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May 22, 2022 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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John Perez interviewed by Adams: Crypto, Russia, Evergrande and cyber war false flags
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And the question is, how hard will it hit crypto?
I personally believe it's going to hit crypto very, very hard.
A lot of cryptos may vanish.
But there's also...
I am not anti-crypto.
I'm not anti-Bitcoin.
So there's also opportunity when this comes down.
We may see a firing squad on all these cryptos.
And there may be a couple of survivors out there.
And it may be an opportunity for people to...
take a look at these really, really cheap cryptos that pass the smell test for what potentially could be a new regulatory environment.
All right.
Welcome to the Health Ranger Report.
This is an emergency interview with John Perez.
It's going to be aired on Brighttown.tv and then also on Brighttown.com for the extended version.
Now, of course, Evergrande is officially in default according to Fitch and other ratings agencies in the U.S. And this is exactly what we predicted.
So my phone's been blown up all day.
I know John's has as well.
He's going to join us here in just a minute.
With people saying, oh my God, you guys were right.
How did you know?
And honestly, that was easy to see.
Actually, everybody saw that who was paying attention.
So that's not the prediction that's the big deal.
The big deal is what happens next.
And that's what we're going to talk with John Perez all about here for this whole segment.
And also, crypto is cratering.
Bitcoin's down, I think, in the $47K range today.
Gold and silver are also being suppressed.
So much more.
And situation with Russia.
Stay with us.
We'll be right back here on BrightTown.tv.
Look, we had a great interview already, an hour and 45 minute discussion like two days ago, I think, about all of this.
And you talked about Evergrande, Tether, digital fiat currency creation.
You talked about Bitcoin origins, ties to Epstein.
But now...
Just this quickly, things are blowing up almost exactly as you described in that interview from a couple of days ago.
So bring us up to speed, if you would, please, John.
I'll give you the floor.
What's been happening today?
This is being recorded on, what is this, Thursday, December 9th.
What has happened today, aside from, obviously, the default of Evergrande?
Well, I noticed my text messages and messages and emails started blowing up about 1.30 a.m.
this morning.
I got to bed about 2, woke up at 3.30, so I've been up all night here trying to monitor how deep this goes.
Evergrande has officially gone into default, as expected, as Mike said, if you're watching this, you saw it, but the real key here is gonna see how this affects Bitcoin.
And what do we see?
Bitcoin going off the cliff right now, down at this point, earlier today was down to 47,000, probably lower, down 4%.
And this, my theory here on Tether, being the tool to be pumping up Bitcoin, I believe is gonna come true And if Tether gets cut off today, because there are some SEC meetings and a hearing that went on yesterday here, what we could be seeing here is the first stages of regulation coming through that's directly affected Evergrande, which has affected Tether, which is now coming off and hitting Bitcoin.
And the question is, how hard will it hit crypto?
I personally believe it's going to hit crypto very, very hard.
A lot of cryptos may vanish.
But there's also, I am not anti-crypto.
I'm not anti-Bitcoin.
So there's also opportunity when this comes down, we may see a firing squad on all these cryptos, and there may be a couple survivors out there.
And it may be an opportunity for people to take a look at these really, really cheap cryptos that pass the smell test for what potentially could be a new regulatory environment.
Okay, okay.
Excuse me.
Hold on.
Hold on, John.
You said a lot of very interesting stuff already and I'm glad you put that disclaimer out there that you are not anti-crypto and I'm not either.
I'm waiting for the crypto ecosystem to clean up its messes.
And then, I think the future of money is digital money, and I would much rather that future be decentralized peer-to-peer money, not run by central banks.
But even the crypto people who testified before Congress, I think it was yesterday, were saying, please regulate us, because this industry, even they say, is full of scammers and con artists and fraud.
And they're like, please regulate us so we can clean this thing up, which I think is the key to taking crypto to the next level.
But during the cleanup, there's going to be a kind of a wipeout, probably, maybe a circular firing squad, you know.
That's it.
I mean, I'm glad you clarified that, because that's where I am as well.
I'm ready to jump into the future of crypto once it's honest and clean.
Yes, and I agree.
Like you said, the big guys, the guys that are running the clean operations, they have done everything by the book, they want the regulation to come in because they want to get rid of all the scammers.
Billions and billions of dollars, this is part of another show, have been ripped off from people.
And we don't know this because the news, number one, doesn't report it.
They don't want to report it.
But billions and billions of dollars have been stolen and scammed and hacked just in this year alone.
And the number is astonishing, but since it's unregulated, it's not reported.
And the larger operations that, as Mike said, want to see regulation, they want that gone.
Because it's not right, because that's money that could potentially be put into a good, clean, regulated, well-run crypto that meets all the compliance regulations that are out there.
Because there has to be compliance, there has to be regulation, period, so that we don't have any of these scams anymore.
And that being, yeah...
Well, but speaking of regulation, I want to bring you back to today's news.
I want you to walk us through some of the big things today.
But if Tether won't submit to audits, and now that Evergrande is in default, and many people, including yourself, believe that Tether holds many billions of dollars In debt of not just Evergrande, but maybe Kaiser and other Chinese property developers that are all going belly up now, or many of them.
If Tether won't submit to an audit, then anything that Tether can purchase can't be trusted, in my view, because all the prices can be inflated by Tether coin creation, i.e.
digital money printing, backed by nothing that's audited.
Do you agree with that or do you find fault with that?
I know.
I agree.
And also, remember, I don't think we ran this.
If you watched the video with Jordan Belfort, he said the DOJ can go back 10 years as to what kind of activity was used.
And in the interview with Cointelegraph, he said these things can't be erased and they can be used.
Yeah, the blockchain is forever.
Yes, blockchain is forever and YouTube is.
And if that's the case and if they're ongoing, these investigations, they're not publicized.
They're not put out on television.
They don't give any warnings.
This stuff is done behind the scenes and generally you get a notice.
That notices you a knock on the door and it's over.
And in this case, if Jordan Belfort was correct, which I believe he is, and the DOJ having the latitude to go back 10 years on Tether, and we find out that Tether was used to be manipulating exchanges as well as the price of Bitcoin here, then this can set off a set of dominoes that then this can set off a set of dominoes that would be right out of the scene from the movie V for Vendetta, where he pits the domino and it just goes all the way down the line here of fraud.
And misplaced and unregulated markets that weren't real.
And I will give the clip to Mike.
I have the report, the Senate Committee report showing, and I believe it was 2019 or 2020, where they showed over 80% of the market and the Bitcoin volume on the screen was literally fake.
So when I say fake, the first word that should come through your mind is unregulated, unregulated.
This is the problem with crypto, and it needs to be regulated, just as Mike said, and just what they're working with in the SEC hearings from yesterday.
And from the data I'm getting this morning and the signals...
It looks like the SEC is about to put the hammer down on regulation.
And it comes at a key point here, right when Evergrande is going.
Because remember, Evergrande, over 120 financial institutions are invested in Evergrande.
Think about that.
401Ks, IRAs, retirement funds, you know, where's your- Pensions.
Yeah.
Life insurance.
Is your money part of the investment over in Evergrande?
I would be on, me personally, as a risk management guy, and as we talked about on the Epstein part with Bitcoin, you need to do your research.
It's good to ask questions.
If it's your money, you should always be looking at your money like- Like a mother looks over at her eggs at a hen that's hatching them.
You want to move your eggs around, turn them over and see what's going on.
And just like 2008, there's a clip I'm going to, we'll probably run on a future show where Kramer said, Jim Kramer back in 2008, when the markets were crashing, people were losing it, going crazy.
Bear Stearns was crashing and he came on television and said, Bear Stearns is just fine.
Leave your money in Bear Stearns.
And it went from $80 to To $2 a share.
Boom.
So don't trust what you see in the news.
This is a classic clip.
What kind of regulatory action do you suppose the SEC might invoke that could have these domino effect consequences you're referring to?
I think what we're going to see is a regulatory action that...
And these are from notes I wrote from Gary Gensler.
And by the way, Gary Gensler, who's the SEC boss, he's formerly of the CFTC, which is the Commodities Trading and Futures Commission, which is gold, silver, and commodities, where I worked in.
So as the years have gone by, here I am working in the stock market, working in commodities, Now Gary is running the SEC. So I've known Gary for many years and I've watched him and I understand how he communicates because once you're in this industry, you realize that these guys communicate a certain way.
They send out signals and he's sending out signals here and it appears to be, here it is, Here's a headline from Fox News this morning.
SEC's Gary Gensler seeks to level playing field between SPACs and traditional IPOs.
Well, that's regarding SPACs and IPOs because SPACs are new and they're bringing money in and they're going to level that playing field out.
Well, it seems to me the signal is we're not just going to go with crypto.
It looks like they're going to regulate the entire playing field.
And so what I see with Tether and stable coins in particular, not cryptos specifically, but Tether and stable coins, I believe Tether is going to be the role model for what not to do as a stable coin.
And if they apply FDIC standards to the stable coin market here, there are going to be big problems here because it's literally going to be a margin call.
It's like, you know, in case if you say, Today's market price for CoinMarket, let's see what the CoinMarketCap base is right now.
This is incredible how big Tether is.
So today Tether has a $76 billion market cap.
Whoa, that's up from when we talked two days ago.
It's up by billions.
Yeah, well, okay, so you mentioned margin call.
Now, we know that Tether has lost a lot of money in the past.
That was reflected in the New York Attorney General announcement from earlier this year.
$850 million in losses incurred by Tether that they reportedly tried to hide.
That was part of the deceptive practices and the designation that they were engaging criminal activity, according to the New York Attorney General.
Now, if they've lost billions of dollars in Evergrande paper or other Chinese property developers, until today, they could have said, well, that paper is not in default.
But as of today, now it's different.
It is in default.
And we also know from the Chinese, the CCP leadership there, we know that Evergrande and other developers have been ordered to prioritize domestic, even individual debt holders because they don't want riots and an uprising from the people of China who invested in this.
Basically, Evergrande has been ordered to screw the foreign bondholders, which seemingly would include Tether, right?
Yeah, foreign translation is Americans, American money.
But it could also be Hong Kong.
I mean, it could be together in Hong Kong.
It could be Europeans, everybody else.
Yeah, and you touched on something really key here.
If Tether goes down and you have people, you're going to see people, it's already happened.
People are, you know, there's people committing suicide.
Housing in China is a major thing.
It's much bigger.
The housing market is three times the size of the American market, I believe.
And an investment in Chinese housing is everything.
It's like their retirement fund.
Yeah, and so if...
If the government...
If Evergrande goes down and people lose all their savings and they lose everything in real estate and the government sits by and does nothing, the greatest threat to the government will literally be an uprising of their own people.
You don't have a billion people angry at government and they're going to need a scapegoat.
It's really not a scapegoat.
They're going to need some guilty parties here.
And the way things happen in communist China is much different.
They...
They actually take action against...
There's no such thing as too big to jail, too big to fail in China.
And in this case here, since this is a worldwide potential for global contagion and crashes, leadership in China, they're going to have to put someone's head on a platter here because when things start to go and everyone points the finger at Xi, Xi is going to need a platter to point the finger at and say, well, we're handling this and we're dealing with this.
I mean, you're right.
The Chinese government executed the leader of an infant formula nutrition company that replaced the baby protein with melamine powder and killed a lot of infants, right?
So that person, I forgot who it was, was executed.
And, I mean, I don't know if they're going to execute the leaders of Evergrande.
I think first they're trying to get them to sell all their assets and pay people back.
I mean, right now it looks like China is not stepping in with a USA-style money-printing bailout of Evergrande.
They're trying to get Evergrande to solve its own problems and contain the contagion, it seems.
Yeah.
And by the way, the last two weeks, last three weeks, the CEO has been forced to sell his own shares, which is unusual.
You rarely see that.
And not only he sold his, he sold two Gulfstream jets, he's dumping off his mansions.
I mean, this would be the equivalent if you're a trader and you're working in these markets right now, you're That would be the equivalent of being on an airplane and suddenly hearing the door open up and say, why is the pilot putting on a parachute?
And then the stewardesses are opening the doors and they're throwing out luggage like we're lightening the plane.
This is a big margin call.
This is a fire sale at 30,000 feet and they're just bailing water.
Then you've got a lifeboat that's sinking, water's coming in and they're selling, trying to raise cash.
There's no way they can keep up with this.
These are his personal holdings.
His wife sold, I think she sold another 76 million in stock.
And what's going on in China, you don't see here, is literally that scene from Margin Call when they're having a fire sale and they're on the phone just, you know, I'm selling and they're dumping.
They're dumping off there.
And that's happening in China.
We don't see it here and it's not on television, but that's happening right now.
And it's been going on for a couple of weeks.
Or even better, the scene from the Eddie Murphy movie, Trading Places, the fire sale at the end.
Remember that?
That's even funny.
And I think that was a Christmas movie as well, along with Die Hard, which is the ultimate Christmas movie.
Okay, so where does this go?
I mean, I know you're concerned about things happening quite imminently, perhaps in the next two weeks or so.
I am right now...
In fact, we spoke this morning, and an hour after I spoke, we said everything just changed.
All of a sudden, we have very large geopolitical events.
Let me read this to you.
These are headlines coming in.
And I have a lot of feeds coming in from around the world.
And this is wonderful news because you will never see this on the mainstream news.
And here's the good news.
We are the news now.
We bring the real news.
There's no BS here, no MSM.
This is real news and it's not made to scare anyone, not made to get anyone motivated to do anything.
It's awareness and news and it's information here.
This came out today.
Israel has led a 10 country simulation of a major cyber attack on global financial systems in an attempt to increase cooperation.
In an attempt to increase cooperation that could help minimize any potential damage to financial markets and banks.
Wow.
Increased cooperation to minimize.
What does a cyber attack have to do with all this?
You know, what does this tell me?
There's a lot going on.
And I mentioned this about the World Economic Foundation talking about We're good to go.
Simultaneously, in Russia, they have put...
This is just mind-bending.
I've been following Ukraine and Russia since 2014, daily.
I know the politics out there.
I read all the transcripts of all the diplomats and all the communications going back and forth.
This came out this morning.
95% of Russian nuclear forces are launch-ready.
Hear that?
95% launch ready.
That's DEFCON 2.
That would be a DEFCON 2 position in the United States.
We're not hearing this in the news.
Now, if you're a trader, you're a big trader, and you're managing 10, 20, 30, 40, 100 million bucks, and you're not reading this, you're going to have big problems here very soon.
And because these markets have gone nowhere but up since 2010, 2011, and people don't know how to deal with this kind of geopolitical, geostrategic volatility, That rocks markets.
And you can add this on top of Evergrande here.
Importantly, let me interject that Russia is saying that in response to U.S. Senator Wicker, who went out there and I think he was on Fox News and he said, oh, we could launch a first strike surprise nuclear attack.
I mean, I'm paraphrasing, but that's essentially what he said, which is perhaps the most insane thing you could possibly do right now, and the dumbest thing possible.
This is a GOP senator, right?
And, I mean, threatening Russia with a surprise nuclear strike?
Do you realize what that does?
I mean, it's...
really?
To put this in perspective, we would have to be sitting in San Diego and looking across the border and seeing Russian troops and missiles pointing at us out there.
We don't have that.
But Russia looks across their border and they see NATO moving troops and missiles and they're listening to this guy, this senator in America saying, launch a preemptive nuclear strike.
But now, their war games, I've read their war games, Russia is now enforced in the position to say, wow, the idea of a preemptive nuclear strike before we get hit, now that's on the table.
That talk is already going on.
Rather than just wait for these guys to launch something on us as they encroach on our borders, like Napoleon did and Hitler did during World War II and the Napoleonic Wars, why should we wait?
These guys have been creeping our way for 20 years, and now they're here.
The first strike posture.
This is part of game theory and, you know, mutually assured destruction.
But I tell you, when it comes to game theory, Putin is a genius and Joe Biden is a dementia patient who craps himself.
So, I mean, who do you think is going to win this game?
We're in trouble.
We're in trouble with Brandon running the show.
This is big problems.
Brandon, nuclear weapons.
You've got to go back and watch the videos of Vladimir Putin back in 2008 and 2009 when he was fighting the Chechen Wars and rebuilding the Russian Federation after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
He's an absolute master of working this, and he has to work within his borders with limited resources.
So because their budget doesn't allow them to just print, print, print money and create battleship, battleship, warships, aircraft carriers, you know, their budget, they focused on making defensive hyper-technology missile systems that are absolutely, you know, they're the best.
I mean, people don't, the public, the general public, I don't see it on the news, but the general public doesn't even realize how ready they are to deal with this because they've watched it happen in slow motion here.
Well, the hypersonic missiles that Russia has now in deployment, I think they just did a test at the end of November, 400-kilometer range striking a target, hypersonic missiles that travel perhaps Mach 7, maybe Mach 9, and they also have nuclear-powered cruise missiles.
I'm not sure if those are hypersonic or not, but, I mean, yeah, Russia's years ahead of the U.S., and what U.S. people, most people don't understand is that when missiles are traveling at that speed, Not only are they practically invisible to radar because they create such a strong air bubble in front of them that the radar is just dispersed,
the signals are, but also then the U.S. anti-missile defensive systems can't respond quickly enough in order to react based on the speed at which those hypersonic missiles are moving.
So my prediction is if the U.S. were dumb enough to start a kinetic war with Russia, Most U.S. assets, including naval ships in that region, would be gone in about 15 minutes.
It'd be over.
Yes.
In fact, people, if you want to get an idea of what can occur out there, go on YouTube and type in USS Donald Cook in the Baltic Sea when the ship was being buzzed by an SU-24.
They're always using electronic warfare methods on equipment, and that destroyer went black.
They went dark and they buzzed that ship over and over.
And the films, the videos are astonishing.
But this is the kind of stuff that we don't see.
It's not on the headline news people don't talk about.
And this has expanded.
That was three, four years ago.
And the technology is moving so quickly that even their hypersonic missiles, they're not just land-based taking off from whether it's rail or mobile.
But now these These hypersonic missiles are now mounted on, I believe it's the MiG-25 or MiG-30, which is their 3,000-mile-per-hour platform.
So now you've got a jet that's an interceptor that was developed in the 70s and 80s, still flying.
It goes fast like SR-71.
It's got a record almost equal to that.
But they can fly at Mach 2 and launch a hypersonic, which is...
Nobody has this type of technology.
And for Russia, I always tell people, if you've got Russia from a historical perspective, they have history here of people coming to their border and coming in and making attempts to attack and invade the country here.
So for them, anyone that's at the border with any type of missiles, nuclear capability, is an absolute existential threat.
Okay, John, I've got to...
In a row, we've got to wrap up this segment here for Brighteon.tv.
We'll continue on Brighteon.com and the extended interview.
Thank you for watching today.
So, recap now.
We've covered a little bit about Russia, Israel's cyber warfare simulation.
I know a lot of people are going to freak out because, of course, COVID started with a simulation funded by Bill Gates, and then, oh, it became real.
So anytime they're working on simulations, we always have to be on the lookout that it's going to go live.
And then you also talked about, you know, Tether and Evergrande and so on.
So...
Big picture, recap.
What are the big threats to all of us right now as of today, December 9th?
You know, good question.
I got a phone call.
In fact, I'll share with you what I share with my mother.
And I love my mother.
You know, double check your, you know, make sure all your food and everything, your backup food in case there's a backup, candles, flashlight, you know, backup power.
Just to have, I think we're coming to a key point here in time.
And if I was to make any judgment or pure speculative guess, As to the potential of something going FUBAR, it would be between December 11th and December 21.
There's a 10-day period coming up here that I see that's going to be very volatile.
And so be prepared for grid down, grid blackouts.
Be prepared for anything because when you have these kind of...
You've got basically a...
A cyber attack drill in 10 countries?
Well, which countries are those?
And what does that mean?
Because it was Klaus Schwab who said the same thing.
You know, you got to be careful for a cyber attack, cyber pandemic.
Like, well, so we have Klaus Schwab, we've got Israel.
So where does that put us here as Americans?
And for everyone else around the world, Canada, I've got messages from around the world.
Thank you for all the messages.
But all countries should be prepared for any type of chaos.
So a cyber attack, specifically Israel was talking about a cyber attack targeting the financial infrastructure.
So there we could be looking at bank freezes, inability to move funds, checks don't clear, wires don't work, payroll stops, ATM stop, food stamps stop.
Now, folks, think about the flash looting mobs in blue cities right now.
People have been executed on the streets of New York City.
I just saw a video this morning.
It's just like a drive-by, third-world execution of a guy in a car right on the streets of New York City.
Imagine what happens when people don't get their free money, their food money.
So that's just the financial system.
Go ahead, your thoughts, John.
Well, you know, I think you just touched on something here.
Everyone needs to be prepared.
We're in no man's land.
We've not been here.
This is uncharted territory for everyone.
We've got a massive bubble in the stock market, a massive bubble in crypto, and we've got a massive amount of ignorance and insanity printing money like there's no tomorrow.
And that's...
That's like someone coming over to a barbecue and you're cooking steak and they decide to throw a cup of gasoline on the barbecue.
I'm not sure if you've ever seen what that looks like, but everybody's hair gets singed when that happens.
Like, what are you doing here?
That's what's happening in the stock market.
And this morning, I was looking at the Dow.
Someone says, oh, John, the stock market's going up.
I said, it always does this before the end.
They don't tell you.
You hear, listen to me, and John, it sounds like it's the end of the world.
It's never the end of the world.
No, no, but it is like a giant brush fire burning out the kindling and the deadwood through the system, which is actually part of the process of creating healthier markets in the future.
And this has happened over and over again, boom and bust cycles, human psychology.
You just go back through the history of just U.S. finance, it's the same thing.
It's the subprime housing collapse.
It's the dot-com collapse.
It was Black Monday, 1987.
Was that a Monday?
I think it was.
I believe so.
Yeah, Black Monday.
Yeah, I mean, just go through history.
But the infrastructure attacks can go beyond finance.
They can attack the power grid.
They can attack communications.
Now, if they take down comms, if they take down the internet or the power grid, that's going to take down all liquidity in crypto, because all crypto requires electricity, obviously.
And then people are going to say, well, what do I do now?
The internet's not working or there's a blackout.
You will have no internet and you will be happy.
Right, right.
Very unhappy.
I think everybody should always be prepared.
If you're trading in electronic markets, you should always be prepared for the lights to go out and the internet to go out.
I mean, this is just common sense.
So, you know, if I gave any type of advice, I would say, be prepared.
When?
Now and yesterday.
Just be prepared because, like I said, we're in no man's territory.
And, hey, if this is about attempting to get cooperation with companies doing a cyber attack, the grid is absolutely fair game to put out because you put out the lights, I mean, look, you know, why not put out the lights at all the trading organizations where, you know, all of a sudden all the exchanges go off, the retail exchanges, and you're like, I want to sell my stock.
It goes out.
But then the big wheels that are in the right place that are part of the club, they're still able to sell out while you're locked out.
This would be right out of the scene, if you remember, the scene from the Titanic when it started to take on water and it was, I believe, what the...
The climate change guy, DiCaprio, they were trying to get out and they locked him in below deck at that gate.
That's an important scene there.
That has much to do about how they go about things.
The lower ticket, the cheaper tickets were down below.
They just locked him in because they would be people jumping on the lifeboat.
That kind of scenario can happen where all of a sudden we're going to see such and such retail brokers down.
They can't access it.
And all of a sudden you can't sell.
And then what happens then?
The big guys with the big brokerages, they've got redundant backup power.
What if they're selling while you're locked out?
That scenario is possible, and you have to be ready to think that that could potentially happen.
Well, I appreciate all your movie metaphors.
I'll add one to you here, but of course, these days, if the Titanic were going down, you would need a vaccine passport to get on the life raft.
So they kill you in your escape.
But as long as we're talking movies, I'm thinking about the great trash avalanche from Idiocracy.
So, you know, giant mountains of trash, and that's the built-up money-printing bubble in stocks, bonds, real estate, crypto, you name it.
And then there's a tipping point, whereas one more can...
You know, one more trash, like, old soup can that goes on and then, boom, the whole avalanche tears down and rolls into the city and just flows into people's apartments and so on.
That's idiocracy, of course.
Yeah, we're there.
Right now, we're in shit hit the fan land right now.
This is happening in real time, and it's going to pick up here.
I believe it's going to accelerate quicker than even...
I wasn't even prepared to see what I saw this morning, and I'm usually, you know...
My heart is always an eternal optimist, but I'm also aware of reality.
And what I see coming across the wire right now is that this is going to go...
In the next 48 hours, things are going to get really serious and everybody's going to be awake.
And, you know...
For once here, we're going to see external pressures.
What do they like to do in politics?
You've got an internal problem.
What do you do?
You create an external problem to take the focus off of you so you don't look like the bad guy.
This has been done in the past.
Okay, let me challenge you on the timeline, though, because why can't this just take a couple of years to play out?
I mean, Evergrande's in default, and so they're missing bond coupon payments to debt holders, but those debt holders, they may have another 30 days before their debt goes into default and so on.
So it takes time for this to ripple through the system, and a lot of things can be delayed.
For example, I can't believe that the U.S. dollar is still functioning after what happened in 2008 and all the quantitative easing and money printing, but they've kicked that can a long time, so why can't that happen?
Well, you know, you bring up a good point.
It can happen.
They can drag this out another two years, but how I see it, it appears to me because of, I think we had nearly $70 billion in stock sales by CEOs.
That right there...
In what time frame?
That's happened throughout 2021.
Oh, okay.
Okay.
So they see the future.
They know.
They have three, four, five guys that are just pressing buttons, answering them.
What's the market doing?
There are guys like me that are saying, John, what's the next pin to fall here?
Well, we have this, this, this, this, this.
What would you recommend?
And here's my opinion.
You're the final decision maker.
And the way the market is right now, here's what we have that's going on underneath the surface at Evergrande that you never hear in the news.
We still have 120 financial institutions invested there.
We don't know the structure of that paper.
We don't know what they know.
And based on another piece here is this.
Tether is unaudited.
And a report came in that Evergrande was bankrupt, listen to this, five years ago.
Five years ago.
And they basically took away this guy's license, banned him from television, and they tried to ruin his career.
He's back on television again.
He was a whistleblower guy.
Yeah, yeah.
I think that was mentioned on Fox News, I saw.
Yes.
And to your point on the two years, it may be that that two years may have been already three years ago.
I see what you mean.
Right.
Like they've already kicked the can as far as it's going to go.
Now the road is a dead end.
The can just went off the cliff.
Riley Coyote.
Well, speaking of off the cliff, I noticed in the congressional hearings yesterday, one congressman, and I forgot his name or his party affiliation, he said that lots of people he knows are talking about Bitcoin, but they're all talking about it as pure speculation,
as a get-rich-quick type of operation, and that concerns him, because he even said, anytime there's a get-rich-quick It always ends badly.
But it's quite true.
It's probably true.
And if it was Brad Sherman, the crypto people hate Brad Sherman.
And he's a Harvard-trained tax attorney.
This guy here, I read his reports, his subcommittee reports in the Senate.
And if you read them, you would light your hair on fire and run out the door.
It's like, wait a second here.
Did he really write this?
How come nobody's talking about this?
It's like, this ship already sank.
But it hasn't been talked about yet.
If you go to WallStreetOnParade and type in Brad Sherman, I recommend go to WallStreetOnParade.com, type in Brad Sherman and crypto.
You're going to read this stuff and say, oh my goodness, Mike and Perez were right.
This is unbelievable here.
And that's where, when his opinion comes out on regulating crypto, He knows what's really going on.
And I listened to some of the speeches from the crypto people, and I thought, wow, these guys are putting sugar on dog poop.
Yeah.
I mean, that's the only way I can describe it.
Wait a second here.
This is way worse than what they're displaying here.
But they're really talking about the scam side of things.
And, you know, we have...
The problem with Evergrande is not just Evergrande.
We have all these geopolitical and geostrategic and...
There's structural attacks on the grid that are imminent right on the side while Evergrande is going down.
We have not been before.
This is new territory.
You need to hold that coin.
You need to hold that gold.
You need to hold that cash.
You need to hold your bullets, your good food, your non-GMO food, your water, everything right now.
And I'm not saying this to sound crazy or put people on edge here.
But we have not been here before.
And when Russia talks about nuclear forces being launch ready, when was the last time you heard that?
I think I was 1973 when we went into DEFCON 3 in Syria because we're worried about the Soviets overrunning the Israeli military.
Well, here we go.
Fast forward.
What else happened in 73?
We came off the gold standard.
Well, that's funny.
Fast forward.
We got Russia is in Syria again.
Was that 73 when Nixon did that?
I'm sorry, 72.
Yeah, I didn't think it was 73, but the point is valid.
I'm sorry.
I'm geeky about numbers and such.
That whole Bretton Woods process went from 71 to 73 here, and it coincided there, and then gold took off.
Yeah, right.
Well, the other factor here, I mean, what you're alluding to is that during the downside of bubbles, when you have asset destruction rather than leverage creation, everybody loses their minds because all they've seen is the upside and they think that's normal and they think that's going to go on forever.
But there's a little exercise That I put into my podcast I want to share with you and the viewers that has really helped people understand this thing.
And I call it how to be a cryptocurrency billionaire in literally in five minutes.
And it's very simple.
No, I'm not kidding.
You tell me if I'm right about this.
All you do, you open a spreadsheet on your computer.
You type in your favorite.
You're going to make up a coin name.
Since we're going on doggy coins, I used to have a Shih Tzu dog when I was a kid, so I'm creating Shih Tzu coin, and then I'm putting one million coins in there, just like Tether.
They just create it in a spreadsheet.
So I'm creating a million Shih Tzu coins, okay?
And the value currently is zero, but I'm going to sell one of those coins, just one, to you, John, for $1,000.
Will you give me $1,000 for one of those coins, please, just one?
Just to play along.
Just give me $1,000.
Will you do that?
Yeah, let me open up my Monarch.
Okay, okay.
All right.
So you give me $1,000.
Now, there are a million coins, and the last trading price was $1,000.
A million times $1,000 is $1 billion.
Boom!
I am now a crypto billionaire with Shih Tzu Coin.
Oh, and I can take that spreadsheet and share it with my friend, and now it's peer-to-peer decentralized finance.
Yeah, you're successful.
Right?
That's how it works.
That's just boom.
You can do it.
You could be worth a billion dollars in five minutes.
It's true.
And you just hit on something so important, and that is this.
The market has been going up for years to the point to where we've got all these young new traders that weren't trading back in 08.
They were right out of school, degreed.
The market just keeps going up.
You make your trades.
You make your commissions.
It keeps going up.
Let's leverage.
Margin is way up.
Credit card debt is way up.
Everyone is leveraged to the hill.
This is when they pretty much take out the 10-foot-long crowbar and put it under everyone and deleverage things violently.
And because we've been in an environment, we've got a lot of inexperienced young traders who weren't around in 07, 08, 06, 09 during the prior crash.
They've been sitting at the desk watching crypto go to the moon.
Everything go to the moon.
Free Lambos, free this.
Millions of people following you on YouTube, but they've never had experience at playing at real war.
It's kind of like, oh, I've been playing Airsoft for the last five years and I'm really good.
And I could go in the military and it's like, oh, okay, really?
This is just going over here.
And they get into a real shooting war.
And all of a sudden, bullets are flying and they break things.
Things tear up.
We're going into a literal...
Actually, I'm going to say this right now.
If you're a trader right now, you're like in the beginning of a shooting war.
You're hearing things start to fly around and you're going to be at the point to where, wait a second, I spent the last seven years just casually pressing buttons and making...
Now, you've got all these accounts...
You've got all this money and you've got to pick up the phone and you better know what you're talking about.
You're going to be calling clients up and they're going to say, what's going on in this market?
Chances are you're probably going to say, well, you know, Bitcoin has been going up for the last seven years.
It's like, well, there's a lot more than that.
So we're going into a shooting gallery now with the markets.
And this is where experience is really going to pay off in terms of how do you get out of a market?
How do you extract yourself?
You got so much money that you're leveraging.
All of a sudden you look, wait a second here.
I put some money over here, diversified, and I just found out these guys bought, they own Evergrande paper.
That's how it works.
It's like, boom.
It's like, well, how do I get out?
You get up, like, I need to sell.
It's like, I can't sell.
Why?
They froze it up.
They locked it up.
Boom.
The banks get wind of this, and they call up.
It's like, freeze all equity accounts.
No more, you know, drop everyone's equity.
You know, a guy's got a $100,000 credit line he's been paying his bills with.
He's got $50,000 out and all of a sudden the bank calls.
Your equity line has frozen at $50,000 what you got out.
And we don't allow 100% credit lines.
You got to have at least 20% cushion.
It's like, what does that mean?
That means your credit line is maxed at $50,000 and you got to have a 20% cushion.
We need a $20,000 cash infusion right now.
That happened in 08.
That happened to millions of people and no one ever saw that.
And what do they do?
It's like, They wrestle.
They start selling things.
And that's when we see the big snowball coming down with the skis and hands coming out like Bugs Bunny.
And all of a sudden, it's just picking up and getting bigger and bigger.
And that's when that happened last time.
That's when all the for sale signs on houses just popped up overnight.
You know, and so this is an extremely complex situation.
And the movie Margin Call covers it really well.
It's a panic situation because a lot of these traders, what are they doing?
They're out playing, goofing around, having drinks, and all of a sudden when things get real...
It's important to know that one trader can be managing, you know, anywhere from 10 to 15 to 150 accounts representing, you know, a million investors who are at work, raising their kids, you know, running their business and not look, oh, well, I've got a great broker over here.
Well, you know, I, you know, if you said that back in before Bear Stearns, I met Bear Stearns, they've been around for 150 years, you know, no problem with them.
And all of a sudden, boom, they're gone.
What about the argument, though, that as long as the Federal Reserve keeps printing money and pumping it into the system, there will always be continued inflation in assets, especially in the stock market?
I mean, that the Fed isn't wrong.
This is sort of the MMT-based current philosophy.
All you have to do is follow the Fed.
If they create money, just keep buying everything in sight.
What's wrong with that theory?
Well, you know, what happens is that you can do that for a certain period of time, but it's only, you know, during the 2008 crash, you remember they were injecting billions here, and they would stop the bleeding, but all that, what happened was that put money into hands of brokers,
and they just took that money and bought their stock back and sold on the way out, while the little guy just got destroyed because they thought, well, they just got $10 billion, well, everything will be just fine, And then all of a sudden, you get dead cat bounces.
Look, John, you said the market's going down.
It's up today.
I said, just watch that.
Keep your eyes on that thing for the next 48 hours.
All of a sudden, oh my gosh, you were right.
I said, I've been in this business too long.
I see these things.
This is just...
That's why I see the crypto thing and Bitcoin hodling forever is so dangerous.
A lot of hodlers are going to learn a really big lesson here about being in profits and sitting back thinking, well, if you just hodl, it'll go up forever here.
That's going to change this time.
In fact, I have a Bitcoin target price, which I will say publicly that it's going to be.
Nobody wants to hear it.
But just as I said, sell $69,066,666.
I'm going to tell you, Bitcoin is heading to $4,200.
$4,200?
I thought you were going to say $42,000, but no, you said $100.
$4,200.
Oh my gosh.
And people say, when?
I say, my response is always, just wait and see, be patient.
Why?
Why would it do that?
Well, it goes back to, if the Tether story turns out to be true, that we find Tether propped up Bitcoin, And then we have a, on December 21st, we have a Delta for a human rights executive order.
And we all of a sudden, this executive order is exercised and Tether is exercised as to manipulation of Bitcoin.
I think we're going to see people running out the door.
Well, it does bring up the question, what would the price of Bitcoin be if Tether did not exist and if Tether wasn't funding the majority of Bitcoin purchases, right?
If Bitcoin were just its own market, What would the price be?
And maybe $4,200 is the right answer.
I don't know.
You know, I would say if...
I mean, this would be a complete guess.
I would think it would be somewhere between $4,200 and $10,000.
After all the reading, I've seen some of the...
The numbers that have been given that have used Tether to pump up Bitcoin are just absolutely ridiculous.
It makes no sense.
It's really affected Bitcoin that much.
And there's a few analysts out there that are pure crypto guys that I follow and I communicate with daily, hourly.
And they're sending me emails saying, look, this just happened and they're using it for this, they're using it for this.
And you look, it's like, man, this is...
I knew it.
I knew there was something wrong with this thing.
It's literally a new digital fiat...
A centralized, decentralized exchange that's just printing digital crypto.
You just can't do that.
Try it with gold or silver.
Try it with gold or silver.
Well, that's why gold, everybody eventually becomes a hard money person after they get burned enough because gold and silver are on the table of elements and can't vanish.
Now, I want to ask you, in fact, about that as the last question here before we wrap this up.
So gold and silver are also going down right now.
What's your take on why that's happening?
Well, number one, as expected, let's see, what's gold at right here?
This is what happens.
This is my personal opinion on here.
This is the PSYOP side of things.
If you were in the money on silver or gold, there's traders that are just, I have some gold and silver, and it hits a certain number, a technical number, they just trigger out and they go into cash.
And they see this stuff happening.
They start going into cash.
You'll see people unloading gold.
You'll see silver going down.
You're saying, why is this happening?
Why is gold going down?
This happened in the last crash.
I remember because my phone blew up.
It's like, oh my gosh, John, gold's getting knocked down.
I go, just sit back and watch.
I said, why?
I said, because once the ship starts to sink, I said, they'll be grabbing their gold and running out the door.
And that's what they're going to go to.
So you're going to see hedge funds closing.
And I personally believe, in my opinion, there's suppression going on.
The last thing the markets want to see is gold and silver going up while everything else is going down.
It goes down.
That's the last.
Oh my gosh.
If you turn around and you saw the stock market up, you know, down a thousand points and Bitcoin down a thousand points and silver's up two bucks, you'd be like, oh my gosh, we got to go buy silver.
So the markets, what I'm saying is that the markets are really managed.
They really are.
And I'm aware of that.
I'm a trader in it.
I've been there for a long time.
And that's okay because there has to be some sort of management.
I disagree with it.
But I have to work with it because that's how the market works.
So in my opinion here, I expected to see a dip and a violent dip in gold and silver, but they're both going to go down and then you're going to see one turn up and go up and then you're going to see the other one turn up a little bit and then go down.
And then that's when we're going to get what's called decoupling.
When decoupling is when everything's going down and suddenly gold turns up because people realize where they need to be and everything's going down and then you just got people selling.
And, you know, it's important to note too, the markets close at 1 p.m.
Pacific time.
And where is that?
3 p.m.
Eastern time.
Well, most people that are retail people, there's a market.
They don't get off to three or four o'clock.
They don't have the luxury of being able to just, you know, hit the sell button, you know?
I think there's more than a two-hour difference between Pacific.
Three-hour.
Yeah, three hours.
So, you know, once again, we're going into volatility, fun land, and this is where experience is going to count.
I think we're going to see a lot of traders get wiped out, and we're going to see people...
We're going to see the films, people walking out with boxes of everything in their desk.
I've seen it before.
I've seen guys.
I have seen traders...
Doing, you know, I watched $220 million in margin calls.
You know, send money or we force liquidate you.
I don't have the cash.
Click.
Sell.
Here's your money.
Goodbye.
And, you know, words are exchanged.
And then I got to call it.
You need to send in $50,000, $100,000 or we have to force liquidate you into losses.
I don't have the cash.
Boom.
Force liquidated.
You're out.
That's going to be happening around the world.
And that's just, you know, that's part of the game.
Well, one of the reasons that...
I want to keep in touch with you about this, and there may be things happening every couple of days, and just to the audience to let you know, and this might come as a shock to you, John, one of the reasons that I can be pretty calm about all this, and you may not believe this, but it's absolutely true...
I own not only no crypto, I own no stocks, period.
I don't own any stocks, no paper, no bonds, absolutely nothing except physical gold, silver, ammunition, couple of John Deere tractors, and my business.
You know what I mean?
Like, that's it.
So, what...
You are the first bank of Mike Adams.
The Mike Adams Bank.
You're the bank.
I don't trust other people with my money, period.
I don't blame you.
Yeah, old school, baby.
Old school.
Super old school.
I'm like pre-1913 old school.
Yeah.
Yes.
I got a great story about that regarding a bank in gold.
There's a wonderful bank.
It's one of the most powerful banks in the United States.
And it's called Farmers and Merchants Bank based in Long Beach.
And I believe they've been around since 1905, early 1900s.
They were around for the first...
And back then, this is great.
I love this story.
When I read this, I was just tickled.
When the market was crashing, I believe it was 1905 there was a crash in the markets.
Everyone panicked and ran to the bank to yank their money out.
Imagine that, 1905, they were running to the bank.
Most Americans right now are like, huh, what?
Why would they run to the bank?
It's like, well, because that's the way things went back then.
They ran.
It ran.
It's just gone.
Well, they saw the people coming in, so the president of the bank came out, and he loaded all All their gold on a wagon with horses, a horse-drawn wagon.
And it was secure.
And they piled the gold in front of the bank, put all these guards with guns out there and said, we have gold.
Your money is safe.
True story.
Check them out.
Martin Farmers and Merchants Bank.
And they are still to this day probably the most strongest bank I know of.
And actually, they held a lot of gold at that time.
I don't know what it is now, but they held a lot of gold that we kept at Monex.
We kept it at Farmers and Merchants.
So that's how I learned about that bank.
I thought, well, who are these guys?
And I read them out.
I said, great bank.
But that story is a true story.
So Mike has the cart there with the gold and the guns.
That's absolutely true.
I even have the donkeys to go with the cart.
I literally do.
It's the three G's.
It's a God, guns, and gold moment right now.
We're coming to that.
I mean, look, if the market crashes and 80% of your money is in the stock market, you're going to have an OMG moment.
And that's reality.
And how do you remedy that?
Well, you can either stay in the market or you can put together a strategy and put more in your control because you are the best You are the best shepherd of your own money, your own hard work.
Well, you're absolutely right.
And let me follow it up to say, because I don't own any of these stocks or bonds or crippers, I'm not afraid of markets crashing at all.
I'm afraid of the human response to markets crashing.
Right?
That's what I'm talking about.
Because people lose their minds.
People get desperate.
I mean, I've even made arrangements to donate massive amounts of food to local churches so that if people show up at my door, which is a very dangerous thing to attempt, by the way, but if they do, I will send them to the church.
You know, it's like, hey, go there.
There's already, you know, I got a warehouse full of food.
I got over a million pounds of food.
I love that.
That's what separates you, Mike, from everyone else.
That's why I love being a big fan of yours, love the website, just what you stand for.
This is the right thing, the moral thing, and the godly thing to do is to take these things and help people because people are going to suffer it.
that shouldn't suffer.
Innocent people get hurt.
These things happen.
But in this particular market here, the amount of leverage out there is going to put a lot of people who've never had any experience of losing everything, they're suddenly going to be hit with that.
But in this world of technology, it's going to be instant.
And for someone like you to do that, I'm not surprised, Mike.
That's how Mike Adams rolls.
Well, I mean, I think as the collapse happens, everything comes down to local communities.
And so we have to keep our communities really strong and prepared.
And by the way, I think we're going to see mass migration domestically.
In America, we're going to see people fleeing blue cities, and some blue cities are going to be declared no-go zones, even by local police.
Actually, this is almost happening in L.A. right now, where the police just say, we're going to zone off these square blocks.
We don't even go there.
You shouldn't go there.
This is like an escape from L.A. movie scene with, what was his name, Kurt?
Kurt Russell.
Kurt Russell, yeah, yeah, exactly.
Escape from LA. Plissken.
Snake.
Snake knew what was going on, and he escaped from New York first, but it's funny how we weave movies into all this, but it's all coming true now.
It's all happening right before our eyes.
It's happening, and people need to be...
People need to be prepared for things they've never prepared for before.
And I hope I'm wrong.
I hope none of this comes true.
I would love fairy dust and good news to come in, but that's not reality.
And I think that everything you just touched on is right on the money as to what people need to be prepared for and be aware of.
Having that awareness, having that situational awareness of what's going on in your markets and your neighborhoods is important.
And there's no better time and no more important time To know your neighbors and to work with them.
And to be able to identify them on a Trijicon thermal scope.
Yes.
We're in critical times here right now, but I'm concerned.
This is the first time I'm really looking at this and thinking, okay, we have Evergrande stock market, and all of a sudden, boom, I start seeing nuclear launch-ready cyber attacks.
It's like, wow, we just went from level five to level nine awareness here.
And my first thought was, if these two go off, As a trader, people in the stock market, they're looking at this and saying, okay, we got Evergrande, we got problems.
It's like, wait a second here.
Look to your right, my friend.
Look at those two pressures.
If those things go off, everything changes.
Your rug is pulled out.
Are you ready for that?
No, they're not ready.
I guarantee you.
Oh, this can change overnight.
I mean, China could declare war on the dollar.
China could nullify its treasury holdings.
China could block exports to the U.S. Russia could attack ships.
I mean, anything.
Just boom.
I think we could see, I think the next to one shoe that has not dropped yet is China and Taiwan.
I believe we're going to hear something here in the next 24 to 48 hours.
And then that's just really takes us to a level where all of a sudden you've got, I expect to see three fronts growing here, possibly four.
And it's growing here and people need to be aware of this.
What are the three?
I mean, Ukraine, Taiwan, what's the third one?
Well, when you think of Ukraine, think Belarus.
We're probably going to see...
The last time they held exercises in Belarus was about a month or two ago.
They moved about 100,000, 120,000 troops to do exercise.
Well, they did their exercise and they left.
But when they left, you know what they didn't take with them?
They left their equipment.
So that right there, when you see something like that happen, like, why did they leave?
There's a lot of equipment.
But Belarus has just got, they're finally, they're moving a bunch of NATO troops right to the border there here.
And that is an area that is, that is a real hot flash zone here.
And it's a strategic area that is actually almost more volatile than Ukraine.
And it's really a key area.
So people really need to watch.
When you see these headlines start to pop up, and they may not pop up, because there's a chance that the people running the media don't want you to know this stuff.
They don't want you taking precautions.
They want you to sit at home and just, you know, turn on, you know, America's Voice, you know, some, you know, Netflix or something and just float off into La La Land.
Now, if you get aware of this, you start taking precautions.
You might pull some money out of the account.
You may be prepared.
But as long as you're prepared, then you're not going to be a victim down the road and be a victim of circumstances.
You'd rather be a person who's in control of your circumstances by being prepared.
And hey, if I'm wrong, I hope I am.
But if I'm right, half right, or Mike's going to be right, which I believe he will be, Then you're not going to get hit with the flight or flight syndrome when something like this happens and all of a sudden your timing flash before your eyes of all these different warnings that you heard that you didn't take action on.
Yeah, this is a time to be very cautious and conservative with your investments, in my view.
But just as a disclaimer, you and I are not licensed investment advisors.
We're not offering anybody personal advice.
Everybody's situation is different.
Do what's right for you.
Man, history repeats itself.
Boom and bust cycles are part of human psychology.
I see people are going to get burned and they're going to lose their minds.
And this is on the backside of all the mental health problems caused by the lockdowns, the vaccine spike protein neurological damage that's actually damaging brains also.
And on top of that, the masking, the social distancing, the attacks on children, the rigged election, everything.
There's like a critical mass of insanity in the world, and people are snapping.
Yeah, we're heading to that point to where you're going to learn a lot about your closest relatives, your family, your friends, and your neighbors.
When things get really, really difficult here, which they will, you're really going to be able to come and make some quick, fast executive decisions as to how you're going to manage and handle this.
Because you're going to run into people who simply...
Never even thought about being prepared for something like this.
And for those that are heavily leveraged, and there are a lot of people just on the brink, and my heart goes out to these people.
I don't want to see anybody suffer, but a lot of people are on the edge because of all the things that are happening right now.
now.
And I believe that's not an accident that people are cornered by regulations, COVID regulations, this and that.
And all of a sudden, wow, I lost my job.
I lost my business.
They did this.
Like, wow, did you ever stop and think that maybe that was the plan?
Well, look, I don't want to see anybody hurt either, but there's also cause and effect.
And a lot of these people that are going to get just slaughtered are people who, they take great joy in mocking preppers.
They say, oh, well, why are you buying extra food?
Are you wearing tinfoil hats also?
Why do you need a gun?
They'll say, you don't need more than 50 rounds of 9mm ammo, things like that.
Like, 50 rounds?
That's not even my warm-up phase at the pistol range.
Yeah, they usually have a lifetime subscription to Netflix, Obama channel over there.
They're not in touch with reality at all.
And you pretty much want to avoid those people.
No, no, just send them to the local pharmacy to take more booster shots because that's what they're saying.
Yeah, that's what you need, more boosters.
Yeah, that's what, that's, you know, it's happening.
There's people that I work with that are, yeah, I'm getting my third booster.
I'm like, wow, just, you know, put me in your will.
Oh, wow.
I'd like that Harley.
Yeah, well, I think in Israel, they're now rolling out.
They're saying that you've got to have four shots.
Fauci is saying you've got to have three now to be fully vaccinated in the U.S. And there was a hit somewhere in the news today that I think it was out of Israel.
They're saying eventually you're going to need six or seven shots.
And of course, that's going to go to 10.
It's going to go to like a monthly subscription.
Yeah, they're not going to stop.
I'm looking at the stock market right now.
Everything's red, some big red in some areas here, and it looks like the market is doing just, well, look at this.
Bitcoin's not even registering.
What happened?
Where did it go?
Did we get our...
It's just timing out, maybe.
Yeah, I just noticed I'm getting...
All this morning, I've been getting glitches in a lot of my feeds, and I have multiple feeds.
No, well, the answer is you're looking at the wrong screen.
There's a screen behind you.
That's the correct feed.
That's the fire burning everything.
That's actually your market ticker right behind you.
It's a fire sale.
That's the warning flag right there.
There's the warning light right there.
It's going to be a fire sale if...
Something's going to let go here.
I've been here before, and I remember sitting at the screen 10, 12 hours straight every single day for the last six months before the market crashed.
Six months.
Oh, it hasn't crashed yet, John.
It hasn't crashed yet.
And then one day, everyone goes silent.
Right.
I remember.
I remember clearly the day it decoupled.
I was watching.
It was February 2009, a month before the Dow went all the way.
S&P went down to 666 on March 9th, 2009.
It was just on its way down.
And then one day I looked at gold.
Oh my gosh, gold just went up 165 bucks an ounce.
And the market dropped like 1,200 pounds.
And it was like a football game.
It's like, yeah!
Why are you so happy about the market cratering?
I said, because this is what I do.
This is part of being prepared for when things go wrong.
That you're not profiting off doom.
You're just prepared for doom.
And where's all this money coming in from gold?
I said, these are all the people buying tickets on the lifeboat.
We're having drinks on the lifeboat.
We left months ago.
Yeah.
You know, it's a titanic.
People are crowding the lifeboats and it's a crowded trade.
So I believe we're going to see a decoupling here pretty soon.
Okay.
All right.
Well, let's wrap it up there, John.
We already spent more time than we thought we might, but we covered a lot of really important issues.
And please keep in touch with me.
If things start to happen as you're warning about here, I'll get you back on.
We'll give the latest analysis and see where we are.
Does that sound like a plan?
Yeah, I'll be here and there's a lot going on.
I'll be posting on my Telegram, Silver is Money.
Oh yeah, Silver is Money.
That's your channel.
And I wanted to say this to all the Telegram people that came from your channel.
Thank you for coming to my Telegram.
Thank you for all the wonderful messages.
You've got such a...
Quality, quality audience of great people on there.
And I appreciate all the messages and thank you for everything on there.
And I'll be posting live articles and information coming on there.
And then when Mike and I catch up on things start to get heat up, we'll bring some more to the table there.
But stay alert, stay awake, eyes wide open, head on a swivel and take precautions.
Don't be afraid to take precautions.
Okay.
Yeah, I agree with you.
And for those who want to follow my podcast on this and upcoming interviews with John, go to my channel on brighteon.com.
That's the platform that we built.
And my channel is HR Report.
I think I have a channel on Telegram called The Health Ranger.
Oh, okay.
I got to find it then and toss it in there.
I kind of forget the handle on that, but I do post to that personally, the podcast and the articles.
And then you can catch my articles on naturalnews.com as well.
Great.
Thank you, John.
I know we put out a lot of really great info every 12 hours, actually.
We haven't even got on the subject of food.
I'm a 100%-er on the food situation here, and that includes being ready.
When things go wrong, I've warned people before, do you really want to be in a position where you find yourself cornered with food, and then you're forced to get down and get food being handed out to you by people wearing uniforms that are from some sort of agency?
What is in that food?
Who grew that food?
What's in that food?
What are they feeding you?
Government-issued textured vegetable protein, yeah.
You do not want to live on that.
Yeah, grow your own food.
Take all of Mike's advice.
Take all of Mike's advice and take action.
You'll be happy.
I am growing food like crazy.
You wouldn't believe.
I have a whole strawberry bed in hydroponic boxes without any circulation pumps.
It's the non-circulating suspended net pot hydroponics.
I'm harvesting strawberries every day now.
Out of that thing.
I just started my little...
I'm going down that road.
I just got all my boxes and everything to start that up.
I watched that show there and I thought, I got to try this.
This looks very interesting.
It really works.
And the best thing is it works when the grid goes down because there's no electricity required.
So this is like a grid failure-proof food production system.
And I am going to post a full video about this, how to set it up real soon.
It'll be on my channel.
Great.
Well, you know, you're in Texas, and remember last year when we had the big snow blowout, and what happened?
How could I forget?
The snow went out at the...
What do you call it?
The plant that circulates all the water.
Oh, yeah.
The plant, toilets were backed up, water pipes froze up, power was out, and temperature was down in the teens.
Oh, and all the gas stations ran out of fuel, and the roads were closed, and the cell towers didn't work.
So, yeah, I remember that.
That could happen again.
Yeah, that completely sucked.
I had to yank my dog out of my pond.
He fell through the ice and I had to rescue him with construction machinery.
But he's all good.
I remember you're talking about starting your tractor, having a diesel motor.
And yeah, that's a good time to have a little backup fuel, no doubt.
No doubt.
Everyone should have a little bit.
I have major backups since then.
Trust me.
There's probably nobody more thoughtfully and detailedly prepared for these things than you.
And I remember you sharing, you know, as much as I prepared, I learned a lesson about diesel fuel, certain things like this.
And I have a friend that lives in Austin.
And he went through all these broken pipes.
And at the end, we were talking.
I said, you know, we talked about this.
And he says, Perez, you were always talking about being ready, you know, having backup power.
And man, all of a sudden, I was in that predicament.
And what a lesson, but I knew what to do.
I did all the action you said, took care of it.
And then when the coast was clear and back on again, he called me up.
He says, man, I'm just so thankful I walked through all the steps you walked me through.
And he took care of business.
And now, about a month later, I got a new well coming in.
I got backup fuel.
I'm doubling my propane intake right now.
I'm doing it.
My friend, you were on it.
And that was the lesson of that basically dry run that happened there in Texas.
Yeah, folks.
Imagine a 20-minute blackout every 30 minutes.
That's what we went through for a week.
Really, we had about 8 minutes of power every 30 minutes.
On and off.
And all the cell towers were down.
Everything did not work.
And it just came on like that.
Yeah, that would be psychologically on-off.
We lost power for 39 hours last year, and that was a lesson for me.
As much as all my preparations, like, wow, I need to do this, I need to do this.
And at the end, it was like, that was a great dry run, great lesson here, and you would adapt to that.
The only good news is that it was too cold for looters.
So there was no looting going on.
It was right.
No, even they were at home like, we ain't looting in this.
This is crazy.
Yeah.
All right.
We out of time.
What is that?
What is that?
A bird?
What do you got going back there?
Yeah.
Kaia.
She's a Kaik.
Kaik.
C-A-I-Q-U-E. And the door was cracked open there.
And what she is saying, these birds are along.
She's saying that there's a UPS truck coming down the road.
Oh!
Yeah, she's an absolute incredible watch animal.
And she gives a certain sound when she sees a hawk.
And she gives a certain sound when she hears a vehicle.
And that sound right there means there's a vehicle.
So she is a first line of defense there at 100% accuracy.
Oh!
Along with some motion detectors that are going off at the same time, too.
So when I hear her, I notice something.
She actually is ahead of the motion detectors by about five seconds.
Wow.
That's how she was accurate.
Isn't it incredible?
So little birds, the right birds, are wonderful to have and wonderful little pets.
And she can scream, too.
So you can hear in the background here.
Okay.
Well, I'll let you get to that UPS shipment.
Maybe another collection of storable food has arrived or something.
But we'll let you get to that.
Thank you, Mike.
All right.
And for all of you watching, thank you for watching.
Feel free to repost this interview on other channels and platforms.
And, of course, I'm Mike Adams, the founder of Brighteon.
Everybody, be safe, get prepared.
We're getting into the real thick of it right here.
Okay.
Thank you for watching today.
Take care. Take care. Take care. Take care. Take care. Take care. Take care. Take care. Take care.
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