The Prepper Broadcasting Network - Patriot Power Hour #355

Episode Date: July 24, 2026

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What do you want? Statement of purpose. Should I email you? Should I put this on your action item list? You decide your own level of involvement. We are the Prepper Broadcasting Network. You are now listening to the Patriot Power Hour, the newest show of the Prepper Broadcasting Network.

This live episode features the situational awareness you need to practice self-reliance and independence. Introducing your hosts, Ben, the Breaker of Banksters, and Future Dan, the editor of Future Danger.com. Patriot Power Hour, live once more, July 23rd, 2026. It's episode 355, yeah, 355 episodes and counting to Patriot Power Hour. I bet the breaker banksters here with Future Dan. Future Dan, you got a lot to talk about.

We'll get to the dashboard, as we always do. where do you want to start tonight? Let's go for it. Well, it's a lot of new topics. We've got economics heating up on us. But you can say it's topical news. No emergencies, nothing like that. So looking forward to discussing all of this and more on episode 355 at the end of, you know,

getting near the end of July, 2006. Still though, still a civil disturbance, rioting. this summer, which is a good thing. So relatively speaking, we got no calamity tonight. So we're going to be just reading the line, reading between the lines to see if that's around the corner, then how so that might be. So the economics, scores, metrics, and news, again,

not imminent collapse, but there are some signals that are flashing. And the way I'm looking at it is we're back towards the high watermark. where we've been the last few months in terms of pressure on the economic system. And I'm mainly looking at oil and gas prices as well as the ongoing federal government debt. And finally, the odds of interest rate increased by the Fed. So all three of those things, they're not flashing red.

They're not SHTF. But, you know, after what seems like a quiet last month or so where those problems didn't manifest perhaps as badly as they could have or should have. Well, they didn't go away. They weren't resolved. Oil above 100. Gas back to four bucks. Ten year treasury back

up. I mean, we were talking to some people in the back channels. They said if 10 year treasury hits 5%. That's game over just because everyone's got so much debt. So I know I kind of just went through that economic column by itself feature Dan, but.

Keep going then. You already started, Blitzin. You fell into the blitz, Ben, you got to blitz the rest of it, I think. All right, there we go. We got them on the run. Banks is on the run. Finish the blitz. Massive disconnect of power, Royals, the largest use electric grid. Foreclosures on the rise nationwide.

This is actually the highest rated in terms of danger happening right now. The highest rated article in the economic sphere tonight. Foreclosures on the rise nationwide, hand in hand with credit card. delinquencies and other upticks. So whether it's personal finance, government, or just the price of energy, all trending in the wrong direction. I'll just take it from here and knock out the rest of the dashboard then. Fine, let's go with it. Natural news and health.

Venezuela quake, a month or long, you know, a month plus on. still have 5,000 confirmed dead with many, many still missing. Then we have earthquake in the Texas panhandle, strongest in 100 years in the Texas panhandle, magnitude 5. We've talked all summer about Europe's heat wave over there, a lot of deaths associated with it. It continues, actually. NASA warned scientists are understating the worst-case solar storm scenario. We talk, of course, about EMPs on future danger as well as Pitcher Power Hour and, of course,

Prepar Broadcasting Network. But NASA is warning that the solar storms are actually just as dangerous or more so than the man-made here in this report. We have a little bit volcanic activity, so really runs the gamut of natural disasters or regional disasters, at least on a natural scale. No real health or man-made stories in the fourth column. The column that was totally dominated by COVID, that has seen a lot of Ebola recently, nothing of Ebola that's all gone off of this,

just an observation. Let's go to the first column, Liberty column. This is the trending, really the highest rated and most dangerous of everything. So we're keeping track of it. under war unconstitutionally waged Iranian war heating back up. It has been passed by Congress.

Dozens of Air Force tankers sent to Israel ahead of possible escalation with Iran. American forces face rising death toll in escalating war. Yemen strikes back on the table probably already happening now. And just keep piling on, you know, they're calling it, you know, the 12th consecutive night, the 13th consecutive night of strikes on Iran. It's just open of a bombardment almost at this point. So we'll just consider it that. Speaking of, you know, of course we have war unconstitutionally waged as the indicator we just went through.

But how about this one? We don't almost ever see this indicator. Constitutional obsolescence discussed. Democrats and socialist Democrats out there too dismissing the constitutional traditions of this country as nostalgia as not needed anymore as quaint nostalgic high in the sky even trump orders review related to climate guidance for federal judges and let's move on to the last column for the night this under the security indicator both international and domestic FBI calls incendiary attack on a Manhattan federal building and anti-government

government attack. Is the senior Kentucky Senator alive? Under a constitutional officer goes missing. We'll dive into that. Russia suspected of helping Iran target CIA sites in the Gulf. Another article, another indicator related to U.S. forces surging towards the Middle East. In fact, just a couple hours ago,

the one and only NBC guy had a Daily audio cache talking all about U.S. forces surging towards the Middle East. Check that out if you have it yet. More than 100 senior PLA officers purged for corruption in the past four years. And last article of the night, Saudis reached a deal with the United States

could let them enrich nuclear fuel. And this is under the indicator. Saudi Arabia, military nuclearized future Dan I don't think I've ever seen this indicator we're going to go deep dive it real fast but just what I think I've seen every indicator on future danger com with you know there's one that surprises me you definitely thought through this ahead of time why do you think Saudi Arabian military nuclearized was worthy of an indicator when you first built this a decade ago number one number two

the most recent article was three years ago almost. So there have been articles, but it hasn't picked up. But yeah, just a couple days ago, just a day ago, Saudis did reach a deal with the U.S., and that seems like a huge shift. We might be seeing this indicator a lot. And why is it an indicator is the question? Yeah, and how did you kind of foresee this as being worth,

I don't know, I know how many indicators you have, but you know, you can't have infinite an amount. And this was one of them. And why was it? 492. It'd be a 492 and 494, something like that, is the total library. And this is included because there's scenarios where we would have to do things to intervene in that region of the world if the kingdom of sod fell. So there's a parallel indicator called Pax Luce.

control of nukes, the Pakistani government, right? So I look at Pakistan and I look at potentially Saudi Arabia as being the same situation. And you can't necessarily, you know, go to bed at night every night, assuming that those regimes can't collapse. And that, you know, compared to Israel or India or even North Korea, right? I just don't Something about that region of the world And it's a monarchy

You know there's a you know Osama bin Laden He wanted to bring down the house Assad As much as he wanted to bring down anybody else So you know The radical fundamental Sunni Islamists They they take out that regime

If they had to And what would happen is We would have to invade and occupy And stabilize and that would not be a good situation when nuke's loose in there. Not at all. Let's actually go back to September 2020, about three years ago.

Saudi crown prince on Iranian nukes. If they get one, we have to get one. Of course, they are mortal enemies. Pretty much hate each other as much as they hate Israel, I guess. Iran, how much Iran hates Israel. But do you have more details on? about this deal. We can go read the actual article. Why not? But a little bit more details on this current deal that came out. But we are pay blocked by New York Times and I will never

subscribe to them. But anyway, this latest deal, what can you tell us about it? Yeah. So it's just enrichment of nuclear material. And, you know, obviously, you know, Saudi Arabia's talked for a long time of getting it for civilian purposes, right? But it's clearly a strategy. Trump's tool bag to do a couple things. Gain favor with the Saudis, simultaneously threaten the Iranians, and bring leverage on the Israelis.

Oh, there's no reason the Saudis would not want this. They might not want it, but they're fine with the strategy being employed because the other two in that triangle, you know, have to take that seriously. Because Israelis know that, that, you know, really vicious Islamists could overthrow the House Assad. And then what?

Loose dukes? You know, no one's putting up with that. Sort of game theory. Like, just because they have this posture and this framework in place, you got to assume the worst of it. And they got to kind of have that tension, yeah. And then Trump threw in after making this deal right afterwards, threw in that it now contingent upon the stouty's joining.

the Abraham Accords and recognizing Israel. So, I mean, he's serious. He wants to bring an established serious change to the balance of power, you know, balance the power in the Middle East and try to bring peace to the Middle East. He considers that like, you know, he'll be remembered for centuries, if anything permanent can get established in that way. He's trying to do it. I don't want to commit a sunk cost fallacy, but it's like at this point.

Might as well go for it because halfway down that road. If you half ass it or stop right here, it might be worse. So maybe follow through with it. I don't know. What do you think about that? I've been halfway down that road since 1948. Yeah. Well, now we got dozens of Air Force tankers going there.

Do we think there'll be a ground invasion of any of those islands or no? It's a, it's a tool in the strategy, right? You know, but I think a lot of what we're seeing in, you know, the continuation of Epic Fury is, you know, another metaphor on Patriot Power are it's an iceberg. And you and I are looking at the tip of the iceberg. What's visible on the surface? I think what's underneath is much bigger. Well, from an economic standpoint, the $100 oil is not absolutely devastating. So it's not like this is burning the world down where it is.

But with the Red Sea, you know, apparently trying to close that down now as well as the straight. There is going to be some impact just on the margin. What I see this mostly is that the Fed can't lower rates. That's how it translates to me. Like what's the negative impact of all this economically? There's just enough of that overall inflation that the Fed can't lower rates. And without lowering rates, it's going to be hard for them to kickstart. growth to outgrow it, unless you get the AI miracle, as we talked about, right?

But there's a lot of bubble aspect there, too. So I think last week you gave a great analogy. It's like, hey, all the, or most, if not all the railroad, people who created the railroad, the barons, I suppose, in England, if that's what they called them. Well, guess what? They went bust or the companies went bust, but the railroads remained. The infrastructure remained for our 100, 200, 200,000. years it was used right and it's super important to have that that powered britain into the 20th century

without those railroads would be tough uh i don't know yeah i don't know where this idea came along that the AI bubble means it's going to burst and after that everything's going back to no one uses chatbots and it's back to business as usual and and and we'll just to forego the obvious productivity leap that it provides. Now, however people financially speculate in AI is temporary, the productivity boost is, in my mind, unquestioned. That it's going to be order of magnitude more valuable to us than simply the invention of the Internet.

Right. it essentially is an extension of computers and internet just kind of the new form of all that just to that you know order of magnitude or two higher you know it all comes down to the hardware that's where the actual investments and bubbles and all all the data centers all the chips all the ram all the trillions of dollars being poured into that will people get a return on investment or not maybe not if you a bunch of bankruptcies or whatever but the overall envelope of knowledge and just improvements to AI overall will continue on one way or another is getting pushed along. I just saw an article tonight that's related to this. And we previously talked about Chinese black ops,

the United States funding people to come out and be anti-data center in the United States. finally I saw an article I think on the drudge report tonight I didn't click it I didn't read it and it just says expert claims that space data centers are you know a major risk for the planet like somebody came up with that now right when the whole idea is whatever minimal impact a data center has in whatever region it is in right you know put in space takes that away, right? Not in my backyard, not in your backyard. It's just in orbit. And now there's articles coming out against that. People in Beijing are working overtime. By the way, since the last Patriot Power Hour episode 354, Trump came out and made the announcements of declassifications of what

exactly happened in the 2020 election. It's not rating on HeatMap dashboard because it's what has happened in the past. But let's just say a lot of pieces of the puzzle have been filled out. Yeah, it happened just two hours after our last show ended. Seems like a long time ago, but only one week. On the other hand, not long at all. What was your take on that? You say a lot of... So there was people doing the right thing at every level of the intelligence agency, and they were all getting shut off from political appointed leaders above them, number one, right? FBI on the ground, CIA on the ground, other intelligence agencies, thought for what it was.

So it was completely censored to the degree to which China was absolutely stealing the vote. I don't want to say interfering with elections, right? Because interfering with elections is a neat little kind of gray zone. Right. So in my mind, if Russia has social media accounts that tell the truth about the Clintons,

And more people know about the Clinton's wrongdoings than they would have. That's, to me, First Amendment protected activity. And I don't care if a foreign government planned it. It's stalient and it's influential because it's fact-based and it's true. But that gets swept up with reports. Again, not confirmed, but they're in the declassified documents. Reports of China counterfeiting tens of thousands of ballots. counterfeiting, you know,

thousands of driver's licenses, shipping them in, handing them out, literally stealing the election. I've never, I've never heard of Russia ever being accused of that.

Most of I ever heard of Russia doing is maybe attempting to hack these machines and the machines and what was done in Venezuela ahead of 2020, you know, the driver.

run like we we we we got documentation of a workflow a process you're sitting there in the chinese intelligence agencies you sat there you know you know when trump first got elected and the clock was on for four years how can we steal it right with a very willing domestic political party to help it happen right some let it happen on purpose and some make it happen on purpose from the insiders inside the gates, right? The traders on the inside let the barbarians through the gates in that regard. I guess I was thinking the difference between election interference and theft. It's just some antics, I guess, but the main difference I was thinking is election interference.

It's more like propaganda, like trying to convince them, brainwash them, kind of mess with their media or overall, you know, dropping pamphlets. back in the day, whereas theft, that's like, free speech. Yeah, yes, but theft is more, well, I guess this is, I think theft's more like a military war operation. Planned Destine direct action. Yeah, exactly. That's way, way worse, for sure. Spionage.

It's called espionage. Running a server farm near Moscow to put out something that might influence somebody in other country. The powers that be in the countries, right? Obama and then Biden, they hate it. They hate it. But would it matter if Russians were putting out things that nobody believed? No. It's just speech, counterfeiting IDs and ballots. And the top five states, the margin of victory in the top five states that Trump lost in 2020, but then went ahead and won in 24. right it includes Arizona Nevada Ohio Georgia one more's escape Pennsylvania Pennsylvania and I think Arizona was slightly more than 10,000 vote margin for Biden and Pennsylvania was 80,000 so there you go

between 10 and 80,000 and five swing states and the Chinese intelligence could steal an election here that's minuscule like that's such a small margin truly so it's possible it's like they have the motive for sure and it's something they could possibly pull off and it seemingly did pull off it's not like something that's totally impossible and we're just kind of making something up that's not reasonable it it is reasonable that it was suspected it was suspected in the CIA assessments they listed that you know there's the complete strategy of, you know, just pay American media to report negatively against Trump and foster the BLM riots, by the way, right?

I bet there's more there that hasn't been declassified. Where did the pallets of bricks that showed up on corners come from? And, you know, there's many tens of thousands of Chinese anchor babies that went back, got educated, brought through the intelligence schools. and walk around here with the U.S. citizenship, anybody could have paid for those pallets, right? That's what we're facing. That's what we're facing.

And for all those out there that are crying about our deep state and our surveillance and infrastructure and how it ain't like America in the 50s anymore, look abroad. This is a serious fucking threat that we got to deal with. Yeah, I would have to agree. Well, I'm not sure exactly where to go from here. the problem is once you build up that apparatus and the you know the worker level the executor

front line level of these agencies in the intelligence community once they get robust and funded and trained if the wrong set of you know the wrong master in the white house arrives they throw political appointees on top of that and then they turn it against their political opposition. That's what's at risk of spitting there and letting Democrats be elected. Oh, if they get back in, they're not going to do everything they can not to lose grasp for sure. I mean, it's kind of a miracle they, they fumbled 2024. So with these revelations, with the facts behind them, is this going to make a difference? Are any of these elections in these states and jurisdictions going to be more fair because people are going to really get to be watching it?

Like, as we've talked about in the past, what's already happened, it's already happened. We want people to come to justice, but more importantly is making sure it doesn't happen to go forward. So you think that's like, have we won that battle? Are we losing that battle still? Are we trying to play catch up? Where are we at? If they can't get the save act through on a budget-related bill, that could go to reconciliation

and only pass both houses with, you know, 50 votes, right? Or 50 votes in the Senate and half the House, right? You know, a majority vote. Then you got to overcome the filibuster in the Senate, and that means getting certain Republicans that Trump primaried,

so they don't care, Billists and Cornyn, right? And a bunch of other Democrats to agree. So it looks like Senate's too closely matched right now to bring about that reform. It's going to be interesting to see what Trump can do to clamp down on this kind of, you know, direct action espionage to steal our elections. And, of course, what's always in play is, you know, his and his party's popularity too, right? So it's, it becomes this great murky zone where, you know, honestly, we're all just taking our best guess on what was real and what wasn't. If, if, if he happens to have some other revelations that could come out and reunify his base, then, and put it in, you know, but 90% of that kind of cheating, you know, make it 90% of it impossible.

then, you know, you know, to talk about AI miracle, you know, a party that holds both houses of Congress and the presidency, winning, you know, retaining that power in the, in Congress at a midterm,

that would be historic, right? And I think Trump already knew that, you know. Americans almost always blame whoever's in charge and vote against them in the, you know, in the, or at least the independence too. That 10% margin and that's not 45% one way or 45% the other.

That 10% kind of just swings like a pendulum at the midterms against whichever party won the White House last. So it's a really tough order for Trump to hold the houses, which means after that, you know, nothing passes for the rest of his presidency. He might even get impeached again in the House, but it won't be a conviction in the Senate. So that's what we'll be looking at. And by the way, none of that particular rates is dangerous on the EMAP dashboard.

So for that two years of political trouble, if it comes to pass that way, we'll be talking about what really matters on this show. Because that's the way the system was designed. The founders designed it to be that way. Yeah. That's what we'll have to focus on election theft, the political, the day-to-day politics and the, parties and whatnot, not as much. One thing I, there's a lot of ways to combat this. I think one of the best, if not the best, that would work the best for Americans,

is seeing it for their own eyes. And I'm thinking of a James O'Keefe type of sting, but on a much larger scale where, well, let's just presume the midterms are going to be, they're going to try to steal they be in China or whomever are going to try to run some ops here in October they're already got to be in country and preparing

it's only a few months until November so we need some double agent we need our own people in there exposing this from the inside then a week or two before the election drop all that out pure proof before the election but of

them actually tampering what's going on right now like that could that could sway some minds right there. Who do you try to sway? Like, who are you trying to swing? Who's going to vote against Republicans until they hear that? This is more just for almost posterity

or just to document this as much as anything, too? And Trump certainly did last Thursday night. Five kind of categories that he brought out. And, you know, like a metaphor we used a week or week or so ago was now he's in a federal government where the first time around, every door got locked, every compartment, every tiny little attic of every agency,

and he didn't know how to unlock them. And it worked against him, right, the deep state. Now they know better. So they're stomping through every back attic trying to find what they can find. His best hope of swinging anybody is to bring out some real scandals, some all-time, you know, most influential October surprises, but there's still

40% of the country that I don't think anything he could say, they hate him too much. They're going to vote against him. There's nothing would change their mind. Yeah. They won't even look at the facts. Most of them don't even care,

but a lot of them also won't look at the facts either. Half of them will privately. cheer it as the Chinese help beat him in 2020. For sure. Maybe more than half, unfortunately. They're globalists and pretty much socialists that are not truly neo-Marxists, right? Like, well, they're maybe all for it.

The day might come where they'll openly say it. Democrats dismiss our constitutional traditions as nostalgia. One of the articles on Future Danger tonight. and actually it was a red level, which is the second highest. There's different quotes in here from whether it's Mam Dani or Kamala or other people of that ilk. Well, it all comes back to what I consider freedom, liberty, bill of rights, versus, well, authoritarianism, whether you want to call it, you know, communism, democratic socialism, or fascism, or any of these other things.

It's just totalitarianism, authoritarianism, versus freedom and just the basic rights that God gave you. And the government recognizes the government didn't give you those rights. They just recognize it and are just barred from encroaching upon those rights that you were given. So anyway, that's the real difference here, Future Dan, to me, but these social Democrats, whatever, they're looking like total psychos. What's your outlook on them? Just talking about the Constitution as anything other than the law of the land is dangerous. And we allow them to.

That's why we don't want censorship. They can say these things. Oh, it's First Amendment protected speech for sure. But there's many forms of First Amendment speech that could be dangerous, right? The right to rebellion. rebellion. We got, by my last count, somewhere near 10 states, mostly, you know, the original 13 colony states that in the Constitution, you know, either directly, I think North Carolina is the most direct, but there was others that imply that the people can abolish their government whenever

it gets the point where it doesn't suit its needs, right? That's in there. That, and if you don't believe in that premise, then ask yourself, why is there a Second Amendment, really? Really to protect you from, you know, somebody's showing up on your property? No, no, that's not what people are concerned about. They're concerned about retaining, you know, holding the government at risk with a militia that could get rid of it if it became tyrannical, right? Perfectly protected free speech, but you can understand, depending on who's saying what I'm saying right now, it could also come off as a threat. All right. Well, let's just say I got, been exercising my second amendment.

but for every, every bullet I put down range, I put out 500 words on Patriot Power Hour. So first amendment is first for a reason, but second amendment is there for a reason. Like you said, for a militia to not just protect itself against, you know, outlaws or bad groups,

but really it's the government. It's not, you know, it's not for criminals per se. It's for the government, for a tyrannical government. So a militia, let me see if I can say it, verbatim, I'm not reading, a militia being necessary to a free state, the right to bear arms shall not be infringed. Pretty simple, right?

It is, it is. And I think we're a long ways away before, you know, to be any, you know, physical threat of this. But you'd have to have the most Democrat states open. change their public school primary civics education to start indoctrinating that it's

nostalgia that it's not valid that it has to be changed first they would have to do it then you'd have to watch how big is a population of those states and how likely are they to essentially

conduct a revolt and and just abandon the Constitution you know so you'd have thought that that was like lifetimes away just a few

you know 10 years ago but given what the left has talked itself into in a hive mind kind of manner what's legitimate and what's not we you know it might not be that far away before you know when that primary education

civics teaching falls in those states then we'll know the troubles on its way and it's definitely been degrading. This is where I feel like if the welfare keeps flowing, there won't be such

fervor and motivation in the street to have a revolution, let's say. But if the free stuff stops, it could become a crazy violent mob

that more French revolution than American revolution in that regard. But if the you know, snap benefits and housing and maybe a universal basic income down the road, that'll placate enough. My hypothesis, this is just a hypothesis. It's just that the people that fall into socialism are just so goddamn lazy, innately, that they won't get off their ass to start a revolution unless they're starving

that will force them into it, their animal instinct. But most of them are so weak. But we should not underestimate them. I'm not saying that. But I do feel like they're more like Wally the robot or like, you know, more like, not Wally the robot, like, you know, they're just more like blobs. They're very dangerous, but they're not going to go start their own country. But they may just destroy a bunch of stuff that they don't get, you know,

their McDonald's snap cards. I'll tell you one thing. There's never going to be a socialist regime overthrowing the U.S. Constitution in my lifetime. never because it even began to happen my lifetime would be on short order while i'm putting an end to that there you go time stamp date stamp July 23rd 2026 right to the revolution don't forget it's a real thing if you don't believe in it you don't even believe in the founding of the country like the revolt against the king wasn't even legitimate if you don't understand we the people can can reset this anytime we need to.

Well, part of me wants to say it's about time for a reset, but I don't know. I don't want to knock the game over because that may cause more problems. But a refresh could be good. Let's stick with the news for now, though. Future Dan finish off strong. We've got about 20 minutes. We've got a lot of articles still to hit.

Anything you really, really want to hit on, you know, so we don't miss it when we run out of time? we were talking about the Epic Fury earlier and I think you asked me about ground invasion or kind of speculated on whether that's you know

in the cards it's got to be the card it's always in the cards every single bluff every single leverage point against the Iranians they're all being brought to bear but if there was

you know putting ground troops probably Marine Corps into Yemen so just for once and for all really end the the Houthi problem because they're cornered on that peninsula, right? Their enemies of Saudi Arabia. Iran can't project anything to them right now. Right, right. Clean it up that corner of the Arabian Peninsula with ground troops.

I would say it's possible. I bet you there's people advocating it to the president, but you know, you got to remember, he was a young man. He didn't go to Vietnam. And I guarantee you, he and his family and elites in New York that he surround him with, you know, weren't in agreement with Vietnam. I thought it was a waste of life. Didn't have respect for that fight, right? And he's shaped by what he saw growing up.

It's clear to me, right? 79 Revolution, Reagan, you know, all of it. He's been paying attention the whole time. He always wanted to be president, so of course he was paying attention. So I got to believe you wouldn't gamble with ground troops in any large numbers. And I'm not sure a Maduro, you know, a J. Sotif raid, you know, by commandos, that won't make any difference against the Houthis, right? And by the way, the iceberg I was talking about before,

underneath that iceberg, there's probably direct action, you know, special operations going on constantly right now. Right. Yeah. There's a, I remember growing up when I was probably about 10 years old, you know, 10 to 12 years old. So about five to six years after, uh, the first Gulf War and a few years before 9-11. It seemed like, oh, well, hopefully we're not going to have really any wars. We had, you know, Kosovo, stuff like that was going on a little bit. but I guess I don't know. It's kind of maybe not the right thing to say, but anyone who was into special forces at that point, they didn't get much action compared to the guys these days. Like every single seal and special forces guys probably just like getting so much action is crazy.

Like enough to go around 50 times over. It has to be right now. Definitely on the ship. They're doing ship ops in the Persian Gulf. So they got that master. But yeah, since September 11th, it's been completely different in that regard. Previously, you know, you had what? After Vietnam, you had Grenada, God forbid Lebanon,

where an Iranian militia blew up the Marine barracks. But then Grenada, Panama, first Gulf War. Somalia, right? You know, there's a lot of combat veterans in the force. Now it's, yeah, we've been very, very significant level of war. I think that's why it's got a lot of older people

a lot, very stressed out about this. But, you know, what we've seen in, you know, in Ukraine and Russia is, in fact, there's still a balance of power. The nuclear umbrellas keep it all in place. And there can be, you know, mid-intensity conventional warfare in certain places, and it doesn't necessarily mean things are spiraling out of control.

Well, they are spiraling out of control for, you know, the people of Ukraine, definitely the people of Iran right now, you know, when you're losing a war, it's spiring out of control. But, you know, the global structure, power structures, seems pretty solid right now. Russia suspected of helping Iran target CIA sites in the Gulf. there's also we've talked about the

ISR right in Ukraine how US NATO was helping in that regard but it seems like China and you China Russia might be helping Iran with some targeting or some intelligence information whatever without a doubt

why wouldn't they could be expected do you think it's more of China or more Russia or both of them doing as much as they can pretty much. Oh, both of them are doing as much as they can. The best outcome of this epic fury for both of them is us losing for them. Right.

Yeah. Well, you know, we've actually hit almost every article in detail. Let me see if I can find a couple more, but we've hit a lot today. I got one that didn't make it into the Blitz Creek. I was waiting, actually, to see if you were going to attempt to read the name of the Japanese volcano going off, but you definitely maneuvered beyond that word. But take a breath, take a look at it. I know you can do it.

Japanese is actually relatively easy to pronounce, I've found. That's true. Totally filtered that out and just skipped over it and just said instead, yeah, there's some volcanic activity. All right. I'm going to go with Takachidaki. Okay. that I've never heard of that volcano.

Apparently hasn't gone off a long time, but yeah, bring a fire. Just one more, one more mountain top smoking in Japan. I'm gonna, I don't think I could pipe the audio in. I would otherwise and have like Google read it aloud to see if I pronounced it correctly. Maybe we'll have to research that on the other end. I gotta be honest,

like ahead of our weekly Patriot Power Hour, as I go through and find the news and the, the earthquake weather, volcano. I mean, that stuff comes from the watchers.com. It's just a go-to site. Super reliable, perfectly factual articles,

never paywall blocked. Highly recommend that website. It's the mainstay of Future Dangers News can call them four. And when I catch one like that, I'm like, oh yeah, here's a volcano going off. How much trouble's Ben going to have pronouncing this one.

There's a lot of tough ones. I've tried to pronounce a few of them. Some of them I do skip, though. So feel free to call me out. If I don't, if I'm not so slick that you catch on. I'm trying to get the pronunciation. Takachanaki. That sounds right.

Now, turning our attention back to economics. I got a different frame that I invite you to look through. Okay. Two summers ago, would the sources reporting the grade one topical relatively less dangerous but still needs to be on the heat map? That kind of economic news, would they have ever reported the same stuff under Biden? I think the answer is no. You mean not necessarily the articles that are here right now, but just generally would they point out problems with four. foreclosures or problems with interest rates and energy prices, I guess.

What I'm trying to say is that the problems that are behind those articles, I checked, I'm like, these don't even rate as grade, you know, yellow, grade four instead of five. It's, you know, marginal, whether, you know, let me, let me ask you this. The 30-year treasury note, was that the one that moved four basis points today? Let's just see. this has the article from the dashboard with the exact yes it is exactly the 10 year it's a 10 year

10 year treasury yield not the 30 year but mine is you know similar and just to help people out what's what's a basis point and what is a movement of four of them in a single day mean and how is it dangerous is that is or or if this has been a news under Biden but we have never seen the headline because it's almost trivial. I do think this is

important, but I can see them trying to rub it into Trump's face more so it gets more prominence, but it would still be reported on. Just I can see it more neutral. A basis point is it's the most precise way to describe

a decimal within an interest rate. So let's pretend your interest rate is 5.00%. That's actually 500 basis points. So if if you're a interest rate went from exactly 5% to 5.1%. It would go from 500 basis points to 510 basis points.

So four basis points isn't that big. However, the thing is, there's trillions and trillions and trillions of debt on top of this. So going from 4.67%, that's the actual number. It went from 4.67 to 4.71. that's not that much. But when you apply that to trillions upon trillions of dollars directly, and then tens of trillion dollars indirectly through all the global bond market because it's the reserve currency.

So it's, you know, you got the cannonball splash, but then you got the ripple effects all the way across the lake. It's more like a tsunami. Yeah, I get that. So a basis point is one, one hundredth of a percent. Exactly. And exactly. How many basis points could the 10-year treasury move in a single day before, like at closing, this time of day, you heard that news.

And some of your prepping plans go into effect because to your mind, things are breaking. Things have to have broken. If four won't break it in a day, what kind of swing would warrant a black on red in this indicator? treasury rates surge that's what i'm really trying to get at and right if you if while you're thinking about that can you open the archive because i'm not sure i ever took it to grade one happening now a true surge like a true dangerous surge if it if it happened it was during uh the spring of 20 with covid it was happened some in 23 but then they lowered rates and so that stopped that craziness but that was the

overall interest rate being above 5%. So we were just talking about 4.7. 3. But back in 23, the interest rates was above 5%. But they were able to bring it down. The thing is now it's going right back to where it was, but at a very fast rate. You know, they still have 20, 30, 40 basis points to go.

So you could have 10 days of what happened today occur before we got to where we were. But, you know, will it stop there or will it rocket Pass up to 6%. Hang on. Hang on. Hang on. Wherever the actual 10-year yield is, let's set that side for a minute, right? What about a one-day surge and basis points? Four, you know, what if it wasn't four today?

What if it is, you know, 10 or 40? Like something anomalous, like that, like you're saying, well, something snapped and so many other things are going to break from that, it can't be stopped now. What is that, what is that basis point movement that would freak you out? Ted basis points.

Really? So we 40% of the way there today. That's pretty good perspective right there, Ben. That's the stuff that I'm, I'm not fooling around right now. I'm seriously trying to figure out, how should I actually run this indicator on future danger? But if 10 basis points or a tenth of a percent in one day in those rates tells you something that could be breaking, then folks, that's how you find early warning signs right there.

I think so. I'm not sure if this analogy matches perfectly, but I kind of think of it as your heart rate. Let's just say your resting heart rate's 80, and sometimes you can get low to 50 or 60. Sometimes you can get up to 100. Yeah. If you swing between 60 to 100, like if you go too fast, it could be dangerous, but you're still within the bounds. You can also think of this like the RPMs in your car. Like if you go between 2 to 4,000, you're probably cool.

But if you go from 2 to 4 super fast, that's dangerous. And then it opens if you overshoot and then you hit 5,000, 6,000 red line and blow out before even though it hits you. It's the momentum effect as much as anything. I'm doing a quick, I don't know how quick this research will be. I'm trying to find the top 10. moves, daily moves in the 10-year treasury in the last decade to see if I can answer that. See if it hasn't even moved 10 basis points in one day. Probably not, because that's a huge move.

But you're asking what would be ShtF like, oh my God, I'm going to go empty the ATM if I can. I'm going to go do whatever I can. I just, it's kind of a round number, of course. But I think 10 basis points is a good one. Last chance on the Bitcoin train, because that stick. handles pulling out of the station, right? Well, man, Bitcoin is,

I don't know what would happen. If interest rates blow out, it could be bad for Bitcoin until or unless the dollar collapses. Because if the interest rates go so high, then that really risks the dollar status. And that either will lead to emergency rate cuts or and or. It's a risk the dollar status matter. I don't see any currencies there are close.

Like, do we really want to talk about the bricks forming its own currency anymore? Right? That's, you know, no. Bitcoin, gold and silver can absorb tens of trillions of dollars out of the U.S. dollar. Right. But they'll just ignore that, and whichever currency is still the strongest is the reserve, and it'll be us, right? Yeah, but Bitcoin.

gold and silver have a seat at the table. So hopefully the people of the U.S. have at least bought some of that real money because the government, I ain't trusting them to have much. That's why I said the Bitcoin train. It might not be moving out of the station on the same day that there's a 10-point basis point move,

but she's getting ready, right? Right. Exactly. People fly away from Fiat. It'll be a flight from Fiat. But you might get some nice deals on Bitcoin still if that happens. All of a sudden you might see Bitcoin dropping even further temporarily until it goes crazy. That's what I'm saying.

That's what I'm saying. Having some liquidity to be able to exploit some of those situations might be worthwhile. Then again, if the entire grid's going down a week later, then you're sinking wealth into a digital asset that could be a while where you see it again. Yep, that's why you're going to layer your preps and diversify and, you know, food, water, medical, skills, health, ammo, land. I'd go for all those things, too. My research on Chad GPT is not working fast enough. By the way, you've talked about wanting to buy some land. Are you missing a window right now? Or you just go wait until there's foreclosures anyways.

Yeah, I've already missed the window and I kept waiting for it to come back in the last 10 years and it's not. So at this point, I guess it's a sunk cost to think that way as well. But yeah, either I'll never be a landowner or I'm going to buy it on, you know, 20 cents on the dollar during the collapse. I don't think there's going to be either in between. You can find a bargain. You got to work at them. You have to make a major lifestyle change to get a bargain, right? you might have to move somewhere, right?

That's true. It's a good point. Can you still stake claims in Alaska? Just go out there and camp somewhere until they recognize you own it? I didn't watch the YouTube channel. It's kind of like someone saying, I saw the headline, but I didn't read the article. I didn't watch the YouTube channel,

but I saw the headline of the YouTube channel. And it said, I stake the claim in Nevada, I think. And they were, like the preview played for like 10 seconds. It's like, I got $500 worth of silver that the U.S. government, you know, recognizes as mine because I claimed this random mountainside in Nevada. So apparently shit like that still happens. But I don't know how. I wasn't, I wasn't literally making mistake the claim on, on, on, on, on, on, but that's interesting.

That's, that's pretty cool if you can do it. But, uh, I meant just like go and find a patch. of woods up and near the tundra and just lived it you know i'm national forest i guess because it's either going to be someone's private land or the public land probably better to do it on public land but i don't know probably need like unowned land really we could probably benefit from an alaska listener clueling us in on it even that's possible it all comes down to who's going to remove you from that land if nobody, then you, then it's yours. The Swatters Creed, right?

Yeah, but is there still land that's like theoretically owned by the county up there, but not, you know, not national land. But then again, you got, you got a lot of agreements with Alaskan natives, so it's probably not like that as much anymore. But yeah, I think up until the 80s and 90s, you could do it. You know the perfect resource for this would be a former, was he a state trooper or sheriff?

I forgot, Mr. Dave Jones, Alaska state trooper, I believe. He should live there. He should know that. He should know. All right. That's your trivia question. I know you said you'd be listening, sir. Please, uh, on your next daily auto cash, give us the answer.

And I have another question for Dave Jones. I'm getting pictures in the back channel of dead rabbits. and I'm getting told that they're of coyote bait because it's also pictures of coyote in his vicinity. Yeah, and I'm just wondering, like, what happened to the rabbits? Like, weren't they meant for food? I thought, you're not literally breeding them

just to get a shot at predators. Probably a night with lasers for, you know, the obvious skill training that brings. I asked him what he did with the pelts of the rabbits and I think he uses the pelts probably the entrails and stuff as the bait. I presume they are very efficient with the Jones did so they would not put a whole rabbit out there

I can promise you the warden would not allow that. Right, right. Yeah, I just check out the back channel one day There's a bunch of dead white rabbits lined up. I'm like, oh, yeah. Super fluffy and white. They were super fluffy and white. And I was like, oh, what do you do with the pelts?

And I said, it's coyote bait. And I'm like, oh, all right. There you go. That's what Jones said, no wasted bits. Roger that. Episode 355. We're trucking through summer season of Patriot Power Hour. A little bit delayed tonight.

Started about, you know, could be the latest. we've ever broadcast in the work week though. 7 p.m. on Thursday night, Eastern time. Usually aim for six, but might be on other days. You got it plans to be on other days. We should might as well share that with the audience. I like it. Let's do that.

We used to do Thursday at 8 p.m., but that was long ago. I mean, that was got to be six. That might have been pre-COVID, maybe. I was probably pre-COVID because we came in on Tuesdays. I know I at least did used to do Thursday nights seven or eight I think but anyway long story short we have not done Thursday at seven we have been fairly consistent hitting Thursday nights we occasionally will go to Wednesdays but for the let's just plan out the next few weeks I fully expect us to be live the next Thursday the 30th

looking for that looking forward to that the next week I will be out of my normal position. We still might be able to put on a show, but I might have to, I'm going to do my best to come up with alternative microphone arrangements and stuff because I'll be on the road, so to speak. So I still really want to have a show on August 6th. And then really, I don't know.

I feel like, at least from what I see now, except for August 6th, which is, you know, pending my technical difficulties, I think pretty much every other week from now till at least Labor Day, or the week right before Labor Day. So the next four or five weeks, yeah, I don't see many conflicts.

I think we're going to hit it hard in August. Yeah, it should be able to run the table right into September, as a matter of fact. We'll see if they're peaceful dog days of summer with low levels of news and gives us an opportunity of picture power to explore other things, more, you know, bigger, broader picture than dwelling in the heat map dashboard.

True. But I would say, you know, I think it's true. And it begs a, you know, it invites a bigger question, right,

of how equal is the heat map dashboard or, or any frame with which you monitor the news. And what I mean is, when we broadcast late in the week, late Thursday nights, there's so much more news available. It's pretty much true that the journalists go to work Monday morning, and they got stories ready by Thursday for a lot of these headlines

took time to prepare. They weren't like the treasury rate moved four basis points today. A lot of this is today, like it happened now, obviously, but some of this is like articles that had to be prepared. So what that means is the later in the week that we have our show, tends to be the more we're reacting to fresh events. The earlier week, especially Tuesdays, tends to be reaction to the week before

or whatever happened on the weekend. And the best example I can give you of that is the Fed meetings, right? And the reaction to them. Like we went for a long period of time, always on the eve of the Fed and reacting to it the next week. Whereas a Thursday schedule means

we get to hear what was said and watch what happens afterwards for like a day and then talk about it on Thursday. So this pendulum is going to swing. But in this time frame for Patriot Power are in our, correct me if I'm wrong, eighth year, ninth year, with multiple seasons under our belt, we're more into the hot take business than the, you know, simmer on it for five to six days. and react to it mode. Yeah. This strikes the best balance. It really does.

You know, I've done almost every day of the week's show. Sunday night was a whole different experience than Thursday night as an example. And yeah, even the difference between Tuesday and Thursday could be crazy. I would, I honestly think Friday during the day possibly would be the best day for a summary type of show. But first off, I'm usually, uh, A little out of it by Friday, but I also want some of the live action. And by, you know, Thursday, there's still a lot going on Thursday. So we get a fair amount of fresh news, but also, like you said, the 72, 96-hour window that's been breaking since, you know, Sunday into Monday and permeating throughout the news cycle there.

And a lot of people trying to influence the news will drop it, like Trump did later last Thursday night, trying to drop. you know, break news that carries over in the weekend and has a greater impact. I'm not saying we have to do this, but at some point we might want to consider doing two shows a week. I don't know. It would change things in a good way. But people might get sick of this, but keep it on the back burner. Like if the equivalent of COVID happened again now, I think we would definitely need to do two shows a week. That's all.

Yeah. If we ever go, pitch of power are doubling up in a week. it's dangerous times because that we would have to be talking about developments that transpired you know with between four and two days you know apart to be talking about new stuff right we don't need to come on twice a week and rehash what we talked about on Tuesday but if we get to that point you know that you know that that would be crisis conditions and so on one hand I don't want to ever have to do that but on the other hand if we if we have to do it I'm all for it Come on Saturday or Sunday night have a comedy hour instead of covering the news. That'd be fun. But we're not going to be doing that. It's all right, future day. Debate the definition of a rainforest.

Does it have salamanders or not? We were actually doing that in the pre-show. And we're pretty confident neither of us knew the definition of a rainforest. So we could do that all night, I guess. Trump orders review related to climate guidance for federal judges. What is a temperate appellation for? Is it a rainforest? Is it not?

What about up in Colorado? That's definitely not a rainforest, but what does that qualify as? That and more, maybe, on the next episode of Patriot Power Hour. It's been a great show, future Dan. We're actually coming back one more show before July. So I think it's going to be, yeah, six or seven weeks between here and Labor Day.

I don't think it'll be doldrums. We'll always have a great show. But I think it could be action-packed. So I'll catch you next week. How about it? Yeah, God bless USA. God bless our audience. Thank you for listening.

And thank you, Ben, for sharing some time to get into the details with me. I do enjoy it. Yes, sir. Me too. 355 down, 356 next week. Catch you later.