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Sept. 5, 2023 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams

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BBN, Sep 5, 2023 - GREEN movement goes CRIMINALLY INSANE...

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	Alright, welcome to Brighton Broadcast News for Tuesday, September 5th, 2023.
	I'm Mike Adams.
	Thank you for joining me today.
	We've got some hard-hitting news.
	The big story we're going to cover here in a little bit is how 70 million acres of trees are now slated to be destroyed by Bill Gates-funded initiatives in order to save the planet.
	So now they're literally mass murdering forests in order to save the planet, which, of course, is just a shift from mass murdering human populations that they think also is necessary to save the planet.
	But now they're going to mass murder trees.
	And this is what the green movement has become, is to murder everything that's green.
	So we're going to get to that.
	And, yeah, it's completely crazy and insane.
	We've got an interview coming up for you later today with Ramiro Romani.
	And he is the founder and CEO of Above Phone, which is an extraordinary solution provider for de-googled phones that I have looked long and hard to find this company.
	And I'm so glad I did.
	And in this interview, Romero explains...
	How your phone is spying on you and what you can do about it, how you can stop the spying.
	So it's a great interview.
	We filmed that on Friday.
	You're going to love it.
	We're going to play most of that for you today.
	But that's also an interview for Decentralized TV, the standalone show.
	So the actual full interview will be shown there.
	We also have some additional updates on...
	Burning Man.
	And so yesterday, as you know, I covered the whole Burning Man mudpocalypse, as it's called.
	And, you know, there's 73,000 people in the high desert in Nevada, and they were not prepared for rain, even though it does rain in the desert on quite a regular basis, in fact.
	I mean, depending on the desert.
	But It rains.
	And these people were not at all prepared for the rain.
	And the roads are completely washed out.
	Well, the one road.
	You can't get in.
	You can't get out.
	RVs are getting stuck.
	The porta-potties are all full.
	And they're walking around in this highly alkaline clay that's now saturated with water.
	And it turns into a skin-burning substance that is horrifying.
	Well...
	So, we talked about that yesterday, how these people are, not only is Burning Man a satanic, you know, pagan, worshipping week, or ten days, I guess, of insane drug abuse, and who knows what all kinds of insanity is going on there.
	But now we've learned more details about that insanity that I have to share with you here.
	Leave it to God to drench this demon-worshiping festival with rain in order to draw attention to how insane this thing is.
	And I did not even realize how insane it was until I did more research about it.
	And this is actually shining the light on...
	How crazy Burning Man is.
	So as I mentioned yesterday, they trash the place.
	There's trash all over the desert because of these attendees who mostly claim to be, you know, saving the planet and worried about climate change.
	But when they leave, it's just full of trash and plastic everywhere.
	So, you know, not exactly good stewards of the climate or of the environment.
	But also, it turns out there have been a lot of rapes there.
	So, people get raped at Burning Man all the time, apparently.
	A lot of police reports about rape.
	And then, here's a story out of the Daily Star in the UK that gives even more details than I possibly could have imagined.
	The theme of Burning Man this year is Animalia, which of course means animal.
	And again, it's called burning man, which is to burn down mankind, to destroy man, but then the rise of animalia, the animal spirits, so to speak, to bring out the inner animal.
	Alright?
	So...
	I'm going to just verbally describe a few things that happened there.
	And I just want to warn you, these are going to be some...
	I'm not going to show you anything, but I am going to verbally describe some things that are pretty seriously disturbing.
	And some of them are, quote, erotically charged.
	And, of course, there are orgies and, of course, there's drug use and, of course, there's perversion and all that stuff.
	But there's an event there, for example, that is an organized men's...
	I'm sorry to even say this in the podcast...
	But this is on the program for Burning Man.
	It's an organized men's circle jerk event where they can join other naked men to, quote, stroke your morning wood together.
	And then there's something for the ladies, too, with body washes and, quote, happy ending massages that are on offer every day for women.
	And then you can go over to what's called the Naughty Naked Village.
	This is all in Burning Man.
	Where people can get a daily whipping.
	And you're going to get a spanking from the resident Domina Priestess.
	No doubt with some animalia spirits or whatever.
	There's a famous orgy dome.
	Apparently.
	I've never heard of this stuff, but here we go.
	There's an orgy dome that's holding regular talks on consent, because apparently this has to be explained to people, while offering a place for couples and morsoms to have fun Together.
	So threesomes, foursomes, moresomes, whatever-somes, oh my goodness.
	There's a hypnotherapist there who conducts a group orgasm hypnosis session on the playa every day.
	The playa is referring to the lake bed which has now turned into mud.
	I wonder how orgasmic that is to be walking around getting chemical burns on your ankles.
	Drenched in rain with the toilets overflowing.
	Does that sound sexy?
	Sounds like hell on earth, actually.
	So anyway, you can get your hypnosis sessions for group orgasms.
	Let's see.
	And then this expert says they've developed a technique for trance-induced orgasms using remote hypnosis.
	And then there's An event that's available for three days, and it's called cockfighting, which does not involve roosters or chickens of any kind.
	The term is meant literally, and Where men can work out their bleep, bleep energy as they go up against each other in an actual cockfight in something that looks like the dome from Mad Max.
	Remember with Tina Turner in there?
	But this time it's not Tina Turner.
	It's dudes battling with their junk somehow.
	I'm not even sure how that would work, but...
	Let's see.
	You can go, literally, quote, head-to-head in fierce battles at the Death Guild Thunderdome.
	Oh, that's what it is.
	It's the Thunderdome.
	And this prize is to be won at the Double-Sided Dildo Fencing Tournament.
	Did you know that's a thing?
	Did you know you could do dildo fencing?
	Well, apparently at Burning Man.
	That's the least of the insanity.
	Competitors are invited to get respectfully weird at the comfy, cozy voodoo lounge.
	After you're done with your cockfight and your dildo fencing and your dominatrix whipping, And hypnosis or orgasmic group hypnosis orgy event.
	You can go to the Voodoo Lounge.
	And then there's a naked oil wrestling competition with the gymnasium camp providing people with an unlimited supply of coconut oil.
	Well, hey, at least they're using a healthy oil.
	Naked oil wrestling competitions.
	And with kind of scents of the tropics, I guess.
	Hmm.
	There are unique exercise opportunities to keep burners fit during the festival.
	There's lightsaber combat training.
	That sounds relatively harmless.
	You can have the naked midnight run and you can start your mornings with naked yoga.
	If that's something that you just want to do for whatever reason.
	There's all kinds of other naked activities.
	I told you this was going to be a little crazy.
	They have naked dinosaur rides because why not?
	Because you don't want to have any bottoms when you're riding the Triceratops.
	Okay.
	Naked pub crawls.
	Naked pirate parties.
	Arr!
	Get your clothes on.
	Naked karaoke, for some reason.
	Naked beer runs and naked sunset runs.
	Basically just a lot of naked running around, for whatever reason.
	And then there's sessions where you can...
	Dye your hair and you can get all body colored up.
	And some of these people look like they should have been in the movie Avatar because they're all blue and green.
	There's a workshop where men are given materials to make their own sort of member rings and to bear your buns at an ass branding session.
	And that, I mean...
	I think you get the idea.
	So I'm going to just stop right there.
	Because you understand what this is.
	This is not a festival that honors God or really humanity or principles of sustainable civilization.
	This is a wild, insane, drug-induced, orgy, naked cockfighting fest or something.
	That's what it is.
	And again, I never do all those details.
	And now I'm not surprised.
	So the degeneracy of Burning Man is...
	I mean, we have to look at this cosmically.
	That's why I went through all that.
	Thank you for bearing with me as we went through the hilarious descriptions of what these people do there.
	Think about this.
	This is happening in the United States.
	God is watching.
	And God is judging America.
	God is judging America for the mass murder of unborn babies.
	How many hundreds of thousands of children are murdered every year in America?
	I'm not sure anybody knows the answer to that, but it's several hundred thousand.
	God is judging us or our nation for allowing the degeneracy That I just described at Burning Man, which is attended by the wealthy elite techno bros who represent the technology that powers government surveillance and spying on you.
	So these are the people who code the Big Brother algorithms that monitor your voice and they code the AI systems that are going to replace you.
	And most of these people believe in transhumanism and, of course, the singularity.
	The moment at which they believe that AI systems will achieve consciousness and shortly thereafter they think that they will be able to So transhumanism is a key element of all of this, and that's why it's called Burning Man.
	It's about the destruction of man.
	But the rise of machines, you see.
	And the degeneracy is an expression of the disdain for the human body and the human experience, which these people largely believe is disposable.
	They think their body's disposable and they can't wait to join the machines and they can't wait to, you know, reject God and God's creation and, you know, slough off their skin like the snakes that they are inside in terms of their spirit, the serpents.
	You know, giving in to the sin of the serpents and the succubus.
	What's the plural of succubus, by the way?
	Would that be succubi?
	Or is that just something that LG people do to each other.
	Suck you by.
	Suck me what?
	You want to buy me something?
	You want to suck me or buy me something?
	What are you saying exactly?
	No, it's just the plural of succubus.
	Okay, whatever.
	It's Burning Man.
	Anything goes.
	And it's worth mentioning that these are the kinds of things that you see during the fall of civilizations.
	This kind of degeneracy and this sort of narcissism and, you know, self-worship that everything's about your experiences.
	And, you know, they say, screw the rest of society, they're just going to go party down.
	While, actually, you know, it's not just Burning Man burning down, but America is burning around them.
	We have, of course, we have open borders.
	We have vote rigging.
	We have censorship that's just off the charts.
	We have biological weapons being funded by the DOD and released on the people.
	Oh, by the way, there were rumors that there was some Ebola outbreak at Burning Man.
	That has not been confirmed.
	I just want to be clear.
	It looks like it was a rumor.
	And because people had boils and skin problems because of the alkaline mud, and so their skin's falling apart or opening up, and some people thought it was Ebola and bleeding out.
	But apparently that's just a rumor.
	But if you think about it, if you were the DOD and you wanted to release another biological weapon on America, wouldn't Burning Man be the...
	At least one natural place to do that because the conditions there are so filthy.
	The porta-potties are so absolutely filthy.
	There's basically no functioning sanitation at the event.
	And so it seems like that would be their perfect place to release something and then, I don't know, blame it on these people.
	But hey, shifting gears here, I mentioned, you know, America is burning, in essence.
	And one of the problems, of course, is just rampant runaway shoplifting.
	The thievery is just off the charts.
	And, you know, these retailers, like I covered yesterday, they are basically shutting down and leaving.
	It's just, they're giving up.
	They're leaving California and the Democrat-run cities.
	But there was a really interesting video that began making the rounds.
	In the last day or so, this is a robbery of a jewelry store in El Monte, where the apparent thief, who apparently came in with a hammer, started smashing jewelry cases and trying to steal stuff.
	Well, he was confronted by the people who work there, who are apparently family members, according to reports.
	So this is in Los Angeles County, or El Monte, In Los Angeles County.
	I'm going to narrate this video for you, which is less than a minute, but I want you to check this out.
	All right, so here we are observing what appears to be a robbery in progress or the store owners fighting back against this dude.
	Pretty hefty looking dude.
	Getting some butt cheek.
	Oh, he's taking some shots right there.
	The shop owners are really going at him with what appears to be a stick of some kind, like maybe a broomstick or something.
	Yeah, jewelry store, things are getting smashed.
	The guy, he's holding up his hands, but he's getting hit.
	He's trying to get out.
	And now, was that a hammer that just fell there?
	Is that a hammer?
	He's going for it.
	What is that?
	Oh, he's getting...
	Someone tried to kick him.
	This other dude's trying to beat him.
	This guy's trying to punch him, but he's not getting through.
	Hey, take off his clothes.
	Oh, there we go.
	Yeah, take the pants, too.
	Oh, he's falling out of his pants.
	I guess they gave up the fight right there.
	So, that was disturbing on many levels.
	I mean, we don't know all the circumstances of exactly what went down, but according to reports, the guy that...
	The guy that ran out of there shirtless was robbing the place with a hammer.
	That's what the police say in El Monte.
	And he smashed a display case according to employees.
	And then that guy used pepper spray on the workers.
	I guess the pepper spray didn't work because they fought back.
	But the reason I want to show you this is because you notice the The sort of incompetent fighting techniques by all three of those involved, I mean, none of them know how to fight, obviously, but this is very common.
	It's common in this kind of mad scramble situation.
	Where people don't have fight training, but they're really angry and a lot of shop owners have had enough, they're fed up, and they're just like, I'm going to take a stick and beat you with it.
	That's pretty much what you just saw there.
	They just wanted to wail on them, which is kind of understandable since coming in and probably stealing, you know, felony crime levels of jewelry, most likely.
	I mean, jewelry is expensive these days.
	But I want you to take a look at one section of this again, because it's...
	I want you to see the level of incompetence in the fighting.
	One more time, notice that none of these people know what they're doing.
	So, the guy's holding up his hands...
	Oh, there's four people involved here.
	I see.
	Looks like three employees and one alleged thief.
	And they're just holding it.
	The guy can't kick.
	Doesn't seem to know how to punch.
	The other guy's beat with a stick, but not effectively.
	And so the alleged thief actually manages to run away, even though he's not exactly, you know, a track star or anything like that.
	But This is important to follow.
	A lot of people who are thieves or shop owners really don't know what they're doing in terms of combat.
	Now, you will immediately know when somebody is trained in hand-to-hand combat.
	Oh, like Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu or Krav Maga or something.
	And, you know, I've trained in both of those.
	I'm not, you know, a super expert in either one, but I can do a lot better than these people did.
	Let me show you what an actual, like, either a Krav Maga or a BJJ fight looks like so you can see the difference.
	All right, take a look at this 26-second video.
	It's real short, but it's an altercation in a parking garage where this tough-looking, gangster-looking dude is going after a much smaller young man who is an MMA fighter who just lays him out in no time with, frankly, a sidekick, a crushing kick to the leg.
	And then picking them up and dumping them on the concrete.
	I mean, just check this out, because this shows you the difference between, you know, what you saw previously, somebody who doesn't know how to fight at all, versus someone who's actually a trained fighter, which you're going to see.
	The smaller, shorter person in this video is the MMA fighter, and you'll see he makes quick work of the situation.
	Check it out.
	Do you want to kill him or what?
	Do you want to kill him?
	Yeah, I want him.
	Do you want to kill him?
	Yeah, yeah.
	Alright, so there you so there you go.
	I just want to show you that because as things happen in society and things get crazy, You need to have some ability, I believe, to know the difference between somebody who is a trained fighter versus someone who's just a street thug or a street thief or what have you.
	Common, everyday street thugs are not well trained and they tend to start more fights.
	Whereas professionally trained BJJ, MMA, Krav Maga, these people, they typically do not start fights.
	They just end them very quickly.
	They don't start fights.
	And if you can de-escalate a situation with a professional MMA fighter or BJJ fighter or what have you, you would be well advised, all of us would, to de-escalate and de-escalate.
	Walk away.
	Exit the situation.
	Apologize if you have to.
	Buy my round of drinks or whatever is necessary.
	You do not want to find yourself in a situation with a professionally trained fighter.
	And the good news is, again, professionally trained fighters are not the people who initiate this kind of thing.
	The other good news, and this is one of the reasons I showed all this, is because It doesn't take much training to be better than an untrained street thug.
	And that's why I've trained in Krav Maga and BJJ And edge weapons and, of course, handguns and all of that.
	Because I'm not the expert in any one area.
	There's no way that I'm going to beat a professional BJJ competitor.
	He would wrap me up in five seconds.
	It'd be done.
	But I can beat almost any untrained person.
	I like to be well-rounded.
	I like to have all the options personally.
	There's something to consider for your self-defense, no matter what your age, by the way.
	No matter if you're a man or a woman or big or small.
	The more options you have, the better.
	Krav Maga is relatively easy to learn.
	And BJJ is more intense.
	But there are plenty of women who learn BJJ and do great with it.
	And if you have all these options, option number one being to leave the situation.
	But if that's not an option, it's great to have all the other tools that you can use to defend life and property.
	So just remember, society is breaking down.
	Shoplifting is increasing.
	There are going to be more home invasions coming up.
	There's going to be more looting, more carjackings.
	And it's really critical to have skills and the necessary gear in order to defend yourself.
	So let me just put this out there, that if you're looking for a way to enhance your physical fitness and build up your skill set, again, whether you're a man or a woman, Go check out Krav Maga class.
	There are also sometimes rape prevention classes that are offered by Krav Maga Studios.
	Or go check out BJJ, or Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, as it's called.
	And go learn.
	I mean, you're getting fitness at the same time that you're learning practical skills.
	And I respect someone with practical skills much more than somebody who just goes to the gym and can pump iron and lift the barbells, you know, and do all these amazing things in the gym.
	Oh, wow, you have big muscles, but can you defend yourself in a fight?
	Can you defend your family?
	Are you functional?
	Or is it just you're just pumping iron for the big muscles?
	See, I don't respect big muscles.
	I respect people who can use their bodies to defend the innocent or defend life, liberty, and property.
	And frankly, all the best fighters that I've ever rolled with, they're not big bulky dudes.
	Not at all.
	Actually, they tend to be kind of thin spidery looking dudes.
	That's because they can last the longest.
	They've got the stamina.
	The big muscle bound guys, they run out of oxygen in about 45 seconds.
	Yeah, seriously.
	Those of you who've trained, you know what I'm talking about.
	The guy that you should be afraid of is the thin, spidery, super strong, ripped, but not bulky guy.
	That's the guy that can fight you for 10 minutes straight and still not run out of gas.
	Now, on the global geopolitical scale of things, just as we've been talking about why it's important to know when you can or cannot defeat an opponent in the case of shoplifting or robberies or what have you, this is also a critical assessment in terms of wars and nations at war.
	And right now, things are not looking good for the Ukrainian so-called offensive that is three months in, or so-called counter-offensive.
	Three months in, and they've taken virtually no territory back, almost none, like 0.1% of the territory that Russia...
	Itself had taken in terms of the Donbass region and so on.
	And here's a story out of the National Pulse.
	Ukraine tells West to shut up about failed counteroffensive.
	So Zelensky's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dmitry Kuleba, I'm not sure how to say it, snapped at Western sponsors of Ukraine who are dissatisfied with the failure of the summer counteroffensive, telling them to shut up and try to do the job themselves.
	Criticizing the slow pace of the counteroffensive equals to spitting in the face of Ukrainian soldiers, he says, who sacrifice his life every day moving forward and liberating one kilometer of Ukrainian soil after another.
	I would recommend all critics to shut up, come to Ukraine, and try to liberate one square centimeter by themselves.
	So that's what it's come to now.
	It's not, I mean, obviously they're very frustrated because they haven't made any real progress in breaking through the Russian defensive lines, and I guess they were supposed to be, they're supposed to have smashed Russia by now, obviously, and defeated Russia and then sent Russia back home, and that has not happened.
	The counteroffensive relied heavily on Western-trained Ukrainian forces equipped with Western arms and armor, but was not conducted in line with Western doctrine and has made very little progress.
	U.S. lawmakers who have approved multiple aid and assistance packages have already been shown intelligence, suggesting the counteroffensive will most likely fail.
	And then some senior NATO politicians, such as the British Defense Secretary, well, former, have already signaled that Zelensky has been too demanding and insufficiently grateful for Western assistance.
	But the bottom line is, again, they're not making the expected progress.
	And even the Western press has had to start backtracking.
	In a panic, apparently.
	Because, remember, three months ago we were told the counteroffensive starts now.
	And then, like a month in, they said, oh, no, what we did before, those were just probing attacks, and now the counteroffensive starts now.
	And then, still, they didn't make any real progress, and it got crazy.
	And the point is that we all, I mean, you and I, we want peace for the people of Ukraine.
	And also for the people of Russia.
	We want peace for the world.
	And we know that these wars are run by these evil elitists and globalists who sacrifice the lives of innocent men and women in order to get what they want, which is control over resources such as energy or money or food output, farms, you know, land.
	And they sacrifice people in order to get this done.
	And so the real victims of war are always the innocent people, the people of Ukraine, the people of Russia, the people of, well, America or the UK who are part of this and so on.
	The people are the innocent victims in all of this.
	So you and I want peace.
	But Joe Biden doesn't want peace.
	Barack Obama doesn't want peace.
	Victoria Nuland doesn't want peace.
	They want the total destruction of Russia.
	And they're willing to throw all of Ukraine's young men into that fight in order to try to destroy Russia, no matter what the casualties are.
	And now, there's a rumor going around.
	I haven't been able to confirm this, but I'll categorize it as a rumor.
	That Ukraine is mobilizing women to register at military registration and enlistment offices.
	Now, in the past, when we've heard rumors like this, it's often turned out that it was just maybe one little local office that had put out a registration notice of some kind.
	Since I can't read the local language and I don't speak Ukrainian or Russian, I have no way to confirm this.
	I've seen screenshots of news stories, but again, I can't read it.
	So I don't know for sure.
	But according to the rumor, women in Ukraine must now register for military service by October 1st.
	They have to undergo military training.
	And they have to report to enlistment offices about any changes in their place of residence or their marital status, disability status, and so on.
	I guess the conclusion that some people are reaching on this is that Ukraine could be running out of men and is trying to recruit women into its military because the West continues to demand that Ukraine keep throwing more people at Russia.
	But again...
	I haven't been able to confirm this.
	It might not be real.
	It might not be confirmed.
	But clearly, this whole situation is coming to an end before very long.
	And, of course, Scott Ritter, who I interviewed once, and Scott Ritter is a former U.S. Marine Corps intelligence officer, And he visited Russia.
	And he has been speaking out very aggressively against the Zelensky administration or regime or whatever you want to call it.
	And he has been warning that Russia is winning this war.
	And he's posted an article that says a comprehensive Ukrainian defeat is the only possible outcome from this conflict with Russia.
	He says that, And in this story, he says, We're good to
	to define what the end game will be.
	These Western politicians now have the task of shaping public perception to try to mitigate any sustained political blowback from constituents who have been deceived into tolerating the transfer of billions of dollars from their national treasuries and billions more dollars worth of weapons from their arsenals into a lost and what Scott Ritter calls a disgraced cause.
	He summarizes it, So I did a little research on that.
	And Russia's most modern main battle tank is the T-90.
	At least that's my understanding, that it's the T-90.
	I did a little research looking at the production of the T-90.
	And there's a primary production company in Russia that apparently is able to produce 10 tanks a day.
	You know, every working day, they produce 10 tanks.
	I don't know if those are all T-90s, or maybe there's some variants, or maybe some upgrades to T-72s.
	But, folks, 10 tanks a day?
	I mean, they can field in a month.
	Let's say if there's 20 working days, they can put 200 more tanks on the battlefield in one month.
	You know, NATO can't keep up with that.
	And then there's artillery production, munitions.
	The West is out.
	They've run out.
	Ukraine has already burned through the artillery that, frankly, represented the stockpiles of Western nations.
	It's gone, and it can't be manufactured on any kind of a timely basis.
	Whereas Russia is firing and apparently producing so much artillery that they can fire...
	Depending on various reports, anywhere from 10,000 to 20,000 rounds a day.
	I mean, we're talking about hundreds of thousands of rounds of artillery per month are being expended by Russia.
	And the thing is, the economic sanctions against Russia that were inflicted by the United States and NATO with cutting off Russia from the SWIFT system, this was supposed to cripple Russia and destroy its domestic economy and also crash the ruble.
	It did the opposite.
	It actually destroyed the economy of Western Europe with the Gazprom, you know, the Nord Stream pipeline destruction.
	And Russia, then, instead of exporting money to other countries, Russian entrepreneurs and wealthy individuals took that money and they invested it domestically.
	And they built infrastructure.
	And as a result, Russia now has a strong ruble and a strong domestic economy, strong domestic manufacturing and its own resources, including, of course, steel and aluminum and copper and so on.
	And oil energy, they can produce all these things domestically and their factories are just cranking out hardware.
	In other words, Russia right now kind of reminds me of the United States of America in the early days of World War II. It was the United States that outproduced the Nazi regime and outproduced the Japanese.
	And that's how America at that time was able to fight a two-front war.
	One war in Europe and one war in the Pacific.
	The Pacific War, largely a naval war, and the ground war in Europe was mostly army and marines on the ground.
	Well, I guess a lot of Air Force bombers and so on in Europe as well, but obviously not so much of a naval situation in Europe.
	Nevertheless, the United States was able to do this because they could produce like crazy.
	They just produced ammunition and armored vehicles or infantry fighting vehicles as they're known today.
	It produced battle tanks and so on.
	And the thing is, the American battle tanks in World War II weren't even very good.
	They were lightly armored compared to the panzers that Germany had.
	The American battle tanks like the Sherman or whatever, they sucked.
	I mean, they were weak.
	They were small.
	They were fragile.
	And the panzers took them out.
	But America could produce so many new tanks, and they had enough of a population that they could replace the tank crew that got killed.
	And so they kept sending more tanks and kept sending more people.
	And eventually, with the help of other nations, such as Russia and France and so on, eventually the Nazis were defeated.
	But the Nazis in Germany in World War II were defeated by...
	Production.
	It was the production of hardware and munitions and bombs and aircraft and all of that.
	That's what ultimately defeated the Third Reich.
	It was production.
	Today, Russia has production.
	The United States does not.
	The United Kingdom does not.
	Germany does not.
	Germany can't even produce today what it used to produce in World War II. Not even close.
	All these European nations, they have basically offshored most of their manufacturing and shut things down to the point where they have very little remaining of a domestic manufacturing infrastructure because, of course, Western Europe doesn't believe in energy.
	They think energy is bad.
	And we're still going to get to that story about cutting down all the trees, by the way.
	Whereas Russia believes energy is good.
	And so they're using energy.
	To produce things.
	To produce things that are winning the war.
	So that's the reality.
	And it's a reality that Western nations refuse to acknowledge.
	And just like we were talking about earlier, it's important to understand when you can win a fight and when you can't win a fight.
	When you have no chance against a professional fighter.
	Well, right now...
	The situation in Ukraine, even with the help of the West, the West has no remaining artillery.
	They don't have enough equipment.
	And there aren't enough trained Ukrainian men to fight Russia.
	They should negotiate peace.
	That's the only way Ukraine is going to resolve this without a lot more bloodshed and probably a lot more territory loss, is to Try to get a piece of cord right now and try not to lose more territory.
	All right, now let's move on to our main story.
	Real quickly before we do, let me thank you for all your support at our online store, healthrangerstore.com.
	We really saw an uptick in demand over the Labor Day event.
	And if you ordered from us, by the way, your orders are being processed right now out of our fulfillment center, and check your email.
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	We do have a lot of orders that came in, and it showed us that people really are stocking up, but this time not so much on ranger buckets.
	It wasn't just storable food that people purchased this time.
	People are purchasing a wider variety of things right now, getting ready, stocking up on nutrition and water filters.
	And we actually had an issue with those water filters, the AquaPale water filters.
	After we had sold a certain number, we had to stop selling them because we were told from our distributor that we couldn't sell anymore because there had been an emergency order for the entire inventory of water filters placed by some organization,
	it might have been government, that was going to deliver them to Lahaina in Maui, where, of course, the Hawaiian people Are suffering after their town was burned down.
	Probably with directed energy weapons.
	Which is why blue colored objects seemed to not burn.
	Because, you know, the lasers that are used don't light up things that are blue-colored because it doesn't absorb the laser energy, you know, due to the way colors work and wavelengths and light and so on.
	I'm not going to go into all that right now, but it's very interesting that in an area where a bunch of cars caught on fire and burned up, but a blue car was seemingly untouched, surrounded by other cars that were all melted and burned up.
	Very interesting.
	Trees burned down and buildings burned down, but blue umbrellas...
	On the patio of a cafe, they were unscathed somehow.
	Hmm.
	Like just blue fabric umbrellas.
	How does that happen?
	Anyway, some other anomalies that I'm not going to go into right now.
	But anyway, that's why the water filters are no longer available because they're going to Lahaina.
	And I'm fine with that.
	I want the people of Hawaii to get immediate help.
	People are getting desperate there.
	You know, people are getting evicted from buildings and people are getting arrested for returning to their own homes to try to recover things that might still be viable there, like, I don't know, jewelry, gold and silver, things that can't burn in a fire.
	You know, I mean, they can melt, but they can't, they don't burn up, they don't vanish.
	But they're being arrested.
	Craziness.
	Craziness.
	I mean, man, the people of Hawaii are learning the hard way what happens when you let your state be run by a bunch of criminals known as Democrats, demon rats, whatever.
	But here's a story we've got to talk about today, how Bill Gates is pushing this new plan to chop down 70 million acres of trees.
	To quote, fight global warming.
	This was covered by SlayNews.com and Revolver News.
	And we're covering it also probably today on NaturalNews.com.
	But there's an organization called Breakthrough Energy that has so far put $6.6 million into a project led by a group called Kodama Systems.
	And the aim of this project is to cut down 70 million acres of forests in the United States and then to bury the trees.
	And according to the project, they say that burying trees can reduce global warming.
	And they're saying this is going to prevent the trees from spewing carbon back into the air.
	So they're saying they're going to reap scalable carbon offsets by burying the biomass in dry and oxygen-free earthen vaults.
	So, in other words, the trees are going to be buried instead of being used for timber.
	Of course, in order to cut down all these trees and to bury them, which means you're going to have to use large excavators to dig up And to make these so-called earthen vaults, you're going to have to run all kinds of combustion engine equipment that burns diesel.
	We're talking excavators.
	We're talking bulldozers.
	I don't know what other equipment.
	Loaders, track loaders.
	I don't know, timber processing equipment.
	I don't know what all they're going to use.
	Maybe some skid steers.
	A lot of equipment.
	And you're going to burn a lot of fuel to chop down 70 million acres of trees.
	Just so you can bury them and then claim to be protecting the planet from climate change.
	Now, this is not a typo.
	I have not misspoken here.
	They literally want to cut down 70 million acres of trees and slaughter the forests in the name of saving the planet.
	In other words, the Green Movement is now all about slashing forests.
	Which you used to think, well, forests are green.
	You know, remember when the so-called tree huggers would hug trees?
	Maybe some of them still do that.
	I don't know.
	Or they would say, you know, how much they love trees.
	I love trees.
	Trees are amazing.
	That's why I protect trees.
	I don't cut down trees.
	I protect trees.
	I let them grow.
	I nurture trees.
	Bill Gates is cutting them down.
	70 million acres of trees.
	This is insanity, folks.
	This is insanity.
	I think with this project in particular, I think Bill Gates has slipped into the domain of the criminally insane.
	These are ideas of madmen.
	That, oh, we're going to save the planet by cutting down 70 million acres of forest.
	Which is, of course, going to destroy 70 million acres of forest habitat for birds and pollinators.
	And think about how this is going to affect the soil microbes and all the animals that live in the forest.
	All the foxes and rabbits and owls and squirrels and everything.
	The whole ecosystem.
	And all the insects.
	The plants, the seeds, the pollinators, all of it.
	Think about how this affects the world.
	How could you be so insane as to think that mass murdering 70 million acres of trees is the way to protect the planet from so-called global warming?
	Especially when trees are using the CO2 in the atmosphere, the CO2 that these lunatics hate, and they say it's a poison.
	The trees are using the CO2 and producing oxygen.
	So if you cut down 70 million acres of trees, you're going to reduce oxygen production on the planet.
	Terraforming operation, folks.
	Terraforming operation.
	And you're not going to be doing anything, really, to reduce CO2 levels in the atmosphere.
	By killing the trees that use CO2, you know?
	These people are truly insane criminals in my view.
	But you understand that Bill Gates is a depopulation and terraforming pusher.
	You understand that he thinks the solution to too much population is, of course, depopulation.
	You notice how his answers to everything on the planet involve mass murder of either human beings or natural ecosystems?
	Oh, mass murder of the trees.
	Oh, okay.
	Mass murder of the people.
	Oh, bioweapons.
	Vaccines.
	You notice it's all about mass death.
	Everything that Bill Gates is pushing is just about murdering systems and murdering people, destroying the planet in the name of fighting global warming.
	Again, it's sheer criminal insanity to spend money killing trees so that you can bury them.
	You know, trees are supposed to break down.
	In the forest.
	It's a natural life cycle of forest.
	I see it every day.
	On my ranch in Texas.
	Trees grow.
	Sometimes they die.
	When they die, they don't fall over right away.
	By the way, often.
	They stay.
	They stay there.
	As dead trees.
	They'll lose all their leaves the first year.
	Then they'll lose smaller branches in another year.
	And then the more years go by, the larger and larger branches fall off the tree.
	And after maybe 10 or 12 years, a dead tree is still standing, but it only has the major limbs still remaining.
	And you know what those trees are really great for?
	You know who perches on those trees?
	The predator birds that eat other dead animals.
	They like to sit on those dead trees because, well, it's a clear view without any leaves.
	And they can sit there.
	And so can, you know, hawks and falcons and other birds.
	They can sit on those trees and they have a clear view 360 degrees around, and then it allows them to be more effective in their ecosystem.
	So even when a tree dies, you don't necessarily want to chop it down.
	It has a role with the animals, and I've just observed this, just in living in nature myself.
	It's obvious at this point.
	And then, when trees do fall down, by the way, well then, they provide nourishment to mycelia, mushrooms, the microorganisms in the soil.
	I saw a fallen tree log one time, a very large tree trunk that fell over that became a home to a hive of wild bees.
	They just burrowed into the side of the tree and they had a bees nest in there.
	So even a fallen tree becomes habitat for pollinators, you see.
	And I've seen bumblebees and so on all over, you know, dead trees and all kinds of shelter from dead trees where like rabbits or armadillos or whatever, they can they can have little dugouts underneath the tree. they can they can have little dugouts underneath the tree.
	Armadillos like to do that, they dig out underneath there so they can kind of shuttle themselves underground a little bit, be safe from predators.
	So trees provide All kinds of benefits when they're alive, and they even provide benefits when they die naturally.
	And then over time, as that tree breaks down, and all the cellulose and so on, and the nutrients and the nitrogen, whatever, yeah, it's going to release some CO2 back into the atmosphere to be used by other trees that are living.
	It's part of the natural cycle of the biosphere of life on Earth is, yeah, when a tree is alive, it's pulling in CO2, And it's providing leaves and shade and whatever else it does, you know, all kinds of benefits to the ecosystem.
	And then when it dies, slowly over time it releases that carbon dioxide back into the atmosphere to be used by other trees, while the dead tree is providing shelter.
	Or lookouts for birds, like I said, and all kinds of benefits for the mycelia.
	Like I said, the microbiology of the soil of the forest floor, which feeds the life in the forest.
	But Bill Gates doesn't understand any of this.
	He wants to roll in there and clear cut the forest, dig up the soil with machines, which disturbs the microbiology of the soil, bury the trees under the soil, all burning diesel fuel the whole time, right?
	Making tracks all throughout the forest, crushing small animals and destroying their habitat and destroying their shelter, Okay.
	Well, that's not a coincidence.
	Because he's also destroying humanity's habitat by...
	Destroying the forests that provide timber, you see?
	So he's cutting down 70 million acres of forests, which is a crime against all of us.
	It's a crime against our world to do that, in my view.
	But he's not even allowing people to use the timber to build affordable homes.
	Instead, they're burying the timber to withhold it from the world.
	To restrict humanity's use of that.
	This will mean that the available timber supply for housing is less than what it should have been.
	And this will mean that housing prices will get more and more expensive as wood prices rise.
	Kind of like what we saw during COVID. Remember when lumber went to insane levels in 2020, was it?
	And also 2021.
	Insane!
	Well, Bill Gates seems to be engineering that yet again.
	That will make housing unaffordable.
	And what would that cause?
	Oh, it would cause people to have to move into the 15-minute cities with, you know, the FEMA-approved housing or the government-approved housing where you live in a block, a little tomb, basically, I don't know, 150-square-foot little space, and that's all you get, and they're stacked up.
	And that's your home now.
	Because real housing is no longer affordable.
	Nor is food, by the way, of course.
	All by design because they're tearing down the farms, tearing down the ranches, they're making food unaffordable, food inflation through the roof.
	Well, what if food is unaffordable and housing is unaffordable?
	And, of course, they're destroying the oxygen level in the environment, and they're doing geoengineering, mad experiments, including stratospheric aerosol injection, which is blocking the sun, which will, of course, diminish the yields of crops around the world, which will only exacerbate food scarcity, inflation, and famine.
	And you notice how everything these globalists promote leads to famine and mass death?
	Have you noticed that?
	Oh, let's block the sun, block photosynthesis.
	Oh, let's take carbon dioxide out of the air that powers photosynthesis.
	Oh, let's move the rain away and cause droughts through controlled geoengineering experiments so that we have massive crop failures.
	Hmm.
	You notice?
	How it's all the same thing.
	And now it's like, let's just clear cut 70 million acres of trees and call it green.
	It's almost beyond words.
	These people are so insane.
	And what's also infuriating is how most of the leftists in America today, the liberals, the Democrats, they are somehow still going along with this, even though the climate cult is a suicide cult.
	It's an actual suicide cult.
	They want to mass murder humanity.
	And now, apparently, they want to chop down all the trees to save the planet.
	You know, it used to be that...
	You could be walking down a country lane and, oh, here's a farm over here.
	Cows are moving.
	Here's some trees over here.
	Oh, here's a garden over here.
	It's all so beautiful.
	But today, the climate cultists say, oh, no, no, no, that's not green.
	Clear-cut the trees.
	Cut them down.
	Seize the farms.
	Shut that down.
	Can't have any cows.
	Can't have any milk.
	No animal products for you.
	You know, nothing's gonna be green anymore.
	Block the sky, block the sun.
	Just live in darkness.
	And that's, it's all labeled as green, or fighting global warming, or fighting climate change.
	But again, it's a suicide cult.
	Hey, I have an idea.
	Instead of burying 70 million acres of trees to save the planet, why don't we bury the climate cultists?
	What do they call it?
	A dry and oxygen-free earthen vault.
	And then they can sacrifice themselves to save the planet.
	See, it's perfect!
	It's perfect!
	If they would just volunteer, if they really want to save the planet, they should bury themselves and stop cutting down trees, for God's sake.
	Do you also realize that it's conservatives who are now the environmentalists?
	You realize that?
	It's conservatives that promote sunlight and photosynthesis, botany.
	It's conservatives that are supporting food crops and farms and trees.
	Seriously, it's conservatives that are the defenders of trees.
	And it's these climate cultist libtards like Bill Gates that are now anti-tree.
	Well, of course they're anti-tree.
	They're anti-human.
	They're in denial about genetics.
	They think a man can become a woman.
	And they think that killing trees saves the planet.
	I mean, everything is upside down with these lunatics.
	But conservatives are now the environmentalists.
	Christians are more pro-environment than leftists.
	Isn't that wild?
	How do we get to that point?
	Leftists who used to stand in opposition to the agricultural giants, the pesticide companies, the GMOs, and Big Pharma, now the left is all in favor of all those things.
	They love their vaccines, they love their GMOs, and they love their pesticides, and they think atrazine is awesome and everybody should have more atrazine.
	It's conservatives and Christians now who are telling the truth about GMOs and weed killer chemicals, herbicides like atrazine.
	And it's conservatives and Christians who are now supporting the forests and the trees.
	The next wave of tree huggers will be conservatives.
	And the tree destroyers will be Democrats, climate cultists, lunatics, who believe in biological fantasies of transgenderism.
	Which just tells you everything you need to know about them, by the way.
	They think a man can become a woman, and a dead tree is better than a living tree for the planet.
	I mean...
	They're insane.
	Like, literally, like bat bleep crazy, insane, should be in a psychiatric ward, perhaps a padded cell, with a special kind of jacket.
	Revolver.News kind of sums it up.
	Quote, it's clear that both Americans and people worldwide are growing weary of this tech geek's attempts.
	You're talking about Bill Gates.
	This tech geek's attempts to block the sun, genetically engineer mosquitoes, buy up farmland, control populations, vaccinate everything that moves, and now eliminate forests by cutting down trees and burying them.
	Yeah.
	You know, five years ago, most people would have thought these were all conspiracy theories.
	Oh, they're not going to release genetically engineered mosquitoes.
	They're not going to block the sun.
	That would be crazy.
	They're not going to wreck farms.
	They're not going to depopulate.
	They're not going to cut down trees in the name of saving the planet.
	That's crazy.
	No one would do that.
	Now, they're doing it.
	And they're bragging about it.
	It's unbelievable where we are.
	you a kind of short video of the co-founder of Greenpeace, Dr. Patrick Moore.
	He's explaining that if we achieve net zero, which is what the climate cultists are pushing for, that 50% of the world's population will die.
	That's about 4 billion people.
	And as you listen to Patrick Moore, understand he's explaining exactly what I've explained multiple times here on this podcast about fertilizer and food and populations and so on.
	But check it out.
	Dr.
	Patrick Moore.
	If we actually achieve net zero, at least 50% of the population would die of hunger and disease.
	And no doubt about it, because just one thing, which is nitrogen-based fertilizer, at least 50% of the population depends on nitrogen fertilizer for its existence to date.
	There's no doubt about that.
	And there's people trying to ban it.
	And Netherlands and Sri Lanka have already made these kind of moves.
	And so it is truly a death wish in disguise.
	And the disguise is to save the Earth, which doesn't need saving particularly.
	All right, yeah, the Liberty Daily found that video.
	Fascinating, right?
	Of course, the globalists don't want to kill just 4 billion people.
	They want to kill more like 7 billion people.
	And now they're just going to clear-cut trees.
	This is ecological terrorism.
	Remember, it wasn't that long ago when tree-huggers would chain themselves to trees in order to stop the trees from being cut down by the timber companies and the loggers and so on.
	And the tree huggers are like, no, don't cut the tree.
	You know, trees are important, which is true.
	Trees are important.
	Now, under Bill Gates, the left, the political left, liberals, the Democrats, now they are anti-tree.
	They support cutting down trees and committing, frankly, widespread ecological terrorism across America, habitat destruction, like I said earlier.
	But a level of ecological terrorism that is criminal on a global scale.
	I mean, these are crimes against the planet, not just the American people, not just against those particular forests and those ecosystems or habitats.
	These are crimes against the planet and all of...
	The human populations and the animal populations that live on this planet are all being harmed by these sinister schemes to clear-cut forests, destroy food crop yields, block the sun, reduce oxygen in the atmosphere, engage in terraforming operations and geoengineering, and basically make Earth inhospitable to the human race, largely.
	That's what this is.
	They are...
	They're mass murdering the human race by carrying out large-scale, planetary-scale ecological terrorism sabotage actions.
	And that's what this is.
	This is just straight-up sabotage against the biosphere.
	And why is this even legal?
	Can you just buy up 70 million acres of forest and just clear-cut it?
	And do whatever you want with it?
	Well, I guess if your name is Bill Gates, you can.
	But how is that...
	I mean, when will the remaining survivors of the human population fight back and say, no, we're not going to let you destroy the biosphere.
	We're not going to let you clear-cut these forests and poison the food and poison the water and poison the skies and block the sun and all this other crap and launch more GMO mosquito bioweapons on the human population.
	When will humanity fight back?
	And stop this stuff.
	I don't know the answer to that.
	But I have previously predicted that we're going to lose between 1 and 4 billion human beings on this planet before this madness is stopped.
	Because, sadly, your everyday average mainstream American is still asleep at the wheel.
	Totally asleep at the wheel.
	They have no idea what's happening.
	They have no knowledge of any of this that we talk about every day.
	They are oblivious.
	And many of them will die.
	It's just, that's what's coming.
	So the upshot of all of this is that I'm going to urge you yet again to prepare for the engineered famine.
	Prepare for it.
	You probably already are well prepared compared to most people.
	But prepare for desperation.
	What you see with shoplifting right now, that's just the beginning.
	We're going to see mass looting.
	We're going to see people fleeing the cities.
	Starving to death.
	It's going to be like Burning Man, but the whole city of Los Angeles.
	It's like burning LA. And then you're going to be...
	You're going to be begging for escape from LA. You're going to be trying to get out.
	Or if you're there, a lot of people are going to be trying to get out.
	I don't see a rational response yet from state leaders, local leaders, national leaders.
	I don't see anything rational coming from Western civilization.
	In fact, the only rationality that I really see happening in the world right now, in terms of nation level, is from non-Western nations.
	Western nations are just run by lunatics.
	Their economics make no sense, lawlessness, rigged elections, geoengineering, depopulation, building bioweapons and releasing them on your own people?
	That's what Western nations are doing.
	You know, Russia didn't bomb their own population with a bioweapon.
	They're not that crazy.
	You know, Russia's cities are nicer and cleaner and more law-abiding than American cities by far.
	You know, compared to Russian cities, American cities look like a collapsed third world nation.
	I mean, Compared to Russia, America looks like Haiti on a bad day.
	It's not going to be good where this is going.
	It's not going to be good.
	And they're building giant machines, you know, to suck CO2 out of the atmosphere.
	Massive carbon sequestration projects.
	In addition to slaughtering 70 million acres of trees, they're going to suck CO2 out of the atmosphere until they just collapse food crops worldwide.
	And they're going to either enslave or exterminate billions of human beings.
	You know, sorry to say that's where we are.
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	We've got three knives out right now, including the bushcrafting knife called Mass Ratio.
	So if you go to healthrangerstore.com, search for knife, you'll see the three knives that I co-designed there with Dawson.
	And then a fourth knife is coming out soon.
	Well, let's say within...
	In two months or less, let's say.
	And it's going to be called Escape from L.A. And I can't wait to show you that knife.
	And a lot of people are going to use it to literally escape from L.A. Or maybe they'll escape from Burning Man.
	If they're still stuck there when this knife comes out.
	I have to airdrop knives into Burning Man so they can escape without the other people eating them like cannibals or something.
	That situation could deteriorate rapidly.
	Yeah, it's funny.
	You know what you call the porta-potties at Burning Man?
	Lord of the Flies, of course.
	Imagine, imagine a thousand dumps of sewage in a porta-potty baked in the summer sun and overflowing with single-ply toilet paper.
	That's called Burning Man.
	Burning Man.
	Yeah.
	Okay, no thank you.
	Alright, anyway, I hate to leave it on that gross note right there.
	Gosh.
	People.
	If you go somewhere like that, don't you bring your own toilet paper?
	What's wrong with these people?
	Do they not bring toilet paper on a road trip?
	Seriously?
	Who doesn't bring toilet paper on a road trip?
	I mean, it's like prepping 101.
	You gotta have some teepee for your bunghole in Burning Man.
	Okay.
	Anyway, enough of that.
	Thank you for listening.
	Sorry about all the explicit kind of weird Burning Man references and all that stuff.
	I just had to...
	Explain it to you how insane that whole thing is, but nothing should surprise us anymore.
	We're living in, like, the fall of Rome here, and the degeneracy is off the charts, so it's going to get beyond even what any of us can imagine right now.
	All I'm saying is, gear up, folks.
	Gear up, because desperation is spreading rapidly.
	Alright, thank you for listening today.
	Of course, I'm Mike Adams here at BrightTown.com, NaturalNews.com, and I'm going to put here the interview with Ramiro from AbovePhone.com, and we are an affiliate of his company, and he's going to explain why a de-Googled phone is so critical for your protection, and so that your phone doesn't spy on you and report on you and get you arrested by the police or the FBI, by the way.
	AbovePhone.com slash BBN, which stands for Bright Town Broadcast News, or you can use DTV, which is Decentralized TV. Either one of those will give us credit if you purchase something from them.
	But even if you don't need a phone right now, you're going to learn a lot from Ramiro in this interview.
	So give it a listen.
	I think you'll be fascinated by what you learn.
	I learned a lot of things, too, in that interview.
	So check it out.
	Have a great day.
	Welcome to Decentralized TV. I'm Mike Adams, the founder of Brighteon, and today we're joined by Romero from AbovePhone.com, who has a solution for de-Googled phones, something that we've been looking for for quite some time.
	We're really thrilled to have him on, and this show is now an affiliate of AbovePhone, which we'll explain in a second.
	Of course, we're joined by our co-host, Todd Pitner.
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	Great to have you on today.
	As always, Mike, it's Friday, my favorite day.
	I love it.
	I absolutely love being able to do this show.
	And as you know, my dog loves it, too.
	He wants to jump up on the desk right now.
	Go ahead and show camera, too, so people can see.
	Like, there he is with the rings, ready to see him with the toys.
	He's just waiting for me to say the right words.
	He can jump up there.
	But he's ready to go.
	So hopefully he'll stay off the desk for the duration of the show.
	But let me invite our guest, Ramiro from AbovePhone.com.
	Welcome, Ramiro.
	It's great to have you on.
	And we really love the solutions that you bring.
	Hey, Mike.
	It's a pleasure to be here with y'all.
	What's up, y'all?
	And yeah, looking forward to getting into it today.
	Well, absolutely.
	And let me give a little background about how we actually first met and I found out about your company.
	You had a booth at an event in Central Texas put on by John Bush at the Live Free Academy.
	And I actually grabbed some of your literature.
	And of course, I've been running a de-Googled phone for several years, different operating systems.
	I've done like three or four different de-Googled phones.
	But I never could find somebody who could offer them and support them and had like a suite of software until I found your company, Above Phone.
	So I reached out to you, invited you onto this show.
	We do have an affiliate arrangement at no additional cost to the customer.
	This show gets compensated a small amount if you purchase a phone from Above Phone.
	But that's all there is to it.
	It's real simple.
	So, Romero, thank you for being public, for having a booth, for traveling, and Making your solution available.
	It's great to have you on.
	Well, yeah, thanks a lot.
	I think that one of the opportunities that all of us have is we can look at the ways that establishment companies are doing things, right?
	And ask ourselves, can we do better?
	And that's just...
	What we ended up finding, a better way to do phones and communications.
	And yeah, I've been watching your show for a while.
	You've been on this kick for quite a long time, so I appreciate you filling in your audience ahead of time.
	It'll make this a lot easier.
	You are actually filling in the missing gap on the show.
	And Todd, you know, like we've interviewed amazing people with crypto technology, amazing people in finance and decentralized finance and taxation and all that stuff.
	But Until today, we've never had a solution provider in the de-Googled phone space, and that's critical for privacy, don't you think?
	Oh, my goodness.
	Todd?
	I can't wait.
	I'm looking forward to just treat me like a newbie to all of this.
	You know, I'm that guy that many of our audience are probably, too, who has just been used to my iPhone forever, and I need to stop.
	Yeah, it's a spy machine.
	So I'm going to be a...
	I'm going to be a sponge today, and we'll probably ask you some, I don't know, remedial questions.
	But maybe there's some of the same questions that you get from people who, I understand, you've gotten quite a good amount of people who have inquired and purchased some of your Above Phone.
	So congratulations on that.
	Let me bring up the website.
	I'm sorry to interrupt, Romero, but let me bring up the website.
	Can you show it, guys?
	It's abovephone.com.
	And if you put slash DTV, On that URL, then that's our affiliate link that helps support us.
	But you can, as it says here, replace big tech with your private ecosystem.
	Works anywhere with any SIM card.
	And so now it's all back to you, Romero.
	So tell us what you're offering, the hardware that you're offering, which I believe the Google Pixel phones, and how it works to protect your privacy.
	Sure.
	Yeah, let me preface this by saying that I think people get this perspective of switching to this phone that has to be difficult or hard or they're going to have to make a lot of sacrifices.
	No, that's not the case.
	And, you know, that's kind of our job to be that pillar of education to give you the easiest route possible.
	And it's also important to mention that, you know, Google and Apple, they don't want you leaving their ecosystem.
	So they do try and put up a little bit of roadblocks.
	So it's kind of, we have to work together.
	But once you find you're on the other side, you'll find that you'll have complete ownership of your data.
	You'll find that you have peace of mind because you're actually aware of all the trackers.
	If there are any in your apps, you're actually making an informed consent to the data you want to share.
	And it's a way more holistic way of living.
	Based on, you know, when you're talking about organic food versus GMO food, this is organic software, organic technology.
	So it's really exciting to be exploring that.
	And so, yeah, so let me talk about what we do at Above Phone.
	So we're using de-Googled operating systems.
	You know, Mike has talked about that and shows previous.
	And what we've done is we've filled in the missing link.
	When you get one of these de-Googled operating systems, you know, there's not an app store on there.
	You're not really sure where to start.
	So there's a lot of best practical defaults and decisions you need to make on the apps, as well as the missing links for how you're going to communicate.
	How you're going to access the internet and how you're going to do that in the most private manner.
	So that's what we do.
	We help you.
	And when you purchase a phone with us, you know that there's human interaction folded in there.
	You get an hour long support call with your phone.
	So if you know, maybe if you're new to technology or maybe if this is your first phone, Don't feel intimidated.
	We're here to help and we have the infrastructure and we have the people, real technologists that are making their way outside of the mainstream to help you with this.
	And so we kind of need each other to make this work.
	So we sell the phone, which is a one-time purchase.
	But I always wanted to mention if you're feeling up to it and you can read technical documentation and follow along, you can always do this at home.
	You can go to graphenos.org and you can look at the instructions there and you can choose to do this at home.
	I just want to be fair and say, you know, you always have that capacity.
	Some of us don't have the time and that's where this can really help out.
	And you can learn a lot from what we're doing as well.
	Let me jump in, Romero.
	I want to be clear to the audience that graphene, and I ran that operating system for a couple of years, and I'm running it now on one of the phones I got from you, but...
	People need to understand that graphene runs on Google Pixel phone hardware that has been de-Googled.
	And the way I describe it is like in the Terminator series, if you capture a Terminator and then you erase its memory and you reprogram it to protect John Connor in Terminator 2.
	That's what we're doing with the Google phones.
	Google is evil.
	But the hardware is very usable if you wipe its mind and then you install a whole new thing, which is called Graphene OS, and then there's no Google footprint on that operating system.
	So it's kind of like the hardware goes through an exorcism and then finds Jesus?
	Yeah, that's a good description, maybe.
	Yeah, we take the evil out of the Google phone.
	Yeah, and so yeah, that's exactly what happens.
	You're flashing the operating system.
	And then what the more important part is, is now the code that's running on your phone is transparent.
	You can go look at how the code works.
	You can even make modifications if you want, right?
	That's free and open source software.
	So now, every single last function in your phone, you can go look at the respective code, you can see what it does, you can ask questions.
	That's a level of transparency that big tech cannot give you.
	It also gives you a way to contribute to the larger effort, right?
	There's a whole community of people shaping how this software works for everyone.
	So that's a really exciting part of it.
	And just to touch on the whole Google Pixel thing, a lot of people have the perspective like, All right, well, we have to use this hardware that's made by Google.
	How close are we actually getting here?
	Can't they break into the phone somehow because it's Google?
	Well, I think you have to take a Pareto principle to this entire thing, which is that we want to do all of the things that are reasonable that will greatly improve our privacy.
	And so this phone does that, and our team has validated this, right?
	The Graphene OS team, they list out every network connection that your phone will make when it connects to the internet for things like updates, checking time, and we've gone through and seen that, all right, those are actually the only requests being sent off the phone.
	More than that, we've compared that to a traditional phone, and when you turn a traditional phone on, There are thousands of requests.
	It's continuously going.
	We've seen these results.
	There's independent studies like the Trinity College in Ireland that actually tell you what is being sent over and how much data is being sent over.
	So compared to a normal phone, there are no connections to Google.
	There are no connections to Apple.
	And that is getting you so far, so far ahead in terms of your privacy game.
	Yeah, it's critical, and I think our audience knows this, but let's just cover it.
	Both iPhones and Android phones, which all run from the stores, from AT&T or whoever, they run Google.
	It's a Google Android.
	And Apple's iPhones, both of those are just spy devices.
	They spy on you constantly.
	They spy on your location.
	They spy on your activities.
	Even if you turn off your iPhone, the battery still provides power and is tracking your location.
	And we need to mention to people that these geofencing warrants can get you swept up or arrested, even imprisoned.
	Simply because you were in a physical location at the time that something went down, even if you violated no law yourself.
	I mean, this is what happened in January 6th.
	So a lot of people in jail in D.C. right now were simply there, and they did nothing else wrong, but their phone testified against them, and that's because the government went to Google and said, tell us who's there in this location.
	So am I right about that, Romero, that just your location alone can be used against you?
	Yeah, 100%.
	Any phone that has location services in the Android ecosystem, Google location services, if that exists, that is Logging your location over time.
	And so you mentioned the January 6th protests that they used geofence warrants to fine and prosecute those people.
	There's also instances where you're not even out of place, but maybe you left your Google account logged into another phone, as was the case with Jorge Molina, a man in Arizona who got wrongfully arrested for murder and lost a lot.
	When it turned out, his stepfather borrowed his phone and was involved with a murder.
	So you can be wrongfully imprisoned and that happens pretty, you know, that happens.
	And so there's really in the landscape of your phone, there's three layers that you need to be looking at to protect your privacy.
	One is the operating system and that combines like all of these services that are running on the phone that might be running for advertising, might be running for locations, might be security services even.
	So these de-Googled phones do not have those centralized services, right?
	That's the operating system.
	Then there are the apps, which apps also have hidden trackers in them.
	In fact, we'll look at a few later on on a real de-Googled phone.
	And typically, there is an average of five trackers in the Android ecosystem.
	It's a similar amount, right?
	These are like third-party companies that don't actually need to be in the apps or are part of the apps.
	And because they're part of the apps, they also have all the same permissions that you have granted that app.
	So let's say someone's using Facebook advertising services, but the app does something completely different.
	Let's say it's like a compass or something.
	And you give it access to your accelerometer.
	Maybe it uses the microphone for some reason.
	So those third-party trackers also have access to that, right?
	So using a degugled phone gives you more tools, tools that you can use to audit the amount of trackers in your app.
	The last thing, which I'll briefly mention, is telecom, telecommunications.
	If you look at the formation of telecom, It was started in the beginning to assist law enforcement, right?
	There was that 1994 law, CALEA Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, that required telecom providers to be able to hand over call detail records and text messages to law enforcement at any time for any investigation.
	So, right, that is all stuff that has due process.
	Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, you know, the biggest three players, and companies that run off of their infrastructure, They are all required to do this, so there's a warrant policy, right, if they want those records.
	But that is for due process.
	There's also secret programs, for instance, to drug enforcement agencies Hemisphere program that are silently collecting 40 billion call detail records a year.
	So one of the most important missions Above Phone has, and my work for Take Back Our Tech has, is making people aware we cannot rely on telecommunications infrastructure to communicate.
	Like, phone calls and texts are not private, and we should be using encrypted internet-based communications, which I know you've been talking about a lot, Mike.
	Yeah, that's right.
	And the key is that's data rather than actual native voice or SMS, which is what the telecom companies watch.
	watch and they can triangulate your position if you're driving around with a phone that's registered as a voice capable phone.
	So what the de-Googled phones do from above phone, and correct me if I'm wrong, Ramiro, but you get a phone number and an app and messaging apps that are all pre-installed, ready to go.
	There is a small monthly fee for the phone number.
	It's hardly anything.
	But then your phone operates in data mode with the cell towers.
	So the cell towers don't even see your phone as a, quote, phone, not like a normal phone.
	They see it as a data provider, which normally is associated with maybe a security camera or like a wildlife camera or maybe a GPS tracker or something like that.
	So that's what they see it as.
	But you're still able to make and receive phone calls, to send and receive messages using more secure apps.
	So people don't have to give up being reachable.
	It's just that they're doing it in a more secure and private way, correct?
	And they also have more flexibility.
	And I'd love to show you, if we could get the phone on screen, what this new communication actually looks like.
	Can I ask one quick question before you go into that?
	Sure.
	With what you just said, Mike, if I have a de-Googled phone and I have a phone number, but my wife just has her regular phone, she's not going to give it up, you know?
	And can she call me?
	If she doesn't have that same app that I do...
	Yeah, she can call you.
	So she can call from any mobile phone.
	Yeah, from any phone.
	It goes through an exchange that...
	That then translates it into data and then reaches you on your app on your phone.
	Okay, that's a game changer for me.
	That'd be great.
	Great.
	Yeah, so you're not losing compatibility, right?
	And as mentioned, there's two ways for you to communicate.
	You can take your existing SIM card with your existing number activated on it, put it into this phone, and you can use native calling and text messages.
	It works exactly like a phone does.
	The people on the other side, it's coming from the same phone number.
	Then you're also given an Internet phone number.
	Now, this is special because instead of connecting to the nearest cell tower and that cell tower knowing, oh, OK, Mike's calling from this general location and he's connecting to these different cell towers.
	Instead, what happens is the call is sent over.
	Before it even leaves the phone, all those packets, all that data is encrypted by your VPN.
	Then it goes through a chat protocol called XMPP, which you can use for end to end encrypted messaging, voice calls, video calls.
	You can do all that stuff.
	And it's completely decentralized.
	So think Signal that you can run for yourself at home.
	And so this will bridge out from one place where it connects to the phone network.
	So now instead of knowing what radio towers you're using or where exactly you are making the call, now it just comes from one place in Canada with our partners at GMP, which we used to run the internet phone service.
	So if you could bring the phone back on screen, I'll show you what that looks like.
	So it's this app called Geogram, right?
	And so this is an XMPP client, right?
	XMPP is a chat protocol, so it's just an app used to use your chat protocol.
	Now, these are contacts on my phone.
	I've just prettied them up a little bit.
	So when I talk to Bob Smith, you see this thing.
	This is a fake number, by the way.
	You see this thing that looks like an email address, but that's an XMPP address that eventually will bridge out to the phone network.
	You'll also see that I have a button to call him here.
	So that works exactly like you think it would.
	It calls him, and Bob will see My number on the other end.
	So when you use our service, which is AboveSuite, which gives you this chat protocol along with a bunch of other decentralized software, such as email, video conferencing, the VPN I was talking about, you are completing your privacy, right?
	It's not just about the phone and the apps, but the services you use, too.
	Right.
	Is it possible?
	Would you mind just showing a little bit of leg and telling us what would one of these Google phones cost and what would, like, the above suite or the additional services, what would that run us?
	And I think we'd all have some better contacts.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	So the phones start at $550, and they go over $1,000, depending on which model you want, and I can talk about the differences.
	So you just pay for one cost of the phone.
	It's not an ongoing cost or anything.
	There's no financing involved.
	So you just pay for the phone and you have it.
	And then if you want to get above suite, which is optional but highly recommended, so we're running email, chat, video conferencing.
	I'm sure you guys heard a little bit about Zoom and what they're doing training the video conferencing on AI. So this is a private and decentralized version of Zoom called Gypsy.
	You get that, you get your own private search engine, and you get a calendar.
	So you get all those services for $100 a year.
	This is just the start of something really big.
	Our goal is to give people who are working, to get independent of the system, all these internet utilities we have just taken for granted.
	And a lot of people have taken control over it.
	So we want to decentralize them.
	We want to give people useful tools so maybe in the future they're not using Google Maps to get to their destination, but instead they have a private map shared among members of their community so they know exactly where to go to get eggs and stuff like that.
	But the map, so...
	I'm not as smart as my dad.
	My dad used to be able to read these detailed maps, you know?
	I just have my phone.
	So what do I do then if I want to be able to go over, drive over to Orlando, a specific address?
	These days there are no maps to be able to do that.
	And will there be a map that I can use in there that goes anywhere and everywhere?
	Or a map service?
	Absolutely.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	And not just one map, we have multiple.
	And I have it pulled up on the phone right now, if you want to take a look, and I can give you an example.
	So, right, this is an application called OpenStreetMaps Android.
	And OpenStreetMaps is a crowdsourced collection of maps and points of interest on the map.
	So, it thinks I'm in Seattle right now because of the VPN. Right.
	I can look up things like, you know...
	Drugged out zombies on the side of the street?
	Can we do the doom loop tour?
	Urinali?
	Feces fairway in San Francisco?
	Can we go there?
	I don't know if that one's on the map, but I will say this.
	There have been parts of the United States that I've traveled to that I've been pleasantly surprised.
	This OpenStreetMaps is not like Google.
	They're not going around hoovering up all the data and all the businesses and where they're located.
	This is all based on people contributing to the map.
	So in European countries, the map is actually really fleshed out.
	Here in America, there are some cities that do a really good job of people just like us.
	So there's also this network effect, which I think people need to realize.
	It's not just us using the software and everything's going to be handed on to the platter.
	The more we contribute, and in this case, we're adding on points to the map, The better it'll work for everyone, right?
	So we can add to it.
	So what this does, this mapping app I'm using, Ausmund, this allows for offline navigation.
	So you will typically download maps to your phone ahead of time, like for an entire state.
	You can do the entire country, and then you can take a road trip offline.
	That's cool.
	Radio off, right?
	Yep.
	And so this is tools preparing for the future.
	Can I also mention that you accept crypto as payment for...
	Absolutely.
	Right, right.
	And including Monero, privacy coins.
	Including Monero.
	You know, it's not just about...
	We've got to think like holistically, right?
	So we're...
	We're open to making it as private as possible for you.
	We've accepted Bitcoin and Monero since day one.
	We didn't start the shop until that.
	If you look, we care about every last part of the experience.
	If you look at our website and you look at the requests that are being made, there are no third parties.
	We have our own data center.
	All the software that we run to manage our inventory, manage our marketing relationships, all of that is run by ourselves.
	And so we really believe in limiting the trust to third parties and trying to, you know, completely self-contain everything.
	And so cryptocurrency fits right in with that.
	Romero, I'm just curious, where did you get the passion to be able to do this?
	And why?
	When did you begin?
	I'm just interested in a little bit of your history.
	I used to be a software engineer.
	Working for big tech, that was literally the aspiration for everyone in my shoes.
	I've worked at multi-billion dollar companies.
	I've worked at really tiny startups.
	I always felt something was missing.
	Like, oh wow, we're spending all this money building this product.
	What is it actually going to change?
	I've been awake for a very long time.
	And of course, it was the height of the pandemic that really shook me out of it and made me realize that I need to do something really significant.
	And I've been working with Derek Brose and John Bush at the time for the Freedom Cell Network, which back then it was this little site.
	And so I met them through a Freedom Cell meeting and I decided, hey, We're good to go.
	Oh my God, there's so much power in technology.
	You know, it starts out digital, but it turns into physical things that we're doing together.
	And that's what we need.
	We need a network that is, you know, bringing about these positive changes, not trying to control us.
	Now, Romero, I mean, we love your philosophy, and we had John Bush here in studio a couple weeks ago, and we really support what he's doing, exit and build, right?
	And Freedom Cells, which I know, Todd, you were looking up Freedom Cells in Florida also, checking that out.
	But what I want to mention here is that people are sometimes afraid to take a leap out of something they know, like their Google Android phone or their iPhone, or they may not even be aware that it's a spy machine.
	Like a lot of people are just oblivious, and they just blindly trust big tech, which is a horribly unwise thing to do.
	But people have this impression that switching over to these phones is going to be crazy difficult or inconvenient.
	And I just got to say, this is one idea.
	I'm actually running a different OS on a Samsung here right now.
	But I've also got one of your Google Pixel 7s and some other phones.
	And it works flawlessly.
	And then you can actually feel confident that you go to a restaurant...
	You know that that's not ever going to be used against you or maybe the restaurant is next to, I don't know, like an alcohol store that gets robbed and you're in the restaurant, you're 50 feet away from the robbery.
	Well, you can eat your hamburger at the restaurant and Your $50 hamburger because of inflation.
	And you can then, you can know, you can live in peace knowing that you're not going to be wrapped up in some kind of geofencing warrant because something happened there, right?
	So, Romero, talk to us about the ease of transitioning into this.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	So it is easy.
	It really is easy.
	There's only one physical thing you need to do, and that is put your SIM card in the phone.
	And then we've got guides for everything.
	But I think the most important part is just...
	You've got apps.
	They work all the same way.
	You've got a dialer.
	You've got a web browser.
	And it's all conventions that you've been used to because Android has been learning from iPhone, right?
	A lot of the things that make iPhone easy to use, like the gestures and everything, have been brought over.
	So you're getting the best of both worlds.
	You're getting these really well-defined user experiences, but in a de-Googled phone.
	You're getting all the updates and latest features that Google and Apple bring to the table, but not the bad ones, right?
	These developers are selectively making updates.
	And also, I wanted to show you some features that you cannot do on a normal phone.
	Please, go ahead.
	So this is one such feature.
	So I'm going to audit the permissions of this Telegram app, right?
	So with this Telegram app, these permissions, you've got normal ones like camera and microphone, which you can block here, or you can even block at the phone level.
	I could turn it off for the entire phone if I want.
	I could turn off the radio.
	I could turn off the location from up here.
	But within this, I can turn off an app's network access or its internet access.
	I can make them offline only.
	Wow.
	More than that.
	We have a lot of customers in Latin America.
	Down in Latin America, WhatsApp is a way of life.
	So everyone uses WhatsApp.
	And what does WhatsApp require?
	Well, it needs access to your entire phone's images and also your contacts.
	So what Graphene OS does is it allows you to actually break down which contacts you decide to share.
	So I could say, okay, I'm using WhatsApp.
	I want to use Alice and Eve, and I'll just give WhatsApp access to that, because those are the only contacts I even use on WhatsApp.
	And the rest of the people, you don't actually know about.
	That is so cool.
	I know.
	It's really revolutionary.
	And you have to think about when apps suck up your contacts, they are easily creating an information graph.
	There's apps that you wouldn't expect to do that, like Signal, but they do do that.
	So now you have tools to just isolate, just shorten their access.
	Yeah.
	Now, Romero, I've been plugging your phone on my podcast for a few days.
	And as a result, some of the people that we reach have already reached out to you and have acquired phones.
	And I just want to know, like, what kinds of questions are you hearing from people or what level of knowledge do they have?
	Just give us a little taste of that so far.
	Absolutely.
	So the questions they have are, let's start with the simplest one.
	Does it work with my cell service?
	Yes.
	Overwhelmingly, yes.
	If you have a SIM card from 10 years ago, maybe not.
	But for 99.9% of people, your cell service will work.
	So, you know...
	You simply take your old SIM card and plug it in the phone.
	That means any country on earth that uses a SIM card, this will work with above phone.
	So, Romero, question.
	So does that then render my current iPhone that I have, my spy phone, a paperweight when I remove the SIM card and put it in the de-Google?
	Well, you can use data from it, but why would you?
	It's spying on you.
	You should brick that sucker.
	Yeah.
	Nice favorite way.
	So here's the beautiful thing, Todd.
	You have strategies and not everything is, you know, everyone picks their own strategy.
	So some people are ready.
	They're ready to move off.
	There's not anything they need their Apple for.
	And they're more than willing to switch everything on to their above phone.
	There's other people that want to use both phones at the same time, so they're kind of doing a parallel migration.
	And that's completely okay, too.
	The above phone, the internet phone number I'm talking about, that will work completely with Wi-Fi.
	Some people decide to get a brand-new cell service or even use our above SIM, our anonymous SIM that doesn't need customer data.
	They decide to use that with their above phone and keep their iPhone the same way.
	I've got to ask you about the above SIM. Let's not miss that one.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	So people ask, you know, am I going to still be able to do everything I was on my old phone?
	I think that's like the biggest question.
	Yes, in 99% of cases.
	Now, here are the things that don't work, just to be clear.
	Graphic intensive 3D applications.
	So if you're using like AutoCAD on your phone or you're playing like Candy Crush or a 3D game, Not going to happen.
	The reason because is the hardened memory allocator in this phone, which basically means it's erasing memory constantly.
	So, you know, other programs can't read it.
	So for that reason, games don't work.
	Not to say all games, but the graphic intensive ones.
	The other things that you have to make adjustments to are apps that require Google services, which there's actually a lot.
	Uber, Lyft, Airbnb, all of these require Google location services.
	So it's not going to find out where you're at exactly automatically or anything like that.
	And so you have alternatives.
	Either you can use the app in the web browser, which is a nice way to adapt.
	Or you can install Google Services if you even choose to.
	But this version of Google Services is much better and much safer because it runs at a level as any other app on the phone, which means it doesn't have access to hardware identifiers like the serial number or IMEI or different things like that.
	That's a Graphene OS feature, so it actually locks it down.
	And you can install Google services on an isolated profile.
	So I'll say this one last thing because I think it's really neat.
	And then we'll go back to the same question.
	So if you could show my phone, I actually have three separate profiles.
	This is my personal phone.
	And so you see the owner phone on the left.
	But I actually have two other phones inside my phone.
	So this demo phone, it's set up with everything specific to it.
	It's got its own VPN here.
	This is the above VPN. You can see it's turned on.
	It's got its own settings.
	It's got its own apps.
	So it's a way to have multiple identities on one phone.
	So a lot of people decide to install Google services on this secondary phone, do their protections, make sure their main apps and main data is separated from that secondary profile and only need it for if they need to use Uber or Lyft or, you know, like an airline app or a banking app.
	Wow.
	So that's kind of, I mean, that's partitioning of the whole phone function right there.
	So I can be Clark Kent, and then I can choose to be Superman, is what you're saying.
	I love that example.
	It's exactly right.
	And nobody knows that Clark Kent is Superman because of the glasses, obviously.
	Glasses throws everybody off.
	Doesn't the Druid Babylonian bastards know when you're in Clark Kent mode because you have Google services and they can see you?
	No, we're saying like you would install just Google services on Superman mode.
	Won't that track to your phone?
	I mean...
	So the way it works, right, it's a network connection.
	So when Google services connects, the main thing it gets is an Android ID, which the Android ID regularly changes.
	So because it's not running at a privileged level, it's not getting any device identifiers.
	So if you're using a VPN, it's not actually seeing where you're connecting from.
	So that's the big deal.
	That's part number one.
	Part number two is, remember, Google services is entirely optional.
	You only need it if they're apps you absolutely must use the app for.
	Again, they're workarounds.
	So you can keep that off the phone.
	I recommend that people keep it off the phone.
	I think the workarounds work great.
	I agree.
	I don't run Google services at all on any of my de-Googled phones, and I never have.
	But then again, I don't use Uber and Lyft because I own a vehicle.
	And, I mean, I'm an adult.
	I drive a car.
	Well, a truck.
	I'm a Texan, okay?
	I'll just go all the way.
	All the line.
	I drive a truck, and I don't go to Airbnbs either, so I don't need any of that stuff.
	And when you don't have the truck, you have the horse, right?
	What browser does it run?
	It uses a browser called Vanadium, which is a hardened version of Google's Chromium browser, right?
	So it's another instance of taking Google's browser and stripping all of the requests to Google out of it.
	Okay.
	I do want to mention, too, that we are working on a laptop soon, and it'll be released in the next week or two.
	And so one of the things that's really special about this phone and why I recommend you get involved Every single one of the services we run can be run on your laptop.
	I call this universal internet utility.
	It doesn't matter what device you use, whether it's the above phone, your laptop, even your iPhone.
	Everything we're running is designed to be run on any device, right?
	And that's the freedom to travel.
	That's the freedom to migrate.
	So this will be available, yeah, in the next two weeks.
	And you'll see the email sign up on our website if you guys want to get more information on that.
	I'm really...
	Oh my gosh.
	I'm totally fascinated, yeah.
	Should I be second-guessing my computer purchase yesterday?
	No, no, no.
	You need that system as a desktop system.
	But I think we both need to get one of these above-phone laptops.
	Is it going to be called an above-laptop?
	It's called Above Book.
	We'll have Above Books for both of you.
	You're going to love it.
	If I were head of marketing, I would have just called it Lap Dance.
	The Lap Dancer.
	Sorry.
	Maybe like a pole as a logo or something?
	Yeah, there you go.
	Where you absolutely need geolocation privacy.
	If you're going out and getting lap dances, you better be paying with Monero or cash.
	I don't know.
	So the cool part, right, is like these universal internet utilities.
	So imagine this.
	You're sending text messages from your laptop.
	You can do that.
	The phone number on my business card, those text messages go to my laptop.
	I can reply in the same way.
	We're working on deploying a software that will let you do phone calls in the browser.
	Again, this is, you know, this is anonymous because you're not putting in any personal information to get this phone number.
	It works internationally.
	People can call you and leave voicemails and that turns out to be a little voice message that you can play.
	It has all of the functionality, if not more than a regular phone.
	So that's the really exciting part.
	Man, Romero, I'm just so thrilled that we met and that you're offering these solutions and that you know so much about this and you're putting these together.
	I feel like every person in America should be using...
	I mean, this should be the default, is de-Googled.
	And people just don't know that they're using all these spy phone devices.
	But I got to ask you, Romero, who was the kid at the event that was running around inviting everybody to see your presentation at the booth?
	Because that was like salesman of the year.
	That kid is amazing.
	I forgot his name.
	We were working on a barter situation where he was like, hey, please have a phone for me.
	I'll promote you everywhere.
	And so I was like, all right, let's do it.
	And I was holding...
	If you're out there, if you see this, I still have your phone.
	He didn't end up coming the last day, so I still have a phone for him.
	That kid is awesome, and I'd like to see him at Comic-Con like he was promising.
	Oh, you mean so?
	Okay, so you don't know where...
	Like, he hasn't been in touch?
	He was there with his parents.
	And yeah, I was telling him, come by with your parents.
	Let's talk about it.
	Let's see what we can do.
	And unfortunately, it didn't happen.
	But maybe it'll make its way around again.
	Well, he has a future in sales and marketing.
	I can guarantee you that.
	Because he came up to us multiple times.
	And everybody in that building, he was like, you've got to see the above phone presentation.
	It's really amazing.
	And it's starting in three minutes.
	How old was he?
	Like 11?
	To 12, 13?
	Something like that.
	Yeah.
	He was really good, man.
	You know what would be cool?
	You know what would be cool, Mike?
	Romero, let's find him and then do another one of these where, you know, we ask his opinion, right?
	Yes.
	Let him use it and get the kid's perspective of the above phone.
	But anyway, I mean, that...
	I thought maybe he was a family member or something because he was really effective.
	But literally, that's how I found out about you.
	And then I went to your table and then got your material.
	And the rest is history.
	And here we are talking about this.
	So you just never know.
	You completed the loop with that one.
	Yeah, because I mean, you know, he came up to me the first thing I was there and he was like, I'll promote you.
	And you really didn't know what to expect.
	Well, turns out he booked me an interview with Mike Adams.
	Exactly.
	I mean, you should definitely find him and give him a phone because he's earned it for sure.
	But anyway, Todd, I was interrupting you.
	I'm sorry.
	What did you want to say?
	No, I was just thinking that it's, you know, Romero, it's people like you that with my new website, Mike, I'll just share it.
	It's decentralizeddirectory.com.
	My want is to populate it with companies' solutions just like yours that are dedicated to decentralization.
	So I want to talk to you about that at some point to be able to feature you in there.
	It's a perfect fit.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, I would love that.
	The laptop is just, you had me at hello on that because I'm like literally in the market right now for a laptop.
	Well, it's only a week or two away, right?
	Yes.
	And so here's the big takeaway I had.
	It's like, why are all these ecosystems so effective?
	Why is all the software you use in Apple, why is it so nice?
	It's all because it's integrated together.
	They've made an ecosystem.
	And with my team, we've been thinking about how can we integrate all of these different decentralized pieces to make it fluid?
	And we've been figuring it out.
	We've been finding the best software.
	And yeah, so I'm really excited.
	It's going to have industry standard features like full disk encryption.
	And then you're going to be able to do pretty much everything you would expect.
	When you open the browser, it's already made as private as possible.
	You've got all the same communication services.
	What about word processing?
	What I think of is just Outlook.
	OpenOffice, right?
	Wouldn't you just put OpenOffice on there?
	Oh, there's such a thing.
	See, I'm not an Android guy.
	LibreOffice.
	Libre?
	No, I meant on the laptop.
	Yes, I think it's called LibreOffice.
	What OS is the laptop running?
	Is it running Android?
	It's going to be running Linux.
	Oh, okay.
	That makes more sense.
	I'm so excited.
	So perfect for your crypto wallets, too, there, Todd.
	Yeah.
	Oh, I'm so excited.
	I want to just mention one thing, too, because I think this is super important.
	Mike, I know you guys have been talking about I want people to realize these pipelines, this technology that we go to the store and we're given choice A or choice B, it's exactly through these mainstream means that they're going to try to change human behavior.
	So collectively, Google and Apple have access to 7 billion phones where they have the ability to roll out software updates.
	They have the ability to install apps on your phone, and they did that during the height of contact tracing.
	They actually forcibly installed a contact tracing app to over a million phones in Massachusetts.
	And so that turned Bluetooth on.
	That started pinging.
	They were able to do that remotely.
	So they have this capacity.
	And when it gets time to, you know, they've already worked on this infrastructure where they can go ahead and talk to state health departments.
	And they collaborate and they share files.
	And Google and Apple will offer to make the state a contact tracing solution for free.
	They've already kind of set up how to interact with state and federal agencies.
	When it's time to roll out the CBDCs, my prediction within like the next two to three years, Google and Apple will roll out their own solution and it'll be available everywhere at once.
	So, you know, that's how they...
	That's huge breaking news, what you just said.
	I think you just nailed it.
	I didn't think of that before.
	You're right.
	It's not like people are going to have to go download some new app from the Federal Reserve or anything.
	They're just going to pick up their spy phone, their Android one day, and open it up.
	It's like, welcome to your universal basic income.
	Yeah.
	You're already enrolled.
	It's going to be a mobile rape.
	Yeah.
	No, it's going to say, look closely into the camera so we can scan your eyeballs for self-identity and whatever, and then...
	You're already in.
	You're in by default.
	You're right, Romero.
	That's the way they're going to do it.
	Wow.
	Absolutely.
	I learned this.
	I'm doing a longer investigative piece on my educational initiative, which is called Take Back Our Tech.
	TakebackRtech.org.
	It goes into the contact tracing lie, how it's based on flawed science in the first place.
	Using Bluetooth packets doesn't actually work to get the right distance from each other, even if the distance was a way to stop the spread of any of this.
	But it also goes into, all right, what happened between Google and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health for them to authorize a mass deployment onto over a million phones?
	So they're currently being sued by the New Civil Liberties Association.
	The good one, right.
	Yeah.
	So yeah, we'll see how it plays out.
	And then, you know, there's all these other companies behind the scenes that are, when you buy a phone from the store, like a Samsung phone, They also have these elevated privileges that would allow them to do special things like that, right?
	So that's just something to watch out for, and I hope we can all detoxify our devices so we live in a climate.
	Operation detox.
	That's the perfect metaphor, yeah.
	Detoxify your phone and de-Google your phone.
	And take the evil out of the Google hardware.
	Now, I've got to ask you about the anonymous SIM cards.
	So, through your company, AbovePhone.com slash DTV... And again, we are an affiliate of Above Phone, and I'm thrilled to be an affiliate of yours, by the way, Ramiro.
	You have the best solution.
	I bought de-Googled phones.
	I bought them on eBay.
	I bought them from Hong Kong.
	I bought them from different places.
	And they come with kind of like a mishmash of apps that sometimes work and sometimes don't.
	It's not as sweet like what you offer.
	You have the best solution that I've ever seen.
	But the data-only SIM cards that you offer where people can buy the data with Monero, that is perfect because it disconnects your identity or your credit card or your social from the data that the cell towers are passing that is perfect because it disconnects your identity or your credit card or So tell us about that, Ramiro.
	I think it's critical.
	We launched this data-only sim earlier this year.
	And what we were going for was, okay, we are promoting internet-based communications.
	What do we even need phone calls and texts for?
	And so through a partner, we were able to provide these above SIMs, which, like you mentioned, you can pay for in Bitcoin, you can pay for in Monero, and there's no contracts.
	So it's pay-as-you-go.
	When you buy one of the SIM cards for $100, it comes with 5 gigabytes of data.
	You use that over time, and then you refresh.
	I think it's like $7 a gigabyte from there, right, in a yearly activation fee.
	But again, it's pay-as-you-go.
	There's no contracts.
	You can pay in Bitcoin.
	You can pay in Monero.
	Most importantly, we don't need any piece of information from you.
	The last thing I'll mention about this is I don't want to misinform people if people are going to go off-grid, but just Inherently, the way cellular data works, it is going to connect the radio towers.
	The radio towers are going to have an idea that, all right, here's this new SIM card.
	It's connecting to the network using this phone.
	There are IDs transferred just as a part of doing that.
	So I don't want to mislead people in thinking that, all right, if I use this SIM card, I'm going to be completely gone off the grid.
	Not necessarily, but you're making it that much harder for them to tie an identity to the person who's using that SIM card.
	So I think they're a great solution.
	Yeah, and I would add, Romero, that I think it's a good practice to have entirely new hardware, such as a new Google Pixel phone from your company.
	And then put that data-only anonymous SIM card in that hardware so that that hardware and that IMEI number and that SIM card number and all of that has never ever touched a Google login.
	It's never been associated with any app or any Google packets at any time.
	So that's why I would even say to people, like you were talking about, Todd, can you take your SIM card out of your current phone and plug it into this phone?
	Yes, you can.
	But then there is some tying information of the SIM card.
	I think I'm just going to have two phones.
	A lot of people do that.
	And I roll around with this that is data only.
	I don't have a regular phone number.
	I can't receive phone calls or texts on this phone.
	It's only data, and that's by design.
	That's the way I like to do it.
	That's why you roll.
	Yeah, and people say, well, I can't call you on the regular phone.
	And I'm like, well, use these other apps.
	It's that simple.
	If you want to reach me, here's just a better way to do it.
	And, you know, it's kind of like, Todd, you know how when we talked about Like when I make donations now, I'm only donating in crypto.
	Yes.
	And this is the way we help evangelize these concepts.
	It's like, okay, hey, do you want to get some free money because we're doing some donations and you're doing some great work?
	And they're like, yeah.
	And I'm like, okay, install this wallet and then send me your receive address and then you're going to get it.
	And if you don't want the money, then don't install a wallet.
	Yeah.
	But Mike, the problem with that is it's going to give you too much time back because you aren't going to have to go to the bank and answer a million questions and troubleshoot.
	Hey, Ramiro, I have a question.
	So I have a question.
	World famous dog.
	His name is Zammie Pup.
	If you look him up on Instagram, he's a children's hospital therapy dog.
	Voted floofiest dog of Instagram.
	I take a lot of video of Zammie, especially when he's with the kids.
	And This is probably a stupid question, but I'm just not an Android guy.
	It has the ability to have the camera, have the video, and how much storage is on there to be able to save videos and pictures and such.
	Great question.
	So, yes, the dog sounds awesome.
	And so, all of her phones have good cameras, all the phones listed on the site, I would say.
	So, I've got it up on my screen, but if you scroll down, if you press the shop button, it'll take you down to all the phones.
	What I'd recommend...
	If you take a lot of photos, it's getting the Pixel 7 Pro because that's going to have the latest generation camera, 48 megapixel camera with optical zoom.
	That's a lot of pixels, man.
	A lot of megapixels even.
	And so, yeah, I would recommend that.
	And what about the storage, the memory?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	With the 7 Pro, you can get multiple types.
	So all the phones have at least 128 gigabytes of storage.
	The 7 Pro, you can get in 256 and 512.
	I will say that we've just been running out of 512.
	It's very hard to find 512.
	But 256 and 128 are available.
	We have a bank of phones in stock.
	They're going to go pretty fast.
	So, you know, if you guys order a phone and we're going to have to resupply, I would just recommend getting it earlier rather than later.
	I know that there's a big audience watching this.
	And yeah, so that's just what I would suggest.
	But we'll be doing our best to refresh inventory as fast as we can.
	Let me add a terabyte right here.
	This is a terabyte Samsung.
	Yeah.
	So I don't know if Google Pixel phones even go to a terabyte.
	Maybe they do.
	I was going to ask for two terabytes.
	Two terabytes.
	That's a lot of fluffy dog videos right there.
	I'll do you one better.
	How about this?
	The phone will do its thing, but I'm going to give you a really easy way to save your videos and photos on the above book, either through a private decentralized syncing software or just this handy-dandy USB drive, which let's see if that will let it focus.
	Okay, so you can see that this side's, like, kind of tiny.
	So this plugs into the phone.
	It's USB-C. Oh, cool.
	And then the other side plugs into the computer.
	So this is the same amount of space on the phone.
	So you can literally take everything on the phone, pop it in the computer, and...
	Oh, brilliant.
	Brilliant.
	Mike, would you be kind enough to give me Romero's contact information after this?
	Yeah, absolutely.
	No, of course.
	I love everything I heard today.
	You've got to get one of these phones, for sure.
	And we need the laptops as well.
	But I just want to say, Romero, I mean, first of all, it's brilliant what you're doing.
	I'm so thrilled to have made this contact.
	And we've got to find that kid and somehow thank him with everything.
	Whatever is going to make his day.
	But the bottom line is everybody watching this needs to use this technology that you're talking about.
	And in all fairness, like you said, Ramiro, people can go to the Graphene OS website and they can download it.
	And if you want to go through the steps and flash your own phone, which I've looked at, it's a little cumbersome, honestly.
	You've got to be kind of technically oriented to do it.
	But you can do it yourself at no cost, right?
	Or if you want above phone to do it, That's the address, abovephone.com slash DTV, with the suite of software that that's what really makes it special, like you're talking about.
	So you've put together something really amazing here.
	Amazing.
	And everybody, it is not an expense.
	This is an investment in your freedom.
	That's the other way you have to look at this.
	And, you know, Mike, you've been the tip of the spear with all of this, and I feel kind of like a chump carrying around my spy phone, but not after today's interview.
	I actually have a tip of the spear right here.
	Yes, you do!
	Yeah, so...
	We'll get you set up, Todd.
	And I just want to mention, too, that when you're purchasing a phone through us, we're trying to support all of these software developers that are working on the apps and working on the software.
	We donate to Graphene OS. We donate to the apps on the phone.
	So in a way, you're helping support the ecosystem when you get it from us.
	I do want to just do one last thing as a public service announcement.
	It's just something that is important to me.
	But Ethernet adapters, whether you have an above phone or you don't, take a look at Ethernet adapters because it turns out you can wire your phone using an Ethernet adapter and then you can make internet phone calls without any radiation.
	I've done talks on radiation for the World Council of Health.
	And the health effects coming from our mobile phones are really, really bad.
	So when I'm using my phone home at the office, there's zero radiation.
	Everything is wired.
	And when I do phone calls, those are usually wired as well.
	So I would just recommend everyone to avoid brain tumors, which we can see are going up.
	Glacial brain tumors are going up simply because of the usage of these phones.
	Keep it away from you or use an Ethernet adapter.
	You don't necessarily need an above phone to do this.
	So that's just a USB-C plug-in and an RJ45 jack on the other end?
	That's right.
	Yeah.
	Wow.
	And it typically works a lot better on Android than it does on iPhone.
	Yeah, iPhone doesn't work.
	Okay.
	Hey, by the way, speaking of iPhone, this is kind of funny, but yesterday, after four years of us being banned, Apple has now approved our app for naturalnews.com.
	Wow.
	After we sent them a legal letter threatening to sue them.
	Oh, that's right.
	You have to spend about $50,000 to get them to stop being assholes.
	Wow.
	Congratulations, Mike.
	Yep.
	So that's what it takes.
	I'm sorry that they're happening, you know, but, you know, it just goes to show that we cannot count on them to distribute the truth, right?
	We just have to put all of it into our own hands.
	You know, maybe we can help you build a progressive web app for natural news.
	Oh, I also wanted to show off one thing.
	Well, that last thing, I promise.
	Yeah, no, please go ahead.
	So I've got a private way to watch YouTube here.
	So I'm showing you on the phone screen.
	And look, I've got the Health Ranger report here.
	I know your YouTube probably faces censorship on the daily, but I wanted to show you one thing.
	This is an app called New Pipe.
	It is better than YouTube itself.
	See?
	Yeah, I don't have a channel on YouTube.
	That's somebody else sort of helping us get it on YouTube that I don't even know.
	I have one, though.
	What?
	I have one, so I'm really intrigued.
	Okay, go ahead, Romero, yeah.
	You can download the video to your phone, right?
	Just here, download.
	You can download the audio to your phone.
	This app gives you more control, and you're literally downloading it from YouTube.
	There's no ads at all when you're using this app.
	I love it.
	You can play it in the background.
	Screw YouTube!
	I love it!
	Download music.
	So it's like, you know, we're taking the power back with all the music.
	Now is that going to be just bass in the app?
	Is that going to be just part of...
	Part of the suite that's on the phone?
	It's actually not even a part of R Suite.
	It's just an app called NewPipe.
	And yeah, so they only connect to Google video servers to actually stream the video.
	And then everything else, they scrape the metadata so you don't have to use the YouTube app, which is constantly learning off of your interactions and giving you recommendations.
	So it's all the best parts of YouTube without tracking you.
	And more features that you would have to pay for using the official YouTube app.
	That's brilliant.
	Man, I gotta tell you, Ramiro, you seem like the perfect guy to just hang out with and learn amazing stuff.
	You gotta stop by the studio.
	Hey, I have a table full of amazing knives.
	You wanna barter some knives for phones?
	I would love to borrow some knives for phones.
	I'm a big fan of myself.
	Really?
	Okay, well, I've got these.
	I mean, this is the MagnaCut Alloy, and I'm a co-designer of these knives, and these knives are corrosion-resistant and incredible.
	I mean, so, look, I will trade you knives for phones, de-Googled phones, all day long.
	And food!
	And we've got food, too, so you come shopping.
	We don't need banks anymore.
	It's all just straight goods.
	I need to eat.
	I need knives to protect myself.
	Perfect.
	You are welcome here.
	Keep me posted when you can get to Central Texas and we'll have a blast bartering stuff.
	We'd love to hang out with you, Mike.
	Let me know, Mike.
	Let's plan that because I've got to come out and get those cigars.
	I know.
	I have a box of cigars for you right over here.
	It's sitting over there on the control board.
	Indeed.
	Okay.
	All right.
	Well, Ramiro, we're going to thank you for joining us today.
	Todd and I will continue a few minutes of discussion, what we call the after party.
	But this has been amazing.
	I mean, you've taught me stuff today I didn't even know, and I've been using this.
	So, amazing stuff.
	Thank you for what you do.
	Thank you for giving me the opportunity.
	Thank you guys for shining your light and spreading the message.
	And yeah, just always remember, our connection is sacred.
	Well said.
	And I just want to let you know that I am demystified now with regard to all of this.
	It was kind of a scary thought to me, but you cleared everything up for me to where now I'm just, I'm hyper excited about my next chapter with a de-Google phone.
	It's great.
	Oh, yeah.
	You're going to have your food for us and your phone and your laptop.
	I know.
	Your whole life is getting revolutionized.
	It is.
	It's pretty cool.
	Get on, Bill Gates.
	What?
	Out of the device.
	What was that?
	It was like an exorcism twist on Bill Gates.
	Like, get out of my device.
	Yeah, so true.
	Oh, man.
	All right.
	Well, very cool, Romero.
	Thank you so much.
	Have a great day.
	Keep in touch, and we'll talk soon.
	Absolutely.
	Cheers.
	All right.
	Bye now.
	Thank you.
	All right.
	Okay.
	Well, thanks for watching, everybody.
	And thank you, Todd.
	Have a great evening.
	All right.
	Have a great weekend.
	Okay.
	Cheers, everyone.
	All right.
	Bye.
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