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Feb. 13, 2023 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams

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Situation Update, 2/13/23 - SKY WARS: Fake alien invasion...

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	Welcome to the Situation Update for Monday, February 13th, 2023.
	Mike Adams here.
	Thank you for joining me.
	Got a lot to cover, as always.
	The primary topic today is what I call Sky Wars.
	What's with all these objects being shot down over North America for the most part?
	But one object shot down over China.
	One of the objects shot down was in the shape of an octagon.
	And we've got some interesting leads for you on what that might mean.
	And I'm going to explain why I think there's a possibility that these governments are trying to put together a...
	An alien invasion false flag.
	That's what I'm thinking, but I don't know.
	You tell me what you think.
	We'll get to that.
	I'm also including today the interview with Martin Armstrong that I recorded about a week ago, and I published it over the weekend as a standalone interview.
	It had some audio problems with my microphone, but overall it's quite good.
	And of course Martin Armstrong is right on brilliant as usual.
	So I'll be playing that interview for you here.
	I also want to mention that I fully support James O'Keefe.
	Project Veritas, there's some kind of a coup going on there where they're trying to kick out James O'Keefe, who, as far as I know, he is Project Veritas.
	He founded it.
	He trailblazed it.
	He's the top guy.
	He's got the courage.
	James O'Keefe, he's the one who pioneered this style of journalism.
	And it appears that a bunch of crybabies at Project Veritas, they think that James O'Keefe said mean words to them.
	Like he called one of them a P word, which is probably true.
	And so they're trying to get rid of him.
	Well, I just want to say to Project Veritas, guess what?
	Number one, I don't even know how you have the power to get rid of James O'Keefe, but I don't know, maybe you have a board structure or something where he gave up I don't know.
	And you know, it's such a common story these days where one individual trailblazes some incredible concept, builds an incredible company, and then a bunch of crybabies try to take it over and push them out and they try to bureaucratize everything and they want to get along and have a consensus and board meetings.
	There's a reason why my organization doesn't have a board of directors, by the way, because I don't believe in committee meetings.
	He's just a waste of time.
	And like James O'Keefe is finding, the board can turn against you and kick you out.
	But anyway, I support James O'Keefe.
	And even if he has to go do it alone, he'll just build another organization.
	This time, maintain control of it.
	Yep.
	Maybe he should call it Project Kieferd.
	Oh, you just got Kieferd, bro!
	Yeah, you got Kieferd right there.
	We saw that.
	We got you on camera.
	People fall in for fake gay dates on the dating apps.
	That's how they catch all these people.
	Is it Tinder?
	Is that the dating app?
	I keep forgetting.
	You notice how it's okay for there to exist gay dating apps, but not straight dating apps?
	Did you notice that?
	It's not okay to have a pure-blood dating app of all non-vaccinated people?
	No, that's discriminatory!
	But when it's a gay dating app or a trans dating app, then somehow that's okay?
	Is there a trans dating app?
	I guess there would be by now.
	But anyway, always a double standard.
	But speaking of trans, you know how Disney, they just laid off a few thousand more people over the last few days, which is awesome.
	Because, you know, get woke, go broke.
	And Disney owns the whole Star Wars franchise, and I had this little nightmare thought over the weekend of Star Wars being transitioned into trans wars or something.
	And I had this little scene pop in I wanted to share with you.
	You know the scene where Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker are battling in The Empire Strikes Back and Darth cuts off his arm with the lightsaber.
	And what does he say right there?
	The famous line that Darth Vader says to Luke Skywalker right there.
	Now make that the trans version now for trans wars and it would go like this.
	Luke, I am your mother.
	And Luke would go, No!
	No!
	Not my mother!
	No!
	And then he would fall down into the...
	What was that?
	Like the ventilation dump shaft of the floating air city?
	Whatever.
	They would have to alter the Darth Vader chest rig to have, like, breast cups in it, you know?
	He's walking around as Darth Mother is what he would have to be calling for the transversion of that.
	And, of course, they'd have to make C-3PO gay, but we knew he was already gay.
	C-3PO was totally gay.
	I mean, come on, only gay people are that good at diplomacy and speaking multiple languages.
	And then, what else?
	Chewbacca.
	Who knows what that is?
	He's a furry.
	He's a giant, sex-deviant, furry creature of some kind.
	And they would overdub Yoda's voice to say something kind of more trans-friendly.
	I'm non-binary Yoda.
	Because since Yoda was just a Muppet, you could overdub his mouth movements to say anything you want, by the way, because it's just a puppet.
	Kind of like Joe Biden, come to think of it.
	There is no try, there is only do.
	Like, do what?
	A creepy Muppet?
	Do what?
	What are you talking about?
	All right, since we're talking about a little creepy Muppets, let me just play a minute for you here of Seagulls.
	This is from Bad Lip Reading, kind of a parody of The Empire Strikes Back, where they've taken the movie footage and they've written a song around it, and they've put in all kinds of new words for Luke Skywalker and Yoda, and it'll make you laugh.
	It's quite funny.
	It's from six years ago, this song, but check it out.
	I'll give you a minute of this.
	Here we go.
	Put me down.
	I love to groove and boogie.
	Yeah.
	Great.
	Show you some dancing moves.
	No, I don't want you to.
	If I had your giant feet out there on the beach, cut about from those birds.
	You're a psycho wiener.
	Let me grab my beater.
	Stop it, please.
	Don't hit me.
	Please.
	Don't hit me.
	Come on, man.
	Quit that banging.
	Hey, what's that stank?
	You put a fish in our basket.
	Oh, oh, oh, oh, yeah.
	I forgot I did that.
	You owe me an apology.
	Just hold your breath and see when the time is right.
	I thought you would enjoy that.
	Again, that's from Bad Lip Reading on YouTube.
	Now, we're going to move on from Star Wars to Sky Wars.
	That's the topic today.
	Sky Wars.
	Now, over the weekend, as you may have heard, there were more objects shot down in the skies.
	Over North America, one over Canada, I believe.
	And one over China was reported.
	And it's like we went from a week last week of Joe Biden and the Pentagon refusing to shoot down an obvious giant spy balloon that could carry EMP weapons and hypersonic missiles.
	It's like, oh, we're not going to shoot that down to now they're just shooting down everything, like every crazy thing that's in the air.
	And there's all kinds of crazy things in the air all the time.
	And We have CNN talking about basically implying that there might be alien craft in the atmosphere that we're shooting down or something, which is...
	I mean, it's absurd that if there were alien craft that we could shoot them down.
	I don't think the idea of alien craft is absurd.
	What's absurd is that we can shoot them down with our little puny fighter jets because I'm pretty sure...
	A civilization that has faster than light travel is also able to not be shot down by F-22s, okay?
	We'll get to that a little bit more.
	But a lot of people don't know that there's a lot of stuff in the sky all the time.
	Lots of stuff flying around up there or floating around.
	And I find, by the way, one of the objects that was shot down was a small metallic balloon.
	Yeah.
	Actually, let me bring you that story because it's pretty darn hilarious.
	This is from the Wall Street Journal.
	Flying object shot down over Canada on orders of Biden and Trudeau.
	I don't know if you can really call it a flying object.
	It was probably more like a floating object.
	The military action over Yukon Territory marks the third such incident above North America in recent days.
	Again, this is from the Wall Street Journal.
	And in the article, they say, quote, the following.
	The latest object appeared to be a small metallic balloon with a tethered payload, according to U.S. officials familiar with the situation.
	Now, I get small metallic balloons that just crash land on my ranch on a regular basis, folks.
	I'm always picking them up.
	Because, look, they're birthday balloons, okay?
	People who live in cities, and they have little delusional children, and they like to release the balloons.
	Oh, it's your birthday!
	You're so special!
	Everyone's a winner!
	And they release the balloon into the sky, and they look at it go!
	And they never think about it again, until it lands on my ranch, by the way, or other people's ranches in rural Texas.
	So we're always picking up these damn balloons.
	And yeah, sometimes they have little payloads.
	I had one time there was a little note on it.
	And one time there was like a little card.
	So yeah, it's a little metallic birthday balloon from some, you know, libtard kid in the city who probably thinks that they're all green and eco-conscious, but they release pollution balloons, basically, and pollute, you know, all the rural areas.
	So yeah, there's metallic balloons all over the place.
	But now we have the military brass in Canada and the United States acting like they're so tough because they can shoot down birthday balloons.
	So literally in this story, the Wall Street Journal story, Miss Anand, and who is she, Miss Anand?
	Oh, here she is, Canadian Defense Minister Anita Anand, A-N-A-N-D. All right, here's what she said after they shot down a birthday balloon.
	Okay, quote, The importance of this moment should not be underestimated.
	We identified the object together.
	She's talking about Canada and the U.S. in a joint military response mission.
	We identified the object together and we defeated this object together.
	Miss Anand said.
	You defeated a birthday balloon?
	You defeated a birthday balloon with what?
	Like a million dollar missile or something?
	Probably spent ten million dollars on scrambling the fighter jets and all the personnel and all the radar and everything.
	It's probably a multi-million dollar mission to take down some libtard kid's birthday balloon that he let go of in a nearby city like Montreal or wherever.
	That's probably what this was.
	But I love how, oh, we defeated the object.
	Really?
	Like, if I have bubble wrap and I stomp on it and make popping sounds as people like to do, did I defeat the bubble wrap?
	I mean, I guess so.
	Look, I'm defeating it.
	For virtually no money.
	I don't need a million dollar military budget to defeat the bubble wrap.
	So this particular object that they defeated...
	It kind of drifted into Canadian airspace, shot down using a Sidewinder air-to-air missile.
	Canada had deployed a CF-18 jet fighter, or multiple fighters, from its military base in Cold Lake, Alberta.
	The instructions given to the team was, whoever had the best first shot to take out the object had to go ahead, said General Wayne Erie.
	Okay, it's a NORAD mission.
	Generals and fighters and sidewinders and jets to defeat some little kid's balloon.
	So we've gone from one extreme, which was let's not shoot down China's weapons platform balloon, to now let's shoot down like just little floating birthday balloons everywhere.
	And you notice they're not showing us pictures of these objects that they've shot down.
	You notice that?
	Have you seen any pictures?
	Other than the China balloon last week, but have you seen any pictures from the objects they shot down over the weekend?
	No.
	You know why?
	Because if you saw a picture, you'd say, that's a birthday balloon.
	It's a metallic birthday balloon.
	It had helium in it, and it drifted up to 40,000 feet.
	And then, you know, the Canadian military used a million-dollar missile to bring it down because we live in an insane world, right?
	I'm just thinking Russia has to be just laughing their asses off over this, right?
	Like, the Americans are preoccupied with shooting down birthday balloons filled with helium.
	They're expending munitions to take out little birthday balloons, while in the real world, you know, Russia has hypersonic missiles and ICBMs and, you know, nuclear attack warheads and stuff ready to go, and drones and, like, actual military weapons.
	I wonder how the U.S. and Canadian Air Force would do against actual weapons launched against us, you know, by, let's say, Russia or China.
	I mean, if you're using birthday balloons for target practice, I am not impressed.
	This is, it's a joke.
	And then they issue these statements that sound like X-Files.
	Like NORAD said over the weekend on Saturday after this balloon was shot down, you know, the birthday balloon, quote, we have no further details at this time about the object, including its capabilities, purpose, or origin.
	You know, sounds like X-Files, right?
	It's like, we will not rule out anything.
	We will not rule out extraterrestrials or, you know, Cosmic beam weapons or whatever.
	Just kind of letting people run wild with imaginations of what this could be.
	And then the jet fighters at one point said, it had no visible propulsion system.
	Just like a birthday balloon has no visible propulsion system, right?
	Because that's what, no visible propulsion system.
	And you're thinking like anti-gravity tech or something.
	No, helium.
	Helium balloon.
	And then there was one quote from one of these jet fighter pilots over the weekend.
	It interfered with our sensors.
	They said.
	That was widely reported in the media.
	We even covered that over the weekend.
	It's like, what are they talking about?
	Turns out that it's just the sun reflecting off the metallic, the mylar layer of the balloon.
	Interfered with our sensors means it reflected sunlight.
	You see?
	So...
	Okay, it's a birthday balloon, but it interferes with our sensors and it has no visible propulsion system and unknown origin or motive or purpose, unknown capabilities, right?
	That's like, I don't know, taking a paper clip and saying it's unknown metallic alloys because you haven't analyzed it yet.
	Unknown purpose, unknown number of angles, right?
	It just seems like they're really running with this stuff, way beyond what's justified here.
	And you know when CNN gets on board and starts talking about basically aliens in the atmosphere, you know something is amiss.
	You know they're working to deceive you in some way.
	When CNN is pushing it out there, and now they're mainstream media, you're like, wait a second here.
	Because if real aliens came to visit Earth, you think that they would tell you about it?
	No, of course not.
	They don't tell you about anything that actually matters.
	They just use false information to try to control your matrix reality.
	Oh, and NORAD is shutting down airspace now.
	Breitbart reported this over the weekend.
	NORAD temporarily shuts down airspace in central Montana after a, quote, radar anomaly.
	Folks, NORADAC gets radar anomalies every minute of every day from, again, all kinds of weird stuff just floating around in the atmosphere.
	But now they have to only shut down the airspace.
	Why?
	You know, there's a drone that's actually shaped like a man wearing a jetpack.
	And there have been stories about this over the past few months that somebody likes to fly this drone around where they have what looks like a man with a jetpack flying around at 20,000 feet.
	And it's been reported by many pilots.
	There's been some video footage out there of that, and it turns out to be just a drone.
	It's not a man with a jetpack at 20,000 feet because you don't have enough fuel to land, unless it's a suicide mission, you know?
	But it is getting weird.
	NORAD has also declared not only some restricted zones over the weekend, but they're declaring there's going to be an air defense exercise on Tuesday near Washington, D.C.
	So remember that 9-11 took place during a military exercise and then there was a stand down order given so that the military jets could not interfere with the planned airplanes flying into the Twin Towers and then the controlled demolition of Building 7.
	So there is an exercise on Tuesday with NORAD declaring air defense space and you're not supposed to fly over that or if you do, you might get shot down.
	So we know that there's this kind of overreaction to regular birthday balloons.
	But that's not all that's floating around up there.
	There was another very odd story over the weekend, and it's covered by the UK Daily Mail and the Gateway Pundit and others.
	Here it is.
	A Pentagon refuses to rule out that objects flying over the U.S. are aliens.
	This is from the UK Daily Mail.
	So the Pentagon's not ruling out aliens, nor are they ruling out flying dinosaurs, frankly, because they're not ruling out anything.
	So you could say they're not ruling out whatever you want.
	Interdimensional demonic gargoyle beings...
	As octagonal one is gunned down by F-16 fighter over Lake Huron after flying near sensitive military sites in Montana.
	So, U.S. Air Force General Glenn Van Herk said it's not ruling out aliens.
	It's not ruling out anything.
	So, this object is not being called a balloon.
	It's being called an octagonal shape.
	And the media is reporting that it had, quote, I don't know what that means, potential surveillance capabilities.
	Couldn't a kite also have potential surveillance capabilities?
	Well, an F-16 fighter jet shot it down at around 20,000 feet over the Great Lakes.
	Well, that's not that high, folks.
	20,000 feet, you can get balloons there.
	You can even get drones there.
	It's not that hard to get something at 20,000 feet, frankly.
	Even, you know, small aircraft, what have you.
	But in this UK Daily Mail story, we get the same kind of language here.
	Quote, the senior Air Force executives said they're unsure how these three objects were staying aloft as they have, quote, unknown propulsion systems.
	See?
	Unknown propulsion systems.
	They were all similar in size and speed when they were gunned out of airspace.
	And they were removed from the sky because they threatened civilian aviation.
	Mm-hmm.
	And they're saying they may have to shoot down more things over the next few days.
	And then the UK Daily Mail says that this comes after the Air Force had a revelation about possible extraterrestrials.
	The Department of Defense analyzed hundreds of UFO sightings from its service members since last year and so on and so forth.
	Now, look, I want to be clear.
	I don't think that humans are alone in the cosmos.
	Not at all.
	I think there are all kinds of advanced civilizations, and some of them millions of years more advanced than are we.
	But for that very reason, I think this idea that the U.S. military could be shooting down alien craft is absurd.
	Like I said earlier, an alien craft has faster than light travel, which I've actually explained in other podcasts exactly how that would work.
	They have faster than light travel, which means basically projecting an intense time-space warping bubble in front of the craft.
	Basically, it warps time-space by creating a gravity field, and it causes the instantaneous acceleration of a ship.
	Of a craft without the occupants of that craft feeling the acceleration themselves, because when you're accelerated by gravity, you don't feel that acceleration, by the way.
	I'm not going to go into details of why that is, but gravity is not a force.
	It's a distortion of time-space.
	But just trust me, when you're accelerated by gravity, you don't feel the acceleration.
	If you don't believe me, just jump off a bridge, and you will notice you feel weightless, okay?
	So that's that experiment.
	So if there were an actual alien craft like cruising around in our atmosphere, just by using, let's say, one millisecond of a speed of light warp drive, that ship in one thousandth of a second could blip.
	I don't know.
	We could do the math, but maybe that's thousands of meters away.
	I mean, again, we can do the math.
	Once we know the speed of light and we can divide that, you know, by a thousand, one millisecond, how far that craft can move.
	So it would appear as if the craft is teleporting, blipping in and out in different locations in the sky, which means that obviously you couldn't hit it with a missile, is my point.
	Now, this is just a thought experiment here of how this works.
	But there's no way the U.S. Air Force, with its Sidewinder missiles, I think they were designed in the 1960s, by the way, there's no way they're shooting down alien UFOs, okay?
	That's not happening.
	And the idea that the media is trying to get us to swallow this, like, oh, they're shooting down aliens, man.
	No, come on.
	Give me a break.
	I mean, I know the U.S. military tries to act all big and tough and everything, but you're shooting down birthday balloons for the most part, except for this weird octagon thing.
	I mean, we're just being told it's an octagon shape, but I say, show us.
	Show us some pictures of this thing.
	It's shaped like an octagon.
	What is it?
	Is it a kite?
	Is it an animal balloon filled with helium that's like an octopus?
	It's like a giant floating octopus helium balloon because maybe some kid had an extra special birthday and he likes animals and his parents got him a giant octopus.
	And now we're being told it might be an alien craft, you know?
	But now I'd like to take you down the rabbit hole a little bit more into what some of this might be.
	This might be a false flag or setting us up for a false flag alien attack, like a fake alien invasion of planet Earth as a major distraction because so many people are waking up and refusing the jabs and getting informed and connecting with their consciousness and with God and so on.
	So there may be a cosmic false flag coming, but there's something else here that is worth mentioning.
	David Wilcock texted me about this.
	I asked him, like, what's the deal with this octagon-shaped thing?
	Well, he texted me and said, oh, well, that's probably, they're placing code words referring to the Switzerland octagon group, which I had not heard of before.
	But David said, yes, the Swiss Octagon Group, which is part of the globalist, Kazarian mafia type of groups.
	And so I looked it up, and I came up with an article by none other than Benjamin Fulford from, by the way, from December 28th of 2020.
	Which you can read at BenjaminFulford.net, and it's called Massive Offensive Against Octagon Group Aims to Finish Off Nazi Fourth Reich.
	Now remember, this is over two years ago.
	This was before January 6th, okay?
	Just keep that in mind.
	And Benjamin Fulford starts off this article saying, quote, a massive offensive aimed at finishing off the Swiss-based Octagon Group and putting an end to their Nazi Fourth Reich has begun.
	He says, Now, this is really kind of interesting, again, deep down the rabbit hole, but interesting to me because...
	This article by Benjamin Fulford, if you think offhand, you think, ah, that's nonsense, it's all made up.
	Well, listen to this paragraph, which was over a week before January 6th.
	Okay, this is in the same story.
	He says...
	Be warned, though, the Octagon Group is the de facto politburo of the one-million-person-strong Kazarian Mafia, and they do not intend to go quietly into the night.
	One NSA source says there is intel indicating that Kazarian Mafia actors are now plotting against Trump's call for patriots to converge on Washington, D.C. on January 6th.
	The source warns it could become a deadly trap, and if patriots want to help, they should consider acting locally against politicians, doctors, etc., who are pushing lockdowns and COVID-19 vaccinations.
	In other words, Benjamin Fulford warned that January 6th was a trap, which is exactly what it was.
	It was a total setup.
	It was an FBI-run, NSA-run, CIA-run trap.
	To push the insurrection narrative, you know, and to jail Trump supporters and to try to criminally prosecute Trump, which that effort is still ongoing.
	So whatever you think about Fulford and this article here, he certainly nailed it there a week before January 6th.
	He was exactly right, by the way.
	And think about it in this article.
	He says...
	That Switzerland was warned that they have to turn over these criminals or the country of Switzerland would face complete destruction.
	Well, what happened just, what, less than a year after this?
	What happened less than a year after this?
	The United States blew up the Nord Stream pipeline.
	Which cut off the natural gas infrastructure to Germany, creating a shortage of energy that strongly affected Switzerland.
	Not to say that Switzerland is entirely without energy, but they're hurting.
	Energy prices are very high there now.
	They have shortages.
	And you have the de-industrialization of all of Western Europe.
	Underway now because of the lack of energy, the closing down of the metals smelting plants, and also the shutting down of BASF, BASIF, which has shut down its German operations or is in the process of doing that, and moving everything to China, which we've covered extensively.
	And also my friend Michael Yan, we've talked about that.
	I'm going to have him back in studio for an interview soon, by the way.
	So we have massive deindustrialization of Europe.
	What if that's happening?
	Because Europe, the European leaders who are fascist Nazis, by the way, they refuse to turn over their fascist Nazi leaders to whoever's trying to hold them accountable.
	I don't know all the parties and all the names here, but it's clear the European leaders are doubling down on their Nazism, on being fascist.
	And so Western Europe is being dismantled.
	It is being destroyed.
	So Benjamin Fulford wrote, quote, the COVID-19 Gladio operation is Swiss octagon.
	And Gladio is a compartment inside it, said MI6 sources.
	This means, he says, quote, a global mass murder campaign is being orchestrated out of Switzerland, which is why such radical measures are being taken.
	And then in the same article, get this, I mean, this is almost freaky.
	In the same article, He says the other thing people need to be reminded of is that Western medicine is based on military medicine and has a military hierarchy.
	The orders come from medical associations controlled by the Khazaria Mafia.
	Well, just over the weekend, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
	is on camera saying that this whole operation, all the pharma companies are using military vaccines, that the pharma companies are just proxy groups for a military operation.
	That the whole COVID-19 vaccine thing is run by the Pentagon and the DOD. And there are other experts coming out speaking about this, including Sasha Latipova.
	I don't know the correct way to pronounce her name.
	I apologize.
	But...
	Sasha Latipova.
	She has been speaking out on videos about how this is a blatant military operation.
	So it's, again, I know it's easy for people to look at Benjamin Fulford and his information and say things like, oh, you know, he's totally out there.
	It's all made up.
	It couldn't be true.
	But then when you go back, like we're doing here, two plus years ago, Almost every paragraph of what he wrote then is now confirmed as true.
	Almost everything.
	It's a little freaky, actually.
	It's wild.
	In that article, he even writes that Russian special forces are actively hunting down the executives associated with this medical terrorism being carried out by the West.
	Which is mostly the G7 group of Kazarian slave countries.
	And remember, he wrote this before the whole Russian attack on Ukraine, which turns out to be largely predicated upon Russia's working to expose the bioweapons factory that were in eastern Ukraine, the Donbass bioweapons factories.
	That's where Russia went first to seize the Donbass region and seize the records out of the bioweapons factories that were linked to Hunter Biden and the Joe Biden slash Biden crime family.
	And so all of this European resistance to Russia is the, it's the Nazi fascist leaders of Europe, which includes Zelensky.
	It includes Schultz in Germany.
	You know, it includes whoever the current prime minister is in the UK because they keep changing it every week.
	It seems plus the U S and Trudeau and Canada and so on.
	All Nazi fascist leaders that are doubling down on their fascism and trying to protect their bioweapons factories and trying to defeat Russia, And they're fighting like the devil in this case, literally, to not surrender their criminal leaders to any kind of world justice, essentially.
	At least that's the way I understand it.
	And so that's why this war with Russia got underway, effectively.
	It's because Russia realized that the West was colluding to not only destroy Russia, but to destroy humanity.
	That's why Russia's Medvedev refers to the United States and Western Europe as the, quote, antichrist civilization.
	They realized that if the West wins, if the West dominates the world, the goal of the West is the complete destruction of humankind.
	Merged with some kind of crazy, you know, transhumanism agenda, which is part demonic and part machine, by the way.
	So that gets us back to the mention of Octagon in these reports of things being shot out of the sky.
	There may not actually be octagons dropping out of the sky.
	It may be that this is kind of a code language.
	One of the ways in which these groups communicate with each other is through the deep state controlled mainstream media.
	So they can be dropping words like octagon to say things to each other like, oh, you know, activate, you know, octagon sky beam or whatever.
	You know what I mean?
	It sounds like a James Bond movie, but we are living in a James Bond villain-run reality right now.
	It's beyond a James Bond movie.
	It's beyond a Batman villain movie.
	We're living in some kind of science fiction twisted demon world.
	So yeah, they drop codes to each other.
	This is why the globalists are obsessed with occult numbers and words and patterns and language and symbols.
	And you know, we just had the Super Bowl.
	Of course, I didn't watch the Super Bowl.
	I could care less.
	But every Super Bowl halftime is always embedded with all kinds of satanic imagery.
	So I don't know if it was yesterday or not.
	But probably, if you look hard enough, you'll probably find satanic patterns and images and numbers and things like that.
	Because it's a way they signal each other.
	In fact, it was just the other day that Germany said they're going to come up with 88 Leopard 2 tanks.
	88, right?
	And if you don't know about the symbology of the globalists and the occult, you might not know that 88 is actually a prominent hate symbol.
	I didn't know this until I heard somebody talking about it in a podcast.
	I'm like, are you kidding me?
	88 is a hate symbol?
	Well, check this out.
	If you go to ADL.org, and the ADL itself, by the way, is a massive globalist hate group, by the way.
	I mean, the ADL is one of the worst.
	But even they admit that 88 is a hate symbol.
	So remember, Germany says we're going to send 88 tanks to fight Russia.
	88 stands for, well, H is the eighth letter of the alphabet.
	So 88 means HH. And what does HH stand for?
	It would be, you know, Heil, a certain bad, I'm not even going to say it, a certain bad person who was part of the regime, you know, in World War II, right?
	88 means HH. And according to the ADL, they say, quote, 88 is a white supremacist numerical code for that phrase I mentioned.
	It's one of the most common white supremacist symbols.
	It's used throughout the entire white supremacist movement, not just neo-Nazis.
	See, I didn't know that.
	One can find it as a tattoo or a graphic symbol as part of the name of a group, a publication or a website or part of a screen name or an email address, right?
	So, like, if you have the number 88 in your email or something, the people are going to assume you're some kind of neo-Nazi.
	It sometimes uses a greeting or a sign-off.
	The number is frequently combined with another white supremacist numeric code which is 14.
	I'm just reading this for the first time.
	14.
	14 refers to the 14 words slogan which I guess is something that Hitler used to say, we must secure the existence, blah, blah, blah.
	ADL says that people would use the numbers like 1488 or 14 slash 88 or 8814 and so on.
	All right.
	So, you know, there you go.
	So 88 tanks from Germany, which stands for, you know, it's a Nazi symbol.
	There you go.
	And if you're wondering, is this real?
	Did they really say that?
	Yeah.
	Politico reported this.
	Germany to send 88 leopard tanks to Ukraine.
	That's Politico.
	Republicworld.com.
	Germany to send Ukraine 88 leopard one tanks in exchange for something.
	Telegraph.co.uk.
	Germany approves 88 leopard tanks for Ukraine.
	Just on and on.
	Seriously, go to any search engine and type in 88 Leopard Tanks, Germany, and you're going to have thousands of articles with this, thousands of them.
	Now, you can't tell me that the leaders of Germany don't know that 88 is their Nazi fascist Hitler thing.
	I mean, I didn't know it, but I'm not German.
	I don't, you know, I know more about the history of the U.S. than the history of Germany.
	I didn't even know that.
	But if you're German, you would know this.
	I mean, if you're a German leader, for sure.
	And you're about to go into war, and you're sending tanks.
	Some of them with swastikas on them, by the way.
	We've seen those photos out of Ukraine.
	Why wouldn't they just choose a different number?
	Like, add one more tank and make it 89.
	So that it's not 88.
	Or just do two more tanks.
	Could you just do two more and make it 90?
	Or take a couple away and make it 86, you know?
	Just, why 88?
	They did it on purpose.
	That's why.
	Because again, these globalists, they communicate with each other in symbols and numbers and...
	I mean, look on the dollar bill, folks.
	The pyramid with the all-seeing eye.
	What is that eye?
	It's like the eye of Sauron looking over you.
	It's from your money.
	It's on your money.
	It's in your pocket right now if you have cash.
	Just look at it.
	It's right there.
	Now, getting back to the whole kind of cosmic false flag topic here.
	I know it sounds pretty wild at first, the thing about this.
	But why would they need people to think that aliens have attacked?
	And the answer should be obvious to those of you who are informed here.
	They need a cover story for the financial reset.
	Now, granted, there could be other totally different cover stories.
	They could claim Russia launched a cyber attack on the banking system, and that's why the dollar collapsed, right?
	And maybe that's exactly what's coming.
	Or they could take down the power grid on purpose and they could blame China.
	But blaming aliens would also be a very convenient excuse for almost anything.
	Now, you have to remember the concept of force majeure.
	Force majeure means, you know, force of God, right?
	Force majeure invalidates all contracts, all contracts.
	Including the contract of you getting your pension payment or your Social Security payment or your Medicare or your Treasuries if you invested in Treasuries, you know, you bought Treasuries.
	It's an IOU from the government.
	Well, if, quote, aliens invade, then they don't owe you anymore because it's force majeure.
	It's like, well, you know, aliens invaded.
	Therefore, all our obligations are canceled.
	Bank bail-ins would follow.
	Banks would say, well, the FDIC insurance doesn't cover alien invasion, right?
	So your money's gone.
	What I'm saying is that they could use it as a cover story.
	And it seems like they're kind of probing the public consciousness right there.
	They're testing this idea to see if people are buying it.
	This is the way the deep state and the globalists like to operate.
	They'll do like a, well, as we call it, you know, a test balloon on these concepts and see if people buy it.
	And if so, then they'll launch it big.
	Or if they get a lot of pushback, then they'll bury it and try something different.
	So right now it seems like they're testing the idea of an alien invasion to see if people will buy it, and they're using code words like octagon to communicate with each other to say that they're still alive.
	You know, dropping the name octagon into events like this is kind of like them saying to each other, it's like a keep alive type of statement.
	It's like it's a ping, like we're still here.
	We're still operating in Switzerland.
	We're still operating in Germany.
	88 tanks, you know, and many other examples of this.
	But they're all telling each other, we're still alive, we're still operating, and it may be time for them to roll out the big, the big cosmic false flag event.
	Now, if they can fake an alien invasion, which they are quite capable of doing, and there are many ways they can do that.
	For example, they can fly, organize shapes of lighted drones in the skies to look like a giant alien mothership, for example.
	China even has videos online of, I don't know, like patriotic communist displays of 10,000 drones in the sky making different shapes and things like that.
	So they can fake a giant alien mothership like something out of Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
	They can fake that easily.
	Or they can project, you know, holograms into the sky or they can use laser shows or whatever.
	Drones, you name it.
	Just the other day, The satellites were beaming down all these green laser beams over Hawaii.
	Did you see that photo?
	And we were told by the media that, oh, it's no big deal, it's just Chinese satellites.
	I'm like, what?
	There's like multiple lines of green laser beams coming out of the sky.
	I don't know if you saw that photo, but here, I'm going to show you that photo here of the green lasers.
	This is a photo.
	Snapped over Hawaii.
	Green lasers coming down out of orbit, I suppose.
	And we're just told, ah, this is totally normal.
	Nothing to see here.
	Move along.
	That's not normal to have an array of green lasers beaming down out of the sky.
	That's totally not normal, especially in the same week that there's a war in the sky, apparently.
	You know, shoot-downs of different objects and so on.
	Something very odd is going on here.
	But my point is they can fake all kinds of phenomena in the sky.
	And they can make most people believe, especially when they control the media and they control big tech and they control YouTube and Facebook and everything, they can make most people believe anything.
	Anything.
	They've got half the country believing that carbon is bad, even though people are carbon-based life forms.
	They've convinced carbon-based beings that carbon is bad.
	If they can do that, they can convince people of anything.
	They've got people lining up to take transhumanism jabs that are suicide vaccines.
	So of course they can convince people that aliens have attacked, you know?
	It's a simple thing for them to do.
	And then anybody who says, no, it's not aliens, it's just like exotic military tech and lasers and holograms and stuff, then that person will be called a conspiracy theorist.
	And there's a scientific consensus that we've made contact.
	And these are aliens.
	And then as a result, guess what?
	Guess what comes next?
	As a result, well, we have to have one world government, you see.
	Can't have individual nations.
	We've got to have one world government calling the shots to help humanity survive the alien invasion.
	That's going to be the narrative.
	I know it sounds like another science fiction movie.
	But you see, the goal has been one world government for quite a long time, right?
	And then when they turn on the 5G towers and they zap all these people who have been injected, With, you know, potentially 5G sensitive types of systems and like 10% of the city drops dead.
	You know what they'll say?
	They'll say aliens did that.
	Must have been the alien beam weapons, you know, coming out of the sky when it's actually just 5G. Right?
	So aliens is a cover story for all the killing that they want to do to humanity.
	Right?
	And they can use aliens as the excuse to take down the power grid, to take down the money supply, to do the global reset.
	And frankly, some people believe that there can be a history reset on planet Earth, that they can kind of sterilize the entire civilization as it exists today, and then start up, like, destroy everything, destroy all knowledge, and then start up a new civilization with the remaining surviving population who are then taught this false history, kind of like something right out of the Matrix.
	You know, people believe they're in the Matrix.
	They thought it was a certain year, but it wasn't like all of our history could be faked again.
	Some people believe this is happening over and over and over again.
	I'm not sure about it.
	I haven't looked into it in great detail.
	But knowing the level of indoctrination and brainwashing and deception of mainstream media today, it's certainly not outside the realm of possibility.
	How do you know that the history you're told about, you know, the 15th century is actually true?
	How do you know things actually happen that way?
	There's no way to know.
	But the point is, the globalists have been given orders to exterminate some large percentage of humanity.
	They've tried to do it with vaccines and there's been a lot of pushback against that.
	So they're trying to do it now with mass famine and starvation, right?
	Burning down the food system hubs and critical infrastructure, shutting down energy infrastructure, trying to start a nuclear war and so on, right?
	But alien invasion as a cover story would allow them to instantly achieve everything that they wanted, right?
	Suddenly you have to be tracked, if you're still alive anyway.
	Digital currency.
	Oh, you have to give up your guns because we need one world government and all guns have to be, you know, controlled only by the government so that they can be used against the aliens.
	You can't have citizens having firearms.
	No.
	One world government...
	Everything has to be controlled by the Central Command Authority, which is fighting the aliens for the survival of the human race.
	And if you oppose one world government in this scenario, then you're going to be called an alien sympathizer.
	Uh-huh.
	And then you'll probably be, you know, executed on the spot or thrown in jail, have all your assets seized and all your websites shut down, you alien sympathizers.
	You know, if you don't go along with the one world government system.
	Because that's the way it is right now when you talk about Russia and Ukraine.
	If you're not like 100% pro-Zelensky, even though he's a cocaine clown king, that's nice alliteration there.
	If you're not 100% pro-Zelensky, then you're said automatically to be a Russian sympathizer.
	And then you're some kind of a criminal in America for pointing out obvious things like the fact that the Russians have...
	Much more military hardware and better artillery, better hypersonic missiles, better tanks, better everything, it seems.
	Better jet fighters, better bombers.
	Oh, you point that out.
	Yeah, Russian sympathizers.
	So if you're not all on board with the one world government fighting the, quote, alien invasion, then, you know, you're going to be shut down, you see.
	Now, remember from COVID that the governments of the world, they control people through fear.
	Fear is their weapon.
	They cause massive global fear about COVID and drove people into the vaccines which are depopulation weapons and infertility weapons obviously to achieve global genocide against humanity.
	They had to have the fear in order to drive people to do that.
	So how do they keep people in fear?
	Well, again, alien invasion is the perfect storyline to spread fear.
	So it starts the way we're seeing it now.
	Weird objects in the skies and things being shot down.
	And then if they're going to pursue this angle, then it would increase next week and the week after and the week after until there's more and more things in the skies.
	And then at some point, then there's jet fighters being shot down, we would be told.
	Now, again, they won't actually show you any of this.
	They'll just tell you.
	They'll tell you what's happening because they're weaving a storyline, right?
	It's all scripted.
	They're weaving a storyline.
	And then at some point, probably at night, again, they'll fake a giant mothership like, the aliens are here!
	And then it'll be a total one world government takeover and total demands for absolute obedience to the United Nations or whoever they're going to say is in charge.
	And the UN, by the way, does not believe in the Constitution or the Bill of Rights or the Second Amendment or the First Amendment or even the right of human beings to exist.
	So you would immediately be thrust into this global genocide grinder, all based on an outright lie, which is kind of like right out of the 1984 novel where the government was always in a perpetual war with some imagined which is kind of like right out of the 1984 novel where And the endless war was the excuse for authoritarian control over the domestic population.
	So imagine that, but on a planetary scale.
	That's where this may be going.
	And they're laying the groundwork for all this right now.
	Over the weekend...
	A great story from Infowars.com.
	Clinton, Hillary Clinton, joins forces with the Rockefeller Foundation to push digital cash to fight climate change.
	Globalists are weaponizing global warming narratives to pave the way for trackable and controllable digital currencies.
	So she was in India to announce the launch of this $50 million global, quote, climate resilience fund, That's supposed to be used by women to tackle global warming.
	And then she announced all of these globalist groups that she's working with, not just the Clinton Global Initiative, but the Adrienne Arsht Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center, the Desai Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Council for Inclusive Capitalism, the Algorand Foundation.
	Here it is.
	Global Climate Resilience Fund for Women.
	And the Algorand Foundation is a digital currency.
	It's a crypto, kind of a crypto-globalist-leaning group.
	So it's about digital money to fight climate change somehow, right?
	And I want to play for you the video of Hillary Clinton announcing all this because the commentary online is that her face looks like George Soros.
	Which is kind of a horrifying look for a man or a woman or even a demon creature.
	But check this out.
	We'll play a few seconds of this so you can hear Hillary Clinton now looking like George Soros announcing more globalism in the name of climate change.
	Here we go.
	So today I am proud to announce that the Clinton Global Initiative started by my husband, We'll work closely with SEWA and with our partners, the American India Foundation, the Adrian Arsh Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center,
	the Desai Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Council for Inclusive Capitalism, and the Algorand Foundation, To launch a $50 million global climate resilient fund for women.
	Wow, there you go.
	She got in almost all the virtue signaling possible.
	I think we should turn that into the arrest list of globalists to be investigated for possible arrests for defrauding humankind.
	But it's for women!
	Gosh, I thought the Democrats didn't believe in women anymore.
	I thought it was all trans now.
	Huh?
	Is Hillary trying to bring back the concept of women?
	Doesn't she know?
	That's already been overthrown by her own lunatic left-wing party, by the way.
	But she does look like George Soros, which is pretty amazing.
	By the way, there are more and more people waking up to the reality of what's happening.
	The Gateway Pundit covered this over the weekend.
	A Romanian senator slams globalists for mass genocide using the, quote, alleged pandemic and COVID death jabs, claims that Turkey's earthquake was a man-made attack.
	Interesting, huh?
	Over 33,000 people now reported dead in Turkey.
	And by the way, the Turkish government has now arrested over 130 building contractors for apparently constructing shoddy buildings that collapsed.
	Yeah, I mean, yeah, well, cutting corners is common in all construction, all construction, everywhere around the world, but perhaps it's worse in Turkey.
	I'm not sure.
	I know it's bad in China.
	I know it's happened in Taiwan.
	I know it happens in the United States as well, by the way.
	Hyatt Regency collapse in Kansas City back in the 19, what was it, late 1980s, I believe.
	But this senator of Romania, Senator Diana Lovanovici, Lovanovici, yeah, cool name, blasted the globalists for their role in the genocidal plot.
	She said, quote, It is very clear to me that at this point, things at the international level have gotten out of hand.
	The fools are playing as God, and they think they've won the game.
	Cause of these demented and psychopathic people who cause wars and cataclysms using unconventional weapons.
	We humans are just numbers they can get rid of.
	Those are just excerpts from her speech.
	She said the Turkish secret services are investigating a possible criminal intervention, what followed later being a chain reaction after the destabilization of the tectonic plates in the region.
	Now, you know that there are, what are they called?
	Thumpers.
	There are thumper weapons, which are geological weapons that use an enormous amount of energy and can send energy into tectonic plates.
	Now, I don't think it's possible for them to cause an earthquake out of nothing.
	My understanding is there would have to be something that's very close to going, you know, maybe a tectonic shift that's almost ready, like there's a lot of energy already built up.
	But there are these thumper weapons, or it's rumored to be so, that can then kind of push tectonic plates over the tipping point and unleash an earthquake that was already built up.
	There are a lot of forces that can cause that, by the way, of course, the moon's gravity and, you know, the pull of the sun and the moon.
	There are science papers about how more earthquakes happen when the sun and the moon are on opposite sides of planet Earth.
	It's like gravity pulling in both directions, which is kind of interesting.
	But clearly the Moon's gravity has a major impact on Earth, i.e.
	the tides.
	The Moon moves entire oceans, right?
	So clearly the Moon's gravity can also pull tectonic plates, and so can the Sun's gravity, which has captured our entire planet, obviously.
	And then there's gravity effects of other more distant planets, which would be very much mitigated because of the extreme distances, but it could be some smaller gravity effects of Mars or Venus, although that seems very small to me, given how far away they are.
	Anyway, just some things to consider.
	Oh, and just to accelerate the mass die-off, by the way, the CDC has added COVID-19 vaccines to the child immunization schedule.
	That is an act of mass murder against children.
	And it's being done, of course, to offer legal immunity to the vaccine manufacturers, who are, of course, working for the Pentagon and the DOD, running an anti-human genocidal mass murder campaign across the entire planet.
	So, of course, they're trying to mass murder children as well, and they're doing so.
	The children that are injected with these vaccines, the vast majority of them will be either infertile, maimed, or dead within a decade.
	So it's, again, all by design.
	All by design.
	So the bottom line in all of this is that we could be looking at the kind of opening chapter of a cosmic false flag event where an alien invasion of Earth could be fabricated in order to achieve one world government and in order to function as a cover story for a financial reset, a banking reset, mass genocide, activation of the 5G weapon systems, mass killing.
	Of people who have been injected and whatever else they want excuses for.
	Anything.
	You know, total currency collapse, digital currency mandates, turn in your guns, worship one world government, worship the Antichrist, you know, whatever they want is going to say because of the aliens at this point.
	So what do you think?
	Do you think they're going to continue rolling this out?
	Or are they going to get too much pushback and stop it?
	And if they do roll it out, you've got to know, I'm sure you agree with me on this, that all those same left-wing lunatics who went along with everything, the vaccines, the masks, the Biden election rigging, everything, the transgenderism pushing on children, the grooming, the child mutilations, those people will believe anything.
	They'll go right along with it.
	If CNN tells them that aliens have appeared in the sky and demanded, you know, your kidneys, they will line up.
	So give us kidneys.
	Take a kidney for the aliens, you know.
	These leftists will believe anything.
	Like, eat bugs to change the weather.
	Like, okay, more crickets.
	Hey, cricket brand.
	They'll believe anything.
	They're so gullible.
	I did a podcast over the weekend called The Globalists Have Decided to Exterminate the Gullible.
	That's leftists.
	They're so gullible.
	They go along with absolutely anything.
	But you know what I'm talking about.
	If you say to them right now that aliens might be invading, they look at you like you're crazy.
	But if CNN says it, And you don't go along with it, then they think you're a conspiracy theorist for not believing the alien invasion that CNN reported.
	You see what I mean?
	These left-wing people who I call NPCs, non-player characters, they don't have original thoughts.
	They're PLFs too, programmable life forms.
	They get all their scripting from CNN and NPR in many cases and left-wing media.
	They are incapable of their own individual thoughts.
	That's why every few months they have to change their Facebook avatars.
	First it was the vaccine, then it's masking, and then it's the Ukraine flag, and then it's going to be the gay flag or whatever.
	They have no original thoughts whatsoever.
	So if the establishment tells them that aliens are invading and they have to donate their toenails or whatever, they'll do it.
	They'll sit there at home with a pair of pliers ripping out their toenails to appease The demands of the aliens, if that's what NPR tells them to do.
	They're that crazy.
	And you could see CNN having a segment like, the aliens came and they told us that there's a toenail shortage in the Milky Way, and if we donate like 5 billion toenails, they'll leave us alone.
	And then the government will come rip toenails out of people.
	And if you don't go along with it, you'll, you know...
	No, I mean, that's just one bizarre example.
	I'm just saying it's an example of the kind of nonsense they could come up with and these left-wing people would go along with it.
	Whatever it is.
	Anything.
	You could tell these leftists have to give up, you know, the firstborn child.
	They would do it.
	They murder their children anyway.
	They don't have any qualms about handing over another child if they're ordered to do so by the establishment.
	And yes, there are weather weapons.
	And yes, there are lasers coming out of the sky from orbital weapons platforms.
	And yes, there are EMP platforms that can be carried aloft by giant balloons.
	We saw that.
	And yes, there are AI systems that are already in play.
	Running a lot of the fake Twitter accounts, by the way.
	A lot of AI that's been around for quite a few years here.
	People think it's real, and it isn't.
	And there's a lot of deepfakes going on.
	There's a lot of body doubles out there that are just, you know, pretending to be somebody else.
	The world is more strange than you could imagine.
	And the key survival trait is discernment.
	That's the most difficult part of this is discerning what's real versus what's fake.
	And they make it difficult on purpose.
	They make it very, very tricky to know the difference.
	There's a simple rule of thumb.
	When in doubt, don't do what the media tells you to do.
	That's kind of the main rule to follow.
	If they tell you to eat bugs, don't eat bugs.
	If they tell you to stop eating eggs, eat more eggs.
	If they tell you to take these jabs, don't take the jabs.
	If they tell you to buy more stocks, probably don't buy more stocks.
	Maybe sell some stocks.
	Whatever they tell you, do the opposite.
	You will have a much higher chance of survival and success in this world.
	Just to be clear, it's the simple rule of thumb.
	Whatever CNN is telling you to do, do the opposite.
	Now, we're going to jump into our interview with Martin Armstrong here, talking about the economy.
	Just remember, the audio is a little jacked up, but it's not horrible.
	You can still tell, especially what he's saying.
	My voice isn't very good in this, but it's still intelligible.
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	Now, with that said, we're going to jump into the interview with Martin Armstrong, and that will finish out today's podcast.
	And I'll be back with you tomorrow, maybe, possibly on video from the new studio, depending on how well that goes.
	We're still sorting out some audio issues, but we'll see.
	We'll see.
	In any case, we'll talk to you tomorrow.
	Thank you for listening.
	I'm Mike Adams.
	God bless you.
	God bless America.
	Get ready for the fake alien invasion.
	Take care.
	Hello and welcome.
	Mike Adams here with brighttown.com and I've got a really amazing interview for you today with Martin Armstrong of armstrongeconomics.com.
	He's got some very important things to share with us over about 20 to 30 minutes here.
	Unfortunately, there were some problems with my microphone on my side in the studio, and we had some glitches here and there on some video as well.
	But Martin's audio is all good.
	Thank goodness, because he's the most important part of this.
	and he's got some very important things to say.
	So bear with us here.
	You're going to hear the full interview coming up.
	My voice will be a little glitchy, a little staticky.
	Martin's voice is perfectly clear.
	Listen carefully to what he has to say.
	We had a great conversation.
	And we've already solved these audio problems in the studio, so that won't happen again.
	And I just want to be respectful to Martin Armstrong and make sure we get this interview out there so you can hear what he has to say.
	So enjoy.
	Here we go.
	Thank you very much for inviting me.
	Well, your insight has proven very much on track again and again and again.
	Your modeling has been truly legendary.
	I'd like to start off by asking you, what do you think the implications are for, let's say, a theoretical NATO loss against Russia in the Ukraine conflict?
	What will happen in the world of finance, in your view, should that event occur?
	We're probably looking at near-term anyhow.
	That capital will end up fleeing to the United States.
	And you also have from Asia, you have effectively North Korea shooting missiles all over Japan.
	Then you have Taiwan.
	Everywhere you go, even in the Middle East, I mean, the capital will tend to Concentrate in the United States, as it did for World War I and World War II. That will last probably until maybe in maximum around 2028.
	And then we'll end up with a situation where, you know, they really want to move towards a new world currency.
	That's what, you know, Schwab's whole Great Reset's all about.
	So when that happens, what are the chances of the dollar being able to survive that new global reserve?
	Carsey, because there's so much money printing and there's so much devaluation of the dollar happening right now.
	Do you think the dollar is going to be around in 10 years or where is it going in your view?
	Well, I mean, a lot of people just focus on the dollar, but things are far worse outside the United States.
	So, in a situation like this, the dollar will be the last one stamped.
	You have to understand, by lowering the interest rates to negative in Europe in 2014, raising the rates just about every pension fund now has lost so much money.
	It's crazy.
	Japan You know, they actually had bragged that they bought 97% of their government bond auction.
	I mean, there's no market for this long-term debt.
	That's what the London bond crisis was about.
	And Yellen even came out and proposed that the Treasury should buy in long-term debt and swap the short term.
	You know, looking at war, And rising interest rates.
	I mean, you have to be insane to buy long-term bonds at this point.
	The future is just so uncertain.
	Why would you buy anything beyond the really?
	And so it's far worse outside the United States than in the U.S., mainly because the U.S. still does have the largest economy in the world.
	That's why everybody wants to sell to us.
	I mean, because the U.S. has a consumer-based economy.
	Germany, for example, it's fine.
	It's the strongest economy in Europe.
	But, you know, if you look at actual wealth, the German citizens have less than Italians.
	Why?
	Because the taxes are so high.
	Germany has followed the old mercantile economic theory where all they want to do is sell to somebody else.
	They don't necessarily develop their domestic economy like we have.
	So China, Japan, Germany, they all made money rising from the ashes, basically, because they could sell to Americans.
	So that's the difference.
	It's not that so much that we're printing money, etc.
	I know a lot of people focus on that.
	But you also have to look at this thing from a global perspective.
	I mean, eventually all currencies are just basically collapsing.
	Largely because since World War II, All they have ever done is borrow year after year with zero intention of paying anything back.
	So the whole system is collapsing that way.
	So it sounds like you believe that people have reason to have confidence in at least the dollar as the currency of last resort for some period of time, but at the same time in the experience of consumers in the United States, they see the purchasing power of those dollars dropping quite rapidly in certain areas like food, for example.
	How do those things coincide?
	I mean, in terms of the dollar holding its value for the next few years for Americans?
	You know, that's a separate question from the inflation that you're talking about.
	The inflation that we have is a real problem for the central banks.
	They raise interest rates thinking that they can stop inflation Based upon old theories from the Great Depression.
	And they're just not working.
	Back in the Depression when Keynes came into play, the U.S. had a balanced budget.
	It was him basically coming in and saying, it's okay to run a deficit when you're in a recession.
	And so he gave the blessing to politicians.
	And ever since, they said, oh, well, Keynes said it's okay for us to run deficits.
	So they ran deficits in a boom, a bust.
	It didn't matter.
	It's always the same thing.
	So now we have a situation where the Fed and all central banks are raising rates to stop inflation.
	It won't work.
	It only makes it worse.
	This type of inflation We're set in motion by COVID. It's shortages.
	It's not speculation.
	And yes, Americans are watching their food costs rise, etc.
	But outside the United States, it's far worse because most of these commodities are in terms of dollars to begin with.
	And as the dollar has risen against just about everything in Asia and in Europe, That's why you see the civil unrest in many different countries from Pakistan all the way over to Sri Lanka.
	To them, the inflation is probably twice as much as what we are experiencing.
	What about, then, combining that with the deindustrialization of Europe that we're seeing happening, you know, because of the cutoff of energy?
	We're seeing many industries shutting down in Europe.
	We're seeing some uprising of people who are unhappy about that.
	In the U.S., we're seeing these, I think, fake jobs numbers that came out recently, but in Europe, it seems to be Industries are just shutting down.
	So do you think that, you know, Europe being America's largest trading partner, at some point soon, aren't we going to see a situation where fewer and fewer Europeans can afford to purchase goods made in the United States?
	We're looking at, effectively, we're in stagflation.
	And by that, we have I mean that the inflation rate is greater than the economic growth.
	But then you have that contrasted with the geopolitical problems outside the United States.
	And when you've got tanks running down the street, you're not going to be leaving your money in the local bank.
	That's what basically, if you look at it, the United States was bankrupt in 1896.
	That's when J.P. Morgan had to organize a $100 million gold loan to bail out the U.S. Treasury.
	So we go from bankrupt in 1896 to after World War I. By 1914, the United States was the financial capital of the world.
	London shot itself in the head.
	After World War II, the U.S. ended up with 76% of the world gold reserves.
	Because whatever money was overseas, it all just rushed over here.
	So, I mean, that's what even created the Roaring Twenties.
	They didn't understand that.
	All the money from Europe came here.
	They saw opportunities with the auto industry booming and aircraft starting.
	And they were investing here, just like the dot-com type bubble.
	It was that concentration of capital which created the boom into 29, and then there was a sovereign debt crisis in Europe in 31, and they had to take all the money back out.
	So that's what really caused the Great Depression a lot.
	So all these things are intricately connected together.
	It's a question of timing.
	And at the end of the game, yes, the dollar is going to lose confidence just like everything else because our government doesn't run fiscally proper in any way, shape or form.
	Until we get to that point, you have the geopolitical issues which is sending capital in this direction because it's worse over there right now.
	But then that stops.
	So I really like your overview.
	So the international movement, the flows of capital around the world.
	What about China?
	How does China figure into this?
	And also talk about China's own domestic challenges with debt, because their debt to GDP ratio, I think, is even higher than ours is in America.
	How are China's economic problems going to impact us in America, in your view?
	Quietly lobbying the Federal Reserve not to raise interest rates.
	Basically, China was doing the right thing, but nobody listened.
	They didn't do it in a dictatorial manner, but they were telling their provinces and companies not to borrow in dollars.
	They were borrowing in dollars because it was always cheap on the interest rates.
	And they didn't outlaw it, but most of these debt problems that you see in China is because they borrowed in dollars.
	Then the dollar went up, and then they couldn't pay it.
	The same thing happened, for example, in Europe, everybody was sold Swiss mortgages.
	And then the Swiss franc and euro peg broke, and all of a sudden you owed 25% more in your house.
	The same thing took place in Australia back in the 80s.
	The bankers were selling Swiss loans, and the $8 collapsed against the franc.
	Whenever you're going to borrow in one currency and invest in another, there is a currency risk.
	And that's not well understood, I think, by anybody, including banks.
	I mean, what I probably started down the road of getting called into these financial crises was back in 1973.
	I happened to have known the executive vice president of Franklin National Bank.
	It was the first bank that failed after the floating exchange rate took place.
	I got called in because they didn't understand what happened.
	They thought it had to do with the currency.
	They lost basically almost 10% of their capitalization because of the decline in the dollar against the world currencies at that time.
	They had a lot of Capital invested in Italian Lira.
	So that was the first bank to go down.
	Then the next round came around by 1980, etc.
	By then they were saying, get that guy that did the other one.
	Because they still don't teach these things of currency hedging, etc.
	in university.
	I mean, I won't mention a name, but one of the very top five universities in the world actually asked me if I would teach there.
	And I said, excuse me?
	I said, I'm not really interested in teaching a class.
	And I said, why are you asking me?
	And they actually said to me, we know what we teach doesn't work.
	Wow, that's a rare mission right there.
	...here for a degree...
	It's something that you're admitting that doesn't work, but they are still teaching Keynesian economics, etc., and All these theories are from fixed exchange rate periods, not from floating exchange rate.
	Well, you make a really great point.
	It leads me to my next question.
	So most of what people have been taught about money and debt and finance is obsolete or distorted in some way, like this MMT, right, which, of course, I call magical money theory.
	But what is your...
	I'm not going to use the word advice, but guidance for people right now who may be starting to question their belief system about how to protect assets.
	What would you advise them to look toward or to study or to learn in order to not lose their assets as the world's fiat currencies fall apart over the next decade or so?
	Where should they begin?
	Well, the first thing you have to understand is that all Tangible assets, and that can be not just precious metals, that's stocks, that's real estate, etc.
	They all tend to go up when the currency goes down.
	The government calls it inflation.
	They make it sound as if it's the private sector that's at error.
	In effect, if you can look at the German hyperinflation, etc., You know, they didn't even have any gold or silver.
	So when it collapsed, they came out with a new Deutschmark and was backed by real estate.
	Tangible assets make that transition.
	All right.
	It's a question then of liquidity.
	All right.
	Obviously, real estate isn't liquid.
	You can't necessarily go shopping and say, okay, fine, I'll give you some land over here for a bottle of milk.
	But as far as making the transition to whatever new currency comes, that's what real estate does.
	Okay?
	I saw it in Germany when the wall fell, the same thing.
	It was real estate over there suddenly began to rise dramatically.
	For liquidity purposes, you're probably looking at more on the area of gold and silver for that sort of thing.
	It tends to be a universal market, but just about everything from coins and stamps and art All these things went up with the German hyperinflation, for example.
	So what you have to understand is that there's basically just envision it this way, that there's a scale.
	On one side is all assets, the other side is the currency.
	When the currency goes down, just about everything else rises.
	That's why you've seen Real estate going up dramatically.
	It's capital wanting to get off the grid.
	Getting out of the banks, because if the bank is at risk, etc.
	We all have these different things.
	On top of that, you have in real estate, you have a migration problem where there's more people leaving places like California, New York and Connecticut, and they're going to places like Florida and Texas.
	All right.
	So that's mainly because of the COVID over restrictions and things of that nature and the taxation.
	No, we see that.
	I mean, this studio is in Central Texas.
	We see that directly.
	But you mentioned something really important, which is about banks and bank solvency.
	And a lot of people are concerned about bail-ins.
	I want to ask you about that.
	There was some FDIC video that went viral recently that appeared to be from an FDIC board member meeting saying that they thought that they would have to have bail-ins or at least being prepared for certain bail-ins, which Our audience knows bail-ins means the bank claims ownership of your deposits and then decides how much you can ever take out, if any.
	But do you think that bail-ins, you know, which we saw in the Greek islands a few years back, I forgot the name of the country, but do you think that that's a very real risk at some point here in the United States?
	The United States did that when they left Global.
	That's true, yes.
	Corzine.
	Yes, it was Corzine.
	The judge in New York was amazingly, he just basically took the depositor's money.
	True.
	So, you know, it all depends upon what they're doing and how politically charged they can get away with it.
	But, you know, you will find...
	I would be very concerned that the way they will interpret the FDIC is that you're entitled to their limit and that's for all the banks you have.
	I thought it's supposed to be for each bank.
	Supposed to be, yes.
	But that's not necessarily the way it's guaranteed or anything else.
	Even Italy, when it got into trouble in the last decade, if you had 90-day government bonds, they just extended it and said, we're going to convert them to 10.
	Governments can do whatever they want.
	Just keep that in mind.
	Nobody prosecutes.
	Not one banker has ever gone to prison.
	Pfizer just pled criminally guilty.
	Nobody goes to prison.
	Nobody's personally charged.
	Effectively, whatever a bank or they make in the pharmaceutical industry, the government comes in and says, okay, we're going to make it look good.
	We're going to charge you and give us 10% of whatever you made.
	That's our cut.
	And that's basically it.
	Yeah, you're right.
	They don't charge an individual, mainly because they can't get those big kind of fines from an individual.
	How are you going to get $100 billion from an individual?
	I mean, you can't.
	If the bank made a trillion, we'll give us $100 billion.
	That's basically the way it works.
	So they always go after the institution that way.
	And it's just basically bribe money.
	That's really all it is.
	You're exactly right.
	Now, in the couple minutes we have left, please tell people what they can get from your website, armstrongeconomics.com, and what you offer to people through your modeling.
	I'm not sure exactly how you describe it, but you have a very advanced modeling system that also helps make projections.
	Go ahead and tell people what they can learn from you or get from you, please.
	Being a hedge fund manager, I saw, you know, Back in the 70s and 80s, really, how capital really moved.
	I was in Geneva, for example, in the 80s, and everybody was there.
	We were dealing with the OPEC money at that time, and then Japan started to rise, and then all of a sudden, the money was shifting to Japan, and as the money shifted, then all the talent shifted.
	All the top brokers who were in Geneva were suddenly in Tokyo.
	So I've seen the way capital really moves.
	You take it when Greece defaulted, you know, immediately the dealing desk, you know, and they make a fortune, they go, okay, fine, who's next?
	Oh, okay, let's go after Spain.
	This is the way it is.
	You can read a chapter of Herbert Hoover's memoirs.
	It's free.
	It's online.
	1931.
	You'll see Capitol is acting like it did back then.
	He said it acted like a cannon on a deck of a ship in the middle of a hurricane.
	He said it was shooting off in every which direction so fast you couldn't figure out where it was going next.
	That's exactly the same thing that we have seen how Capitol responds.
	So I had taken...
	Basically, from the beginning, I got involved in computer programming, etc.
	So I had focused on artificial intelligence back in the 70s.
	And so I developed a computer that basically monitors the entire world.
	It writes reports...
	Itself, without any human involvement, on over a thousand instruments around the world.
	We're covering basically every country in the world.
	The advantage is that it's the same system on a global scale.
	Once you understand how the system works, you can pick it up in India, Rwanda, wherever you want to go.
	It doesn't matter.
	The biggest thing with it is that We can forecast things personally.
	Maybe we're right, maybe we're wrong.
	We all have different opinions.
	I mean, this computer basically has done war amazingly.
	I learned back in the 80s, we had a client at the Universal Bank of Lebanon, and they had found a ledger in their basement with the Lebanese pound in it, and they asked us if we could create a model on it.
	I said, sure, send it over.
	I put in the data and out came the computer and said their country was going to fall apart in eight days.
	I thought there was something wrong with the data.
	I called him and said, look, there's something that's got to be wrong.
	It says your country is going to fall apart in eight days.
	And he said, well, what currency would you recommend?
	I said, well, it says the Swiss franc.
	And eight days later, the Civil War took place.
	The same thing happened.
	We had a big shipping client in Saudi Arabia And he calls and he says, what do you think gold's going to do tomorrow?
	Iran's going to start attacking shipping in the Gulf tomorrow.
	I said, you tell me a war's going to start?
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	What do you think gold's going to do?
	So by 98, you know, the computer put out that, you know, Russia was going to fall.
	And I did a conference in London and London Financial Times happened to be there and they stuck it on the front page.
	They said Armstrong says that Russia is going to collapse in about 30 days.
	That was a long term capital management crisis.
	I've come to understand the computer is monitoring absolutely everything.
	And just like those guys at Universal Bank of Lebanon, obviously they saw capital moving themselves.
	All right?
	So they wanted us to do a model.
	So when I said your country is going to fall apart in eight days, they weren't shocked.
	So then do you...
	Do you do consulting with specific clients where you use your system to help provide answers to them, or is this something that the public can subscribe to your analysis that's based on this system, or how does that work?
	It opened it up so that anybody can go in and use it now.
	For probably 30 years, it was just institutions only.
	It's been reliable.
	It's been quite interesting to watch it and how it forecasts.
	And it's not a personal opinion.
	So it's not, you know, well, I think this is going to happen.
	We can all be right or wrong on a personal basis.
	So I think that's the main thrust of what What it is.
	Okay.
	And just about, at this point, just about every government is tapping into it as well.
	Well, I'm going to call it the finance version of chat GPT then.
	That's what I'm going to name it.
	You were doing AI before people were even talking about it.
	So I just want to let people know they can find out more about that at your website, armstrongeconomics.com.
	Any final words before we wrap this up, Martin?
	Yeah, like that chat...
	That just simply goes out to the web and gathers information.
	It's not capable of making a forecast.
	What we have, you can't ask it what the name of Lady Gaga's dog is.
	It will forecast what's happening because what it has is all the markets in the world, capital flows, etc.
	It's a completely different thing.
	It's doing the analysis itself.
	But I would say that we have to understand that we're in a time of war and the most critical period is going to come up in April, May.
	And we've reached the point of really no return on a lot of this.
	And as far as war is concerned, the West just is not interested in negotiating anything with Putin.
	This is really a climate change war.
	They want to destroy Russia because 50% of its GDP is all fossil fuels.
	That's a really interesting point.
	The climate change war, and you said April, May timeframe, is that when you believe that Russia is likely to launch its expected springtime offensive, or is that a breakthrough time for Russia?
	This has been coming up.
	I mean, we had these targets two years ago.
	So it's not something that's based upon that.
	But look, in...
	The security minister of Ukraine just basically came out and said, of course we're going to use those long-range missiles to attack Moscow.
	He was quoted in a German newspaper after telling everybody, no, we would never do that.
	You do that, and honestly, Russia has no choice but to nuke Ukraine.
	And I can tell you from the other side of Russia, Putin is not the madman.
	There are guys far worse behind him.
	And they've been pushing him and pushing him and saying that he's been too soft.
	Didn't Medvedev just come out and say that the West will burn if they continue to escalate?
	Yes, absolutely.
	He's one of them.
	You have to understand about Putin.
	Putin is a historian and he is nostalgic.
	He did not want to conquer Ukraine.
	He just tried to do the Donbass.
	Too soft.
	And everybody has complained that that is the problem.
	Kiev is where the Russians began.
	That's where the Rus were.
	And then the Mongols destroyed it in 1240, and then they re-rose again in Moscow.
	So to him, nuking Kiev was kind of like us taking out London.
	So he didn't want to do that.
	But you have the hardliners that don't care about that.
	And you remove Putin, and it's going to get much worse.
	All right.
	I hope you enjoyed that interview, folks.
	Remember, Martin Armstrong's website is armstrongeconomics.com.
	And I hope you learned a lot from that interview.
	It's just a taste of information yet to come from Mr.
	Armstrong.
	We'll reach out to him again.
	In a month or two and kind of see if he's got updates or if he wants to come on and sound the alarm on anything important.
	He's always analyzing world events and money flows and asset flows, commodities flows around the world.
	So I know he's going to have some very insightful analysis to share with us.
	So again, sorry about the little audio glitch that we had there, and thank you for your patience.
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