Live 365. Let's just pretty well figure the LTR off yet again. Just the way things are, we have about 20 plus radio, or forgive me, radio interruptions, yes. But power outages here in Michigan over and over again, and I don't think it's going to get better. It's just going to get worse here through the evening. Crystal kind of fixed things, and now it's actually money to work with. You don't have an excuse. Yesterday, they tried to claim the old sun. Well, okay, Monday is a work day. Everybody is supposed to be there. And yet the power outage is about half as many, but still just about as many today and most of them longer than yesterday. The last one just took about an hour to get over. So I should tell you right there. Strange things happening. And by the way, we didn't have any rain yesterday or today. We didn't have any rain. Well, wait a minute. The last 48 hours or so. Hello, guys. There we go. We got Ed here with us too. I got a little bit of an echo there. Yeah, I'm here. Just calling in to let you know we got the Liberty Tree Radio Live 365 stream hooked up and running. I'm feeding off the auto for Spike's Ustream video page. Spike, I see you're saying you got a slot free on the Indiana Freedom Talk. Well, I'm on the other one, so that's okay. I got that hooked up and running. Yeah, we've just been having terrible power all week and long, haven't we? Terrible call, but I mustn't point here guys. And what was the sky like yesterday? Oh, it was crystal clear. In fact, it was so clear, I made notice something because it was bothering me all day and it didn't hit me until we were driving around with Joe Budden. I'm looking at the sky. There were absolutely no contrails in the sky yesterday. And you were right in the flight path. of Metro Detroit's airport. There was nothing. There was nothing from below, nothing from above. Beautiful sky. Look like that. And there were jets in the sky. Oh, yes. Really high up. We saw like three or four jets, but absolutely no contrails. Yep. So then to itself, it was rather entertaining to say the least. But meanwhile, even as we say that, and even though we had such beautiful skies, we had power outages nonstop, didn't we? Well, What they said is like 15,000 people in our area alone were without power and they've been turning stuff on and off trying to get the power grid patched up. So we still might lose power again. In fact, I was doing a check on DTE's website to see what they were saying about the outages and it's on and off. As they bring other people back onto the grid, they've got to shut parts down to plug them back in. We had power most of the weekend but we didn't have internet access. And what I called to find out about that is our cable company was stopped from doing their emergency maintenance work to get the internet service back up by the local police department telling them that they need a permit to do any work. So they had to wait until Monday to get the permits and everything to do the work to fix the communications. Hey guys. I'm going to step away for just a second and I shall be right back. Continue on. I'm only seeing one regular on there right now. Hopefully you'll see some more people jump on. I know we had a... I said everything was good to go as far as I knew everything was, guys. About 15 minutes before we went up on air, they cut the power again. So fun fun. That is the moment that it started, by the way. So yes, it is. Ed, the longs we got you right here for a second, take over for a minute and there's something I want to just reach around and grab. Give everybody updates, where we are and what's going on. Also, remember guys, we have the yearly bill coming up and I am going to have to mention it because you know what, the clock's ticking down. This is almost going to be in the clock, October 11th guys. So we've got Chippen up there for that. We also have F*** Year. Chippen is up there on Liberty Tree Radio as well. Well, we are looking for more sponsors. Of course, this weekend doesn't look good, but usually we do a pretty good job. If you know anybody who would like to help the station out in that way as a small business, they think would benefit from sponsoring the station. You can go to our sponsors page. We have two basic packages. We're not asking much for either of those. Compare the prices with other networks and you'll be surprised. That's just to cover our basic costs. And we've got listener support too, which is always here each month and it's very much appreciated. I took that into account when I did the monthly So, as you can see, we cut quite a bit off of that with the listener support, guys. So, thank you very much. But we still need about 220 each month on top of that. And hopefully we can pull that in the rest of the way, either with sponsors or with other donations. Again, the yearly bill is about $2,000 each year in October that we have to pay. We are about four months out. We got 1% so far. $20 in the coffer for that one. It is not being touched for anything else. I think that's about it for that. We do have a technical problem that I was made aware of on the website by JJ in Alaska. The auto start on the Ustream feed has been making it nearly impossible for dial-up users to load our website. So when I do the update this week for the website, again I'll be pulling the Ustream live feed off of the main page and we'll just have the link over to the Ustream feed for people to tune in and listen. Again that feed is not up 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, that's only up when we're doing live programming. live link which is on 24-7 when we have the ability to be up live is the live 365 feed and of course spiked Indiana Freedom Reflector. And I don't know, it sounded like we had a beep, we got a caller. Yeah, good afternoon Ed. Hey Dave, I was trying to call you. Did you say your Ustream was up? No, I was going to get it up and then Dad asked me to take over so I can't get over to the computer to get that up. Okay, good luck. Okay, I'm good now. Liberty Tree Radio is up and running, but Ustream was down. That's what I can do. Yeah, I know. Ustream is not up and running yet because I haven't gotten to that computer. I got to fire. I'm only one person and I got four computers in front of me. I got to operate. Well, that's what I'm doing right now. I've got four units and I'm monitoring each of the streams to see which one's working. Okay, well the Live 365 one is up for anybody who is running a reflector. The reflector IP address changed. Get the reflector website with that information updated after I get everything else running. So I'm going to hang up here. I'm going to go get the other systems running and, Dad, run with it. All right, and again, we're doing everything we can, guys, just as a quick reminder that With all the alternate systems, the only other problem we have is with all these supplemental systems and alternate systems, it takes longer to get everything back up online because we're reconnecting multiple systems. I'm going to start streamlining that, but I'm going to get some hardware technology done first. In fact, on this very note, I got deflected today because I had to get two or three little projects done. We are working on reconfiguring our generator packs so that they will be more extensively weatherized and prepared for extensive use. Most important when you are building in generator packs and you are going to be hardening them, you want to make sure that you keep the fire retardant capability up to restrict fire hazard slash damage. Also, good cross and air ventilation. One of the most common things is that people either doghouse up or they bunker up a generator and they forget about air circulation and airflow. They just figure out we box it in, there are enough air leaks or there is an air channel. What you want to do is actually ensure that you have direct draw and in fact can even restrict so that all fresh air flow is first to the system and then of course there is also an exhaust system. If you have the exhaust and the intake in the same chamber, think about what is happening or what progressively is going to happen. Your engine will be oxygen starved. It is a good idea. There are a number of different techniques here. By the way, what I am watching for, we are blessed right now to be doing a bunch of odd government funded your taxpayer expense projects around here where conduit and steel tubing and steel air ducts are being pulled out. They are immaculate. There is no reason for it. It is just money being rotated for the ring knockers to take care of themselves. Because of that you can access all the channel that you need or all the sheet metal you need to knock out and create both a good firewall for the internal protection of the system, make sure you know the building that you are constructing or to take care of again fire retarding or breaking materials. Remember heat builds up, you need something that is going to reflect heat. Then insulate behind that, why not? We have a series of housing projects going on around here and they've been doing furnace work. I've been collecting every piece of furnace insulation that they pull out from the cutting project. Why? Because I stuff this in the areas. This is a higher rating, not all fiberglass insulation is secure as a fire hazard. But this stuff is specifically rated for being used in a flame environment. In other words, it is designed for fire safety. So I prioritize it. I separate it, save it up, and then I prioritize it. And then I restructure what I am going to do and pack it around the areas where I know I consider something to be a risk. It is just that simple. You want to think things through, but you have got to start looking at this especially now because When I see the last two days as a demonstration of the economic failure of the United States, it's just not going to be talked about. You can talk about Tiger Woods, you can talk about oil wells 5,000 feet below the surface, you can talk about the far side of the moon, but whatever you do, don't talk about what's happening that's affecting you right now, right there. In this case, these power outages, while they are reporting them, the actual consideration is The system is not being maintained and, here's another real bad thing, what parts are being replaced now? You better hope the old American equipment lasts longer because what's happening is that they're installing NAFTA grade parts from the three nation alliance in replacement. And you know where that means most of it comes from? Mexico, you know what else that means? High failure, high hazard rate. That's the problem. And so personally what I think is happening, let me give you an example. I think we had a couple of calls. Do we still have Dave there? Yes, sir. And who else? Well, you said another beep. Who else do we have? I have a patient listener so they don't have to say anything. That's okay. The reason I'm bringing this up years ago right here in Michigan, Edison. This is back when Edison was on the high-end money, guys. Edison to skim more money in a different way and because of other arrangements made with certain companies behind the scenes. Well, you have a series of jumpers. If you look out at your transformer, it's out on your line. If you have a house or if you have an apartment complex, You see a couple of jumpers that look like they are made out of solid wire and they go from one point to the next. Now they are to a degree a fusible safety. However, to save money and not worrying about long term effect and because of the little deal they made under the table, somebody got bought off, they went with aluminum jumpers. Now, aluminum, the wonder metal in this case, was running higher energy. The biggest problem it had was not so much the fact that it was used for transferring the electricity, although that doesn't help because aluminum actually breaks down just like copper does, where the electrons are bombarding the other part, the other electrons constantly and the other components of the atom progress where the metal breaks down, something that is part of metal, you know, electronic metal fatigue. as far the formula when you're using material, especially higher voltage, or anything that's standard AC. Well, guess what? On top of that, these cables were completely exposed to the environment. So guess what happened with Mr. Aluminum? Can we say oxidation? And randomly, in fact this happened with one right here, and I'm looking right out, the window on an angle, they inserted aluminum jumpers way back before we bought this off. So I can't say it's bad, Dave. They lasted a long time. But when they go, they go in, shall we say, a very dynamic way. And while they saved a few pennies for the short term books, it cost them a lot more in the way of equipment that otherwise probably would not have had to have been replaced, creating a cascading series of failures and other ways. And this has been happening all through the system. So one of the things to think about is while we raised the standard and we were forced to raise the bar and bring it up, bring it back up, Now with NAFTA and GATT, and because most of the American companies have been put out of business, or even if they have an American name, they're still buying NAFTA and GATT junk, which is now being integrated into the system, which is why you're seeing these catastrophic, multiple system failures based upon redundant component failure. The failure of that component is guaranteed because they bought 50 billion of them. They all look like the same package they used to buy from whatever company USA. But when you get past the paper wrapper and the outer gloss, the junk they generated on the inside is now costing you the food in your refrigerator. But did we lose spike speed in the process? Now you got it you got audio now all right. It's back up there. I'm just gonna go ahead to take care of okay All right, well everything should be up and running then Good, hopefully I'll keep an eye on things guys apparently. I'm gonna have to babysit this well. I'll tell you what now Dave I know you had more force go ahead and jump in there sir. Oh I hadn't planned on it, but I guess I can oh Well you were just stopping in to say hi stock market. I just brought it up here on the other on the other screen These guys have been playing games on a New York Stock Exchange for the last three days. Another one of these roller coaster rides. They're pumping it up and up and up and up and up and up and up and up. Oh well. Donald Jones closed today at 10,525.4. NASDAQ lit at 2,296.43. I mean, hello. That's over 500 points in the last three days. 100 points today. Crude oil, they've jacked that up too. It's $78.91 a barrel. That's almost $3 over what it was last week. Everything is green arrows here. It's been that way for three days for the most part. However, gold, they're pushing it down. It's $1,182.50. My, it's below $1,200. Isn't that amazing? Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness. Let's see. If I had any gold and I bought it when we told everybody to and we bought it at $230 an ounce, then wait a minute. I mean, my gold is only worth, let's see, hold on. If I had gold, it's still only worth five times what I paid for it. Wait a minute. That's not bad. Don't run. Don't be roving it in on us that didn't get it to you. We don't have any glasses. I totally feel like Silver is the working man. What is the same thing? Silver was about $2.30 an ounce. What's Silver had to do? Silver is $8.15 today. I think it was Friday, I think it was $8.20 a month. So it's balanced slightly. It was $18. $18.15. You said $8. I'm sorry. Oh, that still wouldn't have been bad. I still can live with like I said. However, the non-precious metals, the thickened their meat sandwiches here, but you know, watch the Japanese and the Chinese. They have carrier capability now, but nobody is talking about it. And I don't think that's an accident. You see, the next step that they're opening and now apparently we kind of hit this one off the shelf without having to look anything up. Turns out that now somebody is starting to seriously look at the container fleet as a combat merchant marine fleet. Well, wait a minute. We don't control most of that. The Chinese control, now here's the thing, and I'm going to ruin this. I'll do it this way. Mark always has questions on the air and you can all go and have some fun. Now these numbers are publicly available through a number of different sources. The United Nations identifies and dog tags every ship that's sailing at this moment on the planet, guys. They're all in a federal register and an international register and a, you know, slash a global register. Now in the past, it used to be we would have to guess as to how many official ships are on the water. But something else is out there that nobody's really talked about. There's a global positioning system on every one of those ships today. The big ships, the regular commerce vessels. So we not only don't have to guess about who, about where they are, but we can also tell you exactly what percentage of the merchant marine fleet of the world is owned and operated by who. Now, for those who open their mouth and say that, for instance, the Chinese can't move anything because they're landlocked and stuck, I make this very large suggestion that before you open your mouth in that direction again, because there's some people that are, again, not really thinking here, or at least not looking at the big picture, I suggest that you look at the percentage of large capacity And medium capacity, uh oh, and then I'm going to throw another one there. And small capacity, merchant marine tonnage, and how much of it is owned by who. You're not going to like what you see, but if you have the largest army on the planet, and then you have the largest merchant marine lift fleet on the planet, that makes you a major military power all by itself. Now, building all the tonnage is the hard part. Capital ships, as you know, this is something, by the way guys, the Japanese already decided upon several years ago. They decided when they were going to remilitarize, and this was something that was in, even Jane's discussed this, that it was very obvious that the Japanese are working within the restrictions and limitations that they understand in the post-war peace agreement. But they focused on the ships that they realized they'd made an error on. Number one, destroyers and light attack aircraft are light attack craft for ocean operations, for open ocean operations. Now that would include both destroyers, destroyer escorts, corvettes, and frigates. Also, minesweepers fall into that category. In many cases, in the modern fleets, the minesweeper category is really parallel and probably of the same class and dimension as say a Corvette or a frigate. Now the reason I bring this up is because Japan already builds some of the best destroyers and torpedo boats on the planet. They hyper accelerated that program to perfect technologies that they knew they would need. Now let's not forget, for those of you who have a Sony of your own, you know, a standard of New York product, remember that that electronics firm and many others, well, what's Japan famous for guys? So making things smaller and putting more into a warhead, oh I'm sorry, a video game, did I say warhead? I'm sorry. Well, whatever you put in that video game, go into other military application items and the Japanese understand that completely. And they already understand modular assembly. Now, another couple of navies that have gone in the same direction for the sake of getting something on the water in insufficient numbers to defend their country is Iran. And if you have not taken the time to look at Iran's coastal defense and short-range to medium-range submarine fleet, they're not designed to leave the area of operation. They're designed just exactly as small and medium submarines of similar class that were produced by all parties prior to and during World War II. And when I say all parties, well everybody goes, yeah, the Yubo, the Germans, they have the Wispaks, yeah. Well guys, the British had their intermeased short-range, medium and long-range submarine fleets. Just as the Dutch did, just as, oh that's right, pretty much any and every seafaring nation had a submarine capacity of some form or another. Most had no intentions of being involved in a global war or projecting their strength outside their area of operation. In fact, all they had an interest in was just being left alone in national defense. real national defense, not somebody producing more dope and opium or stealing oil from the Iraqis. That's a different story altogether. That's not national defense, that's just plain thievery and we've got a bunch of skunk crooks pushing that thievery or that criminal activity in the first place. Now, with regard to these little submarine fleets and or the technology concept. Notice I said modular. I know I'm often on anglers, but I wanted to touch on this because this was a conversation issue, you know, several times in the last couple months. The merchant marine fleet that China has is mostly sitting on standby, but they're not getting rid of it and they're not cutting it up and they don't plan on cutting it up. Why? Because at some point, the idea is when you have a merchant marine fleet, as long as you have commerce going, and whenever you have commerce going, it pays for you to have this massive fleet reserve. But let me point this out. Some of you guys, and I'm very rare that there's any left right now because obviously you guys are getting up in years, but any of you have a grandpa or a dad who was in World War II who was a pilot who trained at Great Lakes Naval Air Station? Great Lakes Naval Air Station is located down there around Chicago and it's where a majority of the carrier pilots trained in the United States. Most of the people who fought in the Pacific came from Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin, from the Great Lakes area. Look at the numbers, the demographics are there. Now granted they came from all over the planet, some guys out from Iowa for this first time ever were in a naval uniform and were stuck on a ship they had never seen in their lives in an ocean that they had never even gone here before ever. First time to see the ocean, first time to be on a ship. But a lot of these men who were airmen were trained at Great Lakes Naval Air Station. First in basic stick operation right there on the ground, but then guys, we had two aircraft carriers on the Great Lakes. Anybody know the names of those two aircraft carriers? You think we pulled a couple of big old aircraft carriers? Oh, wait a minute, that's right. At the beginning of World War II, we only had three attack aircraft carriers in the Pacific, didn't we? Well, then what were the two aircraft carriers that we had in the Great Lakes on Lake Michigan? What were they? Oh, you don't know about those! Well, here's why you don't know about those, because there were a couple of side paddle wheel steam ships back in the pre-work period. We needed aircraft carriers and they looked at the ships that were available and it was like wow Look at this. We got a couple of you know, well, we got a couple engineers involved and the control of the ship is pretty straightforward And this would be easy to retrofit. So guess what they did they put flying taking off and landing deck a big old landing deck on two different steam paddle boats and Big Great Lakes cruisers, which eventually would be caught, if they had been retired otherwise, they would have become cargo haulers. Because that's what happens. Usually on the lakes they go from being commerce slash people movers to eventually the equivalent of garbage cows hauling debris, old wood, junk wood, coal, trash, whatever. These were good sized side wheel ships on the Great Lakes. It took a very short period of time. for the Navy to contract and to get these two ships converted into aircraft carriers. And your grandfather, or your father if you're old enough, actually learned to fly off a couple of paddle wheel ships stuck on the Great Lakes. No way! Yes way. Now, this is the tier 2010, so we don't have a whole lot of paddle wheelers laying around. But let me point something out. We've got a whole lot of super freighter hulls hanging around out there, guys. Big ol' super freighter hulls. If you have seen the pictures of the ghost fleet, look up, Chinese ghost fleet. Consider this. Capital ships, which is what we're talking about. Capital ships. are the easiest to fill in, so to speak, if you can focus all your resources. But the yeoman of the fleet, the destroyer, the frigate, the cutters, the minesweepers, they all take a lot of time because you've got to keep cranking them out and you've got to come up with a system to do that. And we did. We had the Liberty Ship process and we built the Fletcher's and they're a variation on the theme. But the Flush Deck Fletcher destroyers, guys. But anyway, the point is that this time around, everybody playing this game has already built up the technology for the lesser ships they needed in volume. And now they're turning their eyes... I wonder why they're doing this... Oh, wait a minute. Usually that's a benchmark for war. Well, now they're turning their eyes towards capital ship construction. Timing is everything. Big old super tanker... How long? I won't say super tanker. A super container ship. How long do you think it would truly take to convert one over in a... China doesn't have to wait for permission. And China doesn't have to wait for an attaboy or whatever. Another thing to remember is kiss. Keep it simple, stupid. One thing about weapon systems is remember today because all of these companies, including China Sport, the United States government's contractors, all sell modular systems. They're not stupid. You already have a ship. I just want to try and sell something to you to keep my factories running. So what they're going to do is look at, oh, by the way, we have a variable geometry mounting platform. And we can build a platform that allows our modular gun system to be dropped right into your deck. Everything just drops in like you're putting a new tooth in an old jaw. And pop, pop, boom, boom. You got yourself a fighting ship. Well, let's see a couple of a couple of missile platforms air defense guns a couple of elevators a flying off deck and recutting the bridge and Gee Dave I think I could take one of those big super freighters and make it a one hell of a decent super carrier out of it. I'm pretty much I would think yeah complete And think about it three to five years to build one. Yeah, so why way again for everybody who doesn't understand let's let's let's also point this out the battle of Midway in the battle of Midway both sides well I remember the Japanese their entire carrier strike force that they used was decimated was with the fact that the pride of the Japanese fleet the least the first generation that started World War two Was either battle damaged or sent to the bottom at that man that action But remember, we lost carriers too. So on both sides, a mad rush to replace carriers took place. Now one little thing we should tie in. At the beginning of the war, anything from pre-World War II, nothing was thrown away. What was called the floating iron, which was the aircraft carrier that taught most carrier pilots in the US before the beginning of World War II. was in service and was destroyed in the South Pacific at the very beginning of the war after Pearl Harbor. It was still in service and still flying planes and still being used as a combat ship. It was built just after World War I. What we had to do immediately, though it's not talked about as much, is a series of independent classes and short classes of ships were built based upon freighters and equipment that were already floating. Was it the best available? Yes. Was it the best that could be made? No. It was the best that could be made at the time and it was mostly conversions. Now, a variation on this would eventually graduate from being home-built from existing ships, which were quick converts, which by the way in many cases were sunk almost as quickly as they were built. The very sad nature of war and how it works, as we've told everybody before, you build it, it becomes a threat, somebody breaks it. Oh, but we sank all theirs. Yeah, and they sank a whole bunch of ours too. That 1942 period is the era that they don't do a whole lot of movies about, especially the modern movies, because it's not a win-win, win-win, win-win. It's you bite them, they bite you twice. You bite them twice, they bite you three times. You bite them three times, they bite you once. Back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. The best example of that is, and again I'm noticing Dave that there's, I push history for a reason because I'm always fasting how they're trying to make things disappear. There was a thing called the Iron Bottom Sea off Guadalcanal. See if you can find any real good in-depth information on that. My dad was on a destroyer escort during the war. And one thing he said in one of the most impressive sites, they ran that, threw up and down the slot, that destroyer, because they were a DE, a destroyer escort, transports and supports troopships, cargo ships, and gets you to where you need to go. Okay, that's its job. Its job is to take a torpedo if it looks like a troop ship is going to die. Its job is to get hit first. The Iron Bottom Sea, as they called it, he said, you never saw cruisers, battle wagons, light carriers, cargo ships, destroyers, every hundred yards, every couple hundred yards. It was fresh because that battle was going on. They literally bow sticking up out of the water, rear ends of the ship, laying on their side, mass like forests of trees. The mass, the radar mass and the control mass from ships like forests of trees sitting just off the bottom and exposed above to the air. That's all that could be seen of these ships sunk over and over. How many more? The actual actions are clouded in smoke intentionally because we have to get to the rah-rah phase. And we're going to want to take the islands. Yeah, we were, but let's talk about the area and era in between. Contrary to what everybody thinks, it wasn't a, well, Japanese bomb pro harbor, and then we just walked our way across the Pacific. There's a lot of men buried between one step of walking across the Pacific and the last step walking across the Pacific. Now, anybody that's stupid enough to let an aggressor build up a force like this, you then have to look at it as an act of treason, but that's not all that they did. Just like they've done with Japan, we did with Japan before World War II, when they had them making copies of our cigarettes, copies of our liquor, copies of our manufactured items of all categories, they never saw a patent they respected. Now, gee, isn't that a model we're using with the Chinese right now, guys? It sure is. Smoke on the horizon here, Mark. Let me give you the quotes today. Copper, $3.22 a pound. Nickel, $9.37 a pound, which was eight something last week. Aluminum, remember, and zinc and lead were all at 80 cents. Well, aluminum's today at 91 cents. Zinc is 87 cents. and lead is $0.90. And your favorite stock you said you wanted to keep watching was North Fork Grumman speaking of ships and sinking stuff. Folks, we reported a week ago that Grumman has now announced its closing. Its shipbuilding port down near New Orleans. It's going to close it down and move everything out. and it's going to be releasing its report of state of affairs and its conditions this coming Thursday, the 29th. Gee, just when there's supposed to be a stock market upset. I think this is going to be the one to upset the market. Guess what they've been doing since we last reported the downturn over a week ago where it was going down down. Well, since then it's been going up, up, up, up. Today it closed out $59.04. They're pushing the suckers. Bye, bye, bye because we're going to dump it on Thursday. And let's not forget we had the end of the month here coming up guys. That's the most important thing with what we see happening is with the end of the month, July into August, where the clock is also ticking, as we said the month is wearing down, but the clock is also ticking towards the end of the fiscal year and it's not looking happy campers at all anywhere. And if you were to turn the shipping yards over to China, that ought to make you really happy folks. Well, and an interesting thing on that note for those people who are not up to speed on this yet, one of the other aspects of what's going to happen here, and this is something that I wouldn't be surprised about at all, is that what's going to transpire here, guys, is what we saw happen with Tarkom, Tank Automotive Command. Now, and supposedly other American companies might actually pick up the slack. Well, everybody, and I'm going to warn everyone because this is an industrial history point remaking itself again like an instant replay circa the late 80s. Tank automotive command was shut down and worn. No Americans were allowed to look at any of the industrial machinery which had taken 50 to 60 years for us to build up. Machines that were four, five, six, and seven stories tall that should have been bid out to American companies inside the United States. Instead, through these acts of treason, the Japanese and the Chinese came in first. And guess who got the majority the lion's share? The Chinese. They literally walked away with the tank automotive from it. These are machines that built the Abrams tank, by the way, for most people don't understand that. The Chinese came in, American journeymen disassembled the factory, carried away the cream of the machinery. To go to ports, to go to Communist China, by the way a percentage under Communist Chinese operation went to Egypt by the way, most people don't know that. But guess what, the rest left the country and then the table scrapings, which was still heavy equipment by our standards, the table scrapings were offered up through the Department of Defense auctions and other GSA auction services. The prices were fantastic, but as I kept pointing out, in fact, one young man I knew created an entire business based upon what he bought from the auctions. He bought the machinery and he actually then produced buildings, manufactured buildings, to put the stuff in that he had purchased. Through the process, he was able to step by step build up an entire industrial sales project that helped to support other companies who for a short period of time were still operating in the United States. Keyword is short period of time. What is fascinating about this, Dave, is that we're seeing the same thing now with the shipbuilding operations. If they are going to bring in And if they're going to actually engage us in this way with regard to the activities in America with the K, one of the things that's going to have to happen here, and we know it, is that they're going to have to break down the other part of what's left of our heavy industrial base, and that's our ship production. That's where they're headed right now. That's what they're doing. And it's not enough. It's not kind of. It's not sort of. This is what's happening right now. So, the only thing I can say to that is, guys, you know, better get your act together and pay attention here. I'm talking about guys in industry because they're not protected either. There's nothing going to be protected by what they're doing. In fact, just in reverse, they're going to do everything in their power to try and do damage to the system the rest of the way. That's what I see. That's the writing on the wall here. And it's sad because most everybody can see and understands this. The biggest problem is, who do you talk to? Who do you turn to when you see this kind of betrayal? That's what people are asking. Who do you turn to? Where do you go? Because there's no one that's going to be willing to actually stand up. If they follow the old program, which is one of my biggest problems of this scenario, if they keep following the old program, they're going to figure that, well, we've never seen this before. How could they let this happen? This can't be happening. This can't be happening. Not only is it happening, but guys it's happening through intent. This is not an accident. This is not something that just happened, we just have to stumble into. It's just a reverse. This is a complete planned action on the part of the globalist. And I don't think anybody should blanket this. This change of horse, especially with regard to national offense, is something that is askew. It's something that's not normal. It's something that everybody should be looking at and going, Hey, there's something wrong here maybe. We know there is. But in the process, everybody's going to have to make a decision here about where they're going to go. Well, what are we going to say? What are we going to do? How are we going to deal with this? The stock market, one of the things that reason I asked to bring up the issue about the stock market on a regular basis is because it's a gambling casino run by the ring knockers beyond a shadow of a doubt in the past. There are some people who could challenge us on this and say, oh no, no, it's an open competition thing. No, everything's warm and fuzzy. It's hitting the ball. BS, excuse me. You know what I mean. That's nonsense. Instead, beyond the shadow of doubt, these characters have orchestrated a particular crisis. It definitely is going to cause a lot of problems. Dave, the total number of jobs that are going to be lost by the shutdown that they're proposing right now. 100,000 jobs will be lost in New Orleans when they shut down that shipbuilding factory down there in what, Avon is it? Now, one of the reasons that this is important to understand is, the other part of this, is that it doesn't just affect the jobs that are direct. In other words, let's say that there are 5000 people that are building ships today for the United States Navy at whatever complex. Are they making $10,000 a year? No. Are they making $20,000 a year? No. I think they are making maybe $30,000, $40,000, $50,000 a year. That's probably low end. Now more than likely a lot of these people are unique tradesmen and in fact they are making a few dollars. They are making some shekels. They are doing well and because of that they buy things. Now, if you're going to take these jobs and ship them overseas to Communist China, which is really what the agenda is all about, guys, then the basic question you have to ask is, how many Chinese do you think are going to buy gas station in your gas station right now? Anybody? Is there anybody out there that thinks that there's a Communist Chinese businessman who's going to roll up from Beijing, bong bong, across the Pacific and buy from you? You all know better than that, don't you? So, if that's the case and that's part of the formula we need to look into here, then I guess we better consider the fact that these bad guys, whatever agenda they're pushing, it's not exactly going to bode well for the local infrastructure. See, there's a key word that nobody wants to use. If the local infrastructure is put to the test, how long will it last? Not very long, would it, Dave? What's coming here, Mark, also if they continue doing what they're doing, everything is going to be on schedule because the ring knocker said they were going to drive the price of gold down to $1,000 by mid-summer. That puts you right in the middle of August. It sure looks that's where they're headed with it right now because with gold now steadily going down and remaining for what three days now four days below twelve hundred. It apparently is heading for their anticipated goal and what they're planning on doing is to drive it back up just before elections to about thirteen hundred dollars an ounce and then say look at what we're doing for the economy vote for us. and We discussed before, John. That can happen. Anyway, well, Dave, I'll tell you what, anything closing before we go, please? No, I didn't really plan on doing anything. That's okay. I'll help Ed make sure all the links were up. Well, I'll just fiddle around here. Like I said, it's been an interesting day. I got stuff done I wanted to accomplish, but I will point out again, guys, that With the scenario played out the way it is tying all of these projects in. Overview. Massive merchant marine fleet now centralized with not a whole lot to do. Despite what they say about how, oh America is only 5% of China's economy as far as what they ship over here. Well maybe so but obviously everybody else is ground to a halt to the point where we're not buying and nobody else is buying all the other trinkets that all the other people were making which allowed China to sell to them. Now, there's a dangerous little rule here. When the commerce stops moving, when the products stop moving across the border, that's when armies start moving across the border. Recognize where that quote came from? It's very old by the way guys. As part of the old European philosophy of war, That's right. You might remember that before we had some guy by one day, we had Americans and we had European philosophers on the art of war. Many people who point this out actually, again, remind everyone that in order for you to cover bad economic times, you can scrape the board clean by shooting the snot out of everything and then forcing everybody to have to replace it. Well, it sounds to me, and again, maybe Mark's just so crazy here, but you know, I wanted to do this today, but we kind of got tied up with the technology, with the problems we got with the station. Guys, if you haven't watched Why We Fight, remember the old Why We Fight series, Dave? Yes, sir. In the Why We Fight series, there's a whole section there on those bad Japanese and what they were doing before the war. And why we had to go do to them what we had to do to them, of course, now the slant back then is the same problem we have now. The Japanese could not have done what they did with cigarettes and liquor and what they were doing with their copies of things. Were it not for the fact that American companies first provided them with the basic tooling to make sure that they could produce those copies and in fact even told them what copies to make. Because they were helping to make that happen. Some of the companies that were screaming about the violation of their copyrights, by the way, were the same people who, oh my goodness, same people who were having the Japanese make the copies overseas. Now, Communist China, same story, different day people. What does that tell you? Oh, and by the way, remember we built the Kama River truck plant for the Communist Russians during the Cold War. The largest truck plant in history in the world. And we built it with GM tooling and GM technology at the behest of the ring knockers and of course with a wink and a nod from the UN. So the largest truck factory in the world would not be in the United States, it was not in Europe, but it was in the middle of communist China with a bunch of slaves who didn't have any work ethic because they were all told they were going to get paid no matter what under the socialist regime that they were working under. Isn't that fascinating? And now we have the largest GM of communist China. GM of America, the stocks are through the floor. GM of Communist China is pretty darn big and isn't it amazing who keeps supporting Communist China or Communist Russia or Communist everything? In American tanks, American planes are being made in other countries. Now they're going to make American ships in other countries too. We have full confidence in that technology, don't you know? Yes, there will be like inner tubes with leaky sides, you know, not really to run. Anyways, hammering the new order with Spike Kimmons. That's right. We are up. We are at the top of the hour. We should hear music in a second here. We are switching over to LTR at 8 o'clock. We probably will. But hold on, who have there? George and Texas. I was going to say one thing. With the payer list, all those trees are going on. Like I said, it goes against the Constitution. People don't think the arts and useful sciences, that's not for a cross-crest in a jar of urine. That's for the crafts and our workmen, our skills. The skilled tradesmen, the men who do the work, the men who actually made this country happen. Exactly. That's what it's all about. David, are you going to come up with me next hour? With Spike? Yeah. That's who you have. That's who's sitting there. Yeah, I'll be back with you. I'll come up with what? I'm this way. Okay, I'll tell you what, guys. Let's close this out because we're at the top right now. I've got to go over to the other line. Sounds good. God bless the Republic. Okay. That's the New World Order. Here we go. We shall prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The Empire is on the run. We're on the march, both day and night. Hoorah! Thank you to Spike. Dave, thank you for being here. Appreciate your help. God bless you. and again ladies and gentlemen stay tuned we're fixing things but apparently we're doing a little better than the power company is right now since we've had a few burps in the meantime here in Michigan with the power all over the state got a few flags from different people here through the program we'll be back eight o'clock but in the meantime pay attention the spikes gonna put a nail right through the head of the new world order in the next hour here bye bye thank you spike Check. you