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Nov. 16, 2022 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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Ed Dowd and Mike Adams deep dive into EXCESS MORTALITY following covid vaccines
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Welcome, folks.
This is Mike Adams, the founder of Brighteon.com, and today we're joined by a very special guest.
You have seen him all over the place, and he is just a super outstanding individual with analysis of excess mortalities and so much more.
Mr.
Ed Dowd joins us today to talk about what's going on with the world, his new projects, his new book, and so much more.
Mr.
Dowd, it's an honor to have you on, sir.
I'm a big fan of your work.
Thank you, and welcome to the show.
Mike, thanks for having me on.
I appreciate all the work you've done over the years and I'm just honored to be on your show and able to communicate this information.
Well, no, I am honored to have you on.
You have done extraordinary things, and I was actually scheduled to interview you once on Infowars.com, and then I had to bail, and you did that interview with Alex, and it was a wonderful interview, so I feel really lucky to get you back on here, so thank you for taking the time.
Absolutely.
Now, let me give out your websites quickly for people.
TheyLiedPeopleDied.com.
Give us a brief, please, if you would, sir, what are people going to find on that website?
Absolutely.
It's just basically a tab that kind of goes through the data that we found in the insurance companies and it talks about how the CDC data Basically said there was a switch from vaccination or from old to young in 21, meaning COVID killed mostly old.
And then in 21, there was a mix shift to younger folks.
We link, you know, the theory of the case is there.
Then the Society of Actuaries came out.
So I have Smoking Guns 1, 2, and 3.
We have PDFs you can download and present to people.
The book does a better job that's coming out soon.
Yeah, let's talk about that.
Cause Unknown.
What's the subtitle of that?
The Epidemic of Sudden Death in 21 and 22.
It's basically a 210-page book.
It takes about three hours to read.
There's a lot of graphics, a lot of links to articles of athletes dying.
So that's how my journey began.
I'm a former stock picker, financial analyst, and we look at pattern recognition.
And in, you know, March, April of 21, I was hearing anecdotes of people dying and getting injured, which statistically, if this was safe and effective, I should never hear.
You know, injuries do occur with vaccines, but you shouldn't hear them, and not in the number I heard.
So I knew if I was right, I said to myself then, I'll look at insurance company data and funeral home company data.
Sure enough, I did.
Then my, you know, my media fame grew and a team assembled around me, insurance analysts, insurance whistleblowers.
I'm now partnering with two PhD physicists in Portugal.
We started a hedge fund before we're even launching that.
We've been doing the Humanity Project, which is all the data from all the all-cause mortality by country, UK, Europe, every country in Europe.
We're going to do Germany next, and the US will be up this week.
But the data is devastating.
So that book, again, Cause Unknown.
And folks, the electronic version is available right now, I believe, on Amazon and Barnes& Noble.
Is that correct?
Correct.
And it'll come out, I think, hard copy December 13th.
Okay.
Alright, great.
So, folks, you can pre-order the hard copy right now if you want to get that book.
I definitely am going to get that book.
Is there an audio book coming out or is it just too data intensive for an audio format?
No audio book.
It's not conducive to an audio book.
That makes sense.
I don't want to hear somebody reading charts and tables all day.
That would not be fun.
And then you've also got something called the Humanity Project that people can find at this website, finance...
Financetechnologies.com, where the word finance is spelled P-H-I instead of F-I. So Financetechnologies.com.
Could you give us a quick brief on that?
Yeah, so basically, in my journey, I hooked up with some gentlemen in Portugal who are PhD physicists who are, you know, unvaccinated.
One of the only few in Portugal was a heavily vaccinated country.
So they resisted.
They had a problem with it.
They have the same worldview that we all have, Mike.
And so they reached out to me to help with the project.
We figured out we could start a hedge fund, but we decided to table that, and they basically have taken the data from, I did the US data, they did the UK data and the European data, and the European data has vaccine uptake, so it's a pretty devastating analysis.
It goes country by country, you can look at it by age cohort, you can look at it, it's interactive, you can do total country population, You can look at it quarterly, weekly, or yearly.
And it generates these lovely bar graphs that anybody can understand.
And they also came up with a methodology paper On how to calculate excess mortality appropriately rather than just using averages.
They have three different methods that people could debate about, but all methods give the same answer.
So the idea was they wanted to create something that could be put in a peer-reviewed journal.
We're not doing that because that's a waste of time, but it's unassailable.
And what I think is going to end up happening is this data is going to be used in future court cases and And what eventually ends up happening.
But the idea is that anybody can use this data.
We want to be a force multiplier, and the data is the data.
And we try to avoid conclusions, but the conclusions are obvious.
I make conclusions in my book, but on the website, we let the observer come to their own conclusions, and there's only one conclusion.
The vaccines are killing people.
So let's talk about those data here briefly.
Overall, in a very rough, broad stroke kind of answer, what level of excess mortality are we seeing since the vaccines were introduced, or I should say shortly thereafter?
And do you anticipate this excess mortality to continue to be reported throughout 2022 when those data are available?
Alright, let's just focus in on the US. So, we discovered in the insurance industry there's something called the group life policies, and it's a very specific subset of the US population.
If you work at a large corporation or a mid-sized corporation, when you onboard to a company, you get your health care form, you sign that, you pick your plan, then you get a death benefit, usually one to two extra salary.
You sign that, and then you sign who the beneficiary would be.
Normally speaking, I've done this many times, I don't know if you've done it, but it's kind of a joke.
You're 25, you're 30, you're 50, you're 40, you don't expect to die, you don't expect to collect.
And it's a policy that insurance companies make, you know, they make a ton of money off this because the death rates are very predictable, correct?
So, in this population, which is, generally speaking, a study they did, the Society of Actuaries did a study in 2016, and they looked at the four or five years prior, and they found that their group life policy holders, and this is the industry doing the analysis, die at a 30 to 40 percent Uh, um, rate of the general population.
So their mortality is only 30 to 40% that of the general population in any given year.
That makes sense.
They're healthy, they're young, they're working.
To get these policies, you have to be employed.
So if you quit, you don't get it.
So, or fired.
So this, these people are working healthy, better educated access to better medicines, better everything.
So they don't die at the same rate.
Well, in 2021, That group experienced, for all of 2021, 40% excess mortality.
40%.
So, what does that mean?
What does that mean?
Well, the general US population in 2021 experienced a 32% excess mortality.
What's the difference between those two groups?
One group was more than likely mandated to take the jab.
The general population had a choice.
Overall, if you're retired or young or, you know, small employer.
So this much healthier group definitely died at a much higher rate in 2021.
And I'm here to tell you it's continuing in 2022.
The Society of Actuaries doesn't publish this data about once a year.
And the 2021 data came out in August, which verified the data that I was talking to you and Alex about on the Alex Jones Show in March.
So they verified our data.
Which is good because, I mean, we're just two guys on the internet talking about CDC numbers.
So now we have, you know, the whole society verifying us.
I know from an inside whistleblower that the month of August saw 36% excess mortality in the millennial group life policyholders.
That's age 25 to 44.
36.
So you would expect this to be coming down, Mike.
Especially since boosters are not really picking up or being taken up with as much verve as they were.
And mandates are kind of here and there going by the wayside.
So we're suspecting that even if you got a jab a year ago and you seem fine, there's lots of things popping up now.
We think there might be delayed causes and adverse effects coming on after, you know, up to a year after.
That is a really worrisome conclusion, but I agree with it, and the other guests I've interviewed also agree with it, that the long tail of this thing is going to be very substantial and very long.
Because of the immune system destruction, at least that's the theory that a lot of us are...
You know, latching on to in this.
But we're about to approach a winter here.
RSV is now taking off in hospitals.
Children are presenting with RSV infections that are off the charts.
And many people are being told now they should take a combination vaccine that's about to be released, which is RSV plus influenza plus COVID. I guess it's a combo, like triple death threat organization.
Or as Kanye says, death con 3 vaccine injection.
I mean, I don't mean to laugh.
It's crazy.
But just from the numbers that you mentioned, if you look at 32% excess mortality in the United States, that comes out to over roughly 2,400 people dying per day if that's applied to the population.
We're talking about almost a 9-11 scale of atrocities or deaths every day.
You know, this is going to have consequences for the economy and global economy for years to come.
And, you know, we've also looked at the disability data, Mike, which is a different database.
That's the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
And what I like about this database, it's not tied to any healthcare institutions.
It's a statistical survey that's done every month.
So they survey like 46,000 to 60,000 households and they impute statistically what's going on in the employment report that we see every month and all sorts of different things.
Well, they do disability and, you know, they basically ask the question, are you disabled and no longer able to work or is someone in your household disabled and no longer able to work?
Well, that number on an absolute basis is running between 29 and 30 million the prior five years to COVID. Then, mysteriously, it didn't really go up a lot in 2020.
It actually went down because lockdowns prevented accidental deaths and all sorts of other things, or accidental injuries, I should say, not deaths.
This is disabilities.
But mysteriously, in May of 2021, it took off.
And it looks like a growth stock chart.
It broke out of its trend.
And the year-over-year rate of change is a three-standard deviation event, which, as you know, as a scientist, is 0.03% chance of it usually happening.
So something happened that's called a trend change.
And so the number now, as of September or October, is like 33.2 million.
So it's about three and a half to four million people have been disabled since 2021.
When you break the numbers down, even when you go a little more granular, and this is on our Humanity Project website, you can break it down between total population, civilian labor force, and then employed.
And the employed, which is about 98 million, 100 million in the U.S., experienced an increase in their disability rate of 26%.
The general population experienced an increase in their disability rate of 11%.
So, it was detrimental to your health to be employed in 2021 and 22.
If you break it down by sex, 36% or 32% women saw an increase in their disability rate of 32%, men 19%.
So whatever's going on is injuring and more adversely affecting women.
In at least the disability arena.
And that totally fits with what Naomi Wolf found when looking at the Pfizer documents that their adverse events affected women more.
So we see it in the Pfizer documents.
Now we see it in the disability data.
If vaccines were not even mentioned or considered in any of this, let's just take vaccines out of this for a minute.
You would think that public health authorities and lawmakers and media leaders would be just tripping over themselves to try to ask the question, what's killing so many people, right?
Like, something has happened here.
Is it an alien space ray from, you know, planet Nibiru?
No.
No.
But something is killing people.
We should get to the bottom of this.
And don't you find it astonishing the lack of curiosity about that?
I talk about that in my book.
The fact that this is crickets is all you need to know, that there is a cover-up on crime going on.
It's prima facie evidence as far as I'm concerned.
Because let's go back to 2020.
Do you remember all the hype around everybody dying, all the deaths reported every day, the cases?
And now...
The deaths and the disabilities and the excess death is way higher than COVID. And nary a peep about it.
And now we're normalizing sudden death and we're normalizing disability.
And now we're trying to introduce climate change as a cause, which is the most absurd thing I've ever heard in my life.
Yeah, yeah, for sure.
But they keep coming up with all kinds of excuses, even stress, or why are sports figures dropping dead on soccer fields?
Well, because they're scared by the whistles of the referees and things like that.
I heard one, my favorite one was last winter.
They said that cold weather causes blood clotting and the phenomenon known as winter vagina.
First of all, I asked my female friends on the island if they knew what that was.
They never heard of it.
And then I thought about blood clotting and cold weather.
And I thought the Vikings sure did a really good job of terrorizing their southern neighbors with all those blood clots.
So it's amazing that the Vikings were able to withstand blood clotting and take over, you know, southern Europe.
So let me direct a question to you personally, and then we'll continue on this.
But as I understand it, you could have sat back and done nothing in all of this because you were very successful in the financial arena, which, by the way, I think has honed a lot of your numerical analysis skills that you're applying to this particular problem.
As I understand it, you're financially well off enough that you don't need to do this.
You certainly don't need probably all the hate and censorship and everything else that has come along with this.
But why, Ed, if I may just call you by your first name here, why?
Why did you decide to take this on?
You could have done nothing and sat back and stayed silent.
Well, you know, I come from Wall Street, and I know how the system works, and the system was going to collapse at some point.
Those of us that have been doing this for a long time were worried about a great sovereign debt bubble, okay?
And we knew it was going to implode at some point.
We were trying to figure out what would they do to, like, place the blame elsewhere.
We all thought war, you know, terrorism, something.
So when COVID hit, I, like everyone else, got, you know, Scared for about a three-week period.
But then I quickly realized COVID was a ploy to bring in a control system to help manage the sovereign debt collapse.
And then when the vaccine came out and the mandates, I said, I'm not living in this world.
I suffered from a depression in 2011-12, and I've done a yeoman's job of getting myself back to health.
I don't believe in any pharmaceuticals, drugs, or anything.
I believe in spirituality, fasting, and diet, and exercise.
And so I would be damned if I was going to be forced to take any of this stuff.
So that was just my clarion call, and I'm just not going to live in a world where I'm forced to take something.
I just wasn't going to have it.
And so I got very vocal on Twitter.
And then I prayed to God to be of service.
And then Dr.
Malone came to the island.
I hooked up with him.
And then from there, I'm kind of on a journey.
And God's bringing people in my life to help me.
The work you see is not just Ed Dowd.
It's a whole host of people.
But you see, I'm hearing that kind of journey from so many people across the board, people that I interview and speak with privately, where you have been, in some way, you've been recruited, let's say, Perhaps by God or perhaps by others in the industry,
but you have been placed in this position where your unique talents and skills, observations, and your willingness to just not take BS has now been applied to what I think, I suspect, is going to be the biggest challenge.
Genocide in human history.
In fact, I think we're already there, but the data will eventually prove this out for sure.
But you are in the center of this, and frankly, Ed, the clarity of the numbers that you present to people has provided so many other capable people with what we might call the ammunition that they need to try to convince or awaken others to what's going on here.
So you are playing a crucial role probably beyond your direct contacts with others across this space.
Yeah.
I appreciate that.
I'm doing it because it needs to be done.
The brave doctors began all this when they stuck their necks out and started raising their hand.
There's so many other individuals and people like yourself that give platforms to people like me.
We're all doing this together.
I view this as a battle for the marginal mind.
The book and my work While it's pretty definitive and the case is closed, 90% of the globe has no idea that Ed Dowd exists or that Mike Adams exists.
And so we need to get this data out.
And the data is the data.
The crime has been committed.
And now the job is to spread this information the best way we can.
And the book is an attempt to open someone's mind and They don't have to believe me, but at some point they're going to have to because money capital is going to start going to work on this as well.
Our hedge fund is going to raise capital to make bets on the new reality that has occurred.
The reality is that the globe has been devastated by this and it's going to be devastated for decades to come.
Okay, this brings up a whole series of questions about your upcoming hedge fund.
But you mentioned that you were concerned about the sovereign debt collapse even before 2019.
And that collapse is still yet to come.
And war may be, in fact, the thing that's going to bring that about.
And you probably haven't had a chance to look at this because it just broke, but there were some...
Apparent Russian missiles, at least this is the claim, that hit Poland and the U.S. Department of Defense has issued an emergency alert that Russia is attacking Poland, which Russia denies, and that NATO is going to probably invoke Article 5 defense.
So that scenario now, as of today, begins to look even more plausible as another way for them to try to Print more stimulus money, declare more emergencies, try to pump up the system a little bit longer.
Now, I apologize for springing that on you.
You probably haven't had time to analyze all that news yet, but in broad strokes, what are your thoughts about the potential for war?
Well, if you have a global sovereign debt default that's been caused by central bankers and politicians, and you're in the power seat, You need distractions to point to the collapse of the system that isn't your fault, but it is your fault.
So, you know, COVID was excuse one, climate change is excuse two, and war is excuse three.
And I suspect it's going to be all three utilized to divert and cause the most amount of fear as possible in the general population, which once fear gets set into someone's mind, it disables their critical thinking skills and they'll do whatever they're told.
And that's a tried and true tactic that's been used since the Babylonian mystery schools, how to control large populations, create boogeyman fear.
If I was them, this is what I would do if I was them.
Yeah.
Well, Reuters just came out with a piece in the last 24 hours, basically relaunching Paul Ehrlich's concern about overpopulation now that the world has officially passed 8 billion in terms of total population.
Reuters is saying that because we have 8 billion people, it's going to make, quote, climate justice really difficult to achieve.
Now, nobody knows what they mean by climate justice.
It's just more bizarre, gobbledygook code words for whatever kind of agenda they want to push.
But When Reuters says there are too many people on this planet, you know that their agenda is really spreading and they're serious about reducing population.
Well, you know, I try to stay away from speculating on whether COVID was a tool or a good excuse to use.
I will say this.
I will say this.
There's a lot of When people talk about climate change and talk about reducing the carbon footprint, it doesn't take a genius to figure out that means people.
Okay?
So, you know, when they say they need to reduce XYZ and they assign a carbon number to us, and the only way to do that is through...
I don't know how, but they're talking about people.
This is like soiling green dystopian movies.
This is insanity.
You know, Bill Gates wanted to...
Spread some sort of spraying to the sky to reduce sunlight.
Yeah, stratospheric aerosol injection.
Yeah, to reduce global warming.
No one in the room raised their hand and said, hey, there might be some unintended consequences of crop failures and maybe two or three billion people disappear.
If I was in that room, I would have gone, hey, Bill, this sounds like a stupid idea.
I don't even know how these people imagine these things.
Well, and also, I mean, if I were in that room, too, I would say, okay, suppose your idea is awesome.
What if a volcano goes off right after you do that, and then we get double the global booming that you intended, right?
Because, gee, volcanoes have done that before, right?
In our lifetime, in fact, earlier this year.
Well, one of them, Tonga.
Right?
Ejected all this water vapor into the mesosphere.
It went so high.
And that's a NASA-based study.
But, yeah, I'm right there with you.
I would say, well, wait a second.
You're going to dim the sun.
Have you looked at photosynthesis?
Right?
There was no one in that room that raised their hand.
I mean, we're being led by people that are either dumb or insane or buff.
Okay, well, it's extraordinary where all of this is going, but about your hedge fund, I want to ask you this.
Is this something that eventually, I know it's not launched yet, is this something where other investors can, I mean, regular people, not just billionaires and millionaires, can invest in your hedge fund?
Is that something that's going to happen?
Well, eventually, hopefully, but there's a lot of regulatory nonsense about hedge funds because you need to have a net worth of a million and above, but The goal of the hedge fund isn't to enrich myself and my partners.
We've all pledged we're going to pour a lot of our earnings, if it should become successful, into projects like the Humanity Project.
We're declaring ourselves the watchdog of the watchdogs, and that's going to require a lot of money over time.
We're doing it for free right now, pro bono, but eventually it's going to take a lot, and we want data scientists and people.
We're literally going to watch all the watchdogs.
We also have other projects.
We're going to look at independent banking systems.
We're going to look at getting involved in political donations.
This is like a fund that's going to try to change the world.
We're looking at crypto, different cryptos.
I'm not a crypto guy, but we do believe that there needs to be a system outside the purview of government that hides our assets.
Wholesale theft is coming.
Yeah, absolutely.
But since you brought up crypto, of course, the recent collapse of FTX, and Sam Bankman-Fried was following the opposite of what you just said, where he was saying he wasn't in it to make money.
He was once valued at $16 billion in his own assets, and his exchange was $32 billion.
It's essentially zero now, of course, one week later.
But he said he was going to take all the profits and donate them to Essentially, Democrats and left-wing causes and ESG and the WEF. And also, by the way, Jeff Bezos, you're probably aware, has just said he's going to donate most of his $124 billion fortune to climate change causes, which basically means left-wing causes and censoring anybody talking about carbon dioxide or photosynthesis, things like that.
So you're saying that your hedge fund We'll serve humanity, but by funding what you see as honest, truth-based causes and oversight.
Is that a fair summary?
When you get a chance to look at the Humanity Project, we're about open transparency and data for all to look at.
We're not in the business of hiding the data.
What we could have done if we were evil scumbags was, take this data, hide it, and then go...
You know, raise a bunch of capital and then try to make money off it.
We're releasing the data, knowing that actually there's going to be a long time before people come around to our point of view.
So there is a window of opportunity for us to take advantage of other people's ignorance, unfortunately, but we're not Hiding the data.
We're putting it out there.
This is real.
This is happening.
You don't have to believe us.
So it's what I call the biggest asymmetric information gap of my financial career.
Meaning...
That's a really good way to put that, yes.
Meaning 90% of the globe doesn't think that what I'm saying is even remotely possible.
And knowing how systems work...
We're doing the honest thing.
Here's the data.
We're trying to stop it, but we also know that our message is not going to get out as fast as we want.
So in the meantime, we're going to raise capital and bet appropriately, according to reality.
See, I love this.
So you're going to exploit the asymmetry in knowledge that you have that's not yet public in order to take money from the ignorant and the oblivious, wealthy masses.
Mostly Wall Street, because Wall Street, we're going to be running a...
A global macro hedge fund that utilizes futures, and futures is a zero-sum game, so we'll be taking money from other Wall Streeters.
Not from individual investors.
We're not investing in stocks.
We'll be on the other side of Wall Street.
Well, where do I sign up?
Because this sounds like the most fun ever, actually, to be part of something like this.
And I don't hand over money to anybody.
I don't own any stocks or bonds or anything, period.
Well, we're having meetings next week with some folks who are going to put us in touch with capital.
The capital, what's interesting about this, Mike, is a lot of times when you start a hedge fund, you have to run around begging for capital.
We're going to align ourselves with like-minded individuals and vet them more than they vet us.
The first couple of seed investors need to be 100% on board with how we view the world.
Otherwise, we're not taking them on board.
I love it.
Well, I think you're going to have unlimited demand for your product, your hedge fund product, because number one, people trust your analysis if they've looked at what you've done.
And secondly, I mean, your ethics are obviously right aligned with humanity, because again, you could have had many opportunities to go the other way on this, and you didn't.
You stuck with it, right?
So you are what people...
Would hope to see in a money manager or a hedge fund manager.
And I don't think you're going to take customer deposits and vaporize them like FTX did in one week.
My two partners, we run a very risk-controlled, risk-managed hedge fund that runs low volatility versus the equities.
And it's going to basically be something that's not correlated to the stock market.
So hopefully over time, you can compound and grow wealth over time.
So then, if we extrapolate the data sets that you have right now that you've published in your book, again, what is that?
Cause unknown.
And also on your website, then a rational person can make some pretty well-informed decisions about economic implications and industry, you know, industry by industry to granularize the industrial effects of this, right?
Is that a little bit of the secret sauce of what you're saying?
We're mostly investing on a large macro scale, but if you wanted to take my work, you could apply it to certain industries.
So insurance industry is still asleep.
All their assumptions are wrong.
Over time, they're going to lose value.
Funeral home companies, on the other hand, Keep beating and raising expectations because they keep getting more bodies.
So that's one trade.
Now, I'm not recommending that.
We're not going to do that in our hedge fund.
We're doing it from a macro country scale.
And we're going to look at demographics in each country, vaccine uptake, and it's going to affect growth rates, inflation for years to come.
But also think about the pharmaceutical industry.
When this eventually comes out, That's going to be a disaster.
So the implications globally and in specific industries are just mind-boggling.
And let me give you an idea about inflation.
So I said there were about 98 million people employed in the U.S., right?
That's the workforce.
Current unemployment rate is 3%, but there's help-wanted ads everywhere.
Why is that, Mike?
Well, we lost a bunch of people to death.
But that's not even the big number.
The big number is the disability.
So there are about 3.5 million people in the last year and a half that have disappeared from the workforce.
So if you add that to the current unemployment rate, which is 3% or 3 million people, it doubles the unemployment rate.
So the way they count it is, as you know, once you become disabled, you're not on the work, you're not considered employed.
We're going to continue to see supply chain breakdowns, health wanted ads, wage inflation for those who are not ill for years to come.
So in a very perverse way, those of us who chose not to get vaccinated are going to become commodities that are going to be bid up because our health is going to be good.
But globally, goods and services are going to be harder to come by.
And things that we used to take for granted are going to disappear.
And an anecdote, I can tell you about that experience in Maui.
My car was in a fender bender, needed a radiator repaired, and the left Headlight panel was dented and I couldn't get into a body shop.
Well, first of all, I couldn't get the police report for 10 days because my police department is understaffed.
I couldn't then get into a body shop because they're understaffed and they have too many cars that they're repairing because of parts shortages.
Then you back it up to the insurance company.
They finally said to me, we're going to junk your car because it's cheaper for us to just give you...
So my repairs were $8,000.
They gave me $10,000.
It's an old car.
It's a 2011 Audi A6. And they junked it.
And I asked them, I go, is this going on all over the country?
So what I suspect they're doing is they're junking my car, selling the parts, probably making a profit.
They're not kind of folks.
Right.
So this is just one example of the breakage in the supply chain.
So if you get in a car accident, good luck getting it fixed.
It's a problem.
So, the global...
I don't know if I'll use the word collapse, but let's say the suppression of the efficiency of the supply chain.
I would say that one of the key technologies that should be watched closely here is 3D printing that uses now the metal...
The metal-impregnated filaments that can do actual metallic types of objects, because if we can bring production locally, even if it's done by distributors, and, you know, the U.S. Army is looking at installing 3D printers on military bases overseas in order to create parts without waiting for the supply chain, you know, that could be a game-changer technology in all of this.
I mean, it's just a tangent thought, but I thought I'd throw that out there.
Mike, as much as there is gloom and doom, You know, in the Great Depression, there was gloom and doom, but people found opportunities to thrive.
And if you have your wits about you and you don't have fear, there's going to be opportunities to thrive even as bad as it's going to get.
And, you know, you talking about 3D, that's an opportunity.
So we all have to start thinking about opportunities and cash flow streams that we can take advantage of as the world turns upside down.
And a lot of the traditional jobs are going to go the way of the dodo bird because they just are.
Yeah, and at the same time, the Federal Reserve raising interest rates into this environment where more people are dying or becoming disabled, which will reduce discretionary income and thus suppress consumer demand.
We're already seeing trucking companies in America firing thousands of people, and we're seeing a massive drop in international shipping cargo rates right now, order cancellation by Walmart and Target and so on.
So do you think the Fed has any idea that they are about to double the size of the wave response?
Yeah.
Yeah, so the fad did something interesting.
This is the first interest rate hike cycle that should have ended before it began because there's an indicator that we've looked at going back To the 60s, where the three month T-bill goes through the discount rate.
When it does that, it usually caps the end of the rate hike cycle.
The three month T-bill went through the discount rate in February, before the Fed even started hiking.
The reason that happened is because we're already experiencing a global slowdown.
Stock markets peaked in January.
The dollar was going straight up, which is indicative of a credit crisis.
So the Federal Reserve, for the first time ever I've ever seen, is raising into a recession.
And we already had a technical recession in Q1 and Q2, and the recession that my partners and I see, according to our economic models that will be part of the hedge fund, it looks like it's going to be as bad as the 2000-2001 recession,
maybe 1990 in Q1 and Q2. Right.
that are being announced after the midterms, you know, coincidentally.
They waited until after the midterms to start firing people.
Yeah, it looks like the tech sector is going to get just hammered first quarter of 2023 in terms of layoffs.
And some of that has already begun, as you mentioned.
Do you sense that there is a risk of a systemic maybe bank bail-ins or temporary bank holidays sometime in 2023 or after that?
I mean, how much trouble is our financial system really in, in your opinion?
That's a tough question.
Supposedly, a lot of measures were taken after the great financial crisis to make sure the banks had enough capital.
I think the problem has moved from the banks to the central banks and the debt of the sovereign countries in that there's going to be currency wars.
And so certain countries are going to start to go bankrupt and that'll spread.
So it'll be like a bigger systemic problem than just banks.
So that's what I'm worried about, is that the currency wars have already begun.
You saw the UK... Are you thinking of the euro?
The euro is going to disband.
That's over.
Demographically, they can't hold it together.
It's not a question of if, but when the euro goes kaplooey.
Okay, what about the yen?
The yen is demographically screwed, so they got a problem.
They're holding on for dear life.
If Japan went kaplooey, if the euro broke apart, that would cause chaos and havoc everywhere.
Everyone wants to get down on the US dollar.
The dollar is going to fail up before it collapses.
It fails up first, then we have a new system.
Is gold something you want to hold?
Sure.
Gold is not the be-all and end-all here, but it's an asset you want to have.
Well, let me ask you about failing up because I recall you mentioned that in previous interviews as well.
And yes, the dollar continues to rise against other currencies, many of which are failing.
And frankly, the dollar is, of course, losing value versus food and energy and things like that.
But tell us, could you go into more detail about failing up?
The dollar is the world's reserve currency.
Everyone and their brother, after the year 2000, to keep the Ponzi scheme going when the Fed printed easy money, that easy money didn't stay in the U.S. It went overseas.
So everybody issued U.S. dollar denominated debt.
Because interest rates were low and the dollar was on a slide.
Seemed like a good bet at the time.
Well, when you fast forward to today, there's a scramble and a credit contraction.
So everybody's got dollar-denominated debt.
There's a scramble for dollars.
So when you see the dollar going up, it's a sign of Global credit conditions worsening.
So other countries will fail first.
They're scrambling for dollars.
That's why the dollar keeps going up.
And at the end of this, we'll be the last man standing.
That's when they'll try to introduce a new Bretton Woods 3, 4, or whatever, central bank digital currency.
So there'll be a, oh, it's so bad because of the war.
They'll use the war of the climate change and whatever.
And they'll say, we need a new monetary system.
That's what they're going to do.
But now this time, when they try to kind of resurrect Bretton Woods, this time they're going to be facing China, Russia, perhaps India, certainly Iran, Turkey, Brazil, whatever, BRICS plus nations, and a lot more, who keep talking about You know, launching some kind of new global reserve currency or at least a clear transactions between each other, which they say will be backed by a basket of commodities.
It could include gold and energy and oil and things like that.
I mean, now there's serious competition to the petrodollar, it seems.
What's your take on that?
There's serious competition, but again, it's game theory.
There's a lot of different players and, you know, how does that interplay?
The other thing that people need to understand is China...
I'll use Japan as an analogy.
I think you and I are around the same age.
Remember how Japan was going to take over the world in the late 80s?
Yeah, in the 1980s.
Well, people held onto that belief well after Japan was already in decline.
I did a business school report on Japan, and we made the case that Japan was in decline, it was over, and this is all nonsense.
We got an A minus because our professors didn't agree with us.
China, same thing with China today.
So Larry Fink and all these guys love to talk about China, China, China.
China's done.
They hit a demographic wall in 2020.
They have a systemic banking crisis going on as we speak.
Zero COVID policy is covered for bank runs.
China's done.
So they have crushing debt.
They built a bunch of useless assets that produce no value.
Real estate, Citi...
Like Evergrande, right.
So it's going to be interesting to see the new power structure that emerges.
The thing we've got going for us still is we have...
The dollar, at the end of the day, is backed by our nuclear arsenal.
That's number one.
That's what faith and trust is.
We'll bomb the hell out of you if you don't have...
Alright, so we got that.
We also have freedom, and we still have a dynamic, as corrupt as our economy has become, it's still one of the more dynamic and diverse ones globally.
And we have the least of the demographic problems, believe it or not, compared to every other nation.
Europe has done, Japan's done, South Korea's done, China's done demographically.
We have a not as bad a demographic situation.
Believe it or not.
Okay, yeah, that makes sense.
But at the same time, the United States continues to print trillions of dollars.
And then when we cut off Russia from the SWIFT economic system, it seems to me there was a signal sent to all the other world players.
There's willful ignorance or it's a plan to delegitimize the dollar on purpose by traders in our government.
Because I agree, when you de-dollarize someone on SWIFT, that's a declaration of war.
And if you're going to do that, then guess what?
Russia, China, and India are going to band together to create a new system.
So that may have been a plan or just stupidity on the Biden administration's part, but there is definitely a camp that wants to de-dollarize the globe and get rid of the dollar, for sure.
Well, and do you think that camp's going to be successful?
And let me augment that by mentioning how much Mohammed bin Salman appears to hate Joe Biden, but Joe Biden met with Xi in China recently and didn't bring up any organ harvesting, right?
So, getting along great with China, what do you make of that dynamic?
Well, you know, I'm of the opinion the Chinese have done a really good job over the last 20 years of infiltrating into our country.
And I think, you know, given what we saw with the Hunter's drive, notebook drive, that the Biden administration is owned and compromised.
So, you know, we have a sitting president that there's enough proof to suggest that he should be prosecuted and his son should be prosecuted.
Now, whether that ever comes to fruition is anyone's guess, but we do have traitors amongst us, in my humble opinion.
Yeah, I think most of our viewers would agree with you.
All right, as we're coming up on time for this interview, and this has already been extraordinary, but what do you want to leave our audience with or maybe action items?
I mean, how do people navigate this?
How do they survive what we're talking about?
There's two final thoughts.
First, everyone can get involved.
This is a clarion call to get off the bench.
And get out onto the field.
You can't sit and, you know, just watch YouTube videos and talk about it at the pub.
You have to literally make everyone aware of what just happened with the vaccines.
And I think that's the linchpin.
If we can convince enough people that they've been poisoned by their global governments, things will change.
But the battle is at the marginal mind and everybody has a part to play.
You know, take Mike's videos, take Alex Jones's videos, you know, Get this information in front of people.
That's number one.
Number two, what do you do?
So what am I doing?
I'm focusing inward first, which is health, spirituality, meditation.
I don't live in fear.
I don't care what happens to me financially or physically.
I just know that I'm doing the right thing.
And I have created a network of like-minded individuals where we know that we have each other's backs because if I'm right and you're right and we're going into a glacial Mad Max scenario, money and wealth is not going to matter as much as tribes and teams.
And you need a tribe and a team and you need to work on it now and find like-minded people.
You also need to look for opportunities.
There's going to be opportunities.
And don't be all gloom and doom thinking that the world's going to end.
There will be opportunities.
Just look for them and try to capitalize on them.
You know, I was talking to a friend of mine here on Maui.
He runs a moving company and, you know, he's worried about war.
I said, well, if war comes, the U.S. government's going to need you to move stuff.
So you're going to, you know, take it, you know, As perverse as that sounds, he's positioned to take advantage of war.
He didn't want to, but you've got to do what you've got to do for your family.
I also like to imagine the incredible abundance that will be available within reach of everyone if we have more of an honest money system, whatever that looks like.
If we could just stop the looting of the dollar and the monthly devaluation, And the money printing, so many more people would be wealthy just from being able to keep the earnings from owning like a local laundromat or something, you know?
I also think, Mike, globalization's done.
It's over.
It's peaked and it's on the decline.
We're going to go back to local.
It's already happening.
You know, I suspect we're going to see a splintering of...
I think it's already starting to happen in the US, at least not.
We still have a country, but, you know, things are starting to get demarked pretty quickly.
I mean, Goldman Sachs, you know, 300 of their partners moved to West Palm Beach to get away from New York.
Now, I don't know if they're Democrats or Republicans, but they see the writing on the wall in New York and the blue state and they're gone.
Well, okay, one question then, but you live in Hawaii.
Is it on the Big Island?
I live in Maui, and this is the blue state.
Yeah, that was my question.
High taxation, low freedom.
I love Maui.
Maui's interesting.
It's got a huge mix of Local Hawaiians, hippies, vegans, health-conscious people, people like me, ex-Wall Street people, different races, different colors.
But the blue-red team is not a big deal.
There's not a lot of animosity here.
When you live on an island, it's a different kind of vibe where people kind of know you have to get along.
So there's none of this hatred.
So, it's going to be better here.
If the poop hits the fan, the red team, blue team thing wasn't big here.
I think everyone's going to get along.
We have a better shot at that than a lot of other places.
Yeah, plus you can grow food year-round, and it's a lot of good, delicious stuff.
There's lots of deer, there's lots of fish.
We'll be fine.
We may not be able to drive cars, but we'll be fine.
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Aren't there wild chickens on the big island, too, or on your island?
I have to avoid hitting them when I drive.
Yeah.
Alright, so you're like driving around a giant grocery store in the shape of an island, basically, and you can pick avocados off the trees.
People, like, get eggs out of their backyard all the time with the chickens.
It's just the way it is here.
That's pretty wild.
That's so awesome.
Okay.
Well, they lied.
PeopleDied.com.
That's one of your websites.
And then we'll put the others on the screen and in the description as well.
And the name of your book is Cause Unknown.
And audio is out now.
Hard copies coming in December.
So thank you, Ed Dowd, for taking the time.
This has been a really fascinating conversation.
I'll come back another time when we get more news.
Love to have you back, and please stand by after I wrap this up.
I'm going to send you my mobile number so you can reach me.
We've also got to finish the upload of your side there, so just stand by.
But folks, I hope you really enjoyed this.
Ed Dowd is just an extraordinary individual, a contributor to humanity on so many levels, and you've got to follow his work and get his books.
I will.
And I'm going to try to find out how to get involved in his hedge fund, frankly, because that sounds like a blast.
Taking money from Wall Street...
And then putting it to good use for humanity.
That sounds awesome.
Yeah, absolutely.
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