Japanese contingent as an ally for the first time in modern history. So U.S., Philippines, and Japan working together. DIA warns of expanding Chinese missile threat. So this is all in the security column today. Let's move on.

super quickly to economics and money, finance, etc. We're past $39 trillion in debt. We're going on $40. 39 going on $40. Man, where's the time go? Adding $2 trillion every year, not just $1 trillion. So we're aging double quickly in that regard. Another article is a vicious treasury market emergency at our doorstep.

and the highest rated in the economics column, but still kind of mid-level. But important, Trump deploys five Defense Production Act memos for American Energy. Put an American energy production into overdrive. And then fourth column, the third we're going to review tonight, but the fourth to the right, health nature, starting with a reckoning underway at FDA. Learn about that, check that out. We'll do so here later.

And then wildfires, wildfire seasons picking up. I hadn't seen any real wildfire news over the winter as expected, but here we are. Mid to late April, we're seeing multi-state red flag warnings, strong winds, very low humidity across the central U.S. 16,000 acres burned in Georgia, dozens of homes destroyed in Florida as well. So this is Georgia and Florida.

We're not even necessarily talking about far out west. And that's it for the health nature type of news. So let's go to the last column of the night. We'll start with the lower graded news. First, U.S. Navy fires on. and Marine Cs, Iranian cargo vessel, challenging the blockade.

So the Iranian cargo vessel tried to challenge the blockade, fired upon and seized. And then in Mexico, two Americans killed, in Mexico car crash where CIA officers leaving a drug lab raid. Don't forget about that war going on down there.

DOJ sued to prevent collection of state voter lists and then we have two more shtf level articles first supreme court considers warrantless phone searches by digital drag nets so easy to unreasonably search and seize these days so scotus is looking into that we'll follow that closely and then the FCC federal communications violates major telecom's seventh amendment right to jury trial Supreme court's hearing that as well so two big cases we're talking about here on patron power hour future day that's newsblitz where you want to go yeah good one ben as a foot note that's off it air force base very sensitive air force base off it

Sounds like off the office. Yep. Where is it located? I figured it's Germany the way I pronounced it. Out west. Can't recall the state right now. I might be Nebraska. Okay.

And that's where the doomsday planes are. They're called the doom state planes because those are are little planes that very, you know, senior people in the administration, national command authorities, they go airborne. if it ever looked like we were about to be struck, right? So. Omaha, Nebraska, the most central place in the entire United States. I pulled it. I pulled it.

I was not in the Air Force, and I pulled that one. And the reason why there's many Air Force bases, I could not tell you a single thing about, but off it has those planes. And for Chinese student to be walking around photographing them is like, that's, that's brazen, in fact. Oh, absolutely. You might expect something like that at a small reserve base. That should be big trouble enough, but not that. Certainly not something like Vandenberg.

But they've been having some issues at Vandenberg and other places as well. This is just the most recent one. Chinese National was arrested actually at JFK Airport in New York after he was trying to leave Nebraska and plan to target another installation, 21-year-old. So perfect asset there, probably been brainwash since he's a little kid, you know. And the Iranian woman arranging drone sales also, I believe, picked up at the airport.

So what is obviously the standard practice is once they identify spies, they leave them alone and just absolutely surveil them to try to, you know, learn even more about their, objectives and their network right but oh yeah that makes sense if you're as soon as you hit the airport you're not going anywhere uh i won't go into a diatribe about why i freak out every time i go through airport security no i got nothing on my record but i'm like you know this is where all the global surveillance state kind of comes in especially if you're going overseas and and and you're You spoke about black ops suspected really heating up.

It's really heated up in the last, what, 14 months of the Trump administration. But I suspect the espionage under Biden was all-time high out of control. And this is simply the new president coming in and redirecting the FBI away from him and towards the spies in the country. yeah you're seeing tons of roaches everywhere now in the past that many roaches or more we're under the floorboards doing what they do no one really noticed no one tried to get them out now we're trying to fumigate a little bit and they're scattering everywhere that's good i hope you know for everyone that we learn about i'm sure there's several others potentially that they don't let us know about and it's two the blood's sword right the the the ability to conduct espionage is maximized by a free society, right? True. So, you know, I'm not surprised that we're seeing this.

Now, the scientists getting killed, that's, like I said last week in episode 343, if that leads back to foreign, you know, intelligence agencies, that might be somewhat dangerous and historic if they're actually actively killing, you know, people and have figured out, you know, how to target them, like which scientists are working in secret access programs. They're called SAP by the U.S. government and SAP. And if you're a scientist, we're going in a sap and later getting assassinated, that's a big problem. So Huntsville, Alabama, one of the main HQs of NASA. And the FBI.

There you go. And the Army. There you go. And in fact, it's the Army Space and Missile Defense Command, you know, because it aligns and is adjacent to the NASA, right? So it's, Huntsville is a very vital area for us. And this guy lived there. 29-year-old, nuclear thermal propulsion team leader,

nuclear engineer. This is what the report says. We've got to take it for what it is that he left his wallet and phone at home, got into his Tesla, obviously wealthy guy, very nice, safe Tesla. But the car was discovered, colliding with the guardrail,

slamming into trees, erupted in flames. could he just have made a mistake could he have been suicided i don't know but when you have like a dozen of these happen in the near in the recent future or excuse me in the recent past that's a tread but it's it i don't know if it's a trend but it's it's definitely um needs to be investigated to make sure it's is or isn't and i think that's what you reported in heat map dashboard is in fact it's now that although i've i've i don't know i've i don't I'd have to believe the FBI was well aware of anything like this after only one or two, and especially the Air Force Research Laboratory retired Air Force General and the commander of AFRL went missing.

Like there's no chance that someone that senior wasn't immediately reported to the FBI as, hey, that, hey, that happened. I mean, it's not like they're just suddenly waking up. The FBI has been well aware that this could happen to us. Soviets were running wild in this country during certain decades too. PGB. From my very basic knowledge and experience, if you have a top secret clearance, you have to report in if you're leaving the country and even probably do other stuff too. So like you being totally kidnapped or just disappearing and these people are way higher than just like,

you know, your average semi, you know, cleared person or whatever, that has to still follow those requirements. So I would almost wonder they got freaking implants in these people, to be honest. Real quick, quick primer on

how our government organizes this. So essentially there's three classifications level, levels, but there's really a fourth because there's like unclassified but controlled information. The penalties aren't there, but you're It's supposed to be controlled like it's secret, you know, and then confidential secret and top secret.

And when you're in the realm of top secret, then there's other kinds of top secret out there. And these scientists, if they're working on military programs or, you know, nuclear propulsion, right, that's not something that any commercial entity is allowed to do in the United States. That's military. So those people are in special access programs. They hold a top secret clearance, but they're in an SAP, sometimes they're called STO's. Same idea. And how it works is it sends from principles of keeping secrets that go back way back then. Right. Like if you do the history on how Puritans in England organized to avoid persecution by the Church of England, they would get into compartment.

small groups and make it all these choke points where nobody knew who else was a Puritan and they kept it that way so they can worship secretly so we do that with technology programs there'll be a list of people that have access to only one piece of a of a major project and they have they have no knowledge of other pieces that they don't have to have knowledge of and they get what's called red on, right? They go to join the program. They get hired, accepted. They're going to be on that program. They get read on. And it's a very strict security briefing that says, this is what you must never, to your dying breath. You're not going to speak ever about this, ever. And then the day you quit working on it, you leave the compartment and they read you off. And they

again warn you, like never to speak of this. And that way the government can keep track if a secret is if they find out a secret has been escaped the system they go back and be like all right who had that knowledge and they can go look at the list and the list will very quickly tell them these are the only these are the 12 people that could have known that right or over the last 20 years here's the 40 people 12 of them currently are on the program and there's 40 still alive, it could possibly have leaked that. Like that's how those scientists that are mysteriously dying, they're not going to, they're not going to say this out loud, but highly likely most of

them were in those compartments. And they know things that potentially a foreign adversary, you know, either wants to know from them or they just want to remove the talent from the on in the compartments right now. you know, basically, you know, hamper the programs by killing the members of the, of the compartments. That's several years ago. They would kill Iranian scientists all the time, right? We killed their head, nuclear scientists killed that. So why wouldn't a state actor or some other, I don't know who, like, you have a hypothesis on who this could be?

Or is there any reason it would not be a state? China or Russia on top of the list. And no, I don't believe non-state actors would be incentivized to do this. Not to say that Russia or China couldn't cloak themselves and put parties in between them and what's happening, but ultimately it goes back to what state intelligence agency could be behind us.

Or they can all be accidental, right? Nothing says it has to be a plot or a conspiracy, but trust me, inside the security establishments that they know this is happening. They're well aware that this, they are well aware that this always could have happened. And I also saw a report that supposedly some news article put out that China is reporting its scientists that's appearing and mysteriously dying. For all we know, there's, you know, that level of clandestine warfare going on right now. that's kind of where my head was going and I was like well that's you know pretty pretty intense behind the scenes violence going on if you're literally whacking each other's scientists

doesn't mean we're going to have nuclear war in the next day but that's not normal relations by any means no well I it can't last long that's the thing if all these 12 people the the Air Force general he was retired right so that and he disappeared too so you know what knowledge did he used to did he have from previous compartments that somebody might want to capture him for but you know somebody dying at Tesla could be just an accident but we're watching it on patriot power hour episode 344 it's it's a big deal right now this this spring well it all goes hand in hand with the uapes and advanced technology whether it's aliens or human made or some sort of artifacts that were reverse engineered.

Whatever you want to say, you know, this all has to do with advanced propulsion, gravity, and energy, which is all really cool and sounds like sci-fi, but we're in the year 2006. So there's real stuff going on here. Any other thoughts on that or any other UAPs? You've been talking big time about how. those have been used demonstrated on the world stage kind of in a in iran and i believe he said venezuela even but what you know where is that stand anything else you want to say on that well we don't we don't have a hot war with iran right now ceasing tankers doesn't quite qualify

especially since nobody's dying on those raids so we're in we're in a ceasefire for past couple weeks or so and as a consequences you know I'm not keeping as a sharp eye out if if there's and I heard senator on the radio before I turn this on using a word that I think is maybe a code word among people that have been read in right members of Congress is that when you hear them talking about exquisite capability I think they're referring to you know technologies that the rest of the world doesn't, you know, even begin to acknowledge could exist. And I believe it's ISR, which is intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance,

which the difference between any of the three is relatively meaningless to the, you know, if you're outside of the military. But it's the same thing, ISR, knowing what's what anywhere you want to know. So I'm still of the opinion that, you know, when Trump, talks about, and he has, talked about, you know, weapons or capabilities, you know,

he said things like, we got stuff you wouldn't believe. He said that many times. I believe that's what he's talking about. But no, not since the war, the hot war, you know,

stopped, at least for the time being. I haven't seen anything on that. Also, I wanted to also mention just because the headline that you read in the heat map, Plitz Creek was,

it's like a few days old. I think the number of acres in Georgia burning, you said 5,000, those fires are way worse tonight. In northern Florida, southern Georgia, some serious natural disaster going on. And I think during, at least during the period of future danger, I haven't seen giant wildfires this far east. Right. That's the thing. It's not out west. And as of last night, it was 16,000 acres on that one fire.

But in total, 22,000. And again, you know, they were only 10% contained. So I'm sure several thousand more acres will be burned before it's all set and done. And I don't think Georgia and Florida fire response necessarily has the, you know, at least the same skill level as you'd see in, in California or Colorado. So if you're down there, boy, that's one of those things. Don't, if you're even thinking that you might want to evacuate, you should probably. Find a hotel out of state, but, you know, a little bit north of where you are, where you are and wait and see if that gets worse.

Pretty amazing satellite footage here. You can see we're playing it. For those who are watching, either live or on the archive on the video, we've been showing the articles. and now here's a satellite, satellite compilation. So, Pineland Road Fire, it's only mid-April, needs some rain. I know a lot of the country's under drought right now, so hopefully this won't become something we report on an increasingly dangerous articles throughout the summer,

but need rain countrywide, I know that. Yeah, and this is pure natural, right? So, you know, unlike the things that are political in column one and column two and in the political economy, column three, these are things that could be, you know, off the radar immediately as soon as these fires are contained. And I definitely hope that's true. Let's look here. Let's hit this before I forget it. The FDA, a reckoning at the FDA, Food and Drug Administration. well, we've seen heads roll at the CDC as well.

But this article here on future danger.com came out earlier this week. And it's all about the FDA officials investigating pediatric deaths following COVID vaccination. The first reviews since the rollout of vaccines came out. So there's a lot of infighting between a lot of these organizations because there's the old, old guards still trying to hold in there. I mean, in places like the Federal Reserve, the old guard has not even been pushed out at all yet, but we'll talk about that later. But at the FDA, at the CDC, Kennedy and others are definitely making big changes here. and so try to work some things out here. I hope more and more truth comes out.

That's all I care about. It'll be ugly, but it's better than everything being just covered up. What do you say here? Every time we do this, I got to put it back into the context of the heat map dashboard. This is in the indicator of danger entitled, vaccination effects exposed.

And if you look at it simplistically, you're like, well, that's a good thing, right? transparency we're learning we won't happen again yeah but there's always you know kind of this pendulum that oftentimes when people are scared and this stuff scares people you know swings a pendulum the other direction and now there's such a reticence to actually use an emergency vaccine when for example you know six generation chinese hybrid warfare turns to another bio attack that is significantly more lethal than COVID-19 and now vast part of American population won't take a vaccine. Those circumstances might really be a good idea.

That's a great point. The pendulum's swinging. I know I probably will never take a vaccine ever again. But we'll see. If everyone's dropping dead and it's the only way out, well, I take the long-term death a Vax or immediate death of the new bubonic plague.

Hard to say. Hard to say. I won't trust the vaccine ever again, though. I'll tell you that myself. So good. In fighting. Keep getting the truth out.

Keep destroying everything for posterity's sake, at least. I'm sure when the Democrats get back into power, they just will ignore all the findings that came out, though, anyway. But we the people must remember.

You're playing the odds with that point of view, and I respect that. But there could, from nature, without any secret lab program that no big pharma, none of the things that are suspected, the patenting of viruses, something could emerge from nature that is really lethal. And it is a smart idea to take up, you know, because vaccines weren't always unsafe, right? like the measles vaccine the polio vaccine those things always did you know save a lot of lives it's in recent years that we're worried about it right and it for all the right reasons we reported on it heavily on Patriot Power Hour on future danger you know the the scam that was the you know the the virus out of China and then and then the you know the double punch with the

with a vaccine that was highly suspicious that that's why it's dangerous to me there could be cases and scenarios where we really ought to be vaccinating something and people won't and i i felt this trap myself just now it wasn't a vaccine it was gene therapy mrna manipulation it's not actually a vaccine so don't let them ever call it a vaccine it was gene therapy experimental so yeah it's definitely different than the polio vaccine there's smallpox by far. Yeah, perfect example. You don't have to have MRI to have a vaccine. You do have to test it for a long time or you got to go to emergency use authorization. And I'd still believe that any emergency use authorized vaccine has to be entirely voluntary. You cannot force people ever to take it. Right. That's a good point for sure.

because like this study right here you know it killed infant the COVID-19 vaccination it's that the evidence is coming out it's a reckoning in the FDA hey why don't we talk about let me jump over to column one want to get into the rarely rarely activated in fact you do you favor maybe hit the hit the link that is the title of you know the 7th amendment jury trial issue. Do we have anything ever? Yeah, I guess we have. Only one other one for January 6th.

The judge refuses to let POTUS 45 see evidence in his own J6 trial from November 2023. So it's kind of in that zone of the Seventh Amendment and what the amendment is all about fording, you know, what kind of trials you could have, right? And it's in the back half of the Ten Amendments that we talk about much less often. But it is sort of fascinating what has happened here. And I'm going to try to summarize it for our listeners in a nutshell. Okay.

So, you know, if you're fine, you have a right to, you know, a jury trial, right? If the government's going to come and take money out of your pocket because it said you did something wrong, you're supposed to be able to go before a judge and a jury, the third branch of government. the judicial branch. Well, during the Roosevelt years with the establishment of the Federal Communications Commission and over time this great big, what was thought of as an expedient way of administrative law came about. And the administrative law is when the executive branch acts as judge and jury and imposes fines. and it because of the size of the companies, the very large multinationals and the very large

national companies, the huge corporations that grew, you know, since the time of Roosevelt through now, you know, it became kind of, you know, locked in that they were just going to stuff for those fines and probably pass their fines on to their customers eventually and just, you know, never demand a, a trial, a legitimate Seventh Amendment trial. Well, that's changed. And AT&T and Verizon have stood up to the FCC, and it was fines that were imposed, I believe, under Biden, for not taking care of users' data.

So this cuts the other way, too. And there's another thing that, you know, the surveillance state and your data and my data. So it's, you know, it's not like. like the plaintiffs in this are necessarily sympathetic to us. But if you look at it, you know, in cold constitutional logic, they've stood up to FCC and said, you know, you know, you're putting us in this position where if we don't pay the fine, maybe the Department of Justice will come after us and sue us to get the fine, or maybe they won't, but we don't know.

Plus, at the same time, periodically the same agency, the FCC, can withhold our rights to broadcasts on airwaves. Total New Deal Roosevelt era stuff. You know, total Atlas shrug, capture state, regulatory state stuff. But in this case, the Trump Department of Justice went before the Supreme Court. It basically admitted something that, you know, would obviously, Biden's lawyers wouldn't have admitted, which is if AT&T and Verizon didn't want to pay the fines, they didn't have to, right?

And that undermined the executive branch, the FCC's case, and is probably going to result in a significant precedent that, from my perspective, restores the third branch of government in these things. And for you, the breaker banksters heads up. The FCC goes down this way. Watch and see what pressure is on the SEC next. Scaries Exchange Commission and the financial regulatory state much, much worse than the telecoms, right?

They're the banksters. So having this kind of, it's refreshing to see the, you know, the Seventh Amendment get renewed. Brett Kavanaugh, Supreme Court Justice is smart on these things, and he was leading the questioning. So a lot of court watchers think that, you know, we're going to see that restored and that, you know, FCC-like entities can't just show up at a more step of a business and say, hey, that's a $50 million fine, pay it.

Well, there's definitely the issue about the intersection of government and big corporations, and sometimes they're adversarial, but a lot of times it's a slap on the wrist and actually a rubber stamp to allow them to get away with worse crimes, but mostly focus on the banksters in that regard, like JP Morgan fines for precious metalman. stipulation, which was like 2% of the profit they made off of even though it was a lot of money they had to pay. They weighed way more profit. But anyway, that was really one of the first things that went through my mind. I'm looking at this. And after hearing you talk about it was, okay, let's apply this to all the other executive branch overreaches. And there's a lot that have been built up in the last 100 years or whatever, 80 years. And they will.

Companies will. If AT&D and Verizon did it. I mean, those are some big ones. There's going to be a lot of people saying to the SEC, no. In fact, this was possible because of previous SEC ruling just a few years ago that headed in this direction of restoring jury trial, taking away administrative law. This decision will be a big step in it. The only reason I got on HeatMap dashboard as Grade 1 happening now is that for the time being,

FCC still has this power to do this to companies, but, you know, sort of, I don't know, I want to say, sensationalized kind of a false positive on the heat map dashboard, but there's really no other way to record this, you know, event, which was, you know, the Supreme Court hearing on the issue. So we talked a little bit about this before the show. Let's see if I can pose the question correctly. The way things are set up, it's kind of a top. down control where you know the organization is being you know find monitored regulated by the federal

government but what that should be replaced with is jury trial and maybe you can run us through why a jury of appears just jury of regular old people would actually be beneficial instead of extremely sophisticated attorneys that get paid hundreds and hundreds of thousand dollars a year at the SEC or at the FCC or all these other places. You know, they should, you know, one theory is they should be the ones that are regulating and making a decision. But your theory and I guess the constitutional theory is that the average 12 people, average 12 citizens, that is, should be able to make the decision.

But everything's so complicated these days. How can you square that? Well, the Roosevelt White House said the same thing, right? All the new technologies in the 1930s, only the experts can understand it. Today, you and I can understand most of the technologies pretty fast that were in effect then, but most average people back then couldn't either, right? So it's all relative. Do you want a technocracy?

Do you want the experts ruling you? Right? That sounds like dystopia to me. So it's one of those things, right? That, you know, to paraphrase Churchill, you know, there's, you know, democracy is the worst way to do this, but it's clearly better than everything else. So who's responsible for indicting or bringing about a grand jury or any of that? I don't know the technicals. But if the SEC or the FCC is not supposed to be doing it or should have minimal.

DOJ. DOJ brings it up. And then they're attorney general. Attorney general does it. Why don't, why don't they want to do it? Why don't they try to power grab? Isn't that what's supposed to happen?

Like they were like, hey, that's my jurisdiction. Let me do it. Type of stuff, right? Or no? It was just this consensus in Washington from the 30s through the 20s,

through the 2020s that experts could best decide these things and levy these fines and, you know, go down to, you know, Wall Street veterans today. and try to talk to them about what it would mean if, you know, to the entire, you know, to everything on Wall Street, if the SEC couldn't just show up and fine at will.

And companies just buckled under and immediately paid. Like if every single one of those went to trial with discovery and actual rights that are afforded in court, because when you're an administrative court with the agency, when the FCC lays this fine on AT&T and Verizon, they have all these quasi-judicial processes. but at the end of the day, the judge, the FCC, you know, administrative law judge, works for the agency. He's not neutral. He's not a third branch of government.

It's fundamentally anti-constitutional to have done what became, it's just a little bit of chipping away of the New Deal state that we got after the Great Depression. And honestly, I like to see it. And I honestly think Trump, is going to do more to tear down long precedents, 80 years, right? Lifetimes of precedent in the United States. So a vast population doesn't know, you know, doesn't know any better, right?

Everybody grew up and got a job on law street just automatically thinks, oh yeah, SEC can find us, right? Changing that around, it could be healthy. Well, two things, maybe finish it off on my end. the, in my opinion, I'll just stick to the SEC, but I'm sure it applies to a lot of these other, they're running cover for them. Their experts are there to, you know, pretty much deflect and frame up and whitewash everything else, except for the true evil actors, the real banksters.

So they bust some of the mid-level and low-level like Bernie Madoffs, but they'll never go after Jamie Diamond as a simple, clear example. But number two, I'm all about what we're talking about here, but if they just remove all the regulatory oversight, even though it's mostly bad, let's just say there's a little good to it, let's just pretend there is some good to it. But if they don't bring in actual constitutional enforcement and restraint, then things will get worse than ever, and it really will be, like, technocracy, corporate elites that run roughshod. Like, if we need to replace the leaky dam, we can't just, like, blow up the dam that's leaking and crappy and always was a bad idea and then not replace it, you know, with what we know should work well.

You know, the, and oh, one more thing. From a banker level, and you kind of sparked this idea in my head of when I was kind of like, well, will people understand what's going on? You're like, well, the lawyers that are defending and also on the plaintiff's side of these battles will have to explain it to the average person with just a high school education or whatever the average citizen of the U.S. is. So they're going to have to bring it down to more basics.

And I feel like the Bankster financial engineering would not pass the smell test if you had to break it down to like 12th grade logic. You know what I mean? It wouldn't. It wouldn't. It was a design way. The founders meant for it to be this way. It was the new deal that imposed the SECs, FCC's, FECs, FECs, and, and it's.

right and they would still be regulators they would just do criminal referrals to the or civil referrals to the agency that's supposed to prosecute that before a court of law at a jury trial three branches of the government right that's a big thing that happened

right before World War I we got a quasi fourth branch of government the Fed and then after the Great Depression we got a long list of of supposedly independent agencies that the president can't control. It can go throwing down fines on people that don't even get a jury trial. So I see some balance coming back to things. And you have a conservative court in the Roberts court right now.

And there's going to be big changes in this regard. It's going to shake up the banksters before you know it, Ben. This is the type of thing that you see the headlining like, oh, well, this ain't Iran or this ain't, I don't know, here on Prepar Broadcasting Network, we're looking for like the big ticket items. But this is really the underlying fabric of law society. So you got to kind of, it took me a little while to get warmed up to it and understanding the importance of it. But definitely.

We don't get many Seventh Amendment triggers on the heat map dashboard. So I thought we take a little time. Jury of your peers and speedy trial, or was speedy trial? all the different one i thought they're the same but yeah you know all the aspects of a trial that are guaranteed by the constitution of your peers in jurisdiction etc you know you know that that stuff's important and individuals we still get that right that hasn't gone by the wayside but you're right he's in the captured regulatory state things got really weird for many decades and you know, it could be a majority opinion by Kavanaugh that snaps a lot of that, that, that back to an originalist point of view.

It brings a third branch of government in. And jury trials, hey, a lot more discovery, right? A lot more public things come out, right? So if, if JP Morgan was ever in one of these, you know, in court, we would learn things that could really lead to great reform. Right, little threads that others could pull. pull on, especially with modern internet. Exactly. It's like, you'd have thousands of independent investigators just like prying over every

sentence in the deposition, for example, which would be awesome. That'd be great. Interesting. I want to see more of this type of stuff for sure. What else we got here on the newsblitz? I mean, we got, I don't know, we've been on for about 45 minutes. Let's plug super. quick Prepper Broadcasting Network.

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Maybe I want to step back and just, I don't know why. I just thought about this. and I wonder how it shapes this show now that I'm thinking about it. And it's the fact that over the course of my life, I have lived on average well within two-hour drive from the Atlantic Ocean. Now, I've lived up and down the entire East Coast. And for less than four years of my life, I've lived, you know, significantly inland, right?

in the United States away, but that's total four years of my life. And you, however, if I'm an Easterner, you're pretty much a westerner or Midwesterner because you split time in the West and Midwest. And your average distance from the Atlantic over the course of your life where you lived is like many times more than me because you grew up a lot of. And it got me thinking because when I did later, you know, when I grew up and started traveling around the United States and, you know, I've traveled the United States. I just haven't lived very far away from the Atlantic coast. And I've always kind of wondered like why Westerners, they always seem to have, you know, just generally a deeper distrust of the United States.

Now, I will say that my father was from Texas, Oklahoma region, him and his families. And I would say it would be accurate to say that he had less trust than on average. And I don't know why in the last few days I thought about this, but I thought, I'm going to mention it on Patriot Power and get your take. Because you know, you and I have a generational difference. We'd see things differently from different generations. I'm Gen X. You're Gen Y, millennial. But also, you're a westerner or a Midwestner,

be interested in which one you really think you are. But I'm straight up a Lank, coast guy. Always have been, probably always will be. Hmm. I got a few ideas. I'd say now it's not as important probably as 50 years ago, let alone 100 to 50 years ago. But there's probably some trends or, you know,

correlations still. Of course, real West. They love the government more than anything. Fricking California, Portland, Seattle, or straight up status over there. But do they love the federal government, like the U.S. D.C., or do they want their own, like, communist, you know, West Coast equivalent?

That's a question for them. But, you know, first off, the type of people that would come to America, generally from the old world didn't trust government as much as your average bear and then if you're going to leave if you're going to leave like Philadelphia or Charles did or New York where you first came in whatever

then you probably like the further you go you probably want to get away from all the elite you'd see them as kind of rich and snobby you want to get away from the snobby East Coasters that's probably how I look at it do you consider yourself Midwesterner or or Rocky Mountain Westerner.

I mean, I lived almost, there's like three sections of my life that are almost exactly the same at this point, where it is Rocky Mountains and then Indiana and then, you know, I guess East Coast, but not like, I've only been to the Atlantic Ocean, maybe 10 times. Oh my God, you really aren't an Atlantis, are you? No, I mean, 10 times since I lived here, but when I was a kid, I, went a few times. So I've probably been in the Atlantic Ocean like 20 times in my life. I've only been in the Pacific Ocean a few times for what it's worth.

Yeah. Yeah. It does reflect, you know, I am East Coast. I've always, you know, in the education establishment and my mother's family was, you know, constantly, you know, never, never went west. So, you know, but I have a perspective because my father was from the West. So I, but now to realize that that that's a. I think it has a legacy effect on, you know, our viewpoints. I trust the government as little as you do domestically.

I think there's a wide gap when it comes militarily. Like, you know, not just the fact that I'm a veteran, but that, you know, when we're talking about our armed services out in the world opposing other armed services, you know, I got a lot more trust in them than perhaps a Westerner does. I don't know. Yeah, that one might be more generational than geography, but I don't know, maybe. You think so? Because I bet people my age are from the West.

For the West to go, the less they trust, I think, of the military. Felt like that. Go talk to people in Las Vegas or Los Angeles. It's like, you know, nothing like, you know, southeast United States. Go talk to anybody in Georgia about the military versus. some of those other places and trust in the military in Georgia is going to be South Carolina it's like going to be rare individuals that are you know don't trust that we got chains of command that would do the right thing if if if if it called for it.

Oh great segue if I could head of the Navy was fired right so yeah the head of everybody fired recent the last year so what's going on here? Yeah and I I don't know if that belongs on the heat map dash where he's not a uniformed flag officer, but he's the top civilian in the Navy. And that guy might have been between a rock and a hard place. I'm only guessing. And just if I had to guess, like the inability to mind sweep better than we have been able to, could have put a lot of people in tough positions in the Department of the Navy.

and there could be there could be some admirals out there that maybe are a little bit defiant of the White House. And Secretary of Navy is a lot easier to fire than an admiral, right? Although this Secretary of War has been doing it. And it might have been a warning.

Maybe the Secretary of Navy just, you know, got on the wrong side of Heggseth and Trump. And this is what's supposed to happen when, you know, you have a proper. for functioning, you know, government, senior senior executive schedule appointees. You know, they, they serve at the pleasure of the president. It's got to be that way. Is it that they're trying to tell Trump not to be more aggressive and he's like bowling them over?

Or is that too simplistic of view? It could be that they're being asked to do things that are literally impossible and the admirals are saying it's literally impossible to do that. and then this guy's in the crossfire and he you know he becomes a casualty as a warning shot warning shot to some admirals to say you know hey you go do the impossible figure it out right well heads must roll at some point hey i'll tell you this in any organization that where it's impossible to get someone fired like that organization is a piece of trash like usually your local bit for example um yeah and uh you got to have a little fear you a little stick and a little bit

of a carrot in life otherwise you can't keep it good balance keep it honest and with the military i figure it's 10 times more important um hmm what what's going on in iran you said a little bit yourself not uh you know the ceasefire exists because it's not all out bombing and And, you know, just because they're destroying boats that might be mining, I mean, that seems fair to me, I suppose. But what do you see, what have you seen in the last week? And more importantly, what do you think is going to happen in the next week or two? What I'm seeing in the last week is the after effects of the original strikes in Epic Fury. and the truth is they tore through so many levels of command

that what they got left over with and Trump said it today is like I got all the time of the world he has to say that because it's literally going to take that long for the remnants of what was the Iranian regime you know at the end of February like to get it into any kind of shape that it can make a decision. It's, it's, it's, and they've called it the mosaic defense, right?

At the society of Iran, the Iranian, you know, Islamic revolution fragmented into all these little fiefdoms and it's clear. There are, there are little power centers that can, you know, decide to go mine the straight or muse and make statements and there's others that are, you know, most likely talking to the Trump administration. it's going to take time to settle down, to heal enough. I don't know. He might have to do Epic Fury Part 2.

Well, oil stayed just under 100. Trump did deploy five Defense Production Act memos for American Energy. Let's see if we can read through them. That's an FDR era or Truman era law. that's really like if you hear industrial production act that's the literal seizing of the economy by the executive branch ordering businesses to perform business that the u.s government directs so it does rate on the e-mat dashboard you know even if you agree with why trump did it industrial production act powers in the wrong hands could get way out of control think of mom donnie in new york with the power to invoked the Industrial Production Act. That would make you worry. For sure.

What an example you got there. Well, that's the, you know, that's where you go when you go to war. You got to put your economy into a war footing, and there's different ways to do that. Well, if you're seeing big time, not just spikes in energy prices, but shortages and other parts of the world but not here well number one we better keep our production going gangbusters for ourselves but number two now is time to try to squeeze some more out maybe get a little more money you sent me a uh a stat just came out where the percent of international transactions made in u.s dollars went up quite a lot in relative records record month over month

So that's that's that's not in the direction of the petro dollar perishing. That's not in the direction of the dollar falling or being, you know, rejected. It's quite the opposite. So, you know, we'll see how this turns out. But I'm not, I'm not sure that, you know, a year from now, we'll be talking about, you know, de-dollarization, the bricks almost have us. You know, if you're a member of the bricks right now, the economy is not good for you. No, and that was what I mentioned right before we went on air, is that the reason the U.S. dollars being used more as a percentage is it really not much, if at all, due to organic growth and gangbuster economy.

It's more because everybody else is collapsing and partially because of the situation in Iran, that it's putting pressure on all the other. countries, China in particular in Russia. Well, it wiped out all those, all those oil transfers, all those ships rerouted the United States. You're filling up a tanker in the United States. You're paying dollars. So. Yeah, exactly. You know, there's something else I heard.

I think it was actually the zero hedge. See, the X account on zero hedge. You know, not an article of theirs yet, but I'd be interested to read it if they get to it. But it was a suggestion that there's certain technical things. about a very old third world oil exporting infrastructure. Like all the ports, all the pipelines, all the tanks, all the infrastructure that Iran has had. If it is capped, I don't know, I don't know if this is true, but Zerohead was saying it and it sounds plausible. if it can't continue to flow like it used to,

it actually starts to break. And it breaks in ways that can't be repaired easily. Oh, not by the Russianian, not even by the Iranian regime before Midnight Hammer, let alone after a Midnight Hammer and after Epic Fury. You know, like Western companies,

you know, Kellogg Brown and Root and those things, you know, they can go get it working again. And obviously, I think that's happening quietly inside of Venezuela right now. But, you know, this idea that the actual infrastructure can break down permanently if it doesn't output at a certain level and that perhaps that's exactly what Trump's trying to do right now. Well, I worked with a very large factory that was shut down for about two weeks. and it took about six weeks to restart it.

So it shut down for two weeks and took six weeks to restart it because so many things were damaged, seals dried out, and all types of crap went wrong with it. And now it was built off of like 40s, 50s, 60s technology. And there you go. Same thing with Iran. Not only is it stuff old, but it's older technology. But it's literally like old as well. So it makes sense. but that's actually meaning that it won't come back online for the world oil market at any point then

yeah i mean it could be a major leverage that you know maybe maybe somebody in the remnants of the iran regime is well aware that you know they got a clock ticking on them in this regard yeah and that and that's where the that's where the money focused people in iran are but the military-focused people in Iran, the remnants of the command of the, you know, the revolutionary guards, they probably could care less. They probably don't, if they think about that, you know, just about as far as your typical, you know, general officer in the U.S. military. U.S. military officers aren't, you know, trained to necessarily think about the economics of anything. The civilians in the Pentagon definitely do, but, you know, very few uniform officers saw their role. not supposed to be worried about that.

I guarantee you their Revolutionary Guard doesn't consider that a concern. But if they have the Mosaic defense, meaning they're all blown to hells, just all scattered, little remnants shattered. They're trying to get back together, I guess, but that's where the warlord, rivalries, power grabs, not to mention all the outside interference by all types of states, not just the U.S. getting in there with their own gonna get messy so will they come to a consensus to acquiesce to

or do they not need to? I guess how's this the strait going to open even if Iran ever produces oil what about all the U.S. allies included upstream that aren't able to get anything out right now?

I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I think there's oil to be elsewhere and I think the US oil and gas industry is going to get you're going to do very well in 2006 and I don't know how fast that you know a leadership could rearrange itself in Iran but the the people that Trump's negotiating with love to see him go and what you know look at how long it took after midnight hammer last summer before there was major protests and Iran it was

January, just blight of January, right? So go, you know, from March to, oh, shall we say, September, October, right before the midterm elections, will the Iranian people, you know, you know, have been influenced by perhaps the CIA to get back out on the streets and, you know, just, you know, have a revolution, hopefully peaceful, relatively peaceful revolution, but, you know, an entire change of, you know, the change of the regime. By the way, Trump is saying that this has been regime changed, but it's a very narrow definition of, you know, actually eliminating members of the regime.

The way of government hasn't changed. And I think if we go back to the first episode of 2006, when you and I made predictions, the winter premiere of Patriot Power Hour on January 1st, I think I threw in a minority percentage chance that Iran's regime falls this year. I would probably raise that significantly if we did mid-year predictions, Ben. Well, we'll do our, I guess here in about two months. We'll be doing our mid-year check-in for 2026 predictions so we can see where we stand

and maybe add or modify a couple for sure. A lot has happened already. here in the first half of the year, not even close to halfway done with the year, really. Still all of May and all of June. In fact, we got one more episode next week in April. We'll be on target for next Thursday, April 30th for Patriot Power Hour. But future Dan, I think that's about all we got for the night. Did you have any other topics or things you want to get off your chest for the night?

Yeah, yeah. Answer me. Are you a Midwestern? or a western i never heard which choice you can't make a choice indiana colorado which one are you i'd rather be colorado but i'd rather be colorado but i've hardly been there in the last 30 years so it doesn't count yeah i mean what your background you're raising your mind frame like which state and the people from it are just just make or maybe you know, because I didn't live in either of those places.

Maybe I'm asking for a dichotomy that isn't there. I'm kind of an amalgamation of both, I guess. I prefer Colorado just because it's prettier. What would most Coloradoans disagree with or agree with that most people in Indiana, most Hoosiers would have a different point of view? Can you point to something like that? Because I can do that up and down the East Coast pretty fast. Because I know, I know, of course, we have the north and the south on the east.

So it's pretty easy to do. But between Midwest and West, is there something about them that, you know, from your experience growing up that, you know, be like, I know the way those people think. And I'm kind of with that that way. Well, I wasn't an adult when I was in Colorado. So I don't know how adults actually think there, but they seem to be a bunch of hippie-dippies. But, you know, they're rich liberal limousine hippies. I think are liberals. Limousine liberals where they're very rich.

Yeah. But they're like anti-gun and they vote for like Bernie Sanders and shit like that. That's in Colorado. Right. Indiana is not like that. Indiana is probably the opposite of that, but not necessarily in a good way, but probably better politically, I guess.

But I don't know, India's got a lot of corruption, like small town, rupt shit and then all the stuff up by Chicago's bad for sure so it's like they got more like old school like mafia stuff Colorado I don't know maybe now they got more freaking gangs and stuff for sure but I'm talking about I'm talking about how you as a patriot you're not those things you as a patriot which one formed your patriotism over the course of your lifetime which one can you point to and be like that that's kind of where It's where I'm close. I was over here when I'm here to East Coast. That's where I became Patriot more like for sure, maybe because there's more history here. And, you know, I visited Mount Vernon and other places and stuff. And East Coast elites bring it out of you.

Yeah, like where I visited Bilderberg. They don't go to Bilderberg in Indianapolis, for example. So I got to visit Bilderberg. Got to see Ron Paul in person. You know, I'm sure he did visit Indiana and stuff. but, you know, much easier to go to those kind of events, I guess, over here. So the East Coast, being closer to the Atlantic, makes your patriotism more acute. Is that accurate?

Yeah, just maybe it activates it more because there's more activity and there's more history and there's more stuff on around here. But I don't know. Midwesterners, definitely a lot of patriots out there too. But maybe they, you know, that's more like the city versus rural thing, too. true but bring you out of that to hear kind of amplifies it i can see that right yeah i've gone and visited the fed like at least a dozen times in person you know you can't do that from you know Cincinnati or whatever.

It's definitely more real. It's like when you see it with your own eyes, when you go walk down Wall Street in New York, it's definitely more like, oh, banksters. But in my opinion, I was like, oh, this just, most of these people just look like regular people, just looks like a regular place. But I know it ain't a regular place.

But sometimes you get like dark, you know, kind of a dark viewpoint into it. On the other hand, sometimes you get it like a bright viewpoint. One time when I was at Wall Street, just walking around all down there, I saw scrawled and graffiti. Banksters kill babies. I'm like, holy shit, someone else. There's someone besides me out there. I didn't do any graffiti down there, but it was awesome to see that.

Nice. Episode 3.44. I think we're in the books, Ben. Thank you the audience for listening. We really appreciate you. check out myself and Future Danger predominantly on X at at Future Danger number six reach out to be there too how can people reach you Ben Bankster breaker Bankster breaker on X

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Probably Thursday night. Not concrete, but we're going to aim for Thursdays this year. So good show, Ben. Look forward to talk to you then. All right, buddy. Catch you later. Another great show in the bag.