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Dec. 18, 2023 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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Anthony Rubin from Muckraker.com joins Mike Adams in the Brighteon studios...
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Welcome to today's interview on BrightTown.com.
We have a very special guest in studio, Anthony Rubin from Muckraker.com, who just survived quite a trek from Quito, Ecuador, to the U.S. southern border and has been able to document the invasion routes of the United States that are being used by illegals from all over the world.
Welcome to the show, Anthony.
And I'm glad that you're alive and safe after everything that you went through.
Yes, sir.
Well, it's good to be here.
Actually, you were one of the first people, other than Michael Yame, that I said on our last interview that I told about going to Quito, Ecuador, the plan to do that.
And I'm glad that we're here now kind of closing that loop.
Yeah, absolutely.
This is great.
So kind of walk us through it.
You flew to Quito, and then you joined the migration routes?
What did you do?
Yeah, so I guess for everybody watching this at home...
The whole mass migration route pipeline to the United States, it starts as far south as Quito, Ecuador.
Actually, it starts further south than that.
I mean, there's actually routes going through Peru.
There's actually maps down there of Peru.
They've carved out these quote-unquote migration routes.
Really?
Actually, honestly, it's like all of South America has been carved up like that, and the UN has actually put out maps.
I'm pretty sure for almost every country in South America showing migration routes through them.
Quito, Ecuador, the country of Ecuador, is the main starting point for anybody that's not already based in South America.
And the reason why is because they have literally the world's easiest entry requirements.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And they've got the port city of Guayaquil on the west.
And I know they get a lot of traffic from Asia coming in on Guayaquil.
And then from Quito, all you have to do is grab a bus and start heading north, right?
That's it.
And so we landed in Quito and we actually didn't even spend a lot of time there.
We spent one night and then we kept it going just because it was a long week.
We were trying to hustle through this journey and even hustling through it took us a month.
Literally a month exactly from October 15th to November 15th.
And that was us hustling ass.
Now wait, hold a second.
A couple of questions up front.
Yeah.
Number one, do you speak some Espanol?
Si, poco.
Okay, enough to get by.
Yeah, exactly.
Okay, me too.
Enough to get by.
Yeah.
But not going to be writing college papers in Espanol.
Exactly.
Okay, second question.
How did you not get robbed if you had cash on you?
I mean, you know what?
This might sound silly.
People might roll their eyes when I say this, but I truly believe you could read a lot about a person just like up front before you even say anything to them.
You know what I mean?
Just like looking at a person's eyes, assessing the situation.
If they're sketchy, I mean, you don't go around sketchballs.
You don't go around sketchy areas, and you just kind of watch where you're at.
I also think that having my brother with me, because I was originally going to go alone, and then my brother insists.
Yeah, probably not a great idea.
Honestly, in hindsight, had I gone alone, Actually, I don't even know if I would have done all the things that I did.
But had I done the things that I did without my brother, there's a very high chance I probably would have disappeared.
And I'm not just saying that.
I truly believe that.
I just would have been disappeared and not heard from again.
It's exponentially harder to disappear two people at once than just one man.
Yeah, exactly.
And you have a lot of maps that you brought to show us some of the routes.
But talk to us about where you went from Quito, all the countries that you went through, and how this worked.
Sure.
So that brings me to my first...
We took a bus from Quito to the border town of Tolkien.
It's right on the border with Colombia.
And you get there, and literally, we could display this.
They hand out these maps there, and this map is basically like a treasure map.
Every single NGO that you could imagine that has to do with this illegal alien pipeline is listed on this map, and they're all just littered throughout this town.
That's just a town map.
It's just a town map, but it shows all the different NGOs that have to do with this mass migration pipeline.
Well, So what do you do?
You go to one of these buildings and what do they do?
Well, there's all different types of aid that is handed out here.
Legal aid, medical aid, other places that actually hand out instructions and food packages and whatnot, and they send you on your merry way.
This is printed by UNHCR. I mean, this is directly printed by the UN. This is handed out there.
Oh yeah, yeah.
The UN is 100% all into mass human migration.
100%.
So then how did you cross the border to Colombia?
So we did that legally just because I didn't see much intel to be gained by doing it illegally.
You could easily get jumped.
I mean, you're just trekking.
Yeah.
You know, the crazy thing is that border crossing there.
I mean, you lived in Ecuador.
Did you ever do that border crossing?
I did.
No, I never crossed the border to Colombia.
It's like you don't even necessarily have to get your passport stamped.
I mean, you could just walk across and it's like voluntary if you want to get it stamped.
I was pretty shocked by it.
I was like, what's going on here?
But no, we just went across that land crossing right there and went right into Colombia after this, after we saw this.
There were other things.
I mean, for example, this is handed out by a group called R4V. This is a quote-unquote migration route map that's handed out.
And like I said, so this R4V, they've also carved up.
I've seen that they have maps of Peru down there as well.
And I mean, you could see how...
It's explicitly obvious what's going on here is, right?
How they're just encouraging people to not only migrate to the United States, they're also encouraging people from Venezuela.
R4V stands for Refugees for Venezuela.
Oh, no kidding.
Yeah, and so they're actually encouraging not only people to go up to the U.S., but Venezuelans to actually use Ecuador not only as a resting point, but like a final resting place, a final destination, but also as a transit area to go further south to countries like Peru.
Right.
Yeah, and that's what this is all about.
Basically, when you're looking at this, what you should be thinking of, it's not just the dissolving of the United States of America.
It's just the dissolving of sovereign nation states.
Right, just trying to turn it all into a giant free-for-all.
Exactly.
With no borders.
Exactly.
That's what this is all about.
Well, that's one of the chants.
What was it like?
No borders, no walls, no USA at all.
No USA at all.
Right?
Exactly.
Yep.
Now, I'm curious, the people that you met along the way, What were their stories or their justifications for why they were making this trek to the United States?
I mean, I can understand in Venezuela, just trying to get away from the tyranny and the poverty, but you must have met people from all kinds of different countries.
What were their stories?
It's honestly...
I don't want to minimize or diminish anybody's personal plight, right?
But it's all kind of the same stuff, honestly.
You know what I mean?
We're headed to the United States because Biden's opened the border, and we're looking for a better life in America.
That's just what you hear.
Imagine they're surprised when they get to Biden's America.
Yeah.
And they realize it kind of sucks.
In a lot of cities, a Democrat city is where they're going.
It does, but it also shows you there's that much residual greatness left in this country that people still want to come up here.
I mean, these countries are that bad.
I mean, these countries are hellholes, man.
I don't even like saying that because it sounds like I'm not...
You sound uncultured when you say something like that, but they are.
I mean, truly, I would want to live there temporarily.
I'm so happy to come back to the United States.
Oh, yeah.
I'm very happy to be living in Texas.
Oh my God, I love this country.
I've traveled around, I'd say, a fair deal more than most people.
I lived in Southeast Asia for a year, traveled around there, like India, Cambodia, Thailand, Laos, and now this whole ship coming up here.
I mean, the United States of America, I'm always happy to be back here.
So there's that much greatness left despite the collapse we're going through.
Yeah, well, hopefully we can turn that around.
We'll see.
But next question, how many...
What Chinese did you see on this route?
Because we know that the CCP, I mean Michael Yan has done a lot of reporting on this, but the CCP sends military-aged males to Ecuador to begin this journey and then through the Darien Gap and so on.
Did you notice a lot of sort of Asian ethnic people?
Yeah, to say I noticed it is an understatement.
That was the majority of people that were coming through.
The majority of people that I saw, as far as illegal aliens headed to the United States, I'd say the biggest demographic was Chinese.
No kidding.
Yep.
Before we crossed the gap, after we crossed the gap, then I started running to a lot more Latinos.
But before then, it was, yeah, majority Chinese.
Did you speak to some of those Chinese people?
Yep.
Yeah, I did.
What did they tell you?
So the ones, well, I interviewed one man for, actually two men.
I've only published one of the interviews, though, and they both admitted to me on camera, for example, that there are Chinese police in America.
We already know that.
It's not like a big, this isn't like groundbreaking news, but I guess just to hear it from their mouth, you know what I mean?
Just these Chinese illegal ends that are admitting to me openly that, yeah, there's Chinese police in America.
When you say Chinese police in America, you mean CCP run police stations?
Or are you referring to something else?
No, that's exactly what I'm referring to.
So it's like the police that would be operating out of these CCP police stations that they busted in New York, Los Angeles, and other cities.
Right.
Yeah.
And just for our viewers, those CCP-run police stations, they enforce the CCP's goals on Chinese Americans.
They can threaten you or your family back in China if you speak out against China in America.
I mean, they run around and threaten and probably murder people.
I'm sure of it.
As a matter of fact, I, so the reason why, I don't know, actually not the reason why, but what kind of kicked this whole thing off was this past summer I was given, so I had met an illegal alien during my first Darren Gap trip back in spring of 2023.
And I stayed in touch with this man and he eventually got into the United States.
He's living in Los Angeles now.
And one day he just – he knows that I'm researching this stuff.
He knows that I'm a journalist that investigates this.
And one day he just sends me – drops me a 200-page PDF document, and it's all written in Chinese.
And so I get the first like 20 pages translated.
I'm looking at the translation.
And it's literally a step-by-step manual on how to go from Quito, Ecuador, all the way to the United States border.
People can go to my website and check this out.
I mean, this video barely got any publicity at all.
I'm shocked.
And then I get the rest of it translated and it's basically an instruction how-to manual on how to work the asylum system in America.
And so, you know, to bring us back to what you were saying, I actually interviewed this man for that video, blurred out his face, of course, upon his request, but he told me again that he, like, feared that the Chinese police, if they discovered who he was, would come and kidnap him back to China.
Yeah, right.
Yeah.
Okay, well, that's interesting.
Because another question I have for you is, did you ever encounter anyone who you thought or maybe admitted that they were dispatched by the CCP in order to occupy the United States?
Because Michael Yan believes that he caught on camera a CCP soldier or intelligence agent, basically, who was doing that to get to America.
I believe that's Lucian Zhao.
That was my footage.
I know exactly the footage you're talking about.
Yeah, the one where we're sitting at the table, and it's...
Yeah, sitting at the table.
I call him Mr.
Scratchy.
Mr.
Scratchy, yeah.
He was all, like, scratchy.
I mean, the jungles are brutal.
Yeah.
But he was all scratchy and denying everything.
Yeah, no, he was getting real pissed off me, man.
I had that camera running.
We got a lot of it, and then he realized what was going on, and then he made us turn it off.
But, yeah, Chai Ninjas, we call him.
He, um...
That guy, that's another example.
I'm sure you know all the background that Michael Jan did on him and discovered some serious stuff.
He had tried...
Taken a boat from the Bahamas into the United States, got caught, got shipped back to the Bahamas, and then instead of going back to China, actually had enough money to then repurpose his whole mission and go to Colombia and try it all over again.
Where is he getting this money from?
Well, that's the question.
And where are his loyalties?
Is he waiting for instructions from Beijing at some point?
I'm sure most of these people are.
Even then, I mean, coercion is a very powerful tool, and it will be used, of course.
And so, you know, if you're asking me that question, no.
I can't speak of anybody that I spoke to where it's like definitively, yes, this person is being sent.
But, I mean, we could put two and two together.
We know that the CCP is operating here definitively.
It's not a conspiracy theory, right?
I mean, that's what people will try to tell you, that it's some sort of right-wing conspiracy.
That's actually what they say.
It's nuts.
Yeah.
Well, they just don't know what's actually happening.
Correct.
I mean, we shouldn't even entertain that.
We know that's happening.
We know that all these Chinese are coming out in here, many military age, many of them firing off weapons in the desert weeks after getting here and brazen about it, posting.
I'm not even sure.
I'm not a lawyer.
I'm not even sure if they're legally allowed to do that as non-citizens, if they're allowed to get a hold of weapons and go fire them off in the desert like that.
I'm not sure if that seems to be being done legally, but the point is there's plenty of videos like that.
I publish them.
Allen has has published a ton of them.
The great investigator when it comes to this.
And they're out there just firing off weapons literally a week after being in the United States.
And they're brazen about it, publishing on social media.
I almost feel like again, I can't prove this, but I almost feel like it's like signaling back home, like showing, you know, whoever they may be working with.
Like, yeah, we made it look here.
We're fulfilling the mission.
Right.
I mean, we occupied the enemy's territory, we've got guns, and we're training with their guns in their deserts, inside their borders.
I mean, yeah, it's like a conquering message.
Like, we're here and we've taken over.
Yeah, that's quite literally what's going on, and we're just allowing it to take place.
And it's not just the Chinese, though.
I mean, I encountered military-age men, a giant group of them from Syria.
Extremely sketchy.
I mean, we could get into that.
Sketchy, not because they were from Syria, but because their body language and the way they came dressed up.
For example...
Was it the suicide vest?
Was that a trigger?
No, that came later.
What was interesting about these men, maybe not quite interesting, that's not the right word, frightening maybe?
Down, down.
About these guys.
My dog's getting really interested in your talk here.
Well, he should be concerned, honestly.
He's running border security right here in the studio at the moment.
No, keep going.
I'm sorry.
No, you're good.
So, I mean, what was concerning about these Syrian guys?
The point is this.
So, these Syrian military-aged men, when we were going into the Gap, we took a route that's used by SIA, special interest aliens, and...
You know, I can explain right here.
So this is a map of basically the Daring Gap.
This is actually handed out by Hyatt.
They like to deny that they have anything to do with this, that they encourage people to go through the jungle.
But you could literally see, I don't know if the cameras can pick that up, but there's literal boat routes that you can see here.
Taking you across from Nacokli or Turbo on this side, you have to take a boat over to the mouth of the gap, which is right here.
Literally showing this to you on a map.
Okay, but they're going to deny that that exists.
But that's not the route that we took.
Had we gone from one of these entry points here from Columbia into Panama, there's a very high likelihood we would have been killed in there.
Yeah.
Straight up.
I mean, there's drug runners going through there.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
People...
People get raped in there.
Maybe.
Maybe.
Even as a man, maybe.
Yeah.
Dead bodies everywhere, people getting raped, stories of even young children getting raped.
We didn't take that route.
The route that we took was we got...
We took a boat over somewhere around here to this coastal village called Coreto.
So basically you got the first class seats.
Correct.
I mean, you had to pay for the boat.
A lot of people don't have the money, so they go through the jungle.
Yep, exactly.
And so the route that we took is used by special interest aliens that have more money because of course you have to pay a boatman smuggler to take you in there.
Right.
And so it's quite interesting.
Actually, it's a better route.
Maybe not as adventurous, but it's actually still quite dangerous.
I don't want to minimize that.
I mean, there's still armed men taking you through there.
Oh, yeah.
You can't trust these people.
No.
You have to trust them, actually, but you shouldn't.
You trust them as little as you need to.
But the route that we took further north where you actually end up trekking basically east to west onto Highway 1 instead of south to north.
Yeah.
Again, what was interesting about it is it's used by SIA. So the caravan that we left with was predominantly, it was about 400 to 500 people, I want to say, and it was mostly Chinese.
No kidding.
60 to 70 percent, probably about 65 percent Chinese.
How many of the Chinese spoke Espanol, by the way?
Any guess?
I don't think any.
Really?
Not that I know.
Did some speak English?
Yeah, enough speak English.
Yeah, that you could get by with, you know.
I see.
But it wasn't just them.
There was also Syrians that were there.
A group of military-aged Syrian men, not one woman or not one child with them.
Wow.
Straight up.
And these men were incredibly suspect, to put it lightly.
Yeah.
They get off of this boat because everybody gets smuggled onto boat.
And I got this on video, so I'll be publishing this.
But they all show up on boat like at the crack of dawn.
And these guys get off and they're all wearing crucifix necklaces.
Every single one of these men had a crucifix necklace.
The Syrian men?
The Syrian men.
Right.
What does that mean to Syrian men?
Well, I mean, there are Christians in Syria.
It's a rarity, but they do exist.
To me, I took it as cover.
To me, it seemed so blatant, I took it as cover.
Right.
But there are Christians being persecuted in Syria.
There are.
And they might be trying to flee Syria for that reason.
Possible.
That's why I'm just giving all the evidence I have and let the audience come to whatever conclusion they want to based off of that.
But that wasn't the only thing.
Some of these men had tattoos that read Jesus.
It was all in the same font and the tattoos looked new.
You could tell an old tattoo, a decade old one from a new one.
It looked fresh.
Anecdotal.
I get that.
But I'm just giving people the evidence.
Do with it what you will.
These men were somewhat friendly towards me until I told them that I was American and they realized that I had a camera in my bag, at which point they became incredibly hostile towards me.
Like, scary level of hostile.
Like, I didn't want to go anywhere near them.
I mean, it was so hostile to the point where when we were going into the jungle, I kept saying to my brother, have you seen these Syrian men?
Because I didn't want to run into them.
I was trying to keep my distance.
But again, another clue, we didn't run into the Syrian men because as it went, these men actually took a completely separate route than us.
Oh.
An entirely separate detached route.
What does that mean?
I mean, it can mean any number of things.
Maybe they want to avoid detection.
Maybe there's a reason they don't want to be around this mass caravan.
Maybe something's going on in the jungle that we don't know about.
I have no idea.
I can't prove that.
But again...
Maybe they had more money to pay a better smuggler for a better route.
Maybe.
The VIP... Smuggling rounds.
It could possibly be any one of those or all of the above.
We don't know.
But again, these are all just clues showing that something suspect is afoot.
It's also highly suspicious that they were all military-aged men, no women and no children, at least the group that you saw.
And we have from other intel sources, some of which I've interviewed here, that...
They know that there are a large number of Middle Eastern terror-minded individuals that are making their way into the United States through this process.
And that there are weapons already staged in the U.S. to be used for domestic terrorism, bombing infrastructure, things like that.
I'm not accusing the people that you saw, but perhaps that's what's going on.
Listen.
I mean, terror attacks are 100% coming.
To think that there aren't bad actors that are already in here, or just even if they're not terrorists that want to blow up a residential building or something, or an office building.
I mean, even just saboteurs who want to take out a power plant.
I mean, this is definitively going to happen, and they're going to blame it.
I mean, we've already seen all the pre-programming.
What was that?
I forget the name of that...
Obama-funded movie that just came out that's literally talking about the power grid coming down.
Oh, yeah.
Ethan Hawke and Julia Roberts are in that movie.
I was just watching part of it.
It's like the end of the world is coming or something.
I forgot the name.
It's totally pre-programmed as far as I can tell.
Absolutely.
There's an anti-white narrative in the movie, too.
Frightening.
Yeah.
They literally say that, like, when this all happens, don't trust the white people.
Something along those lines.
Right, they were saying don't trust white people.
Yeah, I put it more lightly than they actually put it in the movie, I think.
I think it was actually said worse than that.
Yeah, but just for the record, Ethan Hawke plays a snowflake father-slash-husband who doesn't know how to use firearms, who doesn't know anything about prepping, who gets lost driving on the road.
Oh, my God.
So...
That's not Texas, just to be clear.
All the men I know in Texas can take care of themselves.
Yeah, I mean, that is New York and Los Angeles and San Francisco.
That's a lot of people, a lot of honestly good people that are going to be caught up in this, and they're going to be doomed, honestly.
Yeah, there are going to be a lot of doomed people who don't know what to do when the power goes out.
Very, very sad.
That's not us, though.
Now, I'm sorry to interrupt, but at one point you were kidnapped.
Correct.
You were taken hostage.
You were blindfolded.
Yep.
Tell us about that event.
That must have scared the shit out of you.
I will tell people about that, but before I even get to that, I feel like I should tell people about the different cartels that we experienced before we even got to that point.
If we got time.
Do we have time?
Are we okay?
No.
You're good?
Okay, you want to hear this?
Okay.
I want to hear it too, yeah.
Okay, so basically Mexico is a controlled state.
I mean, the whole state is controlled by criminal elements.
You could pull up maps that just show the territorial control of these different cartel organizations.
I mean, it's...
Man, I'd rather be in the jungle than certain parts of Mexico that I was in.
I don't blame you.
Yeah, I'm right there with you.
I'm not just saying that.
So let me just...
Yeah, even when I was in Ecuador, I liked the rural areas.
Yeah.
Yeah, the cities...
I mean, the Ecuadorian people are awesome people, but the sketchy elements are in the cities.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
It's like where they operate.
Whereas like the rural people are like farmers, like, oh, you want to trade a chicken?
You know, it's all good.
Yeah.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah.
But so...
I encountered, as far as I'm concerned, three cartel organizations.
They may have been three distinct organizations, although I cannot confirm the second and the first.
I'm just going off of the evidence that I have.
So when we got smuggled into Mexico, that happened by who I believe was the Sinaloa cartel.
We met with the Ministry of the Interior in Guatemala before we crossed into Mexico.
And they said that the area that we were going to cross from, Takunaman, into Mexico...
Is controlled by Sinaloa.
And I mean, that was an incredibly dangerous experience.
And I could have straight up been kidnapped right there.
We were held in a stash house.
We were packed into like a clown car with like, you know, just like men sitting atop of each other, military-aged men from Sierra Leone.
And we were driven down these dirt roads into the interior of Mexico.
I thought they were going to pull over the car because at one point, they're like driving and stopping in a dirt road driving.
I was worried for them, getting ready for them to just stop the car and just rob us.
Yeah.
Didn't happen.
We got through it.
Yeah, it could have happened.
Could have happened there.
Yeah.
Could have happened when we rode the train of death.
I mean, the men that loaded us onto the train of death...
You should have brought him with you.
Honestly?
He could have come in handy.
I probably should have.
It would have been even exponentially harder to kidnap us.
So that was the first cartel group that we ran into.
We could have been...
Kidnapped right there.
Second group we run into, I don't know what cartel group this was, but it was certainly a cartel group, was the one that loaded us onto the train of death.
It's actually called the train of death?
Yeah, el tren de muerte.
Or the beast train.
That's like we get to do a whole 40 minute segment on that.
Extremely dangerous.
I had to ride it twice because after the cartel took all my footage, I flew back into Mexico to ride it again to get that footage back.
I remember the footage of you on the train reporting, but you're saying that was the second version.
That was the first version.
And honestly, as weird as it sounds, riding on top of the train is the least sketchy way to do it.
Because the second time I rode in the inside of the train, packed in a boxcar and they locked the doors from the outside.
It was horrifying.
Oh my gosh!
You're kidding me!
Oh, straight up, man.
Straight up.
But that's a different story.
But anyway, the man who loaded us onto that train the first time...
You're like cargo.
Yeah.
You're like cargo, man.
Wow.
That's what it is.
And so the man who loaded us onto that train the first time...
You ever seen the Batman movie from the early 2000s that the guys who trained Batman from the League of Shadows, right?
And he's up in the mountains and these League of Shadows guys are training him.
And that's literally anybody at home that wants to look this up.
That's what these guys looked like.
And I say that because that's the best descriptor I could give people.
They looked like members of the League of Shadows.
They were in all black with body armor, and they had a sword tucked in their back in their body armor, and they were holding AR-15s and shotguns.
I just learned this from Alex Jones.
He brought up a good point.
He said, you know why they were holding swords?
It's to kill you without making a sound.
I didn't even realize that.
I had no idea.
I was like, why would you have a sword if you have a gun?
What is that?
Chop you up.
Nobody will even know.
Anyway, those men loaded us onto that train.
Whatever cartel group that was, no way to prove who it was, but it was a cartel group.
How much did the train fare cost you?
For free.
That was free.
Yeah, but they were facilitating the whole thing.
And then if you take it to its definitive...
This is a train map.
Show us the train map.
This is handed out by an NGO called Amigos del Trenn.
Okay.
Friends of the train.
Okay, so you were on the green route or the blue?
Let's see.
We would have been on the...
That's correct.
We would have been on the green route.
Yep.
We left from Irapuato, and it's supposed to take you all the way up to Torreon, and then you could keep going upwards, or you could go eastwards.
How long were you on this train?
About 12 hours.
Yeah, we decided to get out and we figured we got all the intel we needed.
My point is, if you take it to its definitive end, everybody I talked to, they told me that if you take it all the way, at the very end, it's those same men.
You're picked up by the cartel and they take you to the border.
And if you can't pay, because then that's when you pay.
You pay when you get to the border, you get across.
And if you can't pay, I mean, they will extort you and do whatever else to get that money.
They're not, you know...
But that's whose hands you will be in, so I'm grateful that I didn't take it all the way to its end.
Wow.
I mean, this may seem like an odd question, but what about food and water and restrooms and things like that on this train?
You just pack it all with you.
Pack it all with you, and I guess use the bathroom off the side of the train, yeah.
That's what's going on.
Did you do that?
Did I? Yeah.
Yeah, I did.
I was actually coming down with Salmonella and E. coli when I rode it the first time.
It was absolute hell, man.
I mean, luckily I was able to keep it together for the time I was on that train, but it was brutal.
Oh, man.
That's the worst.
Yeah, no.
You need to take chlorine dioxide with you next time you decide to do that.
The little tablets?
You mean like for the water?
Yeah, you can purify the water, and it also kills all kinds of bugs.
I did that.
I actually did exactly that.
I filtered it out with Katadyne water pump, high-level water pump and water filter, and then I hit it with exactly what you're talking about, those little water purification.
Oh, okay.
No, I still came down with something.
I don't even think I got it from that filtered water necessarily.
It could have been from just some weird food.
Who knows?
Yeah, or ice.
It's often an ice.
There you go.
Yeah, you're drinking an ice beverage, but the ice is made with the contaminated water.
That's what I learned living in South America.
Yeah.
Yeah, no, that honestly could have been it.
But anyway, that was the second cartel group.
The third cartel group was the Gulf Cartel.
We were picked up.
Long story short, really, I mean, you know, I could spend an hour talking about what happened, every little detail.
But what happened was we were going to cross into Mexico right across from Elon Musk's SpaceX, right there on the Gulf of Mexico, Boca Chica, Texas.
On the Mexican side, it's called Boca del Rio Bravo.
And we basically what happened was we got dropped off.
I had Playa Baghdad.
That's basically the last, like, road that you could take a car before you have to just get out and walk the coastline all the way up.
Uh-huh.
We're walking the coastline, and for two reasons, really, that I decided to cross at this particular point.
Number one was I figured, okay, we're going to cross here and show that, you know, right near Elon Musk's SpaceX, a critical spaceport with billion-dollar rockets they're launching off, that you could just cross the border and enter the United States.
Yeah.
There'd be good publicity.
That was number one, just to prove a point.
And number two, I figured if there's any area that's going to be remotely secure, it'll probably be there.
Like, for the same reasons, right?
For the same reason.
You would think.
Yeah.
For the same reason that it would be good publicity, it'll probably be secure.
It's not secure.
And I later found out the reason why we got picked up was because they were running drugs back and forth.
I literally heard that from a cartel member because I got in touch with them trying to get my footage back.
Hold on to the story.
Anyway, so wait, wait a minute.
They were nervous that you were a journalist with cameras while they were running drugs on the same route?
Is that the story?
Exactly.
What happened was, so I'll explain the kidnapping, and I'll explain that.
So what happened was, we basically, long story short, got kidnapped, got picked up by some dudes in a truck.
They basically told us, listen, if you're going to keep walking down this beach, you've got to get in our truck, and you don't really have a choice.
And I was like, I don't want to get in your truck.
I'm good.
I'm going to keep walking.
And then they go, okay, well, I'm calling my friend who's down there at the end of that beach.
Like, I have to.
Really, I should have listened to him in the beginning.
But hindsight's 20-20, of course.
But had I listened to him, because they offered, they said, get in our truck, we're going to take you back to where you came from, it's going to be all good, just forget this ever happened.
I didn't listen to him.
I should have.
But, you know, that alone is sketchy, you know.
Well, yeah, but you didn't know what's happening.
Of course.
Yeah, so with the benefit of hindsight, I should have taken it.
But in the moment, I'm like, I'm not getting your car, dude.
But, you know, he says, okay, I'm calling my friend who's down there by the border.
Calls up his friend.
He says, okay, listen, you really have no choice now.
You have to get in my car because if you walk down there, it's not going to be good for you.
I go, oh, okay.
I guess I'm getting in your truck, dude.
Convinces me that he doesn't have any weapons.
Shows me his glove compartment.
It's empty.
I'm like, all right, fine.
We get in.
I'm getting in with my brother.
I'm not alone.
Just with my brother.
We start driving down.
Now, at this point, we're...
It's literally a couple hundred feet from the U.S. border.
I can't see the river just because of the decline, you know, the geographic decline.
Like, it's, you know, suppressed a bit.
But I'm looking at, like, it's the rivers right there.
And I could see Elon Musk's SpaceX right in front of me, like, blinking.
Like, there it is.
And this man that they had called on the phone gets in the car.
And as soon as this guy got in the car and I could see who he was, I was like, oh, this is not a guy I want to be.
Like, this is getting bad.
This situation is slowly not in my control.
They whip the car around.
They start driving back down south.
Now it's getting worse.
And the whole time I'm telling them, say, listen, I'm just a photographer.
I'm trying to take pictures of SpaceX.
I'm not telling them I'm trying to cross the border.
Of course, because that's, like, they're spitting in their face.
Like, yeah, man, I'm just trying to cross the border.
So I'm telling them this, and then...
You want pictures of SpaceX from the Mexico side?
It's just my cover.
I'm acting like I'm a photographer.
I'm just a tourist.
I don't really know what I'm doing, right?
Yeah.
And they whip the car around.
They start driving down south.
This man who got in the car gets on the phone with the woman.
They start rambling in Spanish.
I don't really know what they're saying.
Puts me on the phone with her and the lady says, listen, I don't know what you're doing, but you're supposed to pay $500 to cross in this area.
I didn't say I was trying to cross, they just inferred that.
And she says, like bluntly, she wasn't trying to tell me I was going to be a kid, just bluntly.
She's like, you're in the hands of the cartel.
You didn't pay them, and now you are being taken by them.
You're going to be handed off to a group of armed men.
Just tells me this just flat out.
And the truck that took us by was a truck with Texas plates, which is kind of interesting.
It shows that they're operating between countries, obviously.
Yeah.
Then we drive back down the beach, pull up next to this other truck.
Three armed men get out and just order us into this other truck.
Men armed with assault rifles, straight up like AK-47 variants.
Wait, did they expect you to have $500 of cash on you at that moment to pay them?
Oh, at that moment, we're beyond the payment of cash.
I thought we were going to be able to do that.
I was like, oh, hey, cool, this might be even better.
Like, we'll just pay $500 and we'll get smuggled in.
No, we were beyond that.
At that point, we were being taken.
I see.
Yeah, so these armed men...
Three armed dudes get out of this truck, order us into their truck, right?
So now we're switching vehicles.
And actually, in that car, I started videotaping the dudes who were driving that truck, the cartel guys who were driving that truck.
Had they caught me doing that, I may have been killed.
Or had they caught us with drugs, we would have been killed.
Or had they caught us with a weapon, we probably would have been killed.
Oh, for sure.
Straight up.
Yeah.
But anyway, we drive about 10 minutes inland.
We unpack our bags, and they see our camera gear, and they see the drone, and they start flipping out.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, they start bugging.
They're like, what is going on here?
Then they start searching through all of our data.
They search through my phone, and I'm worried this whole time.
They're going to find that video that I took of them, and I don't even know what they're going to do, but I just don't think he saw it.
Wow.
I don't think so.
Because I had my USB plugged in that had the drone footage.
Maybe he's focused on that.
I don't know.
But anyway, they put us on our knees, take hostage-type photos.
They accuse us of being intelligence and military guys.
They're checking us for wires, going through every bit of our bag.
Right.
Like, you can never go there again.
I never will.
You know that.
I never need to.
Yeah.
Believe me.
Especially after being all over alternative media.
Yeah.
I mean, hey, you know what?
They can keep Matamoros for themselves.
I'd never want to go back.
That's totally cool.
It's their territory.
I'm good with it.
But anyways, so long story short, I'm trying to negotiate with these guys financially.
Failed negotiations.
They end up tying up our hands.
They throw a blindfold on me.
They didn't have one for my brother, so they just pull the hood over his head of this jacket that he was wearing, throw it in the back of the truck, and basically say, you know, like, now you're part of an investigation.
We're going to see El Jefe.
Oh, no, you don't want to see El Jefe.
That's exactly what I said.
That's always bad.
I don't want to see El Jefe.
And the entire time, I'm like, guys, what are we doing here?
I'm like, how much money do you want?
Just tell me how much money you want.
We'll go to the ATM. They wouldn't have it.
And they were just like, no, like, investigation, investigation, El Jefe.
Straight up.
Oh, man.
They wouldn't let me go.
That's bad.
Bad.
Yeah.
And I was telling my brother, I was like, listen, man, I apologize to my brother.
I was like, dude, I'm sick.
Because I felt I was the leader of this thing.
I was like, I'm so sorry, man.
I was like, listen, while we were in the truck, because we had our bags on our lap, and so I had my hand kind of hidden behind the bag.
I was telling him, I was like, dude, start getting your hands ready to go.
Like, get it loose to the point where you can slip that thing out.
I mean, I did at least.
My brother was afraid to because the cartel guy was sitting right next to him.
He was like, dude, I'm not doing that.
But I had some space.
It was like myself, my brother, cartel dude, and two cartel guys on the front.
So I got my hand to the point where I got it up on my knuckles, and then I slipped it back down.
I was like, okay, I can slip this off.
Not that I was going to be able to do anything.
They're going to put a bullet in my head.
But just in case.
Just in case.
You never know.
You never know.
Anyway, long story short, man, we drive around, making different stops.
They're hotboxing the car, you know, smoking weed in there, making stops.
Dudes coming up to the car, whispering about us, talking if we're intelligence and military, and they keep driving.
Eventually, the doors fling open.
They pull us out.
They start screaming at us.
And we're literally in the middle of an abandoned field.
I will give you the snapshot that Michael Yon took, because we had an Apple AirTag, and you could see literally exactly where we were at in the middle of that abandoned field.
Wait, was this still in Mexico?
This is still in Mexico.
Yeah.
Doors fling open.
I'm thinking, why are we in the middle of an abandoned field?
Like, they are going to kill us.
Yeah.
Straight up.
And hand you a shovel.
Yeah.
Start digging.
Start digging.
Yeah.
But that's not what happened.
They lined up all of our electronic gear.
They start screaming at us because they didn't believe that they had all of it, which they actually didn't.
They didn't capture my GoPro, and I wasn't going to give it to them.
So I made off of that footage.
Thank God.
That was actually the most valuable footage of us getting smuggled by Sinaloa cartel.
Never do that again.
And so they didn't get that footage.
So that's like the silver lining in all this.
All the other footage I was able to recapture.
And they take a crowbar and they smash every single piece of gear we have other than the drone.
Wow.
And then they let us go.
I mean, they load us into another car with another cartel member and they drop us off at the port of entry.
Basically tell us not to come back ever again.
Which is probably good advice.
Believe me, I don't want to go back.
Wow.
So you are very lucky to be alive after that, I would say.
Yeah.
Had I been a different person, I don't smoke marijuana.
I don't use drugs.
There was no reason for me to carry a weapon.
But if for whatever reason I did have something like that on me, it was probably a dead man.
You could also tell – what I want to say is this because this is not about me.
I always try to say it's not about me being kidnapped.
It's a cool story, I guess, and I'll tell it on a date or I'll tell it at the Thanksgiving table in 10 years when they say, hey, Anthony, tell us about that time with the Gulf cartel.
But that's not the point.
The point is that there are literal narco-terrorists that are controlling our border, and if they're controlling it right across from SpaceX, man, what the hell are they moving in the remote deserts over by Arizona?
I mean, they could literally be moving nuclear weapons across.
Well, they have moved surface-to-air missiles across SAMs, by the way, definitively.
Absolutely.
I heard that from another source.
The U.S. State Department was freaking out about that a few months back.
They couldn't find them.
Oh, my God.
Yeah, SAMs.
I mean, they could take down commercial airliners.
And those are hidden somewhere in this country right now, and the State Department doesn't know where they are.
Oh my God.
Not to mention the dirty bomb radioisotope explosive suicide vests that have also made it across into America.
It could be anything.
I mean, honestly, sky's the limit.
Whatever you could bring across the border has likely come across.
And so that's really my point when I say this, is that I guess two things.
Number one, if this area...
Oh, by the way, so let me say this, because I want to tie it all together.
So after this was done, I wanted to get my footage back, because I was like, I don't want to go to Mexico, ride the train of death again, and find another caravan, because like...
You know, it's just like, I just don't want to have to deal with that all.
It's too dangerous.
But that's actually, what ended up happening was, I actually got in touch with the Gulf Cartel through Facebook.
Really?
Yep.
They're all, literally Google, just Google, you know, Cartel Del Golfo, Matt DeMoros, Facebook.
And you will see these men.
They're brazen.
I mean, wow.
They're not hiding.
They have Facebook accounts.
Yeah.
I'm banned on Facebook.
Really?
But if I were part of a Mexican cartel, I could have a Facebook page.
Exactly.
If you talk about Ivermectin, you're going to get banned, but they actually have human smuggling groups for the Darien Gap on there, too.
By the way, I'm just curious.
I don't mean any disrespect, but when you found out the name of the train was El Tren de Muerte, and then you're like, I'm going to go on that train.
Shouldn't that have been, like...
Well, it wasn't even the train.
You know, the train wasn't what got us in trouble.
I mean, the train...
No, no, but it's called the train of death.
Yeah.
And it's like...
Well, shouldn't we have...
You're a brave guy, is all I'm saying.
I mean, listen, the way I see it, it's risk-reward, right?
That's what it is.
I mean, I'm not going to take a risk.
Honestly, there's a lot of risks that people take that I would never take.
To me, I would never go skydiving.
That, to me, seems foolish.
I'm jumping out of a plane.
Maybe the parachute doesn't open.
Why have I done this?
I would much rather jump out of a plane than ride the train of death.
Really?
You see, that's where we differ.
To me, it's like, if I'm going to risk my life, at least let me get some intel.
Doing it.
Yeah, no, you're right.
You're right.
You did get some amazing intel.
But what you learned, though, is that this is a whole industry.
A whole industry.
And that the U.S. is doing nothing to protect its border.
Nothing.
Nothing at all.
And it's extraordinary.
My point is really this, though, right?
So the number one is if that area by Elon Musk's SpaceX is controlled by...
Oh, so let me just finish this point.
I got in touch with these cartel guys, and I tried to get my footage back.
I was trying to broker a deal for the memory cards, right?
And I didn't end up where...
Everybody at home, if your footage ever gets taken by the Gulf cartel or any cartel, just let it go.
You're not going to get it back in a wasted bunch of money in the process trying to get it back.
But I learned some interesting things, which was what?
So I found a cartel guy who found the people that took me, and I know that definitively that he found it because he basically told me what happened to me.
He said, oh, are you the Americans that had all their footage or their camera gear smashed and they took you to the bridge?
I was like, yeah, that was me.
He was like, oh.
He's like, the reason why they did that to you is because they were actually moving drugs back and forth at that time and they thought you were spying on them.
So the point is, I've had this told to me.
So this isn't me guessing that that's what they're doing.
They're definitively doing that right by there.
They can be moving anything across the desert where there's almost no Border Patrol or anybody surveilling that area.
Okay, fine.
And the last thing I want to say on this point is that these are not just...
I mean, these are narco-terrorists.
And when I say terrorists, I don't say that lightly like somebody on CNN calling all white people domestic terrorists.
I mean, these are literally people that chop off enemy cartel members' heads with no mercy.
I mean...
Or rape women.
Rape women and hang the underwear on border fence.
That's been reported before.
It's almost like a trophy for them.
I mean, these are the people you're dealing with, literal terrorist organizations that are controlling our southern border, and we send billions of dollars to defeat terrorists abroad because they look scary and they're wearing turbans in the middle of the desert.
I mean, it's the most insane thing that you've ever seen, but that's what's going on, man.
Okay, wow.
I mean, first of all, I want to say, you have a lot of balls, man.
I mean, to have done this, and to have documented it, and to come back and share this story, you know, you should be testifying before Congress on this.
I mean, every member of Congress should be hearing your story of what you saw.
And also, they should be paying attention to Michael Jan and Vander Steele and others that are reporting this.
In wrapping up this interview here today, and I really want to thank you for stopping by.
This is extraordinary.
What would you say to those people who are watching?
Because we have a lot of people who watch, a lot of influence out there.
To those who are watching who are involved, a lot of people work in the government.
They're involved in policy.
They're involved in law enforcement.
We have a lot of guys that are part of Texas Rangers, for example, and so on, that watch this show.
What would you say to them that's the biggest takeaway from your experience?
All I can say is that we're being invaded, and I don't say that lightly.
I'm not trying to...
Sure.
I mean, we are literally being invaded.
It fits the definition of an invasion.
What's the definition of an invasion?
It's an incursion by a large group of people into a sphere or place of activity.
I mean, that's what this is, right?
It's all being quarterbacked by the United Nations.
There's nothing humanitarian about this.
I've already talked to you about the different cartel groups that I've seen and things we didn't even get into.
And you have the UN that's funneling these people into the hands of the cartel that then is profiting untold amounts of billions off this whole enterprise.
Smuggle them in here.
So then you have to say, okay, we realize then, based off of all this evidence and the things I've told you, there's nothing humanitarian about it.
So why are they letting these people in?
And the reason why they're letting these people in is because it's literally a replacement population.
It's a third world underclass that could then be controlled and manipulated any which way for political purposes.
And we've already seen, for example, Senator Dick Durbin this past week talked about making these people soldiers in our military and giving them citizenship after we deploy them.
Wow.
Couple that now with, I'm just trying to give people the big picture as best as I can, couple all of this now with the constant demonization, ridiculous demonization of white people, literally pre-genocidal talk that you hear coming out of the mouth of these people, saying that we're all domestic, that all white people are domestic terrorists and white supremacists.
I mean, how do you handle a terrorist?
I mean, you load them up and put them in camps and get rid of them.
That's what you do to terrorists.
And they're saying that white people, the biggest terrorist threat facing our nation is white supremacy.
Terrorist threat.
And this is something that Joe Biden continues to say.
He said it within the last few months again, I think at a college graduation.
Nonstop with this pre-programming, pre-genocidal talk.
You couple that with this now third world underclass that could be weaponized against us.
And you're left with an extremely scary picture.
So, I mean, anybody that thinks that they're just going to go along with this and that it's going to end well for them.
I mean, it's truly not.
And if it does, if you end up living past this and we don't turn the ship around and you live past, you know, how this is going to play out.
I don't think it's a society you want to live in.
It sounds like a very miserable world to me.
So that's all I could say, you know, if you give a damn.
But I think, unfortunately, a lot of people actually think they're going to go along with this.
They might be part of it once it's all done, which I think is incredibly foolish.
No, you're going to be replaced.
Your assets are going to be seized and handed over to the replacement crew.
That's exactly right.
And the American people are going to find themselves penniless and homeless and powerless in their own country if they don't protect their border.
That's exactly right.
And I don't know if we're past the point of no return.
There's already 10 million of them in here, you know.
And now they're trying to mask it all with the CBP1 app, basically bringing them through some legal channels.
It's the same thing, but basically they don't cross over the border.
And so you can't really photograph that.
They just cross through a legal port of entry.
They're actually flying them in now, too.
So it's still going on, but they're just trying to reduce all the media exposure because of people like me and others who go down to the border and expose it.
But that's what this is.
It is a premeditated invasion of the United States.
It's happening right under your nose, and we've exposed that today.
Yeah, and finally, I mean, this is not...
I don't hear from you that you're anti-immigration across the board, you're anti-illegal immigration, you know?
I mean, I'm married to an immigrant, a legal immigrant, and there are a lot of great legal immigrants who do, they believe in the U.S. Constitution and they contribute to America, but you're talking about the criminal element, the child traffickers, the weapons traffickers, the drug traffickers, the occupiers, that they just want to destroy America.
They don't want to be part of America.
I'm glad you're saying that because I don't want to leave any room, although I've already said enough that people could pull out snippets.
If somebody wants to demonize you, misrepresent you, they can.
But to anybody that's watching this, I want to make sure that I can't...
End to end, I want to make sure that I can't be misrepresented.
Exactly what you said.
I got nothing against...
Even these people, just on a human level, them coming up here, I mean, they're being weaponized and they're being used as pawns.
And now I do, of course, have something against the saboteurs and possible terrorists that are coming to a board.
Of course.
But, you know, the poor Venezuelan mother who's coming up here with their child...
I'm a human.
I can understand that.
Yeah, they're being used by globalist forces to invade America.
Yeah.
And they're just pawns, like you said.
Exactly.
And I got nothing to get.
One of my best friends is an immigrant from South Africa.
It adds a tremendous amount of value to this country.
And you know what's actually ironic?
That man adds so much value, employs people in this country, and the hoops that he has to jump through just to stay here.
It's incredible.
But if you're a Venezuelan who came up here or a Chinese person who came through our southern border illegally, you're given almost indefinite stay.
It's a perversion of the law.
And all kinds of benefits as well.
That's right.
Yeah.
All right.
Well, Anthony, this is extraordinary.
Your website is muckraker.com.
And just give us a quick description.
What can people find on your website?
I mean, listen, it's really just a small operation, myself and my brother.
Mostly southern border stuff.
If you guys want to see me confronting Antifa and having run-ins with them or going into crack tents on Skid Row, you can find that on there as well.
But really, the point of my operation is to try to...
Save what's left of the American Republic.
And right now, like I said, it's just me and my brother.
Over the years to come, we will expand this operation, mark my words, and cover a lot more than just this.
But that's it.
That's what you can find on the website for now.
Stay tuned.
You can catch me on most social media platforms at RealMuckraker.
And that's all I got to say, man.
We're in this together.
And not going down without a fight.
Okay.
Well, thank you, Anthony.
And we're really glad that you're here, that you're safe.
And what you've exposed is truly historic.
So thank you for your work.
Thank you, sir.
Appreciate it.
All right.
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I'll describe how the monetary system fails.
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