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June 20, 2023 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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Brandon Smith from Alt-Market.us joins Mike Adams to discuss elections, geopolitics and global war
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Welcome to today's interview on Brighteon.com.
I'm Mike Adams, the founder of Brighteon, the free speech platform.
And today we're joined by a true free speech champion, an individual whose website I have been reading for years.
I think he's one of the most forceful and insightful writers on a variety of subjects that center around liberty and truth.
His name is Brandon Smith from altmarket.us.
He's just a wonderful writer, an excellent analyst.
Thank you, Brandon, for joining me today.
It's great to have you on the show.
Hey, thanks for having me.
Well, you are busy, and what I notice about your articles is that anything that you put out, like right now you have an article about ESG dystopia, why corporations are doubling down on woke even as they lose billions.
Your articles get so widely copied and pasted everywhere, and we do that too.
Of course, we give you credit, but you're very successful with automatic syndication.
Yeah, probably because I do everything for free.
I don't copyright anything.
I don't copyright strike people.
It's more important for me to get the information out there than for me to try to make a few bucks, to be honest.
Well, that's an honorable motivation for this, but I also see from your articles that you are trying to save America.
I mean, there's no other way to state it.
You're talking about the things that concern you, and that's shared by our audience.
Tell us about the whole woke culture war, in your view.
That's your most recent article.
Where do you think we are with that?
It's hard to say because at this point there's been some pushback and that's more pushback than I thought would happen and that's surprising, but it's a good sign.
If you were to compare this situation we're in now with something like the Cultural Revolution in China, I would say we're towards the third quarter of the fight.
And really, I think a lot is going to be decided right now in the next year or two on whether the country veers far left or stays relatively moderate.
Well, you said that you're surprised by the degree of the pushback.
I think you're referring to the pushback against Target, Bud Light, Nike, Disney, right?
Things like that.
Are you enthusiastic about the degree of that pushback?
Because it seems to be gaining steam at this point.
Yeah, I'm pretty enthusiastic.
It's funny because we use the sleeping giant analogy a lot for the liberty movement, conservative movements.
In the past, we've had a lot of criticism.
Where are the conservatives?
Where are the libertarians?
Where are they fighting back against this stuff?
I see it as sort of a snowball effect or kind of an avalanche where It's just that one thing that gets set off, that one line that gets crossed, and then you start to see this huge push among liberty movement people against the agenda.
And that's, I think, starting to happen now.
So, yeah, really insightful.
That line, was it the tuck swimsuits for children at Target?
I mean, was that just a bridge too far for Target?
I would say that was...
Part of it, I think the fact that the woke activists are going after kids and insist on going after kids, they're not backing down from it.
That's the hill they've chosen to die on.
And that action by leftists has really set a lot of people off.
And I think it's because a lot of us in the alternative media were warning about this, that this is where it was going to go.
For some time.
And they did.
I don't think people believed us.
And now they're seeing it happening right in front of them.
They're seeing leftists insist on a woke ideology being taught in schools, including sexualized lessons taught in schools.
So now they know we were right and they're starting to react.
They're starting to push back.
But that's a lot of times throughout history, that's what it takes.
regular people don't usually see the threat until it's right on their doorstep.
Oh yeah.
Really, really good point.
And now it's, it's unmistakable.
You have the LGBT pedophile flag draped over the white house.
And you also have bouncing boobs, topless transgenders with their boobs out on the white house lawn that it's turned into a circus at this point.
And, and people can see it.
I mean, it's, How do they think that this isn't going to have a backlash?
I don't know.
What do you make of the White House going all in with this nonsense?
You know, the leftist movement, the woke movement, I don't think would exist without support from the White House, from certain parts of government, from major corporations.
From globalist think tanks, they wouldn't exist.
A lot of these foundations like the Ford Foundation that have been funding this stuff for years, the woke movement would not exist without those institutions.
So it's really, they're sort of the source of all of this and They're using far leftists and activists as cannon fodder, I think.
Oh yeah, yeah.
Antifa in particular, they seem to be the militant wing of the woke movement and they're out there assaulting anyone who protests peacefully against transgenderism being pushed on children in particular.
Do you think Antifa is recruited or commanded by the same forces that are pushing the woke agenda?
No.
Well, I think a lot of those groups are useful idiots.
I don't think that they're receiving orders from on high.
There are certain groups that have, I think, bought and paid for leadership, and the leadership will spread certain ideas and certain ideas for actions, certain concepts for actions.
I think the teachers' unions are actually a big A big controlled group, and they're one of the primary groups pushing most of this woke agenda in schools.
And if you look at the amount of coordination that's going on with leftist teachers across the country, I mean, it really seems to me like they're getting marching orders.
Yeah, that's a really good point.
Almost all of academia appears to be radical leftists, Marxists, and they are now engaged in many schools in the teaching of raw sexualization of children, even at very young ages, nine years old, for example, in some of these schools.
And we interviewed a guest recently talking about the WHO insisting that schools, quite literally, sexualize children and that, you know, in...
In their public education, that sex between, apparently, school staff and school children should be, according to them, a requirement for graduating from high school.
You have to be sexually assaulted by a teacher or a counselor in order to be considered a global citizen under the WHO at this point.
That's what it sounds like to me.
Also, there's some recent surveys that have shown that, I mean, one of the primary arguments that I hear from leftists on the sexualization issue is they try to, I don't know what the exact term you would use for it, but sort of double, I would call it double justification.
So they'll go out and say, you know, well, children are under threat when they're around Catholic priests, and there's far more Catholic priests caught Abusing children than drag queens or whatever.
And so that argument, it makes it sound like what they're saying is, well, these guys do it over here, so it should be okay for us to do it in schools.
And neither one is okay.
But if you look at recent surveys about teachers and teaching, a lot of them are showing that Teachers are actually 100% or 100 times more likely to abuse a child than a Catholic priest.
And about 98% of teachers union funds for elections go towards Democrats.
So a lot of these, you know, the majority of these teachers are leftists, they're Democrats, and they're 100 times more likely to mess around with kids.
It's not a valid argument and it doesn't change the fact that no one should be Yeah, absolutely.
And I agree with you.
I think this is the Achilles heel of the radical left-wing agenda.
This is them now finally experiencing what happens when they go too far.
Now, let's go to the next topic on your website, one of your recent stories.
I've got it up here.
How to solve violence in the U.S., remove Democrat-run cities, and bring back asylums.
I love this article.
I think you're right on point.
Also, I just want to mention for those watching your video, Brandon, sometimes sort of stutters a little bit.
We're aware of that problem.
It catches up.
It's not a big deal.
We shall continue.
But talk about what's happening in the cities, which are seemingly collapsing into cesspools of just violence and lawlessness.
But you say bring back insane asylums, I believe, is what you're talking about.
Give us more details on that, please.
Right.
I mean, it might sound extreme, especially to people on more of the libertarian end of things, but I was just looking at the data, looking at the data of the U.S. for the past 100 to 120 years or so on incarceration rates and on murder and violent crime rates.
And what we found is that the higher the incarceration rates in general, Obviously, the less murders and violent crime there are.
However, if you look at around 1930 to 1970, or 1935 to 1970, what you'll see is a huge dip in crime, but not a big jump in incarceration rates in prisons.
And so, you know, leftists or anti-prison people will probably look at that and say, well, obviously something else happened, something else that brought the crime rates down and it wasn't incarceration.
What I discovered was actually the incarceration rates for psychiatric facilities skyrocketed from around 1935 to the 1970s.
So We were actually incarcerating more people in that period than ever before, and it was through mental institutions and the crime rate plummeted.
So I'm just going by the numbers.
Yeah, that's a really important point.
And, you know, my background, Brandon, is food contamination science, environmental sciences.
And I believe that cities make people insane because of exposure.
I mean, they can't.
I don't mean they make everybody insane.
But there are going to be a greater number of people that go insane in cities than in the country or rural areas.
Because of exposure to pollution, it's electromagnetic pollution, number one, sound and noise pollution, chemical pollution, and then there's all of these...
Artificial, like lack of nature in your life, right?
You're not in tune with the sun at all.
You don't even see the sun.
You don't even see the moon.
You're not even aware of moon cycles because all you have is this concrete jungle cityscape and it disconnects you from reality, disconnects you from nature.
And that tends to lead to insanity.
And you can agree or disagree, whatever.
I'd love your comments on that.
But in Democrat-run cities, instead of saying, hey, these people are crazy, let's...
Maybe figure out how to treat them.
They say, no, let's make them mayor.
Or city council.
That's what's going on.
Yeah, that's exactly what's going on.
And I'm inclined to believe that maybe this is a deliberate process, a deliberate process to create more crime, create more fear within metropolitan areas so that people call for more control.
And We've seen that, especially in Democrat-run cities like New York or LA, where if a citizen reacts, say, to stop a crime or stop a violent assailant, they'll go after and prosecute that person.
They call it violent vigilantism, and there's a Huge narrative in the media right now admonishing any kind of good Samaritan actions or vigilantism.
But in these same cities, it's a revolving door for the prisons.
They keep sending these people back out onto the streets.
That situation with Daniel Penny and was it Jordan Neely?
Yeah, Jordan Neely.
I've got your article up on that.
That guy had been charged, I believe, 40 times.
With multiple offenses, including multiple violent offenses and attacking people on the subway.
So why was that guy even out?
He should have been in an institution if he was, you know, truly mentally unstable.
He should have been in an institution receiving treatment or he should have been in prison.
You know, so it's really the fault of the city that he's dead because they kept letting him out.
And finally, someone had to do something about him.
Now they're trying to indict and prosecute Penny for doing something about it.
That's a huge problem, and really what it does is it discourages the citizenry from defending themselves because they'll be worried about going to jail even if they defend themselves.
Yeah, or even existing in the city.
You know, how can you ever feel safe in New York City or Los Angeles or San Francisco knowing that if you are attacked, you're not even legally allowed to defend yourself because there'll be a George Soros-funded district attorney who will bring charges against you for attempting to halt violence.
And that there will be a jury, an insane jury, probably made up of people who should be in insane asylums, who have been all brainwashed and gaslit by the establishment, and they will find you guilty for daring to defend yourself.
So why would any rational person even stay in a city like that?
Right, and I would recommend that people, if they can, relocate or leave these places.
But if they can't, I would tell them, you know, it's better...
To defend yourself and live and deal with the repercussions later than just let bad things happen to you or somebody else.
Also, you're setting an example for other criminals who might try to take the same actions or abuse people.
You have to set an example and let them know, we're not going to let this happen.
Yeah, that's extraordinary.
Of course, you believe in the right to self-defense.
You talk about it in your articles and so on.
I don't know if you've ever talked to...
I mean, what state do you live in, if you don't mind sharing?
I don't know if that's a secret or public, but where do you live?
Oh, sure.
I mean, I live in Montana, so that's not really a problem here.
Oh, okay, okay.
We don't have that issue.
Everybody carries here, so, you know...
That kind of situation doesn't arise very often.
You don't really see the Jordan Ely's hanging around abusing people on the streets or anything like that because they wouldn't last very long here.
So that's not an issue.
But yeah, I think red states are handling this better.
I think blue states are maybe deliberately creating a problem.
Blue states, especially blue cities, because often we hear Democrats argue that certain red states have a higher crime rate per capita than California or New York or whatever.
But what they're not mentioning is that that is primarily in Democrat-controlled cities with those red states.
Exactly.
So as I noted in my article, if you actually got rid of Democrat control of these cities in the U.S. across the country, if you got rid of Democrat control, the crime rate would plummet.
Yeah, exactly.
In fact, I want to now segue to the next question, which is about civil war.
I know you've written about this concept for the last few years, on and off, your thoughts about it, but none of us think there's going to be a North versus South type of civil war like we had in the 1860s, but...
There do seem to be...
I mean, number one, in the corporate media, they're pushing.
They want, clearly, conservatives to take up arms so they can paint all conservatives as armed insurrectionists, like a nationwide J6. And so far, they've failed to do that, even after arresting Trump.
You know, there's nobody running around with AR-15s saying, you know, set Trump free or else.
Like, that's not happening.
But do you think there is a kind of soft civil war or a national divorce, as it's sometimes been called, that may be underway?
Yes, and I think that it's a relocation effort mostly, you know, at least for now.
I think conservatives and liberty movement people have been relocating en masse away from blue states, away from blue controlled counties, And they're starting to congregate in areas where they feel safe, where they feel safer.
And that's in part because of the COVID lockdowns and we saw sort of the mask come off on the political left during the COVID lockdowns.
Yes.
So it's hard to deny at this point what they really want.
And what they really want is authoritarian control over the country.
That's what they want.
So, you know, people are realizing that they're relocating to red states where they feel safer.
But I do think eventually what will happen is they will try to disrupt the functions of red states.
They'll try to disrupt these states governing themselves.
It's hard to say how they'll do that, possibly through presidential executive order.
Or along those lines, some kind of unilateral action.
We have Gavin Newsom calling for a constitutional convention to fundamentally change the Second Amendment.
For example, I don't think that's going to work, but it's that attitude that they're going to rewrite the rules however they want in order to take away our rights.
That attitude is a problem.
Throughout history, communists, people on the far left, have a perception that the average person is property.
They're property of the state.
You are not allowed to go off on your own and live your own life and do your own thing.
You're not allowed to go off on your own and start a separate community or a separate system, a separate economy.
Because if you do that, then Number one, you're creating options.
You're creating choices.
And you're showing that there's another way of doing things that's potentially far better.
And if you're doing that, if you're showing there's a better way, then it makes them look bad.
It makes the communists look bad.
It makes their system look bad.
And they can't have that.
They can't have that.
There can only be one choice.
There can only be one way.
And that's their way.
Ultimately, when you're dealing with people like that, zealots, they are political zealots.
When you're dealing with those types of people, it's inevitable that war is going to happen, a physical war.
Oh, wow.
Well, okay, let me come back to that, but I want to ask you, instead of a physical war, what about this scenario of an economic collapse of the blue cities and the blue states?
Because they're putting themselves in a doom cycle where so many companies are fleeing.
You know, we're seeing hotels shutting down in San Francisco, retailers shutting down in Portland, Oregon, or Seattle, or Chicago, for example, just leaving.
Yeah.
Companies leaving, commercial real estate is collapsing in cities like New York City and also hotels.
Half the hotel rooms in New York City are being occupied by illegal aliens at this point.
What about the hospitality industry?
It's dead there.
Ultimately, don't these cities lose so much money since they can't print money like the Federal Reserve can?
They lose tax base, they lose sales taxes, property taxes, and ultimately they lose businesses.
They lose the wealthy people who just flee because they're the most capable of fleeing.
And then they end up with high overhead cities, a lot of infrastructure, a lot of roads, a lot of street lights, a lot of sewage systems that they can't afford to keep up.
And then these cities eventually just go bankrupt.
I mean, that cycle of doom, isn't that a real...
What do you think are the ramifications of that?
Sorry if that's too long of a question.
Well, it's a complicated situation.
I think that my feeling on it is that eventually these cities will be bailed out.
I think there will be some kind of move to bail these cities out financially, and the reason I think that is because the Agenda cannot be shown to be weak.
It cannot be proven to be faulty.
It can't be proven to lead to social decline or economic decline.
So I think ultimately there will be some kind of bailout for these cities, but it will be well after the situation has degraded because I think they have too many Other agendas on their plate right now.
So when that bailout happens, it will be a digital bailout.
It'll be under a digital currency, a CBDC. It won't be a full-spectrum bailout like 2008 where everybody gets money, where almost everyone is too big to fail.
I think it will be a limited bailout targeted to very specific agencies I think you're right about that.
And yet, should that happen?
You know, during the COVID years, there was so much money printing that it almost doubled the money supply in just two years, I believe.
If they were to print money to bail out the cities, you would see America facing a situation where essentially productive rural people or people in red states would be bailing out the failed policies of corruption and lawlessness in the blue cities.
There would be so much resistance against that and dilution of the money supply to where inflation would become far worse at the grocery store and at the gas pump and so on.
I mean, that would plunge America into a cycle of inflation and discontent that I think we've never seen before.
But they would do it anyway, I guess.
Yeah, I think we'll have that before the bailouts I'm talking about, and I'm specifically talking about CBDCs as digital currencies.
And really, they wouldn't be able to institute CBDCs anyway unless there was a collapse of the existing system, you know, or major crisis within the existing system and major crisis within the existing dollar.
And, you know, after that crisis, you know, goes into motion, when it picks up momentum, that's when they'll start talking about, you'll start hearing a lot more about CBDCs, you'll start hearing more about digital currencies, and you'll be hearing a lot more about the IMF and the IMF's umbrella system,
their SDR basket, their new swift network for CBDCs, All of these things will start popping up as soon as we hit that crisis point.
We're just not there quite yet.
Well, let me ask you about that.
What's your take on, first of all, is a kind of fiat currency rug pull being engineered, or is it just horrible complacency and mismanagement that's leading us to that point?
The de-dollarization happening globally is a big factor.
I know timing questions are very difficult, but You know, how long do you think we have for this Western banking system to function?
Because I'm seeing evidence of breakdowns and failures every day, just in my own business, by the way.
But what do you think we're looking at?
Definitely the bank failures that we saw at the beginning of this year in early spring, I think that was a signal that we're very close to another...
2008 situation, somewhat similar, but this time with stagflation attached.
So you're going to have increasingly more inflation in necessities, and you're going to see a lot more countries dropping the dollar as World Reserve.
And at the same time, we're going to have definitely a credit crisis.
There will be a credit crisis, very similar to 2008.
Timing It's hard to say, but, you know, with what happened at the beginning of the spring, I would be surprised if we were able to hold out until the next election.
Wow.
That's a game changer for the election.
I would be surprised if we had a normal election.
Okay, yeah.
I hear you.
By the end of 2024, I would be surprised.
Let me just remind people about your website.
It's alt-market.us.
And, folks, this is a site you need to bookmark and you need to check it daily for new content.
And you've got the Wild Bunch here.
This is a newsletter.
You can sign up for this, the Wild Bunch dispatch, excuse me.
And, you know, you've got some payment options here.
People can help support you.
That's pretty much the only revenue source that you have going right now, right, Brandon?
Yeah.
That and I do contract work for certain other websites.
I can't say which ones, but I write articles for some websites and I get paid for that.
Oh, okay.
Okay, awesome.
Well, I would just encourage people to go to your website and help support you because your work is widely shared.
It's, again, extremely insightful, and I think right on the money in just again and again and again.
So, all right, with that said, I want to ask you, what about the role, and this is a wild card question, but cryptocurrency.
So, Some people view crypto as an off-ramp to a failing fiat currency system.
Other people view crypto as a very scammy, Ponzi-schemy type of thing, or at least they did before FTX collapsed.
It's clear the SEC is at war with crypto.
They don't want crypto to exist, which might be a clue.
What's your take on the role of Bitcoin and other crypto as all of this goes down?
I suspect that there will be restrictions and bottlenecks put in place to try to diminish the role of regular cryptocurrencies.
I think that they will put in motion a system that the BIS is already working on.
I believe it's called Project Iceberg.
Somebody can correct me if I'm wrong.
I think it's either that or Project Icebreaker.
Which funnels all digital currencies through a SWIFT-type network.
And what we saw with Russia, they tried to shut Russia down economically by blocking them out of the SWIFT system.
They're trying to set up a similar system, but for digital currencies and CBDCs.
Now, whether or not that will work, it's hard to say, but, you know, the black markets have always existed since the beginning of recorded history, so that it's, you know, it's going to be really hard for them to do that.
But with AI moderation, real-time AI moderation and monitoring of transactions across banks around the world, that sort of thing, AI monitoring of CBDC transactions and cryptocurrency transactions.
It's going to be much harder for people to stay under the radar.
And I think that's how it's going to go.
I think that they'll also try to push CBDCs onto people as safer than regular cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin.
Okay, really interesting points.
Let me redirect on a couple of those.
So I agree they're going to try to position CBDCs as safer, but as people lose value in those counterfeit digital dollars or whatever they are...
It's hard to tell people that your money's safe when it's losing purchasing power every month, and groceries are getting more expensive, right?
So if you want a guaranteed loss on your money, hold dollars.
It's a guaranteed loss, right, in purchasing power.
And especially since they can print more, as you say, bailing out cities perhaps one day.
But the other thing is they can try to force crypto to go through a centralized moderation hub like a SWIFT system.
But I think any crypto project that even agreed to do that would die.
Everybody would just sell and move to something that did not agree to do that.
And there's no way to force crypto into a system like that.
Even they can outlaw crypto, but they still can't stop it.
They can say it's illegal, but they can't actually force people to stop doing it.
Yeah, I would agree.
There's always a way.
There's always a way around these kinds of controls, these kinds of bottlenecks.
So I think people will find a way.
I do think that they will try to implement AI monitoring of the entire Internet, first and foremost, and specifically of any sort of banking transactions and digital currency transactions.
They're going to try.
That doesn't mean they'll succeed.
I'm just saying they're going to try to make it a lot harder for people to use anything other than CBDCs.
Yeah, I completely agree with you.
And I think they're already on track to do that with SEC charges against Binance and Coinbase and so on.
Okay.
Next question is, you already mentioned you're not certain that we're going to have normal elections in 2024.
Assuming we do have elections, it currently looks like Trump is going to get the nomination on the Republican side.
It's not very clear on the Democrat side who would emerge.
I mean, RFK Jr.
is kind of the fan favorite at the moment, but the Democrat establishment is desperately trying to silence and essentially politically de-platform RFK Jr., and so is the corporate media.
What do you make of Trump's chances on the Republican side and RFK's chances on the Democrat side?
And do you have any comments about either of these two candidates?
Assuming there is an election?
Yeah.
Well, obviously Trump will be the shoe-in for the Republican nomination.
I think that's pretty obvious.
I do actually like What DeSantis is doing in Florida, but I think a lot of people want DeSantis to stay in Florida and keep doing what he's doing and not, you know, move on and leave that space open in Florida.
So, yeah, if there is an election, if they're not going to, you know, if this indictment is not successful, it's hard to say where that's going.
But, yeah, Trump will be the shoe in and If that's the case, I would definitely predict that Biden would lose in 2024 if there was.
Even with any sort of potential election rigging, I think it would be a landslide against Biden.
And primarily because half the Democratic Party doesn't even want him to run again in 2024.
So I'm seeing a lot of disillusioned Democrats that Might not even go to the polls to vote.
But arguably, don't Democrats hate Trump more than they dislike Biden so they would want to go to the polls as an anti-Trump vote?
Because there's so much Trump derangement syndrome out there.
That's a motivating factor for a lot of people.
Possibly.
I never underestimate people's propensity for laziness, though.
Right.
If there's any reason for them to stay home and not vote, I think a lot of those people will stay home.
So that's my view on it.
Right, right.
In a lot of these cities where violent crime is so rampant, just going outside is becoming more and more dangerous.
But of course there will be organized cheating by the Democrats, just mailing out ballots by the millions, just anybody and everybody.
Oh, ballots over here, ballots over there, just fill them out, bring them by, stuff them in.
You know, boom, however many million we need.
You know, they'll do the same thing they did before.
They'll delay the election counting, find out how many votes they need to rig it, and then, oh, they'll magically come up with that number of votes, at least in Democrat-controlled cities, which includes cities in otherwise more red states, like Wisconsin or Michigan, for example, or Arizona, for that matter, or Nevada.
So if the Democrats control the counting, how does anybody like Trump ever have a shot?
Yeah, that's going to be an issue that a lot of people bring up as far as elections in general.
I would posit one theory, and it might be a far-fetched theory, but I would posit this theory that there is the possibility that powers that be may prefer to have Trump in 2024 because the country is on the verge of collapse.
If that's the case, then they would try to use that scenario to blame conservatives in general for that eventual collapse.
This is a juicy theory.
I think you may be onto something.
Let's explore this just a little bit.
So you're saying maybe if they do the big financial rug pull, they would want a conservative like Trump to be in office.
Or they could do it perhaps right after he wins and then do the rug pull and say that the collapse was due to America losing faith in the newly president-elect even before he's in office, right?
Something like that?
Sure.
What I was saying was, if I was the bad guy, if I was one of the globalists, or if I was a part of that group, that is what I would do.
That would be my plan, to create a scenario in which conservatives are blamed for the economic crisis that I created.
And have that in the history books for generations to come, that it was the conservatives, it was liberty-minded people, Those selfish constitutionalists that created the crisis and caused the collapse.
And that's why we need a world with no conservatives and a world with severe economic and political controls.
Yeah, exactly.
Especially since the media can control the narrative, they can push out any story they want.
And a lot of people will buy it, even if it makes no sense.
In the few minutes we have left here, though, Brandon, do you mind if I ask you a couple of more Questions about you because I'm genuinely curious.
You're such a skilled writer.
You're a very insightful analyst, great researcher.
How did you get to this point?
What's your background that led you to this?
I mean, I appreciate the kind words.
I'm just a guy trying to make a difference, really.
I'm doing what I can.
I got started back in 2006, right before the Ron Paul movement sort of took off.
And I think my timing was just good as far as starting a website and starting to get my articles out there.
Because by 2008, you know, I was being picked up by all kinds of different big sites, you know, Zero Hedge and Infowars.
And I don't know when you guys started picking me up, but it's been a while.
I know you guys have been publishing my articles.
So, yeah, I just hit it at the right time.
And one thing that I've stuck to is, you know, you have to have a regular work ethic.
You have to put in, you know, write at least one good article, if not two, every week and get it out there.
And consistency, sticking with it, consistency, not giving up.
You know, despite some of the ugliness that's going on in the world, you know, just sticking with it really helps.
And I think I've built an audience since then.
Oh, you have.
You have.
I'm going to press you a little bit to help answer my question a little bit more because it's clear from your writing that you have a background of knowledge.
You must have read a lot of books, Austrian economics or what have you.
Could you tell us what are some of the influences that led you to this knowledge base that you expressed through your writing?
Well...
Probably around the year 2000, 2001, I started doing a lot of study into organizations like World Bank and the IMF, and not so much from the, you know, what some people would call the conspiracy angle, but just to learn more about how those institutions function, because I don't think a lot of people, especially at that time, had Any knowledge of them.
There were these huge global institutions, you know, central banks included in that, that were, you know, they had incredible power over our lives, and you never heard about them.
The Federal Reserve was something that was spoken of almost As a sort of a tinfoil hat theory for a while.
I know.
I know.
How crazy was that?
During the early Ron Paul years, we're saying the central banks are a private banking cartel and you'd be called a conspiracy theorist.
Or Alex Jones would go to Davos and expose the globalist meetings and the corporate media would say, those meetings aren't happening.
There's no such thing as a corporate group.
It was crazy.
Or a globalist group in that case.
It is amazing to see It is amazing to see the growth in the liberty movement from, you know, around 2006, 2007 to today, how much bigger we've become and how influential and pervasive our information is in terms of, you know, influencing politics, influencing, you know, mass media.
Even the mass media, even Fox News is starting to Report more on this information.
I mean, I never would have guessed that, you know, 15 years ago that they would be reporting on central banks or, you know, the globalists in general.
So, you know, we're having a big influence and, you know, I'm happy to be at least a small part of that.
Well, I think you're a significant part of it, and your articles, your insight is greatly appreciated by millions of people around the world, so please keep doing what you're doing, and we'd like to also find a way to help spread the word and support you, so stay tuned after this.
I want to ask you a question personally, but any final thoughts before we wrap this up today?
Yeah, I think probably the biggest thing, the most helpful thing I think I could recommend to people out there who are worried about where the country is going, where the economy is going, I would recommend that people, you know, conservatives, libertarians, liberty-minded people start organizing and working together.
I know that a lot of us have a lot of differing views Especially on solutions to the problem, and we get into a lot of arguments and debates, and that's a good thing.
It's good that we're not a hive mind like the political left is, but we do need to organize a lot more, and we need to start working together a lot more towards some kind of solution to this situation.
Even if it's just organizing with friends and family, Or people in your church or your neighbors, anybody who's on the same page, start working together because things are going to get a lot uglier before they get better.
Yeah.
All right.
Well said.
Agree with you.
And thank you, Brandon, for taking the time to spend with us today.
And again, your work is greatly appreciated.
It's alt-market.us.
That's the website where you'll find Brandon's work.
Yep.
Yes, alt-market.us.
Right.
Got it.
I'm sure there's all kinds of mistakes that people have in typing that in, like without the dash,.com, us.com, whatever.
So we're showing it on screen, alt-market.us.
Keep it simple, folks.
All right.
Thank you, Brandon.
Please stand by.
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