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July 18, 2024 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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Gerald Celente interviewed by Mike Adams on economic turmoil coming for America...
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Welcome to today's interview on brightiana.com.
I'm Mike Adams, the founder of Brightiana.
Today we're joined by Gerald Salenti of the Trend 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 spiking right now and commercial real estate headed for the dumpster, we've got to tune in and listen to what Gerald Salenti has to say.
So welcome, Mr. Salenti, to the show today.
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.
I mean, 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.
But again, so thank you for all that you're doing.
By the way, 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.
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.
Everybody'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 mean weren't told.
And 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?
Little Cazzo 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 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 rise in 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.
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.
What are they talking about?
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, a 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, 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.
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 a 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.
And I want to remind our viewers here about your journal, Trends Journal.
And if you go to TrendsJournal.com, I know, Gerald, your team has extended a discount to our viewers.
If they use discount code RANGER, then they'll get 10% off the subscription.
And it's a couple of bucks a week is all it is.
$2.50 a week.
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, in this world...
No ads.
Right.
And what do we average?
About 200 pages.
And you can listen to it.
And, of course, it's a magazine.
You know, we talk about high-tech science, AI, technocracy, economics, a whole load of geopolitics.
You read what you want to read.
You know, if you don't want to read it all.
But we're giving people what journalism used to be.
Gone.
They don't use trend forecasting, by the way.
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 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?
We go to Al Jazeera.
We go all over the world.
So we hear what everybody's saying and we say, this is what they're reporting.
This is our trends analysis and this is our trend forecasts.
So you know there's no BS in it.
We're giving you an analysis of what they're reporting.
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'll 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...
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 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.
We'll 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 you 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.
If 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 what?
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, what was it, 70%?
Nation in a deep recession?
9-11.
9-11.
Forgot all about it.
We're going to get that guy who's son of been alive and 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, 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.
It's at TrendsJournal.com.
And folks, if you want to know what's coming, if you want to know the trends that are going to affect you and your finances, go to TrendsJournal.com.
I'll ask my editor to put a screenshot in here.
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And use discount code Ranger.
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This will be the best money that you've ever spent.
I subscribe myself.
I didn't even waste time.
Like, Gerald, I didn't ask you for a free subscription.
I just went on and signed up and did it myself because I needed it now.
I did that.
And even my mom, by the way, my mom loves you.
She watches your videos, and she's like, you know, I mean, she's almost 80, and she's sharp as a tack, and she's there.
We've got to get more of Gerald Salenti on, Mike.
Get Gerald on, you know?
Okay.
That's great because she recognizes what you bring people, which is this analysis that'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, in 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.
He 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, 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 mouth.
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 languages 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, 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 are 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 they're at, 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...
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 like, it's gone like that.
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.
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 him 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, Allahu 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, 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.
Let me plug your website again, trendsjournal.com.
Go there, check out what he's got, check out the subscription.
Again, 10% off, discount code RANGER. It's a couple of bucks a week, okay?
It's nothing.
And you will be on top of the game in terms of staying informed, and you'll be able to navigate this much better.
So, Gerald, is there anything else you want to leave us with before we wrap this up?
Yeah, I'm trying to do everything I can, not only with the magazine 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 were 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.
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