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May 23, 2022 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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John Perez interviewed by Mike Adams on why Bitcoin is headed to $4200 after the Tether collapse
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Thank you for joining me today.
Mike Adams here, the founder of Brighteon.com.
Today we have a third interview with John Perez.
And John has been kind of blowing up the internet lately with his analysis of what's going on with crypto and Bitcoin and Tether and Evergrande and the contagion risk, also gold and silver.
We're going to be asking him here today during this interview about all these things and so much more, what's happening across our world.
And he's got some predictions to lay out for us.
So we're gonna go through kind of a rapid-fire format, at least as best we can, on some big headlines, some predictions, things that may happen even before Christmas, and then what to look forward to in 2022.
And beyond, because it's going to be, I think, one of the craziest years that any of us will ever live through.
So all of that straight ahead right here on brighteon.tv and the extended version on brighteon.com.
So we'll be right back after this break with John Perez.
Stay with us.
All right.
Welcome back, folks.
And welcome, John.
It's always great to have you back on the show.
We've got a lot of urgent issues to cover today.
Welcome.
Yeah, nice to be back.
And I want to say thank you for having me on.
And thank you for all your listeners who've showed up in force on Telegram.
Wow.
Thank you guys for all following me there.
Oh yeah, give out your Telegram name, please.
Go on Telegram and type in SilverIsMoney.
That's a hashtag, SilverIsMoney, and you will find me in there.
And there's always information coming in.
Sometimes it goes 24-7.
Lots happening, happening very quickly here.
So the Telegram people, they get it up front.
They get it quickly here, because I just dump it on there as quickly as I can.
You do.
You're prolific.
You're like tweeting out and putting up voice messages and everything all hours of the day and night.
Well, you know, there's an overview and then people look at the numbers and the overview, from my perspective, never matches what people see here.
But historically, what I've seen before, you have big crashes, big collapses, or extreme volatility in markets like this.
Kramer came out the other day and said, I would avoid gold and buy crypto.
I just thought, this is classic.
I will post the video up of him telling everyone that Bear Stearns at $40, $45 a share was a good buy.
Hold your money there.
And he went to $2 a share the next day.
I've been waiting for it.
He finally came out and said, avoid gold, buy crypto.
I thought, wow, this is just classic.
We'll see how that...
How that pans out, but in my opinion, with silver, it bottomed up, and I had Bison at $21.90 and lower, and I didn't get them, and it popped up.
up.
I thought, well, here it is.
And it popped up really strong this morning.
But the powers that be that manipulate, suppress, and hold silver down, they came in and whacked it down.
And I've got a lot of technical traders I work with.
And everyone knew that here they come, here they come.
Boom, they knocked it down.
The Dow's down.
But generally what they do is they don't like to see gold and silver going to the moon while crypto and stocks are getting whacked because that would send the signal that maybe we should consider silver.
But from my perspective, it's a head fake.
There's going to be a decoupling when people realize that the ship is sinking.
They run to the gold and silver lifeboats because that's real currency.
And once you hold it, and once you have it, you have your life jacket on.
Yeah, good point.
Holding physical gold and silver, that's what you're referring to.
You're not talking about paper.
Right.
Physical, gold, and silver.
And you left a great video the other day.
Everyone was asking me about physical stores, and I was getting a lot of feedback that you gave a great video on storing silver.
And I looked at it and said, oh, this is wonderful.
I must have got about 100 questions on specifically holding gold and silver.
Everyone started referring me, and boom, I heard you threw it on your show, so that was great.
I did, yeah.
Actually, it became the crazy gold and silver micro-caching strategy, and people always want to know how to hide gold and silver until they hear how to hide gold and silver, and then they're like, whoa, that's...
That sounds gross, or that's crazy.
Like, why would you do that?
Like, well, because you don't want thieves to be able to get to it easily.
There you go.
That's right.
And one thing to remember, if you're going to be holding gold and silver, you are the security guard.
You are the Brinks truck.
You must be a bank.
You're going to have to defend it.
So think about security and defense, and Mike always covers that area very, very well.
Yeah, that's right.
You are your own armored car response as well.
So, you know, you are like Mr.
and Mrs.
Brinks when it comes to people trying to get your gold.
I always say, hey, you know, the reason I like physical gold and silver is because it can't be stolen through the Internet.
I say, I mean, yes, somebody could potentially succeed eventually in stealing something from me, but they're going to have to dodge bullets first, literally.
Well, I may have sent it to you this morning.
I think someone sent me an article on how Apple printed an article.
Let's put this in perspective.
Try to picture someone stealing 350 million ounces of silver.
Stealing.
So that would be quite a few 1,000 ounce silver.
That would be 1,350 1,000 ounce bars.
$7.7 billion.
Well, I'm giving you that to give you perspective here.
In 2021 alone, $7.7 billion in crypto scams were stolen from people.
Basically, you don't see this in the news because it's unregulated.
That means when your money vanishes, you're not going to be calling 1-800-WHERE'S-MY-MONEY because it's unregulated.
And so someone stole my money.
You know, please help me.
It's unregulated.
We don't protect you from scams like that.
But $7.7 billion, that could have been 350 million ounces of silver purchased or split that in half between gold and silver.
So in my opinion, that was speculative gambling money that normally would have been heading towards alternative investments like the original altcoin, which is gold coins and silver coins, pre-64 real altcoins.
Right, exactly.
All right, all good points.
Let's jump into some of the big headlines that have come across your desk over the last three days or so.
And then also, you've got some predictions.
I know you've got some insider sources that have contacted you with some information.
So lay it on us here, John.
Everybody's listening.
What's happening?
Yeah, this is, let me pull this up here.
I have got a slight glitch.
There it is.
Okay.
Down.
Here we go.
Here we go.
Okay.
So I have a few predictions as to what's coming in the market.
I'll throw these out quick.
Grab your pen and pencil and get ready.
Watch this here.
This is my prediction here.
I believe Tether is going to be toppled and it's going to go down with Evergrande.
It's going to happen soon.
Soon.
I don't know exactly when, but there's almost no way to get out.
And the reason why is because Evergrande is bankrupt.
If 30% of their bonds are bankrupt, As rumored, potentially held at Tether, that would cause a great margin call over at Tether.
And this would coincide with the lawsuit that's being submitted where the class action lawsuit plaintiff claims that there was fraud committed at Tether, that they don't have the dollar for dollar backing, which we know they don't.
They admit it.
And you combine that with the Evergrande and bonds, we're going to have a big problem there.
And what's really going to blow people away, nobody's talking about this, is the fact that a very large percentage of that tether was instrumental in moving the Bitcoin price up very quickly here.
A tether pulling back, in my opinion, is going to pull Bitcoin back.
And when Bitcoin pulls back, it's going to pull back hard.
This time, there will be no tether to save it.
There'll be no circuit breakers like they have in the Dow and the New York Stock Exchange.
It's going to make...
A dramatic move.
And when that move comes, we're going to see margin calls coming because there's a lot of traders out there holding on to Bitcoin on leverage and Christmas is coming at the end of the year and there's going to be big problems here.
So I expect a big move.
How far down?
My target on Bitcoin right now is $4,200.
Okay.
All right.
Wow.
Fascinating info.
Let me ask you some skeptical questions.
So on Tether...
Even if it's revealed that they are holding a lot of Evergrande debt that is essentially worthless because it's in restricted default right now, is it true that it doesn't really matter as long as people believe in Tether and then there's not a run on Tether?
People just say, well, we don't even care if it's backed by anything.
We just like it because it's part of the ecosystem that they want to believe in.
Well, you know, look, nothing's impossible in the world of crypto.
I mean, this is the world where you can just print up a billion dollars in fiat digital and poof, just like that, and it magically appears.
So the idea of that happening again, it's possible.
I mean, what's to stop another crypto from showing up the day of and saying, we're going to back tether?
It's like, what are you backed by?
And then the can gets kicked down the road.
It's very similar to the Fed.
This is just can kicking of a different type.
The can is just a small little computer chip versus a large rusty old Campbell's soup can.
Yeah, but all of us who watched the subprime market collapse in 2008, roughly, are leading into that.
We knew that this whole thing was going to implode one day because they never really let...
The failures fail in 2008.
They bailed them out, which is kicking the can down the road.
But I think a lot of us have been amazed at how long that can-kicking road has been.
And then the question becomes, how much farther can they kick that can down another road?
They open up a side door, look, here's another side road that you didn't know about.
We're going to kick it down there now.
How long can it go on?
When Tether goes, there's two exchanges that are directly connected with Tether and Bitfinex is one of them holding 200 Bitcoin.
Then there's MicroStrategy.
I don't see MicroStrategy Surviving a crash like this.
If it comes down, I just don't see them surviving here.
This is going to be a big issue because the regulators haven't come down to determine whether these are securities or illegal securities.
We don't know.
So we have some serious volatility though, but my opinion here is this is all going to come down like a house of cards.
Okay, alright.
So, do you have any sense of timing, or is it more of waiting for a specific trigger that's going to be an indicator that this is happening?
Well, yeah, I do.
I'm going to put my...
Put my neck on the line here, which I've done before.
And that is this.
I believe this is odd.
I just got this about an hour ago.
And I can't confirm this, but an article from the UK said that the defense has rested its case with Ghislaine today and that the trial may end.
Well, I've been saying consistently December 11th through December 21st.
And now if they rest today, it's Friday, the markets are closing.
We have what?
The Dow was down 500 points today.
And when the Dow was down 500 points, silver was rip-roaring.
And for anyone that was watching my telegram, I said, this is a perfect market.
Bitcoin down, stocks down, the dollar was up, which is unusual, and gold was up with it.
And people were saying, this doesn't make any sense.
I said, if you were here for the 2008-2009 crash, you know exactly what's happening here.
Most of the crypto people that are new weren't around for that crash, and it's going to be a very good education coming here very soon.
Well...
When the dollar goes up and gold goes up and the Dow is down and crypto is down, what's really happening is you saw the Turkish stock market crashing today.
Their circuit breakers went on.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, the lira is just getting devastated.
Yeah.
Exactly.
And it was a wipeout in Turkey.
Now, this is a good lesson for people listening.
You want to get an idea, a little bit of market dynamics here.
And this is not financial advice or anything.
This is entertainment.
When the Lira goes down, in other countries, whether it's the Lira or any other countries, when their currency goes down, they have a few choices to make.
In older world developing countries, you're going to find that everyone owns gold because they know better.
They know better than to trust their leaders.
They know because their leaders are outright corrupt and they don't have the mainstream media covering for them.
So in today's case, what I saw was the lira goes down, their stock market is absolutely tanking, so the average investor says, what do I do?
What do I do?
Well, like everyone else, you want to move to the United States.
Why?
Because everyone loves the states.
They love the medical system here.
You buy the U.S. dollar, which...
They love the medical system?
A lot of people do come here.
Now, that might be changing right now, but...
They haven't yet found out about the ventilator murders that are taking place in the hospitals, I guess.
The effing protocol.
Yeah.
I forget.
This is Brighton.
The Fauci Protocol.
I don't approve of it at all.
Go in the hospital, walk in, get nutrition, get remdesivir, lungs fill up, get ventilated, and adios.
And I'm not sure what it is per participant.
Yeah, the hospital collects like six figures on each person that they murder.
Exactly.
It's all incentivized.
So back to the Lira.
As the Lira is coming down, the investors are out there saying, what do we do?
What do we do?
It's like, well, we're going to buy a currency because ours is crashing.
So they buy gold.
Gold gets bid up.
And then, of course, what are they going to buy?
They're going to buy the U.S. dollar because the U.S. dollar is basically the cleanest dirty shirt in the room.
Everybody's got a shirt on.
The cleanest dirty shirt is the U.S. dollar.
If you're going to go on a boat, a ship across the rough seas, And all of a sudden, the ocean starts to take in water.
You've got 15 boats from 15 different countries.
Most people are going to be going towards the U.S. lifeboat because it's the strongest currency in the room.
So that's what explains, say, the dollar going up and gold going up and Bitcoin as well as the Dow going down.
So a little something there.
Good to remember that there.
Well, that's...
That's a really good metaphor.
But all the ships are sinking, as you said.
They're all taking on water.
And the U.S. dollar, by my calculations, is losing about 2% of its purchasing power every month right now.
That amounts to about 20, let's see, 20, 24% a month.
So if you were in the lira today, you lost that today.
You lost in what year?
You lost it basically in a week with Alira.
Imagine that.
Imagine what you said, 2%, and it's like, well, we lost 2% per hour today.
I mean, that's dramatic.
That's life-threatening, business-destroying, and they had to put in emergency moves there.
If you go in and type in Turkey, you'll see all the emergency moves they did.
Oh, I saw that.
Yeah, like they're demanding a 50% increase in all wages.
Right.
Yes.
Which, I mean, now it's just going to be price controls, it's going to be scarcity, it's going to be starvation.
I mean, we've seen all this before.
None of this is new.
But how does this translate into your specific predictions for what's going to happen?
Well, that little...
That what you saw there is going to happen in other countries.
You're going to say, well, this happened back in 08 and 09.
You see one domino and, you know, you tell, did you see this?
Oh, it always comes back.
And then another one goes and then two go.
And so this is going to reverberate.
And we still haven't had Evergrande hasn't been thrown out in the street yet.
Neither has been tethered.
And as these margin calls start to go with the Dow, NASDAQ, and even the areas that we don't see going sideways in Turkey, if someone's up, if you're sitting on, you know, four-digit profits in Bitcoin and the stock market's going down and the Lira's going down, you've got to raise cash, you're going to unload your most profitable positions.
Bitcoin's going to be likely one of them, and I believe that's going to happen.
We haven't seen the big move yet.
But this weekend, I expect a dramatic move in Bitcoin.
I expect it 100%.
This weekend, Bitcoin is going to be the thing to watch.
And if Bitcoin makes a dramatic move down this weekend here, then you just watch silver come Hong Kong open on Sunday afternoon and Monday here.
We can rock and roll.
They can press it down.
Remember that.
Even though we can go up and fundamentally silver should go straight up, there's always the powers that be that have the paper GMO fake futures market that can suppress the price of silver.
Does it change the value of silver?
Not on the screen it does.
But if silver makes a big move on Monday, and you say, John, silver's down, I'll say, go buy a one-ounce coin at any coin shop, and you look at the spot price and the street price.
I'll bet you, if we're at $22 Monday morning, I bet you can't get that coin for $30, $34 per coin, because they know...
Really?
Wow.
Okay.
So even it doesn't require much of a move in spot.
You're just talking about a move in the actual premium over spot to get physical quantities.
Right.
And I think we could see if this scenario plays out next week, we can see a $2.50 to $3.50 upward move in silver next week alone.
Wow.
Even in one day.
I've seen it.
It's happened before.
But it happened under these type of conditions.
Right.
Okay.
It may happen right away.
But at this market, though, I have to give credit to the Wall Street silver guys and all the silver apes who I absolutely love.
They have educated millions of people and have woken up an army of silver buyers who buy physical.
So when silver moves and people are going to go run down and get some silver, I'm going to bet here there's not going to be any silver.
When this panic goes, they're going to run.
The apes bought it all.
They bought it and they didn't stop.
I've been told from two different sources, both of whom are precious metals dealers.
I also deal with heavy metals in my lab, so that's in my mind today.
Lead and cadmium and so on.
But precious metals dealers have told me that there's going to be a situation where they call it unobtainium.
It doesn't matter what the price is, you just can't get physical delivery.
Now, we're not there yet, but they say that's coming.
But go ahead.
We've got about 30 seconds here.
Yeah, I panic bought silver probably two or three months ago.
Panic buy two or three months ago.
That should tell you something.
You want that stuff in your hand before Sunday, before Monday open here.
You want it in and you just want to pack it, bury it, and don't even stare at the price until you see it in the front of the headline news.
Silver is going to be in the news here very, very soon.
I'm going to predict here very soon on CNBC you're going to have people in there talking about silver the same way I am right now.
And the world's going to change.
All right.
Now stay with us, John, for the extended version of this.
I've got more to ask you.
But this is brighttown.tv.
For those of you watching here, this continues on brighttown.com on my channel, HR Report.
Thank you for watching today.
Alright, welcome to the extended interview here, continuing with John Perez.
I've got more questions to ask you about incoming calls.
Does your phone blow up all day like mine does with all kinds of emergencies and things?
I'm overwhelmed by the response from the series with David Morgan and from your show.
It's been absolutely overwhelming, and I love it.
I love it.
I'm just so glad to see people reading and self-educating and taking responsibility and taking action on their own, and it's been great.
But yeah, if you look at my timestamps when I'm sending you articles, you can see I'm not getting that much sleep these days.
Yeah, that's true.
That's true.
Okay.
Let me ask you about what's behind you.
So first of all, from our point of view, over your right shoulder, there's a screen that looks like flames.
And I assume that's the market ticker for the Turkish lira.
Is that what that is?
Actually, no.
Close, though.
That is the actual market ticker for Bitcoin sales.
And as you can see...
No, I'm talking about the actual flames.
The smaller screen.
That's on fire.
I think that's Turkey.
Yeah, that's the Turkish stock market, right?
Yeah, there we go.
Okay, and then the other one.
Great.
This right here, this is level 2 Bitcoin trading.
And as you can see, it's just constant red going up and down.
What that is, is people saying, audios, Bitcoin.
And liquidations, it just sits there and flashes red.
And I sit here and look at this thing going red.
There's so much red.
I mean, just stare at that.
All this red going on, just a few greens once in a while, you might be able to see it, but all this red going on, and the price just magically stays in place.
It must be Tether.
So let's talk about timelines on Tether.
I know predictions are very difficult here, but Tether's been around several years, and there's something like $75 billion worth of Tether, I think, in existence, maybe more by now.
It seems like if I don't look at it for a couple of days, it's like another $5 billion.
Yeah.
It just got created.
Yeah, they print another billion, I think, 24.
I get screenshots, people, complete strangers.
Each other just printed billion here.
I mean, I've probably got multiple now.
I've got a lot of really intelligent people now got a hold of me on Telegram, and now they're throwing intelligence out there.
So this is information.
This is cutting-edge stuff, and it's the best.
So what do you think about Tether and how long is it going to be around?
I mean, I have noticed people talking about Tether now that never knew about it before.
And with the Evergrande situation, it's exploding.
I noticed a lot of...
In fact, today I noticed...
The biggest YouTubers, the biggest YouTubers are panicking about Tether.
I see it.
I can see their face.
I can hear them talking about it.
And the truth is, they really don't understand Tether.
The biggest promoters and the biggest channels in Bitcoin, they have no clue what is backing Tether.
They have no clue who the founders are.
They have no clue where the founders came through going back to our original.
They have no clue.
They're going to be hit with a freight train of reality here very soon.
And it's going to be...
It's going to be a come to Jesus moment for a lot of people when this unveils.
And the thing is that the facts are out there.
It's not a conspiracy.
We call it a conspiracy for everyone to look at and throw rocks at.
But once people look at it, I have not yet...
All these weeks, tens of thousands of views, not a single person has contacted me to debate or say this is wrong or I'm wrong.
So that tells me something.
And today I watched the biggest channels talking about stablecoin instability here.
And the panic is just beginning.
Well, what's amazing to me is that a lot of advocates of crypto talk about how this is the money of the future, but actually they've built a time machine to the past.
They're living in the pre-FDIC banking system where there was no protection, nothing backing anything, and they're about to experience their first crash and wipeout of institutions.
And that's, you know, we went through that in the 19th century and even the early 20th century and so on.
We've been there before as a society and we decided that sucked and let's actually have, you know, government backing of banks in case of emergencies.
But there's nothing...
Backing any of the cryptos.
So get ready.
You just touched on a huge scenario I didn't even think of.
You know, a couple things that happened in the last big crash.
Unregulated, no FDIC, your money just flew out the door and it was just gone.
And what else happened?
What happened to gold?
It got confiscated, right?
It got confiscated.
Bitcoin maximalists need to know this.
In order for Bitcoin to match gold, it's got to be confiscated at least once and survive and still have value 50 years later here.
So we have yet to see Bitcoin match the ability to be confiscated and then come back to the markets here.
Gold and silver, not a problem.
It survived.
Governments came in, but that scenario, people just got wiped out and there was no FDIC, nothing.
And by the way, You're right.
Back there was no regulation.
And now, fast forward, crypto has no regulation.
Which is really, I find it bizarre.
It's such a massive risk that it's just crazy to be involved at this stage of the game with this kind of volatility.
Well, yeah, and by the way, speaking of the time machine, you go back to the 19th century railroad boom and bust, and it was the exact same argument then as what we're hearing about Bitcoin now.
You know, the railroad arguments was, oh, you've got to get into railroads.
It's going to connect the cities.
It's the future of transportation and logistics.
It's going to move people and goods faster than ever.
It's going to the moon.
You've got to get in the railroads.
And, of course, most of the railroad ventures went bust.
Well, how could that be if they were so awesome?
Yeah, that's true.
And, you know, the one thing that did well, look at this up, go type in Great Depression, home stake mining.
That stock went up, I believe, 35% of the year throughout the Depression while everything else went down.
And it was unregulated.
But why did it go up?
Because it was paper backed by gold.
I mean, that's simply it.
They didn't really do much of anything.
They just knew they were going to be producing gold.
Even though it was outlawed, it's one of the few that made dramatic moves upward.
But yeah, the crypto space right now, it's 1929 for Bitcoin and crypto right now.
Yeah.
I saw an article on Zero Hedge today that said there's a German billionaire, forgot his name, who said after he took DMT, he finally understood Bitcoin.
So now you have to eat magic mushrooms to understand the future of money.
Yeah, well, that's probably an accurate statement.
I mean, if you know what we know, what I know, and what's in the video series, you'd have to take DMT to justify going in and mortgaging your house to buy Bitcoin or selling all your gold to buy Bitcoin.
We don't know.
If the Senate committee says that at one point 90% of all the volume for Bitcoin was fake, Then what if that 90% vanishes?
That leaves us with 10%.
What did I say?
I think we're going to see support is at 42,000 Bitcoin right now.
Well, what's 10%?
What's 90% from 42,000?
4,200.
Uh-huh.
Right.
Interesting.
But you're assuming there's not an oversell of the panicked people.
So I think your $4,200 maybe just based on, let's say, more of a quote intrinsic valuation, which isn't even really intrinsic.
But it can go real close to zero because people can panic sell like crazy and oversell the thing.
Yeah.
And, you know, as I'm talking with you, as I'm talking with these articles keep coming in, and the latest article was Bitcoin failed in El Salvador.
All the Bitcoiners were saying, oh, El Salvador's accepted it.
I'm like, whoa.
You know, that's not, you know, China or Russia or the United States accepting it.
This is foreign policy magazine.
You know, these guys are policy guys.
You know, this is pretty much where I walk down this alley here.
Bitcoin failed in El Salvador.
The president says the answer is more Bitcoin.
How did it fail in El Salvador?
Because I've heard a lot of people touting that.
You know, let me read this.
I didn't go through the entire article.
Well, this explains it right here.
More than 91% of Salvadorans want U.S. dollars.
They do not want Bitcoin.
Well...
That's called a big problem.
You're the president of a country.
You say, we're going Bitcoin.
If 91% want dollars with an elected president, how's the percentage of people that want tether, failing tether, with a shadow government in Myanmar?
This is not rocket science.
This is just common sense now.
The kids don't want to play.
That brings up another really important question that was on my mind yesterday.
I believe the dollar is going to collapse at some point.
Not by Christmas or anything, but eventually.
It's a doomed fiat currency because they're just printing it by the trillions.
Now, if Tether isn't already wiped out by that time, what happens to Tether because it's spiked to the dollar?
If the dollar collapses, then by definition, doesn't Tether go to the same zero?
That's an interesting concept.
I think Tether will just be either frozen out, closed out, or just completely go to zero because you've got to remember, Bitfinex alone holds 200,000 Bitcoin holdings.
According to my last number here, I can't confirm that.
But if they own 200,000 Bitcoin and they see Bitcoin drop...
You know, $10,000.
You just do the math on that.
If it goes through $42,000 I don't know if they're going to...
Are they going to hold that stuff to zero?
They're going to hold it all the way down, write it all the way down?
Or are they going to sell and go into cash?
Something tells me they know better.
This is going to be like the scene from Margin Call.
It's like the music is...
I don't hear the music anymore.
And no more, you know, to the moon stuff here.
So there's going to be problems here.
If Bitcoin takes off...
In fact, think about it.
Anybody who holds Bitcoin is staring at the screen right now with white knuckles.
What did Bitcoin do today?
Bitcoin pulled its jump.
They're both, like the Dow and Bitcoin, took a big nosedive down, then popped back up, and then came back, hit resistance, now it's popping back.
But it's still been doing this for a while now, and I can't figure out how that red can just sit there and go nonstop, and the markets go.
There's a disconnect there here.
But to me, that is a reflection of manipulation going on.
And as they said in the Senate subcommittee, a lot of the volume there is fake.
And I believe Sherrod Smith, a congressman, came out and it was written up yesterday on Wall Street on Parade, said that, she just flat out said, it's quite possibly Tether is fraudulent, is completely fraudulent.
Well, a lot of people know that the U.S. government has a plunge protection team to rescue sinking stock markets, right?
And just start buying up everything in sight.
And that was even before the days of quantitative easing, where we have the Fed buying up seemingly everything.
What if Tether is the same thing in the world of crypto?
Anytime that there's a plunge in Bitcoin that they don't want to see, they just flood the market with more digital fiat stablecoins and just prop it back up.
Just digital plunge protection.
Is that what you think is happening?
Exactly what it is.
You hit the nail on the head.
It's what it is.
When Bitcoin tanks, I mean, this is well documented.
And this is going on in the Senate Banking Committee here.
They know this.
Tethers used to manipulate and move gold.
Jordan Belfort talked about it.
All the analysts talk about it.
It's not a secret anymore.
The difference is that Tether doesn't have a Federal Reserve behind them to backstop or be a plunge protection team.
Now, someone asked me, well, why wouldn't the Fed come in and support Tether?
I said, well, I'll tell you why.
Because if they were buying Tether to support it...
Some rogue shadow government would be going, look, the United States is in.
Let's sell your Tether.
Sell.
And they're buying and we're selling.
Who knows?
But look, if Powell's running the show, we don't know what these people could do.
They could do something, some mad move like that.
But I don't see...
There's no pledge protection team over at Tether, at least nothing I'm aware of.
By the way, I just want to, as a disclaimer for everybody watching, I just want to ask you and make my own statement here again.
Do you hold any positions, are you betting on the downside of any of these things that we're mentioning, Bitcoin, Tether, crypto?
Now, I hold no Bitcoin.
I make no money of it going up or down.
This to me is just an observation.
I used it a couple of times back in 2017 when it crashed, which is what turned on my red lights when I sold.
And that's when I started work.
When the crash went from $20,000 down to $2,000, that's when the red flags went off.
So I've been actually researching this I've been a dump here since 2018, 2017.
So here we are, 2021.
I've got three or four years on this.
I've got a lot of work on this here.
Most people are usually surprised.
But people don't do the deep dive.
If you're up 1,000% of your money and I come up and say, listen, you've got to look at where it's big.
It's like, oh, dude, it keeps going up.
I'm up 1,000%.
Silver's going nowhere.
It's like, okay, well...
I mean, that's 99.9%.
Most people, if they're in the money, unfortunately, greed takes over and people just, they lose, their moral compass just starts spinning in circles and pointing at dollar signs.
Alright, well, let me make my statement.
I don't hold any crypto whatsoever.
I have no bets for or against crypto.
And also, even unlike you, John, I don't hold any conventional stocks, bonds, treasuries, literally zero.
And but I've never told you this, but my experience with crypto many years ago when we were expanding our offices in Arizona, we installed a large solar array there.
And it turned out we had extra electricity at this office that we had in Arizona.
And so I installed a bunch of Bitcoin mining hardware that came out of China at the time.
And we mined a lot of Bitcoin there.
And I sold that for gold, physical gold.
So I'm one of the few people who actually turned sunlight into gold and then kept the gold.
So that's my experience with crypto.
I like that.
There's been quite a few people on Telegram, just they're all bragging, I sold here, I sold there, and 57 for silver, I sold 56.
And I was telling, I think for three months, I said, sell Bitcoin, buy silver, and then forget about it.
Don't stare at the screen.
I got a federal tax credit for the solar installation.
So the federal government paid, I think it's like a third of the solar, and then we had no electric bills, and we had extra electricity, and we turned it into gold through Bitcoin.
So I understand how this works.
I've been in crypto mining, and I've bought and sold many years ago, but that was several years ago.
Since then, I was just like, nah, this is too risky.
That's a nice story.
That's a nice story.
I think quite a few of your people, your listeners, have come on Telegram and everyone's bragging about when they tossed off their Bitcoin in 57, 58, 54.
I thought, oh, good for you.
And, you know, just buy it, forget it.
By the way, this is not financial advice.
There's nothing here that says buy or do anything.
This is pure opinion and conjecture and conspiracy and entertainment.
Okay.
All right.
That's a good summary.
Maybe that should be the title of this video today.
Just a title.
Okay.
What other intel did you want to share with us here that you've got a lot coming in?
I know you do lots of research.
You know, a couple things to look at that I believe are going to be affected if Tether goes down this weekend.
We have a lot of people that are sitting, would be in big trouble.
I think MicroStrategy, their last purchase was at $57,000, quite a bit.
Wow.
This could be a...
We hit 29...
The $29,000 line is where there's going to be some serious problems there.
I don't know how...
I don't...
I don't short the markets, but if I did, I would be researching that one.
Well, by the way, let me ask you though, I don't short the markets either, but based on the knowledge that we have, there's a lot of potential there.
However, you have to consider counterparty risk.
Absolutely.
In shorting this.
I don't short markets because it just is not in my DNA. I never have.
When I worked as a gold trader on a floor with 90 other brokers, we used to have an area that I called it the pig pen.
And I noticed something about the pig pen.
Nobody...
Nobody won the Dress Code Award and everyone seemed to have lost money.
But the one thing that they all had in common is that they all lost everybody's money by shorting silver.
Shorting silver is a widow maker.
So for me, from my experience from that, I just don't really short anything because I prefer to look...
For me, I like to see things build and go up.
I don't like the idea of profiting from destruction.
It just doesn't sit with me.
Okay, yeah, yeah.
Well, fair enough.
Although, I mean, free market people would argue that you need the short side in order to have discipline in the market.
Yeah, well, if anyone makes any money shorting the markets, I usually just say, you're buying, dude.
We're going out, you're buying.
There you go.
There you go.
Okay.
But there's got to be some force to keep some of these companies honest, too, like Tesla stock going crazy.
Or what about even, let's talk about the Trump social media SPAC, the SPAC. That there's, from what I've seen, I haven't seen any website working.
I haven't seen any code functioning.
I don't see a product.
How is it worth $5 billion?
Well, you know, it's probably, from what my research is, it's all the chatter that you see out there.
I'm always monitoring the chatter.
On the truth, the Trump social, I believe the Trump social is going to be directly correlated with Next to some issues that may happen at Twitter.
It's important to know that when Jack Dorsey left Twitter, you know, the biggest social media tweet platform, he went off to do what?
To start a Bitcoin exchange.
So that might have an effect here if Tether goes down.
That might affect that company and then turn around and affect Twitter.
So that's a possibility.
There's rumors that the investors at Twitter, the board members, the largest investors, they're not happy with the new CEO who's decided to just start censoring Double down on censoring since Dorsey left.
So I don't see the CEO there lasting much longer.
I think there's going to be a takeover.
I think the management there is going to say, okay, we're done with this, you know, because they know that if they continue on this pathway, that when Trump launches Truth Social or Trump Social, whatever it is, uh, When it goes, I'm going to put, I'll bet this, in seven days, Trump will have created the largest social network in the history of technology and the internet.
I'll say it again.
Trump, in fact, he's going to break the record.
He's going to launch the fastest growing social network in the history of technology, and he's going to get between 80 to 100 million people in probably seven days.
No joke.
The Yeah.
People are there.
They want to go in now.
You're right.
No website, no nothing at this point is chatter.
But I did see another SPAC. Trump did sign an agreement to be a part of the Rumble network.
So now there's the YouTube side of things, the videos with Rumble.
So he's got an agreement there.
Rumble's got a SPAC. They're now going public.
They're merging.
So looking at the strategy here, I'm assuming here, they got the videos up.
Now they've got to do the true social.
I think it's going to be a big surprise.
Who knows?
We might see at the end of December next week or today, I think it's going to launch after the Maxwell trial.
I think we're going to get some news here because...
There's going to be things rolling out of that trial here that we're going to want to see.
They won't be on Tether.
I mean, it won't be on Twitter, and it won't be on YouTube, but it might show up on Rumble, and what better time to launch a true social and get the truth out there that's not going to be censored than after the trial here.
My little tinfoil hat is telling me.
Okay.
All right.
Well, yeah, look, I think what Trump is doing and even what we are doing right here on Brighton and other players like Rumble and Bitch Shoot, you know, we're launching the real future Internet of freedom of speech and Gab and Andrew Torba and so on.
And, you know, Twitter and even YouTube and Facebook, they're becoming obsolete by the day when even on Twitter, you can't quote the CDC now.
Without being blacklisted.
YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook are failed models, failed leadership.
I'm surprised their stock is even where it's at.
They absolutely failed the people.
The American people have lost confidence in all three of the above.
They've done nothing but censor and kowtow to their owners and And to other nations and terrorists and everything else, yet they let terrorism tweet out there, but they don't allow...
I mean, look, they block the President of the United States.
Come on.
Twitter threw the President of the United States off of Twitter.
That should tell you something.
If you're not in Trump's place, you're nothing.
You're zero.
And that's the message they're sending to the public.
And that's the message the shareholders are saying, well, why would I invest in something like this?
And they say, I'm not invested in this.
Yeah, but your 401k and your retirement is...
Well, I didn't know that.
Well, you should probably find out about that and give them a call and say, I don't want anything to do with these stocks here because they censor Americans.
Yeah.
Well, yeah, but...
Well, thank you.
I appreciate that.
And this is why we built it, so we can talk like this.
But...
I've got to tell you, it's so interesting.
Brighttown's been exploding.
And one of the ways we know is because of the bandwidth bills that we keep getting, and we have to keep renegotiating the monthly payment to the CDNs that we use.
And my staff came to me the other day, and they said, you know, we're in the realm of multiple petabytes of bandwidth here, you know, per month.
So we've got to pay for multiple petabytes.
And they said, what do you think?
And I said, well...
I'm just glad that we are who we are, because if we were Facebook and Twitter, it would be pedophiles.
Yeah, good point there.
There's going to be a wipeout over there, and we're just going to hear the cards coming down here.
Even me, myself, when I came on to talk with you on Brideon, I had to literally...
Adjust my mind to say, this is Bridian, John.
You can speak your mind here.
That's true.
There's censorship here.
And that's what I love about this, is I'm able to speak and say what I want.
It doesn't mean I'm going to come in here and start dropping F-bombs or anything like that, but just telling the truth, getting the facts out.
It wasn't until the second one I realized I can say what I need to say, say what I want here, and I don't have to worry about the overlords of censorship coming down and blocking me out, taking my account.
I had a Twitter feed That was getting 5 million hits per month.
It went from a million to 2 million to 3 million.
It went to 4.8 million views per month in about four months.
And then, boom, they just blocked me.
No.
Then, like, then...
Within 24 hours, my LinkedIn account got blocked.
Boom!
And they wouldn't give me the answer here.
So I have to deal with that down the road.
So hopefully there's some First Amendment issues there.
I can figure out what happened here.
Wow!
That's a lot of reach.
The account only had 5-7 thousand followers, but I had millions of views per month.
And these guys just blocked it out.
Well, you know...
Yeah, I mean, this is what's awesome about talking with you.
You are uncensored here.
And by the way, in this case, you're being interviewed by the founder of the platform, so you're not going to get censored because I'm the one who founded it.
But here's what I want to ask you.
You know, we have BrightTown.TV, which has been exploding in popularity, and we've got Patrick Byrne on there.
Mike Lindell just joined BrightTown.com with a video channel.
We've got Brandon Howes.
We're carrying his worldview report now, starting shortly on BrightTown.TV. We're launching BrightTown Radio in January with a whole bunch of amazing hosts.
Just an open offer to you.
If you want to do like a 30-minute daily financial update on Brighttown Radio, we'd love to have you there.
You know, I'll probably take you up on that.
That sounds great because I'm overwhelmed by how much interest there is.
I mean, basically someone asked me today, it's like, I appreciate all your information.
I said, basically, I've worked with a lot of high net worth individuals for years.
I've helped them out.
But there's a lot of information here that will help the average person understanding strategies and And I really want to help people here.
And so I have all this knowledge.
Happy to share it here.
Happy to share it for sure.
But that sounds great.
I'm really interested.
We'll have to talk more about that.
That would be fun.
Yeah, I didn't mean to put you on the spot.
We'll talk about it off-air, but it's an audio-only format, so you can do it.
You don't have to dress up or anything.
It's funny.
Half the hosts that are talking to me are like, can I do the show in my underwear?
And I'm like, that's up to you.
Whatever you find thrilling, go for it, you know?
Yeah, that sounds good.
I like that.
This is a 3 a.m.
gold message here.
I'm in bed.
I think I could take all your Telegram voice messages and just put them together and that would be a daily show.
Well, you know, you're getting it real time for me.
And this is just as a trader, being in the silver is so volatile.
And I'm a foreign policy military analyst guy.
And I watch the two.
I mean, people always say, well, John, what do they have to do with each other?
I said, when you see the next nuclear bomb go off and you just take a look at silver, I said, in fact, before a war goes and you see the tanks lining up, Just stare at Silver.
I said, Silver will never lie to you.
It'll always tell you the truth when something's about to go haywire.
And Silver's about to talk to us here right now.
We're at that moment where, you know, gold whispers in your ear and Silver speaks the truth.
Okay, awesome.
All right, now, in the interest of your time, and I agree with you, Silver speaks the truth.
We're about to wrap this up, but let me ask you one other question that has been bothering me for many years about financial markets and people who watch them.
And I don't know where you stand on this, but there's a certain group of people who love to really analyze the waves, the movement in the markets and make a lot of predictive guesses from there, which is Something a little bit different from what you do, because you also take into account the fundamentals, like what's happening in the world, supply issues.
But people who are just purists in the numbers, they're always talking about Elliott waves.
And I'm like, enough with the Elliott waves!
Please!
I can only think about the pig pen.
Okay, so what's your take on all that?
Well, you know, technical trading has use.
It's a tool in a toolbox.
I mean, if you open up your toolbox, say, look, I got a really nice toolbox.
You open it up, I just see a crescent wrench.
It's like, well, that's a nice tool, but is that all you have?
It's one tool in a toolbox that you want to use.
And I'm kind of a...
I use technical analysis to confirm major events.
If I see the charts are going this way, and it's sending a signal off, and I see this stuff over here that's going to trigger a signal, and I see them start to merge, which they do, Which they do, then that's when I really go to work here.
But the traders that I've worked with, if you were a technical trader with Bitcoin and crypto, you probably did really well.
Why?
Because as far as I'm concerned, you were just watching the Wizard of Oz paint charts, and all the YouTubers basically said the same thing.
We're going...
We're going to pump.
It's going to dump.
It's going to pump.
Save the pump.
And if you weren't a traitor, you just huddled.
And now that game's changing.
And that's why you just turn on YouTube tonight.
Just start searching.
Type in Tether on YouTube and watch the influencers.
And type in Tether on YouTube and watch the influencers.
And watch the expressions on people's faces right now.
You're going to see doom and gloom.
The days of...
100,000 are going away here.
And that's what's happening here is that a lot of people have never had an experience and they were led up with technical trading.
Somebody was painting that chart.
It wasn't their friends, I'll tell you that.
It's very similar to silver.
There are times where you see a chart moving up.
It's like, well, this is not right.
This is a head fake.
Or it's going down.
Most of the time it's going down and it shouldn't be going down.
But these are things that you pick up as a trader.
But I learned a long time ago, my original mentor who really didn't get me into silver, who I met while I was trading silver, was a really, really wealthy guy.
And he was just extremely hooked up with an English accent from London to New York to Toronto.
And I just learned some things that just made no sense, but they completely made sense because it was within 90 days of just getting all this training that I was able to just Basically, just bring in millions and millions of dollars and trade silver.
Literally, I was indestructible and unstoppable.
Money just came in because there were some certain elements in silver that I didn't really understand.
But being just a technical trader, there are some traders that are good at it.
And there's some people that are not good at it.
So each one's got a tool.
Mine's unique.
And it's been really effective.
And it's effective for this market right now.
We've got foreign policy issues.
We've got military issues.
We've got major economic issues here in the United States.
And it's all coming together.
And then behind all that, we've got the story that nobody's talking about.
Notice the media does not talk about Tether.
They make a little tiny snippet.
They're not talking about it.
Because if they did start talking about it, and you found our conversations here, people would be going, whoa, why aren't you talking about this?
Because it doesn't fit their narrative.
Which kind of doesn't surprise me, because they're always pimping out a fake narrative anyhow.
Yeah, yeah.
No, it's amazing.
But just to follow up on that, I mean, I can't tell you how many times...
I've made an internal prediction when I'm reading the news, because I'm going through news all day, I'm running editorial teams, I'm reviewing headlines, I'm assigning news, and I'll see something like, oh, a cold wave expected to hit, let's say, Brazil.
And I'm thinking, gosh, I bet you coffee prices are going to go insane.
And then, you know, like four days later, coffee prices go insane.
And I'm thinking...
Yeah, because they're frozen, you know?
And I'm thinking, I should be running an investment wing of our operation or something, because...
There are weather futures.
It's good to know the weather.
I mean, I think a couple weeks ago, Vancouver got just...
Rain-bombed, you know?
And I sent a bunch of warnings to people that are like, what are you talking about, rain-bomb?
I said, it's geoengineering, my friend.
I said, what do you mean geoengineering?
I said, just stand by, you're going to see the worst rain you've ever seen.
I saved my screenshots to show people, like, how did you know?
I said...
I don't watch regular weather news.
I have my own news services.
It's not fake.
It's real.
Then, of course, climate change has started all this.
Because of climate change, it's pouring rain and it's freezing.
Because of climate change, cows are farting too much now.
They've always got some angle.
Vancouver got whacked.
I did the same thing with the tornadoes.
To me, in my opinion, that was a geoengineering event also.
And that was easy to see.
That was very easy to see.
Go to my Telegram, you'll see I posted it on there.
Get ready for some, right out of a movie called Geostorm.
The tornadoes came and wiped out a lot of stuff.
Well, let me see that.
Of course, yeah, I'm sorry to see it too, but let me share another observation that's come to me over the last couple of days, and you could probably translate it into some kind of investment strategy, but Germany just said we're not going to approve the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline from Russia, which bypasses Ukraine.
At the same time, Germany's stores of natural gas are at historic lows, like something like 60%.
And it's natural gas, the hydrocarbons from natural gas that are used to make ammonia through the Haber process.
You take hydrocarbons plus nitrogen out of the atmosphere and you make NH3, which is ammonia.
It's the basis for fertilizer.
Therefore, you know that food crops are going to be Oh, that's a big story.
That's a big, big story.
And it's right out there in the open.
Yeah, nobody's talking about it.
And that goes to, there's something that I'm always telling people, probably people see me reposting this over and over.
I'm always telling people, be ready for blackout.
Be ready for 10 days, no internet.
10 days, no electricity.
Backup heat.
Not just your regular, but backup heat.
Type in propane Armageddon.
That's a real story here.
So it's going to reach us here, but that story in Germany, people need to look at that for about 30 seconds and say, wow, Mike is right.
I better prepare.
I mean, I'm in a situation where I've got...
You know, three levels of heat, you know, natural gas heat, wood heat, back up wood to last, you know, 10 years.
And I look at these things, and so I'm, you know, for me, it's a non-issue.
If they just cut everything off, big deal, you know.
Well, right, but as a nation, Germany's going to have to make a choice.
Sort of like, here are the options.
Would you like to be warm in the winter, or would you like to have your belly full?
Pick one.
Yeah, right.
I picture Vladimir Putin showing up with a Superman suit and on it for Nat Gas.
It's like, you know, he's going to hit Vladimir Putin is going to be the winner on this one here.
And it's going to be the people making the final decision when everyone's freezing their butts off and they're hungry.
The leadership in Germany, they're not going to last.
They're not going to be there.
No.
I think the government's going to switch over.
It's going to become more of a conservative government with more common sense.
You know, you can't eat.
You can't go out.
You can't do this.
Where are your papers?
Where's your COVID vaccine?
And by the way, how's the temperature here?
You're freezing.
You can't go anywhere.
You're stuck in your house.
You can't go out and eat.
You're forced to wear a mask.
They beat you down.
They spray you down.
I mean, the people in Germany, they just need to rise up here and just say, enough.
Okay.
All right.
Any last thoughts, John, before we wrap this up today?
Yeah, a couple more points here.
There's a chance that the NASDAQ, what we saw today and yesterday, the weakness in the NASDAQ, the tech stocks, it's important to know this, that a lot of Bitcoin millionaires and billionaires, they're techies.
And if they've got margin calls in a Bitcoin, they're going to sell some Nasdaq.
I thought yesterday, this is interesting, the Nasdaq is down and Bitcoin is getting crushed.
So who's selling what to cover what margin call?
If you've got someone who's heavy in Nasdaq and heavy in Bitcoin and you've got them both going down, we're going to get double selling.
Someone might be selling Bitcoin to cover their margin calls in their tech stocks or selling their tech stocks to cover a margin call on Bitcoin.
When they both go down together in sync, which I believe we will see again, Then it's going to be grab the popcorn.
Okay.
All right.
Well, I want to thank you for all your time and your wisdom and your experience.
That's why I love talking with you, John, because you've been through the ups and the downs, the booms, and the busts.
You've seen it.
I've had my ass handed to me, and that's what helps.
You learn.
You learn.
You can't make it in this business until you lose your butt at least once in this business.
True.
I've successfully done that.
Yeah, well said.
All right.
Well, give out your Telegram name once again so people can follow you there, please.
Yeah, go to Telegram.
If you haven't signed up, go to sign up.
All they want is a name and a phone number, and it's a great tool to have.
Go in there, type in silver is money, John Perez, silver is money, and hop in.
By the way, if you heard about me on Mike Adams' show, just type in, you know, I saw you on Mike Adams' show and just wanted to say hello.
And I'll do the best I can to say hello back there.
I'm always giving verbal messages on there.
And I started yesterday.
I did my first video message here.
So the feedback has been fantastic.
And I have nothing but compliments to say for the Brighteon and Natural News watchers here.
You guys are great.
Great questions.
All positive.
And all of you are very well educated on what's really going on in this world.
And I can see that.
Oh, yeah.
We attract the most informed people on the planet who know what's happening.
Absolutely.
I am impressed.
I'm impressed by the knowledge that people have coming on board there.
Well, you know, because we don't dumb it down.
We don't try to attract the masses.
That's it.
We're not interested in the masses.
We're interested in the very best, most informed, high IQ people.
Salt of the earth.
Yeah, yeah.
We keep the taste going on this earth.
We keep it healthy.
Absolutely.
All right.
Well, thank you, John.
Always a pleasure speaking with you, and let's see what happens from here forward.
Always...
Okay, and if we don't speak before Christmas, I wish you a Merry Christmas, but given what's happening, we may do another interview before Christmas anyway, so we'll see.
I think Monday or Tuesday next week, I think we're going to have some fireworks.
All right.
Well, you're one of the few people I will open up evening special time slots to interview you when you've got breaking news.
So keep me posted.
Yeah.
D21, 1221, 2021 is going to be a day to remember.
Really?
Okay.
Alright.
Alright.
Prediction.
12-21.
What day of the week is that?
What is that?
That'll be Tuesday.
That'll be the winter solstice.
Well, actually, let me put some meat behind that.
December 21st, Tuesday, is the first day of the winter solstice.
Which is a special time.
And it's also the four-year delta from the December 21st Human Rights and Human Trafficking Executive Order written by Trump December 21st, 2017.
So there's an anniversary here.
And I've noticed in the past a couple other events happened on...
It's similar conditions where I go, wait a second, he signed that two, three years ago, and now, fast forward to the same exact date, something came in the news that was related to it.
So I'm really watching December 21st.
Okay, all right.
Well, December 21st, folks, let's see what happens.
All right, in the meantime, everybody, take care.
Thank you for watching today.
Feel free to repost this interview on other channels and other platforms as well.
I'm Mike Adams, the founder of Brightown, and also brightown.tv, another place you can find a lot of great information.
Thank you for watching today, and God bless all of you.
Have a wonderful Christmas.
Take care.
Thank you, Mike.
Thank you, Mike.
In this nearly eight-hour audiobook, you will learn life-saving secrets of how to use food, nutrients, plant molecules, trace minerals, and chemical compounds to save your life, even in a total collapse scenario.
I'm Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, and I'm the author of Survival Nutrition.
I founded and run a multi-million dollar food science laboratory, and I'm the author of the best-selling science book, Food Forensics.
I'm also a prepper, a patriot, and a survivalist.
I can teach you how to survive what's coming by growing your own food, medicine, and antibiotics that can help keep you healthy and alive even during the worst of times.
At survivalnutrition.com, you'll be able to instantly download the full free audiobook as MP3 files.
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