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Nov. 12, 2022 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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Alex Krainer lays out the global, multipolar restructuring of trade and finance...
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Welcome, folks.
This is Mike Adams here, the founder of Brighteon.com, and today we're joined by a new guest, but a very special individual.
I've seen him on other programs, including, I believe, with Gonzalo Lira recently on his roundtable.
Our guest today is, he's an author, he's a former hedge fund manager, And he's got a vast amount of knowledge on issues ranging from sort of the shift to the multipolar world, currencies, the Ukraine-Russia situation, American imperialism, and so much more.
His name is Alex Cranor, with a K, and he joins us now from Europe.
Mr.
Cranor, thank you for all that you do, and thank you for joining me today.
It's an honor to have you on.
My pleasure and privilege, Mike, and my warm greetings from Monaco to your listeners.
Well, welcome.
Yeah, so it must be very late there in Monaco right now, but we've got a lot to talk about, so thank you for taking the time.
Now, let me start with a big issue that is in the news recently, where more nations are announcing they're joining the BRICS Plus initiative, and the Saudis are really favoring, it looks like, China engaging in trade.
And currency settlements with China.
And so you have Russia, China, the Saudis, it looks like Turkey, Iran, Venezuela, and so on, that are going to form a new global reserve currency.
And the petrodollar status looks like it's very limited in its life.
So I'm just throwing all that out there right now, and you can take that and say whatever you wish about those topics.
Well, I think it's one of the most important topics to pay attention to today because there really is a new world emerging and the These Eurasian integrations are happening in earnest and for real.
On Wednesday, 26th October this year, in the Valdai Forum in Sochi, in Russia, Vladimir Putin said that, you know, this project is on track and it is irreversible at this point.
And I was also invited to speak at a conference in Baku, Azerbaijan.
It's the capital of Azerbaijan on the Caspian Sea.
And this was called the 15th Verona-Eurasian Integrations Forum.
And so I spent two days.
I've never been to this event before.
I've never been to Azerbaijan.
I've never been to the Caspian region.
And I have to say I came away with very, very positive impressions because for two days there was a lot of people, not a small number of Westerners as well.
And discussions were very high-quality discussions.
Fairly high level, high quality, high caliber of participants.
And it was all about concrete challenges of developing societies, economic development, technological development, building up of infrastructure.
Advancing food production, new payment systems, new monetary standards, a really intelligent discussion about the role of technology in society, which we in the West,
I think, kind of We always take for granted that technology is awesome, that everything new is awesome and we always have this infatuation with innovation really without asking ourselves what it's good for.
So we sink billions and billions of dollars into things that have a two-week shelf life and then nothing comes off it and nobody benefits really.
The usual unicorns that are with us for the last two decades.
And so the thing that struck me the most as I came away from the conference is the contrast between the optimism that was underlying all of these discussions.
You know, like all of these people were talking about real problems.
In a way, nobody was up there on stage talking about how huge it's going to be, how awesome it's going to be.
It was just underlying everything in the discussion.
These people are looking forward to the future.
They expect better life.
They expect greater prosperity.
And it was woven into all of the discussions that were taking place there.
And, you know, for me, it was...
May I ask you from what other nations were these people from?
You know, what other nations do they represent?
Yeah, sure.
So there was a lot of people from Azerbaijan, obviously, from Russia, from Iran, from...
There were delegates from France, Germany.
There was like a boatload of Italians there.
There was one man from Croatia that was me.
And there was at least one American there and, you know, other people from many other Eurasian countries, you know, India and China and so forth.
So it was a fairly diverse group of people.
Could I ask you, what was the sense, not necessarily in terms of the actual speaking, but private conversations, what was the sense about America from this international point of view and what America is doing with its currency or with Nord Stream pipeline destruction or with war and so on?
What was the overall perception of America among this crowd?
Well, you see, the interesting thing about this is that there wasn't much discussion about any of that.
You know, there was no talk about East-West divisions.
There was no talk about war ideology.
None of these divisive issues.
In fact, I spoke to the American delegate to the conference who was also speaking there, and he told me that the organizer specifically asked him not to criticize the United States in his remarks because he's kind of, you know, he's been, you know, Writing and he's known to have very critical stance about the United States foreign policy.
And I think that the reason for this is because these people have a very long-term vision.
And I think that whatever is going on today, you know, with the Biden administrations, with the neocons raging in, you know, the State Department and the Pentagon, that the long-term future will inevitably have to Include the United States.
United States is still one of the leading global powers.
And I don't think anybody there was busy fulminating against the Biden administration about NATO. They were talking about social and economic development, basically.
Nothing about all these other ideological things or geopolitical divisions.
Now, is it widely understood, and by the way, I apologize for talking over you, but there is a substantial delay in our bandwidth here, so we're going to have to be careful about not talking over each other, so I apologize for that, but was there a general understanding that the new global reserve currency of the BRICS nations is rapidly becoming a reality,
and is it going to be In the way that we understand, like a portfolio of commodities backing the currency, which would be a transactional clearinghouse that does not involve any demand for dollars whatsoever, that it's a parallel system, China, Russia, Saudis, Turkey.
Is that generally understood, that that's all real and that's happening?
I think that this is generally understood, but this wasn't discussed in the conference.
I think that the new...
The new reserve currency and the new clearing mechanisms are probably being worked out at a fairly high level between the countries that are involved.
I think that not a lot of this is going out public.
What I understood, but not from this conference, what I understood is that the Russian and Chinese diplomacy has been signaling other nations who are interested in joining their trading bloc That they're welcome to join, that their currencies can be part of the basket of currencies that are going to form the new reserve currency and the new trading currency.
And also, what I heard is that they've signaled to all of these nations that they will not be penalized.
If they decide to default on their debt obligation to Western financial institutions, and that they would also not be penalized.
Yeah, that's pretty huge.
And that they would also not be penalized in case they decide to re-nationalize their industries and resources.
So, you know, if you're an emerging nation, you know, if you're a Brazil, a South Africa, Argentina, And you're being squeezed by the IMF, by the World Bank, by Western financial institutions on the one side.
The cost of your US dollar denominated debt is going up every month.
And your creditors are bleeding you dry.
And on the other hand, on the other side, they're telling you, hey, you know, we can trade on a fair basis and you can take, you can, you know, forget all these debts.
You can just default on them.
And you can re-nationalize your national resources, your nation's resources for the benefit of your own population.
Well, you know, that's like a big juicy carrot on the one side versus a big stick on the other side.
So it's no wonder that so many nations, and I think that the list is getting longer and longer, so many nations are now vying to join the BRICS club and to also join the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.
But on top of that, when the Western nations shocked Russia with the economic sanctions and cutting Russia off from the SWIFT system, that sent a very powerful message all over the world to all the nations to say that If we don't like your behavior,
we being the West, if we don't like your behavior, we are going to essentially de-platform you from the global transactional clearinghouse system, which is SWIFT. And it seems like from what you're describing right now that the BRICS arrangement is at least presenting itself as rather forgiving and saying we're going to be fair, open, transparent, inclusive even.
And, at least it seems implied, we're not going to try to micromanage your own country's behavior.
You are welcome to participate in this system as long as you have resources.
Is that kind of a correct overview, or am I missing something?
No, I think your overview is entirely correct.
And I can also say that In a different conference that I participated in a few years ago, in 2018, there was A large delegation of people from African countries.
This was in Germany before Covid, before the Ukraine war and so forth.
And a bunch of these discussions were about Chinese investment in Africa.
And, you know, in the West this is all being framed as China.
They're setting up debt traps for African nations and then they're gonna basically Plunder them when they default on the Chinese debt.
However, all of these All of these presentations and panel discussions were very, very positive.
And all these African peoples were speaking about Chinese investments as something that's really changing their lives.
And I was a little bit surprised because, you know, I kind of bought into the Western narrative that China was kind of setting up these debt traps for African nations.
And then I, you know, I spoke to many of these, you know, privately, I spoke to many of these African And they all, to the last one of them, told me, no, man, this is a real difference.
African people, for the first time, are looking forward to the future with optimism, and their lives are visibly improving, and that they're excited about what is going on.
And then later on, I found out from a research paper from Johns Hopkins University, where they tallied up Something like two or three thousand Chinese loans to African countries over a period of 20 years.
And they didn't find a single case of the Chinese repossessing African resources or assets on account of their failing to repay the debt.
So I think that, you know, the Maybe this will shock you, but I think that the narrative we're getting in the West is false.
They're lying to us about this as well.
That doesn't shock me one bit, because they lie about everything.
Yeah, I know, I was being sarcastic.
Of course, I've interviewed John Perkins in the past.
Yeah, I know, I know, yeah.
But I interviewed John Perkins years ago, Confessions of an Economic Hitman.
And I know you're familiar with his work.
But, of course, he described the way that the West and the World Bank and the IMF go in and they do compromise developing nations.
They get them into a debt trap.
They assassinate leaders or they bribe them or they have sex traps or blackmail.
Basically, it's the whole Jeffrey Epstein thing, kind of, that's been running all over the world out of U.S. imperialism for a very long time.
So the fact that you're saying that in this conference that people just wanted to figure out how we can grow food and engage in trade and live lives and so on, that no wonder there's a sense of optimism there, because I believe that humanity can experience that no wonder there's a sense of optimism there, because I believe that humanity can experience incredible abundance if we the thieves, The government terrorism, the money printing, the theft of the money.
If you just let people grow food and keep what they earn, everybody becomes wealthy over time.
You know what I mean?
It's natural.
Yeah, that is correct, Mike.
And I've been kind of obsessed with this problem, with this Exactly what you're describing.
I think since my teenage years, you know, I grew up in socialist Yugoslavia, but, you know, we were kind of open to the West.
And I remember when I was like, I think I was about 16 years of age.
Sting went to the Amazon and he wanted to kind of raise awareness about deforestation and to stop the deforestation and to protect the indigenous communities there.
And, you know, like, that all sounded awesome and nice and wonderful.
But even back then, as a 16-year-old living in the communist world, I kind of understood that Sting's Efforts were futile.
I've always thought, why is that so?
Why is our culture so pathogenic?
We create misery at home and mayhem abroad.
You know, our systems themselves, you know, they have periods of prosperity and development, but then they have these endless periods of crises, and we create enormous quantity of trash and pollution, and somehow we converged on this state of permanent war.
We're always at war.
Where is this coming from?
How is it possible?
Especially given that nobody you know likes war, Everybody likes clean environment.
Everybody likes to like people around them.
So it's not that we are the pathogens.
It's that the system somehow creates this pathogenic dynamic.
And, you know, I've been obsessed with this question most of my adult life.
A lot of the research that I have been doing through my life and having worked as a hedge fund manager has kind of helped because the bulk of your job is constantly doing research.
And so I traced the origin to this dynamic to the monetary system.
That, you know, we've had now for something like 500 years.
And, you know, we started with this fractional reserve banking, which is basically banks cheating, lending out money that they don't have and charging interest back on it.
So this has been done since at least the 1300s in Europe.
You know, it was the so-called Lombard banking system That the Venetians originated and then it took over in cities like Venice, Milan, Florence, Naples, and Genoa.
And then these bankers even funded The expeditions to South America from Spain, the Spanish conquistadors to go across, and they basically ended up destroying three civilizations there, three indigenous civilizations, and causing mass depopulation.
And plundered practically all of their wealth in gold and silver.
And this very same system of banking, the same monetary system, has then continued to evolve and propagate itself.
They migrated to the Netherlands, set up the Bank of Amsterdam, and then they migrated to England.
They set up the Bank of England.
The Bank of England was established in 1694, and over the next 120 years, England prosecuted fully 18 officially declared wars against France.
So England was practically nonstop at war.
And it probably spent about half the time in crisis, like, you know, recessions, depressions, bank failures, all of that.
So everything that we're experiencing today is kind of symptomatic through history of this very system.
And the only way that it can sustain itself is by constantly plundering abroad so that it can, you know, like...
Exactly.
Yeah.
And, you know...
One of the people who are in charge of this, and so I always like to point out to people, this is not an American empire, really.
This is the vestige of the British Empire, which has about a century ago, simply, as they imploded, they moved overseas to the United States.
And then co-opted and infiltrated the American structures of power.
And from that point on, they basically used the United States to continue building their empire.
But it's not an American empire.
The empire is simply a system of vested interests that goes around the world and plunders nations.
And the benefit accrues to a very, very narrow circle of these vested interests.
And everybody else is worse for it.
American people, their prosperity has been squandered.
The wealth of the United States has been basically squandered on these imperial projects.
And even the people in Britain, 20% of them live in poverty.
One in 25 children doesn't have enough to eat, and so on and so forth.
So it's always misery at home, mayhem abroad.
Well, right, but let me add to that.
I completely agree with your assessment, but I need to add that then the way this is enforced is through government-sponsored terrorism of the people.
So governments collude to unleash crises, such as COVID, for example.
Or wars.
I mean, you just gave an example of the British government just waging endless war.
That's always the best excuse to keep your own people in line, because anybody who then questions the government can be said to be anti-patriotic.
Just like today, right now in America, if you question anything to do with the Biden regime, they say you're a Russian Putin puppet.
Which is absurd.
It's nonsense.
Like, no, we're talking about you're printing too much money.
It's not a Putin issue.
It's a fiat currency issue.
But you see, war is the number one excuse.
And now they've come up with all kinds of new ways to terrorize people.
And I don't know if you've followed this, but in America, they're burning down a lot of food distribution hubs.
They've shut down a lot of oil drilling.
They're shutting down coal plants.
They're creating energy scarcity.
The diesel has almost run out across America.
And America has destroyed the Nord Stream pipelines, or at least segments of them, so that Western Europe has plunged into a crisis as well.
It's like, wow, you know, with governments like that, who needs enemies?
Right.
Well, exactly.
So you got it 100% spot on.
This is, you know, the wars abroad are also handy to keep the populace at home in check because, you know, war is that kind of emergency that allows you to rule by decree and outside of law.
And anybody who opposes is accused automatically of insufficient patriotism, working for the enemy and so on.
They can easily be silenced and done away with.
And so, you know, I believe that probably a lot of your listeners perfectly understand all this.
And I think that more and more people, especially after this COVID pandemic, I think that the percentage of people who are waking up to the way that the governments are abusing their power is now grown so significantly that It's no longer a question of whether we believe our governments.
The question becomes like, what do we do about this?
Because we have to do something about it because, you know, acquiescing and passively going along with this because maybe, you know, maybe it's the line of least resistance is unacceptable because we're going to end up Turning over to our children a world that's not worth living in.
We're going to give them a dystopia.
So we have to overturn this system in some way.
The people don't misunderstand.
I'm not calling for a revolution or a violent uprising.
But we do have to question the origins of this.
Basically, we have to change the operating system of the society.
We have to find What is this parasite that has perverted the functioning of the system?
And we have to root it out.
We just absolutely have to.
But it seems to me that we are now circling back actually to where we began this discussion because I think a lot of this corruption comes from the fact that the U.S. had the world reserve currency status and could therefore print unlimited money, export inflation, and ultimately shift production and commodities to other nations.
While the U.S. becomes or became a hub of financialization and debt creation, which is not really the basis of an actual economy, but as this system comes to an end because of the BRICS nations and the new world reserve currency, ultimately North America, not just the U.S., but Canada ultimately North America, not just the U.S., but Canada as well, is going to have to recalibrate itself and figure out how to offer value to the global economic trade system.
And it has to be something that's real, not just debt instruments, right?
Because the days of, here, trade me IOUs.
I mean, I'll give you IOUs and you give me tennis shoes.
Like, that's coming to an end.
Yeah, I believe so.
And, you know, that's...
That I think is the good news, because I think that the United States has always been one of the greatest engines of dynamism in this world, you know, one of the most powerful economies in the world.
So the United States has a lot to offer to the world.
And I think that this is the reason why I think that the long-term vision of these Eurasian integrations do not exclude the United States.
To the contrary, they are probably looking forward to the United States joining the party.
And also, for people who have maybe observed Russian foreign policy over the last two decades, they would have noticed that The Russians, and particularly President Putin, have been very, very careful to cultivate the best possible relationships with the American administrations.
Well, this has all fallen apart with the Biden administration, but I think that it's the Biden administration and the neocons In the State Department and in the Pentagon that are maybe the last obstacles to the United States rejoining the world,
you know, as an economic superpower and a republic and a place that everybody wants to join hands with again.
That is a really valuable perspective.
I'm so glad you mentioned that.
And I think it underscores the need to dismantle the neocon system.
Get these crooks out of power so that the United States can participate in sort of an economic recovery, I don't know, resurrection, you might say, for the world because we, and you know, of course, I'm an American, I live in Texas, I understand we have no economic future if we don't start actually producing things other than debt.
And financialization, you know, just, oh, here's derivatives, stacks of paper with assigned values, give me a break.
But yet we have a regime in charge right now that is utterly destroying our infrastructure, like tearing down energy, tearing down food, tearing down our election systems, our election integrity, just literally tearing down the country.
And it's like, how much damage are they going to do before they stop?
And wouldn't it be interesting if, America is saved by other nations around the world.
Wouldn't that be wild?
Well, I think it's very interesting that you mention this because I think that this is already perhaps even happening Okay, so I'll just go back to 2017 because at that time I published a book called Grand Deception.
And so Grand Deception was generally about the historical relationships between Russia and the United States.
What triggered me to go into writing that book was I kind of became privy to certain events Around a man called Bill Browder.
Bill Browder was a manager of the largest foreign-owned hedge fund in Russia in the 1990s.
And he was the man who lobbied.
The infamous, I think we have to say the infamous Bill Browder.
Exactly.
We have to use adjectives.
He's not a household name, exactly.
To set the proper frame.
Yeah, but it is the infamous Bill Browder.
And Bill Browder concocted this utterly fraudulent story, which he used to lobby through the U.S. Congress, the so-called Magnitsky Act.
And the Magnitsky Act, you know, is an abomination of a bill, but it has nevertheless been passed through U.S. Congress and is deemed now as the opening salve of the new Cold War against Russia, Right.
I.
Knowing what was going on, I became very concerned that if these people, whoever is backing Bill Browder, because it's not just him, you know, he's a possibly a member of, you know, he probably worked for MI6.
He has powerful backing in London.
the HSBC Bank, Foreign Office, the British Intelligence, possibly CIA and so forth.
And I realized that if these people have their way, They're going to push us straight into World War III between West and Russia.
And my inclination was try to unmask these networks.
And so I started digging into it, and lo and behold, I found that the historical relationship between Russia and the United States has always been very close and very friendly, the common enemy being the British Empire, right?
Because that's, you know, A lot of Americans don't even remember, but when you celebrate Independence Day, it's independence from Britain, not from...
I watch people going on the street and saying, hey, we're celebrating Independence Day, who are we independent from?
And nobody seems to know anymore.
It's kind of been scrubbed from history or people don't pay attention.
You know, I also found out that...
Well, but I mean, just to be clear, you know, Mark Dice videos and things like that, you can go onto the streets of America and you can ask the average American, what continent are you on right now?
And they won't know the answer.
So expecting them to understand history, oh, forget it.
Like, that's impossible.
Yeah, exactly.
The dumbing down has been so successful, it's off the charts.
It's been successful and it's been done for a reason and it's been done deliberately.
And basically, you know, when British Empire changed headquarters and moved from, you know, infiltrated and co-opted the United States, then they also scrubbed the history of the United States.
And so people don't know today that You know, the civil war that was fought in the 1860s in the United States was a major global geopolitical event where the British Empire wanted to partition the United States because they were afraid that the United States would become the big rival that they couldn't counter anymore.
So they felt like, hey, let's break up the United States, make it two small countries.
Both of them are rivals.
We'll pit them one against each other.
They'll exhaust themselves fighting one another.
And we'll provide arms and weapons and loans to each, and they'll be always our debtors.
And they were damn close to succeeding in this until...
In 1863, the Russian Tsar Alexander II sent his Baltic Fleet to New York and his Pacific Fleet to San Francisco, and they anchored in front of New York and San Francisco for six months, and preventing England and France from intervening in U.S. civil war and partitioning the United States.
So, the United States as a nation was preserved as a Union thanks to Russia.
Most people don't know this today, but you know, Yeah, I have heard that before, but I'd forgotten that.
You're exactly right.
That's something we are never taught in school.
That's right.
And so for the whole of the 19th century, Russia and the United States were allies.
And if you understand it, if you attain a correct Understanding of history and put events into their proper perspective, Russia and the United States are natural allies.
They should be allies.
So this friendship and this alliance that has been deliberately destroyed by the agents of the British Empire, I think will have to be patched back up together.
And so going back to your point that wouldn't it be funny if a foreign nation actually ended up saving the United States It wouldn't be the first time.
I don't know if you're familiar with the name Edgar Cayce.
He said that the rebirth of humanity, the emancipation of humanity is going to originate from Russia.
He said that in the 1920s or 1930s.
And when I read that, I thought like, huh, okay, whatever.
You know, one of those things that people can say, but I think that as I observe events that are taking place today, it could be that his prophecy actually comes to be true again.
Interesting.
Wow.
Well, he has a lot of other prophecies that apply to the United States as well, such as changes in ocean water levels and things like that, so we could be in for quite an interesting time.
But continue, please, because the big question that people want to know, kind of the implied question when we do interviews like this, is the audience basically is saying, tell us what's going to happen.
And why?
That's kind of the implied question.
Where do you think all of this is going?
I think that we are inevitably going into a protracted crisis of stagflation.
So the economic and financial crisis are going to be getting worse.
I think that the United States might not have it quite so bad as Europe will.
Because the United States as a system is a lot more robust.
You have the federal government, but you also have state governments that are actually quite powerful.
You have democratically elected sheriffs who serve their own communities.
So whatever problems there is with policing in the United States and law enforcement is still not entirely corruptible as it is in In European nations.
You have the Second Amendment, so people are not completely defenseless and they can push back against tyranny.
And I think that you also have a really significant process of awakening going on among the people.
So I think the American people are going to be able to weather the storm a bit better than other people in the West.
I think that Europe is in for A really, really rough, bumpy ride.
Britain, I think, is going to go back to being a fairly insignificant island nation.
And I don't know what becomes of Japan, but I think that Japan also will have to join the Eurasian integrations as a trading partner, which they can.
I think that for ordinary people, You have to know that you have inflation coming your way, that the purchasing power of your savings is going to gradually evaporate, with the possibility of, at some point, this process accelerating considerably, and then they might evaporate really fast.
My hedge fund career involved eight years of managing an inflation hedging I spent those eight years really researching a lot into inflation and how people should protect their portfolios and their purchasing power from inflation.
I can say a few things.
Far and away, the best hedge against inflation is exposure to commodity prices.
The second best hedge against inflation is farmland.
And then you can do certain things that, you know, will maybe help you through the rainy days.
It's always a good idea to own some gold and silver bullion, preferably in coins, you know, not like little bars that can be fake.
But coins that had been circulated in the past is real money.
You want to downsize your living arrangements.
Usually in inflation, the cost of living goes up higher and the cost of housing Tends to go up quite high.
You know, it tends to accelerate.
So you want to maybe simplify your living arrangements.
So you don't want to be living in a mansion.
You don't want to keep very high cost standard of living.
And you want to maybe, if you have a piece of arable land, you might want to learn how to use it.
If you live in one of those food deserts, you know, because I know these retirement communities in the United States, they look wonderful.
They're like beautiful, comfortable, spacious houses around the golf course and so forth.
And then the only source of food is the Walmart, which is like 20 miles away.
And there's no other market.
So you might want to think to develop food markets, farmers markets in your communities and so forth.
Take steps to be able to weather the storms that are coming, to make it possible for people who do grow their own food, who have, you know, like...
Have orchards and vegetable gardens and maybe some chickens and goats and so forth to have a place to trade it.
And you have to consider secondary currencies, whether it be time banks or whether it be local and regional currencies.
But you have to kind of think about the day where maybe your ATM will no longer be Giving you money where maybe your bank account becomes blocked.
You want to have the ability to bridge maybe a period of time that could be two months, three months, maybe even longer with a little reserve of cash that you can exchange for things with some reserve of food and maybe some ability to grow your own.
So, anyway, you know, that would be...
This is great.
Go ahead.
Yeah, I'm sorry.
That's very wise information, Alex.
But let me ask you kind of the follow-up question to that, which is that once this global recalibration of currencies takes place, won't that in effect drive Americans into a much lower standard of living compared to what they've been used to?
Because they've been living on debt.
They've been living on exported inflation.
In other words, the rest of the world has been driven into lower standards of living.
As a cost of accepting dollars.
So when dollars are no longer able to be used as the dominant hegemonic currency around the world, the typical American is going to suffer inevitably, even beyond what they lose in terms of dollars in the bank accounts and so on, but just their ability to purchase things They're going to have to spend more hours working to purchase the things that they need to survive.
Food, housing, shelter, transportation, and so on.
And that is going to be a psychological recalibration that will be traumatic for the American people because they've always been told that We're number one.
Like, the world answers to us.
I mean, we have a baseball series in this country where the champion of the baseball teams that play each other across the United States, it's called the World Series.
It's got nothing to do with the world.
I mean, it's an American baseball game.
They call it the World Series.
But you see my point?
There's such delusion that America runs the world that that's not going to be true much longer.
Your comments.
Well, Mike, I think that what you're describing is already happening largely.
Americans are already having to work two and three jobs and very long hours to be able to afford a lifestyle that they are used to.
And a lot of them are not succeeding, a lot of them are failing.
So I think the process of restructuring of the economy must already be underway.
Except that I think that we're still under the illusion that the government's going to fix it, that if we vote for certain candidates versus other candidates, that things are going to get better.
I'm not sure that they are, because this crisis has a momentum.
It's like a slow-motion train wreck, and it's not going to un-wreck itself by some miracle.
There's been far too many imbalances That are already plaguing the system.
There's been far too much misallocation of wealth and resources.
It's not that the wealth and resources are not there.
They are.
They're just being squandered on dumb political projects, on creating the surveillance states, on sinking trillions of dollars into vaccine programs and All these idiotic projects that are decided by some Politburo on an ideological basis without wondering what that does to the living standards of the people.
The solutions are going to have to come bottom up because everywhere in nature always the intelligence agencies act.
I'm not meaning intelligence agencies as the CIA, but the nature's intelligence Create solutions bottom-up, never top-down.
You know, top-down is the communist, socialist, Soviet system, which has already had its track record and it failed everywhere where it was tried.
Prosperity comes bottom-up, and I think that people already have to start thinking about this.
The American people used to be known as the nation of readers in the 19th century.
People read, people were educated, people discussed.
All of this has been dismantled on purpose by this same empire that needs obedient drones and not thinking individuals.
But we, you know, to have a life that we want, to have a good life, we want to be thinking individuals.
So, you know...
There you go, we're having this conversation, people are listening, people are discussing between themselves, people are reading and researching, and all this is happening as we speak.
I couldn't think of a better metaphor for that than Confucius.
There's a Confucian saying that says, a big tree falls with great noise and destruction, but the seeds grow silently.
And what that means to me is that what we see now everywhere around ourselves is these old structures collapsing on themselves.
And they're collapsing in a way that's very noisy, that's very scary, that's kind of almost monopolizing our attention.
But what we don't see is that there's tens and hundreds of millions of these seeds growing.
And it's every individual among us who is thinking, who is now questioning things, who is researching and reading and discussing with those around them, and who is thinking like, well, we have to come up with better solutions.
And people are extremely creative and clever.
And when they decide that they need new solutions, they are going to come up with them.
The problem is that now for decades, we didn't think we needed the solution because everything was so awesome.
Just like, you know, enjoy life and passively acquiesce to what the experts and the people in power are saying.
But we're seeing the sunset on this system.
And for all these reasons, I'm very optimistic, in fact, about the future because all of these millions of seeds Are growing as we speak.
And I think that's a good thing.
And with time, we'll see evidence of that taking shape.
So if I could just summarize this, because we're about to wrap this up, and I also want to give you an opportunity to tell people how they can follow you on Substack and Twitter and so on.
So be ready to share that.
But if I could summarize, I think what you're saying is, yes, we're going to go through turmoil.
We're going to see old systems erode.
It's already begun.
We're going to have to be prepared for the transition.
It's going to be tough on some people.
But when it's all said and done, humanity can achieve a new era of prosperity on the other side of this.
And there are a lot of good minds working on those solutions right this very minute.
Is that a pretty fair summary?
Yeah, that's absolutely the spot-on correct summary of what I said.
Great.
Okay, good.
See, I'm listening.
I am listening and trying to structure what you're saying, and so I'm just feeding it back to you to make sure it's right.
Well, that's a really great message, and I think you're right on track.
I actually agree with that message, and I guess at the end of the day...
The only difference is people bickering about the details of when and how and what it looks like.
But the big, broad strokes of this are pretty much laid out.
So, yeah, I guess humanity's not doomed.
It's just going to be a rough go for a while.
With that said, go ahead and give us details of how people can reach you and follow you, please.
Yeah, so thank you.
I'm on Twitter as at Naked Hedgie.
I have a personal blog called The Naked Hedgie.
And I have a sub stack called Alex Craner's Trend Compass.
And that's about that.
I can mention, since we talked about inflation, that I have recently structured an investment product that's available on the retail level for American nationals.
Which is structured to be, let's say, resilient to inflation and to stock market collapse is doing fairly well.
So that's also available.
Unfortunately, there's a regulatory and compliance thing that you can't really mention these things.
So if anybody's interested in that, they might have to reach out to me personally and I can refer to them.
And how can people reach you?
Just through your substack or where?
Or on Twitter?
Yeah, on Twitter and on Substack.
And I think that my personal email address is plastered pretty much everywhere because it's kind of open.
Okay.
All right.
That's great.
And I think the internet wants us to wrap this up because we're getting such bandwidth outages here.
I'm only hearing about every other word, so I'm barely tracking, but that's fine.
We're wrapping this up.
So I just want to thank you, Alex, for spending the time with us and meticulously walking us through this analysis of the scenarios.
And I think you have a very positive message for humanity, and I think That's extremely important right now as people are facing a lot of very difficult times and rigged elections is what most people believe is happening in America.
Collapsing currencies, food inflation.
It's easy to get pretty dark about these things, and I'm guilty of that from time to time myself.
But your vision of where this is going, I think, is really well appreciated and very much needed in our time.
And I just want to thank you for spending the time with us today.
It's been a pleasure speaking with you.
Pleasure is all mine, Mike.
Thank you very much for having me, and God bless.
God bless you as well, Alex.
Please just stay on after we finish here for a minute to finish the upload.
Folks, there you go.
That was Alex Craner.
K-R-A-I-N-E-R. Alex Craner.
And again, you can follow him on Substack.
It's Alex Craner's Trend Compass if you want to reach him there.
Or Naked Hedgy on Twitter.
Yeah, Naked Hedgy.
I think it's spelled...
Kind of like wedgie, but with an H, is my guess.
So try that on Twitter.
It's better to have a naked hedgie than a naked wedgie.
Trust me, that's some college hazing tricks gone bad.
But anyway, thank you for listening.
Of course, I'm Mike Adams, brighteon.com, and you are free to repost this interview on other channels and other platforms.
And thank you for listening.
God bless you all.
Take care.
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