Situation Update, 11/18/22 - BOOM! GOP House announces bombshell investigations...
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Well, I don't know if you can feel it too, but it seems like America has turned I don't know if you can feel it too, but it seems like America has turned a Some amazing things have just happened.
I think we've changed the course of history, or we have begun to.
We've set things in motion.
Now, this is the Situation Update.
Thank you for joining me.
Mike Adams here, Friday, November 18th, 2020.
Welcome to my show!
This investigation is being launched by members of the incoming House of Representatives to investigate the corrupt Biden family crime cartel, basically.
It's a game changer.
And this has the deep state running scared.
Now, I also had the privilege today to be invited on to Steve Bannon's show, The War Room.
I was able to talk with Steve Bannon for two segments earlier.
And of course, Steve Bannon is a great American hero.
He's a living historical figure.
In other words, he is part of history as it's unfolding.
And I even said, when I went on, I said, you know, when we take this republic back and we rewrite the history books to tell the truth, you know, Steve Bannon and the War Room, they're going to have a whole chapter dedicated to them because of the impact that they're having in all of this.
But, you know, but truthfully, we've all contributed in one way or another, but Steve Bannon has contributed and sacrificed way more than most.
And so I was honored to be able to join him, and we talked about the deliberate dismantling of the food infrastructure and the energy infrastructure, a few other things.
That interview is up on Rumble.
I'm sure it's posted on Brighteon, too.
Just look for Steve Bannon War Room with Mike Adams if you want to watch those couple of segments.
But he told me off-air...
That certain members of his family listen to this podcast, which I did not know.
And I blushed a little, so I just want to say hello to the Bannon family members who are listening.
And it was kind of shocking to me.
When he told me that, I suddenly got nervous.
I'm like, oh my gosh, this guy knows everything about me now.
Anybody that listens to my podcast knows that this is the unleashed Mike Adams, right?
Instead of the polite version?
Because when I'm a guest on somebody's show, I don't know exactly what are the boundaries here.
What can I do and not do?
Or can I do satire?
Obviously, the War Room is not the right place to do Funny voices and to do comedy.
No, it's a serious show, right?
So you be serious.
But here on this podcast, I feel like I can really be me.
I can really express who I am and what I'm doing.
And so I was a little bit embarrassed when Steve Bannon said that.
First time I remember being nervous in an interview for years.
So there you go.
Steve Bannon made me nervous.
Just because I was shocked that people have been listening to this podcast.
But I hear that a lot, by the way.
I often meet people and they say that either they hear this podcast or that someone in their family or their spouse often listens to the podcast, for example.
It's a great honor, by the way.
So for all of you who are listening, I thank you for your support and for your trust.
And I'm doing this for all the important reasons here, which I think you agree with me on.
We are going to take this country back, and I feel more optimistic about that today than ever before.
So let's get into why that is.
Oh, also I was on with Brandon Howes at Worldview Report, and Brandon's show is an excellent news program.
And he also, his crew works with Mike Lindell and Lindell TV and that whole crew as well.
Brandon Howes is a real professional.
He's been doing this news for years.
He nails it, and he has an international audience.
People are constantly watching from all over the world to find out what's happening in America by tuning in to Brandon Howes and his Worldview Report show.
So I just want to give him a shout out and thank him for having me on as well.
But here's the big game-changing news.
So, Representative James Comer of Tennessee, now he's the top guy on the House Oversight Committee, okay?
So, once the Republicans take the House in January when they're sworn in, this is the guy that will be able to run the investigations.
And what are they going to investigate?
Well, you probably saw that they gave a press release.
With Jim Jordan and a bunch of other really great patriots there.
And James Comer announced that he's going to be investigating.
Well, he and his committee are going to be investigating Joe Biden and essentially the Biden crime family.
And they're going to be investigated for the following nine allegations.
This is amazing.
Here's the list of nine.
Number one, conspiracy or defrauding the United States.
Gee, I wonder what that's probably about.
Stealing the 2020 election, perhaps?
Wire fraud.
That's number two.
Number three, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, because it involved the Biden family and a bunch of other people.
Number four, violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act, because of course Biden, and probably Hunter Biden as well, but definitely Joe, they were working for other countries, namely, you know, Communist China, without following the laws that are required to represent foreign nations.
Number five, violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, you know, because that's a crime too.
Being totally corrupt and selling out America is a crime.
Number six, violations of the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000.
You know what that means?
You know what we're talking about there?
Human trafficking, folks.
Human trafficking.
And acts of violence against victims of trafficking.
And by the way, that category number six there, Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act, that also includes sex trafficking.
Just saying.
So I wonder if the whole Epstein web of blackmail finds its way back into this, huh?
Or, I don't know, something on Hunter Biden's laptop, perhaps.
I mean, there's Let's just say it's a target-rich environment for prosecutors.
Let's just say that.
Okay, number seven, tax evasion.
Number eight, money laundering.
Those two seem to go hand-in-hand.
Number nine, conspiracy to commit money laundering.
It's like, hey, why don't we all get together and launder money?
That's a separate charge, apparently.
So that's what they did.
We know they laundered money through FTX, the crypto exchange that just collapsed, but also through a lot of other means as well.
Also through Ukraine and through China.
I mean, the Democrat machine in America from Biden all the way down, we talked about Newsom yesterday.
The Democrat machine is a giant money laundering, corrupt, criminal cabal of...
Individuals who utterly lack morals or ethics or even respect for the rule of law.
They lie, cheat, steal, deceive, destroy, anything it takes for them to get into power.
And we finally have control of the House, or at least starting in January, which means these investigations are going to get underway.
Now, I know that people like Steve Bannon are going to hammer this hard.
Daily.
Daily.
Even if they try to throw him in jail, I mean, he'll just do the show from jail for four months or whatever it takes.
Jail's not going to slow down Steve Bannon.
And it actually just shows how corrupt the Democrats really are if they throw somebody like Steve Bannon in jail.
I mean, it'll turn him into an even bigger hero, by the way.
But between now and January, when this begins, when the new House is sworn in, what you and I need to do And everybody in alt media, and I know a lot of alt media influencers also listen to this podcast, and thank you for doing so.
So let me call out to you here and say that what we need to do between now and January is we need to pressure Members of Congress, or maybe pressure is not the right word, support the ones who are already part of this effort, which is Jim Jordan and Matt Gaetz and many others, and obviously Comer here.
We need to support them, but then we also need to pressure those who have not yet come on board with this effort.
We need to use every peaceful means at our disposal, which could include calling your representative's office, sending letters, emails, but I mean calling is better.
Maybe peaceful public protests, spreading the word on social media and online and sharing videos or posting videos, all this.
We need to send a message to these members of the House, the incoming House, to say, We put you there for one primary reason.
You need to expose the corruption and the criminality of the Democrat cabal, which gets into the election rigging and the money laundering and the human trafficking and all that stuff.
That's why we sent you to Washington.
Do that job, because we're the American people.
We're effectively your bosses, so to speak.
We put you in power, and this is what we expect of you right now.
And again, a lot of members of Congress already get that, like Jim Jordan, who is a real patriot.
Jim Jordan is one of our modern-day heroes of Congress, by the way, really.
He's good behind the scenes.
I mean, the guy is honest.
The guy has ethics, by the way.
So we need to support all these people and then pressure others to move all of this forward.
Now then, at the same time, we need to understand, and Brandon Howes pointed this out to me, by the way.
He called me right after I got off the show with Steve Bannon, and he just said flat out, he said, look, I need to have you on my show tonight because we've got to talk about this where the Democrats are desperate, aren't they?
And what does that mean?
It doesn't mean they're going to try all kinds of crazy things between now and January.
And I agreed, yes, that's exactly what they're going to do.
So he's the one who brought this up.
But I'd like to elaborate on that.
We made it to Election Day, and you know how worried I was about that, and I did a countdown on that, you know?
False flag season!
Can we get to Halloween?
Can we get to the Election Day?
And we did.
We made it.
Perhaps just by the grace of God.
Or perhaps, as I was told by certain sources, that there are some so-called white hat patriots behind the scenes doing some good things and stopping some of the worst plans of the cabal, or however you want to phrase that, okay?
I can't prove any of that.
But there are some good people still in the system, and maybe they stopped some false flag operations from taking place.
But from now until the new Congress is sworn in, The Democrats are still in power.
The Democrats can still pull off some crazy things right now.
And they are backed into a corner.
They know they're about to be exposed.
If the GOP House starts these investigations...
Do you have any idea how much evidence already exists that has been covered up?
Do you have any idea how many whistleblowers are ready to step forward if they can do so in a way that guarantees their safety?
Or they can just get it in the congressional record?
Do you have any idea?
It's a huge number!
It's huge!
There are going to be so many people stepping forward in January that the most corrupt Democrats know that their days are numbered.
They're going to have to get on secret planes and fly to Argentina or have some radical plastic surgery and get a new identity, you know, disappear into the Bahamas somewhere, which didn't work for Sam Bankman-Fried, by the way, of FTX. He's getting extradited back to the United States, at least reportedly.
But you get my point.
These Democrats know that the clock is ticking on them, and so they're desperate.
They're dangerous.
They're cornered.
What are they going to do between now and January?
I'm sorry to say, but now we once again are back into false flag season until January.
It's like, gosh, didn't we just get over that again?
Yeah.
Frankly, the truth is that as long as Democrats are in power, none of us are ever safe.
Our republic is not safe.
Our money isn't safe.
Our economy's Our children are not safe.
When Democrats are in power, no one is safe.
Or you could say when Marxists are in power, no one's safe.
And that's a universal statement.
That's true all over the world.
Same thing happening in Brazil right now.
Yeah, they rigged the election in Brazil.
Of course they did.
Lula.
Totally rigged.
Because they want to turn Brazil into Venezuela.
Total socialist fascist regime.
So, of course, the Brazilian people are rising up by the millions right now to say, no, wait a second.
No, no, you're not going to steal this from us.
Oh, also, there's action happening in Arizona.
Let me bring you that news here.
Here it is.
Arizona rolling thunder.
It's the U.S. election integrity plan.
It says support grows for new Maricopa County election.
This is an open letter authorized by Arizona citizens calling for a new election.
Citizens are demanding the new election is run without electronic voting equipment or mail-in ballots.
Says a whistleblower election judge from Maricopa County, Michelle Swinnick, who you know from Bright Tea on TV, is also calling for a new election.
She has firsthand accounts that are shocking, rules being broken, circumvented, disregard for the legal threshold required to nullify the election in Maricopa County.
Swinnick has filed affidavits and so on.
The Maricopa election is, quote, uncertifiable, according to her and many others.
This is another steal that's underway, but the citizens are rising up against it and fighting back, and Carrie Lake is fighting back, obviously, and there's going to be a big, concerted legal effort about all of this.
So, part of the turning point that's happening in America right now is that the people have had enough, and they're willing to fight and investigate, and by fight, I mean politically fight.
I don't mean violence in the streets.
I mean...
To assert your political rights and your legal rights as citizens in an election, you know, to fight for the proper outcome that the voters actually voted for.
We've had enough rigged elections and people are fed up.
They're fed up with the food inflation.
They're fed up with the fuel shortages.
They're fed up with the fact that we're almost dragged into World War III, it seems like, every week or two.
They're fed up with all the lies of the media, the fake news, the pedophilia, the child grooming, the child trafficking.
They're fed up with all the money printing and losing value in the dollars that you hold in the banking system.
People are just fed up with all of it.
And so it's in this place that people are willing to take a stand.
So we're seeing that in Arizona.
We're seeing it in Brazil.
And we're seeing it now with the new incoming House of Representatives.
And that's huge.
So what is the regime going to do?
The backlash is rising.
The people are angry.
The House has been lost to the GOP. What is the regime going to do?
Well, you and I already know.
We already know the playbook because we've seen this movie before, right?
They're going to unleash crisis after crisis after crisis.
And the only question is, are they competent enough or organized enough to, quote, succeed in unleashing their next crisis?
Because some of their crises end up bombing.
They don't work.
For example, recently, Zelensky in Ukraine tried to start World War III by claiming that Russia launched missiles that struck Poland.
That turns out to be total fiction, right?
The Associated Press even issued a retraction on It wasn't a Russian missile.
It was a Ukrainian anti-air missile, apparently.
But that didn't stop Zelensky.
He's like, well, I want World War III anyway.
Well, so that failed.
They tried and they failed.
The AP was even in on that, but they failed.
They also tried with the Omicron scare.
Remember that?
Omicron is coming.
Omicron gonna kill you.
Omicron gonna get in your britches and infect you from the waist down, whatever.
I mean, everything was Omicron for a while.
Remember that?
Omicron gonna eat your carryout food while it's sitting in your fridge.
You ain't got no carryout food left because Omicron ate it.
You know, it's like, what?
And then it turns out that Omicron was a giant dud.
It was nothing.
It was weaker than everything else.
In fact, the best way to beat Omicron was to do nothing.
It's like even the people who went out and got vaccinated, they had worse outcomes than people who just did nothing.
And that's not even healthy people who did nothing.
That's just everybody who did nothing.
Even, you know, the couch potatoes did nothing.
Like, see?
we was right all along We did nothing.
Better outcomes.
Well, so Omicron bombed.
Just goes to show you that the deep state doesn't always know exactly what they're doing.
And this particular deep state...
Let me say it this way.
Let me say it this way.
Modern-day Democrats are so incompetent and so just downright unintelligent and incapable...
That they are nowhere near the level of mastery and intelligence of evil that the Barack Obama regime demonstrated.
Now, Barack Obama, in my opinion, is an evil Satanist, but he was an evil genius kind of Satanist.
I mean, Barack Obama could pull stuff off.
Oh, he could make stuff happen.
He was intelligent, he was plotting, he was scheming, and he was effective.
I mean, let's face it.
Barack Obama, in his eight years, he really compromised America.
He harmed this country like no president before.
But Joe Biden is no Barack Obama.
And, of course, I think Barack Obama fully realizes that.
Like, Joe Biden is a dementia patient, right?
And modern-day Democrats, they believe their own bullcrap so much that They've never had to actually be good at anything.
They could just fake their way through everything.
So they've never gained the skills of competence or operational logistics that are necessary to carry out effective false flag operations.
See what I mean?
Even in the crypto world, this guy Sam Bankman and his whole team turns out to be a bunch of bumbling idiots, a bunch of incompetent college roommates or something.
They ran that place like a frat house.
They were even sharing the same girlfriend, apparently, who was also the compliance chief of Alameda or whatever.
And they talked down risk.
Like, we don't need to deal with risk.
That's an old concept, you know?
What we do is we just own the risk.
It's like, what?
What are you talking about?
Did you guys ever take any accounting?
Do you understand anything about finance?
No, we're just happy-go-lucky, whatever.
We're altruistic billionaires, and everybody bought into it.
But the point is, they're incompetent.
They couldn't even...
Sam Bankman didn't even do a good job of covering up his own crimes.
I mean, he was out tweeting admissions of guilt for the past several days, so much so that the lawyers for FTX were like, shut the heck up!
Shut up, Sam Bankman!
Stop tweeting!
He's just out there tweeting.
Meanwhile, other plaintiffs' lawyers are just copying down every tweet.
Yep, got him, got him, got him.
These are confessions on Twitter.
It's just unbelievable.
My point is that the Democrat deep state right now is so incompetent, they may not be able to pull off a false flag operation.
They may try and fail.
In fact, I think they've already tried and failed.
But they may try another big bioweapon release and it just sputters, you know?
They might try to set off like a nuclear dirty bomb or a radiation dirty bomb somewhere and maybe it blows up in their faces.
I mean, they're going to try something, but now more than ever, I'm increasingly convinced that they do not have the operational expertise to carry these things out.
Which, in a weird way, means that we may be much safer than we thought.
I know, that's a strange way to arrive at good news, isn't it?
It's like, yeah, your government wants to mass murder you, but they suck so badly, they're not even capable of killing you in the way they wish to.
And that's the good news for today, yes!
Yes, what a weird world we live in.
The silver lining is that they're not good at killing people.
Now the other good news is that the more desperate they get, and the worse their incompetence is, the more likely they are to get caught.
Now I think about that one.
The more likely they are to screw this up and get caught.
To the point where the media would have to, you know, try to cover up for them.
And that's not working much these days either.
The media has zero credibility in the minds of Most Americans.
You know, what's the public's trust in the media, like 8% or something?
Nobody trusts the media.
The cover-up can't be controlled, especially when you have people like Steve Bannon or Alex Jones or Owen Schroer or, you know, myself or others out there.
The entire alternative media, all 50-plus hosts that we have on Brighteon.tv or Brighteonradio.com or all the hundreds of thousands of users on Brighteon.com or the, what was it, 70 million users on Rumble.
Rumble's got 70 million monthly users.
That's huge!
By the way, congrats to Rumble.
I'm totally impressed.
That is no small feat.
They earned it, man.
They earned it.
They built the system.
They spent the money.
They attracted users.
They got 70 million monthly users.
I love it.
I mean, our infrastructure, by the way, on BrightTown.com...
As proud as I am of what we have built from the ground up on our own hardware, it's not hosted on Amazon AWS. No.
We built our own system from scratch.
It's our own hardware, our own code.
We wrote it all from scratch.
We could not handle 70 million monthly users right now.
We just do not have that capacity.
Maybe one day we'll get there.
Which is fine, but Rumble's got 70 million users right now.
Oh, and I also found out just purely by accident the other day, somebody from Rumble contacted us and said, hey, you guys have been earning money on the Health Ranger channel on Rumble, which I had no idea was even happening.
And apparently we've earned like $1,000 or something in ad revenue on Rumble that, again, I had no idea was even happening.
I almost feel like, you know, just keep it, man.
We don't need that.
Just roll it back into your own operation as far as I'm concerned.
But anyway, it's just funny.
It's like an unexpected thousand bucks.
It's like, okay.
So here's my overall optimistic take on this.
Yes, we're about to enter an era of heavy, heavy risk for craziness by the Dems.
But I think we've broken their ability to achieve efficient operations.
I think that these Democrat crooks are so freaked out by the fact that the American people rejected them so much that they couldn't even overcome the election with all their massive cheating.
I mean, they failed.
They thought they were going to keep the House.
And they failed.
In other words, we outvoted their cheating by some significant margin.
I think they're so freaked out, I think we've broken their effectiveness.
And I think that actually the next two years are going to be characterized by Democrat failure after failure after failure.
And I think we're going to see, over the next two years, more and more Americans leaving the Democrat Party.
And as much as I say, you know, this is not about just party.
We need a spiritual solution as well.
But the Democrats, I think they're done for.
And I think we've seen the opening chapter of that process as it plays out over the next several years.
It's a multi-year process.
But think about the damage to the Democrat brand that's going to occur when the House in 2023 begins to expose child prostitute trafficking operations, blackmail of the Bidens.
And the mainstream media doesn't control the mainstream narrative anymore.
There's nothing they can do to stop this.
Nothing.
I mean, unless they, I don't know, they try to take down the entire power grid or start World War III and have thermonuclear extinction event or something.
But barring that, if we have electricity, if we have an internet that functions, if we still have the ability to communicate, we win this because it's all coming out and it cannot be stopped at this point.
That's my feeling about this today.
That's my sense.
And none of this, like, this is not anything from, you know, Q or those corners of the internet, which I have not, do not put faith in, you know, like, mysterious sources that keep getting all the dates wrong.
No.
I'm saying look at what was just announced and look at the backlash from the people.
Look at how this is shaping up.
In fact, I want to play a video for you here.
And this is a video of a man.
You've probably seen him.
He's known as Mr.
Baker.
And he showed up at Maricopa County to speak to the Maricopa County Board in Arizona.
And this man gets it.
And it's a minute and a half, roughly.
I want you to hear what he said to the Maricopa County Board about election fraud.
Check this out.
Mr.
Baker?
Good morning.
Once again, the eyes of the world are upon Maricopa County for another botched election.
Am I here to accuse you of stealing the vote?
Heavens no, for that would make me a terrorist, wouldn't it?
Let me ask you, if you took your life savings to a bank, and the teller put them in a machine, and the machine kicked out one out of four of your bills, and the teller said, don't worry, we'll put them in box three over here, and we'll let you know how many were in there later.
We'll send them off to a separate location, and someone will be sure to get back to you and tell you how much money you have.
Would you be okay with that?
No, you would not be okay with that.
Now ask yourself the question, which is more valuable, your vote or your money?
Now ask a lobbyist that same question.
Now ask a campaign manager that question.
Now ask Mark Zuckerberg that question, which is more valuable, your money or your vote?
Or your country?
Or this world?
Or the corruption that is taking over every single county in this nation?
And then you look into your own soul and you look back at yourself in the mirror and realize that you are the cancer that is tearing this nation apart!
Good day!
Thank you.
Yeah, hard to disagree with that, right?
You are the cancer that's tearing this nation apart.
Yep.
Because the American people see it.
Now, they see the rigging.
It's in plain sight.
They see the vote fraud.
They see the lies.
They see the corruption.
All in plain sight.
And...
Maybe, as some people say, that this was necessary for people to see this.
Otherwise, they wouldn't have believed it.
And I think there's a strong element of truth to that.
A lot of people would never have believed the vaccines or depopulation weapons, for example, until they experienced it.
Or maybe people they know died from it.
Or they started to have a hard look at the data.
Five years ago, believe me, I was very much a lone voice.
Very few people were talking about the dangers of vaccines.
That was considered a fringe topic.
Today, I guarantee you, more than half the people in this country do not trust the vaccines.
It went from maybe like a 2% issue to 50-plus percent, maybe 60% of the American people now.
So This experience that we're all going through, this kind of hellscape that we are navigating together, this was necessary in some ways.
And there's more coming, by the way.
The financial collapse is coming.
Now, that might be an event that this incompetent cabal can carry out because it doesn't take much.
They don't have to set off a nuclear bomb anywhere or start a war.
All they have to do is just kind of shut down everything, freeze the banks, you know, stop the transactions.
Can they do that?
Yep, they can.
But, but, there's the Federal Reserve Bank, you Federal Reserve Bank does not answer to the Biden regime.
And the Federal Reserve, I don't know why I call it a bank.
I mean, it's a bankster cabal, but it is its own entity.
And the Federal Reserve does not want to see itself burned down.
So the Fed, which is currently, we believe, at war with Western Europe to take down the euro currency and also to take down elements of the Bank of England, The Fed may step in and try to stomp the Biden regime.
I don't know if you've heard anybody predicting that.
I have not.
To my knowledge, I'm the first person predicting this.
But at this point, I would not be surprised if Mr.
Powell, who was put in place by Trump, turns his weapons of currency war against the Biden regime.
Because he knows that the Democrats and the Biden cartel, the crime family, is so dangerous to this republic that it's even dangerous to the existence of the Federal Reserve because what power does the Fed have if the dollar collapses?
The Democrats want to tear everything down.
They want to tear down the military, the currency, the The economy, the culture, the people, everything.
The Democrats are on an annihilation mission for this country.
And frankly, not everybody's on board with that.
Probably including, you know, Jerome Powell at the Fed.
He's not on board with that, I don't think.
Because he would lose all his power.
And there's a whole lot of people throughout the military, by the way, And a lot of military contractors too, but even high-level military people who've got all kinds of rank and benefits and power and influence and deployments and all these things, they would lose all their power if the United States of America collapsed.
And nobody who's sitting in some high position of power really wants to see all that taken away from them.
Except Democrats who are compromised and answering to a different power, a foreign power, China, the CCP. Because, yes, some of these Democrats, which I believe includes Hunter Biden and Joe Biden and, you know, Newsom in California, a bunch of others, like half the governors, at least the Democrat governors, I think they're all being paid off by China to deliberately destroy this country.
But most people in America don't want to see that happen.
I suspect we're about to see a mass internal uprising, even, you could say, a civil war inside the deep state, a civil war inside the intelligence community, where enough people see the writing on the wall, and they don't want to go down with the Titanic here.
They want to rescue it, even just for their own selfish reasons.
They want to rescue it because they don't want to lose power and money and control and benefits and all that.
You lose America, all those people lose.
Their racket gets shut down, you see.
They don't want that to happen.
Joe Biden is a threat to everyone.
The Democrats are a threat to everyone.
Whereas, you know, when Trump was in the Oval Office, remember Trump handed the military, you know, here, here's $750 billion in funding, you know.
Go do your thing.
And I think silently Trump was saying in his own mind, we know that half of this money goes to payoffs, you know.
It's like bribes to certain contractors and certain family members of certain decision makers and so on.
That's just – it's an inefficiency of the system.
It's something that exists everywhere.
We still have to fund the military even if it costs us twice as much or three times as much as it should.
We still got to fund the military.
So Trump gave them the money.
And Trump definitely backed up central bank power, right?
Very much so.
Trump was pro-Federal Reserve, which I know some people – Would argue about what does that mean because the central bank is so evil with the money printing and so on.
But the only point I'm making here is that Trump knew how to keep other people rich inside the system.
So that they were still on board with the system, whereas Biden and the Democrats, they want to burn the whole damn system to the ground.
And that is going to generate a whole lot of backlash.
I'm not saying it's a perfect world, or that Trump was perfect even.
Trump doesn't have control over every financial accounting operation in the entire bureaucracy.
There's going to be corruption all over the place.
But Trump, at least, was trying to keep the system alive or to keep America alive.
He wasn't trying to burn the system to the ground.
Just to shift gears here, by the way, our featured interview tonight is Bill Holter.
But what's interesting about this is it's Bill Holter at the very end of August.
Because I interviewed Bill Holter here in Central Texas, and he lives in Texas as well.
And, you know, he's a hard money guy, gold and silver.
And he's also a prepper.
You know, he knows a lot about what's about to go down.
And I did three interviews with him back to back.
I've only published two until tonight.
So what you're about to hear here shortly is Bill Holter from August 30th, which was, what, a little less than 90 days ago.
But I want you to listen and just find out how much he got right, how much he nailed it about what's coming with the food scarcity, the energy scarcity, with even the German government now having that report issued that Reuters covered where they're concerned with even the German government now having that report issued that Reuters covered where they're concerned about bank runs and running out of cash and fuel and civil unrest and blackouts Well, Bill Holter saw all this coming.
And so I was kind of waiting for the right opportunity to publish that interview.
Today's the day.
It's perfect.
Also, I gave myself the evening off in terms of not doing another interview, so this is the perfect opportunity.
You're going to hear from Bill Holter 90 days ago, or a little bit less than 90 days ago.
We're going to cover a little bit more about FTX and crypto before that, and I will also tell you I have an upcoming roundtable with Seth Holhouse and John Perez.
Yeah, it's a special holiday, Christmas roundtable video.
And I don't want to say exactly which day we're filming that, but that's going to be out or published early December.
So it should be a lot of fun.
Myself, Seth Holhouse, and John Perez, the Crypto Nostradamus.
Should be interesting.
But first, I have a story to tell you about paradigm shifts.
This is a personal thing that happened that kind of blew my mind.
You know I lived in Taiwan when I graduated from college.
I moved to Taiwan and I was doing writing.
And I was really a contract writer for a lot of different companies there, including those in the computer security space and network security communications, things like that.
I'm a gifted writer and so I thought I was going to be a Documentation writer or marketing writer and so on.
And in this process, I was doing work for this one company in the computer security space.
And the owners took me out to dinner one night and they brought their child along.
And this child was, I don't know, five years old or something.
A little Taiwan kid.
Now, Taiwan is very much pro-family, so it's not unusual for company owners to bring their children with them to dinners or anything like that.
It seems totally normal.
And to this day, I don't remember at all what was said during that dinner by the company owners.
All I remember is that their five-year-old kid just devoured chicken legs in a way that was almost cartoonish.
Have you ever seen a Tom and Jerry cartoon where they put a fish in their mouth and then they pull it out and it's nothing but bones?
Just fish bones, you know?
This kid was like that.
This kid murdered chicken legs right in front of me during this business meeting.
And my eyes must have been popping out of my skull because I never saw a child suck every morsel of gristle and tendons and veins off a chicken leg like this kid.
It was the most astonishing thing I've ever seen.
It was like, my God, there's 0% food waste in this family.
I mean, there's nothing going to waste here.
There was nothing left on that chicken bone.
Not a morsel, not a flake of skin, nothing.
So in my mind after that, of course, because I have a twisted sense of humor, I had to give him a name in my mind.
I never mentioned this before.
But I called that kid the chicken leg annihilator.
And it stuck with me, you know, to this day.
You remember things like that.
And by the way, he was not a starving kid.
He had plenty of food.
You could tell.
He carried it with him.
He was just very efficient at taking it in.
Well, fast forward to, I don't know, two weeks ago.
I'm on YouTube doing some research.
And my God, my God, here's the kid, the chicken annihilator, as an adult, on video, now a sophisticated adult, who is a chef and owns a really fine restaurant.
I think in California somewhere, somewhere on the West Coast.
And he's on this video talking about...
And somehow he speaks perfect English now, too.
It's the same kid.
It's the chicken annihilator.
Like 30 plus years later, whatever it is.
And here he is talking about cuisine.
Talking about fine foods.
Talking about...
How to prepare meats and how to do this and that and really presentable.
Obviously a grown man, mature, articulate, bilingual, very successful in his space.
And I'm watching him.
Number one, I'm blown away.
Paradigm shift.
Because in my mind, this is the chicken annihilator right here.
And now he's this very mature, sophisticated chef.
But also in my mind, I'm thinking, I bet you I'm the only one watching this video who knows that that guy is the chicken annihilator.
If you rewind 25 or 30 years, that dude's sucking down a chicken leg like a hoover.
It's not to judge anybody for that.
It was just remarkable.
And then I found myself thinking, I'm just glad the kid learned to slow down and enjoy the cuisine because he was inhaling it when I saw him last.
So it's just a reminder that as time goes on, people can change.
Right?
So that was the message that God was trying to give to me because what are my odds of stumbling across this guy and then recognizing him and then I checked his name.
It's the kid.
It's the same kid.
It's the guy.
And I feel like a message that was sent to me that day was, you know what?
Sometimes you got to let go of memories of what you have, some prejudgment of somebody from a long time ago.
Because things have changed.
Time has changed.
Circumstances have changed.
And we're all getting older, too, by the way.
It's also a reminder of, like, how many years have gone by since I witnessed that.
And I think that's an important lesson in all our lives, especially as we move into the post-COVID pandemic, scam-demic era.
We need to be ready to embrace people who have changed.
And I remind myself about this as well.
We need to be ready to be open to those who are waking up to the fraud, whether it's the political fraud and the scams or the depopulation, the vaccine bioweapons or the financial corrupt system, whatever it is.
There are a lot of people getting red-pilled.
And you may not see them for years, and then the next time you see them, They might actually be wanting to tell you something like, hey, by the way, you were right the whole time.
So my point is, don't approach those people with the memory of what they used to be, where like, you haven't seen them in five years, and then the first thing you see them, like, you moron!
No, that's not the approach.
Be ready.
Be open to them having changed, because even today, the chicken annihilator Is a cuisine chef, fancy restaurant guy.
Who knew?
If the chicken annihilator can change, then, you know, so can leftists.
Also, you know, as a tangent thought on that, thank God there was no Facebook when you and I were growing up, huh?
Yeah.
Don't you feel fortunate that our childhood history was never documented on the internet?
What a curse that would be, huh?
I mean, for people to actually dig up the crazy stuff that you did or I did as kids with, I don't know, tree houses and bicycles and hang gliders that didn't work or whatever, they would have to go through old photos somewhere.
They would, like, physical photos, photo albums and things.
Old faded Polaroids, you know?
Today's kids, man, they're documenting their whole lives on Facebook and Twitter.
Would you want to be held accountable for everything you ever said that would be considered a tweet today?
I mean, think about the whole history of every crazy thing you uttered when you were 17 years old in high school.
Would you want that to be on your record permanently?
Probably not.
Probably not.
So I feel sorry for these kids growing up these days.
They're all hyper-connected and everything's getting archived.
That's not a good situation.
And a case in point on that is the chicken annihilator, right?
There are no videos of that ever taking place.
It's only in my mind.
Now, it will never be erased from my mind because of what I saw.
The horror of a chicken leg being inhaled.
But no one else will ever know that.
No one.
And of course, I'm not sharing this person's name out of respect.
I'm not here to shame an individual, but to teach us an important lesson, to share this point.
But again, thank God that our childhoods are not documented online.
Although, by the way, one of my childhood friends did text me a picture the other day.
A picture from the 1970s.
And I was wearing bell-bottoms.
That's right.
And before you stop laughing, let me add to that.
They were plaid bell-bottoms.
Yep.
Yep.
Checkerboard plaid bell-bottom pants in the 1970s.
I'm never going to show you that photo.
That's never going to see the light of day.
It's just between me and my friend, and it shall stay there forever.
Trust me.
You're never going to see that one.
All right, let's move into the crypto space here quickly with FTX.
Yeah, the founder, this is from the gateway punnet, donated.
He donated to six rhinos who voted to impeach Trump.
So yes, some FTX money went to Republicans.
40 million went to Democrats, but something like 200,000 went to Republicans.
Guess who it went to?
Anti-Trump Republicans.
Because then also on the FTX balance sheet was a multi-million dollar bet against Trump.
It was called the Trump lose investment.
And it was a bet that Trump would lose in 2024.
So talk about rigging the game here.
I mean, this is the way these people operate, but they made a bet against Trump, and then they give money mostly to Democrats and then a few anti-Trumpers just to make sure that they win their bet.
This is like, you know, the House betting against you, obviously, or the House peeking at your cards.
Which is something that some online casinos have been caught doing in the past, by the way.
It's just, it's incredible.
Now here's something else that almost no one is reporting on this.
I picked it up in kind of an obscure article on Cointelegraph.com.
Tremors from FTX's collapse reverberate through the scientific community.
And the article is kind of lamenting the fact that FTX, which again is the collapsed crypto scam money laundering operation, they had made 262 grants and investments with a total of $132 million in projects into, quote, scientific research operations.
Guess what this was?
Guess what it was?
Oh, biotech, vaccines, and pandemics, and infectious disease.
Those are some of the big ones.
So this operation, the FTX company, wasn't just funneling money from Ukraine to Democrats.
It was also funneling money into depopulation research via vaccines, biotech, pandemics, all this kind of stuff.
Now, of course, they call it science, you know?
It's all about science, and they say it's about pandemic preparedness, and it's about biotechnology to benefit humanity.
No, it's not.
It's about building bioweapons and achieving depopulation, all these things.
But that's not even the big story.
That's not even the big story from Sam Bankman Freed.
The big story, the bombshell story that came out in the last day on this, which is published in the UK Daily Mail, man, they really cover a lot of stuff.
Here it is.
It's that Sam Bankman Freed says that about all this virtue signaling and wokeness and all the altruism and all that stuff, He said, essentially, it was all an act.
He said, quote, it's a dumb game we woke Westerners play.
This is unreal.
He's admitting that he was playing a role.
Alright, so the story, if you want to look this up yourself, the story on the UK Daily Mail is, here it is, a long title.
That's how you know it's from the Daily Mail.
Disgraced tech bro Sam Bankman-Fried blames his ex-lover for FTX collapse.
That's always convenient, right?
Blame your girlfriend.
And $32 billion loss admits he lied about being moral and And calls ethics a dumb game we woke Westerners play.
He says the SEC chair is in a corner for lack of oversight of the Wild West crypto market.
So, anyway, he blames his ex-girlfriend.
Worse than a breakup text is being blamed by your boyfriend for destroying $32 billion into other people's money.
Okay.
And from this article, it says, his on-off lover, Caroline Ellison, 28 years old, served as CEO of the FTX owner's crypto trading house, Alameda.
Okay?
Unreal.
In a new interview, Bankman-Fried backtracked on previous comments about being ethical and said it was a front statement.
All wokeism is a front.
All virtue signaling is a front by all the people who do it.
That's why I don't do it.
Because it's all fakery.
It's all fraud.
It's all theater.
It's always an act.
But this is how they try to gain favor in the community or, you know, online or from investors or whatever.
They use the language of wokeism.
But even they know it's an act.
And this kid just admits it.
That's what's amazing.
He admits it.
And then he says in a series of tweets, he says that we got overconfident and careless.
And what's astonishing is that Sam Bankman Freed doesn't think he did anything wrong.
He doesn't.
I'll read you something from a thread on that here in a moment.
But a new group was brought in Well, a new auditor, well, a liquidator, John Ray III. He was brought in to oversee the FTX bankruptcy and to liquidate assets, which means he had to locate the assets.
Where are the assets?
Now, remember that what FTX did, which is what a lot of crypto exchanges do, or nearly all of them, is he created his own on-exchange token called FTT, And then he assigned it value.
So he just created just, oh, let's just have 10 million tokens and we'll just say they're worth 50 bucks each or whatever.
And then he counted that as his assets to get funding or loans for other bets.
So, I mean, it's crazy, right?
It's just like by the animation I did, the butt coin and, you know, bleep coin.
It's just like that.
It's like two kids in the basement.
They're like, okay, we want to print a coin.
Let's print a million coins.
And then the other character, if you've seen that animation, is like, okay.
And then, okay, a million coins.
We're going to say they're worth $100 each.
Now we're worth $100 million.
And that's what these two kids in the basement are telling themselves.
That's how FTX was run.
They created their own coins and gave them value and said, oh, look, we're billionaires.
It was really that stupid.
So this new liquidator, John Ray III, he comes in.
And after a couple of days of looking at these books, here's what he says publicly, publicly, quote, Never in my career have I seen such a complete failure of corporate controls and such a complete absence of trustworthy financial information as occurred here.
And he adds that from compromised systems integrity and faulty regulatory oversight abroad to the concentration of control in the hands of a very small group of inexperienced, unsophisticated, and potentially compromised individuals, this situation is unprecedented.
He's talking about Sam's girlfriend, by the way, and Sam.
I mean, he's talking about the whole group of college kids who thought they were geniuses.
They thought they were going to rule the world.
It turns out to just be a bunch of bumbling, you know, corrupt, lying, faking morons.
No wonder they donated to the Democrats, because they're all the same.
That's the Democrat Party in a nutshell.
It's just the Democrat Party hasn't been caught yet, but now Congress is going to, the House will investigate starting in January.
See?
It's the same kind of scam.
Now, I want to give you a couple of examples here because this is going to be shocking.
So, from the same guy, Ray, here, in writing publicly about this, he talks about how human resources operated at FTX. Quote, at this time, the dettors have been unable to prepare a list of who worked for the FTX group as of the petition date.
In other words, they don't even have a list of who their employees are.
It makes you wonder, how do they meet payroll?
Right.
Comma or the terms of their employment, repeated attempts to locate certain presumed employees to confirm their status have been unsuccessful to date.
It's like we couldn't even reach the employees because, you know, they're fleeing for their freedom all over the world.
But it gets even more interesting.
Here's how the FTX company handled disbursements and payments internally, okay?
Check this out.
You're going to laugh.
If you've owned a company or worked at a high level in any company, check this out.
Ray writes, for example, employees of the FTX group submitted payment requests through an online chat platform where a disparate group of supervisors approved disbursements by responding with emojis.
You need money?
Happy face.
Happy face.
Turd.
You know, whatever the emoji is.
Sad face.
Sad turd.
Like, this is how they communicated.
Yes.
Yes.
And they all lived together in a $40 million penthouse in the Bahamas, sleeping with each other on beanbag chairs and whatever.
Now, let's talk about security at FTX. Unacceptable management practices included the use of an unsecured group email account as the root user to access confidential private keys and critically sensitive data for the FTX group companies around the world.
They're just using open email.
With all the private keys.
They also had, quote, the use of software to conceal the misuse of customer funds, the secret exemption of Alameda from certain aspects of FTX.com's auto liquidation protocol, and the absence of independent governance between Alameda and the.com silo in which third parties had invested.
In other words, they wrote software to hide their crimes, or to try to.
You know what this is really like?
This is when if you have kids that are in high school and they're living in your house and then you go somewhere for a week and your kids tell you, like you ask them, what are you going to do when we, the parents, are gone for a whole week and the kids tell you, oh, don't worry, we're just going to be doing homework and school projects.
And then you come home a day early and it's turned into Animal House.
It was like there's beer everywhere.
There's 100 people in the house having sex in the living room and barfing on the carpets and everything.
And you're like, what?
What happened?
That's what happens when the adults show up.
That's what just happened to FTX. The adult, in this case, is the auditor, Ray.
And he's like, this is a nightmare.
This is an animal house, frat house, insane, chaotic party of morons or whatever.
So there you go.
That's how FTX was run, and I believe that's how the Democrat Party is run also.
All right.
So just to kind of put an end cap on this FTX situation, MarketWatch.com had a really great story.
10 crazy things detailed in FTX's bankruptcy filing.
And here they are.
The 10 craziest things you've ever heard.
If you've ever owned a business or run a business, check this out.
Number one, most of FTX's digital assets have not yet been secured because no one knows where they are.
Number two, nobody knows who the biggest customer creditors are of FTX. They can't even find the creditors.
It's like, what is this?
Number three, Alameda Research loaned out $4.1 billion to entities, including Sam Bateman Freed and his closest partners.
So they were their own bank loaning money to themselves, money they had created out of thin air by creating tokens and falsely assigning value to them.
Gee.
Insane.
Okay, number four, FTX corporate funds were used to buy personal homes, right?
So if you wanted a house and you worked for FTX and you had enough clout, say, hey, will the company just buy me a house?
And you say, okay, and so the company would just buy a house.
And probably, of course, none of that would be reported as income, you know, taxable IRS income or anything.
It's just like, oh, we just bought a house.
Why don't you live there now?
All right, number five, personalized emojis were used to approve disbursements.
We talked about that a minute ago.
Number six, Alameda Research was one of the world's largest hedge funds.
The balance sheet showed $13.46 billion in total assets.
That's equivalent to the assets managed by Bill Ackman and Paul Tudor Jones and Jeffrey Talpins, who are mega-billionaire hedge fund managers, but of course, those people like Bill Ackman operate in the real economy, not the fictional made-up crypto economy that just imploded.
Number seven, audit opinions from the metaverse.
In other words, the auditor that supposedly audited FTX works in the metaverse.
Now, What is the metaverse, right?
That's Mark Zuckerberg's artificial world.
All right?
So this auditor, I guess the mailing address is inside the metaverse.
And it's a company called Prager Metis.
And they say they are, quote, the first ever CPA firm to officially open its metaverse headquarters in the metaverse platform known as Decentraland.
These people are living in total fantasies, man.
No wonder they believe in transgenderism and men can get pregnant and all that nonsense.
They also think the same way about money.
They think money comes from just thin air.
Yeah, I mean, yeah, a man can be a woman too.
Why not if you think that way?
Okay, number eight.
Alameda had a secret exemption from FTX.com.
A secret exemption from the auto-liquidation protocol.
Number nine, customer liabilities are not reflected in FTX financial statements.
In other words, it's like, oh yeah, you want to see our financials?
Here they are.
Except we didn't list any of the liabilities from all our customers, which is our entire business.
Okay.
Wow.
What kind of accounting principle is that called?
Make it up bookkeeping?
I don't know.
And then number 10, Ray, the auditor here, has no confidence in any existing FTX balance sheet.
And he says he's going to have to recreate all the accounting from the ground up because nothing that he's been given can be trusted at all.
Again, no surprise.
So no wonder.
I mean, think about what all this has in common.
This make-believe fantasy land of accounting and FTX crypto tokens and also transgenderism and, of course, election rigging.
What's the common thread in all of this?
And the answer is they make it all up.
They make it up as they go along.
Oh, they want to win an election?
They just print the ballots.
Oh, they want to be billionaires?
They just print the cryptocurrency, you see?
Oh, they want to turn a man into a woman?
They just declare it.
And they think it's real.
They think.
The Democrats think that Joe Biden is the president.
He's not.
Was never elected.
Donald J. Trump is still the president of the United States of America.
Did you know that?
It's true.
He's still the legitimate president.
FTX just imploded.
The Democrats are about to implode.
Although that's going to take, you know, a couple of years.
But I also think the whole transgenderism movement is a short-term fantasy fad that's going to implode as well.
Why?
Because it's made up bunk.
It's not rooted in reality.
It's not rooted in reality.
It's not going to have...
It can't be sustained in the long run.
I mean, you can fake it for a while.
But you have these people now...
Who is this triple transgender person?
That says they're not just transgender.
They are all genders at the same time.
They're triple gender.
No.
They think they're a man and a woman and a non-gendered at the same time.
Like a triple gendered.
We talked about that the other day.
We used to call it multiple personality disorder.
Now it's inclusiveness.
But again, it's all fantasy.
It's nonsense.
This is a marker for the history books of our time, is that a lot of the culture became obsessed with just making crap up and thinking that that made it real.
And it doesn't.
In reality, you know, bad economic decisions or bad accounting practices have consequences because eventually the numbers have to match.
You know, the numbers have to add up.
Your books have to reconcile, you know.
If they don't, it's going to implode.
Just like with rigged elections, if you keep rigging elections, you lose the consent of the people because you have no integrity in your stolen election, quote, victories.
Do you think Katie Hobbs, if she manages to hold on to the governorship of Arizona, is she going to have a commanding authority over the people of Arizona?
No.
No.
No one's going to follow her, except a few obedient mind-slave leftists or something.
She doesn't have the consent of the governed because she was not elected.
Carrie Lake was elected.
It's clear.
Donald J. Trump was elected.
And frankly, Dr.
Oz was elected, too.
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Welcome, everyone.
Mike Adams here.
Today, we've got an amazing guest, a legend in finance and precious metals, Bill Holter.
You've seen him in numerous interviews, and he knows what's coming.
His mind is covering all the events.
He's going to talk to us today about what he believes is the coming financial, well, I don't know if we're going to use the word collapse or certainly a fiat currency collapse, but he joins us today.
His website is jsmindset.com.
We'll put it on screen for you.
That's M-I-N-E-S-E-T.
So jsmindset.com.
Bill Holter, sir, it's an honor to have you on.
I'm a fan of your work.
Welcome to the show.
My pleasure.
Thanks for having me, Mike.
Well, you have been on top of this game for quite some time, and you've been right again and again and again.
Tell us, to start with, where do you think we are right now in terms of the timeline of currency collapse, market collapse, or what do you think is going to happen?
I think we're in the bottom of the ninth inning, probably two outs.
I think this thing comes to fruition Very, very possibly before the election.
Really?
That soon?
Yeah, well, the reason I say that is you may have seen the news a couple days ago that the Vatican has contacted all of their dioceses across the world and telling them to send their capital back to Rome.
Why would they do that and use a September 30th deadline?
That's...
You know, that's a tell on its own.
But if you look at all the other things that are going on, I mean, everything is coming together at one time.
So if the collapse...
Well, first of all, let me ask you, what do you think this is going to look like?
Is it like a Jim Rickards Ice-9 freezing of transactions?
Or, you know, are we talking about the globalists trying to push us into a central bank digital currency all of a sudden to save themselves?
What is this going to look like in your view?
Well, I think there's no question that...
We are going to be pushed toward or into a central bank digital currency.
That is the plan.
There's no question about that.
I've been, for years, what clued me in to begin with was the credit problem.
There's just too much debt outstanding.
It can never be paid back.
It has to default.
It has to either default through nonpayment or through hyperinflation.
Another way to describe hyperinflation would be a currency collapse.
Now, understand that currency is debt-based itself.
So, this is like a chicken or the egg type of thing.
Does the currency collapse because credit collapses or does credit collapse because the currencies collapse?
I don't know.
But I do see the endgame as a collapsed financial system due to credit dominoes, currency collapsing, and obviously the big one are derivatives.
Over a quadrillion dollars worth of derivatives throughout the world, they cannot be paid.
And the question is, what's the value of a contract that cannot perform?
And the answer is zero.
Right.
Absolutely.
And we've seen how the world is reshaping itself right now where America and Western nations are based on creating debt and using debt as leverage to exert political power around the world.
Right.
Where Russia, China, India, the BRICS nations and so on, they are based on commodities.
They've got the energy, the oil, the coal, the gas.
They've got the fertilizer.
They've got food crops in abundance.
Western Europe is about to freeze to death this coming winter.
Russia is going to be toasty warm and fully fed.
Isn't this a sign of sort of where all this is going?
Well, it is.
And if you go back to the day before the Russian operation, I think it's important that everyone, if they can get a copy of his speech, read the entire speech.
That speech, basically what he said is they want free and fair settlement.
Yeah, you're absolutely right.
There is a divide between East and West.
And I would first say I think it's very important to read Vladimir Putin's statement just before the operation started.
Basically what he was saying is that they are tired of giving real goods for fake paper.
They want to trade real and fair trade settlement.
They want something for something.
And what I'm going to say here is it's my opinion that that was the beginning of the reset.
Not the Klaus Schwab reset.
There is a Western reset.
And I think when all is said and done, I think that's going to be mistaken, if you will.
They will try to reset that on the West, but the East is not going to go along with that.
The real true reset is between East and West, and it's pretty clear.
The West is full of debt, and the East, I mean, you can look at China.
Yes, they've taken on all kinds of debt, but what did they do with that debt?
They built infrastructure.
They built stuff.
So when the debt collapses, they're going to be left with stuff, And the West has eaten their seed corn.
What is America going to look like on the day, and I guess a few days after that, when this collapse begins?
Because when people can't use their ATMs, when the food stamps stop working, which they do every month it seems anyway for a while, when the banks aren't functioning, or when the dollar just collapses overnight, what's going to happen in the cities of America, in your view?
I've been on the record for years that living in a city is the absolute worst thing you could possibly do.
There's a huge population, obviously, in cities.
You have no idea who friend or foe is.
You have no idea what direction danger is going to come at you from.
It's my thought process that you either are rural Or certainly outside of suburbs, or you're going to have real difficulty.
I think when this thing does go down, I certainly think that, like you said, the ATMs are going to go down, credit cards are going to go down.
Grocery stores will probably just go back two years ago with COVID. Grocery stores were wiped out within a day or two days.
They only keep three days worth of product on the shelves.
And it's not like they have little elves in the back room that are baking loads of bread.
Everything gets trucked in.
And I use the analogy of a loaf of bread.
Think about how many uses of credit there are From that farmer's wheat field to the loaf of bread.
I mean, the farmer's got to use credit, what, five, six, seven times.
Does he own his tractor outright?
He's got to pay for fertilizer.
He's got to pay for seed.
He's got to pay for diesel.
And then between there and the silo, you've got to ship it.
Then the silo uses credit.
Then you use credit again for shipping to the production facilities.
So there's credit used all the way through that process.
And if just one If just one use of credit breaks down, there's no loaf of bread.
So it's like a chain where one link breaks, it snaps in half.
The chain is no longer usable.
But this is exactly what we're seeing in Sri Lanka.
So when the local currency or the debt instruments collapsed, then they couldn't get fuel into the country.
The farmers couldn't buy fuel, so they had crops rotting in the field because they couldn't get them into distribution.
It's exactly as you were saying.
But some people think, oh, Sri Lanka, that's far away.
They don't even know where that is.
And granted, it's a small country compared to the United States.
But aren't the lessons that we're observing there really the same lessons that haunt America as well?
It's a roadmap.
What's the difference?
The only difference is that Sri Lanka is not the world's reserve currency.
So they can't just print whatever their currency is and be accepted by the world.
The world is shunning their currency.
That's exactly what's going to happen to the dollar.
That's exactly where we stand right now between East and West.
The East produces goods The West does not produce anywhere near what the East produces.
And once you have a credit crisis, a currency crisis, then it becomes no.
And just listen to what Vladimir Putin said back in February.
He said, we will accept rubles or, of course, gold.
And now what they're doing or what Russia is doing is they are doing deals.
They just did a deal directly with India.
And they're trading in rupees and rubles.
So there's no need for dollars.
What this just shows is that the dollar is being pushed out of use.
It's not necessary as it once was.
And if I had to pick one event that could absolutely torpedo the dollar overnight, it would be the Saudi's Saying either we'll accept any and all currencies or, God forbid, they say that we won't accept dollars anymore.
And since you bring up gold, I've been begging to ask you this question, actually.
You're a precious metals representative of Miles Franklin.
Right.
And you help a lot of people get squared away on their precious metals.
I've got a lot of questions for you about this.
But as you know, recently, a lot of holders of physical gold and silver were demanding withdrawals and drawdowns from the COMEX, as well as the London Metals Exchange, the LME. And the London Metals Exchange, as you know, has been rigged.
It's a total fraud.
You saw that with the nickel markets, how they protected the Chinese trader and reversed a bunch of trades.
I mean, so insane.
That's not even a market system.
It's not even gambling.
It's just total fraud.
A lot of questions, but one is, What's your interpretation of why people, wealthy people, are drawing down physical gold and silver?
And then secondly, what kind of new people are coming to you today interested in gold and silver who never thought about it before?
First off, you're correct.
The LBMA novated the contract, and that is outright fraud.
That is exactly what you're going to see not only in gold, not only in silver, but pretty much in all commodities markets.
You're going to see a rush for delivery demand, which can't be met, and you will see all of these markets For what they are.
They're fraudulent.
As far as the drawdowns are concerned, that's not your average wealthy person.
The drawdowns from COMEX, your drawdowns from the LBMA, you're looking at hedge funds, you're looking at institutions.
Those are the big boys.
As far as the retail is concerned, we're finally at the point now, and I'm going to say it's probably been for the last Two years, maybe a little more than two years.
The average person knows there's something wrong.
They feel it in their gut.
It's the Holy Spirit telling them there's something wrong, but they don't know what it is.
They can't put their finger on it.
But man, by nature, I mean, go back a thousand years.
By nature, when...
When you become fearful, you become defensive.
And defensive means you go to, in today's world, it's called go to cash.
The difference now is cash is not what cash used to be 50, 100 years ago.
100 years ago, you could convert dollars into gold at a bank, or you could convert gold into dollars.
They were interchangeable.
Then that link broke.
So the Many, many people today know and they feel that there's something really wrong.
They don't know what it is, and they're becoming defensive.
And just from instinct, they're going to gold and silver just because they've been money for 5,000 years.
And I think the average person deep down understands that if you hold a piece of paper, it's a piece of paper, it's a promise.
Whereas an ounce of gold or an ounce of silver is It doesn't promise anything at all.
All it is is proof that labor capital equipment have already been used to create that.
The intrinsic value of gold and silver It goes far beyond, well, you know, there's counterparty risk in everything else, which I think is what you're just saying.
So even if you have a piece of paper that says you own gold and silver, that's counterparty risk on the part of whoever's holding that gold and silver.
Right.
I'm not opposed.
I mean, in some circumstances, people can use vaults that are inspected and audited and insured and so on.
I get it.
But Even the insurance industry has counterparty risk.
Right.
And every vault has counterparty risk.
Like you say, Bill, gold and silver in your hands, the only risk you have there is if you lose it or maybe somebody tries to steal it.
But those are things that you have control over.
Right.
That's the key difference.
But the follow-up question on that is what kind of new people are coming to you now that you hadn't heard from before?
And are you finding yourself having to educate people about it or do they already get it when they call you?
No, we're definitely having to educate people.
They just call up their...
At this point, it's like, I want some gold.
I want some silver.
And again, I think that's because they understand there is no default risk.
It's something that you can't wake up tomorrow morning and it's gone.
But yes, we're getting people...
They want to get their money out of the banks.
We're getting people that have exited the stock market.
We've gotten a bunch of people that have even exited real estate, commercial real estate.
The thing is, from an education standpoint, they're saying, we want gold or we want silver, but they don't know what form.
And the real education, there's a little bit of education as to what we're just talking about now as far as the no default risk, etc., But the difference between a one-ounce bar, a one-ounce generic, a one-ounce sovereign, or a one-ounce gold or silver eagle, or go back 100 plus years, a pre-1933 gold piece.
There is a difference.
There's a reason that you want the higher quality metal.
When I say higher quality metal, in the United States, you want eagles.
You want junk.
In silver, you want either eagles or junk.
Those are U.S. mint lineage.
In gold, you want eagles or preferably the pre-1933 gold because owning that, you are considered a collector because those are collectibles.
You're not considered a hoarder.
Now, can they change the laws?
Of course, they change laws all the time.
But the way it stands right now, in the event of a confiscation, Your best bet is to own a U.S. Mint lineage coin.
Now, define junk for those who are new to that topic, because not everybody understands that.
Yeah, junk silver, the better term is constitutional silver.
It's 1964 and earlier, dimes, quarters, half dollars, and silver dollars.
Those are the...
Dimes, quarters, and halves are 0.715% of the coin is silver, and the silver dollars are 0.77 plus percent silver.
Now, another reason that you want U.S. coin...
Okay, so the system goes down, and...
I mean, I deal in this stuff all the time, but when the system goes down, if somebody wants to trade me a gold bar, I can't test it.
They want to trade me a silver bar, I can't test it.
But I know what an eagle looks like.
They're difficult to counterfeit.
They can be counterfeited, but you can drop them on a table and listen to them.
You can drop a silver dime.
And the other thing about junk silver that you want The reason you want junk silver is because it's in small denominations.
It's in $1.38 equals one ounce.
So that means, call it 14 dimes, is one ounce.
In a broken down situation, farmers will take, and they actually would prefer to take silver over cash even today, But they will take silver dimes.
So you've got 14 transactions to buy eggs with your local farmer versus one with a silver eagle or a one ounce bar or what have you.
And you could drop a silver dime on a table versus a current dime and you know hands down you'll know which is which.
What's going to happen to people who have no silver, no gold, No preparedness, no backup food supplies.
They're just living paycheck to paycheck, which is about 40 plus percent of the American people.
And they're entirely dependent on the system.
They don't even have cash.
Their pantry is only maybe two days deep and they eat at restaurants all the time.
What's going to happen to those people?
Sadly, they're not going to make it.
They're going to be part of the depopulation event.
And I firmly believe that what's happening today is not by mistake.
It's a plan.
It is a planned depopulation.
Well, let's talk about food, then, for a second here.
Now, I know your area of expertise is finance and money and gold and so on, but I know you've been paying attention to the farming situation.
You have fertilizer scarcity.
You saw ammonia plants have shut down all across Western Europe, 70% reduction in the current capacity of ammonia production, which goes into the nitrogen-based fertilizers.
And you had fertilizer plants like CF Industries in the United States told by Union Pacific Railroad that we're not going to carry your loads anymore.
So how are you supposed to get fertilizer to farmers?
You've got, what, 800,000 acres in California that wasn't even planted this year because of drought.
So what's the food situation looking like from your vantage point, both in America and in Europe?
Well, it looks like it's part of the plan.
One thing you forgot to mention is all these processing plants that have burned down, exploded, what have you.
It's all about creating less supply, higher prices.
The higher prices and less supply is going to shut some people out on its own without the system coming down.
What were the sanctions against Russia?
Was it incompetence on the part of Western leaders that it was all going to blow back onto the West?
Or was it perhaps part of a plan, knowing that it would crush the West?
Part of the plan, in my opinion.
Talk to us about the sanctions.
Where is this going to go?
Because the West can't back down at this point.
They can't admit, oh, we were wrong, or Russia, sorry.
They're not going to apologize to Putin.
Yeah, the sanctions did not then, and they certainly don't make any sense now, because the West is no longer the big producer to the world.
I mean, after World War II, the United States was the production center of the world for almost any product.
And now, for the last 20, 30 years, I mean, go back to Ross Perot with the giant sucking sound from NAFTA. He was absolutely right.
We've offshored So many production jobs, so many production facilities, and the machines that we had that are now antiquated anyway are gone.
So we don't even have the ability to produce.
And what we've done, we've financialized our society where the thought process has been that, oh, well, they'll take dollars forever, so we're fine.
We can just send them dollars and we'll get goods.
But that is now changing.
Do you think price controls are coming to America in terms of food and fuel?
Oh, there's no doubt.
I mean, I was on the record.
I did an interview with my partner, Jim Sinclair, probably four years ago, five years ago.
And the title of it was The World is Venezuela.
And just from a debt standpoint, that was when...
The toilet paper shortage has started, and people here in the United States were kind of laughing about it.
Well, it's coming.
It's going to be all over the world.
This is not just Venezuela's socialist mistake.
It is a mistake carried out by the West that is trying to turn socialist.
And I think Venezuela is exactly the right comparison here because you have this authoritarian tyranny, gun control, gun confiscation, combined with mass starvation, biometric controls over food purchases, energy scarcity.
And then I believe also the Venezuelan government ends up arming whoever are the friendly insurgents who might murder their political opposition.
And frankly, with the activities of the FBI right now in America, it's starting to look the same way, isn't it?
Yeah, it really does.
And in my opinion, the reason they have not snapped the trap shut yet is because of the Second Amendment.
The Second Amendment is the only thing that stands between the system not collapsing and the population being overrun.
It's the only thing left is the Second Amendment.
I mean, just look at what happened in Australia and New Zealand.
You know, they made, what, 97% of the population.
It was absolutely mandatory to be jabbed.
You couldn't leave your house.
You were locked in your home.
I mean, that could not be done in the United States as it stands right now with the Second Amendment.
But their efforts to try to take away the guns from the American people right now, they cannot possibly succeed.
Too many Americans simply won't go along with it.
Even if they pull off a false flag or some kind of terrorist event and try to blame gun owners, people just aren't going to go for it.
Doesn't that mean that as long as we hold firm, hold the line on the Second Amendment, that the tyranny can't succeed?
Uh...
I wouldn't say it can't succeed.
And the reason I say that is you could have an EMP. We could be starved out.
Water supplies could be tainted, what have you.
Just because you have a gun and somebody can't enter your house or force you to do something, you know, it's like the military operation where you surround the fort.
And you wait until they come out because they don't have any food or water left.
Right.
I mean, what you're describing, and I agree with you, is the government is essentially running a blockade against its own people.
Correct.
I agree with that.
It's like World War II when the U.S. Navy surrounded Japan and ran a naval blockade.
No energy, no food imports for you, Japan.
Right.
Now they're doing that to us.
Right.
Japan struck out with Pearl Harbor.
Is the plan to get the American people to lash out?
Are they trying to maybe invoke some kind of an armed insurrection so they can call everybody extremists?
On one hand, yes.
I think there is a provocation.
On the other hand, I think you'll have A certain percentage of the population, I don't know what it is, maybe it might be as high as 50%, they'll just say, you know, save us.
They'll say, Daddy, save us, you know, to the government.
But the government can only print currency.
They can't print food or print energy.
And, you know, so you're going to be sitting there, a millionaire in currency, starving your ass off and freezing.
That's right.
Right?
Right.
And that's why it's important to be as self-sufficient as you possibly can so that you're not relying on Someone else, you're not relying on the government to feed you.
Yeah.
Well...
I mean, you saw it with the forgiving of the student loans.
That's another form of stimulus.
They're trying to push money back into the system.
And it seems like in California, when the fuel prices were high, they mailed out all these debit cards.
Here, you can use this to buy fuel.
The only answer that the U.S. government, at least under Biden, can come up with is print more money and hand it out to people.
But that doesn't solve these problems.
Well, it exacerbates the problem.
It creates more inflation.
It speeds up.
The collapse is what it does.
But that's been Washington's playbook for what?
Well, you could actually...
Well, certainly since 71, because that's when Nixon took us off the gold standard.
But you could go back to the 60s with welfare, throw money at the problem.
Throw money at schools, and where has it gotten us?
It's just gotten us deeper in debt and society turning more upside down.
What it's done is it's broken the mindset of self-sufficiency.
Right, right.
And we're just about out of time for this interview, Bill, but just to ask you to summarize, it seems like you're saying that we've been living through a maybe 80-year experiment, a social engineering experiment, a debt experiment.
This experiment has failed, and maybe the failure wasn't obvious to a lot of people until right now, but that's how these things go.
It's failing, but the people who built this failed system Can't do anything other than what they have already done, which is print more money.
And so we're approaching the final days of this chapter of this experiment of the American Empire.
I'm going to say that it's 109 years.
You go back to 1913.
That's when the Federal Reserve began.
And if you read the book, The Creature from Jekyll Isle, I encourage everyone to read that book.
That was the game plan.
The only way to take the United States down was to do it internally.
And what they've done is they've gotten individuals, corporations, the whole system, the government, everything is grossly in debt.
And once you have total debt saturation, which we have now, and then you force or create a depression, And that's what they're doing by raising interest rates.
They're raising interest rates on the biggest debt bubble in the history of history.
What would you expect?
Total collapse.
Well, it's a sobering conclusion, but I can't find any fault with what you said here today, Bill.
I think you're right on the mark.
And I want to encourage our listeners, if they want to follow your work, the website is jsmindset.com.
We'll put it on screen for people.
How else can people find you and follow your analysis?
You can actually, if you want to email me personally, you can go.
My email address is bholter at hotmail.com.
bholter at hotmail.com.
Well, Bill, it's been an honor to speak with you about this.
You're a serious man.
You have a lot of wisdom.
Most of the time.
Oh, yeah?
Yeah.
Well, I got a smile out of you at least once in this interview.
But I'm the same way.
We are in some devastating times.
Sometimes we have to laugh.
Yeah, I wish I could tell you something different, but it is what it is.
Exactly.
Exactly.
It's math.
At this point, it's pure math.
I mean, there is not a way out.
We're mathematically in a box.
Okay.
Well, we'll be talking with you more about some other topics, but I want to thank you for your time today, Bill, and your wisdom and your warning.
And folks, pay attention to this.
Get prepared, or you'll get steamrolled by what's about to happen.
Thank you so much, Mr.
Holker.
My pleasure.
Thanks for having me, Mike.
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