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Oct. 14, 2022 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams

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Situation Update, 10/14/22 - BARGE-POCALYPSE unfolding...

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	Well, things are certainly heating up on the inflation front.
	Welcome to the Situation Update for Friday, October 14th, 2022.
	Mike Adams here.
	I've got a big surprise coming for you.
	It might be 10 days, maybe two weeks out, but it's going to be awesome.
	I will share it with you right here in this podcast.
	Sorry, I can't say anymore.
	It's a teaser, I know, but it's going to be worth the wait.
	Trust me.
	Something exclusive and really cool.
	All right.
	So, of course, the inflation numbers off the charts, just catastrophic, right?
	Officially, what, 8.3%.
	But if you look at the cost of food, as we talked about yesterday, some of the food items are 40% higher from one year ago.
	That's vegetables.
	A lot of other foods are 30% or 20% higher.
	Yeah, we see this because we're in the food business.
	That's what I've been talking about this whole time.
	Food's getting extremely expensive and restaurants are getting hammered.
	But, of course, air travel is a lot more expensive.
	Health insurance, health care is a lot more expensive.
	And I've been hearing from a lot of people who are having their insurance policies, even home insurance, is going up 40 or 50 percent.
	Are you seeing that, by the way?
	Are you getting letters in the mail like, ah, yeah, sure, we'll renew your insurance policy, but now it's going to be this much more, plus 40%, something in that range, because I'm hearing that from a lot of folks, and I think that's a trend that is going to continue.
	So this inflation number is quite disastrous right before an election, because we're only, what, three weeks away or something like that.
	And the Democrats did not want to see this at all.
	You can bet they tried to do a little arm twisting and tweaking to get this number as low as possible.
	And it still came in above 8%.
	And of course, the producer price index PPI was up 0.4% month over month, which was twice what was expected by analysts.
	So yeah, businesses are paying more.
	Consumers are paying more.
	It's going through the roof.
	What this means, the practical upshot of this is that the Fed is going to continue to raise interest rates well into 2023.
	So they're not going to pivot anytime soon.
	I know there was talk earlier in the year that some people thought the Fed might, quote, pivot Around Christmas time or Thanksgiving time.
	And to pivot, that means that they would start lowering interest rates, right?
	Start reversing all of this tightening.
	And they would go into easing.
	Well, based on the numbers that just came out, the Fed's not going to pivot.
	Until sometime next year.
	And who knows?
	Maybe not even until 2024.
	We just have to see what happens with inflation numbers.
	And remember, always double the official government numbers.
	So if the government says 8%, it's more like 16% or even higher.
	As you know, if you're buying things like real people do in the real world, Now, I've got a ton of headlines to go through with you here, and also, I've got a really fascinating interview coming up With the co-founder of a survival realty website, and it's called survivalrealty.com, by the way, which shouldn't be surprising.
	I've got a ton of questions for this individual to ask about people migrating out of the cities and trying to get out into rural areas and homesteading and off-grid living and all kinds of stuff like that.
	So you'll want to stay tuned for that interview because I think it's going to be a good one.
	At least I know I have a ton of questions.
	So we'll just see how that conversation goes.
	In the meantime, you know that the White House was trying to twist the arm of Saudi Arabia to get them to delay any cuts on oil production until after the midterm elections.
	And so, a headline here from the Epoch Times, Saudi Arabia rejects White House criticism of oil output cuts, says the U.S. asked for a delay until midterms.
	This is the Saudi foreign minister, Prince Faisal bin Farhan al-Saud, I'm sorry, it's a long name, accused the U.S. government of attempting to distort the facts about the kingdom's position on the Russia-Ukraine war.
	Because what happened is the Biden regime, which is just losing control of everything, And you talk about international geopolitical incompetence on steroids.
	It's quite an amazing theatrical show here.
	But Biden apparently said that if Saudi Arabia cuts oil production now instead of delaying, then that means that Saudi Arabia is on the side of Russia, which is nonsense.
	But that's what Biden said.
	So what he has managed to do, by the way, is he has really angered.
	The Saudis.
	Now, the reason this matters has everything to do with the petrodollar and BRICS nations and dollar hegemony.
	And of course, as you know, because you're well informed, without the Saudis backing the petrodollar, the whole concept of the petrodollar collapses.
	And Joe Biden has managed to, dare I say, piss off the most important oil producing nation on the planet.
	Whereas Trump had these people in the palm of his hand, you know?
	He was meeting with them and using their crystal ball or whatever that photo was.
	I still don't know.
	What are they doing?
	They're staring into an orb together.
	Anyway, they were seeing eye to eye or even eye to orb, whatever the case may be.
	But Joe Biden, he fist bumps the leaders and the leaders are like, screw America, you know, screw the Bidens.
	And that's what they're doing.
	And now they're going public with how, frankly, I don't know, incompetent and stupid the White House has been in this whole thing.
	So I think that the Saudis cut oil, frankly, just to kind of kick Biden right between the eyes.
	I think that's what's going on, actually.
	And yes, we're talking about MBS, as it's called, Mohammed bin Salman.
	And he is, I guess, officially the Prime Minister or the Crown Prince, not sure what the right title is, MBS. He doesn't like Joe Biden.
	I mean, who does, right?
	Anybody who knows Joe Biden does not like him or certainly is not impressed with him.
	And Joe Biden is not going to be able to kind of out-bully MBS. You know, the other day, Joe Biden said on a hot mic incident, he said, nobody F's with a Biden.
	Well, except, of course, there was a bicycle that effed with Biden not long ago.
	Remember Biden Falls, the new location, the geotargeted location?
	Yeah, a bicycle beat Joe Biden.
	MBS is absolutely, shall we say, effing with Joe Biden.
	I only use that term because that's what Biden used.
	But MBS is effing with him.
	And, you know, so is the English language, apparently, because Biden is topsy-turvy, all turned upside down with the English language.
	I mean, grammar effs with Biden, frankly.
	I think reality is effing with Biden every single day.
	But the upshot of this, well, in the short term, it means that gasoline prices are going to be higher for the next few weeks or, well, months as well, but the weeks leading up to the election.
	And that's on top of the really horrific inflation numbers that just came out that are also going to very much hurt the Democrats in this election.
	Now, remember, inflation is the number one issue on Americans' minds for this election.
	It's the number one issue.
	Turns out that in multiple polls and surveys, the American people don't really care about January 6th.
	There's a whole bunch of stuff they don't care about.
	I don't know what the whole list is.
	Forgot everything on the list.
	But I remember what's at the top of that list of what they do care about.
	It's inflation.
	Why?
	Because everybody buys gas and everybody eats groceries.
	And those two things are just going through the roof, especially the groceries.
	So...
	Right now, the way I'm seeing it, this midterm election is going to be a red wave.
	It's going to be GOP taking seats that the Democrats never even thought could be taken from them.
	I've heard the Democrats are panicked about Oregon now.
	They're going to lose seats in Oregon, or at least they may do so.
	And of course, Blake Masters is doing awesome in Arizona.
	He'll probably win that Senate seat, or at least a good chance of it.
	He's up against, what's the guy's name?
	Mark, the astronaut guy, who's the gun control guy, that we should never support.
	Vote for Blake Masters, vote for Carrie Lake, obviously.
	And in Pennsylvania, again, vote for Oz, not Fetterman, obviously.
	Fetterman, gosh, Fetterman Fetterman's got more cognitive problems, perhaps, than Joe Biden himself.
	I mean, where are the Democrats finding these people?
	Are they digging them up out of graveyards and reanimating them with zombie drugs or something?
	Is that the Democrat Party at this point?
	Because it sure looks like that.
	But now, in the long run, the cost of screwing with the Saudis is very, very bad for America because, again, if the Saudis just one morning, they announce, hey, hi, I'm MBS. We have a new policy.
	We're dumping the petrodollar status, and we're going to sell oil in everything.
	In rupees and rubles and yuan and yen and everything.
	We're just going to sell oil in any currency.
	In fact, you can pay us Bitcoin, gold, silver.
	You can bring ammo.
	We can barter.
	You can bring chickens and cows.
	Whatever you have, we'll sell oil.
	Like a boatload of cows for a boatload of oil, I guess.
	Something like that.
	When that day comes, you know it's over for the dollar.
	It's over.
	Because...
	Well, why would anybody need dollars in other countries around the world at that point?
	They wouldn't need the dollars anymore to buy oil, so all these dollars would just be sold off everywhere.
	And that's the day the dollar crashes, kind of like what's happening to the British pound sterling currency and eventually the euro.
	Yeah, the dollar is going to crash at some point.
	I know it's sky high right now compared to other failing currencies, but the inflation numbers that just came out show you that the dollar is not strong in absolute terms.
	The dollar is weak.
	It's just not as weak as the other currencies, you see.
	So when people say, oh, it's a strong dollar.
	Strong against what?
	Strong against, you know, the British pound?
	Yeah, okay.
	Strong against the euro?
	Yeah.
	Strong against the yen?
	Yeah.
	Not strong against rice, is it?
	Not strong against beans.
	The dollar's weak against beans, it turns out.
	The dollar's weak against broccoli.
	Seriously, because broccoli's gone up 40%.
	Which means the dollar's lost 40% of its purchasing power for broccoli.
	So, broccoli effed with the dollar, you know, to use the Joe Biden terminology.
	Broccoli has brought the dollar to its knees.
	And celery, too.
	You know, green peppers, this kind of stuff.
	Parsley.
	You know, the power of parsley.
	Who knew it could collapse a currency, or at least contribute to the collapse.
	But seriously, folks, the dollar's not strong.
	It's weak.
	It's very weak.
	And you'll see that yourself at the grocery store.
	So I was reading FreightWaves.com because these days you have to read.
	I have to review all the agriculture news sources and the fertilizer news sources and the logistics and transportation, all that stuff, international shipping.
	It's really cool, actually.
	This is a fascinating area of knowledge.
	But there was an article that caught my attention today on FreightWaves.com.
	Latest supply chain crisis could threaten global stash of food and energy.
	And it's talking about a crisis that you may not have heard of.
	And it is the barge crisis.
	I'm not even making this up.
	There is a barge crisis.
	Now, the problem is that the drought is so bad, i.e.
	geoengineering and weather control, that a lot of the rivers that are used to move goods via barges, the rivers are running dry.
	And this is happening not only in Germany and other parts of Europe, but also in the United States.
	So to understand this...
	From the story here, it says that barges move aluminum, petroleum, fertilizer, and coal, particularly on the Mississippi River and its tributaries.
	60% of the grain and 54% of the soybeans for U.S. export are moved on barges.
	And barges touch more than a third of our exported coal as well.
	Now, the barge industry, this story says, is mired in crisis.
	Water levels on the Mississippi River Basin are at its lowest point in more than a decade.
	And it's harvest season.
	And farmers are trying to move what they've harvested onto the barges and down the river.
	And the barges are getting stuck because the water is too low.
	So the farmers are having to store their goods in large piles on the edges of the rivers or in other nearby locations.
	What you're getting are giant, I kid you not, giant bean piles.
	I've even got a story about that.
	Farmers, there are giant bean piles, like an actual hill of beans that are being deposited because the barges can't run because the rivers are too low.
	So this also affects Europe because Europe is trying to buy coal from the United States, but the coal can't be exported because the barges aren't running, or at least some of them aren't running.
	So it's not just grain and soybeans, although there is a food crisis in Europe as well because the fertilizer collapsed and so on, but it's also coal.
	So let's see, there's a barge marketing intelligence firm called Crichton Corp.
	It says, quote, In this blocked-off section of the Mississippi between Louisiana and the state of Mississippi, it finally reopened on Monday.
	Traffic is limited to one-way traffic, and that comes from the U.S. Coast Guard that is monitoring the situation.
	So it's as if you have a highway with construction, you know, and they've limited it to one lane, so everything's slowed down.
	Basically, the Mississippi River has become a little canal where they have to...
	They have to direct the traffic.
	So as a result of the delays, the barge companies have to charge more money to move goods via barge.
	And as this story is quoting, the price to move goods on a barge from St.
	Louis is now up 218% compared to last year.
	And then they say that shipments from Cincinnati and Louisville, Kentucky are up 196%.
	So, yeah, pretty big price increases right there.
	Now, 92% of the nation's agricultural output comes from the Mississippi River Basin.
	Did you know that?
	92%.
	That's just shocking to me.
	Now, barges...
	Move so much stuff so efficiently that one, this is from the story again, one 15-barge tow can carry the same amount of freight as two 108-car freight trains or 1,050 semi-trucks.
	Right?
	So, let's see.
	Would you rather use one barge Cruising down the river to move your grain or your soybeans or your beans or whatever, or would you rather hire a thousand semi-trucks and truck drivers To run it down the highway.
	Which one's going to be more efficient?
	Well, obviously, the barges are going to be way more efficient, which is critical for moving heavy goods like fertilizer and coal and grain and so on.
	So this is also, by the way, in terms of history, this is why the major cities of the world are all located on rivers.
	Because rivers were, I mean, this was the logistics, well, the logistics arteries of civilization from the beginning of time.
	People have always moved goods up and down the rivers.
	So, you know, that's why the big cities are on the rivers or coastal cities, you know, one way or the other.
	You got to have water to move things efficiently.
	So in terms of efficiency, one gallon of fuel allows a barge to move 616 ton miles.
	Now, that's essentially one ton for 616 miles, or you could say 616 tons for one mile.
	Okay, either way.
	That's one gallon of fuel.
	If you try to do that on trucks, it's nowhere near as efficient.
	On a truck, one gallon of fuel only gets you 150 ton miles.
	So barges are what's at more than 400% more efficient than moving things by truck.
	And it's also safer, by the way.
	Now, these barges need at minimum nine feet of navigable water.
	That doesn't sound like much to me.
	Only nine feet.
	Now, they would like to have more, but they can still run up and down on nine feet.
	The problem is, if you get stuck, oh, you're stuck good.
	Because, you know, you just drove like 5,000 tons of mass on a barge into a bunch of mud.
	That's not going to be easy to get out of there.
	especially with your toe, because the toe, it's just barely strong enough to navigate the river.
	The toe is not designed to yank things out of mud that weigh thousands of tons.
	So you have to get special equipment to come in and pull these things out of the mud.
	And then you clog up the whole river during that entire operation for however many days it takes.
	This is worse than the Suez Canal situation.
	Now, you may recall from a couple of months ago, I think it was the Rhine River in Germany that was so low, they could not get barges with coal to the coal-fired power plants.
	I don't know if that situation has somewhat resolved due to rainfall.
	I'm not sure.
	But I know that was a crisis for quite some time.
	It may still be persisting.
	But the point is, you can't get the coal out of the United States because, well, the lack of rainfall...
	So, you know, think about what's happening here with the global supply chain collapse, the energy scarcity in Europe, the shutdown of metals and smelting operations and so on, the impact on transportation due to higher fuel prices, fuel scarcity.
	We've got, you know, diesel prices still very high, fuel going higher because of, you know, MBS effing with Joe Biden.
	And we've got these rainfall problems that are making it hard to transport goods on the rivers.
	So basically transportation is taking a massive hit And costs are going up in certain areas, whereas in other areas such as international cargo on the oceans, it's going way down now because plummeting consumer demand is kicking in.
	So we're starting to see this weird combination of deflation in certain areas because consumers can't afford the higher prices on goods.
	And that's why Walmart and Target are canceling billions of dollars in orders from Asia.
	But then at the same time, other forms of domestic transportation are much more expensive because, well, factors like the drought and so on and fuel prices.
	So You put all this together and of course farming is impacted by this.
	You can't move the grains up and down the river very easily.
	So what does that do?
	Causes grain prices to be higher for cattle, which raises meat prices because most of the grain is actually used to feed animals.
	So meat prices go up and then you have a lack of fertilizer.
	Especially in Europe because of the lack of natural gas.
	So then you have fewer grain bushels being produced by the farmers.
	This will especially hit hard in 2023.
	So food inflation is going to continue to increase in 2023.
	And food scarcity may get worse, not because farmers can't grow it, but they can't move it.
	They just can't transport it like the Hill of Beans.
	In fact, let me bring you that story.
	Here it is.
	This one's from Zero Hedge.
	Massive bean piles spotted up and down the Mississippi River as barges can't meet harvest demand.
	That's exactly what we were just talking about.
	Due to a barge shortage, some farmers have no choice but to store beans and other farm goods outside in massive piles.
	In fact, let me play a video for you here of this giant hill of beans in Memphis.
	Check this out.
	So there you go.
	From the story, Yeah.
	By the way, you know what happens if you have grains and beans that sit around in warm, wet weather?
	You know what you get?
	Aflatoxins.
	Yeah, because the mold starts to grow on it.
	You get aflatoxins.
	Now, aflatoxins will kill cattle and horses, you know, all the agricultural animals.
	And aflatoxins also can cause liver damage in humans.
	That's why, by the way, we at the Health Ranger store, we test all the nuts and seeds that we sell for athotoxins.
	They especially persist on nuts and seeds.
	And we're expanding that testing to other types of grains as well because it can appear in things like oats, by the way.
	I'm not sure how often it attacks beans, but I know it can show up in wheat, for example, and in corn.
	So the longer this stuff sits around, the more toxic it gets.
	And that's all, you know, look, if you heard my interview with Dane Wigington, geoengineering watch, you know that this is all a weather weapon system.
	So the drought is causing, I mean, the weaponized weather control is causing the drought, which is leading to the destruction of the food, as we're just talking about here.
	And, of course, that's going to lead to more food inflation and ultimately scarcity, famine, starvation, panic, those kinds of things.
	This is all being done by design, just so you know.
	It's all done by design, and the water's not just running out in the Mississippi River.
	It's also running out, of course, in Lake Mead, The lake that feeds Las Vegas and other areas.
	The water's, of course, running out in California.
	You've got, I think, something like, what was it, almost 800,000 acres of rice farmland that is not being planted this year, I believe.
	That may not be the exact number, but it's something very high like that.
	Maybe it's only 400,000 acres, but that's a lot.
	It's not being planted because there's no water.
	And as you recall, if you heard my Paul Preston interview just yesterday, California has done that on purpose.
	The criminal corrupt government of the Newsom regime has done this on purpose.
	They released the water they had in order to create a drought situation, to create an emergency, to try to get more federal emergency money.
	Which they laundered through all their criminal networks to pay themselves off while the people suffer.
	Okay, that's what's happening in California.
	That's why Paul Preston is starting, well, he and many other people have the New California State Movement.
	And I did that interview with him yesterday.
	That's the website, newcaliforniastate.com.
	But you need to understand the big picture here is that they attack the food system not only via arson, let's say, because you know there's over 100 food production facilities that have burned down in the last year or so.
	They also attack it through weather weapons to cause crop failures and then to cause the failure of rivers that are used to transport grains and beans and all kinds of supplies.
	Now, a quick note about geoengineering and weather control, because over many years, some people would hear that and they would snicker, weather control, you think the weather is controlled, put on your tinfoil hat, that kind of thing, right?
	Well, check this out.
	Here's a story in the last 24 hours from CNBC. It's a story about geoengineering.
	It's a story that I reported I think five years ago.
	Alright?
	Now it's on CNBC. Here it is.
	White House is pushing ahead research to cool the earth by reflecting back sunlight.
	And It says there are several kinds of sunlight reflection technology being considered, including stratospheric aerosol injection, SAI. Huh.
	Where did you hear that before?
	Well, you heard it from me, and you heard it from sites like Infowars and Alex Jones, who we'll talk about in a second here because of the insane Sandy Hook trial situation.
	But...
	The independent media has been talking about this for years and getting, you know, fact-checked.
	It's not true.
	It's not true by all the fact-checkers.
	There's no such thing as stratospheric aerosol injection or global dimming, you know, but of course there is.
	So the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy is coordinating a five-year research plan This is from CNBC. To study ways of modifying the amount of sunlight that reaches the Earth in order to temporarily temper the effects of global warming.
	What they mean is they're going to block the sun.
	And by doing so, they're going to block photosynthesis.
	To do what?
	Oh, to cause crop failures, folks, because all crops run on photosynthesis.
	Remember this.
	Crops need sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water.
	You got it?
	Sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water.
	What three things are being blocked by all this geoengineering and weather weapons and all these projects?
	They're going to dim the sun, as this story is talking about.
	They're taking CO2 out of the atmosphere with, of course, carbon sequestration technologies, and they're restricting rainfall through weather control systems, which are also confirmed a multitude of ways in many other stories.
	It's well-known technology.
	So they're using technology to block every single component of photosynthesis to cause crop failures, and if you still manage to grow any crops, don't worry, you won't be able to move them because the barges are shut down.
	See?
	You'll just have your beans in a giant hill on the side of the river while they rot from, you know, fungi and molds that are producing aflatoxins.
	So it becomes a useless crop.
	See?
	This is all by design, folks.
	So from the same story, it says, oh, there are several kinds of sunlight reflection technologies being considered, including stratospheric aerosol injection, but also marine cloud brightening and cirrus cloud thinning.
	You don't believe in weather control?
	The White House is talking about cloud thinning systems.
	Cirrus cloud thinning and marine cloud brightening.
	Is that like teeth whitening?
	What is that?
	How does that work?
	So basically, they pollute the skies in order to reflect more sunlight away from reaching the surface of the Earth.
	And that way, the crops fail.
	And then they can say, oh, we're fighting global warming.
	No, you're contributing to global cooling is what you're doing.
	What, are you trying to create another ice age here?
	And the answer is, of course, yes, because they hate the sun, they hate plants, they hate crops, they hate humanity.
	This is all part of depopulation, as you well know.
	Anyway, this is being done by the White House.
	Okay, Congress directed this research plan be produced in its spending plan for 2022, which Joe Biden signed in March.
	That's in the story.
	Gosh, I guess it's not a conspiracy theory anymore, is it?
	Some of the techniques, such as spraying sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere, are known to have harmful effects on the environment and human health.
	But scientists and climate leaders who are convinced that humanity will overshoot its emissions targets say that the research is important to figure out how to best balance these risks against a possibly catastrophic rise in the Earth's temperature.
	Folks, that is fiction.
	Earth's temperature is not even rising.
	Global warming is a scam.
	What they're trying to do is shut down global food production, block photosynthesis, and basically destroy half of the United States with droughts and famine and, of course, social unrest and everything else.
	There is no global warming taking place.
	There is global cooling because of the grand solar minimum, for example, which is causing crop failures to already begin.
	It's going to continue for quite a number of years.
	We've interviewed David Dubine and others who know about this.
	Yeah, the grand solar minimum.
	So, I mean, think about this, folks.
	Yeah, the stripping carbon out of the atmosphere, carbon dioxide, which plants need to grow.
	And they're stripping water out of rainfall, you know, essentially through weather control, and then they're blocking the sun.
	Gee, what else could they do?
	Kill everybody with vaccines?
	Oh, they tried that.
	Not enough people took them.
	Okay, what's next?
	How about unleash a radiation wave with nuclear war?
	Oh, there's another idea.
	That they're into, it seems.
	So it's just, it really is a suicide cult.
	This is a depopulation anti-human agenda on steroids.
	So if there's anybody out there that wants to mock Dane Wigington at Geoengineering Watch and say, you know, snicker, snicker, there's no geoengineering taking place, frankly, you're just not up to speed on what's happening because geoengineering is being written about on CNBC and it's an official White House policy that was funded by Congress for this current fiscal year, by the way.
	I mean, it can't be denied.
	Alright, let me shift gears here for a second and tell you about the new features that we rolled out on Brighteon.com.
	Yeah, we finally did.
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	We've got a new invite feature in your dashboard when you log in to Brighteon.
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	You can't have stalking videos, things like that.
	So you take out the bomb-making instructions and you take out the stalking components of your video.
	You You re-render your video without that stuff that violates federal law, and then you can re-submit that video for review, and then it'll be okay.
	We are continuing to put a lot of investment into Brighttown.com.
	We have a ton of new features that we're working on.
	And the biggest one that's about to roll out is a token donation feature that will allow content creators to actually earn money, like actual money, not just tokens.
	But the way it works is users...
	They buy tokens with a credit card purchase, let's say, and you get 10 tokens for a dollar, and then they have tokens, and whenever they like your video, they can just donate tokens to you.
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	We really want to help content creators earn revenues from their efforts on brighttown.com.
	Now, of course, Brighttown is all about free speech, as am I, and this is why I want to comment on the Sandy Hook lawsuit against Alex Jones.
	I mentioned it yesterday, but over the last day, there was a really great article about this on Revolver.News that just summarized what this is really all about.
	This is not even about the Sandy Hook incident or even about Alex Jones himself.
	And this is from Darren Beattie.
	I believe he's the author of this.
	Quote, The Sandy Hook lawsuit was never about protecting Sandy Hook parents.
	It was about protecting America's corrupt ruling class from an alternative media that refuses to mindlessly repeat their lies.
	That's it.
	That's the quote I wanted to read you.
	And he's exactly right.
	This is about the ruling class making sure they never have to answer any real questions from real journalists.
	That they never have to deal with somebody that questions their nonsense like COVID masking or mandatory vaccines or global warming for that matter or any other scam that they're pushing.
	And there's always a new one, you know.
	Like, oh, we have to keep sending billions to Ukraine every week.
	Where's it going?
	Oh, you're not allowed to ask.
	You're going to be deplatformed for hate.
	Or, hey, why are you mutilating children for profit in these hospitals that you call it transgender or gender reassignment surgery?
	Oh, you're not allowed to ask that.
	That's a hateful policy.
	You have to be deplatformed.
	In fact, we might sue you for a billion dollars because somebody suffered emotional distress when you called it genitalia mutilation.
	Yeah, someone was really hurt mentally by that.
	Even though, who's really being hurt are the children, right?
	I mean, I can imagine, because America has become so insane right now, the radical left with the Luciferian demonic cultists, I can imagine they would just...
	Like, you go to YouTube and all the videos that are allowed would be like child rape videos from leftists.
	They're all titled, like, Love Wins or something, because that's how insane they are.
	And if you say, oh, child rape is wrong, they would say, well, that's hate speech, because we, YouTube...
	Are all about, you know, inclusiveness and diversity, and that includes these acts, right?
	I mean, you may think that sounds insane.
	Give it another six months, believe me.
	I mean, we're almost there right now with the drag queen storytime stuff.
	So...
	The reason Alex Jones was sued was to shut him up and shut down Infowars so that no one can question the narratives when the establishment has become a group of criminal, satanic, pedophile rapists.
	And groomers, money launderers, and crooks who rig elections and much more.
	All they do is push fake news and fake narratives, fake agendas, fake science, fake history, fake financial information, even fake currency, all of it.
	And they don't want to be questioned.
	Well, you can't question, you know, anything.
	Or you're going to be deplatformed and probably sued out of existence.
	That's what this has always been about.
	Don't you think it's odd that in the 2008 subprime mortgage collapse, that was, let's face it, it was a conspiracy to defraud investors to the tune of trillions of dollars.
	That's what that was.
	It was a conspiracy by the banks.
	The largest fine that was issued against anybody involved in that whole thing, from all the banks, was Bear Stearns, Bank of America, J.P. Morgan, all of it.
	Whoever was involved, Goldman Sachs, the largest fine was $57 million, I believe.
	Maybe $58 million.
	That's it.
	So Alex Jones is being ordered to pay almost 20 times that, nearly 20 times, Because he questioned the narrative of the Sandy Hook shooting.
	But if Alex Jones had stolen trillions of dollars from American pension funds and investment funds and retirement funds and private investors, if Alex Jones had stolen trillions of dollars, he would have only been fined at max like $58 million.
	Right?
	I mean, let's be honest about this.
	Or what about vaccines?
	How many people have been killed by these vaccines so far?
	About at least a million in America?
	Because the media lied about the vaccines.
	The media lied and people died.
	And yet, there hasn't been a single lawsuit that has resulted in a jury award against, let's say, the New York Times for pushing fake news, fake science about these vaccines, claiming they were safe and effective when they're not, when they're killing people.
	So as I mentioned yesterday, I'm wondering if this Sandy Hook trial precedent is going to give some ideas to some rather enterprising attorneys who are going to sue the New York Times for pushing vaccines that harmed and maimed and killed people.
	There's a question for you.
	I'll tell you what.
	I did not push vaccines that killed people.
	I told people to think twice about this.
	You should stay away from these vaccines.
	You should boost your immune system.
	It turns out that's the only thing that works because the vaccines destroy your immune system, and that's why vaccinated people keep getting sick and dying.
	So the truth saves lives, but mainstream narrative lies cause deaths.
	So where's justice in this society?
	Nowhere to be found.
	Nowhere to be found.
	They want to silence the people asking the questions because they don't want any competition for their lies.
	Now, speaking of lies and liars, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, AOC, You probably heard about this.
	She was confronted by some of her own supporters who are anti-war because AOC has become another part of the war machine.
	AOC, who once said that she was anti-war, didn't want America involved in all these wars, and would help to bring America back from these wars.
	Now she's all pro-war, voted for funding Ukraine, voted for pushing money, voted for things that are going to lead to a nuclear war with Russia.
	Her own supporters are now screaming at her.
	And I want to play a little bit for you on this because this is a notable moment in politics.
	This is when even the Democrats are starting to wake up and say, you know, WTF? What is happening here?
	The woman we voted for, AOC? She's become another John McCain, hasn't she?
	She's become the system of oppression and death.
	She's leading us into global thermonuclear war.
	Check out this video.
	Congresswoman, none of this matters unless there's a nuclear war, which you voted to send arms and weapons to Ukraine.
	Colty Gabbert, she's left the Democratic Party because there are a bunch of warhawks, okay?
	You originally voted, you ran as an outsider, yet you've been voting to start this war in Ukraine.
	You're voting to start a third nuclear war with Russia and China.
	Why are you playing with the lives of American citizens?
	You're playing with our lives.
	There will be no neighbors if there's a nuclear bomb.
	You voted to mobilize and send money to Ukrainian Nazis.
	You're a coward.
	You're a progressive socialist.
	Where are you against the war mobilization?
	He's telling the right truth.
	You have done nothing.
	Tulsi Gabbard has shown guts where you've shown cowardice.
	I believed in you and you became the very thing you sought to fought against.
	That's what you've become!
	You are the establishment and you are the reason why everybody will end up in a nuclear war unless you choose to stand up right now and denounce the Democratic Party!
	Will you do that?
	Wow, that was pretty awesome.
	Basically screaming, AOC, you traitor, how come you can't be as cool as Tulsi Gabbard?
	Told ya!
	Tulsi Gabbard has got it!
	She is liked by conservatives and progressives, people on the right and the left, because Tulsi Gabbard has principles.
	And frankly, as this protester, whoever this is, is saying, you know, if AOC had any principles whatsoever, she should denounce the entire Democratic Party.
	And that's where we are in America today.
	Anybody who has any morality or ethics whatsoever should be denouncing the Democrat Party.
	Or leaving the party if they're part of it or if they have a D next to their name as a so-called representative.
	The Democrat Party has become, I mean, shall we count the ways, the party of basically nuclear war, the party of child grooming and pedophilia and genitalia mutilations, the party of open borders, the party of inflation on top of that, The party of drag queen story time, you know, flopping their genitals in the faces of young children at libraries and public schools.
	There's another big bonus for the Democrat Party.
	The Democrat Party has become the party of extreme censorship, deplatforming, the opposite of inclusiveness, which is excluding people from debate.
	The Democrat Party has become the party of rigging elections, demonizing their political opponents, fabricating false accusations, pushing conspiracy theories like the Russia collusion hoax, covering up the evidence of crimes of their own party members like Hunter Biden's laptop, for example, and pushing covering up the evidence of crimes of their own party members like Hunter Biden's laptop, for example, I mean, gee, what's not to like about the Democrat Party?
	No sane person.
	No moral person should ever vote Democrat ever again, nor should they ever be a member of the Democrat Party or have a D next to the name.
	And I'm even wondering how anybody else out there, even some good people like Tulsi Gabbard finally made that decision.
	I just...
	She said, I can't deal with this anymore.
	The Democrats are too insane, too inept, too corrupt, too criminal.
	They hate America.
	They hate children.
	They hate liberty.
	They hate freedom of speech.
	They hate the Constitution.
	Well, there are a few other Democrats out there, by the way.
	I'm not going to name them, but I can think of some prominent Democrats in the space of vaccines and book authors and so on, and I'm wondering why are they tolerating the Democrat insanity at this point?
	Maybe they're about to join Tulsi Gabbard and just denounce the whole party.
	I doubt AOC will because she's benefiting from being an insider, but there might be others who do.
	We'll see.
	And by the way, if you donate any money to Wikipedia, it all goes to radical left-wing groups.
	This has come out now recently.
	The Gateway Pundit did a big story on this.
	Researcher claims to uncover that Wikipedia's donations really go to all these radical left-wing groups.
	So don't give money to Wikipedia.
	It's just a giant, you know, smear machine, basically smearing all good people, lying about reality.
	Look, Wikipedia is basically a CIA-run operation for disinformation.
	And that's the other thing about Democrats on the left.
	All they do is push misinformation and disinformation, and yet they claim to be the fact checkers.
	What a joke, right?
	What a joke.
	So I'll tell you what, let's jump into the interview here with survivalrealty.com.
	Jonathan Rawls is going to be our guest tonight for that interview.
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	All right, let's jump into the interview.
	with Mr.
	Rawls here and see what Survival Realty is all about.
	And just so you know, that is not a sponsored interview.
	This is an editorial question I have about people looking for real estate.
	What are they looking for?
	Are people buying bunkers?
	Where are people moving from or to?
	Things like that.
	So we're going to ask all these questions.
	That's coming right up.
	All right.
	Welcome, folks, to this fascinating interview.
	You're going to love this one.
	This is a first-time guest joining us who is, well, he's the founder or the co-founder of survivalrealty.com, which is an online realty website that specializes in listing survival, retreat, and off-grid type of properties.
	And, of course, I'm Mike Adams, the founder of brighttown.com, where we have these kinds of uncensored conversations.
	And we're joined now by Jonathan Rawls, who, again, the co-founder.
	Hi, Jonathan.
	Yeah, thanks for joining me.
	Absolutely.
	Glad to be here and appreciate the work you've done with Natural News and stuff in the past.
	And yeah, glad to have this conversation.
	Well, that's great.
	I'm glad you're familiar with our work and then you know our audience is very well informed so we don't have to start from the basics like, why would I want to leave the city ever?
	You know, things like that.
	But just let me, to finish introducing you, you're the co-author of Survival Retreat and Relocation.
	That's a book people can get anywhere.
	Yeah.
	Yep.
	Yeah, we're available on Amazon or at Survival Realty.
	Okay.
	Okay, great.
	And do you want to mention publicly your relationship with who your father is?
	Sure, no problem.
	Yep.
	My father is James Wesley Rawls, who blogs at survivalblog.com, has written Patriots and a number of other books.
	And obviously, he's my inspiration and mentor in all of this.
	Well, that is awesome.
	And just for the record, I did not even know that you were related to him when we invited you.
	I actually told my staff, I said, look, go out and find some survival real estate websites that are dominant in the industry because I want to have a conversation about this.
	So thank you for coming on.
	It's just great that your father is also this amazing person that we're all a fan of, too.
	Anyway, okay.
	That said, so give us the quick overview of survivalrealty.com, what the site's all about.
	Yeah, sounds good.
	So yeah, we got started basically talking with people who were...
	So early 2000s who were looking to relocate largely out of the big city into rural areas, say the Inland Northwest, Appalachia, into the Southwest.
	And a lot of those people were looking for property that was off-grid.
	They wanted to be self-sufficient.
	And at least at that time particularly, it was something that came across as very surprising to the real estate agents they were talking to.
	Yeah.
	They were, you know, being looked at as very odd, strange.
	You know, what they were looking for wasn't understood.
	So we saw the opportunity to really help out there.
	And along with that, a lot of people who had perhaps done homesteading for quite a few years and were ready to move on for one reason or another And we're trying to sell property, especially post real estate crash.
	That was really difficult.
	So it was really an opportunity for us to connect those two groups of people and make some really good connections there and help a lot of people either find their retreat property or move on to that next step of life they needed to.
	Cool.
	Tell me about trends.
	Are you seeing a steady uptick in interest or has it plateaued?
	Yeah, I would say it has plateaued.
	Given the current uptick in interest rates and everything else going on, the economic downturn we're in the midst of, a lot of people are definitely hunkering down.
	But overall, in terms of our overall interest and search volume, obviously all the events of 2020 and onwards drove a lot of people to realize that where they were was not sustainable from a political, a cultural survival standpoint.
	All of those things played into that.
	And so, yeah, we've continued to see a lot of interest in people.
	Making that move from a, like you said, a multi-million person city where when things get hard, they get really hard really fast.
	And we all saw small pieces of that, but realized there could be a lot more that happens.
	So it really is a continued interest that we're seeing.
	The real challenge we're seeing right now, of course, is affordability.
	With interest rates taking off, it's becoming very challenging.
	Well, I'm seeing mortgage rates have just hit, I think, 6.92% on average.
	So we're in the 7% range, which is not horrible historically, but in recent memory...
	Versus the last 20 years, yeah.
	And when you see how inflated housing prices have been over the last few years, when you see 50% increases in property prices over a couple of years, and then you see the cost of mortgages increasing another 50% or more, that's making affordability really struggle.
	Well, cash buyers.
	I know you don't know every data point of the buyers or anything, but I'm sure you get a sense of this.
	Are there still quite a few cash buyers out there?
	No, there definitely are.
	And there's definitely people that are liquidating assets they might have, you know, particularly on the coast, you know, New York, California, Washington State, and are, you know, Selling off what they've got and they're willing to pick up something perhaps even more modest on a smaller acreage where they can get a more human scale of life.
	So we do see that.
	But overall, the market has definitely slowed down because of people's hesitation as to whether or not they will both be able to sell their property and whether their money will go as far as they need it to.
	Sure.
	Now, roughly, how many properties are you listing on your website at any given time?
	At any given time, we're very much a niche site.
	So we're running 100 to 200 properties at a time nationwide, usually a few international properties as well with a pretty good distribution.
	From small bare land acreage that someone might want to go put a very simple homestead cabin on, you know, in the under $100,000 even.
	And then, of course, we've got the multi-million dollar properties that have everything ready to go.
	All you have to do is have a couple million dollars to drop on it.
	Right, right.
	I'm on your website right now as we're doing this interview.
	I see one that starts from $6 million.
	It's in Williamsburg, Kentucky.
	And I would imagine that's a lot of acreage, probably.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	And it says it's defensible.
	That's a good starting point.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	And especially, of course, if you're going to be in a rural area, a lot of that means you've got to really think through what that means because you're going to have to be providing your own power, your own water, your own security even, just because emergency services are a lot further away.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	Just from my background, I lived in Ecuador for a couple of years, in rural Ecuador, and then I live in rural Central Texas right now.
	So I'm very familiar with, especially when I was in South America, not having access to things.
	You've got to make it yourself in many cases.
	But not everybody's familiar with that.
	In fact, I'd like to ask you, some people think that city folks, let's say, that's my opinion, not yours, but certain city folks think, oh, I'm just going to buy a seed kit and I'm going to get a rural property and I'm all good.
	And they're not mentally ready for what it means.
	Right.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	So that's something that's very widespread.
	You drive through any rural area anywhere in the U.S., you'll see a lot of houses sitting on 5 or 10 acres.
	And really, all you're seeing there is a suburban subdivision.
	It's just the lots are a lot bigger.
	Right.
	Yeah, you're outside the city, but you're not really living a life that's different.
	And you're not necessarily more resilient just on the basis of having acreage or being removed from the city.
	Obviously, you might be avoiding some of the drama that might be going down in the city if things are bad.
	But the real work of building resiliency is something that goes way beyond just relocation, getting to the right location.
	And it really goes into building your lifestyle in a way that's resilient for a challenging world.
	Good point.
	So I think that means that when people are searching for retreat properties here, they need to also look at the county, the politics of the county, who's the sheriff, what's the city council like nearby, all that stuff, right?
	Yeah, absolutely.
	One thing that's obviously been on my mind recently, if you're following the news with ATF and new regulations they're putting out where they're, you know, It's about to declare millions of people to be in possession of contraband if they don't register it.
	Oh yeah, the arm braces, yes.
	Yes, exactly.
	And yeah, that's where having a good county sheriff might become extremely valuable in the next couple of years.
	And likewise, having a community that's actually there to rally around you and stand up to federal overreach, that matters.
	Yes.
	Yeah, well, and so at the state level, because, you know, I live in Texas, so we see the Texas Attorney General, Paxton, is doing a lot of that, sort of threatening to nullify federal overreach.
	But also at the county level, because, you know, that's where the sheriffs count.
	Just as you were saying, yeah, your thoughts?
	Yeah, absolutely.
	And I think it's important to realize that, you know, Nearly any county you're going to go to, even if it's a red state, a red county, you're still dealing with all the typical bureaucracy and corruption that we have anywhere.
	So it's not to say there isn't a perfect state or perfect county.
	You've got rhinos and busybody bureaucrats and people that are not willing to actually stand up.
	So even looking at, say, North Idaho, for example, it was a real mix when they were doing mask mandates, what counties actually stood up against them and which counties went along with it just because that was the accepted science at the time.
	And we had a lot of local politicians who went along with what the experts told them and were not truly willing to make a stand and stand up on behalf of their constituents.
	I think we've, you know, as we've had a couple of midterm elections, general elections, I think we've seen some positive changes there.
	I'm very hopeful that we'll continue to see positive changes there.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	Now, getting back to your website.
	Ken, I'm curious, what makes a property sort of qualify for your site?
	So do you reject some properties?
	Absolutely.
	No, we do.
	Go ahead.
	We've got pretty general guidelines, but in general, what we're looking for is a property on at least a couple of acres with the mindset that people are going to want some space to be able to do some gardening, raise some small livestock.
	You might not be looking for it to start a ranch, but Just basic food, basic homestead-level food production just to supplement what might be storage food.
	Obviously, you're still going to be buying or trading with others.
	Absolute self-sufficiency is a very...
	High goal, and it's only a very small subset of people that are really going to be pursuing that goal.
	But really having some greater resilience on your own property, so a couple of acres.
	Looking for not everything being off-grid, simply because going fully off-grid is a large undertaking in itself.
	There's a lot of people that do great work there.
	But again, it's not for everyone.
	But one really critical one is having a reliable source of water.
	That's the biggest issue when it comes to living in the city as well.
	If the water goes out, and of course the lights go out, you're really out of luck.
	Yeah, no kidding.
	When it comes down to it, if you look at big-scale disruptions throughout history, Castles under siege.
	Having a good source of water is absolutely critical.
	So having, at the very minimum, a good well on your property.
	If you've got a stream, if you've got a pond, if you've got spring water, that's fantastic.
	But that's something that should absolutely be near the top of your list.
	Yeah, completely agree.
	And you could do rainwater catchment, but only in certain areas.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	And obviously in the Pacific Northwest, you could probably do that.
	But of course, that's also an area with good wells in general.
	If you're going to be in the Southwest, that's something you really need to think long and hard about and really do your research on the property and good water.
	Yeah.
	I used to live in Arizona and on the plus side, it's like, hey, nothing rusts here.
	That's awesome.
	On the downside, there's no water and there's no soil.
	And so, well, not really sustainable.
	Okay, next question.
	Now, I would imagine that the people selling properties...
	There must be this delicate balance where I would imagine many of them have things like safe rooms or whatever, but they don't want to publicize that on a public website, right?
	So is there kind of a wink and a nod sometimes on somebody who's like, hey, you got to come out and see it?
	Yeah, there's...
	No, absolutely.
	So we're not, you know, exclusively selling, you know, bunkers or such, but obviously there are some actual bunkers on the site.
	And a lot of people, you know, especially if it's a custom built place that may have had some of those features, say a vault room or a safe room built in.
	And yeah, a lot of times, yeah, they don't really want pictures on the site.
	So in general, they'll say there's additional features for, you know, that can be discussed with qualified parties.
	And they go and, you know, they want to vet, you know, Who's, you know, inquiring, figuring out, make sure they're serious, you know, serious, real qualified buyer.
	And likewise, you know, most of these properties are not expecting people to just drive up and, you know, show up and look around.
	They're expecting communication first.
	And we're, of course, very accommodating of people's privacy if they want to put their name on there or their phone number or if they don't want to.
	Or if they...
	We have a few properties.
	In general, we have a decent, pretty good idea of where they're located.
	But there are a few properties that are just given a...
	Somewhere in Kansas-style location.
	Oh, that was my next question because I noticed some of the properties do have addresses, but not all of them.
	Yeah, and that's really just a matter of...
	How privacy-conscious someone might be.
	If they're putting it up on Zillow and realtor.com as well, then there's not too much to hide at that point.
	But some people really are very privacy-conscious, and Survival Realty might be the only place it's listed, and they might keep the address and a lot of the details private.
	And then if I could ask, what's your revenue model?
	I know you have it on your website.
	It says here, learn more for property owners.
	Is it a flat fee for listing?
	Yeah.
	So yeah, we're doing a flat fee listing, working with both real estate agents and property owners.
	And that's something that I'll say it's been a little slow the past couple of years, simply because property has been turning over so quickly.
	There's been so little need to advertise property.
	Oh, interesting.
	Okay.
	All you do is you put a sign out and people beat down your door.
	But really, it's been in the last four to five months we've really seen that change.
	Basically, the week right after interest rates were first hiked, we got a whole host of new agents, agents in particular, who are reaching out to us because they were seeing what was coming down the road and the need to get out in front of it and get good visibility on their listings so we don't get stuck with them.
	Okay, cool.
	Now, different question.
	A lot of our listeners, I mean, most of our listeners are already squared away, but some may be wanting to relocate.
	Do you have anything where qualified people can contact you to get, I don't know, a consulting advice on where to go and what to look for in property?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, so I don't do a whole lot of consulting myself.
	I'm always glad to answer questions via email and such as well.
	My father, James Wesley, of course, does do consulting on a part-time basis.
	And then he and I also recently reissued a book that he originally put out around the early 2000s entitled Survival Retreats and Relocation.
	What we're doing there is really trying to give the big picture of Why you might want to relocate, how you might go about thinking about the different factors that go into it in your own situation.
	And then of course we spend a lot of time looking through each state and a lot of specific regions nationwide and how you might go about identifying your target location and then finding a property in that area.
	Let me ask you about those regions.
	I know that from your father's work, I know he's very fond of the Idaho area, which I think is also great.
	I'm also familiar with people who live in the Ozarks, and they think the Ozarks is a fantastic region.
	What are some other areas that just come to mind off the top of your head?
	Obviously, the biggest advantage of the inland northwest is a combination of factors.
	You've got hydropower, you've got decent rainfall.
	It's a four-season climate and a shorter growing season, of course, which is probably the biggest downside there.
	But a lot of that's made up for by the culture and the political leanings, which are more conservative with a slightly more self-sufficient mindset versus some other regions.
	I think the areas I see people headed beside the inland northwest, some people obviously looking to be in coastal areas in perhaps Washington or Oregon.
	But of course, the political situation there is a little dicey for those that are of a red persuasion.
	Sure.
	So I think I see the biggest draw happening towards Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, simply because of the Mild, relatively mild climate.
	You've got to deal with humidity, but it's a very long growing season.
	You're not dealing with a lot of snow.
	And you've got good rainfall, pretty good farming potential.
	And of course, a lot of it is a extremely rural, relatively low population density area.
	So I think there are a lot of advantages there.
	Obviously, you're somewhat closer to some of the Big population centers in Texas and on the East Coast.
	But really, there's a lot of areas in that region that are very quiet and rural.
	A number of appealing small cities where you might still be able to find work, might be able to have some of the modern comforts without going completely back in the boondocks.
	So it's really just a trade-off.
	Go ahead.
	No, no.
	You can finish your thought.
	Go ahead.
	Oh, yeah.
	I was going to say the other area, I think I see people who have ties to the East Coast, they end up looking in Western, North Carolina, West Virginia, and some of those states.
	Tennessee?
	Yeah, Tennessee.
	Tennessee and Kentucky as well.
	Just because they still want access to the East Coast, to the major cities, whether it be work or family connections.
	There's a lot of areas, again.
	Again, that's bringing you into closer proximity to a lot higher population, a lot of potential downsides there, but again, very mild climate.
	Trying to just pursue basic sustainability is definitely actually very good there.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	One of the things that I noticed about moving to Texas is because it's an agricultural center, and I want to ask you about the culture, that it's very normal to have, for example, a 500-gallon diesel tank.
	Right.
	Whereas if you try that near Portland, Oregon, people are going to think you're bizarre or out of your mind.
	And I found that also the people in Central Texas, they have skills that are fantastic.
	They're welders.
	They know how to drill wells.
	They know how to repair vehicles or even agricultural equipment.
	They know how to handle animals.
	So I've found that getting into a place where the people around you have these skill sets is really just invaluable.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	That's something where, again, if you're living in a suburb outside of Seattle where everyone commutes into the Amazon campus and sits at a cubicle all day, everyone has a very...
	Technologically oriented skill set and by and large is lacking any sort of practical skills or the field where they can actually develop those skills.
	So there's definitely a sense in which if you are, again, in any of the mountain states or in agricultural areas, there's a lot more just baseline preparedness that still exists that really goes back to We're good to go.
	Paritage does still exist in some places.
	Obviously, there's Costco everywhere and people have shifted that way.
	But rural areas tend to have more of that mindset versus the mindset of, well, I can just get fast food or HelloFresh or whatever it is.
	Yeah, yeah, exactly.
	Now, can I ask you, what's the most expensive property that you've ever listed on your site?
	Okay.
	That's a good one.
	I don't have that offhand.
	I want to say we've been in the range of $12 million.
	I believe that was a very large estate-type property with a lot of conservation land back in New York State, if I remember right.
	Wow.
	Well, that's interesting.
	Yeah, we get quite a variety.
	It's actually a lot of fun that way.
	Every property is very unique.
	This is not all three-bedroom, two-bath houses on a quarter acre.
	Yeah, exactly.
	And do you find that since COVID and the lockdowns and all of that, that the real estate agent snicker factor has reduced now?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	I think there's a certain sense of...
	I think everyone saw it at some level or another.
	I've got people I know who were...
	So, you know, family members commented, you know, we're out here, you know, playing in the park, just having a good time in the midst of a lockdown.
	And when, you know, other parts of the country are on lockdown, they're, you know, video chatting with their, you know, cousins who are in an apartment, stuck in an apartment, you know, in New York City.
	And they're going stir crazy.
	And we've honestly pretty much forgotten that there's anything going on.
	So, yeah, absolutely.
	Huge difference.
	But I think that was a point where...
	Everyone did realize it might not have motivated everyone to take action necessarily, but yeah, I mean, the conspiracy theorists, the paranoid types, all of those were definitely proven right in some respects, and I definitely feel that as well.
	So I think there is a sense in which all of that is taken a little more seriously, given a little more credence now.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	And I think there's also an understanding, but you give me your thoughts on this, that living more free doesn't have to cost more money.
	And look on your site.
	You've got a listing right now under $100K. It's four-bedroom, one-bath on 19 acres in southeast Oklahoma, which, by the way, Oklahoma is a great area to consider.
	Oh, absolutely.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	Particularly, a lot of it comes down to, you know, cost of land.
	The Southwest obviously have, in a lot of areas, significantly lower land prices versus, say, the inland Northwest.
	And a lot of that comes down to your personal situation.
	For myself, I've got a lot of family connections here in the Northwest.
	That's where our church is.
	That's where our connections are.
	That's where our community is.
	And having a community is obviously a much bigger asset than whether you have five acres or a hundred acres or a thousand acres.
	But really, yeah, there's the right spot for everybody.
	It might be where you are right now or it might be somewhere else.
	And it really merits careful consideration of what that might be.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	Now, I just want to remind folks that the website we're talking about here is survivalrealty.com.
	Not a sponsor and has not paid for this interview at all.
	I just reached out and invited Jonathan here to do this.
	Didn't even know he was the son of James Wesley Rawls.
	That was just something, a surprise, which is awesome.
	But I've been thinking about this too.
	You know, I've done a lot of books myself and like audio books, things like that about what's coming.
	Let's just say when SHTF, your website might have a completely different role.
	I mean, you could be, let's just say, let's take something as there's an event in the coastal area that causes radioisotopes to be deposited along a coastline, right?
	Like the Russian Poseidon missile.
	Right.
	You have mass migration away from the coast.
	Your website is going to get just hammered to the point where you might have trouble staying online.
	Oh, yeah.
	No, absolutely.
	I think any of that situation is...
	I mean, obviously, the economic ramifications are massive.
	But yeah, I mean, that would be a situation where you do see massive relocation.
	And it's important to realize that, you know, when we come to, you know, the end of the world collapse situations, they can take a lot of time.
	a lot of forms um there are the you know asteroid impact uh nuclear scenarios where it happens all at once it's incredibly dramatic and violent and you know we've got day zero where everyone wakes up and is trying to you know deal with the aftermath of it yes um but looking you know looking at history as well you've got a lot of scenario
	a lot of scenarios where the collapse is something that's very protracted very unpleasant but largely imperceptible even to those that are living through They might not even realize, you know, exactly how far things went until they're looking back on it because you're seeing things, you know, this is the frog in the boiling water where things get a little worse each day where, you know, you start to wonder, well, can I find toilet paper?
	And things can, you know, things can deteriorate further from there.
	So it's important to realize that, you know, We need to be ready for both the big dramatic event and just for making ourselves more resilient in order to really provide for our families.
	For my family, that is Our core values are faith and liberty.
	And being able to provide those, being able to defend those through whatever circumstances come down the road, that's something that's not just a matter of how much you have stocked up, but the type of life you're living, being able to do that.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	And I think a principle I know you would agree with here is that, folks, you don't want to be trying to relocate after it hits the fan.
	Yes, absolutely.
	You need to be squared away.
	And in fact, I'd like to ask you about that.
	So, you know, I live in rural Texas and I've spent a decade trying to get better prepared.
	And I still don't feel like I'm where I want to be because it takes so much time to build self-reliant infrastructure.
	It's not a trivial thing.
	And right now, by the way, it's very difficult to get professionals to work on electrical, plumbing, whatever.
	You know what I mean?
	Absolutely.
	And then if it comes to getting, you know, solar inverters, batteries, things like that, when you've got shipping delays and everything else going on, yeah, it's definitely not easy.
	So there's value, though, then, in those homesteads that are ready to go.
	Oh, absolutely.
	Yeah.
	I mean, if you're buying something that someone's put 10 years of work into, that's a huge, huge benefit.
	That really can't be reflected in, you know, how these properties get priced.
	Obviously, pricing on properties like this is such a challenging thing because each one is so unique.
	But yeah, it's an absolutely huge asset to be able to find a property that someone's invested in where you've got, you know, Trees and berry bushes and a good, well-developed well, maybe a good solar system, a house that works well.
	All of these things are things that take a huge amount of money and effort.
	It depends.
	Sometimes it's wet equity.
	Sometimes you just need to pour a lot of money into it.
	But the fact is, yeah, they take time.
	Do you have some listings that are livable without electricity?
	Yeah, absolutely.
	I'd say around a third to half of the properties that we feature have at least some provision for going off-grid.
	In some cases, this is just a cabin that's not connected to the main grid, so they've probably got a generator and a 500 or 1,000-gallon fuel tank.
	So that's obviously a system that's much more dependent on being able to refuel.
	Sure.
	you're able to, then your consumables become the batteries and on the long-term, of course, inverters and charge controllers.
	But that's a system where you could go 10, 15 years and continue to generate your own power as long as you've got spare parts.
	Yeah.
	And see, that's a key point in all of this is being able to have spare parts, not only for generators, but like you said, solar systems as well, the inverters, they go bad.
	Batteries are horrible.
	You know, battery tech is just still awful.
	I'm not impressed.
	It's getting better, but it's got a long ways to go.
	Yeah.
	I always thought that the best kind of property would be something built into the side of a hill, like an actual cave home where you don't have to heat or cool.
	Have you ever seen properties like that?
	We get a number along those lines.
	And yeah, there's definitely big benefits there.
	As long as it's well-constructed, you're not dealing with structural water issues because those things do happen, obviously.
	But if it's well-constructed, you've got huge benefits in terms of being able to be livable with much lower energy inputs.
	When you talk to the peak oil, people are more looking at the environmental side of things, looking at using less energy.
	Personally, I don't see that being a sustainable future.
	I think we need to be better at using energy and producing energy.
	But the reality is that in a challenging...
	Even just looking at Nord Stream and everything else going on, there's definitely potential that...
	The era that we're living in of very low-cost electricity and fuel, that could be changing.
	We could be looking at a situation more like what's experienced in Europe and the rest of the world, or perhaps even worse.
	Oh yeah, things can change very rapidly.
	So being able to function in a lower energy setting where you just can't afford to air condition 4,000 square feet in the middle of summer, yeah, that's a well-designed property, a passive solar house underground.
	Yeah, so that's a great asset.
	Well, this is what I noticed when I lived in Arizona, that the older homes that were built in the 50s and 60s, they were built without air conditioning.
	And so they had much better airflow.
	They were using adobe-style or tapia-style construction.
	They had clay tiles on the floor, so they were in contact with the ground.
	But they were breezy.
	The air could move through.
	Whereas today's homes, modern homes, are sealed shut.
	In order to achieve these, I don't know what the ratings are for air conditioning ratings, but if the power goes down, these modern homes are unlivable.
	No, they become sealed boxes at that point because you've got no air exchange.
	And then, of course, if you try to open up all the windows, then you're creating new problems.
	So, yeah, it's definitely a challenge.
	Of course, the challenge there is that for most people, their price point kind of forces them into that.
	Because you're either looking at something that you build yourself with a lot of sweat equity.
	But of course, for a lot of people, they've got to work, they've got to feed their family, so they don't necessarily have the wherewithal to take a year to go build something by hand out of Adobe.
	Or you're talking very high-end custom builds, which are fantastic, but again, not necessarily in the range that most people are looking at.
	So some of that comes down to a matter of Just trying to be strategic with, you know, how you set up your house, making the best of it.
	For example, a wood stove and just making sure your house is well laid out to function well if the power is out.
	I just clicked on bunkers and bomb shelters on your site because this is going to be the most fun to look at.
	Here's a listing, for example, in Massachusetts, a 7,200 square foot underground vault.
	Plus a 2,400-square-foot house, I guess, on top of it.
	That's pretty awesome.
	Oh, yeah.
	There's a lot of fun stuff out there, and it's fun being able to see some of those because there's properties like that that are scattered, honestly, all across the U.S. for any number of purposes.
	They might have been built for telecommunications, military infrastructure.
	There's plenty of reasons that people have built some very interesting properties.
	Yeah.
	And it's, you know, I am, you know, very, when I'm, you know, advising people directly, I definitely want to make sure people are very cognizant of, you know, the realities of the fact that a bunker is a dead end in some sense, right?
	You can pull back into it, but it's like a turtle going inside his shell, right?
	Everything else is, everything is going on outside, around you, and you've got to come back out at some point.
	So they're not the perfect solution.
	But, you know, for some scenarios, yeah, that might be, I'd say, and they are out there.
	Well, I would say always have an exit that's different from the entrance.
	Exactly.
	Kind of a principle.
	Yes.
	Also in case of structural failure, too, you know?
	Yep.
	But I'm shocked that you can buy, for example, an old military bunker that is in, looks like South Dakota, for just $55,000.
	It's a 2,200 square foot bunker, probably built for, you know, a couple of million dollars by the military at some point in today's dollars.
	But yet you can get some of these on the cheap, it seems.
	Yeah, and obviously there's probably a lot of renovation that you might need to put into that to actually make it livable.
	That'll probably go way beyond your initial purchase price.
	But yeah, there are some cool opportunities.
	And then we occasionally see those ones that have really been fully renovated, turned into some very nice homes.
	So yeah, it's fun.
	Well, do you ever get listings from...
	I know there are companies out there that purchase large missile silos, and then I think they build essentially apartments out of them.
	Yeah, and I think that one you were looking at, I believe, is owned by someone that's in one of those developments.
	Oh, really?
	Yeah, and so a lot of times that's going to be something like it's more of a condo-type situation.
	Perhaps you've got a 99-year lease on the bunker itself.
	Oh, yeah.
	So yeah, they're interesting projects.
	And of course the big thing there is the factor that a lot of times these are very out of the way.
	It's going to be difficult to It may be difficult to incorporate that into a sustainable lifestyle where it's not just a last-ditch location.
	Right.
	I hear you.
	Well, some people may be purchasing a bug-out location in addition to where they live.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	I think that's what for...
	Again, there's a wide range of people that we talk to.
	Some are looking to just make a single relocation.
	They're looking to move to Montana or Texas or wherever it is with their family.
	Looking for, you know, looking to find a job there, put down roots there, and that's what they want to do.
	For other people, it is they're looking at something as a second property or third property, as a worst case bug out property.
	A lot of times it ends up being a hunting cabin or something like that in the meantime as well.
	What about the Starlink satellite service?
	Doesn't this open up a lot of opportunities for people to work off grid where they couldn't?
	Yeah, absolutely.
	That's been hugely valuable for telecommuters, for remote workers, because that really has...
	Along with the COVID transition to everyone getting kicked out of their offices anyway, to where people have said, well, if I'm not going to be in the office, I might as well be out in the woods somewhere.
	And yeah, Starlink, I know a lot of people that are using Starlink very successfully, finding it extremely reliable.
	Yeah, huge asset there.
	Mm-hmm.
	Absolutely.
	We're getting close to the time here on this interview, but I still have a couple more questions.
	Do you talk more to buyers or sellers?
	I'd say it's probably split 50-50.
	As far as people we work with, it's largely on the seller side.
	But we end up getting a lot of inquiries and having a lot of conversations with people that are looking to buy.
	Particularly as they're trying to identify where to go, they have the idea that they want to go somewhere, but we end up having to kind of talk through the pros and cons of different areas, trying to help them look at their unique situation and figure out what's the best choice for them.
	What reasons do they tell you, the buyers, of why they're relocating or looking to it?
	Yeah, I think obviously the biggest one in the last couple of years has been the lockdowns, has been mask mandates, vaccine mandates.
	There's just been one thing after another.
	I've got people that, you know, kind of saw how things went when there was, you know, The unrest and protests in some of the big cities and then how peaceful that was.
	Those same protests were in some of the smaller cities in the end of the Northwest, for example.
	They saw that and said, yeah, that's where I want to live.
	So I think in some sense, although obviously with the tensions we're seeing in Europe right now, I think there will be some Renewed interest in simply getting away from potential nuclear targets.
	I think the biggest things have come down to social and political pressures over the last few years.
	Do people ever mention the anti-police or defunding of the police?
	Yeah, absolutely.
	On my vacation, I talk to police officers that are taking an early retirement, and they are getting out of there because they're, you know, They've not been appreciated.
	Oh, sure.
	I think the ones I've talked to have really sought to serve their communities, and they've felt like they've been pushed out for it.
	So, yeah, I think there was definitely that push.
	But I was even alluding to people who feel unsafe more than ever, and also they feel like if they use a firearm in self-defense, they may be prosecuted by a George Soros DA. Yes, absolutely.
	And I think that's a real concern.
	I would definitely be feeling that if I was living in the big city right now.
	So yeah, I think...
	People move to a more rural area.
	It's not perfect.
	Mayberry is not really out there now.
	Every area is subject to political disunity and conflict.
	But by and large, people get out to more rural, more conservative areas and they really do feel like it is a breath of fresh air versus the environment that they were in, particularly on the coastal cities.
	Yeah, right.
	And there are also some pitfalls because you said there's not Mayberry out there, but there is Crackberry and Methberry and Child Trafficking Berry and all those places do exist.
	Yeah, no, that's absolutely an issue.
	I'd say the biggest things I see right now.
	All through the inland states, you've got a lot of really great, booming, relatively small cities.
	Picture Spokane, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, Bozeman, Billings, Montana, and of course plenty of those in the South, Tennessee and Kentucky as well.
	All of those are They've got great job prospects opening up versus what things might have been like a few years ago.
	A lot of corporations are moving out of Chicago.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	But of course, that's also coming with the sprawl and traffic and crime problems that just come with larger populations.
	So those are the downsides.
	And then, yeah, on the other hand, as you alluded to, a lot of the smaller communities are definitely very subject to all the ravages of the drug problems and just depressed economic climate where that can definitely be a culture shock to people that a lot of the smaller communities are definitely very subject to all the ravages of the drug problems and just depressed economic climate where that
	And then going to a rural community where you've got generational poverty and that kind of mindset and optimism perhaps are not there, although you might have a lot more practical can-do ability.
	I had a friend from New York visit one time and go to a rural restaurant, and he's like, I can't believe they didn't give me three forks and extra napkins and plates, because it's standard in New York City.
	I'm like, dude, this is not New York City!
	Exactly.
	You're gonna get some Tex-Mex.
	You know, you're gonna have an upset stomach.
	Hey, welcome to Texas.
	Last big question for you.
	Do you ever hear people say that they are trying to relocate because they want to be in the right place when secession happens or civil war or something like that?
	Oh, yeah.
	No, I definitely have those conversations, and I think that does play into it.
	Obviously, the American readout movement that my dad originated plays into that.
	I am very strongly hoping for and working for wanting to not see that happen.
	But on the other hand, I think I do hope for some return to constitutional government, including the 10th Amendment, which really does provide for the states to be largely self-governing outside of federal control.
	And I think I think there are states where we'll see that happening, and I think there are states where we will not see that happening.
	And I think, yeah, people are recognizing that.
	I think Idaho is one of the states where we may see that happening.
	I certainly hope so.
	But even here, looking at Idaho specifically in their political situation, there's a lot of discord within the Republican Party even between the Truly conservative branches and the rhino branches, if you will.
	Sure, yeah.
	I mean, isn't that where Michael Snyder was running for Congress a couple years ago?
	Yeah, absolutely.
	I had a chance to meet him a few years ago.
	Yeah, great guy.
	Yeah, I interviewed him at the time.
	Yeah, he's definitely a great guy.
	The Economic Collapse blog.
	And your father runs survivalblog.com, correct?
	Yep.
	That's a great site, too.
	All kinds of information.
	I always tell people they should get on there, download all the pages, print everything.
	You're going to have encyclopedias of knowledge.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	Hard copy.
	Okay.
	Any last thoughts as we wrap this up?
	Anything?
	Yeah.
	No, I really appreciate you having some great questions.
	I think the big thing I want to hit on is, you know, obviously we can talk about, you know, all the challenges of the big city and, you know, all the possible downsides.
	But the big thing I want to emphasize as well is all of this has to be done, you know, if we're looking at relocation.
	Don't base it out of fear, out of panic, out of I have to get out of here, but really identify what you want to move towards in terms of productivity, resiliency, the sort of life that is best for your family and your situation, not just trying to get away from something else.
	Maybe a little squishy, but I hope it's helpful.
	No, that is helpful.
	The people I hear coming out of California are definitely trying to get away from something.
	No, I get it.
	There's real reasons there.
	Yeah, they're like, Newsom is destroying everything.
	We just can't take it anymore.
	Absolutely.
	And I hear from fellow Texans like, you know, we're like all these Californians coming over.
	And I remind them, these are the good Californians.
	It's true.
	No, it's true.
	We're actually gathering patriots from all over the world.
	Absolutely.
	Stay with me here after the recording.
	I just want to...
	Actually, I want to give you my cell number and invite you back.
	If you've got any popping news or intel or anything that you want to share, I want to give you a way to reach me.
	So stand by.
	Sounds great.
	But folks, the website again is survivalrealty.com.
	And for those of you who pronounce it Realty, notice there is no I in that word.
	Thank you.
	Yes.
	And it's not pronounced realty.
	It's realty.
	And so that will help you spell it.
	I'm sorry to be sarcastic.
	I'm just an editor at heart.
	But survivalrealty.com.
	And you're going to check out all kinds of great properties.
	Hope you find one that's perfect for you if you're not already squared away.
	And thank you for listening today.
	And thank you, Jonathan, for taking the time with us.
	Absolutely.
	Thanks so much, Mike.
	Have a great day.
	Absolutely.
	You too.
	And finally, folks, feel free to repost this interview if you'd like on your own channel or other platforms as well.
	It's kind of an open source type of deal.
	We want to share this information with as many people as possible.
	I'm Mike Adams, the founder of Brighteon.com.
	God bless you all.
	Thanks for listening.
	Take care.
	Well, that was really cool.
	That was super cool.
	I did not know until right before the interview, I did not know that Jonathan Rawls was the son of James Wesley Rawls.
	Perhaps I should have known that, and I was pleasantly surprised to find that out.
	But, of course, James Wesley Rawls...
	He runs survivalblog.com.
	We need to invite James Wesley Rawson, come to think of it, because I think he's former U.S. Army Intelligence, I believe, was his specialty.
	And he's a super high IQ guy.
	He's got a lot of great information over there at survivalblog.com as well.
	But survivalrealty.com, that's very interesting to me.
	So I gave Jonathan my phone number, invited him to reach out to me when he sees anything interesting that he thinks you need to know about.
	And actually, I put that out to a lot of these experts.
	Like when I interview an expert and I think that they really know their stuff, I'll give them my number so they can kind of ping me when they see something.
	In fact, I had an interesting conversation with David Morgan, the silver guru, a few hours ago.
	Kind of an off-the-record conversation about what's happening in the silver marketplace.
	And it's...
	I'm not keeping anything from you.
	It's basically a confirmation of what I've been saying.
	The silver market's all wiped out right now.
	At least the one-ounce coins are completely wiped out.
	And people are moving into like 10-ounce bars and 100-ounce bars because that's what's available.
	But There are a lot of people late to the The interview with Jonathan Rawls I thought was really fascinating.
	And Jonathan is obviously very sharp.
	I love the fact that he kept his answers really short and to the point, allowed me to get in a ton of questions.
	I always like to do that.
	And I will never run out of questions.
	I've always got new questions for folks.
	So I hope you enjoyed that interview.
	And I guess if you're buying a property or you're looking for a place to go as a survival retreat, that would be a useful website for you.
	Or if you're selling a place, obviously, I guess you could pay to list it there.
	I don't even know what they charge.
	I should have asked them, but I didn't.
	But I don't know.
	It's probably a few hundred bucks or something.
	It's probably reasonable.
	Knowing the Rawls father and son is probably a reasonable fee.
	Anyway, all right.
	Speaking of relocation, you need to relocate your money out of PayPal if you haven't already.
	I know you've probably heard PayPal.
	They put out the thing where they can steal $2,500 from your account.
	They did that last Saturday.
	That's for every incident where they think that you expressed intolerance or spread misinformation, even if it wasn't on PayPal.
	You know, you could have, I don't know, let's say $10,000 in PayPal.
	And then on your Facebook page, let's say if you still use Facebook or on Twitter, you go out and you say, well, the vaccines are killing people.
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	Intolerance and hatred and transphobia.
	$2,500 fine.
	There were mules who were transporting ballots to rig the election.
	Ding!
	Another $2,500.
	You get the point.
	They just rip off all your money.
	That's PayPal.
	So you've got to close down your PayPal account and you've got to get out of that system.
	By the way, they have not retracted That user agreement thing that they said they retracted?
	No, it's actually still in there.
	I've heard this from others, including the guy that runs the COVID blog.
	I think, isn't that Jenkins?
	Isn't that his name?
	Brian?
	Is it Brian Jenkins?
	I think that's his name.
	He's in a dispute with PayPal right now over a whole lot of money, and he's bashing heads with their lawyers.
	PayPal stole a lot of money from a lot of people.
	Now, You may not know this because I didn't raise a stink about it, but PayPal stole money from us too.
	PayPal shut down our account.
	I think the Health Ranger store account.
	We used to allow people to pay by PayPal.
	They shut it down.
	It seems like over a year ago.
	Maybe it was a year and a half or something.
	They were shutting down just anybody that they didn't like.
	And they actually stole from us.
	I think it was like $3,000 or something.
	And we just didn't have time to deal with it.
	I didn't write about it.
	I didn't talk about it.
	We didn't take any legal action because, you know, you hire a lawyer, it's 10 grand.
	What, to go after 3 grand?
	Really?
	So, frankly, we just let them steal it.
	And we just moved on and focused on other things.
	Which, I know, you might find that odd, but at least they didn't take us for something bigger like $50,000 or $100,000 because, you know, if we have store sales on a sales day, there can be quite a lot of volume when we're selling Ranger buckets and things like that.
	So, anyway, PayPal did rip us off, but they took us for only a few thousand dollars and I decided to move on and focus on other things.
	Just letting you know, they ripped us off too.
	Now, let's move over to Europe since we haven't talked about them much today.
	Oh my goodness.
	It's getting colder, have you noticed?
	Getting colder in Europe.
	Here's a story from greatgameindia.com, which is a really wonderful website, by the way.
	Polish households burn trash to stay warm as sanctions on Russia backfire.
	Hmm.
	Who saw this coming?
	Turns out that in Poland that they are literally burning their trash now.
	Because that's all they have in some cases.
	So here is Paulina Mokchowska.
	I'm sorry.
	A Polish citizen told Bloomberg that as the natural gas scarcity intensifies, she's already seen people using garbage to warm their homes.
	She said, quote, it's so bad this season that you can smell trash burning every day, which is completely new.
	And I'm wondering if she's smelling the Germans burning 800 million masks.
	Which is a story that we covered, I think, yesterday.
	Right?
	They had way too many masks.
	Remember, they spent $5.9 billion on these PPE masks for COVID, and they've decided the best way to get rid of them now is to just burn them for heat.
	So maybe that's what she's smelling here, Paulina.
	Maybe she's smelling mask vapor, whatever.
	She says, scary to think what happens when it really gets cold.
	Yeah.
	That's right.
	Winter is drawing near, and they are burning trash.
	Well, I mean, I have a wood stove, and I burn wood.
	I wonder if city people realize you're not supposed to burn things like plastic.
	Do they know that, or are they just chucking everything in there?
	Like, here are plastic buckets.
	Just burn them, you know?
	That's not a good idea.
	You should only burn natural substances like, you know, Firewood, obviously.
	Things like that.
	Or maybe, if you get really desperate, burn your wooden furniture or something.
	I guess if you're part of the socialist left, you would probably want to start burning books as well.
	Certain books, you know, books about economics or history or liberty or anything like that.
	They just want to burn the books like The Rise and Fall of Rome.
	Let's burn that so nobody will know which mistakes to avoid.
	Anyway, I suspect they're burning everything in sight, or they're about to.
	And they're going to come to realize that actually plastics do burn, but they really raise quite a stink.
	So, you know, Poland and Germany and other parts of Europe, you realize they're being plunged into basically the 18th century now?
	Except it's way dirtier.
	A lot of them are just burning coal at this point.
	Isn't this almost pre-industrial revolution at this point?
	I mean, Europe is going back about two centuries, I think.
	Yes, so much for modern living.
	Clean natural gas?
	No.
	No, they blew up the pipelines.
	What about clean nuclear power?
	No, they shut down the power plants.
	What about clean coal?
	We don't have coal anymore.
	So what are you going to do?
	Oh, we're going to burn buckets!
	Yeah, welcome to Poland!
	Burning buckets!
	So see, from that story, the government of Poland has temporarily waived air quality regulations so that residents can burn coal for home heating until next April.
	See?
	Ah, the environment?
	Screw that!
	Yeah, just burn whatever you have that's flammable, pretty much.
	Which, you know, I jokingly said, oh, they should burn the bankers' desks, you know?
	They should burn all the bureaucratic paperwork that currently runs Europe.
	That would be a service to everyone.
	You thought I was going to say burn the bankers, didn't you?
	No, I did not say that.
	I said burn the bankers' desks.
	You see, that's different.
	Burning the bankers is like a heinous Nazi-era type of incineration of human beings.
	I said burn their desks so that they just can't do more paperwork.
	Burn the bankers' desks.
	Oh, but speaking of Nazis, by the way, the Prime Minister of Germany says that anybody who protests high energy prices is a fascist.
	Yes, this is true.
	The Prime Minister of Thuringia, who's a member of the far-left Die Linke Party...
	I guess he's not the Prime Minister of all of Germany.
	He is Prime Minister of a state in Germany, okay?
	His name is Bodo Romulo, the Prime Minister of Thuringia, okay?
	He says that anybody who protests any problem with energy or energy prices, they're part of a, quote, fascist movement in the country.
	Yeah, right.
	So if you're freezing and dying of starvation and you can't cook any food and you've got nothing left to burn, And you take to the street, you're like, you know, this is crazy.
	We're unhappy.
	Then, oh, you're a fascist.
	And he's the same guy who previously said, I think, that conservatives are enemies of the state or that protesters are enemies of the state.
	Something like that.
	These Nazis, they just come out of the woodwork now.
	If you protest, you're a fascist?
	No.
	You're the fascist, Mr...
	What was it?
	Deuce Bigelow?
	No.
	Oh, Bobo Romolo.
	Yeah.
	I think Deuce Bigelow is better, actually.
	The male gigolo for the German state.
	He's a prostitute for the German state.
	Yeah, I'm just going to call him Deuce Bigelow, frankly.
	He's a fascist.
	And they are destroying the German economy.
	And they're screwing the German people.
	And, of course, Germany to this day is still run by essentially Nazis.
	They are not good for humanity, and they're destroying their own economy, by the way.
	This is only going to get more and more ugly throughout the winter.
	You're going to see some kind of a revolt, maybe almost like an uprising scenario in Germany and other countries.
	I wonder if Deuce Bigelow is going to be out there with a baton bashing heads of German people.
	You're fascist!
	Whack, whack, whack.
	We'll see.
	I bet you there'll be TikTok videos about that.
	Now, if you do go out and protest and you get bashed by your fascist government anywhere in Europe, make sure you don't bleed because it turns out, here's a story from the UK Daily Mail, the NHS is dangerously short of blood.
	Yeah, who would have thought that?
	You got a blood supply chain problem now.
	NHS declares first ever, quote, Amber Alert, which I suppose means something different in the UK than it does in the US. Amber Alert with just two days worth of blood supplies remaining, meaning that health bosses will have to cancel routine operations like hip replacements.
	So overall blood stocks in the NHS now stand at 3.1 days.
	That's for type O blood people and less than two days for other types.
	Oh my goodness.
	They've only got three days of blood?
	How's that going to work if Russia starts launching missiles, by the way, at targets in London and other European places, end up in a war?
	You're going to need some more blood.
	Or just what about the people protesting?
	What about the violence from the government against the people?
	You're going to need a lot more blood than three days' worth of blood.
	Oh, here it is.
	Wow.
	Okay, there's a chart.
	O negative is only 1.89 days.
	I don't know why they care about so many decimal points on this.
	Are they counting this by the minute?
	Let's see.
	O positive is 2.12 days.
	If you're AB positive, you're in luck.
	They've got almost 10 days of blood for you.
	AB positive.
	It's a good time to be AB positive in the UK. Bad time to be O. And by the way, if you think it's hard to get blood now, just try to ask for unvaccinated blood.
	Yeah, there's probably no unvaccinated blood left in the UK blood system.
	They probably don't even know if it's unvaccinated.
	Folks, just try not to need blood because whatever blood they give you is probably going to be way worse than your blood.
	Just saying.
	If you're listening to this, you're probably into some pretty decent nutrition, some superfoods.
	You're probably unvaccinated.
	You probably have pretty good blood.
	And that's not what you're going to get.
	You're going to get like street junkie meth head vaccinated blood because that's who they're paying for blood at the blood donation centers.
	Seriously, you're going to get the worst.
	You're going to get like street AIDS blood, basically.
	No, for real.
	Man, if I ever need blood...
	I do not want regular public blood.
	I want, like, blood from healthy people, healthy donors, you know, superfood blood, that kind of thing.
	You know what our blood is actually worth, like in a real marketplace, if people knew the value of having healthy blood?
	Because you know, folks, if you eat in any way close to the way I eat, you know, the superfoods and the turmeric and the smoothies and everything, you know we have anti-cancer factors all in our blood all the time.
	That's why we're not dying of cancer.
	We have anti-cancer factors.
	You realize that, like, if I gave my blood to somebody who was a cancer patient, if we could keep it going, they would...
	It would beat their cancer, essentially.
	Maybe not in every case, obviously, if they're too far gone, but the anti-cancer factors are there in the blood.
	I mean, why do you think the globalists are always taking children's blood and transfusing it into their bodies?
	Because that's what's keeping them alive.
	Why do you think they never die of old age, it seems, right?
	Because, well, they're taking blood from kids, folks.
	No, that's not a conspiracy theory.
	That's an absolute fact because the younger – the kid's blood has factors in it that prevent aging and are anti-cancer factors and so on.
	There's a ton of science on this.
	There was even that company in California called Ambrosia that was trying to actually do this as a public service.
	Like you actually go in and you get like a liter of blood for $50,000 or whatever it was from a younger person.
	You can look it up.
	Just look up Ambrosia Blood Donation Company in California.
	I think it was in San Francisco or Sacramento.
	I forgot.
	But that company was out there.
	I'm just saying.
	Got sidetracked on blood here.
	I'm just saying.
	Try not to need anybody else's blood because it's not going to be as good as yours.
	Trust me on that point.
	And also, just as a side note, a lot of you in the medical fields, nurses, doctors, what have you, you know you can give your own blood before you have to go in for elective surgery.
	You know that, right?
	Give your own blood.
	They put it on ice.
	And then, when you're having your hip replacement, they're giving you back your own blood.
	Just make sure they don't screw that up.
	No mix-ups allowed.
	They give you back your own blood.
	That's awesome.
	That's perfect.
	You are a blood-making factory, you know.
	You know, your bone marrow and all that.
	I'm not even going to bring in the other controversial statements here, but blood is made in more places than just your bones.
	I'll just put it that way and leave it there.
	Seriously.
	You're a blood-making factory, and you're making good, healthy blood if you're eating well.
	Anyway, enough.
	Enough of that.
	I'll move on.
	Did you know there's a 16% increase in mortality in people who live in high-vaccination European countries?
	Yeah, I mean, those countries are suffering a 16% excess mortality rate.
	That's a very high number.
	So, I guess, I mean, so many vaccinated people dying across Europe, surely somebody else could burn their trash for heat this winter, I think.
	That's called, you know, community giving.
	Recycling.
	What was it that Germany said about burning all those masks?
	They called it thermal recycling.
	They didn't just say, yeah, we're burning 800 million masks.
	We're incinerating them.
	We're setting them on fire.
	No, they called it thermal recycling.
	There's a whole new euphemism for you.
	It's like, what are you doing with that stuff?
	You just set it on fire.
	Nope, nope, nope.
	This is thermal recycling, actually.
	It's a whole new way to look at Burning things.
	Thermal.
	So if you're in Poland, then you have to burn trash this winter.
	Just remember, it's actually thermal recycling.
	And how is it recycling it?
	Well, it's emitting the plastic pollutants into the atmosphere.
	It's recycling now.
	Isn't it amazing how the green movement has just abandoned everything because winter's coming?
	It's like, screw being green!
	Let's just burn everything!
	No more air quality!
	Whatever emissions you want, just burn it, burn it, burn it!
	Cut down the trees, you know?
	That's what they're doing all across Germany, cutting down the trees.
	Who needs forest?
	Winter's coming.
	We're watching this with just a sense of amazement.
	It didn't take much for the Europeans to abandon all their principles, did it?
	It's only going to take one winter, basically.
	The whole green movement is face-planting right now all across Europe.
	One winter is enough to dispel all the illusions of being green, isn't it?
	Just one winter is all it takes.
	Did you hear that Jamie Dimon of J.P. Morgan said, Yeah, he came out.
	He was slamming Biden, begging for oil from the Saudis, and he said, by the way, investors don't give a bleep about the ESG, the social credit score, the environmental score, environmental stewardship, whatever all that garbage is.
	He's like, investors don't give a crap about any of that stuff.
	He's just coming out and saying it.
	And that guy commands over a trillion dollars in assets, by the way.
	That's crazy.
	There's a bank that's got a trillion dollars.
	But at least he's telling the truth about this whole ESG nonsense, which is all collapsing right now.
	I mean, if you don't want to freeze to death and if you want to eat food and not die from starvation, you're going to have to use energy at some point in this equation.
	You're probably going to have to have fossil fuels involved for the fertilizer, maybe the natural gas to heat something, boil water.
	You're going to need some energy.
	Well, you realize the default position of the greenies and the environmentalists in Europe especially is that all energy use is bad and all energy use needs to be restricted and shut down like no energy for you.
	It's not just no soup for you.
	It's no energy for you.
	You're not allowed to heat anything.
	Not allowed to transport anything.
	Not allowed to burn anything unless it's, you know, trash or masks and maybe coal.
	But nothing else.
	No clean natural gas.
	Not allowed to burn that.
	Just got to burn trash.
	And of course, that explains where the phrase Euro trash comes from, doesn't it?
	It's the Europeans burning trash.
	Euro trash finally makes sense.
	Finally, I got it.
	Euro trash.
	That's the heat source.
	And I'm thinking, I might take some heat on that comment, because I actually, I know plenty of people in Europe who would laugh at that joke too, by the way.
	But if you think that I might take some heat, I would just say to the Euro trash trying to give me heat for the comment about Euro trash, you should conserve that heat.
	You're going to need it this winter.
	There.
	I just stacked a joke on top of a joke.
	Did you see that?
	That's a whole new level of jokesterism, even from me.
	I hope you appreciate the artistry that just happened there.
	The double-stack Euro trash joke, a joke within a joke, with a little bit of hate and a little bit of heat, all combined together to keep your house warm this winter in Poland.
	How about that?
	All right, I'm going to wrap it up there, folks.
	And hey, you know what?
	Don't take this too seriously.
	A lot of this is satire, okay?
	And we have to be able to laugh at ourselves and the world and the insanity of it all.
	We have to laugh.
	I mean, the burning trash in Poland, folks.
	I mean, come on.
	The greenies are burning trash.
	Or maybe there'll be some holdouts who are like, I'm not going to burn trash until I'm really, really cold.
	By that time, the trash has run out.
	You end up burning like donkey poop.
	It's like, okay, I give in.
	I'm so cold, I'll burn anything.
	What do you have?
	We're down to cat turds.
	You want to burn cat turds?
	Oh my god, that's it?
	That's all we have?
	Yep.
	You basically set litter boxes on fire and see if it makes your house more livable.
	How about that?
	I'm sorry.
	I'm going to have to stop this podcast before I dig deeper into all kinds of social trouble.
	But no, for those of you listening from Europe, we love you.
	But you're well prepared.
	You get to laugh at the greenies who are the ones that are going to be burning cat turds before this winter is over.
	Trust me.
	You're going to be laughing as hard as I'm laughing right now.
	But seriously, we wish for abundance and peace and liberty for people all over the world as a universal concept for all of humanity.
	Seriously.
	We want everybody to do well.
	We want everybody to be warm.
	We want everybody to live in peace and with a sense of liberty and freedom, not have bombs dropping on us and not have to endure these globalist terrorists that are...
	Causing worldwide famine and weather weapons and everything else we've talked about here.
	So sadly, sadly, the people are not yet in charge of what's happening in the world, although I think that's going to change pretty soon.
	Nevertheless, it is Friday, so thank you for all your support and attention this week.
	I hope you've enjoyed this episode and learned a lot from it as well.
	I know I did in the interview.
	Use this weekend wisely, I always say.
	Get prepared and just be ready for crazy things to happen because we're getting very close now to the end of the window of opportunity for the false flags.
	About two weeks remaining, okay?
	We've got about two weeks.
	If we can get through these two weeks, then I think we're going to be much better off.
	Pray for protection.
	Get prepared yourself for whatever may happen.
	Thank you for listening.
	God bless you.
	God bless America.
	God bless the Euro trash today.
	God bless the Euro trash as well.
	Everybody deserves to be blessed by God.
	Especially you're going to need it for the coming winter.
	All right, so universal peace and warmth for everybody.
	And bellies full all over the world.
	All right, thank you for listening.
	We'll talk to you again maybe this weekend, if not Monday morning.
	Take care.
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