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Aug. 5, 2022 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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All right, welcome to the situation update for Friday, August 5th, 2022.
I'm Mike Adams.
Thank you for joining me.
I want you to mark your calendar because also today at 12 noon central, I am slated to be the guest host on the Alex Jones Show.
Now, it may change.
I don't know because there was a verdict, a $4.2 million jury verdict against Alex Jones and I think Free Speech Systems, which is his company.
It's possible that the schedule might change.
I'm not sure, but I'm slated to host the Alex Jones Show for two hours today.
That's 12 noon and 1 p.m.
Central.
And I've got two amazing guests booked and ready to go.
So hopefully that's going to hold.
We'll see, but it is Alex's show, so if he wants to...
You know, take the show.
I mean, it's his show.
It's his name on the show.
He can do that, and I would be rescheduled for another day, which is okay.
That's fine.
But if not, I mean, either way, tune in to InfoWars at 12 noon today, August 5th.
If you're hearing this in time, tune in.
If you haven't heard this in time, if this is after the fact, just go to band.video and you can watch The Alex Jones Show or you can watch the episodes, of course, on brighteon.com as well.
The channel you want to visit there, I think it's Ron Gibson 2.
I think that's it.
Ron Gibson 2 or Ron Gibson...
Anyway, all the Alice Jones shows are on the Ron Gibson, one of the Ron Gibson channels on brighttown.com.
So trust me, you don't want to miss the two hours that I've got ready to go.
They're going to be bombshell.
Now, given that the jury in Travis County, which is, well, that county includes Austin, Texas, it's a very liberal city.
You know, it's a left-wing city in Texas.
Given that that jury has now found Alex, well, ordered him to pay $4.2 million in damages to, I think it's to some of the family members of children who were killed at the Sandy Hook shooting.
And in case you don't know the background to this, so after the Sandy Hook shooting, the big school shooting that was used by the Obama administration to really push aggressively gun control, After that shooting, a lot of people had a lot of questions.
There were a whole lot of inconsistencies, you know, weird stuff.
Like, remember the sloppy sniper video?
Like, one of these snipers that was supposed to be part of the tactical police team walking along.
Shown by CNN, and he was carrying the rifle upside down by the magazine.
And then that same guy later appeared in a different role.
And there were all kinds of questions.
Doesn't mean that the event didn't happen.
Doesn't mean that children didn't die.
There were a lot of inconsistencies.
And, of course, Alex at the time, he asked a lot of questions about this, and so did many people.
And another person, a completely different person from Alex, He wrote a book, and the title of that book was called Nobody Died at Sandy Hook.
And I'm trying to think of the name.
Was it Jim?
For some reason, the name of that author is slipping my mind at the moment.
But I interviewed him before, many years ago, that author.
Maybe his name will come back to me here.
Anyway, the media lied and said that Alex Jones wrote that book.
He did not write that book.
And then that book was banned by Amazon.com.
And that book, the premise of the book was documenting through photos and so on, some of the inconsistencies or let's say questions about that shooting, right?
So Alex was mostly just asking questions.
It's like, what about this?
What about that?
Can't we ask questions?
Well, he got sued, obviously.
By lawyers representing the family members whose children died at the event.
And they said that the parents suffered harassment and pain and suffering and everything because InfoWars was asking these questions.
Or that InfoWars was questioning whether the event even happened or whether children really died or how many died or what circumstances were involved and so on and so forth.
Now, Alex has since admitted, by the way, publicly, I'm going to play a video for you, that he was wrong.
But not intentionally.
He did not intentionally mislead anyone, but he now says that, yes, the event was real.
It happened.
The children died.
And that he made a mistake, not intentionally, but he made a mistake to ever think that children didn't die at the event or that the whole thing was staged.
So Alex admits it's a mistake.
But here's what's fascinating about this to me.
The trial was so rigged against Alex that In Travis County, Texas, that he was not allowed to defend himself at all against the allegations that he caused pain and suffering to the parents of these children.
And in fact, he was not even allowed a trial by jury, which is demanded by the Constitution, you know, due process.
It's specifically enumerated in the Constitution.
It's in the Sixth Amendment.
Of the Constitution, of the Bill of Rights.
I'm reading from law.cornell.edu.
Amendment 6.
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation, to be confronted with the witnesses against him, To have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.
Okay?
All of those rights were denied to Alex Jones.
And Alex Jones is the test case for this because, well, they figured if they can railroad Alex Jones, then they can do that to anybody else.
So they denied Alex the right to present his own witnesses.
They denied him a trial by jury.
They denied him the right to present evidence in his defense.
They denied him the right to speak in his own defense on the record in the trial.
In fact, the judge simply ruled that he was guilty by default.
I mean, it's shocking to all legal scholars, by the way, including Alan Dershowitz, whom I've interviewed in the past, and Alan Dershowitz is very much shocked by this, because this is so far out of the realm of due process.
Alex Jones was railroaded.
And by the way, all of this is going to be appealed.
And on appeal, it's very likely that all of these decisions are going to be overturned because this is a blatant violation of not just the Sixth Amendment, but other provisions under law.
So the point is, Alex was declared guilty by default because the judge said that Alex's company failed to turn over Some documents that Alex didn't even have, that the company didn't have.
Specifically, it was marketing documents.
Where are your internal case studies and marketing documents about how to put these messages out or which messages are going to be most effective and so on and so forth?
Well, folks, and I know this firsthand because I'm a fill-in host there.
I go in.
I see what's happening in the studio.
I see the crew.
Occasionally I see Alex, but usually I'm hosting when Alex is not there, so I actually don't see him much at all.
But what I see, and the way that I do the Alex Jones show when I'm the fill-in guest host...
There are no study groups.
There's no test groups.
There's no script.
There's no teleprompter.
There's nothing but stacks of printouts of just news articles on Alex's desk, which is a massive desk.
You've seen it on camera.
And there'll be stacks of news articles.
And The InfoWars staff, they have researchers and they'll print out articles on different topics like here's the vaccine stack and here's the Second Amendment stack and here's, you know, Ron DeSantis stack, which is very interesting today.
We'll get to that.
But I always bring my own stack because I always do my own research and I book my own guests.
I do.
I mean, I actually produce my own segments that I come in and host for The Alice Jones Show.
And I'm not paid.
I'm not on the payroll.
I'm not an employee, not a contractor, nothing.
I'm just pitching in because I believe in liberty.
And I'm very thankful that InfoWars exists.
In fact, I'm...
Blown away and so impressed by the InfoWars crew and the InfoWars leadership.
And it doesn't mean that Alex is 100% correct all the time because he's not.
But when he's wrong, he admits it and he apologizes.
But he has been right about so many things for so long.
The big things that really count.
I mean, over and over again, he was right about gain-of-function research on...
Well, the virus, you know, COVID. I mean, he was right about the deep state using FISA warrants against the American people.
He's been right about the Federal Reserve printing money to collapse the U.S. currency.
You know, he's been right over and over and over again about big, big things that matter.
You know, like abuse of the Patriot Act against the American people, right?
Just over and over.
The 2020 election being rigged, obviously.
And he was right about that as well.
But I just want to tell you, when I'm in there, there's nobody telling me what to say or what not to say.
It has never happened.
And frankly, if that were to happen, I wouldn't go in and host because I'm not going to...
I'm not there just to read scripts or teleprompters.
No, forget that.
And nobody is.
I mean, Owen Schroer, another amazing host at InfoWars, he's not told what to do.
He does his own research.
He does his own show.
He has his own guests.
And Harrison Smith, the same.
And all the other talent and even the 4th Hour hosts who come in or remotely they host the show.
Nobody tells them what to say, what to do.
There's no research documents about crowd testing, different messages.
It doesn't exist.
So the judge in the Travis County trial was asking for documents that did not exist.
And when Alex's company could not turn those over because they did not exist, she claimed that the company was lying and withholding that information and then she judged the case in default, which means you refused to turn over documents and now we're just going to declare you to be guilty.
And then they moved it right into the punitive and, well, damages phase, which I think includes two different types of damages.
So it was like reputation damage and punitive damage or whatever the two categories are.
So the jury was brought in to decide the damages, even though Alex had been denied a trial by jury.
Folks, that is insane.
That's totally rigged.
That's a railroad operation.
They could do that to you or me or anybody.
They could just say, well, you're guilty.
We've decided you're guilty because you didn't give us something that we asked for that even though it doesn't exist, we asked for it.
You don't have it.
Oh, it's too bad.
You're guilty by default.
I mean, this is the kind of crap that the king of, you know, King George used to do.
And this is why the colonies split off from England.
This is why American...
The original patriots fought the Revolutionary War and created our own new country to get away from this kind of nonsense.
This is why the Sixth Amendment exists.
And this is why the Third Amendment exists.
You know, you can't quarter British soldiers in American houses and just take over their house and put your soldiers in there.
That's why there's a Third Amendment.
Or you can't take away people's guns.
That's why there's a Second Amendment.
You can't take away people's speech.
That's why there's a First Amendment.
Well, isn't it astonishing that in this court case, they took away Alex's First Amendment and his Sixth Amendment and probably other sections, I mean, probably 14th Amendment as well, and other...
They have violated Alex's civil rights at a level that is just completely insane.
He did not have the right to defend himself.
Now, had Alex had the right to defend himself...
And a trial by jury.
The jury may have decided that his speech was protected opinion.
Because wouldn't you know it that when Nick Sandman is smeared and defamed and lied about by the New York Times and, you know, the Washington Post and CNN and MSNBC, or when anybody who is conservative is lied about and smeared and defamed by the corporate-controlled media, If you try to sue them, like when Nick Sandman tried to sue, that case got thrown out of court.
The case against the New York Times.
That was fairly recently.
And the judge said, well, what the New York Times said was opinion, but it is protected opinion.
So when the New York Times said that Nick Sandman is a horrible bad person blocking a Native American, harassing a Native American, you know, Whatever the New York Times said, the court said, well, that's protected opinion.
But Alex Jones doesn't get a protected opinion, does he?
Because, well, the deep state doesn't like what he said.
So if you say something that is defamatory against a conservative and the deep state likes your lies, i.e.
New York Times, you are allowed to spread those lies.
And you can never be successfully sued.
All the cases will be thrown out citing protected opinion.
But if you ask questions that the establishment does not like, or if you raise questions or point out inconsistencies or point out motivations like gun control or what have you, if you raise that stuff, you're going to be sued.
It won't be thrown out.
You'll be judged in default without a trial by jury.
You'll be denied your civil rights.
And then you'll have to pay millions of dollars in damages.
And the punitive damages phase is still coming.
Could be a whole lot more than $4.2 million, which is what has been awarded so far.
So, folks, what I want to explain to you here...
Is that the United States legal system is utterly broken.
It has completely failed.
And what Alex Jones has actually demonstrated to all of us, demonstrated to the world, is just how far gone this country is, how far beyond the tipping point of recovery we are.
This judicial system...
It is a collapsed system.
You no longer have even basic constitutional rights or bill of rights if you are hauled into court.
You have no right to trial by jury.
You have no right to present witnesses in your defense.
You have no right to defend yourself.
You have no right except to just sit there and be gagged by the court and be told what you have to do and sit there and allow yourself to be smeared and lied about By the opposing legal team, and then you have to pay millions of dollars or declare Chapter 11 bankruptcy for your company and try to reorganize, try to make amends with whatever the court has ordered over the long haul through restructuring finances and what have you.
And that's what Alex has had to do.
So his company, Free Speech Systems, declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy, I think, was it about a week ago or so?
And that puts the company into a, as I understand, is kind of a financial receivership.
So there's a third party running the finances now that covers the payroll and manages all the money coming in and approves all the money going out to keep the business operating and then tries to negotiate with any creditors.
Well, To my understanding, there are no creditors of The Alex Jones Show except for these court proceedings, these punitive damages.
I think those are the only creditors.
The Infowars operation doesn't owe anybody money that I'm aware of.
They're only going to owe money for what the court orders.
And all of these damage awards are going to be appealed.
And my guess is they're going to be successfully appealed.
Now, Attorney Robert Barnes is, of course, far more informed on all of this than I am.
So I'm going to defer to Robert Barnes for the details or any corrections if I have misstated anything here.
I'm just trying to give you my best understanding.
But I'm not a legal expert.
I'm not an attorney.
Robert Barnes will know a lot more.
And I also think that Alex is going to cover this more and have experts come in and explain all of this probably on his show, maybe even on today's show.
He might even bump me from the show just to cover that, which is fine.
But personally, I would like to hear Alan Dershowitz's opinion on this.
Not whether or not Alex is guilty or innocent or...
Whether he's likable or not likable or right or wrong, but I'd like to hear Alan Dershowitz chime in on, what about the process that Alex was subjected to in this trial?
Is this process okay in America?
Is it okay to have a process that denies someone their constitutional or civil rights trial by jury?
Can you just take that away from people?
Declare them to be guilty?
And then have the jury decide how much you owe?
Is that what America's legal system has come to?
I would suspect, although I'll let Alan Dershowitz speak for himself, I would suspect that Alan would have some issues with this process.
He might not have issues with Alex paying something or being found liable for some kind of damages, but I believe he would have an issue with the process that Alex was subjected to.
Because the process was rigged, it was entirely unfair.
We're going to move on to some other topics today.
I've got a lot more to cover, but I just want to play for you roughly about two minutes of Alex himself, a video of him responding to this $4.2 million judgment, roughly $4.2 million.
And understand that the lawyers in this case asked for $150 million or more.
At the high estimate, they could have asked for up to $3 billion in damages.
But they were asking for at least $150 million.
The jury came back and decided on $4.2 million.
So obviously the jury did not think that Alex owes anybody hundreds of millions or billions of dollars.
So let's let Alex explain this for about two minutes here and then we'll move on to some other topics.
But check out this video.
Here we go.
The Democratic Party, the entire corporate media, lined up against Infowars and the American people's free speech.
The judge, more than 20 times in the last week and a half in Austin, Texas, told the jury while I was there in the courtroom and it was on national TV that Alex Jones is guilty.
The lawyers for the plaintiffs asked for between $150 million and $3 billion.
The jury came in this evening with $4.2 million.
I admitted I was wrong.
I admitted I made a mistake.
I admitted that I followed disinformation, but not on purpose.
I apologized to the families.
And the jury understood that.
What I did to those families was wrong, but I didn't do it on purpose.
I didn't lie about WMDs in Iraq and kill millions of people on purpose.
I questioned the public event because I saw anomalies and others saw anomalies.
And the jury understood that and awarded $4.2 million.
Now, that's more money than my company and I personally have, but we are going to work on trying to make restitution there.
Now, here's the next phase of this.
When the judge realized that when I was on the stand, I woke that jury up and laid out the facts.
She ruled today that in the punitive damage phase that starts tomorrow, I cannot testify and my lawyer cannot put on evidence.
So she already found me guilty and told the jury I was guilty.
And now she's saying we can't defend ourselves in the punitive, damages face.
I trust in God.
I trust in the truth coming out.
At the end of the day, I don't have all these millions of dollars they claim I have.
So I'm at peace.
But this is still a major victory for truth.
And the plaintiff's lawyers...
Got upset in the courtroom, and according to multiple witnesses, were screaming and yelling at my lawyers, Joe and Andino, when they were in the hall.
They thought they would get hundreds of millions of dollars we don't have.
They thought they would shut us down.
But that jury understood the truth and resisted the propaganda.
All right, so there you go.
In Alex's own words, I just want to encourage you to tune in to the Alex Jones Show today if you're hearing this on August 5th.
Infowars.com.
Again, I'll be hosting hours two and three with special guests.
Alex, I don't know if he's going to even be there, actually.
He may or may not be there.
He may or may not bump me off the show.
He might take over himself.
But tune in to InfoWars.com to hear more details about what's going on with the court cases and the judgments and so on.
And, you know, there's still a pending case in Connecticut that the jury could, you know, find Alex...
Guilty, so to speak, for millions more in damages.
So this is not anywhere near over.
They're really trying to take down Infowars.
And that's why I also think it's important that all of us in independent media support each other because we are the truth-tellers.
We are the real media.
And again, it doesn't mean that we're 100% accurate, but we try to tell the truth.
We never deliberately mislead people, which is what the corporate media does on purpose every day, all the time.
The New York Times deliberately misleads people.
The Washington Post deliberately manipulates people, exploits people, pushes lies that are handed to them by the deep state or the CIA or the pharmaceutical industry or communist China in the case of the New York Times.
The New York Times takes money from communist China to run Chinese propaganda disguised as news stories.
InfoWars doesn't do that.
I don't do that.
Nobody in independent media does that.
We don't take money to push propaganda.
We work to tell the truth and expose the lies every day, day after day, year after year, in Alex's case, over 20 years at this.
And we need to support each other.
So I thank you for all of your support of all the different outlets across the independent media.
And as you know, I have gone out of my way also to support many different publishers and independent news organizations, especially the smaller ones, that don't have a lot of revenues.
And so recently, as you know, I gave out $50,000 Actually, those were the affiliate fees that we had earned for promoting the Propaganda Exposed docuseries.
We pledged 100% of those affiliate revenues to independent media, and we made good on that.
We donated $50,000 out to, I think it was 20 different recipients.
We published a list of the recipients, so you can check it out for yourself.
In doing that, we...
Garner the attention of Gary Haven.
And Gary Haven is an amazing American and a Texan, just an amazing human being, a philanthropist, you might say.
He's well off financially, and he reached out to me and said, look, I want to give you $100,000 to distribute to other health freedom independent media organizations or to give more money to some of the same groups that you already gave to.
And he asked me, would you be willing to do that?
And I said, absolutely, because we've already done the research on which groups that we have supported so far.
We can probably expand that list, and we are going to.
We'd love to give out this money to other independent publishers.
And so he sent us a check, and it was $100,000 to give out to these other groups, and it was then also $50,000 to donate to support Brighteon.com, the entire Brighteon infrastructure.
And I have an update for you on that, by the way.
And now we are tasked with giving out $100,000.
So we're in the process of compiling that list because we're expanding it.
And we've been taking a lot of suggestions from some of you listening to this.
We've received emails at our email.
It's situationupdateatprotonmail.com.
We're going to be supporting some new groups that we did not support last time.
We're also going to be increasing the amount of money that we give to certain groups and organizations such as the filmmakers that help fund Andy Wakefield's films.
And I am honored that Gary Haven entrusted us with this process and this money.
You know, $100,000 in the big picture, you know, Compared to the billions floating around in Washington, D.C., it doesn't seem like that much, but trust me, it makes a real difference, especially if there's somebody right on the edge who has been demonetized or blacklisted or can't find advertisers because their message is...
Well, the truth is controversial, right?
The truth is not necessarily very popular in some areas.
So they can't get advertisers.
So this money can mean a lot to small publishers.
So we're very happy to be able to redirect $100,000 into the hands of very deserving independent publishers.
And we're going to publish that list when those checks go out.
And you may recall last time we gave to SGT Report and State of the Nation and All News Pipeline and who else?
We're trying to donate to shtfplan.com and a pretty long list of organizations.
I think we donated to Liberty Council as well, the law firm that works on health freedom.
I know we gave to Sherry Tenpenny's nonprofit organization and we gave to Children's Health Defense and so on.
There's a lot more coming.
So, just stay tuned.
I do want to say, though, I am blessed by your support.
I am blessed.
We are all blessed.
We're blessed to have each other, aren't we?
We're blessed to be stewards of the truth.
We're blessed to be given these resources and We're blessed to have minds that are capable of grasping the reality of what's going on.
We're blessed with knowledge and sufficient resources and we're blessed to be on the side of God.
I mean, that's the ultimate blessing, is it not?
We are so blessed.
We're blessed to have our bodies and our minds.
We're blessed to know about...
Miraculous nutrients in foods.
We're blessed to have seeds, to be able to grow food and grow medicine and nutrition and save seeds and all of that.
I mean, these are blessings from God and Mother Nature.
And we're surrounded by all these blessings.
There's so much abundance.
And every day I feel just surrounded by abundance.
Surrounded is not even the right word.
I feel infused with abundance.
I feel so much energy and potential and goodness flowing through my daily experience that I just want to...
I mean, it sounds almost like I'm competing for Miss America or something.
I just want to heal the world.
But it's true.
It's not just some little silly stuff.
Like, I just want to heal the world and look at my bikini.
No.
I actually want to heal the world.
And I'm doing it through clean food.
That's actually the slogan of the Health Ranger store.
Healing the world through clean food.
I literally want to help the world heal.
And I just happen to know that food and nutrition is the single most effective pathway to do that.
In fact, in my recent interview with David Wolf, we were talking about that.
We're talking about, you know, what about all these mental health issues?
Well, look at the food.
Look at what people are eating.
Toxins versus nutrition.
Too many toxins.
We are living in a toxic society.
And so many of the problems, violent crime, sickness, infertility, cognitive decline, pain and suffering and cancer and diabetes and all these things, it's all related to food, folks.
We can heal the world together.
And clean food is one vector, but also just awakening, awareness, spirituality, knowledge.
We can be vessels for this and also to some extent financial abundance that we can help share.
And inspire other people, let people know that they are loved, that they are appreciated.
Sometimes, you know, a $5,000 check to a publisher is a very effective way of saying, hey, guess what?
You are loved and you are appreciated.
The world loves what you do.
Keep doing it.
Here's $5,000.
Other times, a different approach.
It's...
Here, have some amazing non-GMO vitamin C. We've sent out, kind of behind the scenes over the years, we've sent out a whole slew of products, of Health Ranger store products, to all kinds of people that we've never even talked about publicly.
Like, people that are suffering from sickness or whatever.
I mean, people in the industry, like independent media people.
If I hear about somebody...
That has something going on.
I feel like I can help and I have the opportunity to do so.
I'll put in an order and have it shipped out to them.
And that's just something that I feel obliged to do.
And every time I do it, I feel a sense of joy, a sense of pursuing a mission that matters.
Actually distributing resources for global healing.
It's one of the greatest joys that I have in my life, and you help make that joy possible.
I don't mean to get all touchy-feely here or anything.
I'm just saying this is real.
This is a real experience.
This is the relationship that you and I have and that we have with the world, and I know that if you listen to this podcast, you are all about healing also.
You want the world to be free, to be healthy, to be informed.
And to end suffering.
And we know how to do that.
We have the tools.
We have the actual resources, the recipes to do that.
We know how to do that.
We're just trying to spread that information as quickly as possible before the death cult pharmaceutical industry kills billions of people.
We're in a race.
Heal them.
We want to heal them before they kill them, basically.
The globalists just want to carry out extermination.
We want to carry out rejuvenation.
That's it.
That's the battle.
And that's also Satan versus Christ.
It's the same battle.
That battle is being waged in politics, in money, in food, in the spiritual realm.
It's being waged in global warfare, everything.
It's the same battle everywhere.
Satan versus God, right?
You know, genocide versus rejuvenation.
Luciferians versus Christ.
Darkness versus light.
Whatever you want to call it.
It's the same fight, so to speak.
And we are in that fight every day.
And we are on the side that helps people heal.
Now, let's move on to some other serious issues here about what's happening in the world.
And I'll start with this headline.
This is from, what is this?
Yahoo News.
National Black Farmers Association warns Biden administration of upcoming food shortages.
So, first of all, I didn't even know there was a Black Farmers Association.
I don't divide farmers by skin color, just for the record.
If you're a farmer, you're a farmer.
If you're a farmer, I respect you.
I respect what you're doing.
I respect your effort, your hard work, your work ethic, all of that, whether you're black or white.
But for whatever reason, there is a National Black Farmers Association, which is fine.
I just didn't realize there was such a group.
I guarantee you there's not a white farmers association.
I absolutely guarantee you that does not exist.
But for whatever reason, there's a, let's see, a fourth, oh, this nonprofit was founded in 1995, and the president is John W. Boyd Jr., a fourth-generation farmer, and he's the one sounding the alarm on this, okay?
He says that food shortages, excuse me, will be coming soon unless the U.S. government intervenes to bring down the cost of fuel and fertilizer.
And he says, quote, again, John W. Boyd Jr., quote, we're going to see empty food shelves in the coming months.
And this group represents tens of thousands of African-American food producers, says Yahoo News, and their families.
Quote, the administration isn't talking enough about the plight of what's going on with Americans.
Says Boyd, quote, we're losing farmers every year that we don't take action.
And that's going to help, but it's going to hurt us here at home.
Okay.
The high cost of food, that's going to affect every American that walks into the supermarket.
We have to find a way to invest in infrastructure for farmers and put farmers first and put more small-scale farmers back into business.
Well, I completely agree.
Mr.
John W. Boyd Jr., you are 100% correct.
You're going to find plenty of white folks that absolutely agree with your Black Farmers Association.
You know why?
Because we all eat food too, all of us.
And those of us who are informed, we understand exactly what you're talking about.
The fertilizer prices are through the roof.
The diesel prices are still through the roof and probably about to rebound much higher.
And it's the small farmer that's getting just destroyed economically.
And by the way, it's also the estate taxes on farms.
You know, when a family member dies, and then that farm goes to someone else, and then because of the valuations right now of land, then you have to pay tax on that transfer of the farm.
And then, you know, the recipients of the farm, they can't even pay the taxes, the estate taxes on it.
So they end up having to sell the farm just to pay the taxes on the farm.
So the farm is gone.
And then some housing developer or whoever buys the farm and turns it into houses and it's no longer farms.
So there goes your food.
And personally, I have a real soft space in my heart for small, local farmers.
Because even in my own childhood...
One of my granddads was a farmer and a cattle rancher, and he's the one who first taught me, by the way, how to drive a John Deere tractor and to do something useful with it.
If you're ever wondering, like, why do I have this special feeling about John Deere tractors?
I mean, older ones, not the new ones.
I'm not that thrilled about John Deere right now.
But why do I have these tractors from the 1970s?
I mean, yeah, they're EMP proof.
They're easy to work on.
They're rugged.
They don't have software and microchips and all that garbage.
But that's where I learned how to do some farming.
Because my grandfather taught me that.
He sat me on a tractor when I could barely reach the pedals.
It was like 14 years old or whatever.
It's like, here, you're going to rake 100 acres of hay, and here's how you do it.
And then, oh, you're going to run the cutter and the rake and the baler.
And at different times of the year, you're going to run the fertilizer.
And they had a spreader, you know, a little rotating spreader, big cylinder.
And you put fertilizer, and I guess it was mostly nitrogen.
And then you spread the fertilizer and so on.
So, yeah, that's part of my childhood.
And I understand how hard farmers work, and I understand what little money there is in growing food, because I've been there.
I've been hands-on, literally, on the tractor.
Probably a little too young, frankly, for doing that, but I'm not the only one.
A lot of farming families teach their kids at a very young age how to be productive on the farm.
But what I want to say actually to, what's his name here, John W. Boyd Jr.
is, I mean, you're absolutely right.
It's the fertilizer cost and it's the diesel fuel cost.
It's also the fact that there's mad money printing by the Federal Reserve, and that's destroying the value of the dollar.
So whether you're a farmer or an attorney or a surgeon or a car mechanic or whatever, you're being ripped off every day by the federal government, well, the Treasury working with the Federal Reserve.
Which is a private banking cartel.
You're being ripped off every day, no matter what your profession.
They're stealing money from you every day.
And the long-term result of that is impoverishment for everyone, or nearly everyone.
Maybe not the top 1%, but any middle-class, hard-working folks like farmers or truck drivers or taxi cab drivers or what have you are going to be crushed by this Because remember, part of the goal of the Biden administration is to engineer a total economic collapse of the United States of America.
So I would also remind any black farmers in America, or frankly, black folks everywhere, stop voting for the demon-crats, because they're the ones that are thrusting you into poverty.
And really a form of financial enslavement.
I mean, we are all black or white or whatever skin color.
We are all slaves on the great fiat currency tax plantation.
No matter what kind of work we do, we're all slaves.
And until the slaves dismantle that system and find a new way to have honest money and to defend liberty...
And to have honest food and, you know, stop having the government pay farmers to destroy crops and destroy tractors and all these insane policies that they have.
You know, until we get rid of that and just return to free market conditions, none of us are going to be free.
None of us are going to have affordable food.
And this is why more and more people are turning to home gardens.
Just grow stuff yourself.
Which makes a lot of sense.
Or really small scale farming, like almost hobby farming on little tiny toy tractors and things.
I call them toy tractors, but just small tractors, like a 20 horsepower tractor.
You can still do a lot with it.
You can get a little PTO tiller on the back and it's got a little bucket in the front.
And yeah, I think it's funny to see people driving around, little 20 horsepower tractor.
I laugh a little bit on the inside.
But that's just me.
It still counts.
You can still grow food with it.
It's very helpful.
So anyway, I'll just wrap up that segment by saying to all the black farmers of America, we are with you.
100% with you.
And when I say we, I don't even know who I'm representing.
I'll just say we at Natural News are with you.
We at Brighteon are with you.
We who live in rural America, we who grow some of our own food, we are 100% with you.
But the Biden administration is not, and the Democrats are not.
Keep that in mind next time you vote.
Let's bring in a very funny thing here right now.
I think you're going to love this.
You know how local governments, they have these gun buyback programs?
And they say, you know, we'll pay you $50 for any handgun that you bring in.
And they expect everybody to just go all over their houses and find all the handguns that maybe their late spouse left behind.
Typically, that's the way this works.
It's usually like a widow woman whose husband passed away and they've got like three or four spare guns and they're not sure what to do with it.
This is a very typical situation.
And those guns might be worth $1,000 or more.
But they'll take him in to the city, and this just happened in Houston, and the city says, we'll give you $50 per gun.
And so a lot of women are turning in thousands of dollars worth of guns to get a few hundred bucks.
It's truly insane.
It's a ripoff.
And how much you want to bet when good guns are turned in like that, you know that city officials take those guns out of the bin and they sell them to somebody else.
You know they're doing that.
You're not going to take a $1,000 pistol.
And just destroy it.
You know, people are going to pocket that stuff.
It's going to make its way back to the market.
Trust me.
Trust me.
That's exactly how that's going to work.
Anyway, the city of Houston put out this program and they said, yeah, we're going to pay you 50 bucks for every gun you bring in.
So a local Houston resident, and I don't know his name, but he found a way to beat the system.
And it's quite hilarious.
He realized that he could 3D print Gun frames.
You know, like lowers for Glocks, essentially.
You know, without the slide, without the trigger pin and all those components.
It's not really a functioning gun, but it's the frame of a gun.
And, you know, according to city officials, that counts as a gun.
So this guy was able to 3D print 62 gun frames, and he turned them in, and he got $50 per gun.
Apparently the city cut him a check for $3,100.
But here's the funny part.
His cost to print each gun was only $3 in filament.
He was probably printing them in cheap PLA, which is a common filament for 3D printers.
So this guy is sitting at his home, literally 3D printing, in essence, money.
So he found a way to do what the Federal Reserve does.
The Federal Reserve prints money all day.
Well, this guy is like, I'm going to print money too, just through the gun buyback program.
And he printed up $3,000 worth of gun frames that only cost him a tiny fraction of that.
I think it's great.
This sounds like something that I would do, in fact, just to prove a point of how stupid this program is.
And that's what the guy was saying.
He's like, you know, I'm not here to make money off of this, he said, but rather to send the leaders of Houston a message about why are you spending a million dollars in tax money on something that has no evidence of any effect on crime?
Because the gun buyback programs don't work.
They don't reduce crime.
They don't stop shooting.
No.
They don't reduce crime.
They don't stop the violent crime in a city.
So in response to this, the Houston city leaders have now implemented a new rule.
So in the gun buyback program, we're not going to buy back 3D printed guns, they say.
No, no ghost guns in the gun buyback program.
Only other kinds of guns, you know, I guess Glocks and Sigs and Revolvers and Smith and Wesson or whatever.
But not 3D printed guns.
And what's hilarious about that is that we are told by the media constantly that the number one threat of guns in America are the 3D printed ghost guns, right?
It's the ghost guns or it's the 3D printed guns.
Like, those are the worst!
And we're told they're so bad because they don't have serial numbers.
So the greatest threat to society, and now the Houston gun buyback program, excludes the most dangerous guns in society, as we're told.
How hilarious is that?
And all it took was one citizen 3D printing 62 gun frames and bringing them in in a cardboard box.
Here you go.
Where's my check, you bureaucratic morons?
By the way, isn't this the perfect example of how the economy will work under Democrats?
The Democrats will say, we will pay you to destroy something that you created.
And then the citizens sit around at home creating stuff to haul it into the government to destroy it in exchange for a paycheck of printed money from the Federal Reserve currency counterfeiting operation, where the Federal Reserve is just printing money out of thin air and handing it to you.
So They destroy the thing that is actually productive, the real thing in the real world, which is the gunframe.
That's destroyed.
And instead, they give you fake counterfeit currency, which is backed by nothing.
It's just a piece of paper with ink on it, basically, and numbers and ink and security features.
So I'm like, here, have this.
Not even the paper.
Here's a deposit into your bank account.
Now you're compensated.
That's what the world has come to.
The economy under Democrats.
Destroy things that are real.
Hand out money that's fake.
Think about it.
And that's their gun control program.
And if you really want to stop crime, by the way, instead of focusing on getting guns off the streets, why don't you focus on getting the criminals off the streets?
Because guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens are a very good thing.
So many stories recently of law-abiding citizens, even this 80-year-old shop owner guy in California who shot the arm off of this armed intruder.
I guess that's a form of disarmament, isn't it?
I mean, he shot the arm off this guy.
The guy ran out of the shop.
I mean, first, the guy breaks into the shop with an AR-15-looking type of rifle, and we can't hear the audio, but he's obviously robbing the place.
He's all dressed in black with a mask, and he's got an AR-15.
The shop owner, this 80-year-old dude, grabs a shotgun and just goes, kapow!
And then the guy...
The assailant, the robber, goes running out of the building and then we have audio in the parking lot and he's screaming, he shot my arm off!
He shot my arm off!
He shot my arm off!
I don't know if you've seen that video, but it's out there.
And that's disarmament.
If you try to rob a shop...
That is armed.
You might be disarmed quite literally, like surgically disarmed.
And by the way, that assailant is in critical condition in the hospital right now, and he may not be bearing arms much longer.
So be careful what you do with your, quote, freedoms.
If you use your freedoms to take away other people's freedoms or assets, then you should expect some blowback, literally, in this case.
But that's another case where a firearm stopped a bad guy.
Firearms saved a shop and protected employees and family members and a shop owner.
Again, an 80-year-old dude who was just doing what any normal, reasonable person would do, like grab the gun, shoot the intruder.
There you go.
Well, in this whole debate about taking criminals off the streets, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has gone...
Oh, he has done something that has really angered the liberals so much.
So I don't even know where to begin on this.
So there's a state attorney in Florida named Andrew Warren, who is a George Soros-funded left-wing...
We would just say libtard.
And this attorney has declined to prosecute 67 protesters arrested in George Floyd demonstrations.
And he has declined to prosecute, apparently, doctors who are performing illegal abortions.
He's one of these Soros leftists, right?
And the DAs or the prosecuting attorneys...
All over the country.
When they're funded by George Soros, what do they do when leftists are charged with crimes?
Oh, they drop the charges, don't they?
They drop the charges over and over and over again.
And they release violent criminals back onto the streets over and over again.
Well, Ron DeSantis has had enough.
He actually sent in the state police to escort this state attorney, Andrew Warren, out of his office.
He was suspended.
For negligence, for quote, well, DeSantis' office says, we are suspending Soros-backed 13th Circuit State Attorney Andrew Warren for neglecting his duties as he pledges not to uphold the laws of the state.
So, again, this is one of those attorneys who said, well, I'm not going to prosecute doctors who carry out criminal abortion murder.
I'm just not going to prosecute them.
They can go ahead and murder children.
Well, DeSantis says, well, if you're not going to prosecute that, We're going to remove you.
And that's exactly what happened.
They removed him.
Actually, I think it was state troopers just walked him out of the office.
And then they put in someone else there temporarily.
I don't see the name of who they put in.
But DeSantis says, so when you flagrantly violate your oath of office, when you make yourself above the law, You have violated your duty, you have neglected your duty, and you are displaying a lack of competence to be able to perform those duties.
And so today we are suspending state attorney Andrew Warren effective immediately.
That's what DeSantis said.
He put out a statement and so on.
And I just want to say, this gives me a real warm, fuzzy feeling and gets me all excited.
I mean, this is the best thing I've seen in a long time.
This makes me want to see DeSantis in the White House, frankly.
And I'm wondering why other governors don't do this all around the country.
Isn't it time to do this?
Just fire all the George Soros attorneys.
I mean, march them right out of their offices.
Say, you know, hit the road, Jack.
See you later.
You don't belong here because you're not willing to enforce the laws.
You want a lawless society because that's what George Soros wants.
But I don't see any other governors doing that yet.
Maybe in the future when Carrie Lake is elected to the governorship of Arizona, maybe she'll do that in Arizona.
Wouldn't that be awesome?
Isn't she awesome?
I can't wait to see Governor Lake in Arizona.
That's going to get me all warm and fuzzy as well.
I've got to interview Carrie Lake.
But Ron DeSantis is just...
Man, he's just mercilessly just browbeating these left-wing chaos lunatics.
It's just...
This is just amazing to watch.
It's like an MMA fighter doing just ground and pound with elbows when the opponent is on his back and already unconscious and is just elbow, elbow, elbow.
It's like, go, DeSantis.
Keep going.
You have our support.
In fact, in my view, I think he should arrest George Soros-funded DAs and attorneys who refuse to uphold the law.
I think they should be arrested and charged with violating the civil rights of the people of Florida or whatever state they're in.
That's what I think.
I mean, DeSantis didn't go that far, but he did march the guy out of office and out of power.
And this is a very good sign of things to come because one day soon, you know, Joe Biden's got to be marched out of office.
The Democrats have to be marched out of there.
All those who rigged the elections have to be marched out because we the people, and I mean the pro-democracy and pro-constitutional republic people, Including all those good people still in the military or in law enforcement or in government who are the good people.
All of us together, we have to peacefully remove the traitors from power and march them out of the halls and out of the offices and out of the Oval Office.
And we need to take back this country for the future of real America.
That's the only way we're going to survive.
If that doesn't happen, America will be lost or turned over to communist China, as we talked about yesterday.
So Ron DeSantis for president, folks.
Ron DeSantis for president.
I know that Trump is about to announce his presidency, and the rumor is that DeSantis is going to be the VP candidate for Trump, in which case the Trump-DeSantis ticket absolutely has my support, mostly because of DeSantis, not Trump.
Frankly, I'm...
Less than enthusiastic about Donald J. Trump at this particular moment.
Because, well, frankly, in comparison to DeSantis, I mean, DeSantis is getting things done.
Well, Trump, it just felt like four years of like, come on, man, come on, like, do something!
And that was the Trump experience, wasn't it?
But DeSantis surprises us with so much stuff, getting so much done, and trolling the liberal media the whole way, like making new announcements about Florida in a Florida town called Brandon.
You know, like, let's go Brandon, right?
I mean, DeSantis is just so impressive.
Right now, he's got my vote if he's on the ticket at all for president or vice president.
He's got my vote in this particular moment.
Unless, you know, I hate to be disappointed by people.
Maybe he's playing some super long game, but I don't think so.
I think he's the real deal.
And I think he's fighting hard for Floridians, and I think he'll fight hard for Americans.
That's just my take on it.
So I say DeSantis.
2024, if we still have a country left, that is.
There's a long ways to go between here and there.
Let's just, let's see if we can get through this year first.
See if we make it to Christmas, and then we'll start worrying about 2024, and if there's an America still remaining to even have elections.
All right, we're going to move on and talk about energy and Europe and Gazprom and Russia and Germany and electric vehicles and all that kind of stuff.
But first, let me mention I've been trying to standardize the discount codes for all the companies that offer discounts to our listeners here.
And I don't know if all these discount codes have been put in place yet, but I want to encourage you to try it at a couple of places.
So the code that we're trying to standardize is just the word Ranger.
So if you need a folding AR-15 pistol or rifle, go to shieldarms.com, enter the code Ranger, see if it works, see if it gives you $100 off.
If it doesn't, then just wait until it does because we're asking them to change it to Ranger.
Again, too many different codes for all of us to keep track of.
So we're just trying to just fix on the word Ranger.
The same thing, go to hoplitearmor.com.
H-O-P-L-I-T-E, hoplitearmor.com.
That's the incredible American-made body armor that is the, what is it, ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene with some special ceramics and things like that.
The most amazing body armor gives you the most mobility.
This body armor even floats.
In certain renditions, it's actually kind of a flotation device.
It's not the same as a life jacket, but it won't drag you to the bottom of the lake.
It actually floats.
It's buoyant.
It's just amazing.
But hoplightarmor.com, try code RANGER. Just try to use Ranger.
See if it gives you, I think, 10% off.
If it doesn't, then just wait until it does.
Like, try it again a couple days later.
I think you're going to get a discount there at some point by using the word Ranger.
Now, I do know that arkseedkits.com, that's A-R-K, arkseedkits.com, I'm pretty sure that the discount code Ranger is already working there.
Let's see.
DawsonKnives.com.
I don't think they have any discounts running right now because they're trying to recover on inventory at the moment.
So no discounts there yet.
And the Treasure Island Precious Metals Company, they don't have discount codes yet.
But they do have great deals all the time.
They really have very, very competitive pricing.
And with gold and silver, but especially gold continuing to drop compared to the dollar, this is a buying opportunity that we're probably never going to see again.
I don't know how much more the price is going to come down in dollars, but what I do know is this, that When you buy physical gold or physical silver and you own ounces, those ounces are ounces that just stay there.
It doesn't matter whether dollars go up or down in the short term because you have physical value that is universally recognized for over 5,000 years that will outlast the fall of America.
It will outlast the collapse of the dollar.
So it's the ultimate safe haven.
And when you're ready to get that, and right now it's at an incredible, really, I would call it a subsidized discount because the federal government is driving the prices down of gold and silver.
But whenever it's right for you, go to metalswithmike.com and ask about what's their best special right now on, let's say, silver one-ounce coins.
Don't ask for U.S. Mint Eagles, by the way, because the supply of that is just wiped out.
Even the supply of so-called junk silver or constitutional silver, those coins, that's wiped out for the most part.
Because that Texas gal, she bought up what was like $26 million worth of pre-1963 quarters and dimes or whatever.
Just wiped out the whole inventory of the whole industry with one purchase.
So that stuff's hard to get.
And we're going to see that happening more and more as we move forward.
So just remember, right now, when you can get stuff, that's good.
Because there's going to come a day when it is truly unobtainium and you won't be able to get it.
Okay, we're about to go to Gazprom news of natural gas out of Russia, but real quick, I'm reminded, we have maintenance scheduled for Brighttown.com this Sunday night, or, well, really, into Monday morning.
And what's happening is we're actually switching over to an entirely new hardware environment, an environment that we've been putting together for well over a year.
We're actually switching the live system over on Monday morning.
Well, I think like 2 a.m.
Central Time or something.
So we're going to have glitches for sure.
So if you're trying to get the podcast on Monday morning, I mean, it's not showing up or there's glitchiness on the website or it's not playing right or it's buffering or whatever.
Just understand, we are very much aware of it.
We're expecting some kind of glitches.
We're doing the best we can.
We're trying to solve problems.
But this switch that we're doing is critical for us being more censorship resistant and also more scalable to be able to handle many more millions of viewers simultaneously because As the independent media explodes in popularity and the establishment system comes crashing down.
So we're building an infrastructure for long-term scalability and resistance against censorship.
And that big switch is happening early in the morning, Monday morning.
So just be aware of that in case you have glitches.
Now, moving on to Gazprom.
This is interesting.
It's exactly as we predicted.
RT is reporting, quote, So Western sanctions are hindering the return of a gas turbine from Germany and threaten future equipment maintenance at the Nord Stream 1 pipeline, Gazprom announced on Thursday.
So essentially, and remember, I call it the Doom Stream 1 pipeline.
So essentially, Gazprom has invoked exactly what we predicted they would.
They have said, basically, well, we really can't keep this pipeline running because of the economic sanctions having the effect of We're not able to get spare parts or, you know, maintenance parts for this whole thing.
So, quote, the current, this is the Gazprom announcement, quote, the current anti-Russian sanctions are hindering the successful resolution of the issue of the transportation and repair of Siemens gas turbine engines for the Porto Valle compressor station, which supplies gas to European customers through the Nord Stream pipeline, says Gazprom.
Okay?
So this is an obvious strategy.
Is to just, you know, shut down the gas and say, well, it's your fault.
You put the economic sanctions and now we can't get the parts.
Your fault.
And see, this way, Russia can really cripple Western Europe, which is, I mean, let's face it.
I mean, there's a war going on, right?
There's a war.
There's an economic war.
So part of Russia's war is to just cut off the gas.
But this gives Russia an excuse.
It's like, well, we can't get the parts.
Right?
And why can't we get the parts?
Because you, Western Europe, you morons shut off the SWIFT system.
You put the sanctions on Russia.
You cut us off from being able to get the parts that we need to run the turbines to send gas to you.
So all this is really doing is showing how stupid Germany's leaders are.
And they're some of the dumbest people on the planet.
I mean...
I didn't know IQs could get that low.
How low can you go?
It's like IQ limbo in Germany right now, at least among the leaders, not the people, but the leaders.
Actually, I think the German people probably agree with me.
It's like, our leaders are the dumbest people on the planet right now.
They cut off the supply of gas to our own country.
It's like chopping off your own feet when you're trying to run a marathon.
This is not going to work.
That's what Germany did.
And Russia is taking advantage of it.
And it's so simple.
From Russia's point of view, this is like taking candy from a baby.
It's like the easy pickings, the low-hanging fruit of the blame game right here.
Just pull up the mirror.
Hey, Germany, look at yourself.
You did this to yourself, you low-IQ suicide cultists.
Have fun this coming winter!
Hope you stay warm and cozy when there's no heat.
Hope your power grid functions, right?
I mean, Russia's almost mocking Germany with this statement.
And I don't blame them.
You have to mock stupidity where you find it.
If there's a nation in Europe that's so cognitively impaired, they're going to shut off their own energy source.
After shutting down fossil fuels and shutting down nuclear, shutting down everything, you know, to appease the greenie weenies, and then they end up freezing for two or three winters and starving and having no functioning industry and having layoffs and unemployment and rolling blackouts and everything.
It's kind of like, well, you needed to see this for yourself.
You needed to see how stupid you are.
Because sometimes that's the only way for a correction to take place.
You have to hold up a mirror, look at yourself as you're freezing and starving and dying.
Look at yourself.
You did this to you.
Do you want to stop doing this to you?
Do you want to choose a different outcome?
Oh, you do!
Oh!
Well then, turn back on international trade and your problem shall be solved.
Very simple.
Turn it all back on.
Everything works again.
And then the heat flows, the gas flows, and Doomstream 1 becomes Nord Stream 1.
And then you can even maybe get Nord Stream 2 functioning for even more gas.
So this is that look-at-yourself moment for Germany and other Western European nations.
It's like, are you going to continue to be suicidal retards?
Or are you going to pick a different outcome?
That's the question.
Now, as proof of this, from DW.com, which is a German publisher, here we go.
Germany considers U-turn on nuclear phase-out.
Ooh!
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has raised the possibility of lengthening the life of the country's nuclear power stations...
Berlin's decision to get rid of the plants has come under question amid energy security concerns.
This is, it's almost laughable, right?
You almost can't stop laughing.
Like, so, oh, so you want power now.
Oh, I see.
I see.
So in other words, you were shutting down these nuclear power plants prematurely because you wanted a virtue signal to the greenies.
And now that y'all are about to freeze your toes off this coming winter, suddenly you're rethinking, like, maybe we should have sources of energy that function.
Hmm.
Well, I guess, you know, getting the attention of Olaf Scholz It requires a 2x4 upside the head several times.
Wham!
Wham!
Oh, are you paying attention now?
Wham!
Wham!
Crack!
Oh, we need energy for the winter.
Whack!
Whack!
Right?
Just hitting them with 2x4s.
And then sooner or later, at some point, enough of the pain goes through the thick skull where a couple of neurons fire.
And then Schultz is like, oh my gosh, maybe we should not shut down nuclear power plants.
And that's what's happening.
It just took several months of two by four battering to make this happen.
This is unbelievable.
So remember, Schultz is the same guy who said that the energy problems of Germany are going to be solved by renewable energy.
It's all got to be, you know, wind farms and solar panels.
What happened to that?
How come that's not solving the problem?
Look in the mirror while you get whacked with a 2x4 and then turn back on the nuke plants and turn back on the turbines and then rethink your plan, your transition plan and give yourself more time instead of just doing it overnight.
So related to this, check this out.
An oil supplier, like a distribution company in Germany, has just shut off all deliveries of their oil products amid, quote, excessive speculation and stockpiling activity that's happening in Germany.
This was reported by Zero Hedge.
So from the story, there are a combination of problems that have led to shortages of diesel and heating oil.
First, quote, the energy disruption due to Western sanctions on Russia, which we've just talked about, like, we can't get the parts to send the gas, okay?
Second is the maintenance of the, what is this, Burghausen refinery, okay?
I guess it's down for maintenance.
What if you can't get the parts for that?
But third, falling water levels on the Rhine River have reduced deliveries of crude product shipments from the North Sea.
I don't know if you know this, but the river has been so low that the barges can't navigate certain areas of the Rhine.
And by the way, they can't get coal to some of the power plants as well.
So then what's happening now is, quote, panic hoarding of diesel and heating fuel.
And as Zero Heads reports, this likely comes from utilities who have had to switch the type of power generation from natural gas to other crude products due to capacity constraints on the Doomstream 1 pipeline.
So now, German power prices have soared to a new record of more than 400 euros per megawatt hour.
What?
On the European Energy Exchange on Thursday...
On the prospects of a worsening energy crisis.
So wait a second.
400 euros per megawatt hour.
Because folks, in December of 2020, that price was $50.
So what is that?
800% increase in energy prices in Germany.
And so then this oil and diesel supplier just says, well, we're not going to sell to anybody because too many people are trying to stockpile it.
Well, the reason they're trying to stockpile it is because it's all running out.
I mean, in this place, isn't stockpiling the rational answer?
Like, shouldn't people stockpile?
Because right now it's August and, you know, when does it get cold in Germany?
What?
End of September?
I don't know the season, but it's coming.
Winter's coming.
It's going to be a cruel winter in Germany without energy.
So I don't think that panic hoarding should be called panic.
I think it's just kind of rational hoarding, is it not?
Isn't that just getting ready for winter?
That's just called stocking up, not even stockpiling.
It's just rational stocking up.
We don't want to freeze.
So of course everybody's trying to buy diesel and energy, but now they shut all that down too.
Man, no wonder everybody's chopping wood in Germany right now, trying to buy wood stoves, wondering how they're going to stay warm.
It's a good time to get a kerosene lantern that can also produce room heat.
I don't know, but is that safe to operate indoors?
I don't know.
Better check that situation.
It might not be, but people are going to try all kinds of desperate things, I would imagine.
I don't think you want to run a kerosene lantern indoors, but who knows what people are going to try.
Maybe they'll run it on a back porch or something, just sit around it and try not to freeze.
But I can't wait for polls to be asked of the German people in, let's say, mid-January, when they're just freezing their toes off and they're actually having frostbite.
I think we should have a poll in German distributed around that time.
It's like, hey, how much do you support the green agenda?
How much do you think global warming is actually warming the planet?
Yeah.
I can't wait to see the answers in the middle of January in Berlin when there's no heat because there's no energy.
That should be interesting.
Now, related to all of this, this was fascinating.
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that electric vehicle maker Lucid cuts production outlook in half.
Rutrow, the California-based company on Wednesday slashed its 2022 production target for the second time this year.
It first lowered a previous estimate of 20,000 vehicles to just 12,000 to 14,000 vehicles.
That was their new estimate in February.
Now they've slashed that estimate, and they think they're going to make between 6,000 and 7,000 vehicles this year.
This is Lucid, Lucid Group.
Frankly, I'm not even familiar with their electric vehicles.
But let's see, the chief executive, Peter Rawlinson, has said supply chain issues and infrastructure upgrades contributed to two and a half weeks in which the company had no daily production at its Arizona factory.
And the company had identified internal bottlenecks like, oh, hey, we have no steering wheels, we have no microchips, we have no employees, etc., and was working to alleviate them.
So, a whole group of these EV startups, what are they?
Rivian, Lordstown, Canoe, Fisker.
You know who these companies are?
These are supposed to be the darlings of the EV industry.
And Rivian just laid off 6% of its workforce last week.
Oops.
Fisker said its second quarter net loss rose to $106 million.
Gosh, that's getting expensive.
Let's see.
And its cash has dropped from $1.2 billion down to $850 million.
And then Fisker said it has 4,000 reservations for a crossover SUV with a base price below $30,000.
And it expects to begin producing this vehicle sometime in 2024.
As part of a partnership with Taiwanese contract manufacturer Foxconn.
Well, what happens if Taiwan is surrounded by China in a naval embargo?
How are you going to get your Taiwan parts for your Fisker vehicles?
I mean, who's going to put a down payment today on the promise that, oh, we're going to make it using Taiwan microchips sometime in 2024 unless something goes wrong?
Like, that's your promise?
And I'm just wondering, by the way, didn't Tesla promise they were going to make some kind of truck at some point?
Like some kind of weird space age looking Tesla truck?
Is that thing even being made?
Or was that just some more Elon Musk hype?
What was that?
I got to look this up.
Yeah, so here I am on, what is this, tomsguide.com.
Tesla's Cybertruck price, rumored release date.
Oh, see, it still hasn't been released.
Specs and latest reviews.
And the subhead is, quote, Tesla's Cybertruck promises incredible things, comma, if it ever arrives.
Yeah, exactly.
I mean, folks, if it's not, you know, if you can't touch it, you don't own it.
If it doesn't exist, don't buy it.
My goodness.
The all-electric truck has already been delayed twice, but Elon Musk's pet project looks like it was designed by a PS1-era game developer with a vendetta against curves.
Okay, so production is delayed until late 2022.
And then...
Oh, now they say they're not going to be launching any cars in 2022.
So now it's 2023.
Supply chain issues, which have been affecting the automotive industry.
But of course.
Tesla couldn't build enough battery cells for the Cybertruck.
Gee, I wonder why.
While the steel frame was said to require a brand new casting machine to be developed.
Oh, so they have to invent new casting technology machines to even cast the frame for the truck.
Well...
Gee, I think we're looking at 2025, frankly, for something like this.
You know, more and more, Tesla's Cybertruck is resembling Project Kickstarter.
Isn't it?
You know, like the Kickstarter things where somebody has an idea and then they put a video up there.
Like, this is going to be so cool.
And they have 3D renderings.
Like, check this out.
You're going to love these new headphones or whatever it is.
It's like, all you got to do is give us $200 today.
And then once we get this thing fully funded, we will pretend to make the headphones.
We'll pretend to send them to you three years later.
And if we don't, too bad for you.
That's like Kickstarter.
Half the projects on Kickstarter are just fantasy, which is what the Cybertruck looks like to me, frankly.
You know, one of the things I've learned in all my years of conducting business and actually building infrastructure, producing products and shipping products and inventing products and all these things, here's what I've learned.
Ideas have no value because everybody's got them.
Everybody's got an idea.
Multiple ideas.
You probably have ideas.
I have other ideas that have never come to fruition.
We've all got lots of ideas.
Ideas have no value because they're a dime a dozen.
I've heard people say, I'm an idea person, which means you've never built anything.
It's like, well, everybody's got ideas, dude.
What have you done with the ideas?
It's not about the ideas.
It's about the execution of the ideas.
Building stuff that's real is the hard part, not thinking up stuff.
So anybody can think up stuff and launch a Kickstarter project or launch a Cybertruck or whatever, or the camping tent that goes in the back of the Cybertruck.
Have you seen that?
Anybody can think that stuff up.
Anybody can learn how to do 3D rendering and create this video.
Look at this.
This is awesome.
But building it is a different story.
Building infrastructure, making it work.
Doing it in the real physical 3D world.
There's the challenge.
I can't tell you how many times people have said to me things like, man, why don't you just make like 10,000 instant organic freeze-dried camping meals per month and sell those?
Dude, you'd make a fortune.
Everybody would love it.
I'm like, what?
You think I haven't thought of that?
The answer is because it's impossible to do that.
in this environment of scarcity.
And you would have to build new facilities.
You'd have to have a new machine.
You'd have to have this and that.
You'd have to have processes.
You'd have to have quality control.
You have to have all kinds of different systems.
So, and by the way, we're in the process of building all that.
We have this new machine that's the size of a city bus that's actually operating now.
Took like, what, a year and a half to design it, build it, customize it, and then to get all the bugs out of the system.
It's working, and it can make instant meals, but you wouldn't believe how complex this thing is.
I mean, it's, when you see it, when I finally show you a video of this thing, you're like, no way, that's insane.
All those pneumatic air control tubes and all those circuits and all those arms and things that move and rotation cylinders and all.
Really?
That's what it takes to package meals?
Yeah, what are you going to do?
Like hire a bunch of people to have a scoop?
Here, you scoop!
Like, a little bit of the pinto beans, and then you over there, you scoop some salt, and then, yeah, the third person with the scoop, why don't you scoop some macaroni in there?
You know what you're going to get?
You're going to get, like, just random, spontaneous garbage meals that all the ratios are totally wrong.
That's what you're going to end up getting, because They're not going to scoop it correctly, folks.
And it would cost a fortune if you have to have people there with scoops filling bags.
Not going to work.
The idea is easy.
The execution is what's hard.
So that's why I say in this global marketplace where there's so many supply chain problems and so much hype from the electric vehicle companies especially, don't buy, don't pay for people's ideas.
Don't put money down on a Cybertruck or something that doesn't exist.
Because again, ideas are worthless.
If you're going to buy something, make sure you get something for it.
An actual truck or an actual whatever product.
Don't just buy people's ideas because, again, they have no value.
And to anybody who's kind of skeptical about that statement, I would challenge them, if you think ideas have value, go approach 100 corporations and tell them you're an idea person and you'd like to be hired to just give them ideas.
And see how many job offers you get.
I know the answer.
It's going to be zero.
Every corporation already has plenty of ideas.
They don't need new ideas.
They need people to carry out the ideas.
Probably the ideas that the founders already have.
And they're just trying to find people to do stuff.
Again, that's the real challenge.
I'm so impressed by the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation And the founder, who is...
I forgot his name.
He's quite elderly.
He's been with that company forever, it seems.
The founder...
What an amazing person to have founded that company and have grown it to one of the largest and most important critical resources in the world.
In Taiwan, shipping microchips all over the world.
Physically making chips that function and exporting them.
That's impressive.
I mean, I'm blown away.
That is so difficult to get done, and yet this guy did it, and he built a multi-billion dollar corporation that turns, like, silicon from sand into computing systems.
It's amazing.
Really amazing.
He did it.
I'm impressed.
I don't know.
The idea of gas does not heat your home.
You need actual physical molecules, you know, hydrocarbons flowing through that pipe.
Hence, you need turbines and control systems and so on.
So, again, the idea doesn't count.
It's actually delivering the physical molecules in that case.
Like, that's what matters.
And that's not happening.
Hence the problem.
You know, this is the same issue with transgenderism and delusional biology.
When people think, oh, that men can get pregnant, maybe in your mind they can, not in reality.
Or that a man can become a woman and can even be the best woman ever.
The woman of the year.
Nope.
Man can't be a woman.
Doesn't work that way.
And you can't heat your homes with imaginary gas.
You know, reality actually does count, it turns out.
I mean, if it didn't, then why can't people of Germany this coming winter just self-identify as people who are not freezing and starving to death?
Wouldn't that be the solution?
Like, transgenderism to the rescue!
We don't need Russian gas.
We can just self-identify as warm, cozy people with a functioning power grid.
Why not?
What would that be called?
Like, ecological trans...
Trans-rationalism or something?
What would that be?
Maybe we should encourage them to try that and just see how that experiment goes, you know?
Because at some point I think they need to see that their delusions don't count.
Alright, that's my report.
I want to thank you for all your support.
This has been quite an incredible week.
And I will probably have some updates for you over the weekend.
I will probably have a podcast that works on Monday morning.
But again, we're going to have the maintenance for Brighton.
So expect some possible glitches.
Hopefully they don't extend well into the morning, like 10 a.m.
East Coast time.
That would be bad.
But we'll see what happens.
Until then, I thank you for your support, and I thank you for your blessings and prayers, and I want to offer you prayers and blessings as well.
So thank you so much.
Have a great weekend.
Use this weekend wisely because, as you know, crazy times are here, and they're only celebrating.
Okay, God bless you.
Take care.
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