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March 23, 2023 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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Brighteon Broadcast News, 3/23/23 - Govt. declares WAR on CRYPTO...
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All right, welcome to the Brighton broadcast for Thursday, March 23rd, 2023. welcome to the Brighton broadcast for Thursday, March 23rd, 2023.
I'm Mike Adams here from the Brighteon Studios.
Thank you for joining me.
We've got quite an incredible lineup for you here today and some very important discussion straight ahead and some breaking news as well.
We've got an interview with David Morgan, the Silver Guru, coming up, and then also an interview with Dr.
Alan Keyes as well.
So we have a double interview day for you here.
I've already done those two interviews.
I just recorded them.
Really strong stuff.
I'm going to have some breaking news coming up for you here in the crypto space.
There has been criminal charges filed against some celebrities and some rappers associated with a certain crypto.
We're going to get into that.
And also a billion-dollar lawsuit has been filed against a lot of celebrities that were promoting FTX. We're going to cover that as well.
Kind of a major breaking day.
It's clear that there is a massive war by the Biden administration against crypto.
There was a major report that was also released today by the White House that's basically a total declaration of war against crypto.
And it makes me wonder, when are the crypto people, maybe today's the day, but when are the crypto people going to realize that the Democrats are not your friends?
The Biden administration is actually at war with you.
And everybody in crypto should realize you need to get red-pilled.
You need to wake up and join Team Humanity if you haven't already.
But a lot of people in crypto were still Biden supporters and leftists, and they thought that the progress and left-wingism and transgenderism and everything is all great.
Now, guess what?
Your whole industry is about to be wiped out.
By the Biden administration.
So you better get on the right side of this quickly.
But before we get into that, I want to have a discussion because this came up.
I want to talk about force majeure.
This came up because I mentioned something about force majeure just the other day.
Now, force majeure, it's a French term.
It means a major force.
Essentially, it's a clause that's put into a lot of contracts, even gold and silver storage contracts or banking contracts or other kinds of contracts that says, hey, we're not responsible if something happens totally outside of our control, an act of God, which typically refers to things like war or insurrection an act of God, which typically refers to things like war or insurrection or natural disasters like a hurricane or a comet impact strikes Earth and Maybe a cyber attack on the power grid.
These are considered things that are outside the control of businesses.
And as I mentioned accurately the other day, that...
I was talking to a representative from the Texas Depository, actually, where you can store gold and silver in Central Texas.
I was talking to this gentleman and I was saying, hey, what if things go bad in society and I need to show up and physically get my gold and silver?
Like, do I show ID? And by the way, I don't actually have gold and silver in that depository.
I was asking him a what if.
To see if it's safe to even buy any gold and put it there.
But I said, could I show up and show ID and take gold?
Could myself or any other depositor, could we get our hands on those deposits?
And he said, look, our contracts have force majeure clauses in them.
And so does everybody else, or virtually everybody.
And if it gets that bad as what you're saying, these vaults are just going to declare force majeure.
They're just going to invoke the clause and say, hey, you know, act of war, act of God, insurrection, we can't get you your gold.
And some people heard me say that and were a little bit freaked out about that.
I mean, wait a second.
Wait a second.
You mean under force majeure?
You may not get your gold that you have stored at a vault?
And...
I have a clarification on that, but frankly the correct answer is yes under certain circumstances.
But what you need to know about force majeure is that this clause only applies when three conditions are true, at least under U.S. law and I think common law as well.
But I mean, get your own legal advice, obviously.
I'm not your attorney.
But normally three conditions.
Number one, it has to be an external event.
Something outside your vendor or the company you're doing business with.
And then secondly, it has to be something that is unforeseen or unanticipated.
So, you know, a meteor falls out of the sky or a cyber attack takes down the power grid.
Something like that.
And the third thing is it has to be unstoppable.
You know, so powerful...
Like, let's say, an avalanche or a hurricane or a tornado or an earthquake or something that there's really nothing you could do about it.
Basically, what force majeure means is that, okay, this is a clause where the company says, if there's nothing we can do about it, then you got to let us off the hook.
Like if you're storing your gold somewhere, let's say, and then there's a nuclear war.
And UPS doesn't run and FedEx doesn't run.
There's no diesel fuel.
There's no carriers.
If you call up the company and say, look, I demand that you ship me the gold right now, that company's going to say, look, we'd love to.
Like, we have your gold.
Here it is.
And it's safe.
We're committed to it.
But nobody's shipping anything because there's no diesel.
Force majeure, man.
That's what you're going to hear.
Force majeure.
We can't ship you your gold because we can't change the laws of physics here.
We can't magically teleport your gold from here to there.
The carriers have to run, and they're not running.
Or act of wars, like, oh, we're under attack.
We're under artillery attack.
They're shelling our city and the highways.
Pretty much nothing you can do to deliver the gold at that point.
You see what I'm saying?
And the more I think about it, this is my opinion, force majeure really means that it depends on the ethics of the company that you're dealing with.
Good companies with good ethics and good morals, like our sponsor, for example, Treasure Island, and what they have here, the Dakota Depository, these are people with good ethics.
These are people who will do everything in their power to try to make good and to try to get you your gold.
And even in here, they say they have private armed security in coordination with local sheriffs in the event of a breakdown of public utilities.
They can maintain a supply of diesel generator fuel and so on.
They have plans for civil disobedience against unjust, unlawful, or unconstitutional mandates or orders.
They will actually say no if some tyrannical regime comes along and says, give us all your gold and silver.
These people will say no.
We're not going to do it.
There's other examples here.
So But it comes down to the ethics of the group that you're dealing with.
If you're dealing with a group that's unethical, they can roll over very easily.
They can just say, ah, force majeure, you don't get your gold.
But if you're dealing with a group that is committed to gold and freedom and liberty in America, then they're going to fight metaphorically.
I don't mean necessarily physically.
They're going to fight for your rights to protect you and to get you your gold in any way they can.
I know for sure that's Treasure Island, and there are probably many other companies out there that will also fight like crazy to protect your deposits and get them to you.
I'm just saying, and thanks for allowing me the opportunity to clarify this, I'm just saying that There are circumstances under which depositories and vaults and banks can't do anything.
You know, crazy mob is in our lobby.
They've taken us all hostage.
We're all at gunpoint.
Or the military from China has invaded the country.
And, you know, there's tanks on the front lawn.
There's nothing we can do.
Those kinds of scenarios, that's what the force majeure clause is really all about.
But some people invoked it for COVID-19.
Yeah, like landlords and so on, and restaurants, they invoked it for COVID. And somebody that, let's say, has a contract with someone, like, oh, we're going to pay you a certain amount of money for rent.
But then COVID comes along, or did come along, and if they had a force majeure clause in their contract, they could just say, look, force majeure, unanticipated, act of God, major force, COVID came in, it's a plague, it's not our fault, boom, there's nothing we can do, we don't owe you the money.
And there's a lot of case law about this that you might want to look up if you're interested in this.
It's actually kind of difficult to prove force majeure, and any company that invokes it is going to be hit with a barrage of lawsuits.
Have no doubt about that, especially if it's a gold vault that says, yeah, force majeure, you can't have your money.
They're going to get hit with lawsuits left and right.
But that clause does exist.
And And my whole point in bringing this up was to say that it's safer, and no one can argue this, it's safer in your hands.
It's more secure in your control.
A vault is a great option for lots of people in lots of circumstances.
Maybe you don't feel confident in your ability to defend your gold.
Maybe you don't own a firearm.
Maybe you're in a bad part of town.
You think you're going to get robbed.
Maybe you don't have land to bury gold.
Or maybe you think that you're going to move soon, and so you don't want it right now, but you want it later.
There's a lot of perfectly reasonable...
I'm just saying that in the endgame, and Steve Quayle told me this, if you can't touch it, you don't own it.
If it's not in your sphere of influence, you really don't necessarily own it.
I mean, yes, somebody owes it to you.
Yes, you have a claim on it.
But that's not as good as having it in your possession.
So keep this in mind.
Understand.
I mean, read the contracts.
If you're storing gold or silver somewhere, read the contracts.
You're going to find a force majeure clause, and you might want to inquire about, hey, what are your plans?
You might ask the vault people, what are your plans?
What if the government comes along and says, we're confiscating all the precious metals?
What are you going to do?
Or what if there's a cyber attack on the power grid?
None of the gas stations work.
There's no diesel fuel.
There's no transportation.
What's your plan?
And what are you going to do if an angry mob shows up?
How are you going to defend the vault, right?
You're going to go to war with some left-wing Antifa mob or something?
You might have to go to war with them to defend the gold.
I mean, it could really come to that in certain circumstances.
What if there's a foreign army that invades?
You know, like a Chinese army rolls in.
Give us all your gold.
What are you going to do?
Are you going to fight the Chinese army?
I mean, I don't know.
It depends on the circumstances.
But Everybody's got their limit of how much they're willing to risk to defend the gold or the silver.
Even these vaults, even if they're patriots and Christians and good people, honest, ethical people, they're not going to die to protect your gold, just to be clear.
They may assert Defensive force, they might actually shoot intruders, which is probably justifiable in many circumstances.
But they're not going to lay down their lives and die to protect somebody's gold.
And don't expect them to do that.
If you want somebody to die to protect your gold, that person's got to be you or a close family member, let's say.
That's just the truth of the situation, okay?
So I wanted to clarify that, and I didn't want everybody to think that these depositories are going to sort of flippantly invoke force majeure just to steal your deposits.
Nobody's going to do that.
That would be a crime.
They would be prosecuted.
They would be sued into oblivion.
Their whole business would be ruined if they ever tried that.
I'm talking about Actual acts of war, like aliens showing up, comets falling out of the sky, dinosaurs appearing out of portals in the ground, like vortex in the sky with giant flying worms protruding through.
You know, those kinds of things.
There's not much you can do, so you work with what you have.
You do the best you can.
All right?
Okay, next I wanted to show you this breaking news.
Check this out from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC, right here.
SEC charges crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun and his companies for fraud and securities law violations.
Okay, Justin Sun is, I believe, to be a crypto multibillionaire.
I think he was involved in the Tron Group.
I think that's what this is.
Yeah, Tron Foundation Limited, BitTorrent Foundation, Rainberry, and so on.
So check it out.
The SEC is criminally...
Charging, at least as I understand it, this is a criminal charge against crypto asset entrepreneur Justin Sun and three of his companies, plus the following people, celebrities, were also charged.
Lindsay Lohan, for being a promoter of this, Jake Paul, Oh my goodness.
He's going to have to earn more money in the boxing ring.
Soulja Boy, who I don't know who that is.
Austin Mahoney, who I don't know.
These other rappers.
Kendra Lust, Lil Yachty.
Nayo, I've heard of him.
Akon, yeah, I've heard of Akon.
These artists, these musical artists, rap artists, celebrities, have all been charged.
And the complaint alleges that all these groups, they engaged in...
Unregistered bounty programs which directed interested parties to promote the tokens on social media, to join and recruit others, to Tron-affiliated Telegram and Discord channels and so on and so forth.
They violated, allegedly, the anti-fraud and market manipulation provisions and so on and so forth.
You get it.
Basically, this is the federal government saying that they believe that everybody involved in promoting crypto was involved in a massive fraud.
That's the SEC's opinion.
Now, obviously, these people should be presumed innocent until they are able to have their day in court.
Maybe.
Maybe they committed fraud.
Maybe not.
But I do know one thing for sure, that the Biden regime is engaged in war against crypto right now.
And that's why I said earlier, it's time for the crypto people to get red-pilled and wake the Wake the bleep up and realize that you need to join Team Humanity here.
You need to get on the side of liberty, the side of truth, independent media.
Myself, Mike Adams, and Alex Jones at InfoWars, we've been telling you this truth for years, for decades, actually, in the case of Alex Jones and myself.
I've been doing this since 2003.
Two decades at this.
Steve Quayle, he's been at this 25 to 30 years.
Alex Jones, 25 years.
We've been telling you You better not support the tyrants.
A lot of crypto people voted for Biden, and now they're getting royally screwed, just completely wiped out by the Biden administration.
This is just one example of it.
But there's another example.
That's actually not from the government, but another example of the war on crypto.
Check this out.
From Breitbart.com reporting this today.
Lawsuit.
This is a class action lawsuit.
Seeks $1 billion from YouTubers who promoted FTX. And there's our favorite Sam.
Sam Bankman fraud.
Check this out.
Finance YouTubers who promoted the failed cryptocurrency exchange FTX are facing a $1 billion lawsuit from victims who lost money in the collapse.
Now, Folks, I predicted this.
I told you that this lawsuit was coming right after FTX collapsed.
I said it.
I said, no wonder all these YouTubers are backpedaling like mad.
And frankly, a lot of these YouTubers, I think they are fraudsters.
They were getting paid just huge amounts of money.
I mean, six figures a month.
To promote a fraudulent crypto pyramid scheme, which was FTX. And I think a lot of these people knew what they were doing and they just went after the easy money.
And frankly, at one point, FTX was sponsoring some crazy percentage of the crypto YouTubers.
I don't know if it was like two-thirds or 75%, something in that range.
Everybody was just pushing FTX, including celebrities like Tom Brady, who I think is named in this lawsuit.
But a lot of these people made money by ripping other people off, and they did not have discernment about what they were promoting.
Just a personal note, I promote a lot of specific products, products from our stores, sometimes partner products like the Satellite Phone Store or Dawson Knives or things like that.
I am so discerning about what I promote that I say no to most opportunities that are presented to me.
I say no because I do due diligence.
I don't like it.
It doesn't pass the sniff test.
I don't know.
It's not good quality.
All kinds of reasons.
I've had, you know, a gold retailer come to me and promise me $100,000 a month, $100,000 a month to promote their gold retail operation on my podcast even before I was operating out of the studio.
$100,000 a month.
Most people would have taken that.
I said no because it smelled like a ripoff to me.
It smelled like a bait and switch.
And, you know, look, My reputation is not for sale.
I stand behind the things that I endorse and that I promote.
And it's a very small list, by the way.
Very short list.
These YouTubers went out there and they're like, oh, for almost any amount of money, they would just become, you know, whores for FTX. And in doing so, they caused a lot of other people to lose hundreds of millions of dollars.
Now they're being sued.
And who's being sued?
Well, let's see.
Um...
Tom Brady here.
Here we go.
Here's a list.
Graham...
Stephan, Andre, Jeek, Jaspreet Singh of Minority Mindset.
I don't even know who these people are.
Tom Nash, Ben Armstrong are accused of this.
Kevin Paffrath.
I have no idea.
Oh, that's Meet Kevin.
I have heard of Meet Kevin.
Yeah, Meet Kevin was a big FTX shill for a very long time, in my opinion.
But look, let's just say these people are innocent until proven guilty.
They all deserve their day in court.
They deserve their defense.
And I know one of these people, I think Ben Armstrong, has said that he had nothing to do with any of this FTX promotions.
Maybe he's completely innocent.
Maybe the lawsuit made a mistake naming Armstrong.
We do need to let this play out, let people get into this, and see what the facts are.
But I saw with my own eyes, I saw lots of YouTubers.
Just shilling for FTX as if it was the best thing ever, and as is named in this lawsuit, a lot of these influencers did not disclose that they were being paid by FTX. They didn't disclose that they had FTX currency, whatever the in-house crypto was at FTX, FTT, I think.
They weren't telling the truth about what they have and their potential conflicts of interest.
That's why I always disclose my conflicts of interest if they exist.
For example, the other day I interviewed Peter Schiff And I found Peter Schiff's interview so compelling that that night I went home, and even though I don't own any other mutual funds or any stocks or anything, because I don't think that that's a good place to put money, I actually put $4,500 into one of Peter Schiff's gold mutual funds.
And that's the only mutual fund I hold, is the Peter Schiff mutual fund.
$4,500, and I recorded, I said, full disclosure, folks, before you watch this Peter Schiff interview, I'm telling you that I decided to buy that mutual fund myself.
Just this one fund, because it just looks like a great fit for me.
It's a high-risk, high-return gold mining fund that's run by Peter Schiff.
Sounds awesome to me.
So I bought $4,500, but I told people about it.
I have no respect for these people that run these pump and dump schemes.
And look, a whole lot of crypto.
There's even some so-called famous people in the liberty movement and alt-media movement who were running nothing but pump and dump for years.
They were pumping up these ridiculous coins and these ICOs and these NFTs and they were telling people, buy, buy, buy, it's going to go to the moon.
And then they would sell, sell, sell.
Classic pump and dump scheme.
Well, as we saw with the SEC, they're going after people now with criminal charges.
So anybody in the past that did this, believe me, they are wiping their internet history.
As fast as possible.
They are deleting every possible thing just to delete all the evidence they think, obviously, but everything on the internet is forever.
But the SEC is going to go back in time.
And the lawyers for the crypto plaintiffs, they're going to go back in time.
And they're going to go after people that were shilling with a conflict of interest without disclosure, people that were just getting paid to promote these coins or making money off of pump and dump schemes.
And there's a lot of people out there that were doing that.
And some of them are going to end up in jail.
Some of them are going to end up with multiple million-dollar fines, maybe in certain cases, like perhaps with Sun here, maybe a billion-dollar fine, maybe more.
I don't know.
But...
A lot of people were ripped off by all of this because the crypto marketplace lost trillions of dollars in valuation with the collapse of FTX. And anybody that was paid to do this is probably going to be facing some serious lawsuits.
So there's a lot of YouTubers in a state of panic right now.
Absolutely.
And speaking of product plugs, by the way, people wonder, why do we sell just clean food and clean supplements?
Why didn't we ever get involved in all the crypto money pot?
It could have made millions or tens of millions doing that.
You know what?
I don't need those complications.
I don't want to push something on people that's highly speculative like that.
What I offer right now, healthrangerstore.com, look at our products.
It's bee pollen, folks.
It's not a bee pollen token.
It's not a bee pollen coin offering.
It's freaking bee pollen.
You can put it in your smoothie and you can drink it.
It's very simple.
We have garden harvest there, freeze-dried fruits and vegetables, all organic, all lab tested.
We offer real products, not just proxy, you know, virtual products.
We've got the crystallized ginger, the cocoa formula there that's incredibly delicious.
We have moringa that's tested because there's so much lead in the moringa marketplace.
So we have super clean moringa that goes through our lab testing.
Just on and on.
If you go to healthrangerestore.com, you're going to see we've got the food buckets.
We've got all these number 10 cans, goji berries, you know, kale, palm sugar.
Milk.
I mean, you can't get more boring than just selling milk powder, folks.
But I sell milk powder because it's clean.
It's certified organic.
It's lab tested.
We run the salmonella test.
We run the E. coli test.
And we put it in a number 10 can.
So it's packaged for long-term storage, portability.
It's rodent-proof.
It's perfect.
It doesn't have to be glamorous.
I'm not looking to be a crypto billionaire.
I just want to help people get clean freaking food and nutritional supplements and personal care products so you can be healthy and nutritious, lead a happy life, and have enough money to fund this operation so that we can build an expanded studio, which is on the drawing board now.
I mean, this studio is already awesome, but we've got plans for more.
A bigger studio, a demonstration kitchen where we can do smoothies and recipes and show you how to eat healthier, all kinds of things.
That's what we use the money for.
I have no respect for people to just take crypto money from people, do a pump and dump and run off and they buy some fancy car.
Oh, look at me.
Oh, I have 33 cars.
Who cares, man?
Nobody cares what car you have, you moron.
Nobody cares.
We are living in the end times.
We're living in a time humanity is threatened with its very existence.
We have to think about more than just your stupid car and your luxury house and how many gold rings you have.
You know, give me a break.
This is about human civilization.
How do we sustain this?
How do we survive?
And nutrition and healthy food is part of this, especially during this time of pandemics and people's immune systems are failing and so many toxic pollutants in the environment and dioxin fall out of the air.
You've got to have healthy food.
This is critical for survival.
That's why I'm in this business.
It's honest.
It's simple.
It's clean.
It's not glamorous.
It's Nobody from the government comes knocking on our door.
How dare you sell bee pollen?
No, no.
How dare you sell lentils and red lentils and pinto beans?
You know, how dare you?
And quinoa, for God's sake.
No, because it's the most boring thing ever.
But it's real, it's solid, it's healthy, it's clean.
That's what we do.
We don't shill for crypto.
By the way, I do acknowledge the usefulness of certain crypto, by the way.
I happen to like the privacy coins.
And I've used them to buy VPN services and things like that.
So they have a use.
I'm not anti-crypto.
Don't get me wrong.
I'm just saying I don't have any respect for these shills, whoever they may be, that made a bunch of money shilling crypto coins and being dishonest with their audience.
And there's so many dishonest people out there.
And who's the guy that exposes a lot of this?
Coffeezilla.
That's the guy.
He's been exposing a lot of this.
He must be laughing his ass off today, right now, at these SEC indictments and these lawsuits.
I would imagine.
Coffeezilla has been documenting this for a long time.
But nevertheless...
If you want to support us with some real, honest, clean, simple, boring products, healthrangerstore.com is where you go.
It's very simple.
And we have storable food, like I said before.
Yeah, these are number 10 cans, but we also have ranger buckets and things like that.
In fact, are these ranger buckets?
Yeah, these are ranger buckets right here.
Look.
Look at what we have in our ranger buckets.
Oh, look, it's lentils.
You know, it's quinoa.
It's beans.
It's nuts and seeds.
You know, 365 servings per pail.
Oh, look, there's cashews.
Right?
We're not going to run afoul of the SEC by selling cashews and lima beans.
You know, thank goodness, because nobody from the government cares about someone selling honest, clean food.
And, by the way, the FDA, they stop by every once in a while.
At our facility, and they quarantine food, and they take samples and say, don't sell that until we check it.
Wait two weeks, and then they go off and they do their test, and then they come back and they say, oh, it's all good.
Yeah, go ahead, you can release it from quarantine now.
And we're like, yeah, we know, because we tested it before you tested it.
And they're like, yeah, we know you test your food, but we test your food too, so it's in our records, and so we can say we tested your food.
Now you can sell it.
Okay, whatever, man, whatever.
We have higher standards than the FDA with our own food, but they do stop by.
They do take samples.
They're actually doing their job.
I don't mind it.
If they're checking for, you know, some operations selling heavily contaminated peanut butter with E. coli or salmonella or whatever, that happens.
That's not us.
We run a clean shop, a clean operation.
The FDA stops by.
They're like, basically high-fiving us.
Yeah, keep doing what you're doing.
You're like, you're actually selling clean food.
There you go.
That's what we do.
All right, I want to show you one other story here on a different topic.
Moody's chief economist here, this is on Breitbart, says inflation is still high, so problems like banking issues will continue for the next 12 to 18 months.
He actually says that Things are going to start to wobble and break, and it's going to feel uncomfortable.
Now, I don't know about you, but when I hear a chief economist of Moody's Analytics, his name is Mark Zandi here, when Mark Zandi says things are going to start to wobble and break, you don't hear financial analysts talk this way normally.
Things are breaking.
And here he is admitting it.
And I would just say, folks, we are in the end times of the banking system, I believe.
And we have the David Morgan interview coming up here.
You can listen to his analysis of it.
But I say...
Things are breaking and unraveling very, very quickly.
And if you don't protect yourself from bank collapse and the loss of deposits, then you're gonna be in a world of hurt.
All over the country, all over the world, people are converting dollars and euros and yen into things that hold value.
And you know what that list is like.
I've said it a thousand times.
It's gold and silver, real estate, ammunition, firearms, diesel fuel, what else?
Food, food supplies, emergency medicine, things you can barter, whatever.
I urge you to consider getting into those things.
Notice, I'm not shilling a pump and dump scheme.
I'm not saying, oh, buy this token and give me your money and it'll go up.
No.
I'm saying, you go buy beans and bullets and band-aids and you store them at your place and put them under your control and that's going to serve you well.
Because I care about your survival in this.
I care about you making it through this.
You and I, we're the remnant here, folks.
We're the ones that are going to be still here, still alive, after the great die-off runs its course.
We're the ones that are going to make it.
Because...
We know what's going on because you take action, because you engage in preparedness, because you have these things outside the banking system.
And perhaps because you have stored food or you have emergency medicine or backup communications or whatever the case may be.
Emergency medicine, you know, maybe you have your own chlorine dioxide.
Hey, remember a week ago I was doing the chlorine dioxide?
No, not you, Rhodey.
Remember the chlorine dioxide experiment?
Check this out.
It's been sitting here the entire time, just getting more and more yellow looking.
There it is.
So that's the chlorine dioxide experiment after, what's it been a week?
Maybe 10 days, something like that.
It's getting very, very potent.
Folks, this is great to use if you collect rainwater and you need to sanitize your rainwater tank.
You make this chlorine dioxide solution, which is what's outside the shot glass, and then you can pour that into a rainwater tank to kill all the bacteria, pathogens, whatever, in the rainwater tank.
This is critical knowledge for survival so that we can make it through what's coming.
That's what this broadcast is all about.
The Brighteon Broadcast News, BBN. I have to get used to it myself.
It used to be the Situation Update.
Now it's Brighteon Broadcast.
But here we are.
So I'll tell you what I'm going to do.
Let's jump into the interview with David Morgan.
I may have a special report for you as well, maybe an audio-only report, but we're going to do the David Morgan interview and then we'll jump into the Alan Keyes interview and that'll wrap up today's podcast.
But I just want to strongly emphasize the importance of realizing the crisis that we are in right now and taking action now while you can, while the banks still function for the most part, while transportation still functions, while you can still go buy diesel fuel, you can still order something And have it shipped UPS or FedEx.
You can still get gold and silver right now.
You can still get backup communications, you know, satellite phone, emergency medicine, whatever.
You can buy iodine.
You can still get these things now.
You can still download how-to books and you can teach yourself this information.
You can download my book.
I've got what?
Let me bring it up.
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Right here.
You can go to SurvivalNutrition.com.
You can download this book for free.
It's an audiobook with a PDF. Survival Nutrition, right there.
Or the other one is Resilient Prepping.
This is another one of my audiobooks.
It's a free download.
Just enter your email address.
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This is life-saving information.
You can still get this right now because the internet still works, the power grid still functions for the most part, the grocery stores still have food for the most part.
So use the infrastructure while we have it because we may not have it reliably for much longer.
All right, with that said, let's just jump into the David Morgan interview because that's some pretty mind-blowing information.
So enjoy the interviews, and thanks for watching today here on Brighton Broadcast.
Welcome to this special interview with David Morgan, the silver guru.
His website is themorganreport.com.
Of course, I'm Mike Adams with brighttown.com.
I am a huge fan of this gentleman.
Mr.
Morgan joins us to talk about the Federal Reserve, interest rates, silver, currency collapse, and so much more.
David Morgan, you are awesome.
You've been nailing it for years.
Welcome to the show.
It's great to have you on.
Well, Mike, thanks for having me back.
And hopefully I can nail it again, as you say.
But there's so much going on, it's really hard to get the handle on it.
You know, there's a joke.
I used to have a handle on life until the handle broke.
Right.
Well, and that's just what happened with the banking system, I think.
We were just told, for example, that there's a bailout that's not a bailout, right?
And the worst bankers in the world who don't understand risk and banking just got bailed out of their bad banking decisions.
That's amazing.
Silicon Valley Bank.
What do you think about that?
Well, I think I want to add on to it.
I mean, when you sit there with what's going on with Credit Suisse and the National Bank of Switzerland, so you have a bank that lost $7.8 billion being bailed out by a bank that lost $133 billion.
That sounds like a good way to go.
Right.
Right.
It kind of sounds like the Bear Stearns bailout where the government had to force I forgot who bought them, but they had to force them to take $29 billion as payment as a bribe to take the bailout, you know, to take Bear Stearns.
Like, it's so bad, we have to pay you to take this company.
Yeah, that's right.
And, I mean, we are in a position of what I have forecast for years, many that are in the same field that I am, and we saw, you know, systemic risks throughout the financial system, which means primarily the banks, and once one goes, Potentially, there's a domino effect that we've talked about.
And away we go, and we are there.
A lot of people are saying the Fed will backstop it.
They'll end up last resort.
They're going to make all depositors good.
It doesn't matter if you're over $250,000.
I know we're going to touch all these issues.
It's going to be kind of a brief overview.
And yet, they don't know what they don't.
I mean, that sounds like a trite statement, but it's actual fact.
There's so much risk in the system, so much leverage in the system.
And so all these banks are interconnected, international and national.
I mean, if you're in, you know, a remote nation state thinking you're safe, think again, because all the banks are...
Well, let's talk about exiting the banks because I know you know all the big players in the silver industry and you're one yourself.
And I heard from many other people that last week was the most insane week they've ever seen in terms of customer demand.
For silver and for gold.
And where they previously would have had customers calling and saying, hey, I want a few thousand dollars or tens of thousands.
Now it's very common for people to call and say, look, I need six figures of gold and silver.
And come to think of it, make it $200,000, make it $300,000.
That's what I'm hearing is happening across the board, people trying to get out of dollars and into metal.
What are you hearing, David?
David?
Mike, I've seen something very similar.
I had those kind of calls when we had that flash crash in March 2020 when the stock market got hit really hard.
And then it got injected with finding money and went right back up.
But during that lull, calls were like, David, I've never bought gold in my life.
I've got a million dollars in the bank.
I don't want to make a mistake.
Who do I buy from?
Where do I store it?
And it was more than one of those.
Now, lately, in a general way, someone that works in the trade, at the Chicago Board of Trade, that I've known for years, called me on Sunday and said, I've got this much in the bank, I've got this much in the other bank, I've taken your time before to buy, and I really haven't, but I am very serious.
I need to get this cash out of the bank ASAP. Tell me one more time, what do I do?
And so I gave them the information, and sure enough, on Monday, they made a rather substantial transaction that you just outlined.
Is that the only one?
No, that's the only one from that area working in that field.
But it's on.
It's on.
I think the bank run has begun, and it isn't over yet.
And I don't want to alert people or scare them.
I want to alert them.
And here's the deal, Mike.
If I could just continue.
Years ago, maybe three or so, myself and a couple others were given the idea that we would be having a food shortage well before it appeared.
And I said, it's a no-lose bet.
Because if you buy extra food and you're wrong, you can still eat it.
And if you bought something you don't like, which would be stupid, but people do that kind of thing, you can give it to the food bank.
So you're in a no-lose situation.
It's the same thing here.
If the banking system rectifies itself, which is highly doubtful, but let's say that everyone's backstopped and you have nothing to worry about, they'll just keep printing so everybody gets what's in their account, you're still in a no-lose situation if you take out your money.
And I'm not suggesting that anyone to take everything out and close your account.
What I am suggesting, particularly for those over the FDIC limit of $250,000, Move it.
Move it into something safe.
The safest to me is, of course, precious metals.
There's no doubt about that.
There are people out there, I've got a lot of precious metals, and I still want liquidity, and I want to be safe.
I'm sorry to interrupt.
Your video kind of froze there, so I threw your website on there.
I just want to remind people, they can go to your website, themorganreport.com, and they can fill out this form here and get reports.
A free e-letter.
I put out three or four really important things a week.
I answer questions from non-paid members.
I try to be of maximum service to others.
I mean, I've been seeing this thing coming for a long time, as you know, Mike.
And now that it's here, I take no glee in that.
But there are still things that you can do to mitigate the problem.
On that topic, what you can do is go to a T-bill-only account.
So you can buy T-bills directly from the Treasury.
It's very easy.
You can look up on the web.
If you don't know how to do it or don't want to do it that way, all you have to do is find the search engine and type in T-bill only money market fund, and you can get into treasury bills.
You want bills.
You want something that's one month, three months, six months duration.
You don't want the 10-year bond.
You don't want the five-year note.
You want to be as close as you can to being liquid.
So cash, that's near cash, is close to having physical cash.
And just droning on a bit longer, Mike, I mean, I really have said for years that, you know, people should actually have physical cash, even, well, Mr.
Non-Fiat myself, but cash is what everyone recognizes.
And in a grid down, bank holiday, you name it, any scenario that you come up with, having physical paper will work for a while at least.
David, let me show you something that I have here on my desk.
I brought this as a prop.
It's all these failed currencies.
Do we have a close-up shot?
Yeah.
All these failed currencies from around the world.
I've had this collection.
I thought I was going to use it for just one day, and then it ended up being such an important conversation.
And here I have fake Hollywood $100 bills, which will soon join the pile of failed currencies.
But I've got this one that is $10 trillion.
From the Zimbabwe bank, what is it?
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe.
I guess they forgot to reserve the dollars because this is $10 trillion and now it's worth zero.
So what people need to understand is this is the cycle of history.
These currencies are printed into oblivion and that happens during bailouts and rescues and emergencies and they just print and print and print.
And it ends up going into oblivion, which is where we're headed.
Is it not?
Well, that's the direction.
That's very clear.
How it will end remains to be determined, and I'm not copping out on you, Mike.
The way our system is set up, meaning the Federal Reserve System, is there's a mitigator in it, and that's the debt market.
So when these bonds become worthless, That's a huge deflationary effect.
So Zimbabwe didn't have an advanced capital structure.
All they had was currency.
They had no bond market.
They had no debt market.
And because we do, and it's supposed to be the safest thing that you can own, which is an absolute total 100% lie, but most, you know, that's what the banks use as their reserves.
They don't have cash in the vault, as everyone knows and listens to Brighty on TV. What they have is digits on the computer, but that's a digit of a certain serial number, 30-year bond, a 10-year treasury note, or whatever.
That's their assets.
And so they are liquid, but they also change in price or value.
And what's happened is I'm sure you've said on other interviews, but when the interest rate goes up, the bond price goes down.
Oh, yeah.
We're recording this on March 22, 2023, and today the Fed just raised 25 basis points, which was expected, but it's another raise.
In fact, it's these rate raises that revealed the problems with Silicon Valley Bank and other banks that had invested in these 10-year In some cases, mortgage-backed securities or treasury bills that were paying extremely low yields, and thus they were out of the money for the reason that you just said, David.
But yeah, could you answer that about the Fed raising interest rates and probably a couple more rate increases yet to come, or do you think so?
So advanced capital structures like we have in the world, it's all based on debt and credit.
And when you have to adjust, what happens is you need to sell an asset.
We talked about it a minute ago.
So assets for banks and bonds.
And if the yield was 0%, and now it's up to 5%, you have to discount your asset, your bond holdings, that you bought at 0% or 1%.
And you have to discount them to the same level as the current interest rate, what's in the market, which is what we'll call 5%.
So in order to do that, I don't have the math in my head, but you might have to take a bond that's $1,000 face value at 1% and sell it at a 30% loss.
So you sell at $1,000 for $700 because the buyer must get the same yield.
That's how the market moves.
But what's happened now in the last few days The Fed says, oh, don't worry about the interest rate.
All you have to do is sell us your bond and we will give you par.
So that $1,000 bond in the free market would be $700.
The Fed will pay you $1,000.
There's a caveat, and a lot of people haven't talked about this, Mike.
And that is it's good for one year.
Hmm, that's interesting.
Wow.
So the clock is ticking.
The clock is ticking.
I really think this system is nearing its demise.
And there's so many other factors we can talk about.
You know, this is another example of what you just mentioned.
Is it the Treasury or is it the Fed offering to pay par for these bonds?
The Fed.
The Fed.
Okay.
So this is another example of under Biden, these controllers will say, just making it up as they go along.
There are no solid rules anymore.
A typical investor, a rational investor can no longer trust that any rules apply.
For example, two weeks ago, the FDIC rule was if you had more than 250K in one of these banks and the bank went under, you would lose it.
Now, suddenly, that's different.
It's just been changed on the fly.
And this is so indicative of the way, even under Obama, the way they ran Obamacare.
It's like, oh, we're just going to call it a tax and we're just going to force it on you.
They're just making up rules as they go along.
Even Credit Suisse, for example, they just zeroed out $17 billion in AT1 Tier 1 bonds.
Those bondholders have got to be, their hair must be on fire at this point with infuriation.
It's like, wait a second, what about the shareholders?
I thought the shareholders were supposed to take the hit before these AT1 bondholders take the hit.
They're just making it up.
So how does anybody have faith in the system at this point?
Well, I think that's the most important point that we can make during this interview.
And that is the amount of uncertainty.
The idea first that you, you were one of the first, said, you know, the law right now is the Frank Dodd bill said one thing.
There will be no more bailouts.
Except, as you said on your program a few days ago, it's a non-bailout bailout.
Well, hell, it's a bailout is what it was.
But they're not supposed to.
They are making it up as they go along, which leads me to this logic.
If we don't know What the parameters are.
We don't know what's going to happen, regardless of what they put in print, regardless of what the law says.
We need to take personal action.
That's why I'm saying, going back to the food analogy, you're better off to move money into metals, move money into a T-bill-only situation, and take some physical cash out of the bank.
You close your bank account, no.
But you want to mitigate the risk, because what's good for the goose is not good for the gander.
What do I mean?
I mean that maybe in some cases they'll go above $250,000, but a week from Wednesday they make up a new rule as they go along.
Exactly.
We just decided anyone over $250,000 that hasn't been smart enough to get out of the banking system is going to have the bail-in rule and everything above $250,000 is gone.
And so if you don't know what's coming at you, you've got to take defensive action.
And again, I think this is the most important thing we can say.
I certainly want to keep the discussion going, you know, further.
But that's the idea.
I have an adage that's, you know, from years of trading, and that's when in doubt, stay out.
If you have doubt about what's going to happen to your bank account, take it out.
Well, I have – my head is filled with doubts about the solvency of the banking system right now for the reasons we've already discussed and the fact that the FDIC doesn't have enough money to bail out but a fraction of the banks, especially now after they just spent all their money on Silicon Valley Bank or at least a big chunk of it.
So, you know, what happens when the next three banks fail?
The FDIC is going to go run into the Fed and say, print money to give us to bail them out.
And now we're in a cycle of just printing money for bailouts.
And then you have banks that are just run by cash infusions from a currency printing press.
And that never ends well.
I mean, that's a spiral of death of the currency.
History has shown us, is it not?
Currency crisis, if I could just sharpen the point even further.
So you get bailed in.
You have 100,000 in the bank.
And it shouldn't be taken from the FDIC, but the bank decides it is.
Or let's go the other way.
Let's say you got $350,000, so your $250,000 is protected, your $100,000 gets bailed in.
So what do you get?
Well, you get stock in the bank.
And this is what happened in Cyprus and some other European countries.
And so that stock certificate that you get now that you're an equity holder in this establishment eventually makes it to the market where you can sell it.
In all instances, Mike, so far that I'm aware of, of major banks, or maybe some little ones I don't know about, there's five cents on the dollar.
So your $100,000 that you got stocked for, when you're lucky enough to be able to sell it, you're getting five cents on a hundred.
Yeah, 95% wipeout, yeah.
That's a wipeout.
Yeah, exactly.
Now, Let me switch gears a little bit and ask you a question about gold and silver, and I'm going to relay this question to you because this is a question that's asked of me, and it's a trick question, and I want you to answer this because the people asking the question don't understand a key point that I know you do, but here's the question.
People say, well, why should I get gold and silver and sit on it?
It's not working for me.
It's not earning anything.
It's just sitting there.
Of course, that's a flawed theory because of inflation.
If you're sitting on dollars, your dollars are actually working against you.
Answer that question, if you would, please.
Why gold and silver is, or could be, a rational choice, or at least part of a rational choice of a portfolio of risk aversion that people might want to consider?
Well, there's several ways that my mind's taken off, Mike, but here's one, and reel me back in if it's not succinct enough or clear enough.
Gold is money, and everything else is credit.
So you need a constant.
If you're going to build a home Or an office building.
You need to know that a foot is a foot.
And a yard is a yard.
And a cubic yard of concrete is a cubic.
If you had a variable in anything, the architect would not have any meaning.
The engineering drawings wouldn't mean anything.
You need a constant.
It's the same thing in money.
And money is a constant if it is gold or gold and silver.
Now, when you have a depreciation like we've had, The solid part is the money.
It's not the currency that fluctuates.
And the currency is just paper.
So the idea is, number one, gold is the monetary hitching post of the universe.
Secondly, gold is God with an L in it.
These are facts proven over 4,000 or 5,000 years that when the free market reigns, what's determined to be money are The precious metals.
Interest doesn't mean anything once you have a currency collapse.
Exactly.
You could get huge interest rates in the Zimbabwe or the Argentine peso or any of these collapsed currencies that you have on your desk.
Wow, I'm getting a 17% return.
But if inflation is 30%, what good does it do?
And the other parts of the stock market, this is another thing I haven't heard too many commentators talk about, Well, I'm in the stock market and, you know, I'm diversified.
Well, during the YMR Republic and many other instances of those failed currencies that you showed, the stock market does go and it goes hard.
It goes almost straight up, but it does not keep you in pace with the inflation rate or the destruction of the currency, which is a better way to say it.
So you'd be better off not being in a bank and being in a stock market Let's say an index fund or something.
That'd be better than being in the bank, but it's not as good as being in physical metal.
That's the only thing during the Weimar Republic and other instances like Zimbabwe, Argentina, where you kept at least par, if not gained in purchasing power.
Because the reason precious metals are called precious is valid.
They are.
There's not much of them.
And yet we have a pricing mechanism based on On the futures markets, that's highly convoluted because you could create an infinite amount of paper gold, an infinite amount of paper silver.
And as long as that system isn't broken, that infinite supply acts as if it's real until it's not.
And right now, we're probably nearing that point.
David, let me throw another example your way.
One of my readers actually sent me a letter that she received from her pension fund, which is run by a university system of a U.S. state.
This woman has been collecting a pension For several years, because her husband, who was the teacher, died over a decade ago.
And the letter said, okay, the annual increase of the payout on this benefit is maxed at 5% per year.
So you're only going to get 5% increase per year.
That's the max.
Now, we're living in an environment of inflation.
I argue it's over 20% when you figure food and other things.
So 5% doesn't go very far.
But importantly, the letter also said your maximum lifetime increase from the original base benefit is 80%.
And that has just been reached.
That's why this letter was received.
So here's a person who's living on a pension that right now is about $3,600 a month.
Which can still buy you something today, but it's never going to increase, even though we're living in a highly inflationary environment with more money printing because of more bailouts.
Don't you think, David, that all across the country, people who are living on pensions, or even Social Security for that matter, are going to receive similar types of letters soon, or maybe already?
Absolutely, Mike.
It's a very sad situation.
I've done it in a few interviews.
Probably haven't done it often enough.
About the pension crisis, the social security crisis, and what's happening to fix income situations.
And I'll just add on to what you said.
I think you did an excellent job.
This is one of the stories that I just keep in the back of my mind because it just really gives me some heartache.
So during the Weimar Republic, there was a gentleman that bought a whole life insurance policy.
So he had contributed this over his lifetime, 30, 40 years.
And had this life insurance policy.
When he went to cash it out, it took more to buy the stamp to send the letter to cash out his lifelong savings that he had in his life insurance policy.
So that's an extreme case, but it really brings home the point of how devastating a currency crisis can be And will we get to that point in the U.S. dollar or not?
I don't think it'll get that bad.
But what's bad?
What you just outlined.
Here's a woman.
I mean, her husband paid into it for, you know, his working life.
And you think you have stability.
You think you have security.
It does adjust until it doesn't.
And, you know, I'm not being facetious here, Mike.
It's an extreme thought, but it could happen.
Once these accelerations take place and the inflation rates, as you said, Twenty percent.
I mean, use John Williams numbers.
It's close to that.
And then it goes to 40.
That's a doubling of it.
And then it goes to 70.
I mean, is that going to happen?
We don't know.
What we do know is that all fiat fails.
We're accelerating.
The Fed doesn't have a clue what to do.
They acted tough with the quarter point increase.
The gold and silver market took off.
The bonds got hit again.
And people are saying, Don't worry.
The mainstream is saying, don't worry.
Be happy.
We've got you covered.
They don't.
Right, and you know, in this case, what this reader told me, and I'd love your reaction to this, was that her late husband had paid in maybe a couple hundred dollars out of every paycheck.
And my thought is, if he had, instead of paying into the pension system, if he had taken a couple hundred dollars out of every paycheck and purchased gold, and just had the physical gold, then she, the spouse now, the widow, would be sitting on a pile of gold.
And just spending it as needed, and that gold would be worth, obviously, you know, $2,000 an ounce right now, roughly, or close to that.
And instead of having a letter that, oh, yeah, we're not going to increase your payouts ever again.
You know, that's the difference.
What are your thoughts?
Well, you go back to gold's the monetary hitching post of the universe.
That sounds like such an exaggeration, but in reality, that's it.
And I get pushback, especially at some of these conferences.
I mean, the goal of conferences, I'm in an echo chamber.
They all agree, pretty much.
But the mainstream shows, which I do several of those, like the money show, for example.
I mean, I get a lot of pushback.
You do a lot better in the stock market.
That's not true.
I mean, let's go to 1913.
The Fed starts, okay?
You have a very wealthy uncle.
The uncle gives you a million dollars.
The million dollars isn't cash.
So now we are $110.
Ten years later, that million dollars is a million dollars.
Nearly the amount of purchase power it had 110 years before.
But if he gave you gold coins at $20.67 the ounce back in 1913, that'd be $90 million in fiat today.
So you can't tell me That gold doesn't serve its purpose.
Did he make a lot of money?
Not really.
What it shows is that the currency has been destroyed over 110 years, but it has the same value that it had 110 years previously.
That's the purpose of gold.
Money is money.
Everything else is credit.
Credit fails.
And this is what the bank's trying to do.
Solve a debt problem by adding more debt.
Guess what, Mike?
That doesn't work.
Yeah, exactly.
We're headed for some very interesting times.
I really hope that you can join us again soon.
I mean, we're just about out of time for today, but, you know, your insight has been really critical for a lot of people.
I've followed you for many years, you and Mike Maloney and many others who, I mean, I've received an education from Maloney about...
You know, he's got great YouTube videos and so on.
I've received an education from you and many other people out there, you know, Lou Rockwell and the late Dr.
Gary North, in fact, going back a ways.
You know, the truth lasts.
Fictions collapse, but the truth persists throughout all time.
And what you have said, David, has been a timeless truth.
And I thank you for joining us today.
Any final thoughts?
Nothing more powerful than the truth, Mike.
We need more people like you that are willing to stand up and do it.
And also, be able to be flexible enough.
I mean, Bright Beyond TV, my friend Jim told me about, you know, I've followed you for years and what you were doing, because you've been ahead of the curve quite often, and part of it was the censorship, cancel culture, if you will.
And in order to get the truth out, sometimes you have to go to great lengths, but you're one of those that have done it and a leader in the field, and I commend you for that.
Well, you're exactly right.
If we didn't build our own system, we would be completely silenced.
And even now, they won't let us share Brighttown.com links on Facebook, not even in a private message.
So you can't even tell your friend about this video on Facebook.
But the answer to that is get off Facebook, people!
Get onto alternative social media.
Getter, Gab, Truth Social, Brighttown Social, whatever it takes.
Get into the real world.
But thank you, David, for joining us.
It's always a pleasure to speak with you.
And reach out to me at any time if you've got alerts or anything.
We can get you on even for a shorter segment if you want that and get the word out for you.
Oh, very good.
Thank you, Mike.
All right, thank you.
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Welcome to this interview on Brighteon.com.
I'm Mike Adams, the founder of Brighteon.
And I'm very pleased to be joined by my dear friend, Dr.
Alan Keyes, today, who I have not had the opportunity to speak with for quite some time as we were building this studio and working out the bugs and a lot of other things.
But, oh, he joins us today.
It's a breath of fresh air.
Dr.
Keyes, it's an honor, sir, to have you on.
Thank you for joining me today.
Well, it's an honor to be with you, Mike, and I want to thank you for all.
I mean, I wouldn't be able to do my program if it wasn't for the wonderful work that y'all do and the support we've gotten on the Variety on TV network and the success that it has achieved.
So I want to thank you and thank you for having me on and thank you for being you because you're just a remarkable human being who at this critical time in our history It's dedicating yourself to actually addressing the crisis.
That's right.
We're doing our best and we're going to need your help today because we're in a real crisis.
That's what I wanted to ask you about.
But I have to say, Brighteon.tv would not exist without the work of you and Bob Denny and others who I'm not sure they want to be named.
But Alan, you are integral to the fact that we are here doing this.
So thank you for all that you've done.
Meeting you was a pivotal moment.
In my life.
And I'm not afraid to say that publicly.
So thank you for all that you've done.
You're welcome.
God bless you.
Well, you as well, sir.
And here we are at a crossroads with our country.
You and I both, we love America.
We love humanity.
We have compassion.
We have honesty and ethics.
And yet we are being ruled over, and in some cases I would argue psychologically terrorized and threatened and coerced by very evil bad faith actors who claim to be working for good, right?
And the very existence of the United States is at risk.
How do you see the current situation and what we're facing?
Well, I'll be frank, and I haven't always felt this way.
As a matter of fact, most of my life, I did not feel really strongly that there was such a difference between the two parties that we had, that one of them was kind of the focal point of evil for the country.
But I think in the course of the last 20 years or so, and particularly with the advent of Donald Trump, I think the Democrat Party has shown its true colors.
And unfortunately, it's being monopolized now by people who are ideologically the opponents of the founding premises of America.
They don't believe in government of, by, and for the people.
They actually believe in a government that is modeled after all of these commie-style Nazi fascist governments, where power is in the hands of an elite party or group, and everybody else is supposed to do what they're told or else.
Right.
And I think unhappily, that mentality has been dominating the environment as we still see this phony prosecution of Trump.
Driven by what?
Not by anything that is really, I mean, you got a guy who's in office as a district attorney, should be worried about crime, has neglected all of it, so he can go after the allegation that Trump paid hush money to some prostitute.
And I'm sitting there thinking to myself, now these are the people who tell us all the time that the sexual stuff, it's okay by everybody, right?
Yeah, especially during Clinton in the 1990s.
We were reminded over and over again, oh, you can't care about Bill Clinton's sexual habits.
That's his own private business.
Remember that?
Right, and it's not even established, of course, because I want to make this clear, that Donald Trump was guilty of anything.
If he paid somebody to get off his back, that might be because he had better things to do.
And you and I both know that that can happen to people, whether or not they are guilty of the crime.
But this guy is treating him, Bragg, as if he's already been convicted of something.
But what they really want to do, I think, is to try to do a couple of things.
Drive a wedge in his base so that the allegations being associated with Things that are, you know, I think anathema to a lot of Christian minds and people.
His base consists of a lot of people who have that mindset.
And they're hoping that they will see this as some kind of discreditation that can then solve the problem of Donald Trump.
And I think he's going to be disappointed because I've been impressed by the fact that a lot of people who aren't even on Trump's side or anything have just been And Dershowitz, in particular, has been talking about this as the sham that it is.
Dr.
Keyes, we've already been through these allegations against Trump.
In his first campaign for his first presidency, he's known as a womanizer.
He's known as someone who would flippantly say, you know, I grabbed her by the bleep when he thought he was off camera.
That never mattered to anybody.
It wasn't that Trump is going to be the moral trophy for But rather that he's going to defeat the swamp and get things done, we don't care who he slept with in order to get here.
I mean, I think that decision was already made, even by evangelicals.
You know, they may not agree with the womanizing decisions that Trump made or how many women he slept with.
That's not what they espouse, but that doesn't mean that God can't use Trump to accomplish some good deeds for this nation, right?
Mm-hmm.
Well, see, I think these people are basically just trying to do something that will stir up dissension, division, and disappointment in the Trump base.
I think he's right, by the way, to be thoroughly convinced that that's not going to work.
I agree.
It's going to backfire.
Because I think a lot of people, including myself, had to think it through very carefully and pray over it before we could see in Donald Trump somebody we were going to vote for, right?
Right.
And I think that what mostly has convinced me is that when he got into office, he did something politicians don't usually do.
He did exactly what he said he was going to do.
I know, so unusual.
That is really unusual.
And I think that that is what has impressed people and confirmed a judgment that at the end of the day was made by the common sense of the American people.
And instead, the Democrats are relying, I think, on fear and intimidation, even though, in the context of the COVID crisis, I think they've already shown their true colors.
Because it was mostly the reaction of Democrat governors and others like them that showed people who were glad to get the opportunity to inflict total control over everybody else.
That's the right term for it.
I'm glad you chose that word, inflict, because that's exactly what they're doing.
You know, even I thought at some point when some of the more grotesque examples of post-birth abortion, for example, were aired, or even genital mutilations of children, I thought surely...
The mainstream Democrat Party would reject that.
They would call it out.
They would say, this is not us.
That's some fringe.
But no, no.
This has been embraced as mainstream Democrat philosophy, which is murder babies, or if they survive birth, chop off their genitals.
And it's beyond insane, and it shows that there is a deeply rooted evil that has infested many people who call themselves Democrats.
Would you agree with that?
I would, unfortunately.
And some of them, it's kind of, I don't know, maybe not something they've thought through, and people can get caught up, I guess, in the passions and partisanship of politics.
But I think we really have to become a people who will reflect on how what we're seeing and what people are saying and trying to do relate to the things we fundamentally rely on.
And that's why I think The way they handle issues like the abortion issue, issues like crime against persons and violence that is being done to them and so forth.
I mean, this is a fellow who, by the way, the fellow Bragg, who is going after Trump, who has basically put all that stuff on the back burner.
He did.
So we don't mind if the crooks are stealing and robbing and making you fear for your life.
The important thing is to get the word out about hush money and Snorby Daniels.
That...
It's so lacking in seriousness, but it also ought to give us pause.
People who don't care a whit about the crime in the streets and the potential for murder and mayhem, who are also then committed, right, to a stance that says we kill human beings no matter how innocent, right?
Yeah.
And whether they like it or not, that's basically what you're saying with abortion.
And then we go back to the founding premise that says we are supposed to be a people dedicated to God-endowed unalienable rights.
People always think that that word rights means freedoms, but it doesn't.
It means a use of freedom to do what's right according to who?
According to the Creator God.
And they can try to shrink out of it and say separation of church and state.
No such thing, by the way.
Is actually warranted by the Constitution of the United States.
No such thing warranted by the Declaration.
A people that relies on the appeal to God to justify our authority.
An authority not justified in history by philosophers and all of these other people.
Nobody ever thought the people were capable of ruling themselves.
But the United States has proven that we not only can do so, but we can do so on the way to becoming the greatest country possibly in the history of mankind.
And now they're attacking us at the very core of what is the basis for our claim of rulership, which is that our ability to do this and our authority to do it comes from God, not from power and not from the will and money of people who claim they are our masters now.
And I believe that this ruling class that I also believe, of course, rigged the election.
They stuffed the ballots.
They ran the mules.
They did all of that.
They believe that they have the right to rule over us with a sense of tyranny.
They use governments and regulators as instruments of terrorism and the media as an instrument of terrorism against the people.
And they believe that is their right, in essence.
They don't believe in The Constitution, obviously.
They don't believe in the Bill of Rights.
They don't believe in the human principles upon which this nation was founded.
They believe that they can use any weapon to terrorize the people into compliance and obedience.
And thus, they use democracy as a cover story for their crimes against our constitutional republic.
What would you say to that?
I think that's very accurate.
And I think that it's something that has actually been part of the plan for decades because it is a bedrock understanding of the people who commit themselves to whether you start with Marx and Lenin and those folks, you move over to Mao, you look at the Stalinist era, you read the works of people like Saul Alinsky.
It's an end justifies the means mentality in which the means Are people who are to be manipulated in whatever way you have to manipulate them, lie to them, terrorize them, and ultimately even imprison and kill them, right?
That's the record of all these communist socialist type regimes.
And they believe in this record.
And that's why Jane Fonda could get out there the other day on The View.
And when somebody asked, what should we do with these people, meaning to say you and me, people who still believe in this country and its basis, And she said, kill him!
And the other panelists looking at her aghast and she looked daggers at them and held fast to what she had said.
And I think people need to wake up.
That's not just an episode.
It is the practice of the people who value the mythical results of their ideology Above the actual debt that we owe to one another under God's law so that we will respect the lives and the proper right use of liberty by other human beings in our country.
That's our bedrock.
That's what makes us a nation.
We're not a nation by ethnic background and all these other things.
We're a nation by our common commitment to that which says that we're going to, in effect, do unto others as God would have us be done to.
And when we claim that equation, I think we're basically adopting an archetypal American stance toward one another.
You mentioned Jane Fonda, and it's an extraordinary arc that she demonstrates in the history of what she has said, because, you know, going back decades, she said it was wrong to kill Vietnamese civilians, a point that I at heart agree with.
But now she says that it's right, in her view, to kill American civilians, those with whom she disagrees.
So she's become the pro-war Voice of the left, actually the pro-genocide voice, it's a selective killing in her view.
It's not to kill random Americans.
She wants to kill only conservative Americans.
So she is carrying out what would best be represented by the Marxist and communist leaders that have haunted areas of Southeast Asia for centuries.
The genocidal killers who killed people and their families because they were political enemies.
That's, I mean...
But she represents the left, you know?
The left is with her on this for the most part.
Well, unhappily, though, I think that she is speaking out.
We'll see what the aftermath turns out to be, right?
But I think she is simply putting into words what is a bedrock premise of Of the ideology that the Democrat Party now represents.
Yes.
And that is an ends justify the means ideology.
And it also is an ideology that has routinely drawn a distinction.
If you are with us, you live.
If you're not with us, you suffer and die.
And they didn't just say it or threaten it.
They did it.
Time after time, so that the death toll has to be ranging into the hundreds of millions, right?
When you put the Stalinist and Lenin together with the communist Chinese and all of that, and so forth, these repressive regimes exact a toll in human life.
And I think it worries me that a lot of Americans think that we're still watching business as usual, when in fact we're watching people who are reaching for what is for them the ultimate prize of total control.
And they've even gone so far, I believe, as to be purging our military of elements that they believe will not respond to commands that violate the fundamental premises of our rights as human beings according to God.
So that brings us to the topic of the woke cult or the woke infiltration that's happened at the Pentagon, it's happened at the White House, the entire Biden administration.
We even saw it recently in banking and finance, and I actually wanted to shift gears to this anyway, but Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank, two of the three banks that failed roughly two weeks ago that were then bailed out in a non-bailout bailout, as I call it, by Janet Yellen, the Treasury, the Fed, the government, but Yellen in particular has to make that decision.
So they bailed them out, but I believe they were bailed out because they were woke banks.
And as woke banks, it means they had lesbian awareness day, but they didn't have risk awareness day.
And nothing wrong with lesbian awareness, don't get me wrong, but if you're a banker, you should probably do the banker's business and try to not lose people's money instead of spending all day on transgender parties or whatever your virtue signaling is.
But they got bailed out.
And I think they got bailed out because they were woke.
Whereas if a conservative Christian bank, let's say, or that was the culture of a bank, they would be allowed to fail.
So now we have the government subsidizing woke policies and woke institutions.
So woke has become a kind of cultural plague upon the bureaucracy.
What would you say to that?
Well, I think unfortunately, because that is now the premise of the Democrat Party's politics, you're exactly accurate in what you're portraying.
And I think we have to spend, and I do, on my program I spend a lot of time trying to get people in various areas to focus on the fact that what is being espoused is something that puts aside the notion that each of us is first of all in the eyes of God a sacrosanct being, right?
So that you cannot deprive us of life, liberty, or property unless we have done something wrong.
And that should be the bedrock premise that we use, especially when it comes to government power.
Because one of the deepest concerns that I think has gone to and fro in the course of American history, but people always had the opportunity to get it right, and they did time and time again, is the notion that you have to respect the God-endowed rights of each and every individual, understanding those rights to consist not in whims, but That we have to satisfy our appetites and lusts and hunger for this and that power and so forth.
But no, a right in the sense of the Declaration, because it's according to God, right, according to the endowment of God, is a choice to do right as God sees it from the viewpoint of the Creator.
The Creator means everything that he's created to go on corresponding to what he created, right?
And that means that your life is sacrosanct.
And when people violate your life, threaten your life, enslave your life, they're doing something fundamentally wrong.
People have gone out and sacrificed their lives to uphold those American principles.
And I think the Democrat Party, under the influence of these pernicious leftist ideologies, they are now in the process of abandoning that.
And what do we become as a nation once those premises are removed?
Well, that's my next question.
Where does this end if we don't somehow reverse this trend of whatever you want to call it, you know, the woke cult or the woke rot of America where everything's made up now.
Everything's just, even banking rules and regulations, they just change them on a whim.
Oh, well, today we bail out everybody.
Tomorrow, maybe not.
Who knows?
I mean, how does any business person or rational person even engage in banking and finance, not knowing whether the rules are going to change tomorrow, not knowing if anything can actually be counted on, not knowing if the leaders are rooted in reason and rationality, or even if they believe that two plus two equals four, because they don't.
They don't.
They're living in a delusional fairytale world.
You know, the emperor has no clothes.
And how are you supposed to operate in this society?
That's what infuriates me, even as a business owner.
But I think it's a very common perception of a major problem.
Wouldn't you say?
Yes.
And I pray, God, and I see evidence that a lot of people are waking up to the implications of it.
Because you're dealing with people Who see no limit to the potential abuse of power if it is justified somehow by the ideological goals they mean to achieve.
Because now we have such a diverse population.
The other thing that strikes me about America every time I think it through is that we have become a nation of nations, right?
In point of fact, meaning to say a people composed of people who come from every part of the globe, from every nationality, ethnic group you can name.
Some part of those people is here in the United States.
But they're not here in the United States simply in order to satisfy themselves, gratify themselves, live up to their own background from all those different countries, but to live up to something that according to the ethos of our underlying premises, Belongs to all human beings.
So our first concern ought to be not with our race, this race and that race, but with the human race.
Because we're founded on premises that commit us to do right by people, not because they're from our color or background or ethnic group or nation, but because they are all of them human beings coming from the hand of God, reflecting His purposes, and we need to respect That will, that goodwill, which he has shown toward all of us in our very existence.
Well, exactly.
And this is precisely the message that America needs to heal and to come together and realize that we, the people, we are all being targeted.
We are all being driven to violence and hatred and intolerance by the psychological terrorism operations of the media and the government itself.
You know, Obama did tremendous damage to race relations in this country, as you well know.
Highlighting differences instead of reminding us of what we have in common, like you just did.
We're all human.
We're all created by God.
We have almost everything in common, including our common desires.
We all want to be free and we want to experience abundance or at least have the opportunity to experience it.
We want to raise our children in healthy, clean environments where their minds are not polluted and their bodies are not mutilated.
I don't understand why we can't just...
Get together on some core principles here with left and the right, but they're just driving division constantly.
It's divide and conquer.
Well, see, because I think in several ways, one of them has to do with international relations and the fact that I think a lot of the things the Democrats are up to are now consistent with elements of what appears to be the anti-American strategy that is driving the warfare of I call it that advisedly,
that the Communist Chinese are now conducting against this country, and which Xi has pretty much articulated in various fora where he's, you know, talking to his fellow party members in China.
He makes it very clear.
Their objective is to topple us, to remove us from the position of influence that we've enjoyed in the course of the last century and more.
And so I think that that ought to be first of all on people's minds.
And they ought to ask themselves whether or not any ideology justifies the notion that we should give up a position that has been enjoyed probably by no other people comprising a nation in the history of mankind.
Where we wake up every day knowing that according to the basic premises of our way of life, if we don't cross the line into wrongdoing, our lives are sacrosanct.
The law will act in defense of our lives.
We can speak freely and act freely for the sake of those things we truly believe are for the benefit of our family and our country and our town and city and the people we live with.
I think that that's something that since it's so exceptional, we ought to be trying to focus Americans on because I think it's something that we will all agree is precious.
And instead, you have a party wholeheartedly committed, as you just were pointing out, I think accurately, to fomenting division so that we don't look at each other in those terms.
Raising up children so that we don't see each other in terms of our responsibility and obligation to do right by others, even as, according to God's will, rights should be done by us.
And I guess that's a lesson that I learned because I grew up in the context of the civil rights movement.
And Martin Luther King and speech after speech that people were making, emphasizing everything I just said.
Yes.
In order to try to get rid of what had been a bane on the country's existence since the time it was founded, right?
And the founders knew it was going to cause trouble.
And they also, I think, knew that the premises that they had articulated would help us out of that trouble.
But now, I don't see people choosing to preach first That doctrine that I was just articulating, which is the unifying doctrine.
These people always talk, we're going to unify the nation, we're going to unify this, unify that.
But what unifies us are the basic premises, the basic positive attitude toward our common humanity that I've been talking about.
But I don't see our politicians lifting it up to the position of primacy, where it belongs, because that's what makes us Yeah, well said.
And I would just add, you know, conservatives have always been the pro-civil rights wing of America, you might say, in 1964 Civil Rights Act.
And even today, you know, Dr.
King's philosophies They reverberate and resonate with conservative thinking far more than any left-wing Democrat thinking right now.
When you say, judge people by the content of the character, not the color of their skin, that's a meritocracy.
That's what people like you and I espouse, right?
And yet the left is like, no, no, no, no.
Punish people because of the fairness of their skin, right?
See, and the whole critical race theory approach...
Is an invitation to everybody to obsess with that.
Yes, exactly.
Exactly.
A focal point of your identity.
And if you do, you're retreating from the common ground that we do, in fact, share by the good will of God, as well as the common sense that was shown by Americans for these last two and more centuries, rather, where we were going out to fight as well as the common sense that was shown by Americans for these last two and more centuries, rather, where Good hearted people joined together, even though it risks and costs their lives.
And that was why we made progress.
I think they're destroying the foundations of our progress in the name of an ideology that shows no such progress.
No, we are now living under the Jussie Smollett administration, it seems.
Everything is a victim hoax to try to exploit the situation and punish certain people.
But look, I want to shift gears and ask you about Russia because...
Actually, the last time we talked was about Russia, and quite some time has progressed since then.
I'd like to ask your opinion, Dr.
Keyes, about how you think the U.S. State Department in particular, but also the Biden administration, has handled the situation in Russia, and where you think this is going with Ukraine.
Your thoughts, please.
Well, to answer the first part of that question, I have to go back a bit, because I've always marveled at the fact That over the course of several, I guess it would be, administrations, which would, and I'm thinking here, post-1992 when the USSR fell apart, right?
The USSR came apart, different countries, you know, went their way, and so forth.
And the first thing that I don't understand is why we didn't, in that context, make a A clear-sighted absolute effort to cultivate a relationship with Russia.
As far back as Alexis de Tocqueville, the United States and Russia were compared and Tocqueville predicted that both these countries were going to play a pivotal role in the future of humanity.
Isn't that something?
Yes.
I think that role would be much better if we had taken advantage of that opportunity of change In the collapse of the Soviet Union, what was ostensibly the movement from a totalitarian ideological dictatorship to a, well, what they are pleased to call a democracy rooted in elections and the whole nine yards.
I don't think we've made much of an effort to build a relationship on that basis.
Well, fast forward a little bit.
I think it was perfectly sound policy for us to answer those countries that wanted to become part of NATO, right?
And wanted to become part of, you know, sort of the European Union, so forth and so on.
Because it's better when like-minded countries work together, especially those newly freed back into what had been a previous status, where they were, in fact, in some cases, democratic regimes.
That, I think, is correct.
But again, we didn't work that out in such a way that it was not to be regarded, I think, because it didn't constitute any threat to Russia.
As a matter of fact, it could have been and should be a boon for the Russians.
But I'm not sure we had leaders, especially on the ideological side, because I think a lot of people right now are more interested in how they foment the division and exacerbate The warlike possibilities of the future, because they think that's going to produce a change in favor of their ideological bent in the United States of America.
And that calculation prevails over the calculations of common humanity that I think are warranted right now.
Well, final point.
I also think that in the face of what has to be condemned, right?
Because we have been trying to create an environment in which everybody understands that you don't just go warring against other countries and that that's bad for everybody.
That is true.
It's a premise that I accept and I think we ought to continue to stand for it.
But are we absolutely sure that we thought through the actual nature of the conflict that has developed and the temptation that The Russians gave into and that Putin gave into that involved at least in part, right?
A concern for a situation that though we regard it and it formally is, Ukraine is a separate nation, right?
That is Ukraine a separate nation that has no history with Russia?
You and I both know that's not true.
Ukraine was an integral part of Russia.
For what?
Well, from the late 1600s.
That's a long time.
That's longer than the United States has been in existence.
Exactly.
And you look at that fact and you say to yourself, something's going on here that's not as simple as they're making it.
And I believe that step number one, our first responsibility was to make sure that we don't disappoint the expectations of security as well as A peaceful enjoyment of decent liberty by the people who became part of NATO, are anxious to be a part of what I would think of as our sphere of union in the world, right?
I think we ought to be working at that.
But we give first priority at this moment to something that I think tempts us to believe that it is more important to flex our muscles over the Ukraine That it is to make sure we are building a solid basis not to disappoint the expectations of security of the nations that are entering NATO and that have entered NATO. I'm just reading it in the articles in the course of the past week.
We are facing depletion of our military resources.
They are facing that.
If I were Putin, I'd be sitting there chuckling to myself.
And if I were the Chinese, I'd be laughing, not just chuckling, because they're looking at that situation and they're getting out of it exactly what pleases them.
a weakening of the wherewithal of the United States that has consequences that I don't know whether Russia is going to be able to take advantage of them, but I think China already is.
The mess on our border, everybody thinks it's just about illegal immigrants coming in and all the problems that that can cause.
And yet I'm reading report after report that a lot of the people coming into this country don't look particularly like they're from this hemisphere.
Exactly.
But let me add this and ask you a question.
Have you noticed the parallels between the way the State Department and the Biden administration treat Russia and the way they treat the American people?
It's the same.
So they de-platform Russia from SWIFT. What do they do in America?
They tell big tech who to deplatform with censorship, right?
If they don't like your policies, you don't get a high ESG score.
You don't get government contracts.
If you have a high woke score, you get bailed out, but otherwise you get deplatformed.
And the war that...
The Biden administration is waging against Russia through a variety of provocations and means like flying B-52 bombers right near the border of Russia with a cruise missile test and saying, oh, what are you going to do about it?
I mean, come on.
It's a direct provocation into World War III.
They do the same thing to the American people.
For example, arresting Trump.
This is a provocation to try to get people riled up and try to create another J6 type of, "Oh, look at the crazy Trump supporters there.
They want war.
Well, we'll give them war." Again, they're doing the same thing to us, Alan, that they do to Russia.
And I can't help but sympathize in some way with any country that is deplatformed because we have been deplatformed.
We know what that's like.
You know, the question that I ponder in the context of the issue you're seeing is this.
I don't approve of countries going into other countries without Just cause and grievance that is manifest, right?
Sure.
The Russians, by the way, make the case that there was manifest grievance.
And I know that a change did occur in the orientation of the government in the Ukraine because, you know, Putin has a lot of faults and they're always talking about them.
But a desire to maintain a Godless communism was not one of his faults.
He actually promoted the resurgence of the Russian Orthodox Church.
And Ukraine, under the fellow who was in there in 2014, was it, when the change took place?
He was going also to be encouraging Christianity.
In terms of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, right?
And he was kicked out of office during the Obama years.
Obama being, like a lot of Democrats now, anti-God secularists who actually believed that a lot of Christian people ought to be put in jail because we believe in God and in the premises that flow from that that are the bedrock foundation of the United States and preclude dictatorship by little party cliques.
And so forth and so on.
Now, what I'm getting to is this.
Are we absolutely sure that the moment is not already arrived, because the danger, I think, is acute, when our failure to do something about the assault on our border is exposing us in such a way that it will become an issue of our utmost national security?
To go in and clean up a mess that is polluting this country with drugs and death and crime.
See, we're going to face a decision at some point because the Mexican government was cooperative and is now proving less cooperative, right?
In terms of actually meeting that threat, we're going to have to ponder whether we're going to have to take care of it ourselves because we're not going to be able to live with this indefinitely.
It will kill us if we try.
I look forward to that and I say, you know, perhaps we shouldn't be beating the drum so hard without looking at the circumstances that because we ourselves face circumstances where we're going to have to make a decision about what we do to defend our integrity of our nation against a threat that is based in the territory of our neighbors.
I don't know what that is gonna lead to, but I know we're gonna have to take it very seriously.
Along those lines, Dr.
Keyes, and think about your final thoughts on this.
We're about to wrap up today's interview, but author Leo Homan, his book was just banned by Amazon, and it's called Stealth Invasion.
And it was a book that documented this invasion of the United States across an unprotected border and how it's being covered up and allowed to take place, as you were just speaking to.
And it's not just that our government and our left-wing culture, that they're not willing to defend this nation, but that they even, again, deplatform and ban authors who are documenting the problem.
This is the equivalent of, let's say...
After 9-11 banning anybody from talking about 9-11, or after Fukushima saying, oh, you're not allowed to talk about radiation.
I mean, how has it come to this level of insanity where you're not allowed to talk about problems?
You can't say the vaccines have harmed anyone, right, without being deplatformed.
And it's Amazon now.
This is a digital book burning.
This is the worst rendition of the Orwellian nightmare that we always feared would come.
And here it is.
It's here now today, right now.
Your thoughts.
And then think about wrapping this up as well.
Well, I think, again, you're right on the mark, and you are pointing to what I think is the challenge that we're actually faced with.
And it raises a question that is deeply disturbing.
See, because people, I read the newspapers every day, and I see the way that the Biden administration is being portrayed.
And people wonder why would they have elected somebody that, you know, is a little bit...
Well, I don't want to say it because I'm rather aged myself, but it's a little bit, you know, seems to be beyond the stage where he can deal with all the rigors.
And we're supposed to be concentrating on that and so forth and so on.
And yet, that supposed incompetence could very well be a cover for the fact...
That when you look into the affairs that are being revealed about Hunter Biden and the Biden family's relations with the Communist Chinese and so forth, what if we actually elected a president who isn't actually on our side?
And what if this whole show of bumbliness and nonsense is actually a cover for what is actually going on, which is an astute betrayal Of the most profound and existential interest of the whole people of the United States that will take history's breath away.
They will write books about it.
The fall of the United States at the hands of such a betrayal.
We're not even thinking about this yet.
And yet I think it deserves to be thought through and must be thought through thoroughly or we will end up experiencing that fate.
Well said, and I would just emphasize, yes, they will write books about it, and then after they do that, Amazon will ban books about it, because you won't be allowed to tell the truth about any of this.
So, Dr.
Keyes, in addition to your Brighteon.tv appearances, where can people find your work?
Well, I still keep up my blog, LoyalToLiberty.com, though I don't write for it, but I keep it there.
And over the course of several years, I wrote a whole lot that has a bearing on our present situation.
So I think it would repay a visit to LoyalToLiberty.com if you have the time.
Got it.
Because I think that that's one of those things that we need to do.
We need to encourage people to do what our kids are no longer being encouraged in school to do.
Which is, first, think through the fundamentals of our nation and our success as a nation.
The things that we've overcome in the way of evil.
You know, all these Democrats spend all their time fighting slavery in the 19th century.
And I'm sitting there looking at their behavior and I'm saying, well, that's so we won't notice that you're imposing it on us and working with people who want to impose it on the world in the 21st century.
We need to wake up to this.
And I hope the writing that I have done and the kind of discussions that I have on the air now and the speeches I give as I go around the country are all of them aimed at getting people to focus on this essential point, because I think our survival depends on it.
Well said, and I think your contributions to this debate and discussion are extraordinary and desperately needed in our time.
And I always appreciate you, Dr.
Keyes.
Thank you for taking the time today to join me, and I hope we get a chance to do this again soon.
I hope so.
It's always a pleasure and a joy to be with you.
Absolutely.
You as well.
Let me know next time you're in Texas.
We'll get you in studio here.
We'll do this face-to-face.
That'll be even more fun.
That will be.
Okay.
All right.
Well, take care.
Keep up the amazing work.
God bless you, Alan Keyes.
And folks, we are fortunate to have Dr.
Alan Keyes in our midst, in our time.
We need minds like his and voices like his, voices of courage and truth in order to challenge the deception and lies and the chaos that's being intentionally strewn about in order to bring our nation down.
So here on BrightTown.com, we bring you the truth and courageous voices like Alan Keyes.
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Thank you for joining us today.
God bless you all.
Take care.
There's something very important I neglected to mention about the current government attack on cryptocurrency.
Now, but let's just back up.
So the Biden administration...
The Treasury and the Federal Reserve are all working together, especially with the Democrats, to destroy crypto in America.
Now, they love crypto while they could use it and dominate it and have FTX as a slush fund for political donations and Ukraine money laundering.
They loved it while they could exploit it.
This is the way Democrats always operate.
Once FTX collapsed, which probably was engineered, The Democrats and the powers that be have decided it's time for them to destroy crypto and then to roll out the central bank digital currency, the CBDC, which will enslave humanity forever if they get this shoved through.
So the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, Silvergate, and also Signature Bank out of New York, the collapse of these three banks is also not a coincidence.
These are the three banks, especially the two.
We're the heaviest crypto translation banks in the Western banking system.
These banks were taken down in order to try to destroy the on-ramps and off-ramps to the crypto ecosystem and to segment crypto.
In other words, they're trying to put us in a situation where, yeah, you can own all the crypto you want, you just can't ever buy or sell it into dollars.
So, you know, you can live in your artificial world of crypto is kind of what the Biden administration wants to say, but you just can't make it, you know, any other kind of money where you could use it to buy a house or a car or something or an investment.
Now, understand this is all being coordinated.
The SEC just filed charges today.
As I'm recording this, charges against Justin Sun of Tron and BitTorrent.
And there's some other co-defendants named in that.
Basically, they're going after a group of celebrities and some people that were paid to promote certain types of crypto.
They're being, from what I can tell, criminally charged, or maybe it's a civil charge, but it's an SEC, essentially an indictment.
At least that's my understanding of it.
Now, I do want to say these individuals should be presumed to be innocent until proven guilty, okay?
But the SEC has, they're waging a war.
I think Jake Paul is one of the people named in this.
The SEC is waging a war against crypto, as is the Treasury and the Fed and the Biden administration.
There was a big report that was just issued by the Biden White House that just said, essentially, that crypto has no value.
Other than the crypto that the central bank rolls out, you see, that's where this is going.
So the timing is such an admission that this has all been scripted.
This is all a blueprint.
Again, they use crypto for money laundering and slush funds.
And then when FTX collapse, then they've decided they're going to go all against crypto in order to roll out the central bank digital currency system.
That's where we are with this.
And if you don't realize that you're being corralled into a central bank digital currency system, then, you know, you're blind.
I'm sorry.
Or maybe I shouldn't use the word blind.
You're oblivious.
That's probably better.
Because there are plenty of actually blind people, i.e.
vision impaired people, who can see everything that's happening right now, right?
So I'll try not to use that term inappropriately.
What I mean is people are oblivious to this.
Some people even believe that Bitcoin was all launched by the intelligence community to get people used to the idea of digital money in order to corral them into a central bank digital currency system.
Now, I don't know if that's true or not.
You can make up your own mind, but it's a theory.
Maybe it's true.
Who knows?
Now, think about the bigger picture timing in all of this.
It's not just that they want to launch a CBDC and push everybody into the, let's say, the FedNow transaction system or Federal Reserve digital wallets.
They also need to eliminate all commercial banking.
And so what better way to do that than to keep crashing the banks and make the banks insolvent, which is exactly what's been happening.
So they're cratering the banks and the government's actually taking ownership over the banks.
The government essentially owns now Silicon Valley Bank, SVB. It was taken over by the FDIC. Now, I don't know if the technical legal ownership of the shareholders is the government, maybe not, but the government has control over it.
They can just declare or assert control and then they take over the bank.
And ownership comes down to control.
So if you control it, you own it.
I don't care who's on the paper.
If they control it, they own it.
So the government owns these banks and they're going to own a lot more because a lot more collapses are coming.
And just to make sure that continues to happen, the Fed just raised interest rates another 25 basis points.
So as the Fed raises interest rates, they collapse commercial banks, they take possession or the FDIC does, the Treasury takes possession of the banks and And then as they topple all but the largest banks, which Janet Yellen is part of because she said, we'll only bail you out if you're in the largest banks, not in the smaller regional banks.
Then the government will do a deal with these large banks to say, hey, it's all gonna be digital wallets now.
And yeah, JP Morgan might be your gateway to your government digital wallet or Bank of America might be your gateway, but rest assured, you're gonna be living in a digital wallet system from this day forward.
You are not in any way going to have financial freedom.
So in summary, The government and the intelligence community, they use crypto to get people used to digital money.
They use crypto for their slush funds, for their kickbacks, bribery, and fraud.
Where do you think all this money for Ukraine actually ends up?
It ends up in people's crypto wallets, right?
Oh, here's a thumb drive, Senator.
Here's your $50 million for voting yes on funding Ukraine.
You see?
Just type in the password.
What's the password?
Hunter Biden is a crackhead, whatever.
And here's your 50 million.
This is what they're doing with crypto.
And now they're going to crush crypto.
They're going to crush the stablecoins too, by the way.
The Fed absolutely wants to crush the stablecoins.
They want to end Tether.
And then they're going to try to make the Fed and the digital dollar the new global, at least Western financial reserve system The default, the go-to currency for transactions.
And then once they have you in that digital prison, that money prison called the digital wallet, then they control you.
Then they have programmable money.
Also expiring money, as it's sometimes called.
They can do anything with the money.
They can say, oh, here's a universal basic income, but you have to use it right away because we want to stimulate the economy.
So you're going to lose 10% per week if you don't use it.
So hurry up and use it.
Go out and spend.
So you can't save it.
Or they'll program your wallet where you've bought enough ammo.
No more ammo for you.
You can't buy any more ammunition.
No guns.
Nothing that might be used for survival.
No.
They won't let you buy gold, obviously, probably.
They won't let you buy survival food, perhaps.
And they can limit the regions, the geographic region in which you're able to use your money.
They can say, oh, well, we're going to lock you down now because it's another pandemic.
Didn't you know?
It's the aerosolized HIV pandemic with bird flu thrown in.
And so you're only allowed to go no more than 10 miles from your house.
So they turn off your digital wallet everywhere outside of 10 miles from your home address, you see.
They can do that.
Of course they can do that.
And they will do that.
So digital money is the prison system.
And everything else that you've seen up to this point, even involving crypto and now the attack on crypto, is to establish the digital money prison that will be the final nail in the coffin of human freedom.
And you know, of course, the digital wallets will require your compliance with vaccines.
Oh, are you 30 days late on your booster?
Oh, we have a booster reserved just for you.
It's got your name on it.
It's your booster.
If you don't get your booster, I'm sorry to say, your wallet will stop working.
Because, you know, we can't let contagious people run around spending money in society.
That would be unsafe.
So if you don't get your booster, you can't use your wallet.
Just turn it off.
See?
Or, oh, oh, really?
Did you post something negative about Drag Queen Story Hour?
Because, you know, those twerking drag queens, the grody old men with their scrotums wagging in the faces of infants.
It's a beautiful thing.
It's so beautiful.
You can't say anything negative about that.
Oh, well, turn off your wallet.
Turn off your wallet because you said something bad about the scrotum.
Of the drag queen.
You know, you get my point.
If you're not 100% pro, you know, genital mutilations of children and pro-abortion and pro-climate change cult and pro-Ukraine for that matter, whatever the next thing is that they roll out, you got to be in favor of it or you can't use your wallet.
And then even when you do use your wallet, well, they're tracking and watching and surveilling everything.
Oh, where did you spend this money?
What did you do over here?
Hmm, how much food did you buy?
Did you buy for more than one person?
What did you spend this on?
Why are you buying so much gas?
Are you driving around?
Where are you driving?
Let's see where you're driving.
You start tracking all your habits, all your expenditures, everything about you.
And that goes into, of course, an archived file.
A file that can be subpoenaed by the feds for law enforcement purposes.
Oh, did you get arrested for peacefully protesting?
January 6th or some future date, whatever little setup they have for you, a little false flag trap.
Oh, then we're going to go back through your history and find out, oh, you visited a gun store.
Look at that.
You visited a gun store.
You bought ammunition at a gun store seven times.
And then you bought alcohol at an alcohol store.
Look at that.
You must be a dangerous individual.
And then you bought a Bible at the Bible shop or the Christian bookstore.
Oh, you're a terrorist.
Obviously a Christian, gun-toting, alcohol-drinking American.
Obviously a terrorist.
You're guilty as charged.
You know, that's how they're going to use this against you.
And then even when they're not using it against you, they'll sell your data to all the marketing companies.
Because you drove to, I don't know, the wine store and spent a little money at the wine store and then you're going to be inundated.
You must love wine!
How would you like some cherry wine and some oak wine and some ancient wine and Sauvignon wine and a delicate little Chianti wine?
How would you like some wine?
You must be a wino.
Nothing but wine for days, right?
Because you visited a wine place.
That's what's going to happen.
You're going to lose your freedoms.
You're going to lose your privacy.
You're going to lose autonomy.
You're not going to have control over your money in the wallet.
And it's all by design, you see.
All by design.
Now, of course, don't forget that they need another plague to outlaw cash.
And we saw them start to promote this during COVID. You saw the stories.
They said, cash is filthy.
Filthy cash.
No one wants cash.
It might have filth on it.
It might have SARS on it.
Filthy, filthy cash.
Well, they're going to do this again, but this time it's going to be, you know, the SARS, HIV, bird flu, whatever name they give that.
It's going to be like plague 2024.
It's all over the cash.
You know, money might get you killed.
Turn in your cash for God's sake.
Use digital wallets.
They're the only thing that are sanitized and safe.
Digital wallets are safe for society.
That's what they'll say.
Because you don't have to use cash.
You don't have to touch anything.
No one has to give you anything.
You just swipe this and swipe that and put your fingerprint over here and do your iris scan over there.
And then it's all going to be digital because it's safe.
For your safety, we will enslave you.
You will have no freedoms, but you will be safe.
And if we don't think you're safe, we'll throw you into a quarantine camp.
Where your digital money will be disabled.
You can't buy your way out, you see.
And this is why I recommend gold and silver, by the way.
I mean, look, I'm not your financial advisor.
You know my disclaimer.
Make up your own decision.
Do your own research.
But gold and silver are very hard for governments to control.
Very difficult.
And gold and silver are, you know, anonymous.
It's not connected to the internet.
Thank God.
It doesn't require electricity to function.
It has inherent intrinsic value that has outlasted the rise and fall of civilizations throughout the history of planet Earth.
Gold and silver will be here even after banks crash and bonds collapse and currencies vanish.
And even if crypto isn't functioning, well, gold and silver will still function.
Yeah, governments can try to outlaw it, but they can't really go to everybody's house and dig up all their gold.
First of all, the government goons just are too lazy for that.
They won't even try it.
That's too much work.
We just want to confiscate digitally, you know?
We just take your bank account.
It's a bail-in, we'll call it.
We'll just print money and steal from you that way, right?
They don't want to actually do any work to confiscate from you.
So gold and silver will outlast all of this, I believe.
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But crypto, I'm a fan.
I mean, even lately, I've become more of a fan of crypto as the government's trying to destroy it because crypto is another option for getting out of the banking system.
And I believe it's important to have options.
And I appreciate the fact that crypto has relatively fast transactions and I appreciate the fact that crypto is international, that is peer-to-peer.
Governments can't easily inflate the crypto supply.
I mean, it's almost impossible to manipulate that.
So, you know, crypto has a lot of advantages, and I think it's definitely worth looking into crypto as kind of a backup supply, you know, an emergency plan, almost like a bug-out plan using crypto.
If you have an emergency, you have to get out of Dodge, crypto could be very useful in those situations as long as it still holds value.
But definitely have gold as well.
The point is, I think it's important to have lots of options.
Crypto has a role to play.
So does gold and silver.
So does a little bit of cash.
But Fed wallets and central bank digital currencies, no thank you.
I'm not signing up for that.
Not interested.
So protect your liberty.
And thank you for listening.
Mike Adams here, naturalnews.com, and also brighteon.com.
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