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BBN, Aug 15, 2024 – THE CHURCH HAS FALLEN...

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	Welcome to Brighton Broadcast News for Thursday, August 15th, 2024.
	I'm Mike Adams.
	Thank you for joining me today.
	And we're going to go off format today because I've got something critically important, very disturbing to share with you.
	And I think a pretty big announcement as a result because I've prayed about this a lot over the last several hours and more.
	And so let me just lay it out for you here.
	The church has fallen.
	And today I am calling out Amir Sarfati and Pastor Jack Hibbs.
	And I am weeping today.
	I am weeping like Jeremiah.
	I have such tears for what I have come to learn about what the church has become today.
	It's barely been two weeks since I began putting out a new sermon each day.
	I've finished recording sermon number 19 now, but I've only published, I believe, 16 or 17 of them.
	And if you followed any of these sermons, you know a couple of things.
	You know, number one, I've taken my background in food science, nutrition, botanicals, natural medicine, and I have felt called upon to express the miracles of God through Mother Nature, through what I call God's molecules, which are these through what I call God's molecules, which are these natural healing molecules in foods and plants and herbs and sprouts and all the abundance that God gives us and the abundance that God promised the Israelites with the pomegranates and the vines and the grain.
	and the living waters and everything else.
	It all speaks to these natural healing molecules in food and medicine.
	And as I have a background in science, I am a published scientist.
	I run a food science lab.
	I have seen the miracles of God every day in the science lab.
	And I have found myself in awe at what God has given us.
	And I felt it placed upon me.
	To go through the foods and the herbs of the Bible and to share these incredible practical realizations with the world in a way that I haven't seen anybody else do.
	I haven't seen a church talk about nutrition.
	Mostly I've seen churches feed their flocks a bunch of processed crap, which is not in alignment with the teachings of Christ.
	And so I just finished recording a sermon, I think it was yesterday, about the pomegranate, the history of the pomegranate.
	Of course, in the Old Testament, it's used as a dye, it's used as medicine, and as a symbol of abundance, and also it's used in other forms of medicine such as Ayurvedic medicine, and, well, traditional Chinese medicine, and so on.
	The pomegranate is an amazing gift from God.
	And so I've taken it upon myself to share this angle because I've been called.
	I've been pulled into teaching the Word of God.
	This is something that has been tugging on me for over a decade.
	I've already shared with you that my great-grandfather was a pastor, an ordained minister, I should say, with the Assembly of God Church.
	And I have his Bible, his last Bible, which was given to him in 1959.
	And it's one of my most treasured items.
	I would say it's the most treasured item from my family.
	And so I've recorded these sermons, and I've been putting them out there.
	And we've covered some different chapters of Proverbs, Mark, Job, Galatians, Corinthians, Timothy, 1 Timothy, and then 2 Corinthians, in addition to 1 Corinthians, Matthew, Deuteronomy, Leviticus, and so on.
	Numbers, Jeremiah, oh boy, we're into Jeremiah now.
	How appropriate, the weeping prophet.
	Ephesians, and so on.
	And the feedback I keep getting from people is very, very positive.
	This is a fresh perspective.
	I never realized this before.
	I never saw these connections before.
	Thank you for bringing me closer to the teachings of God and Christ and the disciples through food and nutrition.
	So I've had a lot of very positive, positive feedback.
	The second thing to note about my sermons is that never once, not once in any of these sermons, do you hear me say, nor have you ever heard me say in any podcast, that Jewish people are inferior people, or that they deserve to be destroyed, or that Israel deserves to be destroyed, or anything that could be remotely labeled anti-Semitic.
	In fact, you've heard me say over and over and over again that all people on this earth are children of God.
	And I mean all.
	Unlike what a lot of the Christian churches are teaching now, which is that they believe it's okay to murder certain people, i.e.
	Palestinians or Muslims or what have you, I reject that because I am not a wicked person.
	I am a person of universal love for all of God's children.
	And because I take what the Bible says seriously, as I read and reread and understand each chapter, each verse, each book, I gain, I believe, I hope, I pray, a deeper understanding of what the Bible is teaching us.
	And it's not difficult to see that, especially the New Testament, the Bible teaches us to love all God's children.
	It doesn't mean that we can't exercise discernment against an individual who may be a thief or an individual who may be engaged in acts of violence or even a gang, a group of people who are engaged in acts of violence or rape or what have you, destruction.
	But we cannot judge entire ethnicities in a negative light and be reconciled with the teachings of Christ.
	Those two cannot coexist.
	And so here I am, again, a little over two weeks into teaching these sermons and sharing this information and really kind of expecting to get more positive feedback, possibly from some of the other churches out there.
	And I have received a lot.
	But what I got in the last day or so was an attack by Amir Sarfati.
	Who is a frequent speaker with Jack Hibbs.
	And Amir is one of these people who hides behind the label of the Christian church or Judaism in order to call for murder.
	Murder of people that he despises because out of his dark heart he speaks with the fiery darts of wickedness and false witness against others.
	And so he accuses me of being anti-Semitic.
	Can't point to anything I've said that is anti-Semitic, other than, let's stop bombing women and children in Gaza.
	Which I've said repeatedly hundreds of times, if not more.
	And I weep for people like Amir Tsarfati, because you see, you know, I serve God, not Mossad.
	I don't know who Amir serves, but it isn't God.
	So I weep for his soul.
	I weep for what he has become, but also what the church has become, because he was attacking me as part of some kind of YouTube broadcast.
	I think it was called anti-Semitism in the church, and there were some other people there.
	I don't recall all their names, but I did call them out on Twitter, and they named me.
	They named me as being an anti-Semite, and it is bearing false witness It is blasphemous.
	It is slanderous.
	It is deceptive.
	It is a reflection of the work of Satan, not of God, to attack me as someone who merely calls for universal peace.
	Let us stop bombing the children.
	I say stop bombing the women in Gaza.
	Stop bombing, stop shooting the doctors in the hospitals.
	stop assassinating the food aid workers who are trying to bring food supply to the Gazans.
	And then when I look around at too many examples of the Christian church or the Jewish organizations, although for the record, most Jews around the world oppose what Netanyahu is doing, for the record, by the way.
	So I am not anti-Jewish, never have been, never will be, have nothing against people who are Jewish, have nothing against people who are Islam, nothing against people who are Christians or Catholics.
	What I'm opposed to is Satanism, expressed through people who call for violence and death and murder and destruction.
	And suffering and torture and sodomy in Israel's prisons inflicted upon the Palestinian prisoners and so on.
	And when I hear people like Amir Tsarfati attacking me as anti-Semitism in the church, it tells me two things.
	It tells me, number one, that in just two weeks of me releasing sermons, I am now considered part of the church.
	Imagine...
	How interesting that is.
	They consider me the church.
	Now, I haven't even made it through all of Proverbs yet.
	There's a lot more to come.
	But I'll take that as a compliment.
	You consider me to be the church?
	I'll take that as a compliment.
	But then they say that if we don't support violence against women and children and civilians in Gaza...
	That we are evil people in the church.
	That we are anti-Semites in the church.
	And I think Amir Safarti has never even read the Old Testament for a couple of reasons.
	Number one, if he did, he would know that the real Semites in the Middle East are the Palestinians who live in Gaza or who live in Jordan or who live in the West Bank.
	The real Semites are those people.
	Netanyahu is an imposter from Europe.
	Change his name.
	He's an imposter.
	He's not even really a Jew.
	And the second thing you would know if you read anything from Leviticus or Exodus or Numbers or Deuteronomy, I mean, just read the teachings that people of Jewish faith, what they study, if you read any of that, you would know that the greatest critic of Israel was God.
	Not me.
	It was God himself.
	How many times did God warn the Israelites that you must obey my commandments?
	He laid down a second set of laws in Deuteronomy.
	And he warned the Israelites, how dare you make your own law?
	How dare you forget that your abundance comes from me, comes through me?
	If you turn against me and you embrace your wicked ways, which includes, of course, moral wickedness, adultery, fornication, sodomy, but also violence, murder, mayhem, death, war, conquering, all of these things happen.
	If you exhibit those behaviors, God promised again and again that he will destroy your kingdom.
	And he did.
	He brought in the armies that destroyed the kingdom of Judah.
	He destroyed Jerusalem.
	I mean...
	But then he always gave them a chance, too.
	Because before that, right, he brought them Moses and said, let's lead you out of captivity.
	Let's lead you through the wilderness.
	And what did the Israelites do?
	They complained.
	Nothing but complaining.
	Oh, not more manna.
	Oh, please.
	But no one was more disgusted with the wickedness of the Israelites than God himself.
	And again, as expressed through Jeremiah, with great sorrow and Why have my people become so wicked?
	Why have they turned against the teachings of God?
	Why have they forfeit all of this abundance that's promised to them?
	Not just physical.
	I'm talking about food, water, family, joy, land, spiritual purpose.
	These real treasures of the heavens.
	Not the gems and the minerals, the gold and the silver.
	And the robes, the flowing robes with the golden threads.
	I'm not talking about that.
	I'm talking about real wealth.
	But the Israelites turned against God again and again.
	And God had to keep teaching them a lesson and they never quite learned it, did they?
	But then again, neither has humanity, right?
	So we are stuck in this cycle of people turning against God again and again.
	And I'm sad to say that I'm seeing elements of the Christian church I've said it's very simple.
	Read the scripture.
	Read it.
	You don't have to rely on me to interpret.
	I'm just pointing out a lot of interesting things about foods and abundance and spiritual law.
	And, you know, herbs and God's molecules, as I call them.
	Lots of things.
	We talked about apricots and apples in one.
	I'm going to do one on wormwood and artemisinin, by the way, because God gave us cures for COVID. I don't know if you knew that, but he did.
	And you don't need to go to a pharmacy.
	You don't need to pay a doctor.
	You don't need a doctor's permission.
	God has already given you permission to be healed.
	If we only read the book...
	It's all in there.
	And that's all I'm pointing out is, hey, look at this.
	Look at this.
	Connect these dots.
	Here we go.
	And I think that this can be, and I say this humbly because I'm a student of Scripture and simultaneously a teacher of the parts that I bring in from my other life, which is food, science, and nutrition.
	But I'm a student of Scripture.
	I'm just trying to bring these together to share with people and It's valuable.
	A lot of people are learning a lot of things that they did not know.
	Nowhere in any of these scriptures have I said that Jews are bad.
	Nor would I ever.
	So to be labeled an antisemite is wildly, wildly dishonest.
	It is slanderous.
	And it is characteristic of who Amir Sarfati, I think I'm pronouncing his name correctly, Amir Sarfati, that's who he is.
	He wears his dark heart on his sleeve when he attacks those of us who are teaching health, nutrition, and peace for all of God's children.
	And clearly he has not read the book, or if he has, he holds it in disdain.
	Because in promoting Israel's genocide, mass death, murder, and destruction of so many innocent women and children and elderly and hospital patients and newborn babies, all of it, he envies the oppressor, doesn't he?
	He envies the oppressor, the colonizer, the apartheid of the Middle East, which is Israel today.
	And any church that envies the oppressor is not qualified to teach the Word of God.
	Very simply stated.
	I don't have to state that with my authority.
	That is God's authority.
	It's also written in Proverbs, by the way.
	Proverbs 3, verse 31.
	Do not envy the oppressor and choose none of his ways.
	For the perverse person is an abomination to the Lord.
	But his secret counsel is with the upright.
	The curse of the Lord is on the house of the wicked.
	He says, but he blesses the home of the just.
	Surely he scorns the scornful, but gives grace to the humble.
	The wise shall inherit glory, but shame shall be the legacy of fools.
	And yet I believe people like Amir Tsafarti are incapable of even shame.
	And that's spoken about in other verses of the Bible.
	Incapable of recognizing what a shameful person he is.
	Legacy of fools.
	The church has fallen when the church worships death and destruction and advocates for the ways of the oppressor against those who are oppressed.
	Now, for the record, none of this excuses the actions of the Hamas militants on October 7th, but the response from Israel now slaughtering at least 40,000 civilians, and by some but the response from Israel now slaughtering at least 40,000 civilians, and by some estimates, Some estimate much higher in the Lancet, and so on.
	I don't know that I believe all the Lancet's numbers, but Israel leveled most of the surface of Gaza, where civilians slept, where they prayed, where they studied.
	Israel bombed the mosques, the apartment buildings, The universities, the water treatment plants, the refugee camps, and the escape routes.
	Israel did so deliberately.
	They launched missiles at the UN food aid workers that were bringing sustenance.
	Israel committed deliberate, repeated murder of a people knowing that That those women and children and elderly and professors and doctors, they were not Hamas.
	Israel knew that, but they wanted to destroy an entire people.
	And I dare say to Amir Safarti and to Pastor Jack Hibbs, who I do respect, and I'll get to that in a moment, to both of you, if you condone Israel's actions in Gaza, you are not men of God.
	You are not qualified to teach the word of Christ.
	And I say that as someone who has barely begun to teach it.
	But I can read.
	And I've walked with God for decades.
	And I've had angels speak to me and save my life.
	And I'm nothing special.
	I'm an everyday person who can read the book and read that what you are doing is evil.
	You should be ashamed of yourself.
	And this is the greatest test that our church faces in this time right now, our Christian church.
	It's not the test of whether we shall save America, although that is a very important test, no doubt.
	And we must rely on, I think, the resurrection of the church, the remnant of the church to save this nation.
	Maybe I'll get to that here.
	But if our church doesn't stand for righteousness, then what are we saving?
	If our church can't say it is wrong to bomb women and children, that it is wrong to use snipers to assassinate doctors, that it is wrong to invade hospitals with soldiers dressed like medics pretending to be healers but then carrying out murder in the hospitals.
	If we can't say that that is wrong, for Israel to bomb and destroy or block the food aid trucks to cause famine, If we can't stand up as a church and say that that is wrong, then in the eyes of God, we are nothing but a legacy of fools.
	In the eyes of God, this isn't me condemning anybody.
	This is what God spells out.
	Again and again, Proverbs 1.
	Verse 23, turn at my rebuke.
	Surely I will pour out my spirit on you.
	I will make my words known to you because I have called and you refused.
	I have stretched out my hand and no one regarded because you disdained all my counsel and would have none of my rebuke.
	In other words, you refused to correct your behavior.
	You refused to correct yourself and turn back to the word of God and the law of God.
	And he continues, verse 26, I also will laugh at your calamity.
	I will mock when your terror comes.
	When your terror comes like a storm and your destruction comes like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come upon you, then they will call on me, but I will not answer.
	They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the Lord.
	They would have none of my counsel and despise my every rebuke.
	Therefore they shall eat the fruit of their own way.
	Or as we would say in modern times, you get to eat your own dog food.
	You push death and genocide and destruction.
	God says, do not be surprised when that comes to you because you have brought it upon yourself.
	And one of my sermons is about spiritual cause and effect.
	One of the beautiful things about God's actions in the Old Testament, in my view, is that God says to the people, if you are wicked, you bring the wickedness upon yourself.
	It's not me.
	It's not even me.
	I'm not even intervening, the Lord says.
	I mean, I'm paraphrasing, but he says this again and again.
	It's you!
	You shall eat the fruit of your own way, and continuing in verse 31, and be filled to the full with their own fancies, for the turning away of the simple will slay them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them.
	Take these words to heart, the words penned by Solomon, the king of Israel, through the inspiration of God.
	I may not be an academic expert of the Bible, but But I can read.
	And I know what words mean.
	I have lived my life reading and teaching words, words of health, words of abundance, words of universal dignity and respect for all people.
	If you listen to everything I've ever said, you'll never hear me say that black people are bad or Muslim people are bad or white people are bad.
	Because I believe that all lives matter.
	And I say that in the most universal sense.
	And to those who have been turned into wickedness towards Islam, to have hatred toward Islam, God would call you fools.
	And Christ would call you fools, especially for not opening the church to every child of God across the planet.
	And it saddens me to see the church now falling so far from grace.
	And how many churches pushed the jabs?
	How many churches were complicit in the murder of their own congregations?
	How many?
	Great many.
	How many churches are pushing drag queen story time?
	How many churches are putting their children on a path of grooming and pedophilia?
	Obviously, those churches serve Satan.
	Their steeples are temples of Luciferianism.
	They dare not teach the word of God because God has forsaken them.
	They write their own new laws because they reject the laws of God.
	This is very much like what Netanyahu and Israel is doing today, writing their own laws, saying, well, God told us we can murder, we can rape, we can torture.
	That's what Gavir says and Netanyahu and Gallant and the whole lot of them.
	And Amir Sarfati appears to endorse all of that.
	I'm beyond disgust.
	I am weeping.
	I am saddened.
	I don't feel nauseated.
	I feel like crying.
	How has humanity fallen so far?
	And especially those...
	Born out of the legacy of Israel, how could you turn against the teachings of God in such a profound, malicious manner?
	When the Word is right there, all you have to do is open up and read.
	And I get it.
	Some of the chapters of the Old Testament are crazy long.
	And there's a lot of poetry.
	Isn't it worth reading it before you start dropping bombs on people?
	Maybe you'll find some words of advice in there.
	Like, don't slaughter your neighbors.
	Now, occasionally, God did use militant forces to slaughter Jerusalem, for example.
	God used evil to destroy evil because of what Jerusalem had become.
	Wicked in its ways, sexual perversion, moral perversion, total disgust with God, rejection of his teachings, the worshipping of false idols and the gods of Rome, and banging the prostitutes in the Roman temples, or whatever.
	You know, all of this kind of stuff went on.
	Well, maybe that was before the time of the Roman god temples.
	But anyway, you get the idea.
	God will use forces of the military to destroy evil people, but that is his calling, not ours.
	We have no such right as children of God.
	We have no such right.
	God did not give to us the authority to command the genocide of an entire group of people.
	We have no such authority.
	And any person, pastor, minister, or otherwise, who calls for the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians is an agent of Satan.
	And any church that goes along with that is a church to Satan.
	It is a temple to Satan.
	There are no exceptions to this rule.
	Because mass murder cannot be reconciled with the teachings of the book and the words of the living God.
	I've been reading a lot of scripture.
	I haven't found any section that says, oh, and if you are Israel, you may murder everybody in sight using any means necessary over all time, and you alone have the right to inherit the earth and kill everybody who gets in your way.
	I have not seen such a passage.
	If you have, please let me know.
	So let me shift gears here and just kind of summarize what we're saying, which is that to oppose the mass bombing of women and children is not anti-Semitic, And to advocate, though, to advocate the bombing of women and children is Antichrist.
	That is clearly Antichrist.
	And I speak with the heart of someone who has great compassion and empathy for fellow human beings.
	And you know, if you've heard me for long, you know I have empathy for animals.
	I'm very, very accomplished with rifles, long-range target rifles, but I do not shoot animals.
	I'm not a hunter.
	In fact, I shared with you the story a couple years ago that I heard two wild hogs fighting at my ranch, and I grabbed my AR-15 and went out there, and the AR-15's got a light on the front of it.
	And I went out there, and I saw some rustling in the tall grass, and I knew, yeah, there's a wild hog out there.
	And I'm running along...
	The road, or the driveway road, and then out of the grass comes a wild hog.
	It must have been maybe 200 pounds.
	I don't know.
	It's a pretty good-sized wild hog with the tusks and everything.
	And it stops, and I have my rifle pointed right at it because of the light.
	I have the light on him.
	And he stops, looks at me.
	I'm looking at him.
	I've got my rifle on him.
	And I said, Hello, piggy!
	And he goes, turns around and runs back into the grass.
	Did I shoot the wild hog?
	No.
	Never shot a wild hog.
	I have no desire to kill.
	Not an animal.
	Not a person.
	That's for sure.
	In my heart, I want to see all conscious beings.
	Which includes, obviously, all human beings, but also all animals.
	And did you know that trees are, in their own way, conscious beings as well?
	Did you know all kinds of creatures and plants and animals across this earth are blessed with consciousness?
	They have a first-person perspective.
	They experience their life in the way that we experience our lives.
	And we're all blessed by God to have that gift of life and that gift of consciousness that And that's why, for me personally, I cannot kill another animal.
	Could I shoot and kill somebody that was attacking my family or my home?
	Absolutely.
	Yes, I could.
	I understand Israel killing the Hamas attackers on that day.
	But if someone came to my ranch and was trying to hurt me and I shot them, I wouldn't then go to their home and kill all their family members.
	That's what Israel's doing.
	And that is not self-defense.
	And anyone arguing self-defense is being disingenuous.
	It doesn't pass the sniff test.
	It cannot be reconciled with the idea of self-defense.
	If you live next to a family and the family has one bad person who comes over and kills your cat, Does that mean you can go set the whole house on fire?
	Burn up all the family members and their babies?
	Burn their house down?
	Israel believes it can.
	And apparently the supporters of Israel also believe that they have the right to do that.
	And that's flat out wrong.
	Flat out wrong.
	And the thing is, it's not even debatable.
	It's very clear.
	The moral guidelines here are not difficult to navigate.
	You don't mass murder your neighbors.
	You don't kill innocent women and children.
	You don't bomb hospitals and universities and apartment complexes and then say, like Netanyahu said before Congress, which was the shame of this nation, he said, we killed hardly any civilians.
	So, Mr.
	Netanyahu, what about at least the 40,000 dead bodies that have been recovered today?
	Do they not count?
	In his mind, they don't because, you see, he and people like him, they don't see Palestinians as human beings.
	And there's the source of the problem.
	Sometimes people ask me, well, what's your solution for the Middle East?
	What's the solution for Israel?
	I mean, I've heard people say, if you don't slaughter all the Palestinians, then they're just going to keep attacking.
	Have you ever thought that maybe the fact that you're treating them like animals might have something to do with the And the Palestinians have essentially no human rights.
	This is not sustainable.
	It has never been sustainable in human history.
	Even when the British occupied India, for example, eventually the Indians threw off the occupying British.
	Or when the apartheid forces occupied South Africa, eventually, right, the occupying forces were thrown off.
	The same thing is going to happen with Israel.
	Because it's not sustainable...
	To have a society structured on the idea that one class of people is ordained by God with the right to kill and murder and rape and steal and pillage and take everybody's land and farms.
	And then this other group of people is relegated to be subhuman animals that you have the right to murder and slaughter and rape and organ harvest from them.
	That situation, which describes modern day Israel, is evil and it's unsustainable.
	And again, any person who supports that is complicit in evil.
	There's no debate.
	Most of the attempts to defend Israel's actions in this case are rooted in denial.
	Like Netanyahu, we didn't kill any civilians, he said.
	Well, what about the 40,000 dead bodies that have been recovered?
	He would say, well, those were all Hamas.
	See, so it's this intellectual dishonesty.
	Like, well, what about the three-year-old children whose legs and limbs were blown off?
	Well, they were Hamas too, Netanyahu would say.
	And so, he's a man of wickedness and lies.
	A three-year-old, a six-year-old child.
	All the children, a pregnant woman, an elderly woman, on dialysis machines at the hospital.
	She's not Hamas.
	So the arguments are dishonest.
	Those who support this lack morality and cannot count themselves among those who have been blessed with the grace of God.
	It's very clear, very simple.
	And importantly, if the church will not state these obvious truths...
	That all people on this planet are children of God.
	That all humans have the right to life.
	And remember, these are the same churches that say we have to save children from abortion because those unborn babies have the right to live, but they will say, bomb the children in Gaza.
	Those babies don't have the right to live.
	I thought you were pro-life.
	Oh, so you're not pro-life for all the lives.
	You're pro-life over here and then you're pro-death over there.
	Well, that seems to be the position of Amir Sarfati.
	Pro-life and then pro-death.
	Forked tongue.
	Split heart.
	Broken spirit.
	Broken covenant.
	You cannot be a man of God when you teach death.
	And to Jack Hibbs, a very popular pastor in California, has taken a very courageous stand on many, many issues.
	Jack Hibbs, I believe, has a very important role to play in the freedom, the future of freedom for our nation.
	And he is a man overall of great courage who has, I believe, done a lot of tremendously positive work to bring many people closer to the faith and to the Word of God.
	And he prayed with Congress.
	And then our Congress applauded Netanyahu.
	So what does that tell you?
	Jack Hibbs is someone who I have said many nice things about on the record.
	I've listened to many of his sermons.
	I have family members who send me his sermons.
	And I've heard Jack Hibbs, his analysis of many of the books of the Bible.
	And so I know that Jack Hibbs is a man who has the heart of a pastor and that he believes in what he is teaching.
	And yet he invites Amir Sarfati into his church to preach the word of death.
	And there's a problem with that.
	Every pastor has the right to decide who speaks in his or her church.
	No question about that.
	But when you invite speakers into your church who openly espouse views that are opposed to the very teachings of Christ that you yourself claim to follow and to try to engender in others, then you are acting out a contradiction that does not go unnoticed in the eyes of the Lord.
	You cannot, on one hand, teach love and peace and acceptance.
	And the lessons of Christ and his disciples.
	And then on the other hand, invite a man into your church who teaches conquering death, destruction, eliminating subhumans, being ordained by God in his own arrogant way to oversee the destruction of innocent human lives.
	Those two things are incompatible.
	They are irreconcilable.
	I would never personally allow someone who advocates for mass murder to speak at my event or at my church or on my platform.
	I would be appalled at that.
	And although it's not my business to tell pastors how to run their own organizations, it's very clear that God teaches us through many methods that if we lack the skill of discernment, Then we lose touch with him and his teachings.
	Discernment means being able to tell the difference between what is in alignment with God and then what contradicts God.
	And there is no more critical and obvious issue in our day right now, in this year, 2024, than this issue.
	Any church that advocates the continued mass bombing of civilians in Gaza It's not a church of God.
	It's not a church of Christ.
	And again, it's not me saying that.
	It's the Bible saying that over and over and over again.
	Old Testament and new.
	You can cite, I mean, even Jack Hibbs could cite hundreds of examples of that.
	So I believe that Jack Hibbs has, again, a very important role to play in our country.
	And I pray for him to have discernment.
	I pray for the success of his message.
	I pray for his heart to resonate with the will of God.
	And I pray that he will find within him the spiritual courage to be a man of peace rather than allying himself with men of war.
	For when the time comes to call on the Lord, Each of us had better be sincere in our dedication and our relationship with our Lord.
	Again, back to Proverbs chapter 1, he says to those who abandon him, he says, they will call on me, but I will not answer.
	They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the Lord.
	In other words, they abandoned his laws and his rules.
	And when he says they hated knowledge, you know what that means?
	It means they hated the truth.
	They hated the facts of the world around them.
	They despised the reality of what was actually taking place.
	Women and children in Gaza are actually being bombed to death.
	And far too many Christian Zionists in America turn away from that, cover their eyes, and say, we don't have to pay attention to that.
	It's not our children being bombed.
	Not yet.
	It's not because, as King Solomon says, when your terror comes like a storm and your destruction comes like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come upon you.
	So here's my prediction.
	Israel, as we know it today, I believe, is on a path of self-destruction.
	And because I believe God teaches spiritual cause and effect, I'm not saying that God is going to destroy Israel, but rather, Israel will destroy itself.
	It has already been set into motion.
	Netanyahu has sacrificed Israel to try to save himself.
	And all those who are trying to help Netanyahu save himself by perpetuating war they will one day be seen as the destroyers of the present day nation of Israel.
	Because With Israel acting in the manner that it's demonstrating now under, again, Netanyahu and Galant and Genvir and others, God will not answer the call of Israel.
	When destruction comes like a whirlwind, when terror comes like a storm, God will not answer because they have forsaken the Lord.
	They no longer know Him.
	They do not recognize Him.
	They are wise to the ways of deception, but ignorant to the presence of the Lord.
	That's very clear.
	And all of you listening, you should be asking a very important question, I think.
	Why does it take someone like myself who has been releasing sermons for two weeks to point this out when virtually every church in America refuses to do so?
	Why is that the case?
	If all of these churches are so accomplished, and they've read the Word and studied the Word, and they have so much academic focus, and they have been ordained, and they have passed the test, and they have preached, and they have engaged in missionary behavior,
	and they have preached, and they have gone on missions, and they have faithfully served the Lord for decades and decades and decades, Then shouldn't they be the most powerful voices of truth to say that it's wrong to murder children of God in another land?
	Shouldn't these accomplished, ordained, recognized churches be the most powerful voices of righteousness in our world?
	And yet they're not.
	They're silent.
	They say nothing.
	Or they advocate for mass murder.
	How can people like Joel Osteen and the big mega churches, oh, you look so wealthy with your private jets and your giant buildings.
	You have all of this wealth and all of this media power.
	And what do you do with it?
	You remain silent on the most important issue of our day.
	You disgrace the church.
	The church has fallen.
	Your actions are a disgrace in the eyes of God.
	If you cannot use all your wealth and all your power and all your influence and all your supposed buddy-buddy closeness with God, if you can't use it to state the obvious, that it's wrong to bomb women and children to death, then you aren't qualified to teach anything.
	How dare you teach the Word of God if you can't even speak out against mass murder?
	You disqualify yourself.
	Now, you know why all this matters, folks?
	Because if we don't have the courage in the church to speak the truth about what Israel is doing to Gaza, how will we ever find the courage to speak the truth about what the criminal cabal in Washington, D.C. is doing to our fellow citizens and Christians in America?
	A church that fails to speak the truth and stand up for the rights of the children of God in other nations will also have no courage to stand up for the children of God right here at home.
	That's why.
	Because it speaks to the character of the church or the lack of character in this case.
	Because principles cannot be selective.
	It's a very important understanding.
	This is a pillar of the teachings of Christ.
	Principles cannot be selective.
	You can't say, oh, I'm going to be righteous and moral over here, but then I'll take a weekend trip to Sodom and Gomorrah.
	We'll have a little bypass to Gomorrah, and then we'll go over to Sodom, and then back to Gomorrah.
	And then when we're done with that, with all that immoral, perverted behavior, then we'll go back over here, and then we'll claim to be people of God and Christ.
	Doesn't work that way, does it?
	Principles have to be universal or they aren't principles at all.
	If you believe in the principle of freedom of speech, for example, you have to believe in it for those with whom you disagree.
	Otherwise, you don't believe in freedom of speech.
	You believe in selective censorship.
	Do you believe in the right to life for all people?
	That is, all people who have not themselves committed acts of murder.
	I mean, I'm talking about civilians.
	Should all civilians on planet Earth have the right to live free from bombardment, free from engineered famine, free from having their homes bombed, their mosques destroyed, their churches, their Christian churches in Gaza?
	Should all people on our planet have the freedom from violence inflicted upon them?
	And I believe the answer is yes, and you can't pick and choose.
	It's very interesting how I see many people right now that are very, very concerned about an Islamic invasion of the UK and that they say that illegal immigrants have stabbed to death three children in the UK. I think they were at a dance school.
	And it is a tragedy, and I pray for those family members.
	And it is horrible that that has happened because we disavow violence.
	But if you take the number of those children, three, and you multiply it by 10,000 to be 30,000, that still doesn't approach the number of children and women and elderly that have been murdered in Gaza.
	So there is outrage in the UK about Islam invading the UK and the killing of three children.
	There is no outrage among the UK churches, whatever may be left, about the mass murder of civilians in Gaza by Israel.
	So in other words, when people of Islam are being slaughtered, the Western churches largely are totally okay with that.
	But when Islam is doing the killing at a much smaller scale, again, every life matters.
	I don't mean to diminish the tragedy of a child being stabbed to death.
	It is a tragedy.
	But the scale also matters.
	When Western churches say that those deaths are wrong, but they refuse to call out the mass bombing of children in Gaza, then those churches are being disingenuous.
	They speak with forked tongues and broken hearts and twisted morals.
	And there is an extreme hatred and wickedness against Islam in the pro-Zionist Christian churches of the West today.
	And it is a wickedness.
	It is absolute hatred.
	And it is completely contradictory to the teachings of Christ.
	I, for one...
	I will never extend a default emotion of hatred towards people of Islam.
	I admire people of faith, of any faith, if they are people who practice their faith and teach their faith and honor their faith.
	And I'll probably get some hate response for saying this, But I have far better admiration for a man of Islam who honors his faith faithfully, practices it, teaches it, lives it, than I do a Christian Zionist who violates their faith and calls for mass murder.
	I don't consider religion to be a team sport because I actually believe in the principles that I read in the Bible.
	I admire people who follow principles.
	I admire people who follow faith.
	I don't demand that they conform to my book.
	There are good people on this planet who practice Buddhism, Catholicism, Sikhism, Islam, and every other religion that you can think of, and Judaism.
	There are good people in every branch of religion.
	In every type of worship, there are good people.
	And there are also false people who use their religion as camouflage to actually advocate for acts of wickedness and evil and destruction.
	And I have no admiration and no patience for those type of people, no matter what religion they claim to be part of.
	So if a bunch of Christian pastors come to me and say, Mike, you have to hate on the Muslims.
	You have to hate Muslims.
	Otherwise we can't accept you into our Christian church community.
	I would say, then I reject your so-called community because you violate the tenets of the Christian teachings.
	You are not a church.
	You are a collection of temples to Satan.
	You teach hatred to other people because they practice a different faith, because they have a different skin color, because they speak a different language, because they came from a different land, because they eat different food, because they had to wear clothing in shambles, because that's all they had left, because they have dirt on their knees and scars on their faces.
	You would teach the murder of these people?
	You are not a church.
	You are an abomination.
	And God sees that.
	God sees right through you.
	Now that does not mean that we grant people of Islam special permissions to carry out crimes in any country.
	I've noticed that the police in the UK are standing down when the Islamic migrants commit crimes.
	While at the same time, the UK police are arresting their own citizens, whether they be Christians or not.
	And that's not acceptable either.
	Every man, every woman, every person is responsible for their actions.
	If an Islamic man is committing a crime of thievery, he should be arrested just the same as a Christian man or an atheist man.
	No one is granted amnesty, or should be, because of their faith.
	Because people of faith should act in accordance with the rules of civility.
	So I don't give Islam a special pass.
	But I also don't call for the extermination of people of Islamic faith.
	And that, that angers a lot of Christians.
	Silly children.
	Silly children.
	You root for your religion like you root for the Kansas City Chiefs?
	Except life and death on the geopolitical stage is not a sport carried out on a hundred yard field.
	Real people are really dying.
	Stop being silly children.
	Grow up.
	Act like adults.
	Respect life.
	For if you do not, when destruction comes upon you like a whirlwind, God will not answer.
	You have no credit with Him.
	For you have forsaken him.
	But whoever listens to me, he says, will dwell safely and will be secure without fear of evil.
	It's part of the promise of God.
	The bottom line here, folks, is if our modern-day church cannot defend the lives of the innocent, then what is its function?
	If it cannot even start with faith 101...
	You know, commandment one.
	Stop killing innocent people, right?
	If you can't do that, what are you?
	You're not a church.
	You're not a pastor.
	You're not a minister.
	You're a fool.
	So here's what I want to share with you, something I want to announce, because I've prayed about this.
	I've thought about this.
	As I said earlier, I've felt called to To carry whatever burden this is to share the teachings of Scripture with this overlay of nutrition and healing and the natural miracles of God and Mother Nature.
	It's been a calling of mine.
	It's funny because if you look at the slogan of my online store, you know, healthrangerstore.com, what's the slogan?
	And it's been this way for, I don't know, maybe eight years.
	Healing the world with clean foods.
	Always saw the activities that I'm pursuing as contributing to the healing of the world.
	And this is why I spoke out so strongly over all these years against artificial food toxins and toxic ingredients and artificial flavors and colors and all these things that promoted diabetes and heart disease and cancer.
	And I've done that for over two decades.
	I feel called now to take these What have I recorded?
	19 sermons?
	And not just to expand it to 100 sermons, which is what I'm on track to do right now, but to continue to teach the Scripture and the miracles of God and Mother Nature for the rest of my human life.
	I feel called to the authentic church.
	And part of that calling is because I am weeping for what our modern church has become.
	Because I believe our church, the mainstream, the conventional Christian churches in America, have mostly fallen.
	They have become a disgrace to the teachings of God.
	And I cannot, in good faith, good conscience, I cannot join them.
	God has placed upon me, for whatever reason, I can't even begin to imagine, a pivot in my life, a change to leave the commercial world that I've been involved in all these years as an entrepreneur and a business person,
	and to embrace the church, but a church that is authentic, A church that does not compromise.
	A church that does not push vaccine jabs to murder its own congregation.
	A church that does not cover up for murder.
	In Israel or anywhere else, for that matter.
	But a church that is true to the Word of God and true to the heart of God, the spirit of the teachings of the Bible.
	And it's not that complicated.
	The words are right there in black and white.
	I mean, in all the different versions, you can read all the different words, but you get the picture.
	The picture's the same.
	It's not complicated.
	And right now, I wish I had recordings of my great-grandfather and his teachings, although I have no such recordings, but if I did, I would imagine that he would also put up with no nonsense either.
	He wouldn't compromise.
	He wouldn't violate the teachings of God just to have a more popular church.
	So I don't know what this is going to look like.
	I'm just sharing this with you.
	But here's what I'm called to say.
	If the churches that exist now are unable to speak the truth, then there needs to be new pastors, new churches, resurrected out of the ashes of the fallen churches that have abandoned God's teachings, then we need to launch a series of new churches that are unafraid to speak the truth.
	And I see this effort underway.
	I see seeds being planted.
	I'm hearing from people.
	I'm meeting with people who are in the process of setting up various organizations and religious affiliations and churches and educational institutions.
	It's been remarkable.
	This is happening all across our country and around the world because so many people saw, especially during COVID, that their church betrayed them.
	Their church did not take a stand against government tyranny.
	The churches went along with the government demands out of fear.
	The 501c3 fear.
	Fear of the IRS. Fear of the tax-exempt status being taken from them.
	Fear of what government might say.
	And so they abandoned the teachings of their own Bibles.
	And they betrayed their own congregations, and they told people to line up and take the jabs of Satan, the gene-altering mRNA bioweapons injections engineered by the same Department of Defense that built the weapons, the systems of the bombs being dropped on the civilians in Gaza.
	They bombed Gaza with high explosives.
	They bombed you with jabs.
	It's the same satanic death cult.
	It just looks a little different.
	They carpet bombed the American people with vaccine injections, folks.
	That was mass murder.
	Now, notably, they killed far more Americans than the number of Gazans that have been killed by Israel.
	But the Americans, well, those deaths...
	Didn't happen with large explosions and bombs and things that can be captured on camera.
	Those were silent deaths in the hospitals under hospital homicide.
	And yes, there's a whole dark priesthood of satanic ritual worshippers in the medical system who pushed that too.
	And some of the churches went along with that.
	And so many Christians across this country have realized, wow, my church doesn't represent...
	What I believe, which is protecting life.
	Wow, my church doesn't believe in the power of the people.
	Wow, my church is subservient to a tyrannical, unconstitutional regime of tyrants that are making demands, shut down, no congregations.
	You shall not meet, because that would be dangerous.
	You might be dangerous to society if you get together and preach the word of God.
	And so many churches went along with that.
	And in doing so, they demonstrated they are false churches.
	The church has fallen.
	Jeremiah 4, verse 22,"...for my people are foolish.
	They have not known me.
	They are silly children.
	They have no understanding." They are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
	Doesn't that describe much of the church institution in America today?
	Silly children who don't know God.
	They are wise to the ways of evil, but they have no knowledge of how to do anything good.
	All they do is raise money to enrich the few who control the church at the expense of their own flocks.
	It's an insult to God.
	Absolute insult.
	And then the churches serve all this food with pesticides and herbicides and GMOs and toxic chemicals and sodium nitrite and cancer-causing substances.
	Jeremiah chapter 2, I brought you into a bountiful country to eat its fruit and its goodness.
	But when you entered, you defiled my land and made my heritage alive.
	It's important to share with you that I did not expect to find this in the institution of the church in America.
	I did not expect the churches to fold in the face of COVID. I also did not expect the churches to advocate the mass bombing of civilians in Gaza.
	These two key failures of the church have proven to me that the mainstream churches, and I know there are many exceptions to this, and God bless all of you who have not fallen for this stuff.
	If you have a church and you held the ground, God bless you.
	But for the mainstream conventional churches, they failed on both counts.
	I'm not waiting for strike three.
	I'm not waiting for these churches to all celebrate the Antichrist, because you know that's coming, and you know that's what they're going to do next.
	If they bow down to government over the vaccines and COVID, and they're now cheering the mass bombing of women and children in Gaza, you can bet they're going to promote the Antichrist.
	They're going to promote the Mark of the Beast system, the CBDCs, hand over your bank account to the Beast system.
	You know that's what the churches are going to do.
	I'm not waiting around for that.
	We don't have time for that.
	So it's going to be up to us, folks, people like you and me.
	If we're going to have anything even remaining in this country that resembles what the church is supposed to be, a humanitarian, spiritual, teaching, sharing, community, organization, right?
	I mean, and some other important things, but these are the basics.
	If we're going to have that, We can't rely on those who have failed us, who have betrayed us.
	We're going to have to start our own churches, folks.
	People like you, people like me.
	We will have to start our own churches.
	We are called upon to do it.
	Those of us who have been already persecuted, who have been falsely smeared as anti-Semites, who have been blacklisted.
	I mean, I uploaded a video to YouTube recently Two days ago, just a test to see if they would let me post anything again after, what, eight years of being blacklisted.
	I uploaded a sermon, actually my first sermon, on Ephesians 6, the armor of God and God's molecules and natural foods and herbs, and YouTube took it down and said it was medical misinformation.
	YouTube won't let you talk about foods and herbs out of the Bible.
	Do you know that?
	And the churches, the mainstream churches, won't let you talk about the truth about vaccines or what's going on in the Middle East or the cancer industry or anything else, the Federal Reserve, the dollar history, you name it.
	The mainstream churches today are no different, no better than, you know, Google and big tech.
	They've already sold their souls to Satan.
	They work for the beast system against their own congregations.
	I won't be part of that.
	So we must start our own churches.
	And you know what's beautiful about that, folks?
	There is no license from government required to start a church.
	Government licensure is slavery.
	When they license doctors, then they can take away the license for the doctors that promote ivermectin, can't they?
	And they have, and they do.
	When they license accountants, well, they can take away the licenses from the accountants that don't favor all kinds of payments to the IRS, and they do.
	Bar Association licenses attorneys who agree to play in the beast system and to subject you to the most horrendous torture of that system, right?
	You see what I'm saying?
	Licensure is enslavement.
	To start a church, you need no license.
	You need no permission from government.
	You only need permission from God.
	And that permission is a personal thing, and only you know if you have been called by God to teach the Word of God.
	And it can't be faked.
	It can't be artificial.
	It can't be synthesized.
	You can't fake it by using chat GPT or AI systems.
	It's a calling that is personal and spiritual and deep and authentic.
	And if you have such a calling, I encourage you to act on it.
	Because I believe I've received such a calling.
	Even though such a calling would entail a tremendous amount of work, I cannot be part of a system of churches that are just a death cult, just a satanic death cult pretending to be Christian churches.
	I'm sorry, can't do it, won't do it.
	And you wonder why, when you read the Bible, so few people will be saved by God in the end?
	You wonder why?
	Wonder no more, folks.
	Just look at all the popular churches.
	Do they teach the Word of God?
	No, they don't.
	They teach an empty shadow of God.
	They're like the junk food of God in the same way that a can of soda is an empty shadow of a fruit.
	These churches, so many of them, they're like the drive-through, fast food, junk food version of spirituality.
	And for those who want to drive-through, quick fix, to live under the illusion that they think they have God in their lives while they go out and call for murder and commit sin and engage in highly immoral behavior, well, guess what?
	There's a There's a mega church for you that's happy to take your donation and take away a little bit of your guilt.
	But none of that counts on God's ledger, does it?
	None of it's authentic.
	Jeremiah chapter 7 verse 28 is what Israel needs to hear right now.
	So you shall say to them, this is a nation that does not obey the voice of the Lord their God, nor receive correction.
	Truth has perished.
	And has been cut off from their mouth.
	Netanyahu lies every time he speaks.
	He is a liar.
	He is a deceiver.
	He is a Satanist.
	He does not represent God.
	God is appalled by him.
	Truth has perished from the mouths of those who support the bombing of innocents.
	Truth has perished from the lips of Amir Sarfati.
	A deceiver in the flesh.
	So let me wrap this up with an invitation for all of you for whom this message resonates.
	I want to say something.
	I've got, what, 19 sermons I've recorded so far, many more coming.
	They focus on herbs and nutrition.
	They focus on natural healing.
	They focus on the purity of the blood and so much more.
	The sermons are not political.
	I don't get into modern day Israel or elections or any of those other things in the sermons.
	Those sermons are available.
	You can listen to them all completely free.
	They're commercial free.
	There are no ads in the sermons.
	You can hear them all at brighteon.com.
	That's spelled brighteon.com.
	That's the platform that my company built and founded and that we own.
	And you can post your own sermons there as well, but you can find my sermons under the channel HR Report.
	And probably I'll have a new channel set up just for the sermons pretty soon.
	And I want to reiterate, if you're a person of Christian faith, of course, you're welcome to join our congregation, to join our church.
	If you are a person of Islamic faith, you are welcome to join our church.
	If you are a person of Buddhist faith, Sikh faith, or even a person who doesn't currently practice a religious faith, well, let us show you the way.
	You are welcome to join our church, and we will bring you closer to faith in a practical, loving way.
	We will show you how to be healthier, happier, more joyous, more abundant in your life We'll show you how to receive the miracle gifts of God that are expressed through Mother Nature and food and plants and sprouts and superfoods and all these amazing things.
	We will show you a pathway to a much better life.
	And we won't charge you for it.
	All the content will be free.
	And you are welcome to this church no matter what your gender, no matter what your race, no matter what your skin color, no matter what your sexual orientation.
	You are welcome into this church.
	I want to say we're not going to have drag queen story time in the church, just to be clear.
	But you are welcome no matter what your orientation.
	You are welcome no matter what language you speak, what country you came from, whether you're rich or poor.
	And we welcome you because we extend love to you.
	We love humanity.
	I love all of God's children.
	And I intend to work to protect humanity.
	Life across this planet.
	The lives of all those who are innocent.
	No matter what language they speak or where they come from.
	If this resonates with you, I welcome you to our church.
	And I'll bring you more details as they emerge.
	Welcome to the future, folks.
	Welcome to the authentic teaching of Scripture.
	For real patriotic Americans who are tired of the lies, tired of the deceptions, the politics, the greed, tired of the war machines and the jabs and the murder pushed by our systems.
	You want to hear truth?
	Well, you'll resonate with our church and what we are teaching.
	Thank you for listening today.
	God bless you all.
	And God bless this nation, America, this world, and all of us who enjoy the gift of life from our Creator, the living, loving God.
	Thank you for listening.
	Welcome to today's Decentralized TV interview and episode here on BrightTown.com, a free speech video platform.
	And wow, we have a great guest for you today coming up, Aaron Day of the Daylight Freedom Foundation, who's got some really important things for you to hear about the future of crypto.
	But first, of course, my co-host today, Todd Pitner.
	Welcome to the show, Todd.
	Great to see you.
	Hola!
	Always, always a blast.
	My favorite time of the week, Mike.
	Oh, me too.
	I love doing this show with you.
	Are you ready for today's guest?
	I am.
	You know that we have had circumstances to where this has been delayed twice.
	So I've been ready.
	This will be my third time.
	Oh, like you're triple ready.
	Yeah, I'm triple ready.
	You better watch out.
	Well, then let's not keep our guests waiting.
	Let's bring him in.
	Aaron Day, without any hesitation, the website is daylightfreedom.org.
	Welcome, Aaron Day.
	It's great to see you here.
	Great to see you.
	Thank you for having me.
	It's an honor to have you on and thank you for your patience as we did reschedule before.
	But let's begin with a quick intro to our audience.
	You've been very influential in this space.
	You've got a lot to share with us today.
	Give us a quick background, if you would, please, about what brought you to who you are and what you're doing today.
	Sure.
	I'm a serial entrepreneur.
	I started my first company almost 30 years ago.
	Sold that.
	Became an investor for a little while.
	Then I started a healthcare company, which was destroyed by Obamacare, Dodd-Frank, and the DOJ. I wasn't specifically targeted.
	I was just collateral damage.
	So that kind of radicalized me and turned me into a hardcore liberty activist.
	So I moved to New Hampshire.
	As part of the Free State Project, I eventually became the chair of the Free State Project.
	So the Free State Project is a movement to get 20,000 people to the live free or die state of New Hampshire and to make it the beacon of liberty on earth.
	I got involved in a lot of political activism, helped to get 100 candidates or so elected.
	I've run for political office myself.
	I exited politics, kind of gave up on it completely and decided to move and work and focus on alternative solutions outside of the political system, really focused on crypto.
	I learned about crypto in 2012 through the Free State Project and had been using it.
	And then in 2019, I exited the banking system entirely.
	So I've been living on crypto since 2019.
	So I exited politics, working fully on crypto, then COVID hits, and then all of a sudden I see that some of my friends here in New Hampshire are being targeted by the federal government.
	Jeremy Kaufman, who started a company called Library.com, had his company destroyed by the SEC. Ian Freeman, who I learned about Bitcoin from, actually went to his sentencing hearing with my wife.
	He was sentenced to eight years in federal prison.
	We're selling Bitcoin.
	And so I wanted to look into that and figure out, well, what's going on?
	Why are we having COVID tyranny?
	Why are they going after all these crypto people?
	I'm sorry to interrupt, but your audio is getting a little bit muffled when you're off the access of the mic.
	Can you maybe position that mic more directly in front of your mouth?
	Did you hear that, Todd?
	I did, yes.
	It was getting really muffled for whatever reason?
	Okay.
	Alright, are we better now?
	Oh, wait.
	That's much better.
	Thank you.
	Okay.
	So, anyway, my friends were either having their businesses destroyed or were being thrown in prison, and I looked at, well, what is the root cause of this?
	On the crypto side, what I found is that there's actually been a huge effort to implement CBDCs globally and in the United States.
	This actually started in 2015, but it really kicked off in 2019.
	Essentially, they are using a whole-of-government approach to shut down crypto because they've essentially already built a CBDC. Once I realized how far along and mature these things were, I realized that this is the single biggest threat To human liberty.
	Once the government can program, monitor, and censor your money, it basically is the end of free will.
	They can basically drive and determine your behavior.
	So I wrote a book about this called The Final Countdown, and I even ran for president not because I thought I could win, but because I wanted to bring awareness to this issue because I believe this issue is that important.
	And so I didn't win, as you may or may not know, but I was able to talk to many of the other presidential candidates.
	I've visited 22 states, and now I'm doing workshops across the country where I'm not only teaching people about the threat of CBDCs and the imminent failure of the dollar, but I'm empowering them by teaching them how to use crypto, gold, and silver on a day-to-day basis, because that's the way out of the system.
	We're not going to beat the system at the ballot box.
	We're going to beat the system by using alternatives.
	Wow, so our audience is going to love your message here, and I can already tell there's no way we have enough time to talk to you about all the things we want to ask you.
	Todd, I'm going to let you chime in and field the first question, but I love Aaron's message here.
	Where do you want to begin, Todd?
	Yeah, the final countdown.
	So it's crypto, gold, silver, and the people's last stand against tyranny by central bank digital currencies.
	So I want to unpack CBDCs, Aaron.
	To the average NPC, it seems there's really nothing to see here.
	I mean, gosh darn it, Aaron.
	You know, the government is just benevolently trying to help us simplify our financial lives with CBDCs, are they not?
	Well, so there are actually kind of two parts to that.
	The first is what people, if they're aware of CBDCs at all, what they're worried about is they don't like the idea of the government being able to track their transactions, to be able to censor them based on political speech, or to cancel their account.
	And the reality is we already have that with the existing financial system.
	If you do an analysis of the terms and conditions of your bank, you will find that they can cancel your account without cause.
	They can change fees.
	They can and do share and sell your information.
	They're currently working with the IRS using AI to track what we spend to make sure we're paying our taxes.
	And then they can change the terms and conditions at any point in time.
	So I want to set that apart because most of what people are worried about With CBDCs we already have.
	And so in reality, the real issue isn't the threat of CBDCs in the future.
	It's the current threat of the existing system.
	But CBDCs go to the next level.
	CBDCs add a level of programmability where they can program in and determine what it is you can and cannot buy.
	When you can buy and sell things, how you can use your money.
	And the intention is to tie the central bank digital currency to social credit systems and digital IDs.
	And in fact, the longer term view of this is actually a movement to create one global digital currency and have that currency backed by energy credits, which I can go into whatever level of detail you want on that, but it's provably true.
	This is basically the The end goal of the technocratic movement, which they've been working on this very diligently for about 50 years.
	So people should be horrified about CBDCs because regardless of what your issue is, if your issue is food freedom, if your issue is vaccines, whatever political issue you have, you're going to have a hard time expressing yourself or making any changes if the government can actually control your behavior by shutting off But it actually goes even worse than that.
	It's not even just about money itself.
	They're building a system.
	Where not only will you have central bank digital currencies, but they're going to do what's called tokenizing your assets.
	They're going to create tokens that represent your ownership in stocks, bonds, your car, your house.
	And they're going to put that on the same system, on the same ledger as CBDCs, which means that all of your assets, including your money, will be able to be monitored, programmed, and censored by multiple third parties.
	And confiscated.
	And confiscated.
	There you go.
	And so this is...
	I'm sorry for interrupting.
	I was just going to say I used the term to the average NPC non-playing character on purpose just because I wonder, and I love your opinion, I am very, very cynical that there are more than maybe 10% of the world population that may even give a crap about a CBDC. And that's what really concerns me is people are just looking for The convenience.
	And it's just like, this is great.
	You mean my house is going to be tokenized?
	That's great.
	And then the controlled media is not going to be speaking truth to power.
	So what do we do about that?
	I mean, that's a tough question, I know, but.
	Todd, these are the same people who just lost access to their refrigerators when the CrowdStrike bug happened.
	Or they lost access to their front door when AWS had an outage or Google had an outage.
	They've overly invested in technology without any understanding of where it's going.
	But sorry to interrupt.
	Aaron, feel free to chime in.
	So...
	I think I saw a Cato survey on this.
	Half Americans don't even know what a CBDC is.
	But I think like everything else, like any new idea or new technology, the key is to start off with the innovators and then move to the early adopters and then move to the early majority.
	So there's a process to this.
	So you're not going to wake everybody up.
	It wants by hitting the masses.
	You've got to find the early adopters.
	But what I will say, and this is why I'm actually part of the Brownstone Institute.
	I'm a fellow at the Brownstone Institute.
	What I found is when I do these workshops, and we're now scheduling 17 workshops across the United States, I do four-hour workshops.
	I educate people on CBDCs, on fiat, and on the great taking, and then I teach them how to use these alternatives.
	And there are tens of millions of people that have been radicalized by COVID. And then not only were they radicalized by COVID, but they have experienced directly the impacts of inflation, and now they're starting to ask questions about the Federal Reserve.
	So what's interesting is you might think, well, this guy's talking about crypto and he's talking about some of these other things.
	I was in Silicon Valley and I would say that the average demographic that I was speaking to are boomers that had never had crypto before.
	But they certainly recognize the problem and they understand the threat.
	So does the majority know what's going on?
	No, but I think maybe 15 to 20 percent.
	And that 15 to 20 percent, if we can get to them, educate them and empower them, Then when they try to roll out CBDCs in an emergency, we will not only have an alternative, but we'll already have kind of an army of people that have been empowered to do something about it.
	I'm sorry, my last question, Mike, and then it's all yours.
	Can you describe to people then...
	What, describe a future where authorities hold unparalleled power to surveil, control, and manipulate the financial system.
	What's that look like, Aaron?
	Well, I mean, it looks like China, although we kind of already are living in it and we're not even aware of it to a certain degree.
	But, you know, essentially the way that it looks is, if you imagine the UN 17 Sustainable Development Goals, look at those as elements of a social credit system.
	Basically, everything you do, what food you eat, where you work, where you live, your education, healthcare, all of that is programmed into a social credit system.
	The social credit system is tied to your carbon usage.
	The currency itself is based on carbon.
	This is how you get into a situation where...
	If you drive too much or if you eat too much red meat or if you try to use a gas stove or whatever it happens to be, that impacts your credit score and that impacts your access to money.
	This system is inherently a system based on technocracy.
	And the idea behind technocracy is you have elites.
	Picking scientists and engineers to make decisions for us.
	So at a really high level, what this means is this is a system that doesn't recognize individual rights and doesn't recognize property rights.
	This is truly how these people think.
	They think that unless we have the best scientists and engineers applying technology to the human condition, Humanity is going to destroy itself.
	And so therefore, they have to come in to save everyone and basically put in place all of these systems for us.
	This is literally what their ideology is.
	So, okay, Aaron, and by the way, your mic was kind of getting muffled again there for whatever reason.
	You mentioned that one of the triggering factors that might push people into CBDCs would be some kind of a financial crisis.
	Many of us, especially our viewers, believe that such a crisis may be deliberately engineered or just pushed over the edge on purpose in order to achieve that.
	And also, notably, under a CBDC, of course, the powers that be can create an unlimited number of new coins or tokens or whatever they call it, right?
	So it's not an honest ledger.
	They can create, quote, money, and they can devalue whatever tokens you already have.
	What do you think would be the kind of event that might occur either deliberately or inadvertently that would...
	Well, first of all, they'll bring it in an emergency.
	I don't think this is going to be something that's rolled out piecemeal and I don't think it's going to be something that's rolled out voluntarily.
	It's going to be like the Patriot Act Which I think passed in like 45 days, or TARP, which passed in 18 days, or the CARES Act, which passed 16 days after COVID was declared a pandemic on a voice vote.
	So they will use an emergency.
	As to the type of emergency, it could be literally anything.
	And frankly, there's enough stuff going on in the world right now that it could happen at any point in time.
	But I think that where you're going to get the easiest kind of bipartisan support is going to be around terrorism.
	Even right now, because a lot of people will say, oh, you know, the Republicans are great on this.
	We need to pick one way or another politically.
	If you look at all of the bills that have gone through the Republicans in the Congress, all of them have either given more power to the banks or they're putting in language around terrorism and money laundering, which basically make it so that there are more reporting requirements.
	And more what's known as know your customer anti-money laundering laws, more hurdles to being able to access and use crypto.
	This is actually being led by the Republicans.
	So, I mean, it could be some combination of a terrorist attack, a cyber attack, some issue regarding the border.
	But I think it would get bipartisan support in an emergency just based on the legislation that people are already putting through Congress that on the Republican side of things.
	And certainly the Democrats are already on board with this.
	So there's no convincing there.
	It is current government policy under President Biden's Executive Order 14067 for the U.S. government to explore a CBDC and to use a whole of government approach to regulating all digital assets.
	And they've been doing that.
	They've been going after people all over the place.
	They've thrown, you know, my friend Ian Freeman is in federal prison, which I mentioned.
	Roger Ver is in Spain.
	They're trying to extradite him on a 10 year old situation related to taxes.
	There are people that do coin mixing services that are in prison.
	The SEC, CFTC, Treasury have all been going after people extremely aggressively and it's ramped up in the last 120 days.
	The reason that they're doing that is they want to make sure that when they roll out CBDCs there's no alternative that people can use. - Really important point that you just made there.
	The know your customer rules obviously are very tight, and there's a lot of crackdowns on Monero or privacy coins, trying to get those out of the centralized exchanges.
	I've seen more and more banks asking questions if people are trying to wire money to buy gold or silver, right?
	So somebody's trying to wire $50,000, and the banker's like, what is it for?
	What is it for?
	And if they say...
	Gold, then the banker gets all paranoid.
	Oh, you can't use your money to buy gold.
	Things like that.
	But is Bitcoin going in the right direction itself?
	Because from what you mentioned to me earlier, before we started recording, you also have some concerns about what's happening with Bitcoin.
	Speak to us about that, if you would, please.
	So Bitcoin, you know, I got my first Bitcoin in 2012, and it was a magical experience because, you know, with my previous startups, I'd always had issues with either payment processors or some kind of issue.
	So the ability...
	To use digital cash and have it sent instantly for a fraction of a penny with no state involvement or bank.
	It was a magical experience.
	And that experience was intentionally hijacked over a period of years.
	And I'm going to hold up another book.
	I don't know if you'll be able to see it very well.
	But anyway, it's called Hijacking Bitcoin by Roger Veer.
	And Roger, who's been involved in Bitcoin since 2010, he earned the nickname Bitcoin Jesus because he gave so many people Bitcoin.
	He was the first company to take Bitcoin.
	He was the first investor in a Bitcoin company.
	He wrote this book and published it in April explaining how Bitcoin had been hijacked by entities that want to keep Bitcoin deliberately slow and expensive and to basically change the narrative of Bitcoin from being P2P digital cash that people can use for payments to this now new it's digital gold and it's something that you buy through BlackRock or through Fidelity.
	And he outlines in incredible detail what happened, who was involved, what their motivations were.
	And so it seems very clear not only were they successful in doing that because now there's this conference going on right now in Nashville where people are celebrating political candidates and BlackRock and all of these institutional investors and things that Bitcoin was actually designed to replace.
	That's what these people are celebrating.
	But the most onerous thing that I found about this is that the very same people that funded the changes in Bitcoin to make it slow, expensive digital gold funded all three U.S. CBDC pilots.
	So what I'm suggesting is not only is Bitcoin not the solution to CBDCs, it was intentionally hobbled by the very same people that have created CBDCs in the United States.
	Wow.
	Todd?
	Todd?
	Your reaction?
	Yeah, yeah.
	I mean, that segues into another question I have nicely.
	You know, in economics, Gresham's law observes that bad money drives out good.
	And for freedom-minded individuals like us, I submit that privacy coins like Monero, Firo, and Epic Cash are good crypto money.
	But if you take a look at the charts for privacy coins, they haven't performed very well.
	And it seems that the surveillance crypto...
	Anything that can be surveyed, you know, Bitcoin is a surveillance coin, is by far preferred by the masses.
	Is that just Gresham's Law at play, Aaron, or is it just because they've orchestrated it this way?
	Yeah, it's propaganda and censorship.
	I don't think that it's a market-based force that is what is driving Bitcoin's price at all.
	I mean, again, at this point in time, it's actually pretty absurd if you think about something that was meant to be peer-to-peer cash and what are people doing?
	They're buying shares in a WEF company like BlackRock into a financial instrument.
	BlackRock doesn't even hold the crypto.
	Coinbase is who BlackRock...
	So at no point in time are people that are buying Bitcoin ever going to touch, see, or use a Bitcoin.
	And when they sell their ETF, they get fiat back.
	I actually submit that they allow the ETFs because it's going to make it easier to confiscate Bitcoin.
	It will be easier to confiscate Bitcoin through an ETF than it was for FDR to confiscate gold back in the 1930s.
	So there's a lot, you know, most of the noise.
	So when I do these workshops across the country, I ask people a number of questions.
	And there's something that's really important to note.
	Only.4% of Americans used crypto to make a purchase in the last 30 days.
	And this is down.
	A couple of years ago, 2% of Americans used crypto.
	So the actual use of crypto as currency has absolutely plummeted.
	So when I travel around the country and I meet with these groups of people, most of them have never not only have they never used crypto to buy something, they're not even aware that crypto can be used as a currency, that that's even a possible use case.
	And then I ask people a question.
	I have, you know, do kind of some informal polling as I go through the different sections.
	More people in the general public are familiar with Sam Bankman Freed than with Satoshi Nakamoto, the anonymous creator of Bitcoin.
	Most people don't know it's a currency at all.
	Most people think it's a speculative asset and most people actually have a negative opinion about it as a speculative asset.
	So in the broader scale here, we're talking about a situation where only 0.4% of the population is even using this and most people have a completely warped perception of what it is even supposed to be, which has been shaped and formed by the media, which certainly has no interest in promoting alternatives to CBDCs.
	And Aaron, when you just mentioned that BlackRock, that they aren't even taking custody, that it's at...
	Where do they hold it?
	Coinbase.
	Coinbase.
	So you cannot tell me when we see Satoshi's white paper and we read that the supply is 21 million and it's capped, there will only be 21 million.
	What are your thoughts on fractional reserve and rehypothecation of...
	Because I guarantee you the supply is 2 to 3x 21 million.
	What say you?
	Fractional reserve crypto.
	I agree with that entirely.
	I mean, I think that's actually probably already before Black Rocket got involved.
	That was probably already the case with exchanges.
	Yes.
	Because it's not as though exchanges were required to or there was any validation of whether or not they even had the reserves.
	So I think you've actually had some fractional reserve stuff going on with Bitcoin anyway.
	But I will say, I don't actually think that the $21 million supply cap will even hold.
	If you look at the history of Bitcoin and how it was hijacked, the changes that have been made to Bitcoin should never have been made.
	They completely violated the entire economic system and the structure of Bitcoin.
	In a way that really killed the utility of it.
	But they could just as easily decide to vote to create more than 21 million coins.
	And there are some Bitcoin core developers that have already called for that.
	So I believe that the 21 million cap is a myth in two different ways.
	It's a myth already because...
	It's true.
	BlackRock, they're not reporting all of this stuff on-chain.
	So there's already shenanigans going on with BlackRock.
	There's shenanigans going on with the exchanges.
	But I also don't even think that the intent is there.
	And it's very possible that if the price dropped...
	Because the whole point...
	I want to take a step back.
	The whole point of miners, the people that process these transactions for Bitcoin, getting these mining rewards was as a subsidy.
	Until such time is there were enough people using the Bitcoin network to generate transaction fees for the miners.
	So the long-term goal of Bitcoin was not for people to make money speculating on the coin itself.
	The long-term value of this for the miner was to be processing millions of transaction fees every 10 minutes and making money, very small amounts of money on those millions of transactions that go through the system.
	But now that's all completely lopsided.
	Now that it's digital gold, there aren't many transactions.
	It only does at most seven transactions per second.
	And so when the price drops, the only thing that's pumping up the price is speculation.
	When the price drops, you're going to have people with billions of dollars of computer equipment all over the world.
	They're going to start losing money because there aren't enough transaction fees to justify the energy and effort that they're putting into mining these coins.
	All right.
	Wow.
	A very important observation there, and I think you're right on the money with that.
	Let me pivot just slightly and ask you about the, even if the powers that be try to roll out a CBDC, we've just seen recently with the CrowdStrike problem, the Microsoft problem, that I think 8.5 million servers or high-end workstations were bricked, essentially.
	Many of those in government, by the way.
	Is our government today, let's say the U.S. government, do they even have the technical expertise to roll out a CBDC that would work?
	I mean, given the food stamp SNAP program fails routinely, the FBI background check for buying firearms, the NICS system fails routinely, the snail mail vanishes routinely.
	Could they even roll out a system like that?
	And wouldn't it only take one big failure?
	For people to say, wait a second, I have a wallet, I can't access it, can't use it, the money's gone, I'm not going to trust the system.
	What's your take on that?
	This is a very important point.
	The CBDCs are not being created by the government.
	This is not like the Obamacare website.
	The CBDC pilots in the United States were funded by the largest banks So, the only involvement The government has in rolling out a CBDC is Congress passing a bill written by bankers that they don't even read.
	That's actually the only requirement for government in all of this process.
	The actual development of it is being done by people that are actually competent and that are already running the system.
	And another thing that I would say about this, a lot of people will say, well, don't ever roll out a CBDC because That will put the banks out of business.
	Now, all of a sudden, people will have accounts at the Central Bank and the Federal Reserve, and people won't be using JP Morgan anymore.
	But that's not true.
	That's not how these have been rolled out.
	The way these have been rolled out is similar to the current system.
	The Federal Reserve will issue CBDCs to the banks, and then the banks will continue doing their same business in the same way.
	It's just that we'll have all of this new programmability and this new surveillance system.
	Aaron, I'm sorry to interrupt, but also, your mic's getting a little bit muffled again, but I just want to ask you this, because right now, when banks fail, because banks, even JP Morgan, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, whatever, they suffer all kinds of Process failures.
	One day you can't take money out of an ATM. You can't send a wire.
	But people have a fallback position, which is cash, right?
	So at a grocery store, if their transactional infrastructure goes down because it doesn't work with the banks that day or the e-commerce provider, then they say, well, we'll take cash.
	But if cash is outlawed, which I assume would be part of the CBDC transition, and the CBDCs go down, Wouldn't that be a panic moment for the American people?
	It would be a panic moment for the American people, but the truth of the matter is that in 2020 there were 35 countries at the exploration stage of looking at CBDCs.
	Only China had really done any development.
	Today, 134 countries representing 98% of the global GDP are working on various phases of CBDCs.
	11 countries have already rolled out CBDCs.
	There are more CBDC accounts now than crypto accounts.
	So, yes, is there a risk of centralization?
	Is there a risk that the thing could fail?
	Absolutely there is, but that doesn't mean they're not going to do it.
	I see.
	Furthermore, what they're developing as a system is It's not quite like the CloudStrike situation.
	It's not a centralized database.
	It's not like Bitcoin in the sense that it's not a permissionless system, but it is using technology that is more resilient than any of these centralized systems.
	This isn't a Microsoft situation that's underlying this technology.
	It is using some blockchain technology and some decentralization, and they have put in plans for significant redundancy, which isn't to say that It won't fail.
	But remember, the same people that are funding this are the same people that are running the current system, so they do have some experience.
	And the overwhelming majority of financial transactions that go on every day in America are digital transactions.
	Right.
	Aaron, you mentioned that Bitcoin has been hijacked to make way for CBDCs.
	As Mike and our viewing audience know, I have an absolute obsession for understanding who are they when guests speak about the elusive they.
	So who specifically are they who have hijacked Bitcoin, Aaron?
	So Bitcoin...
	Up until about 2015, the development was funded by a non-profit called the Bitcoin Foundation, which was a community-based project.
	It had some of the developers, people like Roger Ver, and that's how they were funding development.
	That organization ran into some financial difficulties, and the group that came in and picked up the slack was MIT. Specifically, the person involved in this that was spearheading this is a guy by the name of Joy Ito.
	Joy Ito was the head of the MIT Multimedia Lab.
	He also created a venture capital firm called Digital Garage that invested in a number of private blockchain companies.
	Ito did a couple of things that were interesting.
	He funded some of the changes to Bitcoin through his venture capital arm.
	So he funded some of what's called SegWit and Lightning Network.
	And I won't go into all the details on that.
	But he funded all three U.S. CBDC pilots.
	So MIT was involved in all three of the pilots through Joy Ito's group.
	And interestingly, one of the funders of Joy Ito, both at the MIT Media Lab and some of his private funds, is none other than Jeffrey Epstein.
	So this situation gets worse the more you dig into it.
	So that is one branch of who they are, but then there's another branch, and Roger doesn't talk about this in his book, there's a group called Blockstream, Which is a group of some of the core developers of Bitcoin that started a for-profit company.
	This for-profit company raised money from a number of sources, people, you know, MasterCard, venture capital firms.
	Their largest initial investor was AXA Financial.
	The CEO of AXA was also the president of the Bilderberg Group at the time.
	So this was the lead investor in Blockstream.
	And what Blockstream builds are what are called second layer solutions.
	So basically Blockstream benefits By Bitcoin being slow and expensive so that they can build for-profit second layer solutions on top of it.
	So you have a combination of interesting things going on.
	So you have this big finance, Bilderberg-funded group that's paying core devs to keep it slow.
	And then you have...
	This Joy Ito guy funding some of the changes that cement Bitcoin being slow and expensive at the base layer, all while simultaneously funding all three of these U.S. CBC pilots.
	So that just gets you up to 2019.
	And then from there, you still have Blockstream as one of the primary funding sources, but now you have BlackRock and Michael Saylor getting involved, and you have Jack Dorsey from Twitter now heavily involved as well.
	And Jack Dorsey, as I'm sure your audience knows, was one of the leading participants in the censorship industrial complex working with Multiple three-letter agencies to hand over our information and censor our content on social media.
	So now he's one of the main players in this.
	So at this point in time, at this moment in time, the leading voices in Bitcoin are Michael Saylor, Larry Fink, and Jack Dorsey.
	So I look at this as there have been three different hijackings at various points in time, but it started in 2015 and it was ongoing.
	And for our audience, you should know that Blockstream, if you're thinking that you're doing anything private with...
	Bitcoin, Blockstream generated $100 million to their bottom line last year, 2023, by selling information about Bitcoin transactions.
	That's why Bitcoin is a surveillance coin.
	There's nothing private about it, folks.
	No, and I want to say something else.
	So I've shifted.
	So I live on crypto, as I said, and I onboard people in these workshops.
	And so What I'm actually recommending now for people is Monero and Zeno, which is something that I've gotten incredibly interested in.
	In fact, I think it's the single most important technology for...
	Stopping CBDCs and something called the Great Taking, which I'd like to talk about in a little bit more detail.
	I think I touched on briefly, but these two are both privacy coins.
	Zeno allows you to create privacy tokens.
	So you can tokenize assets and trade assets with anyone anywhere in the world and that information is kept private and confidential.
	So as I mentioned before, there's this idea that they're building the CBDC and regulated liability network where they're gonna tokenize all of our assets but they're going to be able to control them centrally.
	Zeno is the opposite of that.
	Zeno is you tokenize and own your own assets, you trade those assets and nobody knows who owns what assets.
	So it's basically Monero for tokens.
	And so those are the two things that I'm the most excited about.
	But you brought up a very good point.
	Who operates or who controls Zeno?
	Was that fair launched?
	Or is there a company or something that has created that?
	Is there a centralized control?
	Todd, didn't we do an interview with somebody from Zeno?
	I don't recall.
	I was trying to think.
	Zeno doesn't ring a bell to me, but I'm old, Mike.
	Well, if we haven't, we should, but yeah, go ahead.
	I think you guys did.
	So the lead developer behind Zeno was one of the lead developers behind CryptoNote, which was the technology behind Minero.
	Yes, we did.
	There you go.
	Yes, thank you.
	And so Zeno itself is an open source project.
	It did do a pre-mine.
	And there's a lot, you know, this kind of gets into the weeds.
	And, you know, three years ago, I would have been, oh, I don't like this coin because it did a pre-mine.
	But I've been involved with projects that didn't do a pre-mine.
	And a pre-mine just means just so people know that before they announce to the public that you can mine a coin where everybody can have a shot at it, they mine some for themselves.
	But in the case of Zeno, they mine some for themselves and they put it in what's called an auditable wallet so that you can actually track the use of the funds.
	And I will say I've seen many crypto projects fail because they had no funding.
	And one thing that people say is, well, well, Bitcoin, because everybody refers to Bitcoin as the reference standard.
	And what I say is Bitcoin failed because it didn't have money.
	And because it didn't have money, outside forces funded the developers.
	There's a myth in open source software.
	It's almost become a religion where people have this expectation that there are these white hat developers who write code for free.
	And there are other developers out there who audit and check code for free.
	That's not a problem.
	That's not how reality works.
	So when you have an open source project, somebody's paying for those developers.
	So in this case with Zeno, we know who the developers are, and we know what the funding is, and we can actually track through their own system the funds.
	And so the project's been around for five years, and they've only spent, I think, half of whatever the pre-mine is.
	But that was one of my early concerns, and when I kicked the tires on all these projects, I really go deep.
	Roger Veer actually introduced me to Zeno, and so I... I'm like, okay, if he says this is important, then I know he's highly committed to liberty.
	So I went and did the deep dive, and I actually think it is the answer on tokenization.
	The tokenization of assets, I find that really fascinating because...
	That would mean that somebody who has a stack of metal, let's say silver or gold, can tokenize that metal and then they can have high divisibility in using that or transferring that or sharing ownership with others or what have you.
	Or even property, right?
	You could tokenize ownership of a piece of land or a vehicle or what have you.
	But what I don't understand is how does this alternative system compete with whatever CBDC is going to be pushed by governments and corporations and the media?
	How do we build this alternative economy successfully?
	Well, we have to start immediately.
	So we start now.
	And like any technological development, we have to go for the innovators.
	The first 2.5% are innovators and then you have early adopters, which are 13.5%.
	So this isn't going to start out...
	Mass market, it's going to start out with early adopters.
	The way that I've found that we do that is I'm traveling all over the country doing four-hour workshops, educating people on this, giving them a wallet, setting them up with tools, teaching them how to use it, and starting to get the economy going that way.
	And then hope that they actually pass it forward.
	That, to me, is the best way to do it, is to lead by example, to use it, and to start one step at a time.
	I've been doing this since 2019, but now even...
	What I've done has radically changed.
	I mean, what I use in terms of how I live on crypto today is different than it was 90 days ago and completely different than it was two years ago.
	So one of the things that I'm trying to do, and it's on the daylightfreedom.org site, is to build some tools, easy-to-use wallets and easy-to-use point-of-sale systems for merchants that can accept multiple digital assets because that's the key.
	The key to this is we have to get rid of this idea of It's my token versus this token.
	Because people in crypto fight each other.
	And then people in precious metals are like, crypto's bad.
	And so what I'm saying is I use crypto gold and silver.
	I give people gold backs.
	Whenever I go anywhere, if I go to get my hair cut, I tip people with a gold back.
	I have an online account for gold backs.
	But I want to build something where there's a point of sale system where a merchant can accept multiple currencies and then decide, well, let's say I want to get paid in only one currency.
	I get paid in a gold token.
	And so they get a gold token and they can take that gold token on a card and go to a gold back ATM and withdraw physical gold backs.
	So what I'm saying here is there's a possibility to merge and blend the best of crypto and the best of precious metals to give one solution that combines the two.
	And that's what I've been spending a lot of time in the last six weeks trying to put together those partnerships and to get people to understand that CBDCs are an existential threat to all of crypto and all precious metals.
	And precious metals, as much as, you know, I've even been involved.
	I'm an advisor to Citizens for Sound Money.
	And there are all of these initiatives to make gold and silver legal tender.
	And in Utah, gold and silver have been legal tender since 2011.
	But there's no mass adoption.
	Unless we can make this easy for people to use, having a law change doesn't help.
	You actually have to implement the solution built on the law or, if need be, work outside of the law.
	And we have to get people to actually start using these alternative currencies for day-to-day transactions.
	And it is possible.
	You're speaking my language on that.
	Sorry to interrupt, but we as a merchant with my online store, HealthRangerStore.com, we have been trying to implement crypto solutions just to accept payment in crypto with our shopping cart, and it has been incredibly complex.
	We had the motivation and the intention to put it in place a year and a half ago.
	And by the way, here's a stack of goldbacks that I have, and I hand these out to everybody who shows up in my studio.
	I'm just giving them goldbacks.
	I'm like, here, use these things.
	This is real gold in here.
	I'm like you.
	I want to show people other ways to engage in transactions, but the technical difficulties are very real right now for online merchants, even when we want to do it.
	They are.
	That's why I'm working on building that.
	It wasn't my intention.
	I mean, I've got a lot on my plate already, but the truth is, just in my own experience, the point-of-sale systems that existed, a lot of them went out of business.
	And here's the issue if you're creating a point-of-sale system.
	Usually the point of sale system is it has to be open source or otherwise it becomes a centralized point of failure.
	The point of sale system also has to be something that doesn't require use of the app store.
	You can't have Google or Apple having control over the point of sale system.
	So what you have to build is something that's open source so that you can't just take out one entity and it also needs to integrate all these different assets.
	So I actually have the core technology I want to make sure that gold and silver are part of it, and I want to make sure that we have the right set of coins.
	Because I will add something else.
	This has frustrated me hugely about the crypto space.
	When I first got crypto, it was better, faster, cheaper money.
	But that was in 2012.
	Venmo, Zelle, Apple Pay, Google Pay, all of these other things have been created that are faster and cheaper to use.
	So Bitcoin lost its lead as a better product.
	We have to focus on usability because right now, the people that are using crypto and using these alternatives because they want to take a stand and they understand that money needs to be separate from state and all of those other things, all of those people are already in.
	The only way to get the new people in is if the product that you're offering is as good or better.
	That is an absolute requirement.
	So that's what I'm focused on.
	Now, I've been using recently what I've been recommending is something called Cake Wallet to people as I do these workshops because Cake Wallet It has privacy coins.
	It has Monero.
	Yeah, we like Cake Wallet, yeah.
	So within one wallet, I can buy gift cards, I can buy crypto, I can buy debit cards, I can use these privacy coins, and they're integrating Zeno.
	So after talking to those guys, I'm now no longer going to build a wallet.
	I actually think that what they have built is...
	It's an open source project and they're willing to actually, I think, extend beyond and start integrating tokenized gold and silver.
	The next piece is the point of sale system.
	And a lot of that is getting the guys at gold back.
	And others, let me tell you, I'll give you an example of what some of the issues are here.
	So you just showed your stack of goldbacks, right?
	So you can go down the street, you can go to a restaurant, you can go to the barbershop or whatever, you can give somebody that goldback, and nobody knows...
	That person has a goldback.
	It's actually private money.
	But they have these online systems.
	So if I go online to use my online system, because you can pay with things through the goldback system online.
	You can set up what's called a UPMA account.
	And there are like 2,000 merchants that participate in this.
	And you can send people money.
	But all of that information is tracked.
	And all of it is in a centralized database.
	So here's the kicker.
	If you take Zeno and you tokenize the goldbacks, And you tokenize gold and silver, you now have private tokens.
	So you could actually redeem these tokens, for instance, at a goldback ATM, and there's no KYC AML. It's actually a private token just as the physical bill itself.
	That is possible.
	That's what I have been very excited about.
	I actually just tokenized and sold the first gold back last week just as a trial.
	But I want to show people the use case because people say to me, well, who cares about tokens?
	Here's why you should care about tokens.
	Every asset on the planet is going to be tokenized one way or another, whether you like it or not.
	Everything that you buy today is in a database, whether it's on a blockchain or not.
	Most things are not on a blockchain.
	Most things are in centralized databases that can be hacked where there's all kinds of corruption and other issues.
	The blockchain is it could be either freedom or tyranny, depending on how you implement it.
	If you implement it the way that the CBDC people are doing it, then you're going to have a situation where multiple third parties and regulators can seize and freeze all of your transactions and seize all your transactions.
	And you really don't have self-custody.
	Or you could do the Xeno type of approach where you have self-custody of your own assets, which you can trade.
	And nobody knows what your asset is or what the transactions are.
	So that's the continuum that we're looking at, but it is possible.
	It is possible to put together the right combination of partnerships and technologies to actually have something easy to use for people so that they can exit the system.
	Okay, but Aaron, let me jump in here, Todd, real quick.
	But as you said earlier, the SEC and the FTC and the DOJ, they're going crazy in trying to prosecute people.
	And even one of my favorite online resources, Zlibrary, is being taken down.
	And I like to contribute as an author.
	I'm an author.
	I contact Zlibrary like, please distribute my next book.
	I want to make sure I can get my book to you so everybody can have it for free, right?
	And they're being shut down.
	Their domains are being seized by the State Department.
	All it takes is one allegation of one criminal using one coin, and then the DOJ jumps in and says, well now you're a money laundering operation.
	And you notice this recent attempted assassination of Trump, you heard reports that the supposed shooter guy, Crooks, that he had three overseas encrypted accounts.
	How much you want to bet those were Bitcoin, Monero, and something else that were set up probably for him so they can blame crypto for these kinds of things?
	It's so easy for them to blame crypto and then arrest everybody who's involved.
	So this is why you have to use technology that's actually decentralized privacy technology that can't be shut down.
	This is why when I mentioned doing a point-of-sale system, it's not a corporation.
	It's not a for-profit thing.
	You could come after me.
	It doesn't matter.
	It's open-source technology.
	But what I will say is, you're right.
	They're going to do all of those things.
	And at some point, this is why I have to do four-hour workshops and write books to go into the details about this.
	This isn't about, you know, they'll paint it as, oh, you must want to traffic in children and sell drugs and, you know, you must be a terrorist.
	It's like, no, that's not it at all.
	I want to be able to buy red meat, I want to be able to buy raw milk, and I want to be able to travel.
	The privacy elements of this aren't to do things that are illegal today.
	It's as a safeguard against the fact that we know, as they've continued their march of stripping us of all of our rights, they're going to outlaw all of the things that we today take for granted and buy and trade freely.
	But this is going to require...
	We're not going to comply our way out of tyranny.
	At some point in time...
	We're going to have to decide if we want to be able to engage in voluntary trade and have free will, or if we want to live in pods and basically have all of our behavior dictated to us by scientists and engineers picked by elites.
	It's a choice.
	Right now, I'm not proposing anything that's illegal, but even still, I'd say let's get this stuff out there and get people to start using it.
	Because, you know, nobody wants what's coming down the line.
	This is why I have to do these workshops, because it's very clear what they're doing with CBDCs, because they've already implemented CBDCs.
	China already has CBDCs.
	They had 230 million accounts last year.
	We know how this works tied to social credit systems.
	We know how they're engineering them.
	All of this information is publicly available.
	We know, and I don't know if you guys have seen this.
	Have you seen the Doeconomy MasterCard?
	No, no.
	This exists in the marketplace.
	It is a mastercard co-branded with the United Nations.
	It actually has the 13 on it for the 13th Sustainable Development Goal, which is climate action.
	This is a credit card that will stop working when you use too much carbon.
	MasterCard has already inked relationships with 136 companies.
	They are already tracking carbon, they are already tying carbon to financial transactions, and they are already censoring transactions when you use too much carbon.
	And all of this is available on MasterCard's website, on Deconomy's website.
	This isn't a secret plan that I'm revealing.
	This is actually out in the open.
	This is a product.
	But MasterCard is on this.
	And this is why when you buy an airline ticket now, it tells you how much CO2. You're starting to see them integrate this piece by piece.
	Sometimes you'll even see this on receipts when you go to restaurants.
	Depending on where you are, different point of sale systems are already starting to integrate and track this.
	That is where they are going.
	And yet the whole...
	As you probably know, the whole carbon climate cult is a lie.
	I mean, carbon is not bad for Earth.
	Carbon dioxide helps plants grow.
	It's better than Brondo, actually.
	We need carbon dioxide to have food and crops and rainforests and flowers for pollinators and everything.
	And yet, they've declared war on carbon as an excuse to create a carbon police state through the mechanisms that you're describing.
	That's what we're really facing here.
	Yes, and all the while they're doing this, BlackRock and all these companies are going out and they're buying up land.
	They're buying up forests.
	Why?
	Because they're going to be able to monetize those carbon credits.
	You basically have a whole pool of multinational corporations, WEF partner companies, that are getting involved behind the scenes to front-run and to have an advantage in this artificially constructed cap-and-trade economy.
	Yes.
	that they are creating from the top down, all based on fear and a scarcity mindset that isn't in any way tied to science or reality, but it certainly gives them power and control.
	Well, there goes my plan to charge my next private jet flight on MasterCard and have steak on the plane.
	Let's just blow out all the carbon credits right there.
	But I assume you can have some credits put back into your account if you say the correct things.
	So your speech will be monitored.
	You'll be forgiven for carbon sins if you vote for the right people and say the right things and endorse the right things.
	You get a vaccine, you get like a thousand carbon credits, and then you're allowed to drive your car, you know, 50 miles or something.
	Yeah, I mean, so when you look at what China has implemented, they have the surveillance and AI is to the point where they can determine whether or not you attempted to put some, say you were going to put two bottles of alcohol instead of one alcohol bottle into your shopping cart, they can actually punish you based on that.
	They actually punish people for cheating on video games.
	The level of surveillance and tracking, but it's not.
	But then people will say, well, yeah, but that's communist China.
	Well, we get half of our surveillance technology from China.
	The average American has their picture taken 85 times a day from surveillance cameras.
	This is not including whatever we voluntarily take and upload ourselves.
	We have been rolling out and increasing the surveillance infrastructure.
	People don't talk a lot about COVID and contact tracing and all of the surveillance infrastructure that was put in place.
	So every time we get an emergency, whatever it is, they put in place more surveillance.
	And so we're already heavily surveilled.
	So what you're talking about in terms of what it would take to roll out a social credit system on top of the CBDC isn't that much because they've been building this slice by slice over the last two decades.
	And we're one crisis away from everybody in Congress today.
	Supporting whatever crazy thing.
	I mean, one crisis away.
	It's like you said before, Aaron.
	And they say never let a crisis go to waste, right?
	Now, just in the interest of time here, I want to be respectful to your time, Aaron.
	We're almost out of time.
	So Todd, I know you've got a couple more questions.
	Where do you want to take this?
	I do, but I want to make a comment here.
	And this is to lower the...
	The intellect of this interview because I'm saying it.
	Just hearing everything makes me want to say, bruh, this is effed up.
	I mean, everything is nuts that I'm hearing.
	But I love that you're passionate about the solutions.
	You know, one of my favorite lines is, you know, in a time of crisis or whatever, sometimes it's urgent to do nothing.
	But other times it's urgent to do something.
	And you're a to-do-something individual, I can tell.
	And you're also one of these people that, you know, just put a line in the sand and say, no, you know, you move.
	So thank you for that.
	Thank you for your service.
	My final question is, I'm interested in politics.
	As a presidential candidate, you've personally engaged with the highest levels politically, as you shared.
	Tell me, is it possible at all for a politician to serve in office without becoming compromised, Aaron, at all?
	No.
	And I will tell you, my connection to politics is more than my own activism.
	My stepmother started out in politics in Florida as a precinct captain in Broward County, and then she ended up the co-chair of the RNC from 2012 to 2016, and she was Trump's ambassador to Costa Rica.
	So I have seen politics for three decades up close.
	And then I've run PACs and done all this other stuff.
	There's a reason I dropped out of politics in 2018.
	And so only to come back and run for president.
	But again, I ran for president knowing that I wasn't going to be able to fix it, but I wanted to use that as a platform.
	You cannot fix politics.
	Where we're at.
	And this would be a whole separate conversation, but I've been trying to stimulate this conversation about America 2.0 from first principles because we really need to go back and look at our foundational principles and kind of reevaluate over 250 years and really start thinking about this because you can't unwind this.
	And part of the reason why, you know, people will say to me, well, Trump's going to win and all this other stuff.
	And I'm like, listen, you're not understanding And once you get inside and you're directly involved in this, it'll make you sick.
	Here's the reality.
	Two-thirds of Americans can't identify the three branches of government.
	So most voters, this is a true story, are no-to-low-information voters.
	So what actually determines the elections isn't the debates, isn't policy.
	It's the get-out-the-vote campaign driven by the political parties.
	The Democrats have had a huge advantage since 2008.
	They have systems.
	They have like, yeah, what is a 500 data points on every voter?
	So they know the week before the election, we've got to go to this nursing home.
	We've got to give them this flyer that says unless you vote for this person or that person, you're going to get kicked out in the street because most people are not engaged.
	But those people vote.
	The Democrats have a massive advantage.
	The reason Trump did well in 2016 wasn't so much Trump, but the fact that he used Palantir to level the playing field somewhat.
	And when that was taken away, people were like, oh, well, you know, it couldn't possibly be that Biden got all these votes.
	I'm not saying that there isn't any issues with election integrity, but I am saying people are unaware of the gap between the get out the vote data and AI apparatus that the Democrats have versus the Republicans and what that actually means with respect to elections.
	But with all of that said...
	Given the apathy and the lack of knowledge of a voter and the way that the system is structured from a funding perspective, I don't see any political way out of this, which is why I exited politics to begin with and why I'm so adamant now about teaching people.
	People are like, well, who are you going to choose in November?
	We make 35,000 choices every day.
	So what choices are you going to make today?
	What are your actions going to be?
	What are your thoughts?
	What are your emotions going to be?
	How are you going to control those 35,000 today, not just one choice in a rigged polarity contest in November?
	Right, right.
	Have you come across any politician, in your estimation, who did not become compromised, that held their values at all?
	So, yeah, and they don't ascend.
	So somebody like Ron Paul, right?
	So there are people that stick to their values and they don't climb the ranks.
	They don't get the committee chairs.
	They don't get the brass ring.
	They don't end up in a position where they can affect any power.
	So you'll have a handful of ideological people there, but in a Congress of 535 people, it's enough to give people hope in the system, but not enough to actually get anything done.
	Okay, thank you.
	I was thinking Ron Paul, too.
	He came to mind instantly.
	And you're right, they kept him out of power because he was known as Dr.
	No.
	Anytime the government wanted to expand and take more power, Ron Paul would say no.
	Consistently.
	A principled man.
	Okay, so Aaron, you spent a generous amount of time with us.
	We're totally impressed with what you've got going on.
	How can people follow your work and help you in your effort?
	The best way it follows me is on my website, daylightfreedom.org.
	And on that site, you can actually...
	Sign up for workshops or if you want to help put together a workshop, there are forms there that you can fill out.
	There's a link to my book, a link to a lot of my other interviews, articles that I've written at the Brownstone Institute.
	And I would say the big thing that we need, and we talked about this at the beginning, the one thing that was fascinating, because I've been a political activist for a long time, and I've usually been able to generate some press.
	And I actually had a database with 3,000 press contacts and everything else.
	And I actually filed to run for president in February.
	And I put out a press release.
	And I've been in New Hampshire, and I'm in the first of the nation state and everything else.
	Not a single person from the press would pick up my story.
	And it's because my platform was exit banks, exit public health, exit big tech, turn off the TV and pull your kids out of public school.
	That is the basis of my campaign was I don't want your vote.
	I want you to vote for yourself by exiting the system.
	And I couldn't get a single pickup.
	And I think the most threatening part of it is actually exiting the banks because I know people are very sensitive to, frankly, The over-leveraged house of cards nature of our financial system.
	So once you realize 1% or 2% of the people pulling their money out of the bank and the system collapses, that's cause for concern for a lot of people.
	So I appreciate being on this and actually for your audience because the way we were hooked up is one of your viewers who I had never met before.
	I went to my form on the daylightfreedom.org site and said, look, we need help.
	The best way for me to get in front of an audience is for you to go to the people, your respected sources of information, and that's how this thing got hooked up.
	So if anybody out there is listening to this, that's the best way for this to go, is to go organically.
	This is not a big operation.
	This is me and my wife part-time and a good friend of mine.
	Shout out Subsovereign, who messaged me in Telegram and worked hard to set this up.
	A couple of people did, actually.
	There will be other opportunities stemming from this too.
	Some people will see this and then reach out to you, Aaron, and want to have you on.
	But in particular, I want to talk to you off camera about your e-commerce solution so that we really, really want an e-commerce solution to plug into our system that we're using right now.
	And we've got such a huge customer base who want to use crypto for all the right reasons in order to purchase products.
	And so...
	Hey, if you got a system like that, we're all in.
	Great.
	Well, I'll talk to you about it offline.
	I may have an interim solution for you anyway that can help now while I'm building my thing.
	So I have some ideas for you.
	I'll share.
	Okay.
	Well, I'll have my producer reach out to you.
	So we're going to wrap this portion up.
	Aaron, thank you for your time.
	Really appreciate you and what you're doing.
	And I'd love to connect with you and help support your efforts.
	And you just made some friends here on this channel and with Todd and myself as well.
	Great, thank you.
	Thank you.
	I appreciate it.
	Thank you.
	You are a very, very impressive man, and thank you for your service.
	I mean, I hate saying that to all of these different people that not necessarily have earned it, but man, you've been leading with your chin versus your handout, obviously, and it's much appreciated.
	Thank you.
	I appreciate that.
	I really do.
	I second that.
	Okay, Aaron, well, have a great rest of your day, and Todd and I will continue with a little bit of additional commentary, but have a great day.
	Great, you too.
	Thanks.
	Bye.
	All right.
	Take care.
	Cheers.
	Alright, this is Mike Adams here.
	We're going to talk about all these different forms of gold and silver today and the value of what is real money versus all this garbage right here, this paper currency.
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	Some of these bills are $10 trillion from countries whose central banks already collapsed.
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	So these are designed to where you can just break off a chunk like this so it's divisible, right?
	Yeah.
	And then out of this, you can break off another chunk, and then you have your separate chunks.
	So if you want to give a fraction of an ounce of silver, and each one of these pepper bars is, I think, just under or right around two troy ounces of silver.
	But if you want to break off a piece and have it still be Nearly pure silver, you know.999 silver, then this is a really great format.
	And these prepper bars come in this format.
	It's a plastic case with a very nice design of the eagles on one side and then on the back it tells you how many ounces you have and in God we trust.
	And so this is available now at PrepperBar.com and you use discount code Ranger and you'll save 10% off of these bars.
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	They also are selling gold bars in the same way.
	Where you can break them off and make them highly divisible.
	So this is useful in a collapse scenario or a barter or a farmer's market, local commerce type of scenario where you need to break down the metal and you need to make it into some kind of recognizable, divisible amount.
	That's a good way to do that.
	Alright, now, moving on, then we have gold coins over here.
	Obviously, these gold coins are worth a couple thousand dollars each, a little bit more.
	One ounce gold coins, but again, hard to break down because how do you chop one into a thousand pieces?
	How do you give somebody a thousandth of an ounce of gold?
	Well, the answer to that is these goldbacks.
	So right here, these are goldbacks, and each one of these has one one thousandth of an ounce of gold literally in it.
	It's embedded in the bill, and if you turn it over, you're actually looking at the gold.
	That's embedded in it.
	A thousandth of an ounce of gold.
	And these are available at verifiedgoldbacks.com.
	So goldbacks make gold divisible, tradable, and easy to carry and more beautiful and easy to look at.
	Prepper bars make silver very divisible.
	You can carry it in your wallet.
	You know, easy to see, easy to verify, pure silver.
	These other forms, yeah, they've got their uses too.
	You know, the junk silver, it's got its use.
	It's U.S. Mint.
	The silver bars, if you are wealthy enough to save up tons and tons of silver, this is probably the most economical form to do it.
	Or, if you're into silver jewelry, that's one more way to do it as well.
	And, perhaps, you know, if you're trying to bring silver into a country or something, you can just wear it as jewelry and bring it in that way, and maybe they won't hassle you.
	I don't know.
	But these are all the different formats, okay, of silver and gold that I'm familiar with and that I think all have different uses and different advantages.
	If you're just trying to store wealth and survive the collapse of the dollar, then you could use bars or you could even do vaulted gold and silver.
	Oh, I don't know what the Rubik's Cube is doing here.
	This is not gold and silver.
	But I'm just playing with the cube between shows here.
	But anyway, bars are for the most economical storage of asset wealth in order to avoid the collapse of the dollar that's happening, or the collapse of the euro, or the collapse of the yen, which is underway.
	The divisible forms are great for barter, the goldbacks, the prepper bars, the junk silver.
	The coins are great for recognizability with any coin dealer, any gold and silver dealer in the country or in most Western nations will recognize like a silver buffalo or a silver eagle or a gold eagle or all the other popular world mints.
	So it's simply up to you to decide what combination is best for you.
	Now obviously I'm not giving you investment advice.
	I can't tell you what the price of gold and silver is going to go to.
	I don't know for sure.
	I know that historically gold and silver have held their value while the dollar has lost over 96% of its purchasing power since the creation of the Fed in 1913.
	The creature of Jekyll Island, right?
	G. Edward Griffin.
	Gold and silver have held their value, especially since 1971 when Nixon took us off the gold standard.
	But I don't know.
	I can't say day to day how high it's going to go.
	I can't say, oh, gold's going to be 5,000 an ounce or 50,000 or whatever.
	You can find lots of people out there who've done different calculations of where they think it's going.
	What I know is that this is self-custody.
	Like the other day, the market was crashing.
	And you couldn't log in to E-Trade or Robinhood or whatever all the trading companies were.
	You couldn't log in.
	Most of them were down.
	So it didn't matter what you had.
	You couldn't sell it.
	You couldn't use it.
	You couldn't access it.
	But when you have this in your hand, like a prepper bar, in your hand right here, guess what?
	You don't need...
	A login.
	You don't need a password.
	You don't need government permission.
	They can't see it.
	They can't spy on it.
	They can't control it.
	They can't limit it.
	And they can't seize it in a banking bail-in.
	So I say self-custody matters.
	And that's why everything I have on the desk here is self-custody.
	You can hold all of this in your hands.
	And you should hold it in your hands.
	And, you know, if you're concerned about security on this, well, you know, guess what?
	Right here.
	There's something else that we have.
	This is a different kind of metal.
	And you need to have a means of legal self-defense in order to defend your assets, your home, your family, your property.
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	Maybe an AR-15 is appropriate for you.
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	And use it responsibly.
	And yes, all of this is about being moral.
	You have a moral right to keep what you earn.
	You have a moral right to protect your assets.
	You have a moral right to defend your family and defend your assets against thieves or terrorists or someone trying to destroy you.
	And that's where self-defense comes in.
	And that's where monetary defense comes in.
	Yes, you have all those rights.
	So act ethically, morally, and you will be rewarded.
	You'll be able to save or preserve your assets even as other fiat currencies collapse.
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	Welcome to today's sermon.
	I'm Mike Adams and today we're going to be discussing the pomegranate fruit.
	The pomegranate is a miracle from God and Mother Nature.
	It contains powerful anti-cancer nutrients and also anti-parasitic nutrients.
	We'll get into that.
	And it's mentioned time and time again throughout the Bible in Exodus, in Numbers, in Deuteronomy.
	You know, a lot of Old Testament mentions, but that's not the only place where it's mentioned.
	It was native to the Middle East and the Mediterranean region.
	It's been around for as long as we have recorded history.
	And even to this day, it's one of the most miraculous fruits or superfruits, as we often call it, because it contains nutrients that are created by God and Mother Nature.
	Now, before we get into that, let's just back up for a little bit of context here and understand...
	That the teachings that I share with you have a special emphasis on nutrition, nutrients found in nature, which are expressions of the mind of God and the miracles of creation.
	And that taking in these nutrients is a necessary sacrament to be part of this, as I call it, this church, this congregation.
	Because these nutrients help purify our blood, purify our bodies, purify our brains, and only as we are physically purified and cleansed of toxins and cleansed of cancer and parasites and other things like that, only at that point can we appropriately pursue spiritual purity, body, mind, and spirit, all three levels.
	So physical, and then mental, and then spiritual.
	In other words, the pathway to get closer to God is to first purify your body.
	And it is these fruits, like pomegranate and other superfoods, that allow us to do that.
	Now the second principle to remember in all the teachings here is that these nutrients, and most of the notable nutrients in pomegranates are called polyphenols.
	And some of those include gallic acid or elagic acid and various tannins and so on.
	These are incredibly potent nutrients that are synthesized in the plant.
	In other words, the plant makes these.
	So if you plant a pomegranate seed and it begins to grow and then it begins to generate fruit itself...
	It is building these nutrients.
	It's building the polyphenols out of the elements of the air and water and soil.
	And as I've said many times, most of the nutrients that we find that are medicinal, not all of them, but most of them consists of just three elements, carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen.
	And you'll notice that, of course, hydrogen and oxygen, those are the two elements that make up water.
	So plants are able to take in water to effectively, through chemistry, which is an expression of the mind of God, they can break away the hydrogen and oxygen and then combine it with carbon from the atmosphere that comes in from carbon dioxide.
	And then they can rearrange that into a new formula to form new molecules.
	For example, gallic acid is C7H6O5. That's seven carbon atoms, six hydrogen atoms, and five oxygen atoms arranged in a very particular arrangement of double bonds and chemical bonds.
	That create a molecule with a specific function.
	Gallic acid has a specific function.
	It is known to have anti-inflammatory properties and antioxidant properties.
	It can be used in things like textile dyeing operations as well, which is kind of interesting.
	We'll talk about that later.
	A lot of these molecules have many purposes, and this is why pomegranate fruits are mentioned throughout the Bible as being part of the dyes.
	For example, if you go to Exodus chapter 28, it talks about using pomegranates To adorn, and it's talking about the dyes, to adorn the hems of robes.
	So if we go to Exodus 39, verse 22, he made the robe of the ephod of woven work all of blue, and there was an opening in the middle of the robe, like the opening of a coat of mail, with a woven binding all around the opening, so that it would not tear.
	Very specific...
	Textile instructions here.
	And the zipper and the Velcro were...
	No, that did not exist.
	Verse 24, they made on the hem of the robe pomegranates of blue, purple, and scarlet, and a fine woven linen.
	And they made bells of pure gold and put the bells between the pomegranates on the hem of the robe all around between the pomegranates.
	A bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate all around the hem of the robe to minister in as the Lord had commanded Moses.
	So, wow.
	I mean, it's a bit of a poem, obviously.
	There's a lot of mentions of pomegranates here.
	And pomegranates were associated with being close to God, with higher spiritual acuity.
	And again, this is an expression of nature.
	This is something that comes out of the mind of God.
	Now, we can talk about the chemical formulas of the gallic acid or the tannins or the elagic acid or the various antioxidants and so on, but that's just a way to try to map out the miracle of Mother Nature and God.
	Back in the days of Moses, they didn't know the chemical equations of pomegranates, but they knew that they had special properties.
	And these properties are the kind of properties that protect life.
	And so remember that in this great spiritual battle between God and Satan, on Team God, you could say, or Team Christ, we are protecting life.
	That's why we oppose the murder of unborn children.
	That's why we oppose violence and war and bombing people to death.
	Instead, we support life.
	And we oppose pesticides, herbicides, toxic chemicals, and Satan's molecules that infest our foods or medicines or the vaccine jabs or personal care products.
	But we advocate for healthful, wholesome nutrients, herbs, superfoods, natural medicines, things that come from nature, which is the expression of the mind of God.
	These are the things that we advocate because these are the things that protect life.
	And so if you look at pomegranates, and right now I'm just going to Herbs of the Bible by the late James A. Duke, and what he talks about with pomegranates is their benefits including treatments for cancer, infertility, worms, estrogen deficiency, inflammation of the eyelid, bronchitis, painful menstruation, mouth sores, sore throat, and much more.
	And he says that, quote, And then he talks about how they use it in food, they use it in salads, they use it even to make wine.
	The pomegranate seeds ferment easily, it's added to grape wine.
	In biblical times and even Egyptians today, he says, still make pomegranate wine.
	I would love to have some pomegranate wine.
	I don't drink wine as a regular course of things.
	I don't actually consume any alcohol at all, except maybe in herbal tinctures.
	But I would love to consume some pomegranate wine, a moderate amount, for the benefit of the fermented pomegranate.
	And I don't know where to get that, by the way, but maybe you do, but I think that would be something very interesting.
	And also very much in alignment with the teachings of Christ and what God wanted us to do.
	So pomegranates, because of their rich color and also some of the tannins they contain, they're also very useful for tanning leather.
	So Morocco leather is known for its special yellow hue.
	And if you use the pomegranate flowers, then you get a red dye from that.
	The color of the leather comes from pomegranates.
	Did you know that?
	In India, in Ayurvedic medicine, you can use the pomegranate rind to treat worms and parasites, diarrhea, dysentery, and then you can use the bark and the seeds to treat bronchitis.
	The ripe fruit is an astringent and an aphrodisiac.
	So you see, this is used across multiple cultures.
	In the Philippines, they gargle with a decoction of pomegranate leaves for oral ailments.
	I'm reading again from herbs of the Bible.
	And in ancient Persia, they used pomegranate flowers in a concoction, just like a water extract tea, to relieve painful gums.
	And the pomegranate leaf contains nutrients that inhibit viruses.
	So here we have an antiviral drug, so to speak.
	That's not even the right term.
	We have textile dyes.
	We have anti-cancer nutrients.
	We have nutrients that treat fertility.
	Now, pomegranates are especially known for helping to prevent prostate cancer.
	No wonder God sees pomegranates as a blessing onto humanity.
	So, throughout the Old Testament, we'll go to Deuteronomy here, chapter 8, God even mentions pomegranates as one of the blessings of the fruit and the grain that is promised to his people led to the promised land.
	So, chapter 8, verse 6, Therefore you shall keep the commandments of the Lord your God to walk in his ways and to fear him.
	He's saying, obviously, please, hey, ancient Israelites, follow the laws of God and you shall be blessed with abundance.
	Right.
	You know, you follow Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy.
	This is the promise.
	And of course, the Israelites violate that.
	But that's another lesson altogether.
	God continues here.
	Verse seven, for the Lord, your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs that flow out of valleys and hills.
	I mean, wow.
	How awesome is that?
	Really?
	We get we get just water just coming out of the hills.
	That's great.
	A land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey.
	Yes.
	A land in which you will eat bread without scarcity, in which you will lack nothing.
	A land whose stones are iron and out of whose hills you can dig copper.
	And when you have eaten and are full, then you shall bless the Lord, your God, for the good land which he has given you.
	He's saying, this land that I am leading you to, this land, with your obedience, you shall be blessed with minerals?
	The minerals of the day, you know, copper and iron, no doubt it probably contained lithium and things like that that would be valuable in the modern day as well.
	You're going to have minerals to make your weapons and your tools.
	You're going to have food.
	You're going to have water.
	You're going to have good soils.
	You're going to have all these amazing things as long as you are obedient to God.
	And he follows that up.
	By the way, verse 11, Beware that you do not forget the Lord your God by not keeping His commandments, His judgments, and His statutes, which I command you today, lest when you have eaten and are full and have built beautiful houses and dwell in them,
	and when your herds and your flocks multiply and your silver and your gold are multiplied and all that you have is multiplied, when your heart is lifted up, and he's saying, you know, you have all this abundance, all this material wealth, Continuing,
	He says, in which were fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty land where there was no water, who brought water for you out of the flinty rock.
	Moses tapping the rock and boom, there's water.
	And they complained about it.
	So much manna every day!
	Not more manna again!
	Manna cakes, manna stew, manna pasta, manna spaghetti, right?
	They got tired of that.
	I'm sorry, those are my comments, not the Word of God, obviously.
	He continues,"...which your fathers did not know, that he might humble you and that he might test you to do you good in the end, then you say in your heart, my power and the might of my hand have gained me this wealth." So what's he saying here?
	He's saying, look, Israelites, look, I gave you the fruit of the pomegranate.
	I gave you the minerals, the riches.
	I gave you the land, the water, and it is out of all this abundance that you became fat and wealthy.
	You had all this material wealth and life became comfortable.
	So do not forget where your wealth and abundance came from because it came from me, your Lord, he is saying.
	And if you forget, well, what happens?
	It shall all be taken away from you.
	And that's exactly what he says.
	For it is he who gives you power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant, which he swore to your fathers, as it is this day.
	And of course, what have we become today in Western civilization?
	We live among nations where most people have forgotten where abundance comes from.
	They think it's all due to themselves.
	The worship of money and greed, all the synthetic medicine and all the processed foods that lack nutrients, all the monoculture farming operations.
	And you know what I find interesting in all this?
	To this day, there's nobody in the realm of science that has been able to invent a pomegranate fruit.
	Isn't that interesting?
	There's nobody in the realm of science with all the pharmaceutical companies and all their research, so-called research, faked research, and all their so-called vaccines and all their so-called cancer medicines and all the grant money and all the experts and all the, you know, authorities on science.
	They can't create a blade of grass, can they?
	They've never created a blade of grass.
	Should be simple, you would think.
	They've never created a leaf of anything.
	They've never created a fruit or a seed, have they?
	Never created a seed of anything.
	And yet God provides this creation for you automatically every day for free, no royalties necessary.
	All you have to do is take some seeds of almost anything, put them in a mason jar, rinse them with water, put a cheesecloth over the top with a rubber band, and you've got sprouts.
	And the sprouts are synthesizing natural medicines for you.
	Where do those natural medicines come from?
	A gift from God.
	Every time you sprout seeds, I think perhaps give a little prayer to God right there.
	Thank you, God, for this life, for these medicines that are in these seeds.
	Thank you, God, because without this we would have nothing.
	Every sprout should be a reminder of the importance of our obedience to God and His teachings.
	And yet, again, we live in a society that has moved away from that, that has embraced everything synthetic, everything fake.
	Not only fake food, fake medicine, fake morality, fake virtue signaling, fake news media, fake facts, fake elections, fake money, fake churches, fake spirituality.
	All that stuff is fake.
	None of that is in alignment with God.
	You want to be in alignment with God?
	Grow some pomegranates and eat them.
	So simple.
	It's really simple.
	Here's what else is cool.
	You know, you can go out and buy pomegranate juice.
	And if you do so, by the way, I encourage you to get organic.
	Because there's a prominent pomegranate juice company out there that uses a lot of weed killer chemicals.
	I mean, I think they're the number one user in California of weed killers.
	And we are not fans, of course, of those destructive satanic molecules of weed killers, pesticides, and herbicides, right?
	So you don't want to take that in.
	So make sure you buy organic.
	And if you grow pomegranates, grow them organically.
	But you know that when they squeeze the pomegranate fruit in a machine to get the juice out, did you know that it's also squeezing some of the whitish-colored or yellow-colored rind on the inside?
	Did you know that?
	And did you know that's where a lot of the best medicine is?
	So the anti-cancer medicine in the pomegranate is actually in the bitter rind part, the inner part of it, not the juicy sweet seeds themselves so much.
	I mean, the medicine comes from the bitter parts of the fruit, the more powerful medicine, I should say.
	Now, sure, there are antioxidants in the fruit.
	There are many benefits in the fruit seeds themselves.
	But if you want the real benefits of pomegranate, and this goes back to Ayurvedic medicine, they would use the rind for certain treatments, including the anti-parasite treatments.
	That comes from the rind, not the fruit.
	The bitters are what kill the parasites if they're already in your digestive tract.
	A lot of polyphenols in pomegranates, but they come from different parts of the plant.
	You know, the leaves contain different nutrients than do the fruits or the rind or the flowers.
	And so each part of the plant has a different role in medicine.
	I would say if there's one fruit that most closely indicates the message from God of abundance of food and medicine, In a bright, beautiful package that technically needs no pesticides or herbicides, that's already sort of pest-resistant because of the hard outer shell, pomegranates fit the bill.
	And this is why I think pomegranates have, of course, long been associated with abundance.
	If you look at Numbers chapter 13, verse 20, and this is when the so-called spies, or I call them scouts, were sent out to So that the people with Moses could know whether they're going someplace that has anything worth going to.
	So here we are from Numbers chapter 13, verse 23.
	Then they came to the valley of Eshcol, and there cut down a branch with one cluster of grapes.
	They carried it between two of them on a pole.
	They also brought some of the pomegranates and figs.
	The place was called the Valley of Eshcol because of the cluster, which the men of Israel cut down there.
	And they returned from spying out the land after 40 days.
	Now they departed and came back to Moses and Aaron and all the congregation of the children of Israel in the wilderness of Paran at Kadesh.
	They brought back word to them and to all the congregation and showed them the fruit of the land.
	See, this is...
	The scouts bringing back proof that the land was abundant.
	And what did they bring back?
	Grapes and pomegranates.
	Verse 27.
	Then they told him and said, We went to the land where you sent us.
	It truly flows with milk and honey.
	And this is its fruit.
	And then they showed the pomegranates and the grapes.
	Very cool.
	And probably figs and other amazing things as well.
	And figs, you know, we'll talk about figs in another sermon, but pomegranates have much more powerful medicine in the polyphenols compared to figs.
	So pomegranates are a symbol of natural medicine.
	They're a symbol of abundance from God.
	They're a symbol of fertility.
	And I think If you truly understand what God is demanding of humanity, pomegranates can also serve as a symbol of the covenant with God.
	That is, God saying, here, I bless you with this amazing, powerful, free medicine and food, all in one.
	All you have to do is follow my teachings, follow my laws, you know, Deuteronomy.
	Don't do crazy things to each other or to children or, you know...
	All the laws of God, right?
	Be moral, be lawful, and do not forget me, and don't worship idols and false gods, and don't lie, and all these other things.
	So what did mankind do?
	Well, of course, mankind violated everything and just said, we don't need you, God.
	We'll go off and we'll create, you know, gummy bears or whatever, lollipops.
	And God was not amused.
	And to this day, I mean, sure, you can buy artificial fruit in the form of a can of soda pop or a lollipop or a piece of Halloween candy.
	And what does that give you?
	Diabetes and cavities.
	You know, that's not natural medicine.
	There's nothing in a lollipop that's going to cure cancer.
	Or treat infertility or get rid of parasites.
	Uh-uh.
	No.
	See, mankind cannot follow God's gifts.
	Mankind can only make cheap imitations.
	Counterfeit fruit in the form of candy.
	Counterfeit fruit.
	Counterfeit fruit.
	By the way, did you know that the word pomegranate...
	It's a combination of apple and grain.
	And that's why granite or granates would be the grains which represents the seeds.
	All the little red seeds that look a lot like grains, like delicious juicy grains filled with fruit juice.
	They look like grains, right?
	But then on the outside, the palm looks kind of like an apple.
	So it's kind of like apple grains.
	And it's possible that this might have been the fruit in the Garden of Eden.
	The apple might not have been an apple as we know it today because that was not native to the region in that day.
	You know, modern day apples did not exist there.
	We already talked about apricots that are probably the actual fruit referred to in many cases in the Old Testament when they say fruit or in some cases apple, like King Solomon talking about the apple of my eye.
	But in reality, it might have been the pomegranate.
	Isn't that interesting?
	We don't know for sure.
	I'm just putting that out there.
	But what if the apple in the Garden of Eden was actually a pomegranate fruit?
	It could be.
	That would be interesting.
	By the way, if you go to PubMed, the National Library of Medicine, And if you search for pomegranate juice or pomegranates or the polyphenols in pomegranates, you're going to find just an extraordinary number of published studies, peer-reviewed science studies.
	And here's just one of them from the Journal of Functional Foods.
	This was June 2017.
	Pomegranate juice and its main polyphenols exhibit direct effects on...
	On amine oxidases from human adipose tissue, i.e., you know, fat tissue, and inhibit lipid metabolism in adipocytes.
	So, in the abstract of the study, it says that pomegranate juice inhibited lipogenesis, meaning the creation of fat, and lipolysis in mouse and human adipose cells.
	And it talked about the punic celagin and the elagic acid that are found in pomegranates, That are involved in either inhibiting or promoting lipogenesis.
	And in the study, it says, Very interesting.
	So that's just one.
	There are thousands of studies on pomegranates, pomegranate juice, and the nutrients that are found in pomegranates.
	You can go there yourself and you can look them up.
	So here's an example where ancient biblical scripture is confirmed by modern science and research saying that, yes, this is powerful medicine.
	Yes, this does have anti-cancer or anti-inflammatory properties.
	Yes, this can potentially treat a great many conditions, although we live under a Western society of Satan's molecules and big pharma.
	And Satan's government with its satanic regulatory bodies that prohibit people from telling the truth about what pomegranates can do.
	One pomegranate manufacturer in America was sued by the FTC for daring to cite published studies about the benefits of pomegranate.
	Isn't that amazing?
	So in America...
	You can be sued by the government or fined or even shut down if you tell the truth about God's medicine.
	Isn't that just appropriate for a satanic society?
	You can't speak the truth of God.
	You can only spread lies from big pharma or lies about vaccines.
	Yeah, if you say lies all the time, then the government has no problem with you.
	But if you tell the truth, About God's molecules, God's medicine.
	Well, you might be a criminal.
	You might be a danger to society.
	You can't talk about pomegranates being medicine.
	It's not approved by the FDA. Well, how could it ever be approved by the FDA? The FDA doesn't approve fruits as drugs by definition.
	And it never will.
	And there will never be a company that And if they did, if the FDA approved the pomegranate fruit as a medicine, as a drug, do you realize that no grocery store could sell it?
	You would have to have a prescription to buy pomegranates.
	Because drugs can only be prescribed by doctors and sold through pharmacies.
	See?
	That's how crazy the system is.
	So, of course, you can bypass all of that and simply treat yourself with pomegranates.
	Grow them or buy them organically or however you get them and enjoy them.
	It's God's medicine.
	It's a gift to you.
	And let it be a reminder of the importance of our obedience to God's laws.
	And if we do that, we're going to be in a very good place.
	Eat more pomegranates.
	You'll be healthier, far healthier as a result.
	And thank you for listening today.
	This is Mike Adams.
	There are many more sermons yet to come about foods and superfoods from the Bible, and also various verses, various books, and important words of Scripture that are relevant to our time today, our modern day era, that can help you navigate the craziness that is accelerating all around us.
	So take that to heart.
	Thank you for listening.
	Wherever you found this sermon, you can go there and hear the other sermons as well.
	A lot more to come.
	God bless you all.

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