BBN, July 18, 2024 – Blackrock-linked investment fund placed MASSIVE put options on Trump...
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Alright folks, welcome to Brighteon Broadcast News for Thursday, July 18th, 2024.
I'm Mike Adams, known as the Health Ranger, also the founder of brighteon.com, the publisher of naturalnews.com, etc.
And boy, do I have a show for you today.
If we are able to, I will run my recent interview with Gerald Salenti today.
I've been saving that.
I mean, I was going to run it on Monday, but then, of course, the attempted assassination of Trump happened, and that changed, obviously, our focus.
But speaking of that assassination, news has been breaking over the last 24 hours.
We're going to cover here in some detail that there is, well, one prominent company that That had, but more than one, but that there's at least one company that had placed a massive short bet on Donald Trump's company.
It's called Trump Media and Technology Group Corp, also known as DJT. They placed a put that was filed on Friday, one day before the shooting.
It's a put of 12 million shares.
And this short would have generated a windfall of profits if Trump had been killed then the following day.
Now, it doesn't prove any foreknowledge of that, but it's highly suspicious to a lot of people.
Many people are looking into this.
There's also a pattern of some other shorts.
One was placed by Citadel Advisors.
For what looks like 1.677 million shares, but that was placed in May, May 15th.
But according to Fintel, Fintel.io, this other company, which we'll talk about shortly, filed their shorts, 12 million shares that were being shorted in a put.
These were filed on Friday.
Now, that company, and again, I want to be clear, we're not here accusing this company of any foreknowledge.
It's possible this could have been just sheer luck or chance that maybe they woke up on Friday and said, hey, we just think Donald Trump's going to do really poorly.
We think Donald Trump's companies are just going to collapse completely.
In the near future, so we're just going to short 12 million shares, okay?
And the stock price is $36.42 of each of those shares.
So, you know, multiply that by 12 million, you know, you get the idea of the kind of money we're talking about here.
But for whatever reason, that company called Austin Private Wealth LLC decided to short 12 million shares.
And again, according to Fintel.io, this was filed on Friday, the day before the attempted assassination of Trump.
What's really interesting to me and to a lot of other people is that if you go to the website AustinPrivateWealth.com and you click on their link for In the Community, that it turns out they are donating money to a lot of groups that all have one thing in common.
And again, they would have generated a windfall of, I don't know how much profit they would have earned, maybe over a billion dollars.
I'm not sure.
Somebody would have to do the math on their put position, the actual strike price and so on.
But they could have earned a tremendous windfall the next day if Trump had been killed.
And guess who they donate to?
They donate to the ACLU, the ADL of Austin.
The Shalom Austin group, the Jewish Community Center, Camp Young Judea, Congregation Beth Israel, Austin Jewish Academy, and another group called Hadassah.
What do all these have in common?
I don't know.
I can't tell.
You're not allowed to say, are you?
You're not allowed to say.
What do they all have in common?
I just find it interesting that out of all the days of all the financial activity happening of puts and calls and shorts and long bets and so on on DJT, Trump's media group and technology group, that on the day before he was supposed to die...
This company bet that the value of his company would plunge.
They bet 12 million shares worth on that possibility, and they donate a lot of money to a bunch of Israel-linked and Jewish and Zionist groups.
Isn't that interesting?
Now, what else is interesting about this, and let me show you the picture of this from fintel.io, okay?
Now, you notice in this image that the row is highlighted in green.
And if you go to fintel.io, green rows indicate something.
It indicates new positions.
Red rows indicate closed-out positions.
So in other words, this put on 12 million shares filed on Friday, and the source being 13F, I believe that's SEC regulatory filing requirements, so a 13F source, This is a new position.
So some people out there were thinking, well, maybe they were just closing out a previous position.
No, this is a new position, as indicated at fintel.io.
And if you look at all the puts...
On DJT that are currently outstanding, none of them are anywhere close to that.
The second largest one is Citadel Advisors, as I mentioned earlier, at 1.677 million shares.
After that, it's Susquehanna International Group for 1.662 million shares, and that was filed in May.
And then after that, it's 500,000 shares from the Shaolin Capital Management LLC, but also that was filed in May.
So, you know, those were a couple of months ago.
The only recent massive short filing here is this Austin Private Wealth LLC. And I am very curious about What they have to say about this.
I'm very curious about whether there will be any questions asked or any investigations carried out by the SEC. Like, hey, how did you know?
Like, you made a major bet.
It would be like walking into a casino onto like a roulette wheel, you know, that's got the red and the black colors and numbers on them.
And I don't know how those are exactly set up, but let's say you walk in and you say, I'm putting everything on Red 5.
And then the wheel spins and the ball pops in and lands on Red 5.
But you bet everything on Red 5 and then you have this huge cash in.
The casino is going to say, how did you know?
How did you know it's going to be Red 5?
Because that's really odd.
What are the chances of making that guess just like that?
That earned you a massive windfall.
Well, of course, this bet did not earn a massive windfall for Austin Private Wealth LLC because with Trump surviving the assassination attempt, I believe the value of his companies has gone up since then.
So these puts have actually become less valuable.
That's...
That's part of the risk, I suppose, associated with any kind of a financial bet.
You might lose.
But the size of this bet, in the minds of many people on Twitter and elsewhere, reminds many people of how all these financial bets were placed against airline companies right before September 11th, 2001.
There was, of course, a documented paper trail of certain people, certain groups that appear to have some kind of inside knowledge surrounding the 9-11 attacks because they positioned themselves to massively profit from suppressed airline traffic and certain groups that appear to have some kind of inside knowledge surrounding the 9-11 attacks because they positioned themselves to massively profit from suppressed airline traffic and the
Like somebody seemed to know that that was about to happen and they placed a bunch of bets.
And that's a strong indicator overall.
And again, I'm not accusing Austin Private Wealth of having foreknowledge, but I do think they need to be asked some questions.
But overall, when somebody places a very massive bet like that, it seems to indicate that they must have had some reasoning for it, right?
Because investors normally are not wildly irrational.
They're not casino-type gamblers like, I'm going to mortgage the house and place it all on Red 5, you know?
They don't do that.
They take calculated risks.
And part of that calculation is often having potentially some knowledge or some rational basis, some analysis.
Like, why did you think that Trump's companies would dramatically fall in value?
What led you to that conclusion?
And I'm not sure that that could be justified, given that Trump is...
Incredibly popular.
He's surviving the lawfare attempts to take him down.
Joe Biden is not doing well, obviously, in his failing campaign.
If anything, the momentum is in favor of Trump.
And if you're going to bet against Trump with 12 million shares of puts, you would need to justify what brought you to that conclusion, thinking that that is a rational bet.
At least in my mind.
I would like to see this company explain this put of 12 million shares.
Now, what else is interesting about that is that many people, there are documentaries about this, many people believe that Israel was involved in the actual 9-11 attacks.
That Israeli art students, they say, planted explosives in some of the buildings, perhaps Building 7 in particular.
And this was engineered, they say, by Israel working with the Bush CIA and the deep state to involve America in wars in the Middle East that would ultimately put or pit America against Iran in order to wipe out Israel's enemies.
Such as Iraq and Iran and Syria and Libya and so on.
And indeed, the 9-11 attacks in America not only allowed the U.S. government at that time to expand its deep state surveillance of the American people through the Patriot Act, but it also essentially waged war on, as Bush called it, war on terror!
Terror!
We're going to have a war on terror!
And that was also a war on Muslims, by the way.
It became very dangerous to be a Muslim walking around New York City or just a brown person, you know, just a person with brown-looking skin.
You might have been Hispanic, but if you looked a little bit Muslim, you know, people would scowl at you and so on.
And it was a very dangerous time because this war, suddenly there was this international Middle Eastern terrorism aspect to this war that Bush and the deep state were pursuing.
And again, some people claim that it was all planned and that Israel was involved because, of course, qui bono, right?
Who benefits?
Israel benefited from that dramatically.
Well, what about right now?
Who benefits from assassinating Trump?
You would think that Israel does not benefit from assassinating Trump, right?
Because Trump appears to be pretty friendly towards Israel, doesn't he?
And J.D. Vance thinks we should attack Iran.
We should bomb Iran.
Not Russia, but Iran, right?
So why would...
I mean, just theoretically, as a thought experiment, why would anybody with ties to Israel and Zionist groups, why would they want President Trump dead?
Well, there's two theories about that.
Number one is...
Because there's money to be made off of it.
It would be one reason, right?
And maybe in the minds of some people, just the short-term profit is better than any long-term help from a Trump administration.
That's one possible explanation.
But a bigger explanation is that there are left-wing groups that are also tied to Israel.
But they're also tied to LGBT. They're tied to the Democrats.
See, the pro-Israel groups, they're in both major parties, you see.
They donate to everybody across the aisle.
And maybe there are groups out there that have strong ties to Israel and Judaism or even Zionism, and they...
Wouldn't mind Trump being taken off the chessboard because they don't like his America First policies.
Even if he might be supportive of Israel, the bottom line for Israel and AIPAC is that they pretty much own everybody in Congress.
They own all the candidates.
I mean, RFK Jr.
is very, very loyal to the wealthy Jewish donors, let's say.
Very loyal to that, right?
J.D. Vance also.
Joe Biden tries to say that he's loyal to Israel, but Israel doesn't necessarily, they're not convinced of that.
But if Trump were replaced by somebody else, somebody even more friendly to Israel, that could be a benefit.
And isn't it interesting that then the assassination attempt on Donald Trump took place right before the convention, the Republicans' convention.
Which would have thrust the convention into real chaos and would have caused the Republicans to have to really scramble to try to put in a replacement person.
And that would have given a better chance of victory to Joe Biden or whoever they put in there, which would also be, no doubt, a pro-Israel person.
So sometimes, folks, sometimes the answer is follow the money, but other times the answer is the culture war.
And if there were a pro-Israel group that was also a very strong left-wing Democrat group, you've got to wonder which side of that is more important to them.
Do they want to push the LGBT agenda?
Or do they want to get more support for Israel?
Or do they just want to make money for themselves?
Those are the kinds of questions that we have to be asking.
And I don't have the answers to all of this.
But there are some huge questions being raised right now.
Because there's more and more evidence across various circles here that there was foreknowledge.
You know, in the Secret Service, for example.
Or this creepy quote from Victoria Nuland.
Like, Putin's going to be in, you know, for a big surprise because Trump's not going to be there.
I mean, I'm paraphrasing it.
She didn't say it exactly like that.
But she was implying there's going to be a big surprise.
And Joe Biden a few weeks ago was like, You know, I don't think Trump has been really challenged.
He's going to be hit with something or he's going to be surprised by something.
He's going to be tested, I think.
That's what he said.
That was in the interview with Stephanopoulos.
That Trump's really going to be tested.
Well, he was tested.
And he passed the test, it turns out.
Speaking of Joe Biden, by the way, just to change the subject, Biden has now been...
Diagnosed with COVID. Yeah.
They say that Biden has failed a COVID test and he's got COVID. So super boosted Biden.
Biden who took the jabs and took the boosts over and over and over again and said that if you take the jab, you can't catch COVID. Remember when he said that?
That was a couple years back, but that's what he said.
If you take the jab, you can't catch COVID. He took all kinds of jabs, and now he's diagnosed with COVID. And then he also said that he would consider stepping down if doctors came to him and really challenged him.
Again, I'm paraphrasing, but he said something like that over the last day that he would consider stepping down.
So one question is, is Joe Biden being given sort of a soft landing, an off ramp for his campaign so that he can gracefully step down, bow out?
Because I think that's probably happening.
And here's my guess that there are elements within the Democrat deep state that are now going to Joe and they are saying that, you know, we've got all this evidence against you and we're going to start rolling this out unless you step down.
In fact, I've done a couple of special reports today.
I might play that one for you as well.
But even since then, since recording that special report, I have learned that there's a lot more really dangerous dirt on Joe Biden that's known by a lot of people and is circulating or kind of percolating out there that I have learned that there's a lot more really dangerous dirt on Joe Biden that's known by a lot of people and is
You know, there's stories from his past and decisions that he made and some of them involving family members or former family members as well.
There are just some things that are so shockingly bad that they're also well known by certain people, some of those being Democrats, that some of that is probably being leveraged against him right now, I would imagine.
They're probably saying, hey Joe, you can keep your legacy You can go down to history as someone who got old and senile but wasn't a crazy, insane crook, perhaps.
All you've got to do is step down now, get out of the way, and let somebody else run in your place.
But if he doesn't step down, you're going to see increasingly intense information released on Joe Biden, I predict, from all quarters.
For example, I believe...
I know Adam Schiff, Congressman Schiff, has called for him to step down, and I thought I saw a report that Senator Schumer just told Joe Biden to withdraw from the race.
And Senator Schumer, you know, he's the guy that can make good on threats with the intelligence community.
You don't want to cross Senator Schumer as he even warned Trump.
You know, they can get you, what do you say, six ways from Sunday.
I never really understood what that means, six ways from Sunday.
And they did come after Trump, right?
So they can come after Joe, too.
And if Joe can be sufficiently convinced of that, then he may get out the way.
But I guess we're going to have to wait and find out if that's the case.
Now, about the shooting.
I've got a special report here.
This says, the title is, All the Shooting Evidence Points Directly to the Biden Administration.
And it's becoming increasingly clear that some elements of the Biden admin were involved in putting together this attempted assassination, this coup attempt.
So I'm going to play that report for you here.
We'll come back and then I've got some information that's come to me from a former Special Forces operator that has something very interesting about To share about the advance team and the advance team that checked out the Butler, Pennsylvania fairgrounds there, whatever they were, the public speaking venue.
He told me that there should be some PowerPoint presentations that were created for Secret Service and that we need to be demanding to see those.
So we'll talk about that on the other side of this special report.
So enjoy this short report.
I'll be right back.
As more and more evidence comes out about this shooting, this attempted assassination of President Trump, it's very clear that this came from the highest levels of the Biden administration.
No doubt this was the order of Alejandro Mayorkas of DHS, who is a traitor against America and who probably realizes that he's going to be prosecuted.
He's one of many officials under Biden who has committed direct treason.
He has funded and coordinated the ongoing invasion of America.
By not just millions of illegal aliens, but enemy combatants from other nations, some of which have been designated terrorist nations, that are being brought into the United States through the invasion camps that Mallorcas visited, funded, and coordinated, such as the San Vicente camp in Panama, or Lajas Blancas camp, other camps, again, funded in part by the United States of America.
Alejandro Mallorcas oversaw that, Because he believed, and he's actually a high IQ but very evil person, he believed that if they could bring in enough illegals into America, that they could rig this 2024 election.
That's been their plan all along.
And they're still going to try to do that, by the way.
So, Mallorcas and other officials, they know...
They're going to be prosecuted if Trump gets into the White House.
Thus, they have the motivation and they have the means and they created the opportunity to assassinate Donald J. Trump.
It's just that by a miracle or the hand of God, they missed.
But the evidence continues to show this was an inside job, that the U.S. Secret Service was in on this, that Kimberly Cheadle, the director of the United States Secret Service, needs to be criminally investigated, potentially prosecuted for her role in this, and that there were teams on the ground,
most likely directed by Secret Service, they were directed to allow this shooter to scale that roof, climb up the ladder, get on the roof, crawl up, Put his rifle up there and potentially take a shot, multiple shots, at Donald J. Trump.
But now what's emerging, of course, is that he may not have been the actual shooter.
That there may have been assassination teams run by the Secret Service, maybe, or impersonating Secret Service or impersonating police.
In the building, in the very same building on which the shooter, the so-called shooter Crooks, was crawling, but inside the building, an actual counter sniper team that took the shots.
That's the scenario that's emerging as the most likely explanation for the events that we have seen unfold.
And remember, Secret Service had this shooter in their sights for nearly 30 minutes.
It's being publicly reported now that they were watching him for 26 minutes, reporting on his movements, no doubt making sure he's on track.
They saw him take out a rangefinder and actually scan the field and take a range.
They saw him get a backpack.
They saw him grab a rifle.
They saw him scale the building.
They saw him on the roof.
And somehow, somehow, They were never ordered to take the shot to take out this obvious and clear threat, this obvious assassin.
They were ordered to stand down.
They were ordered to stand down.
That is the smoking gun evidence right there.
This is not just incompetence.
This is not oversight.
This is deliberate.
And it means that Mayorkas and the Biden administration have literally started a shooting war in America.
They tried to carry out a coup against President Trump and the American people.
They tried to pull a JFK assassination on Donald J. Trump.
And they had planned for America to be in an uproar, in a revolt right now with President Trump already shot and dead.
And no doubt they planned to roll out All kinds of false flag operations, you know, truck bombs or whatever, to blame it on Trump supporters, to blame it on their anger.
They had the narrative perfectly engineered.
They had the Patriot Front group out there protesting just, what was it, 10 days ago or something like that?
Setting the stage.
They had the media ready to go.
They've got the country, the radical left, all amped up with hatred so that they would celebrate the assassination of Trump.
They've got every narrative ready to go, and they've got more MKUltra suicide shooters ready to go also.
And they timed it perfectly.
You notice that Trump was supposed to be sentenced on July 11th.
But they delayed the sentencing so that he could be out giving a speech.
They also timed this so that there would be chaos at the Republican National Convention, the RNC, right?
So that that would be thrust into chaos, the party would be panicked to try to pick a new candidate, and then the globalists could try to slide somebody in there, you know, like Nikki Haley or somebody that they could control.
And even if the Republicans won, then it would be somebody that the globalists control.
That was their plan all along.
They had planned to destroy MAGA, to take out the MAGA movement with one bullet.
And they failed.
And you may recall, by the way, over the last several months, what have I predicted?
What have I predicted?
I've said that they would try to carry out False flag type of events.
And yet because of their incompetence, they would fail.
Or they would be caught.
And in this case, it looks like both.
Both of those things are happening.
They failed and increasingly they're getting caught because the evidence is coming out.
Once Trump gets into office, assuming that takes place, there will be, you can count on it, there will be a thorough investigation And potentially criminal prosecutions of all the people involved in this.
There will be a reckoning for these people.
And that's why you will see Biden administration officials fleeing the country before Trump is inaugurated.
They will leave the country.
They will permanently relocate outside the United States because they know they will be prosecuted.
Now, the important thing for you and I to recognize here, I mean, number one, We want to call for peace.
That is, we don't want any harm to come to Joe Biden.
I don't want to see anybody engage in any kind of vengeance type of activities or vigilante activities.
This is a time to roll your cameras, to keep your eyes peeled, to take a defensive posture, And to make sure that there is no violence initiated in this country.
We don't want to see any violence.
What we want to see is a clear path to election day.
But the radical left, they will want violence.
And the Biden regime, given that they already failed here with this attempt, they will roll out more.
There will be more.
What will come next?
Something bigger.
Look, Trump surviving this shot, this assassination attempt, this is just one of many challenges that he will face.
But I believe that he will persevere.
I believe that God is with us.
And I believe that we will make it to election day.
Despite the efforts of the Biden regime to try to take out America and to try to stop elections, to try to stop the process of democracy that they falsely claim to be defending, they're not defending it at all.
They don't believe in democracy.
They believe in authoritarianism.
They believe in tyranny.
They believe in killing their political opponents and jailing as many as they can as well.
And remember that if they didn't get what they wanted now, they will try again with something that's bigger and more dangerous.
So as I have warned before, now you need to watch out for area effect weapons, such as bombs.
Bombs actually put in place by the administration, where they will, of course, blame whoever, whoever is convenient.
You already see a narrative being rolled out right now where they're saying, you know, warning, it looks like Iran may be involved in assassination attempts.
Well, that's just them covering their tracks.
That's just them pointing overseas and saying, it wasn't us, it was these guys!
It was Iran!
Or, you know, it's Russia!
Or whatever.
No.
This is the deep state.
This is a deep state operation.
That's very clear at this point.
But by blaming Iran, they can have a cover story.
And they're going to push that cover story.
And that will provide them cover to attempt larger and larger events.
And so Trump's team needs to be incredibly cautious at this point.
They need to be widening their view to look beyond the shooter scenario.
Probably a shooter will not be attempted again.
At least not one that would get that close, you know, because the Trump team is going to be looking out for that.
So they'll try something different.
They'll try, like I said, a bomb or they'll try a radiological weapon or a chemical weapon, like a drone that releases a nerve gas, a nerve gas agent, something on that order.
And then, you know, if that fails, well, then they'll blame Iran or they'll blame Russia, you know.
But this is DHS running this.
This is your own government running a war against America.
And they're not going to stop until they are forced to be stopped by being thrown out of office.
So I want to encourage everybody listening to this right now.
Go to your local voting precinct.
Go to your local Republican Party office.
Ask how you can volunteer.
What can you do?
To be a voting monitor.
What can you do?
Do you have legal skills?
Can you volunteer at a phone bank?
You know, there are a number of things that you can do.
And right now, it's time for each of us to stand up here, volunteer some time and some expertise in order to help save America from this deep state cabal of treasonous criminals who are at war with this republic.
So step up.
Step up and be prepared to volunteer, be prepared to vote on election day, and to encourage others to vote with you.
And God bless America.
Thank you for listening.
I'm Mike Adams, The Health Ranger, naturalnews.com, and also, of course, brighteon.com, where you are safe to upload any and all videos of any kind of suspicious events or suspicious people or documenting any false flag attempts.
Upload it all to brighteon.com, and thank you for listening.
I'm Mike Adams.
Take care.
God bless America.
Alright, now continuing with Bright Town Broadcast News here, or sometimes called Health Ranger Report.
As I promised before that special report, I've got some analysis from a former special forces operator who has a lot of experience in running protective details for heads of state.
And although this individual told me he has never worked for Secret Service directly, but he has worked with Secret Service people and he's familiar with the overall, let's say, the overall protocols of planning for heads of state to give public speeches.
And he said that there's an agent in charge, the AIC, that's who's...
You know, responsible for everything of the entire speaking engagement.
There's the shift leader who's responsible specifically for making sure that everybody is in place.
The shift leader should have known whether they're on the roof, whether they're in the building, you know, this and that.
And then there's the tactical commander or the TC who runs everything that's on the road, the routes, the motorcade, in and out of the vehicles, and so on.
Now, before a head of state or someone like Trump, before they show up at a public event, there is a team that gets satellite imagery using something like Google Earth but the military version.
Or, you know, the CIA version or whatever department they're working with, they get map imagery, and then they pinpoint in the center, like, here's where Trump's going to be, and then they lay out concentric circles around Trump, like, here's a 100-yard ring, here's a 200-yard ring, here's a 300-yard ring, and so on.
And this is a starting point.
And then they analyze everything that's at those ranges, like, oh, here's a building, you know, here's a hill, here's a dip, here's a fence, whatever.
You know, here's pavement, here's an exfil route on the road, what have you.
Trees, you know, the whole deal, the whole layout.
And they then analyze this and they write up a report.
This is like a pre-visit report.
It's an advanced team pre-visit report and they do this in like a PowerPoint.
This will be a briefing.
And they will, in this report, they'll document, you know, what are the high ground areas, how many different pieces of high ground do they have to cover, like how many rooftops there are, how many hilltops, how many elevated positions, etc.
And they will also cover what sort of weapon systems would be capable of taking shots at the intended target from different ranges.
So they go out way beyond 300 yards, by the way, for certain events.
You can go out 500, 600 yards, whatever, and then typically you're starting to list out weapon systems that are higher caliber than a typical AR-15, right?
So you might say, okay, well, up to 300 yards, AR-15 poses a severe risk here, but...
Out here at 500 yards, like maybe that's a.308 Winchester or maybe, you know, here at 700 yards, 300 Win Mag rounds or whatever.
You get the idea.
So they have an idea of what kind of weapon systems might be capable of even taking shots at these different ranges.
And of course, the farther out you go in terms of range, typically the bigger and heavier the rifle gets.
So it's kind of easy to hide a little short-barreled, you know, AR-15 pistol, let's say, that might be good to 100 yards.
It's very hard to hide some long-range.338 Lapua sniper rifle with a 26-inch barrel or whatever somebody's carting around on that.
It might be a 15-pound rifle, even with the optics and everything, and that's going to be much easier to spot.
So they get an idea of what kind of weapon systems might be capable at these different ranges of posing a threat to the principal, which would be, in this case, Trump.
Now then, so in essence, the Secret Service, they would have done this planning.
They would have a PowerPoint presentation before they even went out and scouted the actual area.
And then they would have taken this plan and they would have gone out and scouted the area, and this could be done days or even weeks in advance, and they would have noted things that are physically there, any differences from the PowerPoint report, and then they would have gone back and updated the PowerPoint report to reflect reality of what they just saw there, like, oh, actually, you know, this tree is no longer there, or this building, you know, has been torn down, or there's been this additional...
Item added, you know, new construction or whatever.
There's a billboard now here and it blocks line of sight from this, you know, high ground or whatever.
You get the idea, right?
So they update it and then they give a new report to the unit that's going to be deployed there, which in this case would be Secret Service, United States Secret Service.
So then on the day, there's again the agent in charge, AIC, and this lingo might vary a little bit from what the Secret Service uses.
But this is kind of generic, tactical, protective detail lingo, as I understand it.
But the Secret Service would have had a shift leader, or an equivalent.
And the shift leader, it would have been their job to make sure that every rooftop was covered, and to make sure nobody's missing.
Okay?
Now, the reason all this matters is because if the public can get their hands on these PowerPoint presentations...
Then we can see whether the Secret Service planned to cover that rooftop that was left uncovered.
Because, as you know, there's been a lot of excuse-making right now.
Lots of excuse-making.
The Secret Service has said, well, at first they said, no, the local police were supposed to cover that.
But now it's come out that the Butler Township Commissioner, okay, this is law enforcement in Butler, says that the Secret Service director is lying.
In saying that the building was the responsibility of the local police department.
In fact, the local Butler Township's police unit there, leadership there, say the only duties that they were assigned were traffic detail.
Traffic detail.
And there's actually a voice from an official there...
I was so frustrated and frankly hit my limit last night when I saw Secret Service saying it was the responsibility of the local police department that's absolutely not correct.
So in fact, I want to play this short video for you that appears to be the voice of...
An official involved in law enforcement there at Butler explaining all this, that it was only traffic detail, nothing else.
The rooftop was not their responsibility.
That was Secret Service responsibility.
And by the way, if we had this PowerPoint presentation that I just mentioned, we would know this.
We would know whether the Secret Service had that rooftop covered or not.
And if they didn't have it covered and it was only at, let's say, 150 yards, a little bit less, why?
Why wouldn't they cover a rooftop at 150 yards?
Or if they did have it covered, who was supposed to cover it?
And why did the shift leader say everything's good and give the thumbs up when that roof was not covered?
Of course, there's a big cover-up in all of this, right?
Big cover-up.
But we need to be asking these questions, so listen to this video.
What prompted me to post on the social media platform last night, and of course obviously talked to you today, is that our local Butler Township police, their Their duties that were assigned to them, and we have an operational plan that details all that, were strictly traffic detail.
They were not required or not detailed to any security detail related to the event.
Strictly traffic, obviously, to help people coming in and out of the event.
If there is an emergency, those type of things.
We saw the number of people, the number of cars at the event.
And I was so frustrated and quite frankly hit my limit again last night when I saw, again, Secret Service says it was the responsibility of the local police department.
That's absolutely not correct.
All right, so there you go.
So when the Secret Service says that the local police were supposed to cover that roof, the local law enforcement says, no, that's BS. No, we were doing traffic detail.
So then, as you know, also, Secret Service, Kimberly Cheadle says, well, okay, we didn't deploy Secret Service there because the roof was sloped, right?
So we have Slopegate now.
And that's just ridiculous.
Nobody believes that because there are pictures of Secret Service agents on all kinds of other roofs, like, you know, the roof of the White House.
And there was a barn roof there behind Trump or to Trump's right.
There was a counter-sniper team on that roof, and that roof had a much steeper slope, maybe twice the slope, you know?
So nobody buys the slope explanation.
And this brings me back to this PowerPoint presentation.
Where is this presentation, kind of the advanced team documents that showed who was going to cover what?
Because they didn't just walk out there, folks.
They didn't just show up.
And do this like, you know, a bunch of high schoolers like, okay, you know, yeah, Tony, yeah, you got the barn over there.
Yeah, hey, Roberts, yeah, you take the hilltop and, you know, it's not like they just figured this out at the last minute.
I mean, they had a blueprint.
They had a plan.
They knew which teams were going to be deployed on which exposed elevated locations.
And a rooftop would have been covered, period.
Especially a rooftop within 150 yards.
It would have been covered.
So somebody's lying.
I'm pretty sure it's Cheadle and Mayorkas, by the way.
And most of America is already pretty sure of that as well.
They're lying.
It was supposed to be covered and it was not.
And why wasn't it?
That's becoming increasingly clear that the Biden administration is actually complicit in all of this, that they ran this op.
So we've got another special report here.
I'd like to play that for you here and then we'll come back and continue.
Alright, so now we have a report that Joe Biden would consider stepping down from the race if, he says, if doctors come to him and tell him that he needs to step down.
This appears to be laying the groundwork for Joe Biden to bow out of the race, although I'm a little bit skeptical of that, however, because I know that Joe Biden typically would refuse to give up power.
But it could be that he is being threatened in other ways that we don't yet fully understand.
Like, hey, Joe, we have all this evidence against you and, you know, we don't want to release it.
I'm talking about like the Democrat deep state.
We don't want to release this and embarrass you and your family and Hunter and everybody.
But if you don't step down, you know, some of this might get leaked.
But people like Joe Biden, who are lifetime crooks, they know that there's so much evidence of criminal behavior and corruption and payoffs and everything you can imagine.
Kickbacks, bribery fraud, international money laundering, wire fraud.
There's just reams of evidence of that, and the only thing that protects him is staying in power, wielding the power of the presidency, or previously as vice president, or previously as a senator, and so on.
He has been a power broker bully his entire life.
That's who he is, and he's very unlikely to step away from that power unless he is really, really seriously threatened in some credible way.
And that may be happening.
Now, I wonder what Democrats are thinking right now, given Trump's incredible popularity following the failed assassination attempt.
The betting sites have his odds of being elected anywhere from 70 to 80 percent.
CNN has put out almost a panic report saying that Trump could get 330 electoral votes and that Trump has multiple paths to victory.
You know, encompassing the swing states and so on, whereas Joe Biden, his paths to victory are very narrow at this point.
And it's even possible that Trump could win something like what happened with Reagan, you know, 49 out of 50 states or something.
I'm not that's not my prediction, but it's possible.
It's within the realm of possibility at this point.
So the Democrats are very much panicked and I know some of them have already resigned themselves to the idea that Trump is going to win the presidency and that they need to play defense on the House and Senate and just try to make sure that Trump doesn't have, you know,
a full House, House, Senate and the presidency at the same time as he did in his first administration from, well, from January of 2017 to essentially January of 2019.
Following the 2016 election, he had that.
But back then, there were too many rhinos and a bunch of neocons in power.
There are still some of those, but their numbers are far fewer.
Now, today, MAGA has taken over much of the Republican Party.
In other words, the Republican Party is really morphing into the MAGA Party.
I mean, look at who was not invited to speak at the RNC. You know, like Liz Cheney, for example, right?
Come on.
You know, former Speaker Paul Ryan and so on.
It's just a bunch of rhinos and nobody wants them.
In the Republican Party any longer.
So, in other words, a House plus Senate plus White House under Trump this time could be incredibly effective and could be very powerfully stacked with MAGA people, America First movement.
And there's all kinds of legislation that they're already talking about wanting to roll out in support of that, securing the borders, Opening up domestic energy production and pipelines and transportation, ending the LGBT indoctrination in our public schools, and so on.
All kinds of laws.
But the Democrats, of course, are going to do everything in their power to stop that, and there are some Democrats who think they could still maybe cheat enough to, quote, win this thing.
They do have an elaborate, extensive, well-funded cheating machine.
Joe Biden bragged about that in 2016 on camera, by the way.
But it is an elaborate cheating machine.
And so they could probably fudge the numbers by a significant margin in many states.
Now, that worked for them in 2020 when mostly Republicans weren't paying attention You know, in Georgia, when they said, oh, we have a water line break and we're going to send everybody home, you know, people thought that that was true, that that was being done in good faith.
And so they went home and they didn't realize that that's when all the vote rigging happened and all the ballots were rerun over and over again until they achieved the numbers that they needed to put Joe Biden on top.
That's why you had the steal.
You know, suddenly Biden's numbers were spiking.
But they're not going to be able to get away with that this time.
And they know that.
There have also been many election integrity laws passed at the state level across the country.
And in some states, they have disallowed unattended drop boxes where all the ballot stuffing or some of the ballot stuffing was taking place.
And there are a number of other measures that have been put in place.
And there's also more legal scrutiny this year.
A lot more legal scrutiny.
And think about the fact that Elon Musk has just pledged $45 million a month to a super PAC. I mean, a month!
To a super PAC that supports Trump.
And some of that money, I would imagine, I'm guessing...
Would go to election integrity efforts such as hiring attorneys to be watchful as these elections are taking place and to immediately challenge anything that looks suspicious.
So Democrats are going to have a much more difficult time cheating this time around.
That's why their plan was to kill Trump.
That's clearly, in my mind, based on what I know right now, I believe that Alejandro Mayorkas is the kingpin, the criminal mastermind behind this attempted assassination of Donald J. Trump.
They wanted to take him out.
And then they have a pretty good chance of winning the election.
Because they have a lot of cheating, and then, you know, Trump is the most popular candidate.
If it's not Trump, it's not going to have the same strong, you know, patriotic appeal to the American people.
So their effort to take out Trump, that was their best play, I mean, from their point of view.
Obviously a murderous, sick candidate.
Insane, you know, criminally insane play.
But in their view, that was their best play.
And that failed.
So now, they're panicked to figure out what they can do next.
And what do you think about other candidates if Joe Biden does say, if he drops out for medical reasons?
Says, well, the doctors came to me and they said that I need to step aside for the election.
I'm going to continue as president, you know, until Inauguration Day, but I need to step down from re-election.
Who would the Democrats put in there, do you think?
Who has a...
A chance at beating Trump.
We already know it's not Kamala.
We know it's not, you know, Hillary Clinton.
We know it's not even Big Mike or Michelle Obama.
Roger Stone has repeatedly said it's going to be Michelle Obama.
Other people, like Gerald Salenti, have said it's going to be Governor Newsom of California.
Who is younger, but my goodness, his track record of failures with the state of California is only going to haunt him.
It's hard to say, hey, I've been governor of this state and let me run the whole country into the ground.
You know, that's going to be a tough sell for a lot of voters.
So I tend to think that a Newsom candidacy is also going to end in failure.
In fact, according to recent polls, no matter who is put up against Donald J. Trump, Trump wins anyway, no matter who it is.
And so they probably can't stop Trump at the ballot box, or as Joe Biden says, at the battle box, which is what they actually just tried to do.
They tried to do it at the battle box.
It's just this guy, he's a never-ending gaffe machine.
But this means, of course, they're going to try something other than the ballot box.
And those are the options that we've already discussed here before.
Those are options where the Democrat deep state attempts to do things like cancel the election by creating a much larger problem.
You know, a nuclear war, for example.
Something truly insane.
Taking down the power grid with a false flag cyber attack.
Collapsing the banking system overnight, you know.
Good luck.
I think JP Morgan is not going to go along with that plan.
The deep state could also try area effect weapons.
We've talked about those possibilities.
They could roll out with the help of the FBI and some MKUltra operatives that they have on the shelf, ready to go, shrink-wrapped and bar-coded, you know.
They can send them like guided missiles into any event.
They can have truck bombs.
They can have nerve gas agents, chemical dispersion.
They can have all kinds of things.
And they probably will.
So I think that's their next most likely move is to try to redirect a bunch of money into Senate and House races.
Put in a candidate to replace Joe Biden who isn't totally embarrassing, someone who won't have a total wipeout, like somebody who could still win California, for example, which might be Newsom.
And then at the same time, all of that is happening.
I think they will try a couple more kill shots to try to murder, to try to assassinate Donald J. Trump.
And I also believe that those will fail.
And some of them may fail before they ever happen, right?
So there could be some of these events, and maybe this has already happened and we don't even know, but there could be events that have been stopped, that have never been made public, where we don't know anything about them.
And we never will because, you know, somebody got shot in the back alley or arrested or whatever or something got interdicted and, you know, it's done.
There is one other possibility that I want to mention here.
And you may recall that one of my sources informed me that there were surface-to-air missiles that had been smuggled into the United States across the open border by some enemy combatants posing as illegal immigrants or migrants.
Did you know that surface-to-air missiles can, in some cases, be modified to function as surface-to-surface missiles?
So, I don't happen to know what exact model of missile they're talking about here.
It is common knowledge that there are certain SAMs, as they're called, surface-to-air missiles, that can be modified, different guidance systems, or just sort of turned into dumb missiles that have no guidance at all.
They just point it at a target and launch it.
This could be used against Trump or a Trump vehicle or a Trump location where he is staying.
This is a very real risk that we need to be wary of and, of course, work to stop.
So keep that in mind and pray for Trump's safety and also pray for Joe Biden's safety.
We want Joe Biden to be safe and to stay in the race.
And we want this election to go off without a hitch, without any violence whatsoever, because I think if it's an honest, fair, and free election, then I think the Democrats go down in defeat.
Thank you for listening.
Mike Adams here at The Health Ranger, naturalnews.com, and brighteon.com.
All right, now...
Hope you enjoyed that special report.
Now, we've got additional information on this company called Austin Private Wealth LLC that made this massive bet.
You know, 12 million shares, a put option on the Donald J. Trump companies, which would have generated massive wealth if Trump had actually been killed.
So the majority of Austin Private Wealth LLC is held by George Soros-linked companies Vanguard and BlackRock.
And BlackRock, then, which would have generated quite a lot of profits from this, they happen to have the shooter, the so-called shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, in their video, a 2022 promotional video.
Hmm.
That's a bunch of weird coincidences starting to add up, right?
And it turns out that Austin Private Wealth LLC... It's connected to George H.W. Bush because the close associate of the Bush family, James Baker III, former Secretary of State, was the senior policy director of the firm since it was launched in 2006.
And this put option that it just put out there, 12 million shares against Donald Trump's company, This is the largest put option bet that the company has ever made in its entire existence, as far as I know.
And a lot of people are asking a lot of questions.
You start linking together BlackRock and George Soros and the Bush family and the CIA and assassinations and the history of JFK's assassination by the CIA and so on, folks.
And also 9-11.
Who took out the insurance policy on Building 7 and the Twin Towers?
Some people got paid billions of dollars from the insurance payouts Because they knew what was coming, and so they took out policies.
So this is not the first time that this has ever happened, and it's always to the benefit of the inner circle of globalist-oriented deep-state people, by the way.
This is not actually complicated.
This is the way it's routinely done.
And now the fact that they're trying to blame Iran for this, that's also classic Mossad type of tactic, to blame Iran for what you are doing yourself.
Like they try to kill Trump, make billions of dollars off of it potentially, and it fails.
Oh, Iran did it.
Yeah, go bomb Iran.
You know, like that seems to be what's going on.
Now, what else is interesting about this is that according to Shadow of Ezra, user on Twitter, it's a very, very popular account and has a lot of great information, They're saying not only did Austin Private Wealth short 12 million shares of Trump's stock before his attempted assassination, they also shorted 34 million shares of Rumble at exactly the same time.
Whoa.
Rumble.
So let me show you this screen capture I put together, also at Fintel.io, showing Rumble.
The symbol for Rumble is R-U-M, RUM. Rumble, the video sharing platform, right?
And as you can see in this picture, Austin Private Wealth LLC has a newly opened position on Friday, right before Trump's attempted assassination, Betting 34 million shares of Rumble, betting that it would fall.
So the exact same company that took out a 12 million share position against DJT also took out a 34 million share position against Rumble.
And of course, if Trump had been killed on Saturday, both of those positions would have earned massive profits because both of those companies would have fallen.
Rumble is...
In many ways, tied to Trump's success.
And I don't know all the financial details, but I do know that Rumble is obviously a publicly traded company.
And if Trump were to be killed, Rumble would have a massive fall and the DJT companies would absolutely collapse.
And again, somebody would have profited.
You know, somebody, some globalist.
Hmm, I wonder.
I wonder who.
Not at all suspicious, right?
We can just move on.
There's nothing to see here.
Move along, move along.
You know, so remember that Vanguard and BlackRock are the largest holders in Austin Private Wealth LLC. Interesting.
Alright, so that's kind of the summary of where we are here.
Some people knew this was coming.
Some people may have had foreknowledge of this.
We don't have proof of that, but There's a lot of suspicious, really edgy bets in the financial markets that were placed ahead of this event.
I mean, right ahead of it, right?
Would be a pretty incredible coincidence, wouldn't it, that so many people who hate Trump would stand to financially benefit from his assassination on Saturday because of financial bets that were placed on Friday?
Hmm.
Right.
So you're kind of getting the picture here, and of course the big cover-up, Secret Service saying, oh, the rooftop wasn't our responsibility, it was local cops, and the local cops saying, no, we were doing traffic duty.
You know, get your story straight.
We weren't covering that rooftop.
We were directing parking.
Okay?
So Secret Service is lying.
Kimberly Cheadles involved a cover-up.
Alejandro Mayorkas, massive cover-up.
He's probably the kingpin of this whole thing.
This was an attempted coup.
This was assassination.
It was going to forever destroy the future of America.
It was going to enslave America and earn billions of dollars for all the right people who hate America and who function as globalists.
See?
You see how their evil plans work?
But it was thwarted.
It was thwarted by the hand of God.
The timing of Trump's head.
That split second that he tilted his head and looked over, looked to the right, and there it goes.
Oh, got the earlobe, you know.
Somebody said that if a bullet hit the ear, that the entire ear would have been blown off.
That's not true at all.
Bullets could go through an earlobe.
Any combat veteran will tell you this.
There's plenty of colleagues they've had, you know, buddies out in the field.
Who've been shot by, let's say, AR-15 type of rifles or even AK-47s.
Typically, full metal jacket bullets can just go right through them.
It can go through a forearm, just like a clean pass all the way through.
It can go through their calf.
I mean, any combat medic will tell you this.
They've seen wounds like a pencil eraser-sized hole all the way cleanly through a guy's calf.
A bullet just went right through.
Now, it wasn't an expanding tip bullet.
It wasn't like a hunting round.
These are war bullets, typically full metal jacket.
But bullets can go right through an earlobe, right through a hand, right through a cheek of your mouth, and just leave a hole.
Happens all the time, folks.
All the time.
So there's nothing ballistically weird about Trump still having most of his ear, but there's definitely a hole in it.
He's got a holy ear at this point.
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Welcome to today's interview on Brighteon.com.
I'm Mike Adams, the founder of Brighteon.
And today we're joined by Gerald Salenti of the Trends Journal.
And as you know, I've interviewed Gerald several times this year.
He has been spot on with his predictions, his warnings, and also his advice for what people can do, at least in terms of research, to take precautions in order to avoid some of the wipeouts, the financial wipeouts that are coming right now.
And with gold and silver It's an honor to have you on sir.
It's an honor to be on with you, Mike, all that you do and the team.
And if we had, you know, more of you and more of us, this would be a different country.
That's true.
Peace is blacklisted.
You're not allowed to talk about it.
None of the mainstream media.
And on and on, you know, about natural healing.
I mean, here you're a guy, you know, about health and When the whole COVID war happened, never a word about building up your immune system or getting in good health.
Not a word.
No, it's incredible, too, that our government claims to want to protect our health, but then they'll send bombs to Israel to bomb women and children to death.
It's like, what?
What?
Oh, they're only sending 500-pound bombs now.
They said no more 2,000-pound bombs, no more 500-pound bombs.
Oh, that's merciful.
Yeah, and about the health of the nation, look at the clown that plays the assistant secretary of health or whatever they call it, that guy Rachel Levin.
Oh my goodness, yeah.
You're a gag girl, you don't know why he cut off to become who he is or she is.
And you look at this clown, this guy got more chins than Chinatown, and they're telling us about health.
Right.
You know, but again, you know, so thank you for all that you're doing.
And, you know, by the way, you know, when I was a young guy, they used to have this thing called the Ringling Brothers in Barnum and Bailey Circus.
They went out of business.
You know why?
You don't have to step right up, step right up and see the fat man and the tattooed lady.
Now they're everywhere.
Right.
Look what this country's declined into.
Look at the people who died of COVID. What is it, 2.6 pre-existing comorbidities?
According to the CDC, 60% of the 1 to 17-year-olds that were hospitalized for COVID were obese.
Right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, speaking of health, comment on Joe Biden's cognitive state, because, of course, we're all being told now that the corporate media is surprised to discover that Joe Biden can't speak and walk and he's not apparently running his administration.
They've been lying to us the whole time.
Obviously, what are your thoughts?
Well, again, look at the cover of the Trends Journal like two weeks before the election.
America's falling.
And we had these pictures of Biden falling everywhere.
Everywhere he's falling, falling, falling.
And again, the headlines in the cartoon news network, CNN, is about that the...
Democrats are, you know, very disappointed that they weren't told more about Biden's health.
They weren't told.
I mean, you've got to be deaf, dumb, and blind not to see this guy dead in front of your eyes.
I mean, we're a freak show right in front of your eyes.
Oh, and we weren't told.
We weren't, what are you talking about?
And again, it's a freak show everywhere.
Who's your favorite freak?
A little Katsuo Macron over there in France?
Oh, they got rid of Sunak and now they just put that little Stormer boy in, a little another jerk of nothing over there in the UK? How about throwing an F-A-U and a C in that UK, huh?
Oh, look at Germany.
You've got a love show.
One freak show after another.
And they're destroying the world in front of our eyes.
No, it's like a Western civilization suicide cult run amok.
But one of the safe havens, of course, is gold and silver.
And right now, gold and silver are spiking.
Obviously, in the past few months, there's been a lot of central bank purchasing.
But I'm wondering what your thoughts are on what's behind the rising gold and silver right now.
Because, you know, the retail sales of gold and silver are still not nearly as high as they were 15, 16 months ago when Silicon Valley Bank collapsed recently.
They're nowhere near that right now.
So what's behind the rise?
Behind the rise is the reality that they artificially propped up the global economy and invented inflation when they fought the COVID war.
Countless trillions of dollars pumped into the economies.
Government's going deep, deep, deeper into debt.
You're looking at the numbers.
They're around, what, $100 trillion of government debt?
United States, $35 trillion.
Then you have the wars going on, and gold is the best safe haven asset.
Always has been, always will be, as we see it.
Then the reality is that the dollar is only strong because of high interest rates.
And now the talk is they're going to be lowering interest rates.
The inflation numbers came in lower than expected.
That's a joke right there, that inflation is lower than expected.
I mean, they're just fabricating fairy tales at this point.
Well, you read the data from what they write.
They say, for example, that roughly food prices have only gone up on average about 1% from last year.
Wait.
What are they talking about?
They only went up 1%.
But how much did they go up to get where they were last year?
Here, this is very important.
When I was a young guy, young kid, we used to get a slice of pizza and a soda for 25 cents.
Wow.
And it was like that for years.
And that was in the Bronx?
Yeah, all over.
Bronx, you know, all in New York, the city.
You know, everywhere.
Wow.
And this is going, I'm going off in many years.
Then here's what happened.
You can look at the data.
When Eisenhower became president, yeah, yeah, people hate him for a lot of stuff that he did.
You know, he does anything perfect in life.
But he was against the military-industrial complex.
His farewell address, warning the American people that the military-industrial complex is robbing the nation of the genius of the scientists, whether the labor is in the future of the children.
This is a two-term president.
Supreme Command of the Allied Forces during World War II, and a five-star general.
Right?
Hated it.
He becomes president, but he cuts the defense budget.
Brings down the debt.
You look at the inflation rates from about 1954 to 1962.
It's going up a little bit like at 1%, maybe.
Yearly.
Then, again...
Anybody could do it.
Google up John F. Kennedy's speech to graduating students at Washington University, June 1963.
It's all about peace.
By the way, he says no country suffered more during World War II than the people in the Soviet Union.
He said over 20 million of them were killed.
The number's like 25 million.
And they lost their homes, their factories, their farms, the equivalent of Chicago East.
He said we should not go to war with them because if we do, it'll be an atomic war and life on Earth will be destroyed in 24 hours.
This is 1963.
June, July, August, September, October, November.
Poof!
Jack, you're dead.
They blew his brains out.
He ends his speech by saying America will never go to war again.
Now I'm going back to inflation.
LBJ, LB Jerkoff Johnson becomes the president.
Starts the Vietnam War eight months after Kennedy's killed.
Now look at your inflation rates.
That's why inflation skyrocketed in the 1970s.
I remember it well.
I was working for a corporation.
They gave everybody one year a 10% raise.
That's how high inflation was going up because of the wars.
So now the COVID war and the wars that America's never stopped keep driving up inflation higher and higher.
So now the line is that inflation's going down.
That means the Fed's going to lower interest rates.
The only reason the dollar's strong is because interest rates are high.
And you well know, the BRICS, Saudi Arabia, one country after another, they all want to get away from the dollar.
The lower interest rates go, the deeper the dollar falls.
This is the beginning of the death of the dollar, and the higher gold prices rise.
You look at one of our top trends for 2024, a golden year for gold.
When we made that forecast, gold was about $2,040 an ounce.
And as we speak, it's around $2,418 an ounce.
Yeah.
This is just the beginning.
Well said.
I'm glad you pointed that out.
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They don't teach it at Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Cambridge, Oxford.
They don't know how to do it.
You know, I have best-selling books, Trends 2000, Trend Tracking.
I've been at this a lot of years.
They don't know how to forecast trends.
Well, right.
And that's what's so valuable about...
Your publication, which comes out weekly.
And by the way, I mean, I joined up as well because I want to download all the previous PDFs from previous issues in previous years, which I did.
So, folks, you can go back and you can read what Gerald and his team put out earlier.
But I'm so impressed, Gerald, with the amount of research that you must put into this.
I mean, this is not a trivial thing.
This is not just copying and pasting a bunch of headlines.
You're doing tremendous research.
We go, for example, we talk about the Israel war.
We pay to go to Haaretz, the Israeli newspaper.
We go to other, we go to Jerusalem Post.
We go to the Times of Israel.
Want to hear what they're saying?
We go to IRNA, the Iranian news agency, ISNA, Iranian, Tehran Times.
Want to hear what they have to say?
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We go all over the world.
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So you know there's no BS in it.
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And when you go to all the different sites, you see who's lying the most.
Oh yeah, absolutely.
And also, when you get that international perspective, I've noticed this too, then you get all this news about what's happening with BRICS, the BRICS currency, the unit, the gold backing of the BRICS currency or international settlements.
And in fact, I want to ask you about this, Gerald.
You know, the dollar, the World Reserve currency of the dollar is failing, as we all well know.
And before that, it was the British pound sterling.
And throughout at least the last 600 years, the currency has always been controlled by one nation.
It was France, and then it was Spain, and it was Portugal.
And in each one of these cases, that nation had the power to counterfeit the currency, to inflate it, and then to weaponize it against the rest of the world.
And that happened again and again.
But this BRICS currency...
As I understand it, backed 40% by gold, will not be able to be counterfeited by any one nation.
This will be historic.
It will be the first currency that no single nation can print into oblivion and weaponize against the rest of the world.
What do you think about that, Gerald?
They've had enough of the United States' hegemony.
And the countries want to be free to be themselves.
Let's go back to what you just said.
You went back to the British pound, right?
It went bust.
And then the dollar came in.
What brought it down?
Oh, the sun never sets on the British Empire.
Right.
We slaughter people all over the world.
We don't stop with our wars.
The wars broke the country down.
The same exact thing has happened to America.
I just talked about what happened with inflation.
The wars have destroyed this country.
Look at the money we've sent to, depending on whose numbers you look at, to Ukraine.
It's up to almost like $175 billion.
As the roads are rotting in front of us.
I went down to city, you know, to hang out.
I used to live in the West Village.
And, you know, the West Village, like, was a, you know, now it's like a hot spot.
Never.
Yeah, I mean, in the 70s, you know, people were drugging out and stuff.
But never, never in the last, what, 30 years did I see guys like this on the stoops in the West Village.
Never before did I see it.
This is in the afternoon.
Shooting up.
Scaffolding.
Filled with homeless.
Why?
Filth all over the streets.
Garbage everywhere.
Walk from bleak all the way over to Broom Street.
What a freak show.
But we have all this money for the military industrial complex.
We have to keep fighting those wars.
We have to bring freedom and democracy around the world.
We have to keep shoving crap down your throat so you believe us as we're destroying your country.
The roads are crap.
The subway in New York's a night in Calcutta.
Amtrak?
How about Crap Track?
What a joke!
What a stupid freak joke!
Go around the world, do high-speed rail, go to Europe, and you've got this crap!
Oh, hey, how many trains derail this week and poison other little places around the country?
No, we're not going to talk about that.
We have no media to talk about that.
Oh, Justin Timberlake got pulled over for a DW. What are you telling me this crap for?
What are you telling me this crap for?
No, and the American people are about to wake up penniless.
In their own country.
And most of them won't realize what happened.
So, I mean, let's talk, Gerald, about the commercial real estate implosion that is underway right now.
Of course, it's New York, but it's also San Francisco.
It's also Chicago.
And then what that's going to do to especially the mid-level banks that made all of these commercial loans.
You know, it seems to me like this is a slow, rolling, but accelerating financial apocalypse scenario here.
What do you call it?
Go back to May of 2020, Trends Journal.
We warned about an office building bust when they were forcing people to stay home.
So what happened was this.
People were forced to stay home day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year.
And now they're saying to themselves, holy Christ, I'm getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to drive an hour and a half each way or commute.
Cost me money.
I hate it.
How the hell was I doing that?
I'm not going to do it anymore.
Now, let's say I'm the guy that has 10 floors in an office building.
Yes, stay home.
It's only coming a couple of days a week.
I never see anywhere you're sitting in these cubicles.
What am I getting all the space for?
So now, these are the numbers.
This is the kind of Crap that they put out in the mainstream media.
San Francisco AI boom can't stop real estate slide as office vacancies reach near record.
CNBC, July 3rd.
The vacancy rate for San Francisco's office space reached a fresh record at 34.5%.
Wait a minute.
34.5% of the buildings are vacant?
Wow.
That's bankruptcy numbers there.
Now you look at the total numbers in the United States, you're looking on average about 20% vacant.
Now let's look at the office occupancy rate, meaning how filled are they?
Go to Castle Systems with a K. 51%.
They're not going to renew their leases, and there's going to be massive defaults on loans.
And the loans, by the way, are interest rate only loans.
When they took these loans out years ago, they were half of what they are today.
So now they've got to pay double on the interest rate, and they don't have tenants anymore.
In the next, about a little over two years, some $4 trillion Worth of commercial real estate loans are coming due.
No one in the media is talking about the crisis.
No one.
One of our top trends for this year is banks go bust.
You mentioned what happened when the Silicon Con Man Valley went bust.
When Signature and First Republic went bust in 2023.
How gold prices spiked And the markets went way down.
That was three banks.
That's right.
That was just three banks.
Even at Federal Reserve data, they're saying some 22 banks.
And then you're looking at other data, almost to 300 banks.
This is going to crash the equity markets, and it's going to crash the global economy.
This is the panic of 08 on steroids.
So let me ask you a technical question then.
If interest rates are lowered by the Fed in the midst of all of this, while actual inflation, it continues to skyrocket in terms of food and consumer products and also insurance rates, as you know, people's commercial insurance, auto insurance, home insurance, through the roof, right?
Triple in some cases.
What is going to be the real-world effect as we have more job layoffs?
And you know, there's a restaurant apocalypse underway.
Restaurants are going out of business nationwide.
Walmart just said its sales are down.
Dollar stores are going bankrupt across the country.
You can't afford 99 cents.
You have an economic problem.
You know what I'm saying?
This does not look good, but...
I mean, where is this going to be in two years, regardless of who's in the White House?
When all else fails, they take you to war.
What followed the Great Depression?
World War II. People have no idea about this.
They tell everybody, Google up Franklin Roosevelt seizes Japanese assets.
Remember, Great Depression.
In July...
Of 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt seized all Japanese assets in America.
That's July, right?
August, September, October, November, December.
Along with the United Kingdom and the Dutch and the United States, they cut off 88% of Japanese imported oil.
They only import 100%.
And three quarters of their export trade.
You know why?
Those dirty Japanese invaded French Indochina.
History today, mainstream.
This is what I'm quoting from.
Wait a minute.
French Indochina?
What the hell are the French doing in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos?
Oh, we're stealing their tin, their rubber, rape pillage?
What are you talking about?
And those dirty Japanese took over Cameron Air Force Base.
Again, this is from history today.
That was only 800 miles away.
From the United States military base in the Philippines and the English base in Singapore.
What the hell are we doing in the Philippines?
Oh, and I forgot the sun never sets on the British Empire.
They could be anywhere they want.
I can't understand why Japan bombed Pearl Harbor.
I can't figure it out.
Go back to the dot-com bust.
Look what happened with the Nasdaq down.
70%?
Nation in a deep recession?
9-11.
9-11.
Forgot all about it.
We're going to get that guy, Osama Bin Laden, dead or alive.
90% of the people swallowed the crap coming out of the mouth of that stupid little jerk.
A little daddy's boy with a pair of cones smaller than a mothball.
George W. Bush.
They're going to take us to war.
That's going to be the answer.
So Joe Biden, just in the last 24 hours, of course, mumbling, he promised Zelensky billions more dollars for Ukraine.
And then also some air traffic records are showing a massive wave of military cargo planes flying into Tel Aviv.
To deliver military supplies to Netanyahu, who is, of course, threatening to invade Lebanon.
He's probably going to be in for a shock when he finds out how capable Hezbollah is.
But, of course, Israel wants to get America to fight Iran, right?
And the American leaders right now, the woke military leaders, are so incredibly stupid, they actually think that they can defeat Iran.
Somehow, just by bombing, you know, oil refineries or whatever, or they think they can defeat Russia with some old F-16s that, you know, were engineered in the 1970s and nobody in Ukraine knows how to fly except maybe a dozen pilots.
These people are so delusional, Gerald.
We're in fairytale land.
Look, it's been going on fast.
Look, I grew up during the Vietnam War.
America killed, what, over 3 million Vietnamese?
Oh, and you lost?
Yeah.
How about the Iraq war?
Oh, you lost out?
You lost the Afghan war?
You haven't won a war since World War II. Oh, you're going to defeat the Russians and the Germans?
You know, the cover of the magazine this week coming out, for next week, it's going to be Napoleon couldn't beat Russia.
Hitler couldn't beat Russia.
Remember, after 25 million Russians were killed, they were the first to defeat the Germans.
Mm-hmm.
Napoleon left Poland with 420,000 troops to attack Moscow.
He came back with 10,000.
But Biden says the sitcom comedian who played the piano with his penis, Zelensky, could defeat Russia.
How delusional could you be?
And again, Google up Zelensky playing the piano with his penis.
This is the clown boy, the former sitcom actor that's the president of Ukraine.
Yeah, well, he is.
He is an actor.
He's a comedian.
He's a clown.
But then again, in essence, Joe Biden's an actor, too, because he's not running his administration, right?
The people around him are running it.
But let me just reemphasize to our readers here about your journal.
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Okay.
That's great because she knows, she recognizes what you bring people, which is this analysis that's almost, it's almost outlawed in the media to tell the truth about anything.
And that's why people are going to get so burned by the events that are happening.
Talk to us about the level of just psychological shock that is coming for people who don't know what's happening.
What's going to happen on the economic front, you're going to...
Again, you look at the data.
And I just want to make this clear with the data.
I was reading to you before from CNBC where they said that 34.5% of the office buildings are vacant in San Francisco.
And this is, they go on to say, and 5%, it was 5% vacancy, quote, before the pandemic.
No, not before the pandemic.
Before a bunch of low-life pieces of scum called politicians locked down, made up all this fake crap, and destroyed the economy.
So what are people going to do to get back to it?
Just how they rewrite history by blaming all of this on, quote, the pandemic, they're blaming the increases in mental health disorders, in drug overdoses, and In the crime of these gangs going in and stealing stuff like crazy, like they never did before.
All these new things, walking down the street in New York and getting hit in the back of their head.
So what are the people going to do?
The people are going to suffer terribly financially, physically, mentally, and spiritually.
It is going to be the worst economic crisis ever written in America when the banks go bust.
There is no way even the Fed...
You go back to the panic of 08.
By the way, I took that domain name out in November 2007.
The Federal Reserve, according to the Levy Institute at Bard College, dumped in between 2007 and 2010.
$29 trillion into the banksters.
This is way worse than 2008 with the subprime housing crisis.
This is a commercial office building bust, the likes of which have never been experienced.
So, the people.
They're going to be in terrible shape.
You're going to see crime rise, violence go up, drug addiction skyrocket, and get ready for a false flag event that will unite the people around the government.
They do it all the time.
And all you have to do is look what happened in Israel.
Let's go back to To 2023, before October.
Netanyahu gets into office in December of 2022.
He tries to pass the Judiciary Reform Act.
39 weeks of major protests were going on in Israel.
Not my language, the language from the president of Israel, Isaac Herzog.
There's a civil war going on.
October 7th, Hamas attacks.
Civil war forgotten.
Yep.
Everything changes.
Everybody rallies behind Netanyahu.
You got it.
They're going to do the same thing in America.
Do you think they're going to do it before Election Day?
Yeah.
They'll do it before Election Day if Biden stays in.
If not, they're going to put in that guy, my bet is that little cut song, Gavin Newsom, that arrogant little daddy's boy who related through marriage to the Pelosi family.
And you look it up Wikipedia.
Oh, I started all these businesses.
My daddy was a lawyer for the Getty gang and the Gettys gave me all this money to start my business.
I'm better than you are!
An arrogant little piece of scum!
An arrogant little boy that destroyed California.
Oh, while he's partying up at the French Laundry, while you get back in your house, you're going to get arrested.
That little slime ball, and he'll win.
And here's why.
He has the look.
He knows how to play the game.
And there are so many people that hate Trump.
They'll go out and vote that wouldn't have gone out to vote if Biden ran.
That's my point, yes.
Okay, well, that's very worrisome to think that Newsom could be in charge of the whole country after what he's done in California.
But speaking of sort of the devastation, the economic and cultural devastation that's happened in California, I want to bring in this idea that the American people Never in their history, not any living American has ever lived through their own country being, let's say, bombed in the way that Europe has.
I mean, the Europeans, not too long ago, were living in bomb zones, right?
In America, the people have never seen that.
The American people have always believed that That the wars were over there.
That it didn't happen here.
It didn't happen to our cities.
And that we should always have the cheapest goods because we print the dollar and we export inflation and we import goods and services.
And that life should be easy for us.
And sadly, it's become kind of pathetic for a lot of the people.
They've become apathetic.
But it seems to me like the economic devastation that you're describing here We'll turn America's cities into something resembling bombed-out cities.
Yeah.
I'm telling you, it's already...
I'm up here in Kingston, New York, which is 90 miles north of the city on the Hudson River.
It was the third Dutch settlement, by the way, and the first capital of New York State.
People are flooding up here.
Home prices are skyrocketing since COVID. And now, with...
You know what the big change is?
Young people, little kids in strollers.
They don't want to raise them in the city anymore.
Oh, wow.
The city is a totally different place.
It's a totally different place.
How come Governor Hochul didn't solve that?
Another nobody.
Another nobody.
It's one nobody after another.
Oh, I forgot the clown before her was a little Andy Cuomo.
Oh, my daddy was Mario Cuomo.
Oh, and my brother's Chris Cuomo.
Yeah, you think they would have been anywhere if daddy wasn't governor?
Yeah, right.
But Gerald, I saw New York City Mayor Eric Adams, he announced the invention of the trash can recently.
Did you see that?
And he demonstrated how to use it, even.
They put a bag of trash in a trash can, and then he high-fived his staffers as if this is some breakthrough for New York City.
What's going on?
I'm telling you the filth.
You got crazy...
I was the assistant to the Secretary of the New York State Senate.
At 26 years old, I began my career working on major political campaigns in Westchester County.
The guy who worked, Angelo Martinelli, became the longest-running mayor of Yonkers.
And I worked on district attorney, so they were grooming me.
I designed and instructed a course that I taught at St.
John's University, American Politics and Campaign Technology, how to run political campaigns.
I was at the top at a young age.
And I quit.
To watch grown men grovel to suck their way up to the top ain't my trip.
The politicians are among the lowest pieces of crap that money buys.
You got it?
Money buys them.
Gutless little boys and girls.
You call one of these guys out man-to-man.
Oh, don't you talk to me like...
You little...
They...
I can't use the proper language, but in the Bronx we used to say they wouldn't know whether to pee or poo.
But we use different language than that when you call them out.
They're gutless little arrogant nobodies.
That's all they are.
And the people in government are bureau craps.
These are dumb people that can't get a job in the real world that suck into the political system.
And they run our lives.
Yeah, yeah.
And okay, so let me extend that thought then into another question of economics.
Electric vehicles.
So these politicians want to force us all to buy EVs.
And so they're now granting billions more dollars To Ford and Chevy and whoever to make more EVs while Audi in Europe is shutting down its manufacturer, Volkswagen, shutting down in Brussels because nobody wants the EVs.
And in America, you can't sell them.
I mean, the car dealers can't sell them.
Nobody wants them.
They're slow to charge.
They're heavy.
They're expensive to insure, everything.
But the government keeps sending billions to these car companies to keep making more EVs.
And this is all considered GDP. You know, think about it.
It's all GDP that counts.
And it's just they're just trying to shove crap down our throats that people don't organically want themselves.
It's an artificial economy.
Exactly.
And again, one of our top trends for 2024, easy go FU. I love it.
It's right there.
Yes.
And again, so what you're saying, I'm trying to say they're morons and imbeciles.
That's why they're doing this stuff.
These are the dumbest, arrogant people you could find anywhere.
You know, I took out the domain name when Trump ran the Presidential Reality Show.
That's all it is.
It's a reality show.
The whole thing.
Look at the little clowns.
Mike Johnson.
House Speaker of the House.
A Speaker of the House.
A little jerk of the nobody.
Mitch McConnell.
Chuckie Schumer.
Nancy Pelosi.
One little jerk after another.
And these are the people running our lives.
And they got it backwards.
They're supposed to be public servants.
We're the servants.
We're plantation workers of Slavelandia.
But that's what's critical about what you do and what I do is we work to help people navigate this and come out on top.
And it's extremely challenging.
But I just have to reemphasize to our audience.
I mean, they're well-informed, right?
Already well-informed.
They know about the petrodollar status.
They know about bricks.
They know about gold.
They know what's going on.
But you've got to have good information in order to make these decisions that can save you.
And again, I'm going to plug your journal.
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Just use discount code RANGER. You'll save 10%.
We do earn something on that as well, which helps support this platform.
But most importantly, it helps fund Gerald Salenti's operation there to continue to do the research and get the information out.
But, you know, if you think about, Gerald, let's say the percentage of the population that have access to the kind of information that you put together...
You know, it's less than 1%, right?
So 99% of the American people, whether they're conservative or liberal or rich or poor, 99% have no clue really what's coming.
And that includes the billionaire hedge fund managers, most of whom have been donating to Joe Biden and the George Clooney's who raised $30 million and now says that Biden doesn't know where he is.
You know, what a clown Clooney has become.
Clooney, yeah.
Clooney Clooney.
Another arrogant little boy.
His aunt was Rosemary Clooney.
You think he'd be anywhere if that wasn't the story?
Again, it's one big club, as George Carlin said, and you ain't in it.
That's right.
But my point is that people who don't have good information, they're going to be so blindsided by this that it's going to be almost...
A religious experience in a way, like getting slapped upside the face with a giant Bible or something.
It's like struck by lightning from God.
When they wake up and their bank is closed, talk about bank failures.
Are bank bail-ins and closures coming in the next two years?
Yes.
There's going to be, again, the office building bust is going to crash the banking system.
Again, in a little over two years, you have $4 trillion worth of commercial real estate loans coming.
Again, the vacancy numbers are there.
I'm not making them up.
So how are the owners of these buildings going to pay them off?
And the media is not reporting this.
I've heard some people have tried to repurpose commercial buildings into residential units and it doesn't work.
Buildings built in the last 50 years are non-convertible.
They're big empty spaces and nothings.
So they don't have the plumbing, they don't have infrastructure inside the building to divide it up into apartments.
It's cheaper to knock it down and rebuild it.
I see.
So they're non-convertible.
Okay.
An article came out last week in the New York Times, July 5th.
Political unrest worldwide is fueled by high prices and huge debt.
One of our top trends for 2020, that we do those in December, so it was for 2020, so it came out in 2019, for 2020, was New World Disorder.
Germany was just that far away from going into recession, 2019.
Everybody forgot about the repos going on, dumping money in, the markets were in real trouble, all the money going to the repo markets.
People don't remember the yellow vests in France taking to the streets week after week.
They don't remember the protests in Algeria that were going non-stop in South Africa, in India, the farmers.
All over the world, major protests.
People taking to the streets because of lack of basic living standards.
Crime, government corruption and violence.
Then, on Chinese Lunar New Year, the Year of the Rat, in January 2020, they declare the COVID war.
You can't go out!
Get back in your house!
No more protests, right?
Everybody forgot that.
Okay, now let's fast forward.
The inflation crisis, the COVID war, the damage that it's caused, has destroyed the lives and livelihoods of billions of people across the planet.
You are going to see more social unrest.
You think you got a bad immigration problem now?
It was terrible before.
The countries are rotted to hell.
People want to get the hell out of there.
It's going to be all over Europe and the United States, North America.
It's not going to stop.
Everything is only going to get worse.
The facts are all there.
The bank, again, the debt levels of the people, of the companies, and of the countries is beyond, beyond.
But governments, you know, these bureaucrats at the state and federal level, they think that they can just...
Yeah.
Print money to solve these problems.
So, for example, or demand higher wages.
I mean, think about in California, right?
The $20 an hour minimum wage for fast food workers.
What's happened?
Fast food restaurants are closing down everywhere, right?
They can't function.
Or the shoplifting that's, you know, legal in California.
So you can't have a retail store because you can't just have people walking through and stealing $950 at a time.
But even at the federal level, my question to you is, At what point does the dollar money printing madness actually stop because it becomes ineffectual?
I mean, yeah, they can print trillions, but the trillions don't really mean anything.
Or there's a default on the debt or a big failure of a treasury auction.
Nobody wants to buy this stuff anymore.
At what point do we see something like that, you think?
I think when the markets crash and the banks go bust.
And that's what's going to bring it down.
And they're going to keep printing money.
They're crazy.
They'll do anything they can.
They could care less about inflation heating the people.
They don't care.
They have their lives.
They live at the top.
It's nothing for them.
It's like a joke.
I remember when $100 really meant $100.
Now it's gone like that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So they don't care about inflation going up.
They will do anything they can to stay in power.
And to stay in power, they're going to keep printing more money and keep artificially propping things up.
But again, my greatest concern, World War III has already begun.
There's only going to be a false flag event that makes it official.
Again, going back to Pearl Harbor.
What I just talked about in Pearl Harbor, I didn't know until two years ago.
Is that right?
And I'm 78 years old.
Yeah, they pull the wool over our eyes on a number of things.
Yeah, I've had to relearn a lot of history, too.
Because we've been lied to about everything.
They're going to do something that's going to unite the people for war.
And this is going to be annihilation.
It's going to be nuclear war.
Again, go back to Israel.
They have, what do they call it, the Samson option?
Yeah.
If they lose, they go nuclear.
Right.
And they're going to lose.
Right.
They're going to lose.
Again, look what happened when you talked about Iran before.
When Israel killed the commander in the consulate in Damascus, Syria, and Iran retaliated by sending drones and missiles in, it cost Israel $1.3 billion, that's according to the Times of Israel, to shoot down that stuff, which they only didn't hit any heavy targets.
They just showed what they could do.
It cost Iran a tenth of that.
It depleted the Iron Dome and it showed that the Iron Dome doesn't really function because Iran was able to get multiple ballistic missiles on target through the Iron Dome.
And what did Israel do in retaliation?
Just about nothing.
Yeah, just about nothing.
Yeah, I think they flew a drone.
Yeah.
Or they had a drone flown that crashed into an airfield somewhere in Iran, and that drone didn't even take off from Israel, I think.
So, yeah.
Yeah, and just to make this clear, Israel, as you mentioned before, talking about increasing the war against Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Yeah.
And what did Iran say?
If you go into Lebanon, we'll wipe you out.
I think they used the term like they would be destroyed into oblivion or something like that.
Yeah.
And again, we're taught that Hezbollah are terrorists.
Oh, these are the Lebanese people that threw Israel out of Lebanon?
How dare they throw...
I forgot.
Maybe God gave them that land too.
It says so in the Torah, Section 8.
I mean, what are you telling me?
Terrorists?
You invade Vietnam, Iraq.
Militants are fighting militants?
You invade Iraq.
Militants invade Afghanistan.
There are militants and terrorists that are fighting against you?
So they're not going to beat Hezbollah because Hezbollah beat Israel.
They pushed them out.
Yeah, and they've become much more powerful since then, Hezbollah has.
Yeah, yeah.
Israel, we're almost out of time, but just commenting on that, the IDF... I mean, it has been decimated by Hamas, even.
The IDF soldiers are not that great.
There are 70,000 casualties, according to Colonel Douglas McGregor.
And that's dead and seriously wounded where they can't fight anymore.
Netanyahu covers up the numbers, doesn't report any of that.
They've got over a thousand armored vehicles and tanks that have been destroyed by Hamas, by Hamas fighters running up in sandals and shoving like an anti-tank mine, wedging it under the turret and running away.
And, you know, Allah Akbar, boom, and the tank's gone.
That takes some balls, Gerald.
That takes some balls, man.
What would you do if you had a country coming in, killing your mother, your aunts, your uncles, your family, destroying your place?
You'd do anything, too?
I mean, look at the genocide in front of everybody's eyes.
You're bombing the place to ruins.
Hamas is living in every school, in every hospital, in everybody's home.
I mean, who are you talking to?
Oh, they're dressed like Hamash.
You can tell they're in a tunnel.
They're destroying the place.
What would you do?
If they came in here, they'd blow their damn brains out.
Yeah, they have no other choice in Gaza but to try to defend where they live.
And look what's going on with all the land stealing they're doing under the name of settlements in violation of the Geneva Convention and Article 242 of the United Nations.
Well, they just stole like another what?
How many acres did they sell?
A whole bunch of land they just stole more of.
Settlements.
Yeah, right, right.
Well, it's going to get interesting.
That's the understatement of the year.
And Gerald, I just want to thank you for the work that you do, for the analysis that you bring us.
And I think that your information is helping a lot of people prepare for what's coming, those who are willing to take it seriously.
And I just want to, let me plug your website again, trendsjournal.com.
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So, Gerald, is there anything else you want to leave us with before we wrap this up?
You know, I'm trying to do everything I can, not only with the magazine, you know, that gives people history before it happens.
On September 28th, up here at the Four Corners of Freedom, it's the most historic Four Corners in America, the only place with pre-revolutionary war stone buildings on each corner.
And I own three of them.
And I bought them because of what they represent.
The seeds of democracy was sown here.
And we're having a peace and freedom rally on September 28th.
It's going to start at 3 o'clock.
You go to OccupyPeace, OccupyPeace.com.
Scott Ritter, Judge Napolitano, Max Blumenthal.
Wonderful, wonderful.
And others in music.
And Scott Ritter says we need to get a million people up here.
So that we could close down everything and get the word out that we're for peace.
Gerald, are you going to stream that?
Oh yeah, it'll be streamed.
Can we stream it with you?
Can we coordinate to stream it on Brighton?
I'd love to do that.
Are you kidding?
Yeah.
Okay, I'll have my producer reach out to you, your technical person, and we'll stream it with you and help bring more audience to it.
That sounds amazing.
We have to have peace.
I'm a warrior for the Prince of Peace.
I'm a fighter.
I taught close combat for many years.
You only attack the attacker.
You don't go after anybody else.
And that's all America does.
We're not being attacked.
We're not...
Our lives aren't being threatened.
How could they make up this crap that what happens in Israel, what happens in Ukraine is going to affect America?
You told me the same crap about the domino theory in Vietnam.
Dan Crenshaw said America would not exist without Israel.
It's like...
What?
What planet is he on?
No, Israel would not exist without America's continued funding in bombs and weapons.
He's got it all backwards, but then again...
We spent almost about a half a trillion dollars already feeding Israel since its establishment.
It's one of the richest, 33rd richest countries in the world.
We give them $3.8 billion a year in military munitions.
That's before this happened?
Before this, right.
Yeah.
Now it's much higher.
And again, it's the same model of war.
And this model, history has shown, this model burns itself out.
Just like the Roman Empire or the British Empire.
And history is repeating itself right now.
And there's nothing that can stop this.
Because the arrogance, the ineptitude among the leadership, the stupidity, the unwillingness to learn from history.
So we're just going to repeat it again.
And God help all of us.
Well, we are doing what you can to change it, and I'm doing what I can, and everybody has to do what they can.
Remember, it does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brush fires of freedom in the minds of men, said Samuel Adams.
And what, less than 5% of the Americans supported the revolution.
Yeah, good point.
All right, we'll wrap it up there, Gerald.
Thank you so much for joining me today.
Please stand by as I conclude this.
Thank all of you for watching today.
Again, Gerald Salenti at TrendsJournal.com.
You can also follow him on Twitter.
Gerald, what's your handle on Twitter?
Gerald Salenti.
Just Joe Celente.
Okay.
C-E-L-E-N-T-E, for those of you wondering how to spell it.
And thank you for watching today.
I'm Mike Adams of brighttown.com.
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God bless you all.
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