The Prepper Broadcasting Network - PPH 346

Episode Date: May 7, 2026

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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. Patreon Power Hour.

We are live once more, May 6th, 20206, episode 346. Ben the breaker of Banksters here with Future Dan. What's going on, Future Dan? Yeah, Ben, glad to be back with you. Episode 346. Seeing a lot less black on red on the heat map dashboard, but that could be deceiving, so.

Got a lot more. more news in some other columns that we usually have. Economics in particular, where would you like to begin Patriot Power? I'm fine. I was just hitting the dashboard honestly because that was actually, we did not coordinate tonight on the intro. And usually we don't occasionally. We do.

But I was in Sympatico with you. It was going to talk about how we don't have as much S-H-T-F-level news, but that does not mean what we don't have here is something to sneeze at or not worry about. And there's so many different aspects to cover that, yes, it's topical news, as you call it, low grade, but each of these I want to do some deep dives in because, you know, the pressure's off a little bit. I mean, the last couple months we've had extremely dense and extremely, you know, the breadth and the depth of the dashboard was intense.

So this is our opportunity, maybe to deep dive some more topical news than normal. Yeah, winter of 2026 is the most active winter in the 15-year history of future danger. And this is an above-average spring as well. So looking forward to hearing it. All right, let's just roll with it. And you talked about economics first. So I'll start there. We've had, well, oil straight up $106 earlier this week, but dropped 7% today under $100

bucks near the low 90s even on, you know, thoughts, hopes that embargo and all the war going on around the street of Hormuz will stop on both sides. But, you know, not there quite yet. But anyway, the volatility is still quite high with oil prices, and we've hit a new recent high in the past week since we've last on air. What hasn't gone down in price but continues to go up is beef prices. They're near record levels and have been there for quite a while, despite a little bit of a drop. No, they're going up and they're projected to go up even higher. Supply chain, deep dive.

We'll do that. shows the cost is going to maintain these highs as well. Last week we talked about it, but something else hitting new recent highs or even all-time highs, federal government debt 100% and counting of GDP and the interest on that debt all-time highs more than a trillion dollars a year.

So multiple articles here. Mainstream media is even catching on to some of this and reporting on it. So we're tracking that here as well. Gas prices, of course, going up. So it's all about prices going up and debt going up here in this third column, economics. Let's move on. Health and Nature, the fourth column here on Future Danger.com Newsblitz.

Cruise ship infected with deadly antivirus strain. In the meantime, or in the meanwhile, not related, a toxic, footlong Asian hammerhead worms were spotted in American backyard. So not a hammerhead shark. Footlong Asian hammerhead worms in American backyards. NIH biologist caught smuggling deadly pathogens into the U.S. FBI's investigating. And a little bit of volcanic activity, even out there in Hawaii.

no massive fatalities or impact to trade though so while we report on it a little bit here it's not a danger not something to prep for in the immediate term so let's move on to some things that might be domestic and international security something we've all been a lot more closely paying attention to i would say in the last couple months or even the last few years pentagon paying chinese linked firm to vet Beijing military threats. Some critics are warning. Pretty much like, hey, vet the Beijing military threats.

Let's pay a Chinese linked firm to do that. Conflict of interest, maybe. Secret Service says the individual shot near White House was shot near the White House, and that triggered a lockdown. Ukraine's been striking Moscow quite a lot. Now some high-rise apartments getting hit with drones. Here's one of the more intense articles or actualized and developing.

This under the indicator, NATO dissolves. The president immediately to withdraw 5,000 American troops from Germany with more to follow. And the Polish prime minister saying NATO is disintegrating. That's huge. Think about where Poland is relative to NATO. they're on the front lines. So keeping track of everything from domestic threats with Secret Service. Oh, I almost missed this one.

Excuse me. I knew there was another more domestic threat. A woman was charged with terrorism for allegedly setting fire to the Texas GOP office. Modern day fire bombings, women with purple hair probably. So there you go. Security aspect. and what I think should never ever be overlooked, the Liberty column. Sometimes it's kind of has some legalese or may not seem as prepper worthy or direct link to prepping.

But in effect, it truly is what's causing a lot of this. Well, it's liberty, freedom, and the whole gamut. So this is actually the most active and most intense column of the night of the week. That's why I left it for last. Let's start with the most intense, highest-graded article of the night on the entire dashboard. House Minority Leader denounces the Supreme Court as illegitimate. So this is under judicial system direly distrusted. You're having the House Minority Leader come out and literally say Supreme Court,

illegitimate well nothing like sewing distrust in the judicial system like that we got a lot of intense articles nsa intercepted ukraine government messages which discussed a plot to route money to the biden re-election campaign we have more elections are stolen articles new jersey mayor candidate please guilty to forging a thousand voter registrations more aliens charged in New Jersey with voting in federal elections

34,000 dead people found on North Carolina voter rolls so we got elections being stolen we got foreign cash corrupting elections judicial system direly distrusted see doesn't seem like oh I could prep towards this or what is this but this

is key for the atmosphere that could lead to societal breakdown to prep for in the first place under war unconstitutionally waged we got multiple items here president threatens to take cuba which would not be congressionally approved at this rate naval skirmishing continues between the us and irgc secretary of state poses in front of a map of cuba going back to the statements on Cuba they're going there next Los Angeles is looking to open up a pathway

for aliens to vote in local elections more erosion of the entire system holding civilization together in the West and finally Epstein victim vanishes from New York future day and I think that's newsblitz Yeah so

not not anything in this like absolutely new to us except maybe footlong toxic camera head Asian worms open that thing have you seen these things can you get the video to play

this is crazy I can get the video to play it may not have audio I don't think we need the audio of the worms but I mean I'll be able to see it and I'm gonna like want to throw up I don't know if I want to watch it

run that run that I'm at alien stuff enough right there tell me if if you think those have always been in Asia when you watch the video trying to get to work now I'll work right now I'll try another link maybe but describe it what is it like what's going on they're just like it's literally got a shark head on a worm I didn't know there was any worms that had that's crazy and now they're they parasites in your body I think they have toxins in their body they produce toxins So like nothing will eat them.

Right. There you go. It says there's zombie like worms. They can be cut multiple pieces and regenerate. They can't be eaten by local predators or not many of them. So they just kind of like take over and they kill. Sounds like they kill off the earthworms and the healthy insects. So that could like, you know,

devastate the airability of the land over here. It's kind of what I'm getting at. Yeah. like the Chinese think bugs, right? Like, why, why, why, why is that here? We got, we got to beat that back. We got, we got a really, fight back invasive species because,

who knows if that is natural? Why would, why would some worm like that in the jungle make it to backyards in America? Probably on the West Coast. I don't know what the article says, but, you know, those look like, like they belong in a tropical rainforest, but. easy, easy, six-generation warfare tactic,

you know, spreading pestilence in your enemy's countries. Yeah. Narnally. Well, they're talking about in New York even, so, of course, West Coast you would think, but it naturally would not spread all the way to the East Coast if it started in the West Coast, started overseas. So whether accident or planted here by some sort of agro-terrorism, totally uh what is it is it fifth generation warfare that they call that i mean six

i think and and you know terrorism right like some james bond movie where there's like a madman that's going to terrorize with something now i don't think it's i don't think it's meeting a definition of terrorism it's that's that's you know just uh clandestine less than lethal covert warfare state to state not terrorism well I guess what's the definition

of terrorism like is up for grabs but I'll trust you're more than mine I guess you're looking at from the point of view of going after the civilian population I guess it has that it has that in common with terrorism

but terrorism usually think of groups non-state actors like when when it's another government's labs creating that and putting it here yeah it's a this type of warfare it's above and beyond terrorism to me yeah okay there you go there's warfare directed at civilians which is worse it's directed and again just speculating it could be but right now it's just under pestilence it's like it shouldn't be here it's bad for our you know environment. So right now it's just pestilence, but

look at those things. Freaky looking. They're like neon too. Up near their head, they're like purple. They're like, can't be killed. I got to try, I'll try to find a video of that later, but gnarly. I hope I'll see any up where I'm at. Let's just say that. Cruise ship, this is getting a lot of play on the media. Not that I'm consuming much of it. But the cruise ship infected with the terrifying virus has 40% mortality rate. I wonder about that number.

There's been three. Like how do they measure that? But I mean, how many people have been infected? So that's 40% is crazy high. But are they measuring that among just the people sick on the ship? It's not very big sample. No. I mean, I think it's supposed to be the kind of aggregate,

scientific studies show it's like a 40%. Is that what that article then? Because that would be the deadliest rate I've ever heard of and I track that news. There's some out of India and Bangladesh and Africa that have you know like Ebola

that are pretty damn high. I wonder about this 40% number. That sounds like British tabloid saying it's you know, four out of 10 on that ship got sick. It's who would die. So every 10 people that get sick for die is, I guess the way they write it makes me feel as if that's like a long-term historic,

not for this particular cruise ship. Yeah, but they don't cite any study. And what's the source on this thing again? WHO, World Health Organization. So, I mean, yeah, you're right. Do they ever cite things? Or do they just have their own research that they give people grants to do, you know? I don't know.

New York. Is New York Post somebody? What's that? New York Post did this article? Yeah, they're not like pointing to British tabloid, are they? There's another New York post there one there. We can go find out. I'm sure that there's...

several others but they're just pointing to their own stories which makes sense if it's legit and there's been studies i think we would have heard about whatever strain that was and that that that 40% rate is suspiciously high and super dangerous that's like contagion kind of you know you're halfway through to one of those disaster Hollywood movie kind of you know the stand the kind of crap. So I will watch the situation about these cruise lines. I want to see where that 40%

what it really means, because that would be a extremely lethal virus if it's happened. But I don't even know if they have a name for it. Something that dangerous would have like a really scary name and a lot of people would be talking about it, right? COVID-19. There might be thinking we're only like

800 cases have ever been documented in like, you know, 300 died or something. But that doesn't mean there weren't thousands and thousands that were infected. They just never went to the doctor. I mean, this is out of Cape Verde off of Africa. And this virus originates in the Andes in South America, apparently. I did do a cursory AI search. Chad, GPT.

It says HPS can have a mortality rate of 30 to 40% if severe. But again, how many people are not severe? But I don't know, even 5% more. super high relative. Well, okay. This is sort of like, you know, you can make a list of the world's largest population cities, and your list may be way different from mine

because we measured the boundaries of some of the cities differently, right? Like how many people are concluded? 40% of the worst is what they're saying, but it's not quite the, you know, it's a little bit of a tabloid number. remember when I hear that I immediately think like all right there's a disease either you get it or you don't and four out of ten of us are going to die from it and that's not quite what is being said here no it's probably like a two and a half percent or something well I followed up one more time

with good old chat GPT and they're pulling their information from guess who the CDC it's the continued circle of conflict to interest but the CDC reports that between 1993 and the end of 2023, 30 years, there were 890 confirmed cases in the U.S. So it's really rare. Yes. And, but the total is much higher because most of them have it in Asia, Europe, South America. But it's hard to really pin it down. So, but, you know, they're showing that only a couple hundred fatalities have been recorded for what it's.

were so it's does it have a precise name not just hantavirus that hantrifirus was a was like a family of viruses does this thing have a exactly oh this one i'll see if they posted here but you're right that it was reporting for the family of hantaviruses was what the information i was looking at i haven't seen the actual name of like hantavirus a3c1 or some BS like that um i haven't seen that this article. Or like the, you know, Andy's death disease. 24. Yeah, no, I have not.

I'm sure they got to have it, of course. So I'm sure it's in there. But, hey, it's, will it keep spreading? And it's not just how deadly it is, but how easy to transmit. And, you know, will it evolve away from transmitting or towards transmitting more easily? Right. Right. Contagion.

Yeah. Keeping an eye on those things. Definitely heat map dashboards designed. You know, have an eye out of all different angles. Like, while this big thing's happening and maybe that and that, that big thing is happening, and you have a polycrisis still little, you know, grade five green topical news. Keep an eye out. We had a mystery disease in a food market in China on New Year's Eve, 2019.

and it's certainly evolved from there. Yeah, certainly. We have something that kind of brings the first two articles we talked about, kind of a hybrid brings it all together. We just talked about the cruise ship with the deadly strain of the virus. We talked about that, well, either the terrorism or potentially state-sponsored attacks on American backyards by the Asian Hammerhead Worms. Well, here's another article that kind of brings that both together.

Like I said, NIH virologists caught smuggling deadly pathogens into the U.S. So homegrown terror or state actor spy sabotage. I don't know. Maybe lone wolf, but let's go look at the details feature, Dan. What do you see? He looked like useful idiot. to me. They look like Tim Walls, psycho dummy.

Yeah. Yeah, like he thinks he's doing science and it's for the, you know, some benefit. And he's a government guy. And he doesn't have to follow the rules when he crosses borders with, you know, hard found cases like the, you know, like the military equipment, hard shell cases loaded up with all kinds of vials. And the article does say that, you know, it's alleged or, you know, in his defense, he says that they've, all the diseases are neutralized somehow. Like they did something to them so they, you know, they couldn't be spread. But they were still samples that could be studied, right? But, you know, even with, you know, RFK Jr. and Trump and a military, Seth was on the military side with that crew,

obviously worried and paying attention to this sort of thing. We got former National Institute of Health, Fauci, you know, subordinates running across borders with stuff, right? Easily could be, you know, manipulated by intelligence agencies or be corrupt and just be, you know, working for somebody else or just be insane, right? Like, seriously, that stuff should, you know, hammered head worms. Any kind of vials of toxins and diseases, that should be much more severely controlled. And I guess that's the good side of this article is he was caught, right?

Yeah, he was. And this harkens back to an article I remember us talking about, and they cite it here. About last year, DOJ charged two Chinese nationals with criminal conspiracy for smuggling a dangerous plant fungus through Detroit Airport. We did talk about that. And that was to be studied at a lab at the University of Michigan. So yeah, okay. They used reagents to neutralize and make it non-infectious, allegedly.

What's to say they couldn't reverse that? Number one, number two, that could be used as some sort of basis to grow a new pathogen off of it. And even if that's all BS and it's not true, why would he have to? It had to be important enough for him to be carrying around, so it could only be helpful for others as well at some regard. I'm talking about foreign governments or some other party. It could be that, you know, let's just say that, you know,

this tradition of biologists, scientists that study this stuff, you know, a high volume of them are honestly just trying to do what their science what their profession, you know, wants to accomplishes, like seek out answers to disease and cure it, right? So with enough of this activity going on, it's a good background to cover for malicious actors and dangerous, you know, intelligence policies, right? So, again, this isn't happening now, labs lose control of deadly pathogens, which is the indicator. that this is categorized. That's not happening right now. But this article, you know,

kind of reveals the environment in which if, if that happens again, if you believe that that's what happened with COVID-19 from who on, it was simply, you know, a lab leak, right? You know, that's why we talk about these things. Pay attention to it. Watch where it's going.

See if anything's being done about it. In this case, I think at least the National Command authorities are, you know, got their guard up for it. Yeah, I hope so now after all that. So this gentleman, Munster, I got some emails from Vincent Munster back in February 10th, 2020. He was talking with Vincent Rassanello.

I'm going to guess that. He's out of Columbia. This was a solid month before they started shutdowns. This is February 9th, 2020. I think they canceled the NBA season. in like March 14th, but this person was reaching out to Munster,

the person we were just talking about, the lieutenant of Fauci himself. This guy says in February 2020, I'm hearing rumors about a Cleveland site in COVID-19 that might have been engineered in. And this is something we were talking about on

Patriot Power Hour, not maybe in February, but quickly because other scientists around the world noticed that, hey, This looks like it was man-made. A cleavage site, meaning non-natural cutting and pasting of a different part of a virus. Like Frankenstein with the stitches. Think of that.

So this guy's reaching out to Munster, the guy who we were just talking about getting in trouble now. And the guy, Munster responds. And the fun begins. So at a minimum, these dudes knew about this more than a month behind before. didn't panic, try to panic the public, but also didn't give people rational information early on that might have helped. So yeah, they're mad scientists to say the least. Oh, yeah.

And Zero Hedge was like deep platformed right, right when they brought out some of the earliest news for COVID-19, which as I remember came out of Thailand with Thai doctors saying that this bat flu has spikes. like you would see in HIV. Exactly. And I think it had multiple cleavage sites. Like now that it's been, you know, it's like public knowledge now. But you're right.

Thailand had one. I think India had a study. And there was definitely information people said calling a spade as spade back then. But you, like you said, you'd either get deep platformed or just laughed at or shamed or however you want to say it to not bring it up, right? And instead, if we got to lock it down and wear it. mask and all that. None of the three,

those three things happened to Patriot Power. We didn't lose our platform because we owned it ourselves. Yeah. And we were not mocked and we never back down from talking about it week after week after week. And that was right after we joined Prepper Broadcasting Network. So thank you to James for platforming us to fearlessly talk about it.

We, we, we stand behind no one. about what we saw how we felt about it when it happened did we bet no that was looking back one of the best even if it worst moments of patriot power hour was uh yeah that January through may of 2020 it was intense but we called it as we saw it we made a couple pivots because we saw new data so we weren't scared to be like yeah maybe we weren't as right as we were but on other hand we like double down on things that ended up being true to.

Yeah, and it's the branch that we threw out there early on, you know, is it, you know, is it man-made or natural? If it's man-made, was it released accidentally or on purpose? And if it was on purpose, then who's ultimately behind it? Chinese government, Fauci, CIA, former traders, aligned with a political party, in this country that wanted to unseat potus 45 so wherever you want to stop on that chain is fine by me but we we laid that out and it's the only logic three i've ever heard that explains all the scenarios it's so beautiful and simplicity there's very few decision nodes and like you said pretty

much covers everything that could happen. I'm sure we love to hear from anybody who thinks otherwise, but. Kind of stands as a pattern for a hantavirus on a ship, right? Or the next something out of Africa that, you know, villages are, you know, dying at extremely high rates that you don't ever usually hear about. Always watching the disease angle. Because going back to that decision tree,

It could come out of nature at any time, too, right? It might not be a weapon. Might not have even been a lab accident, like monster crossing borders with vials of who knows what. Yeah. And it's very possible this cruise ship came from the rat or rodent from Argentina or from maybe in the food supply, right? They said they didn't find any rodents on the ship.

That doesn't mean it wasn't somehow infected. Something else, some other way. The main thing is if it becomes human to human and an easy contact, that's where it becomes a problem. So we'll track it, of course, but hopefully this becomes. Have you ever done a cruise? Not, no, not like a true cruise on the open seas now. Yeah, yeah, like a big floating hotel.

It's fun, but you got to worry about everybody getting sick. It's off the type of course. That sounds like a prepper broadcasting network exercise, prepping exercise, how to go on a cruise and survive if everyone gets Hanta virus. You only have what you can take in your suitcase to survive in your cabin for two weeks. Can you do it? I'm wondering if there's a lot of, you know, if he had a bench art of preppers and cruisers. not certain that the overlap of those two demographics is very big. Oh, very minimal correlation.

It's probably not zero. Because I consider you a prepper, and I'm sure it sounds like you've been on a cruise at least once in your life. Yeah, you know, I tell you the truth. And InfoWars is now owned by the Onion or something crazy like that. And the Alex Jones Network has replaced InfoWars. one for one anyway, so nothing was ever really stopped there. But the last time I cruised, no, that's not true. Well, one time I cruised was when Sandy Hook happened.

And I missed the day it happened. I missed all the immediate reports. I missed the entire feed from that, all the suspicions that it wasn't real in the alternate media. Like, it all marinated for like a week. And, you know, future danger was updated throughout the time, but, you know, those kind of tragic shootings in and of themselves don't qualify as, you know, something dangerous. You know, it's locally, obviously deadly, but, you know, in a national context, those don't rate on the heat map dashboard. So the heat map dashboard went on, but I missed all of that Sandy Hook event.

And in high side, I'm kind of grateful that I did. yeah that was messed up time to say the least um what about boston massacre shooting that was or boston marathon shooting the bombings yeah yeah that was before future danger but that was a definitely an event that uh helped propel future danger into being okay because that was kind of odd uh it wasn't as tragic as an elementary school getting shot up of course but it was uh sort of in that same vein Alex was way more all over that marathon bobbing a lot more than Sandy Hook

but there's some weird stuff going on Sandy Hook I felt like there was more than one shooter is what it seemed like to me not that it was faked but they didn't tell us the whole story but I don't know it's possible for me to know that's been a legend of those other school shootings I think one

in Florida that some you know the theory would be that some wind up dull you know medicaid in a certain way antagonized and handled online you know you know push to to go do something like that and somebody else falling behind to shoot anybody that they wouldn't or actually you know because I don't want to get into too much but I've definitely heard that is not just with sandy hook shootings either um well we are more than halfway through we still have

a lot of articles to hit on, but I don't even know where to go from here. What? When I went through the newsblit, where were you like, we got to see that? Well, I think, you know, we got a lot more economic indicators that are heating up. Even at low grades, it's a lot more economic news. I'd like to hear your update on, you know, what you think is happening in energy worldwide, national, and how it flows into, you know, prices, inflation. debt.

What do you, is this situation with higher energy prices liable to collapse the system? Might depend where you live at. And if you live in the U.S., no. But many other places seem like they're underwater and drowning. Like Australia, New Zealand, Philippines are getting a real bad end of it. I know the UK and Ireland having some rationing, really high price. So here, at least we domestically make a crap ton and, you know, obtain and mine, coal and natural gas, oil, all the different types of energy. So I don't think these high prices are going to make us rich, but they'll mitigate some of the damage from the high prices.

But in terms of the rest of the world, they're getting messed up. and the rest of the world collapses, they're going to try to draw us down with them, so I don't want them to all collapse necessarily. We're mostly focused on U.S. results here, especially economically, but, you know, unfortunately or fortunately, mostly, unfortunately, in my thoughts,

extremely globalized interconnected system. So if Japan falls, we'd fall right with them. And, you know, Korea, Japan, Philippines, They're all kind of in the same boat. And if any one of those three falls, the other two would fall. Philippines is a lot smaller, but that could be a big domino that brings the rest down too. Yeah. What about some of the, you know, talking points out there, some of the people witnessing the last eight weeks with Iran who are arguing that entire supply chains of energy are getting rebuilt, like permanently.

being rebuilt to move away from you know Persian Gulf oil and that once the structures, the financial structures and the physical infrastructures are in place

just eight weeks of Epic Fury and the in the blockade it'll never be the same again it's going to be on much more favorable terms to the United States of America you could you concur with that or do you doubt that? Well, for every gain for us,

it'll be a horrible loss for many others in the world. But if all we care about is the U.S. comes out with more control over petrol worldwide. Yeah, we will. I guess that's good. It's like 1800s mercantile kind of approach to world politics, but I don't think anybody's surprised that Trump's doing that. He's viewed the world that way his entire time.

he ran for president three times. Yeah, he just, he won't come out front and say that, though. He just says, well, sometimes it's about regime change, sometimes about nuclear weapons, sometimes it's about China. Maybe it's about all four of those things and more, but I'd like to have more of a direct plan and direct rationale. And I don't know. What was if the eight weeks turns into eight months?

I guess we've talked about that. last week. Maybe Iran wouldn't be able to last a choke hole for eight months, but this ain't ended yet, and it's still going to take a long while to recover from it if it ended even right now. Yeah, it's definitely the United States has a lot of

countries in a chokehold with this. Someone someone's probably going to tap. I mean, I guess we had a big brother him for a while to keep them in line is the only logic that. But I mean, if it means the British and the Japanese

navies actually have to spend their funding to sail through the Gulf and keep it open. And if it means that, you know, we're a big net exporter of fuels for a long time. I mean, it's going to be hard to look back and say that, you know, it didn't benefit the United States. Yeah, I'd rather just hold our oil back and not sell it to the world to keep it for ourselves. keep prices low too but i mean you get more influenced by sell the people keep get them on the the black crack they need us as their dealer so that's what it comes down to power play it's like you know opec which we're watching fall apart literally you know could you used to command the price of oil we're the United States going to have the pricing power to a certain degree right

Yeah, well, but then it really play fair, dropped 30,000 bombs when it out innovate or out, you know, I guess you can say we use more cutting than them because we were able to create the military to defeat them. So if you want to go to that level, I guess we did. I didn't think I'd hear a pro-OPEC argument from my co-host of Patriot Power Hour because you're defending the existence of a cartel. Well, we're never never played a new coil freely. This is the Operation Freedom cartel being put. into place now it's literally not a cartel because it's only us it's my definition not a car we destroyed our enemies that did not play with us that's you know that's kind of

that's worse than a cartel that's mafiosia you know even ira's not destroyed still haven't struck and struck all their oil infrastructure nobody's been none of none of that's been destroyed but to keep something hostage at least hey have some skin in the game potentially left be like uh well We'll finish you off if you don't do play ball. If he blow up everything, then they really won't play nice.

Yeah, I saw, I saw an article. I don't know if you got a chance to see it. Actually, it's just like an ex post. And I'm not going to quote the author and, you know, and get into the details.

But he, he's basically, he's quoting Klaus Witz, right? On war, you know, the war is the continuation of politics by other means. And,

and that essentially Trump is, practicing that in its essence in a way that no one expected. And it's going to change how oil is bought and sold for decades. And it's going to be a lot less of the power center for that is going to be the Middle East. And honestly, it's the most warlike place on the planet. And it's not just Israel. It's Sunni, Shiites. It's been that way for a very long time.

removing the you know the the or lessening the the the the the black gold influence on those economies or it'll never lessen on those economies but lowering it so that they're they just don't have that much power to constantly be at each other's throats talking about iran but i'm talking about the Gulf Arab states too right that you know they're rentier states they're all their entire economies like Venezuela are built upon just the geography of being on top of the fuel, right? So I don't know. I mean, this is part of, you know, Trump would like to find a way to get the lasting, you know, a real unarguable peace in the Middle East.

He wants to get that done. And he sees that this is a way to do it. You got to address the oil issue. That's where they get all the money to fight back and to, to, cause a lot of terrorism and look i don't like the iranians and shit and without the oil they can't do a lot of that but you know just from an ideological point of view of had to be ideological it's like okay we destroy their cartel good we're better than them i i think and hope but actually i hate a lot of the banksters and scumbags here in america so i just want to give you know

the freaking big oil in america all the money now that's gonna be just as bad So now I'm turning to a Democrat in that regard, which is sad. It's not justice. You know, J.P. Morgan's making how much money off of this shit? Like, how much money are they financing on new oil rigs and shit? J.P. Morgan's making billions off of this alone. Well, you know, now we're talking about the banksters, but the actual oil companies, you know, especially the smaller ones. I mean, I think it's healthy that we have that industry in the United States.

Yeah. I can separate the actual producers of the energy from the financiers of the energy. To me, it's not all one thing. Yeah, you know, but there's a lot of skimming. Not to mention the federal government, how much of a take are they getting off the taxes? I mean, solid 30, 40% of this profits going right back into the evil shitty government we have. So I can't get too excited. At most, I can say that it'll mitigate the horrible damage being done to the world economy for us in America.

yeah just you not too worried about what deficits so it's not like this is even going to balance the budget if it balanced the budget i might be like a little closer to saying it would be good but yeah so uh no other economic news this week says you know alarming you ongoing march of the debt we talked about it last week seems like that was a very big headline that a lot of news outlets could carry because it's a perfectly round a number 100% of GDP, federal government debt. So we saw that reported quite a lot, but it'll kind of go back into the, you know, into the ether for a while. No one will report on it or the only report on it for political sniping at Trump or whoever's in office at the time. But, you know, that's an insidious pestilence economically. And as always, the interest on the debt.

see ms look msn's talking about it it is kind of in vogue these days but it's also such a big problem you actually can't really ignore it too much but um you know all that interest paid on the debt they can't lower interest rates right now we talked about that um so just more and more money paid an interest and a lot of that goes to international people and some of these big top corporate banksters i got you i hear you I see it the way you do too. Got a, I do. All right.

I'll say this. We've seen some decent growth numbers continue this year, but growth gets eaten up by inflation. So it's like, I felt like the Trump recovery was about to catch some real steam. But even if it does catch some steam and AI spending and productivity gains go real big time, I don't know. If we get three, four, five percent inflation for a year or two. or even worse, that'll be tough. Now, if all this ends in the Middle East and oil stays below $100 all summer,

it won't be that nasty of inflation, but I don't know. Food and energy, it's a lot of it. And beef prices near record levels, that alone, one of the articles. So it's like, I can talk about this every week and pretty much do. But it's also like, I don't know. a one particular data point hard to really be like this is the smoking gun right here but a hundred percent debt the GDP is about as close as you can get unless we got to wait till we get 200 percent it's isn't it all relative though what's Japan's ratio what's britain's ratio

what's Russia's ratio if that's where it's like how far can we go without it mattering and maybe we can go a lot further but eventually has to stop so much I don't know where exactly though. Well, if you just do a debt jubilee worldwide, all the owners of debt lose, right? Yeah. And, you know, that's, for every liability, there's an asset. So they kind of want to do that. They just want to make sure, you know, the rich are protected a little bit more than the average Joe.

They want to do those bail-ins as we've talked about. about. So for every dollar of debt, it's someone else's asset. So if you're going to retire, extinguish this debt, then that means some of your pension is going to be retired. Some of your, you know, bank or insurance company, a third of their balance sheet is just going to be extinguished. So what happens to them? Do they fail because of that? And then that'll cause even worse problems. So it's a precarious situation. there's no one doing it right there's not you can do it over time slowly but surely it's almost like if try to lose weight the right way like you lose half a pound a week every week for four months

that's the right way to do it but you have to be very consistent and there's no really other way around it unless you know you want to do a crash diet or it's not very healthy usually let's just say that So you could roll off the debt. But the thing is, a lot of the debt that's been borrowed in the last, let's just say since 2008, but even since COVID, it's like 10 or 30 year long debt. So you'd have to like live a very healthy lifestyle for 30 years to atone for all the problems we've caused in the last 10. How much of the Medicaid, Medicare, others, social, great society program, social security fraud, that was clearly orchestrated in, you know, a deliberate way,

state by state by state. You know, what we saw, you know, just the tip of the iceberg in Minnesota. Oh, man. How big of those numbers have to be before? you're you're you're narrowing in your wrath on the the the culpable parties you know it maybe it's not enough maybe that fraud really doesn't amount to enough and you know the defense budgets and the other budgets are still running at such a deficit that that that it doesn't matter but i don't know jaddy vance is supposed to be looking at that i think they got some surprises they're going to shock you before the midterms that's what i I like to, oh, I went to the wrong site. But that is what I was so stoked about, Doge. And really, at the state level, national level,

and hopefully it's going on at the local level to some regard. Like, yes, the defense budget is huge. But Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid are actually a lot larger. People don't, I don't know. understand it but they also don't they're all like three or four billion dollars you know a day kind of you know expenditures yeah let's go look at this here now i got stupid jim kramer ad off i don't know the hell that was about largest budget items per year ready defense and war is still is under a billion dollars they want to make it like 1.2 who knows what it'll actually be but

based off this stat here 936 billion that's a hell of a lot 9.5.9.5.9.5. 36 billion a year. But Social Security is almost twice that much at 1.6 trillion. And Medicare, Medicaid is almost $2 trillion. So, you know, the fraud, if it was 10% fraud of Social Security and 10% fraud of Medicare, that would be a third to half of the defense budget. So if we can find 10% fraud in Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security, that would more than fund the increase in the defense budget that's being sought, number one. Number two, how about we just use that to extinguish some debt, pay it down? That would at least halt the increase in the interest on the debt.

It's the interest on the debt that really makes it like a banana republic. What kind of numbers are in spending for, you know, what you just mentioned would you have to get to, you know, hit even? Assuming tax revenue didn't change, which it would probably increase if you got back on this stuff. for the overall deficit for the entire year. Yeah. Is that even in the realm of possibility? How would not just balance the budget, but get to, you know, so that the cost of interest on the debt isn't rising. I got it.

Well, the federal budget deficit per year is about $1.67 trillion. So you'd have to cut out like $40. to 50% of Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security. I don't think that much is fraud. But you can make a debt in it. If 20% of Medicare, Medicaid, is Social Security fraud, that would be, you know, a good quarter to a third of the deficit.

But the deficit is so goddamn large, it's like that just shows how big it is. Yeah, and I think population might be actually going to a period of decline, right? I think we're about ready to hit that. Yeah, we might have like plateau the next few years and then I do think it's going to start. If AI can make up the difference with just fewer people in the future

demanding Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security, I mean, it is a path. I don't know if the population declines enough or just that sheer drop in numbers of people would otherwise bring about other calamitous. economic results probably does well i think best case scenario is they technically can make all the payments and everything it's just you just have more more inflation and it gets monetized so you know your social security goes each year you know your purchasing power goes down a percent or two

and it's a slow erosion of purchasing power but that's what going on since like the 90s so it's starting add up now like every year two or three percent less purchasing power really is more easily seen now whereas like 10 15 20 years ago okay like you can still get a big mac meal for three dollars and 50 cents back then so a three percent five percent increases of that is like another quarter but now you know a big bag meal is going up like a dollar a year and i'm not saying eat big macs but you know what I mean it's just like compounds like that it depends on whether you're you know your sources of income are growing or not too right you're paid you know it's just all relative and if you've been owning assets you've been hanging in there so you know if you've had the

s&P and of course you know just let's just say if you've been owning the s&P the last 20 years you're hanging in there but not a large portion of americans have a hefty retirement account or trading account by any means you know if you got like twenty thousand dollars in the market that ain't going to do jack you got to have like 200 grand 500 grand a million dollars assets or you know and or a house or some sort of appreciating asset maybe some gold silver bitcoin hey on silver yeah taking us out on patron power 346 May 6 2006 shot you an article I I know you love your, your bullion.

What do you think of that Viking hoard they found? Yeah. First off, super cool how someone was just using a metal detector, kind of as a hobbyist. You're looking for some, found a few old silver coins, and they found a huge cash of Viking silver coins, find of a lifetime, generational finds, stuff like that. Hundreds of them. Yeah, hundreds of them. Like I think even like a thousand maybe, definitely hundreds with, you know, a king on them.

Like, you know, a little bit of art on them. Just like, you know, a coin is a coin. It's got silver and it's got like a mark, right? And they had that same thing. It was in Norway, right? Somewhere in Scandinavia. One of the biggest finds ever. Right out in the field, too.

And I don't know. They got to start digging and excavate and see what building was there. or how did that even get there? But it was like, had to have been a big chest of silver. Well, silver and gold, they were rare just on earth. And that's why they had value at one point. Then we realized, hey, they're not just rare because they're hard to find in the rocks. They're actually their own distinct elements with their own proton count and their own atomic weight and their own electrical properties.

and oh my god they're super important to all electronics so it's so cool how figs kind of came full circle i like shiny objects and i feel like they hold wealth just like the vikings just like my viking ancestors but on the other hand i understand the high-tech implications and that these were made in supernova they weren't just like dropped here so it's kind of cool yeah taking us out any other notes for the week. Patriot Power are wrapping up this Wednesday night. A little bit of a deviation on our schedule. Anything else we want to touch upon, Ben? I don't think so. I would say that the rest of the season, I mean, somehow, some way we're already four or five weeks into the season. And I'm seeing clear skies ahead for me all through May.

and the first few weeks of June as well. So the next seven, eight weeks, I think will be quite consistent. Mostly Thursdays, occasionally Wednesdays. And, yeah, all the way through summer solstice. It's already May 6th, 2026 today, episode 346, future, Dan. It was a great one. Now, we'll watch the heat map evolve into the summer, see new threat vectors coming our way.

and talk about them on our weekly basis unless everything goes to hell in a handbasket and you look across the heat map dashboard it's black on red and we have a crisis now then you know patron power i'll go to special reports but i'd really like it if we didn't have to do that this year ben agree standing by and uh setting the battlefield and information awareness just in case but yeah i would like a nice quiet summer that would be great That will get it, but I'll take one week at a time. Yep. Thank you to our audience for listening.

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