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	Welcome to Brighton Broadcast News for Friday, June 21st, 2024.
	I'm Mike Adams.
	Of course, thank you for joining me today.
	We've got a lot to cover, a lot of breaking news, mostly.
	Well, the big fireworks are all about Netanyahu, the IDF, Hezbollah.
	Some big announcement from a military leader in Israel saying they have realized they cannot defeat Hamas.
	And other related news, plus some news about a Japanese bank that's in trouble and dumping U.S. Treasuries.
	We're going to get to all that.
	And then in terms of the interview today, I'm going to play the interview with John Peterson that I just filmed earlier this week.
	John Peterson from the Arlington Institute.
	And the Arlington Institute is an organization that focuses on futurism and where are we headed?
	How do we shape our future as a civilization?
	And John Peterson worked with the Department of Defense, I believe, as a futurist, and he has a military background himself.
	And part of his task was to brief the military on what's coming.
	And I don't mean like in the next few months.
	I'm talking about years down the road.
	And one of the areas that John Peterson covers is, of course, the existence of non-human civilizations in our cosmos and the advanced or exotic technology that those other civilizations have.
	And And how some of that technology has been transferred to humanity, and how the DoD has, of course, captured some of that technology, some of it, I think, in 1947, and they've reverse-engineered some rather exotic materials and things like the transistor and things that have become modern-day technology, perhaps quantum computing, who knows?
	But it's a truly fascinating conversation with John Peterson, And I learned a lot from the conversation.
	I think you will as well.
	So I think you'll really enjoy this one.
	So stay tuned for that.
	It's coming up.
	The other thing I want to mention is we now have natto kinase at our store, healthrangerstore.com.
	Natto kinase, as it's called, N-A-T-T-O. Natto kinase.
	And you'll recognize from the kinase that it's an enzyme.
	And natokinase has become very popular.
	I was one of the first people to talk about this, by the way, years ago.
	And then, you know, even before COVID and even before everybody was talking about the blood and fibrin and all these things.
	Today...
	It's like some people out there just discovered natto kinase.
	I was checking samples like in 2009.
	I was at the Expo West trade show and I remember a man was there from Japan and he was giving me samples of natto kinase.
	That was actually the first time I learned about it, but I've been talking about natto kinase for a long time.
	Well, what does natto kinase do?
	Here's what's interesting.
	If you go to search.brave.com, this is the Brave search engine.
	I think it's one of the better search engines out there.
	It's certainly better than Google.
	And if you type in a question there, it will give you an AI aggregate answer.
	And these answers are very good.
	It's actually doing a lot of research for you.
	And it is citing many different sources, such as the Japan Natokinase Association, by the way.
	And so, Natokinase supplements, they're rated in terms of their potency by a unit that has kind of a hilarious name.
	The unit is called the FU. Now, I'm not joking.
	The FU... The fibro-nolytic unit.
	Okay?
	The fibro-nolytic unit.
	Now, if you ask Brave this question, what does FU mean for natokinase?
	Okay?
	Ask it that question.
	And it will tell you the following.
	Now, I just want to be clear.
	I'm not making these claims about our product, okay?
	I'm just going to read for you what Brave Search says about FU units and natokinase.
	I know, it's a funny name.
	I get it.
	I was even thinking, since the natto kinase that we sell has 5,000 FUs per serving, which is two capsules, I was thinking, man, I should send a bottle to Fauci.
	With a note, hey Fauci, here, have 5,000 FUs, courtesy of the Health Ranger, okay?
	And, like, you know, what a great way to give somebody a meaningful gift.
	Anyway, if you ask Brave, what does FU mean for natto cadets, here's what it says, okay?
	And again, I'm not claiming that this is about...
	Well, let me just read the answer for you.
	It says that natokinase is an enzyme that reduces the viscosity of blood and reduces its tendency to clot.
	The unit of potency for natokinase is defined in terms of its ability to dissolve fibrin, the protein found in clots.
	In other words, FU measures the enzyme's ability to break down fibrin.
	Okay?
	So that's just from a biochemistry point of view, that's what FU does.
	And anyway, the answer continues.
	In the context of natokinase supplements, FU is often used to express the enzyme's activity.
	For example, a typical dosage of natokinase might be 100 mg per day, which is equivalent to 2,000 FUs.
	This means that the supplement contains an enzyme that can break down 2,000 units of fibrin.
	Okay?
	And then it goes on and says, it's important to note that FU is different from IU, which is international units.
	So if you're ever wondering...
	FUs are different from IUs.
	While IU is a more widely recognized unit, FU is specifically used to measure the fibrinolytic activity of natokinase.
	Okay, got that?
	So if Fauci comes along and says, you need to take this jab, your answer could be 5,000 FUs.
	Thank you, Fauci.
	Maybe FU could be like Fauci University too, I suppose.
	We're getting carried away now.
	But fibrin is, this is something that is being talked about a lot lately.
	And you may have heard about things like fibrinogen.
	And in fact, I was recently talking to some high-level researchers that I can't release any information at this time, but it was very informative about fibrinogen and how these fibrous tissues are actually generated by the body in the body.
	In a way that seems to be, let's say, a little bit out of control in certain people under certain circumstances, right?
	So that's why there's been a lot of interest in enzymes like natokinase, although I will say for the regulators listening, we don't claim that our product treats or prevents or cures or reverses any disease or condition.
	It's simply a natural supplement of natokinase, which is an enzyme that a lot of people are interested in.
	So We do our lab testing as usual, heavy metals tests.
	We do glyphosate testing and also E. coli and other microbiology tests to make sure that we have the cleanest natokinase.
	And also, our natokinase is China-free.
	And it's also, of course, non-GMO. And glyphosate tested, laboratory verified, like I said.
	So check it out at healthrangerstore.com, natokinase, 5,000 FUs per serving, which is two capsules.
	So if you only want 2,500 FUs, only take one capsule.
	Now, I will add this.
	I've been taking natokinase for several years.
	And if you go to the Natokinase Society of Japan, which is at the website j-natokinase.org, It says that natto kinase comes from a traditional Japanese food called natto, N-A-T-T-O. It's a food made from soybeans fermented by bacillus natto.
	So yes, this is a fermented soy.
	So it doesn't have all the same stuff that's in the original soy.
	Rather, the bacteria, the strain Bacillus natto, has converted it and it has synthesized new molecules, specifically these enzymes known as natokinase.
	This food has been eaten for about 1,200 years in Japan.
	And the enzymes that are produced by fermentation with the bacillus natto bacteria include protease.
	And Dr.
	Oshima at the Hokkaido Imperial University reported its purification and characteristics.
	Since then, it was investigated as a serine protease enzyme.
	And then in the 1980s, the enzyme that degrades fibrin proteins was named as natokinase.
	And natokinase, it says, is found in the sticky part of natto.
	That's good to know.
	I was wondering which part.
	Like, what do you do with the sticky part?
	Oh, that's the part that you eat.
	Okay.
	In addition, recent research has revealed that natokinase has a function of degrading plasminogen activator inhibitor, also known as PAI1, and reducing the euglobulin lysis time.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	So, in other words, faster deconstruction of the fibrin.
	And therefore, it has a function of improving the thrombolytic activity.
	Okay?
	So that's from the Japanese natokinase association or Japan natokinase association.
	And then it goes on to talk about things, different conditions and things that, you know, we can't say in the U.S. because of regulators and so on.
	But it's interesting to me that there's so much technology that comes out of Japan, even from ancient remedies.
	And another product that we sell that's actually very well known in Japan is miso soup.
	We have actually an instant miso soup powder that we sell in number 10 cans.
	Miso soup was one of the things that was consumed routinely by many Japanese citizens following Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
	For various reasons, having to do with supporting the body's natural ability to repair itself, to regenerate, to recover from obviously, well, being bombed, exposure.
	I mean, I'm not saying that miso soup is a super healing potion that can bring the dead back to life.
	No, it doesn't do that.
	But it can support your body's own natural ability to heal and repair and restore, which is compromised when people suffer things like, you know, ionizing radiation exposure or immune suppression, high stress, and so on.
	So we have both yellow and red miso.
	And again, I can't go into all the details here about it, but if you start to dig and look into miso, M-I-S-O, you will find some pretty amazing things.
	And that comes again from Japan.
	And then also the Japanese diet being very rich in seaweed and different types of seaweeds, not only in sushi but other traditional Japanese cuisine dishes, it tends to be then naturally very high in iodine because iodine is strongly represented in seaweed species.
	And so the Japanese people...
	Traditionally, they've been getting much more iodine than have Westerners, especially Midwesterners who don't eat seaweed, because I know I'm one of them.
	And I grew up on meat and potatoes, peas and carrots, and we didn't eat seaweed.
	We're like, yuck, we don't even know what that stuff is.
	That's just the way we're raised in the Midwest, you know?
	And then later on I moved to Taiwan and then got introduced to a lot of different seaweed dishes in Taiwan, some of which were actually brought by Japan.
	There's a lot of cross-cultural exchange of food and Japanese cuisine is very influential in the region.
	That's why you can find Japanese dishes, Japanese influence on food in Taiwan or Hong Kong or even Korea for that matter and of course in mainland China as well.
	So The Japanese culture is one that has long recognized the value of nutrition.
	And Japanese scientists have researched nutrition for, you know, even in modern times, many, many decades.
	They're way ahead of Western nutrition.
	And as a result of all of this, when Japanese eat their traditional Japanese diets, they tend to have almost no cancer, no breast cancer in women, no prostate cancer in men, and so on.
	And some people believe that's due to the very high levels of iodine and other substances that are found in seaweeds.
	There's like brown seaweed and fucoidin and all kinds of polysaccharides that are found that are unique to different species of seaweed.
	And then when Japanese immigrate to America and they begin to consume the American diet of processed foods and Western foods, Then what happens is Japanese become obese and cancer-ridden.
	And those of you listening who are Japanese, of Japanese origin or Japanese ethnicity, you know exactly what I'm talking about.
	You'll have, like, the mom and dad, healthy young couple from Japan, and they'll immigrate to America, and they still eat the traditional Japanese diet, but then their kids grow up in America, and they go to the American schools, and they eat the American foods, and American McDonald's, and everything.
	And the kids are like, oh, mom and dad eat yucky, you know.
	Old-timers food from Japan.
	We're not going to eat that stuff.
	We're going to eat this, you know, modern food, which is garbage.
	And then the kids end up with diabetes and obesity and cancer.
	You see what I'm saying?
	And this is also true for, you know, Chinese Americans.
	When they lived in China and ate traditional Chinese food, they were way healthier.
	And then they'd come to America, and then the next generation is obese and cancer-ridden and diabetes and whatever, heart disease, all of it.
	So this is the same story over and over again.
	Those of you listening who live outside the United States, if you have children or grandchildren, please teach them your traditional diets, no matter where you are.
	If you're a Pacific Islander, teach them the traditional Pacific Island diets, even the taro root and all the seafood and everything.
	Wherever you are in the world, teach your kids and grandkids traditional diets, and they will be far healthier as a result.
	Because any population that begins to take on American food and American medications and American personal care products ends up being disease, obese, cancer, heart disease, diabetes, dementia, Alzheimer's, whatever.
	It's all the same story because it's cause and effect.
	What you eat determines the health outcome you get.
	So if you want to be healthy, look at what the Japanese did traditionally in their foods, and that includes natto.
	Oh, there's one more thing I should warn you about, by the way.
	We put this in capsules because natto by itself, at least from my point of view as a Midwesterner, natto is the nastiest tasting stuff other than Vegemite from Australia, which is super nasty.
	I don't know how you Australians eat that stuff.
	I don't even know how...
	You put it in a Vegemite sandwich, as Men at Work was singing about in the 1980s.
	A Vegemite sandwich?
	Are you kidding me?
	When I was in Sydney, actually I spent a summer in Manly, Australia, which was across the harbor from Sydney, and someone there gave me Not a Vegemite sandwich, but a piece of toast with Vegemite on it, like spread on top of it.
	And I was thinking, ah, this is like toast with jelly, because that's what I would have had in the Midwest where I grew up.
	Toast with jelly.
	Put butter and jelly on.
	That's awesome.
	And I take a bite.
	I'm like, did something die on this piece of bread?
	What are you doing to me?
	That's Vegemite.
	Now, interestingly, Vegemite is made by fermenting something.
	I'm not sure what the raw material is, but Vegemite is basically yeast.
	It's like yeast waste or something.
	And it's filled with, by the way, frankly, glutamate.
	So that's why I don't touch Vegemite.
	I guess if you were raised with it, maybe it's normal.
	I don't know.
	I can't even stand this stuff.
	Natto in Japan kind of reminds me of Vegemite.
	I'm not going to eat this stuff, but I love the health benefits, and so I take it in capsule form, and that's what I'm recommending.
	Frankly, I wish I grew up with more of a world palette of foods.
	I wish I did.
	I wish I had sushi as a kid.
	I wish I had whatever that shredded...
	Pork seafood thing is that they serve in Taiwan for breakfast.
	Like all the Taiwan families for breakfast, they have like steamed rice with this like shredded pork.
	It's like hairy pork shreds.
	It's like fine.
	It's like if you had steel wool, like really fine steel wool, but it was made of pork.
	And shredded into very fine fibers and it was red, that's what they have for breakfast, okay?
	So I never got into that.
	I was like, what are you eating?
	For God's sake, you know, I'll just have like a fried egg and like, you know, a piece of bread or something, you know?
	But anyway, I wish I had more of a broad palate.
	I really wish I did, but I don't, so I'm just being honest.
	Alright, now let's transition from Japanese food to the Japanese banking system because things are getting exciting.
	We now have a banking giant in Japan that goes by the following word, which I shall try to pronounce correctly.
	Norinchuken.
	Norinchuken?
	Norinchuken.
	Hope I'm getting that right.
	That's an unusual bank name.
	Okay, I'm trying.
	I've got to ask Michael Yan, how do you say this in Japanese?
	Anyway, they're forced to liquidate $63 billion in treasuries and European bonds, it turns out, because, of course, well, they're underwater.
	So they've lost a lot of money because they made some bad bets on interest rates.
	We've heard that before.
	It's Japan's fifth largest bank.
	It has almost a trillion dollars in assets, or at least, you know, it did.
	And now, as reported by Japanese news organization Nikkei, quote, we will sell more than $63 billion of holdings of U.S. and European government bonds over the next year, ending in March of 2025.
	In order to stem losses from bets on low-yield foreign bonds, which is the main cause of its deteriorating balance sheet.
	Okay, sound familiar?
	Because this is what U.S. banks did also.
	So for some reason, they bought a bunch of long-term bond instruments, which had very low yields, but very far-out maturity dates, such as 10 years, for example.
	And then as interest rates actually rose...
	Well, the banks would have to sell the bonds before maturity.
	And as bond prices are inversely related to interest rates, many of the bonds of US banks had lost a tremendous portion of their value, some of them even 50% of their value.
	And then when banks were forced to sell those bonds in order to meet withdrawal obligations by customers, then these banks had to, quote, realize all kinds of losses that had previously just been unrealized on the books losses.
	But when people demand their money, you know, the losses get real.
	And of course, remember that a little over a year ago, then the U.S. Treasury opened up this emergency window.
	I forgot what they called it.
	It was like, we'll loan you all the money that covers your unrealized losses as long as you hold the bonds to maturity.
	And, you know, we'll just hand you all this free money.
	And then that program ended, I think, in March of this year in the United States.
	It might have been April.
	And then from that, we saw some more smaller US banks failing this year.
	Not huge ones yet.
	Probably the big ones will always be bailed out with more money printing.
	But a lot of warning signs started to ripple through the financial system.
	And as I've said on this show, The dollar's in trouble, the euro is in trouble, and the yen is in trouble.
	And these three currencies are all going to fall.
	The real question is sort of what's the sequence of them?
	Most people believe the dollar will be the last to fall.
	The yen is the most vulnerable, according to many people, and the Japanese central bank has struggled for many years and has actually unleashed what will be a tsunami of bad debt in Japan.
	It's kind of interesting because there's a parallel but different situation shaping up in China because of the Ponzi property scheme, property developer scheme, where a lot of the Chinese people have put their retirement money.
	But in Japan, it's an institutional problem where these banks have made bad bets.
	It's turned against them, and now they're going to have to unload things.
	Now, the fact that they're going to be unloading $63 billion in largely U.S. Treasuries means there's going to be a lot of selling pressure then on U.S. Treasuries over the next year.
	This is going to hurt because the U.S. Treasury is having a more difficult time finding buyers.
	Why?
	Well, because who wants to buy into the debt of a collapsing currency, right?
	I mean, we've talked about this.
	In fact, I have a special report to play for you here today.
	It's called Why the Dollar Fails on All the Things That Matter, Fungibility, Store of Value, and Resistance to Government Counterfeiting.
	I'm going to play that here shortly because it's really, really important that you understand why the dollar, why its properties actually encourage nations to stop using the dollar.
	The dollar does not have good properties, the properties that you would want in money.
	It's kind of like if you were shopping for a, I don't know, let's say an automatic dishwasher or let's say a car.
	Let's say you're shopping for a car, okay?
	And you're like, okay, I want the car to have four wheels.
	Okay, great.
	I want the car, I want the engine to work.
	Great.
	I want the brakes to work.
	Okay, awesome.
	I want you to be able to steer it.
	These kinds of basic things for a car.
	And then what if you go to a car dealer, and it's called the US Treasury car dealer, and Janet Yellen is the salesperson there.
	Amazing.
	Hi, Janet.
	How are you doing today?
	And you're doubling down or hiding your wallet in your purse because Janet Yellen is going to steal everything in sight and say, it's not theft when we do it.
	So you go to the dollar car dealer, the Janet Yellen special, and you're like, I want to buy a car.
	And Janet Yellen says, oh, that's great.
	No problem here.
	We have a car.
	And you're like, it's missing wheels.
	She's like, oh, you want wheels?
	Oh, well, we could get you a car with wheels.
	You're like, then it has no brakes.
	The doors, it's missing doors.
	There's no roof.
	The engine doesn't start.
	Oh, you want all those things, Will, now.
	You know, If the car you were buying lacked all those things, that would be equivalent to the dollar.
	Because the dollar lacks all the things that make money And I'll explain this in a special report.
	And this is why so many countries are choosing other currencies.
	They're getting away from the dollar any chance they can.
	And the only reason they were using the dollar was because they were forced to.
	And now that they have an option, which is BRICS, they are choosing BRICS. So then back to Japan, with Japan now selling off the $63 billion worth of U.S. Treasuries, it's going to make it...
	Much more difficult for the U.S. Treasury to sell debt, which means that it's going to have to raise the yields on Treasuries that it does sell, or print a bunch of money from the Fed and have the Fed buy the Treasuries, you know, the bonds, which is probably already happening, by the way.
	It's like they do a treasury auction and somehow they find buyers to buy treasuries at whatever it is right now, you know, 5.2% or whatever the number is, I've lost track of it.
	But I'm always amazed, like, who would buy U.S. debt for such a low yield?
	And the answer is nobody, really.
	So they're going to have to raise the number to 6% or 7%, 8% and so on.
	And as this happens, then servicing America's debt becomes all the more expensive because of compounding interest on the debt.
	So in other words, the crisis in Japan's banking system is beginning to spill over into the U.S. system and The U.S. debt market and that's going to make it more expensive for the U.S. to sell its debt or to borrow from investors who are buying U.S. debt.
	And that's going to accelerate the total collapse of basically the debt-based Ponzi scheme.
	Now, I know I'm simplifying this.
	I'm blurring over lots of details.
	But this is the overall big picture.
	And that's why this matters.
	You're like, what do I care if a Japanese bank collapses?
	Well, they're selling off $63 million of U.S. Treasuries.
	That's why it matters.
	It's going to make it more difficult for the U.S. to sell debt.
	And it's going to make the final collapse of the U.S. empire closer.
	It'll be arriving more quickly.
	So let's go to my first special report, why the dollar fails on all the things that matter.
	So to really understand why the world is so rapidly moving away from the dollar, it's critical to realize that when countries have a choice in what currencies to use for international settlement trade transactions, that they will use a currency that has the most desirable properties.
	And that the only reason that most countries have been using the dollar is because they've been forced to.
	And now that the Saudis, for example, have refused to renew the 50-year agreement that required oil to be bought and sold in dollars from the Saudis, now all these other countries are able to use different currencies.
	So let's step back for a moment.
	What would be the ideal properties of a currency if you're a nation?
	Let's say you have your own nation somewhere.
	And you want to use a currency to buy, sell, and trade with other countries.
	What would you like that currency to exhibit in terms of its properties?
	So, number one would be you want it to be a store of value.
	So you want to be able to buy that currency and sit on it for a while, if necessary, and then to be able to use it and not lose much value in the interim, right?
	So store of value is absolutely key.
	And that should be obvious to everybody.
	The second property, or some would argue this is even maybe the first property, is fungibility.
	You want to be able to use that currency in any way that you want to.
	You don't want artificial limits and restrictions placed on the currency.
	You don't want the currency to be only good in some cases, but not good in other cases because that's a lack of fungibility.
	Well, technically fungibility means that every unit of currency is the same as every other unit, but that speaks to the universality of being able to use the currency in ways that you would like to use them.
	So is the dollar fungible as a currency?
	The answer is no, because of economic sanctions.
	So sanction is really financial deplatforming.
	It's when the government just says, well, we're not going to allow you to use the platform of financial transactions that's used across Western nations, such as SWIFT. You're deplatformed from SWIFT. Well, that means the dollars that you hold, if it's dollars, are no longer usable.
	So they're no longer fungible.
	Now your dollars are worth less than other people's dollars because your dollars can't be sent through the banking system, which means you can't make purchases with them.
	So you've lost fungibility, and as a side effect, you've lost the store of value as well.
	And by the way, sorry about the background noise.
	We're getting a lot of rain all of a sudden in Texas.
	This is fun.
	Woo!
	Free water from the sky.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	Gotta love it.
	So this is why Putin says that the number one criteria for joining the BRICS system is that your country does not participate in economic sanctions.
	Because sanctions decrease the fungibility and then they introduce all of this judgment into the currency.
	Where some other nation can say, well, we don't want you to be able to use the currency because we don't like your politics or your culture.
	Or your religion.
	Oh, your country is a bunch of Muslims and you don't accept LGBT pedophiles and groomers and child mutilators like we do in the West.
	Therefore, we're going to sanction you.
	And yes, that's actually happened.
	So a lot of these countries are like, what?
	That's insane.
	You're saying that if we don't mutilate children, then we can't use your currency?
	Yes!
	Yes!
	And that is why nations will choose the BRICS currency over the dollar.
	It's not like you have to sell it.
	You know, it's not like you have to force anybody.
	You don't have to put a gun to their head and say, use BRICS or else we'll pull trigger.
	No.
	It's like, please let us not use the dollar.
	Please give us an option of something that's not weaponized and filled with sanctions and losing value and being printed into oblivion.
	These countries, if given a choice, they will run from the U.S. dollar.
	And that's exactly what's happening.
	That's why so many countries are joining BRICS right now, including most recently what Malaysia announced they're going to be joining BRICS. We already have Thailand has made an announcement, Turkey has announced it, of course, Saudi Arabia, and of course all the original BRICS members, plus a lot of other countries, you know, dozens of other countries around the world.
	They just want a currency that functions as a currency without being this overlord that's always censoring your activities as a nation.
	Now, isn't it interesting that the Western government pushes essentially financial censorship, which is what economic sanctions are.
	They push financial censorship against these other nations in the same way that they push regular content censorship against the American people.
	And I've said this many times that the United States government treats the American people the same way they treat the rest of the world, which is to say horrifically.
	the entire system is weaponized against you.
	If they don't like you, they silence you.
	They threaten you.
	They coerce you.
	In some cases, they target you to destroy your business, or they target you for assassinations in certain cases.
	I mean, that happens internationally as well, so it just depends on what nation and what circumstance you're talking about.
	But there's something else that the West does in order to get countries to keep using the dollar, and that is they go in and they bomb the country.
	So they bomb Somalia, they bomb Sudan, they bomb whoever.
	You know, the U.S. has bombed all these nations into oblivion.
	Yugoslavia, you know, back in the 1990s.
	They bombed the bejesus out of the place, and then they install a puppet leader, which is what they did in Ukraine also in 2014.
	And then they say to the puppet leader, hey...
	What you need to do is sign here, and this says that your nation will take on all these loans from the Western financial system.
	And these loans, well, the money won't go to you, actually.
	The money will go to our Western corporations that will be given this money to rebuild your country, you know, because we just bombed it.
	And then after they rebuild your country, you're going to owe us a lot of money.
	You know, billions of dollars, obviously, because we had to rebuild the airport, we had to rebuild the aqueducts, we had to rebuild the water system, the power grid, everything.
	Gosh, that was expensive, man.
	Woo, boy, those bombs did a lot of damage.
	Thank you, Boeing.
	Boeing is the only company that has bombs falling out of the sky that are meant to be passenger airplanes, by the way, but that's another story.
	So then this target country that has been enslaved under the system is told, oh, by the way, when you repay these loans, you have to pay them in dollars.
	Because these are dollar loans and dollar repayments.
	So then that country is forever forced to go out and buy dollars in order to make payments on the loans, which they can never pay back because the loan is structured in a way to keep that nation enslaved forever.
	That's the whole point.
	That's the economic hitman approach to ruling the world.
	And that's what the West has done throughout Central and South America, throughout African nations, Middle Eastern nations, European nations, you name it, okay?
	Even Southeastern nations over time.
	So that creates artificial demand for the dollar.
	Well, what BRICS is doing now is saying that, hey, you smaller nations, if you default on your debt to the West, we won't hold that against you.
	So just go ahead and default on your Western debt.
	Come over to the BRICS side of the fence here, and you can start with a clean slate.
	You can start using BRICS currencies.
	You can get loans in BRICS units, tokens, whatever it looks like.
	And you never have to repay those Western loans.
	And guess what?
	You can keep your infrastructure.
	Yeah, kind of a sweet deal.
	And more and more countries are lining up to take that deal.
	So if you're some smaller African or South American nation, And you're weighing the options.
	Let's see.
	I could stay with the Western financial system where we will be enslaved forever under a dollar-based system where we have to make debt payments that we can't afford.
	We'll never get out from underneath this debt.
	And we have to do what the U.S. tells us to do.
	We have to have LGBT pride parades.
	Otherwise, they'll sanction us.
	And then we can't get the dollars that we need to repay the loans.
	And then they'll confiscate our country.
	That's choice number one.
	Or choice number two...
	We declare the Western debt to be illegal, null and void, we join the BRICS system, and then we start doing trade with the rest of the world, most of the world, with China, with Russia, India, Iran, Brazil, Turkey, everybody else, and we have no debt.
	We start free and clear, and the currency that we use can't be weaponized against us, and there's no other country telling us that we have to be gay pride parade month.
	Or that we have to have GMOs or that we have to push these pharmaceuticals or pesticides or all the other poisons that the Western system pushes on the world because it's, of course, a government corporate cabal of criminals that wants to profit while poisoning the entire planet.
	That's what they do.
	You know, they push herbicides, pesticides, pharmaceuticals, and toxic culture and toxic currency on the world.
	And then demand everybody use dollars.
	So I ask you, again, if you're a nation, which choice would you take?
	Which currency would you want to use?
	The currency that's free and clear?
	Or the currency where you have to obey your dollar masters?
	And the choice becomes quite clear almost instantly.
	Countries will choose the BRICS currency because it's a better currency.
	Because it gives them more freedom, more options, and it holds more value.
	And by the way, the BRICS currency will be backed by gold.
	40% of it will be backed by gold.
	So that means something else very, very important.
	And actually, this might be the most important property.
	I should have mentioned it earlier.
	The BRICS currency cannot be counterfeited by one nation.
	So you see, one of the worst things about the dollar is the fact that it can be printed into oblivion by the United States.
	And only the United States.
	So that's this unique ability to cheat, to create money from nothing, and then to convince all these other nations to participate in that money system, but where those other nations have to actually earn it.
	They have to build something and sell something or produce something.
	But the U.S. doesn't have to produce anything other than debt.
	They just print the money, and then suddenly it has the same value Well, that's a dishonest ledger, as it's known.
	It's a cheating system.
	That's the system that has driven the United States to apparent economic prosperity for over 50 years.
	That system is no longer going to be chosen by other countries around the world.
	That system is obsolete.
	In fact, the new BRICS system is a decentralized system.
	It's not controlled by one country, which means no one country can counterfeit the currency in the system.
	So it can't be rigged.
	And besides, if you want BRICS units, you have to show up with 40% gold plus your own local currency.
	Well, okay, so a country can print a bunch of currency and show up, but what about the gold?
	You've got to show up with 40% physical gold in order to get BRICS units.
	So you can't counterfeit it.
	You've got to buy the gold.
	By the way, what do you think is going to happen to the world price of gold as this kicks in?
	Gold is very likely going to have crazy high demand as more and more countries want to get in with the BRICS system.
	They're going to be buying gold like crazy, which of course China has already been doing for the last several years in preparation for the gold-backed BRICS currency, which again is decentralized.
	And it's a decentralized, distributed ledger.
	It's not permissionless, however.
	It's permissioned.
	Which means that...
	You can't have just anybody just roll in and start a node like you can with Bitcoin.
	Instead, with the BRICS currency, the distributed ledger, which provides a consensus mechanism for transactions to be cleared, this is distributed across partners that are approved, which would be, of course, all the governments that are participating in the central banks and the financial institutions of the nations that are participating in this.
	So there would be multiple nodes in Russia, multiple nodes in China, nodes in India, Iran, Turkey, whatever.
	And that way nobody can cheat because Russia can't flood its nodes with a bunch of fake transactions and say, I will Russia, we create a new BRICS currency from thin air.
	And, you know, that wouldn't work because all the other countries would say, well, we don't confirm these transactions.
	Because they're not real.
	So those are rejected.
	And so Russia would not have the units.
	Just like if you try to counterfeit Bitcoin.
	Like you have a Bitcoin wallet on one of your computers and you copy that wallet to another computer.
	And then you try to spend Bitcoin twice.
	Which is not very clever because that's the very first thing that everybody thinks of, well, what if I just spend it twice?
	Well, the whole point of the consensus mechanism of Bitcoin is that it prevents double spends.
	Otherwise, there would be no integrity in the system and Bitcoin would have zero value.
	And the same thing is true with the BRICS system.
	There are no double spends or double creations of fiat currency.
	And so again, as a result, think about this, as a result, it will be the world's only honest currency That's used by governments.
	I mean, Bitcoin is honest currency because, well, for the very same reason, it can't be counterfeited.
	Gold is honest currency, but it's not yet used by governments.
	But bricks will be backed 40% with gold, and bricks cannot be counterfeited.
	And as I've said before, like, when can I buy some bricks, man?
	I want to be a bricklayer.
	I'm going to get into financial masonry, yeah.
	Give me some bricks.
	The closest thing you can do to that is to buy gold.
	Because in the West, you know, you probably won't be able to buy bricks because it'll probably be outlawed because they want to force you to buy dollars, which is an inferior currency.
	So the closest that you can get to that, again, is to buy gold.
	And right now you can buy gold.
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	And with smaller denominations like one one-thousandth of an ounce of gold that you can get in goldbacks.com.
	So those are two solutions to check out.
	But think about other things.
	Where can you put dollars?
	You've probably already thought about this a lot if you've listened to me for any time.
	You're probably into some land or some ammo or some diesel or gold and silver, almost certainly, and maybe crypto, Bitcoin or other privacy crypto.
	I prefer privacy crypto, but it's under attack by the governments of the world.
	That's a little bit concerning.
	But wherever you decide to put your money, just recognize right now that whatever you have left in dollars will be gone.
	It will be stolen from you.
	Janet Yellen just admitted it.
	She just said that the banks and the institutions, they can steal all the earnings from all your deposits because those earnings aren't yours.
	They belong to the institution, she said.
	She said this with, I think it was ABC News.
	She said it when she was asked about, whoa, isn't the West stealing all this money from Russia?
	She says, no, we're not stealing anything from Russia, as they steal everything from Russia.
	She said, it's not theft.
	All we've done is we've immobilized Russia's $300 billion in deposits.
	That's not theft.
	They're still there.
	Right, but Russia can't control them.
	That's theft.
	Because ownership, you know, control is ownership.
	Whoever controls it owns it.
	So the West locks that up and then they steal the earnings from that $300 billion.
	And then Janet Yellen says, well, that's not theft either because the earnings don't belong to Russia.
	They belong to the bank.
	Or the institution, she said.
	Wow!
	You hear that logic?
	They're going to use that on you.
	They're going to say, oh yeah, the money you think you have in the bank, that's not yours.
	And the earnings from the money and the earnings from your pension investments and treasuries, yeah, that's not yours.
	That belongs to the institution.
	Didn't you know?
	Janet Yellen already said so.
	And the dollar itself is an instrument of debt.
	It has no value intrinsically.
	The only thing that even gives it value in a marketplace is It's faith that other people will accept it, and that faith is rapidly eroding for all the reasons I've covered here today.
	The dollar is an instrument of debt, whereas BRICS units and gold, they are instruments of actual value, and BRICS will be backed 40% by gold.
	So, it's a good time to buy gold.
	Good time to get in on it.
	Because where it's headed is going to make today's prices probably look ridiculously low.
	But that's just my opinion.
	You know, do your own research and get your own experts and Make your own decisions, obviously.
	But gold and silver, that's the bridge for Americans to insulate themselves from the collapse of the dollar and to, in essence, join the BRICS trend because BRICS will be backed by 40% gold.
	So you can kind of participate in BRICS by getting gold, even though you can't hold BRICS. So, interesting.
	Good thing they can't counterfeit gold.
	Thank you for listening.
	Mike Adams here at The Health Ranger, naturalnews.com, and brighteon.com.
	Take care.
	All right.
	Hope you enjoyed that report.
	Let's change gears here, and we're going to jump over to the Middle East where everything is a nightmare.
	Now we have, look, there's a growing rift between Netanyahu and the Biden administration, of course.
	Netanyahu, a few days ago, posted a video and said, he's basically whining, and he was saying, you know, Joe Biden's not giving us all the weapons we want.
	It's like, what are you complaining about?
	You got all this free money, you got all these weapons and missiles and everything, and still, it's never enough, right?
	I thought Zelensky was the great global beggar here, but no, it's Netanyahu.
	I mean, Netanyahu.
	Get it?
	Because he hates everybody.
	He hates the country that's giving him billions of dollars in free money and weapons.
	And he hates Biden somehow.
	I think actually what's happening is Netanyahu is he's pandering to the Trump team right now.
	He's figuring that Trump is going to win, which, I mean, who knows?
	But Netanyahu's allying himself with Team Trump, and I think what's going to happen, a pretty good guess on this, is that AIPAC and the Israeli powers that be in the U.S. are going to throw their weight behind Trump, because I think a deal has been made with Trump.
	I don't have any specific evidence on this, by the way.
	This is just...
	Kind of an analysis gut feeling.
	But I bet that a deal's been made and Trump has promised to deliver whatever Israel needs after Trump is back in the White House.
	And as a result, Netanyahu is starting to go anti-Biden at the moment.
	But there's also another rift inside the Israel's own military, where now we have a story that's been covered by many media outlets, but I'll read it for you out of Al Jazeera, which is, of course, no friend of Israel.
	But the headline is that Israeli military spokesman's Hamas defeat remarks widened rift with Netanyahu.
	Now, you got to understand, let's back up.
	So Daniel Hagari said, Is the spokesperson for the IDF, or one of the spokespeople.
	I don't know his exact title.
	But he said recently that the IDF cannot defeat Hamas.
	So, by the way, you may recall that I said this last year.
	Yeah, I said very early on, after October 7th, maybe sometime in November or December, I said that Israel will not be able to defeat Hamas.
	As the entire Western press was saying that, oh yeah, Israel's going to go in there and they're going to flood the tunnels and they're going to bomb the tunnels and they're going to kill Hamas.
	Going to kill them in just a few weeks, you know.
	Of course that didn't happen.
	And there's now a, well, there's a number floating around.
	I don't know if it's confirmed.
	Probably will never be confirmed by Israel.
	But apparently 70,000 IDF troops have now been wounded.
	Like permanently wounded in this fight.
	70,000.
	I don't know how many have been killed and Israel doesn't release those numbers.
	But here's the point.
	Oh, here's his title.
	Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari.
	Okay, now we have his title.
	His rank, excuse me.
	Rear Admiral.
	He says, quote, and he said this on Israeli media, Channel 13.
	He says, quote, this business of destroying Hamas, making Hamas disappear, is simply throwing sand in the eyes of the public.
	Whoa!
	Anybody else who said that was called an anti-Semite, by the way, which is absurd.
	But anyway, he goes on.
	He says, Hamas is an idea.
	Hamas is a party.
	It's rooted in the hearts of the people.
	Whoever thinks we can eliminate Hamas is wrong.
	Whoa!
	Again, I was saying this last year.
	Of course you can't defeat Hamas, because Hamas is more than just soldiers.
	And by the way, even if it were just soldiers, if Hamas was just like, you know, 20,000 soldiers, do you realize that the Hamas soldiers are just absolutely destroying the IDF soldiers?
	Anyway...
	Even though the IDF has this huge advantage in total dominance of air power and also armor, you know, tanks, artillery, everything, but still the IDF is being defeated in Gaza.
	And what we've seen over the last, you know, six plus months here, how long has it been?
	Eight months?
	A little over that?
	Is that the IDF is very good at bombing civilians The IDF basically has treated Gaza like a munitions practice target range, except, of course, there were people living there, elderly people, you know, grandmothers and women and children and hospital patients and university professors and doctors.
	And they were all bombed to death in, you know, 37,000 cases now.
	They were all bombed to death by the IDF. Well, how hard is it to just bomb buildings that don't move?
	You know, that's no show of expertise.
	Is the IDF proud of that?
	Is that something that they think they're like badass soldiers?
	We bombed a bunch of, you know, universities that couldn't dodge our bombs.
	Wow.
	Wow, this is your claim to fame, huh?
	Oh, you bombed hospitals.
	You bombed refugee camps.
	Again, not an achievement.
	This does not go down in the Guinness Book of World Records as, you know, amazing fighter pilot achievements or bomber pilot achievements.
	This is just genocide is what it is.
	And, of course, Hamas has been winning this war, even though, of course, a lot of civilians and a lot of infrastructure damage has taken place.
	But Hamas has not been destroyed.
	The bombing of Gaza has bombed the surface of Gaza.
	It has not destroyed all the tunnels underneath, and apparently there are, like, thousands of kilometers of tunnels.
	At least that's what's been reported.
	I can't imagine how there could be so many tunnels, but I guess you could have them in all kinds of different depths and everything.
	That must be one heck of a map, you know?
	Can you imagine getting lost in the tunnels?
	Like, I'm at mile marker, you know, 732 here, and I'm lost!
	I don't mean to joke about it.
	I shouldn't be joking about this, but it just sounds like a lot of tunnels to me.
	That's all I'm saying.
	But Israel can't destroy the tunnels because the bombs don't go that deep.
	Some of these tunnels are deep, apparently.
	And a lot of them were hand-dug.
	I think they were all hand-dug.
	It's a lot of hands over a lot of years, a lot of planning, a lot of tunnels.
	And so you can't defeat Hamas.
	And every time the IDF tries to send soldiers into the tunnels, they get slaughtered by Hamas.
	Why?
	Because Hamas...
	I mean, how do you define a real soldier?
	What are the properties of a real soldier, right?
	Courage, dedication, training, ferocity.
	That's just four that come to my mind right there.
	What are the IDF soldiers by and large?
	Although I know there are exceptions like the special forces of IDF and so on.
	But just the all-purpose general recruits that they pulled up out of the economy and You know, the reservists in particular.
	How do you define those so-called soldiers?
	Weak, pathetic, afraid, not passionate about much of anything, you know?
	No skills.
	And so they're sitting ducks.
	And it's the man in the war that matters more than the equipment.
	And the IDF hasn't been fielding real men, frankly, for the most part.
	Hamas, those are real soldiers.
	Those are real men.
	Now, I'm not saying that I agree with everything they did, just to be clear.
	There have been horrible atrocities and deaths and massacres that have occurred.
	And what Hamas did on October 7th involved the deaths of several hundred civilians.
	But then again, Israel slaughtered their own civilians with their own helicopters, their gunships.
	They shot up their own civilians too.
	But I'm not excusing any acts of violence here.
	What I'm saying is that...
	Most of the violence that's been committed in this has been committed by the IDF against innocent civilians.
	And when it comes down to comparing soldier to soldier, the IDF doesn't really have much.
	And that's what they've come to find out.
	And that's why they're now admitting that they can't defeat Hamas.
	And regardless of whether you love or hate that statement or that conclusion, it's no longer just me saying it, okay?
	It's no longer like Scott Ritter, although I have a video here from Scott Ritter to play about Hezbollah.
	This is coming from the rear admiral of the IDF, Daniel Hogari, who says that we cannot eliminate Hamas.
	Yeah, well, I knew that.
	Basically seven or eight months ago.
	So Netanyahu's office was, quote, fuming about Hagari's remarks.
	This is from the Al Jazeera article.
	And the reporter for Al Jazeera, Hamda Salhut, who's a woman, reported that despite what Netanyahu's policies are in the war, the army on the ground is saying it's not realistic.
	And then from the story, Netanyahu's office responded by saying that the security cabinet, which is chaired by the prime minister, has defined the destruction of Hamas's military and governing capabilities as one of the goals of the war.
	The Israeli military is committed to this, and it's said that Hagari's comments referred to the destruction of Hamas as an ideology and an idea that And that any other claim is taking things out of context.
	So then an Israeli political analyst named Akiva Eldar said that Hagari has undermined Netanyahu's doctrine that Hamas could be defeated once and for all.
	And you notice how everybody in the West that's supporting Netanyahu now is saying, we've got to give him more bombs so he can, quote, finish the job.
	I think Trump has even said this, you know, you've got to finish the job.
	Well, finish the job means that they have to defeat Hamas.
	And the IDF military, separate from Netanyahu, who's a politician, the military says, we can't defeat Hamas.
	We can't kill them all.
	They're in those tunnels.
	Who knows?
	We can't find them.
	We can't bomb them.
	We can't reach them.
	We can't defeat them.
	And every time we send our soldiers in, buttoned up in their tanks and infantry fighting vehicles, they get blowed up by the Hamas fighters there.
	And then Hamas usually takes a video and puts it on Telegram, which is always pretty wild to see those videos.
	And you can tell how dangerous the situation is from what happens with those videos because whoever the dudes are that are taking those videos, which in many cases is the guy launching the RPG at the tanks, he launches that sucker and he turns around and runs flat out. he launches that sucker and he turns around and runs And sometimes, I mean, you get like one frame of an explosion and you can't even tell, did it hit the tank or not?
	Who knows?
	There was an explosion somewhere in the distance, but this guy is hightailing it out of there and you can't blame him.
	I mean, if you launch, look, if you're in the rubble of Gaza and, you know, you're wearing sandals, And, you know, you're living on a like a famine diet, basically, and you're fighting for your life.
	You're fighting for the future of your entire culture.
	And, you know, you got the guts to stand up and crawl out of the rubble and, you know, pull up an RPG and fire it at an Israeli tank.
	Absolutely, you're going to run for your life because return fire is coming, man.
	So I'm not saying that they should stick around and get better footage because that would be suicide.
	But it's on a lot of these videos.
	You don't even know what really happened.
	This is like fire and then run, and you can't blame them.
	So anyway, this Israeli political analyst, Eldar, that I quoted, goes on and he says the following.
	He's trying to analyze this friction between the IDF and Netanyahu because things are breaking apart rapidly inside Israel's government, by the way.
	But here's what he says.
	Quote, it's a kind of apocalyptic scenario that the army spokesman who is reporting to the chief of staff is just undermining Netanyahu's doctrine, which is We do have to put an end to the Hamas government once and for all in Gaza.
	And then Elder goes on and says, what Hagari is saying is challenging Netanyahu and saying, actually, you are hallucinating.
	Doesn't that remind you of kind of like Adolf Hitler when Hitler would order like imaginary army units?
	Give me the 2nd Battalion in the Ardennes Forest.
	Move them to the east.
	And then Hitler's generals would be like, Führer, there is no 2nd Battalion.
	They're gone.
	They were all killed six weeks ago.
	And Hitler was moving imaginary units around on his little play map or whatever.
	Netanyahu started to look a lot like this.
	It's like, we're going to go in there, we're going to destroy Hamas, we're going to kill every last one of them.
	And the idea of people like, can't actually get that done there, chief.
	It's like, why don't you come give it a shot, huh?
	These people fight back, for God's sake.
	For some reason, they're not letting us just bomb all their tunnels.
	All right, so the upshot of this, which is the important part, And this was covered by Antiwar.com by Kyle Anzalone.
	I think maybe that's how you pronounce his name.
	I'm not sure.
	IDF approves operational plans for offensive in Lebanon.
	So this is fresh news.
	And what happened is the negotiations between Israel and Lebanon or Hezbollah broke down.
	Now, essentially, again, I'm simplifying this.
	Israel demanded that Hezbollah evacuate southern Lebanon and just said, you know, scoot, get out of here, move up north, and just basically give us southern Lebanon.
	Because, you know, hey, we're the Zionists and God told us we have the right to take whatever land we want and kill whoever we want.
	And, you know, because that's what we say God told us.
	And that's Zionism.
	And Hezbollah said, you know, go pound sand, you Zionists.
	We're not leaving.
	Basically, this is kind of the Hezbollah version of the Texas motto, come and take it.
	It's pretty much like Hezbollah saying, come and make us move.
	And Israel is gearing up to attempt to do that.
	So, from the story on antiwar.com, and believe me, this is history unfolding here, right now.
	You need to understand this, or all of us do.
	On Tuesday, the Israeli Defense Forces posted a statement on its ex-account saying that top commanders had signed off on battle plans for an offensive in Lebanon.
	Quote, the commanding officer of the Northern Command and the head of the operations directorate approved operational plans.
	Plans for an offensive in Lebanon were approved and validated and rubber-stamped and triplicate-duplicate And decisions were taken on the continuation of increasing the readiness of troops in the field.
	Yeah, what, the same troops that couldn't defeat Hamas?
	Now Israel is going to turn those troops to the north because, you know, Netanyahu has to keep the war going to save his own hide.
	So they're going to turn the troops to the north and say, well, we know you couldn't defeat Hamas, so why don't you go defeat Hezbollah now?
	This is the dumbest military move, perhaps, in history.
	If you had a hard time defeating Hamas, wait till you see what happens when you attack Hezbollah, okay?
	That's all I'm saying.
	Hezbollah, these are not snowflakes, okay?
	These are not weak people.
	Do not misinterpret their lack of, you know, F-16s.
	Or their lack of tank armor or whatever.
	Do not misinterpret that as in any way meaning that these people are not capable or not dedicated or not well trained.
	Many of them, even still active today, are veterans of not just like the 2006 conflict with Israel, but also war in Syria over the last several years.
	Many of these fighters have a lot of experience and they're actually...
	It's pretty well funded, some of it coming from Iran, at least reportedly.
	And they have also reportedly at least 100,000 rockets, missiles.
	They also have anti-ship missiles, which I find really interesting, given what the Yemeni military has done in the Red Sea.
	You know, what happens when Hezbollah decides to start taking out ships from In the Mediterranean, huh?
	That should be interesting.
	And that'll probably begin.
	So Israel thinks that they're just going to roll into Lebanon and just steamroll Hezbollah.
	Boy, are they in for a surprise.
	This could be the fatal mistake that Israel makes.
	This could be the last mistake that Israel makes.
	And as Scott Ritter says in this video we're going to play for you here, this might mean the end of Israel.
	So they should think long and hard about pivoting north and trying to attack Lebanon or Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.
	So let's go to this Scott Ritter three-minute segment with Judge Napolitano from Judging Freedom.
	It's about three minutes and Scott has some very interesting things to say about the end of Israel if Israel is foolish enough to launch this offensive against Hezbollah.
	Take a listen.
	We're at an existential stage of Netanyahu's political existence.
	He has positioned Israel, and I know there's a lot of pro-Israeli people out there, but understand, Israel has lost this war, dramatically lost this war.
	And if they go to war with Hezbollah, as Netanyahu is promising to do, it will be the strategic defeat of Israel.
	I just hope people understand that.
	Understand When Hezbollah releases drone footage that shows how it has mapped out the totality of the target set in northern Israel, when Hezbollah releases videos that show that they can, at any time of their choosing, take out the Iron Dome system or the David Sling system or the Arrow 3 system,
	that Israel has no effective ballistic missile defense, and that Hezbollah has tens of thousands of rockets, which will enable them to blanket Israel on a daily basis from the top to the bottom, from the left to the right, from the river to the sea, with high-precision missiles that will destroy everything with high-precision missiles that will destroy everything they hit, that if Israel chooses to go to war with Hezbollah, it will be the physical destruction of Israel, not just the military defeat, but Israel will be physically destroyed.
	The Israeli military knows this.
	They're not stupid.
	They understand they've been beaten in Gaza.
	What the spokesperson says is that Hamas is an ideology, and you cannot defeat an ideology.
	And this is true.
	You can't.
	You can't kill an ideology.
	In fact, what Israel is doing in Gaza is strengthening the Hamas ideology on a daily basis.
	Hamas is stronger today than they were on October 6th or October 7th, and they get stronger every day because Israel positions itself to fit the international definitions that have been put out there of apartheid state and genocide state.
	Israel has defeated itself, and this is what the public relations officer of the IDF is acknowledging.
	And notice that Netanyahu came out and said, no, no, no, no, no, no.
	Our mission is to defeat it.
	Did you see what the IDF High Command did?
	They came out and said, the spokesperson was speaking about Hamas as an ideology, and we agree with everything he said.
	So now the military has come out and told Netanyahu, we don't agree with you.
	And now the question comes, if Netanyahu orders this invasion...
	And just so people understand the seriousness of this, Israel, the military went out and cut a secret deal with Cyprus, sent their air force to Cyprus so that they could operate out of Cypriot bases.
	Why?
	Because they know Hezbollah is going to destroy their air bases.
	So they need to relocate to Cyprus to carry out, continue the war.
	Hezbollah, of course, found out and told Cyprus, we will destroy you too.
	And look what Cyprus just did.
	We have nothing to do with it.
	They know what the reality is.
	The IDF knows what the reality is.
	Netanyahu lives in a political fantasy land.
	Okay, so very profound information there from Scott Ritter, former UN weapons inspector, and someone who really is an expert on weapons systems.
	And he has a lot of experience actually working with Israel in years past, just like he worked with Ukraine.
	But now he speaks out a lot about what's happening with Russia and Ukraine and also with Israel.
	And he's...
	You may or may not agree with everything that Scott says, and I don't agree with everything either, but he's a credible authority on these topics.
	You can't simply dismiss his opinion as some, you know, some armchair...
	You know, wannabe war general.
	No.
	Scott's actually been there.
	He negotiated some of the de-escalation of the nuclear missiles.
	I think that was back in the 1990s is my understanding.
	But anyway, just understanding what Scott said here.
	He said, number one, Israel has been defeated by Hamas.
	And then secondly, that if Israel attacks Hezbollah, That Israel will be destroyed.
	Those are some very profound statements.
	Not to be taken lightly.
	But I believe what Scott said there is consistent with the observations of what's happening.
	As much as Netanyahu is trying to cover this up, now even his own military are saying that we can't defeat Hamas.
	Even though that was one of the primary goals that Netanyahu laid out, and that was one of the reasons why so many members of the U.S. Congress voted to give him more money.
	We have to defeat Hamas.
	So give him tens of billions of dollars.
	You know, give him weapons, give him bombs.
	And That's exactly what they did.
	And then, turns out, can't defeat Hamas.
	Hezbollah is a far more formidable opponent than is Hamas.
	And Hezbollah also has its own tunnel system.
	An elaborate tunnel system.
	Going for many, many, probably hundreds of kilometers also underneath the border between Lebanon and Israel.
	And you may recall, by the way, that most of the residential areas in northern Israel have been evacuated since October 7th or right after that.
	So there are hundreds of thousands of Israelis who are currently displaced from Lebanon.
	What would otherwise normally be their homes in northern Israel.
	This is having a strong detrimental effect on the Israeli economy as well.
	But imagine what will happen to Israeli's economy if Hezbollah launches 20,000 rockets targeting Tel Aviv and industrial centers and military bases and so on.
	And Hezbollah just released footage, by the way, I think two days ago, I watched the footage on Telegram, and it was footage where they flew a drone over Israel.
	Scott was talking about this.
	And the drone actually recorded all the sensitive, and it was like a look-down view, very clear, high-resolution recording of all these sensitive military sites and ports and ships and logistics and everything across certain parts of Israel.
	Hezbollah did that.
	And then they release the footage.
	They're like, yo, we can fly over you anytime we want.
	What happened to the Iron Dome?
	The Iron Dome is a joke.
	It's obsolete.
	It doesn't work.
	But in achieving this drone flight over Israel, Hezbollah just marked out probably like 250 more targets.
	Oh, we got to hit that.
	There's an ammo depot.
	There's a distribution hub.
	There's a logistics center.
	There's a fuel depot.
	Boom, boom, boom.
	I would imagine Hezbollah is retargeting all the rockets and missiles right now.
	I mean, the ones that can be precision targeted.
	Some of their missiles, probably the bulk of them, are not precision guided.
	They're just kind of fire and forget.
	But many of them are precision guided missiles.
	And you can, of course, put in GPS coordinates for what you want to hit.
	I mean, it's advanced technology.
	Hezbollah is not some backwoods goat herder cult or anything.
	No.
	These are modern warriors.
	They just don't have the fighter jets and the tanks, but they have the soldier mentality.
	Do not underestimate these people, is all I'm saying.
	But Netanyahu...
	Thinks that it's just about having enough fighter jets and having enough bombs and having enough money, then you can defeat anybody.
	Turns out, you can't.
	Especially when the other side is willing to die.
	And even considers death in war to be in service to their faith.
	Think about that.
	You're fighting followers of Islam.
	You kill a bunch of them.
	That's not a defeat in their view.
	And they've got a whole lot more right behind them.
	They're like, hey, we'll die too, as long as we take out a few of your people at the same time.
	How do you defeat that?
	You can't.
	And this is what the IDF is coming to realize.
	You can't defeat Hamas.
	Not physically, not conceptually.
	You can't defeat the philosophy.
	And you can't defeat Hezbollah.
	And if you start attacking southern Lebanon, all you're going to do is you're going to anger everybody else in the whole region.
	You're going to make more enemies.
	And the international community, there will be more states like Spain joining the ICJ in declaring Israel to be engaged in genocide.
	And probably Iran will get involved.
	And how's that going to work for Israel?
	What's Israel going to do?
	It's like, oh, we'll just nuke everybody.
	Really?
	Is that your plan?
	Because that seems to be what it's going to.
	It's like Netanyahu is a leader of a suicide cult, a nuclear suicide cult, and they're just going to destroy everybody until things get desperate, and then they're just going to launch a bunch of nukes and kiss the whole region goodbye or something.
	This is where it seems to be going.
	This is not good.
	And the U.S. is supporting this lunatic, Netanyahu, or Netan hate you, supporting him.
	Maybe it should be Netan FU. We should send him some natokines with 5,000 FU units, you know?
	Hey, Netanyahu, got something for you.
	Got a whole case of FUs, 5,000 per serving.
	Yeah, take as many as you need to get the message.
	So far from being a diplomat or a national leader or a statesman, the term statesman would indicate somebody who's very measured and reserved and is a genius at achieving peace and prosperity for their people.
	Netanyahu is none of those things.
	He is not a statesman.
	He's a lunatic.
	He's a psychopathic death cult lunatic, and he's going to get all of his country men and women killed if he continues on this path.
	That's obvious, and that's what Scott Ritter was talking about, and I think Scott is accurate in that assessment.
	I think we're looking at, if things don't change, I think we're looking at a situation where Israel will be lucky to survive this.
	That is the Israel that we know in this geographic location.
	It doesn't mean that the spirit of Israel won't continue to live on elsewhere, because...
	Just like Hamas is an idea and a philosophy, the spirit of Israel is also an idea and a philosophy, and as such it is immutable, right?
	Even if the geographic region of Israel is bombed into oblivion, the concept of Israel will live on in the people of Israel and the supporters of Israel all over the world.
	That said, It seems like a very possible, even probable outcome that the current region of Israel as it exists will be utterly destroyed in the years ahead.
	I mean, I'm not saying tomorrow, but this is how it's shaping up.
	And I would urge anybody listening to this, if you are in Israel and you don't want to die, you should probably leave.
	And many have.
	I don't know what the numbers are.
	Well over a million, I would imagine.
	But many people have left Israel for this very reason.
	Some Americans went to Israel, you know, seeking...
	Spiritual alignment with, I don't know, Zionism or something.
	And now some of them are coming back.
	Like, yeah, I don't want to die in this lunatic war run by a suicidal, psychopathic lunatic named Net and Hate U, who's running on 1 million FU units per day.
	So, you know, get out of the way of the bombs is kind of a good rule of thumb no matter where you are.
	All right.
	Now, I've got one more special report for you that I recorded earlier today.
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	I think I'll play that here coming up, and then we'll go to the interview with John Peterson from the Arlington Institute, which I think you'll find really fascinating.
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	It's a big picture interview.
	Very cool.
	I really enjoy those kinds of interviews.
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	Enjoy the rest of your Friday, and I'll have some updates for you this weekend.
	It is now 100% certain that the Western NATO powers are gearing up for World War III. They need it for lots of domestic reasons.
	They need it to cover up all their financial crimes and looting and bank failures and debt failures.
	And, you know, they need it to rig elections or halt elections.
	And they need depopulation.
	They need tyrannical, dictatorial military regimes to...
	You know, to go confiscate firearms and control the food supply and enslave their people.
	So the Western powers need war.
	100% that they're going to launch war with Russia.
	But they may fake a false flag against themselves in order to justify it.
	That's probably exactly what's coming.
	And I want you to be aware of that.
	Now, I want you to start getting into the mindset of what it's going to be like living day-to-day under martial law during World War III. Because what we all experienced during COVID was just a small taste of what's coming.
	Very small taste.
	As you recall, during COVID, anything that your local government wanted you to do, or the state government, or the federal government, anything.
	Like, uh, you gotta wear a mask everywhere.
	Or, yeah, you've got to close your gym.
	You've got to close your church.
	You've got to close your hair salon.
	Yeah, you can't operate a business anymore.
	Sorry.
	Anything they wanted you to do, they just said, COVID. COVID. It's just COVID. Because COVID. I mean, really, it was like a two-word tyranny.
	Because COVID. And because COVID, then all these bureaucrats and politicians and governors and mayors and everybody, they thought they suspended the Constitution and you have no human rights whatsoever.
	You have no legal rights.
	You have no civil rights because COVID. Now, there's been some pushback against that, legally speaking, and some victories in the courts.
	But this is the mindset of the bureaucrats is because COVID, they can do anything they want and you have no rights and there's no rule of law.
	They can just order you to do whatever they want.
	Well, now replace because COVID with because war.
	Okay?
	So war is the new COVID. They're going to say, well, you can't just go to the grocery store and buy whatever you want.
	There's going to be limits.
	There's going to be rationing cards.
	And you say, why?
	And they say, because war.
	Oh.
	Because war.
	Yeah, we're in a war.
	We're in a war.
	So, therefore...
	You can't just go to the gas station and buy whatever gas you want.
	It's got to be gasoline rationing.
	Why?
	Because war.
	Oh, okay.
	You can't have a gun.
	Why?
	Because war!
	Oh, you can't have freedom of speech.
	You can't have your independent media website.
	We're going to seize it, the State Department.
	We're going to shut it down.
	Why?
	Because war!
	You know?
	It's almost like they're saying, because war, duh!
	Duh!
	And everything they want to do, it's going to be because war.
	So you're going to find yourself in a situation, very rapidly, where you have no rights whatsoever.
	You're going to be living under martial law, military rule.
	The Constitution will be suspended.
	The Bill of Rights suspended.
	Your right of free association will be gone.
	And they might roll out another fake pandemic in the middle of this war so they can say, because war and because pandemic, you know, whatever.
	It's like, we're rounding you up and taking you to a detainment center.
	Why?
	Because pandemic!
	Really?
	This is all nonsense, but that's what they're planning on doing.
	Why do you think they're building all these concentration camps all across the country?
	You know, with the big FEMA tents.
	They're gonna throw people into these camps.
	People like you, probably, and me.
	So if you start to research what will likely take place during war, there's already a very good model for this, and it's called Ukraine.
	So if you look at Ukraine today, which U.S. leaders falsely claim to be a democracy, it's total nonsense, it's not a democracy.
	In Ukraine, Even though the term of the president, Zelensky, has already expired and he is no longer an elected leader, he's still somehow in charge.
	Why?
	Because it's a military dictatorship.
	He's the dictator and he canceled the elections and then his term expired and he's still in power.
	He's like, what are you going to do about it?
	You say, well, we should have elections.
	And they say, we're not going to have elections.
	You say, why?
	They say, because war.
	See?
	See how that works?
	No elections.
	And then...
	They arrested journalists.
	They assassinated some journalists.
	I mean, they killed Gonzalo Lira in prison.
	They arrested him, tortured him, and killed him in prison.
	And they shut down independent media, alternative media.
	They have their political dissidents in prison, if not, you know, murdered.
	And you have no freedom in Ukraine.
	You can only do what the government allows you to do.
	That's the model.
	That's what's coming for America.
	You can only do what the government allows you to do.
	Now, another model comes out of Germany, where Germany has announced new plans about dealing with a war.
	And in those plans, as you may recall, they've said, well, we're going to control all the food supplies in the nation of Germany.
	We're going to essentially seize all the food, and then we're going to stockpile, we the government are going to stockpile all the corn, wheat, soy, rye, millet, oats, whatever.
	And then we're going to serve one hot meal per day to the German citizens.
	That's what they said.
	You'll have one meal per day.
	What they didn't say is that you won't even be allowed to buy any of this food yourself, because it'll all be government-controlled and government-distributed.
	So you'll be on a starvation diet, government-enforced, and if you don't have your own food supplies, you will starve to death, very likely, unless you can figure out How to eat your neighbor's cat or whatever, you know, start harvesting zoo animals or squirrels on the trees in the backyard, whatever you have, you know, you'll die of starvation and that's the plan.
	You won't have the right to buy what you want to buy.
	You won't have the right to travel the way you want to travel.
	There will be checkpoints on the highways.
	There will be checkpoints between states.
	There'll be armed guards at the grocery stores.
	You're only allowed in if you comply.
	And they'll have rules, you know.
	Well, you have to be vaccinated.
	You have to not be on their list.
	Their list of dissidents.
	Well, how do you get on their list?
	Well, you must have, you know, tweeted something.
	You put something out on social media that the administration didn't like.
	You're on the list.
	You don't get to buy food.
	You don't get fuel.
	You don't get medical care.
	Nothing.
	You're on the list.
	This is how it's going to work.
	And the average American is in no way ready for this.
	They have not imagined any of this.
	They don't think it's even possible.
	I mean, it hasn't even crossed their minds.
	And if they were to hear this podcast, they would say, oh, that's never going to happen.
	Well, how many times have I heard that over the last 20 years?
	When I would do a podcast, and people would say, oh, that's never going to happen.
	And then three years later, it's exactly what's happening.
	Over and over and over and over again.
	So I can tell you, this is exactly what's about to happen.
	And you'll be a subject of the state.
	And...
	They may say, well, you're not even allowed to quit your job.
	This is what they've said in Germany now.
	You must produce for the state.
	The state will determine which employers have to stay open and what they will produce, what they will do.
	The state will determine the actions and the products and services.
	And the employees will not be allowed to quit.
	If you quit, you'll be arrested.
	So let's say you work at a car factory, and then all of a sudden we're in World War III because the West wants war.
	Well, then the government comes along and says to the factory, to your employer, says, well, guess what?
	Now you're not going to make cars anymore.
	You're going to make infantry fighting vehicles, you know, armored vehicles for infantry.
	And you say, as an employee, like, well, I don't want to be part of the military industrial complex.
	I don't want to make machines of war.
	And they're going to say...
	Well, that's your choice, but if you quit, you'll be arrested, and then we'll throw you in prison during the duration of the war.
	So you can either, you can keep whatever little semblance of freedom we allow you to have by remaining an employee of this company and making infantry fighting vehicles, or you can rot in prison for the next six years or however long the war lasts.
	That's what's coming.
	And things like that happened in World War II in America.
	And do not forget, by the way, that in America they also interned Japanese Americans.
	And I don't just mean like illegal Japanese.
	That wasn't an issue at the time in the early 1940s.
	These were Japanese Americans who had immigrated to America.
	They followed the law.
	They were contributing to their local communities.
	They were part of this country, most of them on the West Coast, by the way.
	They were integrated into society.
	Japanese Americans, they were supposed to be protected by the United States Constitution, which has the Fourth and Fifth Amendments, in particular in this case, And the federal government said, well, we're going to throw you in internment camps anyway.
	And if a Japanese person said, but why?
	The answer was, because war.
	That's why.
	Because war.
	So therefore, I mean, this has already been decided by the U.S. Supreme Court.
	During a time of war...
	You have no constitutional protections.
	You have no civil rights.
	You have no human rights.
	The government can do anything they want to you.
	They can throw you in a death camp and they can murder you.
	They can use you for medical experiments like they have done all throughout American history.
	They use black soldiers.
	They use minority soldiers.
	Heck, they use prisoners in Guatemala.
	To run NIH-funded experiments.
	Obama even apologized for that when it came out.
	Got caught, you know, so he had to apologize and say it was wrong.
	But America's still doing it.
	Even right now.
	Injecting all the soldiers with whatever, quote, vaccine they come up with.
	But all throughout American history, the American people, not just soldiers, not just prisoners, but in many cases citizens, have been subjected to illegal medical experiments.
	In fact, I have a whole timeline published on naturalnews.com.
	It's called The History of Medical Experiments in America.
	I think I have it as a part one and part two.
	If you want to see the timeline, it's all right there.
	So yes, all of this happens.
	This is all very real.
	And this is exactly what's coming.
	They can do anything they want to you.
	Unless you take a stand and you say no and you bring in your attorneys and you file the lawsuits and you peacefully protest your local government.
	You say no, we're not going to be silenced.
	You're not going to make us shut down.
	You're not going to corral us like a bunch of slaves.
	We do not consent to your tyranny.
	That's the answer to this and that's what the American people are going to have to do or you'll die as slaves under a A war, a staged war, initiated by a false flag attack.
	Because everything the West does is theater.
	It's all faked.
	There's even, I mean, there's fake Joe Bidens now.
	You know, stand-in, replaceable actors.
	I mean, you see the photos.
	Joe Biden looks totally different, depending on where he was that day.
	Not even the same guy.
	And they just think that they can get away with it.
	And if anybody shows a video of something real, then the White House decries it as a fake.
	That's the irony of the century right there.
	This White House accusing people of being fakes?
	Come on.
	I mean, Joe Biden's a fake president.
	He's not even a real president.
	But, you know, that's a different podcast.
	But they're going to use a fake narrative to start a real war.
	Where people really die.
	Believe me, this is coming.
	They're plotting it, planning it right now.
	Some people even say that the Swiss Piss Conference that just took place in Switzerland, and it's called Swiss Piss because that's how Zelenskyy pronounces the word peace.
	Remember that?
	He says, we have to have the word peace, you know?
	And everybody's like, did he just say world peace?
	World leaders must bring the piss.
	They brought the piss to the Swiss piss conference.
	And some people believe that the point of that conference, to which Russia was not invited by the way, that that was a cover story for massive war planning by the Western countries of how to fake a nuclear attack on themselves.
	So that they can then launch World War III against Russia, so that they can enact the Western nations, they can enact all these tyrannical authoritarian rules and restrictions that they want to put in place for their own countries.
	You know, food scarcity, rationing, everything, martial law, ending the freedom of the press, stopping elections, achieving depopulation, rounding up the citizens, exterminating them in concentration camps.
	Engineering mass famine, running another bird flu, psyop campaign of a fake plandemic.
	All of this is planned by Western countries and their leaders who are all criminals.
	They are criminals carrying out massive genocidal crimes against humanity, and they're so desperate to stay in power, they don't care if they have to kill another few million people or tens of millions or a billion.
	Whatever it takes, as long as they get to stay in power, But in order to achieve that, they have to engage in all this theater.
	They have to pretend like they're the victims.
	They have to pretend like they're having a piss conference.
	They have to pretend like the news is real.
	They have to pretend like they support democracy, which is a laughing matter, you know.
	You could almost die laughing about all the lies of the West.
	So this is what's coming.
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	If the government rolls out this war, and then they have food rationing, and then, oh, you're not allowed to buy more than one pound of ground beef a week or whatever, then you're going to be on a starvation diet unless you have stored food.
	And if you don't have your own supplies, you're going to be completely controlled by this regime.
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	They tried to kill you with the COVID vaccine.
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	They're going to roll out probably nuclear war.
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	Welcome to today's interview on Brighteon.com.
	I'm Mike Adams, the founder of Brighteon, and this is really going to be an interesting one for you because we have a first-time guest here, John Peterson, who's the founder of the Arlington Institute, and this institute, which you can find at arlingtoninstitute.org.
	has donated a massive quantity of books about UFOs and UFO research and contact to our AI language model project.
	We have these books now.
	It's about 1,400 books, something like that, in PDF form.
	We're processing them into our AI system.
	So we're going to be releasing, on behalf of the Arlington Institute, the world's first free downloadable An open-source UFO large-language model AI chatbot.
	And the person we have to thank for that is our guest today.
	So welcome, Mr.
	Peterson.
	Thank you for your donation, and I really look forward to doing this with you.
	Yeah, well, it's nice to be here, and my name is John, please.
	Okay.
	Yeah, it's great, and I really appreciate what you're doing in this regard.
	We're futurists here at the Arlington Institute.
	Time ago, I got started in this business and ended up, you know, we figured out there were maybe about 200 professional futurists in the world that were full-time doing this kind of work.
	And I ended up being kind of the de facto futurist for the Department of Defense.
	I started the Arlington Institute in 1989.
	And we worked with the leadership of many of the services to try to expand their horizons on what the future might hold for national security and to get them out of just the narrow kind of area of just kinetic warfare, killing people and breaking things.
	Right.
	Although they excel at that, they're very good at that part, but you're right.
	I mean, it seems like if we want to have a future, we have to think about the future because we have so many destructive paths right now.
	Yeah, and there are very systematic ways to do that that most people don't understand.
	I've written three books all about the mechanisms and the processes about thinking about the future.
	The second one was about surprise events, potential surprise events.
	It's called Wild Cards.
	It's about wild cards.
	The whole notion is that you can, in fact, kind of get early indications of potential surprises if you think about them in a systematic way.
	But if you don't do that, then you get surprised and that in this context just drives you into fear because the surprises are bigger and bigger.
	And we really don't need that in the coming months and years because...
	This is an extraordinary, unprecedented kind of transition to what we think of as being a new human in a new world that desperately needs us to be engaged and active in terms of building a new vision for where we're all going to be and where we're going to go.
	So let me ask you then right up front, because this is the first time that we've spoken, by the way, and I'm not that familiar with the work of your institute, although I see from your website that you have an event coming up in September and you have guest speakers like Greg Braden, whose work I really admire, and Dr.
	David Martin, who I really admire as well.
	But let me ask you just a couple of things straight out here.
	The future vision of our world as projected by what I would call the globalists, Is not a very good future for humanity because they want to achieve, it seems, a much lower human population, really tyrannical control over thoughts and speech and the food supply and everything, and altering the atmosphere to remove carbon dioxide, which will hurt photosynthesis.
	That's a future that we don't want.
	What does the Arlington Institute focus on in terms of the big issues and how to create a future that benefits humanity?
	Thanks, yeah.
	Two big trends, two big directions going forward, and one of them, you might say, going up this way, is essentially a technocracy future.
	It is using an increasingly invasive technology to control and essentially dominate Everyone's life.
	It's a Matrix movie kind of scenario is what it is.
	They've been putting it in place for a very long time.
	The reason why you see so relatively few people responding with, I don't know that we need outrage, but at least the action to the kind of things that are going on in the world today is because they've been conditioned.
	There's been glyphosate in the food, you know, there's stuff in the air, in the chemtrails, there's Fluoride and water and there's 5G. There's all kinds of things that have essentially surrounded you in terms of the environment that we live in.
	And it's all about to kind of dampen and suppress the ability of people to think, you know, compounded by the education system that never figured, hasn't taught anybody for decades about how to do creative thinking at all.
	And so that's...
	So you got this one kind of dystopian future that's headed kind of warp speed into a really dark kind of environment.
	On the other side, though, this is about literally the evolution of humanity, of the species.
	There's energy, waves of energy coming out of the center of the galaxy, and it's influencing the sun, which is...
	Generating different kind of cosmic energy that it's ever done before.
	And all of that is influencing our DNA. And as you know, science seems to think that something like 92% of all of our DNA is junk DNA because they can't figure it out.
	Which is really arrogant.
	As it turns out, the best sources that I can find suggest that very, very early on When humans were first kind of put together on this planet, however that happened, we had 12 strands of DNA and at some point those who were the Kind of the husbands of the process back then looked at that and said, after a while, they said, these guys are getting smarter than anybody and they're going to be a threat to us downstream.
	So they shut down 10 strands of the DNA. And so we're operating on, you know, two cylinders instead of 12, I guess, like a Merlin engine and a P-51.
	But anyway, they...
	And what's happening now, what multiple sources say, unconventional for sure, but nevertheless you get a lot of corroboration from different sources.
	They're saying that what these ways of energy are doing are in engaging and activating different strands of different aspects of your DNA and activating capabilities that were kind of intrinsic but not activated.
	And so...
	There's all kinds of things.
	You've certainly noticed a lot of interest in kind of manifestation and telepathy.
	There's a whole variety of these kinds of new capabilities that seem to be coming together and being activated.
	Like I say, there are wave after wave after wave.
	You can watch it on Facebook.
	You know, places like suspicious observers.
	Waves of energy coming out of multiple sources in the galaxy.
	And this is all affecting us.
	And then the solar system is moving into a different area in space that's got all different kind of characteristics, kind of magnetic as well as chemical kind of characteristics.
	And that then affects the planets.
	And the outlying planets that have moved into this space are all doing the, you know, significant kind of changes to their environment.
	And so their weather systems and such are all changing.
	And so what we're seeing is not being caused by humans.
	It's being caused by the sun and by the larger kind of cosmic environment that we're in.
	And so all of this is, you know, it's a There are other aspects of this.
	This happens about every 12,000 years.
	And that there are these, we transit essentially the plane of the galaxy, and there's a great deal of energy, a high amplitude of energy there.
	And so it affects us all.
	And so it affects us both in biology, it affects the Earth in terms of Earth changes, It affects earthquakes and volcanoes and things like that.
	It affects sociology.
	Absolutely.
	People get all excited and have wars and don't get along and so on.
	All this stuff is cyclical.
	So if I could, allow me to help kind of summarize some of what you've just said.
	It seems like we are moving into an era of mass human awakening.
	And when I say human, I mean at multiple levels, not just the physical level, but the consciousness level.
	Beyond mind-body, but I'm talking about conscious creation, the observer effect of the cosmos around us.
	So as this mass awakening is taking place, What goes along with that automatically is the desire for human freedom.
	People want to be able to think freely, to create freely, to contribute freely, to associate freely.
	And then the technocracy that you mentioned is realizing that this mass awakening is happening.
	They've known about it for a long time.
	And so they're trying to destroy it or suppress it or enslave humanity to say, you can't think these thoughts.
	You're not allowed to say these things.
	We even saw, I forgot which country in Europe, some politician there was saying, we have to control what people think because the freedom to think is dangerous.
	So these are these two factions.
	But I think that some of your contributing guests like Greg Braden and others would absolutely agree that That human consciousness wins, right?
	Yes, absolutely.
	The freedom to think wins, yes.
	And it's more than just opinions by guys like Greg, who, by the way, participates regularly on some of our programs and we can talk about it.
	What you've got here is a really kind of interesting situation because there are...
	There's giant kind of trends in place, whether it is very sophisticated computer modeling, which I follow pretty closely with Martin Armstrong down in Florida.
	Oh, wow.
	That's great.
	And Marty's machine, which he calls Socrates, has all built upon these cyclical characteristics of reality.
	And there's big...
	It has cycles and small cycles and it has everything from climate to geopolitics to finance to economics and on and on and on.
	72, I think it is, different kind of modules.
	It's the most sophisticated capability of its kind.
	What it says is, by the way, happily, that this globalization thing does not succeed.
	But getting from here to there is a different kind of issue because what it What it suggests quite explicitly is that World War III starts this year, if it hasn't started already, that between 2025, that is next year to 2027, is a global civil war, which is this broad-based, planet-wide uprising of people against their governments across the planet.
	After 2027 what happens is that many of the geopolitical structures including countries like the United States break up and come apart and decompose and then there is over between 2027 and 2032 there is a rapid reconfiguration and in North America you end up with about five different countries in North America By about 2032.
	There's no European Union by then and so on.
	There's a whole lot of big, huge change.
	Now, this is interesting at face value, but let me remind you that this is a conventional kind of projection, sophisticated as it is, unprecedented as it is, but it's nevertheless kind of conventional kind of projection.
	Of linear kind of thinking, because on top of this, there are any number of other kind of big surprise events or things that come into the middle of this thing, including this whole business of extraterrestrial life.
	I mean, that's it.
	Depending upon how that shows up, that could just drive this whole system into a whole different direction.
	And that's not considered in any of these kind of models or most of the people in the futures business.
	Yeah, talk about so-called black SWAT events or unexpected events, but I would say...
	I don't know what your background is in terms of whether you studied in mathematics or what have you, but just mathematically...
	The idea that we are alone in this cosmos, that we are the only sentient beings is utterly absurd.
	And I've always said that.
	It's always been obvious to me.
	And even when sometimes people mock it, like, oh, you believe in little green men.
	Actually, I believe there are all kinds of different colors on all kinds of different planets all over the place.
	I mean, just if you look on Earth, it's hard to find a place that doesn't have life.
	Even in extreme environments.
	And we're not the only planet that has atmospheric pressure, liquid water, you know, a sun that's just the right distance.
	We're not the only ones, you know?
	Yeah, I mean, you're absolutely right.
	It's absurd to make those cases.
	And, you know, Edgar Mitchell, who was the astronaut who went to the second flight to the moon, He was kind of famous in saying it's absolutely certain that there are other life forms.
	He wouldn't kind of expound on that very much for maybe obvious reasons, but there are all kinds of sources.
	My background, by the way, is in electrical engineering.
	Interesting, okay.
	Yeah, I flew airplanes off aircraft carriers for the Navy in Vietnam and then stayed associated with the Navy for 25 more years and worked in the White House at the National Security Council staff and some other kinds of things.
	And so I can tell you definitively that there are craft and vehicles and materials and other kinds of things that Are on this planet that have been studied for a very, very long time that nobody has yet kind of figured out or seemingly yet kind of fully figured out what they were and how they work.
	But this is a very real thing.
	And the thing that you just got to keep in mind is that if another group shows up in another community here and you start a conversation and they've been around Say at a minimum 1,000, let's say 500,000 years longer than we have.
	They're going to come and talk to you about science being different and they're going to have technology that you cannot even wrap your head around.
	And they're going to talk to you about cosmology and theology and any number of other kind of things that are just very, very different than what we're all familiar with.
	And that's kind of the I guess the way you evolve, that you get bigger and bigger.
	I talk about it in terms of expanded awareness.
	That this whole process is a rapid period of expanded awareness.
	And those of us who want to play in this new world and be part of it have to get out in front of it.
	And that's what we do at the Arlington Institute.
	We're in the business of...
	Facilitating the transition to the new world.
	And we try to do that with a number of programs and technologies and other kinds of things.
	Let me just mention your website.
	I'm sorry to interrupt.
	But for people who want to join, you have memberships available, as I understand it.
	Sure.
	And so that's ArlingtonInstitute.org.
	And I guess, I don't know where people join.
	Oh, here it is.
	Get membership.
	Okay.
	So you can join.
	What do people get as members, by the way?
	Well, we produce a lot of content like you from a lot of perspectives.
	And one of the things that we have is a newsletter, a free newsletter that we've been producing now for 27 years called Future Edition.
	It comes out every two weeks.
	And it has a very large kind of...
	Search across the horizon about emerging things in all different areas and sectors that are, we think, important and defining in terms of what the future might show.
	We also have a program called Transition Talks, which you're alluding to, because We have a speaker.
	We're located in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia, which is a little resort town about 100 miles from Washington and Baltimore.
	It takes about an hour and 40 minutes to get to the big city from here.
	But we're out in two mountain ranges away from the coast and away from the Beltway and so on, and it's a marvelous little place.
	We used to be in Arlington across the river from Berkeley from Washington, hence the name.
	But now we're out where the sky's a little clearer and it's certainly less traffic.
	And so what we have is transition talks and we have a speaker that comes in every month from somewhere.
	And Greg comes, Greg Braden comes every week.
	Every year, Penny Kelly comes every year.
	Dave Martin comes every year.
	And we have a wonderful kind of time here locally, but then we live stream in other places as well.
	And then quickly, we've got a couple of other programs.
	One of them is called Quartet.
	And I facilitated, I moderated, and Greg is on there and Penny Kelly and And Kingsley Dennis from the UK is there.
	And this is a very deep intellectual kind of dive into major kind of issues or questions that are associated with this transition of moving into a new world.
	Then we have another program called What's Up?
	Greg and I, it's an unstructured half an hour and it happens every two weeks again.
	Greg and I just have a conversation and I started off by saying, so what's up?
	What's on your mind?
	And it always turns out to be very interesting and useful, as you might imagine.
	I'm sure it is.
	And I want to invite you.
	I don't know if you've been posting any of this on our platform here, brighteon.com, but you're certainly invited and welcome to do so.
	And we now have live streaming capabilities that we can activate for your account.
	If you ever want to do a live and it shows up on the homepage, it might attract more audience to your institute.
	So you're very much welcome to do that.
	So, I have so many questions for you.
	Obviously, I hope this is the first of many conversations.
	Because I often felt like I wish I had the discipline to focus on topics like what you're talking about.
	And often I get dragged into today's crisis political thing.
	It's very easy to do that when it's a distraction from what we should be looking at.
	But one of the big questions I have, of course, you know, the Drake Equation.
	Which puts in place the probability that a civilization will destroy itself.
	And what are your thoughts on whether our civilization will survive its own destructive tendencies and one day then join the cosmic international community of other advanced civilizations?
	Well, it certainly is a distinct possibility.
	As a matter of fact, the Kind of the history, unconventional as it is, that I follow, suggest that at least five times in the past, whether it's Atlantis or Lemuria or whatever the other times is, that the civilization rose to a certain height and then they weren't successful and kind of...
	Punching through, if you will, or they were incapable of dealing, in the case of Atlantis, with the technology they had developed.
	The social development had not kept up with the technology.
	It occurs, though, which is very encouraging, that sometime around 2012 or something, I don't know when it is for sure, but that humanity got to the point where there's a critical mass of some of us who...
	We start to see ourselves and see the world in a different way.
	And it's gotten to the place where it is going to be successful.
	Absent some really big aberrational thing, like we allow the leadership of our countries to blow the place up, which hopefully, and I'm encouraged that that's not going to happen, regardless of how close to it we become.
	And so this is a really structurally, fundamentally different time than there's ever been in the past and we're about to make a giant kind of evolutionary jump into a new space that has kind of spiritual and conscious and all kinds of That take you away from all of the encumbrances.
	You know, this human experience, and certainly in the modern world, is nothing but...
	From the time that we're born, increasing constraints, whether they're social or familiar or government or education or military or whatever they turn out to be, every one of them kind of piles on and builds reasons what you can't do and who you can't become and what, you know, and it suppresses this innate kind of capability.
	Well, I have a question for you along those lines, actually, which is about suppression of technology and the suppression of the advancement of the human condition and the human mind.
	I mean, you know, my background is focused on natural medicine and nutrition.
	That's how I got started.
	And we're seeing so much suppression in that area.
	Even, by the way, the eradication of indigenous human knowledge about natural medicine.
	So, you know, most of the world used natural medicine.
	Up until the early 20th century when Rockefeller, Western medicine came in and said, oh no, don't trust the plants.
	You have to use these synthetic things that are also toxic.
	And we've seen this, even Google.
	Google is not a search engine of human knowledge.
	It is designed to displace human knowledge and replace it with artificial information.
	Certainly.
	And so...
	My question to you is, how much of the suppression of this is now sort of failing?
	They haven't taken us off the air.
	They haven't silenced you.
	They haven't silenced your speakers.
	It seems like as much as they try to suppress us, we are still overcoming it anyway.
	What are your thoughts?
	Yeah, yeah.
	Yeah, we're making progress here.
	There's wonderful people that are coming up.
	I'll give you an example.
	Our little town.
	We have 600 people.
	Population of the county only has 15, 16,000 people in the whole county.
	But this is a marvelous little place.
	And we have...
	We've tried to be proactive about this.
	So we're thinking about food security.
	And so we're building a community, a really quite significant community garden.
	We're thinking about all kinds of things about food and water and such.
	But we're also interested in community, and we don't believe that you can do this and get to where we need to go without others.
	You can't do this on your own.
	And so in the last, I don't know, three, four years, we've had a dozen people that have moved into our community just to be a part of this whole process.
	As a matter of fact, we've had one, two, three maybe in the last three or four months, and they keep coming because You know, my sense of it is you raise a flag and if enough people can see it and they say, ah, I like that, and they come.
	It's kind of like build it and they will come.
	And we're finding that to be the case because we're trying to build a very active and a sophisticated kind of program.
	I mean, it's not a program per se, but I mean, we do.
	Supper clubs and all kinds of different events and things, all designed to bring the folks who are like-minded who want to be active participants in this whole process, bring them together and make a place.
	And so, you know, you've got that and you've got to then do the technology.
	And that's why I'm so kind of excited about what you're doing in your AI program, because I don't think you can...
	If you follow the chronology again, if you can't get from 2027 to 2032 and the reconfiguration of the whole space, you can't get from here to there without using some advanced capability that increases the metabolism of the whole process.
	I agree with you, and we believe in using technology to expand the human experience, the human ingenuity and innovation and so on, rather than the technocracy, as you mentioned earlier, which uses technology to enslave and surveil people.
	We believe in technology-assisted human freedom.
	I mean, I would even say, by the way, if anybody believes that there are extraterrestrials in our universe, then they must have mastered faster-than-light travel, F2L, right?
	I've said before, I think F2L technology is as commonplace in the cosmos as bicycles on our planet.
	Of course, it requires an enormous amount of energy, but guess what?
	There's so much energy out there that can be harnessed or whatever, but Well, it requires a whole lot of energy if you believe the Einsteinian kind of notions.
	And there's a whole bunch of new guys who are coming along saying Einstein was wrong.
	And so it doesn't require quite the amount of energy, you know, enough to boil the oceans or something in order to go to the speed of light.
	As a matter of fact, one of our speakers who's coming up here in two months is an interesting woman who...
	Her name is Dolly Safran, and from the time that she was 14, it was earlier than that, but they started letting her remember it.
	From the time of 14, about twice or three times a week, they'd take her up at night into a craft and run her around different places in the galaxy and so on, and they essentially took her to school, a parallel school at night,
	and That made her very, very bright and so much so that she found conventional school just boring as can be and so she'd get straight A's and her teachers finally said just go to the library and so she read every book in the library.
	Interesting part is that she was so engaged in a part of the community up there that it became obvious that at some point she had to make a contribution.
	She had to get a job, right?
	And so at about 20 years old, she says, well, I want to be a pilot.
	I want to drive the craft.
	And they said, well, okay.
	And to hear, describe it, it's like me going through flight training for the Navy.
	You know, they go through all aptitude tests and physical stuff and whatever to see if you're okay, and then they spent Two years trying to walk her through and very systematically through the process of how you meld your mind with the ship, because that's how you fly these things, if you know anything about it.
	And the ship, by the way, is alive.
	And I know that from other sources as well.
	And so you have this engagement.
	It's a partnership.
	Yeah, and then you just think about where you want to go, boom, and that's the way you...
	So it's not a function of huge amounts of energy, it's a function of different kinds of understanding of physics, and the assumption that we kind of have got it all figured out in terms of physics is...
	Yeah, we're millions of years behind the state of the art, right?
	So, let me ask you this question.
	How much is there a sense that the other intelligent species that are watching us, observing us, are they treating us like...
	Yeah, some are.
	Like a preserve?
	Because we're not mature, okay?
	Our species is not overall very mature, and one of my concerns is that if we got, let's say, very effective free energy technology, based on the lack of ethics that we see and the concentration of power in the hands of evil people...
	We would see total destruction of the biosphere and destruction of other planets and star systems.
	Until we gain more maturity, we probably haven't earned the right to have access to a lot of these technologies.
	Is that a topic that you talk about?
	Yeah, no, absolutely.
	I think you've got it right.
	There seem to be two factors here.
	There's some who are almost like, have been husbanding us along, bringing us along from the beginning and the end.
	Engage every once in a while and they, you know, they're available in certain ways at certain times.
	And then there's certainly a negative force, you know, that who's interested, that's behind, I would argue, behind all of this technocracy kinds of stuff and this oppression.
	Of the innate kind of capabilities that we have as humans.
	And so this is a big kind of biblical kind of almost issue or time.
	But there are all kinds of indicators that suggest that we are, you know, a handful of years maybe only away from Of being engaging with the positive ones.
	This is not, what is it, Fourth of July, whatever that movie was, where they all come guns blazing and blow the place up.
	No, they don't want to do that.
	They're interested in those who have kind of a less than positive impact.
	From our perspective, interests in all of this are interested in our DNA because we're unique and we can do things and we have the capability to love and so on that is not generally available apparently across the country.
	I'm sorry to interrupt, but it begs the question that this is something that I've asked and talked about, so I'm really curious to ask you this question.
	So it's clear that from a cosmic perspective, our planet has intrinsic value.
	Our location in one of the spiral arms of the Milky Way has very high value in and of itself.
	Our distance from the sun, our axial tilt relative to the orbital plane has value.
	Seasons, the orbiting moon has incredible value.
	The biodiversity of life on our planet, which may be unique in some ways, also has value.
	Obviously the rare earth elements, the table of elements exists everywhere in the universe.
	Gold is gold, whatever.
	It's all the same.
	Although there may be more exotic elements that we haven't discovered.
	But my point is that Earth has value.
	Liquid water has high value in the cosmos.
	But is there value from a cosmic perspective of the human race?
	Because...
	Big question, right?
	Yeah, there is on both sides of the equation.
	Because on one side...
	Again, like the Matrix movie, if they can get you wired up and stacked up to where all they do is take off your energy and so on, then that certainly seems to have some value, like batteries.
	Copper tops.
	Just cells and a battery.
	On the other hand, humans have...
	First of all, you've got to start with the assumption, which I always do, is that we're not unique.
	That is to say that this experience, this human kind of experience, that is to say life on this planet is not unique.
	That has happened many, many times, many places, and that there are groups You can say, who are in the business of trying to seed other places and seed life different places.
	And they've been involved on and off in here for an awfully long time.
	And so they are actively engaged in trying to get us to where we want to go.
	This is all about our own decisions.
	We get to make our, you know, within the constraints of what we understand and so on.
	We get to make our own mind, make up our own mind.
	And so the kind of the human experience, as far as I'm concerned, is all about how you get to the place where you make good decisions.
	A lot of people say the purpose of life is education.
	Well, it's education in kind of rough kind of terms.
	But most specifically, it's about how you make better decisions on a kind of a day-to-day, moment-to-moment basis and how you get in touch with the little voice inside that kind of gives you directions.
	And in the process, you rise up to this higher level of education.
	I'm sorry to interrupt, John, but just pushing back a little bit on that question, if you're saying that the human race is not unique, and I agree with that assessment.
	I didn't say the human race was not unique.
	I said life on the planet.
	Life on the planet.
	Okay, right.
	The human experience is something that many other beings on other planets Throughout the cosmos have also experienced their version of that, which makes perfect sense to me.
	Then why would a very advanced extraterrestrial civilization, millions of years more advanced or even more, why would they assign any value to the human race on this planet if there are so many other examples out there of similar biology, especially given that The planet itself may have more value to them as a place for them to colonize versus humans being here.
	I think I agree with you where you're going there, and that is that there's something unique and particularly valuable about the human beings.
	And I would say that not only in terms of our DNA, but then, you know, our engagement with our ability to love, like I said, to love and create.
	There's ability to create that it seems to be unique.
	And so those kinds of things are a particular value.
	My friend, Penny Kelly, who has personal experience in these kind of spaces with other kind of groups that are off planet, says that it's really a whole lot about DNA and that there are serious kind of efforts.
	You know, if they kill us, then they don't get any DNA, I guess, more or less.
	So they're really trying to just get it to the place where they can denominate, dominate, and they can kind of capture and use the DNA.
	But that's on the negative side.
	And the positive side is that, you know, there's a we're all a piece of God.
	We're all a piece of the Creator, however you want to describe that.
	And so we have this extraordinary potential to rise above all of this.
	And as a matter of fact, every one of these things that comes into our life that we think of as being obstructions or problems or things are necessary because that's what If you've got no problems or anything, you've got no incentive to get any better or to do anything.
	You just sit around and eat bonbons or something.
	I like what you're saying here, but I'll share something kind of blunt and welcome your reaction.
	But the longer I live, the more disappointed I am with the masses of humanity, although I continue to meet incredible individuals who are outshining the rest of the human race.
	But what you said, like our capability to love...
	To me, that sounds like sort of emotional anthropomorphism.
	It's like, okay, well, we feel it's so intense, and that's our experience of what love is like, but isn't love also universal?
	Isn't it widely reflected probably across...
	Yeah, but all you got to do is look around.
	You would agree with this.
	Everybody isn't at the same place in terms of their development.
	True.
	I mean, everybody isn't ready for this.
	You know, I have wonderful people that I love dearly who just their eyes glaze over.
	Right.
	And so it's almost like at certain times you get a kind of a critical mass that rises up to a level of consciousness and capability and development, and they are ready for all of this kind of transition and to move on to the next.
	But if it wasn't that way, then, you know, if you...
	Like you alluded to, if you get yourself extraordinary kind of technologies and you have the same mindset, all you're going to do is use it to kill more people or destroy the planet.
	And so it's really this kind of combination.
	Well, we've seen the technologies that have been either invented or transitioned into the human knowledge base, some of which I believe is reverse-engineered alien technology.
	And I think the transistor is one of those, by the way.
	That's just my personal opinion.
	But whatever it is, if you look at the way it's been used by the human race so far, it's mostly been used for commercial gain and also asserting power over others.
	I mean, AI is a great example.
	Yeah, but you're sitting here pitching an AI thing to help change the world and make it better.
	So it's all fungible.
	It's fungible.
	We can use this stuff for good as well as bits like driving a car.
	You can rob a bank with it or not, you know, go to the grocery store.
	And it's our job, I think, to...
	To use it in the most intelligent way.
	And that's why I think your AI program is so important because what we're trying to do, we're trying to build a model of a new world.
	But, you know, I really appreciate when you and many other kind of folks are working to kind of deal with current day kind of events.
	But that's not our bailiwick.
	We're in the business.
	That's not our job.
	We're in the business of trying to build a new world.
	And so we've got programs like TransitionNet, which is a global collaboration platform that we're working on that will allow millions of people to all work together to build, literally, to build a new world.
	How does the education work?
	How does the legal system work?
	Or how does transportation and other kinds of things all built around a new set of principles that look at the world and look at ourselves in a different kind of way?
	And I think that one of the things that's really important in all of this, it would be very, very easy in the face of all of the efforts to control the narrative and all this technology and this suppression and all these things that are going on to really get disappointed and just get discouraged. very easy in the face of all of the efforts
	And so hope is the kind of the underlying thing that those of us who want to be part of this new world, we need to find a way to generate hope for all of the folks who are coming over to our side of the fence.
	And that means that you've got to at least have a beginning of an image of something out on the horizon that says, there's another way we can go here.
	We don't have to go the way they're all talking about.
	Good point.
	And yeah, I work to try to contribute to that brighter future.
	Decentralization of technology is one of the things that I'm working on.
	But let me ask you about the Arlington Institute and your views on money and currency for the future.
	And let me just throw this out in advance because I thought about this a lot.
	And I came to the conclusion that in the not-too-distant future, that the real form of money would be energy with a very advanced portable energy-holding battery device you could put in your pocket, and it could hold gigawatt hours of energy.
	And you would trade energy with other people.
	And that energy could be used to power a fan, power lights, power...
	Money today is a representation of energy, but real energy is real money in a sense.
	But that's just one idea that I had.
	How do you and your speakers think about a cosmic currency?
	What do civilizations trade with each other if indeed that's how it's structured?
	Well, that's fascinating because we talked about that in our interview.
	Quartet session with the four of us back just a month ago.
	And when I set the topic up, I kind of built a case for the question of the day.
	And in this particular case, I said there are two issues that are the kind of the anchors of the present way in which we operate.
	And one is secrecy and one is money.
	And the secrecy essentially tamps down all the creativity of humans.
	You know, it's controlled by people that have the most power and so on.
	And if you go out to the folks who are, you know, building...
	And again, it's all unconventional kind of sources.
	But if you go out 50 years...
	And say, what's the world look like out there?
	They all say, well, there's no money.
	And there are no secrets.
	And so our topic of that day was, I can understand how 50 or 100 years from now, you can get to the place where there weren't any secrets.
	Because if telepathy showed up and became broad-paced within telepathy, The new group of, you know, citizens of residents on this planet.
	Then you'd be able to understand what everybody else is doing.
	And so you wouldn't have secrecy.
	But how do you do it with money?
	I don't understand how that.
	So we had a long kind of conversation about that.
	And the problem with this, I mean, you're doing this rather creatively, thinking about a conversion to another country.
	Something like energy or another metric for transferring value and so on.
	But there is another kind of twist in there that I haven't figured out yet because if you go and read about these people who have hung around with other worldly groups and so on, they seem not to have any money in terms that we understand it.
	And I don't quite understand.
	I understand, at the end, how you get to that.
	I mean, I can certainly see that we could go through a period of time in the mid-future where you'd use energy, like you've said.
	But somewhere out in the end, I mean, a lot of it, you could say 3D manufacturing.
	You could see that you wouldn't have to...
	Then ideas or then information becomes...
	The currency, perhaps?
	I don't know.
	Well, I'd love to join you for a discussion, even just you and I privately sometime on this, but it's fascinating to me because energy seems to be a universal currency because energy can even, of course, transmute elements.
	So one of the things I said earlier, the table of elements is commonplace and universal across the cosmos, as long as we're all operating under the same laws of physics.
	And so you have the atomic elements, and the only way that you transmute them is through fusion or fission.
	Both of those require enormous amounts of energy.
	So you can either have a pile of copper over here, which conducts electricity.
	Here's a pile of copper.
	That's got its own intrinsic value.
	It's used in all kinds of things.
	I would say even advanced extraterrestrial technologies, they use the table of elements to achieve the things they want to achieve, but they have more creative ways of using it.
	But if you want to create copper...
	You need a tremendous amount of energy to either fuse smaller elements or fission to break apart larger elements to create copper.
	Unless you're a plant or a tree, because that's exactly what they do.
	They start with a certain set of elements, and by the time it gets to the top and turns into a leaf, you've converted it all into other ones, and they haven't needed a huge amount of energy.
	Well, I've read some research about chickens being able to create calcium without consuming the amount of calcium.
	But I haven't pursued that, or I've never seen something that is irrefutable, that there's some sort of transmutation going on in chickens.
	But that would be fascinating.
	There's a new area that I first read about many years ago called computational chemistry, which essentially says we're getting to the place with advanced things like AI and so on, that you are going to be able to If you're going to build yourself a bridge,
	for instance, instead of going to a book and saying what kind of steel is available, you could start off by saying, well, I'd like this thing to kind of turn a nice color, a nice blue color at night when the sun starts to go down, and I would like it to behave this way and that way.
	And you could start with the characteristics that you wanted from the material.
	Material science is going into way interesting, interesting places.
	But in this particular case, you could spec the characteristics that you wanted.
	The material needs a certain amount of kind of abrasion and so much strength and shear and so on.
	And then the machine comes up and says, well, here's what you want.
	And that then gives you the basis Or if you then understand, as you've suggested, the underlying forces and how you mix them and match them.
	This is apropos to what kind of we were talking about, because the materials that they have saved or scavenged or whatever from down to extra charge of craft are used.
	It's very strange and impossible to manufacture in our own capabilities.
	And they call them metamaterials.
	And they have this marriage of different elements and molecules and other such things in ways that we have no idea how to do.
	And so there clearly is a place downstream at some point where you're going to be able to do things like that.
	Yeah, and that's fascinating to bring that up because, of course, that process is powered by energy.
	So if you have energy plus technology, then you can create matter, or you can alter matter.
	So you could take a pile of ash, like, oh, I burned a bunch of logs, here's a bunch of ash, and then you take that pile of ash and you put it in this magical chamber that is really just advanced technology, and you say, here's what I want.
	Like a super special spring.
	Zap, you know, 10 seconds later, boom, you have super memory steel.
	I'm quite certain that technology exists somewhere to do that.
	Just reconfiguring the elements.
	Well, sure.
	And you can...
	Yeah, absolutely.
	I mean, it's obvious that we're...
	There's a real shortcoming of science, frankly, in the philosophy of science, and that is that they always think that they've got it all figured out, and all you've got to do is look over time, and they're always wrong.
	All you've got to do is wait about 10 or 15 or 20 years.
	And then they change their mind because they get smarter.
	Well, I mean, unless you think that you've got it all wired and you've arrived, then that's going to continue for a while.
	And we need to be very open and permeable for new ideas because that's the...
	That's the key to riding this exponential wave into this future that's arriving so quickly is because it's all going to be built on new ideas and new breakthroughs and other things.
	And if you're sitting there holding on to the past, you're going to miss it.
	And if you're afraid to change, you're not going to be able to adapt.
	And so this is all about, like I say, becoming an entrepreneur.
	Kind of a new human, rising to a new level of evolution.
	Well, talking to you, it's given me a lot of enthusiasm, and it's a blessing that I feel like I was born at just the right time, because I'm an outsider.
	I'm an outside-the-box thinker and what you described, like what humanity needs.
	This is what I do, is I challenge people's thinking and shatter their paradigms and their illusions.
	At least that's what I attempt to do.
	But let me give out your website again so people can join your organization.
	It's the Arlington Institute.
	Website is arlingtoninstitute.org.
	And they have different membership levels there, and they have different videos and benefits.
	And tell us about this upcoming event you have in September, or wait, oh, I see you have one in August and September.
	Tell us about that.
	Well, in August, Dolly Saffron, Olivia, that I mentioned to you, and she is now 60, and since she was 14, she's been driving these craft all over the universe, as a matter of fact.
	And You know, she's been like an airline pilot, if you will, hauling people and supplies and so on.
	And she has an amazing...
	I mean, there are apparently a couple of people around that have this whole lifetime of experience in these kind of spaces.
	But there aren't many of them, and she has a very...
	Extraordinary kind of comprehensive picture about how this all works and she's got some special messages that the extraterrestrials are trying to talk about and want us to be aware of in the next Can I interrupt and just say, clearly, though, someone claiming that would set off all kinds of skepticism among people, right?
	And they would typically, even I would typically say, well, how can you show us that what you're talking about is true?
	Do you have any evidence or proof?
	Obviously, those kind of questions are going to come up a lot with a speaker like that.
	Well, this isn't for everybody.
	And if you want to use the past as a method for deciding what is true in the future, then this is going to go faster than you're going to be able to deal with.
	And so this is about intuition.
	This is about getting sensitive in your heart and looking at this critically.
	How does the logic stack up?
	And it's not so much as believing it as...
	Grasping it is a possibility.
	I see.
	In my business, you know, I'm trying to look at worlds that have never happened before, and so you can't...
	You can't just do a linear projection out from the past into this kind of space because it's going in someplace where it's never been.
	And so what you've got to do is you've got to look at things like this and you say, now that's pretty interesting.
	Does that hold together?
	And you stick it in the back of your mind.
	And then you sit around for a while and, you know, and three months later you're going to run into something else.
	That says, oh, yeah, that's probably right.
	And after a while, you get a kind of a critical mass of three or four or five little things together.
	And you say there's something there.
	And I really ought to start thinking about that.
	And that's clearly the way.
	I mean, that's what you do in terms of looking out for the next five or 10 years.
	You kind of gather up information from different sources.
	Who knows what their ultimate objective is and what's their motivation, but you try to kind of bring it together in a way that kind of makes the most sense and gets a lot of consistency, and that's what we do here.
	And by the way, that's what I'm going to do in September when I'm the presenter at Transition Talks.
	A big picture of a Where the world's going and where we're going and what alternative scenarios are out of the back end here, the futures that might show up.
	Well, your events, of course, I just want to encourage the audience to go to your website to check out the events coming up, ArlingtonInstitute.org.
	But I've said in the past, I've said that if you're one year ahead in terms of your predictions, you're called a genius.
	If you're 10 years ahead, you're called a lunatic.
	Well, you're looking 100 plus years ahead, right?
	And that's got to be even more challenging in terms of...
	Because, you know, people are just so stuck in the present.
	Just the normalcy bias, tomorrow's going to be the same as yesterday, blah, blah, blah.
	And that's not what you or I are focused on.
	I have a hard enough time telling people what's coming in two years, you know?
	Yeah.
	Mike, you can't get out a hundred years.
	I mean, that's a crazy difference than anything that...
	I mean, we're going exponentially.
	We're going straight up.
	And so...
	What you really want is this mid-space, this next five years or something like that, so that people can adapt and get ready.
	You're very much interested in that, and so are we.
	How do you get ready in physical and emotional and spiritual terms to be able to play in this new space?
	If you get too far out, it's science fiction.
	Nobody can make sense out of that.
	Last question for you, John, and I really appreciate you taking the time with us today.
	I hope we can do this again, but how do you think that contact actually plays out?
	It's probably a kind of an evolutionary process rather than revolutionary.
	You've got to start with the assumption that These guys have been around a long time and they're pretty smart and they have ways and they can kind of read your mind and all because they know the state of the environment and the condition of humans down here.
	And so what they're trying to do is in a historically rather short period of time but nevertheless do this kind of evolutionary thing and feed more information and more information and there's sightings all over the place and there's movies and there's, There's, you know, people who dedicated their lives to doing nothing that opening up doesn't make any disclosure here.
	And so it's it's and I know a little bit, not much about what the what the government's position is.
	I've known a lot of the folks who are inside the government who have known about this stuff.
	And have been responsible for the classified programs.
	And, you know, they're all very worried about high states of disruption and people going nuts and crazy and whatever.
	I never understood that, though.
	If there's a disclosure day, I'm like, let's party.
	This is awesome.
	I mean, what's to fear?
	Come on.
	No, you're absolutely right, but you're not a bureaucrat, and so you're not trying to just protect the president and keep it going until you retire.
	True, true.
	I mean, like, thank God this happened, you know?
	I mean, this is a whole new era here.
	That's what I think of it is, is this is an amazing thing, and all these efforts at secrecy and other kind of things are just tamping down the kind of evolutionary Push for humanity to become more and more, you know, consciousness and so on.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Wow.
	Well, it's really fascinating to speak with you, and I can tell that, you know, you and I share a lot of the same analysis of where things are going.
	And ultimately, I think we're both optimists about the future of humanity.
	I mean, we recognize there can be turmoil, there can be chaos, dark times, whatever, but that's temporary.
	Yeah.
	Long-term, human consciousness overcomes so much of this, and the universe is far bigger than anything that we can imagine.
	Oh, yeah.
	That's for sure.
	All right.
	Well, John, thank you so much for joining me today, and wish you the best, and we'll talk again soon.
	Thank you so much for your donation, and we can talk more, whatever other materials you want us to incorporate into our AI training.
	We would welcome that.
	Thank you.
	Thank you, Mike.
	Thank you, John.
	Take care.
	Alright, I thank all of you for watching today.
	I hope you enjoyed this intriguing interview.
	It gives you a lot to think about.
	But I would hope that you really ponder this and realize we are not alone in the cosmos.
	That is a certainty.
	And which institutions are trying to convince you that we are alone, right?
	Which institutions are trying to suppress science or knowledge or human understanding?
	They're not working in the long-term interests of humanity, in my opinion.
	The Arlington Institute is looking forward and thinking about how we actually transcend the current sort of slave state of the planet and become the fully expressed human existence and our place in the cosmos, which is filled with life, by the way.
	So believe what you want to believe, but don't limit your thinking.
	Thank you for watching today.
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