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Aug. 27, 2024 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams

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	Everyday prices are too high.
	Food, rent, gas, back to school clothes.
	That is called Bidonomics.
	A loaf bread costs 50% more today.
	Ground beef is up almost 50%.
	There's not much left at the end of the month.
	Bidonomics is working.
	The price of housing has gone up.
	It feels so hard to just be able to get ahead.
	And we are very proud of Bidonomics.
	Alright, welcome to Brighteon Broadcast News.
	Hope you enjoyed that little mini debate between Kamala Harris and Kamala Harris explaining why groceries are so unaffordable.
	Today is Tuesday, August 27th, 2024.
	I'm Mike Adams. Thank you for joining me today.
	And wow, do we have some just huge, huge news for you today.
	Tulsi Gabbard endorsed Donald Trump today.
	And also, Cornel West tweeted out some very favorable things about Donald Trump.
	And Shanahan, who's the vice president candidate with RFK, she's been out making some really excellent points as well.
	It's like everybody with a brain is joining MAGA or MAHA, Make America Healthy Again, and And the only people sticking with Kamala and the Democrats are literally people who are brain damaged.
	Vaccine damage seems to be, you know, the common component.
	Now, I've got an interview today for you with Maria Z. She has visited Texas and she joined me in studio for an extended interview.
	And I'm going to play that for you coming up here today because, well, she's nailing all the important points.
	Now, also, I've got something really special for you first.
	I've got another new song segment to play for you today, a little teaser.
	This is a 19-second teaser about the second song that I'm working on, which is so funny.
	I decided to sing Bible Scripture, and I know you're going to be like, what?
	What?
	What are you talking about?
	Trust me, it is funny beyond belief.
	Seriously, I'm going to play 19 seconds for you here.
	So I was doing a sermon.
	You know, I'm doing nutritional sermons and superfoods.
	And I was doing a sermon on turmeric.
	And it turns out the only place turmeric is mentioned, and you have to even go back to the original pronunciation of turmeric in Arabic in order to get the word, I think it's curcum, which is like curcumin.
	Anyway, this, I explain it in the sermon, this leads to the mention of turmeric in one place in the Bible, in the Song of Solomon.
	And this Song of Solomon, this is like a giant, steamy, you know, very heated, heavy petting scene between King Solomon and this Shulamite guy.
	Young woman who was actually really tan, it said.
	She was brown. She was like super tan, brown girl, and the king's like all over her, right?
	And this poem, well, this song, Song of Solomon, is all about these two getting it on.
	The Bible can be quite steamy at times, by the way.
	But they're using all these metaphors of fruits and spices to talk about all kinds of sex acts.
	So it's pretty darn funny.
	And also all the compliments that King Solomon is giving to this woman, all the compliments are hilarious in today's language.
	He says, you know, your teeth are like a flock of freshly shorn sheep.
	Which, if you think about it, it means your teeth are white.
	Because if you shear a bunch of sheep, they look really white because of the fresh wool underneath.
	It's not all dirty like the surface wool.
	So if you shear the sheep, and I guess the past tense is shorn, freshly shorn sheep, then they look really, really white.
	And he's like, your teeth, your teeth are so white.
	They're like freshly shorn sheep.
	Now, you wouldn't say that today.
	And also he says things like, Your navel is as round as a goblet.
	And I thought that was so hilarious.
	I had to put it in the song.
	And things like, your waist is a heap of wheat.
	And there's more. So, give it a listen.
	19 seconds. Song of Solomon.
	I'm going to release the whole song here shortly.
	A couple of days. As soon as we get the lyrics video done.
	Whatever. I mean, it's going to be a few days.
	But we'll release the full song.
	And this is my first Bible rap.
	Which I know even sounds funny just saying it.
	But there are a lot of songs and poems and things in the Bible that I think deserve some really energetic rap style music.
	So anyway, give this a listen.
	All right.
	So I admit to adding a few words like...
	At the very end there, stuck in your teeth.
	It was so funny because, like, you know, the temples behind the veil are like a pomegranate.
	And as much as I love to hear the word pomegranate in the Bible, I just think it's funnier to add stuck in your teeth, you know.
	So... So Song of Solomon is coming out the, you know, the Health Ranger version of Song of Solomon, which is, it's less X-rated than the original Bible, by the way.
	I took out some of the steamy stuff because the Bible version is so raw.
	It's almost like an adult novel or something.
	Don't get any ideas off that, folks.
	You start picking up the Bible and reading it.
	Where's the adult novel part?
	Song of Solomon. It's all right in there.
	Because when he's talking about grape vines and fruit, he's not talking about grape vines and fruit.
	That's not what he's talking about.
	Oh, also one more thing, because I do include a sermon each day.
	And you know, I'm doing 100 sermons in 100 days.
	And did you know it's already day 30 of that?
	I couldn't believe it myself.
	So today is sermon number 30.
	And this sermon is...
	Mark chapter 11.
	Christ reveals Caesar's fake currency and false authority as valueless in the eyes of God.
	So yes, this is the render unto Caesar all that is Caesar's quote and some other interesting things.
	It's actually Mark chapters 11 and 12.
	And then tomorrow we're covering Mark chapter 13 because that, well, you have to dedicate a whole...
	Standalone sermon just on that, okay?
	So that's the lineup for today.
	We're going to cover breaking news, and then we're going to have the interview with Maria Z, and then we're going to have the sermon, Mark chapter 11, where Christ is calling out the fake currency of the Roman Empire.
	How cool is that? He called it nearly 2,000 years ago, and here we are today, people still using fake money, the dollar.
	It's so funny. Alright, so let's go to the video with Tulsi Gabbard endorsing Trump because this is important.
	Check this out....to the brink of nuclear war than we ever have been before.
	This is one of the main reasons why I'm committed to doing all that I can to send President Trump back to the White House where he can once again serve us as our commander in chief.
	Because I am confident that his first task will be to do the work to walk us back from the brink of war.
	more.
	We cannot be prosperous unless we are at peace.
	And we can't live free as long as we have a government that is retaliating against it.
	All right, sorry about the video cutting off there at the very end, but I think she was going to say the government that's weaponized against its own people.
	And this is becoming apparent to everybody.
	The governments of the world, the Western governments, are becoming weapons against their citizens.
	Look at the UK, arresting their own citizens while allowing a wave of illegals to run roughshod over the entire country.
	Look at France, arresting the founder of Telegram because he didn't sufficiently censor the platform.
	We'll talk about that today.
	And look at the US government, weaponized against its own people.
	Scott Ritter, who they accuse of working for Russia, even though he's not on Russia's payroll, he's just unhappy with NATO, and he thinks that Russia's...
	I'm actually smarter about this conflict, but whatever.
	I mean, everybody's entitled to their different view and different opinion.
	I mean, I interviewed Scott Ritter a couple of times.
	I've interviewed many different people with different views.
	I've interviewed Sebastian Gorka, who has the opposite point of view.
	You know, Sebastian Gorka believes that Scott Ritter is full of bunk, you know?
	And I've interviewed Colonel Douglas McGregor, who Gorka thinks McGregor is full of bunk.
	And he said so in my interview.
	I've interviewed, you know, Roger Stone and just, you know, a long list of other people.
	I even interviewed that one guy, I forgot his name, I apologize, who lives in Russia and he talks about like sacred geometry stuff.
	You know, like building sacred geometry on land, and he says Russia is a great place to get land really cheap.
	But I've interviewed people from the Middle East, I've interviewed people from Asia, I've interviewed people all over the world, and that's how you get, you know, a bigger point of view.
	And the underlying truth of what we're all seeing right now is that the governments of the West are at war with their own people.
	They're at war with their own people.
	So isn't it amazing now that so many former Democrats are coming out, like RFK Jr., a lifelong Democrat, folks.
	Lifelong Democrat just endorsed Trump, who himself was a former Democrat.
	Tulsi Gabbard, former Democrat.
	Elon Musk, former Democrat.
	And even myself, like I said before, in my college days, I was sort of a Democrat by default.
	Not that I was politically active or anything.
	I didn't know what was going on.
	I mean, come on, you're 21, you're in college.
	You think CNN tells the truth?
	And that's all we had was CNN. Anyway, it was pre-internet, folks.
	We didn't have the internet. So we were all kind of gaslit at that time, and I was too.
	But anyway, a lot of former Democrats coming out endorsing Trump, and apparently...
	You're going to see a lot more of that.
	And RFK Jr.
	announced in the last 24 hours that he's going to be joining Trump's transition team.
	That is, think about this, RFK Jr.
	is going to be making recommendations of people to put into positions in the Trump administration.
	You know what this means?
	This is super exciting for us.
	This means that we might get a Surgeon General who's not like a big pharma shill.
	We might get the head of the USDA that's not a big sellout to the pesticide companies.
	If Trump listens to RFK Jr.
	on a lot of appointments, especially having to do with agriculture, health, pharma, medicine, pesticides, EPA, environment, pollution, whatever...
	There could be a lot of good that comes out of that.
	I just do want to make sure.
	I don't want to see anybody appointed to the Trump administration that's going to attack our energy infrastructure.
	And RFK has a history of doing that.
	Let's be honest about it.
	He's no fan of coal.
	He's no fan of fossil fuels.
	And let's just...
	Let's keep him focused on the things where he really kicks ass, which is health and human services.
	But for energy, this is my opinion, we got to have somebody in there in the Trump administration who is pro-America.
	Let's put America first.
	Let's reopen the pipelines because that's the safest way to transport fossil fuels is pipelines.
	It's the most efficient way.
	We'll lower...
	Fuel prices, lower energy prices, food prices will start to fall.
	The best way, if you want to deal with food inflation, and Kamala, the commie, does not understand this, does not compute in the commie brain.
	Trump gets it. The best way to lower food prices is to lower energy prices.
	How do you do that?
	You open up the pipelines that Biden has been blocking for nearly four years.
	You know, you... Produce energy domestically.
	You become a net energy exporter because you have so much energy domestically, the price of energy goes down.
	So if you think about it, the oil companies make less per barrel of oil.
	When there's more oil flowing, the people pay less, food costs go down, farming costs go down, and the environment benefits from extra CO2 being released from tailpipes, and CO2 is the nutrient in the air that plants crave.
	It's better than Brondo.
	Plants crave CO2 and it helps crops grow so you get increased crop production when you have higher levels of CO2 in the atmosphere.
	So if we could push CO2 up to like 450 parts per million, our food crops would be incredibly abundant.
	And there would be almost no famine, no starvation in the world.
	But sadly, sadly, this is where I disagree with Democrats.
	They don't understand that, and they think we're in the middle of a, quote, climate crisis, which we are not.
	And it's funny because the, I think it's the WEF that's planning on making some announcement about the first island that's been lost because of rising ocean levels.
	Um... What rising ocean levels, what island are they going to claim has been submerged by the ocean?
	Because there isn't one.
	There isn't one. There might be an island somewhere that's had, like, erosion from waves.
	You know, waves beating on the shore over and over again.
	A little tiny island built on sand or something.
	Well, it's gone, you know, because, yeah, it's called wave action.
	There's not any significant island anywhere that's just going to disappear below the rising ocean because the waters haven't risen by any measurable amount beyond, I don't know, maybe a few millimeters or something in 50, 75 years. And besides, as I say, why do you think the current water level is the correct level?
	And what do the climate cultists have against the The ecosystem of aquatic marine animals.
	Aren't you all about habitat?
	More ocean means more habitat for the ocean creatures.
	What do you have against water? Why are they opposed to liquid water?
	They want it all frozen. Let's freeze it up in the ice caps.
	That's good. That's good water, frozen water.
	And I'm like, no. Melted water is liquid water that trees can use and plants can use and crops can use and All the fish in the ocean can use liquid water, not frozen water.
	So anyway, I'm not going to go into all the arguments here again, but...
	We just got to be sure that as these former Democrats get into the Trump administration, make sure they don't end up doing crazy stuff at the EPA like banning all combustion engines and banning pipelines and things like that.
	We need energy to make America great again.
	We also need healthy foods to make America healthy again.
	We can do both. These are not contradictory concepts.
	In fact, the more energy we have, the cheaper organic food production becomes.
	And then more people can afford cleaner organic foods.
	You see, they go together.
	So let's have more energy production, more affordable healthy foods, and then we'll lower chronic disease treatment costs as well because you won't have as many people getting sick from pesticides and herbicides found in conventional non-organic foods.
	If Trump and RFK really had balls, they would ask me to be part of something.
	But, of course, I'm too busy wrapping the Bible to be part of anything in Washington, D.C. Plus, I don't like commercial flights because they all smell like fragrance.
	So, no, no thank you.
	I'm happy here in Texas.
	I'm going to be doing my Bible studies and my sermons, and I've got some really cool announcements coming up related to...
	Bible studies, you will hear about those in the coming weeks.
	Now, let's go to a video from Cornel West.
	Now, Cornel West, he's appearing on the ballot, I think, in Michigan or Wisconsin, but not Pennsylvania, I believe.
	I'd have to double-check. The courts took him off, I think, from Pennsylvania.
	But Cornel West, and I apologize if I'm getting this wrong, but I believe he has typically been associated with more of a communist perspective.
	That's my understanding.
	However, however, what he's saying right now, the truth about these vaccines and how the vaccine industry has been preying on African Americans...
	Our black brothers and sisters in America, and I mean brothers and sisters in a humanitarian way.
	We're all brothers and sisters.
	And Big Pharma is targeting some groups more than others, and I've talked about that here.
	Big Pharma is targeting black people in America.
	The abortion industry is targeting black babies in America.
	That's 100% true.
	Cornel West absolutely sees that.
	And although... He may have positions that you and I don't agree with.
	There's also some really profound common ground that we do agree on with Cornel West.
	And so I want you to hear this short video from him explain where he's coming from on this.
	Check this out. I want to speak to my brothers and sisters of all colors who are concerned about not just the vaccine, but the role of the pharmaceutical company in shaping public policy, not allowing the various voices to be heard, the role of censorship, the attempt to impose closure on various voices that would help us understand what's really going on when it comes to healthcare policy vis-a-vis vaccines.
	I want a truth commission to find out what happened in the past, and I want to make sure that each and every one of us have fair access to the truth.
	All right, so that was Cornel West there.
	His website, cornellwest2024.com.
	And remember, there's only one L in his name, Cornel.
	Cornelwest2024.com. He is on the ballot in some states.
	I don't know all the states. But he is, he talks about truth, justice, and love.
	And he's running as an independent candidate for president.
	Don't forget that Dr. Shiva is also running as an independent.
	I've interviewed Dr. Shiva several times.
	Most recently, just last week, and that interview, which I labeled kind of a debate, that interview has become very popular.
	I've had a lot of feedback, and the funny thing about that is that the feedback I get from people is that more people agree with Dr.
	Shiva than they do me.
	So they're like, Mike, we think Dr.
	Shiva's right. And that's totally fine.
	That's totally okay. What I love about interviewing Dr.
	Shiva is that you can have a heated discussion with him.
	You can have a debate. And he doesn't walk away hating you, like Bill O'Reilly.
	If you disagree with Bill O'Reilly, he's super mad and screaming at you and everything.
	We're like, who's the guy like Bill O'Reilly on the left?
	I forgot his name.
	But anyway, some people just get mad all the time.
	But Dr. Shiva doesn't get mad.
	He's just out there, you know, nailing it.
	But I told Dr. Shiva, hey, you have not convinced me not to vote for Trump.
	Because, I mean, look where we are here in America.
	We got to vote for Trump, all of us, even former Democrats.
	We got to vote for Trump because you're voting for Trump and RFK and Tulsi Gabbard.
	You're voting for truth about vaccines and transparency.
	You know, you're voting for real reform in the system.
	You're voting to stop censorship, which is what Cornel West just mentioned.
	He sees the issue of censorship.
	He sees the importance of a COVID-19 truth commission.
	We need to know what happened with these toxic jabs that have killed so many people.
	And you know what? Talking about black America, you know what issue needs to be brought up?
	And RFK Jr. is perfect for this.
	Autism. Young black males are impacted by autism more than any other ethnic group because of vaccines.
	It's all about vaccines causing autism in the young black baby boys.
	That's exactly what's happening.
	And that's why when you look around America today, you see more black male autistic adults and young adults and children than you do any other ethnic group afflicted with autism.
	And so to Cornel West, I would say your slogan of truth, justice, love...
	100% agree.
	100% agree with those concepts, truth, justice, and love.
	And that means love for our fellow human beings, regardless of their skin color, regardless of their religion or their ethnicity.
	We extend love to our fellow brothers and sisters, and that's the way Cornel West uses that term as well, and that's the way I increasingly use it as I'm teaching Bible Scripture.
	We are brothers and sisters.
	Jesus said it himself. He even said when they tried to bring him his own mother and family members, he was like, everybody, all the people on earth are my brothers and sisters, you know?
	Now, truth and justice.
	Yeah, truth means ending censorship, allowing the truth to come out.
	In fact, pursuing the truth.
	Guess what? We already have an organization called The Truth About Vaccines.
	It's the same group that was The Truth About Cancer.
	It's Ty and Charlene Bollinger, who have been dear friends of mine for many years and have been absolute champions of the truth.
	And they were named as part of the so-called Dirty Dozen.
	They were named as like enemies of humanity when, in fact, they were the greatest allies of humanity.
	They were the greatest truth tellers.
	And others have been silenced, including myself.
	That's why I've filed suit against the government, against the Department of Defense and Homeland Security and Big Tech.
	We filed suit against Meta, and yesterday, this is shocking, we're going to cover this, Mark Zuckerberg came out, issued a letter, and admitted that they censored people during COVID, and he regrets it.
	He censored people during COVID because of government pressure.
	He just came out and basically confessed to the main points of our lawsuit.
	I was absolutely stunned to see Mark Zuckerberg coming out and saying this.
	And we need to really analyze what's going on there.
	Why is Zuckerberg coming out right now?
	I think it's because he sees what's coming and he's getting ahead of it.
	He sees there's going to be a COVID truth commission.
	And honestly, with people like Ivan Raiklin out there, the Secretary of Retribution, I think that Mark Zuckerberg wants to stay out of prison.
	That's just my opinion.
	I don't have any inside information, but I think Zuckerberg is trying to get quickly on the right side of history.
	He does not want to go to prison for being complicit in the censorship and the cover-up that led to mass COVID vaccine deaths, which disproportionately afflicted people of color, by the way, which is what Cornel West is talking about.
	So let me say this for the record.
	I've asked my producer to reach out to Cornel West to invite him to appear on my show for an interview.
	I hope he is able to accept that information.
	It will be a very cordial, very loving and friendly interview about how do we get to the truth?
	What do we have in common?
	All of us who love God, who are people of faith, and who believe in human dignity.
	What do we have in common?
	That needs to be stated right now, which is, frankly, a lot of it, like you said, ending censorship, ending corporate collusion with government, and stop exterminating our fellow human beings with deadly medical interventions such as these COVID-19 vaccines.
	And I will also remind you, by the way, that Brother Stan Johnson of Prophecy Club I think I mentioned this the other day.
	He called me. We will interview him coming up here soon as well.
	He has been gathering together prophecies from dozens of different people.
	And I think he said he had 41 or 42 prophecies right now that specifically talk about mass arrests taking place, he said, before the election.
	And I asked him in the phone call, I said, well, are those mass arrests of the good guys or the bad guys?
	I mean, how do we know who's getting arrested here?
	Because it could be the deep state running out and arresting everybody who's a Trump supporter, you know?
	Some of that seems to be going on.
	And I think he said, no, no, no, this is mass arrests of the evildoers, which that's something we all would welcome.
	I'm not sure how that would happen.
	Given who's currently in charge, but you know what?
	With God, everything is possible, so we shall see.
	So, by the way, if Cornel West were offered a position in the Trump administration, what position should he be given?
	I don't know the answer to that, but I do think Jill Stein should be made Secretary of Defense.
	That would be... 100% perfect right there.
	Jill Stein at the head of the Department of Defense.
	Just to make the military-industrial complex lose their minds.
	Okay, we've got another very important question.
	Video for you here to share.
	This is Nicole Shanahan, who is the vice presidential candidate with RFK Jr.
	And I have to admit that I've really come to admire Nicole Shanahan.
	At first, when I did not know who she was and I wasn't familiar with what she was saying many months ago, whenever she was first announced as the VP candidate, I was like, who's Shanahan?
	Now, watching her videos and listening to her and understanding that her family came from China and they went through this great famine era.
	And that's something I'm familiar with through my wife, whose family also escaped communist China.
	My wife being from Taiwan.
	Of course, I lived in Taiwan and I speak some amount of Mandarin Chinese, enough to get by.
	And so I've heard the stories of what it's like to live under communism and escape communism, and a lot of people didn't make it.
	A lot of people died under communism.
	That philosophy.
	And that's true with Stalinism, too, in the old Soviet Union.
	I mean, the Holodomor, how many Ukrainians were deliberately starved to death?
	I think it was something like 4 million Ukrainians back in the 1930s.
	That was called the Holodomor.
	That was a deliberate Stalin policy to starve Ukrainians to death because I believe at the time, my understanding, at least my memory, is that they wanted to separate from the Soviet Union.
	And so they were starved to death.
	So yes, Stalin, a communist, Stalin used a famine as a weapon to murder millions of people.
	Similar things have happened under communism or fascism elsewhere around the world.
	So guess what's happening in America right now?
	Kamala, the communist, she's pushing price controls on food, which is the absolute fastest way to cause mass famine, starvation, empty food shelves.
	She wants you to die from starvation.
	This is an American Holodomor.
	That's the title of a podcast I put out a few days ago.
	And now all these Democrats are trying to pressure Kamala to walk back all of her announcements about price controls and, you know, government-controlled distribution of groceries because they're like, that doesn't work.
	Well, you know, that's been tried before.
	Millions died. Kamala's like, whatever, because she has no understanding of history.
	She doesn't even know.
	I mean, she's truly one of the lowest IQ people to ever be in the position of vice president.
	Whereas Nicole Shanahan is very high IQ, a very high IQ person, and also very compassionate, pro-human.
	So let's give a listen to her video talking about famine and how we stop that.
	Check this out. I think Kamala Harris is dangerous to me because she is the ultimate puppet for an organization that has, I believe, since President Obama, not actually run real people.
	They have selected amongst a very small group of individuals that they can control and dictate policy over.
	I don't think Kamala Harris is somebody who will sit here and tell you how she feels.
	I think that human capacity of hers has long gone.
	I think that what she now represents is corporatism, She represents a huge amount of cronyism, and I do believe that she is using messaging.
	And this is the part that worries me the most, is that she uses messaging in a way to get populations of young, unknowing, innocent people to join her on these false...
	Virtue signal ambitions.
	And actually take on policies that will eventually really hurt them in the future.
	My mother is from communist China.
	I grew up hearing about what the famine was like in communist China.
	Right. Well, she's going to do price controls at supermarkets, so we don't have to worry about that.
	But that is exactly how you get to a famine.
	I mean, this is the basics.
	This is communism 101.
	All right, there she said it.
	Communism 101 is price controls on food, and then that leads to famine.
	I mean, everybody knows that, but not Kamala, because she's an actual moron.
	I mean, it's frightening how stupid she is.
	I mean, she's almost as dumb as Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor, but they're in the competition.
	They're in the race for the lowest IQ. Sorry to say that.
	It's just true. It's true, folks.
	We need to have qualified people in positions of leadership, not DEI candidates.
	I'm sorry. You know, the age of DEI needs to come to an end.
	Instead, we need to advance people into positions of authority based on their merit and to do so regardless of their skin color, regardless of their gender or even their sexual orientation or what country they came from or what religion they have.
	Look, it's the people who are best qualified to do the job should get the job, period.
	And by the way, Robbie Starbuck is kicking ass and taking names, and he was about to expose Lowe's.
	The hardware store is having a bunch of woke DEI policies, and Lowe's got word of it ahead of time, and they scrambled, and they pre-announced a bunch of changes to drop a whole slew of DEI policies.
	Yeah, so Robbie Starbuck, all he has to do is just, like, sort of say, boo, you know?
	And then these corporations are like, okay, we'll change.
	Harley Davidson, Jack Daniels, you know, long list.
	But I don't get it. What is Lowe's doing being all woke anyway?
	Because I remember when I lived in Wyoming and I was working on the governor's business group as part of a group of entrepreneurs in Wyoming.
	And we were working with Lowe's to build up, I think it was some infrastructure for them to have a big distribution warehouse.
	I think it was in Cheyenne, but it might have been Casper, one or the other.
	Lowe's has a big distribution center in Wyoming, and Wyoming is not woke.
	Wyoming's very, very conservative.
	You know, pro-America, pro-energy, pro-Second Amendment, pro-freedom, for the most part.
	With very few exceptions.
	So Lowe's went off the rails a long time ago.
	It's a good thing that Robbie Starbuck brought them back on track.
	But anyway, getting back to Nicole Shanahan.
	See, at first, I didn't realize that she was Chinese because, well, the name Shanahan Doesn't sound Chinese, so I don't know what her maiden name is, but maybe it's something like Chen.
	I don't know, but I do.
	I'm curious. Does she speak Chinese?
	Because she doesn't speak English with a Chinese immigrant type of accent.
	That's, you know, right?
	She speaks native, perfect American English, so it seems like she grew up in America and I'm open to learning more about Nicole Shanahan and her whole background and so on.
	But I wonder if she speaks Chinese because that would be something very useful to be able to speak Mandarin Chinese, especially if your family came from China.
	But one of the interesting things that happened with a lot of families that escaped China is they deliberately made sure their children did not learn Chinese because they wanted to cut off all ties with the mainland of China that they just escaped.
	This is also true to some extent with some people who escaped Cuba under Castro.
	And they did not teach their children how to speak, well, Cuban, Espanol, with a Cuban, you know, flair to it, right?
	They didn't teach their children how to speak Espanol because they didn't want them to go back to Cuba and end up getting caught up, you know, in communism there.
	But anyway, that's something that I've noticed about a lot of parents that escaped tyranny, although I would add that it's an incredible gift to teach your children to speak a second language or a third language.
	And if you have an opportunity to do so for your children or grandchildren, you might want to go ahead and do that because, well, we live in a global world today and it's It's great.
	I mean, just for myself, although I only learned English as a child, later in life I learned Espanol and then also Mandarin Chinese.
	But if I were to pick three languages to know how to speak a lot of basic stuff, it's English, Spanish, and Chinese.
	So I know that I can travel anywhere in the world, anywhere, and I can order off a menu.
	I can... Give directions to a taxi cab driver, you know, almost anywhere.
	Maybe not North Korea, but not planning on going there anytime soon.
	And if I go to Japan, hey, they speak enough English that you can get by in Japan with English.
	And Japan's a very polite society anyway.
	Keith Olbermann was the name I was thinking of, the radical left-wing guy who gets angry at everybody.
	Keith Olbermann has an anger problem, in case you haven't noticed.
	I would say Keith Olbermann and Bill O'Reilly.
	Those two guys, they should have a cage match.
	Dana White should pull together a UFC match between Keith Olbermann and Bill O'Reilly so they can work out some of their anger issues.
	That's all I'm saying. All right, so the founder of Telegram, Pavel Durov, as you know, yesterday we covered this.
	He was arrested in France.
	He's now apparently been officially charged by some law enforcement in France, some courts.
	And he's facing something like 20 years in prison, apparently.
	It's all BS. And they charged him basically with complicity, complicity, complicity, complicity, complicity, and then having cryptography working on Telegram.
	And, oh, refusing to reply to stupid requests from Western European thought police saying, Like Andrew Torba, the founder of Gab, he put out something today.
	He said, yeah, you know, the German police sent us a request to reveal the identity of a person who called a German politician fat.
	Apparently that's a crime in Germany.
	I think it was Germany. And Andrew Torba was like, go pound sand, you know, freaking Nazis.
	Can't blame him, right?
	I mean, what, are you going to arrest somebody because they called somebody fat?
	Come on. This is a platform, okay?
	We're not responsible for every single thing that everybody says on this platform.
	So anyway, in France, which is a collapsing Western nation, it will collapse.
	It's in the process of collapsing.
	In France, they're charging Durov with complicity to enable illegal transactions, complicity, About pornographic images and complicity of transporting or offering to sell narcotic substances.
	Now, Durov himself didn't do any of these things, obviously, but somebody maybe used his platform to do those things.
	Well, you know, by this logic, they should arrest AT&T executives because somebody used a phone to offer to sell drugs to somebody.
	Did you know that? Or they should arrest all the internet providers, Comcast, because somebody sent an email that had pornographic images in it.
	So all the executives of Comcast, they're complicit.
	And they go on to charge Durov with organized fraud and just insane.
	A long list of insane stuff.
	And of course, there's this massive global backlash against France, and then Macron comes out and says, well, this isn't political at all.
	This is not political.
	Yeah, BS. France is probably, they've been told to do this by the U.S. The same U.S. that blew up the Nord Stream pipeline, which has crushed France's industrial output, You know, in addition to Germany's output, but France has also been very strongly impacted.
	I remember covering stories about France shutting down glass factories because they had no energy.
	You know, you have to melt the glass.
	You know, you have to melt silica to make glass, like Pyrex and that kind of stuff.
	Well... Natural gas is the cheapest way to run glass ovens, and if you don't have natural gas, well, your glass ovens, you can't run them, so they shut them down.
	So that was all the doing of the U.S., but of course, France, just like the leaders of Germany, they're just begging for more torture from the U.S., so they bow down and do whatever the U.S. tells them to do, including arresting Pavel Durov, who's guilty of nothing other than just respecting privacy.
	So, folks...
	Yeah, major attacks on free speech in the Western world, and Kim.com tweeted out a lot of things about this, and Andrew Torba and others, and myself being the founder of a much smaller platform, Brighteon, and Brighteon Social, and so on.
	I just say, thank God, in America, we are protected by not only the First Amendment of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights of the Constitution, but also Section 230, Which says that platform owners are not responsible for the content of the speech posted onto the platform by users.
	Even though, of course, everybody who owns a platform does some level of...
	Moderation to try to take down crazy stuff or porn or violence or people offering beheading videos or whatever crazy nonsense that a bunch of lunatics try to post online everywhere.
	Yeah, we have to take that stuff off.
	So we have a moderation team that takes that stuff down because you have to.
	You don't want your whole site to be polluted with craziness, but We don't censor people for telling the truth about vaccines.
	That's for sure, right?
	People tell the truth about cancer.
	They tell the truth about stolen elections.
	They tell the truth about 9-11 and, you know, space aliens and whatever, you know, faked NASA Apollo missions.
	You know, that's all totally allowed because it's freedom of speech, folks.
	You don't have to agree with it, but it's freedom of speech.
	So that's our philosophy.
	But then again, I'm not going to Paris anytime soon.
	Macron will probably arrest my ass.
	Like, you're complicit in making fun of Macron, which is not hard to do.
	Just look at his, quote, husband.
	No, I'm sorry, wife.
	I meant, I got the quotes wrong.
	His wife. I tried to reverse it in my head, and I reversed it twice, and it came out husband.
	I'd probably be arrested just for saying that in Paris, but you know what?
	Macron can go pound sand.
	Okay, we've got to play another video for you here, and this is horrible news.
	Kamala just announced that 220 million Americans have now died from COVID in just the last few months.
	That's really horrifying, given that that's...
	More than two-thirds of the population of the country.
	So I don't know if you've just seen like two out of three people that you know drop dead in the last few months, but Kamala says that's what's happening.
	We should be very concerned.
	Check this video out. We're in the middle of a crisis caused by this pandemic that is a public health crisis.
	We're looking at over 220 million Americans who just in the last several months died.
	We are in the midst of a public health epidemic that has taken the lives of over 220 million Americans in just the last several months.
	That woman's so stupid, she said it twice.
	Nobody corrected her.
	Kamala, let's have a chat about integers and stuff.
	You know, there's only like 330 million Americans.
	She's like, 220 million died!
	I think she's hoping they died so they could vote Democrat.
	But not that many have died.
	Now, Over a million Americans have died from COVID jabs.
	She never mentions those.
	And at least 5 or 6 million Americans have been disabled or maimed by COVID jabs.
	That's the research from Ed Dowd's group, by the way, but Kamala never mentions that.
	She makes up imaginary numbers, which really is an important qualification for running the country and faking the numbers on inflation and economic growth.
	Because they fake everything.
	So, of course, he's faking the number of Americans who died from COVID. But isn't it astonishing?
	You think about Putin, for example.
	Putin, he's a genius.
	Whether you agree or disagree with his policies or actions, I'm not endorsing Putin.
	I'm just saying that cognitively, he's very bright.
	And when he sat down with Tucker Carlson, he laid out like this 45-minute ancient history of Russia.
	And all the emperors and the economic consequences and the wars and the migrations and everything.
	Can you imagine Kamala even trying to do that?
	Kamala would be like, we are no longer unburdened or burdened by what has maybe been.
	And 220 million Americans did.
	And, you know, everybody would be scratching their heads.
	What did she just say?
	Kamala's an actual living moron.
	And there's no question how she got into the position that she is in today.
	It has nothing to do with being qualified, that's for sure.
	But anyway, don't you wonder, when she said that, you know, when you say things yourself, when you're talking, especially giving a speech, aren't you kind of fact-checking yourself a little bit along the way?
	And you say something, aren't you kind of like checking in?
	Did I say something that just made sense or was that crazy?
	I mean, I do that in the podcast here when I'm saying something.
	If I catch myself saying something that sounds completely bonkers or made a mistake or something, I will correct it or I will try to clarify it or just back it up.
	You know, remove it from...
	If I totally screwed up, just remove it from the recording.
	Like, oops! That was a big oops.
	Take it out. But Kamala, when she said 220 million Americans died, nothing in her brain alerted her that, hey, that's crazy!
	That's crazy! Like, how many Americans does she think we have?
	Does she know?
	Does she think there are more Americans than there are, let's say, Indians?
	Or Chinese? She probably doesn't even know that America is like, what, one-fifth the population, roughly, of India?
	And China?
	Or China? She has no idea how many Americans there are.
	Because she lives in an artificial world, a little construct that they shape for her, filled with teleprompters and cheat sheets and all kinds of fake economic numbers that have...
	No attachment to reality whatsoever.
	And that's true with a lot of people who are in Washington, D.C. or the Virginia area who work for the government.
	They are completely dissociated from reality.
	They have no idea what the real world is like.
	Remember that video that Kamala and Tim Walls We're in like last week where they were surrounded by a bunch of reporters while they walked into a gas station and purchased a bag of chips.
	Like this was so staged and it had to be staged because these two people probably never done that before.
	It's so alien to them to walk into a gas station and buy a bag of chips that they even made that look cringeworthy.
	Like, oh, God, girl. Really?
	Can't you just get a bag of chips or something?
	The bottom line is we need more people in Washington, D.C. who actually are real people, who live in the real world.
	So I'm hoping that With a Trump victory and RFK Jr.
	helping with the transition team and also with Trump's hard-won lessons from his first administration, that the Trump cabinet and just the Trump administration, the leaders of all the different agencies and so on, would look a lot more like America.
	There'd be people from all the different states, right?
	There'd be energy experts from Wyoming or Texas, and there'd be agriculture experts from Iowa or what have you.
	We need Washington, D.C. to stop being a bubble of some artificial, synthetic, economic fantasy land that has no ties to reality.
	So let's hope that Trump and RFK and Tulsi Gabbard and others can help make that happen.
	Now, in the meantime, as part of an effort to start some kind of a pandemic panic before the election, Massachusetts, which is one of these twisted, deep blue states, Massachusetts, there's a town there that's approved of voluntary lockdown.
	And there's a UK Daily Mail article that says, after dark, as fears of incurable mosquito-borne infection grow...
	Read more. Could monkeypox be the next West Nile virus?
	You notice how they're all just mixing these up.
	This is kind of like wokeism for pandemics or kind of like woke biology.
	You know how woke people talk?
	I can't even quite do it right, but they say like, we need to queer the nuclear weapons.
	We have to have social justice, gender equality in pipelines or whatever.
	And you're like...
	What? What are you talking about?
	We have to have gender equal tractors.
	You're trying to make sense of it.
	So now the pandemic is the same way.
	Could monkeypox be the next West Nile virus?
	That's a story on UK Day of the Mail.
	But there's a mosquito-borne infection.
	It's a lockdown.
	Are you having the lockdowns and the mass because of your eastern equine, encephalitis, monkeypox, Nile, West Nile, East Nile, the Great River Nile virus with monkeypox, with hemorrhagic Fever?
	Don't you just get tired of all these diseases being thrown around?
	You know, the triple E, eastern equine encephalitis.
	Didn't George Michael have a song about all this?
	Wake me up before Ebola.
	Don't leave me drinking an infected cola.
	No, that's not the way it goes?
	Anybody should have been worried about monkeypox as George Michael, but whatever.
	I mean, the name of his band was Wham!
	Okay, enough said.
	Anyway, residents in a Massachusetts town, this is according to the UK Daily Mail, are being urged not to leave their homes after dark due to the spread of a deadly, this is what they put in, deadly mosquito-borne virus.
	They never call the vaccines deadly, do they?
	They never call the drugs deadly, the medications, even though they kill people all the time.
	But the virus, oh, it could be deadly.
	So, of course, they're going to spray all these cities.
	They're going to spray across dozens of states.
	Yeah, we'll get to that. The Board of Health in Oxford, a city of just 13,300 people, about 50 miles southwest of Boston, They've set an outdoor curfew.
	You can't be outside your home again.
	Oh, my God. Oh, the obedient morons near Boston.
	In hopes that it will reduce the chances of people being bitten by mosquitoes that carry eastern equine encephalitis.
	It comes after a resident was the first human to contract the rare and untreatable illness domestically in nearly four years.
	Wait a minute. You're telling me...
	So one person has this.
	So they're locked down the whole town?
	One person. And they're going to spray dozens of states with...
	Well, you know what it's going to be.
	It's going to be chemical weapons, folks.
	They're going to use the spraying as an excuse to disperse more weapons that cause more illness and hospitalizations and deaths.
	And then they'll say the deaths are due to, you know, Triple E or West Nile or Ebola or whatever.
	This is how it works.
	Do you recall?
	I think it was West Nile virus a few years back where they said that all these babies were going to be born with shrunken heads.
	You remember that? We covered this.
	They said it was going to happen in Florida.
	Going to be like little tiny head babies being born everywhere.
	And all throughout Central and South America.
	Because of this virus.
	Was that West Nile virus?
	Whatever it was.
	They spread all these scare stories that it turned out to be just some...
	Pesticides that somebody had dumped into the water supply and it caused people to have neurological damage and babies.
	A few babies were born with really tiny heads because of the poisons in the water.
	So you see, they prove there that when the establishment really wants to harm a bunch of people and achieve Kamala's goal of killing 220 million Americans, all they have to do is fake a pandemic and Fake a mosquito-borne whatever and then use it to spray chemicals in the sky.
	And everybody was, oh, they're spraying us.
	It's so loving.
	It's so wonderful.
	They're spraying us for our safety.
	We love the government when they're spraying us.
	And actually, they're spraying chemical weapons on you.
	So here in the story, it says, triple E causes a fever and brain swelling and can lead to seizures and comas.
	Also, those are side effects of being poisoned with toxic chemtrails, by the way.
	So when they aerosolize poisons and try to kill you, you could have seizures and comas and die.
	So whatever they're using to try to kill you, they're just going to call it West Nile.
	They're going to say it's the pandemic.
	It's the mosquitoes. Oh, it's the armadillos.
	Oh, it's the pangolins.
	It's the meat market.
	Whatever. It's all BS. So they're saying that there are mosquitoes all over Massachusetts.
	You know what's all over Massachusetts?
	People who took the COVID jab.
	That's what's all over Massachusetts.
	Probably a lot of viral shedding happening all over Boston and Oxford.
	And all the different cities and towns of Massachusetts are filled with people who are walking biological weapons, who are shedding foreign proteins on other people, which makes them sick.
	It causes seizures and comas, probably, in some people.
	So, again, this is just the government being weaponized against you.
	The government will launch...
	Four years ago for the Trump election, what did they launch?
	They launched a biological weapon on the country.
	Now, they're going to launch a chemical weapon.
	And they're going to say they're spraying those mosquitoes.
	They're not spraying the mosquitoes, they're spraying you.
	You are the pests they want to get rid of.
	Understand? That's what Kamal is talking about.
	She wasn't wrong about 220 million Americans possibly being dead.
	She was just, she jumped the gun.
	This is their plan. She was probably reading the plan and she forgot not to say it out loud.
	Like Joe Biden sometimes says things out loud.
	Remember when he said, like, we have the most sophisticated election rigging system in the history of America.
	He said that in 2016 and everybody was like, no, he didn't mean that.
	He did mean that because they had just briefed him on it and they used it to steal the election.
	So I think sometimes Kamala rolls out and she just says things that were in the plan that she was just briefed on because, you know, she's too stupid to realize...
	What you're not supposed to say when you're being ordered by Dr.
	Evil, you know, don't tell the public that we're trying to exterminate them with a faked West Nile virus pandemic so that we can concoct chemtrails in the sky and just drop toxins on everybody, neurotoxins.
	And then when they have seizures and comas, we'll just say, no, that's the mosquitoes doing that.
	I mean, it's so obvious.
	It's so obvious. Dr.
	Jane Ruby pointed this out too on Twitter.
	She's like, this is the excuse for them to spray you with toxins.
	Of course that's what it is.
	Absolutely. She gets it.
	You get it. Listening to this, you know what's going on.
	They're going to spray Boston.
	Can you imagine? They're probably going to spray New York City.
	They're going to spray all the liberal towns.
	This is not going to go well for the people in those cities.
	Let me tell you. Who are already suffering from vaccine side effects, compromised immune systems, and autoimmune disorders, and who knows what else, like TurboAIDS with monkeypox, and on top of that, going to get chemtrails falling out of the sky?
	Yeah. Not a good time to be in those towns.
	So in that town of Oxford, Public Health Director Reiki Starrett Told people, quote, we don't want to see another human case of EEE this year.
	One is too many.
	Even if you do survive, usually there are severe health impacts, neurological impacts.
	Yeah, so what, you're going to spray brain-damaging chemicals all over the entire population?
	You got one person.
	You got one person that's symptomatic.
	So they declare a pandemic.
	It's insane. These...
	Didn't the people of Massachusetts learn anything from COVID? That's my question.
	Well, obviously the people learned something, but of course the tyrants there, they still think that they can just command everybody, lock yourselves down, wear a mask, you know, take the jabs.
	You realize they're on the 11th COVID jab now?
	The 11th jab? Um...
	Who's stupid enough to take all 11 jabs and think, these are working!
	These are working great!
	That's why they keep coming out with more!
	These are working! And the people that have taken 10 or 11 jabs are the ones that keep getting sick.
	They keep getting sick! Thank God they have new jabs!
	They tell themselves this.
	Like, they must be working because every time I get sick, then I take another jab, and then I get sick again.
	That means they're working, you know?
	It's like, I think your brain was lobotomized with jab number three, frankly.
	I don't know that there's anything left, like...
	Just ricocheting around inside your empty skull.
	But you don't have to worry about encephalitis because you don't have any brain matter to get inflamed anymore.
	Don't worry about it. Mosquitoes could actually fly around inside your skull.
	There's a lot of empty space in there.
	You've got nothing to worry about.
	You know, this whole thing about brain damage from these vaccines, this proves that people can function at a basic level without very much brain matter.
	And that is a biological fact.
	There have been documented cases of people who have, like, their skull is mostly filled with fluid, okay?
	It's like 90% fluid.
	And then they have like a 10% layer of brain neurons, kind of like the inside, like if your head was an orange, and like just inside the orange peel, like they have some brain matter there, but the rest of it's totally empty.
	Yeah, there are people like that, and they're functional.
	Seriously. Like, they've had a lifetime of just fluid in their skull, and I wonder if they have tides in there.
	Tides coming in! When they're on roller coasters, does it slosh around in there?
	Woo! It was an incredible ride, man!
	That was loud, too, inside my head.
	Can you imagine? But they have a little bit of brain matter and that's it.
	And then doctors and scientists, they look at this and they're totally freaked out.
	How is this person functioning?
	Turns out you don't even need Much more than about 5 or 10% of your brain neurons in order to do basic things like, you know, use a credit card and vote for Democrats.
	You don't need much brain matter.
	You can still talk. You can tie your shoes and you can warm up food.
	You know, they can function in society.
	So, you know, here we are.
	The vaccine damage is absolutely proving it.
	All kinds of people can still function at some weird basic level with most of their brains literally destroyed.
	That's what we're witnessing today.
	All right, so for the last story today, we're going to talk about Mark Zuckerberg and Metta and his letter.
	Now, this letter is an admission that Metta censored people at the request of the government, mostly about COVID and vaccines and so on.
	And Kim.com posted this comment about the letter.
	He says, Mark Zuckerberg betrayed his users and is now blaming Biden?
	Mark knew exactly what he was doing.
	He and his wife donated $400 million to assist U.S. election officers in setting up the mail-in ballot system that was used to manipulate the 2020 election.
	It was used to steal the election, by the way.
	We know that.
	But if you want to see what this letter says, let me read it for you.
	It's a letter. August 26 is the date to Jim Jordan.
	The chairman on the Committee of the Judiciary, and it says, Further to our cooperation with your investigation, I welcome the opportunity to share what I've taken away from this process.
	So, you know, right away, this seems unusually cooperative from Mark Zuckerberg.
	What's going on here? Let's keep reading.
	There's a lot of talk right now about how the U.S. government interacts with companies like Meta, and I want to be clear about our position.
	Our platforms are for everyone, he says, which is a lie.
	Banned me years ago.
	Banned the truth about cancer years ago.
	He says we're about promoting speech and helping people connect in a safe and secure way.
	Well, again, BS because they say if you warn about dangers of vaccines, then they claim, well, you're advocating self-harm.
	You have to be censored to de-platform.
	It's all lies. He goes on.
	As part of this, we regularly hear from governments around the world and others with various concerns around public discourse and public safety.
	All right, here's the paragraph that matters.
	In 2021, senior officials from the Biden administration, including the White House, repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor certain COVID-19 content, including humor and satire, that would have been me, and expressed a lot of frustration with our teams when we did not agree.
	Ultimately, it was our decision whether or not to take content down and And we own our decisions, including COVID-related changes we made to our enforcement in the wake of this pressure.
	In other words, Facebook censored, I mean, meta, they censored everybody about COVID. I believe the government pressure was wrong, he says, and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it.
	Whoa, that's a big admission.
	I also think we made some choices that with the benefit of hindsight and new information, we wouldn't make today.
	Like I said to our teams at the time, I feel strongly that we should not compromise our content standards due to pressure from any administration in either direction.
	And we're ready to push back if something like this happens again.
	Carefully crafted lies, of course.
	Here's what really happened. The government told them to censor people like me and Ty and Charlene Bollinger and Dr.
	Mercola and a bunch of others. And Facebook said, okay, we'll do the bidding of government.
	We'll censor. We'll do what we were ordered to do.
	And they censored everybody that was on the list.
	That's what they did. And then he has another paragraph talking about The so-called Russian disinformation operation about the 2020 election.
	And remember when Hunter Biden's laptop was labeled Russian disinformation?
	But that was just a big lie from the deep state and the intelligence communities.
	And anyway, Zuckerberg says he pushed back on that.
	So here's the question for you.
	Why is Mark Zuckerberg saying this now?
	Why? Why? My best guess is that when Trump wins this election and RFK gets into HHS, the best move that RFK can do is to release the documents from the FDA, CDC, NIH. And the best thing Trump can do is release all the documents from the White House.
	These would include emails and communications with Facebook and other tech platforms like YouTube and Google and LinkedIn and what have you.
	And these communications will reveal a pattern of criminal behavior, in my view.
	A pattern of criminal behavior and gross violations of the civil rights of millions of Americans as well as violations of the First Amendment of the United States.
	Well, the Bill of Rights of the United States Constitution.
	Mark Zuckerberg is probably trying to get ahead of this because possibly he realizes that he could face prison time for the complicity of his platform in deliberately censoring people and censoring truthful information that could have saved lives.
	Instead, Facebook took part in blocking channels That had life-saving information, and as a result, Facebook is complicit in the deaths of potentially hundreds of thousands of Americans.
	The deaths that took place in the hospitals with hospital homicide protocols that denied ivermectin treatments, for example, or denied hydroxychloroquine, and also pushing the vaccine itself, which has killed over a million Americans and counting.
	As the truth comes out about COVID-19, vaccines, hospital protocols, lockdowns, masks, and so on, there should be arrests in America.
	There should be criminal indictments that can happen under a Trump administration.
	And I would imagine that Mark Zuckerberg is trying to quickly get himself on the right side of that equation.
	That's my best guess.
	What do you think? Ivan Raikland calls himself the Secretary of Retribution.
	That's an interesting title.
	There is no such official position yet in the federal government, but who knows?
	Maybe there'll be a new department opened up.
	Anything goes. All right, that's our news segment.
	We're about to jump into the interview with Maria Z in studio.
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	Welcome, everyone, to today's interview.
	In the studio, we have Maria Zee, all the way from Australia.
	Welcome back to Texas, Maria.
	It's great to have you back. Thank you so much, Mike.
	It's great to be back.
	Oh, man. I'm just so happy that you're here in the States and in our state, or our Republic of Texas.
	Republic of Texas. That's right.
	You have been doing amazing work from your website, your network, MariaZ at ZMedia.com.
	And that's a triple E, Z, triple E, Media.com.
	I just want to, you know, let people follow you there.
	Thank you.
	But tell us, I mean, before we get into the issues that you brought for us here today, tell us about how things are going with you.
	And, you know, you're filling in for, you're doing the fourth hour, sometimes hosting for Alex Jones and so on.
	How's it going?
	Yeah, look, in terms of being able to deliver the information, InfoWars has been great because I am able to contribute there freely with a lot of people who I would say are critical thinkers, you know, years and years of really dissecting complex information.
	So it's been... A real blessing to have the help of that platform to get out information.
	Of course, we've contributed as well to Brighteon in the past, so I'm very grateful for your help with that as well.
	Because the censorship in Australia, especially with the eSafety Commissioner, you know, pulling down opinions she doesn't like from, I guess, the whole world's internet.
	She's a maniac. But, you know, it has been very, very helpful.
	And I find...
	You know, one thing that I think, Mike, in my assessment, and I certainly mean no offense to anyone, but I think that a lot of the Australian issues that I've reported on in the past, Americans feel like, well, that's never going to touch us.
	And it's just not the case, you know?
	Now, you really experienced tyranny firsthand in terms of crackdown on free speech and so on.
	And I think I first became aware of you during the COVID years and how Australia and New Zealand in particular Just, like, went off the deep end with tyranny.
	And who was it? Ardern, I think, in New Zealand?
	Jabsinda, we call her.
	Yeah, yeah, that's right, Jabsinda.
	And then all the different states around Australia and New South Wales and so on.
	Those people were losing their minds.
	Just went absolutely crazy.
	I always understood Australia to be a country of more free-thinking people.
	Why were they so obedient to go along with this?
	Or were they not? I mean...
	Do I have a misperception of what the situation was there?
	It seems to me like a lot of people sure went along with it.
	Look, if you consider the fact that the population is approximately 26 million people, and we had in estimation that the higher estimates suggest that there were up to or more than 1 million people in Canberra at the Capitol protesting at one stage, protesting mandates. Oh, that's huge then.
	That's like four or almost five percent of the population.
	That's a huge portion of the population.
	That's right. And so, you know, even that first protest that was deemed illegal, you know, because you need to allow me to protest.
	It defeats the purpose of protesting, right?
	But anyway, that first protest in New South Wales that was deemed illegal, 500,000 people showed up to that.
	Wow. From one state, which I think, if I'm not mistaken, the population of New South Wales is about 6 million, roughly, or maybe 8 million.
	So, you know, or at least of Sydney, even.
	So a huge, huge portion of the population was against this.
	The problem, though, is that I think Australia has, for a very long time, been demoralised and beaten down.
	And it's essentially, you know...
	Pseudo, almost openly socialist now.
	Almost openly socialist.
	Well, so is the left in America.
	Correct, yes.
	And so I think that years and years of demoralisation and also a culture of not being the ultimate neighbour that cares about the person living next door, I think that has been something that really made the whole dobbing your neighbour successful in Australia.
	So there's been a lot longer...
	The operation of social erosion, I think, has been longer there than, say, somewhere like here where, you know, I can just speak about Texas.
	People actually care about each other.
	Like, this has been my general experience in Texas, or at least in central Texas.
	It feels like 20 years ago when people were still normal, Mike.
	That's how it feels. Texas is a very friendly place.
	Mm-hmm. That's for sure.
	But back to Australia, it seems like the government is, they didn't really back away from tyranny.
	No. So they're primed for the next step of tyranny, which I know that's some of what you want to talk about today.
	But get into, well, let me back up.
	So in the U.S., Kamala is promising to have price controls on food.
	That will lead to scarcity and rationing.
	And then the rationing will have to be enforced with some kind of biometric scan at the grocery store.
	So maybe an eye scan or a hand scan, mark of the beast, whatever.
	And then that will be tied to clearly some kind of CBDC system where your wallet will be locked down if you say anything on social media that the administration doesn't like, right?
	Yes. So all that's coming, isn't it?
	Well, yes, it is, because we already have shadows of that, and I can tell you as an Australian that, you know, the level of censorship, and nowhere was safe from censorship, Mike.
	I mean, the U.S. government has been caught in the Twitter files of, you know, censoring doctors, everyday Americans, violating the First Amendment.
	Censoring us. Yeah, violating you, of course.
	Yeah, we were named. Huge lawsuit.
	Huge lawsuit. Famous now.
	Famous for suing the Department of Defense, maybe, yeah.
	Yes, and we did that interview where you announced that, and so that's just amazing.
	That is like, you are, I'm not sure if people grasp how huge the battle that you're taking on for them is.
	It's all behind the scenes, really.
	Yeah. But it's just, it is part of the system of what's happening.
	Yeah. Yeah, yeah. But you asked me before about, you know, where this is going to lead, and I can talk to you about Australia, or even just look at the UK, where people are going to prison for expressing an opinion that the state doesn't like.
	Unbelievable. Australia are now using cross-border censorship via the eSafety Commissioner.
	She keeps losing in court, but she keeps trying to censor people from other countries.
	You have the UK threatening extradition for people that say things that they don't like.
	Yeah, let me stop you there. I think that was the Bristol police that said that if Americans say something that the Bristol police don't like, they will issue an arrest warrant and seek the extradition of Americans to face trial in the UK. Correct.
	Yeah, and I would say as a Texan, come and f***ing take it.
	You Bristol police.
	Yeah. Come and take it.
	I mean, no, seriously, this is absurd.
	Yeah. You're not going to be successful trying that, but the fact that they think they can do it.
	I mean, 1776, Maria, we already fought this war.
	Yeah. Are they trying to make us fight it again?
	Yeah. I think they are.
	There's also another case of a person from New Zealand, Kim.com.
	People may be familiar with that account.
	Yeah, Kim.com. Huge account. Very smart man.
	He is. Courageous.
	Yeah, and the U.S. is trying to extradite him now to face charges here.
	Now, you know, really the precedent was set with Julian Assange that a foreign government can, you know, take you and do whatever they want with you, essentially.
	Reiner Fulmich as well.
	Kidnapped from Mexico.
	That's right. No extradition treaty between Germany and Mexico, yet he was taken.
	That's right. He's still in jail right now.
	He is. He is.
	And so, you know, you see these examples, these shadows of what is to come, Mike, through this system of cross-border persecution, cross-border surveillance, cross-border everything.
	And then when you bring it down to how this is on top of not being able to speak freely, on top of the threat of your opinions landing you in prison, then as well squeezing people financially.
	So this is where the Kamala thing comes in, right?
	Right.
	The price controls.
	I think, I believe it was Chicago that I saw, they are going to, they're proposing state controlled grocery stores.
	That's true.
	Yeah.
	State run groceries.
	Right. So, no more farmers.
	And, of course, you'll be subject to God knows what sort of checklist to go and buy your food to feed your family.
	Injections galore. You know, recently, one of the health officials in Australia said, oh, well, there won't be any more mandates in future.
	Well, they don't need to issue mandates when you have a digital ID system set up because...
	All of a sudden, your bank account doesn't work if you don't comply, and the WHO is not backing off.
	We see this increasing pressure, and it's happening in every country, Mike.
	But this is going to lead to mass famine, too.
	Yes. Obviously. Yes.
	And, you know, we both know Michael Jan, and he speaks of how famine is being engineered, war, famine, and pestilence, right?
	Right out of the Bible, by the way.
	War, famine, and pestilence, they go together.
	But this engineered famine through price controls, it's obvious cause and effect.
	If you tell a grocery store you can no longer raise prices on bread to reflect the increased price that your wholesaler is charging because of the increased price of wheat, because of the increased price of transportation and oil and labor and so on, if you can't sell bread and make a little tiny bit, like 2% margin, There will be no bread on the shelves.
	And then the government will come along and say, well, we'll give you food, but you have to have the jabs.
	You have to give up your guns.
	You have to not speak out against us.
	These kinds of things. This is full-blown, centrally planned economies, full-blown communism or Kamala-nunism or however you say that.
	I don't know the right way to combine that, but it's Kamala-communism.
	Kamalism? Kamalism?
	I don't know. Maybe.
	I'm not sure. Well, that's where I just have this article from Infowars with me, but the Biden administration is now rushing digital ID plans.
	And I was warning about this, Mike, and not patting myself on the back at all.
	But this is just going back to the statement that I made earlier about the fact that Americans often feel like a lot of this is not going to touch them because of the First and Second Amendment.
	But it's just not the case.
	That digital ID bill has been sitting there for a couple of years in the background, you know, just waiting for the right time.
	And, oh, we have an election infection, again, monkeypox, and now is the perfect time to bring in digital ID, just as every other country is doing it.
	Indonesia's just done it. Australia's done it.
	They're rolling out this infrastructure so that maybe when cyber COVID, the big shutdown, comes out, And you know the WEF has said the only way to bring everyone back online is with a digital vaccine.
	What do you think that is? That's digital ID. Zero trust model, not allowed to use the internet without a digital ID. Oh, by the way, you can only shop at these grocery stores.
	Your bank account won't work.
	All of this compounding to ultimate control, it is hell on earth.
	But can they pull it off?
	This is a question because I was thinking about CBDCs being rolled out.
	Even if the government tells the whole country here in the U.S., says, well, everybody has to use CBDCs and you have to, like all the grocery stores, are only required to accept payment in CBDCs.
	Number one, lots of people don't have mobile devices.
	Secondly, there's a whole generation of mostly elderly people who can't figure out how to use them.
	And there's plenty of other people who just refuse to.
	People like us, we're not going to go into that system.
	So a retailer like a grocery store, if they went to CBDC only, wouldn't they lose more than half their business or something like that?
	and then there could be a competing grocery store that says, well, we'll accept regular money, unless the government outlaws that and then raids them and shuts them down.
	That's the point.
	Like they're doing to Amish farmers, for example.
	You know, just harass them and harass them and harass them.
	And so, yes, I agree with you, Mike.
	That is the way forward.
	And so people need to see what's happening and start building that now.
	Like grocery stores, retailers, you know, all of these people should be saying, we will never do CBDC.
	And then people should flock to those places now.
	Right.
	Give them the money, the financial support to be stronger or strong enough to resist that system.
	You know, everyone needs to band together so that if the government does try and bring new rules like that, I mean...
	I don't know in the West if we really understand how quickly we will fall if there's no food.
	I don't think people understand that.
	And so if we go to the example of Chicago where they're saying only state-run grocery stores, well, then the system's very easy, isn't it?
	You don't have a choice but to comply to eat.
	But people need to know that's what's coming if they have their way, so we need to build now.
	Yeah, well, those local relationships with farmers and, you know, and growing your own food matters.
	But, by the way, Michael Yan did just complete 40 days of fasting.
	He did. And I was joking with him.
	I said, yeah, that's famine training, right?
	But no, he was doing it for health reasons.
	He's in Japan. But...
	Most people actually couldn't go 40 days without food, without losing their minds.
	I mean, it's like four days.
	Cities would break down, mass social chaos, and it almost seems like that's what the government wants.
	This is a plan to cause a nationwide chaotic revolt and the complete collapse of the rule of law.
	I mean, if you were going to do it, this is one of the ways that you would do it.
	Well, there are a number of different ways that they can achieve their ultimate control grid.
	You see, for example, with the UK, I believe they were testing this out now.
	This was a test run to see whether they could, because they floated the idea of shutting down social media for a couple of weeks, you know, two weeks to flatten the curve.
	Right, right. And so they're floating these ideas of limiting people's access to information, limiting people's ability to even think freely, Mike.
	I mean, this is what it goes to.
	It's voicing your opinions is illegal over there now.
	It's horrendous.
	And by the way, the Americans have been instrumental in helping the people of the UK, you know, because of their First Amendment.
	So this is crucial.
	You know, thank you to you and all the others who've spoken in defense of these people because they need it.
	Even quoting scripture is a criminal offense in the UK and Canada now.
	And Canada. Is it hate speech?
	Well, yeah. We've covered people who've been arrested and thrown in prison for quoting scripture.
	Also, silently praying outside an abortion clinic, not blocking traffic, is a criminal offense in the USA, as well as in the UK. But the UK, I'd like to talk about the UK for a second.
	The UK government is committing suicide on a national level.
	And the people, did you see the latest news where they're clearing out thousands of violent prisoners from their jails?
	Yes. To make room for moms and dads who don't like the police.
	Yeah. Exactly. Yep. So if you, you know, tweeted on social media, hey, guess what?
	There's a whole bunch of non-citizens who are invading our neighborhood.
	Oh, you go to jail. Yes.
	And to make room for you, they took a violent criminal, put them on the streets.
	Yes. Yes. What the hell is that?
	They're destroying. This is all by design.
	And I think, Mike, what I'm seeing is they're trying to build society to this boiling point where, again, you get the test run of the UK. They get you to a point where you revolt and then they just come down really hard.
	Right. I think?
	And they started rehashing stories about one particular tragedy where, you know, lots of questions to the story, but one particular shooting where police were tragically killed, so were the two people that were involved, but these happened to be off-grid anti-vaxxers, right? So now there's all of this in the media.
	You know, an extremism expert came out on the ABC and said, if you know anyone who believes in the last book of the Bible, you need to report them to the police.
	Yeah. What? Oh, yes.
	Yes, yes, yes. This happened in Australia.
	Extremism expert through Deakin University, which is linked with the WEF. If you know anyone who believes in the last book of the Bible, you need to report them to the police because these two cop killers happen to believe in the Bible, right?
	So it's just insane.
	Wow. It's insane. By the way, I don't know if you know this, but I've been teaching the Bible lately, and the Bible is the most anti-woke, most red-pilled book that's ever been published.
	And I tweeted out, I said, if the Bible were published for the first time today, it's so anti-woke that Amazon would ban it.
	Like, if you actually understand what you're reading, it's really powerful.
	And the book of Revelation, what it talks about there, you know, I mean, a sign of things.
	I think... I think the book of Revelation talks about things that happen repeatedly.
	So I don't think it's limited to one time, like one year.
	Some of those things have happened in the past, and they keep happening again.
	You know, like the four horsemen of the apocalypse, like what Michael Jan talks about.
	You know, famine, war, pestilence, these all go together.
	But the thing is, humanity never learns, do we?
	We just keep repeating the same mistakes and falling for the same tyranny over and over again.
	And then there's a collapse, and then there's a rebuilding, and then for a while people are like, hey, let's behave like normal human beings.
	But that doesn't last very long.
	It doesn't. It doesn't.
	I am in awe of God's patience with humanity.
	Can I just say? Because we do not deserve anywhere near even a millimeter of the grace that he gives us.
	Seriously. Seriously. Well, he may be hurling flaming mountains our direction soon.
	You never know. We deserve it, Mike, but he hasn't, you know.
	But just, sorry, going back to the other point, I know I've kind of gone off track a couple of times, but the UK was that test run, the initial test run of how they are bringing people to this point of, you know, insanity because of the insanity of their laws and behaviours.
	And the government's provoking it.
	The government's provoking it because they want the response.
	Now, that happened first in the UK. Now Australia's raised its warning about this.
	You know, Biden's been talking about the threat of white people forever, you know, the most peaceful people.
	But anyway. But I do think that this is, just like COVID, where they tested this technique, tested this...
	I guess, test in one area, did a test in another area, and then they would interchange.
	Do you remember how they would do that?
	And then they would try something in Australia that they tried in the US and then back and forth to see what they could get away with.
	That's right. This is what they're doing now by riling the people up in pockets, because if they did it at the same time in every country, there would be too much revolt.
	Too much. And the way that they ever back down is when people push back.
	Yes. When there's an outcry or protest or what have you, then they back off temporarily and they just wait a little bit for that to go out of the news cycle and then they sort of reintroduce it in another way.
	But Maria, you know, you're a big picture thinker here.
	And so is our audience.
	They get this. But if you zoom out and look at what's happening on a planetary scale...
	Isn't it clear that the people who run this planet are seriously at war with the human race?
	Yes. They are Satanists, Mike.
	They want to bring about the mark of the beast.
	They want to bring about the Antichrist, and everything that they're doing is for that ultimate goal.
	Now, that may not be tomorrow.
	It may even be a thousand years from now.
	We actually don't know, because it's not the first time that humanity's thought, this is it.
	This is the beast. It's happening, right?
	So there's been many times where Christians have thought, This is the end.
	And so my approach to this has always been, well, the Satanists and the people that are in control of the world really haven't changed, as in they've always been evil, they've always had Satan as their god, they've always been working towards this goal of unveiling the Antichrist, the mark of the beast and everything. I think they're closer now than they've ever been.
	Well, they're closer now, and the church has been collapsing, and part of that collapse happened under COVID when the church surrendered to Rome and said, we will do what the government wants.
	Yeah, it was really serious.
	I was very, very grateful the Serbian Orthodox Church in Australia actually put out a strong condemnation of the mRNA injections.
	Good for them. I know people that got to keep their jobs because the Archdiocese put that out.
	They actually saved people's lives and livelihoods with that letter.
	That's what every church should have done.
	Absolutely. Employers could not decline requests from people that were baptized Serbian Orthodox because of that condemnation.
	Every church should have done that, Mike.
	Absolutely. See, the church has power if they choose to invoke it in favor of the people and the teachings of Christ.
	But instead, too much of our modern-day churches, especially the megachurches, the really popular ones, you know, the ones where they don't even use the Bible anymore.
	No, it's like a book of poems or something.
	Yeah, right. It's pushed out a bunch of nonsense.
	By the way, did you see with the DNC, the conference happening in Chicago, did you see that the women's group, they forgot the words of singing the national anthem?
	I didn't catch that.
	I watched most of it.
	They could not sing the national anthem because they have no ties to this country.
	No. They hate America.
	They say they love America, but they love the socialist version, the DEI version of the Democrat America, which is not America.
	It's not America. That's something else. That's UN, that's Schwab, that's Satan.
	You know, that's not America.
	But that's what they want it to be.
	No, they love having power over America.
	They love destroying America.
	The thing is, they know they're liars.
	They're all just acting out.
	But think about it.
	They couldn't recite the Pledge of Allegiance, probably.
	They can't sing the national anthem, not even badly.
	We'll take a bad rendition if you can just cite the words.
	It's fine. It's not an easy song to sing.
	Stand in the dropping. Right, right.
	Do you just know the opening verse?
	You know, give us that. Do you know how to spell America without a KKK in it?
	Because that's what the Democrats stand for, right?
	But these are serious questions.
	The Democrat Party has lost all connection with what America stands for.
	And I would say in the same way, modern day Australian political leaders, they have lost touch with what Australia was founded on.
	Yes. Which was a spirit of, a can-do spirit of independence.
	Yes. And this is the problem, Mike.
	See, I don't actually have a problem with some immigration.
	I don't have a problem with that.
	Me neither. If you love my country so much that you will do whatever it takes to get there, learn my language, learn our language, learn our laws, you know, which is...
	Some history. What I think is required, by the way, if you're planning to immigrate, you know, at bare minimum, learn the language...
	We have people in Australia that have been on welfare for 20 years, haven't learnt the language.
	I'm not even kidding. This happens in our country.
	The welfare is just handed out over there like crazy, like no man's business.
	And I know because I used to work in the industry.
	But anyway, off the topic, I don't have a problem with people who genuinely want to do the right thing and become part of a nation.
	The problem is you have a lot of people, I can just speak about Australia, coming to that country right now, massive amounts of legal immigration.
	It's not no borders.
	They're coming legally. They're being invited in.
	And there is no identity to ask them to...
	Because the identity's been destroyed.
	Every major chain bans...
	You know, one of our major supermarkets bans Australia Day merchandise.
	That's banned, but you can sell transgender Easter bunnies, I guess.
	You know, it's just...
	They banned Australia Day merchandise.
	What's Australia Day?
	Australia Day is the...
	It's kind of like our...
	You could call it like an Independence Day.
	I mean, it's a very different concept.
	Oh, I see. I'm sorry.
	I thought it was like a brand that's called Australia Day.
	No, no, no. It's a day that we celebrate our country.
	Oh, okay. I got it. Yeah. And so they've been trying to cancel this for years through, you know, saying that it's offensive to Aboriginal people who, by the way, we're all together now in this country.
	We're all Australians. This is Australia.
	Right, right. That's how they've been doing it.
	And now it's like an outright cancellation.
	No more Australia Day.
	They hate Australia the same way that the left hates America.
	They hate it. They hate it.
	Quick question. What are the ethnicities of most of the immigrants to Australia?
	Southeast Asian? A lot of Indians.
	Some Indians, yes. A lot of Indians.
	A lot of, I don't know what the makeup of Asians that are coming in is.
	I know we have a lot of Chinese.
	We have a lot of Chinese investors, people that actually live in China, buying up property.
	And then, of course, you know, they're far wealthier than Australians because we're taxed through the nose.
	Right. Absolutely. And then the demand for property is going up because too many people coming in, and they just keep raising the prices.
	Why is a foreign country allowed to buy property in my country and rent it out to my people?
	I can't do it with their country.
	Good question. But you know, what's interesting is that Japan, during its stock market rise up to 1989, when the Nikkei crashed badly, Japan was buying up Australian property like crazy in the 1980s.
	I don't know if you recall that, but in the 1980s, all the major real estate in Sydney and other parts near Melbourne and so on was being bought up by Japanese because their stock market was so high, it was so overvalued that the property in Tokyo was crazy insane prices per square meter.
	And then they would use that as a down payment to buy land in Australia.
	And there was a Japanese takeover of real estate in Australia.
	And then what happened is the Nikkei crashed in 1989.
	And again, it crashed hard and frankly still hasn't fully recovered even to this day.
	And then the Japanese investors had to sell all that property.
	So then it went back mostly into the hands of the Australians.
	Right. But now what you're saying from China is the exact same thing happening.
	So China's debt-based system is also hyping up the overstated values of real estate, and then they're using that as down payments to buy property in Australia.
	Yes. So it's the same thing.
	Again, history is just repeating itself.
	Yeah. Do you remember the bushfires, the tragic bushfires in Australia?
	Yeah, I forgot what year that was.
	A year or two before COVID, if I'm not mistaken.
	But we actually, in the middle of that, in the middle of needing a considerable amount of water, decided that that would be a great time to sell an entire lake to China.
	Really? Yes. To sell a lake?
	Yeah, an entire lake.
	And so that was approved by the Australian government?
	Yes, it was. Yes, that was approved.
	So Australia is selling its resources.
	It is. We have roads that are owned by foreign countries.
	Coal is a big export out of Australia.
	Yes, it is. And, you know, Tucker Carlson was recently in the country talking about how Australian energy prices really should be Extremely low.
	Yes, it should be. But no, we sell our coal to China and then we buy back renewables, Mike.
	That's what we do with our resources.
	Like the solar panels. Hey, what does electricity cost per kilowatt hour in Australia?
	Any idea? I really don't know what it is per kilowatt hour, but I can tell you, you know, I know people that pay about $1,000 a quarter for their electricity bills, sometimes more.
	It doesn't seem crazy compared to, like, California or Hawaii.
	I don't know what the bills are there, but I know that Gavin Newsom recently just addressed a reporter who said, hey, my energy bills aren't going down, and he said, oh, no, they are.
	Yeah, yeah, he was just gaslighting them.
	Oh, my mistake! Yeah, silly me.
	I thought the number was getting bigger, but it's getting smaller.
	Integers, you know. But yeah, Australia should be paying, I would say Australia should be paying less than 10 cents US per kilowatt hour, given the amount of coal that Australia has.
	But they're not willing to tap into it.
	The government's not. No, no, they don't want to.
	They want to keep...
	Do you know that our highest personal income tax bracket in Australia is 45%, Mike?
	45%. Really?
	If you earn over, I think it's $190,000, which in this day and age is not a huge amount, right?
	I mean, obviously there are not as many people that are in, not many people in that earning bracket, but still $190,000 being taxed at 45%.
	We're talking about people that go spend their lives in university to get degrees or spend their lives establishing successful businesses, right?
	And then to get taxed 45% on that?
	It is insanity.
	The tax rates in Australia are crazy.
	They are. The food prices, the energy prices.
	That was my next question. What's the price of food in Australia today compared to where you are right now?
	It's almost as bad as here comparably, I would say.
	With the exchange rate, it's pretty much almost as bad as here.
	It's not quite as bad yet, but it's getting there.
	Wow. It is getting there.
	Does that include Vegemite?
	No. I don't know.
	I don't eat it. I always have to tease you about Vegemite.
	None of us from Texas know what that stuff is.
	We have no idea. I don't think any Australians really know what it is either.
	God knows what they put in that stuff.
	I think it's fermented yeast.
	It's something like that, along with all the other numbers that go on the back of the ingredients list.
	It's like a bunch of chemicals that you shouldn't be ingesting.
	But if Vegemite has 500% Higher inflation.
	We won't care about that in Texas.
	We only care if barbecue brisket goes up.
	Hey, the brisket here is phenomenal.
	Yes, it is. It is phenomenal.
	When I went back to Australia last time after eating Texas barbecue, I went back to my favorite barbecue place over there.
	It was never the same. That's right.
	And here in Texas, of course, we care about the price of ammo and primers for making ammo, the price of diesel to power our tractors and such, and our big diesel trucks and things like that.
	I'm just kidding.
	I'm just overloading you with a little bit more Texas culture.
	I'm pretty sure our fuel prices in Australia are higher than here.
	I think you're right. Yes.
	So, I mean, you know, the cost of living over there, like, as I said, comparable with the exchange rate, it's pretty much, I think it's almost there.
	I mean, I don't know specifics, but it's almost there.
	But you add in extremely high taxes.
	You know, that's the element.
	And obedience demands from a government that's completely insane.
	You know, we have Governor Abbott here in Texas who really pushes back hard against a lot of the Washington insanity.
	Do you have any kind of equivalent governor in Australia like that?
	We don't have governors. We have a governor general only.
	And that's a little bit of a different position to what it is here.
	We have premiers who lead over the states.
	That's right. And no, they're all as bad as each other.
	Wow. But I would say that we have senators that are good.
	Uh-huh. Senator Malcolm Roberts, Senator Alex Antic, these are people, I'm just naming a couple, I won't go through the whole list, but these are people that stood up against mandates, you know, very vocal.
	Standing up against the WEF, Senator Alex Antic actually introduced into Parliament, got enough signatures, I think he got 55,000 signatures to introduce a motion.
	For the rest of the Senate to disclose their ties to the World Economic Forum, 80% voted against disclosing their ties.
	Of course they did. And here's the thing, if you think the WEF's great, then why would you have a problem disclosing your ties?
	So you know there's something wrong with your involvement with this group.
	80%. So I mean, what are you going to do with a government that's at least 80% compromised?
	So let me ask you an economic question about ties between the U.S. and Australia.
	Because as you know, there are a lot of intelligence sharing operations now and military industrial complex operations.
	I believe the dollar is headed for a collapse.
	Well, let me be clear, sort of a debt collapse, a collapse of the ability of the U.S. to sell the currency debt to other countries.
	What do you think will happen to Australia and the Australian dollar when the US dollar suddenly is no longer the world reserve currency?
	I mean, how will that affect Australia?
	Well, what is the alternative to the US dollar right now?
	I mean, the only viable alternative...
	Yeah. I mean, people buy euros.
	Or bricks, for example.
	Well, I mean, coming up, it's going to be bricks.
	Coming up, it's going to be bricks. But right now, people buy euros and yen or, I mean, the smart people are buying gold.
	Of course. Right. But I mean, other currencies, maybe the Canadian dollar, maybe the Singapore currency.
	Well, as a world currency, nothing else really stands to the U.S. dollar.
	That's right. BRICS could be an alternative.
	It's an upcoming alternative.
	What are Australia's relations with Russia like?
	Russia is demonized at every single chance.
	No, Australia is not going to be welcomed into the BRICS system.
	Not a chance. Not a chance. Despite their, whatever their weird relationship with China is, you know, we recently had revelations of a spy inside government that was actually a Chinese spy, but we're not going to tell the people because it would be detrimental to democracy.
	Okay, that makes sense.
	Right. And so, you know, despite their very strange relationship with China, I don't think that Australia would be welcomed into BRICS, no.
	I don't think so either. You're supplying Ukraine with, you know, money and tanks and, you know, whatever else you're doing.
	It's going to affect Australia, absolutely.
	Okay, so it seems to me that the Western nations...
	The UK, the US, NATO nations like France, probably not Turkey though, but Canada, Japan, Taiwan, New Zealand and Australia, they're going to suffer a global economic embargo.
	That all the other nations which represent most of the population, most of the energy, most of the natural resources, including minerals and energy coming out of Russia, minerals out of China, food coming out of India, and so on, those other nations are going to trade amongst each other in a very vibrant way, while the Western nations that I just mentioned will just have increasingly collapsing currencies and hyperinflation and a decline in the standard of living.
	I see the US and Canada and Australia becoming impoverished third world nations.
	If they have their way, that is what will happen.
	Absolutely. I think that Trump will change that.
	You do? I do. I think that there is a very good chance that he will impact...
	Positively, the other Western nations.
	Yes. You know, love him, hate him, agree with everything, disagree with some things.
	It doesn't matter. The man has a track record of benefiting America.
	Well, he's good at business for sure.
	Correct. Yes. And that will have a flow and effect on the other Western nations.
	I can tell you that, you know, whatever happens here, Australia is a few months behind.
	So that's, you know, even some of the things that I've predicted are going to come to Australia, I've literally just been from watching some of the things here, you know, drag queen, pedophile time.
	Months and months and months before that was a problem in Australia, like a visible problem, and I said it was coming, I was accused en masse of importing a culture war.
	This is a true story.
	Oh, yes. And I said, you watch.
	Just in a few short months, we will have this problem.
	By the end of the year, we were hosting drag queen pedophile time inside parliament behind locked doors with children inside because the drag queens didn't feel safe.
	The drag queens didn't feel safe?
	Correct, yes. What about the children?
	No, they're fine. They're locked inside Parliament with the drag queens, Mike.
	I don't know about...
	That doesn't sound safe to lock children in with the drag queens.
	I'm not sure. No, I can't imagine that it would be.
	But that is what happened.
	Wow. So, you know, as I said earlier, you watch what's happening because we're not just dealing with isolated problems in this country or that country, although that is sometimes true.
	But the agenda is the same.
	The agenda is to destroy mankind, depopulate, force us all into these smart cities.
	Yes. Which, by the way, to date, I have not found any in Russia.
	No evidence of smart cities yet in Russia.
	At least not as part of the C40 Cities Network or the Global Covenant of Mayors Network.
	None of that. Well, did you see that Putin announced that you can immigrate to Russia now?
	I did. And he's dropped the requirements.
	You don't have to learn to speak Russian.
	Mm-hmm. It's a tricky language.
	You don't have to learn any history of Russia, which is good because it's over a thousand years.
	It's a lot to cover, much more than the U.S. or Australia.
	And you don't have to go through the normal process.
	You can just almost show up, hey, I'm tired of these Western cultures.
	I want to just live in peace in Russia, and you're in.
	You know what's really funny?
	I was speaking to a couple of people just the other day, who I just met in my travels, and one of the ladies asked me, are a lot of people leaving Australia?
	And I said, yes, actually, quite a lot.
	And she said, where are they going?
	And I said, well, I know quite a lot of people going to Russia.
	Do you? I've heard of quite a few.
	I just heard from a family member that 20 families have gone to Serbia.
	She knows 20 families are all going to Serbia because they can't stand the madness.
	Serbia's marching against homosexual parades and things like that.
	They want conservative values.
	And so when I told that lady this, she was really surprised that people would choose somewhere like Russia.
	And yet, you know, she shared it with her husband and her husband said, no, that makes sense because it's a conservative country.
	It has conservative values.
	It has become, yes. And so the choice of Putin, I see it as somewhat, you know, smart in the sense that I don't like that he's telling people they don't have to learn the language, which you will eventually learn it, but you should learn the language of the country you're going to.
	You should learn the language, yes.
	But he's smart. At least a couple hundred words.
	Because he's going to attract...
	Who's he going to attract, Mike? Hard-working people.
	People that want to do well.
	People that want to see a country prosper.
	This is the people that he's going to attract with that.
	Well, I heard of a family here from Central Texas that was part of a church and they were doing homeschooling.
	And they couldn't deal with all the LGBT attacks on their children.
	They picked up and they moved to Russia so that they could attend a church, worship freely, and homeschool their children.
	And affordable housing and land and food was a big thing for them.
	Right.
	They didn't have a lot of money.
	Apparently in Russia, in certain parts, like land and housing is incredibly affordable and food is cheap.
	Right.
	Well, it makes sense.
	I mean, even if it wasn't extremely affordable, people have the peace of mind to not be harassed with all of this Marxist nonsense all the time, you know, to then go out and make something of themselves.
	People are getting demoralized in the West.
	I understand it, Mike.
	I do. Yeah, absolutely they are.
	I still can't figure out how to pronounce the name.
	Is it Zaporizhia or Zaporizhia, the nuclear power plant?
	And then they have the Russian pronunciation, and then they have the Ukrainian pronunciation for the same city.
	The Russian one is correct, obviously.
	Which one's the Russian one? I don't even know.
	I don't know. But there's two names to say every city, and I can't even remember one of them.
	It's okay. I think I, sometimes I say Kiev, Kiev, you know.
	Yeah, it used to be Kiev in mainstream media, and now they all say Kiev.
	Maybe it's offensive to Zelensky.
	Just like monkeypox, apparently.
	Do you know the World Health Organization?
	They changed it to MPOX. MPOX. But do you know why?
	They said that calling it monkeypox was offensive to Africans.
	Oh, I thought it was offensive to monkeys.
	Yeah. None of us are thinking of Africans as monkeys.
	That's them thinking that way.
	Oh, that's what they're saying? That's what they're saying.
	They're saying we're calling them monkeys.
	That's crazy. It's like, we didn't say that.
	You thought of that. You're equating these people to monkeys.
	How wrong is that? When I hear the word monkey, I think of a monkey.
	Correct. I don't think of people.
	What are they talking about? That's what they're saying.
	It's offensive to African people.
	None of us thought, you know, of linking monkeys with African people.
	That is so ridiculous. Well, but let's get to some truth about monkeypox, right?
	And we're going to say monkeypox.
	That's what I've been doing. Right.
	So they call it monkeypox, but a lot of it's just side effects of immune system suppression from the original COVID-19.
	Yes, correct. They just call it monkeypox.
	In fact, there was a study that came out of China.
	I'm hopefully going to be speaking to Karen Kingston about this soon.
	A study that came out of China proving that these side effects were...
	I mean, I'm sure that there are plenty of studies like it.
	You know, anyone who just digs a little bit will find that pretty much...
	And, you know, people did get sick before the injections, Mike.
	You know, people did occasionally die suddenly before the injections, not like now.
	But there are many, many common, you know, illnesses now that weren't so common before.
	This is a fact.
	And I know a lot of people, by the way, who are getting injections that are not COVID injections, like maybe for certain autoimmune disorders or things like that, who are getting...
	I know two people personally who got shingles immediately after that injection, Mike.
	So I really don't think that any injections can be trusted anymore.
	Nothing, nothing, nothing. Oh, I'm right there with you.
	Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah.
	No, this is why a boosting immune function...
	And cleaning up your diet, by the way, which is some of what I've been teaching that for 20 years, this is an urgent time to do this.
	And by the way, just to bring back in the Bible, even in the Old Testament, God was teaching people you have to be of pure blood in order to enter the tabernacle.
	Pure bloods was a concept from Leviticus.
	Yes. I mean, think about it.
	He says that the life is in the blood.
	The life is in the blood, exactly.
	And then if you're too filthy, you can't enter the tabernacle.
	And how do you get filthy blood?
	Well, through all the things they talked about, the sodomy, all the sexual immorality, the multiple sex partners, and so on.
	I mean, Paul the Apostle in the New Testament talked about this whole thing.
	The idea of pure blood is a biblical idea.
	And so how can the churches tell their congregations to go out and take these transhumanist jabs?
	And the answer is because those pastors are working for Satan.
	I'll never forget when T.D. Jakes brought Fauci on.
	He brought him on. He did a whole live stream with Fauci.
	T.D. Jakes is an incredibly influential person inside, you know, a lot of the Pentecostal circles or the evangelical circles.
	And he was as well, by the way, named inside the PDD lawsuit, you know, with the...
	Really unsavoury behaviour potentially with children, all of that sort of stuff.
	From what I saw, he wasn't actually directly involved, but he was named in the lawsuit, so that's very concerning.
	But, you know, we watched so many people absolutely sell out humanity that are supposed to be...
	No, they're not.
	They're wolves in sheep's clothing.
	And by the way, if they're not compromised to push this message, if they're not directed to push it, at bare minimum they can't be trusted with a congregation because they could not discern the times that they were in.
	They're dangerous. They need to be disavowed by their entire congregation.
	Yeah, absolutely. If your church tells you to take these jabs, you go find a different church.
	Yes. And by the way, that should be the same case with any other PSYOP that's happening, Mike.
	That's right. Any other PSYOP. If the pastor or the leader of the church or the priest cannot discern, I would not feel comfortable being in that place.
	There's no way. Yeah, I'm right there with you.
	Alright, so what else is on your mind here that you want to cover?
	I mean, this has been a really great conversation.
	We've covered a lot of things, but I know...
	I mean, you also, you do a lot of deep investigations, and you're sounding the alarm, but what else have we not covered that you think our audience needs to know?
	Well, I just really want to hammer some of this digital ID stuff, if I can for a moment, Mike, because I'm not sure that people realize, you know, in Australia right now, they're saying it's voluntary, okay?
	But this legislation passed on a Friday, and And on Monday, an electrician reported that he went to renew his license and they told him that he could not do it without a digital ID. The next business day, you know?
	So this is how they're going to enforce it.
	And so he did push back, mind you, and he said this is voluntary.
	The government says it's voluntary.
	In fact, the legislation says it's voluntary.
	And I've shared that with all of my Australian audience so that they have it, so they can push back.
	But in the meantime, while he was arguing, he wasn't allowed to work.
	Right. So he lost income in that argument.
	And so this is how they're going to do it in the US as well.
	You know, we have right now in Australia telecommunications companies pushing you, banks pushing you to get your digital ID. And so slowly, slowly, slowly, people will take it up because they're stupid until it gets to the point where people are told, okay, now you can't function without this.
	Right. Right. So I just want to give you a very quick, give the audience a very quick idea of what someone, an Australian that's living in Iceland, is facing.
	So he says, I'm an Australian, but I live in Iceland.
	This is I am Leon Hill on X that already has an all-encompassing digital ID system.
	If you're wondering how Australia's new system will play out, I'll tell you here.
	Now, I'm just going to replace that word Australia because now it's America.
	Now it's being introduced here.
	In Iceland, the digital ID system is linked to each person's kenetala or social security number.
	He says he signs into everything with his electronic ID via his phone.
	Anytime he accesses his bank account, phone services, accounting, tax, insurance, credit score, managing my assets, car slash house, power bill, medical record, when I vote or even want to pull up a store receipt of something I bought, it's all linked to my digital ID, which, by the way...
	if you're making purchases that they think aren't net zero purchases and they're going to harm the climate, that will negatively impact you.
	But you said voting there, too. Voting as well.
	That's crazy. So what, you can't vote unless you have this ID? Correct.
	Yes. And in Australia, by the way, where voting is mandatory, I don't know how people are going to get away with that.
	You know, without getting a digital ID, you get fined.
	So you don't have to get a digital ID, but you'll get a fine if you don't vote.
	That's essentially how they stagger this...
	You know, approach. He says that you cannot have a digital ID, you cannot not have a digital ID, sorry, to live there.
	He says you can't get power turned on, can't get a phone, can't buy or register a car, rent or buy a house or even buy certain items without having a digital ID. Wow, you can't even rent a house?
	No. No.
	And he says it does have some benefits in the sense that it makes everything streamlined, but you have no privacy.
	He actually outlines what that looks like.
	He says anyone can look up where I live, the license plate of my car, how much tax I paid last year, my phone number.
	You name it, it's public and available.
	All you need is my ID to find it all out.
	Wow. Now, that, Mike, is...
	When I've read the Remaking the World Towards an Age of Global Enlightenment, UN documents, the AI World Society, the Biodigital Convergence documents, when you read all of these futuristic...
	this is the kind of thing that they describe it's they describe a future where you're essentially self-policing because your neighbor will know and see everything about you and your behavior and so like china where you know you get an alert if there's a naughty person who ate too much beef this week nearby you know the same sort of system all as part of the internet of everything program
	Perhaps even the sensors inside your body will tell you that, uh-oh, danger, you know, didn't get their 45th booster this week or whatever.
	Or a sensor in your toilet.
	They have that tech.
	Yeah, you know, you urinate in the toilet and then it samples your urine to know if you're obedient to your doctor's prescriptions.
	Wow. Yeah, then they can tell whether you're taking the meds they prescribe.
	Well, okay, so Policy Horizons Canada by digital convergence documents outline how you will one day have sensors inside your body that do all of that for you.
	And so that will be reporting to, you know, Bill Gates' patent 060606, mining cryptocurrency with your body's data.
	So your body's constantly going to be feeding back to the hive AI that's going to know whether you've taken your...
	Whatever. And then they'll say, you know, conservatism, they'll claim it's a mental disorder.
	You have to be dosed with psychiatric drugs.
	Yes. To turn off that part of your brain that learns to think for itself.
	Yeah. Right? What was the drug in the fiction novel?
	Soma? Is that what it was?
	In Brave New World? Yeah.
	Soma. Wasn't that the drug?
	Yes. So we're almost there.
	They're going to dose you to...
	Yes. Remember when AOC was saying we've got these re-education programs?
	Actually, Alex Jones has been talking about it a lot the last couple of days because even Peter Hotez recently said we need Homeland Security and NATO to battle anti-vax aggression.
	NATO? NATO, yeah.
	That's what he said, yes. Like tanks and F-16s against anti-vaxxers.
	Yeah, that's what he said. That's exactly what he said.
	I'm like, first, by the way, I'm still, I mean, NATO can't even defeat Russia.
	How is NATO going to then, I mean, what does NATO have left to bomb anti-vaxxers with since they've expended everything in Ukraine?
	What kind of a stupid statement is that?
	Well, yeah, it is stupid.
	It is. What are you going to do, like literally bomb us?
	Well, he calls it anti-vaccine aggression.
	Yes, he does. So saying no against a biological weapon is an act of aggression, in his view.
	Yes. And he wants the military to kill you.
	Yes, he does. Yes.
	And this is not so...
	Mike, I recently posted about this, and I got hit with all these bots and people that was telling me that I was lying about this.
	Oh, really? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	But the video's right there. No, no, lying about this fact, that during COVID, there were people from an Aboriginal community in the Northern Territory that were taken by the military in the middle of the night.
	Oh, yeah, I remember covering that, yeah. Taken to a camp against their will.
	And forced vaccinated. No, I don't know if they were forced vaccinated in there, but they did escape.
	And the Manhunt was aired on national television for everyone to see that these people did in fact escape.
	They weren't even sick. They were just close contact.
	Well, I saw a bunch of...
	Authorities from Australia vaccinating Aboriginal people.
	Lots of videos of that.
	So I know that there were some stories that came out about forced injections.
	That was later clarified that it was a misunderstanding between the communities.
	What they did a lot of was like $500 vouchers and bribing them.
	Oh, I see. And then they would inject them under trees with no gloves on and piles of rubbish next to them, you know, because they care so much about Aboriginals.
	Right. That they're just going to, you know, abort all hygiene measures to just inject this juice in them.
	You know, just insanity.
	Insanity. But these escaped, the ones you were originally talking about.
	Two people escaped. My point is, I come from a country where we've already seen our military forcefully put people in camp.
	Yes. Yes. So when I hear Dr.
	Hotez saying those things, I'm like, I know that they are capable of this because they did it.
	Yes. They've done this.
	Absolutely. In a Western democratic nation.
	No, in a heartbeat, they would deploy the military to round up anti-vaxxers and throw them into death camps.
	It's insane, but it's happened.
	I don't want people to think that this is a completely hopeless situation, but you and I are both very realistic people.
	I always think of the worst possible case scenario and what we need to be prepared for.
	And hopefully there have been enough people that have woken up over the past couple of years to see what the authorities are capable of to stand against it.
	Like, the wave of people in the UK standing up to their government now, despite seeing people being arrested for their opinions, is still there.
	You can't be terrified.
	I was going to interview a journalist and in the end they said, no, I've got to cancel.
	It's like, no, no, you have to speak now.
	You have to speak carefully, okay?
	Be careful. But you have to speak up.
	Yeah, well, exactly.
	And here in America, our founding fathers wrote the Second Amendment specifically so that there's a decentralization of power in the hands of the people against tyranny.
	So it wasn't about hunting.
	It wasn't even about as much of self-defense in your own home.
	It was about defending the nation against tyranny.
	If our leaders take the advice of people like Peter Hotez, and if they deploy the military domestically against the people of America, there will be so much pushback by the governors of at least 25 states.
	You know, the red states will push back.
	And they will start an actual federal versus state war.
	Yes. You can imagine federal troops coming in and then state troops saying, no, you can't come in here and kill our citizens just because they're unvaccinated.
	But maybe that's what the powers that be want.
	Maybe they want to whip up a big domestic war in America over the vaccine issue.
	I think they want to whip up civil unrest over whatever issue works.
	You're right, yeah. It could be a race issue, it could be a false flag shooting, anything.
	And I think that in the next few months ahead of the election, this is why I'm here, by the way, because I know it's going to be very difficult in the States.
	I'm hoping that I'm able to warn people about what it looks like when you give up your rights like Australia has given up so many, or Australians have given up so many.
	Are you going to be here all the way through the election?
	Yeah, yeah, and possibly a little bit after.
	Wow. At least to see, you know, I mean this sincerely, Mike.
	I've even been trying to talk to Liberals while I'm here just to warn them, you know, of what it can be if you have people like Kamala in, you know.
	I mean this sincerely.
	I don't think that Trump's the perfect guy or that he has all the answers or whatever.
	Yeah. But I certainly think that he's going to be better for this country than Kamala is.
	Sure. Or, you know, even RFK Jr.
	would be better than Kamala.
	You know what I mean? Well, yeah.
	I mean, communism is bad.
	Yes. And it would destroy our nation.
	Yes. No question.
	And so, you know, and then people say, oh, it's all political theatre and they're all the same and they're all globalists and so on and so forth.
	It's like, well, the things that I've just told you about digital ID won't work if there's no central bank digital currency.
	Won't work if they can't ban all vehicles.
	You know, these are things that Trump stands against, which is why I said to you, I really do think he's going to be, he's going to do good things for this country and consequently the West.
	Well, we're with you on that point.
	Here in Texas, we're not giving up our combustion engine vehicles.
	We're not giving up our diesel tractors and trucks.
	And we're going to continue to harness the natural energy resources that God put on this earth so that we might have a civilization.
	And if California and New York and Chicago and whatever, if they want to collapse into lawlessness and destitution and starvation, You know, that's their choice.
	But here in Texas and a lot of other states in America, you know, Florida and all the red states, we're not going to let this collapse happen, even if we have to launch our own currency.
	I think there's something special and God-ordained about Texas, Mike.
	I really mean that. I think that's why I'm here at the moment.
	Yeah. For whatever God's purpose, God's plan, I really do think that I'm supposed to be here.
	I'm not thinking I'm, you know, I'm here in service is what I'm trying to say.
	Yeah. Knowing full well that it's going to be a really rocky few months ahead, you know?
	It is. But at the same time, I think that God has really, really...
	He's got positive plans for Texas, and I think that a lot of the people here know that.
	And so I'm remaining really confident about this place.
	I am. So did you get in trouble back in Australia a year ago when I handed you my pistol here?
	No. And you were able to handle a pistol in Texas?
	No. They didn't arrest you when you got back home?
	No, they didn't. Okay.
	No. They just, like, subjected me to the standard procedures.
	I wasn't given a hard time.
	Oh, okay. Yes. Well, we could up the ante with bigger and bigger rifles here.
	Oh, for sure.
	On set. We'll have to do that.
	Well, I've got one in my car, if you will.
	We don't want to get you in more trouble.
	But this is Texas, so we can always up the ante with a bigger caliber rifle.
	I saw a sign the other day that said, around here we don't call 911.
	It's the second one I've seen in Texas.
	Yeah, it's a common thing.
	Did you know that in Texas, if you're driving around and if you see any fence posts that are painted purple, you know what that means?
	No. So, in Texas and in other states, it's a law that purple means no trespassing.
	Oh. And that it's legally enforceable within the code that if somebody trespasses, then, well...
	I mean, historically, they would get shot.
	I'm not advocating that you just shoot everybody who wanders past the purple post, but I'm just saying it is a legally enforceable no trespassing sign without using words.
	Well, I'm really glad that you shared that with me because I did not know that.
	They can also paint it on a tree.
	So if you're out just randomly wandering around, I don't know, someplace in Texas, and you come upon a tree and it's got like a purple square or a purple circle, That means don't trespass beyond this tree.
	All right. Yes.
	Okay. Yes. I wish I knew that two weeks ago, but I'm glad I didn't run it.
	And did you know also there's a Cattlemen's Association in Texas and people who own cattle, they'll often post the sign that says, like, we're members of the Cattlemen's Association.
	Right. If you steal their cattle...
	They will come find you and probably shoot you.
	Like to death or just a wound?
	Yeah, pretty much to death. Okay, all right.
	Yeah, I mean, you steal a man's cattle in Texas.
	Yeah. Or it used to be in the old days, like you steal a man's horse, you take away his livelihood.
	You steal a man's horse the way it used to be was, well, that man has a right to kill you.
	Today you steal a man's cattle and And you're putting your life at risk, pretty much.
	Wow. So don't do that.
	Not that you were going to be a cattle thief.
	I had no plans.
	Need more brisket.
	There's a cow. But, you know, Mike, this is one thing that I think that the general respect that people have for one another in Texas it's it's it's it's lasted yeah and I think that a huge part of it is because it's like we respect each other but we don't mess with each other yeah and that should be we've got boundaries and we we believe in private property you know unlike the communists yes and we protect our families we protect children we protect our churches Absolutely.
	And we're going to protect our state.
	Even if the federal government doesn't want to defend Texas, well, the governor of Texas is doing many things.
	The Attorney General Paxton is doing a lot.
	And the citizens of Texas are ready to take up the call to defend the borders.
	Yeah, I certainly don't agree with every single thing that they've done, but I know that they've done positive things for Texas, and so, you know, certainly better than some other governors that I've seen.
	There was a Kentucky, was he a rep or a governor this morning, that was talking about how he hopes that J.D. Vance's family essentially gets raped.
	Oh, yeah. I forgot who said that, but that was pretty outrageous.
	It was a Kentucky person, either a governor or a representative there.
	Well, all I know is that then Representative Thomas Massey said, don't apply this to all Kentuckians, because that's not the way Kentucky is, because Thomas Massey is really great.
	Yeah, he is. Absolutely.
	He's wonderful. I wish that there were a hundred of him and pretty much just that type of person running the government.
	Yeah, Thomas Massey for president.
	You know, maybe coming up.
	Yeah. Massey would be great.
	I think so. Big supporters.
	Doesn't want to go to wars, doesn't want to fund foreign wars, doesn't want to vote on foreign war funding, you know, or doesn't want to vote yes, I mean, doesn't want to bow to the pressure of political lobbies.
	He's, from what I've seen, he's a man of integrity.
	He is. And Texas, we consider Kentucky to be a sister state.
	I don't know if you knew that. I didn't.
	Yeah, there's a lot of history about Kentucky coming to the aid of Texas and times past and so on.
	Anyway, the longer you hang out in Texas, the more fascinating history you're going to learn.
	Have you visited the Alamo yet?
	I have not yet. It's been like three weeks.
	So very soon, very soon, hopefully.
	Well, definitely visit the Alamo.
	There's a lot of great history in Texas.
	The more you learn about the history, the more fascinating it is that Texas became the state it is today, or the republic at first, and maybe again.
	But if you think about how big Texas is, did you know that Texas alone is something like the ninth largest economy in the world, if it were a nation?
	Wow. I mean, it's massive.
	The economic output of Texas is massive.
	Yeah. Oh, it's amazing.
	And... I'm fairly certain it was Texas last time, Mike, that I was driving through.
	It might have been in parts of Arizona where I saw all these oil rigs and they just weren't working.
	Yeah. They weren't working.
	And it's like these should all be working.
	I think this is the kind of stuff that Trump talks about.
	You know, it was devastating seeing that.
	Well, sometimes...
	When the price of oil is too low, they're kind of mothballed until the price goes high enough to justify the extraction costs.
	Right. A lot of it is pumping water, like there's oil mixed in with the water.
	So a lot of what's getting pumped is actually water.
	It's very high extraction costs.
	Right. But when Iran attacks Israel in retribution, which is probably coming, and then the Strait of Hormuz gets closed and oil goes to $150 a barrel, you're going to see a lot of oil wells cranking up all over the place.
	Yeah. Yeah. Do you think that that attack will happen?
	Or do you think that it's all just talk to keep people on the edge?
	No, I think it will happen.
	I think it will happen in an unexpected time and a devastating fashion.
	And I think that oil and gold will skyrocket almost immediately.
	I hope it doesn't happen.
	Of course. But... You know, there's a lot of domestic pressure in Iran to respond because, well, Israel believes it can just assassinate anybody in any city at once without repercussions.
	It's a provocation by Israel.
	Yes. And many children as well.
	Well, right. We haven't talked about Gaza.
	Yeah. Yeah. I'm just talking about Tehran and Beirut, you know.
	But that's a whole other show to get into all those details.
	Yeah. Maria, this has been just a delightful conversation.
	We always have great conversations.
	Always. You're always welcome here.
	Anything else you want to wrap this up with?
	No, I'm really glad to be here again, Mike, and thank you so much for your time and for the time of the audience here as well.
	Again, my message to everyone is...
	Please don't become Australia.
	This has been my message from COVID, but you need to, as much as humanly possible, not give up on...
	Because not everyone is a completely insane liberal.
	There are some level-headed liberals that you can kind of talk to.
	You know, keep trying to have these conversations while we're in this fight, while we're trying to stop.
	You know, Biden wants to get this digital ID in now before the election.
	I think he's preparing the executive order.
	This is really serious.
	This is really, really serious.
	And I think it should even be an election topic that people should demand that Trump says, if I'm elected, you know, I'm going to repeal this.
	Yes. I think that this is really serious.
	Again, he said no CBDC. I don't know why he would have a problem with saying that, you know, no digital ID. But, you know, again...
	The whole world looks to the United States because of the First Amendment, because of the Second Amendment.
	Look at the impact that the U.S. has had on the U.K. right now.
	When they can't speak up, the U.S. is doing it for them.
	And so, you know, this is the last bastion of freedom.
	It must be defended with absolutely every fiber.
	Completely agree. And it's so easy if Trump wanted to just win this election instantly.
	It's so easy. All he has to do is say, you know, remember that suggestion about no taxes on tips?
	That everybody loved and then Kamala stole that idea?
	We're going to expand it.
	No taxes on any income.
	Personal income.
	No taxes on personal income.
	They don't need your tax money.
	They're always printing the money they need.
	There's no relationship between government spending and how much money they get from taxes.
	There's no relationship. So end all personal income taxes.
	Let everybody keep what they earn, number one.
	And then defend freedom of speech.
	Say you're going to outlaw viewpoint discrimination.
	By big tech. I mean, right there you won the election.
	And there's nothing more pro-worker and pro-union than letting people keep what they earn.
	No income taxes.
	Yeah. Then you've got the unions.
	You would have the vote of every single person in the country.
	That's right. So who's opposed to that?
	The bankers, the globalists, they use taxation to suppress people.
	Not to raise money.
	They don't need $3 trillion or whatever it is they get from personal income taxes.
	$2 or $3 trillion. They don't need that.
	You're right. It's a fake money system.
	They don't need it.
	So it is just squashing the people, making sure that they can't not just prosper, but can't even do okay, you know?
	That's right. That's right.
	Taxation is theft.
	Well, you heard it, everyone, and now it's your job to get Mike's message out there.
	Well, it's really Ron Paul's message.
	It's just recycled again.
	Ron Paul had it right many years ago, but we'll see if Trump will take that up.
	He might get a lot of pushback, but, you know, we'll see.
	Maria, it's a pleasure having you here.
	Thank you for spending time with us today.
	Just an honor, and God bless you, and you're welcome back anytime.
	Thank you so much. God bless you too, Mike.
	All right. Thank you. The website, folks, is zmedia.com, and that's a triple E, Z-E-E-E. And did I ever ask you about why are there three E's?
	What's the story on that?
	When I started speaking out, I was working in a senior leadership role for a government-funded, not-for-profit disability employment agency.
	Okay. So I'm a senior leader at this government-funded disability employment place screaming on social media, the government's trying to kill you!
	Right? Yeah. And I had a very, very small following, but it started to grow.
	So I changed my name on social media to Maria with three A's, and then I thought, instead of having my real surname, I'll just do Z with three E's, and that way my co-workers won't be able to find me.
	And then it stuck.
	Yeah. And it's stuck.
	That's it. That's how it happens.
	Well, it's very unique. Yes.
	Yeah. Okay. So ZEEEmedia.com is the website.
	And that's how everybody knows you.
	I don't even know any other name for you other than Maria Z. That's it.
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	Welcome to today's sermon.
	I'm Mike Adams, and we're picking up in chapter 11 of The Gospel According to Mark.
	And the reason that this chapter is so special to me, I want to share this with you, is because I have a donkey named Hosanna.
	And this donkey was named by our readers, perhaps some of you listening today.
	We had this donkey.
	It was born on our ranch, the Health Ranger Ranch in Texas.
	This was the first donkey born there.
	And we asked our viewers and readers, what should we name the donkey?
	And there are a lot of different name ideas.
	And ultimately, the name that won out was Hosanna.
	And of course, chapter 11 of Mark talks about Hosanna.
	And I'll read some of that for you here in a second.
	But then Hosanna later had a daughter, and we named the daughter Basil.
	So we have a donkey named Hosanna out of the Bible, and then we have a donkey named...
	For an herb, which is also well known in ancient times and the Mediterranean area.
	So kind of an interesting match, isn't it?
	So let's just read from chapter 11, verse 1.
	Now when they drew near Jerusalem to Bethphage and Bethany, and I apologize if I'm not pronouncing all these cities correctly, At the Mount of Olives he sent two of his disciples, and he said to them, Go into the village opposite you, and as soon as you have entered it, you'll find a colt tied, on which no one has sat.
	Loose it and bring it.
	And if anyone says to you, Why are you doing this?
	Say, The Lord has need of it, and immediately he will send it here.
	So this is a little unusual.
	They're basically borrowing a colt.
	Well, A donkey, as it turns out to be.
	So I don't know, is it a donkey colt?
	Well, let's continue.
	So they went their way and found the colt tied by the door outside on the street, and they loosed it.
	But some of those who stood there said to them, what are you doing loosing the colt?
	Like, you're letting a donkey go.
	And they spoke to them just as Jesus has commanded, so they let them go.
	You know, saying, Now,
	what's interesting about this verse is that nowhere does it say donkey.
	It just talks about a cult.
	But then, in other renditions of this, it has always been a donkey.
	So, I don't know, you tell me, is this a donkey or is there a different interpretation?
	Anyway, my donkey is named Hosanna, and the kind of donkey that it is, sometimes they're called Jesus donkeys.
	You know why? Because if you look down on them from above, they have a black cross in their fur.
	It's a very common type of donkey, at least as I understand it, but anyway...
	So this black stripe runs all the way down their back from their neck to their tail and then another stripe crosses that kind of roughly where their shoulders are.
	So there's a cross on the back of the donkey named Hosanna at my ranch.
	Kind of interesting.
	And guess how many donkeys I ended up with at the ranch?
	Seven. Seven donkeys.
	None of this was by design.
	This was obviously years before I even thought about teaching scripture, but I ended up with seven donkeys and the firstborn donkey named Hosanna.
	Now then, let's talk about Jesus overturning the tables of the money changers because that's also in the same chapter.
	It's in verse 15.
	So they came to Jerusalem.
	Then Jesus went into the temple and began to drive out those who bought and sold in the temple and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves.
	Now you've probably heard a lot about Jesus...
	Getting righteous with the money changers.
	Why? Because the money changers were known as the cheaters of that day.
	They would overcharge people.
	Or, possibly, they would loan people money and then charge interest on the loans and they would overcharge interest.
	Well, Jesus didn't get mad at very many people in his days.
	But the money changers, or as we would call them today, the banksters, he got mad at the banksters.
	And he threw their tables over.
	You know, like you do when you're a kid and you're playing a game of Monopoly with your siblings.
	And then you were losing badly because your brother or your sister got boardwalk and park place.
	And then at some point you're like, I'm not playing.
	And you just threw the table over.
	Yeah. Little temper tantrum there from Jesus, but justified.
	He overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves.
	And verse 16, Then he taught, saying to them, is it not written, my house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations, but you have made it a den of thieves?
	Basically, this is Jesus saying, this is a place of worship, not a place of commerce, and certainly not a place of cheating people out of their money by functioning as money changers, right?
	So... Lots of references, obviously, to greed and money throughout the Bible.
	I will do a sermon focused on that.
	We've covered a few verses before, but that's not my primary focus, being someone focused on nutrition and herbs and so on.
	But we will get to a sermon specifically about gold and silver.
	Sometime here in the 100.
	And then later as he's walking through Jerusalem, well, let me just read a verse 27.
	Then they came again to Jerusalem and as he was walking in the temple, the chief priests, the scribes and the elders came to him.
	So this is the institution of the church of the day.
	Not happy with Jesus.
	Not happy that he's healing people, well, or accelerating their healing, as we say.
	Not happy that he's teaching people to have a direct relationship with God.
	Not happy that he's empowering people.
	Not happy at all.
	Remember, throughout the Bible, in Old and New Testaments, the church is corrupt.
	In many cases, the church is corrupt, and a lot of the teachings of the prophets is trying to correct the corruption of the church, which never seems to last.
	So the priests become corrupt and the scribes, the elders, as mentioned here.
	And then verse 28, they said to him,"'By what authority are you doing these things?
	And who gave you this authority to do these things?' So Jesus answers them with a riddle that they can't answer themselves.
	And so ultimately he says,"'Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.'" Because his authority, of course, is from God.
	And I'm wondering if his question was, what have I got in my pocketses?
	No. Oh, wait. That's Lord of the Rings.
	Sorry. Wrong chapter.
	So now we get to chapter 12 about paying taxes to Caesar.
	Yeah, this brings up a lot of, well, a lot of emotion and a lot of people.
	Let's jump in here.
	Verse 13. Then they sent to him some of the Pharisees and the Herodians to catch him in his words.
	Again, they were trying to set traps for Jesus.
	They wanted to arrest him. Ultimately, of course, they wanted to kill him, and they did.
	Verse 14. We know that you are true and care about no one, for you do not regard the person of men, but teach the way of God in truth.
	You can hear I'm kind of acting out the sinister nature of their trap.
	They're trying to set a trap for him.
	They say, is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar or not?
	Shall we pay or shall we not pay?
	But he, referring to Christ, knowing their hypocrisy, said to them, why do you test me?
	Bring me a denarius so that I may see it.
	That's the coin of the realm, of course.
	So they brought it, verse 16.
	And he said to them, whose image and inscription is this?
	They said to him, Caesar's.
	And Jesus answered and said to them, render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's and to God the things that are God's.
	And they marveled at him.
	But this is a really clever answer of Jesus, and this has been misinterpreted by many churches today.
	Because what Jesus was really saying is that this currency is a fictional creation of man.
	And yes, man can lay claim to its own creations of fictional currencies, but man cannot lay claim to those things which are God's.
	And so in man's world of synthetic things and false things and made-up things like your modern-day money, your dollars, you know, what are your dollars?
	Nothing but debt. It's a piece of debt.
	Paper money or currency.
	It's not even really money because it doesn't qualify as money.
	It doesn't hold value. So it's currency.
	Can your modern government, which is most likely rooted in Satanism, can it lay claim to its own creations rooted in debt and destruction and suffering and Satanism, which is the dollar?
	Let's be honest. That's what the dollar is.
	It's an instrument of control, an instrument of debt, an instrument of weaponization.
	So can Caesar lay claim to the domain of things that Caesar created or that man created?
	Yes. Jesus said, yeah, that's mankind's domain.
	He seems to be implying that that's got nothing to do with real currency, currency with God, currency with the Lord's grace, the Lord's recognition of who you are and the things that you have earned morally with integrity in this life.
	You see, Jesus assigns no value to currency.
	In fact, later on in this chapter, he rails against those who try to collect currency, thinking that it is wealth, because currency is not wealth.
	This is in Matthew chapter 19, verse, I think it's 23.
	Yes, Jesus said to his disciples,"'Assuredly, I say to you that it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.'" And again, I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.
	And that's the way Jesus looks at people who accumulate greed and wealth.
	And there are many, many examples of that.
	We've covered them in some of the other sermons.
	Now, I think one of the best descriptions of this is found in 1 Timothy.
	And we covered 1 Timothy in another sermon, but let me bring you back to chapter 6, verse 3.
	Now remember, this was Timothy sent out to help correct the churches.
	Because again, churches become corrupt and their priests become corrupt and they get all into greed and popularity and all their rich robes and all their collections of material wealth.
	So here we are in verse 3.
	If anyone teaches otherwise and does not consent to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which accords with godliness, he is proud, knowing nothing, but is obsessed with disputes and arguments over words from which come envy, strife, reviling, but is obsessed with disputes and arguments over words from which come envy, strife, reviling, evil suspicions, useless wranglings of men of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain from
	See, don't use the church as your little material wealth pyramid scheme or whatever.
	That's not going to get you anywhere with God.
	And it goes on in verse 6.
	See? Godliness with contentment is great gain.
	Great gain. Because that's worth more than any stock values and money in your online accounts that you log in.
	Clickety-clack. I logged in.
	Look at the numbers on the screen.
	I'm so rich. No, you're not.
	Not necessarily. Not from numbers on the screen.
	Verse 7, For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.
	So all those numbers on your screens, are you taking those with you?
	Nope. Nope, they don't count for anything in the eyes of God.
	Verse 8, And having food and clothing, with these we shall be content.
	To have enough to eat, to have clothing and shelter.
	Verse 9, So, the love of money is the root of all kinds,
	all kinds of evil. The love of money turning into foolish and harmful lusts.
	You know, what do people do with money in society today?
	Think about it. Let's say somebody who's not spiritually mature.
	Somebody who has lived their lives either in poverty or maybe middle class.
	They've never seen real money.
	And then, for whatever reason, maybe they win the lottery and they get a billion dollars.
	What do a lot of these people do with a billion dollars?
	Um, I've seen videos online where like a lottery winner, guys like cocaine and hookers, you know, and it's like jet skis and private jets mansions and more cocaine and hookers.
	And it's like, yeah, you're just making the point.
	That's what Timothy was talking about.
	You can't have cocaine hookers all over the church.
	That's obviously not godly.
	But, I mean, they didn't have cocaine back in the day of Timothy.
	But if they did, you can bet, you can bet Jesus would have, like, walked into the church in Jerusalem and overturned the cocaine table.
	Like, what are you doing? So, yeah, the love of money is the root of all evil.
	And this is why.
	This is why Jesus says...
	Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's.
	Your fake money goes to your fake authority, fake government.
	You know, you're fake gods, you're fake men of authority, fake authority, whatever.
	But render to God the things that are God's.
	That is morality, loyalty, integrity, spirituality, maturity, and so on.
	Now, this verse 17 here, the render to Caesar verse, this is Mark 12, verse 17.
	This has been misinterpreted and mistaught by a lot of churches saying that, yeah, you should obey government.
	So when government goes to a church and says, well, you have to have a vaccine mandate and a lockdown mandate.
	You have to tell all your people they have to take the jabs and wear the masks and lock down their children from school and all this.
	And the priests or the ministers, they sit there and they cite verse 17.
	Well, you must render to Caesar all the things that are Caesar's.
	Oh, they misinterpret the words of Christ.
	They grossly misinterpret what Christ said.
	Christ wasn't saying obey government.
	He was saying that the world of government authority is fake and false.
	Not even real.
	The real world is the world of God and spirituality and your eternal life with God.
	This world that we live in right now is a shallow simulation compared to the real eternal world with God.
	That's what Jesus was saying.
	It's very clear.
	And also, he wasn't going to fall into the trap that the local priests were setting for him, trying to get him to say, you know, to have an insurrection against Caesar.
	You know, we've seen that in modern times.
	Oh, are you causing an insurrection?
	You know, it'd be like January 6th for Jesus.
	That would be called like JJ6, right?
	Or J6J. They were trying to arrest him in a January 6th type of event.
	Jesus the insurrectionist!
	Jesus didn't fall for it.
	He spoke in a way of higher truth that they couldn't catch him saying, do not obey Caesar.
	But he also said, the greater, the transcendent obedience is to God.
	And that's why the next line says, and they marveled at him.
	I think they marveled at his wisdom.
	His cleverness in being able to evade this trap.
	Now next, we're going to see in verse 18, we'll hear about the Sadducees who were, it was a Jewish group that hated Jesus.
	They never believed in the resurrection and they wanted to see Jesus killed.
	So verse 18, Now there were seven brothers, they said, and they go on.
	This is a riddle. It's like, I once met a man from St.
	Ives, and on his way to St.
	Ives, he had seven wives, and seven wives had seven cats, or whatever.
	It's that kind of riddle.
	It's like, you had seven brothers, and then he took her, and he died, and they died, and should he have children with that wife, and this one, and then blah, blah, blah.
	And they're trying to trap Jesus, is the bottom line here.
	Therefore, in the resurrection, when they rise, whose wife will she be?
	So... This is a Jesus trap riddle from the Jews, essentially.
	And in verse 24, Jesus answered and said to them, See, Jesus is always transcendent.
	Just like with the answer about Rome, like, yeah, rendered to Caesar all Caesar's fake money.
	But that doesn't matter when you go to heaven.
	He's saying the same thing here.
	Marriage doesn't matter when you go to heaven because you're going to be like angels in heaven.
	It's a different dimension.
	You know, marriage is a contract with the state between two people here on earth in this simulation.
	In heaven, you're going to look at this.
	Oh, that was a very interesting simulation.
	We had little pieces of paper talking about contracts with the state.
	It doesn't matter in the eyes of God when you become angels in heaven.
	What matters is whether you acted with integrity and morality.
	Were you loyal to your husband or wife in this world?
	And did you do your best to move forward in this world with positive intentions for humanity and closeness with God?
	And did you ask for forgiveness for your sins?
	And did you forgive others? Issues like that, right?
	So verse 26...
	But concerning the dead that they arise, have you not read in the book of Moses, this is Jesus saying this, in the burning bush passage how God spoke to him saying, I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.
	He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living.
	You are therefore greatly mistaken.
	And then another scribe comes forward and asks another question.
	He asks Jesus, which is the first commandment of all?
	And Jesus replies...
	The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one, and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.
	This is the first commandment.
	And the second, like it, is this, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
	There are no other commandment greater than these.
	And the scribe said, Yep, that's the right answer, basically.
	And Christ said, yeah, you're not far from the kingdom of God.
	And then after that, nobody had any more questions for him.
	They could not out-quiz Jesus, it turns out.
	They tried, but they couldn't stump him with riddles.
	But of course, they did not try the riddle that you have one canoe, you have to cross the river, and you have a fox, a chicken, and a bag of grain.
	And the fox wants to eat the chicken, the chicken wants to eat the bag of grain.
	And... But you can only carry like one animal at a time or one thing at a time across the river.
	How do you go back and forth with the canoe and still end up with the fox, the chicken, and the grain?
	They did not ask Jesus that question.
	Although Jesus' answer probably would have been, I would ditch the canoe, I would pick up the fox, the chicken, and the grain, and I would walk across the river with my bare feet.
	Boom! I'm Jesus. That's what I can do.
	So he would have transcended their question no matter what.
	And then Jesus, he says, you should beware of the scribes.
	Watch out for the scribes.
	This is verse 38.
	Then he said to them in his teaching, beware of the scribes who desire to go around in long robes, love greetings in the marketplaces, the best seats in the synagogues, and the best places at feasts, who devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers.
	These will receive greater condemnation.
	I love this passage because this is Jesus taking issue with the flowery, overzealous, religious, the religiosity formalities of the scribes who are just preying upon the population like stage magicians, basically. They're not people of Christ.
	They're not people of the Lord.
	They don't live the life that Christ taught.
	Or even that the Lord taught before Christ.
	What these scribes do is they run around and they're all pretentious.
	They pretend to be really, really important people so they can get all the VIP tickets, basically.
	Oh, there's going to be a feast? Well, I'm an important scribe.
	Make sure I have the first plate and they load up at the buffet.
	You know, you've seen people like this.
	Man, leave some for everybody else, huh?
	They run around and get the best seats at the concerts, you know?
	It's like, watch out for the scribes.
	Watch out for the scribes.
	Well, of course, a few centuries later, they would be replaced with the Gutenberg Press.
	But that would take a while.
	All right, we're going to wrap it up here because the next chapter, of course, is Mark 13, and that deserves a whole discussion by itself.
	So, we will get to that.
	I have just a quick note.
	I've also recorded a really fun sermon about turmeric, which you may wonder, is turmeric mentioned in the Bible?
	According to scholars, indeed it is, but not by the name turmeric.
	You actually have to go to the Hebrew name for curcumin, which we'll get to in the upcoming sermon.
	And it's mentioned, by the way, in Song of Solomon.
	And so, since I was teaching Song of Solomon and I was reading the lines, the lyrics of the Song of Solomon, I was like, wow, this is some flowery stuff.
	You know, the king and this woman, this young woman, describing each other in the most flowery terms possible.
	And I thought, you know, translated into English, this doesn't rhyme at all.
	We need to re-rhyme this.
	And we need to make a song out of it.
	So... I did.
	So I made a song.
	I recorded the song.
	It's called The Song of Solomon.
	And we're busy right now putting animated lyrics to it.
	And as soon as I have that done, I'll release the sermon about turmeric with the song.
	It's a rap song, by the way.
	The Song of Solomon rap, which is very funny.
	It's hilarious. If you read The Song of Solomon...
	It's crazy. There are lines in there that are like, they're supposed to be complimentary.
	Like your navel is as round as a goblet and your waist is like a heap of wheat.
	And then the woman saying to the king, your neck is like the Tower of David.
	Is that a compliment?
	Your hair is like a flock of goats, he says back.
	And it's hilarious.
	So I could not resist.
	I had to make a whole song out of that.
	At one point he says to her too, he says, your nose is like Lebanon.
	I didn't know what to make of that.
	Is that, I mean, today that, if you tweeted that out to somebody, Could you get banned for that?
	It's right out of the Bible. Your nose is like Lebanon.
	Is that a compliment?
	Is it a suggestion for cosmetic surgery?
	What does that mean?
	How big was Lebanon in those days?
	Was it like the shape of Lebanon on a map?
	Your nose looks like this section of the map right here?
	The rest of your face, we haven't yet assigned nations to it.
	But we'll get around to that.
	Like, your cheeks are like Syria.
	You know, your lips are like Jordan.
	It's like, I'm not sure how this works.
	But anyway, it's pretty funny.
	And then again, I have a little bit of a twisted sense of humor, so I couldn't resist.
	But that's coming out.
	Maybe a couple sermons down the road here.
	You'll definitely want to stay tuned for that.
	That's going to be the turmeric sermon with Song of Solomon.
	So thank you for listening.
	Many more sermons yet to come.
	I'm Mike Adams. God bless you all.

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