Breaking Afternoon Updates with Ben 10/1/2026

0:00Welcome to Ben on Breaking News. I'm Ben Mycelas. This is your breaking news. Moments ago, we learned that there were explosions heard in sauna. That's the Oncerala or Houthi capital in Yemen. The Houthi stated that they would have severe retaliation against Saudi Arabia if their capital of sauna was struck. We're going to be following these developments throughout this live and throughout the evening to determine what happened and what the Oncerala Houthi response is going to be. Meanwhile, we also learned that Iran struck another tanker in the strait of Hormuz. The UKMTO is now reporting that that took place. It took place about two hours ago, but we now have the final confirmation that it did indeed happen a tanker on fire there. This follows at least three potentially four other tankers struck in the strait of

1:00Hormuz also in the past 48 hours by Iran's IRGC. We also are learning that China is putting on certain export controls over its diesel. Over the diesel that its refineries are exporting. This as the cataclysmic consequences of Donald Trump's war in Iran is being felt throughout the world. On the news of China's export controls, we're seeing Brent and WTI crude surge yet again. You'll recall earlier this week the Trump regime spent ample time trying to manipulate the markets every single moment. And they were able to manipulate the paper markets of crude for a few days actually. Meanwhile, the actual marketplace for refined distillate like the diesel and the gas that comes from refineries. Those were still hitting record highs. It's why we talk a lot on the Midas Touch

2:03podcast and on Ben on breaking news about the crack spreads, right? The difference between what refineries are selling gas in diesel for versus what the paper price of crude is Brent and WTI because that paper market is subject to a lot of manipulation that we've been talking about. M.B. Gala Bafarans parliament leader. He's been making social media posts just trolling the United States and trolling Donald Trump for saying that oil prices are coming down and the straight of Hormuz is opened. And we know that's not the case. The straight of Hormuz is controlled by Iran. And we know that the flow of oil has been severely curtailed. The American people see what's happening. Donald Trump's approval hitting record lows. I mean, it comes to the issue of the economy, Donald Trump's approval across all relevant polling entities. It's like in the low 20s at this point. And we're seeing the map shift even more blue on all of

3:11these polls, both in terms of the Senate and the House. Donald Trump claiming this is all fake polls, fake polls, fake polls. And then he was of course, ranting and raving like a lunatic throughout the day. And in that time magazine article, did you see that where he would be asked questions about AI? And he would say, did you know about my uncle? And the reporter would be like, I don't know, the professor and MIT from like 40 years ago, who's been dead for a long time, is that yeah, yeah, I believe in jeans, man, I believe in jeans. I have the highest of IQs. I have the highest because my uncle, we have the same jeans. He was a professor at MIT. And this guy's an absolute lunatic. This isn't political messaging. I'm not telling you vote this way or vote that way. The guy's a freaking lunatic. He's a liar. He's a lunatic. And as I showed you, I dropped the video yesterday. We spoke with a pro-Houthi reporter who say, and he talked about how everybody was just like laughing at Donald Trump,

4:16that's just how he behaved in front of she and Trump is the laughing stock in front of the world. But also kind of terrifying what a lunatic in psycho he is. And as we're seeing the just instability throughout the world, of course. I mean, you have Putin and the Kremlin yesterday putting out a statement that if NATO makes any moves towards Kaliningrad, which is a city kind of nestled between a lot of European countries, it's not actually attached to the contiguous Russia. But Russia says, we will use nuclear weapons against you if you take any actions against Kaliningrad. And so you had those statements going out. And as we've pointed out here, Russia has developed these new drones, the Garen-4, the Garen-5. The Garen-5, I view, as kind of a hybrid drone cruise, the Garen-4 jet fueled, powered drone, very hard to strike down.

5:18Zelensky used to, and Ukraine had a 90% interception rate on the drones, about a 0% interception rate on the ballistics. Now the drone interception rates around 51% on those Garen-4s, even less on the Garen-5s. I would put it more like 20%, and still a 0% interception rate on the ballistics. We're seeing key get hit hard, Zapprigea get hit hard. We're seeing areas close to Donesk oblasts being hit very hard. It's going to be a very difficult winter. And this seems to be exactly what Trump and Putin wanted. When it comes to Kyiv, Luxelensky, is still doing everything he can to strike back, recovering some of those strikes at the logistical centers taking place in Russia, based on Zelensky rolling out also, the FP7, which is an upgrade from the other flamingos that we were talking about, the Firepoint 1, the Firepoint 2, long range hitting 1500, 2000, in

6:19some cases, even by Siberia, like 3,000 kilometers. But we're certainly seeing escalation there. Putin is talking about nuclear using nuclear weapons if Kaliningrad is taken, or if there's any strikes there. And Donald Trump, meanwhile, is threatening NATO. We saw Donald Trump say that he would not meet with certain NATO countries in Poland next month, where she's expected to meet with. He said, I won't meet with them if they're on my naughty list. So this is not like me being hyperbolic. The Trump regime has created a naughty list. And the UK, France, and some other countries are on the naughty list. So they're not invited to the NATO meeting coming up. There's also a working group that deals with NATO's future and the plans for 2030 and beyond. And if you're on the naughty list, you're banned from that working group, according to the Trump regime. Now look,

7:20I've had a lot of people watch the videos I've made, and when I've worried out loud, that NATO exists in name only right now. Some of your comments were ben, it's the United States that's basically withdrawn from NATO. You still have NATO pretty much under the control of Europe right now. And so it exists in functions as kind of a NATO plus or NATO minus whatever you want to call new NATO, which is NATO without the United States. Sure. But that's like saying, you know, pick your favorite sports team. Yeah, we've got that sports team, but without who used to be the starting lineup. And so sure it exists. I get it. But when fundamentally the main player that put it together isn't a part of it, that should cause real alarm. And we shouldn't understate what that means. And so I apologize if I was hyperbolic in saying NATO exists in name only. It wasn't an attempt to fearmonger. It was simply to point out that the US is mainly responsible for

8:27forging the NATO alliance. And when that entity withdraws an attack NATO, I have to kind of call it out what it is. Meanwhile, the Trump regime appears to be ramping up for further escalation against Iran, at least after the midterms, of course, may be sooner. About 10,000 Marines and other members of our military are being sent now to the Middle East. You have the USS Theodore Roosevelt that's taking off and sailing from its current position right now, I believe in San Diego. And it's going to be heading to the Middle East. It will get there by mid-November. So after the midterms, literally thousands and thousands of our service members are heading there now that will put three carrier strike groups in the area, lots of amphibious assault ships there. And so you can see things clearly escalating there. And then you've had these incidents that deserve scrutiny. I'll just

9:31say they deserve scrutiny. And I hear you loud and clear that there are a lot of question marks behind these incidents. And I think that would be putting it lightly, that there are question marks behind what's going on here. And in normal times, I don't think we would doubt what we are being told and fed. But in these times, I think we have to put our guard up and ask serious questions. And so that's what we'll do here at the Midas Touch Network. It's not my job to fear monger or to say, here's definitely what happened. I'll be very clear with the disclaimer that I don't know, but I have a lot of questions. So this fly, Dubai airplane incident that took place, where you had this Indian pilot with an Omani co-pilot. You'll see the image in the video right there. The story I suppose is that the Omani co-pilot stabs the Indian captain as they were heading

10:38from Dubai to Tel Aviv. And then the plane suddenly drops 17,500 feet. The distance of six, one is it burge califa skyscrapers and it's going straight down apparently. And then the story is a plumber who has no airplane experience at all, who watched airplane crash investigation television shows. Based on that, went to the control yoke in the cockpit, which was opened up by the pilot, guy with zero experience, as the plane is going down 17,000 feet. And then he pulls up on the control yoke, causing the plane to gain altitude back and then saving all 170 people aboard this plane. Then there were two off-duty pilots who were apparently on the plane and they were the ones who eventually landed it. That's the story that's being told. This plumber who was the hero

11:42said that he watched air crashed, air crash TV shows and that's how he learned about all of this. And then he met with Netanyahu 11 hours after the incident, still wearing clothing that was filled with blood and they didn't change his outfit. So all I gave you there are the undisputed facts of what's being said. And I am always very careful on this network as the co-founder of this network other than to present to you those facts that are being put out there and fed. You can put in the comments and you will get we're going to exploit it but I don't buy just the narratives that are sold just because they're out there. Okay, so that's what they're pushing. We should say show me more, explain how all of this happens. It reminds me a little bit of when they said the F-15 pilot fell, you know, that the plane was hit, the parachute didn't work,

12:51fell thousands of feet to the ground, the parachute didn't work, hit the ground at a hundred miles per hour, then got up, walked miles 5, 10, 20 miles to a mountain, climbed up a 7,000 foot mountain and then was rescued over there. And then his name was Dude Bravo. He's like middle age, like not even middle age. Dude was like 50 years old and he somehow got there and then he was on, and then he said the reason he did it was because of God and God saved his life. And you know, and I'm thinking to myself, if you hit the ground, going a hundred miles per hour after your plane gets hit, you're going to die. And you're certainly not going to be able to climb a 7,000 foot mountain after traveling multiple miles. I mean, you know, and then I think about what's being told about the fly Dubai situation. And I just question if you're going down 17,000 feet at those speeds, you know, someone who watches an

13:51aircraft show on TV getting into the cockpit and pulling it up, you know, it just is, you know, it it in normal times I would be like, okay, but in these times where the Trump regime and the Netanyahu regime, you know, say all of these things, I think we have to wait to get more information because the thing is now the Trump regime and UAE are saying this is Iran, IRGC was likely behind this, that's what Trump said earlier, IRGC likely behind this, they're going to pay for it, they're going to pay for it, right? So that's then the UAE is now saying, that's probably IRGC. And I'm also thinking like, well, in terms of Iran's plan controlling the straight of hormones, why, of all things to do, that would clearly lead to an escalation and turning world sentiment against you if you did it. And if you were going to do that, why would you be withholding strikes from

14:51Israel right now, but then do it that way? I don't know, there's a lot, just put it this way, there's a lot of questions there. And this is a network where we don't just absorb and parrot back, we think we're deep, we're critical thinkers over here. Then there's the royal Air Force, Fairford incident where they said there were five terrorists who were captured, and they're apparently linked to Iran. Also, that's the official narrative, but they were released on bail and they didn't have explosives on them either. They had like empty cans of oil. And apparently they were the ones who called the police. So they called the police on themselves. And I think that's strange. And then if they are terrorists, why would you release the terrorists on bail? And so we're, but we're being told that's linked to Iran. So you have royal Air Force incident. You then have the fly Dubai incident. And again, this follows Netanyahu meeting with NBC, the president of the UAE, who's the leader of the Abu Dhabi, one of the Emirates, the Abu Dhabi.

16:01Then Netanyahu was saying, look, he's got it before the election, we expect there to be all of these terrorist attacks. We expect these strikes to take place. We expect all of this to happen. We expect all this to happen is what Netanyahu said. And then there were others in the defense community that said there really aren't any significant elevated risks that normally exist. And then we have royal Air Force incident fly Dubai incident. And now Trump and Netanyahu are saying, a new UAE, Iran, you know, part of the Abraham Accords, Iran, Iran, Iran, Iran, Iran, and Trump sending the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt over there. And so, you know, again, what we do here on the Midas Touch Network, I mean, I'm simply laying out the facts as we know them. You could do what you want with them. But that's what we try to break them down here in ways that are easy to digest and understand form, whatever opinions you want to form from them. Okay, we know we have an

17:02intelligent audience here. And I think that that's one of the things we appreciate about this community. We're not trying to propagandaize each other. We put it out there. And you may say, Ben, that royal Air Force makes sense. Fly Dubai makes sense. Don't even give me any other implications. Good. Okay. Or you may say, I am suspicious or I'm asking questions. Good. Do it. Do it. Do it. Do what you want to do. I'll tell you for me a major question that I have aside from those incidents. And I go back to this and I admit to you that when I heard about the Iranian protests that were reportedly democracy style protests back in January. And we were told that there were 12,000 protesters who were killed by Iran and the IRGC, I never would have fathom that I would not believe that number. And in fact, I would say, I'm this is what we're being told, you know, in January, this was before the catastrophic war in Iran where I think

18:02Trump basically did the equivalent of a coach showing you the playbook of how they what plays they're going to call before they call them and like, oh, that's what you're doing. And so I heard 12,000. I would never I saw the protests taking place. I would never think 12,000 people were not good. Who would who makes that up. But then what I've been seeing is then the Trump regime said it was 30,000. Then they said it was 35,000. Then they said it was 40,000. Then they said it was 50,000. Then last week, they said it was 60,000 protesters who were killed. And then this week, today, in that time magazine article, they said it's somewhere between 70, this is what Trump said, 70,000 to 72,000 protesters were killed by Iran. And so when you're willing to now make up the number, 12,000 to 72,000, the question that I genuinely asked then is was there 12,000 or was it more like 3000 or 4,000

19:04and was the United States CIA and Assad were they the ones who were influential in this to begin with and what was really happening here, things that I never thought that I would go down this path of awakening or understanding. But when you're telling me 12,000 a certain time and now you're saying 72,000 and if you're willing to lie about 72,000, and you lie about everything, 21 trillion dollars coming in and this is happening. What was one of the big lies that we were told yesterday, Trump did that press conference with the Alaska delegation, Alaska's governor senator. We're bringing in 54 billion dollars from South Korea. South Korea has agreed. They're doing this big LNG investment in Alaska. Alaska, Magna Republicans are falling behind in the polls, right? They're falling behind in the polls there in the Senate race and other major races. So just promised the people of Alaska

20:0754 billion dollars, that's never going to happen. They announced it and what happens today, South Korea, Seoul, their industry minister says completely false, not doing it. We're not even past preliminary discussions, right? The day before that, who they bring into the White House, Iowa, Iowa's delegation, why Magna Republicans are trailing in Iowa? So they bring in their candidate for the Senate, Ashley Henson, Magna Republican extremist over there. They bring in all these other Iowa members who are running for Congress and elsewhere and Trump says, look, we're going to be doing whatever there was, 30 billion or 40 billion dollar investment in Iowa. And it's a company that's based in Minnesota. I believe it is an Indian based company and Trump is friends with these oligarchs over there. And they basically, in my view, make a fake announcement, give you my opinion, of look what we're going to be doing in Iowa. Y'all are going to get rich. Meanwhile, the ranchers, the farmers, everybody's been screwed in the state. So what do you do now? You just make up fake deals,

21:08fake deals here, fake deals there. And so it's all one big fraudulent regime. And so I go back to where I started. It seems obvious the Trump regime is looking to escalate. Donald Trump is this ranting and raving lunatic. You've got Putin talking about nuclear weapons. If he says NATO makes any move in Kalinik Radu, Donald Trump not inviting NATO countries to this important NATO meeting in Poland. We also heard from one of Ukraine's former defense ministers who was saying that not only has the Trump regime refused to provide patriot interceptors, but the Trump regime also has refused to provide certain missiles to strike the ballistic missile launchers of Russia. About 3,000 were promised to Ukraine. That's now not being turned over. So you have to just assess the totality of circumstances for yourself about what's going on here. And the way we just did this in 22 minutes, deeply comprehensive. That to me is what's needed. That's how we get out of this hell. I

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27:22all of it. And that just doesn't exist anymore. And instead, you have Trump in the Oval Office, Ranting and Raven like a lunar to go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, like when he speaks at this point, for me, it's just like, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, I mean, it's just, it's just like watching it, it's just a, it's just a coincidence, a clown, a courty hand, you know, it's just some stupid shit. We should be seeing what's happening, right? When we talk about Garen-4, Garen-5, drone striking into key, we should talk about that. When we talk about Zolinsky striking logistical centers and refineries in Russia, we should talk about that. We should see it. We should understand what's happening. We should be focused on what's happening in the straight of hormones. There's visuals, you know, we should show people what it looks like in Manabh when the Trump regime slaughters little girls. We should show what it looks like in Lamar at a volleyball game when the Trump regime slaughters little children over there, sports hall over there. We should be aware of what's happening in the world right now.

28:26And so let me just show you some footage right here. This is the past 24 hours or so of Russian strikes in Ukraine. Let me show you what's going on over here. You'll see over here telecommunications facilities that are being struck over there. Yeah, let's play the video of what's happening as well too. Yeah. Yeah, I think I have it over there. So there you saw the drone striking into key, striking into a supermarket separately. And then you saw the telecommunications towers going down and it does look like there was a new style drone by Russia or an alteration or an addition to the

29:30Garen series of drones that was able to really kind of cut through some of the Ukrainian defenses. Heading into the winter, what we're going to see Russia do is likely strike a lot of these power facilities, try to make it a very cold, frigid winter, try to destroy the morale of the people over there. Did you all see what's happening here in that state of the force address, whatever the hell that was supposed to be with Pete Hegsiff? And it was one of the most arranged things I've ever seen in my life. And I don't think that's getting nearly enough attention as well. So Pete Hegsiff addressed, I'm not even sure who is even sitting there, because in the first iteration of this it was generals and admirals. And now I think he brought in not the generals and the admirals, but his speech was basically bragging about cutting 20% of admirals and generals

30:30and getting rid of their positions permanently. And then he talked about how we're an army of patriotic cowboys with testosterone testing. And he's not like, he's not joking. This isn't like him being humorous or funny. He's a psycho, like he's an actual lunatic also. And he says that he gets his commands from the book of Isaiah. And the book of Isaiah tells us all that we all need to be sent to war in the Middle East. And Isaiah says, send me, send me, send me to catastrophic wars. And I will die for anything. I mean, I'll just show you what he says. First, this is where he says, the ideological clowns are out. The patriotic cowboys, but their testosterone are in here. Play this clip. The ideological clowns are out. The patriotic cowboys are in with testosterone testing on top. Diversity is not our strength. Unity is our strength. Because what?

31:33I'm literally thinking of like Manchurian Defense Secretary in my opinion. Also, he looks like a Simpsons character. Or I mean, he literally visually looks painted. Like painted a Simpsons character color. And with the the era of testosterone patriotic cowboys with testosterone, I just don't know what the hell is wrong with these people. I don't think, and I really don't know. I mean, I was friends with a lot of Navy SEALs when I was in college and law school. And I've lost touch with some of those friends, but occasionally say, what's up? My buddy was in one of the SEAL teams. And so I hung with them. And I just, I've been so busy building this network. I should reach back out, but I, you know, they're they're since no longer are in active duty or anything like that. But how do you not look at this guy like as a total clown? I mean, anybody who goes around bragging about being alpha and having a lot of testosterone, I mean, I just think it's some

32:37like, I just think it's some weak shit. Look at them. Like, what the hell are we? The hell are we even doing here? And then he goes on to say, he does this like weird Trump impression. The war department, as you know, was color blind, gender neutral, and merit-based. Well, you're proving that it isn't. You should not be anywhere near any position that's even 10 rungs down on the ladder from where you are right now. Get alone, the defense secretary and frankly shame on every traitorous, treasonous, Republican senator who voted for this asshole. Seriously, play this clip of him right here. The war department, as you know, is color blind, gender neutral, and merit-based. Or as the president likes to say, we paint central casting. I mean, just an idiot. He's just an idiot. It's not funny. He's an idiot. It's a loot. This game, I don't care about your politics, Democrat, Republican, independent. I really don't. That's a loser.

33:42Okay, and we should not be augmenting these loser pathetic individuals to positions anywhere near leadership. And shame on people who were leaders, who normalized this stuff, or who go there, and who don't call it out every damn day. And then they announced a religious department that they were creating in the Pentagon. They announced they've created a religious division because Peg said says that's as important as physical fitness is your religious fitness. And you have a direct line directly to God at the Pentagon right now. And then he says, well, this is the message from God that the book of Isaiah said, all of you need to go to war. Send me, send me says the book of Isaiah. That is Jesus and God's message to you. Americans, you need to die for Donald Trump. Here, listen to what he says. Let's play it. Yes. Each of us committed to the nation with the

34:45sentiment of the sixth chapter of the book of Isaiah. Lord, here I am. Send me. Send me to fight the red coats. Send me to fight the communists. Send me to fight the Islamists. Send me. You see, the Ivy League faculty lounges, they'll never understand you. And that's okay, because they could never, ever do what you do. The media will miscarc- That's what the book of Isaiah is. That's what the book of Isaiah told you send me to the red coats. Send me to the Islamists. Send me. No, don't just- I just want you to think about this too. This Trump regime, these Maga Khan artists, Nekoal Salismen, they ran on Biden's going to send you to war. Biden's going to send you. We're going to make sure you don't get sent to wars, right? That's literally one of the things they ran on. And now they change the name of the defense department to the war department. And their slogan is send me based on anything you tell me, just send me to war.

35:53By the way, send me is the- in addition to not being in the book of Isaiah, in addition to just being a lunatic slogan. Is the exact opposite of what our nation should be about? The defense department shouldn't be send me based on anything. It should be defense. What are the values and principles? What is it that I am protecting? And the order should be lawful orders, not the unlawful orders that this war criminal regime has sent our troops into, making our troops complicit in war crimes. And when I hear from military families, and at the Midas Touch Network, we hear from many military families. And one of the things we hear is that their family members who are serving don't know what to do right now because they know they are becoming complicit in war crimes, slaughtering little children for the Epstein class. They know they're complicit when they're on the aircraft carriers that shoot the missiles that kill the little kids, that they are complicit. And they're having nightmares and they are feeling

36:59lots of sense of dread and depression. And they're not even getting the food and supplies that they need. And now we're sending another carrier to join the war crime show that's taking place over there. I mean, if you think about the blockade that's taking place and what Bessens doing, what are they doing? They are attacking the civilians of Iran. They're not going after the IRGC. They say the way we'll make a deal with the IRGC and Iran's leadership is to try to starve the civilians to death. Again, that comes from predators. That comes from the Epstein class thinking, right? It's sick. You are blocking civilian supplies. You're not blocking military supplies. By your own admission, you've destroyed the Iranian military, which we know is all bullshit. And not true, but regardless, you're stopping food and medicine from getting into Iran. Same thing with the blockade of Cuba. You think you're going to win the support of the people in Cuba

37:59by starving them? I mean, again, you think, well, who would think that? Epstein class, right? Predators, the people who cover up child sex trafficking rings are the same people who start blowing up children's elementary schools the moment they start a war. Child sex trafficking ring cover up, flowing up child elementary schools. Epstein class, this is who they are. And these sickos, these traders, these Epstein class oligarchs who are screwing us all over, they're the ones who are running our country into the ground. Interestingly, when you read the Epstein files, Epstein talked about all this stuff also. And again, I'm not veering into the land of conspiracy, although sometimes as I articulate this, I feel to myself like, okay, what are you talking about? There have been. But if you look at it, what's he talking about? He's talking about Putin taking over crime me in 2014. What that's going to do to the rubble he's talking about the crypto. How everybody can make a lot of money when you have all of these wars taking place throughout the world. He's part of this oligarch

39:01network. And he's the middle man in this oligarch network talking about creating fragmentation and division and shattering the post-World War II US architecture because in that chaos, these Epstein class people can feast and steal all of your money and make all of this money by exploiting people who are panicked in this environment. They view panic. They view that as a time for exploitation. Inject panic. Make it easier to exploit. Panic becomes the numbing agent for their exploitation. Remember that. The panic becomes their numbing agent for their exploitation. And that is what they're doing because people are so panicked and numb that then they come in there. And then they try to overwhelm me with their shock and awe of all of this horrific stuff that they do, which is coming from so many directions. It's hard to process. It's why we build this community. It's why we build this decentralized network at the Midas Touch network to push back against it. That's precisely

40:06what we're doing. Reminder. We talk about this WTF America. I saw people saying, is there an ebook? Yes. Of course, there is an ebook. If you're saying, Ben, why do you keep on talking about the book? It's kind of the life's work of us all, like that I tried to channel. It's dedicated to the community. It's based on the community. If something happens to me, I want this book also to be kind of what we can do. And it's the roadmap that I hope doesn't just last short term. That would be a failure to me. It needs to be one of these books to me that last generations and longer that we can reflect on this moment and think about how the collective we internationally come together and get out of this chaos, get out of this true anarchy enleashed on us by the Epstein class. Last break of the show, we've got a lot more to discuss. I'll see you on the other side of the break. We all have those house projects that we've been avoiding and cleaning out the gutters, usually last on the list, until heavy rain sends water spilling over the sides, soaking the ground

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44:13the Trump regime with the Teddy Roosevelt aircraft carrier. That's literally what we talked about. And the nuclear threats coming from Putin regarding Kalina grad, then we showed the foot. The whole 20 minutes was about that. That's how we started off. And now I'm showing after setting that up to begin with how unqualified the Trump regime is right now and how they're destroying the post-World War II architecture. Then the third segment, I'm going to bring it back to domestic politics about what's actually happening here. So I think that it's incorrect to say we haven't hit that. Of course, we've hit it. It was the main thing we've been talking about on the show. And it's an important thing that we talk about on the show. Pete Hegsitt on that point, Pete Hegsitt was boasting about getting rid of our top generals and admirals. And he says the number crunchers say we fired 10% of the generals. Nope. It was 20%. Watch this again. He looks like a Simpsons character here. Here, play this clip. Those generals who did not, who clung to the woke department or seemed to

45:20think civilian control of the military is simply a suggestion. Well, they no longer work here. You see that the number crunchers say we fired 10% of the generals and admirals across the force. And that number sounds about right. And I know because I directed it that we've also reduced the overall number of general officers slots by an additional 10%. So yes, 20% reduction across the board. Now the media calls that a purge. I call it accountability and long overdue. And frankly, the bare minimum. As usual, what the media levels as an acquisition accusation? I wear as an accomplishment. You see, you can't change a culture with the same people who enabled it. Personnel is policy at every single level. Yeah. And I want to address this as well. Because

46:20occasionally I'll see a comment. And I'm not one who like goes back to the comments and goes, we're very thoughtful about it. But one of the critiques often is, why are you doing a video that's called all hell breaks loose? Isn't that hyperbolic? And to that, I say, it's absolutely not hyperbolic. How would you describe what's happened? And it's not every video called all hell breaks loose. Occasionally, there's one video a day. And it's usually about the escalation of war from Russia's invasion of Ukraine and Ukraine striking back in Russia, where you literally see apocalyptic scenes that visually look like if they're what a hell would look like. Okay. So frankly, if there were stronger words to use, I would try to find the stronger words. I think one of the problems that we have is you go back to the founding of Midas touch when we would call out the Trump regime as being fascist. We were often told that's hyperbolic. You can't say that. You can't say that they're

47:23traders. You can't use that language. And I would say, well, I'm looking at behavior that shows they're fascist and they're treasonous and they're traders. We should call out. We should not hide from the fact that Trump is a sex predator. We should call it out. We shouldn't be normalizing this through normal political Democrat, be Republican, independent type of discourse. To me, that's one of the reasons we get put into this hell. And I think we see as we hit election season, all of the corporate news wants to put this into the horse race. This personality, that personality, who's up? What do you think about that? Could you believe this person said this or what do you think about that person? The villains, the heroes, they create these narratives. And for me, I think to myself, that's how we got into this mess. Exalting personalities, attacking personalities, you know, rehabilitating person. It's all about to me, the American people, and what we're experiencing, what people throughout the world are experiencing right now. To me, it's about listening and augmenting the

48:24voices of us all and actually hearing from people who are suffering as a result of the catastrophic war, people who are paying higher gas prices and diesel prices, who can't afford anything, people whose lives are being crushed. And it's not just here in the United States. We take an international perspective and scope on it. And that's how we ground our reporting each and every day, not through the horse race. It's interesting. If you've watched this channel, I think, I would really posit this. You know, we're often I saw someone, I saw, who was it? It was one of these, one of these substax or networks that cover emerging independent media landscape. And they kind of put us as like the growth of they call it partisan media. And so they put us, you know, as, you know, as on the left, one of the big partisan media kind of growth centers. And then on the other side, they had like Candace Owens, and they had like two or three others. I

49:26forget who they were. But they were like making this kind of comparison. And for me, I mean, you've all been watching this episode. This has been on breaking news other than the Brother Show tonight at eight, which is on 80s, Stern five Pacific. This is like the one of the marquee shows of the network, right? Like I don't think I said a single thing that's been political. The whole entire show, I haven't said, oh, the Democrats are done this. I haven't done any of that. Because to me, I think everything I say applies to Americans, unless you're a rich, Epstein class, oligarch, billionaire, I frankly don't know how what I'm saying isn't relevant to you because you're being hurt by this Epstein class oligarchy. Most 99.9% of Americans are being hurt by this Epstein class oligarchy. That's what I see taking place every day. And so I think if we can talk about these issues more in terms of our shared humanity and building out this consciousness that we're part

50:27of this broader humanity, I think that's important. That's why I speak to people in Iran. That's why I speak to people in Yemen. That's why I speak to people all across the world. And that's why the international growth of this network is so important. Because I know that we, the people both here, but more broadly, we'd love to, I don't drink alcohol anymore, but I know we'd love to have a beer together. I know we'd love to have, if I did, or we'd love to have a coffee or a cup of tea together or break bread together. Internationally, I know there's so much of just all of us wanting to live decent, good, fulfilling lives with each other. And then you've got these freaking fascists and these genocidal maniacs, the trumps and the Net Yahos and the Putin's and all these people in the world who care so much about power in themselves. And they don't just want to see themselves in these entrenched positions of power. They also want to see people suffer. They also want to see other suffer. And that's what we see in this oligarchy here. I could go on and on and on about that, but I

51:27digress. Yeah. They put us in a chart where it was like, Midas, Brian Tyler Cohen and someone, I love Brian. So I'm okay with that. So us, Brian and somebody else. And then they put us up with against Candace Owens and they put us against Benny Johnson and they put us against, I forget who else they put us against. So it was like, well, what kind of even compare are we doing? It's just, it's just, I appreciate the recognition that amongst all of those channels, by the way, we had by far the biggest there was. We were the biggest ever. But setting aside that it was the most subscribers I'm at. But it's just fundamentally, I don't, maybe I'm detached from from what Al Yuzi, I see this as a shared humanity community. And I think our values and principles align a lot with certain groups and political parties. But we don't just aimlessly augment. Anyway, I could

52:28keep going on. You get it. Like Ben, just tell us the news. We get it. We get it. We get it. We get it. All right. Trump sleeping in the Oval Office. Not cool, weird, clearly dude, cognitively and physically declining. I could show you 50 videos like this. I'll just show you one. But this is every damn day. It's like they do it on purpose just to show us, you know, that they don't give a shit about us here. Play this clip. So, Mr. President, thank you again. And everybody here, we're going to get this done. We're going to get this done. This is really exciting. We're going to get it done. This is really exciting. We're going to get it done. What are you going to get done? 54 billion dollars to Alaska. You're going to get it done from South Korea. Okay. What does South Korea have to say about it? God, it's fake. Not real. God, it's South Korea says you made this up. Got it. Again, you know, it's just when you hear from former Trump supporters as well, one of the things that has really resonated, I think the Epstein cover up was the real first thing. Just look, if you're going to lie about child sex trafficking, you're going to lie about everything. And I think that was the first

53:32kind of pierce of the kind of mega cult armor, if you will, where people are like, whoa, you're going to lie about child sex trafficking. Like that. Hell got it. If you're lying about, then it opens up your eye. I mean, I know I think our eyes are open. But then once you start to see in a little bit, then, you know, it quickly expands and you don't have, whoa, everything you do, everything you do is a lie to the point where you've got Marjorie Taylor Greene saying, oh, here they go with the caravans again. They're doing the false flag caravan stuff before the election. You've got to say, yeah, that's what they do. That's what that's the whole apparatus right there is to create these culture wars to try to divide people so that the oligarchs can steal your money and send your kids to war. And they could continue to do the things that they're trying to cover up in the Epstein file. What do you think they're trying to do? It's about power. And it's about their sickness and wanting to see you suffer also. What do you think it's all about? Of course,

54:32of course, that's what's going on. Contrast Donald Trump, though, to Prime Minister Carney, Prime Minister Carney, talking about opening up new pipelines in Canada through Alberta and other areas to basically re-facend the oil, send directly to Asia and not to the US refineries. Listen to a carny hat to say here, play this clip. A pipeline to the West Coast is part of our mission to transform our economy. To double our non-US exports over the next decade, to create tens, in fact, hundreds of thousands of good jobs to unlock the full potential of Canada as a global energy superpower and to catalyze tens and tens of billions of dollars of new investment into the Canadian economy. To make Alberta and Canada more prosperous, more independent, and to do all of this in the right way, today, 90% of Alberta's oil goes to the US.

55:33Pacific Link will materially reduce that dependence by allowing us to export an additional one million barrels a day to growing markets in Asia. That means more customers, more choice, higher prices for all Canadian energy producers. And it means greater long-term security of demand. Oopsies! You didn't think Canada has a plan. The Trump regime just thinks what, you're going to do things without a reaction, without a response? Yeah, Canada's going to have a plan. And by the way, good luck with the potash from Belarus, when we have fertilizer shortages in Canada, it provides us with the potash. I'm sure our farmers absolutely love that one idiot brigade over there. And then when you think Canada is going to do, when do you think their reactions going to be when you from the Oval Office say Canada's the worst country ever? When they said, every day, they go, Canada's the worst country, Canada screws us over. Canada loves its diversity. Canada has

56:33a set of principles and values. They're free, they're north, they're elbows up, and they're not going to take this shit. By the way, it's an honor. That's why we stand in solidarity with the people of Canada. It's to be very clear, not mincing words. We stand with you, the people of Canada, over the Trump regime running the United States government. Like, let me be very clear. We're on your side. We're on your team because we recognize that we have a fascist regime over here that is absolutely disgusting. And they cover up child sex trafficking rings. And they get involved in catastrophic wars and they loot and they steal from us. And as former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said, they are, we are, we have become under the Trump regime a deeply unserious nation, deeply unserious as well as a very dangerous nation, unserious and dangerous. As a threshold, we should be serious. You move up the ladder. We should be competent. You move up the ladder. We

57:36should be sophisticated. You move up the ladder. We should have the top smartest people who are really devoting their lives to public service because they've achieved things in their lives where they can give back and they can share this experience at the highest level. Folks, we don't even meet the threshold of serious. We are unserious and we are dangerous under the Trump regime. We don't even meet the floor. And that is absolutely horrible. Two more things I want to show. One, a furious mega caller calling into the Megan Kelly wrap-up show. Let's play this one. Over the last couple of weeks, been getting, it seems like a handful of cars every single day who are totally disillusioned by someone. In many cases, they say they vote a four-addonald Trump. Thanks for taking my call. I voted for Donald Trump and I got to be honest with you and tell you. You know, we didn't get a war. We didn't get the lock up Hillary. We didn't get the drain to swamp.

58:39We didn't get affordable healthcare. We didn't get to eliminate the national bet with doge. Remember, we were looking and they only raised it from 36 trillion to 40 trillion. Okay. We didn't get the Epstein files accountability. I think Pam Bondy probably got fired because she released some of them. What wasn't supposed to we didn't get a doge check of five grand. We didn't get a $2,000 pair check. Okay. We didn't get lower interest rates. We didn't get nothing but lied to. And like I said, I voted for the guy. But this guy is the big, he should be selling used 67 Cadillac pooped devils at some youth car lot because all we've gotten is garbage. Iran, Iran, Iran. Okay. The price of oil comes down. His big buddies are rich by price of oil goes up because we buy them. They sell, sell, sell. The whole thing is a sham. Well, he's selling watch. Could you imagine a Barack Obama was selling watches, sneakers and all kinds of stuff? We'd be going nuts.

59:41I'm sorry. I would never vote for this man again. And you know what? Sometimes things got to get worse before to get better. But there is no America first with President Trump. I'm sorry. Can you hear that all of the time right now when I was I share some of those videos and some of those statements that we get here and that we hear elsewhere on the Midas touch. Now I want to leave you with this. You have John you, uh, Maggar Republican extremist lawyer. He was on state regime media today. And this is what he said about the botched execution of Christa Pike, just supposed to be executed yesterday in Tennessee. They administered the lethal injection twice. And it didn't work. And so she's in critical condition, at least as of this recording. And they botched the execution. And let me show you what this Maggar Republican extremist lawyer just said on

1:00:42state regime media about it. Let's play it. Okay. So actually the thing here is that Tennessee is trying to use what is considered the most humane method of capital punishment, which is lethal injection. The court has allowed and Tennessee could use far more. I would think her full, you know, methods like firing squad firing squad has been permitted. In fact, I think the lawyers here have said why not use the firing squad. So I think what's going to have to happen is that Tennessee is going to have to go back and try again, perfect these methods or use some other kind of execution method. All right, then the governor. The hell are we talking about? How is this what? firing squad? Perfect. The execution method. You all know where I stand. I am absolutely against the death penalty. I am absolutely not say it very clearly where I stand on issues. Okay, you're

1:01:47not going to hear minsing words here. Gaza is a genocide. I am against the death penalty. I said, well, yeah, we have to be very clear and articulate in my opinion, where we stand across all of these issues in these times. And ultimately, if you disagree with me, I hope you'll at least appreciate that I ain't trying to spin you. And maybe you'll be like, hey, I don't agree with him on this, but I agree with it. But I appreciate that I didn't get a bunch of word salad. You'll know where I stand on issues. And I'll try to give you, yes, no. And if I don't know, if I'm ignorant to affect, I'll say, I don't know. Maybe I need to get more information. Maybe I need to educate myself better on a specific issue. Okay. That is what is going on right there. And this idea, and by the way, I can tell you I was a former civil rights lawyer, botched executions,

1:02:49happened actually all the time. It's one of the reasons why I view cruel and unusual punishment to encapsulate execution. There's a lot of other reasons that inform my view. But you have these book of Isaiah contorting, thumping, mega extremists out there with this death cult, cheering and chanting death everywhere, death everywhere. And that's what we hear from Hegsith. That's what we heard here. And while all of this is going on, while all of this is taking place, what's Donald Trump focused on? His schemes and his scams, picking your pocket. The latest crypto. Did you see this today? You see this bizarre photo of him? Jeremy, I think we've got this photo where if you now buy more of the Trump crypto or the meme coin, you get to meet with him coming up in the

1:03:53next few months. Did you see this? Let's try to get that graphic if we can there, Jeremy. I want to show people what this graphic looks like over here. And here it is. News. Trump will host the most exclusive dinner in the world for the top 185 purchasers of the meme crypto. There it is right there. It's like a ridiculous photo of him buying one million dollars worth of the Trump coin should get you in November 22nd. He's already pocketed $635 million off of this scheme alone. Investors are down $4 billion on Trump crypto. And that's a fraction of the money that he's pillaged and looted since he's gotten into the Oval Office. And did you hear also what he's trying to do? He wants to try to put forward anything possible to prevent future presidents from taking down all

1:04:59the gold and his names everywhere. And he knows that future presidents will likely want to tear it down. So he wants to try to enshrine everything he's doing as federal landmarks that can't be adapted or can't be changed or altered or ripped down. And again, let me also be very clear because I view what I'm saying here as completely nonpartisan also. But I don't think you can be an opposition leader, meaning for the Democratic Party, you are disqualified from being the president of the United States. If on day one, you don't commit to tearing down everything Donald Trump has done on day one, and it needs to be done publicly. The East Wing needs to be demolished on day one. The walk of fame, take a freaking hammer and a broom, and I want to see it on live TV. I want it

1:06:03to just be bashed. I want it all falling down on day one. And if he does the arch, I want the arch being destroyed on day one. The ballroom, the ballroom. Yeah, I want to see the ballroom, whatever the hell I want the ballroom to be demolished on day one. I want whatever Trump does. That and it happens everywhere literally on the first day. I want it to be on cameras. I want it to be streamed. I don't want it to be, well, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Every debate needs to ask that question right away. Okay, there's deeper issues that need to be fixed. Let's be very clear than that. But those symbols of the downfall need to be removed immediately, immediately. And then we have to start building back the DOJ and we have to start and by the way, you know what, you know what also needs to be done? It has to be committed to. The war criminals

1:07:06will be handed over to the Hague immediately on day one. The international criminal courts, the Hague prosecutions immediately, immediately. No, obfuscation, no, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Voters will be watching. And again, this is just a message for the opposition in general. This isn't even a political message. Okay. People will be watching. And if on the debate stage, we are seeing, well, we, the people should have an button right away. The moment, you know, maybe that shit worked pre 2016 and made, we're not going back to the status quo. You tell us where you stand on an issue or you get right away. And by the way, we can disagree with you. You could disagree with me. You could say, hey, Ben, I think your view about the death penalty or I think your view about Gaza or I think your view about the war

1:08:10or I think about your coverage over here or I think about this. I disagree with in fact, Ben, you offend me with that. You offend me. Don't, okay. Okay. Well, do you agree with here? Do you agree that you know where I am on these issues? You know what you're watching. I hope you know that I don't just go out saying shit that I am doing my best to give you my thoughtful views about why I think this stuff. And then we can go from there. It's all good. It's all good. But we have to be clear. Moral clarity is more important than ever right now. And that's what we are going to be focused on right now. Okay. I'm going to plug the book. Why? Because I spent a lot of time writing it and I dedicated it to you, the minus mighty. And I did talk about on the first segment the things that that one comment or claims I didn't I spent a lot of most of the show talking about it. WTF America the way out of this hell and back to democracy. There is an ebook. There

1:09:14is an audio book that I read the audio with my brothers. It's not AI. It's us. You can hear us read the audio. We spent a lot of time at the studio in between doing these videos to make sure the audio was crisp. You can hit the QR code over here. Even though for me on my screen it shows up here. I'm like a weatherman for you. It shows up over here. Get the audio or the ebook or the hardcover. It's out October 20th, but the pre-orders are really important right now. And I think a lot of people were happy to learn there was an audio component of this because as soon as I mentioned that I saw all of a sudden the audio sales. People I think didn't know that. So and there's an ebook. All right. I do the show with my brothers at eight Eastern five Pacific. I hope you'll tune in for that. Covering the breaking news throughout the day. I did a video with Charlie Angus. I'll drop in a little bit as well where we talk more about Karne's pipeline plan and why the Trump regime is so

1:10:17terrified of it. They didn't see it coming. So watch that video. Tell people you know about this network. Let people know that this is a place where we can get out the truth where we can speak passionately but calmly. We can get out our ideas without having to yell at each other. That's what we're trying to foster and build here. So thank you everybody. We appreciate you. We'll see you next time on the MidasTouch podcast. And this has been Ben on Breaking News.