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July 10, 2024 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams

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BBN, July 10, 2024 – Will Joe Biden be UPLOADED to an AI MACHINE...

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	Welcome to Brighteon Broadcast News for Wednesday, July 10th, 2024.
	I'm Mike Adams.
	Thank you for joining me today as we are building the infrastructure of human freedom.
	And as you may know, we are broadcasting this Brighteon Broadcast News each weekday at 1 p.m.
	Central on X and Rumble and Brighteon.com.
	Except yesterday, we were 30 minutes late getting it started because of some file transfer difficulties that actually have to do with some of the bandwidth problems caused by the hurricane.
	So I apologize for that.
	Normally, we start at 1 p.m., but if we don't start sharp at 1, know that we are working on it.
	But did you know that millions of people were without power in Houston?
	And I don't know what the number is now of how many have power restored.
	I hope it's most.
	But there are still many people without power in Houston.
	And that's crazy because, you know, Houston, Texas is an energy hub for America.
	But, of course, we're talking...
	You know, petroleum energy and natural gas and that kind of thing.
	But hey, when the wind blows and the storm comes in, takes out the power grid, doesn't matter if you're an energy hub or not, your entire city can go offline.
	And it's not just the city.
	Another country went offline.
	Yeah, this just happened.
	Nigeria, the entire power grid, powering the entire nation, just went down again.
	This is from newscentral.africa.
	Here it is.
	Nigeria's power grid has experienced another system failure leading to a nationwide blackout.
	The Abuja Electricity Distribution Company, that's a cool name, said the power outage was as a result of a system failure from the national grid.
	Well, that's just kind of circular reasoning.
	You're like, so why did the power grid fail?
	Well, because of a failure of the power grid.
	It's like, yeah, that's what we're asking.
	Why did the power grid fail?
	Because there's a failure of the power grid.
	Okay, you're not answering the question, but this is what they're saying.
	There was a systemic failure.
	Yeah, we know that because we have no power.
	Anyway, apparently their main power plant that serves the country was only producing 0.8 megawatts of electricity.
	Yeah.
	So what is that, 800 kilowatts of electricity?
	Yeah, I mean, it's enough to power several homes, or a neighborhood, perhaps, but that's about it.
	And this isn't the first time it happened.
	On February 4th, the national power grid also collapsed.
	Oh, and then on March 28th, according to the story here, yeah, so this is apparently the third total power grid collapse.
	Wow.
	Wow.
	So normally, their power plant produces 3,400 megawatts.
	And that went down to 0.8.
	So you can see that there's a problem.
	And the article says, quote, there are ongoing concerns about the reliability of the nation's electricity infrastructure.
	No kidding.
	No kidding.
	I wonder why.
	So just know that wherever you are, the power grid is not something that you can absolutely count on.
	I would expect more outages, and not just in countries like Nigeria, but across America.
	Different states, different regions, a lot of weather events, a lot of so-called natural disasters or, you know, hurricanes being pushed along or maybe exacerbated, who knows, geoengineering, ionization technology.
	There's all kinds of mysteries out there.
	The bottom line is that electricity is not going to be as reliable as it once was.
	So plan accordingly.
	Now, moving on.
	Joe Biden, well, the White House has issued a statement that says Joe Biden is going to defeat Trump and he's going to serve out his entire second term and he will serve as the President of the United States through the year 2029.
	Right, right.
	You can, it's okay to laugh right here.
	Um...
	I'm thinking poor old Joe, he's probably going to pass away before long.
	Well, I mean, we shouldn't feel sorry for him.
	He's an evil crook.
	But after he passes, how much you want to bet Jill Biden puts his head on a stick and marches him around like a meat puppet?
	And they'll have other sticks, like puppet sticks on some arms, articulating arms, and they'll parade him around and say, Joe's still here!
	He's still the president!
	And then, you know, a lot of Democrats will believe that.
	They're like...
	No, that's not a dead guy's head on a stick.
	That's actually the president.
	Yeah.
	I wouldn't be surprised if they try that and try to gaslight the country like, this is Joe.
	He's just self-identifying as a head on a stick.
	But actually, it's Joe Biden.
	See?
	Look, he's about to say something.
	What is it, Joe?
	We'll just play recordings of his debate performance.
	It'll be emanating out of the skull on the stick, you know?
	It looked like something out of an Indiana Jones headhunter's reunion of heads on sticks, or like shrunken heads.
	Yeah, I saw that once when I was in Ecuador.
	I took a tour through, like, some jungle civilization museums way out in the outback, and they had, like, shrunken heads on sticks, man.
	Maybe that's what made me think of this.
	But I've seen shrunken heads on sticks, and they ugly.
	Let me tell you, because when they shrink, they get all wrinkly and they turn darker for some reason.
	Yeah, they do.
	Shrunken heads on sticks.
	But anyway, that could be your president soon.
	Yeah.
	But whatever.
	I mean, look, I can't wait for the left-wing media to tell us that this head on a stick is actually very coherent and sharp as a tack, actually.
	Well, maybe that's the tip of the stick.
	It might be sharp as a tack.
	But they have told us that Joe Biden's...
	Awesome, this entire time.
	So, in fact, I want to play a little bit of a video for you here about the left-wing media claiming that Joe Biden is sharp as a tack.
	Check this out.
	This version of Biden, intellectually, analytically, is the best Biden ever.
	He is sharp, intensely probing, and detail-oriented and focused.
	For example, we have a thousand trillionaires in America.
	This is a man who is sharp, who is on top of his game, who knows what's going on.
	He's smart.
	He's on his game.
	His mental acuity is great.
	This is a very sharp president.
	And the people that I've talked to say he's as sharp as a tack.
	He's fine.
	They say he's sharp.
	There's not a problem.
	He was sharp.
	He was sharper than anyone I've spoken to.
	The president is sharp and he is tireless.
	He is sharp.
	As sharp as ever.
	And he's fine.
	All this right-wing propaganda that his mental acuity has declined is wrong.
	His brain is good.
	He's still great.
	He is sharp in meetings.
	I believe the people who say that behind closed doors, Joe Biden remains sharp.
	In meetings, Joe Biden is sharp.
	He's sharp.
	He's fit.
	There is nothing to these challenges, these suggestions that somehow he's not sharp.
	He's sharp as a tech.
	Making sure that we're able to make every single solitary person eligible for what I've been able to do with the COVID, excuse me, with dealing with everything we have to do with COVID. Look, if we finally beat Medicare...
	Thank you, President Biden.
	President Trump?
	Well, he's right.
	He did beat Medicare.
	He beat it to death.
	All right, so there you go.
	All the examples of the left-wing media gaslighting America and claiming that Joe Biden's totally sharp.
	And now they've created a monster and they can't get rid of him.
	Now CNN's all freaking out.
	A lot of left-wing media are freaking out.
	And I've got a special report.
	I'm not going to play it right now, but it's posted on my channel.
	It's called The Corporate Media Turns on the Biden Monster They Created.
	Bidenstein, as I said before.
	Now, by the way, coming from Judicial Watch, here's an important headline.
	Packs of fighting-age males in military uniforms entering U.S. through remote Arizona town.
	This is a Border Patrol checkpoint unmanned.
	Local ranchers say it has not been regularly manned for the past few years.
	It's the Santa Cruz County region just west of Cochise County, Arizona.
	Wow.
	From that story, as the nation's largest southern border crossings finally received mainstream media coverage, years into an unprecedented illegal immigration crisis, untold numbers of fighting age males dressed in military uniforms, we would call them soldiers, are entering the United States through remote areas with no Border Patrol presence.
	security lapse, unlikely to be reported by most news outlets and local, federal and state law enforcement sources have provided judicial watch with detailed accounts, reports, diagrams and photos of the situation, which is terrorizing residents in a once harmonious Arizona town just a which is terrorizing residents in a once harmonious Arizona town just a few miles And they blame the Biden administration's catastrophic open border policies for the serious problems that have gripped the area in the last few years.
	All right.
	Well, there you go.
	Just walking right in.
	Soldiers and everything, of course, planning a military conquering of the United States of America.
	Now, Donald J. Trump posted something yesterday that's a pretty big deal.
	He said he's going to be prosecuting and locking up all the people who commit election fraud.
	Now, of course, the Democrats, they need a lot of illegals to come into the country so they can put them on the voter rolls.
	They don't even need them to vote.
	All they need to do is have an expansion of the voter rolls so that all of the fake votes that are assigned digitally can be assigned to people's names who are registered.
	And, of course, these illegals are registered illegally because, you know, you're not allowed to vote in federal elections if you're not a U.S. citizen.
	So there are layers of criminality happening here, and Trump has now stated that he is going to prosecute these vote riggers.
	Trump posted the following.
	Yeah, the whole thing's rigged by a bunch of Democrat cheaters, of course.
	That's true.
	He says, get tough, RNC, Speaker Johnson, and all state and local Republican politicians.
	The Justice Department is corrupt and won't do a thing to help.
	They have no shame.
	It's true.
	All I can say is that if I'm elected president, we will pursue election fraudsters at levels never seen before.
	And they will be sent to prison for long periods of time.
	We already know who you are.
	Don't do it.
	Zucker Bucks, be careful.
	Called out the Zuck, huh?
	Yeah, Mark Zuckerberg, who just banned the word Zionism on Facebook and Instagram, I believe.
	Yeah, you're no longer allowed to say Zionists or Zionism.
	Especially, you can't say that Zionists control anything.
	You can say that other people control things, but not Zionists.
	Because, of course, they control lots of things.
	So, you're not allowed to say that.
	But Donald Trump here calls out the Zuck.
	And he says he's going to throw the election fraudsters in jail.
	Well, guess what?
	I've got an even better idea.
	I've got an idea to end election fraud.
	And it will also, of course, cause the Democrat Party to completely implode for generations to come.
	I'm talking about election fraud amnesty confessions in America.
	This is something that Trump could announce and could get those who committed the fraud to openly confess and set the record straight.
	How would we do that?
	Well...
	That's the plan that I unveil in this special report.
	It's called How to Stop Vote Fraud and Change History, Amnesty Confessions Under Trump.
	Give it a listen.
	Now get ready to hear about an idea that can change history and can obliterate the cheating Democrat Party for a century or more.
	This is Mike Adams.
	Thanks for joining me today here on this Health Ranger Report at Brighttown.com.
	Now, Representative Chip Roy has done something really commendable, and the Republican Party is, of course, getting behind this, and it's the SAVE Act, S-A-V-E, which is about requiring proof of citizenship when people register to vote, because currently what's happening is the Democrats are mass-registering illegals to vote knowingly, Because they need all those illegals on the voter rolls.
	Not that they even need those illegals to show up to vote.
	All they need is for all these additional names on the voter rolls, because that's how Democrats cheat, is they fabricate the votes and assign them to people on the voter rolls, whether they're alive or dead or legal or illegal or otherwise.
	So Representative Chip Roy's SAVE Act would also require illegals to be removed from the voter rolls, and that's a very important step, and that's something that needs to be pursued.
	But should we manage to defeat the cheating Democrats and get Donald J. Trump into the White House again, then there's something that he can do that will change history.
	And it's very simple and it's very powerful.
	And I call it the Election Fraud Amnesty Confession Program.
	And here's how it would work.
	Trump would announce the program.
	Nationwide and say, hey, to every person who participated in vote fraud, if you stuffed ballot boxes, if you ran ballots multiple times, if you were involved in the cheating or the artificial creation of votes using the voter rolls,
	etc., If you handled the ballot printing operations that the Democrats ran or the mass mail drops or any kind of illegal vote rigging activity, if you were involved in any of that, you can come to the federal government, you can confess to what you've done, and if you name two other people, That conspired with you to carry out these crimes, then you will be granted amnesty.
	You will not be criminally prosecuted.
	Your name will never be released to the public.
	The DOJ will be hands-off.
	All you have to do is confess to your crimes through this secure mechanism that the White House can set up through the DOJ, perhaps with Attorney General, whoever it happens to be.
	I think Ken Paxton would make an excellent Attorney General for the DOJ under Trump.
	But there'll be a mechanism with the DOJ, a secure way to submit your information, confess to your crimes, and then you can't be prosecuted as long as your confession is truthful.
	The only way you can be prosecuted is if you lied in your confession or if you left something out.
	But you need to confess and you need to provide the names of two other people that you worked with Who also participated in these crimes against America via election rigging.
	So again, this is the election fraud amnesty confession program.
	And then at the same time, Trump needs to say, if you don't confess, we are going to prosecute you to the fullest extent of the law.
	We're going to prosecute thousands of people all across America, including those who rigged the 2020 election.
	We're going to go back to 2020 and we're going to prosecute everybody, even in the midterms in 2022, perhaps even back to 2018.
	I'm not sure how far back they can go in terms of what the law allows.
	But with Trump's threat to prosecute people to the fullest extent of the law with long jail sentences, you're going to get a lot of people stepping forward and saying that they will confess to the crimes they committed.
	And then we will have a massive amount of information based on the confessions of these people.
	And what should happen at that point is the DOJ should redact the names, of course, because they promised to protect the names of the people.
	Redact the names and any identifiable information and then release this to the public.
	As a compilation report, look at all these reports of all the election fraud, the vote rigging, the machine hacking, the ballot stuffing, the ballot mules, everything.
	Here's what went on in 2020.
	Release that to the public.
	And that would be powerful, and it would be undeniable.
	You see, it's time to finish off the Democrats.
	The Democrat Party is a party that can only stay in power by cheating.
	That's their whole recipe, is cheat in elections and now bring in illegals to pump up the voter rolls and then cheat with those names.
	In an honest election, they will lose power because their ideas suck.
	All their ideas are horrible.
	I mean, look at their cities.
	Look at California if you want to see how Newsom's doing, or look at a blue city if you want to see how Democrat policies work.
	They're all in shambles.
	They're all collapsing.
	They're all broke.
	They've got record violent crime, drug addiction, child trafficking, needles on the streets.
	Homelessness.
	Just the worst of society.
	Many of these cities run by Democrats look like third world countries.
	Like parts of LA or St.
	Louis or Chicago for that matter or Seattle or Portland and so on.
	They look like third world countries.
	New York City Mayor Eric Adams just announced the invention of the trash can to try to convince people to put trash in a trash can.
	Yeah.
	We've had that in red states for a very long time, Mayor Adams, by the way.
	And if you think that invention is amazing for cleaning up the town, wait until San Francisco discovers toilets.
	The Democrat Party has set out to destroy America in the same way they've destroyed their own cities.
	They have systematically allowed America to be overrun and infiltrated.
	They have systematically corrupted the judicial system, the education system, the corporate media, elections, the legislative branch, the overreach of regulatory departments like the EPA and the ATF and the DEA and so on.
	The Democrats are destroyers of civilization and it's time to stop them.
	It's time to call their bullshit and to have the adults step into the room and say enough of your vote rigging, enough of your lies, enough of your fraud, enough of your cheating, enough.
	You're done.
	And disbar the Democrats from even participating in elections, knowing that they have rigged so many elections in recent years.
	They've rigged every election.
	Frankly, the Democrat Party should be banned from existence because they cheat.
	And perhaps when all the evidence comes out from the amnesty confessions, then perhaps that would be an option to say, look, you know, your party's been cheating for 20 years.
	It's actually longer than that.
	It goes back to Bill Clinton.
	And so you're going to be barred from politics for 20 years.
	How about that?
	You cheat for an election cycle, then you miss out on an election cycle.
	That's the way it's going to work.
	Now, I want to encourage you, share this podcast with your representatives in the House and your senators as well.
	Just forward them a link to this on Brighttown.com.
	We also posted it on Rumble.com because Brighttown links are not shareable on Twitter because Twitter has banned us and we've sued Twitter in order to try to overturn that ban.
	That lawsuit is underway right now.
	But share the Rumble link if that's the only link that works for you.
	Make sure that your representatives know about this idea because this is a very powerful idea.
	It gets people to confess themselves and to name their co-conspirators so that they themselves can achieve immunity from prosecution.
	Because all I want, all that I ask for, is just fair and free elections.
	I have no fear competing with Democrats in the realm of ideas.
	Where we have the freedom to speak, where we have fair elections, where the Democrats are not allowed to cheat.
	I know that real America can defeat the fascist Democrats every time.
	They cannot compete on a level playing field.
	That's why they have to cheat.
	But I am willing to honor the outcome of any election that is fair and free, that's also conducted in an environment of freedom of speech so that there can be public debates and discussions about the candidates and the issues.
	So we have to have the First Amendment protected.
	We have to have honest elections.
	And in that environment, if a Democrat wins, then so be it.
	I'm happy to live with that.
	I'm not here to say that Democrats can never be in power in some areas of the country.
	I'm here to say we should never let them cheat.
	Because that is treason.
	And in fact, I'm wondering if some of the criminal charges against these people might include treason or sedition.
	Because look at how they're overrunning the country by allowing these illegals to come in And commit all kinds of violent crimes and to take over the elections process.
	This is more than just a simple misdemeanor.
	These are serious felony crimes if not crimes of war against these United States of America.
	Now one other thing that needs to happen in all of this, as soon as Trump is sworn in, he needs to launch an effort to deport the illegals.
	Now, I have expressed some reservation about this idea in the past, just the methods by which it might be conducted, but I've always supported the overall concept.
	We do have to get these illegals out of the country.
	My concerns in the past have been about civil rights.
	I don't want to see Hispanic Americans profiled.
	I don't want to see show me your papers.
	I don't want to see people raided at home, you know, door to door, busting in the doors and terrifying families and pulling people out of there.
	Even if they are illegals.
	Because, you know, inevitably they end up raiding the wrong homes.
	You know, you see this all the time with ATF and other government agencies and sometimes local police or SWAT teams.
	They'll raid the wrong house and then they'll kill the guy that lives there because he thought it was a home invasion, you know, so he starts shooting back.
	Well, I don't want to see this spiral into violence.
	So there's a very simple way to do this actually that does not violate civil rights and as you may recall I met with some high-level officials of Texas law enforcement who told me the plan and it's very simple and it comes down to traffic enforcement where the sheriffs and the highway patrol and police officers in city jurisdictions they engage in aggressive traffic enforcement So if you're speeding,
	if you roll through a stop sign, if you fail to signal, whatever, if you're driving on the shoulder, you know, they pull you over, and there, they check citizenship status, which is perfectly reasonable, does not violate the rights of Americans, and there's a legal reason to pull somebody over.
	And through that method alone, do you realize you'll deport millions of illegals in the first year?
	Probably hundreds of thousands out of Texas alone.
	Why?
	Because illegals drive like lunatics.
	That's why.
	And everybody who's lived in southern states knows that.
	Illegals drive like freaking lunatics.
	Because they think they're still in Mexico City or wherever.
	Or South America.
	And they drive that way.
	And, you know, they don't obey any traffic rules whatsoever.
	So it's going to be pretty easy to pull them over and then find out they're illegal and then deport them.
	But the second thing to realize is that law enforcement is very capable of arresting illegals, arresting a lot more of them, if ICE would deport them instead of just letting them loose.
	So I know this from talking with law enforcement.
	That sometimes they just refuse to arrest even human traffickers.
	I mean, I've heard this directly.
	That they say it's no point arresting this van load of human traffickers because if you turn them over to ICE, ICE is just going to release them into society.
	So there's actually no point in doing it.
	And instead, a lot of local law enforcement, they will choose to just go after violent offenders, you know, rapists and robbers and carjackers and so on.
	But human trafficking is a non-violent crime in the moment that it's happening, you know, when they're trafficking a person across the border.
	The trafficked person or trafficked family, they usually want to be trafficked.
	You see what I'm saying?
	And then the people driving the van or doing the smuggling, they want to be involved in this as well.
	So none of those people...
	We are actually, you know, hurting each other.
	There's not an act of violence going on there.
	Now, of course, after they get to America, then a lot of illegals become violent criminals, yes.
	But during the act of the actual, you know, human trafficking, the coyotes and what have you, there's not a violent act taking place in that time.
	So law enforcement often chooses to ignore that.
	But if federal policies change, then local law enforcement can do a whole lot more.
	You will see arrests and deportations really tick up if the feds would deport these illegals.
	And so there need to be daily busloads going south, dropping off the illegals at the border, dropping them off in Mexico.
	Why?
	Because Mexico didn't do anything to stop these people coming our way.
	So what we're going to do, America, is gather up these illegals from all across the country through multiple means, you know, traffic stops, like I said, and regular arrests and catching these people engaging in home invasions or whatever else.
	Gather them up, put them on buses, bring them to the southern border, just have a hub, you know, maybe that's El Paso, Texas or wherever, and then just have a train of buses going south every day and dropping them off in Mexico.
	And if Mexico says, no, they're not welcome here, well, then, you know, you bring in a military brigade to defend the buses to drop these people off in Mexico.
	And you tell Mexico, look, You don't have a choice in this matter.
	You let these people through.
	Now we're pushing them back.
	So you can go pound sand or you can get hit with gunfire and artillery and gunships and whatever else because we're dropping these people off here in Mexico.
	You deal with them now.
	They're your problem because you let them through.
	And yeah, if Mexico gives you crap about it, just bring in artillery.
	It's like, hey, artillery sends a message, which is, get back, by the way.
	You know, don't stay in your current area.
	Retreat.
	So you just lay down a bunch of artillery fire, and then you bring in the buses, you drop off all the illegals, you turn around, and you leave Mexico, and then you close the gate.
	Alright?
	And then, to stop all those people from coming back across, you put the military on the border.
	The U.S. southern border should be manned by the U.S. military.
	And a bunch of drones, of course.
	And anybody that tries to come across gets arrested.
	And they either get prosecuted and thrown into a prison camp, or they get shoved back across the border to Mexico, whatever is the best policy at the time.
	Now, just to be clear, I welcome legal immigration.
	Just to be clear, I'm married to an immigrant.
	Many of the people I work with as business partners are legal immigrants.
	They were not born in America.
	They came to America.
	And they pursued the American dream.
	And they make really great Americans, by the way, when they come in legally and when they've left countries of tyranny or extreme socialism or communism, they want to come to America and contribute to society and be innovators and entrepreneurs and successful business people.
	They make some of the very best Americans, in fact.
	And I welcome those Americans all day, every day.
	I mean, those migrants to become Americans.
	We should always welcome qualified people.
	We should always welcome business leaders, inventors, entrepreneurs, and so on, into our country.
	So I'm not talking about shutting down all immigration.
	I'm talking about shutting down illegal criminal trespassing.
	That's got to be stopped, and it has to be stopped by all means.
	And so maybe the first time you catch them, you know, you fingerprint them, and you say, this is it.
	This is your last warning.
	You take them back to Mexico, you drop them off, and you give them a message.
	If you come back into America again, next time you're going to a prison labor camp, and you'll be sentenced to, you know, two to five years of hard labor.
	Oh, you wanted to work in America?
	Yeah, we can make that dream come true.
	It's just you won't get paid for it.
	You'll be working at a prison camp.
	And then if they come back into America again, you fingerprint them, you catch them.
	Oh, guess what?
	This is your second strike.
	You're sentenced to a prison labor camp.
	And you might say, well, that's not right.
	That's slavery.
	Well, we warned them.
	You know what I'm saying?
	We warned them.
	Now there has to be some kind of legitimate punishment in order to send a message so that others don't come here.
	And if they get caught a third time, I mean, after they serve their sentence, you ship them back across the border.
	If they get caught a third time, then maybe it's a much longer sentence.
	I don't know.
	But at the same time all of this is happening, you have to stop all the incentives.
	No more freebies for illegals, for God's sake.
	You can't give them free hotel rooms.
	You can't give them free debit cards and free food and free mobile phones and all these incentives.
	Cities like New York City, they're spending billions of dollars, literally, on these incentives.
	To attract more illegals to their city.
	While Mayor Adams there is complaining that the city is going to collapse because of all the influx of illegals.
	So then they roll out more money for more incentives.
	It's completely insane.
	So stop the incentives.
	Arrest the ones you can.
	Ship them out the first time.
	They come back.
	You put them in prison camps.
	You send a powerful message that criminal trespassing against the United States of America will not be tolerated.
	You've got to start sending a message that you can't just come to America just because you want to and get a bunch of freebies and get a driver's license.
	No.
	You've got to stand in line.
	You've got to go through the process and you have to be approved.
	Now, as far as that goes, by the way, I don't mind expanding legal immigration.
	I don't mind that at all.
	If you want to expand legal immigration and bring in some high-merit individuals, Just up the numbers, but make sure that they can contribute to America, that they're going to become part of American culture and start businesses and hire people and start manufacturing more domestically and bring a bunch of money and capital to this country.
	I'm all for it, man.
	We should expand immigration legally, but we've got to halt illegal immigration.
	If we do those two things, then we can make America great again.
	With the help of qualified migrants who want to join the American Dream and participate in what America has to offer.
	So thank you for listening.
	Mike Adams here, the Health Ranger, brighteon.com, naturalnews.com, and a proud Texan.
	God bless America.
	God bless Texas.
	Take care.
	By the way, the SAVE Act, which was introduced by Representative Chip Roy, good job, Rep.
	Roy, the SAVE Act would require proof of citizenship when someone is registering to vote, and then it would also require the removal of non-citizens from voter rolls.
	The Democrats are vehemently opposed to this because, of course, the Democrats plan to cheat.
	And isn't it interesting, though, that all of a sudden the Republican Party is really concerned that there might be cheating in the election?
	I posted this a few hours ago, quote, Don't you find it odd that the same GOP establishment that's now screaming about the possibility of vote fraud in the 2024 election insisted for three-plus years that there was no fraud in the 2020 election because they wanted Trump gone?
	These GOP rhino characters are frauds.
	Yeah, they're up to something.
	They don't really care about vote fraud.
	They just care about vote fraud right now for some reason.
	They didn't care about it, you know, when Mike Pence was telling everybody to sit down and shut up and just accept the loss and let the Democrats win and we'll get them next time.
	We'll get them next time, you know.
	You've heard that from Republicans, a bunch of losers.
	There is no next time.
	If you don't stop the tyranny, there will be no next time after this time.
	This is it.
	This is the last time that you'll have an opportunity to take your republic back.
	After this, there's no next time.
	Conservatives, if Trump doesn't win this election, conservatives will end up in death camps.
	That's where this is headed because that's what the left plans to do, promises to do.
	That's what they're demanding to have done is just mass extermination of conservatives, Christians, Trump supporters, white people, you name it.
	This is what the left wants to accomplish.
	They openly talk about it.
	I mean, you've heard it ever since the debate.
	They're openly calling about, you know, assassinating Supreme Court justices, assassinating Trump and his supporters, just killing people, just killing political dissidents.
	I mean, it's crazy.
	But then again, the Democrats are totally insane as well.
	They can't even recognize that Joe Biden has very advanced Parkinson's and some other conditions as well.
	But here's something interesting, a video from NBC News.
	Now, this is an example of the left-wing media.
	Now, turning on Joe Biden, you know, because, well, as Joe Biden's discovering, there is a Democrat deep state.
	And the deep state has turned on Biden because they now see him as a vulnerability rather than an asset.
	And so they're doing everything to get him removed.
	And so, of course, NBC News is starting to run all these hit pieces on Joe Biden, whom they defended for the last four years.
	So they brought on this Parkinson's expert, Dr.
	Tom Pitts.
	And he says that the signs of Parkinson's in Joe Biden are so obvious.
	I think he said, like, I could diagnose him across the parking lot or something like that.
	Clearly, Joe Biden has advanced stage Parkinson's.
	And I'd like you to hear this doctor explain it himself.
	And this doctor is a Democrat, by the way.
	He's a lifelong Democrat, and he says that this cover-up of Joe Biden's medical condition is a lot like what would happen under the former Soviet Union.
	Check out this video.
	You noticed anything that gives you a red flag as a doctor?
	Oh yeah, I see him 20 times a day in clinic.
	I mean, it's ironic because he has just these classic features of neurodegeneration.
	I mean, word-finding difficulties, and that's not, oh, I couldn't find the word.
	That's from degeneration of the word retrieval area.
	He's also overcome stuttering, though.
	Could that be part of that, too?
	No, this is not a palatal issue or a speech discrepancy, which is very different from a limino dysfunction, actual word retrieval, where you pick a similar question or talk around the issue, plus the rigidity, monotone voice.
	Wait, go back to that, the rigidity.
	What do you mean?
	Rigidity, loss of arm swing, standing up lordotically.
	You notice when he turns, it's kind of end block turning.
	It's not a quick turn.
	So that's one of the hallmarks of Parkinsonism is rigidity and bradykinesia, slow movement.
	And he has that hallmark, especially with the low voices that was a cold, hypophonia, a small monotone voice like this over time is a hallmark of Parkinsonism.
	I could have diagnosed him from across the mall.
	Here are some of the symptoms from Parkinson's.
	We just had him up there on the screen if we can put him back.
	What about the movement?
	Some people have pointed out the way he walks sometimes.
	It's not very fast, small steps.
	Is that something that is common in people who are battling a disease like Parkinson's?
	Yeah, it's a hallmark.
	Shuffling gait, we call that, so little steps.
	Loss of arm swing from the rigidity.
	When we walk, we have a nice cadence.
	You notice he doesn't really swing his arms.
	And end block turning, meaning he kind of pivots around his foot.
	If you said, hey, President Biden, he wouldn't go like this.
	So there you go.
	There's NBC News running hit pieces on Joe Biden and suddenly showing how feeble Biden is, even though they've known about this.
	NBC News has covered this up for four plus years.
	They've known about it.
	But now they're rolling out experts to say that Joe Biden suffers from movement rigidity, you know?
	Well, imagine how rigid he's going to be when it's a head on a stick and Joe Biden is carrying the stick around.
	It's like, huh, the cadence seems really stiff.
	What's going on?
	Well, it's a dude's head on a stick.
	That's what's going on.
	That's why it looks abnormal.
	And again, the Democrats would be like, he seems fine to me.
	He's just self-identifying as a head on a stick.
	I think what they're going to try to pull off, actually, is they're going to try to...
	Well, they're going to try to tell the public that they've uploaded Joe Biden's brain into a computer, and then they'll have...
	They'll have basically an AI Joe Biden voice from now on.
	And they'll run like a chat GPT version of Joe Biden to answer the debate questions using a Joe Biden voice.
	And they've even said that for the upcoming debates, they want to have all of his staff on stage with him so they can answer questions on his behalf.
	And he can confer with his staff.
	I mean, yeah, this is how crazy it is.
	Like...
	You know, the debate has turned into like the King's Roundtable or City Hall or the City Council or something.
	You know, they always want to run everything with a group of left-wing fascists here.
	But they don't want Joe Biden to be anything but the stand-in puppet.
	So I think they'll just download his brain or say they did to a computer.
	They'll put his head on a stick and then they'll have like a computer voice talking and debating Trump.
	And then they'll say, well, that's Joe.
	It's the essence of Joe.
	It's still Joe.
	It's just Joe in silico.
	That's probably what they'll say.
	I mean, they're so desperate, they'll try anything.
	This is like, we put Joe into this NVIDIA microchip.
	NVIDIA's stock price will go up another $100.
	No way!
	They've achieved transhumanism of Joe Biden.
	Joe Biden is the first human to be mind-melded with artificial intelligence.
	And if anybody needed artificial intelligence, it was definitely Joe Biden.
	Of course, it brings up the obvious question for how much longer can they animate this skin bag, huh?
	What do you think?
	How much longer can this go?
	Will he make it to election day?
	I'm not so sure about that.
	By the way, we have a really great interview coming up for you here.
	You're going to love this one.
	It's with Alexander McCrease.
	He's the author of a book called Running on Empty.
	How the imminent collapse of the petrodollar system sets the stage for World War III. And this book, which came out last year, is really nailing it.
	And I gotta say, I really enjoyed the interview with this man, Alexander McCrease.
	We had such a great time because we didn't have to, like, from his point of view, I was a great interviewer because, of course, I'm informed.
	And from my point of view, he was a great guest.
	For the same reason, because we could just start, we could hit the ground running and talk about the petrodollar and the BRICS system and the declining US naval power and the sea lanes and why the inability to protect the world's sea lanes will affect globalization and supply chains and exporting inflation from Federal Reserve debt printing and so on and so forth.
	We had a great conversation.
	You're going to love this interview.
	it's coming up.
	But the funny thing that happened in this interview was that, uh, he had a, he had a black and white brick wall background.
	And I was like, at one point I just had to ask him, I was like, what's with the brick wall?
	And he, he said, he said, well, one of the things that he does that is, he's quite gifted in is writing, uh, like, uh, role-playing games.
	Dungeons& Dragons type of fantasy role-playing games.
	Apparently, he does some podcasts or broadcasts from that same set with the dungeon brick wall behind him talking about role-playing games.
	I said, man, that's...
	That's pretty nerdy, actually.
	And the reason I say that is because I'm going to up your nerdiness because, you know, I'm a speedcuber and I pull out my Rubik's Cube and he's like, no, no way!
	So Dungeons and Dragons and Rubik's Cubing and, you know, talking about economics.
	And actually understanding numbers, that's pretty nerdy these days.
	So in the interview, I'm going to play a segment for you of the Al Yankovic song, Weird Al, called White and Nerdy, which actually fits because we're like two white nerds just nailing the global economic situation and the petrodollar status.
	By the way, speaking of the Rubik's Cube, this is such a bizarre thing.
	I have found a Rubik's Cube that costs $79.00.
	And it's the best Rubik's Cubing investment I ever made.
	I never thought that I would spend $79 on a Rubik's Cube.
	But you see, I've been cubing and learning speed cubing for, what, like 15 months or something now?
	And I didn't realize I was practicing on slower cubes.
	Not really good ones.
	And then I found out about this super cube.
	It's called the GAN. G-A-N. That's the company that makes these.
	GAN 14 Maglev Pro.
	It's like, what?
	Maglev?
	What are you talking about?
	This thing's got...
	It's like, I don't know.
	Like, 45 magnets in it, and it has adjustable magnetism levels where the corners all want to, like, slide into place.
	Yeah, and you can adjust the tension and everything.
	And so, I've been totally nerding out on this new Cube, this GAN 14 Maglev Pro.
	Oh, I guess it's only $75.
	I'm looking at the price right now.
	$75.
	Okay.
	Anyway...
	So I bought another one for the studio.
	And next time I do some cubing in the studio, I'll use this thing because it's way faster.
	And it's going to make me look a lot less clumsy doing the speed cubing.
	And it's just a joy to work with.
	I don't know what it is.
	It's kind of like you have a firearm and you have a firearm that you really like where the ergonomics just feel just right, just shoots right.
	And the recoil is just right, you know, the reloads are just right, whatever.
	That's what this feels like, but in a Rubik's Cube, it's just like butter, super smooth.
	So we're having a nerdy day here today, for sure.
	And with our new guest here, Alexander McCrease, we're definitely going to nerd out.
	Okay, one more story to cover here.
	This is from Leo Homan.
	International Bird Flu Summit will take place in Washington, D.C. October 2nd through the 4th.
	The conference is called to discuss, quote, mass fatality management planning.
	Another pandemic appears to be in the offing, writes Leo Homan, judging by the obsession that so many elites seem to have with the H5N1 strain of bird flu.
	We've all heard about the slaughter of millions of poultry.
	Yeah, you know, they run in with a PCR test, right?
	And they just keep running in.
	And we got a positive.
	Murder the birds!
	Slaughter them all!
	And they kill millions of birds because they had one, quote, positive that doesn't even matter.
	It's all fraud anyway.
	Yeah, they're just using this to destroy the food supply.
	Anyway, Leo writes, and now they've called an international bird flu summit to be held in D.C., And the official online brochure says they're going to be discussing a highly virulent strain of bird flu affecting both cattle and humans.
	You got that?
	This appears to be a tabletop exercise to wargame a coming bird flu pandemic serving much the same purpose as Event 201 served in October 2019 in New York City for the approaching COVID pandemic.
	Now, as you may know, Event 201, they weren't They weren't gaming it.
	They were engineering it.
	So what actually happened during COVID was just running the script of Event 201.
	And we now know the pandemic was faked.
	There actually isn't a bird flu virus, by the way.
	No such thing exists.
	It can't infect birds, nor cattle, nor humans.
	It's all completely fabricated, by the way.
	If anything, they dropped some chemical weapons on some people in New York City so they could spike the hospital rate and make some people lose their sense of smell and whatever and make a bunch of people sick and then drag them into the hospitals and then kill them and say these are bird flu fatalities.
	That's how that whole thing worked.
	So they're going to war game, a whole other pandemic here or plandemic.
	And they're looking for corporate sponsors for the Bird Flu Summit, by the way, for mass fatality management planning.
	They need some corporate sponsors.
	Which corporations would really be up for funding the planning for mass fatalities?
	Well, I'm thinking, you know, Pfizer, right there.
	That's right off the top.
	Glaxo, you know?
	I mean, just take all the vaccine companies.
	This is right down their alley, obviously.
	And so they want this to happen.
	They want another plandemic so they can roll out the vaccines that they're already manufacturing because they know this is coming.
	It's just like the military-industrial complex wants war with Russia.
	And of course, Big Pharma wants another plandemic.
	So even if they have to fake it, they'll roll it out.
	So, of course, the U.S. government has awarded Moderna a $176 million contract to produce a bird flu vaccine made with mRNA technology.
	Oh, yeah.
	While the government carries out mass fatality management planning.
	Are you starting to connect the dots here?
	Yeah.
	Anybody dumb enough to line up and get injected with a bird flu mRNA vaccine has a bird brain.
	And they will be as dead as birds as the death shots run their course.
	That's what this is.
	This is a death agenda because, of course, the government of the United States of America has been weaponized against the people of America.
	And the federal government, or at least sectors of it, are carrying out acts of terrorism in order to achieve mass fatalities and to exercise control over the survivors while probably trying to cancel the election.
	Or to round up political dissidents and say it's bird flu.
	So isn't it going to be quite a coincidence when it turns out that if you're a Trump supporter, you might have bird flu and they have to take you to a quarantine camp, huh?
	If you're a gun owner, you probably have bird flu because, you know, the Surgeon General says that gun owners are a disease now, apparently.
	It's a public health issue if you own a gun, as if you're going to infect people with your Glock, you know?
	No, no.
	That's not an infection tool.
	It's more like a ventilation tool, but not infections.
	I mean, it can be used to stop infectious zombies, perhaps, but it's not infectious by itself.
	But you get the idea.
	So this is what they're cooking up next, folks.
	And I don't know if they have time.
	I kind of doubt it.
	I don't think they have time to do this before this coming election.
	Seems like there's just not enough time for that.
	So they probably plan to run this out.
	During Trump's administration to try to bring it down, try to cause chaos and destroy the economy and kill off the population and cause an uprising and then blame it all on Trump.
	Because they rolled out the last one during the Trump administration, so they've already done that once and they're like, it worked that time, let's do it again.
	So, International Bird Flu Summit.
	Oh, these people.
	I tell you, who's dumb enough to go along with this?
	You know?
	Well, there's a lot of academics and, of course, big pharma executives and members of Congress and so on, but hopefully the people are wiser now and won't fall for this.
	And when the government comes knocking on your door, like, you know, Governor Hochul in New York sends out teams knocking on your door.
	Well, you got to come with us and go to the quarantine center.
	You know, the Supreme Court of the state said that you can't say no.
	I hope that New Yorkers...
	Tell Governor Hochul's team to go bleep themselves.
	He says, you know, make me go.
	Not going?
	You're not dragging me out of here?
	You want me out of here?
	You make me.
	You fight for it.
	Don't let them drag you out of your homes because they're going to take you to a death camp, by the way.
	I mean, there's no other way to say it.
	I mean, they're...
	They're going to come for the dissidents, that is, if they stay in power.
	Now, perhaps we can remove them from power in this next election, and that's one reason to vote against the Democrats.
	There are lots of them, but that's one of the important reasons.
	Okay, one more interesting story to cover here before we go to the interview.
	Bloomberg was reporting this earlier that Saudi Arabia threatened that if the G7 nations confiscated Russia's assets, you know, the nearly $300 billion that these European countries have said, like, we're just going to seize, which they did.
	They basically froze the assets.
	Saudi Arabia said that it would sell its European debt holdings if the West moves to confiscate these Russian assets.
	So in other words, the Saudis hold a lot of debt of European nations like, you know, Germany and France and so on and the UK, obviously.
	And they threaten to start dumping that debt as essentially a weaponization of the debt holdings if the West confiscates the Russian money.
	Now, these Western lunatic leaders...
	Like von der Leyen are just desperate to take this money.
	They just want Russia's money so badly.
	They keep trying to figure out, you know, how can we maneuver this?
	What kind of legal opinion can we get to just steal Russia's money?
	You know, and right now they're trying to steal the interest earned on Russia's money and use that to underwrite a $50 billion loan to Ukraine.
	So that's a form of stealing Russia's money, you know, stealing the earnings on the money.
	But they really want to steal the money.
	So I don't know how much Treasury debt the Saudis hold, but no doubt it's hundreds of billions of dollars.
	And what this shows is that the Saudis are clearly in the corner of Russia.
	The Saudis aren't with the West anymore.
	They were under Trump, not under Biden.
	The Saudis have moved strongly against the West.
	And remember, Operation Sandman is when something like 80 to 100 countries around the world simultaneously dump the dollar and dump dollar debt or treasury debt.
	And the Saudis are, of course, part of Operation Sandman.
	And there might be different names for it, depending on what your intelligence source is.
	But overall, and China's part of this, too.
	But overall, the plan is that there's going to come a day where the world denounces the dollar, dumps the dollar debt, and stops using the dollar.
	And what are they going to use instead?
	Well, the BRICS currency.
	So this isn't going to be a slow, gradual thing like everybody thinks.
	I mean, there will be a gradual slope of bringing in more countries into BRICS, but there's also going to come a day like a giant lurch where a bunch of countries just drop the dollar all at the same time.
	Why?
	Because the dollar has been weaponized against the rest of the world.
	And the rest of the world is done with that.
	And so they're tired.
	Of dealing with the Western financial system, obviously, and they're going to do something different.
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	Alright, with that said, now we're going to jump into the interview with Alexander McCrease, who joins me in being white and nerdy.
	Running on Empty, that's the title of his book, Running on Empty, How the Imminent Collapse of the Petrodollar System Sets the Stage for World War III. So enjoy this interview, and I'll be back with you tomorrow.
	Welcome to today's interview here on Brighteon.com.
	I'm Mike Adams, the founder of Brighteon, and we've got a special first-time guest for you today.
	His name is Alexander McCreese.
	He's the author of a book called Running on Empty, How the Eminent Collapse of the Petrodollar System Sets the Stage for World War III, and his website is treeofwoe.substack.com.
	That's woe as in W-O-E. Welcome to the show, Alexander McCreese.
	It's an honor to have you on.
	Thanks so much for having me on.
	I'm glad to be here.
	I'm happy to have you here.
	And as I mentioned to you, we had, well, a friend of mine sent me a link to your book, which I then purchased, Running on Empty, The Eminent Collapse of the Petrodollar System, and How That Sets the Taste for World War III. So I'd like you to walk us through this.
	You can see there, I picked up the book myself.
	Walk us through this because, of course, the establishment narrative is that, oh, the petrodollar is going to be fine.
	It's good for another 100 years, and you can buy treasury bonds 30 years away, blah, blah, blah.
	And don't worry, World War III is never going to happen because the Russians are bluffing.
	We, America, we can threaten anything, but everybody else is bluffing.
	So how do you counter all that?
	Wow.
	Do I want to assume that people even know what the petrodollar is, or do we need to actually explain how that works?
	Our audience is very well informed on that subject, so yeah, we can skip the basic definitions.
	They're already on board.
	Okay, great.
	So, most people don't understand that in order to sustain the petrodollar, you have to have the ability to project force internationally via control of the seas.
	And there's a geostrategic concept of world island versus world ocean that I discuss in the book.
	The world island is essentially Africa, Europe, and Asia, with Eastern Europe, Ukraine, and Russia as the heartland of the world island.
	And then the world ocean is, of course, the ocean that surrounds the Pacific plus the Atlantic, etc.
	The United States is a world ocean power.
	It's the dominant world ocean power.
	Russia and China have come together to become the dominant world island power, which is a geostrategic problem that the United States had always attempted to prevent.
	It's the Wolfowitz Doctrine that was set up after the fall of the Soviet Union.
	So, in order to maintain control over the sea lanes, which is where 90% of all commercial traffic occurs, including energy traffic and petroleum, You need to be able to project power right up to the continents, you need to be able to control the straits and the isthmus, and you need to be able to make amphibious landings where necessary.
	Historically, the United States has been able to do that, and it's partly been able to do that by keeping its enemies from uniting and creating a monolith on that world island.
	And if you think of China's recent efforts, you know, the great, the New Silk Road Initiative, etc., That's all about building that world island that won't need the world ocean.
	Simultaneously, they've been investing in missiles and Anti-ship weaponry and area denial.
	And, you know, we're seeing now even a sub-rate power like Yemen can keep out the almighty U.S. Navy.
	So once we lose control of the ocean, we will no longer have the military might to enforce the petrodollar.
	And we know that the petrodollar must be enforced with force because we see a lot happen in the Gulf War, the Iran War.
	We saw it happen in Libya, etc.
	Okay, this is really fascinating to hear because this is the first time you and I have spoken.
	And although I purchased your book, I haven't read it yet, but you and I have come to the exact same conclusions here.
	And what you just described is, I think it's historically accurate as well because you look at, for example, how the United Kingdom, how the British lost their world reserve currency status of the British pound sterling at the same time that they lost British naval power.
	So if you can't project naval power, your currency becomes less valuable and less needed in world trade.
	And then before that, it was the French.
	And then before that, it was Spain, I believe.
	So talk about that.
	Isn't this a natural cycle, in essence?
	And we're at the end of the current cycle, which is the petrodollar cycle.
	It is a natural cycle.
	In a sense, the petrodollar is actually an artificial sustainment of the cycle.
	The United States became, the dollar became the reserve currency in 1945 after World War II. And for the first 35 years, it was backed by gold when we were the industrial powerhouse.
	No one else could compete with us.
	By 1971, the United States was no longer the most competitive nation in the world.
	You had the rising Asian tigers, you had Germany, had re-industrialized.
	In the meantime, we had had massive expenses on the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Great Society.
	And so Nixon was forced to take us off the gold standard.
	As soon as he did that, of course, we got the hyperinflation and the stagnation of the 1970s.
	We got oil prices going up, and they needed to find a solution on what to do about that.
	And that's the origin of the petrodollar.
	It's an attempt to avoid that cycle of the US dollar losing its reserve currency status.
	And essentially, we're the first people to come up with the innovation of backing our currency with another person's commodity by saying, if you don't honor this deal, we'll kill you.
	Yeah, that's right.
	And the Saudis went along with that deal for a very long time.
	And only now has it begun to unravel.
	I recall, I think, Putin even saying recently that 90 plus percent of the trade between Russia and China is now settled in non-dollar currencies.
	And that trend is happening across many other countries as well.
	And didn't Turkey recently say that they want to join the BRICS ecosystem as well?
	Yes, they did.
	Yes, they did.
	So if they've got, I mean, Turkey's a NATO country.
	I mean, you've got NATO countries now saying, we don't really want to dominate or use predominantly the dollar in trade.
	Yeah, you've got a problem there with the petrodollar.
	They do.
	I mean, the petrodollar is at this point over.
	The only reason they're not acknowledging that it's over is they've kind of shifted the definition.
	Initially, the petrodollar was you are only allowed to purchase oil with dollars from OPEC nations.
	And that simply is no longer the case.
	There are now OPEC nations that are trading oil for other currencies, and there And there are many countries you can buy oil from for other currencies than the dollar.
	But what they've done is they've kind of redefined it.
	And now they say, oh, no, no.
	The petrodollar just means that you can use the dollar to buy oil.
	Right.
	But not really the same thing.
	They've shifted the needle.
	And we're seeing the result already, like the inflation that's happened recently.
	People say, oh, it's because of, you know, the US money printing.
	Well, the US has been printing a lot of money for a really long time without inflation.
	And it's because with the petrodollar, we were always able to offshore our inflation.
	Right.
	And then it ends up in the hands of the oil producing countries who then recycle those petrodollars and drive up our assets.
	And so we have this really virtuous circle going for a while where inflation went overseas, U.S. assets went up, imports stayed cheap, oil and gas were cheap.
	And that is coming to an end.
	It's over.
	I want to ask you about this term eminent that's in your title and ask you to expand on that.
	What do you consider to be eminent?
	But what you just said there is really important.
	The U.S. is now paying more or spending more, the federal government, more on the interest on the debt than they are on the entire United States military.
	That is a huge issue.
	That's the kind of thing that you typically see in banana republics or third world countries that are about to default.
	That's right.
	$900 billion versus $600 billion now.
	Yeah.
	I mean, at some point, it seems like a default is coming or just rampant hyperinflation because at some point, I feel like we're only one treasury auction away from an essential default, a technical default, and then the Fed will just step in and say, well, we'll just print the money to buy all the treasuries, and then what do you have?
	You end up in a hyperinflation spiral, don't you?
	You do.
	We have only two options as things are structured, debt deflation or hyperinflation.
	If we default, we get a debt deflationary depression.
	And if we don't default and we print money, then we get a hyperinflationary cycle.
	Either one is very, very bad.
	Absolutely.
	And they can't hide this anymore, even as the White House tells us that inflation is only 3%.
	You see now a lot of viral posts of people who are repurchasing shopping lists from two or three years ago and finding it's double or triple the price of what it was.
	Well, that's not 3% compounded inflation.
	That's like 50% inflation.
	Exactly.
	Well, the government figured out a really clever game.
	What you do is everything that actually is going up in price, you remove it from the inflation index.
	So housing...
	Food, energy.
	And then when you print money and the money recycles back into the United States, asset prices go up.
	And then the way our GDP is calculated, a percentage of the value of your home is considered to be imputed rent.
	So when your home appreciates, according to the US government, our GDP is going up because the imputed rent of your home is now worth more.
	And so we're able to just artificially inflate our GDP, claim there's no inflation, and meanwhile everyone who actually has to work begins to suffer and they can't afford to pay their bills.
	Right, right, exactly.
	And insurance.
	People are paying, in some cases, double or triple of what they recently paid in terms of not just health insurance, but auto insurance and home insurance and commercial building insurance.
	Even us, we almost couldn't find an insurer willing to offer commercial insurance.
	And we ended up paying, I think, double of what we used to pay.
	But I'm not sure the federal government takes that into account either.
	Do you know?
	Do they?
	I don't know if insurance is in the inflation index, but I sure have experienced the exact same thing.
	Both my automobile and my home insurance practically doubled.
	Absolutely.
	Now, so let's get to this term eminent.
	You say there's going to be an eminent collapse.
	Now, I suppose in terms of the timetables of history, five years could be all of a sudden.
	You know what I mean?
	But when you say eminent, what do you mean by that?
	Well, I wrote that article in May 2022.
	And then I later edited it into the book, which I released about 12 months later.
	So many of the things that I was writing about in the book have actually already started to take place.
	Like when I wrote the book and released the book, China and Russia weren't doing 90% of their trade in their own currency.
	They were still using the dollar.
	So many of the imminent predictions that I make have already come true.
	And we are now in exactly where I described, which hadn't yet manifested.
	The inflation is going up.
	The value of the dollar is going down.
	People are abandoning the currency.
	So the part that hasn't triggered yet is the major global war.
	When that happens, I'm not sure, but if I had to guess, it's within the next two to three years.
	Yeah, I want to ask you about that quite a bit more with the sea lanes as well, but I have one other question about inflation and money printing and, of course, the upcoming election.
	The Republican Party just released their platform, which is mostly a Donald Trump platform, and in that platform, out of 20 things, two of those are, I think point number three was they want to end inflation, Sounds like they need a magic wand, right, for that.
	And then somewhere like number 17, I think, was they want to preserve the world currency status of the dollar.
	But then I heard Trump say a couple of weeks ago, well, if I'm president, we're going to have a lot more economic sanctions against our enemies.
	We're going to sanction China.
	We're going to sanction.
	And I'm thinking these goals are in opposition.
	If you keep weaponizing the dollar, you're going to accelerate your loss of world reserve currency status.
	And if you're going to keep printing money, you're going to accelerate inflation.
	So, I'd like you to comment on this, like, this idea that even among the GOP, or, I mean, I guess it doesn't matter which political party, they want to have outcomes, but they think they live in a magical world where they can just, like, cast spells and make it happen instead of following the laws of economics.
	Does that make sense?
	Makes total sense.
	I think the problem we face is that All of the solutions to the problems of our country fall outside the Overton window of our political class.
	Good way to put it, yeah.
	They simply cannot even think of the solutions that would need to actually occur to accomplish their objectives.
	At present, the entire amount of the tax revenue of the United States government is spent on mandatory spending, with $900 billion of that being the debt The rest, primarily Social Security and medical care.
	So all other spending, all discretionary spending, the entire defense spending, all of that is deficit spending.
	And of course, that's just going to keep going up and up and up because the debt goes up and up and the interest rates are going up.
	You know, without radically restructuring the way our government operates, there's no way to accomplish the Republican platform.
	And nothing I've read even in the so-called Radical Project 2025 tells me that they're going to be making the radical changes necessary.
	No, no.
	It seems like, I mean, they would need to first restore the gold standard, have honest money, and stop the money printing, and that would necessitate slashing the size of the federal government by 80 or 90 percent.
	Right.
	Which sounds great to me, but nobody's going to be talking about that kind of idea.
	Like you said, it's not even in the Overton window, but how high of a level would a wizard have to be to cast a successful spell of diminishing inflation?
	Right.
	Like 20th level archmage at this point.
	Yeah, if only they could come up with something.
	But this is the thing.
	You know, we live in a world, the economic world is a world of cause and effect.
	And yet, we have leaders across all the parties, and this is true in Europe, this is true in France and the UK and Germany and elsewhere, where they want to initiate these causes, but they don't want to deal with the effects.
	Right.
	And yet, that's what happens because time flows in a linear, forward fashion, as far as I know.
	So the only solution is collapse.
	I mean, not solution, but the inevitable outcome is collapse.
	Right, right.
	So what does that look like?
	Well, there's an interesting story I read once about the collapse of Rome, and they said that if you went back in time, and imagine you actually had the ear of the emperor, and you said, look, Rome's going to collapse, so the only thing you can do to avoid that is you need to start to decentralize power, you know, you need to shrink the size of the cities, you need to focus on local economy again, you need to let the various regions of the empire become autarkic, and then you can prevent a dark age.
	And they wouldn't have done it because that would have, to them, defeated the whole point of maintaining Rome, which was a centralized bureaucracy and a centralized empire.
	And if they had done it, it just would have given you the same result that you got in the Middle Ages of, you know, decentralized, localized ruralism.
	You just could have gotten there without, you know, a thousand year dark age.
	Like maybe they wouldn't have lost the secrets of indoor plumbing for a thousand years.
	I think we're in a similar situation here in the United States.
	We either will make the reforms we need to make as things get worse, or we will usher in a very severe and very, very unpleasant way of life for ourselves.
	The one thing I am very confident of is that what's currently happening will not continue to happen because it cannot.
	As you say, the laws of cause and effect will prevent it.
	I think you're right about that.
	And I've also tried to explain this to a lot of people, a lot of consumers, as they're called in America, when people say, oh, everything's expensive at Walmart.
	I'm like, you have no idea.
	It's actually artificially cheap because we're exporting currency inflation and we're trading it for relatively cheap goods.
	Wait until America has to actually earn its trade.
	Right.
	Can I speak to that point?
	That's something I talk about in the book.
	It's one of the least understood third-order effects of the petrodollar is it was directly responsible for the de-industrialization of the United States.
	Because under free trade situations, a country will tend to specialize in wherever it has comparative advantage.
	And the petrodollar system gave us a comparative advantage in printing money.
	We no longer needed to manufacture goods in order to get exports.
	We nearly needed to manufacture money.
	And so we specialized in that.
	And you see it in the financialization of the economy since 1973.
	You see it in the rise of the fire percentage of the GDP versus the industrial percentage of the GDP. So what's happened is, yeah, we got cheap imports.
	That was great.
	But the entire earning power, the working class that was built on being an industrial powerhouse, has been stripped to the bone.
	And the next logical step is going to be, we will lose the petrodollar, and then the real poverty will begin.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Because at some point, the companies that build washing machines in South Korea are not going to trade washing machines for debt.
	Exactly.
	Right.
	And then the American people are going to be paying, who knows, $10,000 at the time for a washing machine, and of course that's going to thrust Americans into abject poverty.
	I've got a lot more questions for you.
	Let me just plug your blog here, Contemplations on the Tree of Woe, and that's treeofwoe.substack.com.
	So tell us a little bit about what you cover here and where the name came from.
	Well, the name is a pop culture reference.
	There was a John Milius movie in the 1980s called Conan the Barbarian.
	It was the movie that rocketed Arnold Schwarzenegger to stardom.
	And at a certain point in the movie, Arnold Schwarzenegger rides, Conan rides off without his friends, thinking he can accomplish his tasks on his own.
	And he gets captured, and his punishment is he gets crucified on the Tree of Woe, and Thulsa Doom tells him to contemplate his failures on the Tree of Woe.
	And I picked the name after I got canceled from my previous career from kind of straying too far from the Overton window, I suppose.
	And so I was kind of contemplating my life on the tree of woe and settled on that as the name.
	May I ask roughly what was your previous career, if you're willing to speak about it?
	Oh, sure.
	I was a media executive, and I started a video game media company called The Escapist.
	That was quite successful.
	We won six Webby Awards.
	We're named one of the top 50 websites in the world by Time Magazine.
	I sold that to Defy Media in Los Angeles and ran that until 2017, at which point I was outed as a terrible wrong thinker.
	Oh, my.
	Well, welcome to the land of wrong think.
	Yeah.
	On this platform, yeah, we've all been accused of that, but of course, what's interesting about that is probably most of the things that you said have now been proven to be correct.
	Yes.
	And so, you know, there is this part of society that has lived in this sort of, you know, fairytale delusion, magical monetary theory, MMT, right?
	That's what I call it.
	And that, you know, everything's fine with Joe Biden, you know, and all these are crumbling now.
	And people are shocked.
	The people who lived in denial, they're shocked.
	But I would say, I think you would agree with me, the shock has only just begun.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	That's, I mean, like you say, the tree of woe, beware.
	So, do you write mostly about economics, or what other topics do you cover?
	So, three different things I cover, really.
	One is economics, one is philosophy, and then one is current events.
	So, my most popular kind of area of advancement, I suppose, on the blog has been identified where I think the contemporary consensus is crazy.
	Where we've just gotten it not just a little bit wrong, but wrong on the very foundation.
	So, you know, like you talked about magical monetary theory.
	So that's one of the areas where we've just gotten it foundationally wrong is in the economics of the country.
	You know, also on this kind of eliminative materialism where we insist that the spiritual isn't real and you're an idiot if you believe in God and things like that.
	That's another area I identify.
	And so each week I kind of explore a different topic and I kind of show how We're prevented from solving the problems that face our country by these deeply philosophical mistakes that we've made.
	And we can't really get where we need to be until we improve our own thinking about it.
	We need to broaden our minds to be able to embrace the solutions that have to come.
	So it's a little bit, it's not a massively successful blog.
	I have about 6,000 subscribers, but it's, you know, it's definitely kind of like a high IQ. I feel like the Velvet Underground, like I'm never going to be the Beatles, but everyone who visits my blog like goes and becomes the Beatles.
	Well, you will definitely get more subscribers after this interview because I think our audience will love your message.
	Awesome.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	Because our audience, I mean, they are typically very critical thinkers, very successful people.
	They're not just Americans, but all over the world.
	But they tend to be the people who are the innovators and the entrepreneurs and the succeeders who are also completely fed up with the insanity of the current system.
	So they're going to go right along with what you're talking about there.
	But they will want me to ask you, what's the deal with the brick wall behind you?
	What's the story there?
	Why is that background here?
	Yeah, so after I got cancelled and lost my career in Los Angeles, I was a little bit unsure of what to do with myself.
	And my wife suggested that I start writing role-playing games and comic books because that had been my hobby most of my life.
	I had really enjoyed those things.
	She said, you're a really good writer.
	You know how to run a business.
	You should just do that.
	So I set up a small publishing company called Autark and I publish role-playing games like Dungeons& Dragons type product, you know, for kind of nerdy smart people.
	And at a certain point, I realized that in today's world, if you're not making media to promote yourself, no one knows who you are.
	Like, there's, you know, the old days of just, you know, write a book and your publisher promotes it or over.
	You need to be out there actively.
	So I started doing a show talking about fantasy fiction, fantasy games, superheroes, things like that.
	So this is my fake dungeon background that I use.
	Oh, that's great.
	That's awesome.
	Well, I... Well, I match your nerdy pool and I raise you one Rubik's Cube because I'm a speedcuber.
	That's how nerdy I am.
	Oh, damn.
	You can solve that if you're a high-speed Rubik's Cube guy?
	That's impressive.
	Well, I don't know about high-speed, but I solve them in like 40 seconds now is kind of what I do.
	45 seconds, whatever.
	But it's pretty nerdy.
	Yeah, it's a pretty nerdy thing to do.
	I love it.
	I love it.
	That's my tribe, man.
	I think Al Yankovic did a song about us.
	It's called White and Nerdy, by the way.
	Yes, yes, absolutely.
	We've got to have the editor insert a little bit of that right here because that was just a classic.
	I'm just too white and nerdy.
	I'm just too white and nerdy.
	But, you know, you know, you know what's cool about being nerdy is that you understand numbers, which means you understand economics, you know what's cool about being nerdy is that you understand numbers, which means you understand economics,
	And so, you know, those of us who can grasp the situation here, it's not a surprise of what's coming.
	Like, we're not going to be shocked as the dollar collapses, right?
	Exactly.
	So, what are you actually, like, what actions are you taking?
	Or what would you recommend that other people do?
	You know, how do you protect yourself from the collapsing dollar?
	What do you do?
	Well, it goes back to the point we said earlier that there's two paths for debt, deflation, or hyperinflation.
	And the problem is depending which one occurs makes different asset classes radically different in value.
	So if you have hyperinflation, holding gold is fantastic.
	If you have debt deflation, it's not as fantastic as a simple example.
	So I've diversified.
	You know, I hold gold, I hold silver, I hold Bitcoin, AI stocks, a lot of defense industry stocks.
	And then I also just prep a lot for my expectation of not necessarily the end of the world as we know it, Mad Max type environments, but just More what you see when things start to go downhill and you don't have reliable power every day of the week because the guy operating the electrical system isn't there that day or whatever.
	So like prepping rather than survivalism.
	That's what I'm doing.
	I mean, if I had the answer to the exact investment strategy, I wouldn't have a Conan blog.
	I'd have a billion dollar hedge fund, but sadly it has eluded me.
	Yeah, well, I hear you, but you bring up a good point, and you can't just make investments to make it through this.
	You're going to have to cover your basics.
	You're going to have to probably learn how to augment your food supply with a little bit of homegrown food, like a peach tree in the backyard or whatever, or some zucchini plants.
	You know, you're probably going to have to have a backup generator or some kind of a like a solar generator, energy storage device, a little battery system to get you through brownouts.
	And by the way, as we're recording this, you know, the hurricane barrel barreled through Houston, Texas, two million people lost power.
	Wow.
	For a couple of days now.
	And I'm thinking.
	I mean, I don't know.
	Maybe I'm a little bit too judgmental, but I'm like, how did you not see this coming?
	I mean, it's like you live on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico.
	Hurricanes come through here on a regular basis.
	How do you not have a generator?
	I don't know.
	I mean, I get it.
	It's expensive.
	People have run out of money, but if you don't have a generator, at least have a plan, you know?
	Have some food.
	That is literally why I am a prepper, because I said to myself, if you If all of these things that I've written about actually happen and I didn't prep for them, I'm going to be so mad at myself.
	Like, what is your major malfunction, Alex?
	Like, why did you not prep for this?
	So I started allocating, you know, some of the money every month to just getting everything in order.
	So, you know, get the 50-gallon water drum and get the generator, etc., etc.
	Well, that's really cool.
	Okay.
	We may have some interesting questions.
	Items to share with you, then we'll talk about that off-air because I love to help preppers get fully prepared.
	Let's go back to the projection of naval power because I think this is really key for people to understand.
	So the South China Sea, something like half the world's sea trade goes through the sea lanes there in the South China Sea.
	China is dominating in naval production.
	They have something like 200 times the capacity, the dry dock capacity of the United States.
	And they're building a massive surface naval fleet.
	Not exactly the same qualitatively as a U.S. aircraft carrier, but the numbers are much larger.
	And the South China Sea is much closer to China than it is the United States.
	You mentioned the Houthis.
	The Houthis have shut down the passageway through the Red Sea for traffic that they don't want to pass.
	As a result, the Suez Canal has been compromised in terms of the U.S. Navy using it for passage from the Mediterranean to the Arabian Sea and so on.
	And the Panama Canal.
	There's a lot of Chinese influence right now in the Panama Canal, and it's been restricted because of a lack of rainfall and the lock system and how the higher elevation lakes don't have as much water as they used to.
	The U.S. Navy is becoming obsolete.
	It's not going to be able to travel like it used to because of the Suez Canal, maybe the Panama Canal, and China dominating the South China Sea, and Malaysia, which sits just north of the Strait of Malacca, through which about 25% of the world's naval traffic or commercial ship traffic goes through that strait with Indonesia on the south side.
	Malaysia is joining BRICS. So it's like, how can people not see this?
	The U.S. Navy will not be able to protect the sea lanes for much longer, it seems.
	Correct.
	Yeah, let me put it this way.
	The U.S. naval dominance has already collapsed in the same way that Biden was already senile before he went on his debate.
	But then the debate revealed it.
	We just haven't had the equivalent of the Biden debate to reveal it yet.
	But anyone who's actually paying attention It just hasn't been kind of priced into the markets yet by the average person.
	And, you know, if you look at maritime production, you know, China outdoes us, as you said, 200 to one.
	Now, Korea and Japan are very good at building ships and they're our allies and they have huge naval production.
	So they're the number two and the number three.
	The problem, of course, is where they located Well, they're right within the sphere of influence of exactly where China is most dominant.
	So the idea that we could build a navy using Japanese and South Korean infrastructure is exceptionally unlikely as well.
	So we very foolishly outsourced our entire naval construction capability to the two countries that are within easy striking distance of our greatest strategic rival.
	So chalk that one up to another great strategic error by the U.S. Yeah, absolutely.
	I think it's critical for the American people to recognize that the affordability of the goods that people purchase today is due to the very low cost of tonnage miles of ocean traffic.
	And it's dirt cheap to use a forklift, load pallets into a container, use a crane, put the container on a ship, sail that ship.
	It takes almost no fuel, no additional fuel almost, to add one more container to that ship.
	And all those efficiencies which have been felt in our material wealth, our relative material abundance, those can vanish when you no longer have the global supply chain functioning because you're at war with China.
	And then the U.S. State Department is trying to provoke war with China.
	It's like, oh my gosh, how could you people be so stupid?
	Right, right.
	Well, they've maneuvered themselves into a situation where they don't have really too many other options other than to try and escalate.
	You know, China has proven it's willing to essentially let us self-destruct and it'll wait us out.
	It's getting stronger.
	We're getting weaker.
	So, there's a...
	You know, in World War I, part of the reason the French were so aggressive against the Germans is that their demographers had figured out that their population was going to be much smaller than Germany's within a generation.
	And so they felt like, hey, we have to fight now.
	You know, our economy is going to keep getting smaller than China's if we don't make radical changes.
	And so if you're not willing to make those changes and you're worried about China's arrival, then you pick the fight now rather than in 25 years when you're starting to lose.
	That's the strategic concept that our elites have.
	I don't think it's the right concept, but I do think that's what they believe.
	I think you're right, and I think the economic sanctions targeting China, especially, for example, targeting the microchip industry out of China, was designed to sabotage China.
	But, you know, the world, I think, increasingly sees the U.S. empire as a sabotage operation, for example, destroying the Nord Stream pipeline.
	That sabotaged the energy production Or energy supply of Western Europe.
	Look what it did to Germany's economy.
	Major car manufacturers moving out of Germany.
	Look at France.
	Look at the UK. It's like the US is like, well, we don't want to compete with the world on a level playing field.
	Instead, we'll just blow up their energy sources.
	It's like, this is not a sustainable model of how to get along with world neighbors, it seems to me.
	What do you think?
	Right.
	No, I agree.
	We became a plundering empire at some point.
	You know, and I don't know exactly when it happened.
	I remember as a younger man being so pro-American, really thinking we were the good guys on the world stage.
	And somewhere along the line, we stopped being the good guys.
	I'm not saying that Russia and China are good guys either, but just rather that whatever we used to have that made us special and good, we definitely don't have it anymore.
	Our empire at this point is built on exploitation of our so-called allies.
	Germany is de-industrializing directly because of our policies, and it's wrecking their economy.
	And if the Germans were sensible, they would say, you know, enough.
	We're not on board with this.
	Yeah, I agree.
	If the Germans were sensible, they would go to Putin and say, hey, can we be friends and please sell us natural gas?
	Exactly.
	And then they wouldn't lose their industry.
	Right.
	Or I guess they could...
	If they could convince other Europeans to harness the natural gas that they already have, but they've locked all that up under the climate change agenda.
	They're like, we're not going to get our energy.
	We'll just get it from Russia.
	Oops, that all got blown up, so now we have no energy.
	How is it that Western civilization has turned into a suicide cult?
	I mean, at least those are my words.
	I don't understand how it could have happened in our lifetimes.
	So quickly.
	What's going on here?
	So, this is something I actually talk about on the blog.
	It's one of my major themes.
	And I think the problem is effectively a philosophical or spiritual problem.
	We convinced ourselves of certain things that weren't true.
	And then having convinced ourselves of that, then the current...
	The nihilistic, self-hating suicide outcome is actually logical.
	And you have to really kind of dig down and unearth the roots of where we've gone wrong and then rebuild a new philosophy on that basis.
	So the delusions have to be shattered at some point?
	The delusions have to be shattered, right?
	And do you feel like we're in the process of that beginning?
	I think we're at the beginning of that process, right?
	Like, I like the point you said earlier, you know, the shock has just begun.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, the shattering is yet to come, or I had a podcast the other day, I titled it, The Shift Has Hit the Fan.
	Oh, it's great.
	But I think you and I agree that there's a lot more runway for this thing to play out, and there are a lot more delusions to be shattered, like this delusion of just endless money printing.
	In fact, I want to ask you, the BRICS settlement currency proposals seem to indicate that it'll be centered around what they call a unit, and the unit will be backed 40% by gold, which of course...
	Very strictly limits how many units can be created.
	If you're a nation and you want to be issued units, you have to show up with 40% gold, right?
	So the multiplier effect is like maximum 2.5 out of that.
	And so it means that this is going to be the first, if it succeeds, the first world reserve currency not controlled by one nation and that cannot be counterfeited.
	I mean, that's historic, isn't it?
	It is.
	It is.
	It's actually very similar to what was proposed in 1945 that we ended up not adopting and instead forced the U.S. dollar as the hegemonic currency.
	It's worth noting, you know, a lot of people say the U.S. dollar is a fiat currency, and it's actually, it is, but it's even worse than that.
	It's a debt currency.
	It would be a strict fiat currency if the U.S. Treasury Department directly issued our currency, but it doesn't.
	The Federal Reserve does.
	The U.S. Treasury then borrows it from the Federal Reserve.
	So in a sense, we actually have a system even worse than fiat currency because every time money print, we also print the debt that we then have to pay back.
	And as the interest rates go up, that debt goes up.
	So like a simple reform one could do that would improve the welfare of the country would be to simply abolish the Federal Reserve and at least shift the money printing back to the Treasury the way it was under Abraham Lincoln with the greenbacks.
	But, of course, anyone who proposes that gets assassinated, so no one is particularly keen to mention it.
	Yeah, go figure.
	Because there's still some kind of cabal in control of the system, and as you said, they're setting the Overton window of what's even allowed.
	But if we don't radically reform this system, is it true that one day the American people wake up impoverished in their own country?
	Yes.
	Yeah, I mean, I think a lot of people are waking up impoverished.
	If you look at the standard of living that the Generation Z is enjoying relative to what I enjoyed in Generation X or what the baby boomers enjoyed, and Generation Alpha is going to have it even worse off.
	And it's like our entire elite infrastructure is gaslighting our young people and telling them, no, the problem is you.
	Well, it's not.
	It's not them.
	They're just living through the consequences of 50 years of bad decisions, more.
	Yeah, that's a really good point.
	If you think about the number of labor hours that it takes to purchase a home, for example, a starter home.
	When my wife and I purchased our first home, you know, decades ago, I think we bought it for $140,000, which was a lot of money in the 1990s, and we paid it off in like five or six years.
	We just paid it off early.
	Today, we could not do that.
	Even if we earned the same relative amount, the house would cost triple that or quadruple that.
	So I can imagine a young couple or a young...
	Person starting out, they're looking at what it costs to buy a house versus what they take home after taxes.
	They're like, this is never going to fly.
	And they're right.
	It's never going to work.
	The dollar's lost so much value.
	Right.
	And, you know, and ironically, part of the reason the housing prices have appreciated so much is because of the petrodollar, because investing in U.S. real estate is one of the best ways of recycling petrodollars.
	If you're an oil-producing nation and you end up with a surplus of dollars after selling your oil, what do you do?
	You buy U.S. stocks and you buy U.S. real estate.
	You know, we have...
	Entire portions of Miami are essentially owned by foreigners and largely unoccupied most of the year.
	And this is a problem in a lot of our cities as well.
	Yeah, the young people are already becoming impoverished.
	It just hasn't caught up yet with the older people.
	I know myself, I couldn't afford the house I currently live in if I had to go buy it now.
	Well, and this is true among many farmers as well.
	So you look at the food supply, where does the food come from?
	Obviously the farms, but once the current farmers, if they pass away and it goes to the next generation after inheritance taxes...
	Because the exemption is not very large now compared to the value of a farm, then the farms have to be sold off to pay the taxes on them.
	And so you end up with this government cabal that's just extracting maximum productivity earnings out of the population, leaving the people penniless, which sounds a lot like what we supposedly escaped in the You know, revolutionary war.
	I thought we got away from the king, just taxing the peasants into oblivion, but here we're taxed into oblivion.
	Anyway.
	We're much worse off than the founding fathers were.
	Like, they were having revolt over like 2% tea taxes and things like that.
	Yeah, right.
	You know, if they were alive today, they would think we were shameful.
	They would think we were, you know, acting like slaves.
	Well, I think most people are acting like slaves, but clearly you're not.
	Let me plug your book again.
	It's called Running on Empty, How the Eminent Collapse of the Petrodollar System Sets the Stage for World War III. Now, I want to ask you a little bit more here about World War III, and you said this book is based on an article that you originally wrote in a series.
	And this book came out in early 2023.
	This war...
	How do you think, is there an ignition to this war?
	Is there a spark that is obvious or could it be one of any number of things at this point?
	I think it could be a number of things, but it's not an unlimited number.
	The two most likely to me seem to be either going to war against Iran, so some sort of escalation there, because Iran has become a very close member of the sort of axis of resistance to the US with China and Russia.
	And the other would be either Sufficient sanctions that antagonize China into attacking Taiwan and or China smelling blood in the water with our president being senile and thinking we're weak and attacking Taiwan could also do it.
	So I'm not sure which of those two is more likely.
	I think it actually kind of depends probably who wins the presidential election.
	I think if Biden wins the presidential election, then the inflection point being China is more likely, and if Trump wins, then the inflection point being Iran is more likely.
	But those would be my big two.
	Alright, that's a really interesting interpretation.
	And I think most of our viewers would agree that if Biden were to be re-elected, it would really indicate that America has fallen.
	And also that the election is probably rigged because, you know, who's actually going to vote for this senile person?
	But Trump does project more of a, you know, a tough guy kind of attitude internationally, that's for sure.
	But you did not mention Russia in that answer.
	I'm curious your thoughts on Russia because, you know, it seems like NATO is really, really trying to provoke Russia into an escalatory, you know, tit for tat type of response.
	What are your thoughts there?
	I would say my thought is that Putin has shown incredible circumspection in running his war.
	He has been antagonized several times in ways that, based on Russian doctrine, would have justified a much more aggressive response than he's given.
	And we do keep, quote, unquote, poking the bear.
	So far, the bear, I think, has been reluctant to To permit that escalation.
	Now, I've spoken to some friends that I have in Russia.
	In their sense, they're quite aware of the fact that they're the junior partners in the relationship with China.
	And so their thinking is that Russia doesn't want to take any action that's going to further weaken Russia and strengthen China's power relative to them within their alliance.
	And so I genuinely think Russia's going to continue to press on until it captures its territory in Ukraine that it wants to have.
	And then it's probably going to stop there.
	Now, it won't necessarily stop there for all time, but historically the Russians have always advanced that way.
	They do an advance and then they kind of do a strategic repositioning and they pause for a while.
	So I don't think the flashpoint will be Russia.
	Okay.
	All right.
	That's really interesting to hear that.
	And I agree that Putin has shown a lot of restraint, even despite a lot of internal domestic pressure from his own people.
	Yeah, more aggressive.
	Some in his own administration that are saying, you know, nuke the West, nuke the West.
	And that would be a horrible idea for lots of reasons.
	But do you think that Putin will go to all the way westward to, let's say, Kiev?
	Yeah.
	Or, and stop there?
	Or what about Odessa?
	You know, what about the southern coastline of Ukraine?
	Yeah, I think he'll take as much as he can get of Ukraine.
	In a sense, Ukraine is already dead, right?
	Like, if you look at their population, it's plummeted because of the war.
	And it was something of an artificial country in the first place.
	I mean, you know, the western part of Ukraine was historically more part of Eastern Europe.
	Russia.
	And so, if I had to guess, I would say that Russia will end up controlling all of the Russian parts of Ukraine.
	They'll take a strong position on the southern coast.
	And then the rump state of Ukraine will end up merging into one of the powers to the west of it.
	Poland, perhaps.
	Yeah, I mean, the Polish would love to have it.
	They've been talking about that.
	So, they've been open about that.
	So, what I don't expect to see is I don't expect to see Russia take Ukraine and then say, hey, now we're going to attack Poland, now we're going to attack the Czech Republic.
	No, I don't see that either.
	That would be a suicide mission for Russia, actually, to even attempt that.
	They don't have the personnel to do that.
	No, they do not, right.
	And remember, the other factor here in eastern Ukraine is that most of the eastern Ukrainians wanted to join Russia.
	That's correct.
	Right.
	And so it's not like you're occupying eastern Ukraine.
	You're liberating them to join Russia.
	Now, that's different with western Ukraine.
	The western Ukrainians, like you said, they don't want to be Russian.
	They want to be western Europeans for the most part.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	The way I described it to a friend, I had this argument recently.
	So imagine that, you know, the United States has some rocky troubles and Florida secedes from the Union as part of a general breakup.
	And then Cuba and China start building military bases in Florida.
	And then northern Florida then says it wants to secede from Cuba and southern Florida.
	And so then the rump state of the United States says, well, we're going to go in and we're going to protect the northern Floridians.
	That's essentially analogous to what's happening in Russia.
	You know, the Eastern Ukrainians were Russian-speaking, Russian ethnic, had historically been part of Russia and voted to rejoin Russia, and that was prevented.
	So from Russia's point of view, they're acting quite reasonably.
	I mean, I sure wish they had found a better way to accomplish their objectives without, you know, hundreds of thousands of people dying.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	But that comes back to the State Department and people like Victoria Nuland and so on, and we don't have time to go into all that.
	But I do want to ask you then domestically, in the few minutes we have left here, and thank you for taking this time, but domestically in the United States, as the petrodollar system continues to erode, And I agree with you.
	It's not going to be just overnight, one night, it's all gone, but it will just continue to erode.
	The cities are becoming more and more crime-ridden.
	The retailers are shutting down because how can you survive if everybody just comes in and shoplifts $1,000 worth of goods all day long?
	You're like, I'm closing down.
	I'm out of here.
	Walgreens just announced today they're shutting down 25% of all their retail outlets, one of the reasons is shoplifting.
	And Rite Aid is closing down many of their stores, grocery stores and so on.
	What are the cities in America, especially what we call the blue cities, what are the cities going to look like as this petrodollar collapse runs its course?
	They're going to look like Detroit.
	1980s and 1990s and 2000s Detroit.
	It's going to be very, very bad.
	I would, if I was living in one of those major blue cities, I would take advantage right now of the high price of real estate.
	I would sell.
	I would move someplace to Red State, either a small city or preferably even further out, more countryside.
	And I would take advantage of the current global supply lines and the ability to get cheap goods on Amazon delivered to me, get everything I needed to be as self-sufficient as possible because Once the petrodollar collapses, the cities are going to go downhill, but so are the supply chains that make getting the latest gizmo delivered to your door 12 hours later possible.
	That's going to go away as well.
	Yeah, exactly.
	So I'm not the only one that buys O-ring sets and nuts and screws and washers because I know if I need them one day, I'm not going to be able to get them.
	No, you're definitely not the only one.
	I'm the same, yeah.
	Well...
	Maybe that's a white and nerdy thing that we're both into.
	I don't know.
	I feel like if I have a diesel generator, for example, so I buy extra belts, I buy the oil filters, I can run that generator for 3,000 hours.
	I've got all the parts for it.
	Because I figure I can't get those parts one day.
	Right, right.
	I mean, that's not irrational, is it?
	Am I weird for doing that?
	Well, I think you're weird for being rational.
	Right.
	We live in a world that is founded on crazy, and so the sane man comes off as insane.
	Well, I've got diesel engine parts stockpiled, that's for sure.
	Anything else you want to add, Alexander, before we wrap this up?
	Like, just tidbits of advice, or how people can find more of your work, or whatever you want to offer here.
	Well, I just want to say thank you for having me on the show.
	I hope folks will check out treeofwoe.substack.com and check out the book.
	Running on empty on Amazon or on the blog.
	It's been a delight.
	Very few folks I've talked to have had the level of economic sophistication.
	You have to just have this back and forth.
	Normally I'm trying to explain the rule in 1971.
	I mean, it's fantastic.
	Oh man, we've only scratched the surface today.
	We could go much deeper into this.
	And I hope you'll come back and we can do this again sometime.
	I'd love that.
	Alright, let's do that.
	And especially as this situation unfolds, it's going to be really fascinating.
	I mean, I did get a chance to ask you about bank bail-ins or bank closures or commercial real estate collapse that's happening or where interest rates are going.
	Maybe we can cover some of those next time, but let's meet again before the election to see where we are.
	Yeah, let's do that.
	That's going to be really interesting.
	I don't know where things are headed, but I'm buying gold.
	That's for...
	Okay.
	Well, Alexander McCreese, thank you so much for joining us today.
	It's been a pleasure speaking with you.
	Love your book.
	Love your blog.
	And folks, again, the blog, let me give it again, treeofwoe.substack.com with a picture of Arnold Schwarzenegger right there on top.
	World War 100.
	What's that all about?
	Oh, well, it's a joke.
	100 is binary for four.
	Okay.
	So World War IV. And, you know, it's basically talking about this idea of, is AI actually an existential risk to humanity?
	Well, did you know that while we've been recording this, did you know the background behind me is an AI augmented background?
	Because we bought these loops, these video loops, but they were too fast, so we slow them down.
	And when you slow them down, they jerk, right?
	So we use AI software to generate interpolated frames.
	So this is 120 frames per second slowed down to normal speed, and it's slightly jerky.
	You can kind of see it a little bit, but it's way smoother than it was.
	Dude, that's AI rocking the background.
	Yeah.
	Oof, I feel primitive in comparison, man.
	I'm in a dungeon.
	You're in an actual dungeon background.
	Yes, it's made of Canvas, old school.
	People are going to think that it's like a graphic image behind you.
	Can you just tap it to show people it's real?
	No, it isn't.
	Yeah, see?
	It's physical.
	At least it's physical, yeah.
	Okay, awesome.
	All right, Alexander.
	It's been fun, and thanks for joining me today, and we'll talk again soon.
	Thank you.
	All right.
	Hope you enjoyed that, everybody.
	Alexander McCrease.
	Wow, what a great guy.
	Highly intelligent.
	He's ahead of the curve.
	Check out his books and his blog site as well.
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