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Nov. 16, 2022 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams

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Situation Update, 11/16/22 - Trump announces run, Texas declares invasion...

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	All right, welcome to this information-packed episode of the Situation Update podcast.
	I'm Mike Adams, and it's Wednesday, November 16th, 2022.
	And yes, my voice is mostly recovered, so thank you for your patience.
	And my guest today is Ed Dowd.
	And I completed that interview with Ed many hours ago, and it was a bombshell interview.
	I think this episode here and that interview together...
	It's going to be the best podcast we've put together here in quite some time just in terms of the information density because there's so much going on.
	So let me give you the five things that we're going to talk about here tonight with some other news kind of sprinkled in.
	Number one, Congress.
	The Republicans have taken the House.
	Major implications for that.
	We'll go over that.
	Secondly, Trump has announced officially his bid for the presidency in 2024, of course.
	So we'll analyze what Trump is saying, what he's promising, why he's running, what about DeSantis, and all those questions.
	Number three, Governor Abbott of Texas has declared that Texas is under an invasion.
	I forgot the exact verbiage of this.
	We're going to go through it, though.
	And he has, Governor Abbott has initiated all kinds of things to stop the invasion of Texas, Yeah, like actual gunboats, I guess, in the Gulf of Mexico.
	I mean, well, we'll dig into that tonight and see what's going on.
	Number four, a missile strike in Poland, which was initially blamed on Russia.
	Now looks like it was kind of a dud.
	I mean, not that it didn't explode, but I mean, politically, it was a dud.
	Turns out it's not Russia, something else.
	And fortunately, that has not escalated yet.
	Number five is the continued crypto contagion, because now BlockFi looks like it's filing for bankruptcy.
	And another crypto exchange had just announced a freeze on withdrawals.
	So this is more fallout from the FTX collapse, and it's going to continue.
	So those are five big things that we're going to cover here tonight, plus a few other things, and then also the interview with Ed Dowd that you do not want to miss.
	And just a quick programming note, normally when I interview somebody, I will do the audio-only version of that interview here in the podcast.
	And sometimes we shorten it for the podcast.
	But then I also post the interview separately, the full interview separately.
	You know, full length and everything.
	And in this case, with Ed Dowd, I was actually on camera too, which often I'm not.
	But because we recorded this in the early afternoon, I was doing a bunch of shows.
	I was doing different videos and appearances and so on.
	So I was able to schedule it there.
	So I'm on camera and Ed is on camera and it's the full length and that's going to be posted separately.
	It's about 50 minutes in duration.
	That's 5-0.
	And you're definitely going to want to check that out.
	There's a lot of very valuable information in there about how to navigate what's coming.
	Also, just a little teaser here.
	Jeffrey Prather and I are planning on doing something really fun and even kind of funny on video pretty soon.
	I'll just leave it at that.
	I'm not going to tell you what it is.
	But I have it planned out, and Jeffrey says he's on board.
	So hopefully we're going to get that going.
	But the reason I mention this is because if anybody listening, if you are an animator, like a South Park-style animator, or if you know somebody who is, and you want to be part of this really fun, hilarious project involving myself and Jeffrey Prather, and you can do some animation like that, contact us.
	Send us a link to your portfolio because we need your help on this one.
	It's going to be fun.
	You can email us at situationupdate at protonmail.com.
	Again, looking for an animator like a South Park style animator because you're going to be laughing your socks off on this one.
	And then, yes, if you watched the interview yesterday, it is true that I'm working on a song concept right now, and the resistance chicks have agreed to sing with me in the song.
	Of course, we've got to come up with a song, but I have an idea that's already come in today, and it should be pretty darn funny.
	So now I'm going through some music libraries to try to find the right tracks for that.
	Who knows?
	I mean, any of these projects could be...
	Back-burnered.
	If World War III begins, we're not going to be doing that stuff.
	But if we get a chance, we're going to bring you some uplifting, bring a smile to your face, because we have to laugh a little bit through the apocalypse here.
	You can't just be down and gloomy all the time.
	We've got to crack a few jokes here and there, because there is a lot to laugh at, believe it or not.
	Alright, so let's jump into these five big news items here.
	Number one, Congress.
	So it is official, well, according to mainstream media sources, that the Republicans have taken control of the House of Representatives.
	Alright, so they get sworn in, what is it, January 10th or something, right around there?
	Which, of course, means that between now and then, roughly two months away, The existing Congress can still do a lot of damage.
	And they are.
	They're busy doing damage right now.
	But the Republicans are going to take over Congress in January.
	Now, the challenge with the Republican Party right now is that there is a civil war inside the Republican Party.
	I thought there was going to be a bigger civil war inside the Democrat Party.
	After the election, it turns out it's a much bigger civil war in the Republican Party, and the war is between the Trumpians and the anti-Trumpers, basically, which are the Rhinos, okay?
	So it's the Trumpians versus the Rhinos.
	That's pretty much what's going on.
	And there's a huge effort right now to kick the Trumpians out of everything.
	I've got some inside information on this too that involves the people surrounding DeSantis.
	It looks like the people around DeSantis are pretty much all Trump haters or anti-Trumpers.
	There's quite a war brewing between Trump and DeSantis.
	We're going to get to that when we talk about Trump's announcement here.
	But The same is true in Congress.
	So the question of what gets done in Congress, like are there going to be investigations?
	Are they going to have Nuremberg 2.0 trials?
	Are they going to look at election rigging or big tech censorship or vaccine mandates, biological weapons, you know, all these issues that really matter?
	That depends on who's running the committees in the House of Representatives, and that depends on whether it's RINOs or Trumpians.
	So obviously if the Trumpians are in charge, then we're going to get a lot of investigations.
	If the RINOs are in charge, we're going to get nada, zilch.
	And it looks like right now the RINOs still have a lot of power.
	You know, they want to lose.
	And by the way, it looks like dirty Mitch McConnell...
	was on the take from FTX the crypto exchange that collapsed his group got 2.5 million dollars from FTX For his Senate Leadership Fund, as it's called.
	And it was shortly after that $2.5 million, which obviously is a bribe, that went to his group.
	Then Mitch McConnell pulled funding out of the Blake Masters race in Arizona.
	That's right, to make sure that Blake Masters would lose.
	So Mitch McConnell is a traitor.
	Mitch McConnell is an anti-Trump rhino, but worse than that, he's a traitor.
	I mean, his...
	Through his marriage and so on, he's got ties into Communist China.
	So Mitch McConnell was paid off by FTX, and McConnell is a deep state traitor to America.
	And he helped engineer the defeat of Republicans so that Mitch McConnell could continue to play the role of the minority Senate leader gatekeeper.
	Now, you know why he wants to play that role?
	Because of the existence of the filibuster, my friends.
	Because of the filibuster, nothing can pass through Congress without the support of, well, roughly at least 10 GOP senators.
	I guess now it's going to be just nine.
	But even if it's just nine, that's going to require the approval of Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority leader.
	So McConnell gets to run around and demand things To get paid off to approve anything getting passed because of the existence of the filibuster.
	So he doesn't want to be the majority leader because Mitch McConnell is, well, in my opinion, he's just a globalist.
	He doesn't want America to do well or the American people to do well or liberty to achieve new milestones or anything.
	He doesn't care about the people.
	He just cares about his own bankroll.
	So that's why he organized all that.
	So right now, getting back to the House of Representatives, Representative Steve Scalise is the House Majority Leader.
	That's not Speaker of the House, just to be clear.
	He's just been elected the House Majority Leader.
	And I respect Steve Scalise in a lot of ways.
	And remember, he was shot and almost killed by that crazed leftist at that baseball game or softball game a few years back.
	And they almost murdered Rand Paul, his crazy leftist with a gun.
	Yeah, Steve Scalise is lucky to be alive, frankly.
	And he's the House Majority Leader, and I think he understands what's at stake here.
	Well, my understanding from today is that Kevin McCarthy has won the GOP nomination for House Speaker, but that it is not officially voted on until the new Congress is sworn in in January.
	At least that's my understanding of how this works.
	So Andy Biggs is trying to make a run at Kevin McCarthy.
	Whereas Kevin McCarthy got the GOP vote, at least so far, for the nomination.
	And Kevin McCarthy is known as someone, at least this is my understanding of his reputation, that he's more of a rhino than not.
	But I guess we'll have to wait and see.
	Anyway...
	He could be Speaker of the House.
	Doesn't look like it's going to be Trump.
	Trump has just announced his run for the presidency.
	And it doesn't look like it's going to be Andy Biggs.
	So, again, this is really key.
	We're going to find out whether the next two years will be productive, where the GOP could use their power to do something useful, you know, for God's sake, like shaking them by the hair and the toupees, you know.
	That's right.
	Did you hear that?
	It's like shaking them by their toupees.
	Please, for God's sake, do something!
	You know?
	Or are they going to sit back and just go, you know, business as usual.
	Let's reach across the aisle and get along with the other side that just screwed us out of elections again.
	They just stole elections.
	So is Kevin McCarthy another Paul Ryan?
	There's a question.
	And it seems like the answer may be yes.
	But...
	We'll wait and see.
	We'll wait and find out.
	But here's what I say.
	No matter what happens with the leadership of the GOP at this point, it's up to you and I and all of us to call our members of Congress, you know, in January, once this begins, or even maybe before.
	Call the offices of the new members, the incoming Congress here, incoming House.
	And I want you to politely but firmly demand investigations Into election rigging, you know, the vote fiasco, especially in Arizona and other places, the ballot harvesting, the mail-in ballots, all that garbage.
	Censorship, collusion between the government and big tech to achieve censorship.
	The vaccine mandates and the corruption of the CDC, the FDA, SARS-CoV-2, the biological weapons, depopulation, the whole deal.
	Excess deaths, which, again, we're going to talk about here in a second.
	And also, by the way, the rigging of the 2020 election, the corruption of the Biden crime family who have been blackmailed by the CCP.
	The national security issue of the wide open southern border of the United States of America.
	And so much more.
	How about money laundering through Ukraine to have money funneled back into Democrats' pockets for bribery and payoffs and so on?
	Oh, and by the way, there's another...
	Here it is.
	Joe Biden just announced, I think, another $37 billion in emergency funding for Ukraine.
	Just requested.
	Again, $37 billion.
	Why?
	Oh, just because it's another week.
	You know, it's Wednesday.
	It's another week.
	Another $37 billion.
	Folks, this is beyond insane.
	That's twice the amount of money needed to build the entire southern wall of, you know, a U.S. border wall that would keep out most illegals and human traffickers and fentanyl trafficking and everything.
	It's twice that.
	And we're sending it to Ukraine on top of, what have we already sent to Ukraine?
	Like 50, 60, 100 billion dollars?
	Something, and nobody really knows because it all just vanishes.
	But now Biden wants to send another $37 billion.
	Do you realize that we seem to be sending to Ukraine something like $20 to $40 billion a month?
	I mean, at the recent pace.
	It's beyond insane.
	Ukraine doesn't need that much money to fund their entire government, by the way.
	And their war effort.
	Where's all this money going?
	Well, Obviously, obviously, this is the last desperate looting of the U.S. Treasury and the U.S. dollar and so on.
	We'll talk about that later.
	All right, so that's where we stand.
	Again, be sure to call your incoming members of Congress and press them to launch investigations into these issues.
	And we're going to have to do our best to get rhinos out of the running in all of this and bring in, you know, America first candidates.
	Now, the Senate, of course, was stolen because the election was rigged against Blake Masters and against Dr.
	Oz and other candidates, Laxalt in Nevada, if that's how you pronounce his name.
	The Senate was stolen.
	That's going to allow the Democrats to put in all these radical left-wing social justice judges in federal courts all across the country for the next several years.
	So that's how they're going to abuse that.
	That's why they had to rig that election.
	They were trying to steal the house too.
	They really were trying to steal the house.
	And of course, they've stolen it from Cary Lake in Arizona.
	We talked about that yesterday.
	Cary is going to fight this, by the way, it looks like.
	So expect lawsuits.
	And of course you have to sue, because Katie Hobbs was the elections secretary who ran the elections at the same time she's running for governor, and who obviously oversaw the selective failure of voting machines and ballot scanning in certain areas that favored her own, quote, victory into the governorship.
	So, of course, I mean, it's just straight up corruption and cheating.
	You have to challenge that.
	And Carrie Lake, she is going to challenge that.
	Although, as I've been told by certain sources, some of the people around her are, I'm just going to go ahead and say it, some of them are lazy drunks.
	And they have an alcohol problem, partying and drinking alcohol instead of fighting for a fair and free election.
	I'm sure Carrie Lake is very frustrated about that.
	She's probably screaming at him, get off the bottle, you morons.
	Get off your asses and start fighting for this state.
	Arizona deserves better than you drunk on the floor, you know, passed out, vomiting up.
	The last pint of vodka you down or whatever that was.
	Get on your feet, sir.
	Sober up.
	Get in the fight.
	I can just see Carrie Lake, like a drill sergeant, walking up and down the hallway with all the workers, all the campaign workers, slapping them around a little bit.
	Wake up.
	Get on your feet.
	Back in the fight, soldier.
	Just shoving them against the wall.
	Go, Carrie.
	Go.
	Yeah.
	We need a woman like that.
	We do.
	She should be making a run for the presidency, actually, as far as I'm concerned.
	Maybe she'll show up on Trump's ticket or DeSantis' ticket or somebody's ticket.
	Who knows?
	That's just a wild guess.
	I don't have any intel on that, but we'll see.
	Yeah, and I admit I... It is kind of a fantasy of mine to see Carrie Lake busting some balls in the GOP, like hitting them with a sock with a bar of soap in it, just like wind that sucker up, whack, right in the crotch of some of those rhinos.
	Yeah, wake up now, sucker.
	Get in the fight or get out of here, right?
	That's what she needs to do.
	That's probably a little graphic, but why not?
	It's going to take something to wake these people up.
	All right, so let's talk about Trump.
	So Trump made his big announcement, and Trump said basically he's running for president.
	It's official, and he's filed the paperwork.
	Okay.
	And then he gave a pretty awesome speech.
	I listened to a lot of it, not all of it, but he was saying all the right things.
	He was talking about how you've got to get transgenderism out of the schools.
	You know, you've got to get biological men off of women's sports teams.
	And he was also talking about ending all the, apparently, the vaccine mandates and the mask mandates and everything and reinstating everybody in the military who was fired with full back pay for all the time that they were gone, by the way.
	And a lot of other important things.
	He even talked about total voting reform, making it just one day, the election is one day, you show up in person and it's paper ballots and it's voter ID nationwide, boom.
	Okay, so that's great to hear.
	Problem is that the President of the United States doesn't control elections nationwide.
	The elections are, of course, run and determined by local laws, which vary state by state, as we have seen.
	That's why the Democrat-run states are always doing mail-in ballots, so they can keep rigging everything.
	So you can't really have Washington, D.C. tell every state how to run their elections.
	Some of what Trump was saying was kind of like when you're in high school and your friend in high school is running for class president and they promise that we're going to have chocolate milk in all the cafeterias.
	That's not even allowed by the school district.
	There's not going to be chocolate milk in here.
	But they would promise it anyway because it sounded good.
	Chocolate milk!
	And french fries!
	Whatever.
	So Trump's making a lot of promises right now that We'll never pan out, by the way.
	But he's saying a lot of the right things.
	At least things that people want to hear, things that people are really frustrated about, or maybe even their heads are exploding over some of these crazy things, like the pedophilia and the grooming of children in public schools, things like that.
	So Trump has made his announcement.
	Now, I do want to mention, some people were telling me that there was going to be some way bigger announcement, like, this is the day that's going to be the mass arrest, you know?
	They're going to take everybody to Gitmo!
	And they're going to swap them out with, you know, body doubles or whatever.
	Like, okay, let's just cool your jets there.
	Let's just see what Trump says.
	No, it was just Trump running for election.
	This was not some big, like, the military's going to sweep in and take control.
	No, it didn't have emergency broadcasts.
	No, it was just Trump.
	It was Trump making an announcement that we all knew he was going to make.
	So really not a big surprise, right?
	But let me share something with you.
	I am not going to jump into either the Trump camp nor the DeSantis camp for a long, long, long, long time.
	Maybe never.
	I'm going to step back and just watch these two characters and see where they go with this.
	But more importantly, I'm going to look at the people around them.
	Because as far as I'm concerned, you know, Trump, you already had your opportunity, Trump, right?
	You were already there in the White House.
	And you basically promised that on January 6th, like, something big was going to happen.
	Everybody show up.
	This is going to make history.
	And then nothing happened except a giant deep state trap.
	Remember that?
	Well, of course, everybody remembers J6. And then what about Operation Warp Speed and the vaccine pushing and all that stuff?
	I mean, Trump still hasn't addressed that.
	And Trump had this horrible habit of surrounding himself with the worst traitors.
	I mean, starting with Mike Pence.
	Can you think of a more sorry sack of pathetic garbage than Mike Pence?
	You know, when it comes to America, Mike Pence had the opportunity to save this country, but he wanted to be popular instead.
	He wanted to be polite, and so he threw America under the bus, and he's just, what a piece of garbage, right?
	Yeah.
	Well, Trump has a knack of just inviting people into his Oval Office who are traitors and backstabbers and so on.
	And one of my questions right off the bat is, well, how is that going to be any different this time?
	No, seriously, that's my question.
	So I am withholding any kind of judgment or endorsement of any kind.
	I'm not jumping in on the Trump train here.
	I'm going to wait and see where this thing goes.
	Now, at the same time, I'm not jumping on the DeSantis train either because I want to see who ends up in the DeSantis camp because if it's a bunch of rhinos surrounding him, which is kind of where it looks like it's going, then I'm not going to support DeSantis.
	No way.
	I mean, DeSantis has done some great stuff as governor of Florida, and he's still doing great things.
	Make no mistake, he's very courageous.
	He knows how to handle the media.
	He knows how to navigate politics and so on.
	But it seems like his direction is really moving strongly in the anti-Trump category, which turns out to be basically the pro-RINO category.
	And...
	I don't want another rhino in the White House.
	We've already had that with the Bushes, you know?
	We've been there.
	We've seen what happens with rhinos in the White House, you know, red rhinos.
	It's pretty much the same result as having Obama in the White House, which is what we have now through a proxy zombie named Joe Biden, right?
	So I'm going to step back and watch this thing, okay, for quite a long time.
	You're not going to hear me endorse Trump or DeSantis or anybody else.
	I want to see.
	And frankly, maybe it's just because probably a lot like you, I'm super skeptical now of anything.
	I don't care what they say.
	I don't care.
	I mean, Trump can say all the nice sounding things in the world.
	Does it mean he's going to do those things?
	Not necessarily.
	What about DeSantis?
	He could say awesome things, too.
	And he's got a lot done in Florida, no doubt about that.
	But can he get them done in Washington, D.C.? Who knows?
	Right?
	Who knows?
	I'm just very skeptical.
	In fact, and maybe this is part of just Maturity or wisdom, like learning lessons the hard way?
	I don't think the answer for America comes from political solutions.
	Which is something that the resistance chicks mentioned yesterday in our interview.
	Said, look, this has got to be a spiritual solution.
	This isn't about the parties.
	Whether it's Republicans or Democrats or RINOs or Trumpians or whoever, The system is broken, man.
	The system is totally corrupt.
	The elections are rigged.
	The money supply is broken.
	The infrastructure is failing.
	The culture is falling apart.
	There's animosity of fake news and censorship, all of this stuff.
	I don't think that you can just work through these problems with voting and calling your representatives and signing petitions.
	No.
	I mean, in Oregon, they just passed a law that basically criminalizes the Second Amendment.
	Did you know that?
	They're trying to ban the Second Amendment in Oregon.
	Of course, that's going to be challenged by all kinds of Second Amendment foundations and such, nonprofits.
	But they did.
	They just passed a ballot measure that said you basically have no right to have firearms and ammunition without permission, which violates recent Supreme Court decisions.
	It's just crazy.
	I don't think we can vote our way out of this.
	I think Well, there's really two ways that this gets resolved.
	One way is the God intervention method.
	And I don't know what that looks like, obviously, but think Old Testament.
	Plagues upon you and whatever else.
	The seas are parting and nations are falling and planets and giant fireballs and mountains on fire falling out of the heavens and things like that.
	So that's one possible way that things change.
	The other way is an economic collapse.
	Which is imminent.
	And I talked to Ed Dowd about some of that in the interview coming up here.
	But an economic collapse would cause, obviously, the fall, the bankruptcy of the United States of America.
	Well, it's occupying illegitimate government anyway, because if they can't keep paying people like Joe Biden just saying, oh, 37 billion more for Ukraine in quotes.
	Yeah, it's for Ukraine.
	Really?
	No, but it's just bribes and kickbacks and money laundering.
	Well, if they can't keep printing money to do that, their power vanishes.
	It's over for them.
	So a global currency collapse or even just a dollar collapse is something that would bring this whole system down and force a reemergence probably of state sovereignty and could result in what I call the balkanization of the United States, regional breakups or new nation states forming societies.
	secession, possibly regional civil war, things like that.
	One way or another, though, this current system ends because it is entirely unsustainable.
	That's for sure.
	All right, now let's move on to issue number three, Texas.
	Greg Abbott, he tweeted this out a few hours ago, quote, I invoke the invasion clauses of the U.S. and Texas constitutions to fully authorize Texas to take unprecedented measures to defend our state against an invasion of This is awesome.
	This is the best thing I've read in a long time.
	I'm using that constitutional authority and other authorization and executive orders to keep our state and country safe.
	Here's what he's doing.
	It's from Greg Abbott, who just beat Beto.
	Beto.
	How about beat it?
	Beat it.
	Just beat it.
	He's going to deploy the National Guard to safeguard our border and to repel and turn back immigrants trying to cross the border illegally.
	Okay.
	Now, I read that bullet point.
	That's the first one from Greg Abbott.
	And I think to myself, didn't he say this a year ago?
	I'm pretty sure he said the same thing a year ago, that he was going to deploy the National Guard.
	So maybe now he's like, I'm really going to deploy the National Guard.
	We'll see.
	Or maybe it's just a bigger deployment.
	Maybe there were a few Guard units, and now there's going to be a whole lot more.
	Okay, so we welcome that.
	That's awesome.
	Good job, Abbott.
	He's going to deploy the Texas Department of Public Safety to arrest and return to the border immigrants who crossed illegally, and then he's going to deploy DPS to arrest illegal immigrants for criminal activity.
	All right, so...
	Now, again, I think this is pretty awesome, but it is going to be funny to see how this works because, you know, they just walk right across the border.
	So...
	If you catch them somewhere in Texas, these illegals, and then you take them back to the border, you just plop them like one foot over the border, they're like, oh, thank you, and they just take one step.
	I'm back in Texas now!
	And they just cross the border again.
	But all you can do legally is just take them and move them one foot back.
	Oh, now you're back in Mexico.
	What are you going to do now, sucker?
	And they're like, I'm going to take another step.
	And boom, I'm back in Texas!
	See?
	So I don't know how you...
	I mean, eventually, don't you have to build a wall?
	I mean, don't you have to do something more?
	Well, okay, Abbott is talking about that, but you can't just keep taking them back across the border.
	I think...
	No, no, I'm not even going to say it.
	But you got to have, like, a three-strike system of some kind where, like, you get caught three times.
	Like, okay...
	Now, you're going to face something different than just being plopped back across the border.
	You know, three strikes and you're out.
	And I don't know what that should be, but it needs to be something that gets the attention of illegals to say, hey, maybe don't cross into Texas.
	Whatever that thing is.
	And I'm thinking, although I know there are laws against torture, but what if you made them sit down and watch The View every day for a year in a room with a TV in it?
	You just have to listen to...
	Joy Behar, yeah.
	You have to listen to Behar scream every day for a year.
	They'd be screaming, no, take me back to Mexico!
	I cannot stand this!
	Crazy gringo woman.
	Okay, and by the way, you know what?
	I should clarify.
	Let me pull a Dave Chappelle right here.
	I welcome legal immigrants into this country and into the state of Texas, by the way.
	Absolutely welcome legal immigrants.
	I just have a problem with people breaking the rules and walking in illegally.
	Go through the process.
	Fill out the form.
	Stand in line like the other legal citizens did.
	Don't just cross the border and say, it's all good, man.
	No, it's not.
	It's not good.
	All right, so Governor Abbott says he's going to build a border wall in multiple counties on the border.
	Now, the reason this bullet point is interesting is because, of course, Joe Biden is going to say, no, you're not allowed to build a border wall.
	Because you don't have jurisdiction because it's the United States of America that has the national borders.
	And let's see if Abbott stands up to Biden and says, you know, basically, pound sand, Biden.
	We're going to build a wall.
	What are you going to do about it, you know?
	And probably Biden will try to send the military down there to tear down the wall, which will be some amazing footage, you know, on TikTok or Brighton or wherever.
	Watch the U.S. military order to tear down the wall to allow an invasion into the United States.
	That's coming.
	I can't wait to see how that goes down.
	And this could be a flashpoint for civil war, by the way.
	Because what if Governor Abbott says, guess what?
	We're going to deploy the Texas Guard.
	To guard the wall building operation against anybody who tries to stop building the wall.
	And then you have the Texas Guard facing off against Joe Biden's military, which is violating Posse Comitatus or whatever.
	And you end up in a Civil War firefight, you know, between these two competing troops.
	And there you go.
	Boom.
	Then Governor Abbott might be declaring Texas to be its own sovereign nation, declaring independence.
	I'm not saying that that's likely, but that's one of the outcomes eventually from this kind of conflict.
	But it would be a very bloody conflict.
	So let's hope that Joe Biden backs down and Texas builds the wall.
	Okay, next item.
	Quote, deploy gunboats to secure the border.
	This is awesome.
	I've never seen a governor of Texas say they're going to deploy gunboats.
	To secure the border.
	And unfortunately, most of the Texas border is on sand.
	So the gunboats are not going to be that useful in the sand unless you have a pickup truck dragging them across the sand.
	But I assume he's talking about the portions of the Texas border that are on the Gulf of Mexico shoreline.
	That would make more sense.
	But that's only going to have a limited impact.
	But it is cool, the idea of gunboats.
	Yeah, that's pretty cool.
	Okay, he's going to, quote, designate Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.
	And again, I'm thinking, didn't he already do that?
	I thought he did that.
	But maybe I'm wrong.
	Maybe he was just talking about doing that.
	Anyway, he says he's going to do it.
	The reason this matters, by the way, you probably already figured this out, but it invokes a lot of really heavy-handed response by Texas law enforcement and DPS and all kinds of other super-secret operators and organizations and so on who are going to be given a green light to just go after these drug cartels.
	So what we are talking about here, what's the correct way to describe this?
	It's a war.
	It's a war coming against the drug cartels that operate in Texas.
	And that means that there's going to be an escalation of all kinds of things.
	I mean, there's going to be firefights in small Texas towns, especially border towns and so on.
	There's going to be special operations run by Texas, you know, certain special forces.
	There's going to be a whole lot of funding and a lot of surveillance of drug cartels as they operate in the state of Texas, and there's going to be a very rapid escalation of the ability to arrest these people, seize their assets, interrogate them, by the way, anybody who cooperates with the Mexican drug cartels.
	And to deploy additional Texas military assets against all this.
	In other words, this thing's about to go, shall we say, Narco DEFCON 3, you know?
	As Kanye says, DEFCON 3.
	Or did he say 5?
	Narco DEFCON 5.
	South Texas is going to be a war zone.
	But it's a necessary step because you either surrender to these terrorists or you fight them.
	So I understand.
	They've got to fight him.
	That's exactly the way this is going to go.
	Because I know some people, obviously, who are probably going to be in this war.
	And some tough dudes.
	But then again, the Mexican drug cartels are also some pretty hardcore dudes.
	And you've seen the armored-up trucks and vehicles that the Mexican cartels have?
	You've seen photos of that?
	I mean, they have souped up heavy, heavy suspensions of these big trucks, and then they Mad Max these vehicles out with armor and everything on the front and the sides.
	It's a full Mad Max operation.
	And they're going to roll these into Texas.
	And you're going to have just a full-scale war, man.
	You're going to need military armor to engage some of these vehicles.
	So all you listening at Fort Hood, get ready.
	You're going to get some trigger practice pretty soon, looks like.
	Or at least whatever units are under the command of Governor Abbott and not the DOD. But we'll see.
	We'll see where that goes.
	But I will add this.
	If any of you listening, I don't think anybody qualifies on this, but if you are listening and you happen to be in some way involved in the narco trade in Texas, I would find yourself a different line of work real quick here.
	Or your life expectancy is about to go to zero.
	Get out of Texas if you're involved in that trade.
	No, seriously.
	Yeah, it's going to come down hard.
	Okay, in addition to all that stuff, Abbott says he's going to enter into a compact with other states to secure the border, which would be great if Arizona had a governor named Carrie Lake, obviously, for that very purpose.
	But, you know, there are other states affected by this, including Florida, frankly, right?
	Although, obviously, not the same border, but...
	There are a lot of illegals that come into Florida, especially Cubans, right?
	So Abbott says he's also going to provide resources for border counties to increase their efforts to respond to the border invasion, which means they're going to be handing out thermal night vision and things like that, and surveillance systems and drone monitoring and money for trapping human traffickers or whatever that looks like.
	So there you go.
	Look, I'm all in favor of these designations because Texas is under attack.
	There is an invasion happening in Texas, and it's got to stop.
	It's got to stop.
	I mean, again, I'm not opposed to legal immigration at all.
	I welcome immigrants.
	You just have to go through the legal process.
	All right, fourth issue today, the missiles in Poland.
	So I was very concerned a few hours ago that this was going to escalate quickly into World War III and that this had been some kind of a false flag attempt to cause escalation.
	What happened is apparently some missiles or some kind of explosion happened in Poland and the media initially reported that these were Russian missiles that struck Poland.
	Russia very quickly denied that.
	And then I received some tweets from some people who said that there were parts found at the site that indicated the missiles were actually fired by Ukraine.
	And then Joe Biden apparently came out and said that even he he is saying that these were not missiles from Russia at this point.
	And Poland has not invoked Article 5.
	They've invoked Article 4, which is apparently something a lot less serious.
	You know, Article 5 is basically, hey, we're being attacked.
	NATO, come to our defense.
	Everybody in NATO declare war against Russia.
	That's Article 5.
	But that was not what was invoked.
	Article 4 is more like, oh, there was an oopsie.
	Let's sit down and have a chat about it.
	That's Article 4.
	It's kind of like, we can still talk this thing out.
	You know, we haven't burned all the bridges yet.
	Or I guess in the case of Ukraine and Russia, that would be a literal reference since they're blowing up bridges.
	But nevertheless, this did not escalate into World War III, thank God.
	But the fact that a lot of people were concerned that it might, including myself, just shows you how much we're all on edge.
	And we're all very, very worried that there could be false flag types of attacks or nuclear terrorism or who knows what that could be blamed on Russia in order to try to start World War III. And you'll find in my interview with Ed Dowd, he talks about how war may still be invoked by the regime.
	In order to try to distract people from the currency collapse that's coming.
	And also to try to do a lot more stimulus money printing and try to keep the system alive a little bit longer.
	So war is still in the works and that's why we're all nervous about this.
	It could happen on any given day.
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	Nice thing about tomahawks is they never run out of ammo.
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	Then again, if we're suffering a collapse that's so bad that we're fighting with tomahawks, things have gone pretty wrong.
	If you're in a tomahawk battle scenario, a lot of bad decisions have been made by the powers that be in order to get us there.
	That's for sure.
	And sadly, the Tomahawks will not penetrate the armored up Mexican narco armored trucks that will be invading Texas soon.
	So you might want to have your 50 Cal Barretts handy, you know, just in case, which thankfully a whole lot of Texans also own those too.
	Yeah.
	Aim for the viewports.
	That's right.
	Of the narco armored vehicles.
	Aim for the viewports.
	No kidding, last time I shot a.50 caliber rifle, I thought somebody threw a grenade in my face.
	The explosion is so...
	I mean, there is a thump factor on that, and it is no joke.
	It's like 620 grains of high-velocity steel going downrange, man.
	Woo!
	Do not be standing in the path of that.
	Okay, let's move on to number five, the crypto contagion.
	We've got news on that.
	All right, the FTX collapse is, of course, spreading.
	There's a lot of cross-contamination of debt and unsecured debt in the crypto space.
	And these exchanges are seeing record withdrawals, which actually is a smart indicator of crypto owners moving their money out of these exchanges, moving to offline wallets or what's called cold storage, just keeping your keys on your own hardware, basically.
	So BlockFi is about to declare bankruptcy, according to the Wall Street Journal.
	Now, I've seen tweets and such that say BlockFi is declaring bankruptcy or has already done so, but I have not yet seen...
	Any kind of a mainstream media article that has yet confirmed that.
	So let's put that in the rumor category.
	But the Wall Street Journal does say they are preparing to, okay?
	They are preparing for, quote, potential bankruptcy as the crypto contagion spreads.
	Now, BlockFi, my understanding is they had already halted all withdrawals.
	And this has also spread now to another exchange called Liquid, which is very popular in Japan, apparently.
	I was not familiar with Liquid, but then again, I don't live in Tokyo.
	But Liquid has halted all withdrawals as well.
	And it seems very likely that this is going to spread to a lot of other exchanges.
	So, what does this mean if you had money on those exchanges?
	It means basically, and it's gone.
	That's what it means.
	You might be lucky to get five cents back on the dollar, but it'll be a lot less when you consider how much lower a lot of crypto valuations are going to go as the exchanges go out of business.
	So, I don't know what you're going to get back.
	Just figure it's zero, frankly, and That's one of those really expensive life lessons.
	If you had money on one of these exchanges and you just lost it because they just did basically a crypto bail-in, let that be a lesson about what's coming for the dollars and the banks.
	Because there's going to be a bank bail-in one day, and everybody that has dollars in a bank account is going to suffer the same exact fate.
	And say, whoa, what happened?
	The bank just announced we can't withdraw our money.
	But it's our money.
	And the bank says, well, technically, the minute you deposited it, you became an unsecured creditor to the bank.
	You see how that works?
	You don't own it anymore when you deposit it in a bank.
	Did you know that?
	You don't own it.
	They just have a liability of what they owe you, but it's their money, technically.
	So they can do whatever they want with it, and they can prevent you from taking it out.
	It's true.
	Bail-ins are coming.
	Bank holidays are coming.
	Crypto is having a big fire sale clean-out operation.
	It's like spring cleaning comes early for crypto.
	And in a sense, this is good news because there's a lot of the fraudsters and the con artists and so on.
	And the Sam Bankmans are going to get all cleaned out of this gutter.
	And then whoever's left is going to be more heavily regulated.
	probably more frequently audited and they'll have to be more proof of assets and more transparency and open source information about transactions and assets and so on.
	But, you know, folks, you can avoid all of this by not holding your crypto in the exchanges in the first place, which if you think about it, If you think about it, the whole point of crypto was for you to control your own money in a peer-to-peer decentralized fashion without relying on any kind of centralized control system such as exchanges or banks or what have you.
	Why would you want to have to trust them?
	When you could control your own crypto in your own wallet, and that's the way that...
	The wiser crypto users have been doing this for a long time.
	They control their own keys.
	They control their own crypto.
	So even if you're going to use exchanges as on-ramps or off-ramps or to carry out currency exchanges or crypto exchanges like, oh, I want to trade ETH for Bitcoin or whatever, yeah, you can use them for that.
	And the minute you're done, pull that back off of there.
	Don't leave your crypto on the exchanges.
	And if you have crypto there right now, pull it off.
	Get it off of the exchanges.
	And everybody's doing that, which, by the way, is going to We're going to see more bankruptcies of these changes because a lot of them are over leveraged and they were dipping into the customer funds, even though they promised not to.
	Like, we'll never take your money.
	Wink, wink.
	And then they do.
	And then the tide goes out and they get caught swimming naked.
	That's exactly what's going on here.
	Whoa!
	We didn't need to see that.
	And where'd my money go?
	Alright, speaking of money, let's take a quick look at some economic news.
	Heinz, you know, the ketchup company, that's basically what they're known for.
	Heinz, their tomato ketchup has gone up 53...
	Wait, is that 53%?
	Holy smokes, it is.
	It's 53%.
	Haha!
	The UK Daily Mail reporting that shoppers are switching to the supermarket's own label as cost of living crisis bites.
	Let's see.
	Heinz ketchup was up 53%.
	Dolmio lasagna sauce was up 47%.
	On average, in one place it was up 107%.
	Let's see.
	Millions of shoppers are switching over to the supermarket brand.
	Which is not always as good.
	Let's see what else we have here.
	Anchor spreadable butter tub is up 45%.
	Now, remember, by the way, the Biden regime says that inflation is only 8% or something.
	Here we go.
	Heinz cream of tomato soup, it's up 44%.
	Coleman's horseradish sauce is 44% increase also.
	What is this?
	Cravendale semi-skimmed milk, 38% increase.
	Hellman's Real Squeezy Mayonnaise is up 35%.
	And what is this?
	Muller Corner Vanilla and Banana Chocolate Balls and Flakes is up 34%.
	These must be British groceries or something.
	I've not heard of a lot of these things.
	I wonder if Vegemite is up in Australia, too.
	Alright, also now let's see.
	Travelers are complaining of airline price gouging.
	That's also in the UK Daily Mail.
	New York City to LA around Christmas time is now $1,000.
	And then in Poland, the Polish Central Bank is forecasting double-digit inflation to persist throughout the entire year of 2023 all the way into 2024.
	And that's if more missiles don't strike up Poland.
	And then in addition to that, a rail strike threat escalates as Third Union rejects deal.
	This is on Fox Business, which has one of these annoying autoplay when the videos start playing when you don't want them to.
	Don't you hate that?
	The International Brotherhood of Boilermakers announced Monday that its members voted against ratifying a tentative agreement with the major freight railroads.
	So this is the third labor group to turn down the deal that was brokered by the Biden administration.
	Turns out that all 12 of the unions have to ratify this new contract or railroads grind to a halt.
	It's not clear to me, by the way, when the railroads grind to a halt, but clearly they are not reaching an agreement.
	So I guess every day that the trains run is a better day.
	Looks like they're not going to be running much longer, at least for some period of time.
	We'll see who bends first on this deal.
	But the thing I love about reporting on these railroads is the names of the unions.
	They're so entertaining.
	One of these that's also voted against this is literally called the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees Division of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.
	I'm like, wow!
	Wow!
	How do you have name tags at your meetings with all that printed on there?
	Is it an entire apron?
	How do you fit all that on there?
	How do you have baseball caps with the name of your unions on there?
	That's a lot of text.
	They must have bumper stickers that cover the entire rear end of the trunk of the vehicle.
	It's like, what is that?
	It's like a bumper banner.
	It's the whole bumper.
	This is the way unions work, don't you know?
	Why do something in a short manner when it can be stretched out and made way longer?
	I'm kidding.
	Okay, I'm kidding you union guys out there.
	We appreciate you.
	Don't get me wrong.
	We need boilers and sheet metal and all that stuff.
	I mean, we absolutely do.
	I'm not mocking you.
	I'm making fun of the length of your union names.
	That's all.
	That's all.
	No, I'm in with you on this.
	You deserve more money, no doubt.
	I mean, you deserve time off for medical needs.
	You deserve wage increases.
	Absolutely.
	I completely agree with that, by the way.
	It's only a 24% wage increase.
	Over a five-year period from 2020 through 2024.
	Man, that's nothing.
	I mean, we're looking at 20-plus percent inflation every year.
	These guys are getting only 24% increase over, what, five years?
	That's losing money.
	They should be getting, in my opinion, they should be getting 20% a year.
	In fact...
	To the teamsters, to the brotherhoods, you know, the teamsters and the boiler workers.
	I think you should hold out for 20% a year.
	That's what I think.
	Otherwise, you're losing money.
	Seriously.
	And by the way, those of you listening who are part of the train or railroad unions, excuse me, there's a very easy way to get what you want.
	And you know what this is.
	You know.
	Stop all the trains for five days.
	You'll get everything you ask for at that point.
	Just watch America squirm when the trains don't run for a few days.
	It'll be a nightmare, chaos.
	And of course, I don't wish that upon America.
	I'm just saying this as a thought experiment.
	But the same thing is true with police unions, for example.
	You want to negotiate?
	Just all the cops take off one weekend in Los Angeles, for example, and see what happens.
	Again, I'm not saying actually do that.
	It's a thought experiment.
	But As a society, we need the truck drivers.
	We need the police officers.
	We need the firefighters.
	We need the barge operators.
	We've been finding that out recently.
	We need the railroad operators.
	We need people that do real things.
	We need the farmers.
	You know what we don't need?
	There's a bunch of lying scumbag bureaucrats and vote riggers and financialization derivatives pushers in Wall Street.
	They can all go.
	And there's no difference.
	In fact, society might improve.
	But you can't lose, you know, your train operators, your truck drivers, your boilermakers, your welders, your barge pilots and all that.
	You can't lose those people.
	Everything shuts down.
	And your oil rig workers, by the way.
	Those of you listening from the oil rigs, we understand.
	You're critical for this economy.
	You really are.
	Now, the Democrats are going to figure that out pretty soon when the food shelves go empty in 2023 and the diesel runs out and is like, where's our groceries?
	Oh, yeah, go out and pick it yourself.
	And they're like, no, we live in a desert called Los Angeles.
	Oh, well, why did you choose to live there?
	Shouldn't you live somewhere where there's food and water since you shut down the entire energy infrastructure?
	Hmm.
	Guess you can just eat some sand or something, you know?
	Or if that doesn't taste good, well, you can pound it.
	That's right.
	Go pound sand.
	All right.
	Another interesting note to change the subject.
	Check out this website, themidtermswererigged.com.
	And that takes you to an article.
	On the Epoch Times that talks about one of the ways in which the midterms were rigged.
	It's very simple.
	Google, they know whether the users...
	And they've got, of course, hundreds of millions or even billions of users around the world.
	They know whether their users in the U.S. lean conservative or liberal.
	They know that.
	And all they do is they selectively present images and messages to liberals to get out and vote.
	And then simultaneously, they withhold such messages from conservatives.
	That's it.
	That's all they do.
	They did it in 2020, and they did it again in 2022.
	Now, according to the author of this article, this analysis, Google was able to shift 80 million votes in 2020.
	That sounds like a lot of votes.
	I mean, that's like almost half the people who voted.
	Read the article to get all the details, but Google is doing this deliberately.
	It is blatantly illegal.
	It's election meddling.
	In my opinion, one of the things that Congress should do, the new Congress, the new House, is investigate Google for illegal election rigging, which I believe is a crime.
	We should get the Google executives and the engineers that rigged all this, Under, you know, sworn testimony before the House.
	Say, hey, were you rigging the elections?
	Tell us, what is this?
	Yes, of course they were rigging the elections.
	The Democrats rig it in every way they possibly can.
	It's not just the ballot harvesting and the stuffing and the mail-in ballots and the tampering with the machines or whatever they do.
	It's also big tech rigging it and, of course, silencing all conservatives.
	Okay, now, a couple other comments here, and then we're going to get into the interview with Ed Dowd, which is a bombshell interview.
	Trust me, it's worth waiting for.
	In Australia, there is a 63% drop in live births.
	Okay, so, geez, the vaccine sure is killing a lot of unborn babies or causing infertility.
	I mean, it's a depopulation weapon, and it's doing exactly what it was designed to do.
	Now, in the interview with Ed Dowd coming up here, you're going to hear him say, and again, I did the interview with him a few hours ago, that excess mortality across the board, across the general population in the United States, since the introduction of the vaccine, is 32%.
	Now, if we take the average daily deaths in America, which the last time I looked at that, that was 7,700 people Per day die in America.
	Just that's the normal deaths, you know, pre-COVID, pre-2019.
	If you take 32% of that, you get a number, which is 2,464.
	So let's just call it, I don't know, let's call it 2,400 and to be a little bit conservative.
	So 2,400 people in America are dying each day because of the vaccines.
	Think about that.
	That's approaching the number of Americans killed in 9-11, or even Pearl Harbor, for that matter.
	But it's every day.
	2,400-plus people killed every day in America because of these vaccines, and a much larger number of Americans is maimed or disabled, injured and disabled.
	Because of these vaccines.
	That number might be, and here I'm just guessing, actually Ed Dowd has the numbers, but let's just say that that number is 5,000 people a day.
	So what's happening is that each day in America, you could say roughly almost 7,500 people or let's say 7,400 people are being either killed or disabled because of these vaccines.
	Now, all of those people aren't in the workforce, but many of them are.
	Clearly thousands of people are being removed from the workforce each day.
	And for some of them, that's because they're dead from the vaccine.
	So this is a Holocaust that is underway in America, just as we have said.
	And if you take that number, the daily death number of 2,460-something, you multiply that by 365 days a year, what do you get?
	You get 900,000 Americans a year killed by these vaccines.
	And millions, of course, maimed or disabled.
	But it's almost a million Americans a year that are going to die from these vaccines, that are already dying from these vaccines.
	Now, you might wonder, well, why aren't the streets getting more clear?
	Why isn't parking better at the grocery store?
	If all these people are dying, as you say, Mike, then shouldn't we be seeing it around us?
	And the answer is no, because there are almost 10,000 children born each day in the United States, or at least there were until this vaccine kicked in.
	So if you look at the actual number of births in the United States from, let's say, 2019, it's about 10,000 a day.
	So if the vaccines are killing, let's say, 2,400 people a day, But there are 10,000 people a day being born.
	Well, obviously, the population continues to increase.
	And so that's why you're not seeing some dramatic ghost town effect yet.
	But there are two things to consider in all of this.
	Number one, the vaccine appears to become more aggressive at killing people over time, you know, because of the ongoing destruction of the immune system.
	So the excess deaths per day that we're seeing right now, i.e. 2,400 plus, could increase over time.
	But secondly, far more importantly, the establishment that's carrying out this genocide against humanity, they are rolling out more pandemics and more vaccines.
	And they're going to, of course, stage some other big outbreak Oh, it's the super COVID or whatever.
	It's the combo COVID, the triple threat COVID RSV. It's the Ebola vid.
	It's the influenza vid Ebola or whatever they want to say.
	And you got to take these 12 shots and then that's going to kill a lot more people.
	But understand, they would have to kill 10,000 people a day Just to halt any growth in the population.
	You see what I mean?
	And the vaccines have not yet achieved, from the globalist point of view, they haven't reached that level of fatalities yet.
	Now, 2,400 plus people a day is still a massive number.
	I mean, it's genocide.
	It's a holocaust.
	And again, it's 900,000 Americans a year.
	It's the biggest crime against humanity that's ever been committed that we know of, unless there's some ancient civilization that was totally wiped out, which is possible.
	But nothing that we know of in our historical record has ever reached this level of insanity and genocide, but here we are.
	Just understand, our streets aren't going to turn into ghost towns until the powers that be really crank up the kill rate to 10,000 a day or more.
	And that's when you're really going to notice things.
	It's like, whoa, I remember when this highway used to be bumper-to-bumper traffic.
	Now we're just zooming on through.
	It's like, whoa, I remember when there used to be a line at this store.
	Nobody's here.
	In fact, stores start closing down.
	Right?
	Or all of a sudden there's a whole bunch of extra cars available on the car dealer's lots.
	There's a lot of excess inventory in this system.
	Where's all the buyers?
	Well, they're dead, it turns out, you know?
	These are the effects we have to keep in mind as the deaths continue to mount up.
	Now, here's a story that kind of reinforces all of this.
	This is out of Newspunch.com, which is a great website.
	Four-year-old boy, who was the face of Argentina's vaccine rollout, dies suddenly.
	Yeah, here we go.
	Oh, man.
	The young boy who was used as the face of the Argentinian government's national vaccination campaign has died suddenly, according to local reports.
	Santino Godoy Blanco was just four years old.
	Agustina Blanco.
	That's his...
	Oh, I don't know.
	I'm reading the screen.
	That's what it says.
	Okay, I'm reading the screen from the news report in Argentina.
	Here it is.
	In el hospital le dijeron que tenía gastroenterocolitis y laryngitis.
	So laryngitis and gastroenterocolitis basically is what the media is saying it is.
	But this poor boy is dead.
	Died suddenly.
	And he was the face of the vaccine propaganda campaign.
	Yep, that's right.
	Let's see.
	His mother was Augustina Blanco.
	Took him to a hospital on Wednesday, November 2nd.
	Doctors said he had a fever, sent him home.
	The fever persisted.
	He was given a drug for vomiting, went back to the hospital, and then died.
	And, of course, the media says it was not related to the vaccines.
	It's not vaccines, of course, of course.
	So Twitter users saying, heartbreaking, Santino Blanco, four-year-old boy, has been the face of Argentina's national vaccination campaign.
	Died suddenly this morning.
	This is murder, says one Twitter user.
	Another user says, these parents have made the vaccine a religion, and they are all willing to sacrifice their healthy children to pharma gods.
	shameful and disgusting, says that user.
	A new slap from Israel to the COVID-19 vaccines while in Argentina, four-year-old Santino Godoy Blanco, who was the central figure of the national vaccination campaign, has died.
	That's another user saying that.
	So you notice how many of the people that they rolled out for these vaccines are now dead.
	Like, who was that black baseball star in America that they rolled out in 2020?
	Now I can't even remember his name, but he was a cultural hero of baseball and sports, and he was a black American, and then he died, right?
	And then you never heard anything more.
	Oh, forget about him.
	We got a new black athlete to roll out to take the vaccine until that one dies, and then don't think about that guy.
	We'll have another one.
	You know, they're just expendable, apparently.
	The CDC pays them off, they take the jab, they die, and then they get kind of erased from the internet as if they never existed.
	They roll out a new guy.
	It's pretty sick stuff, right?
	But remember, they're only currently killing about a quarter of the people they need to kill, in their minds, in order to stop population...
	In order to stop reproduction, essentially.
	In order to stop the population from growing.
	Because if they kill 10,000 people a day, then that nullifies all the births, and then population growth ceases at that point.
	Now, that still wouldn't sharply decrease the population, so they would have to kill a lot more than 10,000 Americans every day.
	Not even to mention Argentina and other countries, but just in America, they'd have to kill 10,000 Something like 20,000 people a day to start really destroying the, you know, to bring down the population in a way that's obvious to everybody, to the point where people would start wondering, like, where is everybody?
	You know, I thought the sidewalk used to be crowded, and now it's not.
	So is that day coming where they kill 10,000 Americans a day or 20,000 Americans a day?
	Is that kind of day coming?
	Well, I will say that in my opinion, I think they're going to attempt that.
	Will they succeed?
	I don't know.
	But remember, the entire Vietnam War, over how many years was that?
	Was it like eight years?
	I forgot the duration.
	But that killed about 50,000 Americans over the entire thing.
	Maybe it was like nine years.
	Some of you know better than I, but imagine half the Vietnam War casualties every day in America.
	With the funeral homes just totally overrun with, quote, business, you know?
	Pulling clots out of all the dead bodies, right?
	Richard Hirschman would be just overrun with dead bodies to take care of, it seems.
	You know, he's the guy that's pulled out a lot of those clots.
	But yeah, this is what they're trying for, the globalists, the depopulation pushers.
	10,000 deaths a day or more.
	And they're only one quarter of the way there currently, okay?
	So this Holocaust has only just begun.
	We haven't even reached the, quote, the break-even point on population control.
	Oh, and did you see that Reuters is now channeling Paul Ehrlich, who's the author of the Population Bomb book?
	I think that was back in the 70s, or maybe it was the late 60s.
	But Reuters is channeling him, and they're saying, well, the population of the world just crossed 8 billion people.
	And they said that that's going to make it really hard to achieve climate justice.
	Which doesn't even make any sense.
	Where do they get these words?
	Climate justice!
	What does that even mean?
	Climate justice?
	So basically Reuters is saying there's too many people on the planet.
	They've got to get rid of a bunch, like billions, in order to have climate justice.
	You know, just as a comment about that, it's so stupid to hear those terms, climate justice, like as if the climate discriminates against people.
	Pretty sure we're all on the same planet, which means we experience pretty much the same climate.
	I mean, we share the same air, the same atmosphere, right?
	I don't think the planet is segmented with giant glass walls where just, you know, Hispanic people get one climate and then white people get this other climate.
	No, pretty sure we all share the same air.
	It's like whatever the climate's doing...
	We're all riding on this boat together, right?
	Or this planet, in this case.
	It affects us all.
	So maybe you globalists should stop mucking around with the climate through geoengineering and terraforming and stratospheric aerosol injections and whatever else you're doing, artificial volcanoes or mad science experiments and HAARP and chemtrails and everything else.
	Maybe you should stop screwing with the climate And then we wouldn't need all your little climate justice nonsense.
	If you stop causing droughts, and if you stop blocking the sun, we could have food for everybody.
	If you stop shutting down fossil fuels, we could have transportation, we could have energy, and we could have the necessary CO2 for plants to grow, because CO2, of course, is necessary for photosynthesis.
	So if the globalists would just stop trying to mass murder humanity, then frankly, we would all be okay.
	And don't you find it interesting that Reuters, where the Pfizer CEO sits on the board, I believe, of Reuters, or at least some Reuters group that's related to Reuters, don't you find it interesting that the vaccines are being used for depopulation and then Reuters reports that there's too many people on the planet?
	Because we just crossed 8 billion.
	And you know that that makes them so angry.
	There's people being born alive, you know.
	The population has gone up again.
	It's another horrible day.
	Like, that's what they tell themselves when they wake up.
	They wake up and look at the population count on the planet.
	Like, dang, another day.
	There's more people.
	They just ask themselves.
	They're probably texting each other.
	What can we do to bring the numbers down today?
	You know, war, cyber attack, grid down, solar flares, release another bioweapon, right?
	That's their world.
	They can't stand the fact that there are more human beings alive every day.
	So they're trying to kill us off in every way they can think of.
	All right, so that's the news.
	We're going to jump into the interview now with Ed Dowd.
	And I'm sorry I took up so much time, but we did have a lot to cover here today, as you can tell.
	A lot of big things happening.
	Keep your eyes peeled.
	Be ready.
	Continue with your preparedness plans.
	We are going to face serious, serious disruptions slash collapse, however you want to call it.
	And the globalists are not done yet, not by a long shot.
	We're going to go through, I think, years.
	Of some real treachery against the human race.
	But the good news is we are going to get through this.
	So now let's go to Ed Dowd.
	But remember that the full interview with Ed Dowd with both of us on video is posted separately from this podcast.
	So if you want to see our facial expressions, you can check that out.
	There are a couple of things that Ed said that had my eyes popping wide open.
	I don't know if that made it on camera.
	Ed was talking, but a couple things he said, I was like, whoa!
	You know, quietly in my own head.
	But you can listen and decide for yourself.
	Anyway, here we go.
	Ed Dowd.
	It's going to be awesome.
	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?
	It's just basically a tab that kind of goes through the data that we found in 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, 30 of the cases 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 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.
	Injuries do occur with vaccines, but you shouldn't hear them, 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 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, but 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 had 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.
	It generates these lovely bar graphs that anybody can understand.
	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 and 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-like policyholders,
	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 percent that of the general population at 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 but 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, DEFCON 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 health care 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, I was 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.
	So 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.
	Exactly.
	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 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.
	It's insanity.
	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 gaming that you intended, right?
	Because, gee, volcanoes have done that before, right, in our lifetime.
	In fact, earlier this year, 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.
	Wow.
	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.
	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, you know, 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 have planned?
	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.
	So 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 on Maui.
	My car was in a fender bender, needed a radiator repaired in the left side.
	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 part 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, you know, so my, my expense, my repairs were eight grand.
	They gave me 10.
	It's an old car.
	It's a 2011 Audi A6 and they, they junked it.
	I asked them, I go, is this going, no, this is 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 don't do, they're not, you know, they're not kind folks.
	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 the US Army is looking at installing 3D printers on military bases overseas in order to create parts without waiting for the supply chain, 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 Fed 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 TiVo 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.
	The Federal Reserve, for the first time 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. With the possibility of going systemic, meaning it creates an accident that then makes it even worse, some sort of financial accident.
	So Q1 and Q2, it's already baked in the cake.
	It's a disaster.
	It's getting worse.
	You see all the layoffs that are being announced after the midterms, 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.
	So 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, so it fails up first, then we have a new system.
	Is gold something you want to hold?
	Sure, but 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 on to 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- because our professors didn't agree with us, but 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 also have a very, 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 still have, and we have the least of the demographic problems, believe it or not, compared to every other nation.
	Europe is done, Japan's done, South Korea's done, China's done demographically.
	We have a not as bad 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 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?
	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, 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 a local laundromat or something.
	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 nation states into different regions.
	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, or which island?
	This is the blue state, and it's...
	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 of 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.
	All right.
	So you're like driving around a giant grocery store in the shape of an island, basically.
	You can pick avocados off the trees.
	People 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 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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