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Aug. 30, 2022 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams

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Situation Update, Aug 30, 2022 - THE GREAT UNRAVELING is now upon us

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	Welcome to the great unraveling.
	That's the title of today's Situation Update.
	This is Mike Adams.
	It is Tuesday, August 30th, 2022.
	Thank you for joining me.
	As usual, we have a lot to cover today.
	Also coming up in about half an hour is an interview with Andy Sheckman, the CEO of Miles Franklin.
	We'll be asking him about the de-dollarization of the world and the rise of the BRICS nation's commodities-based future of money on our planet instead of the dollar.
	It's going to be a fascinating interview.
	But that also kind of interweaves with the theme, the great unraveling, because what we are watching right now all around the world is the unraveling of the, well, the delusions of mostly Western nations, by the way.
	The financial delusions, the energy delusions, the physics delusions, you know, the COVID delusions.
	They're falling apart by the day.
	A wave of lawsuits has been launched that just all across America, doctors are getting sued high enough.
	Hospitals are going to be sued.
	Pharmacies are going to be sued.
	The military, the Pentagon, major lawsuits against the Pentagon by active-duty soldiers that did not want to take the jabs.
	Lawsuits are coming because, well, the truth is coming out, and the lies and the delusions are unraveling.
	In fact, I think all of Western civilization is unraveling.
	That's part of what we're going to go into here today.
	And as we covered yesterday, we're seeing the unraveling of the Well, the ammonia production in Europe is down 70%.
	The plant closures are happening.
	Fertilizer production is being slashed all over the world.
	The energy infrastructure has been dismantled.
	Food scarcity is getting worse by the day.
	It's going to get a whole lot worse in 2023.
	This is the great unraveling.
	Public trust in institutions like the FBI, the FDA, the CDC, and so on.
	It's just been completely shattered.
	And more and more people are coming out and saying that, yes, the FBI rigged the election by forcing the big tech to censor any talk about the Hunter Biden laptop.
	This was a game changer.
	Something like 70% of voters say they would have considered that in their voting in the 2020 election.
	Not that that mattered because the election was rigged anyway.
	But even Joe Rogan came out and said to everybody, vote Republican.
	Which is something you'd never expect Joe Rogan to say.
	But he did.
	And by the way, for the record, it's not even about voting Republican.
	It's just about get these damn demon crats out of power.
	And voting Republican is simply just the best way to do that at the moment.
	But it's not like Republicans have the answers either.
	You know, spineless cowards and rhinos for the most part.
	You know, they're not going to solve any problem.
	But at least we'd rather have spineless cowards there than a bunch of, you know, anti-human, child-murdering, grooming demons, which is what the Democrats are, who are also going to destroy the economy at the same time.
	So it's kind of like, well, the lesser of two evils, sadly.
	As part of this great unraveling, we have uprisings now spreading around the globe.
	The latest is in Iraq.
	So far, at the time I'm recording this, 15 people have already been killed, hundreds injured in this kind of civil war in Iraq.
	I don't know all the details, but I know that, of course, America installed a puppet government That has not really succeeded.
	This is kind of starting to look like the fall of Kabul, in a way.
	It's not exactly the same.
	You know, all the different political parties and religions are, of course, not exactly the same.
	But it's another failure of the West in terms of maintaining control over Middle Eastern countries.
	Another massive failure.
	And again, this is happening under the watch of Joe Biden.
	But this is also going to spread worldwide.
	In fact, this is part of it.
	We've seen the collapse of Sri Lanka.
	We've seen uprisings and riots in Middle Eastern countries and European countries.
	And now in Iraq, massive violence and the locals are breaking into the presidential palace.
	I think that's what's been reported.
	And a lot of craziness going on there.
	This is going to happen in Europe, Western Europe, this coming winter.
	You're going to see uprisings, protests, riots in the UK.
	You're going to see them in France.
	You're going to see them in Germany.
	You're going to see them in Poland.
	You're going to see them also in the United States, by the way, because of the great unraveling.
	Everything that humans need to live on, food, energy, honest money, you know, freedom of speech, liberty, all these things, are unraveling or they're all being dismantled on purpose and the result is a global uprising that is only now beginning.
	So let me give you another example of this that just broke also.
	One of China's largest commodity traders that handles copper Is asking the government and financial institutions for bailout money after, quote, liquidity issues.
	This is from Bloomberg.
	Liquidity issues forced the company to delay payments for imported copper.
	And this is run by a man named He Jinbi.
	I think that's how you would pronounce that.
	And the suppliers are canceling deliveries to this company.
	Zero Hedge is reporting that this is one of the largest traders of copper in China, holds a substantial amount of the metal in Shanghai's bonded zone, which is the center of refined copper trading in China, and causing volatility in the prices of copper.
	Bloomberg adds, this instance of financial stress comes after growing caution around commodities financing in the wake of high-profile losses, especially in the nickel market.
	Which is something I'm going to ask Andy Sheckman about, by the way.
	And huge price of volatility fueled by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
	China has several alleged scandals this year involving aluminum and copper ores that have gone missing.
	Oh, where is the aluminum?
	Where's Al?
	Because that's the elemental symbol for aluminum, A-L. Where'd Al go?
	Has anybody seen Al?
	Where's Al?
	Oh, Al gone.
	Al left the building.
	Al took off with Kuh.
	Who's Kuh?
	Oh, CU. That's Mr.
	Copper over there.
	Al and Kuh.
	Them twins is gone.
	By the way, even as we talk about the strength of BRICS nations, which of course is Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, and other nations probably going to join BRICS at some point here, China is on the verge of its own internal debt-based financial collapse.
	We've talked about this with the Evergrande Ponzi scheme, the property developer is going bankrupt, and now it's starting to hit.
	The metals markets.
	And this is going to be a cascading failure when it finally unravels.
	So get ready for more volatility in copper and aluminum, which are all used for electrical wiring.
	Yeah, so if you're trying to buy a house or have a commercial building, you're going to pay through the nose.
	Remember the story I shared with you, was it yesterday or the day before, of how this local electric company quoted us What was it, like $200,000 to install new electrical panels to upgrade our electricity for the Health Ranger store?
	And they said the wait time was 80 weeks.
	I was like, what?
	What?
	That's crazy.
	It's expensive and slow.
	There's no good option here, but that's the case.
	But speaking of the great unraveling, I want to show you this video of two women in New York City getting attacked by two thieves on a scooter.
	And apparently they were trying to steal this woman's necklace or something.
	And this video, it doesn't look like a bad part of New York City anymore.
	In fact, it's reported to be 89th and 3rd Avenue.
	And I'm not familiar with New York City, but from the video, it doesn't look like, it's not like the run-down part of New York City.
	It's not Hell's Kitchen or anything.
	Check out this video, because this shows you the unraveling of the rule of law in our society today.
	Here we go.
	Alright, here you go.
	Scooter guys cruising down the sidewalk with their helmets and their masks and their hoodies.
	And then here's two ladies walking along.
	Oh, look.
	Just attacking the ladies.
	They're like, give me your necklace.
	And what is...
	Look at this.
	They're persistent.
	This woman's doing a good job, though.
	She's kicking back from the ground position.
	That was actually a good tactic on her part.
	And there's a close-up shot of the two motor scooter thieves, or would-be thieves...
	They didn't look like they got away with much.
	I can't tell for sure.
	But good job to the woman.
	Let's watch that one more time.
	Show that one more time.
	Let's look at the defensive techniques of this woman on the ground, on the sidewalk, because she's actually doing the right thing.
	All right, here's the attack.
	Here's the attack.
	The woman, what's she trying to do?
	Drag her friend out of there?
	But the friend is kicking, kicking, kicking.
	That's good.
	Good job.
	She's probably been doing some yoga.
	Some ass-kicking yoga.
	That's a style of yoga where first you do like warrior pose and then you kick some ass.
	And that's what she was doing right there.
	So there you go.
	That can happen in New York City at any time.
	Make sure you sign up for ass-kicking yoga class that might save your life there or carry a handgun.
	But it's New York City, so I don't think you're allowed to do that without, I don't know, special permits or something.
	Maybe leave New York City.
	There's another idea.
	But, hey, you can get robbed in broad daylight in a pretty good part of town.
	And this is true all over the country.
	It's, you know, obviously it's true in Los Angeles.
	It's true in Portland.
	It's true in Seattle.
	It's all the big cities collapsing into crime zones.
	Now, by the way, speaking of unraveling, let's go back to the embassy in Baghdad for the moment.
	This just came in.
	The American embassy has reportedly engaged inbound rocket attacks with its air defense system, the CRAM, which protects aerial threats against the so-called green zone.
	So, I mean, there's incoming rocket attacks on the American embassy in Baghdad.
	That's not a good situation.
	Let's see, the Kuwaiti Embassy in Iraq is urging all of its citizens to leave the country.
	Media outlets close to the Sadr movement are using the word terrorist, referring to Iran-backed armed groups.
	Is Hillary involved in this somehow?
	Every time something goes wrong in the Middle East, I'm pretty sure Hillary's got her fingers all in it somehow.
	I'm just wondering if Hillary's somehow screwing this up.
	I'm just guessing.
	You're going to hear more about this tomorrow, no doubt, all throughout the news day.
	But that's what's happening.
	Yeah, more uprisings.
	Every time there's a Democrat in the White House, things go bad for U.S. embassies in the Middle East.
	Ever notice that, like Jimmy Carter style?
	Yeah.
	Where's Ronald Reagan when you need him?
	Yeah, we could use him right now.
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	Now, as part of the unraveling of the Western world...
	We're seeing the total incompetence of Western governments and their ability to produce anything that works, including weapon systems and, in this case, ships.
	Here's a headline, shocking, from Zero Hedge.
	UK aircraft carrier suffers embarrassing breakdown one day into four-month mission.
	Yes, it was a four-month mission and it lasted mere hours.
	The HMS Prince of Wales...
	Ah, the perfect name for a broken-down ship, is it not?
	Experienced, quote, emerging mechanical issue, according to the UK Defense Ministry, and it is now broken down just off Britain's southern coast.
	So, far from world domination, the Royal Navy has a ship that can dominate for a few miles off the British southern coast, and then it breaks down.
	Yes, the HMS Prince of Wales.
	I think this is only the second aircraft carrier that they have, isn't it?
	Don't they only have the other one, the Queen Elizabeth?
	I mean, it's not like the UK has a boatload of aircraft carriers, not like the US does.
	So, in other words, half the UK's aircraft carrier navy is currently anchored and not working.
	But you see, this is a sign of the times.
	This is an indication of the breaking down of Western governments, the total incompetence, complete lunacy.
	I mean, they're pushing transgenderism, right?
	And they're pushing, I don't know, gays and lesbians in the military, but their ships don't run.
	From the Guardian, quote, According to the Navy Lookout News site, the vessel has had a history of problems getting stranded in Portsmouth at the end of 2020 after flooding in its engine room damaged the electrics.
	During its first two years in service, the carrier spent fewer than 90 days at sea after springing leaks twice in five months.
	So, the UK builds ships that leak.
	Why am I not surprised?
	I mean, just think about the EU, think about the idiocy of the dismantling the fossil fuels.
	How they're going to starve to death and freeze to death.
	And I'm not blaming the people.
	I'm not blaming the British people at all.
	I'm blaming the governments, the lunatics in charge of these countries.
	Like, I'm not blaming the German people or the Polish people, but their governments.
	The problem is, in the UK, the people tolerate incredibly corrupt governments and socialist governments.
	And this is what you get.
	You get leaky ships.
	You get, you know, broke down energy infrastructure.
	You get massive starvation, inflation, and a surveillance state where you can't even question transgenderism without the police knocking on your door and threatening to arrest you for posting a message of hate.
	Well, you don't like transgender mutilations to children?
	You're cutting off all their pots and such?
	You don't like that?
	You're going to go to jail.
	You're under arrest.
	Like, that's the UK, or at least certain parts of it.
	Because we are chopping off all the penises all across the United Kingdom.
	This is the way we do it.
	Chopping off breasts and penises.
	Welcome to the Royal Queen's chopping off an hospital system.
	Sorry, I'm getting carried away.
	But you get the idea.
	Nothing works in the UK. And especially not the Royal Navy.
	Their ships leak.
	The engine room gets flooded with ocean water.
	I mean, if there's one thing about building a ship that you should pay attention to is like, oh, how about we make sure the ship don't leak?
	No, no, no, no.
	That's far too complicated.
	First, we've got to make sure there's gay sailors on board.
	Whether or not the ship leaks, that's up to someone else.
	No, I mean, could you make a ship that doesn't leak?
	Could you make a ship that doesn't sink?
	Could you make a propeller that turns under power?
	Without getting, quote, screwed.
	That's a joke.
	You know, it's called a screw.
	Sorry.
	I mean, even the Chinese are mocking the British.
	There's a tweet from the Chinese state media.
	UK aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales broke down just after departing from Portsmouth.
	LOL. How is the James Bond 007 series able to make a sequel in the future?
	Yeah.
	You're getting mocked by communists.
	You're getting mocked by China.
	The country that makes the most broke-down crap imaginable, they're mocking you, Royal Navy, because your ships suck worse than Chinese-made goods sold at Walmart, just for the record.
	It's unreal.
	How is the West going to fight Russia again, by the way?
	Just wondering.
	How are you going to beat Russia?
	When your weapons don't work, your ships don't sail, they leak, the engine rooms flood with ocean water.
	You can't manufacture enough ammunition or artillery or tanks.
	Nothing works.
	How are you going to beat Russia?
	I'm curious how that's supposed to go down.
	And by the way, I think Russia has figured this whole thing out now.
	They don't have to defeat Russia.
	The British military, or NATO even, from a military point of view, all they have to do is wait for winter.
	Like I said yesterday, wait for winter.
	Winter defeats the West because the Western nations were stupid enough to cut themselves off from heat.
	No energy, no electricity, no hot water.
	Yeah, nature will...
	I mean, bad weather, cold weather will take out Western nations.
	Russia doesn't even have to expend artillery shells to accomplish it.
	Just sit back and wait.
	The BBC said that there's a photograph of the carrier leaving Portsmouth shows only a wake on the port side, suggesting a problem with the other propeller shaft, which means, of course, that the British Royal Navy has built an aircraft carrier that can only sail in circles.
	A giant circle.
	Oh yes, this is so fitting.
	As long as the war takes place within that circle, the British might have a fighting chance.
	It's like Winston Churchill.
	And we'll fight in the hills and we'll fight on the shores as long as we're fighting in the circle.
	Because only one propeller works.
	They're going to have to update the speech.
	Speaking of heads of state, Trump has called for a new election.
	That's right.
	Here it is.
	Here's a statement from Donald J. Trump.
	Quote, so now it comes out conclusively that the FBI buried the Hunter Biden laptop story before the election, knowing that if they didn't, Trump would have easily won the 2020 presidential election.
	This is massive fraud and election interference at a level never seen before in our country.
	And by the way, I should note that all of us who were talking about the Hunter Biden laptop, you know, we were censored.
	We were called conspiracy theorists.
	It was called fiction.
	All the fact checkers said it wasn't real.
	It was hacked.
	It was Russian disinfo.
	They all lied.
	They all lied to steal the election.
	Trump continues, quote, remedy, colon, remedy.
	Declare the rightful winner or, and this would be the minimal solution, declare the 2020 election irreparably compromised and have a new election immediately.
	Whoa.
	There he goes, man.
	Yeah, have a new election.
	Now, I think that'd be great, actually.
	I think we should have a new election right now.
	I mean, we're about to have the midterms.
	Why not just throw in the presidential election with the midterms?
	Because I think enough people are sick of old Joe Biden.
	They would absolutely vote for not just Trump, but anybody other than Joe.
	Just please.
	Somebody who's aware.
	Please.
	By the way, did you see that FBI agent was escorted out of the FBI building?
	The agent that sabotaged the investigation of the Hunter Biden laptop?
	What's his name here?
	Timothy Theeball.
	Theeball.
	T-H-I-B-A-U-L-T. I guess it's a French name, maybe.
	Timothy Thibault.
	He was in charge of the Washington field office.
	He was on leave for a month following revelations over political statements he made while leading the public corruption unit.
	He made anti-Trump statements over social media in 2020 while he was leading the FBI's probe of Hunter Biden.
	And while Joe Biden was running for the White House, the FBI boss retweeted a post by the Lincoln Project, which called Trump a psychologically broken, embittered, and deeply unhappy man.
	So, folks, there's a civil war inside the FBI. And this is evidence that that's happening.
	There's also a civil war inside the Pentagon, by the way.
	It's kind of like what I said yesterday, that there are white hats or white hat elements of the good guys inside every government agency, by the way.
	Not all government people are bad.
	There are plenty of good people.
	They've been silenced and in some cases, you know, sidelined a lot.
	But a lot of them are getting more emboldened now by the truth coming out on all these issues.
	And you're seeing really an internal uprising inside many government agencies, including the FBI, including the Pentagon.
	Also including inside the FDA and the CDC. Why do you think the CDC came out and admitted all these failures?
	Because they knew whistleblowers were about to shine a light on all that stuff anyway.
	So Walensky came out and tried to take responsibility for it first before Project Veritas ran with some whistleblowers that were going to say basically the same thing.
	You see?
	Walensky's just trying to get out in front of it.
	But there are whistleblowers in every agency.
	There are people fed up in every agency, let me tell you.
	And also, just a quick note here on law enforcement and first responders.
	I just want you to know, folks, there's a lot of members of law enforcement that listen to this podcast, a lot of great first responders.
	I just want to tell you, I absolutely support you.
	I know I've been harsh on Uvalde police because of the Uvalde situation in Texas, and I... I want to say, I don't mean those comments to disparage all police or all members of law enforcement.
	I was frustrated like everybody else.
	There's 400 police in Uvalde standing around doing nothing while children were being murdered.
	But that does not represent police everywhere across the country, thank God.
	So I just want to be clear on that.
	I support local law enforcement.
	I support first responders, firefighters, paramedics, EMTs, sheriffs and sheriff's deputies, all you guys and gals out there doing your job.
	I'm with you.
	And I don't know what happened in Uvalde.
	Well, actually, I kind of do know what happened in Uvalde.
	But that's not normal.
	Just for the record, I want to put that out there.
	So here's what we're going to do, folks.
	We're going to jump into the interview with Andy Sheckman of Miles Franklin.
	And then on the other side of that interview, we're going to have more news for you about food and pesticides and hysterectomies and electricity and all kinds of stuff.
	So let's jump into that interview.
	I think you'll enjoy it.
	We'll see what happens.
	And then we'll continue on the other side.
	Welcome, folks.
	For this segment of the podcast, we're joined by Andy Sheckman, a fan favorite.
	He's the CEO of Miles Franklin, which is a precious metals dealer and retailer, and Andy Sheckman has been nailing it, just nailing it.
	For months in interviews, talking about the BRICS nations, the de-dollarization of the world, and because there's been a lot of breaking news over the last couple of weeks about de-dollarization, about rupee-ruble exchanges, ruble-yuan exchanges, wealthy people pulling all their medals out of the London Metals Exchange and so on.
	I had to get Andy back on to talk about all of those things.
	Time is short, so I'll bring him right in.
	Andy Schachman, welcome to the interview.
	It's great to have you back on, sir.
	It is great to be here, Mike.
	I've missed our conversations and the last two we had were fantastic.
	I was looking forward to coming back and picking up where we left off.
	Well, the timing turns out to be perfect.
	I know you've gone to conferences, like the Rick Rule event and so on, and you've been gathering a lot of intel, but I would say the number one thing is that you have been proven right.
	Just reading the headline news, it's kind of like, Andy Sheckman told you so.
	Andy Sheckman told you so.
	Like, every day, it's like that.
	It's astonishing, but good calls, man.
	Thank you.
	I appreciate that.
	It's almost strange, Mike.
	You know, putting this narrative together and seeing it unfold the way that I had thought, it's strange.
	That's all I can tell you.
	I mean, it's on one hand rewarding to have seen something playing out and figured it the right direction, but it's almost eerie the way that it's all playing out the way that we had thought it would.
	Well, give us a quick review for those viewers who maybe haven't followed your interview so closely.
	Give us a quick overview of what you were describing with the de-dollarization, the BRICS nations, the new, perhaps, replacement for the petrodollar status and so on.
	Just a quick overview of that, and then we'll get into what's been happening over the past couple of weeks.
	Yeah, you know, I've been talking about for quite some time now the Fragility of the dollar system, the World Reserve status for the dollar being granted to us largely in part to the protection of the Saudi Kingdom and the dollar hegemony granted to us by OPEC, by denominating oil globally in dollars.
	The infrastructure that has been I've been put together over the past few years, which seems to be pulling away from that agreement.
	The Belt Road Initiative connecting 75% of human population, industrializing Asia and Africa, parts of Europe, the old Silk Road route.
	75% of human population, the US is not part of it.
	45% of global GDP. The digital yuan that is settling all of the trades and all of the contracts on the Belt Road Certainly the joint military cooperation agreement struck between Russia and Saudi Arabia and Nigeria and Russia, being a big, big exclamation point in the fragility of this dollar hegemony.
	Of course, we talked about the weaponizing of the dollar by kicking Russia out of SWIFT and just exactly what that meant.
	We're incentivizing things such as China selling seven months in a row.
	Our U.S. Treasury is totaling somewhere in the neighborhood of $120 billion.
	And the moving away from the dollar, and since we've had this discussion, Mike, so many new things have popped up that continue to travel down this same narrative.
	If I may, we have the Iran-India North-South Corridor, which is a passageway, if you will, between India and Russia, past Iran.
	It is another example of trade routes and agreements being struck outside the dollar, the big one being Egypt and Turkey to join Saudi Arabia, excuse me, to join Saudi Arabia, to join the BRICS nations.
	Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey to join the BRICS nations.
	Huge, huge deal.
	You know, you're talking about somewhere in the neighborhood of 90% of the human population.
	Well, it's extraordinary that we're watching these nations build trade routes and they're building financial exchange systems.
	I saw some economic minister of India announcing just the other day the ruble-rupee exchange system that does not use dollars at all.
	So India, China, and Russia are doing all this trade, and you mentioned Turkey and Iran and so on.
	Whereas the Western nations seem to be focused on just money printing, consumption, and then financialization instruments that are just sort of fake GDP. Oh, we created money out of nothing, or we created transactions of the money out of nothing.
	But The real commodities, the energy, the oil, the minerals, the food, the fertilizer, it's all coming out of the BRICS nations, it seems like to me.
	Is that accurate from your point of view?
	100%.
	In fact, Zoltan Pozar, the New York Fed repo market expert, came out recently and called this Bretton Woods 3, a system dominated by commodities, not by debt instruments.
	And you're exactly right.
	The The nations that are coalescing are all very, very rich in commodities.
	Whether you're talking oil, natural gas, precious metals, the majority of the world's commodities are certainly accumulated and not only that, but also produced.
	In these nations.
	So, yeah, absolutely.
	It's very concerning when you can see, you know, the term, the fallacy of composition, where the individual parts in and of themselves are not as strong as they are as a whole.
	Well, you put all of these groups together, and in everything from economy to military to natural resources and to rallying against a common...
	A common cause, if you will, and that is breaking the Western hegemony and, in their mind, the hypocrisy.
	I'm sorry to interrupt, Andy, but it also seems like the West is just breaking down in terms of things not working.
	For example, the new, I think it's an aircraft carrier out of the Royal Navy doesn't work.
	It's just anchored.
	It doesn't sail in some emergency.
	It's like broken ships now.
	And then the Prime Minister of Belgium just came out a couple of days ago, and he told his people that That, yeah, we understand you're going to be freezing and starving this winter.
	I'm paraphrasing, obviously.
	And then he added, but don't worry, you'll only have to endure this for five to ten more winters.
	I'm thinking, is this guy insane?
	You're telling your people you're going to have to freeze and starve for ten winters, and that's good news?
	It's just the West is breaking.
	I would argue the West is already all but broken, and...
	You know, if you look at the Western nations, they're insolvent.
	They're broke, every one of them.
	Japan, Canada, the Euro.
	And it's interesting, too, you know, if you take a look at the European countries, when I had originally come on your show and talked about the 2017, the central banks that were repatriating all of their gold from the New York Fed, a lot of them were the Eastern European countries, such as Turkey and Poland and Hungary and the Czech Republic.
	These are the countries that not only are continuing to massively accumulate gold, but they're also the countries that are part of the European Union but do not trade the Euro.
	They trade their own currencies.
	So I truly do believe that you will also see a splintering of the Euro, where the countries who are on the fringe, who are I think disenchanted with the whole Western system in and of itself will move over to the BRICS nations as well.
	You're looking at a coalition, really, of the majority of human population.
	And this is where it becomes very concerning to me.
	And I think that's why the Fed is nothing but a sideshow.
	And the real, real picture is in the coalition of all of these countries against a, you know, Following the same rallying cry.
	And I think the drum beats louder and louder and louder.
	And you're right.
	You were talking about the Indian announcing of using rupee for import and export payments.
	Look, we're their largest trading partner.
	And for seeing something like that, that's a big deal.
	It's another nail in the coffin of the dollar hegemony.
	I couldn't agree with you more.
	The concern that I want to run by you here, too, is that Western nations like, let's say, the UK, Germany, and the United States and so on, they're experts at printing money and using debt and even floating debt internationally in exchange for goods and services.
	That's the way it has been.
	But now we're coming to the point where people are realizing, especially in Germany or Poland for that matter, you can't print heat.
	You can print currency.
	You can't print electricity.
	You can't print natural gas.
	You can't print food.
	So at some point, all the money in the world doesn't heat your home and you have all those people lining up in Poland sleeping in their cars for three days to try to get a pallet of coal because they don't want to freeze to death this winter.
	Well, no question about that.
	No question about that.
	And that certainly is going to incentivize some real heavy-duty thinking.
	But, you know, one other thing too, Mike, and that is maybe the biggest development of all, aside from all of these countries joining the BRICS, was three weeks ago, they came out and said that they are brewing up a challenge to dollar dominance by creating a new world reserve currency.
	And so now they've come out and publicly said that the BRICS nations are issuing a new world reserve currency.
	And so you put it all together, you're seeing this massive drive away from dollar hegemony.
	And I think a lot of these countries are going to realize that better to get on the side where you're right, where commodities and the ability to To not make your point and freeze to death at the same time certainly I think has a little bit of appeal and I think there's going to be a rubber meets the road moment here at some point.
	I don't know what that tripping point is, what flips the switch, but I do think it's getting closer and closer and closer and it's as if we incentivize the acceleration of this decision by By weaponizing the dollar and by every decision we seem to make these days, this just seems to be the wrong one, or perhaps it's the intended one.
	Perhaps this was all thought out, and this was a controlled demolition that they figured what the consequences really would be.
	One of the milestones that you've pointed out and that we've got to share with our audience here is these massive drawdowns of physical gold and silver.
	And you mentioned this to me before we started recording too, the COMEX drawdown, London Metals Exchange, the LME drawdowns.
	What's happening is all these wealthy clients That own physical gold, not just individuals, but in some cases institutions and nations and so on.
	They're requesting the physical metals to be withdrawn.
	Now, why is that happening?
	And I read that in one day, something like 40% of the silver was drawn down off the London Metals Exchange.
	Am I remembering that correctly?
	Close.
	Well, what you're talking about, I mean, there are three different...
	Platforms, there is where we're seeing drawdowns.
	We're seeing the massive amount of silver leave the London Metals Exchange.
	And since the silver squeeze, we've seen well over 100 million ounces withdrawn, not only off the COMEX, but off the London Metals Exchange.
	Huge amounts of silver being withdrawn off the London Metals Exchange.
	But what you're talking about, also, real quick before I talk about what you're talking about, We've seen a tremendous amount of gold and silver being backdoored out of the SLV and GLD ETFs.
	And this is a way for them to very quietly without any real documentation.
	It's called share redemption.
	100 million ounces has been withdrawn over the past four months out of SLV. 20 million ounces over the last week.
	60 million over the last month.
	You're seeing huge amounts of silver redemptions Out of SLV and the only ones who can do that are the authorized participants like the commercial banks.
	But what you're talking about is something that really piqued my interest and that was 174,612,000 ounces of kilo bars taken off the Chicago Mercantile Exchange in one day.
	And these are the kilo bars, not the big 100 or 400-ounce gold bars, the good delivery bars that we typically see sovereigns take.
	These would be the bars that I believe are being taken off by the sovereign wealth funds and the family offices.
	Let's call them the most well-funded and well-informed, influential private traders on the planet.
	But to put this into perspective, the 50-day average rate of gold withdrawal Because of this drawdown, hit a new high of 131,293 ounces.
	So to give you an idea of what that means, and that's about $235 million worth of gold, but 131,293 ounces of gold on average has been withdrawn from the COMEX every day for the past 50 days, totaling 174,612,000 ounces.
	And so you're talking...
	You're talking the biggest money in the world, private money, is draining the COMEX market.
	In terms of silver, seven months in a row we've seen silver being literally ripped out of COMEX. And, you know, you're talking about 182 million ounces over the past 12 months have disappeared off of COMEX in silver.
	Where is this?
	Because these are physical gold and silver redemptions and withdrawals.
	Where is this going?
	Like, just massive vaults of wealthy people?
	Or where is it going?
	Well, that's the question.
	I think it's not so much as where is it going, as why is it leaving?
	Why is it leaving the exchanges?
	And it's as if, you know, something wicked this way comes, if you will.
	And when you look at what the big money does, as you and I were talking before off-air, they're always closest to the information.
	They know what's coming.
	It's like in 1933 when gold was confiscated.
	Many of the very wealthy were cued into this and they sent their gold by steamship to the safe deposit boxes in Europe.
	They were told, hey, something's coming.
	Well, it looks as though something is coming.
	And I want to just touch on one other point here.
	When you put all of this into perspective, this massive drawdown in physical on top of all of these Infrastructure deals coming and world reserve currencies challenging the dollar.
	We then see Russia proposing a new international standard for trading precious metals.
	Now, this is how the whole system breaks right here, is that if Moscow gets what they want, and when they wrote about this, they said, you know, they need to find an alternative to the London Bullion Market Association, as they put it, which systematically manipulates precious metals markets To depress prices.
	Well, they understand this.
	And in fact, they understand it very, very well.
	And in fact, in 2004 and 2005, when GATA, Bill Murphy and Chris Paul, the Gold Antitrust Action Committee, had a conference in the Yukon, Putin sent his number two economic guy at that point to the conference.
	They have understood for a very long time that the West Suppresses the price of metals.
	Well, the Eastern countries who have been accumulating it haven't complained because they've been accumulating it.
	But now that they've accumulated such massive stockpiles, they want a new exchange to set the price.
	So here's how it breaks.
	Just like this.
	All of this metal that's leaving.
	Let's look at the 175 million ounces of gold.
	That's been withdrawn.
	Well, what if the new benchmark in Moscow, which would challenge the COMEX for supremacy, pegs gold, let's say, at 2,000 an ounce, right away, immediately, instead of the 1,750 that COMEX tells us we have.
	And they say 2,000 right now.
	All of that metal Would immediately leave the COMEX vaults and arbitrage its way over to the vaults in Moscow, to the new exchange.
	That 175 million ounces could then be multiplied by $250 arbitrage.
	And how fast would it bleed dry, the Western vaults, where immediately everything moves eastward?
	Who then holds all the gold and silver?
	And then they make the rules.
	So I think we're on a precipice, if you will, of real, real change, not only in dollar hegemony, but also in the way that these markets behave because they will break free from the Western manipulation.
	And that's exactly what the folks in Russia who are proposing this, I think, have planned.
	And these are the countries, the BRIC stations, who have been the largest importers, producers, and accumulators Of gold and silver, and most of the world's commodities, they're the ones that will benefit, and they've benefited by playing the Western game by accumulating as much as they possibly could at depressed prices.
	But when the switch flips, it's going to be something to behold, Mike.
	And I hope people have taken the time to play this game just the way that central banks are, playing the game to accumulate it on the cheap at subsidized prices.
	Yeah, we'll talk about that in a second.
	We're going to come back to that point, but I want to throw in something here.
	Talk about market manipulations.
	I'm pretty sure the London Metals Exchange...
	That's the group that rigged the price of nickel, or I think what they did is they reversed thousands of settled contracts of nickel in order to protect one particular hedge client that was losing billions of dollars.
	And I think that was a China-linked client.
	Does that ring a bell?
	Didn't that happen a few months back?
	That's exactly right.
	The first time in 140 years, I believe, that the London Metals Exchange did something like that.
	They invalidated And at that point, I think it literally rendered the London Metals Exchange a fraud because they bailed out one very, very large short position.
	Now, it's very interesting that you say that because if you take a look at what's happened since that day in gold and silver, it's as if the commercial banks received a wake-up call.
	From that day where they invalidated a trade on the London Metals Exchange, that nickel market trade, Where they bailed out a large Chinese shore position.
	And in the exchange, when something like that happens, it is the obligation of all the members of the exchange to make the exchange whole, to keep it trustworthy and to not invalidate its You know, it's legitimacy.
	Well, they didn't.
	In fact, they invalidated the trades.
	But since that day, the commercial banks have covered a tremendous amount of short positions.
	It's as if they hoodwink the managed money by driving down the price of gold and silver into going record short and capitulating their long positions, which if you look at the COMEX market from that day, which was the high point, all-time high in gold, The commercial banks have driven the price down far enough in a short period of time, like roughly in March.
	They drove the price down so hard with such ferocity that the managed money, in large part, capitulated.
	And right now, the commercial banks hold basically the smallest short position they have ever, ever had in COMEX Gold and Silver While as the managed money has done the dirty work for them and driven the price down to record low levels, maintaining the largest short position they've ever had, it's as if they've hoodwinked the managed money into going short.
	And if you told me that we would see a massive squeeze, a rally higher as the managed money gets squeezed, as the commercial banks have took the opposite side, I would tell you we are very, very close to that happening.
	All signs in every direction are pointing to this type of a massive move forward, and in particular, when the most well-funded and well-informed traders on the globe, the commercial banks, are record-long and have the smallest short position they've ever had in COMEX. Coinciding with that day because I think that was a wake-up call where they must have said,
	look, if this can happen in nickel and your short position in gold and silver is many times the size, Get your house in order right now.
	And that's what it seems like has happened.
	Well, and remember that there were thousands of other traders that were on the other side of that nickel short position.
	And those traders were making money on that trade while the Chinese guy forgot his name.
	He was losing billions, but a bunch of other people were making money.
	And then when the LME said, oh, we're going to invalidate all that, basically they handed...
	Losses to all these people who had bet correctly, in essence.
	And if the markets don't function, then they don't function.
	I mean, it's not a marketplace.
	It's not even a casino.
	It's like a carnival, where every competition is rigged.
	Here again, the West is incentivizing the world to move away from our system.
	When you see this type of corruption and hypocrisy, when you see this type of ineptitude, and whether it be weaponizing the dollar or bailing out rigged markets, I think the world is seeing that it's time for a change.
	And whether or not we want to agree with that, I think the world is voting with their feet and voting with their unity.
	They are all coalescing against a common thread, and that is the Western dominance of the markets and of currency.
	And in and of themselves, they don't have the power to do it, but coalesce?
	They sure do.
	But the other upshot of what you're saying here is that right now, especially silver but also gold, are artificially discounted.
	Where people can still accumulate them at prices in terms of dollars, let's say.
	Prices that are below where the intrinsic value would likely be set if the markets were functioning freely.
	And so that's why so many people are right now seeing These are purchase opportunities.
	Now, I'll let you comment on that, but I always give people a warning.
	I don't ever tell people to buy gold and silver as a speculation saying, oh, it's going to go up.
	My strategy is always that this is a way to just freeze your value and not lose more because people are losing in housing.
	They're losing in stocks, bonds, treasuries, inflation, everything.
	But Gold and silver are a way to not lose.
	And that's the whole purpose in my mind, not speculation.
	But what are your thoughts?
	Absolutely.
	In fact, I have never sold gold and silver ever as a vehicle to get wealthy.
	To me, gold and silver are wealth.
	They're wealth that has outlived two world wars, German hyperinflation, the Great Depression, and every pandemic.
	And I think anyone who buys gold and silver or companies that sell it on a premise of getting wealthy is 100% missing the whole picture.
	And you're right.
	I don't think people should ever buy metals to get wealthy.
	There are plenty of investments out there where you can do that.
	What gold and silver are is wealth, period.
	And that is exactly the way that I look at it and have since day one that I've been doing this.
	When I started my company 33 years ago with my father under one rule.
	And the only rule he told me as a 19-year-old kid 33 years ago was you'll buy something every two weeks, period.
	And that's how you'll save.
	And that was the best gift anyone's ever given me, the concept of paying yourself first and saving.
	And to this day, I don't look at the gold and silver that I've accumulated every two weeks for 33 years as an investment.
	It's my wealth.
	It's exactly how I look at it.
	And that's exactly how the biggest money in the world looks at it, from the central banks on down.
	It's not an investment.
	It's wealth outside of this fracturing Western system, that this experiment in Keynesian economics is coming to an end.
	There's something else about the Vatican I want to tell you in a second, but first, just for those listening, Andy, your company is not a sponsorship interview, but I have you on because of your expertise.
	However, if people want to contact you about precious metals, can you give us the way that they can do that?
	Yeah, absolutely.
	And he's Just so people know, you know, Mike is the kind of guy that anyone would like to have a sponsorship with.
	And so, yeah, I understand that.
	And I'm very grateful for being on your show.
	I'm a big fan.
	I watch everything you put out.
	And so thank you for that.
	As far as people wanting to reach out to me, yes.
	Our new website is about two to three weeks from being completed.
	In the meantime, send us an email at info at milesfranklin.com.
	Mention that you came from, Mike, and we'll send you an updated inventory sheet.
	We'll make sure you get the best price in the country.
	Our website is milesfranklin.com.
	It is operable at this point, or operating, but the new one with the ability to purchase online is about two to three weeks away.
	Our current site, our online store, is inoperable.
	But indeed, info at milesfranklin.com, and we will send you an updated I appreciate and answer any questions that you have.
	So I do very much appreciate being here and the opportunity to share that with everyone.
	Well, I tell you, Andy, we appreciate your knowledge and your foresight.
	And again, you've been right just over and over again.
	Now, let me run this other story by you in the couple of minutes we have left.
	I was shocked by this.
	I want to know what you think of it.
	CatholicNewsAgency.com reported on this.
	I mentioned it yesterday.
	Pope Francis instructs all Vatican entities to move all funds to the Vatican Bank by September 30th.
	No joke that all Vatican funds have to come into what's called the works of religion or the I'm sorry, the Institute for the Works of Religion called the IOR, which is the Vatican Bank.
	And the deadline is September 30th.
	And because the Vatican Bank wants to have total control over all assets of the Catholic institution.
	What do you make of that?
	Had you heard of that?
	Because I hadn't.
	What do you make of it?
	I haven't heard of it, but it doesn't surprise me.
	Again, changes are coming.
	What those changes are are certainly debatable.
	Maybe it's a new central bank digital currency.
	I am not sure, but I do think that Certainly the changes are coming, and if you were going to make some sort of a sweeping change, certainly consolidating all of the funds or assets into one central location would be the best way to do it.
	I don't know, Mike.
	I haven't heard that.
	I did see the headline, actually.
	I haven't had a chance to read it.
	I've been so busy, and actually I'm in the hotel room in Madison, Wisconsin, bringing my daughter to college, so a little bit behind the curve.
	But no, I think that, again, Looking at it in the perspective of change on the way, I think it's coming, and I think it probably has something to do with some sort of change, whether that be in world reserve currency or what.
	I'm not quite sure, but there's been a lot of talk about things happening here in September and certainly leading up to the midterm, so I don't exactly know how to comment on that.
	I'm sorry.
	No, that's okay.
	I just kind of sprung that on you, but it was a shocker to me too.
	I think it just shows that they're trying to reduce risk and have centralized control over these assets because I think my guess is that they're anticipating systemic failure of banking systems or bank freezing or bank bail-ins in other jurisdictions.
	So, if you didn't trust the banks of all these different countries to stay solvent, you would say, you know, bring it all home first and we'll run it from here, right?
	That's what they're doing.
	Of course, because of the systemic nature of it.
	Absolutely.
	And, you know, that is exactly probably what they would be suspecting as everything is so intertwined and systemic that as one bank goes, so can many others.
	And, you I think that's probably a very astute observation.
	And if it is the case, and they are expecting something, I think that's very concerning.
	But that's not a bad idea for everyone else, to rein things in.
	And this is another reason why I think it's important to own precious metals right now, is to, so to speak, Remove yourself from the system because the one common thread to all of the things that I've been talking about and this great reset probability is of the inverse correlation between rising interest rates and literally every asset in this country that people view as
	wealth, stocks, bonds and real estate and the dollar.
	And if you were to see, as an example, The BRICS nations come out and say, hey, Saudi Arabia has now joined us and OPEC is now going to trade oil in rupee, ruble, gold, yuan, euro, and dollars.
	And all of those dollars came flooding home in one day.
	Those dollars would become hot potatoes.
	And that's when you see this type of systemic blow-up.
	Where in a matter of hours, markets trade limit down, everything blows up, and everything in this country that is considered wealth is inversely correlated to that one event.
	And that's the fragility of the entire system.
	And if you talk about bringing stuff home and putting it in one location to try to keep sheltered from that type of deal, yeah, I believe it.
	And these are the things that I think people need to focus on.
	The Fed is the sideshow, it is the The probability, there are no guarantees in the world.
	We deal in probabilities.
	But I think the probability that we see that announcement, they've already come out and told us that Saudi Arabia is going to join.
	They've already come out and told us that they're going to challenge world reserve currency.
	They have a three-year beta test, almost 20 billion in successful transactions on the digital yuan.
	Well, what if they use that technology to coalesce a BRICS currency and issue what is the only other tier one reserve asset in the world, gold, and peg it to a new BRICS nation's currency?
	In a matter of seconds, everything blows up.
	And that is, if you told me that was the kind of thing they're preparing for, I'm like, yeah, I would say it's certainly a wise decision to do that.
	Yep, yep, exactly.
	Well, we've already covered a lot of ground, Andy, and we're out of time for tonight, but I got to thank you so much, not just for joining us, but also for what you do.
	And you're educating a lot of people across a lot of different channels, like the Liberty and Finance channel.
	I'm also a fan of their work, and you're connecting with a lot of great people.
	So keep doing what you're doing, and you're going to...
	Frankly, the advice you're putting out there is going to help a lot of people survive this because they're going to have physical metals in their hands when the fiat currency crashes and burns.
	And that's going to be life-saving.
	So thank you.
	Well, I feel the same way about you and everything that you're doing.
	And honestly, it's a true honor to be asked to come on your show and take a small part in helping you do what you do.
	So right back at you.
	And again, much, much appreciation and You know, in a world that's so dynamic and continues to change, I am always just but a phone call away.
	I'd love to jump on anytime you need me, and we'll hopefully look forward to picking up not too far down the road where we left off, Mike.
	But again, I do appreciate.
	Okay, you got it.
	I'll reach out.
	The day the dollar dies, you'll get a call from me, but then again, you'll probably be too busy to be interviewed by anybody on that day.
	Your phone will be ringing off the hook.
	I hope it's not for quite some time.
	As I mentioned, I'm bringing my second of my three children to college here in Wisconsin.
	And, you know, I'm all about patriotism and hoping the U.S. can pull out of this nosedive.
	Let's hope we can.
	But in the meantime, I'll certainly be watching and reporting best I can.
	I know you will, too.
	And I'll look forward to chatting with you again real soon.
	All right.
	Have a great evening.
	Thank you, Andy.
	Take care now.
	You too, Mike.
	Thank you, buddy.
	All right.
	Well, that was a fascinating interview.
	Yeah, Andy Sheckman nailed it again, and he's absolutely correct about this.
	It's only a matter of time before de-dollarization really accelerates.
	And not just America, but Western Europe, the people are going to be left holding useless currency that's just built on this pyramid of debt.
	Actually, all the money printing is kind of like a Ponzi scheme of debt.
	Where the real commodities in the world, you know, the minerals, the energy, the oil, the natural gas, even the outputs like fertilizer and crops and so on, those are going to be dominated by the BRICS nations.
	That's Russia, that's China, that's India.
	The West is going to spend a decade trying to rebuild infrastructure that has already been torn down.
	And that's why the Belgian Prime Minister said, you're going to have to endure this for 10 winters or up to 10.
	And let's suppose that's pessimistic.
	Maybe it's only five years.
	Let's say they can rebuild the energy infrastructure in five years, which, by the way, is totally impossible because of the long wait times now.
	The supply chain problems are making everything take longer than it should.
	So you're not going to be able to build new refineries and coal-fired power plants and And pipelines in five years.
	And to build new nuclear plants?
	I mean, a decade plus.
	They're not going to solve this problem overnight.
	Here's the question.
	How does the West even exist for much longer?
	When...
	Western nations are just based on debt, fiat currency, money printing, financial instruments, service economies, rigged elections, massive corruption and fraud.
	Nothing works.
	Nobody wants to work because everybody's getting paid with more stimulus money to stay home and not work.
	Even the people that are still on salary, a lot of them work from home now.
	They don't want to show up and work at offices anywhere because of the remote working from COVID. So one of the issues all across the country is that nobody actually wants to show up and work in person.
	Well, who's going to make the logistics work?
	Who's going to drive the forklifts?
	Who's going to unload the trucks?
	Who's going to manufacture products all over the country?
	There's a big question for you.
	Seems like that's not happening.
	And in the meantime, we're all being mass poisoned by agricultural chemicals.
	So here's a story out of the Epoch Times.
	Study shows that toxic weed killer 2,4-D, which, by the way, is one of the ingredients in Agent Orange, the toxic weed killer found in one out of three Americans...
	And also, U.S. groundwater tests revealed that 41% of public drinking supply wells contain common pesticides.
	What'd I tell you, folks?
	Well water is the most polluted water you can possibly use.
	Everything's in it.
	All the pesticides, all the herbicides, all the biosludge, everything's in well water.
	Well water is horrible water because all the aquifers are contaminated now.
	Rainwater is the way to go.
	But getting back to the story...
	It says that 2,4-D has been found in 33% of people's urine.
	And they tested the urine of 14,395 people.
	That's a lot of pee cups.
	That's a lot of handling urine in the mass spec instruments, let me tell you.
	Children ages 6 to 11 had more than double the risk Of increased contact with 2,4-D compared to other age groups.
	That's kind of concerning.
	Additionally, women of childbearing age carry nearly twice the risk of heightened exposure versus men.
	Hmm.
	What's going on there?
	Why are childbearing age women, why do they have more toxic weed killer than men?
	And obviously that's bad for developing babies.
	As the Epoch Times reports, some researchers have observed an apparent link between exposure to 2,4-D and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and soft tissue sarcomas.
	However, it says the evidence isn't conclusive.
	Well, yeah, they're always going to say that, but what do you think happens when you get mRNA injections on top of the 2,4-D exposure?
	So you get a cancer accelerant with the mRNA and another cancer accelerant with the 2,4-D, and in this case, the negative synergistic effects may be a lot more than just 1 plus 1 equals 2.
	It might be compounded.
	And we don't know for sure, that's just conjecture, but you can see a scenario here where people who take the vaccines and they have exposure to these pesticides, they end up dying from rapid-onset cancers, which is exactly what's happening now.
	It's like yesterday, I interviewed Jonathan Landsman, and he was talking about that 1,000% increase in some cancers.
	It's one more reason to grow your own kale, by the way, in hydroponic systems.
	Kale is very, very easy to grow.
	Super easy.
	I grow kale all the time.
	I put it into my smoothies every day.
	Kale, spinach, and strawberries have the highest concentrations of toxic pesticides, by the way.
	Of anything in the grocery store, those are the three.
	Kale, spinach, and strawberries.
	So grow your own however you can.
	Or buy organic.
	Even better, do both.
	Buy organic when you can and then grow it any chance you get.
	And then the same story says that another study released in 2021 found common pesticides in 41% of the wells that are used to supply groundwater.
	And groundwater is used for drinking by about 50% of the U.S. population.
	Even municipal water supplies, by the way, often use groundwater, more often than not.
	They're just pumping water up out of the ground and then treating it.
	Now, the EPA, which is in bed with big ag and the pesticide industry, just like the FDA, is in bed with big pharma.
	The EPA says that, oh, all this stuff is safe and it's harmless and it all disappears 10 seconds after it's sprayed on the crops.
	Well, why is it still in people's pee then, huh?
	Why is glyphosate in women's breast milk?
	And why is 2,4-D in urine?
	It's obviously, it persists.
	Of course, I eat organic, and so when I pee on plants, it's fertilizer.
	When other people pee on plants, it's like weed killer.
	It's like, dude, there's an actual weed killer coming out of you.
	You're killing the plants.
	Please don't pee on the plants here.
	They're all going to die because you have so much Agent Orange in your body.
	What do you think that's doing to you?
	Oh, by the way, I did confirm with my crew it's going to be 11 a.m.
	Thursday morning.
	Gosh, that's just a couple days away here.
	Yeah, 11 a.m.
	September 1st, that's when we're going to release the Health Ranger buckets, the certified organic lab-tested storable food supplies.
	We're going to have reportedly a couple thousand of those in stock.
	Lots and lots of pallets.
	So if you want to get in on that, just go to healthrangerstore.com on Thursday morning about 11 a.m.
	Central Time.
	And hopefully we'll have enough buckets that they'll stay in inventory for the whole day.
	Although that hasn't happened lately.
	But give it a shot, you know, if you don't want to have storable food that's full of pesticides and herbicides.
	Why are all these people in alt media promoting, like, really cheap conventional foods that, I don't know, it's just, it's so bizarre to me.
	I'll hear people on a show like, oh, glyphosate's bad for you, you know, don't eat glyphosate.
	Avoid GMOs.
	And then this segment is sponsored by this cheap-ass storable food company that sells GMOs and pesticide foods.
	And it's like, do you not hear yourself?
	I mean, why are you promoting this stuff?
	I don't know.
	It's just, I'm weird because I demand people to act with consistent morality.
	And that makes it difficult to navigate this world because I demand that of myself as well.
	There's a reason I don't sell non-organic storable food.
	It would be cheaper.
	It would be a whole lot more profitable.
	The supply chain would be a whole lot easier to get.
	I don't do that.
	You know why?
	Because I can't morally sell food that contains pesticides and herbicides and glyphosate.
	That would violate my ethics.
	It would be like if Captain America joined the Communist Chinese and fought for the Red Army or something.
	It's just, I'm sorry.
	I'm not going to sell.
	Well, I'm not sorry.
	No.
	But I'm not going to sell the toxic chemicals in the food supply.
	Forget it.
	You know my slogan, folks, right?
	Healing the world through clean food.
	I believe in that.
	I believe that's critical.
	We have to have clean blood so that we have clean bodies.
	So that our brains work better, our bodies are healthier, we're not suffering all the artifacts of toxic chemicals and so on.
	It all matters, folks, and that's why organic is the only way to go.
	Oh, and by the way, somebody was responding to my recent mini-documentary, which is called The Globalist War on the Elements of Life, where I was talking about animal urine is rich in nitrogen and And that animal urine can be used as a fertilizer.
	And some numbskull out there was saying, no, animal urine can't be used as fertilizer.
	It's like, well, what are you talking about?
	Hey, folks, what do you think the world used for fertilizer before the invention of the Haber chemical process, which was like late 19th century?
	What were the crops fertilized with?
	Oh, animal poo and pee.
	Forever, as far back as, you know, since the invention of agriculture, right?
	You know, they would find, like, bat guano and seabird poop piles on the shores of, you know, islands.
	This is fertilizer.
	It's awesome.
	They would use animal urine.
	They would use human urine.
	Why?
	A urine contains urea, right?
	I mean, urea is nitrogen rich.
	Urea is, in fact, the most nitrogenous compound that comes out of the bodies of mammals.
	So when you're urinating, you're peeing out nitrogen.
	In other words, a better way to explain this is What the Haber process does, taking nitrogen out of the atmosphere and using big, heavy-duty machinery, high, high pressure, like 200-plus atmospheres, and high heat, you can combine hydrocarbons with nitrogen, and you can create ammonia, NH3. And, you know, you got to build a giant factory to do that.
	Or you can just get, like, cow pee.
	The cows do it automatically for you for free.
	Or your own urine.
	Your body does the same thing, well, in a different way, but the same result.
	Your body takes nitrogen out of the air.
	Remember, the atmosphere is 78% nitrogen, roughly.
	And it fixes that nitrogen in, first, ammonia-type compounds.
	It converts the ammonia into urea.
	And you urinate out the urea, which is a fertilizer.
	You can buy urea fertilizer, and it's all nitrogen.
	I mean, that's what it's used for.
	So if there's anybody out there who doesn't know that your pee contains nitrogen...
	They probably think also that men can get pregnant and women can create sperm.
	I don't know.
	They probably believe in global warming and all that nonsense as well.
	There's so much scientific illiteracy out there.
	People don't even know that urine is fertilizer.
	It's unbelievable.
	I mean, are people that ignorant?
	I guess so.
	Remember when I was interviewing Marjorie Wildcraft, right?
	She's like, hey, urine's the way to go.
	She was telling a story about how she pees in a bucket, which is harder to do as a woman.
	She did it, pee in a bucket, dilute it, spread it on the soil, maybe not directly on the leaves, but in the soil underneath your crops.
	Boom!
	You've got your own human-made nitrogen!
	And by the way, Ed Group also says that your urine is like your own vaccines, it's your own antibodies, it's your own medicine, like your body makes what you need and so on.
	I mean, there's a lot of talk about that out there.
	Maybe I'll interview Ed Group about that someday.
	In fact, I should.
	But look, even aside from that, it's filled with nitrogen, okay?
	So cow urine is not a pollutant.
	It's fertilizer for crops, right?
	So all these government officials in the Netherlands and everywhere are talking about, oh, you've got to shut down the nitrogen.
	That's nonsense.
	No, you need to capture that stuff.
	That's the trick.
	Capture it and then put it on the orchards, man.
	And then you don't need as much synthetic fertilizer.
	It's real simple.
	Oh, by the way, did you know that millions of Americans are behind on their electric bills?
	Yeah.
	This was covered by the UK Daily Mail.
	Expect a tsunami of cutoffs.
	Record 20 million Americans are behind on their power bills and face shutoffs as cost of electricity jumps 16%.
	Well, that's just the beginning.
	With inflation forcing families to choose between groceries and utilities.
	So there's an industry group called the National Energy Assistance Directors Association, NEADA, says 20 million households or one out of six homes are behind on their utility bills.
	That's freaky.
	Jean Su, a senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity, said, I expect a tsunami of shutoffs.
	Electricity prices have soared due to the rising cost of natural gas.
	I mean, it's the same story in Europe, it's just not as bad in the U.S. yet.
	But here's my question.
	Are they really going to shut off millions of households from the power grid?
	Number one, how's the surveillance state going to spy on everybody if there's no electricity to run the spy machines, such as their computers and their mobile devices and their TVs and their, I don't know, the Alexa that's spying on you?
	How are they going to spy on people without electricity?
	So I don't think they're going to allow the electricity to be shut off of all these people.
	But then the second question here is pretty wild.
	Says from the story, in July, the average price of electricity in the U.S. hit a record high of 16.6 cents per kilowatt hour.
	That's up 16% from a year ago.
	Well, folks, I told you yesterday, in France, it's a dollar per kilowatt hour, a dollar equivalent.
	A dollar!
	I mean, so the U.S. is freaking out over 16 cents, because that's a record high, and in France they're paying a dollar, and in Germany they're paying 85 cents per kilowatt hour.
	And by the way, that's going to go much higher.
	So whatever you're paying in the U.S., already one-sixth of households can't pay, and it's only 16 cents.
	What does this mean for the people in France?
	How are they going to pay?
	The story cites a single mother of Minneapolis telling Bloomberg that she awoke on July 25th to find her power shut off after racking up $3,000 in overdue utility bills.
	Three grand.
	You know, I almost hate to say it because of the health implications, but if you're living in Europe and you're facing, you know, freezing starvation this winter...
	It's not a good time to have low body fat, is it?
	If you're a super fit triathlete and you have like 3% body fat, you know, you don't have much insulation.
	I mean, seriously, you might want to pack on a few pounds before the winter hits.
	I'm not even kidding.
	If you're really, really thin and you're living in Europe, this might be the one time in your life where it's a good idea to gain some weight, some actual fat, Because that can help keep you warm.
	And probably the food's cheaper now than it's going to be then.
	So, you know, chow down on the rice or, I don't know, the cornflakes or whatever.
	Whatever puts on the body fat, you know, fatten up for the winter.
	Seriously.
	It's like a survival technique.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, your friends ask you, hey, Martha, looks like you put on some pounds.
	What happened?
	I'm just getting ready for the...
	The winter?
	What do you mean?
	Aren't you getting ready for the winter?
	Don't you know the gas is getting cut off?
	The food's gonna become scarce?
	How are you gonna make it through?
	Is he like, what are you doing, hibernating?
	Are you a bear?
	No!
	I'm a prepper!
	I'm just planning ahead.
	I mean, you can store food on the shelves of your cupboard.
	You can also store some food around your belly and waist and hips and buttocks.
	It's a backup backup supply right there.
	I'm extra ready for the food scarcity and the energy scarcity.
	See?
	It all makes sense.
	Tell your friends.
	And don't worry, you'll work it off when you're shivering to death.
	Trying not to die, and your body goes into the convulsions, you know, to keep your muscles moving, the shivering.
	That burns calories.
	It turns calories into heat.
	That's the whole point of it.
	Man, I mean, I shouldn't joke about this, because this really is life and death for a lot of people, but...
	My goodness, I can't think of a better example of why you need to plan ahead to have alternate heat sources, by the way.
	And there's a lot of stuff you can burn if you have a wood-burning stove or if you can have a makeshift stove.
	You can turn a steel barrel into a makeshift stove.
	There are lots of improvised solutions for generating heat and a lot of things to burn.
	That you might find around the household, for example, such as the tax bill from your government that probably doesn't deserve to get paid since they don't provide any services.
	That's the UK, that's Germany, that's France.
	How about burning your electric vehicle?
	I hear those put out quite a fire.
	I mean, this is satire, obviously.
	That's a dangerous thing.
	But don't the lithium-ion batteries generate a tremendous amount of heat that melts aluminum when they burn out?
	Maybe.
	Can you heat a home in an emergency or is that just a fire hazard?
	Probably just a fire hazard.
	If you're wondering how do you even set an electric car on fire, don't worry.
	They do that automatically just when you're charging them.
	Just plug it in.
	The fire starts all by itself.
	It's a spontaneous combustion vehicle.
	I think I've got to do a video, though.
	I should do this soon.
	I did one video today.
	You'll see soon.
	So I am making progress.
	But have you seen the toilet paper alcohol stoves?
	Where you take like a, I guess it's a one-quart paint can, and you take a roll of toilet paper, and you take the inner tube out of it, you know, the cardboard tube, and you jam that toilet paper into that paint can and then fill it with rubbing alcohol, like 90% or something.
	And it's a little alcohol stove.
	It can generate some heat.
	Yeah, I should do a video on that.
	You can cook on it.
	There are lots of solutions to generate heat, and it's a good idea to have some good sleeping bags, some real cold weather sleeping bags, you know, to use your body's heat and preserve that heat, and stock up on things like rice that have a lot of carbohydrate calories.
	You eat a lot of rice in the winter, that will keep you warm.
	I mean, how do you think they survived in northern China for all these millennia?
	They were cooking noodles and rice in the winter, just eating like hot soup and rice, man.
	That's hot noodles.
	They keep you warm from the hot water and from the noodles as well.
	Seriously.
	There's wisdom in that.
	All right, I'm going to wrap up the podcast there and jump into some details about our new sponsor, Which, again, I've been evaluating them for months.
	And the company is called Volta Wireless.
	You may have heard of them.
	The website is Volta, V-O-L-T-A, VoltaWireless.com.
	And let me explain why it took me so long to evaluate what they do, because I wanted to understand technically exactly how their system works.
	But essentially, Volta Wireless is a replacement...
	For your existing wireless carrier, such as AT&T or Verizon or what have you, they send you a SIM card to plug into your phone, or I think they support eSIMs that I think some iPhones use.
	They also have their own phone coming out as well that's delayed but still coming out.
	And the thing about Volta Wireless that makes their technology completely different, and I talked to their founder and CEO in detail about this, He was perhaps wondering why I was asking so many questions.
	But here's the deal.
	When your phone goes into any kind of a zone, when you're moving around, like you're driving down the road, your phone is constantly checking in with cell towers.
	And as part of the check-in process, your phone hands over a kind of a status parameter that says, one, I'm a phone.
	And secondly, it hands over your phone number to the cell tower.
	And that goes into the log files of all the AT&T and all the other carriers.
	And those log files then have a record of your location.
	This is how you can be geolocated very easily.
	And, of course, all the cell towers have to check in with all the phones in order to pass calls to you when someone dials your number.
	So then if there's ever a warrant issued, a geofencing warrant, as they're called, like, oh, somebody stole some jewelry on the corner of 7th and Main, and you happen to be at 6th and Main because your phone log is in that mobile tower log file, then guess what?
	The police show up at your door because you're swept up in this warrant.
	Even though you didn't steal any jewelry, You were trying to urinate around the corner of 7th and Main and you just got swept up in this, you know, because you were fertilizing the city trees or whatever.
	You got swept up in the warrant.
	So how do you hide yourself from these cell towers but still get phone calls?
	And you can still make phone calls and you can still browse websites and you can use data apps like Signal and so on.
	How do you do that?
	Well, Volta Wireless figured out a way to do that.
	Let me just give out the website here, too, if you want to sign up.
	It's VoltaWireless.com.
	If you use discount code Ranger on the checkout page, you'll get your first month, I think it is, for $10 instead of the $49 or $39, whatever the intro offer is.
	You'll get the first month for $10.
	After that, I think it's $49.99 a month.
	And we earn some affiliate fee on that if you use discount code Ranger.
	But let me explain what they solved.
	There are two different worlds of devices that talk to cell towers, or two different categories.
	Category one is mobile phones.
	That's what most people have.
	Category two is non-phone machines that are just using data.
	What are non-phone machines?
	Well, they can be security systems.
	They can be game cameras.
	They can be remote control applications.
	They can be remote reporting of industrial machinery, like pressure gauges and things on oil wells.
	And they send data over the cell towers to report on the status and the pressure.
	And so you can have remote monitoring and what have you.
	Well, Those non-phone machine devices, they have a different kind of SIM card.
	I mean, it looks the same, it fits the same, but it doesn't identify itself as a phone.
	It identifies itself as a data device only, and it doesn't pass a phone number to the cell towers.
	Well, what Volta Wireless has done is they've figured out a way to To make your phone look like a machine, a non-phone machine, to all the cell towers.
	So because of the SIM card they send you, or an eSIM in some cases, your phone no longer functions as a phone phone.
	It does everything using data and it doesn't ever send its phone number to the cell towers.
	And it doesn't even check in as a phone.
	So if there's ever a geofencing warrant in the area, then your phone that you're using with Volta Wireless doesn't even look like a phone.
	And there's no phone number associated with it.
	In other words, the cell towers don't know the phone number.
	That you have, that you use.
	Because your phone number, your phone switching actually takes place in a server farm hosted far away by the Volta Wireless Company that's doing the phone number switching.
	And then they're sending data packets through their app to your non-phone device, which is still, quote, your phone.
	You know, it's still your Android device or it's still your, I don't know, your Google phone or your iPhone or your Samsung phone.
	But nobody sees it as a phone phone.
	It's just a data device now.
	But using the Volta app, you can make phone calls.
	You can receive phone calls.
	You can send text.
	You can receive text.
	You can browse the web.
	You can do everything that you always do.
	But it all works as data only.
	It's not going through the regular phone switches directly to your phone.
	So in other words, it allows you to have a mobile phone type device, which could be the device you're using right now.
	You swap out the SIM card, you use this Volta card, and then you vanish from all the cell towers.
	They no longer see your device as a phone.
	Pretty cool.
	So you have privacy.
	The other cool thing is you can sign up...
	At Volta Wireless, and they don't need to know who you are.
	You could use, you know, an anonymous email address.
	I mean, yes, you pay with a credit card, but they don't know that information.
	They just run that through a merchant.
	But Volta Wireless doesn't keep that information.
	They don't know who you are.
	They don't want to know who you are.
	And by the way, they'll give you a new phone number that you can use.
	With your whatever device you're using the SIM card on.
	So let me tell you what I did.
	I took one of the...
	Remember how I was reviewing de-Googled phones?
	So one of the de-Googled phones that I had bought, I purchased three of them for testing.
	And I did some podcasts on that a few months ago.
	And so I use a de-Googled phone, by the way.
	And so I had...
	A couple of these spare phones sitting around.
	So I took one of those phones and I ordered the Volta service.
	I'm a customer just like everybody else.
	I pay $49.99 a month.
	And they sent me a SIM card.
	And I plugged it into one of these spare phones that I had sitting around.
	So that phone that I downloaded the app, the Volta app, installed it.
	It's an APK file.
	You don't go through the Google Play Store.
	You just download the APK and you launch that on your phone and it installs it.
	And then that phone, it turns out, I can make and receive calls and they're as clear as day.
	I thought there would be glitches, but there weren't.
	Even though it's all data, the phone call sounded just like a regular phone call.
	I was able to call people and they didn't know I was calling from any kind of a special phone or a special number or anything.
	It all worked just like normal, except I'm using the Volta app on that phone.
	So now, when I travel, if I want to be incognito, you know, I want to be off the radar.
	Let's say I'm having a super secret meeting with a source or something.
	I only take the Volta phone with me, you see.
	And that phone, again, never shows up as a phone in any of the log files of the cell towers.
	I can still make calls.
	I can still receive calls on that number, the Volta number that they gave me.
	And I can send and receive texts.
	I can use apps.
	I can do web browsing.
	I can do everything.
	But no one knows that I'm there with my phone.
	The other thing you can do is you can turn on the hotspot on that phone.
	So then your phone, through Volta, becomes a Wi-Fi hotspot.
	And then you can connect other phones to that Wi-Fi hotspot and use the data on Of the Volta phone rather than the data of your own phone.
	Because if you use the data of your own regular phone, that data is all assigned to your name, your account, your AT&T account or whatever you have.
	Whereas if I'm using the data through the Volta phone, I'm sorry if this is getting too technical, but if you're using data through the Volta phone, then None of the carriers know what that is.
	And they're not able to log it and attach it to you.
	So again, I know this is a lot to explain.
	It's pretty technical, actually.
	That's why it took me a long time to try this service.
	I traveled with it.
	I've been using it in a variety of ways.
	I've been making phone calls with it.
	I've been using data.
	I've been using hotspots.
	I've been checking it out, roaming around, using different towers, different regions, different carriers.
	And I gotta say, I'm impressed that it just works.
	I haven't had any glitches.
	The app even worked right away.
	It was easy to install.
	Very easy.
	And it just, it hasn't been glitchy at all.
	Which, frankly, I'm kind of impressed.
	So...
	If you want to learn more about this, just go to VoltaWireless.com.
	And, you know, it's not just that they're a sponsor.
	I mean, yeah, if you use discount code Ranger on the checkout page, again, we earn some one-time fee.
	I mean, who cares?
	What matters to me about this is that this is a real solution for privacy.
	Because it's nobody's business what you're doing or where you are for that matter.
	You know, you might be traveling and going to, like, ass-kicking yoga class or something.
	Or you might be going somewhere to buy some CBDs.
	And it's nobody's business if you're buying CBDs.
	Maybe you're loading up on cannabinoids, you know, because the end of the world is coming.
	You've got to have your CBD. I don't know.
	But it's nobody's business where you're going and what you're doing because you're not a criminal.
	You're just trying to mind your own business, you know?
	So this is a privacy solution that keeps all the snooping entities out of your life.
	And it's a pretty elegant solution.
	It allows you to keep in touch with everybody that you need to keep in touch with without the corporations and the government surveilling you constantly and even falsely accusing you of things just because you were in the area.
	Oh, there was a sandwich shop.
	There was a taco robbery.
	You were nearby.
	You were nearby.
	Coming to your door, asking you questions, implying that you're a taco thief or something.
	Give me a break, man.
	We've got better things to do.
	So you notice, by the way, that a lot of our sponsors have the same theme in common, which is about protecting your liberty, protecting your privacy, protecting your ability to defend yourself, protecting your assets.
	It's all about personal protection, right?
	That's on purpose.
	I'm very selective about who I'm willing to plug.
	There's a thousand companies that would want me to plug their stuff, but for me it has to be something really unique, really special, really revolutionary.
	It's like Dawson Knives, for example.
	Their metal alloy called MagnaCut, it's revolutionary.
	I mean, it's almost rust resistant.
	It's like stainless steel, but not fragile like stainless steel.
	I mean, I don't mean to get in all the details of DOS and knives, but I'm just giving you the reason.
	Why I am willing to plug a company is because they've got something amazing.
	You know, like the bivvy sticks, the two-way satellite text messaging.
	It's amazing stuff.
	I mean, that technology didn't even exist a few years ago.
	Nor does this Volta wireless tech.
	I mean, that didn't exist.
	That's a relatively new thing.
	It's only been around, I think, less than six months, something like that.
	It's revolutionary.
	And it's for your privacy.
	And the company supports your privacy.
	You know, they don't support people using their services for anything illegal, obviously, but we're just talking about remaining private and doing perfectly legal things.
	Which, who knows, someday soon the government may make, you know, selling seeds illegal.
	And we're going to be seed smugglers.
	I'll meet you in the parking lot.
	I've got broccoli seeds.
	What do you have to trade for the broccoli seeds?
	Oh, I've got dragon carrot seeds.
	Yeah, you want to trade some broccoli for some carrot seeds?
	Yeah, let's meet.
	Let's meet and do the deed.
	The seed deed, let's get it done in the parking lot and then like the USDA armed cops show up.
	You're under arrest!
	Illegal seed trade, you know?
	It's like, hey, just keep them out of your life, you know?
	It's just, everybody's got the right to buy and sell seeds and, you know, have water and, you know, raw cow's milk which is illegal in places like California and so on.
	Just leave the government out of your life But do what's right and moral and ethical.
	Don't hurt anybody else, but also don't give in to tyranny.
	That's my philosophy.
	All right, so that's my podcast for today.
	Thank you for all your time and prayers and support and all of that.
	We're going to have another interesting guest for you tomorrow and more topics tomorrow.
	Man, the world's going crazy, I'm sure.
	There's going to be more breaking news headlines over the next 24 hours, or I guess at this point, 22 and a half.
	Yeah, I'll be back with you tomorrow.
	Until then, be well.
	Take care.
	God bless you.
	Talk to you then.
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