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Jan. 14, 2024 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams

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BBN, Jan 14, 2024 - Rooster RESCUE, Taiwan independence, and diesel heaters for EXTREME COLD

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	Welcome to this weekend edition of Bright Town Broadcast News.
	For Sunday, January 14th, 2023, Mike Adams here.
	Thank you for joining me.
	This will be short today, but we have a couple of important things to share with you.
	One of which is that there's been a major election in Taiwan, and the pro-independence party won big.
	It's called the DPP. And the DPP party is about independence from China.
	China is all freaked out at this point.
	They've issued a bunch of threats to Taiwan.
	But Taiwan is a separate country.
	And I know that that view is not necessarily popular, even in the alternative media.
	But I'm going to share with you why it is.
	I live there.
	I know better than most Americans that Taiwan is, in fact, its own country.
	So we'll have that story coming up.
	But first, I've got a couple other things to show you.
	I've got a warm-hearted chicken rescue story here to share with you with some photos, too.
	So you'll love that.
	It's coming up.
	And then I've got a short video about a five minute video showing you my forced air diesel heater with battery backup setup using the EcoFlow device with a forced air diesel heater or multifuel heater.
	And I'm showing you how that works and showing you how it works off grid.
	And in my particular setup, it'll work eight hours off-grid while producing 215,000 BTUs, which is a lot of heat.
	And I'm using it to heat a barn.
	You know, you can't use these indoors, but I'm using it to heat a barn that's not airtight to keep my goats warm and my chickens and the rooster and hen that...
	I rescued that I want to tell you about and then I'll show you some photos so this is a funny true and I hope heartwarming story although it started out on a very sad note So there's a restaurant that's not that far from the Health Ranger store warehouse,
	and I had eaten there quite a lot over the years, and I got to know the staff and the chef, and the chef was an amazingly talented food artist, let me tell you, really amazing.
	Unfortunately, he passed away.
	He just passed away a few days ago.
	But outside his restaurant for the past several months had been a rooster hen pair that would just hang out outside his restaurant and actually they would hop up on the windowsill and I asked him about The rooster and the hen one day, and he thought of them as his pets.
	And he really loved the rooster and the hen.
	And I remember each time walking by, I'm like, wow, this rooster is gorgeous.
	This is just a gorgeous plumage.
	I've never seen this feather pattern, and the tail feathers are amazing.
	This is an amazing-looking rooster.
	And the hen looked really healthy, too.
	Also, really great plumage.
	And one night I saw a cat prowling around and I told the chef, hey, there's a cat out there.
	And he rushes out, you know, to protect his rooster.
	And he really cared for them.
	And he said, he told me he built a little, I don't know, like a little house or crate or something for them, but they didn't like it.
	He said they just wanted to hang out outside the restaurant because I guess the restaurant customers would toss them some food from time to time.
	Well, The chef passed away, just all of a sudden, and the cold wave is coming, and depending on where you are, if you're listening in North America, the cold wave may already be upon you.
	It's about to strike Texas as I'm recording this.
	It's starting to drop in temperature.
	I was very much concerned, like, what's this rooster and hen going to do in the cold?
	The chef is gone.
	And so we talked to the staff there, who, of course, were also devastated by the passing of the chef.
	And turns out that we were chosen to adopt this rooster and the hen.
	We just had to go get them.
	Which is no small task, by the way, if you've ever tried to capture a rooster and a hen that don't want to be captured, you're in for some work.
	But I've got many years of raising roosters and hens, so I thought, well, I've got a good shot at this.
	So I went over there two nights ago.
	Well, kind of in the evening, just after sundown, because you don't ever want to try to capture roosters and hens when the sun is up.
	You have to wait for dark.
	That's the only chance you ever have.
	They're more unaware in the dark than you can grab them.
	I went over there, and there was another customer was there, was reading the sign.
	It was a sign in the window talking about the...
	The restaurant was closed because the chef had passed away and how sad it was and how much he was loved in the community and so on.
	And sure enough, there's the rooster and the hen.
	And I'm thinking, you know, this is a great thing that I can do for this chef.
	He cared about this rooster and this hen.
	And so I might have the only chicken ranch in Central Texas that is like a retirement center for chickens, you know, where they can just live out their lives, never getting butchered or anything, you know, not getting eaten by raccoons.
	This is like Golden Acres Retirement Center for chickens.
	So, I brought a crate with me, of course, in my truck, and realized all I have to do now is grab this rooster and put it in the crate.
	And this other customer was there, was like, What are you doing?
	I'm like, I'm adopting the rooster and the hen.
	Yeah, we're adopting them together because they've been here.
	He's like, oh, yeah, they need to go somewhere, you know, like a good home.
	I'm like, yeah, this is, trust me, where they're going is like the best chicken retirement ranch in Texas.
	There's no question about it.
	So he said, well, how are you going to do it?
	I said, well, first of all, I'm wearing these leather gloves because roosters have sharp fighting claws and so on.
	And I'm going to just grab it really fast and hold on to it as best I can.
	And then I'm going to chuck it into this crate here, and I'm going to grab the hen and chuck it into the crate.
	And my wife was with me, so she was ready to grab the hen.
	So I thought the two of us could grab these two together.
	And so I opened the truck door and I opened up the crate and I had put hay in the crate.
	It's like a big dog crate, by the way.
	Plenty of room.
	And I'd put hay in there to keep them comfortable.
	And then I'm like, okay, get ready.
	And then this other guy, he's like, I gotta watch this.
	Because people who don't own chickens maybe don't know how this goes.
	And so I just casually kind of stroll up and then wham!
	I grab them.
	You've got to grab them hard.
	And you have to grab them to where you pin their wings to their body, okay?
	This is the secret.
	And you have to get their feet off the ground because they'll work their feet against you.
	So I grabbed them, hold them tight.
	You've got to hold them almost like crazy tight because they're strong.
	And they'll beat you with the wings and they'll fight you, right?
	And then a second later, this rooster just starts freaking out.
	It's like, you know, I'm thinking, trust me, this is good for you, you know?
	And he's fighting and I'm holding on to him.
	And I'm just, I'm like trying to get him under control so I can put him in the...
	Put him in the crate.
	And this guy, I'm glad he didn't film it, but this guy was like, well, it looks like you're dancing with that rooster, you know?
	Because I was.
	I was kind of trying to get a good hold on him.
	And I don't know if it was just...
	My twisted sense of humor, and I probably shouldn't have said this, but it just triggered, you know, sometimes I have this weird associations, but standing there with this rooster held out in front of me in my two hands, gripping it hard, and he said, looks like you're dancing with that rooster.
	I blurted out, Yeah, I like to rock out with my cock out.
	And then I threw him in the crate and shut the door.
	And my wife grabbed the hen, threw her in the crate, shut the door.
	They were contained, and the customer was just laughing.
	Just laughing.
	Like, I'm so glad I could provide entertainment.
	For you this evening, you can't have the meal, but I am your entertainment.
	So I hope you enjoyed that.
	But no, he was appreciative of what we were doing.
	And then...
	Oh, I should show you the picture.
	So here's the picture of the rooster and the hen in the crate.
	And you can't tell how beautiful the rooster is at this moment because he was a little freaked out too.
	But this is the crate photo.
	And there you can see the rooster and the hen.
	And they always love to hang out together.
	And so anyway, took him back to the ranch and set him in the barn on some hay.
	And then...
	Opened up the crate door, and they slept in the crate at night, and I opened up the door so they could get out in the morning when the sun comes up.
	And then, sure enough, the next morning, I hear a totally new, different rooster crowing.
	That's as close as I could do it.
	And my wife turned to me, she's like...
	That's the new rooster!
	Because we know our other roosters don't sound like that.
	That's how you know you've had chickens a long time, is when you know how the different roosters sound.
	It's like, yes, that's the new rooster.
	That's the rooster that was chef's rooster.
	And so sure enough, the rooster was having a great time intermixing with all our other hens.
	And also the hen was having a great time too, just cruising around.
	Unbounded.
	And so let me show you the picture of the rooster because he's a really beautiful rooster.
	Here he is with a lot of my other hens in the background.
	Now, see how beautiful he is?
	Look at his tail plume and his feather pattern.
	Now, what's weird is this picture, it almost looks Photoshopped, but it's not.
	I mean, it almost looks like a paint type of Photoshop.
	I mean, it almost looks like he's painted into this picture because of the feather patterns.
	I assure you, that is all real.
	That is the way he looks.
	It's an incredible pattern.
	This is a gorgeous rooster.
	And this is not Photoshopped.
	He's walking around, cruising around.
	I'll get a video for you at some point here.
	But he was having a great time.
	And then...
	The next night, the rooster and the hen went back into the crate.
	They're like, this is home now.
	This is our apartment.
	Went back into the crate.
	And it turns out that crate is in the barn.
	Where I have backup heat set up.
	So emergency heat, forced air diesel to heat our plumbing distribution system and keep the barn warm for the animals, which includes goats, and now this rooster and this hen, and also it will include some of my dogs.
	And don't worry, my dogs are mature enough now.
	They don't eat the chickens or the roosters, and good luck trying.
	This rooster can fight, let me tell you.
	So that's the true story of the rooster and the hen that we adopted and gave them a new home.
	So what do you know?
	It's not all bad news all the time.
	At least a little silver lining in the news.
	It managed to save the life of a rooster and a chicken right before the cold wave sweeps in.
	Now then, speaking of the cold wave sweeping in, let me show you the video of my forced air diesel heater set up with a backup battery that can run it for eight hours.
	And we're talking over 200,000 BTUs of heat.
	It's loud, it's powerful, and it's going to warm the barn for all the animals.
	So let me show you that video and I'll be back on the other side with a quick discussion about the election in Taiwan.
	Alright, Mike Adams here showing you my setup for reliable diesel heat in the coming Arctic blast wave.
	This is the EcoFlow battery backup system.
	I've got it plugged into the grid right here for charging.
	And if you come around to the front panel there, you can see it's 99% charged and there's no input, no output.
	It's not doing anything at the moment.
	Now this is a 215,000 BTU system and I'm using this to heat a barn and you just put diesel in it right here.
	It's a forced air diesel system.
	It produces a lot of heat.
	We'll show it to you here and then we'll show you what happens when we take this off the grid.
	and how much time it will run off grid in order to power this in case of a grid down scenario.
	So it's going to get really loud as I turn this on and what I'm going to do is I'll turn it on and show it to you doing the heat and then I'll unplug it from the grid and we'll take a look at the screen over here and we'll find out how many watts it's using and then this EcoFlow unit will calculate how many hours It will last.
	Or days, if it's days.
	Probably just hours.
	But it's going to get really loud, so here we go.
	It's going to fire up.
	That's a lot of heat.
	Definitely warm the place.
	Alright, you can see on the screen here.
	It's just about 400 something.
	Now I'm going to unplug it from the grid.
	Okay, let's unplug.
	Okay.
	So now I'm showing the input zero.
	The output's 400.
	99% eight hours.
	So this will run eight hours like this during Irikado power outages.
	When I plug it back in, it'll just pick back up and it'll start recharging again.
	Hold on, I gotta set this down.
	All right, I plugged it back in.
	Now it's charging at 750.
	It's missing 400.
	It has to make up for what it just missed there.
	I'm gonna turn this off.
	Whew, that was loud.
	And now the EcoFlow continues to recharge from the grid at almost 400 watts.
	But there's no output because this is off.
	So that's the perfect setup, folks.
	If you want reliable off-grid heat, if you need a lot of heat, you need to warm up a barn, you need to warm up a greenhouse, something like this, This brand is called Built Hard.
	I found that this brand runs really clean.
	It doesn't smell like diesel.
	It doesn't produce a lot of smoke.
	And it's got a nice digital display here, by the way.
	And you just feed it diesel.
	And you can get diesel anywhere.
	Whereas right now, you can't get any propane because, well, it's all sold out everywhere.
	And then EcoFlow is the device that you want to use here.
	And I just showed you how it works.
	This is one of the larger EcoFlow units, maybe the largest, but there are smaller units that will give you, you know, four hours or two hours or one hour.
	If the power grid goes down, but it comes back up in 30 minutes, you're still going to be good.
	So you can check these out, these units right here at beready123.com.
	EcoFlow is the brand and they have a lot of different sizes.
	They got a nice display panel here and it's got multiple AC outlets that you can use here and also a high amperage outlet and of course there's DC here as well.
	There's USB ports and there's multiple inputs.
	It ships with this which is a solar panel input.
	I can connect solar panels to it in the back and just let the sun recharge it.
	So it's very flexible on different kinds of inputs of power and it's great for emergencies like this where the grid may not be reliable.
	So thank you for watching.
	Mike Adams here.
	You can see more of my preparedness videos at prepwithmike.com or just brighteon.com.
	Take care.
	Alright, hope you enjoyed that little video there.
	You can also buy smaller versions of those forced air heaters.
	You don't have to do 200,000 BTUs.
	I would just rather buy a larger one like that than to end up not having enough heat for the animals.
	Alright, moving over to Taiwan.
	Major election history in the making.
	Taiwan now has a new president.
	Of the DPP, the Democratic Progressive Party, as it's known.
	Lai Qingda is his name.
	And it was not even really a close election.
	Now, what you need to understand here, this will impact us in the United States and all around the world.
	So the DPP party in Taiwan believes in Taiwan independence.
	The KMT party believes Believes in reunification with China.
	And the KMT part of the Kuomintang is mostly taken over by a lot of influences from communist China.
	Whereas the DPP is, of course, more independent, more entrepreneurial, more feisty.
	And that's why I tend to like the DPP. So the DPP has just won.
	And this means that China's aim of reunification with Taiwan has been set back.
	Doesn't mean it won't ultimately succeed because it is moving in that direction, by the way.
	China is slowly taking over Taiwan's culture and media and economic pillars of society.
	So probably at some point, you know, there will be I don't know if you would call it reunification or some understanding, but at some point, you know, Taiwan has got to be recognized as an independent nation.
	Let me share with you my experience on this because, of course, I lived in Taiwan.
	I was a resident of Taiwan.
	I lived on Xin Yilu, San Duan, by the way, in Taipei.
	That's the third section of Xin Yilu, or right off of Xin Yilu.
	And that's a major road.
	Everybody in Taiwan or at least everybody in Taipei knows what road that is.
	And living in Taiwan, I really came to have incredible respect and admiration for the people of Taiwan.
	To this day, I think the people of Taiwan are incredibly innovative, resilient, hard workers, dedicated, Also capable of fun and spontaneity.
	But they're really smart.
	They're great engineers.
	Overall, the Taiwan people are really amazing people.
	Now, genetically, they're pretty much the same as mainland China.
	It's just that the culture of Taiwan is a culture of more freedom than mainland China.
	You know, Taiwan is a democracy, not communism.
	And so the structure of democracy has led Taiwan to a lot more innovation.
	And I think a lot of advancements in their society.
	I don't agree with everything that's going on in Taiwan, but overall, I'm a great admirer of the people of Taiwan and Taiwan as a country.
	Now, a lot of people in alternative or independent media today, they like to say that Taiwan is part of China, that Taiwan is not an independent country, and that the United States doesn't even recognize Taiwan as an independent country.
	The United States used to, but that switched with Richard Nixon.
	Richard Nixon switched recognition away from Taiwan to China.
	So the United States of America used to recognize Taiwan as an independent nation.
	But that didn't achieve the globalist plans to make China the rising industrial star of the world, you know, with China's labor force.
	And so it was the Western world and the globalists that actually sort of lifted China up from an impoverished third world nation back in the 1950s and even 60s into this modern day economic and technology powerhouse that China is today.
	But that was achieved by giving China a lot of technology.
	And Bill Clinton helped with that and a lot of globalists helped with that and also by giving China all the manufacturing business and a lot of people all over the world and a lot of business leaders all over the world.
	They offshored their manufacturing to China.
	And so China grew from that.
	China would not have grown on its own.
	It was helped by globalism and Western nations that turned China into the powerful force that it is today.
	But all this time, Taiwan has succeeded on its own.
	Taiwan has had to struggle through all these decades to build everything itself.
	Taiwan built its own wealth.
	No one came along and just handed everything to Taiwan like they did China.
	Taiwan had to struggle.
	It had to work hard.
	It had to be innovative.
	You know, it's an island nation.
	It doesn't have much in the way of natural resources, especially energy resources.
	But yet Taiwan became a manufacturing powerhouse even before China.
	And a lot of innovation in Taiwan, a lot of technology.
	And today, Taiwan semiconductors are noted as the most advanced semiconductors in the world.
	And that was built in Taiwan.
	Taiwan did that itself.
	So I understand that Taiwan is its own nation.
	Let me explain why.
	Taiwan has its own elections, as just took place.
	Taiwan has its own political leaders.
	Taiwan has its own embassies, which in some cases are not called embassies because a lot of other nations around the world don't want to offend China, so they don't call it an embassy.
	For example, America's embassy in Taiwan is not called the American Embassy.
	It's called the American Institute in Taiwan, or AIT as it's known.
	And it's in Taipei.
	I've been there.
	You go to AIT. It's an embassy.
	That's where you do passports and everything.
	Or if you're a Taiwan citizen and you want to visit America, you want permission to visit or you're working on a green card or whatever, you go to AIT. That's the embassy.
	It's just not called an embassy.
	Taiwan has its own currency.
	Taiwan doesn't use the yuan or the renminbi.
	Taiwan has its own NT dollar.
	So it has its own elections, has its own currency, has its own embassies, its own leaders, has its own military currency.
	It has its own borders.
	It's got its own territory, the island.
	It even has its own way of speaking.
	Even though in Taiwan they speak Mandarin Chinese, they speak it differently.
	They also speak Taiwanese.
	And I don't speak any Taiwanese, well, maybe a couple of words.
	But most of the people that I know in Taiwan, they do speak Taiwanese.
	So Taiwanese is the native language, or let's say related to the native language, and then they speak Mandarin, but they speak Mandarin in a Taiwan dialect, which is different from mainland China.
	And I learned to speak Chinese in Taiwan, so I speak Chinese like a Taiwan person, not a mainland China person.
	But it's very easy for me to hear the difference.
	So if I hear somebody speaking Chinese, I can tell you whether they're from Taiwan or they're from mainland China.
	Very easy to tell.
	So in addition to that, of course, Taiwan has its own central bank.
	Taiwan has its own financial system.
	Taiwan has its own media.
	Taiwan has its own national interests.
	Taiwan has its own deals with other nations around the world.
	Taiwan has its own import and export industries and so on.
	So of all the things that define a nation, you know, language, money, military, elections, geography, etc., Taiwan has them all.
	Taiwan also has its own culture that is distinct.
	It's different from Chinese culture in China.
	So the fact that the United States doesn't recognize Taiwan as a separate nation, that doesn't mean anything.
	The United States State Department, as we all know, is full of bunk all the time, constantly lies.
	You know, we saw that in spades with the Russia-Ukraine situation.
	The State Department never tells the truth.
	So when the State Department says that It recognizes China as the legitimate nation.
	Well, that's just another lie.
	I mean, what else does the State Department do?
	The State Department lies all the time.
	Now, Taiwan is a strong ally of the United States.
	It's also a very strong trading partner.
	And not just exporting from Taiwan, being purchased by U.S. consumers, although that is significant, especially in microchips.
	But Taiwan also is a major purchaser.
	Of United States exports, including military exports.
	So Taiwan buys whatever weapons systems the United States is willing to sell it.
	And the U.S. over the years has been willing to sell Taiwan quite a lot in terms of military equipment for its own self-defense against China.
	Because, of course, the United States wants to help Taiwan maintain its own independence from a military and strategic point of view because the United States needs an ally in that area because Taiwan has its own, you know, airfields and naval ports and so on.
	And underground mountain air force bases, it turns out, Taiwan's done some really amazing things underneath the mountains.
	China can't even bomb that.
	So there are people in independent media who do a great job analyzing other situations like Russia and Ukraine, but I think they get it wrong on Taiwan.
	For example, Brian Berletik, he's New Atlas, and I've interviewed him, and I really respect his analysis of geopolitics and world events.
	I think he's really sharp, and he's definitely worth listening to.
	But I would disagree with his assessment of China versus Taiwan.
	It's clear to me, as someone who has lived in Taiwan, that Taiwan is an independent nation.
	Brian Berletic and many others believe that Taiwan is only part of China and that China has the right to subsume Taiwan at any time.
	Respectfully, I disagree with that for the reasons I've already mentioned.
	In any other nation in the world, if...
	Some group had its own island, millions of people, its own language, its own currency, its own elections, its own leaders, its own embassies, its own culture, its own central bank, everything.
	We would call that a nation.
	We would call that its own sovereign nation.
	Only when it comes to China and Taiwan do we say, oh, it's part of China.
	No, it isn't.
	Taiwan is its own nation.
	And now the people of Taiwan have just voted to confirm that.
	They voted DPP into power, which is really, it's a vote to separate from China and to declare Taiwan's independence.
	Now, China says that if Taiwan ever declares its independence, China will then attack Taiwan.
	So Taiwan is in this limbo zone where With the DPP election, it's off on its own track towards independence, although again, a lot of mainland Chinese influences are infiltrating Taiwan society.
	But no one in Taiwan, at least no leader, will We'll exactly declare independence because that would be too provocative to China.
	And frankly, the best shot that Taiwan has is to simply wait for China to suffer either an economic collapse or its own internal political revolution.
	And as China loses its own centralized power, which is bound to happen for reasons beyond this podcast, then Taiwan would be able to at that time declare its independence.
	The downside of Taiwan being an ally of the United States Taiwan is forced to go along with every lunatic thing that the US does, like trying to fight Russia or sending more bombs to Israel to bomb the Palestinians in Gaza.
	Taiwan has to always go along with the US. Yes, we love what the US is doing.
	Send more bombs to Israel, whatever.
	Taiwan can't ever go against the US because the US is Taiwan's most critical ally.
	And in a sense, you can say Japan is also an ally of Taiwan now because Japan is, well, since post-World War II, and I know this is controversial, but Japan has been essentially a military-controlled colony of the United States of America.
	Yeah, I mean, read the terms of surrender.
	On the USS Missouri, September 2nd, 1945, it was an unconditional surrender, and the U.S. installed its own government, and the U.S. has a massive military base, well, more than one, in Japan right now.
	Japan is essentially occupied by the United States military, okay?
	And Taiwan is not occupied by the U.S. military, but it is tied to U.S. support and U.S. policies.
	And all of that is fascinating, given that the Japanese occupied Taiwan in World War II and did horrible things to many Taiwanese citizens, by the way.
	But, you know, Japan also carried out atrocities against the Chinese.
	And we're not going to cover all that because, well, there's just too many atrocities in history to accurately cover in a podcast like this.
	And plus, there are atrocities going on right now today in Gaza.
	But that's not the focus of today's podcast.
	Now China said that if anybody in Taiwan votes for the DPP party, that that's a vote for war.
	Yeah, think about that.
	But China does like to do a lot of saber-rattling.
	The real question is, would China actually try to militarily invade and take over Taiwan?
	And although my views on this have morphed over the years based on new information, my current assessment, which is subject to change, is that China is far more likely to invade the United States than Taiwan at the moment.
	Why?
	Because invading Taiwan, number one, is very, very difficult.
	Taiwan is extremely well defended, and it is an island nation, which means you have to sail a bunch of ships at it, and most of those ships are going to get destroyed, and Taiwan has incredible anti-ship batteries all over the mountains and everything, and where do you even land?
	It's not like Taiwan's west coast is just a bunch of beaches.
	It's not.
	It's very formidable territory.
	And also Taiwan has had mandatory military training for several decades, although it doesn't necessarily churn out super soldiers or anything like that, but at least every man in Taiwan of any age or above 18 can pick up a rifle.
	Now, whether they can hit anything with it, I guess, depends on how much experience they have.
	You know, Taiwan is not a gun culture.
	And there's no Second Amendment in Taiwan.
	Private citizens are not allowed to own guns.
	So the only real experience that Taiwan citizens get with rifles is in the military.
	And from the people I know from Taiwan, the rifles they trained on were pretty ancient.
	It's like World War II rifles or something.
	So, you know, Taiwan can't just suddenly deploy millions of professional soldiers.
	But Taiwan does have very strong coastal defenses and, of course, the United States Navy.
	But guess where the Navy is right now?
	Oh, yeah.
	Bombing Yemen from the Red Sea.
	So the Navy is all distracted and weeks away from Taiwan.
	Which could indicate that if China wanted to attack Taiwan, this would be the window of time to do it.
	The US Navy is barely there.
	And Taiwan's DPP election is a clear indication that Taiwan wants independence.
	But I don't think China's ready for that.
	Number one, China doesn't have a strong enough Navy yet to really defeat the US Navy because it would be a naval battle The more time that passes, the stronger China's Navy gets compared to the U.S. Navy because China has...
	Much larger naval manufacturing capabilities compared to the United States.
	In fact, according to one analysis, China now has 200 times more output of naval ships than does the United States.
	200 times.
	So China wants to buy time.
	China wants to wait 5, even 10 years.
	And the way Chinese think, by the way, the mentality of Chinese is, hey, we're not in a hurry.
	You know, Chinese have a long memory, and they are working the long plan here, which really, to favor China, it would be to not attack Taiwan right now and wait a few more years and build up a stronger navy and probably see the United States increasingly weakened with the collapse of the dollar and the rise of BRICS currencies.
	See, that's what China's thinking, I think.
	China just has to try not to collapse itself and launch the BRICS currency and watch the dollar collapse and watch the United States maybe suffer a civil war or something like that.
	So China's play is probably to try to invoke...
	Internal strife in the United States, a civil war, an economic collapse, a currency collapse, something like that.
	That's why China is working with the narcos, the drug cartels in Mexico to keep pushing fentanyl across the border in order to, you know, kill young Americans that might otherwise be soldiers.
	Because of fentanyl, we're losing like 60,000 young American males every year.
	It's like a Vietnam War casualty rate every year.
	I mean, 10 years of Vietnam War is happening every year with fentanyl, roughly speaking, in the United States.
	And, you know, over 10 years, that's 500, 600,000 Americans dead from fentanyl.
	So China's best strategic play, from their point of view, is to try to erode America.
	Culturally, you know, with TikTok videos, Economically with BRICS currencies and de-dollarization, through chemical warfare with fentanyl and drug smuggling into the United States, and other similar methods.
	And so China hopes that the United States collapses, which would give China an opportunity to take Taiwan without the U.S. Navy interfering.
	Taiwan hopes that China has an economic collapse that would give Taiwan the ability to declare its own independence without being invaded and assaulted by China.
	The United States hopes that everybody else collapses other than the U.S. and Israel.
	That's become clear, right?
	And the U.S. is doing its darndest to destroy Western Europe, of course, and its energy sources and its economy.
	But the U.S. also wants to destroy China and Russia and Iran and, obviously, Yemen.
	Now, maybe the Saudis.
	You know, who knows?
	Definitely Lebanon.
	Definitely, eventually, they'll get around to maybe bombing Egypt or Jordan.
	Surely Syria, you know.
	And...
	At some point, the U.S. is going to have to deal with Turkey, you know?
	But this is the U.S. ambition.
	Like, you know, wipe the map of Iraq, Iran, and all the Muslim nations so that Israel can expand and have greater Israel.
	So if the U.S. could just redraw the world map, like all of Asia and the Middle East would just be Israel.
	Greater Israel.
	I don't know.
	Russia wouldn't exist.
	China wouldn't exist.
	And Taiwan would still be a little island.
	Israel would take over China and Russia.
	I mean, that's never going to happen.
	That's a fantasy.
	But I'm just saying that in their minds, the way they would like to redraw the map is just have everybody dead in the world except the Zionists and, you know, the U.S. libtard, woke-tard lunatics.
	That's pretty much their plan.
	Now, that plan is going to fail, but I just want to give you that analysis so you know some of the dynamics here.
	So watch carefully what happens next.
	We need to keep our eyes on China and Taiwan.
	We need to watch what happens with the U.S. Navy, with Yemen and the Red Sea.
	You know, if you think about it, What's happening in the Middle East is it's occupying the US Navy.
	It's forcing the Navy to hang out even in the Persian Gulf and the Eastern Mediterranean and the Red Sea, which is far from, you know, the Taiwan Strait, right?
	Far from the West Pacific.
	So Perhaps China has had a hand in arranging this situation for their own reasons.
	I guess we shall soon find out.
	But finally, as long as we're speaking about countries and independence, there is one other country in the world that I believe should have its own independence.
	And that is, of course, the Republic of Texas.
	Yes.
	The Republic of Texas was once its own nation and probably will be again.
	We'll see.
	I mean, I say that partly satirically.
	I don't know what's going to happen exactly with the United States, but I do know the currency is going to collapse.
	And when that happens, I do believe there will be a decentralization of power out of Washington, D.C.
	And depending on what else is happening in the world, it may necessitate regions or even large states like Texas declaring their own independence.
	I mean, Texas just seized a park near the border because – well, and they kicked out the federal border agents because the feds were just using that park to allow illegals to just walk right on through and invade Texas.
	Texas finally got serious about that and just seized the park, kicked out the feds, and said, no, you can't use this for illegal immigration.
	That's kind of the beginning of the Texas separation from the United States of America.
	And with the DOJ trying to sue Texas to make sure that Texas can't arrest illegals for trespassing and can't deport people, and with Governor Abbott already sending 100,000 illegals to other cities like New York City and Chicago,
	we've talked about that, you can see that this is the early chapter of a separation, of a kind of a national divorce, and And Texas isn't the only state that wants to leave the current nightmare of Washington, D.C. Half the country wants to get away from Washington, D.C. And I think this upcoming election in the U.S. will determine a lot.
	If Trump wins, I mean, he's likely to be the nominee on the GOP side.
	If Trump wins, America may hold together, but the left will go insane.
	However, if the Democrats rig the election, again, I think we're going to see a lot of secession.
	We're going to see a real breakup of the United States of America, and that's not to even mention what might be happening in terms of war with Russia, war in the Middle East, de-dollarization, debt collapse, banking system collapse, all these other factors which will also play a role.
	And I'll add, it's very difficult to predict what's going to happen over the next 12 months.
	I don't think there's anybody that really can because there are so many wild cards that could come into play.
	Like, what if China does invade Taiwan?
	What if there is a debt default on the U.S. dollar?
	What if Iran launches a nuclear weapon and sinks a dozen U.S. naval vessels, huh?
	Or what if Israel launches nukes at...
	Who knows?
	I mean, maybe they'll try to nuke Iran.
	There's so many wildcards in this, even involving Russia and the UK. I've heard now the UK wants to send troops into Ukraine to fight Russia.
	Really?
	What, all 500 that you have left?
	I mean, how many soldiers does the UK even have?
	I think they're down to like 40 tanks.
	It's just like a weekend in Russia, you know?
	Russia will take out 40 tanks in a couple of days.
	Yeah, even your British Challenger tanks.
	They're still vulnerable up close.
	I mean, I want to see the UK send everything it's got at Russia because the UK needs to get smacked down from its arrogance and incompetence and thinking that it can rule the world like it once did when it occupied India, for example.
	Had a military presence in how many countries around the world?
	And the United Kingdom ruled the seas.
	Well, those days are over.
	The UK can barely function as a nation at this point.
	Well, and same thing with the US, by the way.
	I'm not saying the US is any better at this point if you're listening from the UK. I think the same thing about my own country.
	But if the UK sends soldiers to fight Russia, It's going to be so embarrassing for the United Kingdom.
	I mean, oh my gosh, the world will laugh at the clown show.
	Of the UK trying to muster up enough troops to make a dent in Russia's defensive lines.
	It will be almost embarrassing.
	It's almost like, have you ever watched a UFC fight where one fighter is so much better than the other and the fighter is just like pummeling the guy on the ground with elbows and you're like, please ref, stop the fight.
	This is just so sad to watch, you know?
	That's what it's going to be like, Russia versus the United Kingdom.
	It's going to be like, oh God, please, why did you subject us to this?
	I mean, we almost feel sorry for the British troops at this point that are going to be sent to the front lines.
	It's not going to be pretty.
	But there are so many wild cards here that this is a year where, I mean, I can talk about trends, but I can't really, I can't tell you what's going to break first.
	I don't know.
	I just know that preparedness is the most critical thing right now, including financial preparedness, food preparedness, all of it.
	So get ready in every way that you can.
	Let me plug a couple of things here.
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	The margins are just so thin that that's impossible.
	But back to Goldbacks, what I really like about them is that you can have them at one one-thousandth of an ounce of gold embedded in the bill.
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	The gold in the bill.
	And so these are really great gifts and they're very beautiful.
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	So check that out.
	In terms of food supplies, of course, check out our website, healthrangerstore.com.
	We've got Ranger Buckets, Certified Organic, Laboratory Tested.
	We've got Mini Buckets, Mega Buckets, and this is really high-end, high-quality food.
	This isn't cheap.
	I mean, the stuff that's out there in the marketplace often is just textured soy protein.
	It's not even organic most of the time.
	You're eating glyphosate in a lot of the kind of cheap preparedness food products that are out there.
	No.
	All the foods that we sell are Certified Organic.
	And we have number 10 cans that are packed with freeze-dried blueberries, for example.
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	It's a great source of vitamin C and anthocyanins.
	And vitamin C is what's lacking from most people's storable food supplies, by the way.
	We've got freeze-dried mangoes and strawberries and broccoli and kale.
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	All right.
	With that said, stay warm, folks.
	Check on your animals.
	Make sure they're warm.
	It's crazy cold across North America.
	Be safe if you're using backup heat.
	Don't start fires, obviously.
	Watch out for carbon monoxide.
	If you have anything heating indoors, just make sure it's safe.
	Just think through all this.
	Be cautious.
	Be prepared.
	It's going to be a cold one for the next few days, and it's going to be a wild ride for the rest of the year.
	No question about it.
	I wish I knew exactly what was going to unfold, but I don't, so we have to be prepared for every possibility.
	And for the most part, we are.
	I'm ready now for this cold blast better than I have ever been in any of the previous years.
	I've got my tractor with the PTO generator ready to go.
	I've got all the water pipes insulated.
	I've got the forced air diesel heaters with the backup batteries and several other things.
	I've got my animals all safely in the barn with hay, but the barn door is open enough that they can get in and out as they want to.
	So if there were a fire or something in the barn, they could escape.
	Always think about things like that.
	You know, what happens if there's a fire?
	How do they get out?
	So just think about all those things and be safe.
	And I'll be back with you tomorrow.
	Stay warm, folks.
	Take care.
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	Got it up on my laptop here to show you.
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	A lot of people's laundry detergent is just filled with fragrance chemicals that make their clothes smell better.
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