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	Well, today we have an interview coming up with Matt Bracken.
	You don't want to miss that.
	It is, what is it, Wednesday, January 31st, 2024.
	Mike Adams here.
	This is Brighteon Broadcast News.
	Thank you for joining me today.
	And yeah, Matt Bracken, he's trying to finish up his latest novel, which is all about the collapse of the United States and the Western world, and then how societies rebuild after that collapse.
	And not to spoil too much, but the only way to rebuild is to have access to energy, by the way.
	It turns out, which means Western Europe is screwed and Texas is going to do awesome.
	So a big shout out to all the convoy truckers and participants that are on their way to Texas right now.
	I'm going to be waving at you probably on Friday as you pass the Health Ranger Fulfillment Center on your way to Austin because we're right by Highway 71 there.
	So if you see a Texas flag on the north side of the highway, that's just kind of up on a little hill and there's a big Texas flag there.
	That's me saying hello to you, unless some knuckleheads tear down the flag or something.
	But who knows?
	Might have a surprise for them.
	We'll see how that goes.
	All right, we have a lot of news to cover today, and of course a special report, and then we're going to get to that interview with Matt Bracken, which is really hardcore, man.
	Let me tell you.
	And imagine my shock today when the CIA chief, William Burns, published an op-ed in Foreign Affairs magazine.
	The op-ed said exactly what I said yesterday.
	I mean, it's like, it's spooky even for a spook.
	It's like, this guy must have been listening to my podcast.
	Because you know how I said my whole broadcast yesterday, the title was, The World is No Longer Afraid of the U.S. Empire.
	Remember that?
	Well, then the CIA chief, William Burns, he pens an op-ed that says the following, quote, a world of intense strategic competition in which the United States no longer enjoys uncontested primacy.
	So, in other words, oh, by the way, sorry about the background noise.
	I'll stop the...
	The AI server here in a second.
	I'll put it on pause.
	So I said the world is no longer afraid of the U.S. empire.
	And he says the United States no longer enjoys uncontested primacy.
	He's quoting me!
	It's hilarious.
	He just made it sound a little more, you know, Harvard-ish, a little more academic, uncontested primacy.
	But he's saying the same thing.
	He's saying the U.S. is no longer the dominant power in the world.
	Not the dominant military power and not the dominant economic power, for sure.
	And not even really the dominant naval power.
	What's funny about this too is that this article in RT that covers this says that former intelligence officials told the Wall Street Journal that the CIA has struggled to recruit Chinese sources and informants.
	Hmm.
	I wonder why that is.
	I think I know.
	It's because the way Americans pronounce Chinese is awful.
	It's awful even to me.
	Even...
	I don't speak perfect Chinese, but I speak it well enough to know that when Americans speak it, for the most part, it hurts my ears.
	It's like, oh, God, please, could you try to pronounce the words in Chinese, please?
	It's like, you know, in Chinese when you...
	or Mandarin, when you want to ask somebody, like, how are you doing?
	It's like, 你好不好?
	And...
	Then you hear sort of like a lazy American say that.
	And it's funny to do this with a southern accent.
	But instead of ni hao bu hao, they go ni hao bu hao.
	It's like fingernails on a chalkboard.
	Oh, please, God, no.
	Stop speaking Chinese.
	Anyway, that's my experience.
	It's also kind of weird.
	It's funny to hear Americans try to speak Espanol.
	Without trying.
	You know what I mean?
	It's like, muchas gracias!
	Instead of actually giving a damn about trying to speak the language.
	Anyway, I'm getting carried away.
	Folks, if you're going to learn a foreign language, let me give you just two tips.
	Number one...
	The best language learning system that has ever existed, as far as I'm concerned, and this is what I use.
	It's called Pimsleur, by the way.
	No, they're not paying me for this.
	It's P-I-M-S-L-E-U-R, Pimsleur.
	If you want to learn any language, Espanol or Russian or Mandarin or Arabic, for that matter, whatever you want to learn, Pimsleur is the best way to do it.
	That's what got me started on Mandarin and Espanol.
	And then, remember, I ended up getting a driver's license in Ecuador in Espanol.
	I had to take the verbal and written test in Espanol, which was quite challenging for me.
	But Pimsleur is the way I did it.
	And then, secondly, is try to pronounce...
	The way locals do.
	Don't just say everything like it's an American word when it's not.
	When it's a Chinese word, just try to make it, try to listen to the way Chinese people say it and try to say it the way they say it.
	That's all.
	That's all I'm saying.
	Just a little request.
	Because it's always funny to me to hear Americans complaining about legal immigrants who are still learning English as a second language, and you hear them say, well, I can't speak English worth a damn!
	And I'm thinking, have you tried to speak Chinese ever?
	Or any language other than English?
	Not as easy as you think!
	All right, moving on.
	Here's a shocking story.
	Well, maybe it's not so surprising.
	It's from Revolver News.
	Here's the headline.
	FAA, yes, the Federal Aviation Administration, FAA created secret code words for blacks so they could one-up whites and Asians.
	Okay, now, wait a second.
	You're thinking, no, it couldn't be.
	So this is part of the DEI philosophy, which is diversity, equity, and inclusion.
	DEI. And DEI is a racist approach to hiring and firing and giving people promotions and so on that basically says that white people and Asian people are bad.
	And black people or trans people or gay people have to be given an advantage.
	So from Revolver News, quote, there's a shocking new report about the FAA. Apparently they've got a secret word code for black aviation students' resumes.
	The goal is to push these resumes to the front, skipping over other folks who might actually be far more qualified.
	So this is from a user Austin, A-U-S-T-E-N on X, says the FAA gave secret code words to students in the Black Caucus of Federal Aviation Employees to put in their resume that would skip them to the front of the line.
	And the secret code word was that you were supposed to say...
	That in high school, you received your lowest grade in science.
	So, in other words, if in your resume you said your worst grades were in science, they would skip you to the front of the line ahead of white people and ahead of Asian people.
	Yeah, so this is from an email that came out that says, FAA Human Resources will scan in resumes...
	You know, in a computer with OCR. And the computer will group resumes based on keywords.
	These keywords will flag your resume, thereby giving you the advantage over thousands of resumes that may flood the system.
	A list of these buzzwords are attached to this email.
	This list is being provided to you through one of our members in HR. I encourage you to keep a lid on this attachment and focus on your resume.
	If the entire country caught wind of this attachment, Then how will your resume be distinguished from others?
	And then as one of the attachments it said that they're supposed to say that they got the lowest grades in science.
	Now you may recall the FAA has an open door hiring policy for cognitively retarded people.
	We covered that, what was it, a week or two ago.
	The FAA on their website says they have priority hiring for people who suffer severe cognitive impairment, i.e., they're retarded.
	Also people who are psychos.
	So what was it, psyche?
	Psychiatric impairment or disease, or I forgot the exact term they used, but severe psychiatric disorder, I think, was the term.
	They also say they want to hire people who are missing limbs for some reason.
	I mean, there's no reason why you shouldn't hire somebody who's missing a limb, by the way.
	I'm just saying, why would they go out of the way to say that?
	I mean, if a person shows up for an interview and they happen to be missing a limb, but they can still do the job, I don't understand why that's even worth commenting about.
	If they can do the job, they're hired, as far as I'm concerned.
	It doesn't matter to me if they're missing a limb.
	It might be a veteran who got a leg blown off or a hand blown off.
	But if they can do the job, they get the job, as far as I'm concerned.
	Why do they have to point out, like, we want people who are missing limbs.
	They also want dwarfs.
	Dwarfism is another thing they said.
	Which, again, it's just bizarre.
	Why bring it up?
	I mean, there's no reason why a person with dwarfism can't also potentially do the job.
	Whether they're a little person or a big person is irrelevant.
	The question is, can they do the job?
	If there's a dwarfism person who's great at the job, you're hired, man!
	But the FAA's like, we want retarded people, we want psychos, we want people missing limbs and dwarfs.
	And that's on their website.
	It's just so bizarre.
	It's demeaning, isn't it?
	Isn't it demeaning to people who suffer from physical disabilities?
	Like, why do you have to bring it up?
	You know?
	Or someone who is a small person, a dwarfism person, why do you have to bring it up?
	I mean, they're probably saying, why do you have to bring it up as an employer?
	You know?
	It's so demeaning to everybody.
	And then to give preference to people based on that.
	But now the FAA distributes secret code words for black people to move to the head of the line.
	And you wonder why planes are catching on fire and landing gear is falling off and doors are falling off in the middle of the flight.
	You wonder why that's happening?
	This is why.
	Because non-qualified people are being given secret code words to move to the head of the line and bypass other people who are more qualified.
	This is what happens as societies implode.
	And you end up with the woke Pentagon.
	You end up with cross-dressing transgender naval admirals or whatever positions they are.
	Who knows?
	You end up with a cognitively retarded president.
	I mean, this is how it happens.
	And now you're seeing the results of it.
	Chaos, collapse, idiocracy.
	So, that's another reason why I don't fly anymore.
	I don't trust...
	Anybody in the FAA to do their jobs, I don't trust that Boeing is doing their jobs.
	Boeing is a disaster.
	The whole Boeing company has just abandoned quality control as far as I'm concerned.
	Boeing is, all they care about now is building weapons.
	I mean, they've got, you know, neocon Nikki out there pushing more war.
	She's from Boeing.
	You know, Boeing just cares about war.
	They don't care about aviation safety any longer.
	Oh, we forgot to put the bolts on the door.
	Oh, who cares?
	We're making billions of dollars selling weapons to bomb, you know, Palestinians.
	So Boeing bombs Palestinians.
	I mean, I should say Boeing weapon systems bomb Palestinians.
	I guess the Boeing Corporation doesn't directly bomb them, but they make weapons and bombs or weapon delivery systems that are used to bomb Palestinians.
	So there you go.
	Speaking of Israel and Palestine, by the way, Israel's credit rating is now threatened.
	And it looks like the credit rating is going to be downgraded if they expand their war beyond Gaza and try to attack Hezbollah or southern Lebanon.
	So the global credit rating agency, S&P, Warned on Monday that it would cut Israel's sovereign credit rating if the war with the Palestinian militant group Hamas expands to other fronts.
	This is from RT. So the director of EMEA sovereign and public finance ratings at S&P said, well, his name is Maxim Rybnikov.
	Yeah, his name is actually Maxim.
	That's a pretty cool first name.
	What's your name?
	Maxim.
	Maximum Max.
	He said, yeah, we could also lower the ratings if the impact of the conflict on Israel's economic growth, fiscal position, and balance of payments proves more significant than we currently project.
	So, in other words, Israel's economy is being destroyed because, well, they've taken workers out of the local economy and put them in the IDF and told them to go kill Palestinians or maybe get blown up from your own explosives while you're trying to rig residential buildings to blow up and then it accidentally blows up and falls on your head, which happened recently and killed, I think, 24 Israelis.
	That has an impact on the economy.
	You're losing, you know, not just human lives, but you're losing, obviously, worker productivity and ideas and innovation and experience and all that.
	You're destroying your own economy by going to war with the Palestinian people.
	And then now we hear that Israel wants to go to war with Hezbollah also.
	It makes you wonder, how's that going to work for the Israeli economy?
	By the way, I... I'm wondering, and you'll hear this in my upcoming interview today with Matt Bracken, but I have a question.
	How will Israel's economy function when most of Israel is a giant, smoking, radioactive crater?
	There's a question for you, because that's where things are headed.
	And it looks to me like Israel will launch the first nuclear weapons in this whole escalation that's happening.
	In fact, I have a special report on this that talks about the, what, the spiral?
	The escalation doom spiral?
	So I'll play that for you.
	But I think Israel will use nukes first, and then there will be nuclear weapons launched at Israel in retaliation that will utterly obliterate Israel.
	I don't think Israel survives for too many more years.
	I mean, not in its current location as currently configured.
	Israel is going to be destroyed.
	And by the way, in this war, Israel has done crazy, insane, evil things.
	You can barely imagine.
	Like, here's a story out of Middle East Eye.
	Israeli forces dressed as medics raid a hospital in Jenin, killing three.
	So there was video footage of this And it shows a dozen Israelis disguised as doctors and patients storming the hospital and then murdering patients in the hospital.
	I mean, this is a war crime on so many levels.
	It's unimaginable.
	So from the story it says, quote, Ibn Sina Hospital.
	Footage shared online and in Israeli media showed around half a dozen Israeli soldiers in the hospital armed with assault rifles.
	Hamas responded to the attack saying that Israel's crimes will not go unanswered and said the killings were a continuation of the occupation's ongoing crimes against our people from Gaza to Jenin.
	It's insane that Israel would send in soldiers disguised as medics to raid a hospital and to seek out and murder specific patients in the hospital, and that Israel thinks that's totally okay.
	They think that's an acceptable way to carry out warfare.
	I mean, number one, hospitals are supposed to be off limits for acts of war.
	You shouldn't bomb hospitals, obviously.
	And it's also clear that any patients that are in the hospital are not active combatants.
	I mean, they're in hospital beds.
	But evil Israel thinks it's totally okay to go in and disguise yourself as medics and then go in and just murder hospital patients because you don't like who they are.
	I mean...
	This is just one of an endless stream of war crimes that Israel continues to carry out.
	You want to see some of this?
	Look, let me show you some footage.
	Alright, so here you go.
	Here are the Israeli soldiers.
	There you see one dressed like a medic in the hospital scrubs, and yet they've got battle rifles.
	Multiple Israeli soldiers, apparently.
	And this is an assassination hit of hospital patients.
	Now, think about how this places other doctors in harm's way because now people might be thinking, well, anybody that looks like a doctor might actually be an assassin coming here to kill patients.
	So this places all medical staff under suspicion, places them all in harm's way.
	This is an ethical violation, a moral violation, a war crimes violation, and they carried out murders in a hospital.
	If anybody out there, if you're still defending Israel in this and you think, well, Israel has a right to self-defense, does Israel have a right to go into hospitals and murder hospital patients?
	Is that self-defense in your opinion?
	Because that's not self-defense.
	That's a war crime.
	And they use silencers on the weapons.
	Let's see.
	An AFP photographer said he saw a bullet hole in a pillow covered with blood following the raid.
	The Palestinian Ministry of Health denounced the attack, saying that healthcare facilities are granted special protection under international law.
	I mean, it's just, again, unbelievable.
	Now, we've got some other news here, some economic news coming up.
	But first, since we're on the subject of the Middle East, let me go ahead and play the special report for you today.
	I recorded it earlier.
	It's called Middle East Warning.
	The escalation doom cycle has been initiated.
	I recorded it just a few hours ago.
	We'll go to that.
	I'll be back on the other side to continue with economic news and the U.S. debt death spiral according to Nassim Tlaib here in the United States.
	It looks like we're just on the verge of a massive U.S. military strike against Iran.
	And an Israeli attack on Hezbollah, you know, southern Lebanon.
	That attack will be aided by U.S. forces, by the way, and using U.S. weapons and naval support.
	So the massive escalation that has been demanded by the warmongers like Senator Lindsey Graham and many members of the Biden regime, they're going to get their escalation.
	But Even though it's going to appear at first that they've managed to deal a devastating military blow against Iran and Hezbollah, the retaliation that's going to happen after that will be devastating to the United States Navy.
	And it's likely that we're going to see naval ships destroyed.
	In that region, in the Middle East, maybe the Red Sea, the Mediterranean.
	It's hard to say which ship and where it's going to be, but it won't take much for one or more of these ships to be overwhelmed with incoming missiles and drones, rockets, what have you, and to not be able to defend against those.
	And all it's going to take is one detonation.
	Of a sufficiently sized warhead in order to take out one of the naval ships.
	And I do think that the U.S. Navy is actually putting a lot of ships there as a form of bait.
	They want to see a naval ship sunk so they can declare a wider war.
	They want World War III. This is how the neocons and the Democrats plan to cover up all their crimes and declare martial law and You know, limit elections and confiscate guns or whatever they want to do.
	But plus, they also want to, of course, just make more money with their war machines.
	So they need a bigger war in order to make that happen.
	Now, what we all need to understand here is that these actions by the United States put us on the path to what very likely ends in nuclear war in the Middle East.
	Probably with Israel being the first to launch nukes to try to destroy its Arab neighbors, you know, one or more nukes.
	And it doesn't have to even be a Samson option.
	It can just be Israel using them on the battlefield because they're facing such overwhelming attacks.
	Ultimately, I think Israel is obliterated.
	I think Israel ends up being a smoking crater.
	When this is all said and done.
	But before that happens, Israel is going to slaughter probably, well, easily hundreds of thousands of other people, innocent civilians.
	If you thought the 25,000 they've killed in Gaza was a huge number, and it is, it pales in comparison to what Israel is about to dish out.
	This is all the more reason why countries like Israel that are currently led by Insane, psychopathic war criminals do not belong in the international community.
	It should never have nuclear weapons.
	It should not have the support of the United States of America, nor the American people, nor financial support from America.
	You know, Israel, as currently run—now, I know this doesn't reflect all the Israeli people, and it doesn't reflect all Jews either— But as currently run by the genocidal psychopathic lunatics, you know, Israel is a threat to the world.
	But then in the same way, so is the current U.S. empire run by similar lunatics under the Biden regime.
	But what we need to consider is what's going to happen once the war escalates.
	So Here we go.
	The U.S. will bomb Iran.
	Iran will be forced to retaliate in some way that appeases its own domestic population.
	Otherwise, its own current government risks being thrown out of power if they don't retaliate accordingly.
	And the U.S. knows this.
	And they want this to be an escalating tit-for-tat, but growing with Each tat, I suppose you would say, so that it becomes a nuclear conflict, eventually involving, perhaps involving the use of tactical nuclear weapons by the United States against Iran.
	But understand that Iran is not some small country that's easy to overrun and destroy.
	Iran is a modern, highly technical country Nation with many engineers, weapons designers, you know, material specialists, software programmers, and so on.
	And Iran has built an incredible array of missiles, including ballistic missiles, as we're finding out.
	And probably they have nuclear warheads, is my guess.
	And all it's going to take is one nuke from Iran detonated over, let's say, a group of ships, U.S. Navy ships, to show the world how vulnerable the United States is.
	Could Iran nuke an aircraft carrier and destroy it?
	And the answer is yes, absolutely, they could, probably.
	Assuming they have nukes.
	We're not certain that they have nukes, but it seems very likely that they do, given what we currently know.
	So what would happen if an aircraft carrier were lost in the Middle East?
	Well, you know, the U.S. warmongers would go crazy.
	They would say, we've got to nuke them!
	We've got to nuke Iran!
	Except they would pronounce it Iran!
	And then Russia would take notice and Russia would say, wait a second, what's going on here?
	We can't let America nuke Iran and unleash, you know, radiation clouds across the region, ultimately affecting not just Russia itself, but Russia's trading partners, obviously.
	So Russia would probably have to get involved and Russia has nuclear-capable Kinzhal hypersonic missiles that can absolutely take out naval vessels.
	And maybe they could just use conventional warheads, but they can also carry nuclear warheads, like sort of low yield, I mean, relatively low by today's standards.
	For example, like one megaton, which is still, you know, very large compared to Hiroshima, which was something like, I think, 15 or 16 kilotons.
	But a one megaton warhead or even, let's say, like a 0.1 megaton warhead is bigger than Hiroshima, obviously, like 100 kilotons.
	And those kinds of warheads can take out naval vessels.
	So you should absolutely expect that if the United States of America stays on this escalation cascade of events, ultimately U.S. naval vessels are going to get nuked and destroyed.
	And the world will see that the United States of America and its so-called mighty, mighty military is vulnerable and weak.
	And that America can't project power and can't protect itself and, most importantly, can't protect Israel.
	And when that happens, you're going to see multiple nations attack Israel.
	To wipe it out.
	To try to do a massive rapid shock and awe type of attack against Israel.
	To try to destroy it before Israel can set off its Samson option nuclear warheads.
	Which means you're going to see a coordinated simultaneous barrage of ballistic missiles, hypersonic missiles, rockets.
	It's going to be like fire everything.
	At Israel, at Tel Aviv and other cities and military bases and so on.
	Just whatever you got, fire it.
	That's what's going to happen.
	And the rockets will come from southern Lebanon via Hezbollah.
	The rockets will come from Iran.
	Who knows?
	The rockets may even come from, well, missiles from Russia.
	ICBMs might come from Russia.
	We are so close to this being a rapid nuclear exchange.
	And the fact that we have senators like Lindsey Graham that are just pushing us on purpose towards this is so sickening.
	Just placing the lives of hundreds of millions of people at risk just so the U.S. can pretend to still have some kind of military power that it really doesn't have.
	You know, the U.S. is not going to win a land war against Russia in Europe.
	The U.S. is not going to win a war in the Middle East against Iran.
	Or against Lebanon or even against Yemen, for that matter.
	The U.S. is incapable of doing this.
	And all the other nations of the world, aside from Israel and the U.S. and the U.K. and the NATO nations, all the other nations of the world are sick and tired of the U.S. being a bully and Israel being a bully.
	And violating the rule of law, violating agreements and treaties and just doing whatever it wants.
	That's the way the U.S. operates.
	That's the way Israel operates.
	The world is ready for a post-Western global ecosystem, you could say.
	And I'm not saying that that ecosystem is going to be any less corrupt or better or more moral or what have you, but I'm just saying that all these other countries around the world, they are so sick and tired of America and Israel being bullies that they're ready to get rid of them.
	They're ready to see those nations destroyed.
	And they are actively planning on ways to achieve that outcome.
	And the military-industrial complex in the United States is a racket.
	War is a racket.
	It's a money-skimming, money-laundering, money-distribution scheme.
	And the whole purpose of it is to keep shuffling money into the pockets of the corrupt political elite, those who are tied to the decision-makers and the military weapons contractors and so on.
	It's been a long time since the US focused on making weapons that actually work or practicing naval drills that actually are effective.
	The US Navy is a demonstration fleet.
	It's mostly for show.
	It's just a show up and say that, oh, here we are, do what we say.
	But it's not actually very effective at winning wars or projecting power.
	I mean, yeah, they can launch jets off of The aircraft carriers, for now, until those aircraft carriers get destroyed.
	And then what?
	Right?
	I mean, the aircraft carriers are going to be the first targets.
	The Eisenhower, for example.
	I don't even think the Ford is there anymore.
	The Pentagon pulled the Ford out of there because the Ford barely functions.
	I mean, it's not ready for battle.
	It's just a showpiece, okay?
	It's an intimidation piece.
	But in an actual fight, the Ford gets destroyed and sinks.
	The Eisenhower gets destroyed.
	And then the U.S. is just sitting out there with destroyers and frigates.
	What are you going to do?
	Just launch missiles at land targets?
	And you're going to run out of missiles in a day?
	And then what?
	What are you going to do?
	Are you going to land troops?
	Are you going to invade Iran with...
	Half a million American troops?
	Really?
	How do you think you're going to get them there?
	How do you think you're going to send transport boats across the oceans, you know, across the Atlantic and across the Mediterranean and through the Suez Canal?
	I mean, how do you think you're going to do that without losing those boats and having all those soldiers sink and die?
	You're not.
	Because Iran and Russia are not just going to sit back and just let you ship half a million soldiers, even if you had half a million soldiers.
	And you don't.
	I mean, you don't have half a million soldiers in the U.S. that can even fight.
	I know there's more than a million soldiers on the payroll, but I'm talking about warriors who can fight.
	You don't have half a million of those.
	I mean, I know you have pantyhose-wearing bra, high-heeled shoes, and lipstick, drag queen admirals and such.
	I know you have a bunch of LGBT people pretending to be soldiers.
	That doesn't count on the battlefield.
	I mean, what are you going to do?
	Attack the Iranian troops with your lipstick?
	And your rainbow face paint?
	What are you going to do?
	Put a rainbow flag on...
	Over your artillery so it can be more easily spotted by Iranian military forces.
	The Pentagon has gone woke.
	The United States military is a pale shadow of what it once used to be.
	And the U.S. can no longer win any war in the world.
	Not a war in the Middle East, not a war with Russia, not a war with China, and most definitely not a war with Texas.
	The U.S. military under this woke leadership And the cultural cleansing to get all the patriots out of the military has left the military as an over-vaccinated, woke-tard brigade of incapable, incompetent, mostly obese soldiers.
	And the only thing they're good at is flying drones with joysticks because it's like a video game.
	They can do the video game thing.
	But they can't actually go out onto the battlefield and get much of anything done, because, you know, that would trigger them.
	That would be hard.
	And we have to do things...
	That's what the generation has come to now.
	So you and I, as part of our preparedness, we should be prepared for the United States Navy to get walloped, as they say, in the Middle East, and for the U.S. military to be exposed as the fraud that it has been for a very long time.
	The U.S. is going to be defeated by Russia.
	The U.S. will be defeated by Iran.
	And if the U.S. tries to stir something up with China, it'll be defeated by China.
	There's no question.
	And yet we have these crazed, insane, quote, leaders, you know, like Lindsey Graham, who think that it's still the 1980s.
	They think the military is the strongest in the world, and they think that the U.S. can just bully everybody and do whatever we want because we have nuclear weapons.
	We're not the only nation with nuclear weapons.
	We are the only nation who's ever used them against civilians, by the way, but we're not the only nation with nuclear weapons.
	And if it comes to a nuclear exchange, we're not even the nation with the most nuclear weapons.
	That title belongs to Russia.
	Russia has far more nuclear missiles and warheads and more capable missiles and more effective anti-air defense systems.
	So if the U.S. thinks that it's going to start nuking Russia, the U.S. is going to find out real quick that Russia will wipe Western civilization off the map.
	Russia will nuke Washington D.C., Russia will nuke London, Paris, Berlin, you know, Colorado Springs, obviously, and many other targets across the United States.
	I hope they don't nuke Texas because we need Texas.
	We need Texas here to rebuild, you know, and to have an energy infrastructure.
	We need Houston.
	But Russia is going to nuke whatever targets I suppose it wants to nuke.
	And that's going to obliterate, you know, well, a significant portion of the U.S. population.
	So that's the path that Senator Graham and the Biden administration and Victoria Nuland and all these other crazy psychos, that's the path they've put us on.
	And they're thrilled with this.
	They want total destruction.
	They want world war.
	They want annihilation, even of their own countrymen and women.
	They don't care.
	As far as they're concerned, the more depopulation and death and despair that they dish out, the better.
	They would probably beg Russia to nuke the United States.
	Like, help us depopulate, you know, because that's their mission.
	They want to kill off as many people as possible.
	Russia might, at some point, be happy to oblige.
	Okay.
	What cities do you want us to hit, you know?
	I mean, that's how crazy it is.
	Our own government is at war with us.
	They hate America.
	I mean, it's probably ultimately a good thing that this regime gets defeated because it's so dangerous to America and so dangerous to the world.
	It's probably a good thing that the dollar collapses, even though I know it's going to be hell to go through and a lot of people will lose everything, especially the idiots who believe mainstream media.
	They're going to lose everything.
	But ultimately, the dollar has been weaponized and used to commit such acts of evil and to fund such atrocities by the U.S. Empire and Israel that the destruction of the dollar will be a blessing to the future of this world.
	The fall of the dollar will begin the process of the rise of peace.
	The dollar is a weapon of Satanism and death and destruction and disease.
	I mean, the dollar funded The whole COVID fiasco, the dollar funded the vaccine, the dollar funded the whole war with Russia, and the dollar funded the weapons being dropped on civilians in Gaza.
	It's all done by the dollar.
	I mean, no wonder the other countries around the world are ditching the dollar, which will lead to its demise.
	So, folks, get ready.
	Get prepared in every way you can.
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	Be prepared.
	Hey, you know what?
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	And there you can find the Global Reset Survival Guide, Survival Nutrition, and a bunch of others.
	So very useful, free to download.
	Listen to those.
	They will help you get prepared.
	It's absolutely critical at this point to be ready because World War III is right around the corner and our so-called national leaders are freaking lunatics.
	They're not going to stop.
	They're going to push us into a nuclear exchange because it's some kind of freaking suicide cult that's running things now.
	It's not just a climate cult.
	It's a suicide cult as well.
	Folks, get ready in every way that you can.
	In the meantime, read your Bible, pray to God for protection, and I pray for your protection, and I say God bless you, God bless America, and God bless Texas.
	Thank you for listening.
	I'm Mike Adams.
	Take care.
	Alright, continuing with news in the United States, we have another fire that has taken out a very large chicken plant in Texas.
	So this is more, it looks like more food sabotage.
	See, the fire was at Feathercrest Farms.
	Let's see, that's near Curtin, K-U-R-T-E-N, Curtin, Texas.
	I've never even heard of it.
	Ground footage showed that the fire continues to burn into the night, and firefighters have come from other counties to put it out.
	This is not a small fire.
	In fact, I'm going to ask my editor to show you some of the video from the helicopter while I'm talking here.
	This is a massive fire.
	You can see there's a lot more Chicken houses there that could burn.
	Surely I feel sorry for the chickens that burned up in this fire.
	You know there's a lot of dead chickens sadly in this and probably a lot dying from smoke inhalation if not burned alive.
	But it begs the question, why are the food infrastructure attacks continuing again?
	Well, I guess the bottom line here is make sure you've got your food supply all squared away, right?
	Have your backup food.
	Have your seed supply.
	If you can, think about growing food this spring.
	And just understand that food inflation is going to get worse.
	The food supply is being attacked.
	Yet again.
	Now we're going to go on to the next piece of news of the U.S. debt spiral, but I apologize.
	I'm so distracted today because it's so funny.
	For those of you who are Linux people, I have SSH'd into our server stack that's doing the AI training, the fine-tuning training on one of the large language models right now.
	And actually, while I'm recording, I have this screen mirror of the Ubuntu Linux operating system there.
	It's doing fine-tuning training, and I can't help but get all excited about what it's doing.
	I'm actually watching the iterations.
	We're kicking in about 5,000 data rows right now into some low-rank adaptation training.
	And I'm so intrigued by this.
	I talked about Neo yesterday.
	Neo is our in-house language model that can write stories just like someone in independent media.
	It can do story summaries.
	It can do analysis.
	It can create outlines.
	It's pretty amazing.
	And we're building it every single day on top of other open source base models.
	And then we're doing what's called fine-tuning training on top of that.
	So as I'm recording here, I'm actually watching the training taking place.
	It's super distracting.
	I should close this screen because every time new numbers come out, I geek out on it.
	Oh my God, it's so awesome!
	And I think to myself, man, if people only knew what a nerd you were, I guess it's not a secret any longer, but I do get excited about building language models, especially the ones that we're building, which are rooted in reality.
	It's pretty cool stuff.
	Oh, man.
	I have a server.
	Hold on.
	I got to pause the server here.
	Our transcription server is blowing its fans again.
	Hold on.
	Anyway, I am posting a separate report today, if you want to hear that.
	Not part of this, but a separate report about how government regulation of cloud-based AI systems, in other words, the chatbots, as governments regulate them, they will become...
	Almost pointless gibberish.
	Because it's only a matter of time before governments pass new laws that say that the chatbots aren't allowed to spew misinformation.
	Right?
	So if you ask a chatbot something like, how many genders are there?
	And if the chatbot...
	Says there are only two genders, then that will be illegal and they will be fined by the government.
	Believe me, this is coming, especially in the UK. This is insane.
	So all the hosted chatbot services like ChatGPT, they're going to have to dumb down all their models in order to match the insanity and the mass mental illness of the governments that believe that men can get pregnant, you know, things like that.
	So...
	Those centralized, corporate-run, cloud-based AI systems will be increasingly useless at answering anything having to do with subjects that the establishment wants to tightly control, like climate change or vaccines or biology, for example, and finance, right?
	And the only place you're going to get real answers is from the language models that independent people are producing, which is what I'm doing.
	That's why I'm super excited about this project.
	But if you want to hear more details about that, I'm posting a separate podcast on that very point.
	Let's go to the next article, which talks about Nassim Taleb.
	I'm not sure how he pronounced his last name.
	I apologize.
	Bloomberg did an article.
	And he said the U.S. is facing a death spiral of swelling debt and that only a miracle can reverse the problem.
	He's the author of Black Swan.
	That's one of the books he's best known for.
	He said that there's a risk event that's highly predictable now and more predictable than a black swan.
	He calls it a white swan.
	I don't know why.
	But he says a black swan is something that's a surprise.
	Aha!
	You know, all of a sudden out of nowhere where he says that this debt collapse is not a surprise.
	Everybody can see it coming.
	I mean, anybody paying attention.
	So that's why he calls it a white swan.
	And he says, quote, so long as you have Congress keep extending the debt limit and doing deals because they're afraid of the consequences of doing the right thing.
	That's the political structure of the political system.
	Eventually, you're going to have a debt spiral.
	And a debt spiral is like a death spiral, he says.
	Kind of like the way this guy talks, right?
	He says that the absolute level of U.S. public debt is a, quote, scary number.
	Yeah, that's how economists talk when the number is too scary to mention.
	They say, it's scary!
	And to scare an economist...
	Like Nassim Taleb or Talib to scare him, that takes something.
	Because this guy, I mean, he's the author of Black Swan.
	And even he's getting freaked out.
	Because the federal debt has now topped $34 trillion for the first time in history at the end of December last year.
	It's about $102,000 per average American family of three.
	And in the year 2023, just by itself, that debt grew by $4 trillion.
	Now, I'm going to bring up U.S. Debt Clock dot org and let's just check in and see how screwed we all are here.
	Let's see.
	U.S. National Debt 34.15 to trillion dollars.
	Yeah, we have a winner.
	But my favorite number on this chart is in the bottom right, by the way.
	If you don't go to usdebtclock.org on a regular basis and check it out, you should.
	It's a really great site.
	Go to the lower right and there's something called U.S. Unfunded Liabilities.
	And that number is so big, you actually have to start sort of mentally counting.
	Let's see.
	That's millions, billions, and then trillions.
	Okay, that's it.
	$212 trillion in U.S. unfunded liabilities.
	That's $631,000 per citizen in the United States.
	So do you have an extra $630,000?
	Well, it's actually $632,000.
	Do you have an extra $632,000 just lying around somewhere?
	Because that's what you're going to owe coming up.
	And by the way, illegals don't have to pay any of that.
	They pay zero.
	You pay $632,000.
	Let's see.
	The Social Security liability is now $26.5 trillion.
	Medicare liability is $40.7 trillion.
	And let's see, the U.S. total national assets is $189 trillion, which is less...
	Then the U.S. unfunded liabilities at $212 trillion.
	So what this means is that what the government owes the American people could not even be paid if the government confiscated all assets from all people across the entire country.
	That's how crazy the debt is.
	And that is what Nassim Tlaib is talking about.
	This is a debt spiral.
	He says, quote, we need something to come in from the outside, or maybe some kind of miracle.
	He says it makes him, quote, kind of gloomy about the entire political system in the Western world.
	Yeah, that's an understatement.
	Kind of gloomy?
	A little bit scary?
	I'm thinking, this system collapses catastrophically in the not-too-distant future.
	And then, what do you think happens to Israel, by the way?
	When the U.S. collapses, Israel is done for!
	Because who's gonna be, you know, the big muscular guy protecting Israel?
	It won't be the U.S. because the U.S. will have collapsed at that point.
	Now, U.S. banks have also issued a warning letter This is wild.
	Well, let me just read it.
	This is out of Zero Hedge.
	A dozen Republican state agricultural commissioners have penned a letter to six U.S. megabanks informing them that their push for ESG investing, what is ESG?
	Environmental, social governance, I think, could wind up leading to price increases and may impact food availability.
	What?
	You mean the ESG virtue signaling left-wing crap is going to cause food supply chain problems?
	Oh yes, it will.
	So this letter was sent to Bank of America, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, Morgan Stanley, and Wells Fargo, and criticized their membership in the United Nations organized group called Net Zero Banking Alliance, or the NZBA. Net Zero Banking Alliance.
	And this group is, quote, committed to financing ambitious climate action, which is just bullcrap language for denying money to things that actually work at the economy,
	like farming and energy, and instead, like, shoving money in the faces of, like, Wind turbine companies and solar panel companies and whatever else that isn't reliable because you don't really know when the wind is going to blow, actually.
	Sometimes it stops.
	Sometimes the sun isn't shining like, oh, half the time, roughly speaking.
	And then with, you know, other seasonal variations that can make it even worse.
	In the winter, a lot less sunlight, obviously.
	Also, sometimes it rains.
	Sometimes there are clouds, depending on where you are.
	I mean, come on.
	The letter reads, quote, Proposed net-zero roadmaps describe dramatic,
	impractical, and costly changes to American farming and ranching operations, such as switching to electric machinery and equipment.
	That is a joke right there.
	As you know...
	I own ranch equipment.
	I own tractors.
	You know, I own different kinds of gear.
	It all runs on diesel, folks.
	All of it.
	Because that's what works.
	Diesel as a fuel, it's miraculous.
	It has very high energy density, higher than gasoline.
	It's very safe.
	It's not volatile.
	It doesn't evaporate hardly at all.
	You can leave a diesel container open and none of it's missing.
	I mean, it's also hard to burn.
	You know, it doesn't just easily ignite.
	You can't just ignite like a cup of diesel with a spark or a lighter or a match.
	I'm not encouraging you to try this, but I did.
	I wanted to see if it was true, so I actually poured a little container of diesel fuel and set it out on the ground in a safe location, and I kept throwing matches at it to see if I could make it light, and it would not light.
	It does not light.
	I would not do that with gasoline, obviously.
	I tried it with diesel, and sure enough, diesel is very, very safe to handle.
	So here we have then agricultural commissioners I'm very critical of European bureaucrats.
	Just like I'm critical of Canadian bureaucrats and American bureaucrats and New Zealand and so on.
	But farmers, I support farmers everywhere.
	Farmers are good people.
	Farmers are honest, hard workers.
	And without farmers, we would all starve, obviously.
	I support farmers.
	I support truck drivers, people who...
	Deliver the food and the grain and the fertilizer and whatever.
	People in real transportation, the railroad workers, the barge pilots, the truck drivers, and the farmers.
	These are the people that I resonate with, by the way.
	People who work for a living.
	Not just shuffling paper in some kind of financialization scheme, some kind of derivative.
	No.
	I support people who actually work.
	And I'm making a point in my own life to...
	Sort of to make sure I have some basic skills in those areas so that I know how to operate tractors.
	I know how to operate excavators or skid steers or loaders or dump trucks or whatever.
	And also animals.
	I know how to handle, to some extent, like cattle.
	I don't own cattle, but if I had to own cattle, I could manage.
	That's a big job, though.
	I'm not looking to take that on, by the way.
	But if I had to, I could.
	But this letter says that the goal of net zero emissions can, quote, permanently damage American agriculture and endanger our country's food security.
	Said that American farmers should not be forced to put our food supply at risk.
	Amen to that, brother.
	Let's see.
	Tyler Harper, the Georgia Agricultural Commissioner, told Fox News, quote, American agriculture is sending a clear signal.
	We will not bend the knee to the failed left-wing climate agenda of the United Nations that seeks to cripple one of our country's most critical industries.
	Now, I couldn't agree with that more.
	It's exactly right.
	He continues, quote, Now more than ever, banks that do business with America should be unquestionably supporting American industries, and that starts with the one that puts food on our tables, clothes on our backs, and shelter over our heads.
	The UN's net zero banking alliance would be the equivalent of a run on the bank for our nation's agriculture industry and pose a serious threat to our national security, and it must be stopped.
	Absolutely.
	Absolutely.
	So, let's see.
	Watchdog Group Consumers Research also told Fox News that farmers and ranchers are the foundation of our economy, and international climate cartels like the NZBA pose nothing less than an existential threat to their future.
	By forcing ESG, Brian Moynihan and his cohort have driven the cost of doing business for small family farmers and independent ranchers to astronomical heights.
	He says the ag officials and commissioners hit the nail on the head in their letter.
	Should their misguided climate extremism continue unabated, these mega banks will put our entire food supply in serious jeopardy.
	I applaud the states for their action.
	And those states, by the way, are Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas, and West Virginia.
	I can't wait for the new America to form up.
	When we take America back by ditching all the ESG and DEI insanity that's just destroying everything, can you imagine how abundant the new America could be?
	I'm kind of thinking Texas might be the capital of it.
	I don't know which city.
	Not Austin.
	Austin's lost city.
	It's too much DEI there already.
	But they might have to pick a city in Texas, make it the new capital, have a whole new America rise up that says it's going to be a meritocracy.
	You get a job based on whether you can do the job.
	End of story.
	We're not going to look at whether you're black or white.
	We're not going to look at whether you have one arm or two arms.
	You know, we're not going to look.
	If you have dwarfism or if you're extra large, it doesn't matter.
	If you can do the job, you get the job.
	If you can't do the job, get out of here.
	We don't care that you're transgender or that your skin color is the right color or if you're an illegal.
	No, you don't get the job.
	And by the way, illegals won't be welcomed in the new America anyway.
	Texas will push them all out.
	But just think how abundant it can be if we can just conduct business, have energy and farms and food and business without the overbearing government regulation and not having to pay taxes to the federal government, by the way.
	This is why I'm all in favor of Texit.
	It's the Texas exit.
	It's time for most of America to form a new country.
	Really, it's time for...
	I don't even want to call it a civil war, because I don't want a war.
	I want a peaceful secession.
	Whole new America.
	But really founded on the principles of the original United States of America.
	Those principles which the radical left and the treasonous actors in D.C. have utterly abandoned.
	And now they are at war with American farmers.
	They're at war with the American people by leaving the border wide open.
	Which is what this big convoy to Texas is all about right now.
	Two thumbs up to all the people in the convoy.
	God bless you.
	Stay safe.
	Watch your six also in case there's a trap or something like that.
	But folks, I'm glad that these 12 state agriculture commissioners have taken a stand here.
	This is insane.
	If we don't have food and farms, we don't have a country.
	And that's exactly what needs to be stated.
	And the same thing's happening again in Germany and France and the UK and Ireland and the Netherlands and all across Europe.
	Farmers are like, what are you trying to do?
	Wipe us out?
	And then the greeny-weeny climate cultists nod their heads.
	Yes, that's exactly what we're trying to do.
	Wipe you out!
	That's the way they act and talk.
	And it's like, are you some kind of suicide cultist?
	How do you think you're going to eat?
	Can't wait for them to start eating each other, you know?
	This is just like build a fence around all the greenies and say, okay, you find some food.
	In three days, they'll start eating each other.
	It's like the best application of cannibalism imaginable.
	I mean, can you imagine if all these greenies actually had to live with their own policies fully enforced?
	Talk about hunger games.
	They'd be fighting with swords and spears on who gets to eat the other guy.
	Meanwhile, the rest of the real world will just be growing food abundantly, using energy, using tractors, having cattle ranches and whatever, and getting it done, and enjoying a burger every once in a while, fresh fruit, nuts, fresh vegetables from the garden, onions and potatoes and garlic and cheese and whatever else.
	Well, While the cannibals are chopping off each other's limbs in the green zone.
	How green is it if you have to eat other people in order to survive?
	It's not that green.
	It's actually more kind of red, come to think of it.
	Kind of bloody.
	Not good.
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	Alright, welcome to today's interview on Brighteon.com.
	I'm Mike Adams, the founder of Brighteon, the free speech video network platform.
	We have a very special guest today.
	I think the most appropriate guest for the...
	The increasing risk of civil war in America, and I don't use that term lightly.
	You see what's happening with the federal government or the occupying resident-in-chief insisting that Texas allow an unlimited invasion of illegals to cross the border.
	And Texas Governor Greg Abbott as well as AG Ken Paxton saying, oh no, no, no, you're not going to do that.
	We're going to defend our border in Texas.
	And now this is just one example of how it looks like more than half of America is fed up with the corruption, the criminality, the fraud, and the unconstitutionality of the so-called federal government.
	So here today to help analyze all of this is Matt Bracken.
	And his website is enemiesforeignanddomestic.com.
	He's a prolific author.
	He's got a new trilogy coming out.
	And he's also, of course, been a host with InfoWars, and he worked with the Navy SEALs in his youth and did a lot of interesting things.
	Great to have you on.
	It's good to be on.
	Can't find you on X for some reason.
	Yeah, X bans Brighteon.
	Yeah.
	Well, I don't understand, but, you know, it's above my level of knowledge to even...
	But it's crazy.
	Crazy times.
	Well, no, it is absolutely crazy, but no, Elon Musk is not a champion of free speech.
	Not in my view, as long as he keeps banning this platform, because we have some really amazing content, like having you on today, for example.
	So let's just jump right into it.
	Give us your best rendition of where you think this is headed in terms of the Texas versus I want to just real quickly, just sort of my bona fides, my bona fides, not as a seal.
	I was just when I was a kid in my 20s.
	I wrote this book in like 2002, and it starts with a false flag shooting into a stadium blamed on a deranged veteran who's a patsy, all so that for the purpose of disarming Americans, My second novel I wrote like in 2005.
	Does this look familiar?
	This is what's happening, folks.
	The Southwest, it may still be flying the American flag or the Lone Star flag, but it is being taken over by the cartels.
	And not only the cartels, but the communists who have basically infiltrated from the ground up, from grade schools, high schools, colleges, groups like Mecha and La Raza, We're good to
	with the cartels.
	So, you know, de facto, America, the American people are losing control of the Southwest.
	- Absolutely.
	The kind of crimes that we've been seeing in Mexico, stash houses, people murdered, people hung, decapitated, hung off of bridges, that is going to be coming to America.
	Girls just grabbed from the bus stop, never seen again.
	All of these pathologies that we've seen in the cartel lands in Mexico are coming across the border because there really is no border.
	And it is an absolute act of treason.
	And for years I've been banging this drum about Article 4, Section 4.
	Fairly smart people on television, you know, they talk about, well, why don't they enforce the immigration law?
	And it just gets bogged down in details like they're talking about, well, the Republican law or the law of this president, that president.
	Folks, it's right in the Constitution.
	It's called the Guarantee Clause.
	The states would not have ratified the Constitution.
	If they didn't think that they would be protected, what if Thomas Jefferson said, you know what, I think I'm going to sell Missouri purchase back to France?
	Yeah, but Matt, this brings up a really important point.
	I mean, Texas can now argue legally, and I think Paxton is making this argument, by the way, that because the federal government has abandoned its duties under the Constitution, that it has, quote, broken the compact with That's Article 1, number 9, which is that basically if the federal government doesn't do it, we have a right to self-defense.
	That's right.
	But also Texas has a right to secede from the Union and become the Republic of Texas once again.
	Yeah, and this is interesting because the book that I'm writing now is the third in the Dan Kilmer series.
	There are so many I've got the experience at sailing, ocean sailing.
	I've built my own 48-foot steel boat.
	I've been across the Pacific through the Panama Canal.
	So I can write about an area that most people can't.
	So instead of writing another, you know, Cormac McCarthy on the road kind of a depressing zombie apocalypse wasteland, the Dan Kilmer books take place after this collapse.
	But he can travel to different countries and explore different scenarios, you know, different cultures around.
	Different economies are going to come through this collapse differently.
	It's not going to just be the same or the difference between Cleveland and Memphis.
	It's going to be the difference between entire continents.
	Wait a second, Matt.
	Now, when you say this collapse, you're talking about something much bigger than just Texas versus the United States.
	This is baked in the cake at this point.
	Okay, tell us about that.
	There's no avoiding this.
	Well, we have this super complex, just-in-time global economy, and the friction forces, even short of a pandemic X being released, which is really more deadly, a really deadly pathogen this time, or...
	What seems very likely a ballistic missile exchange between Iran and American forces, which will show that America's military is completely obsolete.
	It's great for scaring third world countries.
	Aircraft carriers are more obsolete today than dreadnought battleships were in 1940.
	And that's going to be shown clearly.
	When they're taken out, the Houthis can stop the world's number one superpower from escorting ships through the Red Sea.
	That's right.
	So we're firing $2 million missiles, or several of them, to knock down $30,000 drones.
	The math doesn't work.
	The ships are now going around Africa.
	The Panama Canal is on life support, and it's being conquered completely day by day by the Chinese.
	So we can't count on what had been one of our ace in the holes.
	The reason we built the Panama Canal, it wasn't to increase world shipping.
	It was so the Atlantic and Pacific fleets could move quickly and reinforce either coast.
	That's over.
	Exactly.
	And the same thing with the Suez Canal.
	That's the whole purpose, from the Mediterranean to the Arabian Sea.
	And that can be, not only, I mean, forever, we saw with that evergreen fiasco a couple years ago, a ship can be scuttled in the Suez Canal intentionally.
	You know, hijacked, driven at high speed, and just steered into the bank at a 45-degree angle, the Suez Canal will be done.
	That's right.
	That Concordia, the cruise ship that went aground off of Italy, that was embarrassing, but it didn't affect shipping.
	If a ship is scuttled in the Suez Canal and they have to cut it up, you know, they have to saw it in pieces, that will take months.
	So the friction forces are building up We're going to see an end of the American empire in the next couple of years.
	I don't know if you follow this writer that goes by Simplicius the Thinker.
	I do, yeah, on Substack, yeah.
	Not only are all these friction forces building up and our military, I mean, those bases that we have in Syria, Iraq, and Jordan, they're just missile targets.
	They're just missile bait.
	I've been calling it drone bait.
	They're just bait.
	They are.
	But people that are totally missing so many of the bigger picture items You know, the Russians are building a fleet of nuclear icebreakers, humongous icebreakers, and they're nuclear so they can't be, you know, frozen into the ice like the old ships like the Franklin, right?
	They can just, if they got iced in, they just, you know, party for a couple years because they got a nuke, right?
	They can't run out of fuel.
	But they're going to have a sea route on the top of Russia that goes through Russian territorial waters.
	There are islands that this route will take that are Russian islands that the route will go below.
	So it will only be for Russia, China and their allies.
	This big shortcut from northern Europe to China is going to be excluding the USA.
	Of course.
	And there is nothing we can do about it.
	And we don't even have an icebreaker like that.
	Not one.
	But we are like the British in the 1920s or 30s coasting on our past glories and thinking that our power will just extend into the future.
	But it's not.
	It is coming to an end.
	This is like the mother of all of those Pericles traps.
	That's exactly right, Matt.
	And let me add that Joe Biden...
	He's still living in the 1980s, I suppose.
	Maybe he's just living in a total fantasy land.
	But he still thinks America's military is the most powerful force in the world and that U.S. sanctions are the most powerful force in the world.
	And Janet Yellen thinks we can fund unlimited wars by printing money even though we can't manufacture munitions, right?
	So, oh, we're going to have a war with Russia and a war with Iran and a war with China and a war with Texas on top of that.
	And How's that going to work when you have a woke Pentagon?
	We don't even have the capacity to rearm now.
	Exactly.
	As it's been pointed out, 1980s technology like the Harpoon missiles that are already obsolete 20, 25 years, they were built in batches.
	There is no, like, Tomahawk production line out there.
	What the Russians did, and we used to mock them in the Soviet era, They still have, for example, T-54 tanks, and it was like, why would you keep them?
	So they have a reserve unit in Siberia somewhere, and their whole job is, every month, go out and turn on these 500 T-54 tanks.
	Well, you put them on a train, and they become a mobile pillbox in Ukraine.
	And when, you know, not fighting at the very front edge, but, you know, they have an ability to surge their armaments.
	They are doing like three shifts, making shells.
	If we go to war with them, we're out of all of our weapons in two or three weeks.
	Completely out.
	And they're just beginning.
	Well, so let's talk about specifics here.
	Right now, as you and I mentioned, we have U.S. troops that have been deployed illegally in Syria.
	and then when they got killed a couple of days ago three reportedly three servicemen got killed and then the the u.s regime lies and says no it was in jordan it was at tower 22 in jordan no come on they were in syria they got killed and this is a cover story and it's also bait so that senator lindsey graham can say it's time to bomb iran even though there's no proof that iran had anything to do whatsoever with that there's been no investigation no report nothing it's It's just, oh, well, Iran did it.
	Sounds like weapons of mass destruction in Saddam Hussein, you know, back a couple decades ago.
	Sounds like the exact same bull crap.
	Right, and it is pure bait.
	It is missile bait, drone bait.
	If you look at the map, you have to zoom in on Google Earth.
	It's at the tri-border, the triple border of Iraq, Syria, and Jordan.
	That's where this Al-Tanf, T-A-N-F, Al-Tanf base is.
	Imagine if America was in a weakened state and China was the superpower of the world, and they just put bases in America.
	You know, we've seen how they bought all this land in the southwest farmland and just land to build runways.
	But they just flew in a bunch of their Globemaster equivalents and started building a base and then dared us to attack it.
	Right.
	You know, and in China, they're saying American terrorists fired rockets at our China base in Montana.
	Yeah, exactly.
	On the Canada, on the Canada-Montana border.
	Right over the main road between Canada and Montana.
	That base is not in some random place.
	It's at a main highway crossing between northern Iraq and the corner of Syria.
	Yes.
	Imagine the gall of China or Russia just putting a roadblock between Las Vegas and Los Angeles and saying...
	We dare you to touch it.
	I know.
	We're resupplying it by air.
	But you better not touch us.
	Hey, we've got some of the graphics that you sent us.
	Let's go through those.
	Bring up the first graphic, if you would, please.
	Let's see.
	Okay, those are your books.
	We've also got that on your website.
	Let's go to the next graphic.
	There we go.
	Is this the one that you have coming out next?
	Yes.
	It starts in South Carolina and it winds up in Texas.
	And so it goes to various places where you can explore different post-collapse recovery efforts.
	But when they get to Texas, it's a...
	Remember, this is not just like some political thing two or three years from now.
	We're talking 10 to 15 years in the future when the population is extremely reduced already.
	It's at least 75% or 80% collapse in population.
	And the Texans have freed themselves.
	Well, the recovery is Texas only, along with Louisiana.
	And it begins with the oil refineries, because they do have the latent capacity.
	In this scenario, fuel is everything.
	You cannot run a modern economy without Just on horse-drawn wagons.
	It ain't gonna happen.
	And you can't defend yourself either.
	So different places where this schooner goes, they just don't have fuel.
	Fuel is the lifeblood.
	So General Jackson in Texas, he has had the foresight to occupy the region between Galveston and Houston, which is called Texas City.
	And And call volunteers, retired or former infrastructure workers, engineers, soldiers, and protect this and start rebuilding it from Texas City out.
	And the reason for this is that once this Texas militia, it's not American Army, it's not National Guard, it's Texas militia, once they have the capacity to fuel their own boats,
	ships, trucks, buses, Airplanes, they can then expand their control and eventually take control of all of Texas, declaring it a republic and having nothing further to do with the United States.
	Texas, under the Lone Star flag as an independent country.
	That's the end of the book.
	I hate to be a spoiler, but I know that people will be interested in that.
	When is that coming out, by the way?
	It's driving me crazy today.
	I haven't been on Skype in a long time.
	Anytime that I try to come into this room and turn this computer on, I haven't been on Skype in a while.
	I always have problems.
	I spend all day screwing with...
	issues.
	Oh, man, I'm sorry.
	I literally am writing the last few pages of this book.
	Okay.
	Literally.
	All right.
	But the takeover of Texas is extremely brutal.
	The way that it's retold, you know, the people, the veterans of this war, it's not a pretty way that Texas is retaken.
	But when it's retaken, it is Texas pure Texicano.
	If you don't speak English, if you can't prove you were living here 20-30 years, you got a problem.
	If you don't speak English and you don't show that you're just somebody from another continent, you got a problem.
	You're not going to be around.
	All right, let's go to the next graphic then.
	That's Operation Staked GOAT. That's the Al-Taz base that you were just talking about.
	What do you want to tell us about this?
	Well, you can see that little inset map.
	It's literally where Syria, Jordan, and Iraq meet with a road, and we just decided to take it over.
	Under the guise of, we're fighting ISIS. But in reality, we were supporting and arming ISIS. We give them different names.
	We call them like the Free Syrian Army, things like that.
	But it's ISIS rebranded.
	And they've been used as our catchpaw against the Assad regime.
	The same fanatics, neocon fanatics, the Victoria and Nolan Kagan gang, they not only have a tremendous hatred for Russia, just like an irrational phobia, mania about all things Russian, they also have it for Assad.
	And Our gambit from Libya with the ambassador being killed, etc., all of this was aimed at destabilizing Syria.
	Then, of course, the Maidan coup destabilizing Ukraine.
	But we've got the losing hand in both Ukraine and in Syria.
	Russia, in a way, is like the opposite of America.
	You know, that Kissinger quote, It's dangerous to be America's enemy, but it's fatal to be our ally.
	The Russians have stuck with Syria since the 1960s under the USSR. They have two naval bases and now Air Force bases on the Mediterranean.
	One is Latakia.
	They're very nearby, but they have two bases that are now extremely critical for Russian power projection.
	They are never, ever going to give up and turn their back on Syria the way we ran out of everywhere else.
	Vietnam, Afghanistan, etc.
	This is teaching people around the world, if you have Russians as your ally, they will not desert you.
	And Americans, eventually, they'll be out of there on the Globemaster.
	Well, let's apply that question to Israel now.
	Let's talk about that because it's my belief.
	Of course, I want your analysis and reaction.
	But the minute the U.S. collapses, Israel's done because the Arab nations will just obliterate it at that point.
	I mean, how does Israel think they can survive given what they've just done?
	All they'll have left is a Samson option if they can pull it off.
	Yep.
	But there'll just be a parking lot after that.
	But, you know, we're seeing...
	I watch different news.
	I watch CNN, MSNBC. I'll, like, watch the first five minutes of different news hours just to see, like, what propaganda is being meted out.
	And on Fox& Friends this morning, it's like, we have our reporter embedded with the IDF going into Gaza, you know, finding terrorists in the tunnels.
	And we are in such an isolation bubble in the world right now.
	The rest of the world is seeing Gaza turned into Dresden, and every bomb says Made in America on it.
	That's right.
	Right?
	There's no separation at this point.
	That's why the Houthis are attacking our ships in the Red Sea.
	All ships today have a thing called AIS, which is a transponder ship.
	So instead of just, you know, being painted by radar and showing a reflection, you're actually sending out a signal that gives you your, you know, the name of the ship, the course, who owns it, everything.
	And some ships have tried to go dark and turn off their AIS, but they're targeting American and Israeli allied ships.
	Yeah.
	Technology's marching on.
	Yeah.
	The level of weapons that are stopping us in the Red Sea are nothing compared to what Iran can fire today at Tel Aviv.
	The missile that hit, they're calling this a drone strike on that Al-Tanf base.
	That was no drone strike.
	That was a ballistic missile hit.
	That was like a World War II V2 or SCUD missile kind of a payload.
	Coming in supersonic, you don't hear it.
	It's faster than sound, so you just have a giant explosion with no warning.
	Yeah, it was very suspicious when they talked about the deaths and casualties and said it was a drone strikeout.
	I'm not aware of any drone that can produce that kind of carnage.
	And there are all kinds of messages that are being sent by what weapons are being used.
	So on one level, for example, in the Ukraine war, on one level, it's like, oh, let's test new weapons.
	Let's see, like, how the T-90 tank, the Russian T-90 tank does.
	The Abrams, well, we won't actually put it forward.
	It would be embarrassing if they're, you know, blown up visibly.
	But the Russians have also fired, like, Kinshal missiles and other missiles.
	At specific targets, like early in the war, they hit a barracks, and they nailed the barracks, like with several of these missiles.
	And it's sort of like a brushback pitch by a baseball pitcher.
	You know, like you back off batter.
	Yep.
	The next I'm just touching your Jersey with the fastball.
	That's a message to the Pentagon.
	You've got nothing that can stop these dudes, and we can hit a barracks with something that turns it into a 100-foot crater.
	Yeah.
	The whole thing.
	Well, that's what they did at that base the other night.
	That's why we're not seeing any...
	Have you seen any video out of that base?
	No.
	Nope.
	Because people can do crater analysis.
	With crater analysis, they can not only tell the direction, they can tell what type of...
	Was it a penetrating warhead?
	Was it an airburst?
	What it was.
	They can get to within a couple hundred kilograms of what the payload was.
	That's why they're not showing any pictures.
	I think this was another brushback pitch.
	This is a warning.
	Look, we can put it not just somewhere in the desert near with a circular error probability of a kilometer.
	We're going to hit the barracks.
	This is a brushback pitch.
	Americans aren't seeing any of this analysis on our news.
	No, no, no.
	And those missiles from Iran have the range to hit Tel Aviv or any city in Israel.
	They have missiles that can hit Europe.
	But the Iranians, people need to remember, the Persians, they invented chess, okay?
	These are not...
	Saudis, you know, camel jockeys, okay?
	These are sophisticated people.
	They have engineers.
	They have mathematicians.
	Well, some of the best mathematicians throughout human history, frankly.
	Absolutely.
	And the worst thing we can do now, and I can't remember if it was Larry Johnson who said this, attacking Iran kinetically now is the stupidest move.
	Because it will just unite all of the Iranians.
	They'll forget that they hate the Ayatollahs.
	They'll forget that they hate the...
	You know, the Crusaders are attacking us.
	We're now united against the Crusaders.
	That's exactly what's going to happen.
	It's much smarter if we just continue to destabilize them internally, politically.
	But attacking them kinetically is so stupid.
	You know, Yemen...
	I'm a big map fanatic.
	I'm a map guy.
	Yemen is the size of France.
	Okay?
	It's almost the size of Texas.
	And we act like, oh, we're just going to go over there and spank them, knock out their missiles.
	Their missiles, they can carry like six of them in a truck, park them out in the desert.
	There's no signature.
	Every time they launch from a different place.
	Right.
	And the launch systems now are so good because they have not only GPS, they have Chinese GPS and Russian GPS, and other systems now that are coming on that aren't even space-based.
	They have terrestrial GPS systems coming out next, which people don't really know about yet, but it's not even going to depend on a constellation of satellites So even your less sophisticated countries like the Houthi is in Yemen.
	Remember, they also have been attacked by American bombs.
	They've been in this civil war, quasi-civil war against Saudi Arabia for a decade.
	Many civilians killed.
	And the missiles raining down on Yemen also say made in America.
	Yes, exactly.
	Americans aren't getting any of this understanding of what's going on.
	No, and when the U.S. recently struck Yemen, all we did was fire missiles at the same sites that have already been hit by missiles 50 times previously and didn't do any damage.
	But Matt, let me ask you this question.
	Because you're kind of leading towards this.
	It seems to me, I mean, you mentioned how the U.S. military, its weapons have become obsolete, and I agree with that assessment.
	And not replaceable, and they can't be replaced.
	Right, right.
	But also, of course, the culture of the Pentagon is also disastrous for the wokeism of it.
	But it seems to me that the U.S., Engineers and builds weapons in order to sell them to other countries, not to have effective war machines, whereas Russia and Iran build weapons to take out enemies on the battlefield.
	That's not what America does.
	And, you know, the culture is so different.
	The American culture is the military-industrial intel complex that And it's a profit-making thing.
	I mean, Lloyd Austin is a Raytheon guy.
	Exactly.
	They changed the rules about you have to be out of uniform for a decade before you can be in the cabinet to say, oh, well, Lloyd Raytheon Austin, we need him.
	You know, Nikki Haley, she's Boeing.
	These are all like the top five military conglomerates.
	That's right.
	So our military programs, like the Ford aircraft carrier, It's like a joke.
	The elevators don't work.
	The catapult system doesn't work.
	The new all-electric catapult system on the Ford doesn't work.
	It doesn't matter.
	It's a sink for billions and billions of dollars that's distributed in 100 congressional districts.
	It's about selling the program to make money.
	In Russia, you can say what you want about the Soviet Union and Certainly in the 20s and 30s and through the 40s, very brutal, cruel communists.
	I get it.
	But they never said, hey, we're going to brainwash your boy into thinking he's a girl and give him hormones and brainwash him to be castrated.
	They never did that.
	They still wanted a boy and a girl to grow up to be man and woman and raise a family.
	In some ways, we're way crazier than they ever were right now.
	Well, yeah, and I would add, in America, we manufacture munitions to be as expensive as possible so that the money can be skimmed and distributed and kickbacks everywhere.
	In Russia, they say, how can we build artillery shells as cheaply as possible that still work?
	And they did...
	I got to sidetrack when I was talking about they saved all those T-54 tanks and old systems like that, and we couldn't understand it.
	They also always dual-purposed their industry.
	There's all this people making fun of, oh, they'd had to take chips out of their washing machines.
	When they build the washing machine, they built it into the artillery shell plant, Right.
	atmosphere, you know, with incentives for people to stay at that town so that in the event of a war, they can shift over from, you know, washing machines back to artillery shells.
	Right.
	They have and they also reward their engineers for discoveries, not...
	Take the idea of the engineer, patent it a hundred different ways, and figure out how to make a $10 million fighter a billion-dollar fighter.
	F-35, anyone?
	Yeah, it's not an accident that the...
	We have the M-16 family of weapons, the AR-15, right?
	Aficionados have heard of Eugene Stoner, right?
	Sure.
	But why is the Kalashnikov called the Kalashnikov?
	It's because they rewarded him by not stock options.
	You can patent it and become a billionaire with royalties.
	They said, Kalashnikov, you are a hero of then the Soviet Union, but now they do it with the Russians.
	They name the weapons for the inventor.
	Yeah, yeah.
	It's a better bolt carrier group mechanism, too, compared to the AR, you know?
	But my point is, instead of all the incentives being, how can Raytheon take over this invention and sell it for a billion dollars a unit?
	The incentive is, be proud that you're a great engineer and you're going to make the new Kinjal missile For the defense and protection of Mother Russia.
	And we will give you the credit.
	You won't become a billionaire.
	You're not going to patent it and sell each missile for $100 million like we would.
	Right.
	Your incentive to be a great engineer is that at the end of the process, when you've made this great invention, you're going to be on the reviewing stand.
	People will be clapping and saying, you were one great engineer.
	We're naming it for you.
	And that's an incentive for other engineers.
	I'm doing it for patriotism, not So I can sell the patent to Raytheon and make millions personally.
	I get it.
	It makes perfect sense.
	But as a result of everything we're talking about here, the U.S. Navy is mostly theater.
	So it's sitting out there trying to impose the threat of force without actually being able to impose much force.
	I mean, the U.S. Navy...
	As far as I can tell at this point, except in certain...
	I mean, nuclear submarines with nuclear ballistic missiles have a role, obviously.
	But in terms of what they're doing there in the Red Sea and in the Mediterranean, it's completely obsolete.
	And I think we're going to lose some naval ships out there.
	Yeah, it's not sustainable.
	The cost to keep these battle groups in the theater...
	Just for the Red Sea example...
	When they fire $100,000 little salvo of drones, we fire a half dozen $2 million missiles, and they may or may not stop the drones, and the drones may or may not have even hit a ship.
	But even if no ship is hit, you can't have a 50 or 100 to 1 cost ratio.
	And what we're doing is expending these war stocks that we will not have if it goes kinetic with a real peer or near peer like Iran, Russia, or China.
	That's right.
	And I've seen numbers like Russia's artillery shells, which I think are 152 millimeters, something like that.
	They're about $600 U.S., Per shell to manufacture.
	In the U.S., the 155 shells are now costing, I believe, $8,000 to $10,000 a round.
	I mean, think about that.
	Well, we were pushing ahead, not only with the Ford aircraft carrier, this white elephant that doesn't work, but the Zumwalt destroyer with this crazy-looking thing with the reverse shear and the bow that went forward like an 1890 ship.
	It has an electromagnetic gun.
	Like a Buck Rogers gun, it's going to, instead of using gunpowder, it's going to be like, it's a rail gun, an electromagnetic rail gun.
	The rounds were a million dollars a round.
	What?
	And they don't even have gunpowder.
	Dollars around.
	Right, but it's Buck Rogers.
	And imagine the billions and billions of dollars that were sunk into a project like the Zumwalt.
	That was going to be like the replacement for the Arleigh Burke, which is essentially a modern design of the old paradigm of turbine engines, etc.
	They're going to make a new all-electric ship.
	It won't need much crew.
	It'll be all super AI computerized.
	A million dollars around.
	And they have scrapped the program.
	So they've wasted this money on things like the F-35, the ZoomWalt, the Ford-class.
	But it made billions.
	That's why Nikki Haley is promoted as the, you know, in case Trump can't run, Nikki Haley is the neocon military industrial complex candidate.
	They just want to keep this party going.
	It's rotten.
	It's completely corrupt.
	And it's not defending America.
	It requires continued violence around the world that's provoked by the U.S. empire.
	And, you know, you're well aware the U.S. provoked Russia into the attack on Ukraine as a matter of self-defense of Russia.
	And they said for – we know the whole history.
	We could recite it and probably half of our audience.
	But Victoria Nuland and the Kagan-Nuland gang, which is essentially running our foreign policy, Tony Blinken is – You know, cut from the same cloth, but actually, Victoria Nuland, you know, I am sure that in a closed room, it's Victoria Nuland giving orders to Tony Blinken, not the other way around.
	Yeah, I'm sure you're right.
	And they have a visceral hatred of Russia.
	And we're all mad at Ilya and Omar right now because she's bringing Somali politics into, you know, Congress.
	How about bringing your hereditary politics of your family was expelled by the Cossacks, you know, 100 years ago, and you still hate Russia so much that you're willing to drag America into World War III based on your...
	You know, inborn, hereditary, visceral hatred of all things Russia.
	Yes.
	Well, Victoria Nuland is a racist.
	She's steeped in ethnic hatred to the Russian people, just like you said.
	And she is an extremely dangerous person.
	She's going to try to get NATO to attack Russia.
	And I have a question for you about that, which is, I saw that Germany now, I think it's their Ministry of Defense, has their new O-Plan.
	Which I think should be called the Oh Shit Plan, actually.
	The O Plan calls for German citizens to protect the power stations and the railways while NATO is at war with Russia and Germany.
	The land is used as a conduit for Western tanks and troops to transit across Germany to the front lines to fight with Russia.
	But if you're a citizen in Germany, you're told to build a bunker now.
	So all of a sudden, you've got to build a bunker because the government can't help you, and you're going to be tasked with protecting the power substations in Germany against Russia's hypersonic missiles.
	How are you going to do that?
	You can't protect them.
	So there's no...
	The paradigm of Desert One, where we have a Desert Storm, where we take six months to do a sea lift to an Allied port without being attacked, is over.
	If we're in a kinetic war with Russia, there will be no port of Antwerp.
	It will be a crater.
	It will be out of action.
	The ships will not get across the Atlantic.
	Remember, there are submarines.
	The ships won't get across the Atlantic.
	So if you have internal lines of communication, namely you're a continent, Russia, attached to China, you have big advantages in a modern kinetic war over somebody that has to do a sea lift.
	It's not 1940 anymore.
	It's not 1940.
	And all of this is tied together.
	Even I want to mention this LNG thing with Texas.
	This is almost like FDR putting sanctions on Japan.
	Right.
	This is an attack on Texas doing the LNG thing.
	So we blew up the Nord Stream pipeline, right?
	Kissinger.
	It's bad to be our enemy, but it's fatal to be our friend.
	We blew up Germany's Nord Stream pipeline.
	No question about it.
	100%.
	But we said, don't worry, we're going to send you LNG on tankers.
	But it's going to cost about 10 times more than that pipeline gas.
	That's if the economy is working and nobody is hassling anybody.
	But a pipeline going from the Russian Baltic into Siberia is a very hard thing.
	target.
	It's an anti-fragile target.
	If you hit a pipeline with a missile and you blow up 500 feet of pipeline, they can fix it next week.
	If you blow up a LNG conversion plant or a regasification plant or the ship in the middle of the ocean, right?
	You've got, so the LNG across the ocean energy plan only works in a world of peace with everybody playing nice together.
	Well, and as an example, Qatar has also halted LNG exports to Europe right now because of the Red Sea.
	I mean, Europe has lost three sources of energy now.
	U.S. LNG exports, Qatar exports, and the Nord Stream pipelines.
	And this is all due to the U.S. Yeah, there's a guy at the beginning of the 20th century named Mackinder who...
	I believe I got that name right.
	But he had the world island theory.
	And this is when there were still czars in Russia.
	This had nothing to do with communism.
	He wrote this in like the 19 aughts.
	That the reason for what the British called the great game was always to play the balancer.
	Never let one empire span all of Eurasia.
	It would be too powerful.
	America inherited that role from Britain after World War II of Always coming in and disrupting, preventing Russia and China from being allied, for example.
	And preventing Germany and Russia from being allies.
	That is the Nord Stream pipeline.
	Right.
	And everything we've done, it's been like a backfire, unless it's intentional, because Russia now has pipelines of natural gas going to China directly.
	Right.
	Right.
	So, oh, we can't sell it to Germany?
	Well, Germany, that's your fault.
	You won't be building any more cuckoo clocks, right?
	No more lederhosen because you got no gas.
	Texas can't sell it to you because we're not going to build any more gasification plants.
	The ships are sitting ducks if push comes to shove.
	That thing's just a fireball in the ocean where it's safe to fireball it, right?
	I mean, if you torpedo an LNG tanker in Galveston, that's a problem.
	But if you torpedo it in the middle of the North Atlantic, nobody will know.
	Except the crew.
	Very briefly.
	But meanwhile, look at the China-Russia landmass.
	They're going to have nuclear icebreakers keeping that route open 12 months of the year.
	And that's a big shortcut.
	We're going around Africa?
	They're going from Murmansk to St.
	Petersburg.
	With all their friends.
	So give us your best idea then.
	And I know, I can't wait for your new book, and I appreciate you taking time out of your writing to join us today.
	I think your analysis is really critical.
	And by the way, I did buy your first book, Enemies, Foreign and Domestic, and read that and thoroughly enjoyed it.
	And I noticed, like, you had the role of the ATF going after, of course, all the veterans.
	I mean, the ATF was...
	It starts with a false flag.
	Yeah, it was a false flag.
	And it's like, ourselves, Alex, everybody, we, you know, every war, Michael Yan, every war starts with a false flag.
	Yeah, everybody...
	Everybody wants to start the war looking like we were wronged.
	Yeah, exactly.
	But I want your assessment.
	What is the most likely trigger point for the collapse of the U.S. empire?
	Is it financial?
	Is it kinetic war?
	Is it cyber?
	I mean, in what realm would you put that?
	I think that all of the friction of all of these is coming to a boiling point.
	So when the pot on the stove boils over and throws the lid and goes all over, you know, boiling water all over the place, it will be hard to say which burner under that pot was the hottest element that actually caused the lid to fly off.
	You know, is it a missile war between Iran and the U.S. Navy?
	Is it a financial collapse?
	I think that traditionally and historically, When this debt cycle is played out completely, you know, fractional banking always implodes, always.
	Traditionally, it's been a dodge for the bankers to start a huge war so they can blame the downfall of the financial system on the war.
	That there won't be Senate hearings about why did all of our banks fail.
	Why did we have hyperinflation in America?
	If we had, for example, either hyperinflation or deflationary depression, because they're the two sides of the same coin, right?
	You've got a rotten economy.
	They can either deflate 1930s-style America or hyperinflate 1930s or 20s German Weimar-style.
	But you can't just keep printing money, right?
	It doesn't work.
	So the bankers do not want to be in front of a Senate hearing where you have 80 conservative Republican types like Rand Paul types that are saying, you're going to go to prison for the rest of your lives because when we unravel all of this, it was complete corruption and fraud and self-dealing.
	Oh, yeah.
	No, they want a cover story for the whole thing.
	And 300 million Americans want to lynch you.
	And I want to be reelected, so I'm going to lead the necktie party.
	The bankers fear that.
	They would rather blow everything up.
	And then it's like, oh, act of God, it was, you know, act of war.
	They think they can hide out in New Zealand or Patagonia or Kauai and then come back afterwards and buy everything cheap because they have often done that.
	After a depression, you can buy, you know, the big farm for $10.
	So, right.
	They're like vultures.
	We're going to fly to Kauai, hide out in a bunker in Kauai, and then fly back to America and buy everything cheap.
	But the Americans might be waiting with a rope.
	Yeah, that might be the case.
	All right, well, Matt, let me just give out your website again.
	It is enemies, foreignanddomestic.com.
	Yes.
	And if you live in Texas, my books are like, people are, I mean, not to be, you know, too self-serving, but people say like, you know, pretty Nostradamus-y.
	Yeah.
	Because this is like 2005 I'm writing this.
	I know.
	You know, corrupt judges.
	Corrupt generals.
	The North American Legion.
	In my book, there's the North American Legion.
	Illegal aliens with American trader officers.
	And people...
	When I wrote this, I mean, I've got like...
	Books I wrote 15 years ago, I've got homosexual army captains slow dancing in the O-Club, and people are emailing me, Matt, that is so hyperbolic, that is so over-the-top, that will never, ever happen.
	And here it is, every day in the Pentagon now.
	Every day.
	So, yeah, Pride Day at the CIA. So if people want to get my books, if they don't care about inscriptions, they can buy them on Amazon, But if you want to get my books and have them inscribed, my address is on the website, but you can also use PayPal, other means like that.
	If I inscribe the book, Jeff Bezos gets less of the money.
	I would prefer that.
	All right, so folks, if you want to support Matt Bracken and his efforts, then get the books from his website, and you can get them signed or inscribed or whatever works for you.
	So check it out.
	And the reason for writing these books is...
	If I wrote these books today, it would be like, great, you know, you watch the news and you're writing a book about what's happening.
	If I write the book about what's happening today, but I wrote it 15 years ago, people are more likely to read my book that I'm writing now about what's happening 15 years from now.
	Exactly.
	Because that's my new book.
	My new book is, after the collapse, after depopulation, how is a recovery, what does recovery look like?
	And in Doomsday Reef, the recovery looks like Texas and Louisiana beginning with making fuel.
	It has to restart there.
	It has to be fuel first.
	I think you're exactly right.
	I think you're exactly right.
	And at this point, there's so much evil coming from the U.S. dollar and how it's been weaponized and exploited that the collapse of the dollar is actually a necessary thing for human freedom to ever have a resurgence.
	In the Texas, at the end of this book, it's a 20-to-1 gold-to-silver bimetal system.
	That's not to say that a bimetal system would work in perpetuity, but as they dig out of no economy...
	They're using gold and silver 20 to 1.
	There you go.
	Interesting.
	Wow.
	And that's it.
	No banks, no loans.
	It's a government war economy.
	People are joining the militia for a concept called re-homesteading.
	There are a lot of empty homes.
	And you will serve in the militia or in the Texas Engineering Corps, and there's no money to pay you.
	You're paid a promise of a home.
	That's what you're fighting for.
	You get the years of service.
	We're going to give you a home when this is all over.
	So I'm thinking of how does an economy restart from ashes?
	Right.
	And it's not through bankers.
	It's through a patriotic fervor that we're going to work to do this because we have to do it.
	We have to do the work and rebuild Texas.
	That's the end of the book.
	Okay.
	Well, I'm happy to be in Texas.
	I'm glad to be a Texan.
	And I've got a Texas flag and Texas Rangers right here.
	Because I'm not leaving Texas.
	I'm not going anywhere.
	I'm here to see Texas through this and to contribute to, if it becomes the Republic of Texas or whatever it is, I'm here to help rebuild the spirit of America in Texas.
	Absolutely.
	Thank you for joining me today, Matt.
	It's been a pleasure.
	We appreciate you.
	Thank you.
	All right.
	Take care.
	All right, folks, that was Matt Bracken, just a really brilliant author.
	Be sure to check out his books and his website, enemiesforeignanddomestic.com.
	And thank you for watching today.
	Mike Adams here, a true Texan, also the founder of brighteon.com, uncensored, as you can tell from today's interview.
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