A Tribute To Phil Vogt: Protect Your Financial Future

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[00:00:37]And uh I'm very sad to say that a long-standing member of our freedom family unexpectedly passed away at the end of this past week.

[00:00:52]Phil Vote, who is the patriarch of the Camino Company, earned [snorts] his wings on um Friday, June 4th and passed away unexpectedly.

[00:01:06]Phil has been a and will always be a staunch supporter of financial freedom, economic freedom.

[00:01:16]And in fact, Phil and his family put their lives on the line and created a lifeboat for every person willing to come to the realization that the paper assets that are being can continue to be pushed down our throats, whether they're bonds or stocks or even the the uh air investments, if you will, the cryptos, that well, in the short run, they they might give you a little upside, or maybe a lot of upside.

[00:02:01]But the entity that has held financial value, purchasing power, over thousands of years are physical gold and silver.

[00:02:13]And the the Vote and the Reed family took it to the next step.

[00:02:20]And they not only helped create, but perpetuated that lifeboat of the CaminoCompany.com.

[00:02:32]Phil was an amazing man.

[00:02:34]He uh also was an amazing husband, friend, and dad.

[00:02:42]A regular on this platform, who is scheduled to be with us today, but because of her father's passing, could could not be here.

[00:02:51]And that's Adriana Reed.

[00:02:54]And Phil's legacy >> [snorts] >> is in great hands because of his amazing children and one of my favorite people on the planet, who is one of the toughest people on the planet, and one of the kindest people on the planet, and that's because that apple, Adriana Reed, did not fall far from her father's and mom's pad pams tree.

[00:03:26]They are incredibly dedicated family to your financial freedom.

[00:03:32]And I want to dedicate today's show to Phil Vote.

[00:03:39]He might have passed on planet Earth, but his spirit and his soul, and all that he has created planet Earth will continue for what I believe is hundreds of years to come.

[00:04:01]You see, the financial message that we deliver here in Operation Freedom, one of the constituents of that of that philosophy, main proponents, excuse me, of that philosophy was Phil Vote.

[00:04:22]And he always combined realism with action and a sharp eye for identifying propaganda that's not helpful for people.

[00:04:44]Phil Vote reminded me very much of my dad, Ben Giad.

[00:04:53]And one of the reasons is because of their similarity in looking at the financial system.

[00:05:02]That putting emphasis on a store of value that's not dependent or tied to debt, d e b t.

[00:05:18]You know, recently um Kevin Hassett, who's the chief economic advisor to President Trump in the second term, was addressing some of the economic issues in our country.

[00:05:36]And in particular, he was addressing this what many believe is one of the biggest disasters in geopolitical miscalculations in our country's history. That being the Israel-Iran-United war.

[00:06:04]No one wants to give a pass to the mullahs or the ayatollahs or the IRGC.

[00:06:12]But it has become very apparent that those of us that stepped forward on February 28th, and actually long before February 28th, tried to convince the administration of of focusing on negotiating hardline negotiating with Iran versus the kinetic response.

[00:06:37]Unfortunately, President Trump on February 11th believed the garbage that was given to him provided to him in videos and in PowerPoint presentations by Bibi Netanyahu.

[00:06:53]I can assure you that if Ben Chanda was in that room, if Dave Chanda was in that room, if Phil Vote was in that room, our country would be drastically different today.

[00:07:05]Because all of us would have been able to see through the BS that was being spewed by the globalist Zionist Benjamin Netanyahu and his right-hand rat dog Banera, the head of Mossad, that convinced President Trump that this is something he needed to do.

[00:07:28]Unfortunate.

[00:07:31]The chief economic adviser to President Trump, Kevin Hassett, recently said, "Well, if the war to be extended." Now, remember, when this started, President Trump on February or February 28th told us, "Uh it'll take a couple days." Then it was a week. Then it was 2 weeks. Then it was a month. Then it was 2 months. Then it was well well more than 2 months.

[00:07:51]Kevin Hassett, "If the war were to be extended, it wouldn't really disrupt the US economy at all." Really?

[00:07:59]$5 gas for a gallon? And our drainage of the strategic petroleum reserve to such a degree that experts in the oil industry that I'm aware of and know are telling me the price is going to go up even more in the coming month?

[00:08:19]Hassett said, "It wouldn't hurt consumers."

[00:08:22]"But that's really the last of our concerns right now." End quote.

[00:08:27]Yeah.

[00:08:29]Well, if that didn't tell you that America first had been uh put on the ash heap of history, I don't know what would.

[00:08:38]That's where we are.

[00:08:40]And the administration keeps talking about, "Well, the economy's fine because well, the stock market's over 50,000."

[00:08:49]Folks, as we have pointed out over 15 years on this platform, the stock market is manipulated by nefarious people to placate the masses so they don't realize how bad things really are. Just take a drive down Main Street in your town and see how many shops are closed. Then they try to tell you that, "Well, you know, uh the employment numbers are are good." Again, fake because they add their birth-death model. Uh look what they pulled on recently on Friday.

[00:09:27]Uh expected 82,000. Wow, we have 172,000 jobs. Yeah, well, when you look at the bogus number, they added 158,000 jobs.

[00:09:36]And when you look at the jobs, there were more part-time jobs than full-time jobs that occurred. Right.

[00:09:42]And and the people that had part-time jobs wanted full-time jobs, but they weren't offered.

[00:09:48]And then when you look at it, of the 172,000, over 55,000 were from government jobs added. Oh, remember that whole dodge thing about how we're going to cut Oh, yeah, well, sorry.

[00:10:00]Another lie.

[00:10:02]And then to complete that, there was another 70-some thousand in hospitality jobs because of the hiring of people because of the early Memorial Day holiday season at restaurants and in resorts.

[00:10:20]It's a joke.

[00:10:23]But what Ben Janda and what Phil Vote taught us is to keep an eye on the only store of value that is not linked to debt as your financial insurance policy.

[00:10:43]That being physical gold and physical silver.

[00:10:46]And yeah, they do hit the price. They criminally manipulate the paper price.

[00:10:51]Yet physical demand is off the charts.

[00:10:55]That can only last so long, folks.

[00:10:58]The paper game is in the process of burning to the ground.

[00:11:05]We know that because the number of open contracts on their main avenue of manipulating the paper price, that being the COMEX, the number of contracts that are open are minuscule.

[00:11:21]In fact, some of the lowest in history.

[00:11:24]Why is that?

[00:11:26]Because people are coming to the realization that it's a fraud. The paper game is a fraud.

[00:11:32]But we've been told this for umpteen years.

[00:11:36]You know, the the bankers banker, J.P.

[00:11:39]Morgan, right?

[00:11:42]Said, quote, "Gold is money.

[00:11:44]Everything else is credit." End quote.

[00:11:46]In other words, everything else has counterparty risk, debt, d e b t, associated with it.

[00:11:53]You know, what a gold represents real value and security.

[00:11:56]Gold's lasting worth above all other financial forms.

[00:12:02]And it's the importance of solid wealth.

[00:12:06]Yeah.

[00:12:07]Well, then, this next item that came up this week didn't surprise Phil vote before he passed.

[00:12:14]If my dad was alive and wouldn't have surprised him.

[00:12:18]And it didn't surprise anybody that has been part of our freedom family at Operation Freedom.

[00:12:26]Financial Times reported that gold has overtaken US government bonds as the world's top reserve asset.

[00:12:39]The shift reflects an attempt by many countries to seek alternatives to the US dollar.

[00:12:46]Why is that?

[00:12:48]Because of the debt, d e b t, the 40-plus trillion dollars we are in debt.

[00:12:56]The fact that under Biden we essentially stole Russian assets.

[00:13:09]Yeah.

[00:13:11]And many countries around the world said, you know, if they're doing that to Russia and they have nukes, what are they going to do to my little country that doesn't have nukes?

[00:13:21]And they started marching away from the dollar.

[00:13:24]We've seen Saudi Arabia now expect accept payments and not just dollars that they've been doing since the 1970s, but in Chinese yuan renminbi.

[00:13:38]We're seeing other countries do this.

[00:13:42]And it was kind of the straw that broke the camel's back.

[00:13:47]Was this war.

[00:13:49]This preventable war that was launched on February 28th.

[00:13:57]You're not going to hear this through the bought off lame stream fake media which includes Fox Business News and CNBC and the like or Barron's or the Wall Street Journal.

[00:14:07]But February 28th essentially killed the reserve currency of the United States dollar.

[00:14:14]And we're seeing it. People are There's a mass exodus of US debt.

[00:14:23]And people are going for hard assets, countries, sovereign countries by the boatload.

[00:14:30]Then we got this earlier.

[00:14:32]The US national debt surpasses the economy for the first time since World War II.

[00:14:39]The US national debt has now surpassed the size of the entire US economy.

[00:14:44]A historic threshold that hasn't been crossed since the conclusion of World War II.

[00:14:51]Data released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis today showed that the national debt held by the public reached over $31 While the gross domestic product was less than that.

[00:15:07]For the 12-month period that was measured.

[00:15:12]That pushed the debt held by the public as a percentage of GDP above the 100% mark, meaning that the public debt is now larger than the US economy. That is the definition of a third world country.

[00:15:30]And it's getting worse by the day.

[00:15:34]Two of our largest credit holders, Japan and China, recently started dumping their US debt.

[00:15:45]Headline, Japan and China lead foreign government retreat from US Treasuries as Iran war fallout stokes currency fears.

[00:15:56]Foreign governments cut US Treasuries as the Middle East war force central banks to liquidate dollar reserves.

[00:16:05]China reduced its holdings to 652 billion, down roughly 6% from a month ago.

[00:16:13]Lowest level since September 2008.

[00:16:18]Japan, the single largest foreign holder of US government debt, shed 47 billion.

[00:16:27]Which brings me to Rafi Farber, a financial analyst, who recently said, addressing the power of physical metals, gold and silver, and in particular looked at silver.

[00:16:51]And he said, "For those who own silver because it's an industrial commodity, what's happening now is exciting.

[00:16:59]For those who own silver because it's money, what's happening now is scary because it's indicative of the entire system going down as people run away from paper assets.

[00:17:12]And for those who don't own silver, what's happening now is dangerous.

[00:17:19]It's dangerous on many fronts.

[00:17:21]China banned silver exports. They're hoarding it.

[00:17:26]As of January 1st, 2026.

[00:17:30]And since then, they've been importing record amounts every month.

[00:17:36]China controls 70% of world silver refining.

[00:17:42]And now they're restricting the acids needed to refine it.

[00:17:48]And that started at the beginning of May of this year, 2026.

[00:17:54]Meanwhile, Russia is also blocking exports of sulfuric acid that are used in refining.

[00:18:05]Why?

[00:18:07]Because of that Iran war.

[00:18:09]Yeah.

[00:18:12]We got a huge problem, folks.

[00:18:16]And this Iran war escalated it.

[00:18:20]Recently, it was noted that China's silver hunger hits record levels.

[00:18:27]And Goldman Sachs, no less, warns the global market is starting to fracture.

[00:18:34]Recently, China imported approximately 836 tons of silver.

[00:18:39]The highest monthly total ever recorded.

[00:18:43]Yeah.

[00:18:45]And they're not alone.

[00:18:47]They're not alone at all, folks.

[00:18:50]Silver is an integral component of everything electronic we own.

[00:18:55]Also, of our weapon systems.

[00:18:58]Our weapon systems, because of this Iran war, are drastically low. Well, how are we going to build our reserves if we can't get silver?

[00:19:10]If it can't be refined.

[00:19:12]if China's banning the export of it, how?

[00:19:18]The answer is we can't.

[00:19:21]And this is why we're starting to see the paper markets implode.

[00:19:28]Ben Norton, an editor of the Geopolitical Economy Report, recently wrote, "The US war on Iran is backfiring, undermining the petrodollar system that gives the US empire so much power.

[00:19:42]Gulf regimes are exporting significantly less oil, and they're not reinvesting those petrodollars in US debt assets."

[00:19:53]Meanwhile, many foreign central banks have been selling US Treasury securities to prevent their currencies from depreciating, leading to US bond yields rising markedly, not falling.

[00:20:08]Until we look at the 10-year is now over 4.5%.

[00:20:14]And the 30 is over 5%.

[00:20:17]Folks, we have so much revolving credit we cannot afford to have those rates going higher, yet they are. Why?

[00:20:24]Because the dollar is being pushed aside by the world.

[00:20:31]And what was the the straw that broke the camel's back again?

[00:20:37]This Iran war.

[00:20:39]That was only supposed to last 24 to 48 hours.

[00:20:43]And oh, it was about a regime change.

[00:20:45]You know, kill the 86-year-old dude with a turban and a smock on, and the whole country will fall apart. That's what President Trump was told by Netanyahu and Banero and the rest of the Zionist zealots.

[00:20:58]It was all BS.

[00:21:02]All BS.

[00:21:04]And now the regime we have is more hardline than what was there before.

[00:21:10]Norton goes on.

[00:21:12]Meanwhile, many foreign central banks have been selling US Treasuries to prevent their currencies from depreciating.

[00:21:19]And yeah, bond yields are markedly rising.

[00:21:22]And the US financial sector is losing its perception of being the safe haven that it once was thought.

[00:21:30]This means that both key aspects of the petrodollar system are breaking.

[00:21:34]There are fewer fewer oil exports in dollars.

[00:21:39]Iran wants oil to be traded in Chinese yuan.

[00:21:43]And there are fewer petrodollars recycled into US financial assets.

[00:21:49]Folks, take a lesson from Ben Janda, from Phil Vote, from Dave Janda, from many of our guests that come on this platform.

[00:22:05]The government will not protect you.

[00:22:08]You need to protect yourself and your financial future.

[00:22:13]The single greatest insurance policy is physical gold and physical silver.

[00:22:20]And Phil Vote, who passed away today, and his entire the Vote and the Reed family have dedicated their lives to creation of a lifeboat of the Camino company.

[00:22:31]None of us have enough gold or silver to protect us of what's coming.

[00:22:37]Protect yourself.

[00:22:40]Take the sage wisdom of Ben Janda, Phil Vote, and all of us that are imploring you, imploring you to the nth degree, to protect yourself with the single greatest insurance policy on the planet, one that is not tied to counterparty risk, one that is not tied to debt.

[00:23:08]Physical gold and physical silver.