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Dec. 15, 2022 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams

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Situation Update, 12/15/22 - Germany runs out of munitions while Russia deploys YARS...

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	Welcome to the Situation Update for Thursday, December 15th, 2022.
	Wow, we're halfway through December already.
	I'm Mike Adams.
	Thank you for joining me.
	We've got a lot to cover today, including we're going to start out with Trump is teasing a, quote, major announcement sometime today.
	There's a lot of buzz about Trump's major announcement.
	I kind of think the buzz may not be deserved.
	We'll see.
	We'll see.
	But I suspect that Trump is going to announce that DNA results prove that Nancy Pelosi is a reanimated Egyptian mummy from the epoch of Ra.
	Yep, I think that's the announcement.
	She has served as Speaker of the House and also Speaker of the Ancient Ankh, whatever the Egyptians were worshipping at the time.
	And she's still here.
	It's amazing.
	She could be here for thousands of more years if conditions allow.
	We'll see.
	And by the way, Ron Paul is warning that economic crisis will lead to, quote, social unrest and violence.
	And in an article from the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity, he's citing Rubini saying, Who says that it's staggering the amounts of debt held by individuals, businesses, and the government, and it's going to lead to the, quote, mother of all economic crises.
	And then when that happens, says Ron Paul, quote, the crisis will lead to social unrest and violence, as well as increased popularity of authoritarian movements on both the left and the right.
	And I think he's very much correct about that point because in the middle of chaos, everybody wants more authoritarianism.
	That's not good.
	Ron Paul writes, this will lead to government crackdowns on civil liberties and increased government control of our economy.
	The only bright spot is that it will also fuel interest in the ideas of liberty and could even help bring about a return to limited constitutional government, free markets, individual liberty, and a foreign policy of peaceful trade with all.
	Well, that would be great.
	That's the world we want to create.
	So it's up to us, folks.
	It's up to us.
	We are the ones we've been waiting for.
	I mean, other than Christ and God, but I mean, in this earthly realm, we are the ones we've been waiting for.
	It's up to us.
	We choose our future.
	And speaking of Christ, by the way, our guest today is Tom Hughes.
	And he's the founder of Hope for Our Times.
	And he's a very popular prophecy expert.
	And he's got a very popular YouTube channel, does a lot of interviews.
	He's very well informed.
	And I just interviewed him a little bit ago, and that's going to be featured in this podcast.
	And we had a great time.
	We talked about the mark of the beast system.
	We talked about transhumanism.
	talked about drag queen story time, end times, the rapture, many other similar themes.
	So I think you're going to really enjoy that interview.
	It's coming up.
	Now, one thing I know about economic collapse is that you, dear listener, are going to do extraordinarily well.
	You're going to make it through.
	You're well prepared.
	You're well informed.
	But then there's a whole lot of other people who are oblivious to what's coming and And Brandon Smith from altmarket.us, he wrote a really great article about this.
	It's called, Leftists Aren't Capable of Surviving Economic Collapse.
	Here's why.
	And then he goes through the explanation, which is very much parallel to what I've described previously as well.
	But basically he's saying that A lot of the current young left-wing generation is incapable of navigating reality.
	He even cites the Pentagon, which currently estimates that 77% of young Americans are unfit for recruitment unless they get a waiver for obesity or drug use or mental health problems.
	And as Brandon Smith writes, And he says that leftist ideology has been spread across America's youth today, and it has created what he calls, quote, a generation of mental weaklings.
	And that's why they're triggered by everything.
	That's why they think words are violence.
	Oh, they're in for a surprise if they ever meet a war with real violence.
	Oh, you thought words were violence?
	Have you tried taking mortar rounds from enemies that are invading the country?
	That's violence.
	I mean, World War II veterans know that.
	Well, frankly, veterans of all the wars know that, but leftists don't know that.
	Brandon goes on, he says, the leftists of today are full-bore Marxists, both economically and culturally.
	In 1980, you might have been able to find a large number of mentally tough people that consider themselves Democrats.
	Today, he says, you will not find anyone.
	And then he points out that leftists thrive on crisis because it allows them to project their agendas onto society.
	They love it when there's a COVID outbreak or when there's a war or anything.
	But, as Brandon says, they die out during collapse.
	And that's because, as he explains, leftists are anti-preparedness.
	That's true.
	They're anti-preparedness.
	They think that prepping is something that, quote, right-wing extremists do, you know, having extra ammunition or a firearm or medical supplies or backup communications or even some gold.
	Do you realize that in mainstream America, certainly – well, in left-wing America, they think that gold is valueless.
	They think that gold is crazy, but they have full faith in the dollar, the worthless fiat currency that's going to collapse.
	That's what they believe in.
	In fact, most of what they believe in doesn't exist.
	And then they fail to believe in the things that are actually true.
	They fail to believe in the creator, for example.
	They fail to believe that unborn children are alive.
	They fail to believe in chromosomes, you know, XX versus XY, men and women.
	They fail to believe in reality, so they weave their own fictional reality with transgenderism and everything else, and then they try to live in that bubble of fiction.
	No wonder they can't handle the real world.
	No wonder they can't navigate reality.
	As Brandon goes on to write, he says leftists have an aversion to hardship, and they just want an expanded welfare state.
	They don't want to have to work.
	They assume, writes Brandon, that they are destined for great things, that they are smarter than the rest of us, and that work or sacrifice are problems relegated to the rural peasants in flyover country.
	Their vision of work is a daycare, a college campus, a place to socialize, to find comfort and self-identity, do the minimal amount of labor required and then collect a paycheck.
	That's what they did at Twitter.
	That's what they do in the tech companies all over Silicon Valley.
	It's not a workplace, Brandon says.
	It was a day spa for lunatics.
	I think that's the best description yet.
	And then finally he goes on to write that leftists have no practical skill sets, which is largely true, and that leftists rely on government to fix their problems and that they value feelings over reason.
	And these are all very valid points.
	I just want to point this out, number one, because that's a great article, but also because compare where you are to that description that we just went over.
	You are so far ahead of those people.
	That if you've ever had any concern about, oh, am I prepared enough?
	Am I going to make it?
	Are we informed enough?
	Look, you're doing great.
	You are among the top fraction of the percent of the population.
	You're going to make it.
	You're going to get through this.
	You're going to be fine.
	You're just going to be surrounded by people who aren't fine, and it's important to keep your distance.
	Geographically speaking, make sure your home is not in the evacuation path of a major left-wing city, you know, for starters.
	Now, isn't it interesting that these same weak-minded leftists who do not believe in reason, who do not believe in life, who do not believe in God— Who do not believe in having skills or anything like that.
	What did they believe in or what do they continue to believe in?
	Oh, vaccines.
	They love vaccines.
	And so they keep taking vaccines and they keep, well, dying.
	And a story from News Punch says insurance data show that sudden unexpected deaths have exploded in Germany.
	Data for 72 million people shows that unexpected deaths have exploded since the COVID vaccine rollout started in 2021.
	The number of sudden deaths has more than doubled since the jab was introduced, jumping from about 6,000 people per quarter to 14,000 currently.
	And that difference, 8,000, means that about 80 people each day are dying suddenly and mysteriously.
	That's 80 excess people dying each day.
	And of course, this continues to accelerate.
	The German leaders might be wondering, why are so many people dying?
	But of course, they would never answer the question honestly, just as they don't with climate and energy and, you know, war with Russia.
	Because here's another headline you've got to see that's related to all of that, and it talks about the delusion of the leaders of Germany Here it is from EurasianTimes.com.
	Ukraine war.
	Germany runs low on ammunition and is critically dependent on China to restock its arsenal.
	What?
	China?
	So this is a report in the German-language newspaper Die Welt.
	How is it pronounced in German?
	Die Welt.
	Suggests the slowdown in component imports from China could worsen this issue.
	It said that German ammunition manufacturers were warned about waiting periods for orders of cotton linters from China.
	That's a crucial component for propelling charges for small guns and artillery.
	The wait time has tripled to nine months.
	So you're trying to manufacture ammo.
	Because you're about to go into a war with Russia, but Russia's ally, China, tells you, oh, sorry, you're going to have to wait nine months for this component for your ammunition or munitions for guns.
	I don't mean firearms.
	I mean, you know, large battlefield guns.
	The kind of guns that you tow with trucks.
	And also artillery, of course.
	German ammunition makers flagged this information at a defense symposium near Munich.
	And industry sources said that all European ammunition producers depend on China for cotton linters, even though it is a commodity produced and traded globally.
	Like, wow!
	What, you can't get those from Turkey?
	I'm pretty sure they grow a lot of cotton in Turkey.
	Can't get that from Mexico?
	It's incredible.
	So the militaries of Europe depend on cotton linters from China.
	So I did not know this about cotton linters and artillery and military guns, but it's just another weakness in the supply chain that is rather shocking.
	So I did a little more digging around, wondering, you know, how vulnerable is the German military exactly if this war escalates, which it's going to.
	We're going to get to that in a second.
	So there's a website out there called CenterForSecurityPolicy.org that has an analysis of this by Stephan Bryan, a senior fellow at this center.
	And I'm not familiar with whether this site leans left or right or pro-America or anti-America.
	I have no idea.
	But here's what they say.
	Quote, most of the NATO players are out of ammunition, or nearly so.
	The German Defense Ministry has said it could only fight a war for about a week.
	A week because of supply and manpower shortages.
	While a German lawmaker in the know says the limit is, quote, more like two days.
	Are you hearing this, folks?
	That...
	If a war breaks out...
	Oh, and by the way, this article was just published, okay?
	So this is recent information.
	If a war breaks out between Germany and Russia, you know, Russia's been fighting for, what is it now, 10 months, essentially?
	And they've been using, reportedly, as much as 20,000 artillery rounds a day.
	I mean, what does that tell you?
	They have the industrial capability to manufacture this artillery.
	But we're being told that Germany could fight for two days, and then they're done.
	They're done.
	How can that possibly be?
	I mean, wow.
	This article goes on to say Germany has offshored important parts of its ammunition production, mostly to Switzerland, but the Swiss, because of their neutrality laws, won't ship ammunition to Ukraine.
	You starting to see the picture?
	So the Germans are asking the Swiss, hey, ship the ammunition that we're buying to Ukraine to fight Russia.
	And the Swiss are saying, hey, leave us out of this.
	We don't want to get nuked by Putin, basically.
	And you can't blame them, right?
	I mean, neutrality has to mean neutrality.
	Otherwise, you're on the target list.
	Now, why is China unable to ship these cotton linters to Germany to be used in artillery shells?
	According to this article, Chinese exports have been disrupted by what?
	COVID lockdowns.
	COVID lockdowns.
	And why are COVID lockdowns happening?
	Well, you know if you've been listening to this podcast, because China is preparing for war.
	And so they're using the COVID lockdowns as cover to use the streets and the ports to load up military ships with all kinds of military gear.
	They're engaged in military readiness operations, and the lockdowns are simply cover for that.
	So at the same time China's getting ready for war and loading their ships, They are failing to ship components that European countries need for their ammunition.
	And the problem is so bad, we're being told Germany can only fight a war for two days.
	That means that if Russia attacks Ukraine and decides to move west, not only past Kiev, but into and beyond western Ukraine, and then starts moving into Germany and Poland, That Germany can't stop the Russians at all.
	Now, the Poles can.
	The Poles can put up a fight.
	We're going to talk about that in a minute.
	Poland is preparing for war, and that's part of the big story here today.
	But Germany is practically surrendering to Russia if Russia decides to move that far to the West, okay?
	Now, there was a big dust-up about this over the last day or so.
	An article from thesun.com Now, first of all, I don't know why this is news, because Russia has the Yars systems and many other systems, and they've been in a readiness state since February.
	I mean, in fact, Russia has nuclear missiles that can reach basically every target on the planet.
	And again, I don't know why this is news, but all of a sudden, the Western media is panicked about this.
	They say this intercontinental ballistic missile has a range of 7,500 miles, and it's 12 times more destructive than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, which still, in modern times, is not that big, by the way.
	So the Hiroshima bomb, what was that, 15 kilotons or 16 kilotons, where you've got nuclear warheads today that are megatons, not just kilotons, but, you know, a thousand times bigger, megatons.
	So, Here's how the Western media reports this.
	I'm quoting from The Sun.
	Russia reportedly practiced its response to a Western nuclear attack and were aimed at targeting the UK and the US. You mean the countries that blew up the Nord Stream pipeline, which is civilian infrastructure?
	Okay.
	Continuing, fears have been raised that the 70-year-old tyrant, that's Putin they're referring to, could detonate a nuke as his forces face mounting losses, but they typoed that in the disastrous Ukraine war.
	Man, there's a lot of typos in this article.
	Do they have an editor?
	No, I actually corrected a couple of typos when I was reading it for you, but I'm finding more typos.
	This is crazy.
	I know we have typos from time to time, but not this many.
	This is bonkers.
	They must not have any editors there.
	But you know this was propaganda put out by the intelligence community of the West.
	Why?
	Because Newsweek has almost the exact same story with the same claim.
	Here it is on Newsweek, a publication that does have editors, by the way.
	Russia primes nuclear bomb 12 times more powerful than dropped on Hiroshima.
	So you see, they were sent these basic press releases from the intelligence community.
	Talk about how Russia's nukes are so much more powerful than Hiroshima.
	So here they are talking about how Russia's prepping this ICBM. But again, there's no news in that.
	These have been ready all year, most of the year.
	And they say, oh, the RS-24 Yars is an improved version of the Topol-MR missile.
	In the West, we call it the SS-29.
	But in Russia, they call it the RS-24 Yars.
	It was developed by the Moscow Institute of Thermal Engineering and it was first tested in 2007.
	Okay, great.
	So, yes, Putin has a lot of nukes and this isn't even the most advanced one.
	What about...
	The SATAN-2 nuclear missile system, as it's called.
	The SATAN-2 ICBM, I think it has something like up to 15 MIRVs or re-entry vehicles.
	So in the nose cone, when that ICBM comes out of...
	Well, low orbit essentially comes back into the atmosphere.
	The nose cone opens up and up to 15 different nuclear warheads pop out of that sucker and it hits 15 different cities.
	That's what that's capable of.
	And you can bet that has been deployed.
	And in some configurations, that missile system...
	Which I think in Russia is called the Sarmat system.
	I think that's what it's called.
	It has hyperglide vehicles or HGVs.
	And hyperglide vehicles are the nuclear warheads, but they can take evasive maneuvers and they can glide onto specific targets so they can maneuver.
	They have...
	You know, air control surfaces to maneuver in the air so they can alter their flight path and so on.
	And they're impossible to intercept, essentially, or near impossible.
	And the West has nothing that can intercept those systems.
	So Russia's got that, too.
	Russia has hypersonic missiles, which can travel at up to Mach 20.
	At least that's what we believe is the case.
	And some of those, the, what's it called, the Kinzhal, which I think means dagger in Russian.
	That's what I've been told.
	The Kinzhal system was used in the conflict with Ukraine already, a couple of those.
	And Russia has those.
	There are no air defenses against those among Western nations, which is why those systems got through.
	So if you really want to know the story, which Newsweek is not reporting because this isn't approved by the CIA or whatever, the real story is that Russia's nuclear arsenal is about two decades ahead of America's.
	America's still running rockets from the 1970s and 80s.
	Haven't really upgraded much.
	America doesn't have hypersonic ICBMs or nuclear missile systems whatsoever.
	America doesn't have very effective anti-air defense systems.
	I mean, the Patriot missile anti-air systems are a joke, frankly.
	Oh, we're going to deploy those in Ukraine.
	Russians don't care.
	They don't even really work.
	So the real story is that If America, and we'll throw Germany in there too, because Germany is good for two days, but if America and Germany go to war with Russia over Ukraine, then Russia beats the snot out of the West.
	At least until they get to Poland, which we'll talk about here in a second.
	The Poles are going to put up a fight, but between America and Germany, and do we even consider the British military?
	The British military would last about two weeks, maybe?
	That's it?
	So two days for the Germans, two weeks for the British, it's done.
	The British can't handle 20,000 Russian artillery rounds a day.
	The British can't handle hypersonic nuclear missiles launched by Putin.
	And neither can America.
	So this would be a no-contest situation if a nuclear war were to break out in that region.
	No contest.
	Russia has battlefield dominance in these areas.
	It's over before anything is even launched.
	So understanding that, why does America continue to provoke Russia, or at least the Pentagon provokes Russia?
	Why does the Pentagon approve of Ukrainian drone strikes deep into Russian territory, which was in the news this last week, striking Russian military targets with the approval and the guidance systems and the hardware from the United States?
	That is essentially a declaration of war on Russia by the United States.
	And as you probably know, last week, there were some very effective strikes.
	I think three strikes on Russian military bases.
	I think one of them was a fuel depot.
	One was an airfield.
	Maybe two were airfields.
	I forgot the details.
	But they were rather devastating strikes.
	I think a couple of Russia's bombers got severely damaged, not completely destroyed, but severely damaged.
	And so those strikes are taking place.
	Why would you provoke Russia's Russia, when Russia has these nukes and hypersonic missiles and anti-air defense systems that are so vastly superior to what the West has.
	And the only answer I can come to is that, of course, the Pentagon and America wants World War III. They want Putin to escalate.
	In fact, I've talked about this all year.
	They've been trying to provoke Putin into an escalation.
	And why would that be?
	Who is served by an escalation?
	Well, obviously, in the United States, the Biden regime can declare a state of emergency.
	Oh, we're in a war!
	And in that state of emergency, they can do all kinds of crazy stuff.
	Oh, turn in your guns.
	We're at war with Russia.
	Even though it makes no sense, they can use the crisis to get what they want, to push their agenda.
	At one point, I thought they were going to use this to try to cancel the midterm elections.
	That's why I was very glad that we made it to the midterms.
	Of course, they were rigged, as expected.
	But this could be used still to cancel 2024 elections, or even to cancel the Constitution, or to attempt to do so.
	This could be used for all kinds of domestic tyranny schemes, simply by engaging in a nuclear war with Russia.
	But more importantly...
	World War III would be a cover story for the financial collapse that the West needs desperately to force people into a central bank digital currency system, which is being launched, the FedNow program, by July of next year in the United States.
	So that's about six months away.
	And in this six months, somehow, The powers that be need to figure out a way to crash the currency, the debt-based system, and force people into these digital wallets.
	Hmm.
	I wonder how that could be accomplished.
	Oh, that's right.
	Nuclear war.
	Global thermonuclear war.
	And then when all your money vanishes, or your currency anyway, your bank accounts, it all vanishes.
	Everything shuts down.
	Oh, guess what?
	It's Putin's fault!
	They'll probably roll out the Trump-Putin conspiracy once again.
	And Trump has been working for Putin.
	It's all Trump's fault.
	Why your money vanished?
	You know, something like that.
	Some crazy cover story.
	But that's what they need.
	We're in the era of cover stories.
	Look, the Biden regime can't actually govern America.
	They can't do anything right.
	Everything's getting worse.
	Food inflation's getting worse.
	Fuel scarcity, at least in the diesel sector, is still getting worse.
	Transportation's getting worse.
	The railroads are about to go on strike.
	The barges are stuck.
	The fertilizer isn't as available as it should be.
	And so on and so forth.
	And the government's at war with conservatives in America.
	The border is being flooded with an invasion of illegals every single day.
	I mean, nobody really likes the Biden regime.
	And so what do corrupt regimes do when they need to reassess control or reestablish power over the people?
	Well, they start a war.
	And then that gives them domestic control.
	So to start a war, they have to provoke Putin.
	And that's exactly what is happening right now.
	And we know that the U.S. and the U.K. are working together for this provocation.
	In fact, something has just come out.
	Admitting all of this is from the U.K. Daily Mail.
	Royal Marines have taken part in high-risk covert operations in Ukraine, General Reveals, for the first time.
	This is Lieutenant General Robert McGowan.
	He said Marines went to Ukraine before and after the invasion, and he says they operated in a, quote, hugely sensitive environment with high level of risk, and he further claims they did not serve any combat functions.
	Okay, so what were they doing?
	Well, it's pretty obvious.
	They were...
	Training people, but they were running targeting systems and forwarding information to the Ukrainians who would press the buttons or pull the triggers or hit go on the drones or what have you.
	I'm not trying to put down anybody in Ukraine.
	I'm just saying that if you don't have training on these systems, they're very complex.
	So what the UK did is they sent systems, well, and the US as well, they sent systems to Ukraine that would normally require one to two years of training.
	And then they sent personnel from the US and the UK to basically run these systems for the Ukrainians in lieu of appropriate durations of training.
	So, but these personnel from the US and the UK were not directly engaged in, let's say, kinetic combat themselves.
	They weren't carrying rifles in the bunkers and the ditches and fighting it out street by street with the Russians.
	No.
	They were running, let's say, HIMARS systems, things like that, remote artillery and drones and satellites and information gathering and all of that.
	I also happen to know because of the people I know that a lot of the time these special forces type of personnel, what they do is they run...
	What do they call them?
	Well, I forgot the term they used, but it's basically to locate sensitive personnel and exfil them out of the country.
	So often this comes down to wives or children of embassy employees, you know, things like that, or important people that have been stationed there, some of their family or friends, that kind of thing, and, you know, sending the Marines or the Special Forces or what have you to go in and locate those people, extricate them, exfil them out of the country.
	And so that's not really technically a combat mission.
	It's not an aggressive force mission.
	But sometimes they do have to free these targets from...
	Wherever they're being held or surrounded, sometimes special forces have to fight their way through a perimeter to get to some of these important people and then bring them out.
	And that's, you know, that takes a lot of courage.
	That takes real men to get that job done.
	By the way, it's not an easy task.
	You could be attacked, you know, at any moment.
	So, hey, if you're running rescue operations to exfil people out of the country, you know what?
	Hats off to you.
	I salute you.
	Good job.
	You know, let's get civilians out of harm's way.
	So I think that's a lot of what they were doing, but not all of it.
	They're probably also running, you know, weapon systems and training and things like that.
	That's just my guess.
	I don't have any super secret inside information on that.
	That's just my guess.
	Now, talking about Poland, here's the headline from Remix News.
	That's rmx.news.
	Poland aims to create largest land army in Europe.
	Poland is arming quickly and securing colossal amounts of weapons at a frantic pace.
	That's the subhead.
	You don't hear subheads like that very often.
	This is according to a report from a French newspaper, Le Figaro, with the paper's analysis pointing out the colossal weapons contracts signed by Warsaw, including tanks, self-propelled guns, and missile launchers.
	Wow.
	Prior to contracts with South Korea, Warsaw ordered 250 American Abrams tanks to replace the old Soviet-era tanks that it sent to Ukraine and other heavy equipment.
	So you see how this is working, right?
	Poland sends the Russian tanks to Ukraine. - And a lot of the Ukrainians of the modern day, their parents were in the Soviet Army, by the way.
	So there's actually some transfer of knowledge of how to run Soviet tanks.
	But then the new tanks for Poland are Western tanks, the Abrams tanks, made in America.
	And then, let's see, they signed a deal with South Korean company Hyundai for the delivery of tanks.
	Well, what?
	Four times the number of Leclerc tanks currently used by the French Army.
	Okay, I did not know that Hyundai made tanks, but...
	Really?
	Are there Hyundai tanks?
	Okay, wow, I had to fact check that.
	Yeah, Hyundai Rotem, R-O-T-E-M. It's a South Korean company that manufactures defense products, and they have tanks that were designed by Chrysler Defense, which is General Dynamics, now General Dynamics Land Systems.
	So it's basically an American-designed tank, but yeah, these are manufactured by Hyundai Rotem.
	I guess it's Rotem.
	For the Republic of Korea Armed Forces, it's based on the M1 Abrams.
	So, learn something every day, huh?
	And then Poland is also trying to increase the number of troops it has on active duty from the current 170,000, which does not sound like that much compared to Russia, to 300,000, and they're going to do this by the year 2035.
	That seems like an eternity at this point in the war scenario in Europe.
	So I'm not convinced that this is a, quote, frantic pace.
	It's going to take, what, 13 years to get to 300,000 troops, whereas Russia just called up 500,000.
	Was it 500,000 in the last few months, the last, what, three or four months?
	Was it 500,000 or was it 300?
	Now I've forgotten the number, but it was something in that range.
	So, of course, Russia is a much larger country compared to Poland in terms of its economic output and also the number of citizens to which it has access.
	But the bottom line in all of this is that things are heating up and America is at risk of being nuked by Russia because America is involved in, well, supplying the weapons and the personnel and the technology and the permissions supplying the weapons and the personnel and the technology and the permissions to hit targets in And America is providing tanks to Poland so that Poland can provide tanks to Ukraine so that Ukraine can use the tanks to kill Russians.
	So this is getting very personal.
	It's escalating into a direct conflict between the United States and Russia.
	And that conflict, should it continue to escalate, is going to be resolved immediately.
	With a nuclear exchange that I hope never happens.
	But it looks like that's where it's going.
	And should that happen, you know, the end of the dollar might be the least of your concerns.
	If the United States gets nuked, the world that you know is over for a decade to come.
	You want to talk about supply chain problems.
	You start absorbing nuclear strikes and your supply chains become non-existent.
	In fact, your government goes into an emergency continuity of government mode at that point.
	Things get bad quickly.
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	And they have the two-way satellite text messaging devices called BivySticks, B-I-V-Y. BivySticks talk to your existing mobile phone using Bluetooth.
	And using your phone to compose and to read messages, it allows your phone to basically set and receive text via satellites.
	Again, no cell towers needed.
	In fact, you can buy a mobile phone device that doesn't even have a SIM card in it.
	It doesn't even talk to the cell towers.
	It talks through the satellites.
	So you can find out more about these solutions, which are used by, again, many thousands of our listeners here.
	Sat123.com.
	S-A-T-123.com.
	And I have not only their satellite phones, a few of them for key business managers in my company, by the way, also bivvy sticks, and I have their push-to-talk satellite walkie-talkies, which are really amazing.
	You know, you push and you talk and it gets relayed via satellites to people who can be very far away.
	It's an instant...
	Live voice communication system.
	They have those too.
	They're not cheap, but they work.
	And those are used by a lot of first responders and firefighters sometimes if they're doing rural fires, things like that.
	Law enforcement, especially if they're doing tracking of people.
	Someone fled through the desert.
	Take a satellite walkie-talkie with you.
	So we can keep in touch, you know?
	And even my friends who are patrolling the border and interdicting human trafficking and drug trafficking and weapons trafficking, you know, the people that I know who I interviewed before one of them, they use the push-to-talk satellite walkie-talkies and they use the bivvy sticks for their own safety so they can track their fellow team members and talk to each other.
	And get help if needed.
	So, very cool tech.
	And it works.
	And it's necessary as a backup system for when the grid goes down.
	Sat123.com Now, did you see recently that Governor Newsom of California said that the border migrant situation is unsustainable?
	That it's going to collapse if they don't do something about it?
	He was chiding Democrats over this.
	You've got to do something.
	We can't just take tens of thousands of illegals across the border every single day, day after day, year after year.
	It doesn't work.
	Well, now we have a story from the AFP.
	It's published on Yahoo News.
	Los Angeles mayor declares homelessness state of emergency.
	Yeah, the mayor of L.A. is saying there's so many homeless people on the streets of L.A. that they have to declare an emergency situation to figure out what to do about it.
	Basically, LA is turning into a giant shantytown tent city hub or something.
	It's crazy.
	And from that story, tens of thousands of people sleep rough on Los Angeles streets every night in an epidemic that shocks many visitors.
	Yeah, tens of thousands of people.
	Mental health problems and substance abuse issues are rife among the population whose tents and rusting RVs scar the city.
	That's what this news says.
	Those aren't my words.
	That's Yahoo News.
	Mayor Karen Bass, who was just sworn into office on Sunday, used her first full day to declare a state of emergency.
	Can you imagine?
	You get sworn in as a Democrat and the first thing you do is blame the previous Democrat.
	It's like, those dang previous mayor people, look at the homelessness problem and how much you want to bet it's going to get worse under Mayor Karen Bass because she's got the same policy.
	She's another Democrat, obviously, and she's not going to solve this problem either because Democrat policies create poverty and homelessness and addiction.
	So the kind of solutions that Democrats come up with, by the way, is forcing hotel owners to house homeless people in hotel rooms.
	You know, instead of solving the root of the problem, they just try to cover it up and hide the homeless people in hotels.
	And then, of course, if you're staying in the hotel as a paying customer...
	You thought you were on a floor with 10 empty rooms, and then sometime before midnight, all these homeless drug addicts are led to their rooms, and with all the accompanying problems and traffic that comes with that, you can only imagine.
	So I can tell you what one of her top priorities is going to be to, quote, solve the homelessness problem.
	It's going to be free vaccines for homeless people.
	You know, for all the obvious reasons.
	Look, the homeless problem is getting solved.
	They'll say two or three years later as all the vaccinated people die.
	Look, fewer homeless.
	Wow.
	Issue solved.
	And then they'll celebrate their, quote, victory for public health.
	Look, public health is improving.
	That's what they'll say, because they don't care about people.
	And, you know, a lot of the homeless are veterans, and they don't care about veterans, that's for sure.
	They would rather veterans just kill themselves.
	So, hey, here's a free vaccine, and you can keep the needle after you're done, too, you know, for your drug habit, whatever.
	They just want to kill them all.
	By the way, this is not exactly related, but it's twisted enough to include, did you know that the United States Army has active duty soldiers who have a doggy or a pup fetish?
	And they've been photographed wearing these pup masks while in uniform, by the way.
	And I'm not going to name the names, but one of these individuals has been identified, a retired U.S. Army colonel.
	In a pup mask and in his uniform.
	And it just shows this, I would call it a demonic perversion that has infiltrated certain sectors of the military, where these people should be upstanding citizens and upholding morality and ethics, but they wear the uniform and take photos to basically show that they are weird sex perverts who like to dress up as dogs.
	So there's a whole community of soldiers or retired soldiers who have a community called the Pup Kink community.
	Makes me wonder if that former Biden regime official who likes to steal luggage might be part of that.
	I'm pretty sure that person's also into the same kind of stuff.
	What's wrong with these people?
	Why do they dress up like dogs and sodomize each other?
	How is that even a thing?
	How...
	I don't even understand anything about that, frankly.
	But then again, I'm not possessed by demons like these people, so of course I wouldn't understand it.
	It's crazy to me.
	So all these pictures are emerging of U.S. military soldiers, some of them active duty, with their pup kinks and their pup lovers.
	And it's just incredible.
	And it makes you wonder, is the Army going to tolerate this?
	You realize how this makes America's military the laughingstock of the world?
	Whereas Russia is training really hardcore manly soldiers to fight and win, America's soldiers are pictured dressing up like dogs so they can screw each other?
	It's beyond sick.
	It's almost clown world time for the military.
	Where do they take this next?
	I used to joke about people having fetishes where they would have sex with vehicles.
	And apparently that's a real thing.
	Some people are attracted to like Volkswagen bugs or whatever.
	And they stalk Volkswagens in parking lots and then they somehow have sex with them.
	And then the Volkswagen owner is horrified and calls the police.
	Someone's humping my bug in the parking lot.
	My VW. And that's a real thing.
	Yeah.
	I wonder if that's where these Pup King people are going to go next.
	Are they going to start, like, humping the aircraft carrier on which they serve, if they're Navy?
	I mean, I'm not singling out Navy people on this.
	The people that we've seen so far are Army.
	One of them is Air Force.
	Okay, are they going to hump the stealth bombers?
	I mean, are they going to start humping the equipment that is around them?
	Is this how far the mental illness is going to go?
	And, more importantly, will the Pentagon...
	Promote them because, of course, the Pentagon is all run by Satanists and the high-level people.
	They're Satanists.
	They're all twisted freaks.
	And wouldn't they want more twisted freaks into high-level positions in the military?
	Because the whole point is to destroy the U.S. military.
	This is how they do it.
	So I would not be surprised if the next phase of pictures coming out from this is not just people dressed in dog masks humping each other, but people dressed in other kinds of weird animal or alien masks humping the munitions, like the missiles, but people dressed in other kinds of weird animal or alien masks humping the munitions, like the missiles, humping missiles that go on Like having sex with artillery rounds, which might be a dangerous risk.
	I'm not sure.
	I'm not sure what sets those things off exactly.
	Because I've never run artillery.
	But if you're humping artillery and something goes wrong, it could be a bad day for you.
	And whatever little kink buddies you have around you at that moment.
	And you know, if you're in a military where the commander has to come into the room and scream something like, soldiers, stop humping the munitions, then you know things have gone terribly off the rails.
	And again, the Russians must be dying laughing at this.
	Dying laughing.
	It's the craziest but funniest and most pathetic thing that we've seen in the military for a very long time.
	And this is not to disparage the other normal, healthy, mentally well members of the military.
	Those of you who are listening, I honor you and your service and your courage for existing in this twisted system.
	I mean, I've always honored veterans.
	I honor their sacrifices and I honor their service to our country.
	But these people are disparaging the military.
	They are destroying it from the inside and they're doing it on purpose.
	It is sick.
	It is twisted.
	It is demonic.
	And it's all being done on purpose.
	It's being celebrated.
	This is why we've got to get back to morality.
	We've got to expose the demons, call out the demons.
	We've got to bring God back into our lives in this country.
	Otherwise, we don't have a nation.
	If we're not founded on the principles that God wants us to live by, then we're not sustainable.
	And God's judgment will eventually destroy our nation if we don't change first.
	And so I think that's a great segue to go into the interview with Tom Hughes, by the way, because that's a lot of what we talk about.
	Although we did not mention the pup kink fetish in the military, perhaps I'll bring that up next time.
	I'm sure Tom Hughes would have a good laugh at that one and perhaps some comments as well.
	But let's go to Tom Hughes and see what he has to say.
	His ministry is called Hope for Our Times.
	That's his website too, hopeforourtimes.com and his channel on YouTube.
	So is there any hope for our times?
	Well, yes, but it doesn't seem like it when you see military active duty service people having their photos taken in puppy masks because it's the little kink perversion sex club or something.
	It's twisted.
	I'm sorry.
	It's just super twisted.
	So enjoy this interview with Tom Hughes and I'll be back with you tomorrow.
	Thank you for listening.
	Here we go.
	Well, welcome friends.
	Mike Adams here, the founder of Brighteon.com.
	And today we have a very, very special guest.
	This man has been requested by so many of my listeners and fans who also hear his videos and his message.
	His name is Tom Hughes.
	He's the founder of Hope for Our Times, which is at hopeforourtimes.com, and also the 412 Church.
	And he is an expert, has an incredible depth of knowledge about prophecy and end times, but a lot of the issues affecting us, such as transhumanism.
	So we're going to have a really fascinating conversation.
	Tom Hughes, it's an honor, sir, to have you on.
	Thank you for joining me.
	Mike, I'm really looking forward to this.
	I have been looking forward to it, and I can't believe it's taken us this long to connect, but I'm glad to finally be here.
	Well, I am honored that you're here.
	Thank you for taking the time.
	And let's just start out with the big fireworks here.
	Everybody wants to know, are we in the end times?
	And what can we expect from here forward?
	I know it's a big, impossible question, but at least that's a place to start.
	What are your thoughts?
	I would say, when you define the end times, what is it actually?
	Biblically, it's the tribulation period.
	We're not in the tribulation period yet, but we are experiencing the build-up to it.
	When you look at what the book of Revelation teaches, we can look at both the Old Testament and the New Testament, and the Bible's very clear that the closer you get to that tribulation period, Everything is going to start to take place faster and faster.
	Hence, the building of a global empire.
	The increase of pestilences.
	Whether or not they're man-made or not man-made, which is another subject.
	Economic catastrophe.
	We can see what's coming.
	I mean, you look, you go, this is just unbelievable.
	So all these things are increasing.
	The collapse of America.
	The evil corruption.
	We're watching all of these things increase.
	In the tribulation period, but I believe we are exceptionally close to it.
	The Bible gives us many warning signs to look for so we could be aware of the day in which we live, and man, we are close.
	Yeah, I'd like you to speak to some of the signs, and let me just throw a couple of hints out there.
	When I was a child in school, I never could have imagined that as an adult I would be looking at schools that have drag queen story time for children with drag queens dressed as demons.
	So that's weird.
	That's horrifying.
	And you've got this WEF guy, Yuval Harari, who's talking like he wants the end of humanity and things like that.
	Are those...
	A couple of signs, or what do you see as signs that we're heading toward the tribulation?
	Yeah, I would say those are some of the things.
	I mean, when you look at the, I mean, a drag queen story hour, I mean, that's just totally bizarre.
	Just a few years ago, you think, nah, this is, we wouldn't be here to see this.
	Well, we are.
	And it's amazing.
	I'll tell you what really bugs me, Mike, is it's not as much the drag queen story hour, it's the parents that actually bring their kids to that stuff.
	That is so bizarre.
	It is.
	I mean, to me, that's wicked.
	And now, if you use the term groomer, you're a bigot or whatever it is.
	Look, these parents are groomers.
	They're grooming their own children for really bad things.
	So we've reached this age.
	The Book of Romans describes a time when God will give the people over to their own.
	They'll become earth worshippers.
	It's what Romans chapter 1 teaches.
	They'll worship the creation rather than the creator.
	We're watching that with the climate things.
	Also, God says, the people be so perverted in their mind, they'll give them over to their own lusts.
	Drag Queen Story Hour is...
	It's evidence of a nation that has been given over to these things.
	God's turned them over.
	It's like God says, all right, you want this?
	This is what you're going to get.
	And the price is going to be rather significant to the point where God says, I will give them a reprobate mind, not just meaning a mind that's just totally bizarre or perverted, but a mind that is so far gone.
	Even in its own best interest, it'll make decisions that will destroy itself.
	In other words, the people in charge, the way the Bible describes it, the people in charge will make decisions, thinking really to please themselves, But in the process, they're destroying themselves and they're destroying everything around them.
	That's what we see the leaders doing right now in Washington.
	We see it on school councils.
	We hear from judges.
	We see it with teachers.
	And listen, not all teachers are bad.
	I have some friends in the public school system that are fantastic.
	But the problem is it's rampant.
	It's like a cancer.
	So, yeah, these things are definitely a sign.
	This perverted place that we have landed, Jesus himself described it as being like the days of Lot when you get to the end, and that's what the days of Lot would describe where we are now.
	Then you throw in Yuval Noah Harari.
	I mean, this guy says...
	He talks about the thought of God being foolish, and he says, we will be gods.
	And he even teaches that we will live forever.
	Listen, Mike, that's the same lie that was from the Garden of Eden in Genesis chapters, in the early chapters of Genesis, when the serpent approaches Eve and says, did God really say that?
	Then he said, if you eat of the fruit, he knows you won't die.
	He knows that you will just be like him.
	You'll be like God.
	That was the lie.
	This is the same thing these guys from the World Economic Forum are saying now.
	If you go along with our transhumanism, if you're willing to be augmented, you'll never die.
	You will ascend and you will be like God.
	Yuval Harari has millions and millions of followers worldwide.
	And they believe what they're pushing.
	That's the shocking thing.
	They believe they are gods, and they believe that God himself doesn't exist.
	In fact, was it at the WEF that said that Jesus is fake news, or the original fake news?
	Yeah, it was Yuval Harari himself who said that.
	There we go.
	Those were like his exact words.
	You know, it's interesting, Mike, if you go back, let's say, 20 years in the world of Protestant Christianity in America, you had these faith teachers that would say, hey, you can be like God.
	I mean, it was like you can speak into existence your millions of dollars or whatever, right?
	I mean...
	It's bad in religion, but this has become a global thing.
	But it feeds to the dark side of humanity.
	And the dark side of humanity seems to be enjoying this.
	So speaking of the dark side of humanity, what we've watched come out shockingly over the last three or four years, it brings up a question in my mind that I'm sure you hear all the time, but I'll pose it for you here publicly.
	And the answer is, I mean, the question is, excuse me, where is God?
	What level of evil is he waiting for?
	To intervene because there were lots of interventions in, you know, Sodom and Gomorrah and evil gone awry and so on, especially in the Old Testament.
	But what's taking so long?
	Because it's getting crazy, crazy evil.
	Well, that's a really good question.
	I don't know how much, it's like how much longer, how much worse can things get?
	So let's just go back to pre-COVID. We're allowed to talk about COVID on your program, which is great.
	You can talk about everything.
	You can talk about everything, which is, yeah, that's one of the things I really, really, really appreciate about you.
	And so just go back pre-COVID. Nobody would have thought in 2019 that we would be here now.
	And you look, I mean, I never thought I'd be here to live through lockdowns and the insanity stuff, drag queens, Tory Hour, all these things.
	Unbelievable what's happening.
	How much further are we going to go?
	Balcianaga or whatever that company's called.
	Listen, it's obviously they're promoting child pornography.
	Well, what in the world's going on with them?
	Nothing, because these globalists, these elites, they're all involved with this stuff.
	I mean, I could talk about this probably for hours, so I won't go too far down that path, but it's absolutely wicked.
	The problem is...
	We don't know how much further along this path we're going to be.
	I don't suspect a lot further, but God does say in Revelation chapters 14 and 15, He talks about the sinfulness, the wickedness of humanity being so full, He calls them like grapes of wrath, so full that you're spewing over with wickedness, but God allows it to get that full.
	So it's going to continue to go this direction, and it's going to get worse.
	Here's something kind of weird, is the Pope announced this just the other day that he had visions that things were going to get far worse than they already are.
	I'm thinking the Bible tells us that, and the Pope is part of the problem.
	You know, the Pope is the one driving most of these bad policies of the World Economic Forum, the UN, the Biden administration, climatology, or whatever you want to call it.
	He's driving these things.
	And so it is going to continue to get worse.
	But the Bible also tells us in 2 Peter 3 that God's desire is that none should perish.
	So in the process, there are a lot of people Who are waking up.
	There's two different sides.
	There's the woke side, which is totally lost.
	And then there's those who are actually waking up, and they're seeing the truth.
	They're saying, hey, something is seriously wrong.
	Something is seriously whack.
	There's a delusion that seems to be going across the land, especially in the Western world.
	When you have Putin from Russia and Xi from China, you have...
	Virtually any Islamic country is going to tell you the United States is absolutely, they've lost their minds, this woke stuff.
	I mean, they're looking at us going, you guys are sick.
	What is the matter with you?
	Even the arms trafficker guy that was just released, what was his name, Victor Bout, I think, he did that interview in Russia, and he says American culture has gone insane, but in jail, the American people in jail were normal people.
	And rational, but outside of jail, the culture has gone completely insane.
	It's tearing itself apart.
	This is an arms trafficking dealer talking about how bad U.S. culture has become.
	Yeah.
	So you have him.
	I read that, the whole thing.
	And yeah, he's saying America has lost its weight.
	This is not the America we knew.
	So you have this arms trafficking dealer, which is one of the most notorious arms traffickers in the world.
	Who can look at America and say, wow, they're willing to trade Brittany Griner or whatever her name is, this pot-smoking person.
	This is insane.
	You go to prison, listen, these Balcianica people, they'd be killed in prison.
	The people in prison have moral standards against child sex trafficking.
	That is correct.
	They actually murder child rapists in prison.
	You know what?
	I'll tell you what else.
	I travel to the Mideast rather frequently.
	I don't care if you're Muslims or Jews, but especially the Muslims in the streets, they don't put up with that.
	Your kids, Mike, are actually safe in the streets over in the Middle East because they do not put up with that.
	When our kids were young, we used to go there.
	We didn't have to worry about them.
	If they got lost, they'd get returned because nobody messes with them.
	They have standards.
	They don't wait for a court to decide what to do with a child with a predator.
	They'll take matters into their own hands.
	So I have a...
	You know, a couple of theories I want to run past you on this.
	The rise of demonism, it seems like it's a kind of almost demonic possession in some people, or demonic influence, or demonic presence, or something like that, that has caused a lot of otherwise normal people, it seems, to turn into these evil demons.
	Do you think that that, is that in your mind just a Metaphor?
	Or is something like that actually happening?
	What do you think?
	You know, I actually, I believe it's actually happening.
	I'm not someone who goes around casting out demons or anything like that.
	But you can't, I mean, how do you describe the wickedness of some of these things?
	Well, if we just take this Balcieniga thing, you have the Kim Kardashians of the world and And all these people that are involved, they're willing to say, wow, that's a really bad thing, but they sure don't separate from them.
	When you look at some of the facts on this Baal Sienega thing, I mean, I have it.
	I got the pictures of it.
	They have Baal, B-A-A-L, which is a god, this evil, demonic god.
	And that's, you know, so you start tying that in with the whole Balcienica thing in their own publications to sell their wares to the rich people that are out there.
	And you're thinking, my goodness, they're actually, they're openly bringing back The worship of Baal, this demonic God, into their presence.
	I think a lot more of that is going on than I ever would have imagined just a few years ago.
	If you look back into the time when Jesus was here, there's no doubt that demons were cast out.
	There's several different passages that you have in the New Testament where there's demons.
	We do know that when you read the book of Revelation, there's going to be a significant increase of demonic and satanic worship that takes place.
	So what would make me think that there would be less now than at the time of Jesus?
	Well, when I look at it, I should expect it.
	And I mean, just when you hear the stuff that Nancy Pelosi says, am I allowed to talk about Nancy Pelosi here?
	Yes.
	We mock her daily.
	What do you mean?
	Okay, good.
	So, I mean, you look at her and you hear the things that come out of her mouth or these other people in Congress or the Senate, you're going, what?
	I mean, how could you go?
	I mean, I don't want to talk about the drag queen story hour the whole time, but I mean, how could you get there without being demonically influenced?
	There has to be demon influence in this.
	And as far as Balenciaga that you mentioned, I forgot who said this, but they said if you break down that company name into Latin, it's Balenciaga, which means that Bal is king.
	And that's...
	It's something like that.
	In the Latin, it was going around the internet about a week or two ago.
	That's what it came out to.
	Well, actually, it wasn't.
	I did a lot of fact checking on it.
	It turns out it wasn't the Latin.
	This is the funny part.
	And one of the fact checkers says, it's not in the Latin.
	This whole thing is made up.
	Well, okay.
	But then they went on and said, however, if you do it in this particular language, it does come out Baal as king.
	I'm going, you fact-checkers are such idiots.
	You just proved, regardless, it still comes out the same way.
	So when you look at it this way, and I know from Old Testament studies, from Baal and Molech, you have these gods.
	They were pagan gods.
	They were demonic.
	And you had child sacrifices that were involved.
	So, we have what?
	How many babies have been aborted in America?
	70 million or 60 million?
	Oh, I think those are the low estimates.
	Yeah, okay.
	Hundreds of millions.
	Okay, so you take...
	Yeah, no kidding.
	You take the abortion industry, and now we have it with...
	Aborting babies isn't enough.
	So, well, now that since these babies are born, let's just do another type of sacrifice with them, turning over to these sexual gods, because that's what they're doing.
	Children are sex objects.
	The head of Planned Parenthood specifically said that.
	So you're looking at these things going, okay, this is the direction that these people think Whether or not they are possessed, which I believe personally a lot of them are, or not, they are doing things that would please the demons.
	Right, right, they are.
	But what strikes me is that I think Satan always plays tricks on people to trick them into consenting to possession or demonic influence.
	And that leads me to my next question.
	It's on the same topic.
	Mark of the beast and digital currency systems.
	Because my understanding is that if you surrender to the digital currency system and you take the mark upon your hand or your forehead and you participate in that, then you are, in fact, inviting Satan into your life.
	Now, is that a stretch on my part to think that?
	Or is that reflected in scripture in your understanding?
	Partly.
	So I would say this, digital currency in and of itself is not the mark of the beast.
	But I think it is the tool that's going to be used to implement the mark of the beast.
	So, because, I mean, you've done a lot on digital currency, just on your own program.
	Well, I mean, just like private cryptos, but I mean the central bank.
	Oh, yeah, that's what I'm talking about.
	I'm not talking about Bitcoin.
	I'm talking about, yeah, the CBDCs.
	What they're talking about now in America, they already started to work on in China.
	The UK announced the other day they're going for it.
	We're in a 12-week testing period.
	Trial system right now for CBDCs.
	And just for all of your listeners, I'm sure most of your listeners are pretty sharp and they already know, but the difference between the Bitcoins, Ethereum and those, and CBDCs is the problem that the Feds have and the governments of the world have with the Bitcoins is they're decentralized digital currency.
	They don't have control over them.
	The governments don't like that.
	They want to control the people.
	So that's why they're going with a centralized bank digital currency.
	They're going to have to eliminate these other digital currencies.
	I believe, Mike, that we're going to see more and more people be taken out when it comes to digital currencies.
	They're going to have to paint such a bad picture of digital currencies to the public that people are going to demand a central bank digital currency.
	Because once it goes to the CBDC, the central bank digital currency is centralized.
	And once you're locked into that centralized system, they can completely control what you can buy, what you can't buy.
	It's a surveillance system too.
	Oh, surveillance system on steroids.
	They're going to know every single thing that you do.
	They're going to be able to control you for your carbon credits, all of that.
	However, and that's coming fast.
	I don't know how fast, but it is coming because the government's, yeah.
	Well then, so here's a practical question that I have that I think a lot of our listeners would share.
	In your opinion then, If I have a business, I have an online retail business, as everybody knows, Health Ranger Store.
	What if the government says, well, in order to conduct business now, you must use central bank digital currencies, and all the banks go into that.
	As a Christian, what are the boundaries that I must hold on that?
	Am I allowed to sell products If I'm forced into that system, or must I reject it all and close down my business in order to maintain my Christian values?
	That's a real question that people have.
	Yes, I've got that same question, because if you and I are still here, we're both going to have the same problem on the exact same day.
	Yes, true.
	And so, I mean, I've had to think through this.
	I've had this question many times, especially over the last few weeks in different forms.
	So let me deal with the Mark of the Beast situation first, because I think they'll help us to understand.
	So the Mark of the Beast, you can't have a Mark of the Beast until you have an Antichrist.
	One particular person has to be recognized because in Revelation chapter 13, false prophet is there with Antichrist.
	You have the image of the beast.
	And then at that point, no one can buy or sell unless they receive his mark and worship him.
	Or his image.
	So it is a specific act of worship.
	So as Central Bank is rolled out right now, let's say it's rolled out tomorrow, it's not going to be an act of worship.
	People say, well, you're submitting to the government or whatever.
	Well, right now, when you're trading money in fiat currency, guess what you're agreeing with?
	You're agreeing with the The central bank system, yeah.
	Yeah, you are.
	You're already doing that.
	But we're not at a point of worship yet.
	But here's the part for you and I, Mike, that we're going to have to work through.
	You're ahead of the curve on almost everybody on this.
	I could probably learn a lot from you.
	But I think that, quite frankly, learning how to work within the system but not within the system Is going to be a process.
	And being able to move forward and recognize, okay, how am I still going to get my groceries?
	How am I going to get around?
	How am I going to do these things?
	But still understand we do not have a mark of the beast yet.
	I watched one of your videos not too long ago.
	We operate within the system that God has created.
	We have the will to make a decision.
	We have to consent, as you said a few minutes ago, to agree with the devil, whether it's for possession or when it comes to the mark of the beast.
	So we can consent to spend money, but once it comes to consent of worship, baby, that's a whole different ballgame.
	When you have the implementation of the Mark of the Beast, and we have to have a ten-kingdom system, according to the Bible, and an antichrist, and then it is an act of worship.
	So I think what's happening with the CBDCs now and how they're going to roll out is going to be a test.
	They're going to see who's compliant, who is not.
	I suspect people like us and all of our viewers are not going to be as compliant as others.
	That's my guess.
	So they're going to get a compliance level, and they aren't going to lock it down right away.
	There's going to be some time.
	There's going to be some incentives to be willing to buy in.
	And most people are going to say, man, this is really good.
	Kind of like with the shot, right?
	Hey, this is really good.
	Isn't this wonderful?
	Until things start happening.
	Yeah, they'll have universal basic income incentives, so you get stimulus money, but only if you sign up for the system.
	But I like how you said, so what we can set, we can frame in our own minds that we are operating behind enemy lines on this planet, in this realm, and behind enemy lines, we may have to go through the motions of the regime that In order to function, in order to get solutions to people to help spread the awakening, and perhaps we even say, you know, pray to God.
	God, please offer me protection as we use the tools of the enemy to remain viable in doing what we're doing to spread truth.
	Would that be...
	Like an acceptable strategy, you think, in the eyes of God?
	I think it's spot on.
	In fact, I was interviewing somebody a week or two ago about central bank digital currencies, and he said, look, the system is developing in such a way that no one will be able to escape it.
	And I said, however, when you look at the book of Revelation, there are people who survive.
	We know that, who don't take the mark of the beast.
	And he goes, I believe it's going to be partly through supernatural protection.
	So somehow, behind enemy lines, the way you described it, so spot on.
	And that's how it's going to be.
	Behind enemy lines, operating, and yet have supernatural protection.
	People who are in the military probably would really understand this.
	Also people who have been involved in, let's say, A drug dealer or something like that, right?
	You're in there working within, trying not to get caught, going along with it.
	You have a facade on the outside, but you're really doing something else.
	There's going to be a way to survive this.
	I don't know what it is yet, but there has to be a way to survive.
	Personally, I think I'm going to be raptured before it gets to the mark of the beast.
	But regardless of that or not, the digital currency at first will seem, hey, this is good.
	Mike, I also think of it like this.
	If you take somebody who, let's say they're worth $50 million, Right now.
	Or let's just say $10 million.
	And they've worked really hard all their life.
	They're saving up for their kids.
	Their kids are going to have inheritance.
	They have some homes.
	They've got a great business and all that.
	All of a sudden, central bank digital currencies rolls around, let's say, two years from now.
	And they're told, well, guess what?
	You may have $10 million in the bank, but you're going to have this universal basic income.
	We're going to take everything out of the bank, and you're going to be flatlined like everybody else, and you have to comply.
	Man, that is going to tweak people right now that aren't even thinking about it.
	Because those people are going to really be bent when this thing gets implemented.
	So at first, I think it's going to be a very soft sell.
	You have 10 million in the bank, you're going to have the equivalent of 10 million in digital currencies.
	At first, it's going to sound good.
	Hey, this works.
	And then the noose is going to tighten.
	Well, I've thought about this a lot, and given that there's programmable money in the central bank digital currency system, I want to offer this as a variation of what you just said.
	I think they will allow people to transfer the $10 million into the system, but it will expire in 24 months.
	They force you to spend it, which will be economic stimulus to keep the zombie economy looking like it's functioning, but then two or three years down the road, you're just as broke as everybody else, like you said.
	But I think they'll just have expiration dates on the money.
	I agree.
	I do also.
	In fact, I've read quite a bit about that.
	It probably will, especially if they have universal basic income.
	Nobody's going to be able to save.
	If you work this out long enough, you know, Klaus Schwab says, World Economic Forum, by 2030 you'll have nothing and be happy.
	Well, you know, a lot of people are not going to be happy.
	H.G. Wells, in his work, The New World Order, this is 100 years ago he wrote it.
	He said, many people will hate the New World Order and will die protesting it.
	And H.G. Wells was a huge globalist.
	He loved the idea of this utopian world where man rules.
	He had the idea of a world brain, which we would think of like AI on steroids.
	A world brain that has everybody's data in it.
	He actually had this.
	I don't know if you knew that.
	Almost 100 years ago.
	A world brain with everybody's data in it, and everybody has an identification number.
	I think, what a coincidence.
	The Bible says it's going to go this way, and that's what all these people are talking about.
	Let's make them all have an ID. Let's go all this particular direction.
	And the universal basic income, I believe, is going to happen just like you said.
	At first, it's going to sound good, and then it's just a matter of time before everybody's going to be flat-lined.
	Right, right.
	And when they say, you will own nothing and be happy, I think that's medicated into artificial happiness.
	So I think it's really translated as, you will own nothing and be medicated.
	Well, actually, have you looked at Metaverse with Mark Zuckerberg?
	Well, yeah, I mean, we covered it editorially quite a lot.
	Yeah, I mean, when you start thinking about that, I mean, I'm not a tech guy, but I've read enough to go, that's kind of the concept of metaverse.
	You're going to be in this thing and you're just going to be happy.
	You know what else is interesting, not to bring up medication, in Revelation, the book of Revelation, chapter 18, when you have this judgment at the end?
	The Bible is very interesting.
	It says this.
	Can I read this real quick?
	Sure.
	It'll be short.
	I promise it'll be short.
	At the end, it's the final judgment.
	The Bible says, Revelation chapter 18, the light of a lamp shall not shine in you anymore.
	The voice of the bridegroom and bride is not heard anymore.
	For your merchants were the great men of the earth, and by your sorcery all the nations were deceived, or by their sorcery.
	So the merchants, the great men of the earth.
	I put Bill Gates in there.
	I put these people in there.
	If this were to be now, in this generation, by your sorcery that were sorcery, With the Greek word pharmakia, we get our English word pharmacy.
	By your pharmaceuticals, they deceived all the nations were deceived by the great men of the earth, the great merchants of the earth.
	Not the great merchants.
	You look and go, by their pharmaceuticals.
	So you talk about medicating everybody, you're just going to be happy.
	When you look at, I mean, man, you start looking at augmentation, you start looking at Neuralink, these things that they're saying we're going to do, and we're also sold like this, which I kind of wonder if it's tied in with the mark of the beast, too.
	It's being sold to us already in this narrative that's coming, hey, you're going to be better, or as we already mentioned, you'll be like God, you're going to be a better person.
	Those who don't go along with this are going to be a lower class citizen.
	And it's going to create two classes of citizens, which is also very biblical for the tribulation period that is coming, I believe, rather soon.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	And let me ask you then about that, because you mentioned rapture earlier.
	And I don't know exactly your beliefs on this.
	I'm going to ask you about it.
	But you may know I have been somewhat critical of those who...
	Use a pre-trib rapture interpretation as an excuse to not prepare at all.
	I've always thought, well, God wants you to be active at all times in what you're doing.
	So that's my only criticism of that one narrative of that.
	But what's your take on rapture and what people should be doing now to prepare for what's coming?
	Yeah, is that your only criticism on it?
	That's pretty much the one that I... That's the main one.
	That I'm sticking with.
	Yeah, right there.
	That's the main one.
	No, I get it.
	So, I'm pre-trib rapture.
	I believe we're going to be raptured before the tribulation.
	However, I have the same problem you do.
	I have a lot of colleagues and friends that are pre-trib.
	I also have friends that have believed the rapture doesn't happen until then, the rapture happens in the middle, you know, whatever.
	The problem that I have with...
	Most of the people I know that are pre-tribulation rapture is exactly what you just said.
	And what I tried to explain to them is just what we already talked about.
	If you go back three years, you would have never had a clue that you'd be locked down and shut down, and we'd be trillions of dollars in the hole, and all these bizarre things would be happening.
	We'd be shot up and vaxxed up, and now they're forcing more vaccines on people if you want to buy and sell.
	I said, just work this out.
	You look at the supply chain.
	You look at what's happening with fertilizer, which, by the way, Mike, I believe is totally manipulated.
	It's intentional.
	These things could be fixed.
	So you look at this.
	If you work this out for six more months, where do you think we're going to be?
	If you work it out for one more year, where do you think we're going to be?
	Just work it out.
	12 months.
	If we're not wrapped in the 12 months and you're not prepared...
	You're going to be in trouble.
	You really do need to be prepared.
	We hear what's going to happen with the freight trains.
	We know what the government did, but this stuff isn't going to stop.
	Right now, we're staring at a Great collapse economically, which I believe these globalists wanted to happen because then they can crush the people.
	They can bring in their digital currencies.
	The people will cry out, hey, save us.
	And that's what they want.
	And it's a tactic.
	So I believe every person needs to be prepared.
	And my friends that are pre-trib rapture, listen, Do this.
	And some of them do actually prep.
	And if they're worried, well, I won't be able to eat my food.
	I won't eat my food if I'm rapture.
	Well, who really cares?
	Listen, do this.
	Why do you care about food with God?
	I mean...
	There's some weird thoughts out there.
	Believe me, I deal with a lot of them.
	All right, so if you get raptured and you have prepped and you don't get to eat your food, hey, leave things behind that people can find and come to know the Lord.
	Because quite frankly, if you're raptured, people are going to break into your house and steal everything you've got.
	And if you have food in there, Great!
	You know, let them have it, and it may be through you that they come to know the Lord, because people are going to survive.
	It's not going to be easy, but people are going to survive during that time.
	But I think it's foolish not to prepare.
	Joseph prepared.
	When you look at the biblical precedence, Joseph prepared.
	He had an understanding things were going to get bad, right?
	He prepared.
	Solomon wrote, hey, the ant is wise enough to realize it needs to prepare.
	It's so funny because I've even said this in my podcast.
	If God takes me out of here, whoever's left behind is going to find a lot of ammo.
	I have a really, really close friend of mine.
	He's up in Minnesota, and he was on my program.
	He said, hey, this is what you're going to need.
	You're going to need food, and you're going to need ammo.
	And he goes, you better get as much as you can.
	I think I might be funding a small local war or something at this point if that happens.
	Maybe I should put warnings on the ammo boxes or something.
	Please use the best intention.
	Only shoot zombies or something.
	Seriously, Mike, something like that, people are going to survive because of things like that that are left behind.
	Yeah.
	No, that's true.
	I mean, it's all about helping the community survive and reestablishing the rule of law and so on.
	But it is a funny thought of people like myself who are preppers.
	What would we be leaving behind?
	But if you're left behind, you're in a bad situation no matter how much food you find.
	You are.
	It's going to be hard because technology is different now.
	People think, well, hide in the basement like World War II. Listen, technology is far advanced from the days of Nazi Germany.
	You can be found so many different ways.
	So it's going to be harder.
	So leave everything behind for people that they might be able to survive.
	Yep, exactly.
	All right.
	Well, thank you for answering that question.
	And I know there are so many more discussions we can have.
	I hope we get a chance to do it again, but we're coming up on time.
	And so let me ask you, first of all, I want to mention your website again, hopeforourtimes.com.
	And you've got successful video channels.
	You do a lot of interviews.
	Anything you want to share with people about how they can follow your work?
	Yeah, also my YouTube, it's the same name.
	Hope for Our Times, YouTube.
	And I, you know, like you, Micah, I post a lot on there.
	I do have an app like you do because I got to talk.
	I'm trying to get people to go to my app because I can talk about things you can't talk on YouTube.
	Exactly.
	And so YouTube is not being kind to me for the last quite some time now.
	Well, I'm amazed you're still there, actually.
	Yeah.
	I don't think it's much longer.
	I mean, last two months, it's been pretty rough.
	So I'm really trying to build up the app side because I like to talk about...
	I love talking about this.
	And the reality is there's some evil people at the top.
	And they're trying to make us all get shot up more.
	And these climate lockdowns are coming.
	And they're going to be worse than what we've already experienced.
	And I don't think a lot of people understand that yet.
	So, on iPhones and Android, people can just search for the app, Hope for Our Times?
	Yes, both.
	Hope for Our Times, it's on both.
	And I do actually have, listen, I do believe there's hope, because our hope is in Jesus Christ.
	So, even the Pope is saying things are going to get worse.
	So, that should be a consideration.
	Hey, pay attention, everybody.
	But...
	Listen, our hope is in Jesus.
	My hope is not in this world.
	My citizenship is in heaven.
	And this world is going to have a lot more problems, but I'm not worried about it.
	And you don't need to be either, everyone.
	That's a really healthy attitude.
	And also Ron Paul recently warned there's going to be economic riots because of what's happening with the currency.
	And I think he's right.
	Some dark times coming, but if we have awareness and faith and knowledge, as I've said many times, we can make it through.
	We can survive this.
	We can get to the other side.
	They can't kill all of us, in other words.
	Listen, we know.
	And, you know, we are.
	We're going to get to the other side regardless.
	I believe in the afterlife.
	I believe in the resurrection.
	And so I'm not worried about this.
	But I do see all of the warning signs.
	The Bible told us it was going to look this way.
	There's hundreds of signs of what it was going to look like.
	And it's looking like all hundreds of them are coming about at the exact same time.
	It's wild.
	It's wild.
	Well, thank you so much, Tom, for joining me.
	This has been a fascinating discussion, and I just want to encourage people to follow your work because I think you have a very powerful message that's critical for our time.
	So thank you so much for joining me.
	Great.
	Thanks, Mike.
	I look forward to talking to you again soon.
	Okay, you too.
	Now, hang on.
	Don't hang up yet because we've got to finish the sink.
	But let me just wrap it up here.
	For those listening, feel free to repost this interview on your own channels and other platforms as well.
	And thank you for listening.
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