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Nov. 8, 2023 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams

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BBN, Nov 8, 2023 - SEVEN INSPIRING characteristics of self-mastery...

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	All right, now for something completely different.
	This is Bright Town Broadcast News for Wednesday, November 8th, 2023.
	Mike Adams here.
	Thank you for joining me.
	And my working title for today is, Seven Key Characteristics of Self-Mastery for Surviving the Engineered Global Apocalypse Now Being Unleashed.
	And what we're going to focus on today, because I think all of us have been able to assemble a larger gestalt of what's happening in the world, We're going to talk about, well, number one, the fact that World War III is almost certain to take place.
	We've seen over the last several weeks, we've talked about the players and how they are pushing for World War III, how they need escalation, all the reasons they need escalation, and so on.
	But then, more importantly, how you and I navigate this, With our sanity intact, with our souls intact, where we're not falling away and losing our morality or our sanity or our hearts and souls, whatever, we've got to have a way to navigate this.
	And so, these key characteristics of self-mastery, one of which, by the way, is faith in God, so it's not just all about self.
	It's also our relationship with God.
	But these attributes we're discussing today, these are not about practical preparedness things like, oh, you need a lighter, and you need a knife, and you need food, and you need iodine.
	No, that's not what this is.
	These are characteristics of people who can make it through this.
	And if you are listening to this, you very likely have most or all of these characteristics inherent in your personality right now.
	Otherwise, you wouldn't be listening to this.
	But you may have weaknesses in some of these characteristics.
	And you may need to strengthen them in order to have a greater success of navigating all of this.
	Because, frankly, I think we're looking at many years of a world war.
	And Someone was asking me recently, how many years?
	And I said, longer than World War II. So, officially, how long was World War II? Five years?
	Six years?
	I guess opinions vary depending on when you think it started.
	But I think we're looking at more like seven to ten years of World War.
	I mean, this could be going on until 2030, frankly.
	And I know, not to blackpill everybody, but the situation is so desperate now.
	Oh, and by the way, Martin Armstrong says it won't be resolved until 2032.
	So he's even a little more pessimistic than I am.
	But the situation is so dire.
	In so many ways, with the financial apocalypse that's being engineered, with all the currency printing and so on, and then, of course, the situation in the Middle East and the attempts to try to take down Russia and the geopolitical collapse, the changing of the guard in terms of global reserve currencies and naval power and weapons technology and so on, and also collapsing Western cities, collapsing Western economies.
	All of these factors are coming together, even geoengineering and more, the vaccine jabs, the bioweapons, the depopulation.
	It's all coalescing into one pretty hellish picture for humanity.
	And yet, it doesn't mean that we have to give up and just die.
	You know, I mean, that's not who we are.
	You listening to this and certainly myself as well.
	We are unique people.
	We are people who have very rare characteristics, and those characteristics can get us through this to the other side.
	And that's what we're going to go through today in some detail here.
	I think you will find this very inspiring, even though I know that was some doom and gloom I just mentioned.
	But suppose we have to live through eight years of war, let's say.
	How do you survive it?
	How do you make it through?
	Well, I'm going to lend you some wisdom today, some answers that I think you will find to be resourceful and inspiring and also well thought out.
	And I think this will resonate with you.
	Now, on a practical note, yesterday I did interview Jeffrey Prather and Scott Ritter on the Alex Jones Show.
	I hosted the second and third hour of the show.
	I hosted it from my studios, the Brighttown Studios.
	And I was able to interview Jeffrey Prather and Scott Ritter.
	And both of those interviews, assuming we can successfully get those files, we're going to append them to the end of today's podcast here.
	Now, what's interesting about these two interviews is that I asked Jeffrey Prather and Scott Ritter some of the same questions on purpose.
	I wanted to know their analysis about what's happening with Israel versus Hamas and the situation in Gaza, the risk of escalation to a regional war.
	Whether there was a stand-down order on October 7th to allow Hamas to attack.
	I wanted to get their sense of what's happening with Turkey and the domestic populist pressures inside countries like Iran and Turkey and Syria and how that's going to play into the dynamic or the geopolitical dynamic of the entire region.
	For example, one obvious question is, will Erdogan...
	Will he take action against Israel?
	Or will he just talk about it in order to appease his largely Muslim population that are very angry at Israel for the continued bombing of civilians in Gaza?
	So this is a really critical question to understand.
	And Opinions vary, obviously.
	Analysis varies.
	Even between Scott Ritter and, let's say, Colonel Douglas McGregor, the analysis can vary quite considerably.
	So you will find value in those two interviews, and I feel like I did a pretty solid job asking questions but allowing those guests to speak.
	But as you know, I'm not a low IQ person, and I'm well informed on the geopolitical dynamics of what's happening in the Middle East, so I think I posed some very useful questions.
	Anyway, you can enjoy those interviews, and we may even post them separately.
	Also, on one more practical item, before we get into our list today, the seven key characteristics of self-mastery, I want to mention that tomorrow we begin our big Black Friday once a year sale event at HealthRangerStore.com.
	And the online catalog of everything that we have available and on sale, you can access it now.
	Go to HealthRangerStore.com forward slash Black Friday.
	All one word, no space, no dash, just Black Friday.
	So again, HealthRangerStore.com slash Black Friday.
	And you'll see that we have many, many new products.
	And we have bonus giveaways.
	And we have the new Natural News Magazine Volume 5.
	And we've got the Pine Needle Colloidal Silver Nasal Spray.
	And Boku Superfood products in there.
	I've got some big news to break on that tomorrow, by the way.
	In addition to the certified organic, lab-tested heavy cream powder...
	And the white cheddar cheese powder and so many other products.
	And with discounts up to 55% on some items.
	So that sale begins tomorrow morning at 11 a.m.
	Central.
	And that ends Monday.
	I think it's Sunday night.
	Excuse me.
	That ends Sunday night at midnight.
	Okay?
	So...
	Take advantage of that.
	It's our best deals of the year and probably our best inventory of the year.
	And given where things are going globally, it might be our best inventory that we'll ever see again.
	I'm not kidding.
	We're looking pretty good on inventory right now.
	And I don't expect that to last as things escalate in the Middle East.
	But as I mentioned up front, you know, food and medicine and all these things, this is only one part of the picture of how we get through this.
	We still have to have our sanity.
	We have to have our souls intact, right?
	We have to have our morals and ethics intact because if you make it through this, you survive World War III, And maybe a billion people die on the planet.
	I hope not, but that could happen.
	What good is it to be a survivor if you've lost your soul in the process?
	You know, if you abandon your morality or ethics in the process, then have you really won?
	Have you really survived anything?
	Or have you actually committed a different kind of suicide?
	So you're going to find that this list of seven are consistent, by the way, with the teachings of Christ.
	They are consistent with self-discipline, with truth, honesty, transparency, and courage.
	And I'm also going to be quoting a couple of lines from a book.
	The book is called Joshua.
	You may have read it.
	It's been around for decades.
	It's authored by Joseph Gerzone.
	G-I-R-Z-O-N-E. It's called, again, Joshua.
	Got a couple of interesting quotes from that book.
	And in the book, Joshua is a character that is very much Christ-like, and he says some things in the book that are exactly what I think and what I believe and what I'm going to share with you here.
	So let's just start with the list.
	And I'll probably, I might have some videos and things for you along the way here, but let's just jump right into it.
	Okay, so the seven items.
	Number one is discernment.
	You're going to need to exercise discernment in every area.
	Discernment about real news versus fake news.
	For example, did you believe the story of the 40 Israeli babies that were beheaded by Hamas?
	That was complete fiction.
	Did you recognize that as fiction right up front?
	I mean, many of us did.
	Hopefully you did as well.
	There's going to be a lot more fake news out there.
	But it's not just about Real versus fake news.
	It's also discernment about people.
	There are many influencers out there, even in the media space or the conservative space.
	There are many influencers that are calling for genocide.
	Do you have the discernment to recognize that and then to see what they are doing?
	And they're easy to spot because they're the ones who are saying, you know, level Gaza, kill them all, kill the women, the babies, bomb the hospitals, right?
	It's not difficult to see that.
	And if you're exercising discernment and you hear that from an individual, you can easily decide, hey, I'm going to exercise discernment and not follow that person or follow their advice or be manipulated by that person because they are calling for killing innocent civilians.
	Unless you happen to agree with that, if you think killing women and children and ambulance drivers and hospital workers is a great idea, then, you know, the end times are going to be rough for you, by the way.
	But I don't think you agree with that.
	I think you're with me on team humanity.
	It doesn't even mean we have to pick a tribe, pick a side.
	Everybody's like, you're either with Israel or you're with Hamas.
	No, I'm with humanity, man.
	I want to see the killing stop.
	I want to see people's lives preserved.
	And here's the first quote from the book, Joshua.
	Here it is.
	Mature Christians should not be afraid to speak their minds and out of real loyalty insist that the spirit of Jesus be followed.
	And that really resonated with me because you've heard me say this over the last few days.
	I've said, you know, it's actually very simple.
	You don't have to be an expert in Scripture.
	You don't have to be able to quote Deuteronomy or Isaiah or any verse to know that killing women and children is wrong.
	All you have to do is just turn inward and dig to the core of what you know Christ stands for Which is love and life and, you know, enlightenment in the truest sense of the word.
	Not the false, you know, Luciferian Lucifer.
	When Lucy means light, you know, it's the false light of Satanism.
	I'm talking about real truth and knowledge and love and warmth and the Son, in this case, the Son of God.
	Following the teachings of Jesus...
	Doesn't have to be complicated.
	People make it so complicated.
	Well, Jesus could have killed these people in this circumstance if it was only this.
	No.
	Unless it's an imminent threat at you, and even in that case, you're working to stop violence, not to commit violence, not to instigate violence.
	But unless it's that...
	It's not okay.
	And by the way, since when has a seven-year-old come up to you and tried to kill you that you had to act in self-defense?
	Probably never!
	Never!
	So bombing children is always, always wrong.
	And you don't have to be a Bible scholar to figure that out.
	You do have to have discernment.
	And so trust in your own understanding of what Christ teaches and what he lived.
	The exemplary life that he lived.
	A life without killing.
	He didn't kill anybody.
	He didn't commit violence against anybody.
	He raised people from the dead.
	He did the opposite.
	He brought them back from death when so many people in our world want to cause death and then they want to invoke the name of Christ.
	So, discernment is simpler than it might sound.
	It's very simple.
	You just have to be honest with yourself and be honest with your core beliefs.
	Alright, so that's point number one.
	Point number two.
	Again, these are characteristics of self-mastery that you're going to need to survive, essentially, the end times.
	And that might even be a better title.
	I'll think about changing that.
	But anyway, point number two is control over your emotional state.
	And this is a tough one because so many of the images that you see on the news are designed to, of course, control your emotional state and to whip you up into a fervor of rage.
	They want to show you, you know, blood and guts and dead civilians.
	Initially, it was like, look what Hamas did to these Israeli civilians.
	You know, look at all these horrible things they did.
	And you were shown all those images specifically, not to inform you.
	But to invoke you or to evoke an emotional reaction.
	To take control away from you over your emotional state.
	And to put that control in the hands of people like Netanyahu.
	Or the media puppet masters.
	So anytime you see the media pushing stories involving dead children.
	You should have red flags going up left and right.
	Doesn't mean that they didn't die.
	You know.
	Clearly, some children were killed and lots of children are being killed now.
	Over 4,000 children have been killed in Gaza and that's really happening.
	But do not surrender your emotional state to the images that are flashing in front of you on the news screen.
	It's okay to be in the loop of what's happening, but a true master...
	Self mastery is what this is about.
	If you have self mastery, you can observe that without being lost in it.
	You don't want to be consumed by the ensnarement that is deliberately engineered to take away your own thoughts, your own rationality, your own mind.
	And that is what the emotional reaction, imagery, and news is all designed to do.
	And think of this as a maturity question.
	So a five-year-old child has no control over his or her emotional state.
	A child experiences joy or frustration or happiness or sadness in the same way that A ship might experience the waves on an ocean.
	It's pitching up, it's pitching down, it's roiling, it's waving, and then there's wind.
	The ship has no control over that.
	That's like a five-year-old child.
	And the sea, with all its waves, that's like the emotional terrain that we are attempting to navigate.
	The emotional terrain.
	You never know when the media is going to send a large wave, a super wave, your direction, or when there might be a vortex in the waters, or there might be a gale force wind blowing you in this direction.
	Be angry!
	Be mad!
	You know, right?
	So don't be a little tiny ship bobbing in the water whichever way the oceans are throwing you where your emotional state is completely up to somebody else.
	Instead, be like a rock that maybe you're a mountain, actually, like the Hawaiian Islands where there's a rock sticking out of the ocean, and maybe the waves can crash against you and your rock.
	But underneath that, you have a mountain foundation of your core beliefs and core self-mastery to where your emotional state is something that you control, you decide on from within, and it can't be battered and blown around by the winds of a storm or the waves of an angry ocean, for example.
	So be a rock.
	Not a rowboat.
	As we work to navigate this.
	And I know it's easy to say this.
	It's difficult to practice it.
	And this situation in the Middle East has been a real challenge for all of us.
	How do you have knowledge of what's happening and yet not be lost in it, not be consumed by it?
	And frankly, the same thing with Ukraine.
	You know, there are thousands of Ukrainian civilians that have also died.
	Although, by the way, the number of Gazan civilians that have been killed by Israel in one month now exceeds the total number of Ukrainian civilians that were killed in, what, a year and a half of conflict, of war with Russia.
	And, you know, I mean, there are civilians in Ukraine that have died, and I feel horrible for every death.
	I feel horrible for soldiers that are dying.
	And yet, by the way, Russia is not deliberately and repeatedly targeting civilians and bombing civilians.
	Those deaths, because if Russia was, that death count would be much higher.
	Well, Israel is deliberately targeting residential buildings and mosques and universities and so on, and that's why that death count is so high.
	So it is difficult to know this and to not be sucked into it into a rage.
	And, of course, we saw a lot of rage on the Zionist side, and that rage still exists.
	And out of that rage, you have had a lot of people saying a lot of pretty crazy things.
	In fact, I want to play for you a short video here which serves as an example of someone who has lost emotional control.
	This appears to be a Zionist woman, an Israeli woman, perhaps 60 years old or so, thereabouts.
	And she is saying that...
	They need to bomb all the hospitals and kill all the Palestinians.
	And I want to play this for you.
	I mean, I certainly don't agree with her words.
	They are atrocious.
	But I want to play this for you as a demonstration of what not to do.
	This is not a video of self-mastery.
	This is a video of a woman who has allowed the waves, the waters and the winds around her to seize control over her emotional state to the point where she is living out extreme rage and genocidal tendencies towards other people.
	But I want you to see what that looks like.
	Here we go.
	From the Jordan River to the Middle East, that's all ours.
	It was promised to us.
	There's no Palestinian nation.
	No one wants them.
	So why we?
	Because we are good.
	We finished to be good three weeks ago.
	I think the bombing is good.
	I think they should have a lot more of the bombing, the bombarding.
	I think we can do a lot more inside of Gaza.
	It's a fight between the good and the bad, the good and the evil.
	The only innocent people that are in Gaza now are the 229 hostages that were taken.
	Once they will go back to Israel, we will pull Shifa hospital, all the hospitals, all the tunnels and kill them all.
	It's about time.
	The world knows that.
	There's no arguing about that.
	We are the center of the world now.
	Now, she said something very key there.
	We are the center of the world now.
	Boy, you can't have a better admission of a narcissistic, genocidal personality.
	It's like, bomb the hospitals, bomb the mosques, bomb the tunnels, kill them all.
	We are the center of the world now.
	I mean, that's almost an exact quote.
	And she also said there's no debate.
	The world knows all of this.
	The world is with us.
	There's no debate.
	So this is a level of not only a complete loss over an internal emotional state, but also actually joining the dark side, joining the evil that you claim to be fighting against.
	You heard one of the soldiers there say, you know, this is a battle of good versus evil.
	And, you know, be very, very cautious when When you hear that, I mean, perhaps in some cases it is true.
	If you're battling a Satan-infested demon creature, yeah, it's pretty clear.
	But in this situation, it can be debated which side is actually good now.
	Which side is doing the most evil?
	Which side has killed the most people?
	I mean, that answer is obvious.
	Israel has killed the most people by far, and soon it will be ten times more people than what Hamas killed.
	So I wanted to play that video for you so you could see that.
	And you could see the degree of self-deception that is possible when you don't have that foundation of the mountain underneath you, grounding you.
	When you don't have the pillars of self-control and discernment, you can be easily manipulated into almost anything.
	That's the thing.
	We are living in a world, you and I, we're living in a world of people that are kind of represented like ping pong balls Being tossed around in an ocean, in a stormy ocean.
	And as ping pong balls, they float on the surface, but they have no control over what's happening.
	And they can be easily manipulated by the globalists.
	They can be manipulated by the news, the fake news media.
	They can be manipulated via censorship and so on.
	And social engineering pressures, lots of different vectors of control over people's beliefs.
	But do not...
	Confuse ping pong balls with mountains.
	Many of you listening to this, you are mountains.
	You are rocks that the ocean cannot tear down, but you live in a sea filled with ping pong balls.
	That's not any kind of attempt to be racist or anything, by the way.
	I don't know.
	Is ping pong balls, is there any kind of racial reference to that?
	Like, Chinese people are good at ping pong or something?
	No, that's not intended.
	I'm just saying that people are blown around by the storms and they have no control.
	Alright, moving on to point number three.
	And I remind you, this is about seven key characteristics of self-mastery.
	So, number three...
	It's kind of an extension of number two, which is control over your emotional state, but number three is a strong sense of self-worth.
	Now, this is one of the things I've observed over the years, is that people who are easily malleable by globalist forces and news media and so on, including during COVID, think about those people who were easily swayed by, quote, the science, people who wore the masks and hid behind the plexiglass, and people who drove in their own cars alone and wore masks while they were doing so.
	These people?
	And the people who kept taking all the jabs, by the way, they all have one thing in common.
	They have very low self-esteem.
	A very poor sense of self-worth.
	When you have a low sense of self-worth, it's very easy for you to be manipulated.
	There are a lot of reasons for that, but people of low self-esteem, they tend to have a very strong desire to be accepted by their social groups.
	They derive their self-worth from others around them.
	So their self-worth is defined by external confirmations of their behavior and their speech.
	Whereas it takes a much stronger person internally, a person with a strong sense of self-worth, to say something against the mob, against the herd, against the crowd.
	Because they don't need the confirmation of the crowd to feel like they're okay in the world.
	So if you were to draw out a spectrum with very low self-esteem on, let's say, the far left side, and this is not a political statement, but in a very strong sense of self-worth on the right-hand side, every one of us is somewhere on that spectrum of self-worth.
	And the farther you are to the right on that spectrum, the more you are willing to speak out against the mob when something doesn't make sense that the mob is doing.
	And we found this again during COVID. COVID was the perfect, quote, experimental pandemic that brought this out.
	You could quickly see which people had very low self-esteem and were very happy to conform to the masking.
	Some people wore double masks.
	And for a while, it was being pushed on the news, and I'm pretty sure this was just a mind control experiment to see how far they could go.
	They were pushing triple masks.
	You actually had newscasters saying, well, you know, one mask isn't enough, and even two masks isn't enough.
	I'm wearing three masks!
	And there were people out there that said, well, I'm going to wear three masks, you know, because they have no sense of self-worth.
	When they look in the mirror, they don't see a person that is worthy of existing.
	And there can be lots of reasons for this.
	Obviously, much of it can relate to upbringing and how you were treated by your parents or in some negative cases, abused by parents or brainwashed by parents.
	Obviously, parental messaging has a lot to do with your sense of self-worth.
	If your parents were very laudatory and encouraged you to do a lot of things and showed you mechanisms of accomplishment, then you tend to have a stronger sense of self-worth.
	Whereas if your parents told you that you're useless and you're a loser and you can't do anything right and you're just a failure, then that can actually destroy a sense of self-esteem.
	And some people spend a lifetime working to overcome that.
	And perhaps some people listening to this have overcome that.
	Maybe your parents told you that you were worthless, and then it took a lifetime to realize they were wrong.
	And you don't have to believe that.
	You don't have to carry that baggage with you your entire life.
	But that's a process that is difficult to go through.
	And it's a journey, right?
	And sometimes it's a lifetime journey.
	But getting through these end times is going to require, I guarantee it, it's going to require you doing things against the herd.
	You're going to have to go against the grain or swim against the current or whatever metaphor you want to use.
	When the sheeple are running off the edge of the cliff, you're going to have to say, wait a second, that's a cliff.
	It's a long way down.
	This seems like a stupid idea.
	I'm not going to join the sheeple here.
	And of course, the other sheeple are going to be very mad at you.
	Why aren't you running off the cliff?
	And they're going to try to push you and nudge you.
	Come with us!
	And you're going to be like, that's crazy.
	And you need to have the conviction to...
	Sorry, those are bad sheep impressions or whatever.
	You need to have conviction to be able to say, no, I'm not leaping off this cliff.
	It's a horrible idea, and here's why.
	So those are the first three points right there.
	Again, number one, discernment, which is very difficult to master.
	You can spend a lifetime and not master it.
	You can still be fooled sometimes.
	Number two, control over your own emotional state so that you're not easily hijacked, you know, neurologically hijacked or emotionally hijacked by outside forces.
	And then point number three, a strong sense of self-worth.
	And by the way, some of this point number three can be realized just through self-affirmations.
	Some of it can be realized with your relationship with Christ, for example, if you're a Christian.
	Some of it can be realized just by reminding yourself, I'm here for a purpose.
	I mean, look in the mirror and remind yourself, I'm here for a reason.
	I'm not an accident.
	I'm a conscious being.
	I'm self-aware.
	I have free will.
	I have the ability to think and the ability to speak, the ability to act.
	And how am I going to use those gifts?
	And the very reason that I have those gifts is because There is a creator who cared enough about life to grant this gift of life to me.
	It's okay to say that to yourself.
	It's okay to remind yourself that you're not a worthless ping pong ball bobbing in the ocean.
	We are here for a reason.
	Now there may be NPCs out there, non-player characters as I call them, which they're the ping pong balls.
	That are forever lost in this life, forever clueless, and they're beyond hope.
	But that's not you, obviously.
	Listening to this, you're not an NPC. And there are many other people out there that you can connect with who have a sense of self-worth and have a sense of self-mastery and a sense of discernment.
	And these are all critical skills.
	Okay, point number four.
	This is one that not a lot of people think about.
	Point number four.
	Again, seven key characteristics of self-mastery.
	Point number four is that you need to be prepared to endure.
	Again, not something a lot of people think about.
	Like, what do you mean, endure?
	How long?
	Like, a day?
	I have enough food for a three-day storm.
	Is that enough?
	Is that all I'm going to have to endure?
	What am I going to have to endure?
	Well, again, the timeline that I mentioned earlier, this could be seven or eight years.
	It could be a decade.
	And to endure doesn't just mean facing a food shortage or a preparedness shortage.
	I'm talking about enduring.
	The people around you who are small-minded people who don't understand what's happening and who are trying to hijack your emotional state, for example, like we talked about, or people who are trying to convince you to do something against your own self-interest.
	You're going to have to endure a lot of And there's a great quote about this in the book I mentioned earlier, Joshua.
	And it says, quote, Does that ring a bell with you?
	Because that's every day, right?
	For most of us, we are enduring living in a world where Of often misunderstanding and suspicion by other people whose minds really are very small.
	And they're unable to comprehend ideas that are beyond the ordinary.
	And there's people out there who still think that 9-11 wasn't an inside job.
	They think somehow Building 7 just fell down because of an office fire or something.
	There are people out there who still think that the vaccines are all safe and effective and it's all based on good science and so on.
	There are people who have small minds that we will always have to deal with in our lives.
	And some of them will be family members.
	Some of them will be friends.
	Some of them, depending on who you are, might be your spouse.
	Who knows?
	Might be your children or grandchildren or parents.
	So we're going to have to endure a lot of people who don't see the big picture.
	And I fully realize that one of the reasons that people listen to my podcast is because we have that connection of not small-minded people, but large-minded people, cosmic-minded people, big, big-picture people who are able to connect the dots and put the pieces of the puzzle together in a way that is just far beyond what ordinary people are even willing to consider.
	I mean, for example, just the issue of ivermectin.
	You know, ordinary people are afraid of ivermectin because, you know, the FDA told them to be afraid or the media told them to be afraid.
	Whereas you and I, I mean, I've got, I don't know, liters of ivermectin in the refrigerator.
	And if I start feeling symptoms, you know, I'll give myself a dose and I'll drink it in a smoothie and it works.
	Why would I be afraid of ivermectin?
	You know?
	But believe it or not, to move beyond the fears that are instilled in people by the press and by, you know, rigged big tech platforms and social media, to get beyond that takes a much larger mind than what most people possess.
	Or maybe they haven't practiced expansive thinking yet.
	They can only think in ordinary terms.
	I had a person mention to me the other day, someone who listens to my podcast, like, man, you have so many fascinating little hobbies and activities.
	You have like lasers that you can cut objects out of polyethylene with lasers and you have a kiln and you're smelting gold out of objects.
	And, you know, you have 3D printers and 3D design software and then also, you know, firearms and whatever and musical production and all these different things.
	It's like that's so unusual.
	And it took me by surprise because I was thinking, is it really?
	I thought everybody has hobbies and all kinds of different things that they do.
	You know?
	And this person was like, no!
	When people have hobbies, it's like swimming and hiking and rock climbing or whatever.
	But you have like a...
	Like a mad scientist warehouse full of stuff and you've got like heavy metals detection equipment and mass spectrometry machines and all this kind of stuff.
	It's like you're into a lot of stuff that is not that ordinary and I'm like, okay, I'll take that as a compliment.
	That's cool.
	That's fine.
	I'm just curious about the world.
	That's all.
	And you do need a certain amount of equipment.
	I happen to have a $3,000 analytical balance here where I can measure gold at.0000 grams.
	And I guess that's not very ordinary.
	But I just consider it practical.
	How else are we going to know how much gold is in something?
	We need to be able to do that.
	Anyway, the point is, prepare to endure.
	And...
	Prepare to endure spiritually.
	Prepare to be seen as wrong by a lot of people close to you for an extended period of time before the day of reckoning finally reveals all of it.
	And you've probably already gone through this with COVID. And even now, as the health authorities admit that vaccinated people have much higher stroke risk, for example, The people who push the jabs and the vaccines, they still won't admit that because they haven't seen that research, even though you know you've been vindicated.
	But a lot of people are still uninformed and they will remain so for the rest of their lives, even if their lives are shortened.
	So prepare to endure.
	That's point number four.
	Point number five is faith in God.
	And recognition that there is a divine plan for you and a divine plan for humanity.
	Now, I'm a Christian.
	I believe in God.
	I believe in our Creator.
	And I've mentioned before, I don't even have to have that much faith because I'm witnessing divine miracles around me constantly every day.
	Every day in nature, every day in food science, every day in nutrition, and working with phytonutrients and sprouts, and like, how do these little tiny seeds create anti-cancer medicine?
	It's amazing!
	You know, sulforaphane out of nothing.
	Wow!
	See, to me, that's divinity.
	That's God working through seeds.
	And honestly, if you spend a lifetime studying water alone, just water...
	You still couldn't grasp the miracles of the cosmos that are hidden in water.
	Just water.
	Which, you know, from a physics or a chemistry point of view, there are four phases of water matter, right?
	You've got frozen water, a solid, you've got liquid water, and then you have gaseous water.
	And you're like, well, what's the fourth phase?
	Plasma.
	Plasma water, right?
	Four phases of matter, right?
	But you could spend a lifetime trying to understand how water exists in each of those phases, and how it transitions from one phase to another, and how water actually encodes information.
	Remember the work of Dr.
	Emoto out of Japan?
	The Memory of Water, I think, was one of his books with all the photography.
	Water encodes information.
	And there are certain properties of water, just as an example, that when water freezes, it expands in volume, which is the opposite of almost everything else.
	You know, if you freeze, let's say, metals, they get smaller.
	They contract.
	The colder they get, water gets bigger.
	And as a result, ice floats.
	And since ice floats, that makes entire aquatic ecosystems possible.
	It makes life possible on this planet.
	I guess you could call it a divine or a miraculous property that is not even well understood today by the best scientists in the world.
	Again, you can find God in water if you study it deeply enough and long enough.
	And I'm not talking about quarks.
	And, you know, subatomic particles, I'm talking about the meaning of God, the miracles of God in the cosmos, just in water, which is way more than H2O, by the way.
	And I don't mean materially.
	I mean in terms of its function and its information and its energetic properties.
	Anyway, the point is, my point number five here is faith in God and faith in this divine plan for you.
	You are not here by accident.
	Even if your parents may have accidentally conceived you, the circumstances of that conception were themselves not an accident.
	God may have planned for your conception even if your mom and dad didn't.
	You know?
	Seriously, right?
	You are here for a reason.
	Maybe you haven't discovered that reason yet, or maybe you're in the process of discovering that reason.
	Many people could spend a lifetime simply trying to understand why they're here.
	What is their purpose?
	What are they intending to do?
	What does God want them to do?
	And that's fine.
	That's a journey of self discovery.
	Some of us are blessed to already know that mission.
	I know my purpose of being here.
	I know exactly what it is.
	And I am serving that purpose every single day.
	I'm doing it right now in this podcast.
	And I feel incredibly blessed and humbled to have this knowledge, to know what my purpose is.
	I mean, that's a miracle in and of itself.
	But whether you know your purpose right now or you don't yet know it, you have one.
	You have one.
	And because you're here on purpose, Life is never hopeless.
	You never have to surrender or give in or give up, even if things go against your beliefs.
	I talked about the rapture the other day and how the concept of the rapture didn't exist in Christianity until about the 1850s.
	One man Promoted this idea of the rapture, you know, people being lifted up in the clouds and taken away from the earth to meet God in the clouds, and especially the pre-tribulation rapture, which is what many Christians believe.
	Well, what if your belief in that is a misinterpretation?
	What if you're wrong about that?
	What if it's actually...
	Mid-trib or post-trib or maybe rapture isn't what you think it is because it's not in the Bible actually, right?
	I talked about that the other day.
	It's not explicitly mentioned in the Bible and the term, the rapture, appears nowhere in the Bible.
	If there's no rapture and yet the end times come, would that cause you to lose faith in God?
	Would that cause you to become hopeless because you weren't taken up into the clouds?
	I hope not.
	I hope that even if things don't go as you think they will, even if it's been taught to you by your pastor or if your belief is 100% in that thing, if it goes against you, you need to still maintain faith in God and faith in your purpose on this planet, even if your map of your life isn't the terrain that you thought it was.
	Just because things go against you doesn't mean that you're not here with a divine mission of some kind.
	And that mission might be to support others.
	It might be to contribute in some meaningful way.
	It might be to provide knowledge or safety or wisdom to other people in your life around you.
	There could be lots of reasons for being here.
	But you have a reason.
	And if you haven't discovered it yet, well, that's okay.
	God will reveal it to you in time.
	All right, point number six here.
	This is another characteristic of self-mastery, but it is self-sufficiency.
	And again, I don't mean this just in terms of, you know, how much food do you have?
	And, you know, how many water filters do you have?
	Whatever.
	How much ammo do you have?
	No, that's not what this is about.
	Self-sufficiency is about having faith in your ability to solve problems with limited resources.
	Self-sufficiency means that even if you're living in a time of supply chain disruptions, Or a time when the world is falling apart around you.
	And the people around you are failing.
	And the people around you are becoming hopeless.
	Oh my god, it's the end!
	You know, we can't get the parts.
	That you can have a mindset of resolving problems in non-ordinary ways.
	Oh, you can't find the part?
	What kind of part do you need?
	Well, we need this metal part to run the tractor!
	Could we melt some metal in a kiln and could we do sand casting?
	You can use sand to make the opposite of the part you need and then you can pour molten metal into the sand and then when it hardens, there's your part.
	How about sand casting?
	I'm thinking of that recently because I've been smelting metals and there are a lot of cool things you can do.
	That's just one example.
	I'm just saying...
	This idea of self-sufficiency.
	Can you build what you need?
	Can you resolve the problem in a creative way that doesn't require being rescued by some outside force?
	This is a critical self-mastery property that I think is going to mean the difference between life and death for a lot of people.
	We live in a society that tends to be populated by people.
	Who are used to just calling, you know, call the handyman, call the doctor, call the electrician, call the air conditioner person, whatever.
	And, you know, there's nothing wrong with that.
	We can't be experts in everything.
	But we may be called upon to solve things soon and for many years to come to solve things that we didn't think we could solve before.
	And as you know, my personal philosophy in this realm is that I intentionally force myself to do a lot of things, to do a lot of hands-on things.
	I force myself to learn these things precisely for this reason.
	This is one of the reasons why I started raising backyard chickens.
	It's not that I needed the eggs.
	I frankly don't even eat a lot of eggs.
	It's that I wanted the knowledge of how to keep chickens alive and produce eggs.
	I wanted that knowledge.
	And then one year I learned how do you build a fence with an H-brace and how to use tension cables.
	To keep that fence upright.
	A goat-proof fence.
	I actually built a goat-proof fence, which is some sort of amazing accomplishment because goats are always pushing on your fences.
	Those of you who have goats, you know what I'm talking about.
	Goats will stretch apart every fence that you can possibly build.
	They'll push on it.
	They rub on it.
	Actually, they're scratching themselves.
	Goats are itchy creatures, it turns out.
	They want to scratch on everything.
	Or when, let's see, on one of my John Deere tractors, when diesel started squirting out of the side of the engine, I was like, oh my gosh, what's going on?
	And I diagnosed the problem, oh, it's this rubber boot on one of the diesel injector tubes.
	You know, solve that, fix that, you know, swapped out the starter on a diesel engine, which was not an easy task.
	Very small working space on that particular engine and things like that.
	And I was not raised this way.
	Just so you know, I wasn't raised out in the country by a hands-on handyman farmer who knew how to do everything.
	I wasn't raised that way at all.
	I had to learn all this stuff.
	Most of it I learned, frankly, watching YouTube videos.
	I'm not trying to toot my own horn here at all.
	I'm just saying that we need to be self-sufficient, all of us do, in ways that are going to challenge us.
	You'd be amazed what you can accomplish when you have to.
	When you have to grow food, suddenly it gets easier.
	When you have to repair something, it does become easier.
	You are able to do things that you might not have imagined that you could do.
	And it's good to exercise that, to stretch out your mind, your neurology, your knowledge base.
	It's okay to do these things.
	Here's another example.
	I was just trying to change tires, for example.
	Have you ever taken a tire off a rim of, let's say, like an ATV or a side-by-side ranch vehicle?
	Have you ever taken the tire off the rim and then put a new tire on the rim?
	Just with simple tools.
	It's not easy, by the way.
	It's not easy at all.
	I've done it before at great difficulty.
	And then I learned better and better ways to do it.
	And there's a really great tool that helps you do this.
	And it's called the bead buster, by the way, if you're wondering.
	The bead buster tool.
	You're going to need a one-half-inch diameter socket on an impact wrench tool, which I like to use Milwaukee cordless tools for that.
	But using a bead buster, you can change tires.
	You can take tires off rims and you can put tires on rims.
	But there's also a learning curve.
	There's a technique for it.
	And you got to have some tire lubrication, for example.
	And one of the things that I'll just share this hands-on tip with you here.
	If you want a really good tire lubrication that costs just pennies, And I know this from my formulation of the first aid gel.
	You know, we have a colloidal silver first aid gel that's made out of colloidal silver that we generate ourselves from Texas rainwater.
	And then we combine seven essential oils with it.
	Well, the thickener that we use for that is xanthan gum.
	And so I happen to have a lot of xanthan gum sitting around, like, you know, 50-pound bags of xanthan gum.
	And by the way, if you want some of that amazing first aid gel that's thickened with xanthan gum, and we make it ourselves, that's available at healthrangerstore.com, just to plug that.
	But if you buy some xanthan gum...
	Again, it's a powder.
	You can get an 8-ounce bag of it pretty cheaply online.
	All you've got to do is take a blender, put a liter of water in the blender, and take a tablespoon of xanthan gum, or maybe two tablespoons, and blend it up.
	This creates a super slick gel.
	This gel is a perfect tire-changing gel, it turns out, where you don't have to spend a fortune buying tire gel, tire lubricant gel, I mean, you can buy buckets of it for 20, 30 bucks, whatever.
	You can make it yourself for pennies.
	I mean, this is the kind of self-reliance that I'm talking about.
	Just get yourself some xanthan gum.
	And this can also be used to thicken smoothies, by the way, and to make your own first aid gel, by the way.
	And I've shown people in videos how you can take silver coins and then use three 9-volt batteries connected in series to make 27 volts and And it's actually two silver coins that are suspended in deionized water and they're separated by a distance.
	And then using 9-volt batteries, you can actually ionize the silver off those silver coins and you can make your own colloidal silver solution.
	I've got a video on my channel of how to do that.
	And so what I'm actually giving you right here is the recipe to make your own first aid colloidal silver gel.
	All you need are some silver coins, three 9-volt batteries, some clothespins, some deionized water, which is the same as distilled water.
	And it's pretty easy to make that yourself with a distiller or collect rainwater, and you can work off that because rainwater is distilled water for the most part, right?
	And you can make your own colloidal silver, and then you add xanthan gum to it, and now you have colloidal silver gel.
	And you can add some essential oils to it, and...
	I give you the list of those oils on my product.
	I list them out.
	And you can make your own.
	You can make what we make.
	You can make it yourself for pennies.
	It's, you know, this kind of knowledge or this kind of approach to things is what's going to save you during the end times.
	Just to think outside the box.
	Like, everything doesn't have to come in a shrink-wrapped bottle, you know, at Kmart or wherever.
	You can make a lot of things yourself.
	And it's a good skill to have.
	You should have a blender that you get to experiment with.
	I mean, I can't even tell you how many blenders I have.
	Like, six blenders for different purposes, different projects, different things.
	They're all Vitamixes, by the way, because those are the only ones that I manage to not burn up the motors doing different processes and so on, because sometimes I grind grain and things like that, and that's hard on blenders.
	But it's great to experiment with these things and learn a sense of self-reliance and expand that sense and learn how to do amazing things from simple tools or simple ingredients.
	If you have to take a tire off a rim, there you go.
	There's a way to do it.
	And not to mention just plugging a tire.
	Tire plug kits are like six bucks online.
	You can plug a tire.
	As the end times are arriving, you know, supply chains are going to be all destroyed.
	You may not be able to get a replacement tire.
	You may not have anybody available to help you with your tire, you know?
	So it's good to know how to do these things.
	And that brings me to point number seven.
	It's kind of related.
	Point number seven is resilience and recovery.
	So resilience, kind of self-explanatory here, but specifically bouncing back from failures.
	It's okay to fail in things that you're trying to do, especially when learning them.
	You know, most of the projects that I attempt, most of them fail.
	I run into things that I never could have anticipated.
	It's like, what?
	Are you serious?
	You know, how can it be that I couldn't get the gold out of this object?
	It turned into like black charred gold dust.
	I thought it was going to be a gold nugget that just melted out of it.
	And it's not.
	It's just gold, like charcoal covered gold dust.
	Like that was a total failure.
	I've had failures in almost every project you can imagine, especially in the lab.
	When I was developing methods, I worked hard.
	It took me 18 months with one of my chemists in the lab to develop the method for glyphosate quantitation using a mass spec instrument.
	And if you've ever done something like that, method development is basically a series of failures.
	What you're doing is you're trying new things and you're figuring out that doesn't work.
	Oh, that doesn't work.
	That one totally did not work.
	You're trying different solvents.
	You're trying different methods, different pressures, different chromatography columns and whatever.
	And all you're finding out every day and you're taking notes in your little lab spreadsheet is like, what doesn't work?
	So failure needs to be understood as a part of success.
	And resilience means being able to bounce back from failure.
	And that's absolutely critical.
	And I can't tell you how blessed I am to live on a ranch and to have all these animals and the different challenges that they present.
	For example, for a long time, I couldn't figure out how to clip the hooves of one of my goats.
	In particular, they had hooves that were growing out of control.
	And I bought different hoof clippers and so on.
	I know some of you are laughing because you already know how to do this better than I did.
	But I was like manually cutting the hoof nails, which are very, very tough.
	They're very thick.
	And I was not making the progress that I needed.
	And then I found out about this tool called the Hoof Boss.
	And the Hoof Boss is like a little battery-powered rotary tool.
	And it's not cheap.
	It's rugged.
	And it's got basically this rotary grinding plate on it.
	And you've got to capture your goat.
	And you've got to lay your goat down and get somebody to kind of lean on your goat a little bit.
	And then you've got to grab those hooves and you grind them with the hoof balls.
	And, you know, you need eye protection and everything.
	And your goat at first is really complaining.
	What are you doing?
	Are you cutting my feet off?
	No, I'm just grinding your hooves.
	It's all okay.
	And they're fine afterwards, and then they can walk better.
	It's more comfortable.
	Oh, got my nails clipped, right?
	But I didn't know how to grind hooves of goats.
	I had no idea.
	Or the day that one of my donkeys, Hosanna, was born.
	Or actually, I think it was the...
	Hosanna was the mother, in this case, who gave birth and then walked away from the newborn baby donkey that I had to pick up and carry.
	And it was all wet and nasty and...
	Wet fur.
	And I had to carry that donkey and stand it up underneath its mother and like, hey, start suckling!
	You know, what's going on here?
	I didn't...
	I'd never dealt with that.
	I didn't know what to do.
	I just kind of stuck them together and hoped that Mother Nature takes over.
	And sure enough, it did.
	And, you know, the rest is history.
	The donkey has been fine ever since.
	But don't be afraid to fail.
	Don't be afraid to try things.
	Don't be afraid...
	To be humbled by reality telling you that you're clueless at the moment, but you can do better.
	You know, you can learn.
	You can evolve.
	You can adapt.
	And that's the pathway to recovery.
	Because you can bet that what we're about to face, all of us together, across this planet, we're about to face challenges that we've never faced before.
	Especially in our lifetimes.
	Let's face it, you and I, we've had it pretty easy compared to our grandparents and great-grandparents and other ancestors.
	They had far more difficult lives.
	They didn't have refrigerators, for example.
	Can you imagine?
	How do you have fresh food without a refrigerator?
	Well, they had ice boxes and then before that they had just salted meat.
	What's for dinner?
	Salted meat.
	Pea porridge hot.
	Pea porridge cold.
	Pea porridge in the pot.
	Nine days old, right?
	Because they just had a fire going underneath the pot.
	And every day, just throw something else in there.
	Throw some peas in there.
	Throw some wheat berries in there.
	What do you got?
	You got some herbs from the backyard?
	Throw the herbs in there.
	Just keep it going.
	And every day, you get a scoop out of that.
	Oh, what's for dinner?
	Pea porridge, man.
	Yum.
	Yum.
	Our ancestors had it tough.
	They didn't have power tools.
	They didn't have Milwaukee cordless impact wrenches and things like that.
	They didn't have iodine supplements.
	They didn't have the knowledge.
	They didn't have access to a seed supply like we have today.
	They didn't have, obviously, the utility of the internet.
	They didn't have satellite communications.
	They didn't have AR-15s, whatever.
	We live in a world of incredible conveniences But the downside of that is it has made a lot of people very weak and very much dependent on outside forces, which has caused them to lose a sense of resilience and adaptation.
	Now, by the way, I have a free downloadable online book called Resilient Prepping that goes into extreme detail on all of this.
	How to have three layers of preparedness and survival in all the areas that matter in your life from food, shelter, medicine, communications, everything.
	That's available free of charge.
	Just go to resilientprepping.com and you can download it right now.
	Just register with your email.
	You can download it.
	And it's the full audiobook series.
	It's MP3 files plus a printable transcript PDF file.
	And I know many of you have already heard that book.
	And a lot of people have gained tremendous value from that book.
	But the reason I wrote it and the reason I practiced this is because this is one of the most important properties or characteristics, or you can even say habits.
	You need to have the habit of resilience.
	Like the first time something fails, you don't go, oh, shucks, I guess I can't do that.
	That's a habit of failure.
	I mean, that's a habit of a loser, frankly.
	You and I need to have the habits, and I think most of us do, the habit of, well, gosh, I just learned that, okay, that's not the way to do that.
	There's probably a different way.
	Let's try a different way.
	Let's try something else.
	What works?
	You know?
	It's so funny.
	And we can learn anything new at any time.
	I've been scooping avocados for years, right?
	Because I make avocado smoothies daily, and I've been doing so for...
	I don't know, 15 or 20 years or whatever it's been.
	And did you know I just recently found out there's a much better tool for scooping avocados?
	I can't believe I never knew this.
	And it's actually, it's funny, it's a titanium spork that has a spoon on one end and a fork on the opposite end.
	And it turns out this is the perfect tool for scooping avocados.
	Because you can hold on to the fork end with a lot more leverage to scoop the avocado compared to holding a spoon.
	If you think about it, the stem of a spoon doesn't have much surface area, does it?
	It's kind of hard to hold on to that when you have to apply a lot of pressure as you're cutting or scooping the avocado meat.
	Is that what it's called?
	I guess it's called avocado meat out of the avocado.
	Well, now I'm a fan of the sporks.
	I've joined the sporking family at this point.
	I'm a full-blown spork advocate for scooping avocados.
	I never knew that for years.
	How many avocados have I spooned when I should have sporked?
	There's a question that will haunt me, which means it's never too late to learn something new either.
	And we don't have to feel stupid about it.
	I do a little bit.
	I should have been sporking instead of spooning.
	But now I'm sharing it with you so you can join me in sporking instead of spooning.
	And you can enjoy your avocados that much more, you see?
	I'm a very hands-on person, as you know.
	Even my new knife, for example, called Escape from L.A., Which I've been touting for a while.
	I'm super excited about this knife.
	But there's a backstory to it that I'll share with you quickly.
	Oh, and this knife is available, I believe, starting tomorrow at healthrangerstore.com.
	But the Escape from LA knife has a pry bar on the end of it.
	So...
	There's a blade.
	It's a pretty long blade, very sharp.
	It's a magna-cut blade.
	And then at the end of the blade is this thick pry bar tool.
	But underneath that, or just kind of where the blade ends and the pry bar begins, there is what I'm kind of calling a reverse bottle opener.
	It looks like a bottle opener tool, but it's backwards.
	It's the opposite direction.
	And when I was proposing this idea, remember, I'm the designer of this knife.
	And I had a very specific purpose for this feature, which is to function as a chain breaker and a nail puller.
	And I'm going to have videos showing you what this is.
	And it had to have a very specific orientation for that function to work.
	But yet, there were people in...
	Because Dawson manufactures this knife.
	And there were people in the Dawson company...
	That were sending feedback my way.
	They were saying, no, this is wrong.
	It should be flipped the other way.
	It should be more like a bottle opener orientation.
	And that's the way that they thought it would be because that's more of a conventional maybe orientation of that feature.
	And I insisted and I said, no, no, no, no.
	This has to be a reverse bottle opener.
	Here's why.
	I talked about the fulcrum and the leverage points of how the pry bar functions as a fulcrum when you're pulling objects to break objects.
	Remember, this is a knife that's all about escaping objects.
	You know, a building or escaping a car or escaping through a window or doors that are locked because the power grid's down or, you know, whatever.
	This is an escape tool.
	You have to be able to break chains and break pieces of metal as appropriate.
	You know, I'm not talking about breaking into anything.
	I'm talking about breaking out.
	And so I knew this feature had to be a certain way.
	And it was like, I've never seen a knife like this anywhere in the world.
	Nobody's ever come up with this, or maybe nobody's had the courage to stick to the idea.
	But I just said, look, this is the way it's got to be, because it's going to function like this.
	And sure enough, now that the knife is done, and we've got test videos that show exactly why that feature works that way.
	And it works perfectly.
	And you'll see.
	I'll share some videos with you, but you need to be able to come up with creative solutions, stick to your ideas on these, and not be talked out of things just because no one's done it before.
	There are lots of worthy new ideas, obviously.
	I mean, all ideas are, at one point in time, new ideas.
	And probably all good ideas were initially mocked.
	You know, like, that's stupid.
	How can you blow up gasoline and make wheels turn?
	You know, the combustion engine.
	That's stupid.
	You know, the Wright brothers were, that's stupid.
	You can't fly.
	You know, this thing's heavier than air.
	How are you going to float in the air?
	That's so stupid, right?
	But they built an airplane.
	And they flew it.
	You know, all great ideas were once derided as stupid ideas, so don't be afraid to pursue ideas that somebody else thinks are stupid.
	You might have a fantastic idea, you might have a breakthrough idea, but you need that property of resilience In order to make it through this.
	And that goes along with that sense of self-worth that we mentioned earlier and also control over your emotional state.
	You know, if 10 of your friends and family members are berating you and wagging their finger at you and you're stupid, that'll never work.
	It's the dumbest idea ever.
	You need to have the personal fortitude and the sense of self-worth to know that you're all wrong, by the way.
	And you're not going to piss me off.
	I'm going to build this thing.
	I'm going to show you.
	And then you'll come around.
	And very often, like in my life, that's exactly what happens with different groups of people.
	They say, oh, that's what you were talking about.
	Okay, okay.
	But at first, they're like, it's so stupid.
	I've experienced this repeatedly in my life.
	And probably you have too.
	I mean, even on simple things like blending avocados with bananas and whey protein, people are like, that's the dumbest idea ever because Americans, they only usually eat avocados as guacamole, right?
	The American taste palette is calibrated that avocados must always be salty, not sweet.
	Well, guess what?
	Avocados are really, they're not salty.
	They're just creamy.
	And if you have creamy avocados and sweet bananas and whey protein, that's actually like ice cream.
	It's like banana ice cream.
	And when I make it for people and they taste it, they're like, oh, that's actually not bad, you know?
	But at first, they're like, that's the stupid, dumbest idea ever.
	You're going to have sweet avocados?
	That's so stupid.
	Until they try it.
	Yeah.
	So, you know, or when I lived in Taiwan, we had a drink there called Mugua Nyonai, which is papaya mixed with milk.
	It's papaya and milk blended.
	Mugua is papaya and Nyonai is milk.
	And I had never tried that before.
	I thought that was crazy.
	And then I tried it and like, whoa, okay.
	Papaya and milk.
	This is awesome.
	And if you've never had papaya blended with milk, what you can do, you can actually blend papaya with like whey protein or cream powder or dairy milk if you drink milk, or you could blend it with an almond milk or an oat milk or something like that.
	It's incredibly delicious.
	You should try it.
	And it's orange and kind of spongy, kind of a little bit fluffy.
	You blend it at high speed, get a little air in there, and it's better than any milkshake.
	Try it.
	It'll open your eyes to a new experience.
	Alright, so anyway, I hope you enjoy some of my real-world examples of this.
	I'm just trying to demonstrate these properties.
	I haven't mastered all these things.
	Just like you, I'm on a journey to try to get better at these seven characteristics and traits.
	I'm I've taken a long journey.
	I'm a lot better at these things than I used to be.
	I have a lot more control over my emotional state, for example, than I used to have.
	I have a lot better discernment now, especially after COVID. And of course, I am prepared to endure.
	I have a good sense of self-sufficiency and so on.
	But like you, I'm an imperfect being.
	I have not mastered any one of these seven.
	So we're all on this same journey.
	And it's okay to be at any point on these things.
	You can be...
	Still trying to get to, you know, first base on some of these.
	And others, you might be more advanced.
	And it's totally fine.
	Just advance each one of these in the ways that you can each and every day, a little at a time.
	Don't be harsh on yourself.
	Don't overly judge yourself.
	Have patience with your process.
	Understanding that you're not God.
	You are a human being.
	And it's going to take time.
	And it's okay.
	It's totally okay.
	And you and I will one day die having never mastered all of these things, and that's okay too.
	We live and die with the best achievements that we can master or experience, and it's perfectly human, it's perfectly normal to do that.
	I hope you found value in this list, and I hope you know that I care about you I'm on Team Humanity.
	I am a humanitarian.
	I believe in peace.
	I mean, it almost sounds like a hippie thing.
	Like, love and peace, man!
	But I actually believe in love and peace and truth and transparency.
	And it's not a slogan.
	It's a core belief system.
	And I believe that humanity deserves to live without fear.
	Of violence or murder or enslavement by totalitarians and so on.
	And I believe that all the gifts that we need to experience joy and abundance and freedom are already present in the world around us.
	And these are gifts from God, sometimes expressed through Mother Nature, sometimes expressed through our own bodies, our own genetics, which are also gifts from God.
	And if we simply recognize these gifts and apply them, Then we will have lived a life with purpose on that day that we leave this world.
	We can look back and know with full faith and confidence that we lived a life with purpose and that we fulfilled what God intended for us to pursue in this realm during this very limited lifespan.
	And that counts for everything.
	And just remember, in this journey, you win...
	If you just take the journey, you lose if you compromise.
	You lose if you surrender your soul or if you compromise your ethics or your morality or if you think you're going to take shortcuts and find the route to power or riches by screwing other people over.
	That's how you lose.
	A lot of people think they're winning because their bank accounts are getting bigger, but they're actually losing.
	They're losing the big picture, the cosmic journey.
	They're losing.
	You win.
	If you stay on the path and do not compromise your morals or your ethics.
	And sometimes that means going against the crowd.
	Oftentimes it does.
	Sometimes it means feeling alone in a world of lunatics or ping pong balls floating in the ocean.
	And that's okay, too.
	That's why you and I have each other.
	Because we share this common, cosmic, big picture understanding of what's actually happening in this world.
	And we operate with the full knowledge that there's something much bigger going on than what most people are told or what they're able to even fathom.
	And if we can help others around us just catch a glimpse of that from time to time, then we can be a little beacon of light, a little lighthouse for those floating ping-pong balls.
	Maybe they can turn around and look, there's a lighthouse over there.
	Too bad we're ping-pong balls or we could paddle in that direction.
	But you can help.
	You can be a beacon of light for many other people.
	Maybe those ping-pong balls can sprout little paddles and they can start paddling towards the light or something.
	I mean, this metaphor is getting weird.
	Sorry about that.
	It's like ping pong balls with fins?
	What are you talking about?
	But you get my point.
	Serve your purpose here.
	Be a beacon of light for others.
	And no matter when you die or even how you die, you have been victorious.
	You have won the, quote, game of life at that point.
	So...
	I just shared a lot with you there, a lot of personal things, and I appreciate your support and your attention today.
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	Because these are lifelong lessons.
	These can help you at any point in your life with almost any obstacle or challenge.
	And yeah, we're facing the end times probably.
	I don't know if you call them end times or not.
	It's definitely a bad situation, right?
	End of the world, I don't know, apocalypse, World War III. It's going to be difficult.
	And the people who don't have these seven characteristics are going to be...
	They're going to have a very hard time making it through this.
	And so...
	Get these skills and traits self-mastered as much as you can.
	And I will see you on the other side of this.
	Because it's going to be us who rebuild, by the way.
	Who's going to build the future society after this whole system collapses...
	Folks, it's going to be you and me.
	That's why we're going to need all these skills.
	Creative thinking, all this innovation.
	How do we solve these problems?
	How do we build these things?
	How do we start over?
	Guess what?
	We're going to have to figure that out.
	Because we're the ones that are going to be here.
	We are the upcoming survivors of the collapse of the current broken system.
	Yeah, keep that in mind.
	I mean, it's no joke.
	All right.
	Well, thank you for all your support.
	And I will put here, I'm going to put the interview with Jeffrey Prather here if we can get that file, but not with Scott Ritter because it's getting too long.
	So we'll post Scott Ritter separately.
	But check out this interview with Jeffrey Prather.
	And there's a lot of practical but also timeless information in that interview as well.
	Jeffrey Prather is also a pastor and he has studied Native American culture.
	In addition to being a whistleblower, former defense intelligence agency analyst, and so on, he's a well-rounded person and a very spiritual person.
	So I think you'll find a lot of value in this interview.
	Enjoy it, and I'll be back with you tomorrow.
	God bless you all.
	Take care.
	Joining me right now is Major Jeffrey Prather.
	Welcome, Major Prather, to the show today.
	It's an honor to have you on, sir.
	Thanks, Mike.
	Good to be with you, and I totally agree with your opening there.
	That makes total sense, and I'm so glad that you're putting that out and saying that.
	Thank you for that.
	I know you and I see this very much the same way because it's a big picture perspective, but I'd like to ask you, actually, for your perspective on where we are right now.
	We've seen the IDF cutting off the northern half of Gaza, doing a bomb and then bulldoze operation to flatten certain areas.
	We have Palestinian casualties, at least according to Gazan Health Ministry figures, of well over 10,000 dead Palestinians at this point, including about 4,000-plus children.
	This whole thing is escalating rapidly.
	What do you see as the most important points here in terms of where this is going and the fact that there seems to be no support from the U.S. to support Or to push Israel into a ceasefire or diplomatic negotiations.
	What are your big points on this right now, Mr.
	Prather?
	Well, the first point is to go back to, and you were very gracious to have me on...
	Right after I exposed the fact that Israel's intelligence failure was intentional, and then General Flynn confirmed that as well.
	He's walked the border.
	I've worked borders.
	And so this is their 9-11, but it was set up like ours was to do exactly what you have said.
	And that's the first point that is not being made clear, and it's certainly being covered up by the fake news media that wants to instigate both sides.
	And I totally agree with what you're saying is, They want Jews and Muslims to fight each other, and after they destroy each other, then they are coming for Christians as well.
	And I totally agree with that point of view.
	But that's the first most important point, is this was allowed to happen by the same bad actors, which is Shin Bet, Mossad, FBI, CIA, Saudis, that did our 9-11, did their 9-11.
	And this was instigated purposefully, first.
	That's the first point, and people have not really realized that.
	The second is to destroy America's remaining warrior force, and that is Because this is all being ginned up right at the time when the Trump ridiculous trials are coming out.
	And it's not that they're going to convict him.
	It's that you're just going to tie him up in court.
	But they don't want anybody to pay attention to that because they want everybody to pay attention to the Middle East.
	And our troops are under attack at the same time.
	We're sending carrier groups over there.
	And of course Blinken just went to Turkey.
	That didn't go well.
	And a lot of people don't know that Turkey is a NATO member.
	And now Blinken's going on to Japan, where he has also met with opposition.
	So NATO is falling apart.
	Germany is having to side with Russia for fuel resources, so the entire defense structure of NATO in the United States, built after World War II, because Germany and Japan became our allies after World War II, is being systematically destroyed.
	Just like America, social institutions, political institutions, religious institutions are being systematically dismantled.
	That's what's going on on purpose.
	Jeffrey, I'm sorry to interrupt.
	I completely agree with your analysis, but you mentioned something that I've got to ask.
	What is the level of domestic pressure in Turkey, for example, against Erdogan by his own people?
	Remember, Turkey is like 96% Muslim.
	And a huge protest there.
	What kind of pressure is Erdogan facing to engage in kinetic warfare against Israel?
	And then in a minute we can talk about Turkey's extremely advanced military equipment, including its drone production industry.
	It's the largest exporter of military drones in the world right now, by the way.
	But also, not just Turkey, but let's talk about Iran.
	Let's talk about even Jordan and Syria and Yemen.
	Or even Egypt.
	What kind of pressures are these leaders facing from their own largely Muslim or Persian populations in Iran to do something direct at Israel?
	And can these leaders resist that call?
	Should they resist that call and just stand by?
	What do you see happening here?
	What's the dynamic?
	Well, I think that Erdogan has got tremendous pressure, not only from his Muslim population, but from his intelligence community.
	Their military and their intelligence capabilities are considerable.
	This goes back a long time, way back before my days in Special Forces, where Special Forces was involved in all of this as well, tying back into an assassination of an Thank you.
	Thank you.
	Turkey is much more likely to do something else because Turkey is part of NATO, and that is fracturing that relationship as well.
	Yemen and other proxy countries for terrorism, just like Iran, are something to be concerned about.
	But those attacks have been going on for a long time.
	This is about destabilizing the West completely.
	And that's exactly what's happening by doing this because I think there was a failed race war in America.
	I think they were trying to emulate and mimic the South African race war where blacks are going after white farmers.
	I think that failed.
	So they are now tying the race war into a religious war.
	And that's why you'll see Black Lives Matter siding with the PLO in America.
	And now you see Mar-a-Lago and the White House both being tagged.
	And that is the destruction and deterioration of the American system.
	Yeah, I want to ask you about the domestic implications of all of this, but let me plug your website just for people who want to follow you.
	It's jeffreyprather.com, and that's J-E-F-F-R-E-Y, Prather, P-R-A-T-H-E-R.com.
	People can find you there, and other platforms I'll give you a chance to mention at the end of the show here.
	But domestically, We have, of course, many people of Palestinian ethnicity in the United States, many on student visas, many who have immigrated and are American Palestinians, you know, a huge number, and not just Palestinians, but people from many other countries, You know, people who are from Lebanon, for example, people who are from Turkey in America.
	And for the most part, you know, these immigrants are I mean, most people all over the world just want they want to be left alone.
	You know, they want to have peace for the most part, I would say.
	But these events in the Middle East can make it easier for extremist leaders domestically in the United States to recruit susceptible people who are driven by rage, for example, against Israel's bombing, which, let's face it, is is pretty darn outrageous when which, let's face it, is is pretty darn outrageous when you're bombing hospitals and ambulances.
	And you have 90 plus Israeli rabbi doctors calling for more bombing of hospitals.
	I mean, I've never heard of doctors calling for bombing hospitals.
	So you're going to get a lot of outrage domestically in the United States, in Canada, even in Australia and across Western Europe.
	What do you think is the real risk of domestic extremism, i.e. outrage?
	actual terrorism, you know, suicide vests, bombings of government buildings or, you know, arson attacks?
	Do you think it's going to go there domestically?
	Well, I think it's being designed to go there.
	I sent a graphic of a law enforcement alert about PLO Hamas extremists coming in, and this is now the MO of the FBI. And I graduated from the FBI Academy in 1990.
	Most of the FBI's cases, of the 20, 25 FBI terrorist cases, 18 to 19 of them are what I would call entrapment cases, where they find some hapless Muslim kid.
	He's disenchanted.
	They say, hey, do you want to strike the United States at the Great Satan, which is Wahhabism, by the way, out of Saudi Arabia, by the way, our so-called allies?
	He goes, yeah, well, you got a target?
	No.
	Well, here's a target.
	You got any explosives?
	No.
	Well, here's some fake explosives.
	And then they run through the whole case.
	And then they arrest him and then they call that a great setup.
	And I think that's what's happening now.
	And this is gearing up to the elections for more continued DOJ-FBI election interference.
	And it's being very systematically We're good to go.
	This is all calculated chaos.
	This is not crazy.
	This is manufactured malice.
	This is engineered evil.
	And it's being done very, very systematically, which is why we shouldn't.
	And you're right.
	And also, the Gaza University that they just bombed, they said, oh, well, there were explosives there.
	There were secondary explosions.
	And all the experts say that's not the case.
	And I've put up a lot of stuff on a lot of IDF QR, so Israeli Defense Force, Quick Reaction Force folks who have agreed with me and General Flynn that this was a setup and we should not be doing this the way it is being done, and it is simply to instigate and put blood in everyone's eyes.
	Yeah, it seems very clear to me that Israel is engaging in actions that are designed to provoke the most outrage, the most reactions from the Arab world, and also potentially to try to provoke Iran.
	And we know that Senator No Limit Lindsey Graham, as I call him now, because he says there's no limit to how many Palestinian civilians can be killed, and it's all okay with him.
	But No Limit Lindsey Graham wants to bomb Iran no matter what.
	They want a reason for it, right?
	They want Iran to react so that they can say, see, Iran punched back.
	Now we have to launch everything at Iran.
	But something that you just said there was really critical.
	You said that you believe that domestic terrorism is being or will be manufactured.
	Now, are you saying, sir, that you believe that the FBI in particular will now go around and attempt to recruit As you call them, disillusioned young, usually young male Muslims in America who can be signed up to participate in acts of terrorism that are actually architected by the FBI because the FBI is quite famous for doing that.
	I mean, that's what they're known for now.
	They create a plan and then they just go recruit somebody and say, here, drive the van, plant this backpack next to the bridge, fly this drone over the White House, those kinds of things.
	Do you think that that's actually happening now or I think it has happened.
	It is happening and it will happen.
	I think that's what they're building to here.
	Remember, the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, the FBI drone overhead came out.
	It turns out there's an FBI agent running behind the child molester and the wife beater trying to kill Kyle.
	And they had an FBI drone overhead.
	Remember, the Garland...
	Texas draw Mohammed event where an FBI agent brought two ISIS terrorists to the event.
	They followed him in his car.
	A sharp garland cop dropped both of them.
	He tried to flee and he was only allowed to flee when he showed them their credentials.
	And of course, we've got the January 6th evidence.
	We've got the Wolverines, where the Michigan militia watches Red Dawn too many times.
	And so this is a clear modus operandi of what I call, in my day, this was called entrapment.
	If I was doing a drug reverse as a DEA agent, I had to We sell real cocaine or something.
	Then I had to take it off.
	Somehow, through court corruption, they don't have to do that.
	There's not real explosives.
	There's not real plots.
	We saw this in the Wolverine plot, where there's a one-to-run ratio through the FBI, and then that special agent was brought in to do the January 6th thing.
	We saw this with the Las Vegas shooting.
	Well, that was a Saudi royal family inter-rivalry assassination attempt.
	And so it's pretty clear to me that this is being built to this, and it's being built because of...
	I apologize for the interruption, but in addition, you said the FBI does recruit people to drive a van that's full of fake explosives.
	We've seen that.
	But in this case, we also know, and I know you're aware of this, there are real explosive vests that have been smuggled across the southern border.
	There is weapons trafficking, and I've been told from other sources that there are not only RPGs and not only portable mortars, You know, that mortar teams could operate, but that the State Department even panicked over the loss of some surface-to-air missiles, that they couldn't figure out where they went somewhere in the United States that could obviously be used to bring down a commercial airliner pretty easily by some sufficiently motivated terror group.
	So I guess my follow-up question to you is, are we going to see also real missiles Suicide bombers blowing up Americans in grocery stores or malls or stadiums or wherever.
	Is that a real risk now?
	I think that the FBI will manage this because they want to control it and they want to then wrap it up.
	And so there may be some bombings like that happening.
	And Fast and Furious, the last time I was on Fox News on Laura Ingraham was when the DOJ excluded the two AK-47s that murdered Brian Terry, the BORTAC agent.
	I used to work with BORTAC and deploy with BORTAC agents.
	And they excluded them from the case.
	And I said, why would you exclude the murder weapons from a murder trial unless you're trying to cover up?
	I think all that will continue to happen, but they will manage that because they don't want it to get out of control.
	When they start to do that here domestically...
	Jeffrey, sorry to interrupt.
	We're going to go to break here, but stay with us, folks.
	We have Major Jeffrey Prather here.
	I apologize for interrupting.
	We'll be right back after this break here on Infowars.com.
	I'm Mike Adams with Major Jeffrey Prather.
	Stay with us.
	We'll be right back.
	We continue now with Major Jeffrey Prather.
	Now, sir, I'm so impressed with your experience and your analysis, and you are also, you've been a firearms instructor for many years, and you're very, very proficient in multiple weapons systems.
	I've been trained over many years, not to the extent that you have, and I've never served in our armed forces or anything, but You and I both, even though we're proficient in weapons, we are both calling for peace.
	Let me set this up and get your reaction to this.
	I believe that more war and more bombs and more conflict feeds into the control systems of the globalists.
	I believe that peace actually disarms the globalists and takes away power from them and brings us back to we the people where we're not living under these emergency powers and another crisis that's been formulated by the globalists with, you know, overexciting and radicalizing Islam against Christians and against, in many cases, Jews across America and so on.
	Do you agree or disagree with that assessment?
	And if you agree, how should we call for peace?
	How should we accomplish that?
	Well, I totally agree with it, and I think World War I Marine Corps General Schmedley Butler, who was awarded actually or received two Medal of Honors back in the day, you can only get one now, said war is a racket, wrote about that, the military industrial machine.
	We haven't been allowed to win a war since World War II, and they are all endless wars now, and that's so that everybody is distracted.
	But the real war is being waged against us by the globalists.
	It's the resistance versus the reset, or the way I like to say it is, it's parents versus pedos.
	And in all of these wars, you see a lot of dark economy of drugs, weapons, and people, and now in particular, children.
	But no, I agree completely.
	Totally with that statement.
	And again, the religious, most people don't change their religion.
	And race war was not really activated well in the United States.
	They tried to do that.
	It didn't work real well.
	The Ukraine war is fading.
	That was totally a CIA setup.
	Victoria Nuland through the night on color revolution, all of that.
	So now they're going to activate a religious war.
	And because there's a lot of what I unfortunately call, and I'm a Christian chaplain, Christian Zionism, that the state of Israel is somehow holy, as opposed to the people of God, the Israelites, which is not the same thing at all.
	And a lot of people, like the new Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, are just buying right into that.
	And we should not be doing that because, of course, that is not following Yeshua, Jesus at all.
	It's just kill them all.
	And that's what basically Israel and the United States policy is advocating.
	But that puts them at odds with Japan, with Turkey, even Germany, who has to now go to Russia for fuels.
	And so this just deteriorates.
	I see all of our hard-won allies fading away from us, and I see it being done very purposefully.
	And, of course, our military at this point is already wrecked.
	Well, this brings up a critical question.
	Is Israel, even as they are succeeding in bombing many residential buildings and universities and hospitals into rubble, especially in northern Gaza, is Israel actually destroying itself in terms of its international reputation?
	Will Israel be able to survive this intact?
	In fact, Colonel Douglas McGregor says that Americans must save Israel from itself, insinuating that Israel is acting irrationally in a way that contradicts its own long-term self-interest.
	Do you agree with that assessment, Jeffrey, that Israel is doing tremendous damage to its own reputation and its own long-term viability?
	And is Netanyahu going to wind up maybe indicted by the International Criminal Court over this?
	I disagree that America needs to save Israel by any means.
	And that's kind of the American Zionist from the Schofield Bible point of view.
	And that comes after the Civil War.
	But Netanyahu is playing to the far religious right.
	Most Israelis are...
	Secular.
	It is the highest level of homosexuality.
	You all know Harar is there.
	It's the highest of killing babies, the unborn babies.
	None of that applies.
	And so we don't need to save Israel.
	Israel is destroying its own reputation.
	It has had a fabulous reputation for the military, for special operations.
	We all study raid on it.
	Tevi, Israel is clearly, in my opinion, the best intelligence service in the world.
	And so, again, that goes back to the intentional failure on October 7th.
	And so, yeah, they are destroying their credibility, and everybody is going to take a side, which we should not do, as you opened the show, saying we should be on humanity's side, not choosing a side, because they are traditionally and very emphatically trying to divide us over this issue.
	And they don't even clearly understand the issue here.
	I'm glad you brought that up because also it's true that Netanyahu is very unpopular among Israelis.
	In fact, I would say the majority of Israel wants him to be removed from power, and it seems very unlikely to me that he will survive this power.
	But we also have many Jews across America, especially younger Jews in universities, who are actively protesting against the Zionism policies that appear as ethnic cleansing in Gaza.
	And so we have Jews for peace or Jewish voices for peace, which tend to be more leftist groups.
	But there are also conservative Jews that are completely opposed to what Israel is doing.
	And how do we understand these distinctions between Judaism versus Zionism, Christian Zionism versus American Jews that oppose what's happening there?
	How do we sort all this out?
	That is so good that you said that.
	And there are Hasidic Orthodox Jews in Israel supporting the PLO against the Israeli state, which is not the holy nation of Israel, even there.
	And I just showed on my show last week an Israeli policeman knocking down a Hasidic Jew.
	And I showed other clips where they were actually holding up PLO flags.
	Genetically, they're the same people.
	And there is no genetic race of Jews, by the way.
	My wife was raised Jewish.
	She's Christian now.
	But all the women of valor were imports anyway.
	So that's a total myth as well.
	But the way to sort this out is, again, Torah, or Old Testament, is good.
	And Yeshua, Jesus, comes to fulfill Torah.
	And I believe that.
	But Talmud, rabbinic commentary on Torah, is terrible.
	It's got 18 genders, and you can marry a child or...
	Or whatever.
	And Zionism is not Judaism.
	They are separate.
	And people don't really understand those distinctions.
	And that's very important to understand.
	And if people focused on their faith, these would go away.
	But they're blurring their faith along political lines, which it was never supposed to be that.
	Well, it's very easy for people.
	Again, I'm sorry.
	Very easy for people to be blurred in their faith or in their rationality when it comes to atrocities.
	You know, the images of dead babies being retrieved out of rubble and sometimes with not all their limbs intact.
	And these kinds of scenes are designed to bypass rationality and get people enraged.
	Jeffrey, we're going to go to a break, one more break.
	Stay with us.
	We'll be right back, folks, with Jeffrey Prather here on InfoWars.com.
	Alright, welcome back to the Alex Jones Show.
	Mike Adams here joining you from the Brighton Studios in Central Texas, and we continue this hour with Major Jeffrey Prather, and we'll be joined next hour by former UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter.
	Now, Mr.
	Prather, you have formerly, you know, DIA. You've been with DEA. You've done special forces, I believe, B-team operations before.
	And I want your assessment right now of what Israel is looking at in terms of urban warfare using 300,000 reservists who I would characterize as, you know, minimally trained compared to an active duty soldier.
	Obviously, I'm not I'm not disparaging the character.
	I'm just saying, you know, they're reservists.
	They don't have the same kind of, you know, trigger time, right?
	And I've seen a lot of videos of the Hamas fighters with RPGs just walking right up to Israeli armor, almost point-blank range, which tells me that the Israelis, the IDF, I mean, they don't know how to use their armor.
	I mean, God forbid I comment on their military, but you're not just supposed to run around in tanks and have all your troops inside the infantry fighting vehicles all day.
	You've got to have eyes on the ground.
	But I want your assessment...
	Of what the IDF is doing on the ground there, what are their risks, and also what are their achievements in terms of, you know, turning Gaza into rubble?
	Well, none of that makes sense at all.
	And the IDF in the past has been extremely effective, and some of their operations are classically textbook studied by the Seven Day War, the raid on Entebbe.
	They've done some great stuff, as they've done some fabulous intelligence operations.
	But now it looks like they're just throwing troops into a grinder.
	Very similarly to what's happening in Ukraine, which is also called at times the new Israel as well.
	And this is, I think, to instigate even more war.
	So there is a part of the Israeli religious community that has a messiah on the ground that they think will become the one world leader.
	That fits into the global cabal plans by bringing illegals in that are Muslim through our borders.
	That fits into the Muslim jihad plans.
	Both Israeli NPL leaders are supported by the World Economic Forum.
	as well, so that fits everybody's plans.
	But the tactical strategy of Israel makes no sense, because initially they said, well, we're going to do a big hostage rescue.
	Well, I have some experience.
	I've gotten to go to some special schools for hostage rescue.
	Those are scalpels.
	What they're doing is a hammer and bringing in tanks.
	You've got to support armor with infantry.
	Otherwise, exactly what is happening is happening.
	So this looks to deplete forces so that everybody is weakened, so that there's more continual war, so that everything is in crisis because World Economic Forum, Global Cabal, the deep state double governments all want all of that in crisis.
	As things come to a head, especially with the elections approaching, so that there is another legitimate crisis.
	The last one was the PSYOP with the bioweapons.
	This one is going to be, it looks like, worldwide religious war happening.
	But what Israel is doing makes no sense at all.
	And they're just feeding into a...
	They've destroyed the terrain.
	They talked about this, that they were going to do hostage rescues.
	Well, when you bomb and shell, you've changed the terrain.
	Typically, when you're going to do a hostage rescue, you want to know what the buildings are, you have the blueprints, so you can figure out how it goes.
	So none of that seems to be happening.
	It's just more endless war, more chaos, so that then the global cabal and the deep states can continue to wage war on us.
	Yeah, it seems like there will be no hostages left alive by the time they find them.
	I mean, with these bunker buster bombs and bombing bakeries where people are standing in line outside waiting for bread and bombing refugee camps and so on.
	But I think this is all designed to elicit a response.
	So let's talk about that.
	What Israel has done to Gaza, which has been a siege for many years, but more recently a total siege cutting off electricity, food, fuel, and water, and also internet connectivity intermittently, that siege warfare that Israel is waging on Gaza could also be waged against Israel by the Arab nations.
	So, for example, much of the fuel and energy that comes to Israel comes through Turkey, for example.
	And also we're hearing calls from Yemen to cut off all oil exports from Middle Eastern nations to Israel.
	And it really wouldn't take much for Israel to be cut off both land and sea routes where Israel could find itself in a Gaza-like siege situation.
	And more and more calls from Arab nations are leading to that point.
	Do you think...
	That Turkey in particular is actually going to start getting to a point where they either attack, or we could also talk about Hezbollah in Lebanon, but will there be attacks on Israel, or will there be siege warfare, or let's say commodity embargoes against Israel, in your opinion?
	I think you've elaborated siege warfare excellently, and I think there will be both.
	And I think this, again, is to build towards, I call it World War IV, but a lot of people call it World War III. But again, it is building that scenario so that malactors in the global cabal can move forward because they're being exposed.
	By Brighton, they're being exposed by Infowars on Prather Point as well.
	People are becoming aware of that.
	They've turned the portable media around on them, turned the claymore around, so they've got to distract and dangle.
	The intelligence term is dangle.
	And so that's what I think is happening.
	So both, I think, are going to happen to make things worse.
	But it's a very fragile relationship because if they collapse it too much, then they lose control.
	And that's why I think there'll be some attacks in the United States, but not a lot of attacks, because they want to bring in more FBI, more DHS, especially towards election years, but they don't want to lose control too much.
	But they are playing a very dangerous game because they can lose control of this everywhere.
	And Israel could lose control of this everywhere as well.
	Very important point.
	Israel could lose control.
	And Turkey in particular, you know, Turkey has vast military might, vastly outsizing Israel, just Turkey alone, not to mention Syrian forces or Iranian forces and so on.
	But Turkey is a very advanced nation, advanced manufacturing.
	I mentioned drones earlier.
	Turkey is the largest manufacturer and exporter of drones.
	They also have fifth-generation fighter aircraft in the pilot stage, by the way.
	And they also have, I don't know how many thousands of tanks, and they can raise over a million soldiers.
	I think it's the second largest standing military in all of NATO other than the United States of America itself.
	So if Turkey decides to move on to Israel, how can Israel, frankly, even survive that, not to mention the other countries?
	Well, I think they'll survive.
	I think there's endless war.
	So World War II, we see a conclusion of it.
	Japan and Germany surrender, and then that war ends.
	Fifth generation war, a great war, a quiet war, just continues to go on.
	So I don't think Israel will completely destroy I don't think the PLO will completely destroy Israel.
	I think they want endless conflict.
	But I do agree with you that Turkey is more dangerous than Iran, because while the Iran theocracy wants a lot of war, I don't think the Iranian people, the Persians, are really interested in that.
	And they're usually at odds religiously and socially with the rest of the Arab world.
	So I don't think If they would engage, they could lose control as well.
	That's why, under the Obama administration, the only Muslim regime that was not allowed to participate in the so-called Arab Spring was Iran, because a real revolution in Iran would overthrow the theocracy that the Iranian people don't want.
	And they are very adverse to the rest of the Arab world.
	They are Persians, not Arabs.
	So Turkey...
	I'm sorry, you have outstanding analysis.
	You have a lot of experience and knowledge of world events and what's going on inside the intelligence community as well.
	Give us where people can find you and how they can follow your work.
	Well, my show is The Prather Point at jeffreyprather.com on Rumble on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 4 p.m.
	Eastern Time, and I'm on Brighton TV, The Prather Point, 10 a.m.
	on Friday mornings as well.
	Okay, and then jeffreyprather.com.
	Aren't you on another site, another platform, where people can do a little monthly subscription or something?
	Yeah, I'm on patreon.com.
	That's jeffreyprather.
	I say a lot of outrageous things, and if you want to follow what I'm saying, the intelligence and the evidence of it, it's on my Patreon at the $5, $15, $25 level.
	I list all that stuff out so you can see what I'm saying.
	What I'm saying.
	Alright, got it.
	And the reason I invited you on, Jeffrey, I really honor your work and the fact that you do stand for peace.
	You understand violence.
	You understand how violence has to be used sometimes in self-defense in order to stop other forms of violence.
	So you're not naive to this, but you call for peace and you're also a man of God as well.
	So thank you for joining us today.
	Thanks for having me so much.
	It's been an honor to have you on.
	Take care.
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