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Welcome to your Monday, everybody.
Host C
It is Monday.
Host B
Thank you for joining us on Redacted. It's a busy week. If you've been following the news, you know there's been a busy weekend and we're on it. So what is actually happening in Iran? What are they trying to sell you about the revolution there? What are we to know? Because we're pretty sure that a lot of it's a psy up. But what is true? What's the kernel of truth? We're gonna try and sift through it. Also, Jerome Powell and the Federal Reserve is crying crocodile tears. Is it crocodile tears or alligator tails? It's crocodile tears.
Host C
Crocodile tears, yeah.
Host B
About being persecuted by the Trump administration. Okay, but we hate the Fed. So what are we supposed to do with this? We're going to talk about that.
Host C
We're also concerned about the United States used directed energy weapons in Venezuela. That has now been confirmed. And we're going to talk about all of the pieces of this. There's a lot of people online, they're saying, look at this. This is brand new technology. The United States is untouchable. Not so fast. This technology is actually almost 20 years old or even older. And China and Russia have also been using this technology on top of it. But it's actually pretty haunting when you hear some of these stories coming out of the Venezuelan soldiers. And exactly what happened? Bleeding from the nose, total disorientation, nausea. The entire network was totally shut down. So we're gonna talk about all of that and more on today's show.
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Host C
Alligators and crocodiles. Trip says don't be racist against alligators. It is crocodile tears, but don't be racist against alligators.
Host B
I apologize. I apologize about that.
Host C
People are saying, yeah, Mossad instigating protests in Iran like always. Yeah, well, yeah, and MI6 and the CIA. But also, we're going to reveal some new information today that hasn't been reported anywhere else, according to our own sources that might surprise you about what's actually happening on the ground and in Iran. We're going to get to all of that in a second. But first one, tell you about our friends over at Bearskin because you all know about the bearskin hoodie. I saw one of our viewers show it to me, said, I got one for myself and my son. We absolutely love it. And right now you can get 60% off the bearskin hoodie. What is it? Oh, man, this thing is like a tank. 340gsm bearskin fleece, 10 pockets, a muscular fit, even zips into the heavy storm rain jacket to turn into full winter waterproof armor. Whether you're in hiking, hunting, traveling, or just hate being cold, this is the last hoodie that you will ever need. You get free US Shipping, fast delivery and you're finally kitted out properly for this winter. It's a win, win. I wear it every day walking my dog. I absolutely love it. And when you shop Bearskin, you're not just getting killer gear, you're also getting. You're supporting the fallen outdoors and the Hope for the Warriors Veterans program. So right now, do yourself a favor. Text the word redacted to 3,6,9,12 to lock in your 60% off. Again, text the word redacted to 3,6,9,.12, you get a link sent straight to your phone. You can check it out or check it out later if you're watching our show. So don't wait till it's freezing to realize that your hoodie sucks. Get a bearskin 60% off. Text the word redacted 3, 6, 9, 12 and we'll have links in the description if you are busy right now.
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Host C
Kind of frightening. Um, all right, well, let's talk about this. So neocons like Lindsey Graham are just salivating right now about what's happening in Iran right now, hoping for a regime change. And the ongoing protests over the weekend gave plenty of fuel to their fire. So let's talk about what's actually happening in Iran, Iran right now, because your timeline is being flooded with rage bait and all sorts of fake news clips, old clips. If you've been online the past few days, you've seen the clips that Iran is exploding cities on fire, the people have risen up, the regime. The regime is finished. That's what you're hearing. A lot of that content is either mislabeled, it's years old, it's from a different country entirely, or it's edited to look like it's new. It's actually not. A lot of fact checkers have already tracked down where a lot of people are using older protest video from Iran. Sometimes the video is like, from totally other countries, but don't let facts get in the way. So it's crazy. This is the same thing, by the way, that happened in Venezuela two weeks ago. All these conservative influencers just keep sharing this stuff. A friend of the show, Glenn Greenwald, called them out. He's like, hey, yeah, just keep sharing all this fake news. Like, why do you keep putting this out there? This is fake. This is years old video, but it doesn't matter. So what is real? Well, according to our sources, Iran is going dark digitally on purpose. Other news organizations have reported a nationwide blackout when the Internet goes down or is being blocked. Of course, the information war gets turned up to 11. Got to fill that void. A lot of fake news, rage bait, and even satellite workarounds right now are getting squeezed. Reports today that Iran is not only shutting down normal Internet traffic, but also attempting to disrupt Starlink connections. We can tell you that Starlink service is being interfered with beyond just the normal basic G GPS jamming Our own sources are telling us that foreign partners are helping Iran with this blackout. China and Russia specifically helping to jam communications, satellite phones, satellite Internet and other links that are going out. You're hearing names like Starlink, Iridium in Morasat. So if those names pop up being blocked, what we can say again according to our own sources is that Iran is in an unusually sophisticated communications clampdown right now and on purpose to basically close down prying eyes looking into their country and information going out of their country. It's a two way street right now being closed down. China is the key player in this, in this jamming equipment that's being used right now. We're also hearing reports of concerning health risks within the radius of this equipment where it has been deployed. You know, just so you understand, we're talking about like if you think like 6G is terrifying on the human body, this is like 10, 10,000 times worse. China has flown several key sky freight. Let me say that again. China has flown several sky freight. Sky freight, freight I can't say because I'm jumping to the next word, flights. So sky freight flights with this jamming equipment into the country. Starlink, Iridium, GlobalSat, Inmarsat, Thuria. So that's the satellite communications piece as well as the Internet traffic piece of all of this. We've also got an update on the number of people killed in Iran. Now Iranian media is still publicly saying that only 500 people have been killed with 300 injured. Our source says that's not true. It's also not true what Mossad and CIA and MI6 are pushing out. They're pushing out numbers that are being shared across social media to the Mockingbird media. The Mockingbird media loves to run with whatever the CIA puts out there saying that 150,000 or 300,000 people are dead and 200,000 injured. That is also a lie. The actual number we can report according to our sources is 2,150 dead, 480 injured and 620 missing as of yesterday. Those numbers are as of yesterday across 11 cities in Iran. Now a lot to unpack here. Again a lot. So a lot of misinformation being shared online. But hey, it also helps to actually go to Iran and report on the ground. And that's exactly what our next guest has just done. Dr. Miram Hous, a reporter who was just in Iran has been covering the destructions from the last round of Israeli bombings on civilian infrastructure, specifically on residential buildings. And some of the videos that she's been sharing are just Horrifying of children's strollers strewn across the street. Horrible stuff. She goes by the name of Syrian girl online. Doctor, great to have you here on the show. Thank you so much for joining us.
Dr. Miram Hous
Thank you so much for having me. I'm really glad to be here.
Host C
So you just returned from Iran. Can you tell us what is it like right now on the ground? What are you hearing from just the people? There's so much misinformation and disinformation and lies being spread online. What can you tell us?
Dr. Miram Hous
Well, when I went there, everything was pretty normal. I was actually very impressed at how advanced everything was. I was able to take the metro and, you know, here, where I live in the city I live in, in Australia, we actually don't have a metro system at all. So I was impressed with that. I was impressed with the infrastructure and the fact that I went there in my capacity as a scientist. There was a science award being given out, and I actually had to force one of the girls that were working for this science award. It's called the Mustafa Prize, kind of like the Nobel prize that Iran hands out to come with me out of this conference and go shopping, because I wanted to see things, and I just didn't want to go around alone. And, yeah, I was really happy to see economically, it seemed like business as usual. There was no blackouts. There was really nothing to protest about because women, actually, we discussed this in the conference. They were graduating university at percentages higher than men, and they were dominating in the science field. And they were talking about, we have to encourage more of our boys to pursue advanced learning, and they can walk around without scarf. I mean, I thought that growing into it, I was bringing very modest clothing. And as soon as I got even into the plane, I realized that maybe I had been propagandanized about how the laws are there so women are able to walk around with their hair showing and nobody's getting beaten up. None of that, as we're being told in the media. So what is this protest really about? Because they're telling us, you know, they're pushing radical feminists in our face, saying, like, we want to. Like. I don't know if you guys remember pussy riots in Russia.
Host B
Yes.
Dr. Miram Hous
And how they were, you know, masturbating with chickens in the supermarket. And I think that that's the level of freedom that they're seeking for women. Like, they're seeking for onlyfans to be pushed onto all Iranian women. So that, like, this Israeli guy, or is it like an American Zionist Jewish man, he Takes all the money from Onlyfans and he gives it to Israel. And that's what they want to do. They want to open the market of females in Iran and exploit them in the way that the rest of the world is being exploited.
Host C
Yeah. Onlyfans has been so great for American women. Right? I mean, it's been. Yeah. So you can imagine why a country doesn't want that kind of filth in their country, like Russia does not want that filth in their country is shocking. Go ahead. I'm sorry.
Dr. Miram Hous
No, please. It's good to have the banter. But yeah, Iran doesn't want that either. And I just think that what is this really about? It's about opening the economy. It's about opening the mentality of people to this hegemon, this liberal world order, forcing them to have McDonald's, forcing them to have global like oil markets. And you know, as they're doing now with Syria, they're controlling the oil, they're controlling the production. And they actually shut down Syrian owned nationalized oil refineries that are perfectly fine. So that some American company, I forget which one it was, I'm not going to say which one it was, can build a new one so that they can control the outflow of oil and how much profit comes out of it. So this is Iran is really about Israel because all of these wars are about Israel at the end of the day. And if you have Lindsey Graham, he will explain that to you. They want to protect the Zionist entity, unfortunately, because the Zionists in the United States are very powerful. The Zionist lobby dominates US politics and it drives the US into multiple wars, including the Iraq war, including the war on Syria. And the greatest irony is in Syria the they actually supported Al Qaeda and all of these very oppressive to women groups. Meanwhile, women are getting kidnapped all over Syria and trafficked by the militias that are backed by Israel and the US and they pretend to care about women in Iran. It's the same story. It's about selling it to the West. It's about selling the regime change to the West.
Host B
I'm trying to connect the dots between what we actually know, because we know two years ago the Washington Post exposed that the CIA through Graphica and Stanford Labs were doing psyops in Afghanistan and Iran to begin with. And a lot of the psyops were, hey, here's a recipe. But also, let's overthrow the Shah because we feel oppressed. So we will never know because the CIA was created in order to subvert these governments. We just like in Syria Baathist government wanted prosperity for Syrians and we couldn't have that. In Iran there was prosperity to the point that the Shah wanted to create deserts, farmland out of deserts. They thought they had so much money that they could do that. But we don't know the will of those people. We only know what our government tells them that they would want, tells us what they want and then the fact that they are under crippling sanctions from us. So how can we know anything other than those few facts at the nucleus of what we're trying to find out?
Dr. Miram Hous
So this is exactly how sanctions work and how they work in Syria. They just, they starve people to the point where they become desperate and malleable to ideas and money from outside. So you know the so called rebel militias in Syria, like they were getting paid $150 a month by the CIA, by the Pentagon. And this is on record like this on a conspiracy theory. So if you look up Operation Timber Sycamore, one of the groups they were paying ended up heading a 12 year old boy in Aleppo. So they. On camera. So the thing is that the sanctions are designed to cause the instability and they blame the starvation on the government.
Host C
Well, that's what we're saying in our chat room. They're like, people don't have food. Someone in our chat room just said, yeah, people don't have food, they don't have water, they don't have. So again, you take away basic services through sanctions and you make it look like it's part of the government. Is that true?
Dr. Miram Hous
I think it's kind of accelerated since the couple of months ago that I was there because I didn't see any issues with the water or electricity. But I've heard there's been an acute crisis of water in Iran recently. And I think I even saw some of these CIA, Mossad backed individuals purposely dumping water and wasting water as a argument against the regime. I mean, it's on Twitter if you want to see protesters, wastewater. So, you know, luckily it's colder now. There's not going to be as much, you know, people dying of thirst, I suppose. But this is all part of the war machine against Iran. And what we know is Netanyahu has been begging the US to go to war with Iran for decades and he's one of film doing that. And Charlie Kirk fought against that, he resisted that and he would have been a voice against this going on now. And my sources tell me the war is coming very shortly and this whole attempted regime change operation, I mean, it's not just protesters. People need to understand, like in Syria as well, it wasn't just protesters. There were these gun runners sending in weapons through the border. For Syria, it was through Turkey, and for Iran, it's through Iraq and Turkey, I think, because they're using Kurdish militias as well.
Host C
So you're hearing from your sources in Iran that war is coming, they are preparing for war.
Dr. Miram Hous
No sources in the Middle east thought it would be more specific and that there is like some preparations, defensive preparations for war by the end of the month. I think, you know, for Iran, unfortunately, like, they're kind of in. They've issued a fatwa against nuclearization. Be saying that it's an indiscriminate weapon. And I feel that, you know, the sites that you guys discussed, where I went to inside Iran, it was locations, neighborhoods that like entire residential buildings and like surrounding residential buildings that were completely demolished because one scientist lives there. And I again, like, I went there in my capacity as a scientist as well as a journalist for the science award. And yeah, so we visited the homes of these scientists that were murdered and their families. And yeah, they just, they are doing peaceful nuclear power. And that is kind of helpful to the countries because it doesn't have to have any oil restrictions, it doesn't have to have any power cuts. And of course, making sure that Iran does have power cuts is something that would be beneficial to the Mossad and Israelis and the CIA because then they can push for their color revolution. But if they have nuclear power, that's going to make it very hard to do so. But yeah, when I say, unfortunately, I do think that they should nuclear, I do think that they should have the bomb because I think that unfortunately we live in a world where if you don't have the bomb, your country is going to be destroyed and Israel has illegal nuclear weapons. And there has to be some sort of a balance to that because Israel, as we saw, is committing a genocide, is completely unhinged. It is basically the Jewish ISIS and the Jewish, I like to say the Jewish state in the Levant. I think Max Blumenthal kind of coined that one. But it fits. It really fits. And so there needs to be some sort of a balance. And Iran, once it's taken out, that balance is gone.
Host B
Well, I mean, think about the logic here. It would be hysterical if it wasn't about human lives because Israel saying, and the United States are saying, we really care about Iranian lives and we don't want to see this protest and it's about us. And you're like, how Is it about you at all? But, okay, you're going to sell me this idea. We really care about Iranians, so we're going to bomb them with a nuke. I cannot. You know, I don't understand. We really care about spiders, so we're gonna use Raid and kill all those. I can. Can you follow this? What logical person could?
Host C
It's like King George in the Hamilton musical where he's like, I'm gonna kill.
Host B
Your friends and family to remind you of my love. Yes.
Host D
Right.
Host C
I'm gonna send a fully armed battalion to remind you of my love. Like, that's what it sounds like. Lindsey Graham will come save you.
Dr. Miram Hous
I'm gonna have to. That sounds hilarious and very accurate.
Host B
Right, okay, so who. What idiot follows that? Like, oh, yes, we love them. Let's bomb their country for their safety.
Dr. Miram Hous
If you were to look at X, you would think that millions of idiots follow that. And I wonder if. The amount of my video has been getting almost a million views and I've gotten interviews because of it, but I wonder, like, I see some very fake videos getting 60,000 views, and it turns out like it's a bunch of men, like, throwing Molotov cocktails in the street. Like tens of Molotov cocktails. And you think, whoa, this is chaos. It turns out it's from Greece from a month ago. And I'm like, okay, why didn't I hear about these riots in Greece a month ago? Why isn't that all over the news? This seemed like it was huge. It seemed like it was a regime change, world ending thing that we never even heard about. But we're hearing about it now because it's like being applied to Iran.
Host C
Well, Mossad, Mossad and the CIA are working overtime in these propaganda campaigns. I mean, we spoke to a CIA whistleblower who said, you know, the CIA has an entire division devoted to this, to pushing these videos out. Mossad, I mean, we know now, under Netanyahu, they are actively working with the CIA in pushing out fake news and fake social media accounts and fake videos. So they'll have accounts that are like a year old, and they'll use those accounts and they'll push out these fake videos. So the bot army is very, very strong right now pushing for this war.
Dr. Miram Hous
And I wonder if American lives are going to be affected because of this war, because I think that Israel cannot fight this war with Iran by itself. Last time we saw the US intervene, and this time Iran has said that if the U.S. intervenes, they will retaliate at U.S. positions of course, they have their fleet in the Persian Gulf and they have been affected previously. Look at Iraq. When the US Assassinated Soleiman General Soleimani, Iranians completely decimated a US Military base. Well, it was actually occupied by the US Military, but it was built by Saddam Hussein, Al Assad Air Base. And while the air base was flattened, the only reason people survived was because they hid in a bunker that was built by Saddam Hussein to sustain airstrikes from the United States. So Iran is capable of inflicting damage. They just chose to avoid targeting the US because they know that the real hand behind this all is Israel. And this is a little beef between them in the United States.
Host C
So, yeah, we got to wrap it. I want to get you out of here. Thank you. Even so gracious with your time. I just want. I want to go back real quick on one thing. You said your sources in the Middle east are telling you that war is coming to Iran by the end of the month. And we have heard separately here at Redacted from sources in Israel who have told us the very same thing. The 30th or 31st January. And of course, President Trump likes to, when he wages one of these wars, likes to start it, or on a Friday night into a Saturday morning when the markets are closed. That would be the 30th of January, 31st of January. So that's what you're hearing as well.
Dr. Miram Hous
That or before that.
Host C
All right, Doctor, thank you so much for joining us. We really appreciate it. Thanks for your on the boots, on the ground experience in Iran. Thank you for sharing that. We really appreciate it.
Dr. Miram Hous
Thank you. I'm honored to be here. Thanks a lot. Thank you for peace for all of us.
Host B
Yes. Yes.
Host C
That's a good way to end it. Thank you so much.
Host B
Yeah, she was great. I really appreciate that perspective. And that's our experience, too. Every time we go to the Middle East, I'm like, you can't wear those shorts, Clayton. We can't have this. Right. We have this idea that we have to. That we're going to be. Go ahead.
Host C
Well, I was gonna say her point is well taken. She's like this idea that they want, like, liberal, like liberal feminism. She's like, they don't want that.
Host A
Yeah.
Host C
They don't want these, like, you know, the stuff that we saw in Russia, the, as she called it, the Pussy riots. That's what they were called.
Host B
Right.
Host C
You know, and also like the march on the Washington, D.C. women that wore, like, those pink hats.
Host B
It's been great for us yeah, it's.
Host C
Been terrible for the United States and like, oh, so wait a minute. Iranian women don't want actually to be on Only Fans. Like, everyone should be on Only Fans. Like. All right, anyway.
Host B
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Host B
All right, a major battle unfolding between the Trump administration and the Federal Reserve. Fed Reserve Chair Jerome Powell issued a rare statement over the weekend saying that he had been subpoenaed by the Justice Department tied to his testimony before Congress about upgrades to Federal Reserve buildings that were not on time and on budget. Here is what he says.
Jerome Powell
This unprecedented action should be seen in the broader context of the administration's threats and ongoing pressure. This new threat is not about my testimony last June or about the renovation of the Federal Reserve buildings. It is not about Congress's oversight role. The Fed, through testimony and other public disclosures, made every effort to keep Congress informed about the renovation project. Those are pretexts. The threat of criminal charges is a consequence of the Federal Reserve setting interest rates based on our best assessment of what will serve the public, rather than following the preferences of the President. This is about whether the Fed will be able to continue to set interest rates based on evidence and economic conditions or whether instead monetary policy will be directed by political pressure or intimidation.
Host B
Okay, so if the president is in fact threatening lawfare, that would be wrong. But Powell saying that the Fed serves the interest of people, I can't even say it with a straight face. That's the real joke. They are also a financial cartel that has never acted in our interest. So what should we take of this? Are we going to take sides? Because it seems like we lose either way. Economist Peter St. Onge joins us to discuss. He says that Fed chair here looks like he's part of a hostage situation or what? How did you say it on X? Like, are we really going to, what do we do here.
Peter St. Onge
Yeah. It looked like a hostage video. I'm assuming it's not, but, yeah. You know, Powell just look like, you know, he looked pretty depressed there.
Dr. Miram Hous
Yeah.
Peter St. Onge
You know, in terms of. So he's obviously going to claim that, Right. He's going to say, this is not about the specific crime I'm accused of. This is a bigger picture that, you know, Donald Trump is crazy, but this is really about the Fed going rogue. Right Now, Powell claims that this is about the Fed setting monetary policy. Trump has made no secret that he's, you know, been putting pressure on the Fed to lower interest rates. The thing is, we kind of zoom out for this. Whether or not, you know, this is about testifying in Congress over this renovation. That, by the way, the renovation was two and a half billion. That's like two and a half football stadiums worth of money. Okay. For those little bitty Fed buildings. So, I mean, those are some pretty goofy numbers. And, you know, the Fed's got its little slush funds. You know, it bribes thousands of macro economists in the country. That's why academic economists always say that the Fed is useful. But whether or not this is about the Fed playing games and, you know, snookering money, or whether this is about the Fed doing their job, I would argue the Fed should be under indictment for its actual monetary policy. When you look at what they've done, every single crisis in this country, the Fed was complicit in it. It either caused the crisis like the 2008 crisis, or it financed the crisis like the COVID lockdowns. If in the beginning of COVID right, when everybody was talking about locking down, just imagine the government meeting in a world that we didn't have a Fed. You would have some junior bureaucrat and he would say, hey, I got a really cool idea. Let's shut down the entire economy. Let's make it illegal for 50 or 100 million people to work. And everybody say, well, what are you, taxes? He'd say, that's okay. We can just lay off all the federal workers. We don't really need that much tax. All right, that guy is out of the room and he is exiled to Guam. He is off the bus. Instead, what happened is they had a Fed. And the Fed said, whatever you need. Right? And it ended up being a six and a half trillion dollar blank check that they wrote in order to finance the COVID lockdowns, the totalitarianism, the whole nine yards. And we ended up paying for it in the form of inflation. Right? So Biden's long Years of inflation. All of that was because of the Fed's blank check. So just with COVID we can put on them, right? We had the totalitarian lockdown financed by the Fed like every single crisis since 1913, including World War I. So we had the crisis itself. We had the economic collapse, all the businesses that went under. You know, people commit suicide when they get laid off when their business goes under. Okay? This has serious human consequences. Plus the inflation. All of that is on the Fed. And that's one episode. We can go back 2008, 1991, the 1970s. You can just keep going. Since the Fed was created, it's not constitutional. The way it acts is essentially a mafia. It redistributes assets from the poor to the rich, particularly Wall street and rich people who get cheap loans. It's a mess. I hope that this is the beginning of a conversation to getting rid of the thing.
Host B
But do you see it that way? Because if we're talking about wasteful government spending, why doesn't the Justice Department turn its eyes towards the military? We pay, you know, $100 for a 5 cent screw. That's the kind of inflation that is also put on American taxpayers. We don't see interested in that. And I think that you have said this before, that the Fed asks acts as the VC for every new war that Washington wants the venture capitalist. And so you know that that's getting off scot free. But we care about this one dumb building.
Peter St. Onge
Well, I mean we should care about them all. You know, I think that in terms of economic damage, if I had to rank them, I'm an economist, so I'm biased. But if I had to rank them, number one and two are going to be the Fed. It's interest rate manipulation and the fact that it creates, it creates both the inflation and the recessions, right? Those are 100% created. The Fed, that's a very big deal. It is probably up there with the income tax in terms of how it grows leviathan, how it finances those who would take our freedoms away. Now I've criticized frequently the military budget. I think it's bloated. I think there is a ton of corruption in there. I think it's like Somali daycare for. But you probably add a zero to it. I think without a doubt that was part of the subtext when Elon was pushing for Doge is that the entire government is corrupt. Governments have been corrupt for thousands of years. And the reason is because the people who own the government don't run it. Okay, so the People who are making the decisions on all of this, whether it's sourcing a $10,000 toilet seat at the Pentagon, the people who are making these decisions are not spending their own money.
Host E
Okay?
Peter St. Onge
It is built into the system. It is always going to do a crap job, and it's going to do it for 10x what it should cost. So without a doubt. Now, Elon, of course, you know, all the Republicans, at least they got up, they applauded. The Democrats didn't even do that right. They just said, no, no, we're going to fight this. The government needs to take more. The Republicans pretended to agree, and then they weren't there when Elon needed them. So, you know, the Somali daycare story that Nick surely broke, it's a big deal that's getting people talking about this again. It got derailed by the Maduro raid. So I, and many people are trying to bring it back to that much more important question of how do we get rid of the, say, one and a half trillion dollars that's going towards fraud? Some of it may be siphoned off the black ops. I don't have any information. I would not be shocked if that's the case. But without a doubt, there's massive fraud and waste across the entire government.
Host B
So, okay, let's. Let's pretend that this really does bother the Trump administration and they really do want the Federal Reserve to be accountable, but they're not. They operate in secrecy. And so can we then force this? So, okay, let's take a silver lining. Can we force this conversation then, and tell us a little bit more. Remind us how they are allowed to operate in secrecy so we can all get collectively mad and make it happen.
Peter St. Onge
It's shocking. So Murray Rothbard. All right, so first of all, Ron Paul. Ron Paul, for years and years, he would sit there in Congress and he would ask Federal Reserve chairs questions, and the Federal Reserve chairs would just look at them with a smirk, like Ben Bernanke's famous smirk, and he would say, I'm not going to answer that. Okay. They don't have to answer it. Murray Rothbard used to talk about. He's got a great book called the Case against the Fed. Highly recommended it for, for anybody who doesn't hate the Fed yet. And he talks about the fact that the Fed has more secrecy than the CIA.
Host B
Yeah.
Peter St. Onge
Now they say they need it because. Yeah. And literally the reason that they say they need the secrecy is that they have to deceive markets. They call it forward guidance. Okay. So the idea is that we can't let anybody know what's really happening here. For example, we can't let them know that all of the major banks are bankrupt or fractional reserve banking, meaning fictional reserve banking. We can't let people know that. We can't let people know what's happening under the hood because people will freak out. And then we'll get these Sunday night press conferences where the Fed Chair and the Department of Treasury, they get up there and they tell everybody that everything's fine, and the next week you lose your life savings. So they are created to be independent. The way they put is independent politicians. But think about that. If you're independent of politicians, who are you? Who are you serving? Yeah, the politicians represent the voters. They don't do it very well. Okay? But the only voice that voters have, and allegedly we're a democracy where the voters are sovereign. The only voice the voters have is politicians, the Motley Crue in Congress and the President. All right, so if the Fed is independent of politicians, they are independent of voters. In a democracy, you have arguably the most important government function, which is manipulating the economy. They shouldn't be doing it, but they are doing it. So one of the most important government functions, and it's independent of voters. What is this? Now? It's clearly unconstitutional, right? There is nothing in the Constitution. So the way that the 10th Amendment of the Constitution works is that it says if it's not listed in the Constitution, the federal government cannot do it. Again, there's about 20 things listed, like military and borrowing money, sadly, post offices. Okay? There's about 20 things listed in the Constitution. The only thing that has to do with money is minting gold and silver coins that have accurately. Are accurately labeled for the amount of gold and silver in them, which at that time is what regulating meant, making them regular. Now, regulating means controlling because they redefine the word. But there is no further function for the federal government, which means that the Federal Reserve, it is unconstitutional. Unconstitutional. It is illegal. I would prefer, you know, if they're going after him for congressional testimony, personally, I would prefer they go after for rico, because it is a counterfeiting operation. It is not constitutionally valid.
Host B
I agree. I agree. Okay, so, you know, maybe this is. It's a. It's an in. It's a start. Is that how you see it?
Peter St. Onge
That's. That's the hope. That's exactly it. There's an Overton window on every conversation where if you talk outside of that, everybody thinks you're a crazy person. So, for example, I Think we should get rid of the income tax. Okay, but before Donald Trump for sure. That was if you told people that, they just thought you were a crazy person. Okay, now we're getting close to starting to have that conversation because in the past couple of weeks, it's turned out we have something like a trillion and a half dollars of fraud and waste. That's darn close to what the income tax collects. Okay, so you want to keep an eye out for these events where the conversation starts to broaden and people start to say, hey, wait a minute, maybe we don't need this stinking. Now that happened in 2008 with the Fed. They screwed up so bad, right, by causing that financial crisis. Essentially they told Wall street, listen, you guys can go balls to the wall on risk. If you win, you keep the money. If you lose, we'll cover it. Don't worry about it, guys. So what do you think they did, right, that got the conversation? It sort of jumped out of the box, came out of that Overton window. And you had people on the right and the left who were angry. She had Occupy Wall street on the left, you had the Tea Party on the right. They were on the same team. They were starting to kind of look at each other a little, you know, flirty looks across the room. They were starting to get together.
Host A
Boom.
Peter St. Onge
That's when the banks, they went, woke. They went hardcore with the, with the social policy stuff. Everything was gay. Okay. Because they saw that happening. They were like, we have got to divide the people. So I think absolutely, this kind of conversation, the illegality of the Fed, the inherent illegality of it, I think is a very important conversation here. And the next step is to get people to understand how much damage the Fed does. All the inflation, all the growth in government, all the recessions, the financial crises, those are all the Fed.
Host B
Yeah. All right, well, let's continue to scream it from the rooftops then. We'll keep doing it. And the Fed. All right. I love talking to you. Happy New Year. I hope we do so. Several times in the year 2026, we'll keep screaming from the rooftop.
Peter St. Onge
We're like 12 days in, a lot has happens.
Dr. Miram Hous
I know.
Host B
Pretty nuts, I know. All right. No returns though. Your, your friendship redacted has been renewed. It's a non negotiable contract. So you're in. I'm sorry.
Host C
All right.
Host B
All right. See you again soon. Okay. Coming up, we're going to talk about how the state of New York doesn't want to hear about child abuse anymore. They're not going to fix it. They just don't hear about it. But before we do that, Clayton's going to tell you about gold and silver. Because speaking of the Fed, I mean, look at this.
Host C
Look at these numbers right now. This is the current numbers right now. This is live. Look right now, look at this. Gold prices 45.
Dr. Miram Hous
Holy cow.
Host C
I mean, look at silver prices all time high silver prices in the past few, past week or so. I mean, but look at that gold price. 4,500, right? This was what Goldman Sachs was telling us last year they were gold would hit $4,500 an ounce and people are like, no. And then boom, it went over 4,000. Then it was 4,200. Look at it today, $4,591. Why? Because let's be honest, the US dollar is in real trouble. Like if you're not paying attention to this, you are going to be screwed. I hope that you're protecting your family. Like if your family savings is sitting in US dollars right now, this is really about protection because it's great that gold's going up in value. That's great. I don't care, actually, I don't even care that silver has gone up. I look at it as a store of value. For 5,000 years, gold and silver have sustained and protected people in times of government collapse, fiat currency collapse, all of it. The US dollar is really on the precipice, guys. It is. Colonel McGregor last week said, he said he was speaking with a number of sources who were in Switzerland and they're all there collaborating and meeting right now trying to figure out how to stave off this massive depression that's about to hit. What can they do to try to stop it? Because everything that just happened in Venezuela is all about the US dollar. It is all about the petrodollar. So our friends at Lear Capital can help you. If you've got some savings in US dollars, they can help you transition over so you can actually own it. In precious metals, just think of it almost like it's like a one, one for one trade off. Take that US$1, turn it into gold or silver, have it stored at your house or stored off site and then you're protected. Right? The idea is protection and wealth preservation so that when this turmoil hopefully subsides in two years, three years, whatever, that you. Then if you want to transfer it back over to US dollars, great. And by then, God knows, I mean there's bank of America I think has projections of $6,000 an ounce for gold so just get on the phone with them and have a conversation with them to protect your family. See if you can work with them. If you can't, so be it. Then keep it in US Dollars. Like just ride the roller coaster of dollar fun if you want to, but just have a conversation with them. They're an American company and they will walk you through this process. There's the 800800 number on your screen. Call them. My whole family. We use Lierd 1-800-613-3557 for your free gold guide right. Now, look, I love that they have a gold guide that's predicting $4,200 an ounce. See, that was back when. Now they need to update their gold guide because it's now $4,500 an ounce. So go to learredacted.com the website. You can receive up to $15,000 in free bonus medals with a qualified purchase. Again, call them 1-800-613-3557. They have a whole team that's dedicated with our show and all of our great viewers who watch redacted. So give them a shout out.
Dr. Miram Hous
All right, all right.
Host B
Well, a new law in New York forbids anonymous reporting of child abuse on the grounds that it was disproportionately affecting black and brown families. So they were getting too many reports of child abuse from minority families. So they don't want to hear that anymore is basically what they're saying instead of, you know, saying, well, how do we protect these kids? They're like this.
Dr. Miram Hous
Hm.
Host B
We don't like these statistics. Imagine caring more about the reporting than the actual children. Here's the law just signed into legislation by Governor Hjol S550A. It says that child services will no longer accept anonymous tips of child abuse. So if you don't pass along contact information, they will not take action on your child abuse report. Here's how it specifically says will not be passed along. Now, why might you want to make an anonymous report of child abuse? Well, what if it's your husband? What if it's your wife? What if it's a family member and you don't want them to retaliate against you? You don't want to create more problems inside your family. What if it's your neighbor? Then you bring IR on you, right? There's obvious reasons why you might want to retaliate. Report something anonymously to protect the child. There's a whole 10,000 Maniac song about this. What's the matter here? Come on, you guys. So of Course, there. Why would New York not allow for this? This is a new bill introduced by Democrats. Of course. Here's the argument that was made. You can find it yourself. It says that according to the state anonymous child abuse tip lines produced inexcusable racial disparities. Like what? Like you're not asking more black people to report. They just are. How?
Dr. Miram Hous
Who? Excuse.
Host A
How?
Host B
And so what they're saying is that it leads to unnecessary interactions with child welfare services that can forever change a family because these children are too often removed from their homes due to a racial bias and conditions related to poverty. So they're not saying that child services is inappropriately taking these children out of the homes. They're saying the scrutiny itself is racist.
Host C
It's like that in Chicago. Remember the.
Host B
The traffic light?
Host C
Well, the traffic light, but also the gunshot detection system that there was. It was being reported as too racist because it was. It was picking up a lot of gunshots in, like, heavily black areas.
Host B
Right.
Host C
That's a. It's a racist gunshot system.
Host B
Right.
Host C
So let's scrap it. And now. And now. And by the way, these communities were pissed. They're like, no, no, now we're gonna have more crime.
Host B
Similarly, with the track of traffic lights in Chicago, they were saying too many black and brown people were, sorry, we're getting traffic tickets because of the cameras. Well, the cameras don't only take a picture if you're black or brown. Obviously, that. It was just that these are the people who were speeding and they said, let's not do this anymore. So then they got more traffic incidents, more speeding, more people running red lights. So in other words, New York is effectively arguing that the act of seeing poor conditions is harmful because of racial disparity. Well, who is it harmful to? The children that are being protected? Wouldn't a caring person say, huh? How can we make sure that we're capturing these children of all races? Maybe white children would benefit from more reporting. Who are we being left behind? Not like, oh, this is only affecting black and brown families, so we better not hear it any longer.
Dr. Miram Hous
So.
Host B
But that's exactly what they decided to do. This is willful blindness dressed up as equity. Why do you care what race the protected child is? They're clearly saying they care more about the race of the parents than the child, because the child. You shouldn't care what race they are. To protect them, you should protect them across the lines. So now critics are warning this will mean more child abuse, less reporting children quietly suffering because no one is allowed to look so way to go New York. Way to go to you. You really care.
Host C
Oh, all right. That was our daughter calling. You better go pick them up.
Host B
I got to go. Okay, then Clayton will tell you about masa chips. Yeah, there's no school bus.
Host C
There's no school bus this week. And yeah, so my daughter Ava, 13 year old, she's like, wait, wait, Mommy didn't leave yet. She's got to pick us up from school. Mom's got to pick us up from school. The bus isn't running this week. So what? She called and like rang my, you know, her phone and she didn't have it on silent. And I just texted. I said, I said, ava, don't call mommy's phone during the show. And she's like, what? Mommy hasn't left yet. Teenagers.
Host E
Hey, I get, I get it's. It's not quite weekly, but my daughter pops in all the time. She's like, just like, we'll be mid live show and she'll pop in into the office like, hey, dad, oh, are you live like, yes, like I am Every.
Host C
Every day at the same time. You know, they have a one track mind. Like, I mean, you know, they do not see everything else. They just see like their own little world, you know, as teenagers. But so I just texted her. Hold on, I just gotta text my daughter here. She's leaving now. Stop it. Anyway, there we go. Teenager catastrophe averted. All right, well, we got more news to get to here. I want to talk about directed energy weapons and the use in Venezuela. We're getting some new details about that. It's actually pretty stunning and a lot of people were surprised. Wait a minute. The US has directed energy weapons? Oh, yeah. Like we've been reporting on that for years here on this show. But okay, this is all news to some people on social media. We're going to talk about that in a second. But first, oh my gosh. Yeah, we watched some football yesterday and watched my Eagles lose miserably. But we did have some good food and I cracked out some masa chips. I'm telling you, I love these things. I just ordered my own new batch of them. And I ordered the white chips. These things are so delicious. These tortilla chips, I'm telling you, these things are delicious. My kids love them. And guess what? They're actually healthy for you. They contain just three ingredients. Organic corn, sea salt, 100% grass fed beef, tallow. They're not cooked in seed oils, no mystery chemicals, no 30 ingredients on the back of the bag. Just three ingredients. These chips don't avoid all the. They not only avoid all the bad stuff, they actually taste incredible as well. I'm telling you, they're crunchy and delicious, like the way that they should be. My son was cracking them the other day having some guacamole when we had like a taco night. He's like, man, these are good. Like, I know. Snacking on massive chips is nothing like eating regular chips. With Masa. You feel satisfied, light, energetic. No crash, no bloat, no gross sluggish feeling afterwards. And they also, if you love masa chips, by the way, you gotta love their Vandy Crisps. It's their sister company and they have the three ingredient potato chips. These things are delicious as well. Really, really good. I was eating their French herb, excuse me, the French onion ones the other night. Really, really good. So give them a try. By the way, if you don't want to order online, you can just go to your local sprouts supermarket and you can pick them up there as well. But right now, give them a try. Go to masachips.com redacted news and use the code redacted news for 25% off your first order. Or simply click click the link in the video description and I think you can actually set it up on a subscription so they'll send them. We eat a lot of chips in this house, so we've moved away from the seed oils. Because, man, when you hear RFK Jr. Out there talking about how bad that stuff is, you're like, oh, we got to get this crap out of my house, you know? So Masa chips, I don't feel guilty about it. If you're gonna have a few chips with your, with your taco night or something like that, try them. I'm telling you, they're absolutely delicious. So masachips.com redacted news or scan that QR code, get 25% off your first order. How's everyone doing in the chat room today? How's everyone doing? Great to see everyone. By the way, if you subscribe to the channel, it's free to subscribe. I think your name pops up here on the bottom of the screen. Yeah. So if you see names popping up here during the show, that's for people who have joined the rebellion. So thank you so much. It'll pop right up here on the screen. So thanks. We're closing in on, well, almost 3 million. 3 million subscribers on YouTube, upwards of. I think it's. Was it 500,000 or 600,000 or so on Rumble? I forget and on X. So thank you guys so much for your support. This show is suppressed on a regular basis. YouTube does its level best to never, ever, ever promote our show. So the fact that we have that many subscribers and all of your support really means the world to us because it is a suppressed show, really. Any of the big channels right now that are kind of up against the regime, kind of up against the CIA, up against the. The deep state gets suppressed on a regular basis. So thank you for your support. Really appreciate it. Really, really do. And by the way, you'll notice the ones that get amplified because they're parody, the Mockingbird Media ones do very well. It's curious, isn't it? How does that work? Mockingbird Media does very well, and YouTube loves to promote that. It's very interesting how all of that works. I think the Twitter files were pretty revealing, weren't they? All right, let's talk about directed energy weapons, shall we? Yeah. See, there we go. New person. Welcome to the rebellion. Thank you guys so much.
Host E
I was gonna say before. Before we go on to the next one, I also think, like, the. The Mockingbird media is. It's like baby food. And I think it's just like, for. For a lot of people, it's just so much easier to eat because it's already, you know, like, mashed up. And you don't have to think and you don't have to just. Just slop. It's just. It's just pureed pairs. That's basically all that is.
Host C
Yeah, it's just easier. And look, I often say this. I'll say this again, like, I. There's. There's people who are willfully ignorant on purpose, right? They. They do not want to see something. They don't want to see child trafficking. They don't want to see what's happening in Ukraine. They don't want to see what their CIA is doing to them. They don't want to study what's happening with chemtrails. They want to ignore all of it. Right? They just want to be willfully ignorant and go about their lives. And they know, and they block off that part of their brain. It's a psychological effect, really. People do that on purpose. And then there are people who are just ignorant. Not because. And I'm not saying, like, you're a fool in that way, but they're busy. They've got three kids. They have a job, they've got a family to run. They get like a few minutes in the day, maybe in their car to listen to the Radio the news on their drive. They put on NPR or something like that. And they don't know any better. And they, that's where they get their news from, like npr. Basically a USAID cutout of the CIA. Right. I mean, they're, they're, they're getting that parroted news so they don't go a layer deeper to see if it's actually true and who's funding it and where that money's coming from and actually funding this stuff. So, and I feel badly for those people. I have, I have empathy for those people, I always say, because they've got a busy life and, and so forth. So I want to thank the tens of thousands of you watching right now on rumble and on YouTube and X. You've taken time out of your day to hopefully educate yourselves. And we do our level best here to provide you with the facts. We are not Democrats. We're not Republicans. The UNI Party is a corrupt blob. And we just want to bring you the facts and you make your own decisions about how you vote or live your life. Now to this story. The United States used directed energy weapons on Venezuelan soldiers during its kidnapping raid to capture Nicolas Maduro. Redacted has independently confirmed this news from multiple sources. And what we can tell you is that this isn't new technology. And the United States has used it on multiple previous occasions that have gone unreported. More on that part of the story in a second. But first, what happened last week because even if you think you're pro this raid or anti this raid against Maduro doesn't matter, you should still be asking what in the world did the United States actually deploy in Caracas on January 3, 2026? And what is it? You know, what is it? And how did it work exactly? First, this was Operation Absolute Resolve, part of a larger Caribbean campaign. And the US used roughly 150 aircraft in strikes around Caracas before Delta Force and CIA operatives grabbed Maduro and Celia Flores and then flew them out. Reuters also frames this as like a strategic message, especially to China and Russia, which supplied air defenses were they were quickly like disabled in the opening moments, like offline. Now, here's where it gets pretty freaky. And I'm sure many of you have seen the transcript that's now been circulating from a Venezuelan security guard loyal to Maduro. In fact, White House press spokesman Carolyn Levitt even retweeted it. So it got a lot more coverage basically confirming that, yep, this is true. The story he tells lines up with what a modern electronic Warfare and directed energy weapons can do. And this administration mission by him spooked a lot of people. And by the way, I should point out that the technology that was used is decades old. The stuff that we have now, just mind blowing stuff that they're working on now that makes this stuff look like ancient in a lot of ways. So this is what the Venezuelan soldier told. I'm going to read a portion of the transcript here. He says, quote, all of our radar systems shut down without any explanation. And then the next thing we saw were drones, a lot of drones flying over our positions. He then describes barely eight helicopters and maybe 20 men total, but with a level of technology advantage that made hundreds of defenders feel totally helpless. Let me put on the screen one piece of this quote which is really the full tell here. He says at one point they launched something. It was like a very intense sound wave. Suddenly I felt like my head was exploding from the inside. We all started bleeding from our noses. He says guys were vomiting blood and unable to move. We couldn't even stand up after that sonic weapon or whatever it was. Those are his words. First the eyes go blind and then the bodies just go fall down in a heap, basically, nose pouring blood out, your head feels like it's going to explode, totally helpless. So what are we really talking about here when we say directed energy? Well, a bunch of people online are kind of mashing three different things together. First, electronic warfare means attacking the spectrum. That means you don't need to blow up a radar if you can just jam it, if you can just spoof it, if you can just overload it or cut the network, it depends on totally. So it's just sitting there stupid. It can't do anything. The Economic Times describes something it calls the Wraith as an electronic warfare umbrella used in the Maduro capture, creating a digital blackout that paralyzed security infrastructure. Now, important note, there's also some confusion around that name as well because A defense company, CX2, also markets a product called Wraith and they describe it as an autonomous airborne electronic warfare platform that geo locates high value emitters like jammers, radars and ground control systems. And here's their promo video for jamming part of this, for that jamming part of the story. Let's take a look at this. He sees this guy sitting up a. He's a bad guy there because you can tell because he's got a mask on, right? He's a bad guy. And they say all drones, all of our drones are down. You know what we're going to do. We're going to send in the Wraith. Let's send in the Wraith. And we're going to take him out. And basically takes them out, removes all of the jamming, and totally turns the tables. So this raid wasn't just bullets. It was total control of the airwaves. Second piece of this directed energy piece of the story. These things that hit you with radio frequency or millimeter waves to create immediate pain and force movement without a traditional projectile. So not hitting you with a bullet. The Pentagon has publicly described this as active denial technology. As a focused beam of radio frequency millimeter waves that penetrate only about 1 64th of an inch, the equivalent of like three sheets of printed paper. That's it. Into your body, creating like an intolerable heating sensation that stops you, like in your tracks. And then by the way, when you step right out of the beam, you're like, oh, it's gone. So it only goes down 1 64th of an inch on your skin and it's intolerable. You gotta move. And if you want a pop culture moment from this to make this real for people, this, there's literally a Fox News segment when I used to work at Fox News many moons ago, where I interviewed my old colleague Peter Doocyte, who tested this active denial system at the time. And he described exactly what it felt like. Listen. The US Military revealing its brand new crowd control instrument that could also protect.
Peter St. Onge
US ships from pirates.
Host C
The very intrepid Peter Doocy volunteering to.
Peter St. Onge
Test this thing out.
Dr. Miram Hous
Ali.
Peter St. Onge
And no, he was not the guy doing the shooting. He was actually shot at. And Peter's going to tell us what it felt like like and show us that moment. Peter, take it away.
Host C
Allison. I'll tell you first that I learned this week firsthand, non lethal also means not pleasant. Look at this. You can't see it, hear it, or smell it, but it makes unruly mobs do this. The Defense Department's active denial system, a non lethal weapon that can be used to control crowds, secure perimeters, and keep pirates at bay. It could be a game changer. This is one of the things that we can shoot first and ask questions later. Normally you can't do that. So there. You know what, that's just a, just an example of what that looks like. Then he went through the process and got. Got zapped as well. So the third piece of this is the sonic or acoustic system. Oh, by the way, I should point out, like that giant array that you saw there, that was decades old. Now it's Tiny. Tiny. They don't need this massive thing anymore. So now the third piece of this is the sonic or the acoustic systems using sound as a weapon. Some systems are used for crowd control or area denial. Others discussed in the context of disorientation, sort of nausea in all of this. And Carolyn Levitt, of course, posted on Twitter these. The things that we have are very advanced using these sonic weapons. So I'll play a sound bite from congressional testimony talking about how these weapons work. Watch.
Peter St. Onge
There's no entry or exit wound.
Host C
How they're designed is to make the.
Peter St. Onge
Target feel like they're crazy, like they're.
Host C
Imagining things, especially on the low duration, the low intensity, long duration hits.
Peter St. Onge
Are either of you aware of any.
Host C
Individuals who have AHI symptoms have passed away from their ailments? I do, I do. Have any of you three panelists ever seen one of these weapons?
I
I have seen a 1991 version of the weapon, and it looks like a satellite dish with. With a unit this size attached to it. This, of course, over the years, miniaturization has been possible. Obviously there's a limitation to how miniaturized it can be because of the antenna size, which can always. Is always related to the wave, but still, it is something that can be well contained in a. In the trunk of a car or even a large backpack.
Host C
Yeah. So have you seen anyone. Do you know anyone who's passed away? Supposed to be non. Lethal. Non lethal. Do you know anyone who's passed away from it? Yes, yes, yes. Go ahead, Philip.
Host E
They're starting to see these in some of the protests around the country in the US Sitting in the back of pickup trucks. I've seen several images recently of these, like, sonic weapons in the back of pickup trucks at protest sites.
Host C
Yeah, yeah. For crowd disbursement. Firing these microwaves. But they're non lethal. But. Oh, you've also seen people die from them. Yes, yes, yes. So in the immediate. No, it's non lethal. However many months.
Host E
Yeah, I mean, I.
Host C
Who knows?
Host E
In the case. In the case of a protest, though, I mean. Yeah, it could be for crowd dispersal or. Or incitement, because, I mean, if it makes you crazy, like if they're just doing this low sort of like, you know, annoying buzz into a crowd, like, can it. Can it ramp things up? You know, it's just. It's dangerous stuff all around.
Host C
Yeah. Oh, exactly. Well, here's the piece of this story that drives me nuts though, right. Which is that conservative influencer victory lap stuff. I'm so over it now. You know, like, we're so back, America's unstoppable. No one else has this technology. You've seen all the tweets about this, right? We're playing chess while the world plays checkers. No one's gonna mess with us. We've got this technology. You've seen those tweets. It's not true at all. It's a bald faced lie. Directed energy isn't like a magic wand. It's an arms category right now and major powers have been working on it for years. China, for example, has been reported to have a millimeter wave pain beam. It's similar to what the US has this active denial idea. Popular Science even reported back in 2014 on it, on China's Poly WB1 millimeter wave system. It was an. They described it in Popular Science. You can look it up. I did overwhelming pain by heating the water molecules just underneath the skin. That's got to be safe, right. I'm sure you won't develop like cancer four months later. Okay. It's like having a microwave oven. They describe it literally as like having a microwave oven applied to people at a range at a distance. So when people are like, oh, directed energy weapons, that's just a farce that doesn't happen. Right. Okay. Maui. Russia has its own directed energy ecosystem too. There's public discussion on systems like the Paris of et, which is a Russian laser system, a weapons program that Russia revealed back in 2018 and it went into service. They've actually used directed energy weapons in Ukraine. We can confirm. We can also confirm that the. This isn't the first time the United States has used these. Sources are telling redacted today that the US has used these weapons for years. Majority of the initial testing of these weapons of the Wraith system was done in Afghanistan. It's a great testing ground. Right. Use it in Afghanistan along with the next generation ADS weapons, the directed energy weapons. 17 years of refinement from what I'm hearing. And they tested a lot of it on Syria going back into the Obama years in Syria.
Host D
Well, think about it too. When they test over there, they don't have to, you know, they don't have to answer anybody if they kill people.
Host C
Right? Right. You can carry out fake Syrian gas attacks Right. In Douma. Thankfully, reporters have been able to debunk it. But like, yeah, I mean people get killed all the time. So they're using this in Afghanistan, they're using this in these different areas. We don't get to see it. You can just fry people. You can test it out. Oh, those first 20 people, they got fried. Let's dial it back a little bit. It reminds me of RoboCop, the original RoboCop, you know, when they had the. I forget the name of the one was the. Whatever.
Host D
The.
Host C
You can look it up. But the. They're showing it off in the conference room. You know what I'm talking about? It's like. It's the big one with the two legs. And they're like, show us how it works. And it shoots, like, two of the guys in the conference room. Like, shut it off. Shut it off. That's not working the way we want it to. But they're. They're fine just killing the people, you know? Like, oh, we gotta work on that. Too bad I forget the name of it. But. So we are using these directed energy weapons. We have been for decades. This is not new news. And all those conservative influencers out there who are like, america's so back. No one will mess with us. Russia and China have these as well. In fact, they have different ones. In fact, they have very advanced ones. So this idea that we're like, we're. We're it. We're the only ones that have it. Okay, great. And you're about to see a lot of this playing out now in Iran as well, where we know that Russia is there, their security services, their intelligence services are there, Mossad is there, MI6 is there, CIA is there. They're all there. It's like a spy playground right now in Iran. So maybe you'll see some more of these advanced technologies as well. I mean, this is all pushing us towards disclosure, I'm sure. And we'll see. We'll see. So, yeah, let me know your thoughts on that. I know. I. I just get so annoyed. Like, aren't people onto that? How many of you guys in the chat room? Like, I see a lot of you guys seeing that. Like, in the chat room, all these, like, conservative influencers are on Twitter. Like, they retweet, like, all these fake videos, like, what's going on here? All these, like, MAGA influencers, like, just to be clear, like, we are anti party here on this show. I mean, the unit party is the demon, of course. And these intelligence. The intelligence deep state runs the entire government and runs the show. So once you understand that and then you understand, like, all these, like, conservative influencers who get, like, Epstein binders and they get access to the Pentagon and they just sort of parrot the mockingbird media talking points makes them sound like they're NBC News, all of a sudden, it's very curious and drive.
Host D
Well, that's why that access is dangerous, because it just makes them biased 100%.
Host C
I mean, this is the old trick, you know, like movie junkets. You guys know what a movie junket is? So a movie junket is when Hollywood, when a new movie is coming out, they will have, like, Access Hollywood. They'll have all of these, like, local TV stations around the country. Any of their entertainment, entertainment reporters. They'll fly them to Los Angeles. They will fly them on their dollar to Los Angeles, put them up in, like, the Beverly Hilton hotel, give them dinner, go to the screening of the movie before everyone else gets to see it, like two weeks later in the theaters. And then they get five minutes to sit down and interview, you know, whoever. Whatever star was in the film. And then, of course, they want to have that access so that they can come back next month and get that. They can wine and dine and go to Beverly Hilton, have dinner and do all of that stuff, right? So they give a good favorable review of a movie. One time there was a movie junket that flew all of these reporters. Reporters, these, like, movie reviewers flew them to Iceland for that movie that was like, about the end of the world. Do you remember that movie with don't.
Host D
Look at the sky or something like that? Or don't look up. Was it that one?
Host C
No, it was like, like with Ryan Gosling or something. Or I think it was like Ryan Gosling anyway. And they gave him like, those ridiculous puff coats. The. The Canadian goose puff coats. They gave him, like, free Canadian goose puff coats, like, before their trip. They're like, hey, by the way, what size are you? Oh, here's a free $500 coat. And we're flying you to Iceland to do this press junket. We hope that you'll review our movie favorably. That's exactly how this works. That's called access journalism. And of course, those people that have those offices in Washington, D.C. want to have those people on their shows, like, can I have Nancy. Can I have Nancy Grace on my show once a week? Because I have a. I built a studio here. I'm right here in Washington. And I always kind of favorably. I don't say anything negative against Nancy Mace. I don't say anything negative against Marco Rubio. I know how to Dance and Walk the Line. It's all such garbage. So that's access journalism. And proud to say we will never play that. That's why we have so few members of Congress on our show. By the way we've heard that press offices were unhappy with some of our questions of some of the members of Congress we've had on the show, so they've declined our invitation to have them back on. So when you see members of Congress on our show, which is infrequent, they are pretty brave people like Tim Burchett or Congressman Thomas Massie. So I just want to put that out there. I just. When you see this, like, access journalism bs, it really gets under my skin. And by the way, it's like, the only. The only news outlets that'll have, like, Pam Bondi on or all these people are on Fox News because it's all part of the Mockingbird media because they know they're gonna favorably report. That's it. That's how this works. So they're not gonna do any, like, negative reporting. Are you kidding me? Hell, Sean Hannity literally wears his CIA pin on his lapel on the show.
Host D
Well, and it doesn't even matter that you have past relationships with some of the Trump administration. Like, you know.
Host C
No. I mean, I could literally text Pam Bondi right now, but their gatekeepers will not allow her to come on my show. I've been told this. So they only will do Fox News. So they'll only do the Mockingbird media news. I mean, that's it. So they just won't. They won't allow it. They just won't allow it. And by the way, the independent media is the same media that got helped get Trump elected, going on Joe Rogan, going on these other, you know, podcasts, and now there's a full clampdown. You could really thank Susie Wiles, who is the White House Chief of staff, for being the total gatekeeper on this, as we've reported here on the show. But anyway, I just thought I would share all of that because it's infuriating.
Host E
Can we get her on the show?
Host C
Susie Wiles? Oh, man, that would be great. We've had Noel Frisch on the shows, you know, multiple times. He's been covering her for years. And she.
Host D
I was gonna say we should get them both on at the same time and blindside her.
Host C
She was. She was furious, apparently, like, after our last interview about Susie Wiles, she. She was texting him furiously, like she was pissed because he was telling the truth about, you know, her gatekeeping of the White House. So, anyway, I just want you guys to be aware of it, like, if you're on social media and you're seeing these clowns regurgitating Pentagon talking points, or like CIA talking points about what's happening in Iran or whatever. Just. Just know where it's coming from. Just be aware of where it's coming from. It's not coming from a place of. Of truth and well sourced journalism. It's coming from people within the administration. It's coming from the intelligence community who like, slip things to reporters. Like, yeah, we're hearing it's bad in Iran. Like, lots of 200,000 people now dead. It's a total lie. But then they just publish it. It's a lie.
Host D
Slipping them Epstein binders, right?
Host C
So they butter them up. It's like the modern form of it. It's like a movie junket. You know, come to the White House, we'll give you. We're giving you some Epstein documents. Oh, my God. Epstein binders, full of bs. It's crazy. It is crazy. So, hey, thanks for subscribing everyone. I forgot to mention, you know, I was like, oh, my gosh, I haven't mentioned this in a while, but we have a. We have a store. Redacted store.com is the place you can go to check it out. We've got a lot of great stuff over there if you want to. We've got some great T shirts, some great hoodies, great mugs. We have a whole bunch of new merchandise out there. Our whole live free or die 1776 collection. And our be smarter than your algorithm, by the way, my son and his whole high school, like, loves that shirt. So. So many of them are now walking around his high school with the be smarter than your algorithm T shirt, which is so great. We have our founding fathers collection, so Ben Franklin on there. We've got Patrick. We got Patrick Henry on there. Ben Franklin, there it is. There was never a good war or a bad peace and give me liberty or give me death mug. Check them all out. Just go to redacted store.com and check them out. By the way, some of the other day was asking me if they could get. We have a shirt that we did as a limited edition, which was our silence equals complicity T shirt. A couple of you have written now and asked, hey, where can I find that shirt? I was on the store. I can't find it. It was a limited edition. We only. I think we only had it for like two weeks. And I said, hey, maybe we could bring it back. So what do you guys think? Should we bring it back for a limited time only Silence equals complicity T shirt. Whenever I'm wearing that shirt and I wear it a lot. I'm at the store, whatever. I get a lot of, like, patriots that are like, love that shirt. Love that shirt.
Host D
I even got that in Portland, Oregon. But I was like, I don't think it means what you think it means.
Host C
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Host A
We can.
Host C
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Host D
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Host C
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Host D
Checking my notes here, and it says we're controlled opposition. We're not. We're not that.
Host C
So funny. Controlled opposition.
Host E
I mean, you were talking about Hannity wearing his CIA pin, and I was just laughing because I'm wearing my Northrop Grumman and. And my Boeing pins today. Both of them. That's where all the money goes.
Host C
I've got my Lockheed Martin underwear on.
Host D
I was just gonna say I got my Raytheon aqua socks today.
Host C
My. My stealth underwear on. They're so stealthy you can't even see them. It's from their free ball and collection. All right.
Host D
Energy weapons.
Host C
Yeah, it's a direct. That's right. It is a directed energy weapon down there. Thanks, everyone for hanging out with us on Redacted on this Monday. Lots of news. We really appreciate you being a part of our community. We'll be back here tomorrow at 4:00pm Eastern live. Yes, we are live every day. So thank you for being a part of our community. Thank you for subscribing and have a great night, everyone.
Redacted News Podcast Summary:
Episode Title: Breaking! All Hell Is Breaking Loose In Iran, Directed Energy Weapons Used In Venezuela
Date: January 13, 2026
Hosts: Clayton Morris, Natali Morris
Special Guests: Dr. Miram Hous (Syrian Girl, journalist; recent visit to Iran), Peter St. Onge (Economist)
This packed episode tackles three main stories:
Additional coverage includes a contentious New York law change affecting child abuse reporting, along with media criticism regarding access journalism.
Starts at ~04:43
Media Manipulation & Fake News:
Iran’s Communications Blackout:
Casualties: Sorting Fact from Fiction:
Starts at 09:42
“When I went there, everything was pretty normal... I was impressed at how advanced everything was...Economically, it seemed like business as usual. There were no blackouts... There was really nothing to protest about because women...were graduating university at percentages higher than men…”
— Dr. Miram Hous [10:00]
Cultural Realities:
What Are the Protests Really About?
“They’re seeking for OnlyFans to be pushed onto all Iranian women...” [12:10]
“It’s about opening the economy. It’s about opening the mentality of people to this hegemon, this liberal world order, forcing them to have McDonalds...” [12:58]
Sanctions & Destabilization:
On Imminent War:
“We really care about Iranians, so we’re going to bomb them with a nuke.” — Host B [21:11]
“Like, that’s what it sounds like — Lindsey Graham will come save you.” — Host C, referencing U.S. political figures’ “logic” [21:30]
Redacted presents an alternative, skeptical view of mainstream Iran coverage: on-the-ground realities are far less dramatic than depicted; outside powers (notably Israel, the CIA, Mossad, MI6) are said to be driving both the media narrative and real-world unrest; war is a near-term possibility.
Starts at ~29:29
Fed Chair Jerome Powell vs Trump Admin:
“It looked like a hostage video... He looked pretty depressed there.” [31:18]
The Federal Reserve’s True Role:
Lack of Oversight:
Prospects for Change:
“The Fed has more secrecy than the CIA... They say they need the secrecy to deceive markets...”
— Peter St. Onge [37:59]
“In a democracy, you have arguably the most important government function... independent of voters. What is this?” — Peter St. Onge [39:30]
Starts at ~56:04 (Expanded from 56:04–73:07)
Confirmed Use in Operation Absolute Resolve (Jan 3, 2026):
Eyewitness Testimony from Venezuelan Guard:
“They launched something... a very intense sound wave. Suddenly I felt like my head was exploding from the inside. We all started bleeding from our noses... guys were vomiting blood and unable to move... First the eyes go blind and then the bodies just... fall down in a heap.”
— Venezuelan Guard (quoted by Host C) [58:35]
Types of Directed Energy & Sonic Weaponry:
“They're starting to see these in some of the protests around the country in the US, sitting in the back of pickup trucks.” – Host E [66:51]
Not Just A U.S. Monopoly:
“It's not true at all. It's a bald-faced lie...[others] have very advanced ones...” — Host C [67:43]
Starts at ~45:59
“Why do you care what race the protected child is? They're clearly saying they care more about the race of the parents than the child.” — Host B [49:40]
“There was nothing to protest about...women...were dominating in the science field.”
— Dr. Miram Hous [10:00]
“If you don't have the bomb, your country is going to be destroyed... Israel has illegal nuclear weapons. There has to be some sort of balance.”
— Dr. Miram Hous [19:32]
“We all started bleeding from our noses...guys were vomiting blood and unable to move.”
— Quoted Venezuelan Guard [58:35]
“Directed energy isn't like a magic wand. It's an arms category right now and major powers have been working on it for years.”
— Host C [67:43]
The hosts are openly skeptical, challenging official narratives and consistently critical of Western media, intelligence agencies, and establishment politics (both Republican and Democrat, noting their “anti-UniParty” stance). Humor, sarcasm, and pop culture references are used to engage and critique. The conversation is at times conspiratorial, anti-corporate, and highly critical of “Mockingbird” mainstream outlets.
This episode questions accepted wisdom about Iran’s unrest, challenges audience assumptions about U.S. military and financial power, and emphasizes the importance of independent analysis over “access journalism.” The show repeatedly reinforces its identity as an unfiltered, unapologetic source outside of establishment media.
For listeners new to Redacted, this episode is a crash course in media literacy, skepticism of state power, and navigating contemporary information warfare.