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Jan. 10, 2023 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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Situation Update, 01/10/23 - A job-sucking ECONOMIC VORTEX...
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Welcome to the situation update for Tuesday, January 10th, 2023.
Mike Adams here.
Thank you for joining me.
The working title for today's episode is the following.
A job-sucking economic vortex has just been unleashed upon the world.
And it will get worse from here.
That's the working title.
I may change it, but that gives you a hint of what we're going to focus on here because the layoffs are being announced in a flurry.
Just as we talked about a couple of weeks ago.
Remember I said right after the new year there would be all these big tech layoffs and I said there'd be at least a million layoffs in 2023.
Seems like we're going to get to a million by March, probably.
It's happening even faster than I feared.
But we're going to talk about why that is being engineered, what's the purpose of it, what this has to do with inflation, and so much more.
A lot of economic issues, including some about used car prices.
Goldman Sachs even cutting jobs.
We're going to talk about some cryptos, talk about gas bills increasing in California, as well as bank losses that are massive, especially in Europe.
So bank losses are going to spill over into the United States.
The giant global house of cards of debt is about to come tumbling down.
Before we get to that, I just want to give prayers to Lynette Hardaway.
She is the Diamond in Diamond and Silk, and she has passed away in the last day.
She and Silk were incredibly informative and entertaining and spirited.
Just wonderful women to watch during the, especially the 2016 Trump campaign and ever since.
So we regret to inform you that Diamond has passed.
May prayers be with her and her family.
And then on the positive side, Buffalo Bills football player DeMar Hamlin has been released from the hospital in what appears to be one of the most miraculous recoveries that any of us can remember.
It's really extraordinary.
Of course, he was the one who lost consciousness, passed out, and was given CPR for nine or ten minutes on the field, taken away by ambulance, taken to the hospital, put on a ventilator at first.
And we all thought, oh my gosh, he's not going to make it at this point.
I mean, he's not breathing on his own.
He's not conscious.
Well, he's back.
I mean, it's got to be a miracle.
This man has got to be a living miracle.
The example of God moving through people and bringing them back to life for a purpose.
And, you know, we have interviewed other people that God brought back, such as Eben Alexander.
I'm very curious.
Let's watch what Damar Hamlin does with this incredible gift of life.
He seems to be a very gracious young man, and I think that God is going to use him for a greater purpose, way beyond football.
Nothing wrong with football, but this is bigger than football.
That's good news.
Let's just keep an eye.
And Mr.
DeMar Hamlin, we offer you prayers and blessings in your continued recovery, and we pray that you will use your gift to teach humanity about faith and miracles.
All right, in other news, House Republicans, now that Kevin McCarthy is finally Speaker of the House after, what was it, 15 rounds of voting or something?
I didn't know how long that was going to go on.
But they have voted unanimously in the last day to repeal the funding for those 87,000 IRS agents.
Remember that?
Now, you may recall the so-called Inflation Reduction Act is what granted the IRS another $79.6 billion in funding over the next decade.
That's a lot of money for IRS agents.
Well, under the GOP leadership and Kevin McCarthy, the House of Representatives voted 221 to 210, that's essentially all GOP, to repeal the funding for the 87,000 IRS agents.
Now, I admit it's not clear to me.
What exactly this means?
Because they voted on a bill to rescind the funding for the agents.
But if it's a bill, then it's not going to get passed in the Senate and it's not going to be signed by Joe Biden.
So I'm not sure that this means anything or I may be misinterpreting it.
I do know that the House controls funding, obviously, and I do know that there are other maneuvers that the House of Representatives can pursue in order to halt funding without having to go through the Senate and the president.
But I don't know if that maneuver has been invoked with this.
So I'll try to get you more information about this tomorrow.
But at the very least, they're trying, I suppose.
They're trying to repeal the funding for these 87,000 IRS agents.
But maybe they're only doing it because they know it doesn't matter because that's a GOP classic, you know, is to vote for something like vote for building the wall when it can't possibly pass, you know.
And then when they're in power, oh, they won't vote for the wall, right?
Classic GOP maneuver.
So we're about to find out if this, if McCarthy and the new GOP, if they are playing games, are they playing mind games?
Is it another psyop on the American people or are they actually serious about making things happen?
Well, they put Jim Jordan in charge of, I guess it's a committee?
It's going to investigate the weaponization of the government against the people.
That's pretty cool.
Jim Jordan is the real deal.
Jim Jordan, I believe, Jim Jordan can be trusted.
He is a real representative of the American people.
And so is Matt Gaetz and quite a few other good people in there, too.
You saw there were, what, 20 or 21 of them that kept voting against McCarthy until he agreed to these demands by the GOP holdouts.
And then Dan Crenshaw.
The Grinch, he accused them of being terrorists, right?
Really?
Crenshaw, you know, McCain 2.0?
There's some real pieces of work in the GOP and Crenshaw is one of them.
Anyway, we'll see where this goes, but it's going to be an exciting year in the House, that's for sure.
Now, here's a piece of news about firearms, but it really applies to much more than just that.
It applies to regulatory overreach by government agencies.
So, from Breitbart.com, by A.W.R. Hawkins, who is my favorite Second Amendment writer, A.W.R. Hawkins says, Appeals Court strikes down bump stock ban in 13-3 decision.
This is the appeals court for the Fifth Circuit striking down the regulatory gun control that banned bump stocks under former President Donald Trump.
So this is in contradiction to some other circuit courts, of course, and this may be heard by the Supreme Court.
But essentially, the Fifth Circuit Court said that any such actions on guns and gun parts should be taken by Congress, not the executive branch.
This is very similar to the EPA decision from last year.
And I regret I don't recall who versus the EPA.
But the Supreme Court struck down the EPA's regulatory overreach in the context of the EPA declaring that CO2 is a pollutant and therefore all fossil fuels have to be restricted or eliminated from the economy.
The Supreme Court said, hey, that's not what the EPA was formed to do.
You can't just make up new missions like that, especially missions that have these profound economic consequences.
You know, you, the EPA, you're a bunch of unelected bureaucrats.
And this is such an important decision about CO2 that it's got to go to Congress.
You've got to have the House and the Senate vote on this if you want to say CO2 is a pollutant.
Of course, even if they vote on it, it doesn't change the laws of physics and atmospheric chemistry.
You can't make CO2 a pollutant when it's actually a nutrient.
You can't make it a pollutant just by voting for it to be a pollutant.
You can't vote that 2 plus 2 equals 5, right?
Although I'm sure they're going to try that.
But anyway, back to gun control.
Remember the bump stocks?
The bump stocks are these kind of add-on devices that you put on the end of an AR-15.
Well, it kind of covers part of the trigger control group and the hand grip and the butt stock.
And if you hold it just right, I play with one of these one time.
I didn't like it because it didn't have good control.
I'm more of a precision operator on firearms.
Like, I want rounds to go where I want them to go.
I'm not into the spray and pray philosophy of gunfire.
It kind of freaks me out actually.
So anyway, I played with one of these one time.
I was like, okay, that is not cool.
I'm not liking that, but it's not a machine gun.
It doesn't make your gun a machine gun.
It just, it's just something that people just have fun with on July 4th or something, just blowing through $500 in ammo on some paper targets, you know, just to impress their friends, right?
That kind of thing.
It's just, it's a novelty item.
It's a novelty item.
It's not a tactical item.
They don't send anybody into combat with this.
Of course, the combat rifles have automatic or burst mode anyway, but...
Nobody, not even tactical teams, are using this because you lose control.
Anyway, the court said, hey, this does not make your AR-15 a machine gun, and therefore the ban is unconstitutional.
Now, I find it interesting that Donald Trump supported this ban.
Which was kind of a scary line that he crossed because it set up the ATF to then get really aggressive and think, well, gosh, if we could ban that, we could ban other things.
And now they're trying to ban arm braces, of course, which is especially frustrating to me because I own AR-15 pistols with arm braces.
I love the arm braces.
I love my little Maxim 7.62x39 pistol, too, with an arm brace.
It's great.
It's an awesome little machine there for self-defense.
So I've interviewed attorneys and so on talking about this.
The ATF is about to issue some new rules, and then they would go into effect, I don't know what, maybe four months later or something like that.
They have not, as I understand it, they haven't really issued those rules yet, not the final rules, so we're still waiting to see what happens.
But the ATF is trying to ban arm races.
Well, What's fascinating about this fifth court decision is that it would probably stop the ATF from moving ahead or at least succeeding with banning arm braces because if it turns out they can't ban bump stocks, how can they ban arm braces?
So this is all headed for the Supreme Court, and based on the current Supreme Court makeup, which has been very much pro-Second Amendment, and many recent decisions, key decisions that are just huge, even the EPA decision, it means that the ATF is going to be neutered.
That's right.
The ATF is going to be cut down to size, which is a good thing because they're another out-of-control rogue federal agency.
So I'm not saying run out and buy bump stocks, obviously, because apparently those are still considered illegal by the ATF. And besides, there's no real tactical use to them.
But in my opinion, this is good news because it's going to reel in the overreach of the ATF and the EPA and other federal agencies.
And speaking of gun control, by the way, Germany is saying they're going to ban, quote, dangerous semi-automatic firearms.
Really?
They're dangerous?
You mean they have projectiles?
Hmm.
So, the Interior Minister of Germany, who is linked to Antifa, by the way, is putting together legislation that would ban people from owning all semi-automatic firearms.
Or, looks like, yeah, all of them, from private individuals.
Of course, the government can have semi-automatic firearms.
You know, the government goons and the government security teams and everything.
And what are they citing for this?
The reason?
That so-called attempted coup against Germany that you heard about a month ago or so, and they arrested some 71-year-old guy barely walking with his cane, and he was supposed to be a revolutionary insurrectionist leader of some kind that is trying to overthrow the German government.
Yeah, absolutely.
They basically, they swatted a senior center.
They tore up the bingo game.
It's like, you're all going to jail.
You're plotting an insurrection against Germany.
And then they used that to ban guns, to justify the ban.
They put all that in the media.
Oh, these are dangerous terrorists.
They thought about grenades.
They had grenade thoughts in their minds.
They were going to overthrow Germany.
You know, Maybe the bureaucrats in Germany should consider the history of who actually took over Germany that was dangerous for humanity.
That did not happen from citizens.
That happened from the German government.
That's right, the German parliament, or whatever it's called over there.
It was Germany's own political leaders that became the danger to the world and carried out violence and the Holocaust.
And they did it with the help of automatic weapons in the hands of government.
So maybe if anybody shouldn't have automatic weapons, it should be the government that committed the Holocaust.
How about that?
How about no semi-automatic weapons in the hands of the German government or the UK government or the French government, but only citizens are allowed to own semi-automatic?
How about that?
And full capacity magazines, only citizens are allowed to own them.
I think the governments of Europe should be limited to two rounds in a magazine.
How about that?
Only two rounds, and they have to carry like 20 spare mags.
Let's see if they can figure out how to swap them out that fast.
How about that?
But you know, why is Germany trying to disarm its citizens?
Why was all this set up in advance?
You already know the reason.
Because Germany is going to starve its citizens to death and freeze them out and try to annihilate them with more vaccines.
And guess what's coming?
More climate lockdowns and the de-industrialization of Europe.
Beginning with Germany, where how much industry has already been shut down because of the energy scarcity problem there.
So they know the uprisings are coming.
This is why they want to disarm people as quickly as possible.
And this is one of the trends of 2023 that I talked about yesterday.
It's not just Brazil, folks.
It's going to be Germany.
It's going to be France.
It's going to be Spain.
It's going to be the UK. Maybe Canada.
Who knows?
Uprisings are going to happen all over the world, including in Central and South America and in the Middle East and in Africa, Southeast Asia, you name it, and probably Australia and New Zealand.
Uprisings are going to occur like never before.
So governments are desperate to disarm their citizens as quickly as possible, even using the most flimsy justifications they can come up with.
And by the way, the layoffs that we're focused on here today in this podcast, or we will be shortly, the layoffs are going to hit Europe.
Well, they've already hit hard, but they're going to get far worse throughout this year.
The layoffs, the joblessness, the desperation, people being evicted from their homes and apartments, people living on the streets in cities like Berlin and many others across Europe.
It's going to get much worse from here forward.
And the governments know it.
And the governments have declared war against their own people.
Part of that war is vaccine genocide.
And the other part of that war is to disarm their own populations, force them into central bank digital currencies, shut off their bank accounts if they protest, and basically turn everything into a totalitarian slave state.
That's what's happening.
All right.
Now, we are going to get into the economic news here in just a minute.
I've got maybe a five minute segment here that I've just, it's on my mind so much I have to share it with you because I've been doing a lot of infrastructure improvements and I want to share some wisdom with those of you who are moving out to the country and you're involved in some homesteading type of operations.
Just some wisdom, some things I've learned the hard way over the years.
It's only going to take a few minutes if you want to skip this.
Skip ahead five minutes.
I mean, we're at about 18 minutes right now, something around that.
Skip ahead to, I don't know, 23 minutes or something if you want to miss this.
I'll keep it short, but here it is.
If you're going on to a raw piece of land and you're installing new things there, such as water and power and communications lines and so on, gas lines, all of these things, take my advice.
Make sure that you decide on a standard depth to use for every type of pipe before you start doing the installs.
And here's my advice, and this is for Texas, which doesn't have a super deep freeze, so you'll have to adjust this if you live in a colder climate.
But I say bury all your comms lines that would be like underground burial, Ethernet cables, things like that.
Bury those very shallow, 6 inches or 8 inches.
Bury your water pipes, that should be the next thing down, water pipes at about 18 inches.
Again, that's in Texas.
If they're the smaller lines that are going to like an individual building, larger lines, kind of water mains that you have on your property, you could bury those at about 24 inches, something in that range.
Also, avoid using PVC if you can.
Use PEX pipe.
Avoid using 90 degree elbows because they shatter and break more easily than any other kind of piece.
And bury sand around the pipes that is underneath the pipes and above the pipes so that those pipes can shift around a little bit so they don't get compacted in with a bunch of clay or rock or whatever you have.
Alright, so that's water pipes at about 24 inches.
Next, your electrical lines should be buried deeper than that at maybe 3 feet or 4 feet, obviously in conduit, according to your local electrical codes, and it's obviously...
A good idea that your electrical lines are not buried directly parallel and underneath your water lines.
Try to keep those apart if you can, for obvious reasons.
You don't want water and electricity mixing.
And then finally, if you have gas lines, such as natural gas or propane or any kind of a pressurized gas, bury those the deepest, sometimes five or even six feet.
And this way, anytime you're doing repairs or you're trenching or you're adding on, you have an idea of what exists at what level.
Because, you know, you obviously don't want to dig into gas lines.
A big explosion, fireball, right?
So keep that really deep.
And you don't want to dig into your electrical lines.
This is a shocking experience, so keep those semi-deep.
If you hit a water line at 18 inches or 24 inches, you can fix it.
And it doesn't, you know, it doesn't kill you in the process.
And if you break a comms line, well, you can repair those as well.
It's a little bit of trouble, but they can be repaired.
So that's my advice.
And then one more thing is, Discover the magic of sprayable lanolin.
Lanolin is from sheep's wool.
And there are a couple of brands of sprayable lanolin.
One of them is called Wool Wax.
W-O-O-L-W-A-X. Now, they're not a sponsor.
They haven't paid me to say this.
But I've become a Wool Wax fan.
And I also own lanolin in a liquid form as well.
Now, the thing about lanolin is, in the spray form, spray it on everything that you don't want to oxidize and rust.
So, for example, all the battery terminals...
on anything that has an engine You know, maybe you have a lawnmower, riding lawnmower, maybe you have a car, you have a truck, you have a small tractor, whatever you have.
Spray those battery terminals with wool wax and it will not rust.
Now, it will leave a semi-sticky layer of lanolin, which of course is what's stopping the oxidation.
But did you know that if the battery terminals on your vehicle battery, if they begin to rust and oxidize, you lose the amount of amperage that is transmitted through that connection.
And you can end up to where you can't even start your vehicle because even though your battery is good, you can't start it because the electricity is not being transmitted through the rusted oxidized terminal connection.
So use Woolwax and also on You can use it on bolts and things.
Now, it's not a lubricant like a synthetic grease or anything, and grease is good for its own purposes.
If you're trying to put heavy bolts into something, you might put a little bit of grease on them.
But wool wax, if you spray that on the bolts before you put them in, It will also prevent oxidation, and a lot of people spray the undercarriage of their vehicles to stop the rusting from underneath for their entire truck, for example, or their car or whatever.
So it can be used on tools as well, believe it or not.
It's a very handy thing, and again, it comes from sheep.
Once again, nature has solved a major problem, and it's easier to spray it out of a can called wool wax instead of rubbing your tools on your sheep.
They don't like that.
They try to run for some reason.
Now, my goats do like to rub their backs on the underside of the bumper of my car, but I have not yet found a sheep that would just rub himself underneath the car to rub off a little lanolin on the drive shaft and all the parts under there.
That would be cool.
Like an anti-rust trained homestead sheep.
That you could just train it to just run underneath your car back and forth and apply some lanolin.
That would be a sheep worth having.
Okay, and one more little piece of advice for those of you who have vehicles or things with engines.
It is important to not just start them every once in a while, but also to start them and let the internal oil get to a relatively high temperature, high enough to boil off any water that may have condensed and become part of the oil.
So if you have, especially a diesel engine, if you have it sitting around for a long time, Well, there's air, you know, in the cylinders of the engine, and that air has some amount of moisture in it, and due to changes in the outside temperature, water in that air can condense on the walls, and you can end up with water dripping down, you know, around the outside rings of the pistons and ultimately getting into some of the engine oil, and this can just cause internal corrosion.
So when you start your engines and run them just to keep everything running, make sure you run it for like...
Personally, I run them for 20 or 30 minutes to get them hot, get some decent RPMs, and then boil off any kind of excess water that's in there.
And that's how you keep your oil in good shape and get longevity out of your combustion engines.
Or you could listen to Greta, Little Miss Bossy Pants, and just get rid of all your combustion engines and then sit around and starve because nothing works.
Because you don't have a tractor if you don't have a combustion engine.
So I don't know.
Take your pick.
Either keep your equipment running or starve to death.
Something like that.
All right, moving into the area of finance and economics, we're going to start with a crypto short story here.
This is from BitcoinMagazine.com.
Turns out that there was a study by Coin Kickoff said that 91% of the coins that existed in the 2014 cryptocurrency market crash are now gone, just completely abandoned.
91% of the coins.
In fact, there are 704 cryptocurrency coins that are dead now that were created just in 2017.
And In the year 2018, there were 751 coins created during that year that are also now completely zero, gone, abandoned.
And, you know, the problem with cryptocurrency and why the arguments of scarcity never made sense is because anybody can create a crypto coin.
Anybody can launch it.
Anybody can claim it has value, as, you know, Sam Bankman-Fried did.
Look, I've got these FTT coins and they're worth, you know, $4 billion.
Trust me, you want some?
That's pretty much his con right there.
Oh, we printed them up and then assigned them value and then we got loans against that so-called equity.
Really?
Well, anybody can create these coins and pretty much anybody did and now most of them are zero.
And it's gone.
So, yeah, Bitcoin may be the only coin to survive all this.
I don't know.
Bitcoin, maybe Ethereum, maybe a couple others.
But for the most part, a lot of these coins are going to zero.
And Bitcoin itself has lost something like, what, 70% of its value from its high?
Because, of course, there's nothing backing it.
There's nothing backing any of the cryptos.
Well, wait, let me correct myself.
There are a couple of coins that are said to be backed by deposits in gold and silver.
And I guess there are some cryptos that are said to be backed by dollars, which is crazy because you have a coin backed by a fiat, which is backed by nothing.
You know, like Tether says, well, every tether is backed by one dollar.
Well, what are the dollars backed by?
Nothing.
So I'm not sure that that's a feature.
Seems more like a bug to me, actually.
You mean your backing is backed by nothing?
How does that function?
And what's amazing to me, you know, out of all these 91% of these crypto coins that are now completely gone, abandoned, defunct, I once again check my little stack of silver on my desk.
Here it is, you know, clinking away in the background.
I don't know why I still have this little silver stack here.
91% of my silver coins have not disappeared.
In fact, 100% have not disappeared.
And 91% is included in that figure.
So all the coins are still here.
Isn't that amazing?
No matter what happens to the crypto space, the gold and silver are all still here.
They're still real.
They're still physical.
They're still in my possession.
And since they're physical elements, obviously they're not going to vanish.
And in this marketplace right now with what's going on this year, we need to make sure we have assets that do not vanish.
In fact, here's a story from Zero Hedge.
It's really confirming one of the predictions that I've been talking about quite a bit, which is collapsing prices of used vehicles.
So here it is.
Used car prices have a record largest annualized decline in series history.
This is based on the Mannheim Used Vehicle Value Index, okay?
MOVV. That's how you pronounce that acronym, MOVV. So according to the Move-V, which is the index, used vehicle prices are down 14.9% from one year ago, and that's the largest annualized decline in the history of the Mannheim Group keeping track of this.
And the story explains that the cooling of the used car market comes as the interest rate paid for used car loans hits the highest rate in more than a decade, sparking a price affordability crisis for buyers.
And I mentioned this, I think, yesterday when I was talking to one of the finance people at a car dealer, and she told me that the interest rate that people are paying right now for car loans is 11%.
And remember I asked, well, what do you pay if you have good credit?
And she said 10.5%.
Well, that doesn't sound that good, actually.
She said, it's not.
It's not.
You don't take out loans on cars.
Pay cash or just keep driving what you have, pretty much.
And then our friend Michael Snyder at the economiccollapseblog.com, he's written a piece, 10 major layoff announcements that have already happened in 2023.
So, again, I knew this was coming, and here we go.
Salesforce, 10%.
Vimeo, 11% of the company's workforce.
Boom, gone.
StickFix.
I don't even know what is StickFix, but 20% of the salaried workforce as the company starts to come apart at the seams.
Do you know what is StickFix?
Do they fix sticks?
Because that's not a growth industry, really.
There's not a huge demand for fixed sticks, like secondhand repaired sticks.
Not so much.
Genesis, the crypto platform, says they're laying off 30% of its workforce in a second round of layoffs.
Oh, I guess that's the second of many to come.
Silvergate Capital, oh, also in the crypto space, 40% of their workers.
Ooh, that's got to hurt.
Super Rare Labs has announced 30% of their workforce in.
Oh yeah, they were the company behind the NFT marketplace.
Remember when people were paying, I don't know, crazy amounts, hundreds of thousands of dollars for, what was it?
Bored ape graphics and just digital images of silly things.
And everybody thought they were going to get rich by selling them to some other sucker at a higher price.
Here, you want to buy my monkey picture?
No.
Pretty much no.
And so 30%.
So far, probably a lot more to come.
Let's see.
Biocept is a company that does liquid biopsies.
That's interesting.
They're laying off more than a third of their workers.
in droves.
Sounds like fun.
Okay, let's see.
Compass, which is involved in the real estate space, is engaged in a third round of layoffs and is trying to sublease its 89,000 square foot office space near Union Square, 95th Avenue.
Oh, that's interesting.
Okay.
And then, of course, Amazon has slashed 18,000 jobs, which is larger than the number it had previously announced.
It keeps getting bigger.
And that's just one more round of the cuts coming to Amazon.
And then here's the big one.
The Daily Mail reporting that McDonald's is going to slash 18,000 Many of its 200,000 corporate staff in the coming months.
It doesn't say exactly how many of the 200,000.
It's headquartered in Chicago, which has got to hurt.
And they're, quote, tackling inflation in the upcoming recession.
I have a question for you.
How?
200,000 people?
That is a massive workforce.
That's got to be some people at the franchise restaurants, right?
Got to be.
But 200,000 people work in corporate roles and company-owned restaurants worldwide.
Oh, and Salesforce is cutting jobs, too.
And the CEO of McDonald's, Chris Kempzynski, he had this weird quote.
Talking about the complexity of having restaurants all over the world.
He said, quote, That's pretty much a chicken sandwich, right?
And I'm looking at a photo of Chris Kempzynski, and you know who he looks exactly like?
This is crazy.
He looks just like Rick Astley.
Can you imagine if we had McDonald's customers singing like Rick Astley?
Never gonna eat this up.
I'm gonna use ketchup.
Cause it's the only way I can gag this down.
You know, these McNuggets.
We should do an Al Yankovic parody of McDonald's with Rick Astley because he looks like the CEO. That is so funny.
Now, of course, I know I speak for all of us when I say Rick Astley is the best dancer ever in music videos.
That much is indisputable.
All right.
How do we get off into MTV land here?
Let's get back to economics.
Southern California gas, also called SoCal gas, warns consumers, this is from Breitbart, massive gas bill increases.
Did I say gas bill?
Gas bill increases coming.
Red pill gas bill.
SoCal gas, which supplies natural gas through Southern California, warns consumers that their next bills will be unusually large.
Yeah, they said that owners can expect the typical January bill likely to be more than double the bill from last January, assuming the same amount of natural gas is used.
Oh, double.
Yeah, I would call that an unusually large increase.
100%.
Oh, get ready to pay more.
All right, and moving over to Europe, Swiss Central Bank posts biggest loss in its 116-year history.
Yeah, I'll say so.
This is from CNBC.com.
The Swiss National Bank expects a loss of, and this is for one year, okay, for the 2022 financial year.
Their loss, $143 billion.
$143 billion.
That is not millions, billions.
Apparently, it lost 131 billion francs on betting on foreign currencies.
Bets that did not go their direction, obviously.
It will not make its usual payout to the Swiss government and member states.
Because it turns out that, you know, government-controlled banks don't make good decisions about money.
So get this, folks.
I mean, the entire GDP of Switzerland is 744 billion Swiss francs.
And so the losses from the Swiss National Bank are apparently 18% of the GDP of the entire country.
18%?
How can one bank lose 18% as much as the GDP of the entire country?
So you know what strikes me as interesting in this?
Not just that here's a bank that's losing a massive amount of money, but of course, when they're betting on currency and they're losing, there's somebody else on the other side of that trade, and it's not Rick Astley.
It's somebody that's making a ton of money.
And historically, that's been people like, well, George Soros.
Yeah, that's how he got rich, was off mostly currency bets.
Well, and it turns out that currency bets can be rigged, like anything.
So, and this is just a theory, I don't have any evidence of this, but what if the Swiss Central Bank, the Swiss National Bank, is intentionally losing money, In order to funnel money in a basically money laundering operation to certain selective people who are winning on the other side of this.
Now, did you know that there are casinos in Hong Kong that do this same kind of thing?
So let's say you're a Chinese drug smuggler, you know, in China, and you have all this cash and you need to launder it.
So what do you do?
You make a deal with a casino.
Maybe in Macau or somewhere else or somewhere in Hong Kong or wherever.
You make a deal with a casino.
And then you go in and you...
Intentionally, on purpose, accidentally lose a bunch of money, and somebody else wins all this money.
And then they report those winnings to the tax authorities, and they pay tax on it, and they take the winnings.
And so now that's laundered, quote, clean money, and then they pay you a percentage, and they keep a percentage.
Like, oh, you get 70%, they keep 30%.
Nice doing business with you.
Can that be done at the central bank level?
Well, of course it can.
How could they keep losing and losing and losing on currency positions if they're supposed to have all this inside knowledge of how economies work?
And if they're so incompetent that they're losing accidentally, why do we have these people in charge of currencies and national economies in the first place?
If they're that bad, they shouldn't be in charge of the money.
But if they're doing it on purpose, then it's just, you know, money laundering and rigging.
And I think there's an element of that that's going on, frankly.
And well, since it's the Swiss franc, then the word frankly is literal in this case.
And of course, these banks just keep doing the exact same thing because, well, they have to keep the money laundering machine running.
So the chief economist at the Swiss Bank told CNBC that the bank's losses would not alter its monetary policy.
And he expected another 100 basis points of hikes to 2% this year.
So I wonder if they're learning anything from this or they're just paying off people.
I think they're paying off people.
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All right, let's talk about things that might strike planet Earth.
Here's a new article, Asteroid Alert.
This is from High Tech.
What is this?
Hindustan Times.
Oh, I see.
Gigantic.
Here's the headline.
Check this out.
Gigantic 230-foot asteroid advancing towards Earth at ferocious speed.
Now, recall that yesterday, I believe it was yesterday, we talked about a comet that the media said was small, and it was a kilometer across.
You know, kilometer in diameter.
Well, this asteroid is 230 feet, which we can do the math, but I'm pretty sure that's smaller than a kilometer.
So why is this called gigantic?
I guess the judgment of how large it is depends on how close you are to the impact site.
Because if a 230 foot rock lands on your head, it's gigantic.
Anyway, they say it's moving at a ferocious speed towards planet Earth.
But of course, it's not expected to hit planet Earth.
Not this one.
So this so-called hazardous object is supposed to fly past Earth at a distance of something like 8 million kilometers.
That doesn't sound very close.
Anyway, there's another asteroid called 2021 TL that NASA is warning about.
And apparently, by the time you hear this, it has already passed Earth.
That one was moving at 30,400 kilometers per hour.
Why do they do that?
Why don't they just do kilometers per second like everybody else?
Who cares about hours?
When you're moving that fast.
Anyway, they said that was passing by at 5.4 million kilometers away.
So, I don't know about you, but I don't think that the headlines of these kinds of stories are really accurate, and perhaps we're guilty of some of this as well in the past, but I'm going to jump on the team and make sure these are correct, correct?
Because if we say a 230 foot asteroid is gigantic, I don't think so.
And if we say it's quote, advancing towards earth at ferocious speed, that kind of implies that it's going to impact earth, which is definitely not the case.
So I think a more accurate headline would be, it's going to fly by, it's going to pass by, it's going to be, what do they call it?
A near miss, which is really a near hit and almost hit a certain miss.
I don't know, a fly-by miss.
But the headline should say it's not going to hit us, but it could fly by.
That might be interesting.
Maybe you could even see it.
Who knows?
Probably not this thing.
It's only 230 feet across.
But if there are one kilometer diameter comet that had, you know, ice being vaporized, you could probably see that.
And that's what's coming up in a couple of weeks, by the way.
So we'll keep you posted.
All right, and then we've got news about Mars.
This is kind of cool stuff.
You know I have my own theories about Mars and a lot of the deception from NASA, which I think NASA's always lying to us about Mars.
I think they covered up proof of life in 1976, by the way, with one of the Viking missions there, the mass spec instrument.
But anyway, this is from LiveScience.com.
Mars crater is chock full of opal gemstones.
For some reason.
Hinting at widespread water and possible microbial life.
Now, we've got to check this out because I did not realize that gemstones mean there's water nearby?
Or that there's microbes nearby?
I'm not making that connection yet.
Let's dig into this.
So there's a study that's been published in the Journal of Geophysical Research, apparently.
And it says there's evidence of semi-precious stones that are reflecting that could be evidence that water and rock have been interacting beneath the Martian surface much more recently than was previously thought, improving the prospects that microbial life once lived there, according to a study.
Okay.
All right.
Here it is.
They say that there's some fractures of rock that are surrounded by halos, which is just lighter colored rock.
They call them halos, but they're not really halos, just light rock.
Like Caucasian rocks, basically.
White people rocks.
They say that because of the color, apparently, they're likely to be rich in opal.
And for opal to form, silica-rich rocks must interact with water.
And then if there's water, they think that there's probably going to be microbes there.
So I don't know.
That's a lot of leaps there.
But who knows?
I mean, they are better geologists than we are.
So we'll take their word for it for now.
Oh, and apparently they used some instrument.
This is from the Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons instrument.
It's called DAN. D-A-N. Measures neutrons knocked off the Martian surface by cosmic rays.
This is getting interesting.
Bouncing neutrons slow down in the presence of hydrogen, which, of course, is a component of water.
So when the DAN instrument detects slow-moving neutrons, they think there's more water-bearing rocks there.
And opal apparently is a water-bearing rock.
Did you know that?
Did you know that opals are filled with water?
They're like water balloons, apparently.
That's what it sounds like.
That's a joke, but I did not know that opal means there's a lot of water around it.
This is all interesting stuff, but I want to know why NASA stopped talking about life on Mars after the 1976 Viking mission and why they covered that up.
I also want an explanation for how we're supposed to buy this story that NASA says they're flying a helicopter around on the surface of Mars, even though they tell us the atmospheric density is only 0.6% that of Earth's at sea level.
And as anybody knows, it's really difficult to achieve lift from a rotor when you have no atmospheric density.
So, first, explain the magical helicopters on Mars, and then you can tell us about water opals and water balloon rocks, and why you think there's microbes there.
How about that?
Answer the big question first.
Now, speaking of geology and interesting things on planets, did you know that there is a crazy, insane tunnel system In Ukraine, underneath the city, well, the salt mines of, I believe it's called Bakhmut, B-A-K-H-M-U-T. And there's currently a battle over Bakhmut between Russia and Ukraine.
And nearby Bakhmut, there is the Soledar salt mines.
There's also another name.
Anyway, believe it or not, these salt mines have 125 miles of tunnels.
Anybody listening, if you ever snickered when I said things like, there's underground cities, man.
There's underground tunneling systems that are all over the world, different places.
And if you snickered and thought, that's crazy.
There's no underground cities.
Look this up, folks.
The Soleil Dar Salt Mines in Bakhmut, or near Bakhmut, 125 miles of tunnels.
And the creator of the Wagner Group, or, you know, Wagner Group, which is a Russian group of, I don't know what you call them, military operators.
The founder of that, Eugenie Brigolson, I don't know how to pronounce that.
He says, quote, the neighborhood of Bakhmut is a complex of settlements that create a unified defense system.
This is a unique landscape, ravines and heights, which are natural tunnels.
And then he says the icing on the cake is the system of Soledar and Bakhmut mines, actually, quote, a network of underground cities.
In which he says there's not only a cluster of people at a depth of 80 to 100 meters, but also tanks and infantry fighting vehicles move and stockpiles of weapons that have been stored since the First World War.
Did you know that?
Did you know that?
Now, there's a website called ScoopTrade.com that has a whole article on this.
The Underground Fortress of the Armed Forces of Ukraine...
The Complexity of the Assault on Soledar.
S-O-L-E-D-A-R. And they write about this.
They say that this was a large enterprise for the extraction of table salt in Central and Eastern Europe.
It consists of five salt mines located within the city limits of Soledar and Praskovievka.
It says they're interconnected by railroads and roads as well as a developed system of underground communications and Which were improved by the military of Ukraine.
And so now they have concrete reinforced mine shafts with a depth of, get this, 150 to 280 meters.
Are you kidding me?
That you go down 280 meters?
Where you can survive nuclear blasts, by the way, of course.
Chambers that can reach 17 meters in width and 13 meters in height.
Those are big rooms.
Now, these are fortified underground complexes at a depth of several hundred meters.
And this is public information.
What do you think actually exists that's not yet public?
Probably it's way deeper, way bigger, more than 125 miles of tunnels underground.
And you know Taiwan has underground Air Force bases?
Well, they're in mountains.
You know, because Taiwan's an island nation, but inside the mountains, they've got massive military bases.
And then underneath the surface of the continental United States, there are massive underground cities, not just under the Denver airport, but under military bases.
And do you recall, I dropped a hint sometime last year, I think, And I forgot what I told you about where I picked this up.
Here's the thing.
I live in Central Texas and there are workers in Central Texas who...
Well, I can't tell you how I heard this, but I heard it from the workers.
The workers are working on a tunnel...
To connect Houston, Texas to Austin, Texas underground using the boring company, the Elon Musk technology.
And it's going to come up onto the surface around the new Tesla headquarters, which is located on the southeast side of Austin, Texas.
And remember how I said I think that tunnel is going to go right underneath the Health Ranger warehouse station?
And that Elon Musk was going to pop up through the floor and steal my Ranger buckets.
Remember that?
That's because they're tunneling under there.
And this is all real, folks.
They're building a massive network of underground tunnels.
They're crisscrossing the country.
There are underground cities and underground tunnels way beyond what you've been told.
And the fact that it's now public that in Ukraine, 125 miles sprawling underground cities with a depth of up to 280 meters deep, that's mind-boggling.
That is extraordinary.
And let me tell you, they're not the only country that has that.
And what's interesting to me is that in the Graham Hancock special, you know, what is it, ancient apocalypse?
He was talking about these ancient underground tunnels in modern-day Turkey that were built by previous civilizations slash empires as a way to protect themselves probably from, you know, meteor impacts or comet impacts, because of course the world had been destroyed.
The world they knew had been destroyed by, you know, the younger Dryas impact.
At least that's the theory 12,800 years ago.
And then it seems that following that some of the survivors built these crazy, insane underground cities using who knows what technology.
This is, I think, one of the last episodes in the Netflix special.
But it's in modern-day Turkey, and I think he said that you could put up to 30,000 people in all these rooms, these caverns, they've got tunnels, they've got air vents, everything.
It's all underground, underneath Turkey.
And that was before the invention of modern machinery or combustion engines, obviously.
And this was thousands of years ago.
So human beings have been building bunkers for as long as we know.
And why?
Why are they building bunkers?
Because that's the way to be safe from, number one, nuclear detonations.
Number two, asteroid impacts, you know, meteors and asteroids.
Number three, I don't know, crazy invading hordes of zombies.
Did you see the zombie video yesterday?
That was crazy, right?
What if you have whole hordes of zombies?
You keep them out of the tunnels, you know, or trap them in the tunnels if they get in.
But Russia wants these tunnels in Bakhmut.
So now Politico.eu is reporting the following.
Check this out.
Moscow to mobilize 500,000 new conscripts, Kiev military intelligence says.
So the subhead is that Ukrainian officials predict the new Russian draft effort will begin after January 15th.
So I'm trying to keep track of how many soldiers Russia is bringing into the war here.
Because remember, they had a mobilization, what was it, in October of 300,000, and then, what, another 150,000 at some point?
Now, apparently, it's going to be another 500,000.
This is going to be a significant force.
And the question is, when is Russia planning on attacking?
Because I'm quite convinced they are.
And I don't want to see it, obviously.
I don't want to see any more war.
I don't want to see the people of Ukraine suffer.
I don't want to see the U.S. go into World War III. It's going to be horrible.
In fact, there's something else I meant to mention about China and the supply chain.
But It looks like Russia is going to launch a major offensive and that we're going to be in war.
Us, the US and NATO is going to be in direct war with Russia sometime this year, probably before summer.
That's what it looks like.
I mean, even in the next 90 days is a strong possibility.
Now, let me mention what I forgot earlier because I really wanted to say this to you.
It's about China.
If we go to war with China over Taiwan or trade war, currency wars, what have you, You're going to have a hard time getting parts.
And I just want to throw this out there.
You know, I talked about engines earlier.
I was working.
I replaced the starter on a diesel engine over the weekend, and that was an interesting experience because it was so hard to reach.
And...
I want to remind you that now is the time to buy all of the consumables that you need to keep your engines running.
You know how if you have a tractor, let's say every 500 hours you have to change certain filters or every 1000 hours, you know, depending on what you're running, you have to change oil filters.
Fuel filters, hydraulic oil filters, you know, as opposed to engine oil filters, and also air intake filters, which usually have two elements in them and so on.
What I'm saying, and belts on some pieces of equipment, what I'm saying is, think about right now buying extra filter elements for your vehicles or your equipment or your tractors or whatever you have, because I think there's a day coming soon where you will not be able to get those parts, because a lot of those parts come out of China.
And these parts are relatively inexpensive.
You know, a lot of these filter elements might be $20 or $30 or maybe a big hydraulic oil filter might be $150 on a big machine, but it's still worth it versus having your machine down or not being able to use your tractor.
And I've encouraged people in the past to stock up on diesel engine oil if you have a diesel engine.
A lot of people did that.
Very smart.
We had a supply chain crunch.
We still have supply right now, but it looks like it's going to get worse still in 2023.
I've also encouraged people to store diesel fuel if you have diesel vehicles.
And I'm doing the same thing myself.
It's a very smart move.
It gives you backup supplies, you know, for vehicles, equipment, what have you.
Just be sure to add the additives such as the bactericides that allow the diesel to store for long term, you know, for many years without gumming up.
And by the way, I'm not even joking.
I've got this older piece of equipment that has been sitting around for like 12 years, something like that.
And I'm telling you, I've only put diesel in at one time.
Yeah, maybe 10 or 12 years ago.
And from time to time, every few months, I start that thing up and run it, and it still runs.
So I'm running diesel that is over a decade old.
Now, is it possibly gumming up the fuel filter faster than normal?
Yeah, probably.
But it's still running.
It's still running.
So people say, oh, diesel fuel's not good after three years or four years.
Nonsense.
I'm using 10 or 12-year-old diesel right now, and I didn't even put the additives in that fuel.
So, you know, yeah, it might have more wear and tear on the engine, but it's better to have it than not have it, even if it's only partially effective.
So I want you to be ready for, I think, three, well, at least three big things that are going to happen in 2023.
One is what I just mentioned, war with Russia.
I believe that's coming.
The second thing is currency collapse and the big globalist push to force everybody into CBDCs.
I think that's coming probably 2023, maybe 2024.
One of those two, most likely.
The third thing, which may not happen this year, but it's coming, and that is conflict with China over Taiwan.
It could happen real soon.
And the threat from China is not even just their potential invasion of the United States.
And they may never invade if they think they can take Taiwan and keep it without the U.S. interfering, right?
Or they may invade if the U.S. looks incredibly weak because we're in a war with Russia, right?
It's hard to tell.
But even if they don't invade the United States, China can hurt America's economy dearly by shutting off exports of all the products.
Just everything they manufacture, they shut it off, boom.
Instant shutdown of Walmart, Target, Costco, all the electronic stores, Amazon goes bankrupt, the whole deal.
Because what do you have to sell if it's not made in China?
It's a very limited subset of the current products that people need, including the thing I just mentioned, which is a lot of your fuel filters and oil filters and air filters and all that stuff.
So the trade war is actually a much bigger potential economic impact on America than is a kinetic war with China.
Whereas with Russia, the far bigger impact is not economic because we don't, you know, Americans don't buy a ton of Russian exports randomly.
Rather, the threat is nuclear exchange because Russia's got the doomsday Poseidon underwater drone, you know, 100 megaton weapons that can unleash the radioactive tidal waves onto the coastline.
That's not going to be fun.
So it's important to understand the difference between those two major threats.
China is unlikely to nuke the United States.
Russia, a lot more likely, especially if the U.S. starts really attacking Russia aggressively to the point where Russia feels like they're in an existential crisis and they have to lash out using their ICBMs.
And pray to God we don't get to that point, but we may because we have insane people in charge right now, you know, in Washington, D.C., in London, in Berlin, obviously, in Paris, you know, in the EU, in Brussels, insane people in charge, and they're driving us into nuclear war.
So let's get prepared.
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Remember, it turns some of my dental work orange.
It freaks out my dentist.
And that's why I don't have a colonoscopy because, you know, orange colon syndrome, right?
I don't want to freak the doctors and have to explain nutrition and turmeric and why they're seeing everything is orange and then like, oh my God.
And besides, everything's fine.
I don't need a Roto-Rooter.
In that part, because I'm eating superfoods.
I'm doing chlorella.
I'm doing turmeric and aloe vera juice and everything else.
So believe me, that is, for me, that's a one-way exit anyway.
It's only one way, folks.
Doctor or otherwise.
I know that's a weird way to talk about turmeric, but the orange is real, folks.
The orange effect is real.
It'll turn your digestive tract kind of orange.
All right?
And remember, the curcuminoids, some of which are the color orange, those are the best medicinal parts of it, you know?
So you gotta love the orange.
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And if you don't want to be orange, if you want to be cyan colored, right?
You know, cyan, kind of an off-blue cyanidins.
Different kind of phytonutrients that are cyan colored.
Guess where they're found?
Oh, spirulina!
Yeah, in fact, they extract these strong pigments from spirulina to be used in all kinds of medical research and imaging research, by the way, because some of the pigment molecules actually fluoresce.
Yeah, it's kind of interesting.
But anyway, spirulina, chlorella, turmeric, these are things that I use every day, plus aloe vera, plus whey protein, plus avocados, as you know.
It's part of my smoothie.
Keeps me alive, keeps me going, and I think at least keeps me optimistic, even though we're entering some rather dark times here.
But I believe we're going to make it through.
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Thank you for listening.
Thank you for putting up with my crazy orange jokes and my horrible Rick Astley sings McDonald's impression earlier.
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