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June 20, 2023 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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BBN, June 20, 2023 - TWELVE powerful things you can do NOW to survive famine, tyranny and nuclear wa
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All right.
Welcome to Bright Town Broadcast News for Tuesday, June 20th, 2023.
I'm Mike Adams.
Thank you for joining me.
Our special guest today with a video interview is Brandon Smith from alt-market.us.
It's a great conversation.
That'll be coming up later after the main topic of today.
Welcome to my show!
I don't think they'll succeed on everybody.
There will be survivors.
And in today's discussion, we're going to talk about how to be among those survivors.
Here it is.
12 things that you can do right now to be more resilient against collapse, famine, and tyranny.
And this isn't a list of 12 things to put in your preparedness closet.
It's like, oh, get food.
That's number one.
Get bullets.
That's number two.
Get band-aids.
That's number...
No.
Although it does mention food, but this is way more in depth than that.
These are strategies that go way beyond just stuff you should have.
This is about mindset.
This is about skills.
This is about shifting your paradigm.
This is about mobility, backup plans, all kinds of things.
So we're going to go through that list in a lot more detail here today.
That's the main thrust of this broadcast.
Now, but first, an interesting note about cryptocurrency.
You may know I'm launching a new show.
And it's about decentralization.
And on that show, we're going to have some, I think, really amazing guests.
Some of them are experts in various crypto projects.
Other guests are experts in decentralization of publishing or content or privacy protection or even decentralized food and farms and things like that.
It's going to be a great show.
I can't wait to get that launched.
It'll probably be...
Let's say a week and a half or so from when you're hearing this podcast.
Let's give it a week and a half, maybe two weeks, and we'll get the first episode published for you.
You'll love the new show.
But in preparing for the new show...
I've spent a couple of months doing a deep dive into various crypto projects and privacy coins in particular.
And I have multiple systems where I'm doing installing and testing wallets and crashing wallets and restoring wallets and setting up nodes, running nodes and setting up mining and running mining and trying to see...
What's easy to use?
What's difficult to use?
What has the best technology and so on?
And boy, have I received an education.
I'm going to share all this with you, all the findings on the new decentralization show.
But let me point out a couple of funny things here.
You know, one reason why I love gold and silver is because it can't crash like an operating system can crash or like an app can crash.
And I'm telling you, in every system I have tested, well, almost every system, I have run into problems and bugs and apps that don't work and glitches and things like that.
And one of the things that I often hear is, In the various communities about the projects I'm testing is they'll say, well, gosh, we've never heard that problem before.
Never heard of that.
Like, oh, you know, flagged an error.
Couldn't do the checksum on the blockchain.
It's like hit the cash limit of block size or something.
They're like, wow, we've never seen that before.
How did you produce that error?
And I'm just trying to use these things as, I think, a normal user, but, well, I guess hammering it a little bit, you know?
I mean, I think a normal user should be testing lots of different cases, like sending small amounts, sending large amounts, rebooting the system, what happens if you lose power in the middle of a transaction, and then you reboot, and so on.
And so I've discovered a lot of little glitches here and there, and it's glitches in everything.
It's a reminder that software always has glitches, you know?
And thank goodness that there are seed phrases where you can restore your entire wallet.
But that takes a lot of time.
For example, I've been installing Monero, which is the privacy coin.
I think it's the most popular privacy coin, Monero.
I've been installing it on a couple of systems, and man, it was like two days to sync the blockchain.
And then on one system...
I was also running something else that froze up the system.
Like the system just froze and I had to do a hard reboot, like pull the power and reboot it.
And when I rebooted it, Monero, it started to sync all over again.
From scratch.
So it was like, okay, two more days and now I'm still waiting on that.
You know, it's not a huge deal unless you're in a hurry.
But at least I know I can restore my Monero wallet using a seed phrase.
But, you know, four days to be able to get it up and running and to be able to send a transaction where I can pick up a silver coin and just hand it to somebody and it's done in five seconds.
Then again, you can't transmit gold and silver over the internet, can you?
Hence the need for digital money.
But it is funny to me.
I ran into glitches on everything.
And I was checking out a swap service.
I've been looking at all the swap services, the swap different types of crypto, because that's the best way to get into privacy coins.
And swap services fail sometimes.
You send out a swap, you know, an exchange, and then you wait 45 minutes or sometimes longer.
If you're sending Bitcoin, it can be hours.
Bitcoin is so slow right now.
It's crazy.
And then it'll come back, error, error, you know, and it's like email customer service.
I'm thinking, what happens if I don't email customer service?
Ah, you know, you just don't get your money back.
Oh, that doesn't sound great.
So I emailed customer service and they did.
They pushed it on through and it worked out fine.
There is a big difference between gold and silver, which are physical elements that you can rely on for sure.
They're not going to vanish.
You're not going to lose your password to your gold coin.
They don't need electricity to function.
It doesn't matter what operating system.
No one can hack your gold coin and steal it from you, right?
But in the world of electronic money, digital money, there are always challenges.
Always.
Now, again, the benefits can outweigh all that.
Amazing benefits, borderless, privacy.
You can take it with you in your mind if you memorize your seed phrase.
If you have to escape someplace, I've talked about this before, if you have to escape a tyrannical regime, Venezuela, the United States, Canada, whatever, and you need to take money with you, cryptocurrency is the way to do it.
Because you can keep it in your head, whereas you can't walk around with bags of gold and silver through the airport without maybe raising some eyebrows and getting it all confiscated and so on, maybe getting arrested.
But you can do that with crypto.
So advantages and disadvantages, but nothing's perfect.
There's no perfect money.
Everything has issues.
So our job is to understand the benefits, the strategies, the use cases, and the limitations of every kind of system of money.
Gold, silver, crypto, cash, fiat, bonds, I don't know, stocks, treasuries, whatever else, foreign currencies, you name it.
We need to understand the strengths and limitations of everything, and that's what I try to do.
And in this new upcoming show, by the way, we'll be talking about exactly that.
We'll talk about projects, we'll have people on to do interviews, and then we'll talk about the pros and the cons, the advantages and the disadvantages, to give you the information that you need to make your own informed decisions about the strategies that serve you best.
So that's what we're doing.
Alright.
Now, next topic I want to talk about is, oh my goodness, F-16s, military bases, nuclear weapons, and World War III. So, Over the weekend, actually, over the last few days, Putin came out and said essentially the following.
Now, I'm paraphrasing, obviously, because he said it in Russian.
Here's what he said.
He said, essentially, the West is going to deploy F-16s against Russian military forces in Ukraine.
And by the way, the reason that's happening is because the Ukrainian military forces are making no headway, essentially no real progress against the Russian defenses right now, especially in the southern region, the Donbass region there of the country, the southeastern region.
It's just not happening.
And so the West is going to start cranking up F-16s.
And these F-16s, oh my goodness, some of them are able to carry nuclear-armed missiles.
But the F-16s are very likely to be flown by NATO pilots, not Ukrainian pilots, because there aren't enough Ukrainian pilots to fly all the F-16s that NATO wants to introduce into this battle space.
So they're going to end up with NATO pilots and maybe American pilots, but more importantly, they're going to launch these F-16s from military bases, NATO bases, that are outside of Ukraine, most likely in Poland.
Now, this fact has become rather obvious to everyone, and Putin is commenting on this fact, saying, essentially, if NATO begins to launch F-16s that engage in combat with Russia, or air combat missions, or what have you, then Russia will consider those NATO bases to be legitimate wartime targets.
Which, I guess logically that makes sense.
I mean, war is war.
And although there are many so-called targets that are not considered legitimate targets by Russia because of, let's say, international condemnation, you know, even Russia doesn't want to appear like they're, I don't know, excessively, unnecessarily violent against civilians, things like that, right?
But if a military base in Poland begins launching F-16s and engaging combat missions against Russia, then Russia will attack...
That military base or any other base from which F-16s happen to be launched.
So you might think, oh, what about Germany?
What about Austria?
What about France?
What about...
What about the UK, although that's kind of far for such missions, but you get the idea.
Any other country around there then becomes a legitimate target.
Now, if Russia were to attack those military bases, what kind of weapon system would be the most likely to achieve whatever strategic damage might be the goal of that attack?
In other words, to wipe out the military base.
I mean, you need to take out a runway.
That's not such an easy thing to do.
I mean, yeah, you can use artillery.
You can make craters in the runway.
But to take out the infrastructure of an airport, technically, you would want to take out the air traffic control tower.
You would want to take out communications.
You want to take out the lighting so that there's no night lights for the pilots to land on.
Oh, good luck.
It's just dark.
You know, have at it.
That's no fun.
I'm recalling my night flight training in a Cessna when you have to double ping a certain frequency from your plane to broadcast on a certain frequency to get some of these small local airports to turn on their lights.
And you hope they come on, because if not, it's just dark down there.
Anyway, you can't land airplanes in the dark without a huge loss rate, it turns out, you know, hitting things.
So the kind of weapon that achieves this kind of damage, think about it, electronics, lighting systems, runways, buildings, air traffic control, what kind of weapon does that?
Nuclear weapons.
A nuclear weapon, even a small one, Which, let's say a Hiroshima-sized nuclear weapon is considered small by today's standards, and that was what, 16 kilotons?
And a 16 kiloton nuke over a military base?
It decimates the military base.
It's done.
It's out of the war.
In fact, it's out for the rest of, you know, lifetimes.
It's done.
You can't even rebuild it because of all the radiation and all the fallout.
It's just off limits for, you know, again, decades, generations, who knows how long.
So if Russia wants to take out military bases...
That's the way it could do it.
I'm not saying for sure that they're going to do it that way.
They could use smaller weapons.
Maybe they could do a hypersonic missile strike.
The Kinzhal could strike air traffic control tower or something like that.
But if they want to be sure, they're going to use nukes.
So you have to wonder then, does the West have anti-air defense systems that can stop incoming nuclear missiles from Russia?
And the answer is, well, if those nuclear missiles are more older, slower, conventional missiles that don't have evasive maneuvering and so on, then yes, there are anti-air defense systems that can stop those missiles, but not hypersonic missiles.
And so Russia's hypersonic missiles, by the way, can also carry nuclear warheads.
And they cannot be stopped by anything that the West has.
Now, I know that Western propaganda sources recently claimed over the last few weeks that Patriot missile systems took out hypersonic missiles from Russia.
In your dreams, they did, maybe.
In reality, they did not.
You notice how the West is fighting this war through propaganda and information and just trying to convince everybody of something that's completely unreal, like it's transgenderism or something?
Yeah, men can get pregnant and the Patriot missile system shot down hypersonic missiles.
No, no.
It's all imaginary.
In reality, there are no defenses against the Kinzhal hypersonic missile.
No defenses whatsoever.
So Russia can actually strike any target that they wish.
In Germany, in Poland, in France, anywhere within range.
And I don't know the exact range of some of those missiles, but you can look that up.
And plus they have the Iskander missiles and so on that are much longer range.
And then they have the Sarmat-2, the Satan missile system that has enough range to reach essentially any city on the planet.
So we are very, very close right now.
To Russia beginning to nuke military bases in Europe.
I want to ask you a question.
What do you suppose would happen if you wake up one morning and you turn on the news, whatever news source that you're watching or listening to, including this, and the news is, oh, military base in Poland, nuked by Russia.
All right, suppose that's the news.
What would be set into motion from that event?
And you can imagine, you know, bank panic in the U.S. Bank runs, people trying to get their money out.
Gold and silver skyrocketing.
You know, maybe gold goes up $500 in one day.
I don't know.
I mean, it's just a guess.
Who knows?
People freaking out, buying food like crazy, filling up gas, gas stations and diesel.
You can imagine that everybody would be hunkering down in another wave of orders for underground bunker shelters!
And everybody freaking out to buy iodine, right?
Because, oh my gosh, nuclear war is...
it has begun.
And then everybody wondering, will the West retaliate with more nuclear weapons against Russia?
And if so, then will Russia launch more nuclear weapons against U.S. cities?
You know, Washington, D.C., New York City, Houston, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, Seattle, whatever.
You name it.
Miami.
That's the reality that you need to plan for, because we're very close to that happening.
You need to plan for that.
And if you live in one of those cities that is an obvious target for Russia to strike with nuclear weapons, then, of course, you need to really listen to the second part of today's podcast, where we talk about the 12 things you can do right now to be more resilient.
And it's resiliency against collapse, famine, and tyranny, but it's also resiliency against nuclear war, by the way.
And then the societal chaos that goes along with that.
That's the other factor that I haven't mentioned until now.
People will lose their minds in this scenario.
You can imagine in certain cities just mass rampant looting, just the clearing out of every retail store.
People will just say, especially Democrats that live in these cities that are lawless, many of them will just say, this is it.
This is the end of the world.
I'm just going to go in and take what I need.
And they will.
They'll just go into every grocery store, every retailer, every electronics store, clothing, shoes, auto parts, everything.
They'll just start jacking cars from car dealers, whatever they need, tools, power tools, gun stores.
Right.
Right.
Ammunition supplies.
You name it, they're just going to mass loot everything in sight.
And so, remember over the weekend where there were rumors that there were U.S. troops or military assets being positioned in certain cities?
Like tanks rolling up the side of the highway, reportedly near Seattle, and soldiers being dropped out of Ospreys in California, certain areas like the Bay Area and so on.
I don't know if those rumors were ever confirmed, but let's say that that's happening.
It would certainly be understandable if you were anticipating nuclear war in Europe because that would set off the kind of chaos in American cities that would almost demand a military presence and martial law in order to make sure the cities aren't just completely burned down.
And this is why you do not want to be in the cities as this situation unfolds.
And it could unfold tomorrow.
Or it could be months away, or it could be never.
But we are so close to it right now.
We are as close as we ever were in the Cuban Missile Crisis, I believe.
We're right there.
And one wrong decision, or let's say one intentional decision by the Biden regime to set off a nuclear false flag, which seems to be the goal, could lead us into a spiral of global thermonuclear war That would lead to mass chaos and uprisings and just horrible scenarios domestically where you don't want to be anywhere near these cities because they will not be survivable.
By the way, I find it fascinating that there are so many people right now debating the vaccine issue.
And have you seen this dust up between RFK Jr.
and Peter Hotez, you know, the science clown?
The vaccine-pushing science clown who says that, oh, in science we don't do debates.
What?
What are you talking about?
He's just used to dictating everything.
Well, there's a big, I don't know, $2.6 million has been pledged right now just to see a debate between Hotez and RFK Jr.
Joe Rogan got in on the act and pledged $100,000.
I'll pledge a dollar because I'm so far beyond that debate.
It's kind of cute.
I don't know.
It's funny that there are still people who even need to hear a debate about To try to pick a side.
Like, which side is it?
Are vaccines good for me or are vaccines bad for me?
We knew years ago vaccines were killing you.
The mass slaughter via vaccines began in 2021, I suppose, here recently with the COVID vaccines.
And we're over two years later.
If you don't know that vaccines are killing people yet, you know, you're the clown.
And so this is why I don't spend time, by the way, talking about, oh, here's the latest evidence that vaccines are killing people.
Frankly, there's a lot of other well-qualified people who are covering the bases on that.
You know, Ed Dowd, for example, RFK Jr.
himself, and many others, you know, Steve Kirsch and Robert Malone and so many other experts that we've interviewed here as well.
Karen Kingsley, for example, you know, the research expert, Judy Mikevitz, and so on.
My point is, if you're not sure that vaccines are deadly and dangerous, then, you know, you're too late.
So I'm not wasting time with suicide mission people.
I'm focused on what is happening next.
Because I warned about the vaccines before they came out.
I knew they'd be killing people.
Here they are.
Now I'm warning about the next threat to humanity, which is, right now, global thermonuclear war and potentially the next bioweapon and engineered global famine and so on.
But this nuclear war scenario is becoming a high-risk scenario, and we need to be prepared against it.
So that's why I don't talk about...
The dangers of these deadly injections anymore.
I mean, I figure everybody in my audience already understands that.
And we don't need to spend time on that.
We gotta look at how to survive all the weaponization that the globalists are using to target humanity.
So with that said, let's get into this special report.
Oh, real quick.
We have a new, we're launching something new, which is a telehealth slash telemedicine service, a partnership with Global Tech MD. We test launched it, I don't know, in February, got a lot of feedback, made a lot of changes, improvements to the service and so on.
And it is launching right now.
You can go to naturalnews.com slash telehealth.
All one word, T-E-L-E-H-E-A-L-T-H. Naturalnews.com slash telehealth.
And for a few bucks a month, you can call up a doctor at any time through telemedicine.
And these are licensed doctors so they can cover prescriptions, which before COVID I would not have been interested in.
And now, I mean, think about where prescriptions can be useful in your survival strategy.
Ivermectin.
Right?
Antibiotics, if you have a bacterial infection.
Hydroxychloroquine, other things like that.
And there are many situations in which those prescriptions can be used as emergency interventions, especially in an off-grid emergency medicine type of situation.
But You can also call these doctors for all kinds of things.
You have something in your eye, you have strep throat, you have nausea, you think you've got food poisoning, you have a minor injury, you have a skin condition, something's hurting, I don't know.
Lots of ways that you can use this service.
So check it out, naturalnews.com slash telehealth.
And there's also a steep discount on the first month on that service.
But I'll talk more about that later.
So here's a special report, 12 Things You Can Do Right Now to Be More Resilient Against Collapse, Famine, and Tyranny.
I may add nuclear war to that title, by the way, since that's one of the main things that we are talking about.
Welcome to the special report, 12 Things You Can Do Right Now to Be More Resilient Against Collapse, Famine, and Tyranny.
And I think I'm going to add nuclear war to that title, by the way.
These are really practical things, sometimes paradigm-shifting things that you need to know and I think you need to consider.
So let's just jump into the list.
So number one, get your assets, or at least some portion of your assets, out of the fiat currency debt-based monetary slave system.
Which means, you know, because that system's going down.
One way or another, it's all rooted in debt anyway, so it'll have no value long-term.
You need to, in my view, become proficient in alternative systems of economics and stores of value.
So you need to know about gold and silver and crypto.
So gold and silver, physical money, crypto, digital money.
All these systems of money are not easily controlled by the governments of the world.
They can't automatically create more gold or silver and they can't create...
More Bitcoin, for example.
They can't just flood the money supply of Bitcoin or Monero or whatever.
So we've got to become proficient in these things and you need to have a backup supply of assets in case the banking system craters or there's a bail-in, a bank freeze, which I do believe is coming.
So that's number one.
Just keep this in mind.
I would imagine you're already doing some of this because, you know, all smart people are to some degree, but just give yourself a reminder to get more up to speed.
A lot of my audience is well prepared in terms of gold and silver, but not necessarily crypto.
And they don't know where to begin or what to do, or it seems too technical.
Well, hey, have no fear, folks, because I'm launching a new show today.
It's about decentralized living and it's going to give you a lot of how-tos on this and simple things and assessments and just some of the best projects that are out there and easy ways to harness that technology for your own asset protection should you choose to do so.
And I'm doing a lot of testing.
I'm breaking a lot of systems and finding out what's more resilient and so on.
I'll be bringing you that in the new show, which airs...
Let's see.
The last...
Yeah, the last week of...
Yeah, towards the end of the last week of June here.
So coming up.
All right.
That's number one.
Second point here of 12 things you can do.
And you've heard this before.
This is not a new one.
But seriously, relocate if you're near...
The death zone cities.
If you're in the cities, and I know not everybody can move, some people have to be there for certain reasons, sometimes family reasons, but if you can move, this is the time, this is the last window of opportunity probably to do it.
And critically, move to an area that reflects the culture and the rule of law that you wish to live within.
So if you want to live in an area of highly resilient, self-reliant people, you know, that's great.
Pick an area like that, which would be a red county in a red state, probably an agricultural community, by the way, and move there.
Or if you want to live in an area of lawless lunatics that burn everything down, then no problem.
You know, Oakland or whatever.
Portland, Seattle, it's easy to find those places.
But pick a spot that reflects the values that you want to live under because you're going to be stuck there pretty soon, probably.
We're all going to be stuck wherever we are because things are about to get really, really local.
As systems collapse, they will tend to go more local.
So as centralized food production collapses, you'll be more reliant on local food.
You know, barter, gardening, CSAs, you know, farmers markets and so on.
As the banking system craters, you'll be more reliant on local money.
Gold and silver and crypto and trade and barter and seeds and bullets and whatever.
And so on.
As, you know, the federal government collapses, you're going to have more local government, local first responders, local police, local law enforcement will become far more prominent in your life.
So pick an area where you get along with the local philosophies.
Because you're going to have to live under those.
Okay, number three.
You may not have thought of this one, but keep your passport up to date in case you need to leave the country.
What if America is turned into a war zone and your property is overrun and destroyed and you decide, I mean, it could happen, you decide that you're going to have to be a war refugee fleeing America.
Where would you go?
How would you even be able to do that?
Well, you're going to need a passport.
And by the way, if you try to get a passport right now, the wait time is six months or something.
It's crazy.
So, I recently renewed my passport for this very purpose.
I have it right here.
And it took a long time to get it.
And I don't plan to go anywhere, because my country is Texas, by the way.
I'm not leaving Texas.
We're going to hold the line.
Even if it's the Alamo, I don't care.
Texas is Texas.
But you might be somewhere where you have to flee.
So have your passport.
And more importantly, and this gets into the whole crypto conversation, make sure you have a crypto wallet with some digital money in it and that you have memorized the seed phrase of the wallet so that you can restore that wallet at your destination.
So in essence, you can carry your wealth in your mind.
And I will discuss this more in the upcoming show episodes about decentralization.
But remember, to take crypto with you, you only need to know your seed phrase, which is not your password.
It's different.
We'll talk about that in more detail.
But you can download various wallets.
Exodus wallet, Cake wallet, Stack wallet.
There's certain wallets you don't want to use because one of them just got hacked.
But those three I just mentioned I think are well accepted or the Monero wallet, which takes forever to sync, but whatever.
You can download these wallets.
You can put digital assets into those wallets.
You can memorize the seed phrase.
And then you can literally burn that computer if you care to.
As long as you have the seed phrase, you can restore that wallet at your destination.
And that is going to be critical.
And that's something that really matters.
All right.
Now, the other thing that you need to do, by the way, and again, I'll cover this more in the upcoming show, is you need to get into privacy coins.
Not just Bitcoin, because Bitcoin is fully traceable, and Bitcoin is also really, really slow.
Now, Bitcoin has its place.
Don't get me wrong.
I'm not anti-Bitcoin.
Not in the least.
Bitcoin is the most recognized cryptocurrency in the world.
It's going to be around for a long time.
I don't think Bitcoin's going anywhere.
I mean, I don't think it's going away, I should say.
I think it's going to be around even...
I think Bitcoin will outlast the dollar, for sure.
In fact, I have no doubt that that will be the case.
The dollar will collapse, and the yen and the euro will collapse, and Bitcoin will still be here.
Bitcoin will be around for a century, maybe more, who knows?
But you need to get your money into privacy coins so that no one knows how much you have or what you're doing with it.
And so you need to swap Bitcoin into privacy currencies, which...
It could include Monero or it could be Firo or there's a bunch of other privacy currencies.
And this is one of the emphasis points of my upcoming show is about privacy currencies.
So we're actually inviting pioneers of many of these projects to come on the show and talk about privacy.
One guest is going to talk about how to make Bitcoin more private, which I've tried and it's very difficult.
But there are privacy-oriented coins that That are automatically private and can never be traced.
And so that's something to look into.
I will bring you more information about that in the weeks ahead.
But in the meantime, if you get into Bitcoin, you can then hold on to that Bitcoin.
You can always swap it for the privacy coins by using online swap services.
So one of those, which I'll just mention...
They're not a sponsor and I can't vouch for everything that they do, but it's called Swapspace.co.
Swapspace, just like it sounds, Swapspace.co.
And you can go there and you can say, I want to swap my Bitcoin for Monero or Litecoin or whatever.
And you click on View Offers and it shows you all these different services.
Swapspace is a swap aggregator.
And then it sends out your swap to whatever service you choose, like SimpleSwap or Changely or whatever.
And you can choose which service you want to use and then it swaps your coins.
If you don't know how to do this, don't worry.
I'm going to teach you this.
I'll give you a show and tell on the show.
So you will see how this works.
It's no problem.
It's really easy, by the way.
But you need to know how to get...
How to get money into privacy coins so that if you have to flee, if you're a refugee from war or collapse or whatever, that your money is private and no one can take it from you.
That is absolutely critical.
So that's point number three.
All right, point number four.
Again, there's 12 things you can do right now to be more resilient.
Point number four is to become more proficient in secure private messaging technology and also crypto and also encrypted file storage.
So let me give you a few things right now, practical things that you can do.
There's an app called Session.
Session, just like it sounds, it is a messaging app.
And it is very much, it's very private.
And it is encrypted.
And it is very smart.
And it was built on something called the Oxen Network, which is its own ecosystem and its own coin and its own service nodes and whatever.
But learn how to use Session.
A lot of people use Signal, which is kind of a starting point for that, and that's fine, but Session is probably the next step of much better privacy compared to Signal.
So that's one thing.
Learn how to use that.
Learn how to use crypto.
Again, I'll walk you through that in the show, show you how to download wallets and use wallets and do swaps and things like that.
Learn how to encrypt your local files.
Now, there are a couple of ways to do this.
There's an encryption program called Veracrypt, V-E-R-A-C-R-Y-P-T, and it's an open source project, I think, out of France.
Veracrypt is excellent for encrypting entire hard drives or your boot system.
So you boot up your computer and it can boot to Veracrypt and it can ask you what's your super-duper complex password in order to boot the OS. And if you don't type in the password, then...
Your whole hard drive stays encrypted and no one can read anything off of it.
So even if somebody comes in and steals your computer, steals your hard drive, confiscates it, they try to scan it, it's just going to be encrypted garbage.
You know, unless you type in the decryption password.
So Veracrypt is good for that.
And then there's a company that makes hardware.
The company is called Apricorn, A-P-R-I-C-O-R-N, Apricorn, and they make hard drives and thumb drives that are encrypted.
These are used by government people, State Department people, military intelligence people, and so on.
Apricorn thumb drives, they have a little keypad on them, like a little tiny, you know, digits, zero through nine, obviously, and you have to enter the code for the thumb drive to decrypt itself.
You can put one of these in your pocket.
You can carry around your Monero wallet, your Bitcoin wallet, your super secret password list or whatever, and it's all encrypted.
If you lose the thumb drive, nobody can get anything on it without typing in your multi-digit password, which can be up to 12 digits, by the way.
So that's pretty darn secure.
Just don't use, you know, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 as your password, and you'll be okay.
Now, Apricorn, I don't know anything about the company, Apricorn, and there have been, and I'm not accusing them of anything, by the way, but there have been companies in the past that were set up For example, there was one company that sold a lot of hardware for secure real-time communications between embassies.
And that company was actually a front for the CIA. And so for many years, the CIA was listening in real time to all of the conversations between embassies of foreign powers.
Because they bought the hardware and the hardware had a back door and the CIA was listening.
Now, is it possible that the Apricorn company, let's say, just theoretically, again, I'm not accusing them of anything, but is it possible that there's a CIA backdoor built into every hard drive?
Yeah, sure, that's possible.
Absolutely, it's possible.
Is it possible that the Session app has a backdoor?
Highly unlikely, but yeah, theoretically possible.
I doubt it, but could be.
Is it possible that Signal has a backdoor to the CIA? Yeah, sure.
That's possible because it goes through Signal servers.
So there is a central point of being able to intercept the messaging, whereas Session uses peer-to-peer distribution, so a lot less likely to be centrally controlled.
But the point is, well, two points.
Number one, you should layer your security and never trust one company or one system.
For example...
Let's say you have a file of all your passwords, and it's a text file, and you're storing that on your Apricorn thumb drive, which itself is encrypted.
But let's say that you suspect the CIA has a backdoor into Apricorn, and maybe they could read your files if they wanted to.
You know, if they got a hold of your thumb drive, right?
I mean, they can't just read it magically through the air.
But suppose they snuck into your house and got your thumb drive.
You could also use something like Veracrypt to make an encrypted container or an encrypted file that stores your passwords on the Apricorn thumb drive.
So you have an encrypted container on an encrypted drive, which means your data is double encrypted.
So you're not trusting one company with everything.
You're actually...
Someone would have to penetrate two different encryption systems in order to get to your passwords.
So layer your security in this manner because, remember, you're going to be living in a very dangerous world.
Well, you already are.
And governments are going to come for your assets.
They're going to try to confiscate money.
They're going to probably try to confiscate people's Bitcoin maybe at some point, I would imagine.
They're going to try to take your guns, your ammo.
They're going to take everything from you.
This is a Marxist revolution that is underway right now.
And they don't want you to own anything.
Remember, you will own nothing and be happy.
Well, you'll own nothing and you'll be dead.
They'll try to get everything from you, so you need to use encryption.
You need to use the power of asymmetrical mathematics to protect that which is yours.
The second point in all of this is, just in case you're concerned that some of your files might be found out or decrypted one day or something, the second point is, don't be doing crazy illegal things anyway.
You know, when I advocate for encryption or digital money, it is in the context of being lawful and ethical.
I believe in operating in a lawful and ethical way, moral ways, right?
So I don't engage in crazy schemes, you know, I don't know, black market sales of grenades or whatever.
I I'm not into that.
I sell food.
I sell really clean, lab-tested, certified organic food and supplements.
That's my business.
I don't need to go onto super dark web, Silk Road, whatever.
You want to buy a rocket launcher?
No, that's not what I'm into.
If you're into that...
You're running a high risk of probably getting killed anyway.
And just from dealing with whoever you deal with, and probably encryption is the least of your problems at that point.
So I don't know.
But for the average user listening to this, you're not doing anything illegal.
You just want to protect your assets that you already earned legally.
You paid taxes on it.
You're not a tax evader.
You're not a criminal.
You're not a money smuggler, launderer like the Biden crime family.
You're actually a law-abiding citizen, but you have the right to privacy as well.
And so use these tools to protect your natural right to privacy.
But I'm not advocating any kind of, of course, criminal activity.
But then again, as governments go rogue, they tend to criminalize normal activity, right?
Criminalize speech that is pro-Christian speech.
Well, if they say that you're a criminal for preaching the Word of God, then, you know, guess what?
At that point, the government has become the criminal, not you.
And so as much as I say be a law-abiding citizen, there is a higher law than corrupt government law, by the way.
There's God's law.
And I answer ultimately to God's law above government law.
So if government comes along and, let's say, declares that all firearms are illegal in the hands of civilians, you know, and it makes felons out of 100-plus million Americans overnight, which they can...
I mean, the ATF already did that with the arm brace rule.
Am I going to melt down my arm braces or just run to the ATF office and hand over all these guns with arm braces?
No.
I just removed the arm braces.
That's what I did.
But I'm not going to hand all this stuff over to the government.
I mean, they're the ones violating the law.
So just keep that in mind.
But be ethical, be moral, be honest, be law-abiding, be a good citizen.
But sometimes, as governments go rogue, being a good citizen means protecting yourself from those tyrannical regimes.
And I think we're in that place right now.
Alright, point number five.
Wow, we've only covered four points so far.
Eight more to go, folks.
Point number five.
Practice dressing down.
In the collapse that we're about to go through, you do not want to appear as a wealthy person.
You don't want to have fancy clothes, a fancy car, a fancy house, and fancy jewelry, whatever.
You need to fit in.
Gray man.
You don't want to be flashing expensive watches, jewelry, or cash, or gold coins.
You want to be on the down low.
You want to fit in.
Your clothes need to be practical clothes.
You're not going out on a night on the town for a fashion red carpet event.
You're just trying to survive like everybody else.
That's the way you need to fit in.
If you stand out as somebody that looks like you might have a lot of wealth, a lot of assets, you're gonna make yourself a target.
Not a good strategy.
So dress down, fit in, If some of you, if you don't have real world clothes, by the way, I think most of you do.
But like, you know, I live on a ranch, so every day is ranch day for me.
It's like every day there's dirt on my knees, you know, from dealing with goats and whatever.
But if you don't have any clothes like that, just go to a secondhand store and buy some.
Seriously.
There's no shame in that.
Just go there, shop around, get yourself some slightly worn clothes, and maybe even a size or two too big for you, so they're a little bit baggy, because a lot of people are going to look like they're wearing baggy clothes because they're losing weight because of the rationing and starvation, and you don't want to look like the only person who's well-fed, so buy clothing a couple of sizes, too large, like baggy old clothes, so you look like a bag lady, or a bag man, I guess.
It's like halfway homeless person is what you're going for.
Not totally homeless person, but on the spectrum.
You don't want to stand out as wealthy.
You want to look like somebody who's practical but poor.
Practical but poor.
You know how to do stuff, you just don't have a lot of money, which frankly does describe a lot of people right now today anyway.
There's no shame in that.
I'd rather be a person who knows how to do stuff than to be a clueless person with a lot of money in the bank because that money is going to zero anyway.
All right.
And skills are forever, right?
Skills are forever, so keep learning.
All right, number six.
This is about food.
I won't spend much time on this because you already know this, but of course, store some food and learn to grow food so that you can be ready for the coming food rationing.
And make sure that you know how to grow food in a way that's more covert.
You don't want to be announcing to everybody in the neighborhood, I've got gardens here, gardens everywhere, front yard gardens, backyard gardens, rooftop gardens.
No.
You want to grow covertly because you don't want everybody raiding your garden.
There's a lot of food theft that has already begun in America.
People stealing from farms and orchards, by the way.
And that's going to increase a lot.
And then also in terms of food or in addition to food, make sure you stock up on supplements, vitamin D and zinc and whatever else that you are going to need, even emergency essential oils.
I think you've got to have all kinds of essential oils.
You've got to have tea tree oil.
You've got to have peppermint oil.
You've got to have frankincense oil.
You've got to have oregano for sure for food poisoning and spider bites and whatever.
You know, the other day when my dog got bit by a snake, a poisonous snake, I told you this story, and her foot swelled up, and the swelling went up to her knee and up to her hip, and I just drenched oregano oil on the bite, which I know was painful for her.
She didn't like that.
But oregano oil helps denature spider venom and snake venom, by the way.
It actually destroys the venom peptides, and so does chlorine dioxide.
So I put chlorine dioxide in her water, And had her drink that water, and I put this on, and I'm telling you, in 12 hours, the swelling was down by a lot.
I mean, maybe it was down to only one-third of what it was 12 hours earlier, and by the next day, it was gone.
It was gone.
It was the fastest snake bite cure that I've ever seen.
And I've seen a lot of snake bites because I live on a ranch with a lot of animals, especially dogs.
They get bit by snakes with some frequency.
Venomous snakes all running around.
Okay, point number seven is to learn a means of self-defense and become proficient in it.
And frankly, the easiest way to do this is to become proficient in a firearm.
And the easiest firearm to gain proficiency in is a rifle.
It is far easier than a pistol.
So, now, a pistol's easier to carry, but a pistol's much harder to operate accurately.
You need a lot more hours of training and practice in order to hit anything.
Whereas a rifle, you can be trained often in, you know, an hour, and you have some level of competency in it.
A pistol, not so much.
Takes a lot more.
But you should know both, frankly.
You should know how to use a rifle.
You should know how to use a pistol.
And if you want to go from there and become proficient in, you know, jiu-jitsu or martial arts or Krav Maga, like I studied years ago, or you want to do edge weapons and knives and stuff like that, that's great, but...
Your firearm should be your first choice for rapid adoption of self-defense methods.
Now, why would you need this?
Well, because, of course, you know, dial 911 and kiss your ass goodbye.
I mean, 911's not going to be responding.
They're going to be overrun with who knows what kind of chaos is happening all over the place.
You're going to have to deal with situations yourself.
You know, in the neighborhood, in the suburbs, maybe in your house, on your farm, you're going to have to be proficient, competent.
You better have your rifle sighted in.
You better have, you know, the right kind of ammo.
You need to have proficiency.
You got to have a backup firearm.
It needs to be lubricated.
You know, what about your red dot sight, your optics?
How recently have you changed the batteries?
Do you know how to clear GMs?
You know, do you know how to disassemble your pistol?
Surprisingly, a lot of people don't.
It's crazy.
Because they're so easy to disassemble.
Do you know how to disassemble a rifle or at least just open up an AR-15, take the bolt carrier group out of there, clean that BCG? Some people don't know.
I've never had it open before.
Amazing.
So do all that and then consider ballistic armor.
It's legal most places across America and it could save your life.
And the company that I know that's the best maker of ballistic armor in America, that's American designed, is Hoplite Armor, H-O-P-L-I-T-E, hoplitearmor.com.
They have been a sponsor before.
If you use discount code Ranger, they give you 10, I think it's 10% off.
Hoplite, H-O-P-L-I-T, hoplitearmor.com.
Yeah, get them while you still can.
You know, while money works.
Because that's not going to last forever.
Alright, point number eight.
This is kind of the bug out point here, but really I say be prepared to be overrun.
Wherever you are, be prepared that there's going to be a crazed mob of lunatics, zombies, i.e., or Marxists, or who knows who, is going to overrun your position.
And they're going to sweep through your neighborhood or your city or your house or your ranch and you might not be able to defend it.
You might have to retreat.
Be prepared to be overrun, which means you need to have supplies staged at another location.
All the basics that you need, water filter, water supply, communications, your crypto wallet on your encrypted drive, and so on and so forth.
Now, some of you, I know, because I know some of you who you are, you have a plan to go to your secondary location...
And then to wait till it gets dark and to slap on your night vision optics and your night vision long range rifle.
And then you're going to take out the people that overran your position.
You're just going to shoot them all at night.
Okay.
Good for you.
That's awesome.
That's a great plan.
But not everybody is capable of that.
It takes a certain amount of practice.
A certain amount of equipment.
But hey, if that's your plan to retake your place because a bunch of criminals and lunatics overran your place and now they're looting your living room, yeah, take them out, man.
Wait till dark.
Take them out.
They probably don't have night vision.
So that is actually a very good tactical plan in certain situations.
I just can't recommend that everybody pursue that.
It's more suited for people who...
Who have done that kind of thing maybe before in the military special forces, you know, police SWAT team members, people like that that have, you know, special skills, as they say.
So is that you?
If so, it's a good plan.
And the truth is most people don't know how to fight at night with any kind of firearm.
They just don't know it.
Most people practice firearms in the day.
You can see everything.
Totally different ballgame at night, by the way.
And nobody knows where the rounds even came from, it turns out.
And it's like, oh my gosh, they're incoming rounds.
Who's shooting, you know?
Another reason to have a suppressor.
So you don't have a big flash signature.
When you're taking back your own overrun farmhouse or whatever, it could be a whole community doing this, right?
It could be a bunch of sheriffs, deputies, police SWAT members that maybe the police station got overrun and then they're trying to take it back.
And they probably can, you know?
They probably can.
They've got their Remington 700 sniper rifle bolt action all set up.
Just sit back at about 400-500 yards and start letting loose.
It's never a good idea to piss off SWAT snipers, by the way.
Try to at least treat them with kindness, because the alternative is not good.
I pity the zombies that try to take over the SWAT stations or the homes of SWAT snipers.
Good luck.
Good luck.
Okay, point number nine.
Secure your private water supply.
This is critical and it's easy to overlook because you think, oh, there's always going to be water in the tap.
It's magical.
This pressure just comes out every time.
Every time you turn it on, water comes out.
Well, not in a collapse, not when the power grid goes down.
There will be nothing.
Coming out.
So you need to have your own water supply in place, obviously.
Lots of options.
Well water, hand pump, surface water, but you've got to filter it.
That's a readily available option.
You can use some high-quality gravity filters, and you can take some pond water or stream water, and you can make it drinkable.
You can boil water.
You can also collect rainwater and then treat it from there.
That's a good option as well.
So, you know, lots of different ways.
But you can store water too, but it's difficult.
And you need a lot of water on a daily basis.
So it's hard to store enough water.
But you need to have water filters.
And in addition to the gravity filters that I recently tested for their ability to remove cesium ions, by the way, you need a portable filter that is rugged.
That has a pump on it so you can just drop one end into some water and you can pump it and you can get filtered water that way.
There are some cheap filters like $20 filters on Amazon that I wouldn't trust and then there are like $350 filters like Katadyn filters that are rugged stainless steel ceramic filters.
Those are the ones that I would bet my life on, frankly.
I'm not betting my life on a $20 plastic filter from Amazon.
Number 10, stock up on emergency medical supplies and first aid items.
Now I know this kind of seems obvious and I didn't want to make this a list about like stuff that you should just stock up on.
But I was reminded of this recently because of injuries and some first aid items and also my dog getting sliced open and things like that.
And remember I had to super glue him back together.
He's all cool.
He's good now.
But I've undergone a lot of interesting scenarios in the last couple of months involving bleeding and skin repair and emergency first aid type of things.
And I was shocked that I did not even have the right type of bandages that were necessary.
I had bandages.
I had gauze, just like generic gauze.
I didn't have the right size bandages for the right applications.
I didn't have all the different stuff that I needed.
I didn't have...
I didn't have all the things I needed.
I didn't have the right kind of skin salve to keep the edges of the skin moist so that there's less scarring.
If you're healing up, let's say, a laceration, if the edges of that laceration, if they get really dry and crusty, Those skin cells are dead and they're not going to come back together and join up.
You've got to keep your skin kind of moist and alive and there's a lot of things that you can use for that while the wound healing is taking place.
So I ended up buying a lot of supplies myself in the last couple of months that you might think it's overkill, but I realized that, number one, most of these supplies last for years.
So they don't have much of a shelf life.
Sterile bandages, gauze, tape, lots of different things.
Antiseptics, povidone, iodine, different kinds of things for emergency first aid.
Disposable scalpels, for example.
Magnifying glasses that you can wear on your head so you can see wound care more closely.
All kinds of things.
I ended up buying a lot of things and I surprised myself in doing that because I thought I was more prepared than I was.
So take a look at your own medical supplies and ask yourself, can you handle gunshots?
Can you handle lacerations?
Can you handle bone breaks, dislocated joints, cuts, animal problems?
Can you handle if one of your animals gets cut or shot or has a snake bite?
All these kinds of things.
So stocking up on medical supplies is always a good idea.
Okay, point number 11 is to maintain your physical fitness.
It's so easy to forget about this and focus on preparedness items.
But to the extent that you can...
And I know that everybody's got an injury, it seems, right now.
And I get that.
And I do, too.
I'm still healing up.
But exercise what you can in the way that you can.
If you have a leg injury, maybe you can do chair exercises.
You know, you can do, like, push-ups in a chair.
You can do, you know, arm exercises, shoulder exercises.
You can get some light...
Dumbbells and you can do shoulder lifts and things like that.
You can keep yourself fit in your upper body.
If you have an arm injury, maybe you can do cardio with your legs.
Maybe you can walk, jog, run.
Maybe you can swim.
Maybe you can do sit-ups.
Maybe you can do push-ups or partial push-ups.
Whatever you can do.
You don't have to be Superman here or Superwoman, but just maintain as much cardio and strength as you can in this process so that you are ready for the harsh physical reality of what's coming.
It's going to be hard work.
You're going to need bone density.
You're going to need core strength.
You're Exercise what you can, when you can, how you can.
You don't have to be in perfect shape in order to do exercise.
Even if you're wounded, injured, recovering, even if you're weak, fragile, whatever, you can always improve your condition with some exercise.
And if you want to improve bone density, by the way, there is a product out there.
It's the Juvent, J-U-V-E-N-T, I think that's just at Juvent.com This is that micro-impact plate that gives you Well, I guess it's a steady, you stand on it.
It's not just a vibration plate.
It's micro impacts that are very, very small, but they surge through your skeletal system.
And this will increase your bone density.
And all you have to do is stand on it.
Now, yes, it's expensive.
This is not a cheap item, but I use it every day.
And I have for years, ever since I found out about the Juvent.
I've used it every day, nearly every single day.
I use it this morning.
The first thing I do when I wake up is I stand on the juvent plate for like 10 minutes and I run it and it just boosts circulation, just kind of gets me out of bed and going.
It's a great device.
Now, if you can't afford the Juvent, because again, it's not cheap, well, what else can you do?
Lots of things, right?
You can have a rebounder.
You can just walking.
You can do stair-stepping.
Just anything that moves your body and uses your joints will increase bone density, strength, stamina.
Get your heart rate up in a healthy, safe way, obviously.
But improve your physical fitness.
Just improve it.
You don't have to.
You know, compete.
You're not going to go into a marathon.
You're not an Olympic athlete.
I'm not either.
But we can all improve our situation incrementally, and this is a smart thing for us to do.
Okay.
Point number 12.
Last point on this list for today.
Point number 12 is to, and this is a hard one, practice living without electricity.
Why?
Because there are going to be times where you have no electricity.
And it's going to suck.
It's going to be horrible.
But the only way to find out how to deal with it is to, frankly, turn off the juice, flip off the circuit breakers maybe to your house, if you know where that breaker box is, and then just figure out how to live.
I mean, take all precautions necessary before you do that.
Like if you have an aquarium of fish, you don't want them to suffer and die, but you understand what I'm saying.
Learn how to live without electricity.
For food, shelter, water, heating or cooling as necessary.
How do you even cook food?
How do you carry out communications?
How do you charge your phone?
So you need a little solar charger.
You need a solar generator.
A power supply.
So do you have that set up?
Do you know how to use it?
Do you know how to charge devices off of that?
So you can charge your mobile phone or you can charge a laptop or you can charge...
Maybe you have a satellite phone.
You can charge your sat phone on that.
Do you know how to use your sat phone, by the way?
Have you used it recently?
So, practice living without electricity, which means you're going to have to get real familiar with headlight LEDs.
Or flashlights?
And what kind of batteries do the flashlights take?
Are they rechargeable?
I like the 18650 batteries.
I try to standardize on those.
But if you don't have that, then what do you have?
Double A's?
Do you have enough double A's?
How many do you have?
Or, God forbid, AAA battery flashlights, which are the worst.
I do not own for long any AAA battery flashlights.
If somebody gives me a flashlight and takes AAAs, I give it away.
Give it to somebody else.
I hate these things.
I hate those batteries.
18650 is the way to go.
And they last a long time, so that's what I use.
But you're going to need to get familiar with how to operate at night.
Do you have a night vision device?
How are you going to secure your place?
How are you going to watch the perimeter if there's an attack going on?
How are you going to cook food?
How are you going to get water to flush the toilet?
And if you flush the toilet, where does it go?
If you're living on a septic system, it's probably fine, but if you're living in a city, what if the sewage system backs up?
Then what happens?
Oh my!
It's bio-sludge for everyone.
So think about all these things.
What about refrigeration?
Do you have food that has a long shelf life without requiring refrigeration?
That would be handy.
Do you have local radios where you can talk to neighbors or family members or whatever?
Your neighborhood patrol group?
You know, you're gonna need radios.
You're gonna need a way to charge those radios.
Learn to live without electricity.
Now, of course, I've got a free downloadable audiobook on this topic.
It's called Resilient Prepping.
And you can download it at resilientprepping.com.
And when you download the PDF, there's a really great reference chart in that PDF. In fact, you should go there just to get the PDF and get the reference chart because the reference chart tells you solutions that I call high-tech, low-tech, and no-tech, which would mean no electricity, for all the areas of your life that are important, security, communications, food, shelter, water, emergency medicine, and so on and so forth, self-defense, you name it.
So there's a high-tech solution for everything.
Sure there is.
Yeah, there's a high-tech, you know, amazing Wi-Fi camera system with artificial intelligence software alert, whatever, blah, blah, blah.
And that's going to be useless because there won't be electricity.
And then there's a low-tech solution for everything as well, which in my mind, low-tech means that we still have combustion engines working.
So low-tech ways, you could have a generator, for example.
That's low-tech.
A generator doesn't require software.
And then there's a no-tech solution, which means you don't have any electricity, you don't have any fuel, nothing.
You're collapsed to a 19th century existence.
So how do you live that way?
Well, guess what?
Your ancestors did it.
They figured it out.
It wasn't awesome.
It was very inconvenient and kind of smelly, kind of dirty and smelly.
People didn't bathe very often, but they made it through.
And somehow, they kept your parents and grandparents alive so that you're here too.
So they made it through.
There's a way to do it.
How do they do it?
Well, that's what I talk about in the book.
So download it for free, resilientprepping.com, and have fun with that because it's like eight or nine hours of me talking about way more details of what this podcast is about.
Yeah, I know.
It's hard to imagine anybody making it all the way through that, but some people have, reportedly.
All right, so there you go.
Those are 12 things.
Obviously, there are a hundred more things that you could do, but these 12 things, I think, are really critical.
These are pillars of preparedness and privacy and resilience.
Remember that the term resilience, it doesn't mean that you're bulletproof.
It means that you can come back from attacks.
You know how to adapt and recover, which means you have to be flexible.
So yeah, maybe your house gets overrun.
Maybe your neighborhood is overrun.
Well, if you're resilient, you have another way to still survive and not die, and maybe one day come back and reclaim your house.
That's resilience.
Maybe your bank account gets wiped out, but boom, you've got privacy crypto on your super-secret thumb drive with your encrypted hardware keypad and this and that, and you've memorized the seed phrase.
Boom!
Shazam!
You type it in, you've got your digital money back.
That's resilience!
Or, you know, I could give more examples of this, but you get the idea.
You know, your government collapses, your country collapses, your city collapses, but Shazam!
You've got your chest rig with your spare magazines and your ballistic vest and your AR-15 with your helmet with your night vision on it.
Like, you're totally geared up.
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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.
And, I mean, 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 good point.
And now 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 people can see it.
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.
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, you know, orders from on high.
There are certain groups that have, I think, bought and paid for leadership, and the leadership will spread certain, you know, 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.
So it's not a valid argument, and it doesn't change the fact that no one should be exposing children to this kind of information at that age.
Yeah, 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...
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.
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 L.A., 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.
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.
Now you, 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, where do, or 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, you know, the Jordan Neelys 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, you know, none of us think there's going to be a North versus South type of civil war like we had in the 1860s.
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, you know, 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, and You know, throughout history, communists, people on the far left have a perception that the average person is property, their 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 the 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.
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.
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 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.
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 situation.
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.
It's very similar to 2008.
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.
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And, folks, this is a site you need to bookmark and you need to check it daily for new content.
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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, 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 wildcard 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-schemmy 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 the black markets have always existed since the beginning of recorded history, so 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 is 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.
Right?
Yeah, I would agree that 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.
So 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.
Well, and also especially 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.
And 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.
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, the 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 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?
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 We're good to go.
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.
And all right.
Yeah, thank you, Brandon.
Please stand by.
And for those of you watching, thank you for watching.
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