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April 19, 2024 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams

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BBN, Apr 19, 2024 – Israel attacks Iran, escalating the world toward a nuclear apocalypse...

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	Welcome to Brighton Broadcast News for Friday, April 19th, 2024.
	I'm Mike Adams.
	Thank you for joining me today.
	And of course, we're all on high alert right now because Israel has launched a retaliation against Iran.
	And that's the retaliation against Iran's retaliation against Israel's strike on the Iranian consulate diplomatic property in Damascus, Syria, on April 1st.
	So you've heard the phrase, you know, tit for tat.
	Well, it's now tit, tat, tit, and it's going to be another tat again.
	I don't even know where that saying came from.
	It sounds like...
	I don't know.
	It sounds like some horrible girl on 6th Street who got too many tattoos on her chest, I guess.
	But whatever it is, it's getting bad.
	So right now, media reports are somewhat conflicted.
	If you believe the Israeli and Western press, then it seems that Israel has struck a nuclear facility in Iran.
	And has done a lot of damage.
	But if you believe the Iranian media and more of those sources, for the most part, Iran says it shot down drones that were probably launched by Israel and that there's been no damage anywhere else except falling drones.
	Now, I don't believe that.
	I think something much bigger is actually going on because according to numerous sources...
	There are explosions that have been reported in Iranian regions that appear to be linked to nuclear facilities.
	But again, it's just not clear at this moment.
	Reportedly, the Isfahan International Airport may have been targeted that houses the F-14 Tomcat fighter aircraft.
	Explosions were heard in the central Isfahan airport and ABC News says that Israeli missiles hit sites in Iran.
	Large explosions were heard in Isfahan, which is south of Tehran.
	There were also reportedly explosions in Natanz.
	I'm not sure how to pronounce it.
	That's in central Iran, and it has facilities that are part of the Iranian nuclear program.
	So it could be that Israel is targeting Iran's nuclear program.
	That's something that Israel has promised to do.
	That's something that makes sense tactically from Israel's point of view.
	And I don't know how effective that would be because if Iran actually has a secret nuclear weapons program, it would not be on the surface.
	It would be, you know, 100 meters below ground and these surface explosions wouldn't even touch that.
	So it's too early to know exactly what Israel is trying to accomplish here or really how severe this attack has been.
	As of the time I'm recording this, we don't yet have any news of Iran launching a massive response to this, which would be, let's see, there was the tit, that was the Damascus, then there was the tat, that's Iran on April 14th, and then this is the new tit from Israel, so that would be the new tat, The new expanded TAT from Iran has not been launched yet, as far as we know.
	And I'm not sure it's going to be, because it may be that this was just some kind of harassment, like drone wave from Israel, just for them to save face, to say, well, we did something, well, we poked you back, you know, something like that.
	It doesn't appear to be, so far, it does not appear to be a big attack.
	So this might be a sign that Israel is on a de-escalation path as long as they get in the last lick, you know?
	We licked you good, they used to say, right?
	Get in the last lick.
	It sounds kind of weird with all this stuff.
	Tits, tats, and licks.
	What's wrong with all these people?
	What are they up to?
	In any case, I don't know.
	It's either war in the Middle East or it's a bad adventure with ladyboys in Bangkok.
	I'm not sure.
	One or the other.
	In any case, right after the attack was reported, gold just skyrocketed.
	It shot up to 2416.
	And a few hours later, it calmed back down and dropped to 2380 or something like that.
	Just goes to show you that when there's fear, People run to gold and oil also spiked quite explosively while treasuries dumped and crypto crashed for some reason.
	I'm not currently understanding why crypto would go down in the middle of a panic like this, but that's what happened.
	Now, I put together a list of seven things that will happen when Israel launches its first nuclear weapon, because that may be where this is going.
	I don't yet see Israel backing down.
	Perhaps this last attack was a de-escalation wave.
	Maybe Iran will just ignore this, and then we could have a period of relative calm.
	I have heard that the White House issued an ultimatum to Israel behind the scenes to say that if you launch a major attack against Iran, then we're out of this.
	We're out.
	We will not support you.
	We won't fly the refueling tankers in the air for you.
	We won't be part of it.
	You're going to be on your own.
	Maybe that was enough to scare Netanyahu and his Zionist militant regime into backing off a little bit.
	We're not quite sure yet.
	By the way, did you know that Dennis Prager at PragerU is a hardcore Zionist?
	Yeah.
	And did you know that he says there are no atrocities being carried out by Israel whatsoever?
	So here's another Zionist who's totally delusional and excusing genocide.
	And there's a bunch of them.
	You know, Ben Shapiro isn't the only one.
	Dennis Prager is another.
	And we saw Mark Levin say similar things recently.
	Kind of interesting, isn't it?
	How all it takes is a conflict in the Middle East and then all these Zionists out themselves as pro-genocide people.
	It's like, wow.
	Wow.
	I'm really glad for the clarity.
	Really glad to see all this coming out because now nobody can hide behind...
	False labels like, oh, I'm pro-free speech, like Ben Shapiro.
	I'm against the cancel culture.
	I'm pro-free speech.
	Or actually, he would say, I'm against the cancel culture.
	I'm pro-free speech.
	I'm pro-free speech.
	Because to talk like Ben Shapiro, you have to smoke both crack and inhale helium at the same time, like one in each nostril.
	And then you can talk like Ben Shapiro.
	That's how he sounds to everybody else.
	But he's not against cancel culture.
	He's all over cancel culture because they canceled Candace Owens.
	They will cancel anybody who criticizes Israel.
	And for Dennis Prager, a person who pretends to be a sophisticated, educated, philosophical person arguing in favor of liberty and freedom to sit there and say there are no atrocities being committed by Israel, it's just the epitome of sheer delusional it's just the epitome of sheer delusional dissociation from reality.
	But again, I'm glad that they're outing themselves.
	Now, all kind of satire aside, I hope you don't mind.
	I mean, look, let me be honest.
	I have to joke about this stuff because it really is a coping mechanism.
	The world is so insanely crazy that if I were to sit here and just sort of dryly analyze what's going on, I couldn't do it.
	I couldn't do it because it's too doom and gloom where we're headed.
	I have to interject some humor, some satire, some cartoon voices.
	That's the only way I can do this.
	If I couldn't do that, I wouldn't do this show at all.
	And I know sometimes it's funny, sometimes it's not.
	Sometimes it's like, oh God, are you doing that again?
	Look, how do you cope with the world?
	What do you do?
	I mean, look, I don't do drugs.
	I don't drink alcohol.
	I'm not into gambling, sports, sex addiction, heroin.
	I don't do any of that stuff.
	I make a bunch of jokes.
	That's my coping mechanism.
	And I drink my turmeric smoothie, you know?
	And then I... Play with my military dog, Rhodey.
	Throw toys for him and imagine how beautiful life would be if you could just see it through the eyes of a dog and not have to deal with the human world that we're all dealing with.
	So that's why I do this, folks.
	I thank you for your patience.
	Now, with that said, I have a serious interview coming up here with just an incredible person, Andy Shechtman, the CEO of Miles Franklin.
	And we interviewed him today, my co-host Todd Pittner and I, for Decentralized TV show.
	We interviewed him today.
	We're going to run that interview.
	You're going to just be blown away because Andy Sheckman nails, just nails it, where the dollar is going, what's going to happen, and how the BRICS currency eclipses the dollar.
	And how the BRIC nations are going to make Western nations that have the dollar as their pillar completely obsolete and how it's going to happen actually very rapidly.
	It'll seem slow at first and then it's boom all at once.
	The whole world will shift away from the dollar and the Western world will find itself destitute, completely broke.
	And then where's Israel going to be, huh?
	Because on April 14th, just a few days ago, they spent a billion dollars in anti-air defense systems shooting down the incoming Iranian drones and low-cost rockets.
	A billion dollars!
	And yeah, you know, Speaker Johnson, traitor to America, is trying to pass more money for Ukraine and for Israel.
	I think it's $24 billion for Israel or $26 billion, something in that range.
	They want a lot more money for Israel.
	But even then, you're going to run out of munitions.
	Who's going to make the munitions, even if you have the dollars?
	But as the dollar collapses because of the rise of the BRICS nations and everybody exiting the dollar globally, the U.S. won't be able to print currency that has any meaningful value anymore.
	You know, at some point, they're going to have to print a trillion dollars a month, like I've said, and then it's going to be a trillion dollars a week, and then a trillion dollars a day.
	And at that point, a trillion dollars a day and your grocery store is going to be raising prices every day and then at some point every 12 hours if we make it that far.
	And everybody holding the dollar is going to be holding garbage.
	And that process has already begun.
	So anyway, the interview with Andy Sheckman covers that in a lot of detail.
	And you will definitely want to stick around for that.
	Now, the main thing I wrote for today, this was before Israel launched its retaliatory attack on Iran.
	The main thing that I had already written seven bullet points about, and I want to cover this with you, it's seven things that will happen when Israel launches its first nuclear weapon.
	Because there's a very high risk that this thing goes nuclear.
	I think Israel will be the first nation to use nuclear weapons.
	And that will be a tipping point for planet Earth.
	It will be a tipping point of mass death and destruction.
	Because once the first country brings out the nukes...
	There's an escalatory cycle that rewards all the other countries for being the quickest to use their nukes and to use them in full force.
	In other words, once Israel starts using nukes, there's no tactical advantage or strategic advantage for any other country to just go halfway in its response.
	There is a rational justification for Russia, for example, for example, at that moment to obliterate Israel with nuclear weapons or to launch nuclear weapons to obliterate the United States Navy in the Red Sea or in the Mediterranean Sea or in the Arabian Sea or anywhere they happen to be.
	There's no rationale for holding back and to have a measured response.
	There is a tipping point where it becomes what they call all-out war.
	It's no longer tit-for-tat.
	It's tits-out.
	All-out.
	War.
	That's...
	I'm sorry to...
	You know, I've got to look up that idiom.
	Who came up with that phrase?
	Okay, I'm looking it up.
	The origins of the tit-for-tat phrase is believed to be influenced by Dutch or French expressions.
	So the Dutch said dit voor dat means this for that.
	So dit voor dat or French is tant pour tant.
	Okay, so your answer?
	Blame the Dutch.
	Blame the Dutch.
	Blame the French.
	That's who came up with that, and now we're stuck with it.
	But apparently the history of tit-for-tat goes back to the mid-1500s by an English playwright named John Haywood.
	So, hey, that's longevity for a meme, isn't it?
	We're still using it in 2024.
	Wow.
	Anyway, back to the main point here.
	Again, humor is my coping mechanism.
	Seven things that will happen when Israel launches its first nuclear weapon.
	I'm going to go through these seven things, and then we'll get into, well, I've got a couple of I've got a couple of reports for you and then we have the interview with Andy Sheckman and I'm going to leave it at that because it's too early.
	We're going to need about 48 hours to really analyze what Israel just did.
	It's too early to know for sure the scale of this strike on Iran and it's also too early to even then guess what Iran might do in retaliation to this attack.
	I can assure you of one thing though.
	Russia is no doubt on the phone with Iran saying, don't escalate this thing.
	Calm it down.
	Take the hit.
	You know, just back down and don't do anything.
	And America, well, the White House is on the phone with Netanyahu saying, damn it, you crazy psychopath, stop escalating the war.
	And of course, Netanyahu is like, I want to escalate the war because I want to drag you Yanks into it.
	Numb nuts?
	This is what we're trying to do.
	Now, the White House knows that.
	The White House is probably getting very, very close to telling Netanyahu to go pound sand, like actual sand, in the Sinai Desert.
	Go pound Sinai sand.
	Because here's the thing.
	Politically, Joe Biden is going to be absolutely destroyed in this election and If oil prices just skyrocket, which is exactly where this is headed, or if food prices skyrocket or if we're in the middle, caught up in some kind of insane war that might even go nuclear before the election, Biden's in real political trouble.
	He needs stability before the election.
	He needs Israel to calm down and stop provoking everybody in the entire region and stop bombing all the Palestinians, by the way, because that's hurting Joe Biden politically.
	And Russia wants stability in the region.
	And Iran doesn't want a war.
	It's trying to establish a very important message, which is don't mess with Iran.
	That's all that they're trying to establish at this point.
	So the one nation that is pushing the world to World War III is Israel, run by lunatic Zionists who think that God chose them to rule the planet and that God gave them the special right to murder anybody they run by lunatic Zionists who think that God chose them to rule the planet and that And they think that they are untouchable because that's how the world has treated them for so long.
	And so they think they don't have to abide by any laws, any rules, any treaties, any agreements, nothing.
	So either Israel gets humbled here, which could happen from Iran, and Israel learns to get along with the other children on the playground.
	And stop running around pulling Susie's hair and kicking little Joey in the balls all day, then if Israel doesn't learn that lesson and back down, then we are headed into World War III. And sometimes, you know, if there's a bully on the playground, what do you got to do to the bully?
	The bully is running around.
	This is like Israel running around, just like messing with everybody and throwing water on people and punching kids.
	What do you have to do to the bully?
	Well, I don't know what they do today in the libtard woke society.
	They probably, you know, sit down and have a psychological discussion with them.
	No.
	So, you know, like in grade school, if you had a bully that was running around, well, you know, that person would get a dodgeball to the face later on, you know, because they're making a bunch of enemies and then all the enemies find a way to kind of send a message to them.
	You know, dodgeball.
	Where the kids are only like 12 feet away and behind you is a brick wall.
	Yeah, good times, great school times.
	And we had some kids that could hurl that dodgeball.
	One kid was like a really obese, I think he was Samoan.
	Pretty sure he was Samoan.
	Dude was huge in the fifth grade, and he had so much body mass that he would grab that ball on his side and spin around.
	He'd hurl it like a shot put, and that dodgeball became a missile, man.
	You've got to watch out for heavy Samoans hurling dodgeballs on the playground.
	So anyway, Netanyahu is a world bully and he's going to get Joe Biden politically destroyed if he doesn't change his ways.
	Now, there are repercussions for all of us based on what's going on as well, and these are very dire repercussions.
	So let's go through the list, one through seven here.
	Number one, and remember, this is seven things that will happen when Israel launches its first campaign.
	Nuclear weapon.
	Let's hope that doesn't happen, but we're on that track.
	We are on that track.
	We are...
	I mean, I don't remember how the doomsday clock is actually configured, but we're seconds to midnight right now.
	Number one, gold, oil, and energy prices will go parabolic.
	This is no joke.
	We already saw oil futures spike like crazy just in the last few hours.
	Some of it may have settled since then, but as the attack was initially reported, oil began spiking.
	Now, CNBC is reporting that Bank of America has issued a warning that oil will go to $130 a barrel.
	Bank of America says in a research note that they've distributed to clients that a direct war between Israel and Iran could substantially drive up oil prices to the range of $130 a barrel by the second quarter of this year.
	And it said that U.S. crude oil could soar to $123 per barrel.
	That number of $130 a barrel, you may remember that because that's exactly what Gerald Salenti told me in the last interview that I conducted with him.
	He said oil is going to go to $130 a barrel by the summer, which is sort of the end of the second quarter.
	And he's probably right.
	Now, if Israel launches a nuclear weapon, $130 a barrel would be the floor.
	Then you're going to start seeing $200 a barrel if nukes start flying, and maybe even more, especially if Iran decides to start blocking exports out of the Strait of Hormuz.
	Then, oh man, then energy is through the roof.
	Now, gold, of course, was spiking over $2,400.
	Gold is holding value.
	People are rushing into gold because of what's going on here.
	Even though gold seems to have settled since the hours of the attack, you can see that the trend is really rising.
	It won't be long before gold is crossing $2,500 an ounce, and according to some, like Peter Schiff, It may head to $3,000, $4,000, $5,000 an ounce.
	In fact, in my interview today with Andy Sheckman, he gives a very important explanation for why the U.S. has lost control of manipulating the price of gold and silver.
	They no longer control it.
	Or at least not 100%.
	They have partial control, but not full control.
	And as a result, because of the arbitrage of artificially cheap gold and silver in the United States and Europe versus the higher price on gold and silver in China and Eastern nations, arbitrage is causing deep-pocketed players to,
	of course, buy up a lot of the sell contracts in the West and So, So arbitrage is the that's the mechanism by which the West will lose its ability to artificially suppress gold and silver prices.
	And that's one reason that you're seeing prices absolutely spike.
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	Bottom line, just get ready for gold and oil to spike, and that means energy prices are going to go parabolic.
	And from there, you probably know what's going to happen next.
	Food prices, we'll get to that.
	Point number two on my list is that you're going to have, again, if Israel launches a nuclear weapon, you're going to have massive protests across America at a level that even the Vietnam War did not witness.
	You're going to have anti-war protesters, number one, just people across the political spectrum who are anti-war.
	And I'm anti-war, by the way.
	I'm not going to go out and protest.
	That's not a safe thing for me to do at this moment in history.
	I'm not going to go out and protest and get caught up in some false flag operation or any kind of nonsense like that.
	But you're going to see a lot of protesters.
	Some will be leftists, some will be conservatives, some will be independents or libertarians or just pacifists or what have you.
	But then you're going to have the pro-Palestine people and the pro-Iranian people and the anti-Israel people who are not always the same people, by the way.
	But you're going to have this conglomeration of so many different groups joining the protests and basically punishing the White House politically for its complicity in providing nuclear weapons to Israel.
	So if you thought that the pressure on Biden was bad just over providing 2000 pound bombs to Israel that are used to bomb hospitals and universities and schools and refugee camps in Gaza, what?
	Wait until Israel starts dropping nukes on Iran or Syria.
	You're going to see protests like you've never seen before across America.
	You're basically going to see a revolt, probably for good reason.
	Because if we don't stop this war, we all end up in a giant...
	Giant smoking crater of radioactive fallout with maybe billions of people dead across the world.
	So if there's anything worth protesting, it's probably worth protesting against Israel's nuclear weapons.
	So this is going to turn the United States into, I don't know, some kind of active war zone, basically.
	And you're going to see some of the people Some of the, let's say, the more radicalized Middle Eastern terrorist type of people, it could be from any country, it could be from Syria or Iraq or Iran or anywhere else, there are a number of them, or even Afghanistan, wherever, even Egypt, you know, they could come in, they're probably already here, they've already crossed the border, and then they're going to get outraged by this.
	Especially if Like a town gets nuked where they lost family or something, and then they figure, you know, screw it, I've lost everything, you know, might as well do blank, whatever they think they're going to do.
	You could see a wave of domestic terrorism across America that would just be just devastating.
	You talk about takedowns of infrastructure, yeah, but I'm talking about Explosive vests, okay?
	Because you may recall one of my contacts, you've heard me talk about this.
	One of my contacts that is former U.S. Army military intelligence knows that there are explosive vests that have come across the border.
	And they're not just kinetic explosive vests.
	And these have been smuggled across the border.
	I don't know the exact number, but I know there are two types of vests.
	And I know...
	That the dirty bomb vests, so there's kinetic vests and then there's dirty bomb vests.
	So dirty bomb vests, I'm told they were engineered in Iran.
	But it's not Iranians that are smuggling them across.
	It's, you know, disgruntled people out of Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan.
	But the vests come out of the outstanding engineering of the Iranian, maybe the IRGC, I don't know.
	But they're really good engineers, and it's not an easy thing to engineer apparently dirty bomb material.
	On a vest with kinetic explosives underneath in a way that maximizes the dispersion of the dirty bomb material.
	And then to somehow...
	How do you smuggle that across the border?
	Where do you store it without setting off detectors?
	I don't know.
	Maybe they get dirty bomb material.
	Maybe they go rob some...
	Like medical imaging offices or something, and they get a bunch of strontium-90 or whatever the radioisotope is.
	I don't know what they do, but somehow they're able to get dirty bomb vests put together.
	They could run around cities, like, I mean, New York City.
	And just go into just like Times Square, you know, or the subway system or whatever, just like, boom, you know, detonate a dirty bomb vest.
	And it's not just that that would kill a lot of people right there.
	It would contaminate the entire region or the sector of the city, or it would contaminate the entire subway system to where nobody could use it for an extended period of time.
	I don't know how long it would take to decontaminate that.
	You'd have men in spacesuits down there with fire hoses, and they'd be trying to wash it all out into the ocean.
	I don't know what that kind of operation looks like, but it would be devastating to America's infrastructure.
	The bottom line is there are a lot of people, a lot of enemies that America has made all over the world, quite a few in the Middle East, for kind of obvious reasons, given that the U.S. is supporting Israel and Israel is committing genocide.
	And it's pretty much pissing off every Arab and every Persian on the planet.
	And some of those people are in America, and some of those people are probably going to do something.
	I don't know what that looks like, but just be prepared for that.
	Okay, that's all point number two.
	Point number three.
	Again, in the aftermath of what happens when Israel launches its first nuclear weapon, point number three is there's going to be a worldwide panic for food, iodine, miso soup, you know, anything that is known to treat radiation, like apple pectin, anything, anything that's anti-radiation, potassium iodide, forget it.
	It'll all be gone.
	All iodine will be just wiped out in, you know, less than 12 hours.
	And food supplies are going to get totally wiped out.
	I've seen it before.
	I'm anticipating this happening again.
	We've been stocking up in the meantime.
	We have, I mean, pallet racks.
	We have like a warehouse full of pallets of storable food that's ready.
	We've been in intense overproduction on purpose for a period of time, knowing what's coming.
	And I can tell you that even though we've got a pretty good-sized warehouse that's stacked with a lot of food, it'll be gone.
	Probably all the orders will come in in 48 hours, 72 hours, and it'll take us a couple of weeks to get it all shipped out.
	Because we can't even ship all this food.
	It's so much.
	We can't ship it all in a couple of days.
	It would take us weeks just to even ship it.
	We have to call the carriers.
	We've had to do this before on Black Friday events.
	You have to call the carriers and say, hey, bring more trailers, man.
	Because, you know, the normal truck that you bring won't fit this stuff.
	So bring trailers.
	And we've had carriers, they just back up a 40-foot trailer, you know, back it up to one of our loading docks, and then we just, all day long, driving forklifts in their pallets of packages going out to customers.
	And then they take that trailer, they move it, and they back up another trailer, and we keep going.
	And Even doing that, even with forklifts, there's only so much that we can do.
	So that's going to happen.
	I know that day's coming.
	I've sensed it for quite a long time.
	In fact, I've bet...
	Technically, I've bet a lot of money on overproduction in anticipation of this because I want to help people get clean food.
	By the way, do you realize that after the first new drops...
	You realize that from that point forward, any new food, there's going to be a question mark about it, like, is it radioactive?
	The old food, the pre-nuke food, is going to be the valuable food.
	The pre-nuke food, anything that we made before Israel dropped the nuke, because that's food that you know did not get grown in fallout.
	Yeah, you're going to hear the word fallout a lot.
	But after that point, you're going to have a question.
	We're going to have a question.
	We'll have to add all kinds of radiation testing to our lab, obviously.
	And I guess we're going to have to learn about all the different types of radiation.
	And the equipment's quite complex.
	It's not just waving a Geiger counter over a piece of food.
	It's way more complex than that, you know, to actually get concentration and Accurate numbers to know.
	What type of decay is it?
	Radioactive decay.
	What's the count per second?
	How far are you from the food, the detector?
	What's the mass of food?
	You have to have an analytical balance.
	You've got to approach this scientifically.
	We're going to be testing all our food at that point for radiation.
	And yet, there's going to be a lot of food out there.
	You're going to go to the grocery store, or you might buy food from some other suppliers, some kind of cheap, like super discounted storable food.
	Yeah, hey, what's a little fallout, huh?
	It's the fallout discount.
	Yeah, it's the Geiger counter bonus discount.
	There's going to be a lot of food out there that comes out of the Middle East.
	It's going to be radioactive, folks.
	And who knows where the winds blow?
	Could be Eastern Europe.
	You know, even Russia might get impacted.
	Parts of the Mediterranean might get impacted.
	You know, I mean, maybe even Europe proper.
	And we get ingredients from Europe.
	So pre-nuke food will start going for a premium.
	Post-nuke food, you will always wonder if you're eating fallout.
	That's coming.
	Alright, that's point number three.
	Point number four is that once Israel uses its first nuke, then Russia and China are probably going to enter the war.
	Now, there are a number of reasons for this, the main one being that Russia cannot allow Iran to be destroyed.
	So Russia is not really, it doesn't want to be an enemy of Israel.
	Russia wants to be a trading partner with Israel and everybody.
	Russia wants to sell energy to everybody and minerals.
	Well, and other things as well, technology.
	I don't mean just energy, but Russia's got a lot of energy to sell to the world.
	But Russia can't sit by and allow Iran to be decimated because Iran is kind of the gateway between the Middle East and, well, Russia and the Far East.
	So Iran is a key player.
	It's also a member of the BRICS nations.
	It's got a growing economy.
	It's got a lot of technology and so on.
	And Iran, of course, is important for its own energy redundancy for global economies.
	So Russia won't stand by and do nothing.
	If Israel nukes Iran, Russia will start – well, this is my assessment.
	I don't know for sure, but I'm guessing that Russia will start deploying nuclear hypersonic missiles against Israel and perhaps against the United States Navy.
	The naval vessels that are there in the Mediterranean Sea or in the Red Sea or in the Arabian Sea or the Persian Gulf or anywhere they happen to be that's reachable.
	And the Kinzhal missiles from Russia are air-fired missiles.
	They're hypersonic.
	They can't be stopped by the U.S. Navy.
	And they can carry nuclear warheads.
	So we're talking about relatively small-yield nuclear warheads, but plenty large enough to take out aircraft carriers, by the way.
	You don't need a very big nuke to take out an aircraft carrier, by the way.
	Even, well, you know, Hiroshima, what was that?
	16 kilotons, I believe, so.016 megatons.
	Okay,.016.
	0.16 megatons.
	That was a very small nuclear weapon or atomic weapon at the time in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
	I don't know what the yield is on the Kinzhal missiles, but let's just say they're 0.1.
	Well, that would mean they're many times more powerful than Hiroshima, 0.1 megatons.
	Or 100 kilotons, you could say.
	That's many times more powerful.
	So could a 100 kiloton nuclear weapon take out a U.S. aircraft carrier?
	Absolutely.
	No question about it.
	You just pop it at some height above the aircraft carrier, and the carrier is done.
	It's just melted.
	It's obliterated.
	I mean, not atomized or anything, but you would destroy it.
	It would not be recoverable from that point, and it would probably sink.
	And reportedly, that's about 5,000 U.S. sailors that are on a typical aircraft carrier, at least as I understand it.
	So there goes an aircraft carrier and 5,000 sailors.
	Thanks, Israel, for getting us into nuclear world war.
	And you can bet, by the way, that John Kirby would say, well, this attack was unprovoked.
	It's always unprovoked.
	Everything Russia does is unprovoked.
	And then when Iran retaliates against Israel, unprovoked!
	They should just call him John Unprovoked Kirby.
	That's all he ever says.
	Everything's unprovoked.
	While they're running around being the bully on the playground, the U.S. is provoking everybody.
	Or Israel provoking everybody.
	Of course it's all provoked.
	It's not unprovoked.
	It's repeatedly provoked.
	If John Kirby had two twin dogs, they would be named pro and vote.
	Come here, Vogt.
	Come on, boy.
	Good boy, Vogt.
	Come on, Vogt.
	Good boy.
	Good boy, Vogt.
	Now, let go of my leg.
	Okay.
	Now, remember what I said before, that once this thing goes nuclear, there's really no advantage to anybody in game theory to go at it sort of halfway.
	It's to every nation's advantage to go, at some point, all out.
	All-out nuclear war.
	Destroy everything that the enemy has before they can try to launch anything at you.
	I don't know what point is going to trigger that.
	And I don't think that Russia wants to attack the United States of America, you know, continental property or Hawaii or Alaska.
	But, hey, U.S. naval vessels out there in the international waters right now, I mean, Russia would see those as fair game.
	Because the U.S. is at war with Russia over Ukraine right now.
	And if Israel is launching nukes, then, you know, the whole world is going to...
	I mean, everything's going to shift.
	And countries like Russia will say, guess what?
	We're going to have to get rid of Israel.
	It's got to be done.
	Press the launch button.
	Even China would get in on this.
	I don't think that China would launch nukes, but China would use all kinds of diplomatic and economic pressure to try to see Israel gutted and the United States weakened because China is trying to build this Belt and Road Initiative, but China would use all kinds of diplomatic and economic pressure to try to see Israel gutted and the United States weakened China needs stability in the world.
	China can't have a bully like Israel running around starting wars.
	And so there will be all kinds of efforts internationally, maybe even involving Pakistan, for all we know, or Turkey.
	Pakistan has nuclear weapons.
	Turkey can get them from Pakistan.
	All kinds of efforts will be underway to basically decapitate Israel.
	And to make sure that Israel can't do that kind of thing ever again.
	And if that involves a bunch of nukes being launched, I would imagine that a lot of these national leaders are going to make that decision, figuring that it's better to destroy Israel now than to let Israel keep launching more and more nukes.
	That's probably the way they're going to think about it, is my guess.
	Now, there are other experts who have...
	A lot more experience in this realm than I do.
	I'm just giving you my best analysis.
	I hope none of this happens, but there's a very real risk that this is exactly where we are headed.
	In fact, I've got a special report I'm going to play for you coming up here called Why the Middle East Conflict Goes to Nuclear War.
	We'll get to that in a couple of minutes.
	Okay, point number five is that Western Europe will be drawn into this conflict and because of the arrogance and insanity of Western European leaders like Macron from France, they may then try to take this opportunity to attack Russia even with nuclear weapons of European nukes.
	That would be a grave mistake because then Russia would have no choice but to turn Paris into a giant smoking crater.
	As well as London and other European cities and certain military bases in Poland and so on.
	So let's hope that the Europeans don't lose their minds here or maybe let's pray they regain their minds.
	I'm not sure that Macron has his mind intact at all at this point.
	He thinks that if he sends 5,000 soldiers to Ukraine that that's going to defeat Russia.
	You know, you should just send 5,000 ambulances and 5,000 body bags and call it a day, I guess.
	I don't know what these leaders are thinking.
	The bottom line is that because of Netanyahu's insanity in the Middle East, this could escalate into a series of events that ends up getting European cities nuked.
	Everybody loses.
	And we end up all trying to not die from fallout, trying to grow food that's not radioactive.
	This is what's coming.
	Alright, and then point number six is actually what I just mentioned, the retaliation by Russia against Western Europe could really threaten and even destroy cities like London or Warsaw or Berlin and so on, or military bases in those countries.
	And point number seven in this list is actually something, I kind of mentioned this, that you're going to have to test all the food for fallout at that point, but more importantly, food supply chains will collapse.
	Because, you know, if nukes start going off, you're going to have power grids failing.
	You're going to have a loss of the rule of law.
	You're going to have a loss of international shipping.
	You're going to have basically a breakdown worse than COVID lockdowns.
	The world will, in many ways, come to a grinding halt.
	This is going to cause massive bankruptcies of businesses in manufacturing and in the food industry as well.
	Again, supply chains will be extremely disrupted.
	Food supplies that are sitting in warehouses right now will be suspected of being radioactive, but the worst part will be that any animal products from that point forward Will probably be contaminated with some much higher level of radiation, including cesium-137 fallout and perhaps other faster radioisotopes.
	I mean, iodine won't be a problem.
	Its half-life is only two weeks.
	It won't be a problem after a while.
	But cesium-137 is a half-life of 29 years, I believe.
	And so don't forget about the rule.
	You need 10 half-lives.
	To consider it to be gone.
	So for cesium-137, you need about three centuries in order to figure that most of it's gone.
	For iodine, and what's the radioisotope?
	Is it 120?
	No, 127 is the natural occurring.
	So hold on a second.
	Let me look up the radioisotope.
	Okay, it looks like iodine-131 is the biggest concern in nuclear fallout.
	So, 131 will lose mass and it will revert.
	I think it will go down to 127.
	I'd have to check the charts.
	So, iodine-131 and 129 are the most common radioisotopes.
	The most prominent one has a half-life of about two weeks, I think.
	Let's see.
	It says IDAM131 has a half-life of eight days.
	Okay, so I stay uncorrected.
	Eight days.
	That's even better.
	So within 10 weeks, it's basically gone.
	Or 11 weeks, it's basically gone.
	But a cesium-137 takes 300 years.
	Now, cows, of course, eat grass that has the fallout.
	And so, because cesium tends to mimic potassium pathways in biology, then animals will tend to concentrate the cesium fallout into milk products, cheese products, and meat products.
	So, if you thought you were never going to eat crickets, you just might if all the hamburger meat and the milk and the cheese is all radioactive.
	What happened to your cow?
	A fallout, man.
	Fallout.
	If you thought dioxins were bad, yeah, wait until Israel starts dropping nukes on the world.
	The thing is, of course, the winds will carry the radioisotopes, you know, the contamination particles through the wind all over the northern hemisphere, mostly.
	So even if you're in North America, if you're in Europe, you're in China or wherever...
	You're going to have a lot of radioactive fallout, and that's going to get onto the farm fields and crops and the water supply and so on.
	The southern hemisphere will tend to be less contaminated because of the way the wind patterns work.
	And that means that food out of places like, you know, Argentina and Bolivia and so on, Chile, especially.
	Chile produces a lot of food.
	That food will be at a premium, will be in very high demand, because it won't have as much fallout affecting it.
	So your food supply chain is about to take a big hit, and that's another thank you to Netanyahu, the psychopathic Zionist.
	Yeah, thanks for making our food all radioactive there.
	What else is he going to do to destroy the world?
	Who knows?
	By the way, there's an interesting analysis on all of this that was written before this latest attack on Iran, written by Murad Sadigzadi, president of the Middle East Studies Center, visiting lecturer, HSE University in Moscow.
	And his title is, Is All-Out War in the Middle East Now Inevitable?
	I'm just going to read a couple of concluding paragraphs here.
	He says, We're good to go.
	The start of a full-scale war still seems unlikely, he says.
	Tehran is not interested in such a conflict, nor are Israel's allies, namely the U.S. and the EU, but this does not mean that the danger has passed.
	Remember, he wrote this before Israel's new attack.
	He continues, the possibility of a full-scale war always remains, and it is difficult to predict exactly which strike and which side might provoke it.
	What is clear is that the issues in the Middle East need to be addressed immediately and fundamentally.
	But of course, they are not being addressed.
	Netanyahu needs to be reeled in.
	Netanyahu is now the single greatest danger to life on planet Earth.
	He is an out-of-control maniac with nuclear weapons who is provoking everybody in the region, and he needs to be stopped.
	So I'm not sure what that looks like, how that happens.
	Maybe Russia ends up stopping him.
	Maybe Iran stops him.
	Maybe the U.S. stops him.
	Maybe the U.S. could make a phone call and say, look, we're done.
	We're pulling all the naval ships out of the region.
	No more money for you, Israel.
	We're done.
	That could solve it, but I doubt that will happen.
	So it's probably going to end up being something else like...
	Like Russia sending a message through some kind of advanced weapons system.
	Maybe Russia could just, maybe they would consider having a direct strike on Netanyahu when he's sitting in his embassy or something, since that's what Israel does to Iran, just missiles at embassies.
	Maybe Russia, maybe Iran, maybe somebody else will do that to Israel.
	Wait for Netanyahu to be visiting somewhere and then just nuke the embassy or something.
	Hey, I guess Israel says there are no rules anymore.
	Everything is an option at this point.
	So maybe somebody's going to do that.
	Again, I pray for peace.
	I don't want to see any more bloodshed.
	I don't want to see radiation unleashed all over our world, but I do want to see Netanyahu stopped.
	In fact, this is a red alert emergency for planet Earth.
	If we don't stop Netanyahu, billions of people may die.
	That's how dire this is.
	So shame on all those so-called conservatives, the conservative Zionists, the Dennis Praggers, the Mark Levins, the Ben Shapiros, who are excusing Netanyahu, his psychopathic insanity that's leading us into global thermonuclear war.
	Shame on all these people that keep supporting Israel, including like 90% of the U.S. Congress, by the way.
	You need to pull back from the brink of total destruction or billions of people may die.
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	Here's why the situation in the Middle East goes to a nuclear war.
	First of all, the Western leaders always claim that attacks on Israel or attacks on Ukraine are, quote, unprovoked.
	And they say, for example, Putin has been waging an unprovoked war of aggression.
	They don't tell you, of course, it's been provoked since, well, the fall of the Berlin Wall as NATO continued to expand eastward, violating the treaties and conventions that it signed with the former Soviet Union, by the way.
	And that the eastward expansion of NATO is itself a provocation against Russia.
	And there's a similar thing going on with Israel versus Iran right now.
	The Western press says, oh, Iran just attacked Israel out of the blue, completely unprovoked, because they don't tell their readers, because, you know, look, their readers are stupid.
	Anybody who just listens to the corporate mainstream media is low IQ. So they don't tell their readers that, no, Israel attacked the Iranian consulate building in Damascus on April 1st.
	That was unprovoked.
	That was a violation of international law.
	That was an assassination of high-level Iranian officials on diplomatic property.
	That's the provocation.
	Iran is simply responding to that provocation.
	So the West, first of all, will never ever believe that anybody else has the right to retaliate against Western aggression or Western provocations.
	And if you look at a map of Iran versus U.S. military bases, you find that there are U.S. military bases all around Iran, to the east, to the west, to the north, in Iraq and in Syria even, in many other places.
	It's like, wow, Iran provoked us by putting its country right in the middle of all our military bases.
	You know, that's the attitude from the West.
	The second important point is that Western leaders believe their own bullshit when it comes to thinking that, oh, the Iron Dome works.
	Great.
	Yeah, Israel was victorious.
	We can shoot down everything that Iran launches at Israel.
	So because Western leaders believe their own bullshit, they make policy decisions based on their own bullshit.
	They're eating their own dog food, in other words.
	And their dog food is more like donkey shit.
	It's just complete lies and nonsense.
	The fact is that Iran proved that it can penetrate the Iron Dome defenses, that Iran can have ballistic missiles or hypersonic missiles Go through and hit any target they wish with extreme precision at any time they want, and that there's absolutely nothing that Israel can do to stop it.
	That's the message that Iran just sent.
	But there's nobody in power in the West, especially in the United States, that understands that.
	Because they just lie to each other in their own meetings, the Pentagon meetings, they tell the same lies to each other there that they tell the public.
	Oh yeah, Patriot missiles work great.
	They shoot down 80% of everything.
	It's all a lie.
	So as a result, the U.S. will back Israel when Israel now retaliates against Iran's retaliation.
	And this is what's coming.
	This is the next step.
	Israel's going to launch a barrage of missiles to take out Iranian strategic targets such as nuclear facilities, refineries.
	This is going to be a heavy hit on oil and energy here, which, by the way, is going to severely damage Joe Biden's re-election chances in the U.S. as gas prices skyrocket.
	This is why the U.S. is trying to get Israel to back down, because Netanyahu is a loose cannon.
	He's going to get the Biden administration destroyed by taking us all into World War III with a global shortage of energy exports, and not even to mention the Strait of Hormuz there, before the election.
	But here's what's likely to happen.
	So Israel attacks Iran, but before Israel's wave of rockets even hits the ground in Iran, it's very likely that Iran itself will launch probably on the order of 1,500 missiles and rockets, including ballistic missiles and hypersonic missiles, at Israel.
	So there will be an exchange of missile fire.
	And this wave from Iran will not just be a demonstration.
	It won't just target military bases out in the desert or whatever.
	This wave will target Israel's government buildings, Israel's infrastructure, power grid, most likely, ports.
	This wave will take out A significant portion of what allows Israel to function as a society.
	And there's nothing that Israel can do to stop it.
	That was proven in the retaliation from Iran on April 14th.
	Nothing can stop these.
	So then Israel will cry, oh, we're being attacked, we're being destroyed.
	And then they will try to convince the U.S. to join Israel in an even larger...
	Retaliatory strike on Iran, possibly including Israeli nuclear weapons.
	Israel is crazy enough to use its nukes.
	It has nukes.
	The nukes were provided to it illegally by the United States.
	And Israel is willing to use them.
	And if Israel uses a nuclear weapon, it will likely be used against Iran.
	It might be used against Damascus.
	But Iran will be one obvious target.
	If a single nuke goes off from Israel, well then Russia and China get into the war instantly.
	Probably Russia just starts launching hypersonic nuclear missiles to take out the United States Navy, to take out Tel Aviv.
	I mean, Russia is not going to stand by and let Israel just start nuking Iran into oblivion.
	Russia becomes an active player in the war at that moment.
	And Russia not only has nuclear hypersonic missiles that can be launched from the air.
	Russia, of course, has the world's largest collection of nuclear weapons in silos in Russia that can hit any target anywhere on the planet.
	These are the long range monster ICBMs with the most advanced reentry vehicles, with the hyperglide vehicles that can dodge anti-ballistic missile defense systems.
	Plus, Russia has just demonstrated a new ballistic missile.
	We don't even know much about it at this point, but they demonstrated some kind of new ballistic missile technology.
	This is the new generation, even newer than the Sarmat-2.
	And apparently, it's reported that this missile system does even more crazy advanced things, like coordinating the timing of the attacks of the reentry vehicles, basically swarm technology in the reentry vehicles that come out of the nose of the international basically swarm technology in the reentry vehicles that come out of the So if this thing goes nuclear, the West is done.
	The West is destroyed.
	If this thing goes nuclear, This is what you've got to understand, game theory.
	If it starts to go nuclear, it is in the interest of each player to escalate to full nuclear war as quickly as possible because that's your only chance of survival.
	There is no incentive to wait and see what the other guy does.
	So once Israel launches one nuke, we are in global thermonuclear war.
	Likely involving, well, surely involving Russia and probably involving China.
	And maybe the European players would launch nukes at Russia, but then they would be absolutely destroyed by Russia's response.
	So we're talking about Paris, giant smoking crater.
	London, giant smoking crater.
	Berlin, giant smoking crater.
	With fallout.
	Tel Aviv...
	Giant smoking crater, multiple craters, Israel gone, wiped off the map, the land unusable for three centuries because of the cesium fallout.
	We're talking about mushroom clouds in Iran, maybe some mushroom clouds in Russia as well, and then the question is, what will the U.S. do?
	Will the U.S. stand back and do nothing, or will the U.S. launch everything at Russia in that moment?
	See, this is the kind of insanity that happens when you have U.S. leaders like Antony Blinken who are all in for Zionism and will do nothing to hold Israel responsible for its aggression, for its violations of law.
	Instead, they spend all their effort and energy excusing Israel, which feeds into the escalation cycle, which ultimately will lead to World War III. See, stolen elections have consequences.
	And this is one of the most dangerous consequences imaginable.
	Global thermonuclear war.
	Now, let us hope and pray that it doesn't go there.
	However, we are closer to that scenario than at any other time Since the Cuban Missile Crisis.
	And I ask you this question.
	If you think it won't go there, can you explain how it doesn't?
	At what point does a country back down?
	Because essentially you would have to argue that Israel backs down.
	And since Israel has been excused for all of its war crimes and its genocide and its mass slaughter of Palestinian people, Israel has never gotten the message to de-escalate or back down from anything.
	Israel's entire modus operandi is to do everything at once, destroy anybody at once, and then just claim that if you criticize them, you're anti-Semitic.
	Israel has never learned the lesson of restraint.
	And as a result, Israel has no internal philosophy of de-escalation.
	It is impossible for Israel to de-escalate.
	They think that God chose them to rule the planet.
	Yeah, there's a whole pseudo-spiritual aspect to this.
	Quackpot spirituality on the part of the Zionists.
	They think God chose them to rule the world.
	And thus they can't de-escalate because that would put them on equal footing with the Persians.
	They can't say, well...
	The Persians are equal to us because, you know, we're the Zionists.
	We're superior to all other people on the planet.
	We have to kill them all and take their land and steal their resources.
	That's what Zionists think.
	So there's no way that Zionists will back down.
	They think God's going to protect them anyway, and half of them want to start World War III because they think that's how they destroy the enemies of Zionism.
	They do.
	This is how they think it all ends.
	They think that God comes in and rescues them, Gog and Magog and all that nonsense.
	They think that if they can whip up world war with Iran and Russia, who they think is mentioned in the Bible, not the Old Testament, but, you know, Book of Revelation, all that stuff, they think that God's going to come in and save them.
	So they're actually escalating into the arms of God.
	Which is just psychopathic insanity.
	You're going to launch nuclear weapons because you think God's going to bail you out?
	Wow!
	For the record, God didn't stop the U.S. nuking Hiroshima or Nagasaki.
	God didn't step in and stop World War II. God didn't stop the Vietnam War.
	God's not going to stop Israel from being destroyed.
	If anything, God's probably giving a blessing.
	To the destruction of Israel, because Israel is a satanic cult.
	Zionism is Satanism.
	It has nothing to do with God.
	It's a false god of Lucifer.
	That's who rules Israel.
	That's why Israel pushed the vaccines on their own population.
	It was genocide against their own people with their bioweapons that they developed.
	And then when that didn't kill enough people, they want to start World War III while they're killing off, you know, nearly 50,000 Palestinians in mass genocide.
	This is the way Israel operates.
	It's always about death and destruction and then claiming that they alone have been uniquely blessed by God and given the right to carry out these actions against everybody else.
	This is the way Zionists think.
	And it is a fatalistic, suicidal philosophy.
	But they will drag the world into destruction in order to try to continue their lie.
	That's how dangerous Israel has become.
	So there are two paths that can be chosen here.
	This is a big fork in the road in terms of history and the future of human civilization.
	If Netanyahu backs down, or if somebody in the U.S. State Department would grow a backbone, And tell Israel, we're done.
	We're not going to support you any longer.
	Then we could de-escalate this thing.
	And we could go on to a future that does not involve dozens of mushroom clouds taking out cities all across the world.
	The other fork, which is the fork that Netanyahu is absolutely pursuing, ends with dozens of mushroom clouds.
	Including multiple mushroom clouds with radioactive fallout all across Israel.
	The current region of Israel will become uninhabitable in this scenario.
	No human being will be able to live there for at least a century, probably much longer.
	Netanyahu is choosing the path of destruction, and so are the Christian Zionists in the U.S., That are going along with this.
	They're choosing the path of nuclear war and total destruction.
	And if this war happens, probably Washington DC gets nuked.
	New York City gets nuked.
	You know, Houston, Texas probably gets nuked.
	We're probably in an all-out global thermonuclear war because there's no off-ramp to this thing.
	And at the end of the day, billions of people will die.
	But in terms of who will survive, It'll be Russia and China.
	I don't know about Iran.
	Iran might get heavily, heavily nuked by Israel.
	It's not clear yet exactly what Israel is going to do.
	But Russia will survive because it has a lot of underground fallout bunkers and it has a very resilient population that have learned how to get by on very little.
	China will survive because China won't be the direct target to be nuked by everybody.
	China may sit the whole thing out and just let Russia and America nuke each other and let Israel and Iran nuke each other and then China ends up being the surviving population and then of course they have to deal with all the radiation and fallout globally but that's a lot easier than dealing with taking a bunch of direct nuclear strikes, that's for sure.
	So this is a suicide mission for the United States.
	It's a suicide mission for Israel.
	It's going to end up in mass suffering and death all over the world.
	Billions of people will not make it.
	And this is exactly what the globalists want, is some way to achieve global depopulation to save the planet.
	They got their savior, Satanist Netanyahu.
	And the Biden administration, and Anthony Blinken, and all these lunatics, Jake Sullivan, and Joe Biden himself, all these lunatics that claim that they're all in with Israel, we're Zionists, we'll do anything for Israel, even we'll destroy the whole world for Israel.
	Even if Israel's destroyed, we'll still destroy the world for Israel.
	The giant smoking crater with radioactive fallout dust.
	We'll just call it Israel and we'll say, we defend this crater.
	This radioactive crater is Israel.
	This is ours now.
	I mean, you can see Anthony Blinken.
	We're going to defend Israel to the last crater.
	Just like, we're going to have Ukraine fight Russia to the last Ukrainian.
	These people are insane.
	Insane freaking lunatics.
	They will get us all destroyed.
	So get prepared in every way you can.
	Pray for intervention of some kind.
	The world is run by absolute psychopathic lunatics and it's getting worse every single day.
	There's just no way around that.
	I feel sorry for people who don't know what's going on.
	They're done.
	They will not survive what's coming.
	This whole thing is going nuclear almost certainly.
	And nobody's ready for it.
	Nobody's ready.
	All right.
	Do what you can.
	Stay prepared.
	Stock up.
	Whatever.
	Whatever it takes.
	Get ready for what's coming, because there's no off-ramp to this.
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	I'm Mike Adams, The Health Ranger, naturalnews.com, and brighteon.com.
	So Congress is voting your future away.
	Voting to print more money and send $60 billion to Ukraine and what, 26 billion or something close to that to Israel.
	Billions here, billions there, nothing for America, nothing for a border wall.
	Nothing that represents the interests of the American people, nothing.
	The United States Congress has completely abandoned its supposed role, which is to represent the interests of the American people.
	And instead, they're nothing but whores for foreign wars.
	That's what they've become.
	And in order to fund those foreign wars, they have to print more currency.
	So they're going to print it into oblivion.
	They're going to print so much currency that the dollar collapses and the American people are left with nothing.
	And the people who are idiotic enough to watch and believe the mainstream media who think everything's great, the economy's great, the dollar's great, the war's going great, they're going to end up with nothing.
	Homeless.
	No assets.
	They will go from rich to impoverished virtually overnight because of what the United States Congress is doing.
	Now this analysis is brought to you by Gerald Salenti's Trends Journal, which we'll talk about in a minute, as well as Goldbacks.
	But before we get to solutions, let's talk about how dire the problem is.
	I interviewed Andy Sheckman today from milesfranklin.com.
	Andy Sheckman is the guy who has been sounding the alarm over global de-dollarization for many years now.
	He was the first person that I ever heard from talking about de-dollarization.
	And the rise of BRICS currencies, BRICS nations, and the Belt and Road Initiative.
	And he told me today that the Belt and Road Initiative, which is this massive global trading infrastructure for transportation and logistics and cross-border commerce, has been spearheaded by China.
	China wants to engage in trade with everybody, and they're building the infrastructure in order to carry it out.
	It's going to be backed by a financial and logistics blockchain infrastructure that not only tracks the origin of products and goods through a transparent blockchain so that anybody can trace where things came from, which means you'll be able to trace the origin of raw materials that are used in making food products or in making cars or whatever, but, But on top of that, it's a payment system.
	So it's a transaction system that is fully transparent like Bitcoin.
	Anybody can read the public blockchain.
	It's also decentralized because the core nodes will be hosted by many different countries and hundreds or if not thousands of nodes around the world.
	And the most important part of it, nobody can counterfeit the currency.
	Nobody can just automatically create a lot more currency in that blockchain system.
	In other words, it's going to be an honest currency and no government can cheat.
	Now, I ask you this.
	If your choice as, let's say, an industrial producer of goods somewhere in the world, if your choice in selling those goods is to get paid in dollars that are rapidly losing value, or to get paid in an honest cryptocurrency run by the BRICS nations that can't be counterfeited, which currency would you rather accept?
	And the answer is obvious.
	You want the honest currency.
	You don't want the counterfeit dollar.
	The dollar is collapsing.
	I mean, the collapse of the dollar is only going to accelerate.
	The dollar is done.
	When this BRICS blockchain-based international settlement transaction system is fully rolled out, and a lot of it will be rolled out by the end of this year with more even in 2025, the dollar is done.
	The dollar's done.
	It's always fascinating to me to hear government economists talk about, well, Social Security might be in trouble by the year 2052.
	You're not going to make it to 2052.
	You're done before 2032.
	And all these people say, well, the dollar is going to be here forever.
	It's got the most liquidity.
	It's got the biggest bond market, the biggest debt market.
	Yeah, and that can change overnight.
	It can change overnight because the people that are buying debt and investing in bonds, they can make a different choice the next time it comes up for renewal.
	In 90 days or whatever, they can say, well, I don't want to buy treasuries anymore.
	I don't want to buy U.S. debt bonds.
	I want to buy gold.
	Or I want to buy into this BRICS blockchain currency.
	It seems to be a lot more stable.
	And it's not going to end up funding the U.S. money printing inflation system, which funds all these wars around the world, by the way.
	So a lot of people are going to make a different choice, and they're going to choose to reject the Western dollar system.
	So the Western leaders and the Western financial writers, even those that work for Bloomberg or the Wall Street Journal, they have no idea what's coming.
	No idea for the most part.
	There are probably exceptions to this, but most of them have no idea.
	They're going to be eviscerated by the collapse of the dollar, just like they were all surprised by the subprime mortgage collapse.
	They didn't see that coming in 2008.
	Even though all the signs were there, it was totally obvious.
	Why do you think so many people are buying Bitcoin now?
	It means they're selling dollars and buying Bitcoin.
	Because blockchain technology solves a major problem now.
	Of government cheating.
	You know, government can just create endless currency.
	That's cheating.
	It's a rigged system.
	You can never win in a rigged system.
	You'll never get ahead if you're holding dollars.
	You will be destroyed.
	But in Bitcoin, no one can cheat.
	And you can prove this to yourself.
	Buy some Bitcoin, like.1 Bitcoins, okay?
	It's like $6,000 or whatever.
	Have it in your Bitcoin wallet.
	Now copy that wallet to a second computer.
	And then load it up there.
	You'll see, oh, you've got two wallets now with $6,000, okay?
	You might think, if you don't know anything about blockchain, you might think, well, you've outsmarted this system.
	Now you've just doubled your money.
	Now you're going to spend it twice.
	Well, you can't.
	Because the Bitcoin blockchain, the consensus system, solves the double spend problem.
	Try to spend it twice.
	You'll find out you cannot.
	You can only spend it once.
	And it's confirmed by the entire system.
	You can't counterfeit coins in Bitcoin because if anybody could, Bitcoin would be worth zero.
	And you can't double-spend coins in Bitcoin because if you could, Bitcoin would be worth zero.
	So Bitcoin is an honest ledger.
	Government fiat currencies are dishonest ledgers.
	It's just counterfeiting on a massive scale.
	And that era is coming to an end.
	Now, before the invention of Bitcoin and blockchain technology, nobody really knew, how do you have an honest currency that can't be counterfeited?
	And governments would just, of course, abuse their power, exploit their position of authority, and they would just create more money.
	Or, like in 1971 with Richard Dixon, they would take us off the gold standard so that they could print more money.
	You know, because France wanted to trade in dollars and get gold.
	Because, you know, the dollars, it used to be, hey, you can trade $35 for an ounce of gold.
	I think that was the exchange price.
	So France was like, okay, here's a bunch of dollars.
	Give us a bunch of gold.
	And the U.S. said no.
	And then Nixon took us off the gold standard.
	And since then, it's just been printing to oblivion.
	And now we're at the end game.
	We're just about at the end of that whole system.
	Dollars will be worth zero.
	Zero.
	Zero.
	Have no illusions.
	That's what's coming.
	The only question is what it's going to look like in terms of the timing and the series of events that lead to that, but the outcome is not in doubt.
	Mathematically, the dollar goes to zero.
	Bitcoin will outlast the dollar.
	Gold will outlast the dollar.
	And if you hope to have any assets remaining whatsoever at the end of all of this, you need to be investing in an honest system that cannot be counterfeited by governments.
	That's gold, for example.
	I already mentioned that that's also Bitcoin, but no government can create gold from thin air.
	If they could, gold would be worth zero because they'd be creating gold all over the place, you see?
	So, keep all this in mind.
	This is really critical to understand.
	You need something that has natural built-in scarcity.
	Bitcoin has that, algorithmically, and by consensus.
	Gold has that, silver has that, land has that, ammunition, and so on.
	Now, for the best analysis of all of this, and this is a sponsor of this podcast, it's Gerald Salenti's Trends Journal.
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	We're walking through financial landmines.
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	Now, there are many strategies that can help you make it through what's coming.
	It's just that most people don't know what they are.
	And most people are too tied into the mainstream, oblivious, mass think that they will never...
	Protect themselves.
	And they will be impoverished.
	They will lose everything.
	Everything in the bank, everything in treasuries, everything in the stock market, their pensions, they will lose everything.
	They will have nothing left to live on.
	And a lot of these people, you know, the same kind of people who believe CNN and NPR, they took a bunch of jabs and they wear masks, they're going to die penniless and homeless on the streets with nothing to their name.
	You know how they say you will own nothing and be happy?
	Actually, it's you will own nothing and die penniless.
	That's what's coming for most people.
	The smart people like you listening to this, by definition, you're way ahead of the curve.
	You're probably already well prepared compared to most people.
	You're going to be able to make it through.
	You can navigate what's coming.
	And that's why you listen to this podcast, and I try to bring you the best analysis and the best guests to teach you how to navigate this.
	That's why I interview people like Gerald Salenti, or I interview Andy Sheckman of Miles Franklin, and I interview Chris Olson of Treasure Island, and so on.
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	But whatever you choose to do, there's value in water.
	If you can buy a piece of land that's got water on it, that can produce water year-round, like it's got a great well or it's got a stream that runs through it, that's valuable.
	Because growing food is going to be lucrative as food inflation goes through the roof.
	More people are going to grow their own food.
	You're going to see more people starving across America.
	As the dollar collapses, the cost of importing food will skyrocket, which means the cost of food to American consumers is going to go through the roof.
	And that's on top of the fact that even domestic farming will also cost a lot more money because farming requires oil, you know, fuel, diesel fuel.
	Oil is about to go through the roof because of the war in the Middle East.
	And if Israel attacks Iran again, and this thing escalates, then Iran is going to shut the Strait of Hormuz.
	If they shut the Strait of Hormuz, at least to shipments that might go to Western countries, you're going to have an oil crisis that you haven't seen since Jimmy Carter days.
	I mean, way worse than the late 1970s.
	You're going to have an oil crisis.
	You could see oil at $300 a barrel.
	You could see gasoline at $20 a gallon.
	It could get very, very bad, depending on how out of control that situation becomes.
	But I don't see Israel backing down, do you?
	I don't see the U.S. forcing Israel to back down.
	All I see is everybody just cheering more war without any concept of the repercussions.
	The repercussions are going to be catastrophic for the domestic U.S. economy.
	People will be impoverished at a level that you have never seen before.
	And the wealthy people are going to be those who have garden seeds, you know, a little bit of gold and silver coin, a little bit of Bitcoin.
	Wealthy people are going to be people who got out of the dollar and heeded the advice that I'm sharing with you today.
	And just like you, I have family members who won't take this advice.
	I have friends who won't listen to this advice.
	They believe the mainstream.
	They're going to go down with the ship.
	They're going to lose everything.
	And some of those people got jabbed into oblivion, and some of them are already dead, by the way, because they listened to the corporate media.
	Oh, we have to all get vaccines?
	Let's go get vaccines.
	And so they took the vaccines and then they died.
	Well, that's biological suicide.
	A lot of people are going to commit financial suicide on top of that.
	Some of those people are still getting jabbed.
	It's like, wow, you're just trying to kill yourself in multiple ways.
	And they do.
	And this is what the globalists want.
	Like, how can we convince people to kill themselves so we don't have to, you know, directly attack them?
	Oh, launch a pandemic, scare people into getting jabbed, build bioweapons into the vaccines, and tell everybody to go get multiple jabs.
	Okay, people line up and do it, and they die.
	And the globalists are cheering, yay, we finally got rid of the stupid people.
	Well, there's another way to get rid of people.
	Crash the dollar.
	This is not an accident, what's coming.
	And to those out there who say, oh no, the government would never let this happen.
	The government is engineering this to happen.
	This is not an accident.
	Yes, they could prevent it if they wanted to.
	They could stop printing money.
	They could stop spending a trillion dollars every 100 days.
	They could stop weaponizing the dollar globally.
	But they don't want to.
	They want the dollar to collapse.
	They want America to collapse.
	They want the world of human population to collapse.
	They're trying to kill 7.5 billion people out of 8 billion people.
	How do you do that?
	Well, you're watching it.
	You shut down the farms.
	You shut down the food supply.
	You crash the money system.
	You cause wars and nuclear war, mass poverty, engineered famine, domestic wars, civil war.
	You force people to take jabs that you know will kill them.
	You build bioweapons and release them on the world.
	This is what they're doing.
	This is a giant global depopulation agenda.
	And even the climate loons even talk about it, how, oh, we need to get rid of, you know, 7 billion people, get rid of 90%.
	Bill Gates is like, vaccines could really help.
	The globalists are like, more abortions for everybody, we've got to get rid of all the babies, you know.
	And then, of course, in Palestine, it's like, bomb the babies, kill them all, wipe out an entire ethnicity of people.
	This is all part of global depopulation.
	That's what this is, folks.
	Understand what you are seeing.
	Believe your own eyes.
	You are witnessing it every single day.
	When you see the governments of Europe shutting down the farms while the big food conglomerates announce we're going to build cricket protein plants, you should believe your eyes.
	You should understand what they're doing.
	You're not going to have meat available unless you're willing to pay, I don't know, $100 a pound.
	If you know some local cattle ranchers, maybe.
	But for the masses, there will be no meat.
	There will be cricket protein.
	Cricket protein powder spaghetti.
	Cricket protein bars.
	Cricket protein milkshakes.
	Mmm, meal replacement with cricket proteins.
	Extra legs edition.
	That's what they're doing.
	Tyson Foods, building massive cricket protein plants.
	Okay?
	This...
	This is not a sci-fi conspiracy theory.
	It's not a fiction novel.
	You could read the headlines every day.
	This is happening right now.
	The U.S. is planning to steal $300 billion of Russian assets.
	This will collapse the faith in the Western banking system.
	Every country on the planet, upon seeing that, will say, we are going to get the hell out of Western banks and get the hell out of the dollar.
	This is going to cause a mad rush into the arms of bricks.
	Every nation, except those under the thumb of America, every nation will run to bricks.
	And the question will be, how quickly can we buy into bricks tokens?
	We want bricks coins.
	We want to trade in bricks.
	The dollar is not trustworthy.
	The dollar has been weaponized.
	The SWIFT system is obsolete.
	This is going to happen overnight.
	It's not going to take a decade.
	It's not even going to take years.
	When the right conditions are in place, this is going to happen, boom, so fast.
	Because every day, everybody around the world that deals in money and trade, they can make a different decision.
	They can say, hey, BRICS is available now.
	Let's just, let's do settlements and BRICS.
	Screw the dollar.
	Sell off all the dollars, Carl.
	It's time to move everything to BRICS.
	And that's going to happen virtually overnight.
	And all the poor suckers left holding dollars are going to be wiped out.
	They're going to be sitting there holding a stack of dollars in one hand and their balls in the other hand.
	What am I going to do?
	Nothing you can do.
	You're screwed.
	You're too late.
	You missed the boat.
	You have no assets now.
	You're holding a bunch of worthless currency because you believed in the system, the system that was engineered to destroy you.
	You trusted the traders.
	And now you have nothing.
	That day's coming.
	So get ahead of all this.
	Check out trendsjournal.com.
	Again, use discount code RANGER to save 10% there.
	That's Gerald Salenti's publication, very well researched.
	Or check out verifiedgoldbacks.com for a unique form of gold that is in each goldback, actual physical gold.
	It's a unique way and highly divisible way to take custody of gold.
	Thank you for listening.
	I'm Mike Adams here, the Health Ranger.
	Of naturalnews.com and brighteon.com.
	Take care.
	Take care.
	the great state of Texas.
	I'm Mike Adams and we've got a great guest coming up for you, Andy Schechtman.
	But first, my co-host Todd Pitner joins us.
	Welcome, Todd.
	How you doing?
	Hello, hello.
	It should be the great nation of Texas pretty soon, Mike.
	The great nation.
	Yeah, probably.
	That's where it's going.
	I think so.
	It's fine with me.
	I think Texas will be a great nation.
	Me too.
	But we have, actually the events that are probably going to lead to that are well known by our guests coming up today.
	Because we're talking about the collapse of the dollar, the rise of the BRICS nations, and how the West is weaponizing the dollar in order to try to punish Russia for the most part.
	But the West is only committing financial suicide itself.
	So let's bring in our guest, Andy Sheckman from milesfranklin.com.
	Welcome, Andy.
	Great to have you.
	Hey, Mike and Todd.
	Great to see you both.
	Thanks for having me, and it's always great to be here.
	Appreciate it.
	We always appreciate having you on.
	And, you know, Andy, I think you have been so correct in your analysis and so ahead of the curve for so many years.
	I actually...
	I think of you and Gerald Salenti as the two guys that know most what's coming.
	I mean, you're both just nailing it for year after year after year.
	So do you feel a little bit vindicated, actually, about what's happening with Bricks now?
	That's very kind of you to say that.
	No, actually, I feel a little bit more concerned than anything.
	I got three kids, my youngest, not even 17 yet.
	And I see the acceleration in these things that I've been talking about for almost four years now.
	And it's concerning.
	And it's concerning because, you know, the people who watch Brighton TV, listen to you guys, and maybe some of the people that have followed me have at least an understanding of what is coming.
	But the thing is, our media...
	Doesn't even do a poor job.
	They do no job of telling people what is coming.
	And so people who are even considered well-read arguably are just reading the wrong stuff.
	And I see this acceleration.
	And yeah, I guess you could say it feels good to have been right.
	But on the other hand, it's almost concerning as I see the byproduct of that and what that really means to me is a bit troubling.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	And the latest, and then I know, Todd, you've got questions, but the latest sanction against Russia was announced by Janet Yellen.
	And the Biden administration is saying, well, we won't allow you to ship us any aluminum or copper or nickel, right?
	And it's like, that's a suicide pact for the West.
	Right?
	We need Russian aluminum.
	Well, it gets a lot better than that, Mike.
	I mean, first of all, how many people know that the Chinese own the LME, the London Metals Exchange?
	They bought it.
	And the LME sells those base metals.
	Now, they have to be adherent to the LME rules.
	But now they're talking about stockpiling these metals in China, warehousing them on the contracts that are being sold on the London Metals Exchange, which is different than the LBMA, which sells the precious metals.
	But when you talk about sanctions and our brain-dead Treasury Secretary, let's focus on three things.
	That's a big one.
	Yeah, we don't want your copper, your nickel, and it is.
	It's cutting off your nose to spite your face.
	And, you know, three weeks ago, Janet was in Brazil, the backyard of the BRICS, a charter member of the BRICS, and has the gall and the nerve to say publicly at this conference in Brazil that, you know, the West, the United States, the European Union, and the United Kingdom, not only, you know, sanctioning isn't enough Of the Russian 380 billion in forex reserves, but we need to confiscate them to fund the Ukrainian war.
	And it gets even worse.
	From the too stupid to be stupid category, in an interview she just gave with CNBC, get this.
	The United States is prepared to sanction Chinese banks and companies as well as Beijing's leadership if they aid Russian military in its invasion of the Ukraine, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Monday.
	So it's okay for us to fund the Ukraine, our ally supposedly, and I would argue China and Russia are better allies than we are with the Ukraine.
	You know, take all of this stuff that's happened in the last year or two with Ukraine out of the equation.
	And I think they're more aligned and a common cause.
	But she says, you know, anything that involves aiding Russians' military in their brutal war against Ukraine is unacceptable to us.
	This is the funny part.
	She says, China is entitled to have a relationship with Russia.
	Well, thank you, Janet.
	That's great.
	She said, noting that much of the trade between the two countries is seen by the U.S. as non-problematic.
	But the provision of military aid from Beijing to Moscow could trigger sanctions.
	So you have a sanction-happy administration that is just cutting off their nose to spite their face in every turn.
	And you wonder why China is down to just over $700 billion in treasuries from $3 trillion.
	They're all selling treasuries and buying gold, replacing it.
	Because why the hell would anyone want to buy anything of duration from a country That not only is going to choose inflation over austerity, not only is bankrupt and insolvent, but can go around in a massively hypocritical way where it's okay for us to do this, but not for you.
	And if you do that, we're going to sanction you.
	Why would anyone want to hold our treasuries?
	It's the height of absurdity.
	Well, it certainly is.
	Todd, you want to jump in?
	Andy, what's the price of gold today, perhaps?
	Well, it depends where you're asking.
	I mean, in the United States, in the West, price of gold right now is...
	Right around $23.80, but it's about $50, $60 higher.
	In fact, let me tell you exactly what it is in Shanghai.
	And this is another interesting thing in that, you know, in Shanghai, the price of silver right now, which is even a better measurement, if you will, is $3 higher than it is in the West.
	It's over $31 an ounce.
	And the price of gold yesterday was $24...
	Let's see, $2,437.53.
	That was the closing price on April 16th.
	Gold's up today, so it's going to be closer to $2,500.
	See, China's been buying everything that's not nailed down, and now they are arbitraging on the Shanghai Gold Exchange and enticing the traders who have access to the LBMA, to the Colmex, and the Shanghai exchange so that they can buy the Colmex price or the LBMA price and deliver gold.
	To Shanghai at a 10% premium in silver and, you know, roughly a almost, well, about an $80 premium in gold.
	And that is their attempt to continue to siphon all of the gold and silver from the West.
	This is being done strategically.
	And my understanding, Andy, but correct me if I'm wrong about this, is that much of this current spike in gold, which is really historic.
	I mean, these are all-time highs.
	And it's been a burst of activity.
	But most of the buying is not from end users right now.
	Most of the buying is central banks.
	And China's central bank is one of the main ones.
	Is that correct?
	It's 100% true.
	I mean, the people in the West and the United States have been selling into the rally.
	They look, you know, the talking heads would say, well, you have, if you believe the CPI, as the talking heads would like us to believe, that you have positive real yield right now in fixed income, so you can buy a six-month treasury paying 5.5%,
	and you have a strong dollar, and you have, you know, but You know, when you look at the motivation of a country like China, a country like Russia or Saudi Arabia, and see a sanction-happy government where, you know, the way that it used to work is all of these things that would be bought around the globe would be purchased in dollars, and any excess would go into U.S. Treasuries.
	But now what's happening is that we're seeing not only a deviation from the settlement in dollars as these countries are trading with one another in their local currencies, But they're also replacing their excess reserves, which used to be U.S. Treasuries, which are now being shed month over month over month over month.
	And I believe they are replacing it with gold.
	And I say that to you for a few reasons.
	Number one, you go back to the turn of the century since 2000, gold has outperformed Everything except for Bitcoin.
	Everything.
	And, you know, it's up 9.1% per year compounding since 2000.
	The S&P 500 is about 7-ish percent, and the bond market's a fraction of that.
	But the real reason is, you know, what you were talking about at the onset here, the weaponizing of the dollar.
	The gold market doesn't have default risk, doesn't have sanction and confiscation risk for these countries.
	That's huge right now.
	And it's outperformed the bond market.
	So to me, it's exactly what's happening.
	The public is asleep at the switch.
	They are infatuated with Bitcoin and NVIDIA.
	they perform really well.
	And they're ignoring the fact that gold's at all time highs.
	And it has not only doing it without the public participation, as you mentioned, but doing it in the face of things that are supposed to neuter gold's rise.
	And that namely being, you know, positive real rates and a strong dollar.
	Yet here we are again today with it with it up today, at least in the United States, up 20 bucks.
	So it continues to defy gravity when the economists would tell us that, well, it should be falling because of this environment.
	And no, it's really not.
	Andy, can you share with me the psychology of the normal consumer out there?
	I'm Your founder, CEO, MylesFranklin.com.
	A, is business good?
	And B, as it starts to shoot up, do people tend to say, man, I missed the boat?
	Or are they getting on it saying, a rising tide lifts all ships?
	Well, I think, you know, what's interesting...
	When Silicon Valley Bank failed, Todd, we added 14,000 clients in 45 days.
	Wow.
	And it was the mainstream terrified by the prospects of more bank failures.
	You know, the mainstream, most of the mainstream has no idea even what a bail-in is, and that a bail-in was written into law in the Dodd-Frank Act.
	If they only knew this, and they really took a step back to reflect on the over-levered and under-capitalized banks right now that are on razor's edge.
	The thing of it is, is when Silicon and Signature were illegally bailed out, and I say illegally because the Dodd-Frank Act made bailouts illegal, but, you know, Janet again, and the FOMC, which is the Federal Reserve, and the FDIC, and supposedly the President, if he actually remembers, The conversation said it was too systemic, that they had to do this in order to save the system.
	You know, future banks that would run into trouble would not be bailed out, in fact, would be bailed in.
	Now, the other banks that have failed have been gobbled up by J.P. Morgan or other regional banks.
	But if a bank fails in this environment, bail-ins, well, they're coming.
	And I think that's the kind of environment where you see massive demand.
	But what we've seen lately is very interesting to me.
	Lots of very large orders.
	When I say lots, I don't mean hundreds of them, but large orders from much older folks who lament what is happening to the country.
	There is a much greater focus on the open borders, the lawlessness, the questioning of the judicial system and the electoral system, all of the things, the wokeness and the cancel culture, the things that really, if you grew up in this country when the three of us did, or older people, Most of us find repugnant, and some find it, you know, some people, 75, 80-year-old clients that I talk to, they're saying, this country is done.
	Now, this comes from their perspective, and they said, I want out of the bank, I want out of the system, I cannot leave my children fiat currency in this country.
	I hear that a lot, too, yeah.
	But the average person...
	No, they don't.
	You can't get out of the way of what you don't see coming.
	And even people who are very well read, they're just reading the wrong stuff.
	And they're not aware of how dire this situation truly is and can quickly become.
	So it's shocking to me, Mike.
	In fact, it'll go down as one of the biggest...
	Contrarian indicators and mysteries of my career, how the public is selling into this rally in an environment where our country has lost its, in many respects, lost its bearings and its culture being whitewashed.
	The thing of it is, is that the media doesn't tell us what's happening outside the country with the exception of the wars that are being fought.
	They don't tell us how these countries are joining together, finding safety in numbers.
	Because of the weaponizing of the dollar, because of the mismanagement of the world reserve currency, and because the world looks at us as being completely and totally hypocritical, where we can go into Iraq 20 years ago, we still occupy their country, we sanction their banks, and we hold their oil revenue.
	$95 billion they made in 2023, and at the end of the year they asked us for a billion dollars, and we said it's not a good time.
	So they've kicked coalition forces out or are in the process of doing it.
	They've made trading in dollars illegal.
	They have formally applied to the BRICS. And as of January of this year, six months ago, almost five months ago, there are no green dollars in the country anymore.
	So these countries view us as hypocritical.
	We can do these things.
	You know, we went there looking for weapons.
	Sorry we didn't find them.
	Sorry we destroyed your country.
	Sorry we're still occupying you 20 years later.
	But we can do this because we're the United States.
	But you guys can't do anything like this or we'll sanction you.
	And I think that has gotten very long in the tooth.
	And Andy, that's coming to an end.
	The era of the U.S. being able to sanction its way into global compliance by other countries, that's coming to an end.
	I want to show you this story from Bloomberg.
	IMF steps up its warning to U.S. over spending and ballooning debt.
	This is really monumental that the IMF would warn Essentially that the U.S. debt and U.S. spending is unsustainable, and even though they don't use the term collapse, what they're saying is it's headed for collapse.
	And yet, inside the U.S. government, both Republicans and Democrats alike, all they want to do is print more money, give it to Ukraine, print more money, give it to Israel, fund more bombs to be dropped on Gaza, or fund more missiles or artillery to be launched at Russia.
	It's like the burnout.
	I feel like we're in the burnout stage of the U.S. empire where all they can do is print money and bomb everybody and steal money from Russia because Russia still produces things.
	I mean, doesn't it feel like that to you?
	Doesn't it look like that's what's happening?
	It completely and totally does.
	Look, that is what's happening.
	And, you know, we're broke, we're insolvent, and we continue, we're like in the terminal stages of decline.
	And that's exactly what's happening.
	And, you know, you look at the fact that We're adding a trillion dollars to the debt burden every 90 days.
	It took over 200 years to do it the first time.
	We're adding $100 billion every four months in interest payments.
	And, you know, I don't know who in their right mind would ever hold any duration treasuries because we are broke.
	We are insolvent.
	You know, and there's no end in sight.
	We have a $34 trillion debt and $155 trillion in unfunded liabilities in Medicare and Medicaid.
	Social Security, $77 trillion in the red.
	And, of course, government military pensions.
	And, you know, people don't quite get it when you hear the word trillion.
	A trillion seconds ago was 31,688 years ago.
	Yeah.
	And so when you talk about how broke we are and the fact that people come to us and we're giving another $60 billion to the Ukraine, I mean, it's just insanity.
	It's complete and total insanity.
	And yet our borders and our infrastructure, everything is in shambles.
	And it's an afterthought.
	And we continue to fund these wars, which is an interesting side note, by the way.
	You know, I gave a speech in Vancouver two years ago, and I said that there's 500 ounces of silver in a Tomahawk cruise missile.
	This guy comes up to me, and he says, I work for the Department of Defense.
	He says, I developed the Patriot missile.
	I know there's silver in it, but I don't know how much.
	I'll get back to you.
	Never heard from him.
	I go to the conference this year.
	It's Jay Martin's conference, the Vancouver Resource Investment Conference.
	It's a really good one.
	And he was there, and he hands me this cup.
	And, you know, it shows me this is my cup is what I developed the Patriot missile.
	And he showed me all sorts of pictures.
	He said, you know, it used to be shot out of a submarine.
	And he showed me how they had it on a platform just beneath the water in California and how it was a challenge to launch it vertically because of the guidance system, blah, blah, blah.
	But you know what?
	I'll be damned.
	You are right.
	There's between 14 and 15 kilograms of silver in every Tomahawk cruise missile.
	Wow.
	If you think about this, the military-industrial complex is involved in funding all of these wars all over the place and providing munitions.
	And the Silver Institute, who just released their numbers saying 185 million ounce deficit for the second year in a row, has no breakdown at all.
	They don't even talk about military at all.
	And so when you look at And why would a couple of banks like Bank of America, according to Ted Butler, be short 1 billion ounces of silver in the OTC market?
	I mean, that's as dumb as a mud wall in this environment.
	When India is importing almost 500 million ounces in the last two and a half years, which is unbelievable.
	12 times more than is backing the bars currently on COMEX when China has told their citizens to start buying silver.
	This is new news that, hey, buy silver.
	It's the Achilles heel of the West.
	And instead of buying gold, now they're massively buying silver.
	And you can see that $3 premium on the Shanghai exchange is Enticing people to do it, they're going to catch some of these shorts, like Bank of America, with their pants down.
	And if you listen to the Chris Marcus interview with Bart Chilton, which is one of the best I've ever heard in my career, right before he died, he admitted that's why Bear Stearns went bankrupt, because they were massively short, and Silver went to 21, and JPMorgan took it over.
	And the interesting part about that interview, if you listen to it, and I recommend everyone Google it, Bart Chilton, Chris Marcus, Arcadia Economics, and it's the most influential interview I've ever heard.
	He says all of these conspiratorial things.
	He admits it.
	Bart Chilton was the head of the CFTC. The Commodity Future Trading Commission.
	And he says Jamie Dimon came into the office of him.
	He was there with Bernanke and what was his name?
	The Treasury Secretary.
	It'll come to me in a moment.
	He said, listen, I'll take over the position, but with our positions, Hank Paulson, I'll take over the position, but we'll be in violation of position limits.
	And they said, okay, you have a period of time to get it under control.
	And at the end of that period of time, Bart Chilton says, not only did they not decrease those positions, they added to them.
	And he went into his superiors and said that...
	J.P. Morgan needs to be prosecuted.
	They have violated our agreement.
	They're in violation of antitrust law.
	And here's the kicker when we put this in perspective.
	Is this the interview, Andy?
	Bart Shelton and Chris Marcus?
	Yep, that's it.
	Okay, so this is on Arcadia.
	Everyone needs to listen to that interview.
	And he says he was told to back down because it was a political decision.
	So when you talk about these massive short positions in silver, the largest concentrated short position on any commodity traded on the coal mix, why?
	Why in an environment like this would they be that stupid?
	It's because the military industrial complex and the people who control it are pulling the strings.
	And all of the military and aerospace technology that needs copious amounts of silver, according to a consultant for the DOD, told me personally, it's nowhere to be found in the data from the Silver Institute.
	You know, things are nuts.
	And we are a country that's lost its bearing that would rather wage war to, you know, to make profit for a handful of very, very wealthy, you know, bankers and the military industrial complex and the hell with everything else, the hell with this country.
	But these countries are looking, I believe they have re-monetized gold and oil as an alternative to the dollar and to the treasury market, and it will only get worse.
	And the common currency that they are building, I want to read something to you in a moment, it'll blow your mind.
	But the common currency that they are building, yes, it will have impact.
	But if you look at what they've done so far, all of these countries are trading in their local currencies instead of dollars.
	And instead of putting the excess into bonds, they're putting it into gold.
	And the trading in local currencies chips away at the settlement status of the dollar.
	And of course, the selling of bonds and buying gold starts to chip away massively at the reserve status.
	So yes, there will be a common currency.
	Not yet, but when there's time, I want to read to you something from a finance minister in Russia that everything that I've been saying, he's saying, but he says something else that you really got to hear.
	If you'll indulge me...
	We'll get to that.
	Just one second.
	Todd's got a burning question for you first.
	Yeah.
	I just...
	You had referenced something that I think...
	It's so brilliant and beautiful, but it probably went over everyone's heads.
	So I want to rewind a little bit.
	You put a trillion in perspective in number of years.
	Could you revisit that?
	One trillion seconds ago was 31,688 years ago.
	The numbers are too big to ever be paid back.
	Okay, say that one more time.
	I'm going to ask you one more time.
	I want everyone to listen to this.
	Think about this.
	31,688 years ago is one trillion seconds.
	That's right.
	That boggles my mind.
	And the U.S. is spending a trillion dollars every 100 days.
	Bingo.
	Okay.
	Two things I want to read to you because What you are, everyone always says that, you know, we're playing checkers and they're playing chess.
	They think in terms of decades, we think in terms of days and weeks, and it's true.
	I want to read you two things.
	The first was a statement made by the chairman of the Shanghai Gold Exchange on May 15, 2014, where he says, Shanghai gold will change the current gold market with its consumed in the East, but priced in the West arrangement.
	When China has the right to speak in the international gold market, the true price of gold will be revealed.
	Now, keep that in mind.
	Keep that in mind as I talk about this.
	Now, for three years, largely because of Sergei Glazia, the main Russian finance minister, he's told the world that we are going to have a common bricks currency, and it will be a basket of local currencies and a basket of commodities, largely gold, which the BIS reclassified as the only other Tier 1 reserve asset.
	And this is probably why the central banks are buying at hand over fist and have been for over four years.
	But here's where it gets interesting.
	Another Kremlin adviser named Yuri Ushakov gave an interview just recently, and I saw it in the Russian news agency TASS. But in it, he says a few things.
	He's talking about the new BRICS currency that they are working on.
	And they tasked all the finance ministers at the end of the meeting in August in Johannesburg to go back to the drawing board and come to us and present your findings in October in Russia.
	And he said, here's the deal.
	The idea of the currency is that there are two baskets.
	One basket is national currencies of all countries involved.
	Now, we knew that.
	The second basket are commodities.
	We've known that, too.
	All right?
	That's nothing new.
	He says it will be in a digital form, which means it can be used without the banking system.
	Now, we've known that, too.
	I've said it will marry blockchain and gold.
	That will give it the immutability and the veracity and the trust.
	And they developed the project Enbridge.
	Several months ago that was with China, United Arab Emirates, who just joined the BRICS, and I think Singapore, where they just completed the first ever cross-border gold payment on the Project Enbridge gold purchase using digital yuan.
	All of this we know.
	Here's the cool part.
	And this is what I've been saying for three years now, and you look at the Shanghai Exchange and you can see it's happening.
	He says, the second part is price.
	For the moment.
	Price is determined by Western speculation.
	We produce these commodities and we consume them, but we do not have our own price mechanism, which will balance supply and demand.
	It's impossible to make any strategic planning for economic development if you do not control prices of basic commodities.
	Here it is right here.
	Price formation with this new currency should get rid of Western exchanges of commodities.
	They understand.
	Now, remember, they bought the LME. That's for the metals, base metals.
	They're gobbling up and taking delivery of all the precious metals, and they just developed the BRICS Grain Exchange where they go on to say global prices are determined primarily on the Chicago Commodity Exchange.
	Moscow and the BRICS seeks to move away from trading grain for the U.S. dollars in favor of the national currencies of BRICS member states.
	What did China just do?
	They just canceled massive grain contracts with Australia and the United States and bought it from Russia.
	They're going to pay for it in yuan, which is what?
	Immediately convertible into gold on the Shanghai Gold Exchange, which is what?
	The only other Tier 1 reserve asset, which is probably going to be what?
	Backing a new system.
	And so you can see this all starting to happen.
	It's rolling together.
	Importantly, just to translate what you said to our audience, this ends...
	The JP Morgan manipulation of gold and silver.
	That's what this does.
	And when you end that, I mean, that's the only thing protecting the dollar, is manipulating the exchange rate between the dollar and precious metals, right?
	So when that is done, and when control over price discovery actually leaves the domain of the Western corrupt banking system, then the dollar's done, right?
	That's right.
	And the thing is, the point I take away from that...
	They know what we are doing.
	And in jiu-jitsu, you use the leverage of your opponent against them.
	That's exactly what they're doing.
	Fine, you guys want to be stupid?
	Go ahead, suppress the price.
	We'll buy everything that's not nailed down.
	And then once we're done doing that, we'll start to turn up the arbitrage.
	So we'll pull up the stuff that is nailed down, and you'll want to deliver it to make a fortune in arbitrage.
	But that stuff's never, ever coming back.
	Okay, Andy, I have one correction for you, though.
	You said that the West is playing checkers and the East is playing chess.
	The correction is we're actually playing tiddlywinks.
	Please show my screen.
	There's what the West is playing.
	It's called tiddlywinks.
	There's no instruction manual.
	You just throw colored circles into the mouth of the bear.
	That's it.
	I mean, it's beyond retarded at this point what the West is doing.
	I agree.
	I completely agree.
	It's suicide.
	It's a financial self-immolation demonstration by the West.
	But that's why, Mike, I say this is planned.
	I mean, I say it's planned because you weaponize the dollar, you threaten confiscation in a BRICS country.
	You threaten China.
	You're already sanctioning Iran.
	You sign an executive order to go green when the linchpin of the dollar hegemony is protecting Saudi Arabia and by extension the OPEC pricing of oil and dollars.
	You destabilize the bond market by jacking up rates because Part of the petrodollar is putting the excess in bonds.
	Now, over the last year, they've been eviscerated.
	And then you destabilize the United States because all of the things that I've said to you, that's what I've said to you before.
	But then you add into it, into the soup, what's happening in this country where kids wanted to wear Levi's jeans and listen to rock and roll music of the West.
	They look at this country and say, my gosh, what's happened to it?
	And all the things that we were saying, the open borders of lawlessness, the election system, the judicial system, the wokeness where merit is thrown out the window in favor of what gender you associate yourself with.
	All of these things, I think...
	It's almost too stupid to be stupid.
	And then you have all of this debt that continues to grow, putting the Fed in a pickle.
	What do you do?
	And that's why I think we've incentivized the rest of the world to join together, which is now a massively larger swath of human population, much larger swath of global GDP. The majority of oil and Natural gas production, larger production of wheat, three of the four largest nuclear arsenals, and that's just the 10 countries right now.
	36 other countries have formally applied, another 20-plus have informally applied.
	Critical mass is happening.
	And then you look at the belt...
	I'm sorry, go ahead.
	I was just going to say, you just gave an amazing history lesson there in the last few minutes.
	And to me, as I'm listening to you, I'm like, damn.
	We've been conquered from within, like a long time ago, right?
	Who is the they that did this?
	Do you have your finger on that pulse?
	I mean, I guess you could argue it's the World Bank and, you know, I mean, Klaus Schwab.
	I mean, I don't know.
	I mean, you have to...
	Richard Russell was my mentor, and I don't know really who the they is.
	I'd be honest.
	I'm lying if I said I do.
	I have ideas.
	But Richard Russell was my mentor, and he always said 20 years ago that the Fed had crossed the Rubicon of ever getting out, that they had two options, to inflate or to die.
	And I say option three is find a villain.
	And that's Xi Jinping and Putin and OPEC. Our lead economic advisor, the US government, advocates for this.
	Jared Bernstein, who has a degree in music and a master's degree in social work, is the number one economic advisor who advocates that owning the world reserve status is a privilege we can no longer afford.
	So what do you do?
	Everything in your power To lose it, including here at home with this country being a shell of what it was.
	Let's hope we still have the American spirit and can find our bearings again.
	But, you know, by weaponizing the dollar the way that we have, by going green and turning our back on Saudi Arabia and the petrodollar, We couldn't have drawn it up any better in terms of losing it.
	that they wants to reset the system.
	So option number three, find a villain.
	And the country is so stupid, the people, that they'll believe it.
	They'll believe it hook, line, and sinker.
	And how else do you get people to take a CBDC?
	Well, no one wants to take it.
	None of your listeners will take it.
	Well, you blow up the system, point to a villain.
	And what would happen if rates went parabolic in the face of dollars Every country in the world has had to stockpile them for 50 years, and they dump them.
	Rates go to the moon.
	Stocks, bonds, real estate.
	The insurance companies have 90% exposure to treasuries.
	And how about the banks?
	They're all over-leveraged and under-capized.
	Bang, it all blows up.
	But have no fear.
	Number two is here, Lael Brainard, modern monetary theorist.
	And she's all about central bank digital currency.
	She worked with MIT in its development.
	So yeah, I think, you know, is it too stupid to be stupid?
	Is this planned?
	I don't know.
	I don't know what you have against all these trillions of dollars that I'm holding here from Zimbabwe and Yugoslavia and all these collapsed nations.
	I mean, clearly this is worth something.
	But I need to ask you, since you brought in energy and the petrodollar status, The Middle East.
	Okay, the Middle East situation is on fire.
	We are in a rapid escalation cycle that could go insanely bad.
	You know, Israel could launch a nuke at Iran.
	Russia could retaliate by nuking the US Navy.
	I mean, this is getting out of control.
	But Iran could block the Strait of Hormuz.
	And please explain to us...
	What would be the ramifications on U.S. debt, currency, and gold if Iran, and I understand this is almost a nuclear option from Iran, but to block the Strait of Hormuz or selectively block, to say no energy to the U.K., no energy to Western countries, but China, you can have energy out of the Strait, but nobody else gets any shipments.
	What would be the ramifications?
	Well, and if you look, too, I mean, if you look at Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and I think, who just applied, it's Sudan, I think, and Ethiopia.
	It was put in.
	They have the entire Straits of Hormuz and the Red Sea controlled themselves.
	The BRICS do.
	Completely and totally controlled.
	But what would happen?
	I mean, you know, price of oil goes parabolic.
	Massive inflation starts to kill the economy, blows everything up.
	I mean, that's the thing.
	You know, I would like to hope, at least in terms of You know, rationale that these people understand they can destroy the West by just doing things like that, by no longer accepting US dollars, by blocking the Straits of Hormuz, letting the price of oil go to $200 a barrel.
	Watch what happens to the economy.
	Watch what happens to the stock market.
	Watch what happens to inflation.
	Watch what happens to Treasury yields.
	I mean, the whole thing blows up.
	You don't have to kill all of human civilization And a tit for tat.
	You can blow things up by doing things that way and I think they understand that.
	So I think that's a much more plausible You're saying that you think Iran would close the Strait of Hormuz first before trying to escalate kinetically.
	Because the economic warfare against the West is even more effective than kinetic warfare.
	Is that kind of what you're saying?
	That's kind of what I'm hoping.
	Maybe that's hopium.
	But, you know, look at all of the countries that are in the BRICS alongside of Iran, and you have the Straits of Hormuz controlled.
	If they unilaterally said, hey, we're not taking dollars for oil anymore and the Straits of Hormuz is closed, it's over in this country.
	It is.
	I mean, it's over.
	And that's the thing, that all the dollar bulls say, no, that could never happen.
	That could never happen.
	The bond market is the most liquid market in the world, and the dollar is everyone owns the dollar and the dollar debt.
	I mean, it's all nonsense to me.
	We're doing everything we can to destroy that reputation.
	This arrogance becomes policy, right?
	So Western arrogance, which is really built up from post-World War II dominance in terms of global currency, but also military dominance and so on, even though that's all obsolete now, our decision makers are still operating as if it's still like 1982 or whatever, but it isn't.
	That's the problem.
	They haven't come around to reality.
	I mean, Iran just launched ballistic missiles that penetrated Israel's Iron Dome, by the way, and struck precision targets on military bases as a demonstration.
	Nobody in the West will even report it because they're still pretending that the Iron Dome is impenetrable.
	Yeah, the whole thing is ludicrous, to be honest with you.
	And that's the way I interpret it as well.
	It was kind of like, well, you know, And they did it the right way, I guess you could say, if there is a right way.
	They didn't target any civilian population, and they did it in saying, hey, you know, this is what happens next time.
	But when you talk about all of the cost involved at firing off all those missiles in the Iron Dome, there is a French warship That just has been in the Red Sea for 70 days had to turn around and go back to France because they were 100% out of munitions.
	They ran out of everything.
	They're firing $2 million missiles at $10,000 drones and going through them like gumballs.
	That's the economy of the West right there.
	$2 million missiles are taking out $10,000 drones.
	We're winning!
	And he says those drones fly at sea level.
	And, you know, they're very hard to see on radar, and you're firing real quick, you're firing missiles at them.
	But think of the military-industrial complex.
	That's really their wet dream.
	Well, we'll build you some more.
	And that's why they're trying to keep the price of silver down.
	But when you talk about the cost involved, yeah, look, I would really hope that neither of these countries feel that their back is against the wall and needs to do something that will change the scope of human civilization forever.
	I really do.
	I try not to be political.
	I think all war sucks.
	The fact that we continue to see this accelerating It's a shame.
	It is.
	And it will probably lead to something much worse.
	But I think, indeed, a form of a blockade of the Straits of Hormuz, I think that's in the cards for sure.
	I mean, there's very little, I think, very little that they could do that would affect us worse without firing off a missile.
	And the fact that they're all there, all of the BRICS control that completely and totally.
	If Sudan joins, I think it's Sudan.
	I'm pretty sure it is.
	Between Ethiopia, Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia, they have it all covered.
	They own it.
	And it's kind of like owning a whole section of the board on Monopoly.
	You ain't getting through unless you pay.
	Maybe we just don't want to send it to you any longer.
	All right.
	I don't know.
	Todd, I got a question for Todd on this, but first let me give out your website, Andy.
	It's milesfranklin.com, and that's where people can get gold and silver precious metals from you.
	And just for full disclosure, this is not a sponsored segment.
	We are not paid by Andy or Miles Franklin.
	We don't get a commission or anything like that.
	We always have Andy on because of his expertise.
	But, Todd, my question to you is, You know, Andy, and it's awesome to be here and be able to participate in this interview, but what's going through your mind as someone you own, I think, some amount of gold and silver?
	Are you thinking that you need to get more, or are you thinking sell now and take profits because the price is high?
	What's going through your mind?
	I've been dollar-cost averaging into gold forever.
	I mean, that's...
	Once I started, my wife and I started acquiring gold, and I think it was when it was around like $1,900, we've just been dollar-cost averaging.
	So it really hasn't affected me.
	It's been more of a discipline.
	It's been, you know, a muscle that I've continued to work.
	And...
	I do have a question regarding the price of gold, Andy.
	And can you educate us again about trying to make the price of gold relative to...
	I remember you sharing a story about a suit.
	Like back in the 1920s, you could buy a suit for a silver...
	Like an ounce of gold.
	Like a really good suit, yeah.
	I don't know if you can see that, but...
	That is a $20 gold piece, which is right there.
	A $20 gold piece and a $20 gold certificate.
	The difference between a $20 gold certificate and a $20 bill, a $20 bill now says, in God we trust.
	Here it says payable to the bearer on demand in gold coin.
	So a $20 gold coin back in the early 1900s would have bought you a hell of a nice suit.
	And now, $2,400 an ounce nearly, it buys you a really nice suit.
	It retains its value.
	So it retains its value.
	So the moral of the story, I was thinking this through, I thought, am I doing it all wrong acquiring gold?
	I should just be buying a boatload of suits.
	Well, you know, there's another analogy, too.
	The Census Bureau would tell you that in 1960, the price of a house was $17,000.
	The price of gold was $39.
	And if you take, you know, say your grandfather left your parents...
	If you take 17,000 and divide it by, let me do the math real quick, 17,000 divided by 39, 436 ounces.
	So Grandpa left your parents 436 ounces and they say, well, should we sell the gold and buy the house?
	And no, let's not.
	We'll throw it under the mattress.
	It's been there for 60 years.
	And that house that was $17,000, the Census Bureau today would say it's more like $400,000, an average house in the United States.
	And the price of gold is $23.60.
	So $400,000 divided by $2,360 is 169 ounces.
	So that gold that was earning no interest for 60 years now buys you nearly three ounces.
	Yeah, right.
	And that's the thing.
	And the $17,000, that doesn't even buy you a couch and a TV anymore.
	No.
	That's great.
	And you can go all the way back to the beginning of time and you'll see similar things like this.
	It's the tortoise, not the hare.
	I mean, if you ask people how much is gold up since 2000, no one would really know, but it's outperformed everything.
	It's up 9% per year compounding.
	It's the tortoise, not the hare.
	Little by little by little, it continues to move.
	I think you guys will both appreciate this.
	I recently did a consultation, Mike.
	You know I do those for Decentralized Directory.
	And I had a wonderful woman.
	Her name was Mary.
	She's in her 50s.
	And she has had her grandson who was coming to visit her over the weekend.
	And she said, you and Mike, you guys are so smart and everything.
	Can you give me three pieces of advice that I can give him?
	To demonstrate that there's going to be a bright future, or how to have a bright future.
	And it kind of caught me off guard.
	And I thought about it.
	I said, okay, three things.
	Three pieces of advice.
	Turn off your TV and turn on nature.
	That's one.
	Second, turn off your TV and turn on gold.
	That was the second.
	And the third one was turn off your TV and turn on truth.
	And I said, that's...
	Someone like Mike Adams, you know, who speaks truth to power, the goal you do and everything.
	So you guys have impacted me a lot because, you know, I really think that the bright future, it all centers on the first thing, which is turn off your TV. Nothing good comes from it.
	Would you guys agree?
	Well, absolutely, Todd.
	That's a great story and kind of leads me to a bigger question here for Andy, which is, What's going to be left for the American people that don't follow that kind of advice?
	So people that are still holding dollars and they think that dollars are good, they believe the establishment, these are probably also the same people that are still wearing masks for whatever reason, and they trust whatever the government tells them to do.
	What are they going to be left with when this...
	You know, currency collapse really...
	Universal basic income.
	If you are not a contrarian, you're going to be a victim.
	And if you are fully invested in dollars, you're destined to go broke.
	And I really do believe that, you know, oftentimes if you go back through history in large macro events, there are too many people that hang on, that think this could never happen to us.
	That recency and normalcy bias would say, we've always, with our backs to the wall, We've persevered and prevailed, but this is a country that I think no longer has that same unity.
	We have 12 million people in this country illegally.
	Look at it this way.
	The Congressional Budget Office, which is the last nonpartisan group in all of Washington, said that in seven years, about six and a half years, 2031, That 100% of tax revenue would go to pay just the interest on the debt and mandatory entitlement spending like Social Security.
	That doesn't take into account the 12 million people that are here illegally, who's going to house them, feed them, and give them medical service.
	Who's going to pay for that?
	You can see what's happening in Denver right now.
	The point is, is how do we pretend to be the dominant superpower militarily and financially when military spending is discretional?
	So 100% of discretional spending will have to be borrowed.
	So who's going to borrow us money to fund our military to go around telling the world what to do?
	And it's even more stupid when you realize we're already at that broke place, and yet we continue to give money to the rest of the world, ignoring what's happening in our own backyard, Like money just grows on trees, and that's the mentality that we've always had.
	And that's the rallying cry that is making all of these people, all these countries stick together to find safety in numbers and a massive adoption of ideology and of natural resources and all of these things.
	The glue that makes it work, in my opinion, will be commodities and And transparency.
	It will be gold.
	It will be blockchain.
	They will be married together for the world to see.
	They will audit it.
	They will have it independently audited.
	And now the world will have trust for a system that I don't think anyone will ever trust fiat again.
	Even Kristalina Georgieva, the head of the IMF, said, look, if you have a CBDC and it's not pegged to something, it's going to be fiat.
	And there is no other reason that the Bank of International Settlements would have reclassified gold after 75 years of it just being dollars in treasuries as the only other tier one.
	And there is no other reason that the banks keep buying central banks like they are if they don't have something big in store for it.
	So being in dollars is a disaster.
	A really critical corollary to what you just said is that the BRICS nations are talking about a gold-backed Blockchain-based digital settlement currency to be used by governments, businesses, and individuals.
	And one other thing, too, Mike, that I don't know if you've heard yet, what really got me onto this a long time ago was the Belt Road Initiative.
	That's where I started focusing on this stuff.
	So let me just read you one thing here that is interesting.
	I just read it the other day.
	I'll have it in 10 seconds.
	But real quick, I want to point out that the thing about blockchain is that no nation can counterfeit the currency.
	That's the key.
	This is the first time in the history of human civilization when we have a technology that governments can't cheat.
	That's right.
	And they understand that.
	And more importantly as well, you are outside the SWIFT system.
	So the Belt Road Initiative has every OPEC country on it, everyone.
	And it's got 75% of human population right now, 50% of global GDP. The Chinese government just launched the new public blockchain infrastructure platform led by Confluence Network.
	The new platform dubbed ultra-large-scale blockchain infrastructure platform for the Belt and Road Initiative.
	The main focus of the project is to create a public blockchain infrastructure platform.
	This platform will be able to support, here it is, the implementation of cross-border cooperation projects along the Belt and Road Initiative.
	So you have 75% of human population that will be able to trade with one another not using SWIFT or not using dollars.
	Yes.
	And I would imagine, I'm just guessing, but that can also handle the tracking and country of origin status tracking for products.
	So if you want to know, like, where did these tomatoes come from?
	The blockchain encodes the origins of the tomatoes and tracks it through.
	Todd, this is where the blockchain being transparent is really useful.
	When you want to certify where something was made, where it came from, where did this aluminum come from.
	You can track all the inputs of a project through the blockchain, not to mention the settlement and the payments as well.
	It's a revolutionary technology.
	China's got it.
	Yeah, the infrastructure is being built, period.
	And it's interesting, Zimbabwe, who just applied to the BRICS New Development Bank and has informally expressed interest in joining the BRICS, well, they just came out with their new gold-backed currency.
	But the interesting thing about it is the new currency, and this to me sounds familiar, is a basket of gold.
	Currencies and a basket of commodities.
	Where have we heard that before?
	So you can see they're putting pieces in place.
	Yes, yes.
	Because nobody's going to trust, after the dollar collapses, nobody's going to trust a currency that's just printed by a government that's not backed by anything.
	Right.
	Everybody's going to rush to something backed by metals.
	That's right.
	And President de Gaulle from France proved that convertible currencies convert when he tried to drain all the gold from the U.S., and that's why Nixon closed the gold window.
	That's right.
	So by using blockchain, you don't have to have it convertible.
	You can show immutability.
	If it is properly audited and agreed upon independently, you don't need to have it convertible just so that it is tethered to sanity, so that the governments won't do what all governments have done, what we're doing, and that is inflate the currency to zero, to worthlessness.
	So I think it really is, as Zoltan and Pozar calls it, Bretton Woods III, an era of commodities and transparency.
	And look at what the Chinese are doing.
	They bought the LME, all the base metals.
	They're signing contracts all around the world for food, soybeans, corn, wheat, etc.
	They're building infrastructure all over the world in unindustrialized countries, building oil wells and gold and silver mines and train tracks and maritime channels and roads and bridges and everything you need to industrialize and to do it cooperatively.
	And then they're building the rails for trading currency and commodities cross-border digitally outside the purview of the West.
	All of the things that they are doing, you can see it if you take a step back and say, my God, this is real.
	And there's too much poo-pooing of it and blowing it away.
	I like the phrase logarithmic decay, little by little by little by little and bang all at once.
	And the little by little takes a long time, and that's where you get the naysayers.
	And they're always, well, it takes so long it's a nothing burger.
	But when it happens, I think the speed of the switch will blow people away by how fast it happens.
	In hours, in days at the most.
	Andy, speaking of little by little by little by little, we all know that if we look at the last two decades, the best time to buy gold would have been two decades ago.
	The second best time to buy gold would be today.
	So what I want to do, and again, everybody, you're not a sponsor.
	I just want people to hopefully start developing this muscle.
	How would somebody through you be able to take, let's say, $500 and acquire their first bit of gold, Andy?
	The best way to do it, you know, we have our third version of a new website.
	Let me completely redo it coming out in June.
	And you can buy on our website.
	But for anyone who wants to see our special pricing that we hold closer to the vest, that'll be probably as competitive or more so than anyone in America, is to send us an email with any questions at info at milesfranklin.com.
	Any questions what you've heard here?
	Anything on IRAs or whatever?
	Or you just want the price list?
	And look at our super competitive price list.
	And you can buy online if you want to just do it quickly and easily.
	You'll get a better price if you get the price list and there's no obligation in it.
	And if you have questions, give us a call.
	We will make it very transparent and very easy.
	Do you have anything set up to where somebody could just set up a plan with you and say, hey, I want to invest $250 a month, dollar cost average, auto deducted from my checking account?
	Is there such a thing?
	There is, very much so.
	And I have also just signed a contract with I'm going to wait until the next time on your show to announce it, but it's a...
	Well, I guess I can say it now.
	I mean, I got nothing.
	We're not pressuring you, Andy.
	No, you're not.
	I signed a contract with Glint, and they are an amazing platform.
	I went to London and met with them.
	They've spent a lot of money developing it.
	I've heard of Glint.
	It's a phone platform where you can buy right on your phone like that.
	You can buy monthly.
	They have a deal with MasterCard.
	You can spend your gold if you want.
	Wow.
	It's a really easy way to do it.
	You can connect it to a checking account, to a credit card, whoever you want, and it's instantaneously.
	The gold is physically held at Brinks.
	You can redeem it through us for physical gold.
	So yes, our new website will have that feature.
	A lot of people will call us and we take their ACH information, their checking account or savings account, routing an account, and then they say on the first of the month, buy me $500 of silver maple leaves.
	We do that all the time.
	And then you ship it to them so they can take self-custody, correct?
	Correct.
	Absolutely.
	And, you know, that's the thing.
	Gold and silver in a world of counterparty risk are assets that have none.
	There is no liability.
	And this is why the central banks are buying it, because we are showing our hand as showing them what counterparty liability is, and that's sanctioning and confiscation liability.
	Same thing is true here.
	You let someone hold your gold and silver.
	I mean, there are a lot of great storage programs.
	We have a fantastic one at Brinks.
	I think it's the best in the industry.
	But the beauty of gold and silver is an asset that is simultaneously no one else's liability.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Counterparty risk is going to be – that's a term a lot of people are going to get familiar with when they lose everything.
	Huge.
	By default.
	Yeah.
	Like your bank is a counterparty and – You don't own the money that you put in the bank.
	In fact, you are, by definition, an unsecured general creditor of the bank.
	That's right.
	An FDIC that everyone feels so comfortable with, it has $128 billion in assets backing $18 trillion in deposits.
	Not a good ratio.
	Back to that trillion conversation and how many seconds in 30-some years that is.
	31,688 years ago.
	Pretty much their acronym needs to be enhanced.
	It needs to be F-U-D-I-C. Yeah.
	But in any case, the website is milesfranklin.com.
	Sorry, Todd.
	Andy, thank you as always.
	Just bombshells of information.
	You are so well informed.
	You must spend hours every day staying on top of this situation.
	Says the guy who spends hours every day staying on top of the thing.
	Yes, I do, and so do you.
	It's very obvious, but it's a labor of love.
	It's something I feel very passionate about, and I follow what you guys do, and I love being on your show, and I thank you.
	It's an honor.
	Thank you for the kind words and know that I'll always come back at the drop of a hat if I'm able.
	It's a privilege and an honor to be on a show with you guys who see things so clearly and doing so much for the rest of the world.
	We're honored to have you on.
	This is abundantly clear.
	Anybody paying attention, you can avoid being wiped out.
	But to those people who aren't paying attention, you will be wiped out.
	That's just where we are.
	Thank you, Andy.
	You got it, guys.
	Hey, all the best.
	You have a great weekend, and I look forward to picking up with you both, hopefully not too far down the road where we left off.
	We'll do it again soon.
	All right.
	All right, guys.
	Take care.
	Thanks, Andy.
	Yep.
	All right.
	Bye-bye.
	So that was Andy Schachman, everybody, from milesfranklin.com, just one of the top guys in this space.
	He knows more than anybody else about what's going on.
	So, Todd, how about you and I take a break, and then we'll come back and do the after party.
	You got it.
	Five minutes?
	Let's say ten today.
	Oh, okay.
	Perfect.
	Okay.
	Ten minutes.
	Ten minutes.
	I've got to take my dog out.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	Five-fifteen.
	All right.
	All right.
	Cheers.
	We'll be right back.
	Also, have you seen these?
	These are gold backs, and we've got different denominations to show you there.
	They come in 50, 25, 10, 5, and 1s.
	That's a stack of 1s.
	This is 1,000th of a troy ounce of gold, and it's embedded in the polymer layers in the gold backs, and you can get them, again, at those different denominations, so it's good divisibility of gold.
	And since the gold is in the goldback itself, it's not some fiat currency.
	It's actually a piece of gold that you can use for gifts or barter or trade.
	Even in a local community, if the grid goes down, a lot of people might be using gold and silver or goldbacks.
	Now, if you go to our website, verifiedgoldbacks.com, that's our affiliate site, we do earn a little bit off your purchase there, but what we've done is we've done the laboratory testing.
	And on that site, you'll see my lab test results, how we tested them using a kiln, using an ICP-MS mass spec instrument, using an acid stone test here as well.
	We verified the purity and the masses of the gold that are embedded in these different bills.
	And in fact, I've got here in these vials in my hands right here, this is actually one of the pellets of gold.
	I melted it down into like a BB shape.
	I don't know if you can see it, but I've got gold in these three vials right here.
	Yeah, there you can kind of see it moving around there.
	You can hear them.
	And we did the tests on these, and this is the gold that came out of these gold backs.
	So we were able to confirm the gold is real.
	It's 24 karat plus, and it actually exceeds the mass that's required.
	Our recovery ranged from 102% to about 100 and, what was it, typically 105%.
	I've got the results here.
	Check this out.
	Look at these photos.
	I did all this myself.
	So if you melt them down, you get this, and then you keep melting, you get it into like a pellet, and then you use an analytical balance in the laboratory, and you do the math.
	It's pretty amazing.
	At first, you get this gold foil, which is pretty cool, and then you can melt the foil into this BB pellet-looking thing.
	Anyway, here's the recoveries we got from a low of 102.89% or 101.96%, that's the lowest, to 107% recovery.
	And the bottom line is, if you want real gold in your hands that's divisible, that is also incredibly beautiful, that people instantly love, they recognize this, they see, wow, that's gold, and they're actually looking at gold.
	This isn't paint.
	this is the gold just kind of made really thin and put into this format and then sandwiched between polymers.
	Goldbacks are your answer.
	So check out verifiedgoldbacks.com.
	And there you can purchase goldbacks and you can help support this platform at the same time because we earn a small percentage.
	And this is a really good form of off-grid money.
	And you might have gold coins or silver coins.
	And I strongly encourage gold and silver coins, but a gold coin is a pretty big piece of value to try to trade with, you know?
	You're in a farmer's market, like, I want a loaf of bread.
	What do you have?
	I have a one-ounce gold coin.
	Well, that's worth $2,200.
	Gold's skyrocketing.
	So, what are you going to do?
	Like, buy a loaf of bread and then give me change for the one ounce of gold?
	No.
	But if you're trying to buy that loaf of bread with a goldback, you say, hey, how would you like one one thousandth of an ounce of gold for that loaf of bread in this format, goldbacks, which actually has a premium over just the raw price of gold because it's better than just one one thousandth of an ounce of gold.
	I mean, it's in a format that's...
	It's beautiful to look at.
	It's durable.
	You can carry it.
	It fits in a wallet or a pocket or a purse.
	A lot of merchants will say, absolutely, I'll take that gold.
	And now you can buy a loaf of bread or you can buy a bag of potatoes or whatever, depending on what the economy looks like after the debt collapse.
	I don't know what it's going to look like exactly, but I know I want gold and silver, and I want to have lots of different options of money that works off-grid.
	So, yeah, our grid's not reliable.
	Our monetary system is not reliable.
	The currency is not reliable.
	But you know what you can count on?
	Physical gold and silver in your hands.
	That's what you can count on.
	It doesn't need a password.
	You don't need to log in.
	It doesn't need the bank's permission to have value.
	It doesn't need the backing of a government.
	You don't have to have faith in the treasury to confiscate money from people.
	This has value all by itself.
	And gold has had value for centuries.
	I mean, come on, millennia, what am I saying?
	And it will continue to have value long after the collapse of the dollar and probably the collapse of Western civilization itself.
	So, there you go.
	That's why the wealthy are buying gold like crazy.
	That's why gold is spiking.
	What is it now?
	Let me actually bring it up.
	Gold.
	Here it is right now, gold at $2,128.
	Silver at $23.67.
	These are all skyrocketing.
	Bitcoin is skyrocketing.
	Gold is skyrocketing.
	Monero is skyrocketing.
	Why?
	Because people who know what's about to happen, they are bailing out of the banks.
	They're bailing out of the dollars.
	They're getting out of the system.
	They're going to off-grid forms of asset protection.
	And that's gold and silver and land and certain types of crypto and maybe food supplies or ammunition supplies.
	And if you want food, of course, check us out at healthrangerstore.com and we've got you covered there.
	So consider your options, do your research, and make sure you are ready for what's about to happen.
	Look at that.
	That's beautiful.
	That's gold.
	This is so cool.
	The 50 is thick.
	It is very thick.
	And it's much larger than the 1.
	Because there's 51 thousandths of an ounce of gold in this.
	And if you could feel it, it's heavier.
	It's thicker.
	Because the gold is actually in there.
	You really can't put much more gold in a bill than 51 thousandths of an ounce.
	So they've done a great job with this, the Goldback Company, and this is something that has really intrigued a lot of people, and it's another form of having stores of value that are highly divisible and have high utility, more utility than just a one-ounce coin itself.
	So be sure to check these out again, verifiedgoldbacks.com, and thank you for your support.
	Get ready, because we're headed into interesting times.
	Be safe.
	Take care.
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