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Sept. 19, 2022 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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Situation Update, Sep 19, 2022 - Giant homeless encampments set to explode across U.S.
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Welcome to the situation update for Monday, September 19th, 2022.
Mike Adams here.
Thank you for joining me.
We've got a lot to cover.
I'm going to try to paint a picture of what's coming for Western civilization, not just Western Europe, but the United States of America and Canada and other countries as well.
This will affect Australia, for example.
We are about to experience an unraveling of so many layers of the fabric of civilization, such as, for example, affordable housing, affordable energy, affordable food, ready first responders, things like that.
We are going to see society unravel, maybe you could use the word collapse, in a way that can only be properly understood if you take a look at the homeless encampments across America's cities right now in Oakland or in Philadelphia, in a way that can only be properly understood if you take a look at the homeless encampments across America's cities
Only by looking there will you have an accurate preview of what's coming to the rest of the country.
Because what we are about to see will cause mass homelessness, destitution, desperation, the unraveling of the rule of law on a scale that none of us have ever witnessed in our lifetimes.
And I've got a series of stories here, news stories, to try to connect the dots on this so you can see how close this is to happening.
I also realize there are a lot of people concerned about what's going to happen in the last week of September.
A lot of talk about dates like September 23rd or 24th or September 30th.
Everybody's talking about these dates.
Folks, I don't know what's going to happen on these dates.
I keep asking other people in my source network, and they're just telling me the same thing that I'm telling them.
Yeah, we hear people talking about it, but nobody knows what it is.
Hey, it could be just a bunch of circular buzz, okay?
We don't know.
And that German lawmaker, he just threw gasoline on the fire by saying that, you know, on September 24th, he said, you will remember, everybody will remember where they were on that day because I don't know what happens.
History in the making or something.
Maybe he was pranking everybody.
We don't know.
I don't like to put a lot of investment in specific dates.
If nothing happens on September 23rd or 24th, that wouldn't surprise me.
I say be ready for things to hit the fan on any day because we know what's coming.
We don't know the day it's going to arrive, but we know what's coming.
Now, I received a lot of interesting intel over the weekend.
Let me share some of it with you that helps paint this picture.
Roughly about a week ago, consumer demand just fell off a cliff, and it was across almost every area of retail.
It began more than a week ago, but there was a pivot point about a week ago where there was a massive noticeable difference in the lack of customers at restaurants and A lack of customers shopping for clothing, for cosmetics, but also, by the way, for firearms.
And I was told that one of the largest gun distributors in America has been canceling purchase orders across the board because there's too much inventory in the pipeline right now in terms of firearms.
And the same thing is true with ammunition, I've been told, as well.
So for whatever reason, people have run out of money, even money to purchase guns and ammo, as well as clothing and all the other categories, you know, restaurant, food, luxuries, travel, you name it.
So people have run out of money and they're making a very rapid transition, moving away from things that they just want into things that they absolutely have to be able to pay, which includes their electricity bills or fuel or health insurance or things like that. which includes their electricity bills or fuel or health insurance The situation is going to get so much worse across America.
It's not going to be as bad as Europe, but it will be very, very bad that The Wall Street Journal now reporting, quote, Rising natural gas prices are expected to make it more expensive to light and heat homes in the coming months.
U.S. utility customers, faced with some of their largest bills in years, are set to pay even more this winter as natural gas prices continue to climb.
But the United States, what Americans are paying is nothing compared to Europeans.
See, in this Wall Street Journal story they're talking about How in one area in Louisiana, people are going to be paying 7.5% higher than they did last year.
They're going to be paying almost 15 cents per kilowatt hour.
15 cents!
They're sounding the alarm over that.
Folks, they're paying over a dollar in Europe.
For that electricity.
Over a dollar.
They're paying, in some places, it's a thousand percent higher than what they used to pay.
At one point, it was twelve hundred percent higher in Germany, but it has settled a little bit.
It's going to get a lot worse in January.
The point is, people's discretionary income is largely gone.
And they're having to focus on the things that they can afford, that they must have.
People are selling extra vehicles.
Some people are selling their expensive homes and downsizing.
And by the way, home sales are going to continue to plummet, and so will vehicle sales.
Well, also because of rising interest rates, the Fed is about to kick it up another roughly.75 percentage points, maybe 1%.
Mortgages currently over 6% are going to go to over 7%.
Home purchases are going to plummet.
You know, new mortgages will continue to fall.
So the upside of this, the silver lining, is if you have cash and you've been waiting to get a deal on something, maybe it's a firearm, maybe a used vehicle, maybe even a home or some ammunition, your opportunity is going to arrive.
My prediction is that by Black Friday, which is the Thanksgiving shopping weekend, if we make it there, that is, if we don't have some kind of a dirty bomb or World War III or something before that, If we make it there, you're going to see mass liquidations like you've never seen before across the board, across all retail.
Oh, and don't forget, FedEx also was sounding the alarm last week and saying demand for shipments of packages is falling off a cliff as well.
Amazon's getting clobbered, shutting down warehouses.
Walmart, too much inventory.
Target, same story.
FedEx and UPS both are having reduced demand and so on.
But this Black Friday, massive liquidation time.
So if you've been sitting on cash this whole time, you're going to get some major bargains coming up if the transaction system functions.
Now, massive money printing is going to continue to cause a devaluation of the dollar.
And this is going to translate into vastly increased prices in rents and home purchases and also utilities such as electricity, water, and so on.
Energy prices will rise after the midterm elections if they even take place.
But you're going to pay a lot more for gasoline by the end of the year than what you're paying now.
So if you're looking for a good time to store up some diesel or some gasoline, if you have a safe way to store it, you should do so before the election because after the election, it's going to skyrocket.
Now, with increased rents, and also a lot of people being laid off because industry is shutting down in America because of reduced consumer demand.
So there are a lot more layoffs, a lot more people being fired from their jobs, And the dollar is losing value every day, which means people can afford fewer and fewer things, including paying rent or saving a down payment for a home purchase and so on.
As a result of all of this, you're going to see a wave of mass homelessness that will accelerate this winter across the United States to historic levels.
This will be something you've never seen before, not in your lifetime.
You're going to see people...
Get out of homes.
They'll stop paying rent in their apartments.
They will move to RVs if they have money or to pick up trucks or cars if they don't have money or vans.
A lot of people are going to be living out of their vehicles starting real soon in America and in Europe.
And then from there, if they can't afford the vehicles, they're going to go into tents.
Tent cities are going to spring up like never before across America's cities and also across Europe.
This means that violent crime is going to skyrocket because many people will become desperate and they will break into other people's homes or vehicles looking for valuables.
They're looking for something they can sell to get food or in some cases to get street drugs.
A lot of homelessness turns to addiction.
And then addiction turns to petty theft and crime in order to, you know, buy more drugs.
This is the cycle of addiction, substance abuse, violence, and impoverishment that we're going to see worsen all across Western civilization.
And this stems from really two things, folks, just two things.
Money printing, which is the central bank, Carrying out crimes against humanity and then energy prices or energy scarcity caused by NATO countries and their economic sanctions against Russia.
This is causing havoc with energy markets all over the world, not just in Western Europe, but it's also raising energy prices in the United States and other countries.
Now, with that as the backdrop, consider the following.
In the state of Illinois, lawmakers there have passed a law.
Governor signed it.
It's going into effect on January 1.
And this law, you probably heard about, it's called the Safety Act.
It's got nothing to do with safety.
The Safety Act eliminates bail for a whole series of rather violent crimes.
And in addition, well, that includes second-degree murder, kidnapping, arson, All kinds of things.
Like, I think it was DUI, like manslaughter with a DUI, something like that.
So in other words, you can be a murderer in Illinois starting in 2023, and you can just kill somebody in broad daylight, and if you get caught, the police will just write you a ticket, and it'll have a court date on.
Ah, show up in court on this day.
And then they'll just release you right back out onto the streets where you can immediately carry out a kidnapping, for example, or arson.
You can just set somebody's building on fire.
I'll just write you another ticket.
Oh, you have another court date now.
Look at that.
This is going into play in Illinois at the same time, in the same winter, that mass homelessness is taking place.
Because of, well, all the reasons I just mentioned.
The devaluation of the dollar, rising energy prices, more layoffs, and so on.
Now there's another factor that very few people have talked about here.
That same safety act for Illinois makes it impossible for police to evict trespassers.
That is squatters who decide to start camping out in your yard or your tool shed or your garage or your home.
If you're gone for a weekend and you went on a business trip, you come back, oh, look, there's a whole family living there or just a couple of junkies.
You cannot get the police to evict them any longer because that is no longer allowed thanks to the Safety Act.
Yes, I know it sounds insane, but this is a Democrat-run state.
Of course it's insane.
The property values in Illinois are going to absolutely plummet.
No sane, rational person will want to live in the state of Illinois because all of these homeless people, some of whom are addicts, some of whom are prostitutes, some of whom are violent criminals, and so on, whatever their case may be, They are going to just start moving into people's homes.
They're just going to start squatting everywhere.
And if you call the police, the police will show up and say there's nothing we can do because state law says we can't evict them.
It's up to you to decide what to do.
So the question becomes one that every citizen is going to face here.
You're either going to tolerate other people living in your yard, crapping on your lawn, moving into your tool shed, whatever, your garage, even moving into your RV, living in the boat that you have, if you have a boat, for some reason.
I mean, some people have boats in Illinois, you know, for lakes and such.
But whatever.
People are going to start moving in.
You have to decide what you're going to do to try to convince those squatters to move out.
Now, if you threaten them, well, they can call the police and the police will arrest you.
Because, you know, you can't threaten a squatter.
Squatters are the protected class.
Now, they though, the squatter, can murder you and have no bail or they can set fire to your home and have no bail.
They can kidnap you and get caught and not even be sent to jail because that's Illinois.
But if you were to shoot one of them, oh, you would go to prison for a long, long time because, of course, well, the criminals are the protected class, according to Democrats.
So the criminals have every right then to overrun your home and to set fire to your home and to murder you, to kidnap you, whatever.
You have no right to defend yourself.
That's Illinois starting January 1.
So if you're starting to see the picture of what this looks like, it's right out of the movie called The Purge.
And I wanted to play a little video for you here.
It's not out of Illinois.
It's out of Oakland.
But I wanted to play this video to give you an idea of what's coming to every city in America.
The kind of homeless encampments, the kind of drug addiction and trash and feces just right out in the open.
This is what Democrats create everywhere they have power.
And if you live in the state of Illinois, this is what's coming to you.
Take a look at this video.
As I was driving around on the west side of town, I came across a huge mateshift camp made up of RVs and improvised shelters.
Something that looked like what you would see in a third world country.
It was under a freeway overpass across the street from a public park in an abandoned area of former warehouses that people had used to dump their crap for years.
As I learned, the RVs parked here were actually the working poor.
People who had decent jobs but still couldn't afford a place to live in Oakland.
Some were even doctors who were new to the city and had to save up enough money to afford a down payment on their first apartments.
But many of the people outside of the homeless RV park were people who had been here for a long time.
Some were trying to save money to change their situation.
Despite the way it looks from the street, this camp is well organized.
There's even leaders here who enforce rules and there's even camp security.
It's a camp with community and pride and progress.
And as I learned, a lot of the people in this camp are actually trying to make this temporary homeless camp their permanent home.
Now, what you just saw and heard there is fascinating.
That's why I chose this video, because you heard him say that this homeless encampment is really an alternative economy, in essence.
It's an alternative housing ecosystem.
It has its own rules.
It has its own leaders.
It has its own kind of mini-government.
It has its own enforcers, no doubt.
And some people plan to live there forever.
This is their new home.
Now, I believe that these kind of situations are going to expand substantially.
Not only this coming winter, but in the years to come, over the next decade, you're going to see these encampments, literally, become their own political powers.
As they grow in size, they will begin to assert Their right to exist, so to speak, and they will attempt to nullify the local laws.
Laws about, obviously, housing or septic systems or public health or what have you.
Even laws about violent crime and so on.
These will be their own bubble systems, their own bubble societies, maybe.
It's a better way to say it.
Where once you cross into these domains, all the rules change and you are now living in their world.
It's kind of like a scene out of the 1980s film Escape from New York.
Kurt Russell, remember that?
Or later Escape from L.A.
It's a completely different system.
And of course, these systems also suffer from their own corruption.
They have their own economies, their own drug trade, their own, in some cases, you know, human trafficking type of trade.
They have their own weapons, economies, and so on.
And these economies do not conform to what you and I are used to.
But these are going to grow in parallel as the mainstream economy collapses.
You're going to see larger and larger populations go into these encampments.
Now, as this is happening, law enforcement and first responders are going to continue to collapse in size and power.
Here's a story out of KTTH conservative talk radio called MyNorthwest.com.
Seattle Police Department, quote, screwed as catastrophic losses continue.
Its police department continues to dwindle.
Recruitment efforts continue to fail.
One former King County Sheriff puts it bluntly, quote, we're screwed.
The Seattle Police Department lost six officers in August, bringing the year's total separations to 122 and nearly 500 since the City Council adopted to defund the police department in 2020.
What's more alarming is the 350 officers that will be eligible for retirement.
At the end of the year, if even a fraction leaves the department, Seattle may not have a fully functioning police department.
Well, okay, of course Seattle's not going to have a fully functioning police department.
They don't now.
And much the same is true with, obviously, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Phoenix, Arizona, you know, you name it.
Portland, Oregon, whatever.
Denver, Colorado, for that matter.
Everywhere you go...
There aren't enough police and the same Democrats that are destroying society with their insane policies while they're defunding the police while protecting the criminals.
So this is what you can look forward to if you live in a Democrat city or a Democrat state.
The criminals are going to be completely protected.
The criminals will be let out after murdering.
There won't even be bail for them.
Kidnapping, arson, homicide, aggravated assault, whatever.
They're going to be let loose on the streets.
The police will be basically unable to respond.
You will be on your own, but if you take any action against the criminals, you will be arrested and charged by the George Soros-funded DAs that are out to cause mayhem in society.
And their job is to let all the violent criminals back onto the streets, but prosecute any conservatives, especially gun owners, who attempted to defend themselves.
You understand where this is going?
So let me show you a second video, which is a hidden homeless encampment in the middle of Atlanta.
And not a lot of people know about this.
It was covered by a local news station.
You've got to see this video to understand, again, how they're setting up their own economy, their own sort of enforcement, their own rules.
And it is completely outside the system of mainstream society.
And this kind of thing, this is going to expand like crazy.
I mean, this is going to explode all across America.
Take a look.
Call it a home, call it a city within a city, affectionately known as...
They refer to this as the hill.
Roughly 30 to 40 people reside in the homeless encampment, according to those who live there, and it's basically a small town.
You know, we really don't have any money, that's kind of somewhat of a problem, so we barter and different stuff like that.
The hill has power.
If people need it, running water, a mechanic, a shower, and those that need a haircut, well, the resident barber can help you there.
You wouldn't really know that there's essentially a civilization back here.
We discovered the place after a bike owner tracked his stolen e-bike to the encampment.
Later, once you go up there, there's just mounds and mounds of trash.
Which in turn brings in...
The bugs are overwhelming.
The smell of trash is overwhelming.
And the rats here are overwhelming.
I mean, they're big rats.
They play football at night time.
Many here say they struggle to find any help to get away from the situation and that leaders are turning away from the issues of mental illness and homelessness.
For the few people that do help, such as Reginald, who helps selling scrap metal for residents...
They are definitely forgotten about.
And since they're out of sight, you know what I'm saying?
They are forgotten about.
They are gone for a society.
They say they are fighting an uphill battle with limited resources.
I don't think...
So you see that?
An alternative civilization being constructed.
And that's actually not an exaggeration.
There are going to be two societies in America and also in Western Europe, two societies.
One will be the mainstream society of those who can continue to afford the housing or the apartment rent or the car or the, you know, they still have the job.
And they can somehow manage to financially survive even as the central banks keep printing money like mad and stealing from everybody, which is only going to get worse because we're going into hyperinflation at some point here.
That's mainstream society.
And then there's this alternative society that is going to explode, and that's what you just saw.
And that's the homeless encampments, right?
Trash everywhere.
Mass mental illness, addiction, prostitution, trafficking.
But also some people that are just down on their luck.
Some people that...
You know, had a divorce.
Some people couldn't afford whatever.
Some people maybe were stolen from and they ended up on the street.
There's all kinds of different stories of why people end up in these places.
The point is, the food banks are going to be overrun.
The police are hopeless in this scenario.
These alternative civilizations, i.e.
homeless camps, are going to expand and they're going to get organized.
And at some point, They're going to raise, well, paramilitary forces.
They're going to have their own enforcement units, and they're going to engage in organized retail crime.
That's right.
They're going to be flash mob looting squads.
That are armed and that are run out of these encampments in order to go out and acquire resources to bring back into the encampment to share with their fellow encampment citizens.
So you are about to see an explosion in armed organized retail crime like you've never seen before.
It's going to look like something out of Mad Max.
You're going to see armed groups of these people going into grocery stores and cleaning out the place.
And bringing it all back to the homeless encampment.
They're going to go into electronic stores.
They're going to go into clothing and other retail stores, Walmarts, and so on.
It's all going to be organized.
It'll be flash mob assaults on retailers in these major cities.
It's going to be a massive wave of retail crime.
In fact, the Epoch Times wrote about this in a story called The Growing Threat of Organized Retail Crime.
And I'm going to read some for you from that story.
Now, the Epoch Times has an article.
The title is The Growing Threat of Organized Retail Crime.
It says the massive wave of retail thefts in the United States over the past two years have become a major challenge for the retail industry and law enforcement.
It says the number of increasingly professional organized retail crime rings And they use the acronym ORC, Organized Retail Crime, ORCs.
And their frequent attacks have reached crisis scale, according to the National Retail Federation, in a September 14th report.
And it says that it's hurt thousands of businesses and countless stores have closed down due to lack of security.
Now, this is especially true, of course, in Democrat-run cities where the police are being defunded and where shoplifting has been essentially legalized in places, for example, like San Francisco.
It says, quote, I don't think that's the same Mark Meadows from Congress, but whatever.
It says these highly sophisticated criminal rings jeopardize employee and customer safety and disrupt store operations.
Now, according to a survey from, well, this year, 2022, the total loss of stolen goods at retail has hit $94.5 billion.
Well, that was by the end of 2021.
Which is about a 5% increase from 2020.
And then the NRF found that on average retail stores have about 1.44% of all their goods stolen.
So it's called a shrink rate of losses of 1.44%.
It's said that acts of fraud are being reported across all the venues, including e-commerce and brick-and-mortar stores.
And then a sudden increase in store violence is an area of growing concern, such as random attacks on store personnel and, quote, orc gangs.
Yes, yes, we are living out Lord of the Rings.
We actually have orc gangs that are flash mob looters hitting these stores.
It's just incredible.
Retailers reported an 89.3% increase in violence in the last year and a 73% increase in shoplifting.
Orc events and employee theft rose 71.4%.
You got that?
So employees are getting so desperate that they are stealing from their own retail employers.
And it said that orc robberies have risen 26% since the onset of the pandemic.
Now, what are they stealing?
This is what's fascinating.
The most targeted store items fall under the acronym CRAVED, C-R-A-V-E-D. Here it is.
Concealable, removable, available, valuable, enjoyable, and disposable.
That's CRAVED. That's what people are stealing.
That includes apparel, health and beauty, electronics, accessories, food, footwear, home furnishings, housewares, home improvement, eyewear, office supplies, infant care, Got to steal some infant formula, you know, and toys.
Got to steal the fluoride water for the baby.
Retailers are boosting spending on theft prevention measures and so on and so forth.
Check out this quote from Corey Berry, the CEO of Best Buy.
He told the New York Post, quote, we're seeing more and more particularly organized retail crime.
That's the key word here.
Organized retail crime.
Not individual shoplifters, but organized looting mobs or orcs, I guess as they're saying.
He says, quote, you can see that pressure in our financials.
And more importantly, frankly, you can see that pressure with our associates.
He's talking about the employees and managers.
Quote, it's traumatizing.
It's traumatizing.
So if you're working at, let's say, a Best Buy, and then a freaking armed orc mob comes in, an actual orc mob, and they're just stealing everything and shoving people around, and they're very threatening, and they're all masked up, and they're usually dressed in black, and they're criminals, right?
If you go through that, that's psychologically traumatizing to a typical person who's been living in a highly protected bubble.
You know, someone who's never done any combat training or firearms training or anything like that.
I mean, you know, to you and I, because I still train in jujitsu.
You know, I'm used to getting thrown around and punched and kicked and everything.
It's like, okay, it's another day.
It's just this time it's for real.
But to the average person...
They flip out and lose their minds like the first time a punch is thrown.
The first time they get hit, they're freaking out, right?
Or somebody pulls a knife, they're all flipping out.
You know, the rest of us, we have training.
But not everybody's in that boat, so then they can't work anymore.
Then they have a mental illness.
Then they have to go see, like, counselors and psychiatrists for the next five years to work out their trauma, you know?
Should have taken a jujitsu class, by the way.
I'm just saying, go get yourself some self-defense training, folks.
Seriously, everybody listening to this, let me just take a tangent side trip here.
I've trained in martial arts on and off through my entire life.
I've trained in edge weapons, combat, firearms, rifles, pistols, rifles, long-range shooting, Krav Maga, different kinds of taekwondo and Asian arts and so on.
And out of all the things I've ever trained in, There are really two things that if I could recommend two things for you to know, that's going to help you the most.
And it's a combination of jujitsu and pistol.
If you can do jujitsu and pistol, then you're basically John Wick.
You're that Keanu Reeves character in the John Wick movies.
Well, I guess that's more like, what is it, Aikido?
He's doing more Japanese-type arts.
But if you can do jujitsu and know how to run a pistol, you're going to be able to handle most situations.
And I trained for many years in Krav Maga, which is the Israeli combat art.
And it was great.
You know, it teaches you fitness.
It teaches you all kinds of things and kicks and strikes and all that stuff.
If I could go back, I would have spent all those years training in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.
Seriously, BJJ. I wish I would have done BJJ the whole time because it's 10 times more useful.
So, if you're looking for something to do, and I mean, at any age, you know, I mean, I'm in my 50s, I still train in jiu-jitsu.
There's no age where you can't benefit from this training, but if you're looking for something, because you know what's coming, jiu-jitsu and pistol training.
Oh, and when you train in jiu-jitsu, don't wear a gi, as they're called.
Make sure you attend training that's street clothes only, because when you need to use it, you're going to be wearing your regular street clothes.
You're not going to be in a gi.
It's not a competition.
I don't go to competitions for lots of reasons, and I don't train with people in gis, and I don't wear a gi.
I don't even own a gi.
I show up in a t-shirt and a pair of shorts, man, and that's it.
Because that's how I'm going to fight in reality.
So that's just my advice.
You might ask, well, if you know jiu-jitsu, why do you also need to know how to run a pistol?
Well, man, use a pistol if you can first.
Jiu-jitsu is if they jump you, they surprise you, and you've got to get to your pistol.
You've got to control the other person and get to your pistol.
And it's good to train in pistol fighting on the ground, by the way, which I've done quite a bit.
You know, close range, like they're on top of you, and you're shooting them in the torso without even, I mean, you're barely drawing the gun, you're pivoting it out of your holster, and you're popping them right in the torso because they're on top of you.
Like, it's good to train in that.
It's also good to train not to shoot your own kneecaps off when you're in that position.
By the way, just some little tips, you know?
Don't shoot your kneecaps.
And the other answer to this is why you might need a pistol, because there might be more than one person you have to fight.
Yes.
And, you know, jujitsu is very effective against one person, maybe two.
You got three or four people trying to attack you.
You're going to go through some magazines, frankly.
Anyway.
Just my disclaimer, look, do what's right for you.
Follow your own local laws.
Don't initiate violence.
I'm always talking about this in the context of self-defense or protecting the lives of the innocent.
But remember, what we are talking about here today in this podcast is maybe you're working at a Best Buy or maybe your daughter is working at a Best Buy or your granddaughter or grandson, whatever, depends on how old you are, they're working at a Best Buy.
And these orcs come in, these flash mobs are just looting and robbing and causing violence.
Wouldn't it be good if your family members knew how to defend themselves?
Wouldn't it be good if Best Buy let their employees carry firearms, too, come to think of it?
You know?
I don't think they do.
But that might be something they have to reevaluate over time.
Or they're going to end up shutting down in most of the Democrat-run cities.
And that's the other point I wanted to get to here.
These stores, including grocery stores and clothing retailers and everything else, they're just going to shut down, folks.
Because how many times can you handle a mob of orcs coming in and just looting all your stuff?
At some point, you're just going to say, you know what?
It's not even worth operating here.
You're going to shut down.
Now, Bed Bath& Beyond is shutting down even without the orcs.
Bed Bath& Beyond...
Just can't turn a profit because, I don't know, they stopped selling Mike Lindell's pillows and it all went downhill from there.
So they're closing, what, 150 stores all across America?
People just aren't buying as much bed, bath, and beyond whatever.
It's like beyond insane pricing on these kitchen knives.
I don't need them that badly.
Just go get some discount knives.
But as these retail stores shut down in these areas that are run by these growing homeless encampments with the paramilitary orc mobs, the flash-looting mobs, these areas are going to be turned into deserts, not only food deserts, but consumer product deserts.
As the areas grow...
All the retailers that are being hit by them So, you know, Walmart's going to shut down, and then they'll hit the Target.
The Target shuts down, and then, you know, they'll go hit, I don't know, whatever, dollar store or something.
And then the dollar store shuts down, and then they'll just keep hitting something else.
Basically, the orcs and the looting mobs, they're going to shut down retailers in an ever-expanding area.
And when they run out of retailers, guess who they're coming for next, folks?
Guess where they're going next?
Oh, The housing subdivisions in the suburbs, they're going to go house to house.
And it's going to be a flash mob.
It's going to be orcs down your street.
Not even Halloween.
Bunch of orcs.
Bunch of trolls.
Armed.
Wearing all the black masks, you know.
And just a lot of criminal elements.
Just rolling down your street.
Banging on doors.
Breaking in doors.
Looting and pillaging and doing whatever they want.
And remember in Chicago...
Even if they get arrested, they don't go to jail.
Or in all of Illinois, for that matter.
And if similar laws are passed in California, which are probably coming, then it's like, it's open season.
It's purge time.
Do you now understand the importance of being able to defend yourself?
Of having your own firearms?
You know, if they break into your home and you shoot them, in most places you have a pretty strong legal defense.
I mean, not in the UK necessarily or certain European socialist nations, but in most places in the United States, it's going to be hard for the DA to charge you with a crime if you shot in self-defense after somebody broke down your door or broke into your window.
Nevertheless, I always say, check your local laws.
Make sure you're doing what is legally correct and ethically or morally correct as well.
But in conservative states, these orcs They're not going to get that far because they're going to get, you know, what's a polite way to say this?
Like a Lord of the Rings reference.
Like Gandalf is going to show up, but Gandalf doesn't have a staff.
He has an AR-15, basically, with extra mags.
And Gandalf is going to unleash His copper-jacketed hunting rounds on all these orcs.
And they're not going to get very far.
But in blue cities and blue states, they will persist and they will grow in size and power.
And by the time you try to leave and sell your house, it'll be worth nothing.
Because nobody's going to want to buy a house in the orc-raid territory, you see.
It's too late.
So you've got to get out before the orcs show up.
Now, WBTV is reporting, let's see, where are they?
Charlotte, North Carolina.
The ATF warns ammunition stolen from shipping containers in North Carolina.
Yep.
Federal officials say large amounts of ammunition, i.e. pallets of ammo, were stolen recently from freight line shipping containers in North Carolina.
The ATF alerted firearms dealers that a sizable amount of Winchester 9mm ammo was taken from containers in Wilmington, Raleigh, and Durham.
The ATF warns that those responsible for the thefts might try to sell the ammunition to federal firearms licensees in the area.
Really?
You think?
No.
I think they have other places to sell that ammo.
They don't need to go to an FFL dealer.
Let's see.
Officials say anybody who sees suspicious activity should contact the nearest ATF field office.
Okay, right.
Yeah, we see suspicious activity all the time.
Some of it's the ATF themselves.
So we're supposed to call the ATF on the ATF? I mean...
Give me a break.
So anyway, all this 9mm ammo is being stolen by the pallet, which just goes to show you that these thefts, these organized retail crime, orc, the orcs are targeting shipping containers because they've been tipped off.
Like, hey, here's a shipping container full of ammo.
So folks, it's only a matter of time before they start targeting transport trucks, by the way.
Which is one reason why truckers, and I know a lot of truckers listen to this, and some transportation business owners and so on.
Truckers carry guns.
I don't blame them one bit.
Truckers, they know it's a dangerous world.
Because they roll in and out of places that are sketchy.
And some truckers refuse to go to some of those places.
I don't blame them.
But it's going to get way more dangerous to be a transport driver in the next, well, just through this winter and into 2023.
So all you truckers listening, We are with you on your self-defense.
Just, you know, I don't know what to tell you about keeping it legal.
I mean, do your best, but whatever.
Most truckers don't follow local gun laws.
I mean, what are you going to do, man?
You got to protect yourself.
You're sleeping in your truck.
Your truck is your home.
You have the right to defend your home.
Do you not?
Anyway.
And then, by the way, a story by Michael Snyder at the Economic Collapse blog says violence in California reaches epidemic levels as our society rapidly deteriorates all around us.
He says there have been homeless addicts in the streets of San Francisco for years, but now we've reached a point where they are seemingly everywhere.
Here's what one reporter witnessed during a recent journey through San Francisco.
Okay, I'll just read you four sentences here.
This is from, again, a reporter.
Quote, I saw men and women of all ages hunched over on the sidewalks with open wounds all over their bodies.
I saw the filthy tent cities stinking with human excrement and strewn with needles and pipes.
I saw children staring in horror at people dying right in front of them.
And it goes on.
But you get the idea.
This is what America's cities look like.
Again, Philadelphia, right?
Same thing.
Seattle, Portland, LA, and so on and so forth.
Downtown Phoenix even.
You know, Chicago and New York City and all of it.
This is what it looks like.
Miami to some extent.
Meanwhile, the accelerated controlled demolition of society is taking place everywhere, but especially in blue states.
For example, as the Epoch Times reports, the governor of California now signs the most aggressive package of green laws that we've ever seen.
And as you know, green laws are designed to take down the energy infrastructure that keeps human civilization functioning.
It's all just designed to destroy civilization.
So Governor Newsom just on Friday announced a sweeping package of the most aggressive climate measures to, quote, accelerate the state's transition.
Yeah, transition into collapse, maybe.
It includes 40 bills that have new green rules on laws related to things ranging from large-scale industry to the family home and so on.
Comes as America's most populous state has struggled to provide stable electricity.
Yeah, of course.
But according to Newsom, that's just a reason why they need to double down and triple down on more green energy.
Power grid's not working.
We obviously need more green energy.
No, it's not working because you shut down the hydrocarbons.
And he said about the new green laws in California, he says...
It's climate action done the California way.
We're not only doubling down, we're just getting started.
He actually said that.
He should have added like, an evil laugh or something to that.
He said they're going to achieve 90% clean energy by 2035, which means no energy, by the way, and carbon neutrality by 2045, which means no more people, because people are made of carbon.
It's just, it's so obvious.
They are destroying society.
I mean, it's the California Climate Crisis Act.
It's the solid waste bill, the bicycle omnibus bill, electric vehicle charging standards bill.
Water rights appropriations, zero emissions, vehicle incentive programs, and just on and on.
And it's just going to mean the total collapse of California.
So if you're wondering, should you get out of California?
Yeah, and Illinois.
Like I said earlier, you need to get out of Illinois.
You need to get out of California, at least the cities, the West Coast portion.
I know there are great areas of California outside of those cities, and I know some of you listening from there, you love where you are.
I get it.
Dane Wigington is in, I think, Northern California.
He's not leaving.
I get it.
But get out of the cities, at least.
And get out of New York, also.
You can't even buy body armor in New York now.
Did you know that?
You can't get body armor.
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Or should I say Book of Eli, actually?
No, check out that film, right?
Good action movie with Denzel.
Isn't that Denzel in that movie?
Yeah, Book of Eli.
Everybody wants that sword too, or at least his sword fighting skills.
In any case, moving on.
All right, speaking of controlled demolition of society, let's go to our interview today.
I've got a great guest for you who is an analyst and he's been researching the 9-11, you know, Twin Towers and World Trade Center 7.
He is a retired general contractor and he's been following this very closely and he's got some great explanations to help us understand the What happened with Building 7?
That was the third building, and that building fell.
Well, it fell somehow almost at the speed of gravity, like nothing was supporting it.
How did that happen?
How did World Trade Center 7 fall, even though it wasn't hit by an airplane?
Let's go to that interview with Bill Petty to find out more.
Here we go.
Welcome, folks, to the interview segment today.
We are joined by Bill Petty, who is an analyst and researcher, a truth seeker.
We're going to talk about facts about Building 7, by the way.
But Bill Petty is a retired general contractor.
He's been studying this, and he's got a lot of really outstanding explanations to help us understand what happened on September 11, 2001.
if you can believe it, 21 years ago, most Americans don't even realize there was a third building that fell and that was not hit by an airplane and that it fell almost perfectly in its own footprint as if there were a demolition team that had worked on it.
But we'll ask questions like that.
Bill Petty joins us to cover all the things you may not have known about Building 7, or World Trade Center 7, as it's known, WTC7.
Mr. Petty, thank you so much for joining us today.
This is going to be a really intriguing conversation.
Yeah, it's my pleasure.
Glad to be here.
Well, absolutely.
Bill, and again, just thank you so much.
And let's start with the basics.
I know you wanted to talk about maybe laying the groundwork figuratively and perhaps literally here for how are structures built so that people understand what we're dealing with here.
Yeah, well, first of all, I'm not an architect or engineer, and I never build a skyscraper, but I do build I was involved in construction for a number of years, and I have a basic understanding of how construction works.
So I thought maybe we'll start off and just talk about how you build up just a regular house.
Obviously, the first thing you do is you have to have a foundation, and now foundation can be a block, it can be poured concrete, it can be a slab.
There's a lot of different ways to do it, but the idea is that foundation It's going to hold up the house.
It's going to hold the weight of the house.
It's going to keep the house from tipping over or from collapsing or whatever.
So you start with a foundation.
Oh, now, I'm sorry to interject, but for skyscrapers, the foundations, aren't they typically very large diameter pillars of concrete and rebar that are built very far down into the ground?
Yes.
There are things called caissons that go down in the ground, and they'll go down Hundreds of feet in some cases.
They have to hit bedrock.
They can't just be floating.
And that was kind of interesting.
Back in 1893 at the Chicago Exposition, they had to build some large buildings and they couldn't dig down deep enough to get to bedrock.
So they built this steel matrix and basically they floated it on the ground and it worked.
But the point is You have to have a foundation that's not going to move, okay?
No matter what the situation is, you know, like Jesus said, you build a house on a rock.
You have to build it on something that's solid, and the key is it can't move, okay?
So when you have a large skyscraper, yeah, you're going to have a lot of pylons going down deep in the ground, and they're going to hit solid ground, and they're not going to move.
When you build a regular house, you don't have to go down that deep.
What you're building is you're building a footprint that's big enough to hold the house and the weight of the house.
That's crucial.
Once your foundation is done, then you frame it and you put bottom plates on and the bottom plates are bolted to the foundation so that if a big strong wind ever came up and tried to lift the house, it couldn't be lifted off the ground.
The foundation, and that's why you have the bolts on those.
Right, because a home is like a giant sail, too.
I mean, there's a lot of, you know, a wind area.
Oh, and that's another thing.
You know, when they build these skyscrapers, they build them to handle 100-mile-an-hour winds.
So, yeah, that's part of it.
That's part of the lateral strength.
You have the vertical gravitational strength, the up and down, but you also have the lateral side to side.
And building the Twin Towers, for example, were built specifically to withstand a direct hit of a Boeing 747 going 500 miles an hour.
But that's just one small little factoid.
But when you're building a house, you have your foundation, you build your bottom plate, and then you put your studs, and you put a top plate on that.
And then what you do is along the side of the wall, you notch out and you put a one by six diagonally on the outside.
It's called a wind brace.
And that helps hold all the studs together and it keeps it from racking because you don't want to get out of square.
You want to be square and you want to be plumb.
Plumb means straight up and down.
Level is horizontal.
Plumb is up and down.
So you build your rectangle.
And then you put a double top plate on it, and then you set your floor joists for the second floor on top of the top plate.
All right?
And so, you know, they're attached, and then you put your rafters on or you use truss or whatever for your roof.
So the whole thing's all connected together and all screwed together and nailed together.
Then you put siding on.
You get the siding on whether it's vertical siding or lap siding or whatever kind of siding you want or it's brick or whatever the case may be.
You put siding on and then on the inside you put drywall.
Every time you add one more part to this building, it gets stronger.
If you just have the studs, that's one thing.
You have the outside, then you have the inside.
As you build this house, it gets stronger and stronger and stronger.
It holds up.
It holds up very well.
That's really the thing that you have to understand about construction.
Whether it's a house, it could be a doghouse or it could be a house.
200-foot skyscraper.
It doesn't make any difference.
It's the same principle.
It's the same thing.
You have a superstructure, and then you have an outside coating or whatever it's going to be, whether it's brick or there's concrete or whatever it is, and you have the inside.
So you have a whole unit that's all tied together, and it holds together.
Let me just add that the rigidity increases with each one of those, as you say, because I've seen this in barn construction.
So you put up all the metal framing first, and that metal framing could sway a little bit because there's some flex.
There's some heat expansion when the sun hits it and so on.
But by the time you get the skin, the metal skin, which is like a zinc...
I forgot what the brand name is, but it's like a zinc alloy R-panel sheeting that screws in to all the purlins and everything all around the barn.
Then, man, that sucker is rigid, and it's not going to twist or torque at all.
Just like you said, that gives it rigidity.
Right, right.
On the outside of a house, they typically use plywood.
You can put plywood on, and you can put siding over the plywood.
So you're exactly right.
It's rigid, it's strong, and it's all tied together.
And that's the most important thing.
So when you look at Building 7, Building 7 was built by people who knew what they were doing.
It was designed by people who knew what they were doing.
And it was not designed to fail, that's for sure.
And the interesting thing that a lot of people don't realize is that prior to 9-11, A skyscraper had never collapsed because of fire, ever.
And, you know, there was just a fire here in China a couple days ago, and I was watching it, and it was just, it was huge.
I saw that, yeah, like half the building was on fire.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But guess what?
It didn't fall down.
It didn't fall into its own footprint.
It didn't even tip over.
So these, these, these, these, Just to give you an idea, I'm kind of bouncing around here a little bit, and I apologize, but I'm thinking about the columns in building number seven were like 14 inches.
The web was 14 inches on them.
The weight was 720 pounds a foot.
The total weight of all of the iron in building number seven was 40,000 tons.
Wow.
That's 40,000 tons of steel.
Yeah.
Okay, so you got 40,000 tons of steel, and these are thick.
These are huge.
The columns are huge, the girders and the beams, and I'll explain the difference between a girder and a beam in a minute, but this was a well-constructed building, and it was...
It was almost 300 feet wide, and that's going to be important when I talk about how NIST described the collapse.
Okay, so one of the things that people have said, NIST said, well, there wasn't an explosion.
Well, it turns out that there was a company that checked seismic happenings, and they were able to determine that 10 seconds before the building collapsed, there was a huge seismic event in that area.
Also, there was a guy named Barry Jennings, another man named Michael Hess, who were in the building in the morning, about 8 o'clock in the morning.
They were there because the building was also part of the New York City Emergency Center.
So Rudy Giuliani, by all rights, should have been there, but he wasn't.
And nobody else, no other officials were.
Just these two guys, they didn't get the memo, apparently.
They went up to the 23rd floor.
They were up there, and then the power went out, so they came down the stairs.
When they got down to the 8th floor, there was an explosion inside the building that knocked them down.
They were stranded on the 8th floor until around noon when the fire department came and rescued them.
From that point on, there wasn't anybody in that building.
So this internal explosion is the theory of analysts, is that this was the...
These were pillars being exploded from within with placed charges?
I don't know on that because it was a long time before it collapsed after that.
So it wasn't like, boom, and then in a few seconds it fell?
Well, no.
The seismic one that they did, that was at 520.
Okay.
They were already gone.
But the point is, there were some explosions, and sometimes they'll do preliminary explosions because they do things in sequence.
But I can't say that that explosion was what made the building fall.
But there were explosions at the time, and there were people outside that heard them.
There was a guy by the name of Kevin McFadden, who was a responder.
And he heard explosions right before it fell.
And he also, interestingly, there was a workman there who had a walkie-talkie, and he heard somebody going, three, two, one, and people were saying, back off, back off, this building's ready.
And they used the word blow.
It's about ready to blow.
It's going to fall.
But there was an anonymous engineer that called and talked to Chief Hayden, Right.
Right.
ever in history has fallen because of fire.
Right.
So let's talk about structural failure here for a second because it's important for people to understand.
So this building was not hit by an airplane.
So there was not jet fuel on fire in this building.
There was an office fire, essentially.
Which is office combustibles, you know, paper, furniture, desks, folders, and things like that.
Now, firefighters know that those materials, they reach a very specific temperature based on how much oxygen is available, how enclosed the space is, and so on.
And we also know that steel does melt at some temperature.
And steel can also be treated with kind of fire retardant types of coatings and so on.
So based on your research, was this the office combustibles, was this hot enough to essentially weaken the steel to the point of structural failure?
And if so, how could it have weakened the steel everywhere in the building all at the same time?
That's an excellent question.
There were fire on 10 floors.
And they were not huge fires.
And the fire that is most important is the fire that was on the 12th floor, up in the east corner of the building.
And that was the fire that supposedly caused the damage on the Gerger on the 13th floor to cause it to fall.
So, no, the fire didn't get hot enough.
And as a matter of fact, the fire, they have pictures of the building And the fires were out on the 12th floor 90 minutes before the building fell.
So it just couldn't have been the fire.
Steel doesn't even start to warp or bend a little bit until 1,400 degrees Fahrenheit or about 600 degrees centigrade.
And office fires just don't get that hot.
So, plus, they were all sprayed with insulation, which really, you know...
You put those two facts together, and the likelihood of these members, these steel members, doing what they said they'd do is impossible.
It's just not going to happen.
Well, and also the vertical pillars that supported the building.
I understand WTC7 was built very differently from the Twin Towers, but World Trade Center 7 didn't have these large vertical pillars, and that means...
You know, they're concrete with rebar.
The concrete, you know, what temperature does it take to liquefy concrete?
I'm not talking about, like, volcano temperatures or something.
Yeah, that's an excellent question.
There were 82 posts, pillars, posts, however you want to term them, and there was 24 core and 58 on the outside.
And these are these huge, huge, just behemoth columns.
And there's no way in the world, if you have a 47-story building and you have fires on 10 floors, and they're not, and the thing about an office fire, they don't last very long.
They last somewhere between 20 and 30 minutes, typically, because they're not Right.
There was some diesel fuel down in the very low part of the building, but even NIST had no effect on it.
Now, what is NIST that you're referring to?
Oh, NIST is the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
They are a government agency, and they were tasked with investigating the fall of all three towers.
Okay.
So...
They...
Well, here's another interesting fact, too, just to throw it out there.
In the UK, a few years ago, they built a building, an eight-story building, and they set it on fire deliberately just to see how the steel would react.
And guess what?
They heated it up to 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit, which is above the point where steel starts to warp, starts to bend a little bit.
But the building didn't collapse, and it killed its structure.
There was some warping, but it didn't collapse.
Yeah, haven't there been many other building fires in the last 20 years?
I mean, you just mentioned one in China the other day.
But many other building fires, and I can't think of one that suffered a simultaneous structural collapse of all the support columns and fell into its own footprint.
That has not happened since, has it?
In 1988, there was a building in Los Angeles.
It burned for three and a half hours on five floors, no collapse.
In 1991, a Philadelphia building burned for 18 hours.
In 2009, you might have heard this one, the Mandarin Tower in China.
It was that kind of weird-shaped building.
It was really wide at the bottom, and it kind of narrowed to the top.
It burned.
I watched that.
The entire building was a golden flames.
Not only did it not collapse, they didn't tear it down, and it's in use today.
Right.
They renovated it.
Okay.
And plus, if a building gets weakened, it's theoretically as possible that it could tip to one side or it could tip over.
I've seen controlled demolitions that didn't work.
The building just fell over, but it stayed intact.
Because the thing, you know, it's an art.
It's an art and a science.
I mean, these people that demolished these buildings, the first time they did it, I think, was in 1935.
And they used thermite, which is another issue with this whole thing, because they found a lot of thermite particles in the dust all throughout New York City afterwards.
But before that, they used to use a wrecking ball.
You've probably seen those.
They're just going to bang the building down with this giant, just swing this heavy ball and just bang it down.
And then somebody figured out, well, hey, if we use dynamite and we use, they're called cutter charges, and they cut the steel at a 45-degree angle, and they reach temperatures at 4500 degrees Fahrenheit instantly.
And they just cut through the steel members like a hot knife through butter.
With the explosives.
Basically shaped charges, right?
Exactly.
They're shaped charges.
They attach them to the post, the pillar, whatever you want to call it, the column.
And what they'll do is they synchronize them.
And so a lot of times you'll hear a lot of explosions, which is another thing when it comes to the Twin Towers.
There was multiple people saying, I heard all the explosions.
I heard a boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, all the way down.
So that's something to be expected.
And just for our listeners, there's a sequencing that's necessary for demolition to be more coordinated.
So, at least from what I've seen, you want to first demolish the inner pillars, right?
And then the outer ones last so that the building falls within itself, right?
Yes, exactly.
You're exactly right.
You want the inner, because if the inner ones start to fall, they pull the outer ones in, and then the whole thing falls down.
Yeah, you're exactly right.
And then that minimizes damage to other nearby buildings.
So, you know, normally in a planned demolition, like a Las Vegas hotel that they're taking down, They obviously want to minimize damage to nearby structures, and that's how they do that.
You don't want a building to blow up the left side, and the whole thing falls over to the left, and you've got 21 stories crashing down for five blocks, right?
Exactly.
And like I said, I actually saw a video of where they messed up, and it did.
It just fell right over.
Yeah, causing a lot of damage.
Yes, yes, and a lot of consternation, no doubt.
Okay, so...
Let's talk more specifically about what NIST, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, claimed happened on 9-11.
And bear in mind, the very first thing that just stands out for anybody that's looking at this, and it's not something you can't run away from this, you can't hide from it, you can't pretend it didn't happen.
For the first 2.25 seconds, The building fell at absolute free-fall speed.
Wow.
That's eight stories.
That's 100 feet.
Okay, the only way something can fall at free-fall is if there's absolutely nothing underneath it.
That's right.
There's no resistance.
None.
Zero.
Okay, so they want us to believe that there was this progressive collapse of the building.
And all of a sudden, not a single column was left to even remotely slow down the collapse of the building.
It's just insane.
If that were true, they would have to order all buildings, all skyscrapers in the country, to be evacuated and non-usable, because that means the entire...
The pillars of engineering would no longer be viable, right?
Obviously, I get the feeling that you have done some research on this as well, and you've read some of the things of Architects and Engineers for Truth, because that's a very good point that they have made.
And if that's true, as you say, that means that all the skyscrapers are unsafe and that the building codes should be changed.
Ah, exactly, exactly.
But I'm unaware of any building code being changed because of this.
So that's just one more little point that's important.
So what they said was basically, and I sent pictures to you in the...
From the study from Halsey, it was up in the east corner.
When you see the thing collapse, there's this penthouse, the little one that goes down first.
If you've ever seen the drop before, there's two penthouses.
There's a smaller one.
On the very east, because when we watch it collapse, we see it from the north.
All the pictures from the collapse are taken from the north.
And there's a little penthouse on the left, and there's a bigger one in the middle.
And that drops, and about seven seconds later, then the whole building starts to collapse.
And so what they said was, well, what happened there was that on the 13th floor, on column 79...
There was a girder attached to it.
Now what girders are, you have girders and beams, and the girders connect to the columns.
So all the columns are connected with girders.
And then In between the girders, you have beams, and they're connected to the girders.
So the girders are horizontal between the columns?
Yes.
The columns are vertical, the girders are horizontal, and the beams are also horizontal.
But the beams are attached to the girders.
So let's say you had two beams, and they're 30 feet apart, and then you had a girder attached between the two of them.
And then you had the beams coming off that in both directions attached to other girders, other beams that were lined up with yours.
Okay, so that's basically how the building is built.
And they're all bolted together.
It's a pretty solid structure.
And then what they do is they pour concrete floors.
And the concrete floors are anywhere from 8 to 10 inches thick.
Wow.
And they have these things called shear studs.
Now shear studs, they're almost like large nails sticking up on the top of the gurgers and the beams.
And what that does is when you pour the concrete, the concrete surrounds around it, and that holds the concrete.
That's back to my original explanation of as you build a building, it gets stronger and stronger as you build it because you keep adding components, right?
So the component of the shear studs is it holds the concrete.
The concrete's poured around the shear studs so that nothing can move.
Just curious, but what's holding up the concrete floor?
Is there like a template or are there support beams just temporary that go down to the floor beneath it to hold up the floor?
No, they have this steel corrugated floor and they pour it on top of that.
And it holds up all that concrete?
Yeah.
That's some strong stuff.
Yeah, it is.
Because that's, I mean, 8 to 10 inches of concrete is heavy, heavy stuff.
I know, I know, I know.
So anyway, and then, you know, after it was all, you know, as they were building, they sprayed all of it, as I mentioned, with insulation, right?
So it's all protected.
So like fireproofing, like heat insulation.
Yeah.
Absolutely, it's fireproofing.
The idea is you don't want the heat to get so hot that it starts to make the steel expand, because that's the thing that NIST said happened.
So what they said was there was a girder attached to...
Column 79 and also column 44 which is one of the outside Columns, okay, so 79 was an internal column and I think so I may be wrong on that but 44 I know that it was it was number 44 and what they said happened was The heat got so intense and oh by the way they had a heat map that they showed and Most people know
fires and understand how fires work and say, well, that hate man, it doesn't look right.
Can we see, you know, your data?
They won't share any of their data that they use to make any of their simulations at all.
And the reason they say it's national security.
And right now, the architects and engineers are suing them for things they call corrections.
Because, just bear in mind, I said that the building fell at free fall for 2.25 seconds, right?
They didn't, when NIST did their preliminary report, their first draft report, they didn't have that in there.
And there was a science teacher, a physics, high school physics teacher named David Chandler, who did, he had some software so he could time the collapse, right?
And he gave that information and they had to say, oh yeah, I guess there was freefall in there.
And they come up with some cockamamie thing.
Well, you know, that was after it was in there.
Well, we know the government's very good at creating these false narratives.
For example, TWA Flight 800.
It's clear now that was shot down accidentally by the U.S. Navy during a missile test.
They thought they were shooting at a drone.
They actually shot down Flight 800.
And then, of course, they came up with this cockamamie explanation.
Oh, there was a fuel leak, and the fuel went down in a straight line, and then it ignited at the bottom, and then it looked like a missile.
You know, they were drawing from Star Trek science fiction to try to explain Flight 800.
So I have no doubt Building 7, I mean, whatever they need to come up with, but it violates the laws of physics, you know, their explanations.
Well, back to 800, they have affidavits from people on the ground, and I think one of them was even an FBI agent that said, I saw a streak coming from the ground up and hit the plane.
See, that's the problem.
They have witnesses that They don't like what they have to say, so they don't get any reports.
Like Secretary Mineta, who was in the bunker on 9-11 and listened to Cheney and this unidentified young man and saying, well, it's 30 miles out.
Does the order still stand?
Yes.
The funny one is, well, it's 10 miles out.
And he asked Cheney, well, does the order still stand?
He says, have you heard anything different?
Yeah, well, what was that order?
Because nobody engaged these planes.
I mean, the NORAD was just totally hapless, but that's a whole other...
I want to stay on 7 because...
Let's stay on 7, but I need you to...
I mean, we're almost out of time already, so I want you to kind of highlight and summarize this.
Okay.
And also mention architects and engineers for 9-11 Truth, too, because there are a lot of engineers there who have done all the math on this, but go ahead.
Yeah, they're great.
So anyway...
It was supposedly a progressive collapse, and what happened was the beams expanded, and they pushed the girder off, and the girder fell down on the 12th floor, and there was a cascade down to the 5th floor.
And then what happened then was because...
None of those girders were any longer attached to Column 79.
Column 79 buckled, and it collapsed, and it started a chain reaction.
It went 300 feet across the width of the building instantaneously.
So bear in mind, all these other members, they had the shear studs.
They had the concrete.
They were all put together, bolted together, but they all failed.
Because this one column failed.
And so that's basically their argument.
That's their explanation for it.
There's more detail about that particular girder I could go into.
There's a thing called web stiffeners.
They didn't include the web stiffeners, which would have kept it from falling off, and they didn't include shear studs, which definitely would have helped because they would have been connected to the concrete and harder for it to push off.
So they left out the two really major parts of the construction And we know it was that way because we've seen the shop drawings, and we've actually seen pictures of the construction, and we can see those things there, so we know they were there.
It's not like we're guessing.
And one of the things I like about Building 7 is that this isn't guesswork.
I mean, there's a lot of things...
Theories that people have about what happened on 9-11, and I think a lot of them are probably true, but there's a lot of them.
They're kind of fuzzy, and you're not really sure.
I'm talking about science here.
I'm talking about reality.
I'm talking about going through and seeing what really went on.
And another problem they had with this whole thing is they didn't even start investigating until 2002.
By then, all of the material had been packed up and shipped off into China.
They hardly had any.
What an amazing coincidence that all the evidence was swept away.
Yeah, it was a crime scene.
It was a crime scene, exactly.
Yeah.
And they just dumped it into a bunch of dump trucks.
400 dump trucks a day.
400 a day until it was all gone.
Wow.
Yeah, and this is a common thread, too.
Wherever things like this happen, there's a cleanup crew very quickly.
Like, I think in Waco, it was the same thing.
What's with all the bulldozers, huh?
You know, they got to get the bones out of there, you know?
Yeah, it was like, I don't know, you ever saw Three Days of the Condor, the old movie, where these people got attacked and, you know, CIA type of thing, and they sent in the cleanup crew afterwards.
Yep.
Okay, make everything look right.
You know, clean up the blood.
It's all gone.
That's, you know, I know we're short on time.
I was going to go through, there's 10 characteristics of controlled demolition.
I don't have time to go through all those right now, but I will tell you that Building 7 fit all 10 of those.
Yeah, you kind of implied a couple of them.
One would be the sound of explosions before, and then the other one would be maybe something approaching free fall speeds, but not exactly equaling free fall.
Yeah.
I won't go into the explanation, I'll name it real quickly.
Sudden onset of fall, straight down, pattern removal of columns, free fall, as you mentioned, explosions, large volume of gas, pyroclastic clouds, and then there was forensic evidence.
And that forensic evidence was all destroyed.
Yep.
Yep.
Well, oh, and I forgot to mention Oklahoma City.
They took that building down after the so-called Timothy McVeigh explosion, which my friends, former U.S. Army explosive expert type of people tell me, there's no way you could take down that building that way from a van in the parking lot.
It doesn't work that way.
Well, they found unexploded bombs inside.
I mean, really?
Hello?
Yeah.
It's amazing how quickly everybody shuts up.
You know, and the other thing is, explosives, it's kind of like if you put a firecracker in the palm of your hand and light it, it's going to go off and, yeah, it's going to hurt.
It's going to burn you, but it's not going to destroy your hand.
If you light it and then are dumb enough to grip it and put your hand around that firecracker, you're going to do some major structural damage to your fist, right?
So an explosive outside, let's say, a concrete column, It's not going to do anything to it.
But an explosive burrowed into the column is going to shear it from the inside.
The same volume of explosive material.
It's physics.
Exactly.
Like we said before, these are cutter chargers.
They're designed to cut through steel.
And they do.
And the only way...
You know, if you remember nothing else from this or whoever's listening to it, explain to me how something could possibly fall for 2.25 seconds in total freefall if there was something left under it to stop it from falling.
Well, maybe the laws of gravity were changed that day.
And we should hope it doesn't happen again.
Yeah, well, this happened with COVID. Yes.
I mean, really, isn't it the same thing?
I mean, it's the same.
We're, you know, what...
What does our government tell us that we can possibly believe anymore?
Inflation is transitory.
How about that one?
Hey, that's a good one.
I like that.
Inflation is transitory and Building 7 fell because of an office fire and so on and so forth.
We didn't leave equipment behind in Afghanistan recently.
Whatever.
Yeah, it's all lies.
Everybody knows that now, or more and more people know that now.
Final thoughts, Bill, for what you want to leave people with on this?
Well, as I mentioned, you know, if nothing else, somebody has to explain freefall, and this obviously has not done that.
And I, you know, I encourage people to do your own homework.
You know, check out Architects and Interest.
They have a ton of great, they have videos and They have reports.
They've done papers.
And then you can watch Seven.
That was the...
Dylan Avery made it.
You know who Dylan Avery is.
No, I don't.
He did Loose Change.
Oh, okay.
Okay, right.
Okay, so he did it, and he went – so it's about a 40-minute documentary of Leroy Halsey.
And when it came out, I thought everybody would be talking about it.
I thought, oh, man, you've got to see this documentary.
But I didn't hear anybody do it, and I'd go, where – Why not?
But you could go on Amazon and rent it for four bucks.
You know, Bill, there's something...
I'm sorry for going on here, but there's something that I've come to learn over 20 years of truth-telling.
And that is that when a set of facts collides with a person's psyche and embracing those facts requires them to discard their entire belief system that they've grown up with, they are incapable of doing so.
Because if Building 7 was delirious.
demolished through controlled demolition, then they would have to rethink everything they thought they knew for their entire adulthood.
And it's just too much for most people.
So they just say, well, whatever, you know, the, I'm not going to think about it because I've got to get to this meeting.
And that's it.
Yeah.
Well, it's just like Piltdown Man.
You're familiar with Piltdown Man, right?
No, I guess I'm not.
That was a hoax about the missing link.
Oh, yeah.
Okay, right.
In anthropology.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Piltdown UK. And it turned out to be a jaw of an ass and a tooth of a pig.
And they had people for 50 years, they had people, anthropologists around the world, convinced that that was the missing link.
Well, we've seen a similar thing with these supposed indigenous grave sites in Canada.
It turns out to just be mounds of dirt.
There's nothing there.
I mean, there are so many hoaxes that are perpetrated.
And I've interviewed other guests that talk about, you know, obviously many other different types of hoaxes.
But people's...
Understanding of history has been framed by so many of these hoaxes, like Oklahoma City, Timothy McVeigh.
I mean, the explosion was real, but the story behind the explosion is a complete fraud.
Oh, absolutely.
Yeah, it's just...
Yeah, it's...
And that's why I appreciate what you do, because you bring on some...
I've listened to some of your guests, and they just really bring on some great people, and you've been a leader...
And you've been telling the truth for a long time.
And interestingly, just a side note, the reason I got into seeking the truth the way I do now is because I saw The guy that wrote Omnivore's Dilemma, Polin, I think Michael Polin.
Yeah, Polin.
He was on Bill Maher, of all things.
I was traveling, and I was in a hotel room, and I was surfing, because I couldn't go to sleep.
And I came upon that, and he was talking about his book.
So I owe Bill Maher, of all people.
God, we're working in mysterious ways.
That was the moment when the light came out and I go, oh, really?
I've got to check into this.
And I've been going down the rabbit hole ever since.
Even Bill Maher, he's had enough with the wokeism and all the transgender pressure on children and things like that.
So everybody's playing an interesting role in all of this.
Yeah.
My role is to just bring on intriguing people like yourself and encourage people to think about these things.
And I appreciate you taking the time with us.
This has already been fascinating.
What's the website for architects and engineers for 9-11 Truth?
What is that?
It's just Architects and Engineers 9-11 Truths.
Just type it in and you'll come right up to it.
Is it a.org or a.com?
Do you recall?
I don't think you even have to do that.
I think you can just type in...
Okay, hold on a second here.
We have to give the right address.
Okay, I have AE911truth.org.
There we go.
AE911truth.org.
Nailed it.
Okay.
And there's probably a website for like TWA Flight 800 Truth as well, but we don't have time to look that one up, folks.
You've got to find that yourself.
Yeah, here's what I hope.
I hope that anybody listening to this will start to think about it and realize, oh, hmm, I need to find out more.
I encourage everybody to listen to this.
Don't trust me.
I'm just a broken-down old retired general contractor.
What do I know?
Do your own homework.
It's important that you do your own homework.
Read and watch and listen and learn because that's what you need to do.
To really understand this thing.
And if I didn't, you know, help you think about this or start to think about this, then I think this interview has been very successful.
Yes, absolutely.
Well said.
Well, thank you, Bill Petty, for spending time with us today.
And thank you for having the courage to ask these questions.
It's much appreciated.
Thank you, Mike, for all that you do.
I can't say enough for my appreciation of what you've done over the years.
We'll all keep going.
We're adding people all the time.
More people are waking up.
And I'll mention, and I'll just say thank you, Bill, for all the time you're spending with us, but I'll mention a lot of people are now willing to look at 9-11 because of what they saw with COVID. Isn't that fascinating?
Or what they're seeing now with the FBI or the CDC or the FDA. They're seeing the corruption and the lies in a way they never saw it before.
Now they're looking back.
And beginning to reevaluate everything that they were told, such as, you know, I mentioned Waco, Oklahoma City, 9-11, and so on.
And it is time to reevaluate everything that we think we've been taught, because a lot of it has been complete fraud, for sure.
Yep.
Good way to finish.
All right, man.
Have a wonderful evening.
Thank you so much.
Thanks so much.
All right.
Bye.
Bye.
Well, that was a fascinating interview.
Hopefully gives you a lot to think about.
Question all the narratives that you're being told, of course, especially about history and government and so-called extremism.
You're going to find out that almost everything that seems extreme in your lifetime of history here in America, almost all of it was actually carried out by the deep state or the intelligence community.
Almost all of it Very few exceptions to that.
Just about everything.
It was all planned and scripted, you know, and they recruited people.
They carried it out.
Or they got other countries to carry it out, like, in this case, Saudi Arabia, right?
It's all part of defending the petrodollar status and, you know, expanding the surveillance police state system to surveil the American people.
All that.
Anyway...
You've been lied to about almost everything in history.
Okay, shifting gears here.
By the way, if you've been waiting for our certified organic freeze-dried blueberries in number 10 cans, all lab tested, guess what?
As of Friday, as of last Friday, they're back in stock.
So they're there right now.
If you go to healthrangerstore.com, the way to search for these is a little tricky.
Sometimes the search engine doesn't work very well.
If you go in the top search and you just type in blueberries, But you don't hit enter, and then you'll see categories pop up as search suggestions.
One of those categories is freeze-dried organic whole blueberries.
Click on that, and it'll bring them up, and then you can get them right there.
You can add them to your cart.
Those are in stock.
Some, I don't know, they might last a week or so before they're sold out.
We've got freeze-dried corn coming into stock.
We've got other freeze-dried fruits, but we can barely keep them in stock because, of course, the very high demand for these foods.
Now, we're going to keep making these and shipping them out as long as we can get supply.
But we also know that that window is closing, that there's going to be a day when we can't get the supply and we can't package it or we can't ship it out.
There's going to be downtime.
There's going to be like a reset time or a reboot time.
This is kind of the final thought I wanted to leave you with today, is that from everything that I'm seeing in terms of finance and civil unrest and the controlled demolition of the energy system, cyber warfare threats on the power grid, all the false flag operations, World War III, biological terrorism, nuclear terrorism, dirty bomb false flags, all this stuff, you know where it's going to go?
Whatever they pull, it's going to go to a reboot time.
There will be a time when we're all offline, where society doesn't function.
The banks don't work.
The money doesn't work because, you know, they're trying to convert everybody over to the next thing while screwing you royally out of 95% of your savings, of course.
There's going to be a time where the internet doesn't work, where FedEx doesn't run, UPS doesn't operate, the railroads don't run, nothing.
No gas, no power grid, no cell towers, nothing.
That day's coming.
I know it's coming.
I don't know when exactly, but it seems like it's getting closer, and I don't know the duration.
Some people say, ah, it's only going to be a month.
I think that's optimistic.
Personally, I'm planning for more like a year, and it could be longer, but maybe that's too pessimistic.
I don't know.
But my advice to everybody, and this goes for even family and friends or anybody I run into who asks me this question, like, you know, for what duration of time should I prepare to be off-grid for how long?
I say a year.
And they're usually shocked.
They say, a year?
You think you're going to have no grocery store deliveries for a year?
I say, yeah, it could be.
I mean, because what happens if you have no fuel refineries functioning for a year?
How are you going to get the groceries delivered to your local grocery store?
Or what if the banks don't function for an extended period of time?
How is anybody going to buy and sell food or pay for delivery or pay employees if the internet doesn't function?
How do grocery stores that exist in the modern world, how do they even function?
Because it all goes to a central server somewhere for the price check, you know, the...
All the transactions, the food stamps, the credit cards, the debit cards, all of it.
When the systems go down, those things don't work, obviously.
So yeah, it could be offline for a year.
Sure it could.
Why not?
So I always think it's funny when the government, you know, at ready.gov tells people, have a three-day supply in case of emergencies.
And then, you know, Denver, Colorado gives you a bug-out bag, and what does it have?
It's got a roll of toilet paper, it has a flashlight, it's got a little tissue package, some washcloths, and it's like, okay, are you bugging out to die?
These three-day weekend planning things?
Come on.
It's a joke.
It's non-planning with the theater of planning.
Let's pretend that we're planning.
It's like when you're a child and maybe you had a sister or Somebody and they bought like a little Barbie oven.
Did you ever see one of the Barbie doll oven?
And you could play like you're cooking, you're baking lasagna, a little Barbie lasagna, it's a little Barbie oven.
That's what preparedness is like for the masses right now.
It's pretend.
It's Barbie doll preparedness.
Oh, look at Ken in his Corvette and he's going on a date with Barbie.
And then that's...
Sorry.
I guess these days it's like, it's transgender, Ken!
It's ma'am!
You know, hasn't Barbie gone all full transgender now?
Interchangeable sex organs in the Barbie dolls or something.
I'm sure it's all twisted like that now.
But you get my point.
It's a joke.
The preparedness that people engage in right now is a total joke.
They're not going to live one weekend if that's all they do is just listen to government tell them how to prepare.
Yeah, that's the same government that lied about 9-11 and lied about TWA Flight 800 and lied about COVID and lied about the vaccines and lied about the elections, lied about everything.
And they're telling you, you only need three days.
Oh, well, get ready to die.
Real preparedness takes, of course, not just storing things, but also being prepared to rebuild and to grow your own food.
Being prepared to plant seeds, grow crops, save the seeds for the next generation, and be able to preserve your food, can your food, freeze your food, dry your food, whatever it takes.
You're going to have to become a pioneer.
To make it through the first year.
Just remember by the way that A lot of the orcs will die in the first 90 days from starvation and disease.
So it's the very first wave of orcs or zombies.
I guess this is getting into a very interesting Lord of the Rings thematic mixture.
Zombies and orcs all together attacking you, looking for food, hungry for human flesh.
How about...
Orcs and zombies and groomers all together, like pedophiles on the hunt with the zombies and the orcs, hungry for food or children or some combination.
And they're coming for you.
My point is, if you can survive that wave, like that first, I don't know, 60 to 90 days, then things are going to calm down because a lot of those zombies are going to get shot or starved to death, depending on where they are.
But that first few months, yeah, that's going to be a real test right there.
That's going to be survival of the fittest, depending on how crazy things get.
But if you've followed the things that I promote here, you're probably going to be pretty well off.
And you probably have a self-reliance kind of mindset to begin with.
Otherwise, you wouldn't be listening to this.
You're in the top, I don't know, 0.1% of preparedness people probably, I'm just guessing, all across the country.
You're going to do really well.
But it doesn't mean you can let your guard down.
Be ready.
Pay attention.
Watch what's happening because this unraveling is going to happen very, very quickly.
Double check the bolt carrier group on your rifle.
Make sure it's well lubricated.
Get yourself a nickel boron replacement if you don't have that yet in your AR. You know, it's kind of like an anti-stick metal.
Runs better.
Make sure you've got all the right ammo.
Make sure you've got your bug-out location, your backup communications, backup medical supplies, off-grid money, you know, gold and silver, whatever.
It's going to get interesting, folks.
Yep.
And it's underway.
So have a great day.
I will talk to you tomorrow, God willing, and the next day until we get to, you know, Collapse Day, when we all go offline for a while, and then I hope to see you on the other side of that when we have the refounding of America.
We'll see if we can make it there.
Thank you for listening.
God bless you.
Thank you for all your support.
Talk to you tomorrow.
Take care.
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