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Aug. 28, 2024 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams

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BBN, Aug 28, 2024 – Only TEAM TRUMP can stop RUNAWAY GOVERNMENT VIOLENCE...

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	Do you know what this wonderful country is made of?
	It's made up of a hundred different kind of people and a hundred different ways of talking and a hundred different ways of going to church.
	But they're all American ways.
	Wouldn't we be silly if we went around hating people because they combed their hair different than ours?
	But we can perhaps remember, if only for a time, that those who live with us are our brothers.
	And surely we can begin to work a little harder To bind up the wounds among us and to become in our hearts brothers and countrymen once again.
	At a very similar crossroads we have a unique opportunity Not only to defuse those tensions, but to take a radically different path.
	It starts by seeing within others and within ourselves that which is not selfish, but is brave and generous and idealistic and has good intentions.
	Think about that, fellas. Use your good American heads.
	Don't let anybody make suckers out of you.
	Well, that'll go to work.
	Okay, I hope you enjoyed that really powerful video.
	I think that was put out by the RFK Jr.
	team. I'm not sure, but I think it was Team Kennedy that put that out.
	And this is Brighteon Broadcast News.
	So, welcome.
	And it is Wednesday, August 28th, 2024.
	I'm Mike Adams, the Health Ranger.
	As you probably know, the founder of brighteon.com, publisher of Natural News.
	And... We've got some really important things to cover today, but big picture concepts stemming from that video that we just saw.
	Now, we also have some other breaking news, but look, here's the big picture that's emerging.
	Everybody who has any brain left at all, I mean, any rationality, any reason, any humanity is walking away from the Democrat Party.
	And if they're an independent person, they are leaning strongly toward Trump or just outright endorsing what has become much more than Trump.
	It's not even about Trump the one man.
	It's about The movement of what Trump and RFK Jr.
	and Tulsi Gabbard and so many leading people stand for.
	And see, that's what's beautiful about the video that I just showed you is it's not that everybody has to share the same religion or the same exact belief system.
	And there are going to be differences.
	Even in abortion, I've seen a lot of really very conservative pro-life activists saying, well, I'm not going to vote for Trump.
	Because he's not 100% all-in at banning abortion nationwide.
	And even if you are strictly pro-life, believing that all abortion should be banned, understand you live in a country where the vast majority of the population, they do not believe that.
	And building a successful political movement that can take down the communists, And that can nudge us in the right direction.
	If not have a revolutionary reformation in the right direction, in the direction of pro-life, it's going to require voting for the party that's more in that direction.
	You know, if you're not going to vote for Trump, And you call yourself pro-life, then you are making a huge, huge mistake because the Democrats absolutely want to murder humanity.
	And the way out of that is to vote for, well, I say Trump, but it's much more.
	It's not even just MAGA anymore.
	It's MAHA, make America healthy again.
	It's way beyond just make America great.
	This is a spiritual calling.
	Taking part in the unfolding of history in real time, as we are working together to save this nation from those who seek to destroy it, and the very same people who seek to destroy this nation, they are the ones who also seek to destroy newborn babies and unborn babies, ritualistically.
	They are the demons. They are the destroyers.
	They are the ones soaked in the blood of the children that they have sacrificed to their Luciferian fake gods, their fallen angels.
	And these people on the left, these Democrats, they absolutely have lost their minds, they have lost their humanity, they have lost their hearts, they have lost any sense of logic or reason, and they've lost touch with the values that they themselves claim to believe in.
	It wasn't too long ago that they claimed to believe.
	In freedom of speech.
	They claim to believe in honest elections.
	They claim to believe in freedom of the press.
	You know, they claim to be anti-war.
	It wasn't that long ago.
	And now, what have the Democrats become, and specifically the left-wing criminal cabal regime that's in charge in Washington, D.C., and in European countries?
	This is what's leading the U.K. government and the French government and the German government and so on.
	Who are these people?
	They are people who have abandoned humanity.
	They are traitors to the human race.
	And millions of people are waking up to this reality now.
	Millions of people just in the United States are realizing that we have got to work together, whether you're a former Democrat, an Independent, a Republican, a far-right, a Christian, Whether you're black or white,
	gay or straight, whether you're a person of faith, whether you practice the faith of Islam or Judaism or Catholicism or Sikhism or Christianity, we have got to learn this.
	To join together for humanity's sake.
	And that is the message of RFK Jr.
	And that is what RFK Jr.
	brings to the Trump ticket.
	He transcends politics.
	And in joining Trump, endorsing Trump, the Trump ticket transcends politics in America.
	It's amazing to be alive in this time.
	And I feel the loving power of this movement so deeply and so profoundly that I have to say RFK Jr.'s decision and his announcement has awakened my heart to the things that humanity is capable of.
	Before that, and you may have heard this in my podcast, I was feeling increasingly frustrated and disappointed in humanity.
	I have called humanity at large a death cult, and of course, you know, that's still a very large segment of the human race, but it doesn't take many things.
	To overcome that and to turn that around, it only takes a small percentage of dedicated, passionate truth-tellers, people with courage, people with righteousness, like RFK Jr., And then we can turn this around.
	So RFK Jr.
	showed me the light of hope for healing America and bringing us together in a way that would never be possible with just one person or even just one religion.
	So I really want to encourage those of you who are listening, especially those of you who are Christians, Which I would imagine is most of the listeners here, but perhaps some of you are agnostic or practitioners of Islam or other religions.
	And I just want to say, God honors each and every one of you.
	We are all children of God.
	We've all been created by God with the gift of life and consciousness and free will.
	And however you choose to express that faith, I'm okay with that.
	And whatever your skin color, whatever your country of origin, whatever language you grew up speaking, I'm okay with that.
	When you are part of team humanity, I consider you my brother and my sister.
	And it's amazing the convergence that is happening.
	This is a political convergence that is transcending normal politics in America.
	And have you noticed how the Democrats and the leftists are now collapsing into tyranny and threats?
	They fake everything, they lie, they deceive, and they threaten.
	And the latest threat, by the way, comes from Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson.
	And she, like many Democrats, is just straight out issuing threats.
	We will come for you, she says, if you don't certify the election that they're going to cheat in.
	And this is what Democrats believe in now, just threatening everybody who doesn't go along with their election theft and their tyranny.
	They're going to throw you in jail, and they're telling you up front.
	The DOJ said something very similar recently, but watch this short video, just 15 seconds, from Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson.
	And Michigan is, of course, a wretched, wretched state of corruption where they faked an FBI-run kidnapping of Governor Whitmer.
	Totally faked, totally rigged, to try to blame the, quote, far right, even though it was another FBI terrorism operation.
	But check out this video from Secretary of State of Michigan, Jocelyn Benson, quote, we will come for you.
	And she's got this little evil grin on her face when she says it.
	Check this out. If someone were to violate the law and not certify the election at the local level, we will come for you.
	So any local certifier thinking of skirting the law and not certifying the vote, don't even think about it because we'll get it.
	Pure evil, satanic demon infestation, and you're seeing it in more and more of these people that claim to be Democrats.
	They're really demon crats.
	They are demons in the bureaucracy or the autocracy.
	So demon crat is actually far more accurate than saying demo crat because these people don't believe in democracy at all.
	They are going to cheat and they're telling you in advance that if you resist the cheat, then you will be prosecuted.
	You will be thrown in prison and To never be heard from again like they've done the J6 prisoners.
	But I believe, by the way, that these demons will be vanquished.
	I think that they will be defeated.
	Their demonic system of subservience, obedience, destruction will be dismantled.
	And America will be saved.
	I believe that's the case.
	But I don't know what's going to happen on Election Day.
	But here's my sense of what's going to happen.
	My prediction is that the Democrats are going to gaslight America on November 5th and 6th.
	They're going to just announce false numbers, and they're going to claim Kamala has won.
	These numbers will be blatantly rigged, completely fabricated where necessary.
	I mean, some of the state's numbers will be true where they don't matter, but in the swing states like Michigan or Wisconsin or Pennsylvania or wherever, they're going to just fabricate the numbers and post the fake numbers, and they're going to try to gaslight their way into victory by just saying Kamala wins and then hope the whole nation accepts it.
	And that's going to be the great steal.
	Or, as I've called it before, the Great Scare.
	There will be an existential scare for America.
	And many people will be very frightened in that moment, thinking that the Republic has lost.
	And that's the way it will look and feel, that the Republic has lost.
	But then, following that, there will be a great reveal.
	I don't know the mechanism, but somehow it will be overturned That the real numbers will come out.
	There will be possibly an undercover video.
	There will be whistleblowers.
	There will be a reckoning.
	And then Team Trump with RFK Jr.
	and Vance and others will be recognized as the winners.
	I don't know if that's going to take days or weeks.
	I don't know. But It's going to take an act of great faith and courage to continue to move forward and to challenge the cheaters, the riggers, the traitors who try to steal the election again.
	And by the way, once Trump gets into office in January, then there are going to be such a series of criminal investigations into the COVID crimes and The bioweapons crimes, the election crimes, the financial crimes, the money laundering, kickbacks, child trafficking, you name it, you are going to see tens of thousands of Democrats flee the country if they're not arrested first.
	There will be tens of thousands of arrests.
	And people who carried out crimes against America, crimes against children, crimes against humanity, these people will be Arrested.
	They will be prosecuted.
	History will have to be rewritten for America.
	And the way that we get there, folks, the way we get there is to vote for the Trump ticket on November 5th, especially if you are in a swing state.
	Get out. Vote for Trump.
	Encourage friends, family members, acquaintances to go vote with you.
	Because we have to give the Trump team a victory beyond the ability of the Democrats to steal it.
	In other words, too big to rig.
	Now, our voices are really important in all of this.
	Your voice is important.
	Even if you only talk to five people, well, that's a multiplier of five.
	But maybe, maybe you're online, maybe you have a channel on Bright Town Social or Twitter or wherever, or maybe you post videos, then your voice is really multiplied.
	Maybe you reach hundreds of people or thousands.
	And some of you listening to this reach millions of people.
	And I was reminded today of the importance of that because Michael Jan posted this This message.
	He said he was shopping for knowledge on G. Edward Griffin, and he came across the Health Ranger being interviewed by G. Edward Griffin.
	I think that was back in 2008.
	And yes, I had flown to California at the time, and I visited G. Edward Griffin's, I think it was his house at the time, and he filmed me.
	We did an interview.
	I think it was in his living room.
	And we had a great conversation, and he put that on a DVD. And I remember that because I had cut my hair way too short accidentally.
	I went to a haircut place, and I think I said, hey, use a number four, and they accidentally used a number three.
	And it was like, I looked like I'd almost been shaved bald or something.
	So it's kind of funny.
	That's why my hair is so short in that video.
	It's the only time my hair was ever that short.
	It was a mistake. Anyway...
	Forget that, but Michael Jan then went on and he said in his tweet, he said, people around the world watch Mike Adams.
	I know because in numerous countries such as the Netherlands, Canada, Germany, and more, people recognize me from seeing me talking with Mike Adams.
	So this is Michael Jan saying that In essence, I made him known by these people all around the world, but my answer would be, I didn't make him known.
	You, the listeners here today, you are the ones who make all this happen.
	You made Michael Jan known.
	And thank you for who you are and for the power of your voice and your commitment to truth and righteousness and transparency.
	Because this is going to take all of us.
	This isn't about, you know, a top influencer or whatever, or someone like myself who does tend to reach a lot of people with an international message.
	This is about each and every one of us at the grassroots level reaching out to those who still have their brains functioning, who still have humanity in their heart.
	Whether they are Republican, Democrat, you know, conservative, liberal, independent, whatever.
	It doesn't matter anymore.
	This is about humanity surviving all of these attacks or humanity will fall and it will be destroyed if we let this criminal cabal stay in power.
	Anyway, Michael Yan finished that tweet.
	He said the endorsement of Health Ranger from G. Edward Griffin is significant.
	And... That's funny because I never thought of that.
	Well, I've known G. Edward Griffin, you know, for many years.
	I mean, G. Edward Griffin educated me.
	I learned from G. Edward Griffin.
	I read his books, World Without Cancer, which talks about vitamin B17 laetrile.
	And I read, of course, The Creature from Jekyll Island, talking about the creation of the Federal Reserve, 1913, and all of that.
	And Michael Young just read that book, The Creature from Jekyll Island.
	I think he just read it for the first time.
	And he was just blown away. Absolutely amazed.
	And so I reached out to G. Edward Griffin.
	He's got his Red Pill Expo coming up.
	I think it's in Tulsa.
	Maybe it's in September.
	I have to double check.
	But we're inviting him on for an interview.
	And he did invite me to speak at the Red Pill Expo.
	I have politely turned that down because, well, I'm very, very busy doing what I'm doing right now.
	You know, I'm doing an interview every day, a podcast every day, and a Bible sermon every day on nutrition and writing three songs right now.
	And I just finished filming the kind of the video performance of one of the songs, which is called the Song of Solomon.
	I just finished that. So that video should be coming out soon.
	It's pretty funny. But the bottom line in all of this is wherever you are listening to this, you know, bless you, all of you, in Japan.
	I know we've got a lot of listeners in Japan.
	We have listeners in Taiwan.
	You know, we have listeners in Canada, of course.
	We have listeners in Hong Kong, listeners all over Europe and all over the world, Central and South America, and no doubt some in the Middle East and Southeast Asia, Australia, and New Zealand.
	I just interviewed Maria Zee.
	As you know, in studio, we put that out yesterday.
	I just want to say, God bless each and every one of you all over the world.
	I honor you. I extend my heart to you, my love to you for who you are.
	And I feel like we are living in one of the most important moments in human history.
	And we should move forward with faith and courage and not be dragged down by fear.
	And these are the key competing forces.
	And we're going to be tested by these forces very aggressively in the months ahead.
	You're going to have moments where fear sweeps through you.
	Like, oh my God, what's happening?
	And then you're going to have moments of incredible angelic courage that takes over your presence.
	And fills your spirit with thoughts and fills your mouth with the right words to say to help encourage somebody else, to help move us forward so that humanity can survive and thrive and overcome this demonic destruction of our world that is being pushed by the Democrats, the globalists, the criminal cabal in power, corrupt, weaponized governments of the Western world.
	So God bless you wherever you are listening to this.
	I feel absolutely honored to be able to bring you this message today.
	Now, Cornel West, we played a video of his yesterday, and he is generally considered what you might say far left, but he is pro-humanity.
	We talked about him yesterday, truth and justice and love for humanity, even though, again, he and many of our listeners might disagree on policy.
	But Cornel West wants humanity to survive.
	He is not a demon-infested person, okay?
	And he has come out and claimed that Kamala Harris attempted to bribe him to drop out of his race, and that he was offered a job in her administration, and And even there was a promise that somehow his campaign debts would be paid off.
	And he stated all this in a recent interview with journalist Jordan Cheriton on what's called the Status Coup News podcast.
	I'm not familiar with that podcast or Jordan Cheriton.
	But this just goes to show you that a lot of people on what we would consider the left are very much coming out and they're bringing transparency to this.
	They're telling the truth about You know, the games that dirty Democrats play right here.
	And I do want to tell you that my producer is reaching out to Cornel West to invite him for an interview.
	I don't know if he will accept.
	I have no idea. I don't know if his schedule even allows it.
	But I do want you to know that I've extended the invitation and that if Cornel West would love to engage in a conversation on my show, that he would be treated with respect and dignity because I honor his pro-human position.
	Now, if we don't defeat the demon-crats in this election, we are in such incredible trouble.
	And, you know, even...
	I shouldn't just say the Democrats.
	It's not even accurate.
	It's this criminal cabal that has hijacked the Democrat label, actually.
	You know, just because an individual has a D next to their name at this point doesn't mean that they're on board with all of this anti-human evil that the Democrat establishment is pushing.
	Many people with Ds next to their names are leaving the Democrat Party.
	I guess at some point they'll remove the D and they'll become maybe an I for independent or an A for political agnostic.
	But not every person who self-identifies as a Democrat is demon-infested.
	I'm not trying to say that.
	But at the top, the Democrat Party is absolutely demonic.
	And the Democrat Party is waging such a war against the American people Here's an example of that that will absolutely blow your mind, and this story comes out of the National Pulse.
	A California bill is going to help illegal aliens become homeowners, and it's going through the California legislature right now.
	It's known as AB 1840, and it amends the California Dream for All shared appreciation loan program to make it apply to To non-Americans, non-Californians, illegal foreigners, in essence.
	And what this does is it provides 20%.
	I mean, the state of California pays the down payment so that an illegal alien can purchase a house.
	This was authored by Assemblymember Joaquin Arambula, or Arambula, not sure how to pronounce it, This is where the state pays up to 20% of the home's purchase price as a down payment loan for first time buyers.
	And these loans, they do not accrue interest and there are no monthly payments required.
	And then eventually the borrower is supposed to repay the original loan amount plus 20% of any increase in the home value When the primary mortgage is refinanced or the house is sold.
	In other words, they never need to make payments on this loan.
	The state of California essentially buys the home by paying the down payment so that illegal aliens can move into homes.
	The fact that California, the government of California, true demon crats, The fact that they are giving priority to illegals over the people of California who pay taxes all these years, some of the highest taxes in the nation, this is absolutely infuriating to people who, especially young people in California, who may be trying to afford to buy a home themselves.
	You're going to get outbid in purchasing a home by an illegal alien who Who gets a free 20% down payment from the state of California.
	Meanwhile, you, an American and a California citizen, you get no such assistance from the state of California.
	This is crazy.
	And California has a $60 billion budget deficit.
	And so California is going to go into deeper and deeper debt to hand out houses to illegals.
	You want to tell me this isn't a replacement program?
	This is 100% a replacement program.
	This is about bringing in illegals to move into the homes, to own the homes with government assistance and to displace the California citizens who should be in those homes first.
	You know, this bill should be called America Last because it's illegals first, America Last.
	Now, this bill isn't yet law.
	It's going to, of course, require a signature from Governor Newsom once it gets passed, but that's probably a done deal.
	And did you know that Oregon also has a similar law?
	It's called the Hacienda Community Development Corporation, and it subsidizes illegal aliens to purchase homes in the state of Oregon.
	This kind of thing is absolutely insane.
	And this is what we all have to understand, that these Democrats, they don't share in the American dream.
	They're trying to destroy the American dream.
	It used to be that we would just have differences in the way to achieve the American dream.
	And we had shared American values like, hey, let's protect America first.
	Let's help promote America's economy and America's families and American people.
	Let's help Americans own more homes and have more successful businesses and find more gainful employment and produce more things or whatever.
	Not that that's the measure of success, but at least those are some of the metrics that government had used in the past.
	Now, that's not it at all.
	The Democrats, their goals are how do they displace Americans?
	How do they overthrow America?
	How do they destroy America?
	How do they leave the border wide open?
	This is what Democrats at the highest levels, this is what they deliberately seek to achieve on a daily basis, is abject destruction of this republic, destruction of our cities, destruction of our economy, destruction of our energy infrastructure, destruction of our food and farms, destruction of election integrity, destruction of the rule of law.
	And the civility or even the safety in cities.
	They wake up and try to figure out how they can destroy, destroy, destroy.
	And if you resist any of that, they'll tell you, we'll come for you.
	We'll come for you.
	We'll arrest you. We'll charge you.
	We'll throw you in jail because you interfered with our destruction.
	That's what Democrats have become at the highest levels.
	And sorry, that's not acceptable.
	We reject that.
	America should be a nation of a representative constitutional government, in other words, a republic, where the interests of the American people are put first.
	And this is one of the reasons why I've been so vocal about All these funding of foreign wars, all this money to Ukraine, all this money and bombs to Israel, all this extra money for illegals coming into America.
	And it's like, what about America?
	We've got to put America first.
	And that is where RFK Jr.
	and Trump and Shanahan and J.D. Vance and, you know, Tulsi Gabbard and so many others, that's where they come together and say, enough of the insanity.
	Let's put America first and let's at least get this nation back on some kind of track of sanity and sustainability.
	And from there, well, then we can sit down and we can debate the nitpicky differences in policies of how we achieve that.
	But can we at least agree upon the goal of not murdering everybody with bioweapons and toxic vaccines?
	Could we start there?
	Let's not mass murder children with abortion centers.
	Let's not mutilate children with gender-affirming surgery.
	Let's not exterminate people with more chemtrails spraying under the cover of West Nile virus or Zika, Zika, Zika.
	Let's just start.
	How about this? If we could have a slogan for the RFK-Trump team, you know, in contrast to Democrats, the slogan would be, let's stop having the government murder Americans.
	How about that? Let's defang weaponized government.
	Or let's stop government violence against we the people.
	That might be the easiest way to say it.
	Government violence takes many forms.
	Government violence is in the form of the vaccines, which are biological weapons.
	It's in the form of COVID, SARS-CoV-2.
	Government violence is inflicted upon the people in the form of the chemtrail spraying.
	It's inflicted through overzealous regulators, threatening small businesses.
	Government violence is also found in the USDA and the EPA legalizing toxic, deadly pesticides that cause neurological damage, even though those same chemicals are banned in other countries like Europe or Canada or even Japan.
	There are so many forms of government violence against us, and then our government exports bombs so that other countries can commit violence against other people overseas.
	And then our government exports even the culture of violence against children with the whole LGBT preying upon children nonsense.
	And that's another form of government violence or approving GMOs.
	It's chemical violence against the American people.
	The FDA, the EPA, the USDA, these agencies, the CDC, NIH, these are agencies of government violence inflicted against the American people.
	And this has got to stop.
	And the only way to stop this is to dismantle at the ballot box the These demon crats that are literally seeking to exterminate humanity to mass murder Americans and replace them with illegals.
	That's what's at stake here.
	It's stopping the great serial killer in Washington, D.C., and the serial killer is the federal government itself.
	It has become the mass murderer, the serial killer, and there are over a million Americans dead now because of the COVID vaccines.
	And we know who's responsible.
	And no one has so far been held accountable.
	And that's why we need more people in Washington, D.C. who have values of life and American values, family values, just pro-human values.
	You know, RFK Jr., pro-human values, right?
	Trump, pro-human values, on and on.
	Shanahan, pro-human values.
	That's what this is about.
	This is like people who are pro-human versus the demoncrats who are absolutely anti-humanists at this point.
	So I wanted to ask some uncensored questions of...
	A congressman, a member of Congress who serves Central Texas.
	And I did some digging and I found out that the representative in the United States, the House of Representatives, obviously, for Central Texas is a congressman named Michael Cloud.
	And so we reached out to Michael Cloud's office and we invited him for an interview.
	Letting them know that we wanted to ask him questions about election integrity, about open borders, what does he think about RFK and Trump, what does he think about family values and genital mutilations and all these things.
	And so this is the interview that I'm playing for you today.
	And Congressman Michael Cloud was gracious enough to, in fact, come to our studio in Central Texas.
	And we had a wonderful conversation.
	And I found out that Congressman Cloud is...
	I don't know if he was a...
	I think he was a pastor.
	But I know he's a man of faith.
	And I think he's a graduate of Oral Roberts University in Tulsa.
	And so he genuinely has pro-America, pro-human, pro-family values.
	And I feel like we are so blessed in Texas to have a congressman like this Who is on Team Humanity, wants to see American families do well, wants to see the state of Texas obviously do well, but also wants to see America as a whole do well.
	And so he gets to vote on issues that affect the entire nation.
	And if I'm understanding this correctly, I believe he sits on the Appropriations Committee in Washington, D.C., which is a very big deal.
	The Appropriations Committee...
	I hope I'm getting that description right.
	This is a committee that has funding oversight over every federal agency, over FDA, CDC, USDA, ATF, you know, HHS, CIA, all of it, all of it.
	He sits on that committee.
	And so he and other members on that committee, they literally control the purse strings of all these government departments.
	So I thought, wow, this is going to be an interesting conversation.
	Let's get Congressman Cloud into the studio and just have a sit-down with him, you know, totally unscripted, no talking points, no teleprompters, hardly even any edits, actually.
	I don't think we have a single edit in this entire interview, like nobody sneezed or coughed or anything.
	So We're going to go to that because I want you to see what a pro-human member of Congress looks like.
	You know, someone who isn't a rhino traitor and also someone who isn't a demon-crat anti-humanist that just wants to murder babies and destroy America.
	I mean, what does a, dare I say, normal...
	You know, faith-based, pro-human, pro-family member of Congress.
	What does that look like?
	Because we've all seen some of the more extreme, crazy members of Congress, especially on the radical left.
	We've seen what that looks like.
	And that's not normal.
	And that's not America. So today we're going to get to see what I would say a normal person.
	What a member of Congress looks like and talks like and what are the issues that are on his mind?
	And does he see the danger that we see, this existential threat to America?
	And does he have faith that we can overcome these threats against our republic?
	Well, we're about to find out.
	So this is a... Truly, I think this is an historic interview with a member of the House of Representatives who represents Central Texas.
	Now, before we get there, of course, thank you for your support of our online store, healthrangerstore.com.
	And this is what funds us and allows us to conduct these interviews and build infrastructure and launch platforms and even to fund the lawsuit that we're suing the federal government, as you know.
	We sued Meta.
	We sued Facebook.
	And we sued the Department of Defense and a bunch of other government parties.
	By the way, don't you find it interesting that Zuckerberg put out that letter after we filed our suit that I mean, our suit is, as far as my knowledge goes, is the only pending lawsuit that names both Facebook and the government agencies that colluded with Facebook together.
	We named them in one lawsuit, and our lawsuit asserts that the federal government, the White House, ordered Facebook to censor and deplatform voices like mine, and perhaps like yours.
	And then, after that lawsuit gets filed, And the Facebook legal team has been served weeks ago, and they're probably going to push to move the venue to California now.
	That's their next legal move.
	But isn't it interesting that Mark Zuckerberg comes out with this letter sort of admitting or confessing that they were pressured by the White House to engage in censorship?
	Now, I can't tell you with certainty that our lawsuit caused that letter to be issued.
	But I can assure you of one thing.
	When our lawsuit gets to discovery, things are going to come out that will be earth-shattering.
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	All the emails and memos of communications from the government ordering Facebook to censor people over COVID and vaccines and masks and ivermectin and everything else.
	If we get those documents as part of our proceeding, as a judge rules that that is relevant to our case, which seems reasonable in my opinion, but I'm not an attorney, so we'll have to leave that to the experts.
	But if we get to that point, game changer.
	And it seems to me that Zuckerberg, he's very smart.
	And he appears to be getting ahead of whatever is going to come down against Facebook or Meta, possibly from the Trump administration, possibly from our lawsuit, possibly from potential state-level AG investigations like Attorney General Ken Paxton of Texas.
	Essentially, Zuckerberg, I think he has inside information of what's coming.
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	And on the other side of that, we have a new sermon today covering Mark chapter 13, and the title is that Christ warns humanity about fifth-generation warfare during the Tribulation.
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	Take care. Welcome to today's in-studio interview here on Brighteon.com.
	I'm Mike Adams, the founder of Brighteon, and today we are really honored to be joined by our Congressman, Congressman Michael Cloud, in studio here in Central Texas.
	Welcome, Congressman Cloud. It's an honor, sir.
	Thank you. Great to be here.
	Well, thank you for coming in this great time right now for America.
	And I think that there is so much placed upon your shoulders right now.
	Well, yeah, all of our shoulders, really.
	For sure. Yeah, it's such a pivotal moment in our country, and a lot of times I'll point to, you know, a generation ago, a couple generations ago, the difference between the right and the left was we wanted the same thing for our communities, for our families.
	We all believed in America, those fundamental, inalienable rights.
	And the political conversation between the right and left was really, what's the role of government in getting to that shared space?
	Right. And that's just not where we are as a country anymore.
	When I'm on the Hill, sometimes you'll hear people talk about, remember the good old days of Reagan and Tip O'Neill and Maybe that would be great, but that's just not where we are right now.
	We're in between a party between the Republican Party who's espousing these constitutional principles, maybe imperfectly, but generally aligned.
	And then you have the left who's embracing Marxist and communism and authoritarianism and doing everything they can to push that From censorship to, you know, rogue agencies to, I mean, just lots of nefarious action to force that on the American people.
	And that's the decision we have coming into this November.
	Clearly. And what do you hear from your constituents here in Central Texas when they become aware of things like Kamala promoting government price controls on groceries and Oh, yeah.
	I think one headline said, you know, if you're accused of being a communist, maybe don't make your next proposal to have price control.
	Like right out of communism 101.
	Right. But this is where it's the typical first you create a problem, then you use government to create the problem, and then you use government to solve the problem.
	And here we see massive government spending that led to inflation.
	And of course, what are they going to come in?
	Well, we could control government spending.
	That might be one solution. But no, we'll use the price controls instead, you know, and use the government to solve.
	It reminds me of Reagan's 11 words, you know, I'm from the government, I'm here to help.
	Right, right. After trust but verify.
	Right. Well, let me ask you this.
	We both love Texas deeply.
	And with food prices sky high, and even Kamala and Biden, if he's still active, admit that food prices are very high.
	But I would argue, and I'd like your input on this, that the best way to bring food prices down is to have more domestic energy production.
	I mean, farming uses fuels.
	Transportation uses fuels.
	Texas has abundant energy, but we're prohibited from tapping into this natural resource that we have as a nation.
	American domestic produced energy is one of the biggest issues that connects to so many different issues.
	Our former Secretary of State, I remember being at a lunch with him, and he said, Virtually every conversation we have with any other country comes back to or starts with energy and the need for it.
	And it's been demonized, which is kind of odd because people using energy is a good thing.
	That's people coming out of poverty.
	In some cultures, that's, hey, we're heating our homes for the first time and we have food and we're able to prepare that.
	But as you mentioned, the fertilizers, the production equipment, the oil that keeps the gears moving, I mean, in all these machines that produce and harvest food.
	And the thing is, if you look at the American ag space, again, we're not doing it perfectly.
	Yes, we're going to continue with every generation to try to get better.
	But continually, our outputs have been higher and our inputs have gone down.
	And so when it comes to the way we're using energy, we produce energy cleaner, more efficiently, more effectively, more responsibly than the rest of the world.
	That's right. What we can do to accomplish what is stated to be all these, quote, green objectives is to have more American energy take up the slice of the pie.
	And we're entering in a world now where...
	Where you look at AI, for example.
	Very energy intensive.
	Yeah, extremely energy intensive.
	It's not even just a doubling.
	It's an exponential demand that we're going to be looking at.
	That's right. We're going to need all the energy that we can produce.
	Well, didn't Microsoft, aren't they looking at buying a nuclear power plant, I think?
	Or Amazon?
	I forgot who it was. A number of these companies now, they're going to the energy companies and they're trying to buy it before it even gets to the meter.
	That's right. We'll just buy your energy wholesale, so to speak, which...
	You know, it's going to be another challenge to begin to look at.
	If we don't step up and begin to produce more energy, it's going to be big tech versus your neighborhood when it comes to energy.
	And so the last thing we should be doing is putting a stranglehold on American energy.
	So on top of that, I mean, you're exactly right.
	AI, demand, demand.
	energy intensive systems but that's on top of also this federal push to outlaw combustion engines over time through bizarre epa regulations and bring in evs and ev mandates of sales from the dealers but congressman we don't have a power grid infrastructure We don't have enough copper in the wires to handle all this load of EVs on the system.
	Oh, exactly. Yeah.
	And, you know, I was in a hearing once and someone said, we need to stop doing fossil fuels right now for two reasons.
	One, it's a finite supply.
	And two, you know, those aren't, you know, it's hard work and labor intensive.
	And I'm thinking, you know, starting pay is pretty good.
	You could be a family on that in the oil industry.
	Right. Right. I realize a lot of people in D.C. have an opposition to hard work, but a lot of people are willing to work hard to support their families.
	And two, if we're going to talk about finite supply, let's talk about rare earth minerals, which China controls 80-90% of right now.
	And they're cutting off antimony from our military.
	Yeah, so we need to be looking at...
	Our founders understood They have the approach that this land is blessed with abundance.
	And we should use it and use it for good.
	We should be as responsible as we can with it.
	We should be good stewards of it.
	We all want clean air and water.
	We've learned a lot since the birth of the industrial age, of course.
	The answer is not to run back into the forest.
	And that would be devastating for humanity.
	To put that kind of onus on these developing countries as well would be morally wrong.
	So we should not be shy about producing American energy.
	And it also ends up being a great supply for our friends across the world.
	Well, right, right.
	I mean, under Trump, we were a net exporter of energy.
	And also look at what's happened with Germany when they lost the Nord Stream supply of natural gas.
	They've suffered, by some estimates, about a 40% deindustrialization, which is absolutely devastating for Germany.
	But before you answer that, let me give your website out here for our audience.
	The website, folks, is cloud4congress.com.
	It's spelled out F-O-R, cloud4congress.
	Just like it sounds, Representative Michael Cloud, cloud4congress.com.
	And what's your district number in Texas?
	Texas 27th. 27th.
	Okay, great. In Central Texas.
	And there's a donate button right there on the top right of the website if you want to donate and help support Congressman Cloud's campaign.
	Not just to keep Texas strong, but to hold the line...
	To keep America strong and American values.
	You say on your website, freedom, faith, and family.
	Can you share with us a little bit about your background?
	Because you're a man of faith.
	These aren't just empty words.
	I was a church-born and bred kid.
	I ended up going to Oral Roberts University.
	To study media, to get a degree, went from there to serve at a church, did that for many, many years.
	Loved what we were doing. You're helping people every day, but began to look at what we were doing to help people.
	You appreciate that in the individual aspect, but then you still saw a country in decline, and my heart began to really go toward that, and what could I do to be involved, which I thought meant just volunteer locally, and that's what I started doing.
	Yes. Volunteering locally, didn't plan a run out of it for certain.
	Ended up becoming county chair where we were working, again, a volunteer position, helping people.
	You're helping make sure the primary election happens, helping turn out the vote, those kind of things.
	Eventually people came and said, hey, maybe you should run for office, to which you're like, I don't know, that seems like an other people's thing.
	This wasn't your long-term original plan.
	I mean, I grew up in a family that...
	My dad built nuclear attacks on Marines for part of my growing up.
	As most people in my generation, both my grandfathers fought in the wars.
	So you had a healthy respect for our country.
	Throughout my upbringing, I don't remember a political sign ever being in my yard.
	So it wasn't like a heavy political...
	Love our country, but how to go?
	I remember several months into the campaign, somebody asked me, who's your finance director?
	And I was like, finance director?
	Tell me more about this.
	What was... It was so grassroots.
	I had no idea what we were doing.
	But I remember our wife and I praying about that run initially and really felt like we were supposed to.
	And there were a number of little things along the way.
	But ultimately, we came to the scripture in Joshua 1, where God looks at Joshua and he says, Be strong and courageous.
	You get a couple of verses later, he says, be strong and courageous.
	You get to verse 9 and 10.
	He says, have not I commanded you to be strong and courageous.
	It's like, this is a season for us as Americans, really.
	And I think it's true for everybody in whatever your circle of influence is.
	It's not the time to sit on your hands and just be polite because you don't want to interrupt the nice, warm, fuzzy feeling that's in the room or something.
	And that doesn't mean we have to be ugly about it, but we've got to be firm about these principles because they matter.
	We've got to protect kids that are, you know, in schools and daughters that are being mutilated and, you know, all the craziness that we see coming.
	Absolutely.
	Frankly, the evil coming out of the left.
	We've got to be bold and stand to that.
	So it's really a time for all of us to be courageous.
	And I would add to that, I mean, you talk about your upbringing and...
	In those days, I think most Americans did have shared values.
	They wanted America to do well.
	They honored the flag, right?
	And then today, I think many Americans are just astonished to see Democrats voting against election integrity laws at the federal level.
	It's like, wait a second. Here's a law, I think, like the SAVE Act, for example.
	Yes. Here's a law that says only Americans should be allowed to vote in federal elections.
	It should be a no-brainer. Yeah.
	Instead... And to show you the disconnect between D.C. and the swamp and the American people, this is not a partisan issue among Americans.
	It shouldn't be. I think?
	And yet we see virtually every Democrat in the House vote against it, you know, and such a pushback against...
	Right now we have a number of us who are trying to tie any sort of funding that would...
	Because we have a September 30th deadline coming up.
	Every September 30th, Congress is shocked that September 30th is here and we're trying to figure out how to fund the government.
	Like, oh my gosh, who knew?
	Very predictable. I feel like I'm having the same conversations I had last year.
	But anyway, we're coming to this deadline.
	And so we said, you know, any sort of funding needs to have this attached to it.
	And it'll be a real tell where people in government stand right now, people in Congress.
	Well, I absolutely support that attachment, by the way.
	But it's going to be politically difficult for certain people.
	But let me ask you for more comments on this.
	We're over $35 trillion in terms of the federal debt.
	Yeah. And on top of that, the unfunded liabilities that the federal government owes the American people are well over, I believe now, $220 trillion, which is an unfathomable number.
	It's never going to get paid.
	The obligations the federal government has made to people who have worked, in some cases pensions of federal workers or lots of people who worked, How are they reasonably going to expect to ever get that money back in a form that still has value when there's so much money printing and so much debt?
	Where does this end up?
	Yeah, there's two ways it can go.
	One is we race off the fiscal cliff and see the demise of our currency and we lose our world standing financially or we abruptly change course.
	And, you know, my conversations with fellow Republicans up there has been like when the left's in charge, they're racing toward this fiscal cliff.
	We get in charge and we jog toward the same cliff and we call that progress.
	It's a little bit slower.
	Yeah. Yeah.
	I've seen that. We've lengthened it just a couple years.
	And I get the people say, well, you can't get a touchdown with every play.
	I get that. But we've got to at least turn the corner and be walking in the right direction.
	And for me, that's been the line when we look at policy.
	There's no bill that's going to be perfect.
	But are we at least walking in the right direction at this point?
	Then you build momentum and hopefully finally we can get to a sprint.
	We've got just over the couple years of COVID, the federal government grew something like 30 to 40%.
	Right.
	trim machine of a government before them.
	Right.
	Like, this is way bloated.
	This is way too big.
	And it grew that.
	And then getting us struggling to get the votes to get back to pre-COVID spending has been a super, super challenge.
	We had an amendment the week before we left D.C. to tour our districts, and the amendment was on a spending bill, and it had to do with CISA, which is supposed to be about cybersecurity.
	They've had some nefarious actions certainly surrounding the last election.
	So there was, you know.
	And censorship.
	The only things we can do as Congress is we can investigate or we can cut funding.
	And until we are willing to cut the funding, the action's not going to change.
	And so we had an amendment that basically said it wasn't even like we're going to cut your department or we're going to cut it by 25 percent.
	It was simply we're not going to pay you more next year than we are this year.
	That was the amendment. And even that met resistance.
	And even that, we couldn't get the Republican votes to pass it.
	And so that's where we are right now, where we've got to have people who are willing.
	And I will say, I believe the critical mass is growing.
	We just haven't reached that tipping point yet of people who are there for the right reasons, who are willing to, you know, this isn't about me.
	It's not my political career.
	This is about saving our country for the next generation.
	Absolutely. And being willing to take...
	I would say the tough votes.
	To me, that wasn't even a tough vote.
	That's an easy sell. When you go back home to the people, it's like, you know, you're not making any more this year.
	You're, you know, inflation has hit you.
	And so the idea that we're going to, you know, hold an agency that's had some questionable activity to current spending levels should be an easy sell.
	Well, I'm going to call you, I hope you're okay with, I'm going to call you the reluctant congressman.
	Like Jeremiah was the weeping prophet, you know, for his people.
	You're not quite weeping level yet for America.
	Perhaps you are privately. I don't know.
	I don't mean to assign that to you, but you're kind of the reluctant congressman.
	This wasn't a political ambition.
	You don't want to use a position in Washington for personal gain, greed, wealth, power, but rather you were brought into this because this is the best way to help your local constituents in Texas.
	At least that's the impression that I'm getting.
	It's funny you mention that.
	When I was running for the first time, people would always say, why do you want to go to D.C.? And I'd always answer, I don't want to go.
	I'm willing to go. I'm willing to.
	We just sent our oldest son off to college.
	At the time, all three kids were home.
	My favorite part of the day was walking them to school a block away, you know, before I went off to work.
	And, you know, I don't say that to say woe is me, because there's veterans and our servicemen and women who pay a higher price.
	You know, they're sleeping on dirt and cots and, you know, under...
	For us, when we're under fire, it's usually some mean words.
	Right, right. But it is very much a swampy type of environment there.
	All I have to say, it wasn't like, hey, this is going to be fun.
	I remember specifically, again, when we were praying through that decision, my wife said, this was the exact wording, oddly enough, I have a piece about it, was the way she said it.
	She's like, Because she's not thinking, like, this is going to be fun.
	It's like, I'm home alone, you know, with three kids trying to figure out how to get everybody to school, and they're all in extracurricular activities now, and everything that my wonderful wife does.
	But it must really, you know, dominate...
	How do you balance personal life with being a congressman?
	Because... You know, you have so many obligations, right?
	Everybody wants your time.
	You also have to raise a certain amount of funds to be viable for any election.
	And you've got to show up and vote.
	You've got to show up and debate and all these things.
	I mean, how do you find balance in that?
	Honestly, a big part of it, I feel like God's grace has been there for us.
	We understood that it was going to be a family calling.
	I remember sitting down, having that conversation with my kids for a couple hours.
	Hey, some people asked Daddy to run.
	My son was 10 years old at the time.
	He goes, state or federal? That was his response.
	And, you know, so my kids get the mission.
	They understand the stakes that we're in right now and that we're serving for something bigger than ourselves.
	That doesn't mean it's not hard at times, but again, there's people who've paid a far higher price, and I just count it.
	An honor to be able to serve and to hopefully be able to make a difference in this time.
	When you say an honor to serve, that's genuine.
	I hear that in your heart.
	And then for some politicians, when they say, oh, we want to serve like a Nancy Pelosi, it's like, that's not really what you mean.
	At least that's not what's coming across when you say you want to serve.
	But I feel like what you're doing is actually service and your constituents here trust you.
	They entrust in you to represent the interests of Central Texas.
	Take it to Washington. Fight the demons there if necessary.
	Yeah. And there are.
	No doubt. And help Texas succeed.
	Do you feel like you...
	I mean, I know you have a lot of support in the county that you represent, the multiple counties, the district.
	How does it feel like going to Washington, D.C. and bringing Texas values there?
	What's that like? Yeah, it's...
	You know, I knew when I was going to D.C. it would be a new thing I had to figure out.
	One of the things, if you're coming from the private sector, that is extremely frustrating is you're used to a certain ROI on your effort.
	And when you get to D.C., it takes so much more effort to move the needle at all.
	And you just have to wake up every morning, remember why you're there, what you're fighting for, and keep going at it.
	I mean, the option is to retreat, which isn't an option.
	What we're fighting for is too important.
	The future of our country is too great.
	This amazing experiment and miracle and self-governance that is America is worth preserving.
	And so, you know, there's really not another option when it comes to that kind of thing.
	And so you just keep going at it.
	Isn't it also amazing to think about the Founding Fathers and the things they put in place for our nation, rooted in principles of Christianity and faith, how much that protects us even to this day?
	I mean, think about the First Amendment.
	Right now, the founder of Telegram was just arrested in Paris.
	And in the UK, you can be arrested for tweeting something mean about an illegal immigrant.
	And they'll throw you in jail, but they'll let violent criminals onto the streets to make room for you to go to jail.
	Like, whoa, the First Amendment is so important.
	Yeah. It is important.
	And for our culture, you know, people will ask me, like, what's the biggest issue?
	And there's not a one biggest issue.
	But as a cult, first of all, we have to realize that the issues we're facing with as a nation certainly have a DC component to fixing it.
	And I certainly take that extremely seriously.
	But the fact that we have a culture that's walked away from absolute truth is not...
	completely a dc issue the dc you know people think that politics is a leading indicator and sometimes it is but a lot of times it's the trailing indicator of culture and this is where we have to get back to an understanding as a culture of morality and absolute truth and before we might disagree on what truth is but we believe there was a truth worth finding and therefore our conversation was about trying to find truth where when truth becomes malleable and then you end up fighting these semantic battles over what you say
	versus the actual you have this whole perverted sense of justice.
	Yes. Yes. And some of that is so perverted.
	You mentioned the mutilation of children.
	And we've seen many states, even Texas, I believe, has passed state laws to prohibit the surgical mutilations of children.
	And then what we tend to see, or Texas passing laws or taking action to defend the border.
	And then we see the DOJ come in and fight against Texas, defending its own border.
	That's... Bizarre.
	It's so beyond understanding.
	And then Kamala this week is suddenly for border security.
	She's good at stealing ideas from Trump.
	Right, right. If she sees a bump in the polls or something like that, oh, well, we're for that too.
	Right, right. She's not going to build a wall either.
	On day four years and one, we're going to start working on...
	But this is what happens when truth isn't important to you.
	It's what you need it to be in the moment to keep in control and maintain power.
	And it's evil.
	There's nothing righteous about it.
	And as Americans, we've got to realize that that's the battle that we're in right now.
	This isn't just a wrestling over...
	My nuanced policy fix versus your nuanced policy fix.
	That's right. This is really about the heart and soul of what it means to be free people.
	And a lot of those principles come straight from biblical values.
	And so it's important that we understand and embrace that.
	Well, amen to that. Let me give out your website again so we can ask for additional support for you.
	So for all of you watching, if you want to help Congressman Cloud stay in office and continue to be, as I call you, the reluctant congressman, I hope you're not offended by that.
	I'm just saying you're authentic.
	His website is cloudforcongress.com and there you can read about him and his background.
	You can join his email newsletter there.
	Sign up, especially if you're in Central Texas.
	But you can donate.
	I mean, people can donate from any state as long as they're an American citizen, correct?
	Be an American citizen, please.
	We want to do this correctly.
	Yes. But anybody can donate if they're an American.
	Yes. Okay. So there's the donate button there, folks.
	And every donation counts.
	And so let me ask you about...
	Trump and RFK Jr., you know, big, big historic move, and Tulsi Gabbard now endorsing Trump.
	So Trump, RFK, and Tulsi Gabbard, all former Democrats.
	Right? Well, again, Reagan was once asked in a press conference, you know, something was going on in the country, and they asked him, do you take any responsibility for this?
	And he said, yes, I do, because I, too, was once a Democrat.
	Right. So it's good to see them coming over.
	And I've talked to another individual today, an independent historically, who's excitedly supporting Trump.
	But I think it goes back to what we initially started this conversation with.
	The conversation isn't this nuanced policy difference anymore.
	And people understanding we can have disagreement over the peripheral issues, but these core values that the Democratic Party right now has completely left...
	You know, whether or not people have freedom, whether or not your own intelligence agency should be spying on you and the like.
	And the craziness we've seen coming from our federal agencies right now, you know, we've got to get back to these core values.
	We don't want a censorship state.
	We don't want a command-control economy from the government.
	We don't want our law enforcement federalized and And politicized.
	We want freedom. We want to be able, you know, and that's the choice that comes down in November.
	There'll be some peripheral issues that you're not going to agree with.
	That's okay. You're not supposed to.
	You know, we're supposed to have that variety.
	But what you're seeing, I think, with President Trump is he gets that.
	It's getting back to what are the core American values?
	And you see people like RFK and you see people like Tulsi saying, We agree on the core issues of what it means to be an American, the fact that we're a net positive for the world and history, and then we can have those honest discussions over what's different, but let's work toward what we agree on, and that is a far cry from what we see coming out of Kamala and the left.
	Well, absolutely. And I would add that I think that RFK Jr., I think he makes the Trump ticket so much stronger because where Trump was weak, in my opinion, was on areas of food contamination or pharmaceutical companies or maybe the overprescription of psychiatric medications on children.
	And that, you know, RFK Jr., he is a champion in that area, right?
	So he adds strength to the Trump ticket.
	But where I personally, where I disagree with RFK, is on energy, right?
	Because he's very much opposed to coal and fossil fuels.
	But that's okay. You don't put him in the fossil fuel seat.
	You know what I'm saying? Right, right, right.
	He's not your energy secretary.
	He's not your energy secretary.
	No. You put people where they have strengths and then you build a stronger coalition.
	And to be honest, isn't that where we want to get as America?
	Get back to that to where it's like, well, we can agree on these and work on these different kind of things to where so far it's been if I disagree with you, you're evil.
	And it's created this bipolar culture that's just...
	Anyway, it's no fun. There's been quite a lot of healing, I mean, between the RFK supporters and the MAGA, and then the RFK supporters are now saying, Maha, make America healthy again.
	Oh, yeah. Right, so it's MAGA and Maha together.
	Yeah, and if you watch the speech, it was neat to see him talk about that, and of course, you know, I've been in the hearings with Yeah.
	Yeah. And healthcare industries is very troubling.
	And to get that to be free again, where you have a doctor-patient relationship, to where we were talking about people being able to grow food in their backyard, give it to your neighbors, sell it to your neighbors, this kind of thing.
	I mean, the kind of clampdown that's come down on these things, meanwhile you have big industry getting away with stuff that's not all so great and healthy, Well, absolutely.
	I mean, let me state on behalf of my audience, I know would support this, we are so, it's so bizarre, like in, I think it's Pennsylvania, the farmer Amos Miller there, you know, they raided his farm because he's selling raw milk, which is just the way milk used to be.
	Nobody died, nobody got sick, and, you know, we need a food freedom kind of Like a federal food freedom effort in this country to say, you have the right to grow food, you have the right to sell it at a farmer's market within reasonable economies of scale, and as long as you're not nefarious and poisoning your tomatoes or whatever.
	Right.
	Right. Right.
	Right. You know, something like that. I don't know, they might start quartering people in our homes.
	Okay, well, amendment 2.5, you know, we'll wedge it in there.
	Right, right. But food freedom, it's a big issue these days, with food prices so high, too.
	People want to grow more food.
	Yeah, yeah, we should be able to do that.
	That, to me, again, seems like an easy one.
	It's like an All-American type of thing.
	Victory Gardens, World War II. Yeah, exactly.
	You see a lot of churches, too, now growing gardens in the yards in the front to help the community and people who would be less fortunate in those kind of things, especially in these tough times with inflation and all those different kind of things.
	We've seen the food supply chain really devastated since COVID. We're in the food business, and it's very...
	It's much more difficult to get reliable food.
	Sometimes now it's only seasonal or the supplies that are available are very small.
	Farmers really took a beating under COVID. State governments went around with their health departments and shut down a lot of farms with PCR tests.
	It's like, what are you doing?
	We've got to have food.
	Right? At some point.
	Yeah, I mean, we've been known as the breadbasket in the world, and there is an attempt right now to counter that.
	You see a massive consolidation.
	You see Other countries buying up farmland, the family farm really being a thing of the past and it being owned by massive corporations.
	There are already thin margins in the ag space, and it's very concerning to see a lot of those policies.
	It's a general trend.
	You go back to first principles, right, in our Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, the point of the Constitution was to disperse power.
	That's right. And to limit federal power.
	Limit federal power. We understand that consolidated power tends to corrupt.
	And so the idea is to keep, you know, power can be corruptive.
	And so you keep those pockets small so you can manage them locally as best as possible.
	But what we're seeing now, it's happening in...
	In banking, in ag, in industry after industry after industry, you see this massive consolidation going.
	And what ends up happening is you end up creating a big divide between lower and middle class.
	And it's all part of the attempt to destroy the middle class.
	And so we've got to stop those trends and get back to a regulatory environment that lets the American people do their best work.
	Can I ask you then about the consolidation of banking and finance and the issue of central bank digital currencies?
	It's a big issue on everybody's minds.
	What's your take on CBDCs?
	Yeah, it's very concerning.
	We need to not have the federal government get into a digital currency.
	We see in China right now, I mean, it's...
	It becomes a surveillance tool.
	And so, you know, we've done what we can through the Appropriations Committee to put riders into the legislation to keep the development of that from moving forward at the time being.
	But we really need to kind of lay that issue to rest in a way to where we don't We do not need to have a way for the federal government to control the economy.
	We need to be able to surveil you and your purchases and those sorts of things.
	What about debanking based on viewpoint discrimination?
	A lot of conservatives have been targeted for debanking.
	Right. And one of the areas that we've been heavily involved in would be with dealing with the ATF. And we saw them take this, you know, then begin to debank FFLs and those types of things as well.
	But we were...
	Working with the ATF, and we found out that they collected an abnormal amount of gun records in a year.
	And so we thought, hmm, that seems suspicious.
	Let's look into that. And then we found out, we looked and began an investigation, and out back came the information that, no, they actually have a database now with a billion gun records that they've built.
	And we're like... What?
	You're not a digitized database of building gun records in spite of the fact that you're not supposed to have a federal gun registry.
	Right. And so...
	But they get all the records of FFLs that cease operations.
	What's supposed to happen, and the idea was, okay, if you're an FFL, you hold those records in the file cabinet in the back of the store for 20 years in case something happens...
	You know, your local sheriff can go and look through the records and kind of trace a weapon.
	If for some reason you go out of business before 20 years, those records go to the ATF for safekeeping.
	That's what was supposed to happen.
	After 20 years, they get destroyed.
	Well, the first thing they did is said, oh, we're not going to get rid of those records after 20 years.
	We're going to keep them forever.
	And then begin to put zero-tolerance policies on FFLs and they'll come check your paperwork.
	And, for example, maybe you put...
	I mean, it was just crazy kind of the stuff they're doing to force the closure of FFL so that the records get transferred to the ATF where they keep them forever and then scan them into the database.
	And so this is the kind of bad action that's been happening that we've, again, been pushing back on.
	But it's this kind of activity that's happening in agency after agency after agency and why we need to right-size these agencies because they've gone well beyond Almost every single agency is gone well beyond the scope of what they were created to do.
	Well, absolutely true, but we've seen a lot of pushback, the Chevron deference decision being key, absolutely.
	And there was another lawsuit about EPA. I forgot the name of it, but the Supreme Court has really pushed back on the over-the-the-art.
	Yeah, that was kind of a first lob, in a sense, before the Chevron doctrine returned.
	But aren't these game-changers?
	I mean, aren't they lining up?
	They are, yeah. I mean, the Chevron, it's one of the biggest things that happened that's kind of, To the average American, maybe doesn't realize the impact yet.
	Because no one in the swamp says, oh, they passed a decision.
	Let's close up shop and stop doing that.
	No, you have to then sue them.
	Right, exactly. And then you have to cite the decision.
	So it's going to take a couple years to build the casework based on that decision.
	But it is pretty phenomenal.
	And it, in theory, at least should get Congress back to doing our work.
	Because what's happened is we, you know, Congress, over decades, is...
	Not wanted to do the hard work and research on these issues, and so they said, ah, we'll just send the money and let the administration figure out the details.
	But then, like, the EPA goes crazy.
	Yeah, they go crazy. And they make their own fiefdom law, basically, and then Congress is not aware of all the rules they're creating.
	And then we can't hold them accountable, you know, for a number of different reasons now, because of how the executive branch is set up, where they have Careers and political appointees and those kind of things.
	The careers are protected, which is a whole different issue we could get in.
	But basically, we had the Secret Service hearing recently where I was talking to the Secret Service director about the fact that She doesn't evaluate the plans.
	I said, well, who does? Couldn't name who does.
	And she talks, well, there's a lot of people who look at it.
	And I've seen this in agency after agency.
	I had the same exact conversation with Fauci.
	But it's like where these multiple layers of accountability become multiple layers of plausible deniability so that no one's ever held accountable.
	That's right. Those are the kind of things we've got to fix.
	Firewalls against responsibility is what they build.
	That's a good way to put it, yeah.
	Yeah. But also about Congress delegating powers to these agencies.
	I don't recall what year the EPA was created.
	Maybe in the 70s or something?
	I don't recall. But Congress certainly did not mean to tell the EPA, hey, one day outlaw the air.
	Which is what they've done with carbon dioxide.
	All of a sudden, it's a pollutant.
	Well, wait a second. Plants use carbon dioxide to grow.
	It's called photosynthesis.
	This is like a high school science, right?
	But then the EPA outlaws a molecule that's in the air.
	Yeah. That grows crops.
	Right. And then they use that to say we're going to outlaw combustion engines by 2035.
	Mm-hmm. And you're thinking, this is insane.
	How do we function as a society?
	Yeah. Yeah, exactly.
	That is not at all what they were meant or purposed to do.
	No. And they are the prime example of what we need to do, the kind of fixing that needs to be done in the executive branch.
	Right. By the way, thank you for your time.
	We're only going to spend a few more minutes.
	I really appreciate your time. But is it difficult?
	Like, do constituents or voters sometimes come to you and expect you to be able to solve every problem?
	Like, boom, wave a magic wand.
	Oh, you're going to D.C. next week?
	Well, make that a law, you know?
	Whoa, hey. Is there that kind of thing going on?
	Do people have a realistic understanding of the mechanism of the three branches of government, how laws get made, how they get challenged and all that?
	Right. No doubt a number of people are frustrated, and rightfully so.
	I mean, you're paying a premium dollar, you want a premium government, right?
	And to even have one that's even well-functioning at this point would be highly debatable.
	And now we've gotten to the point where we're forcing the American people to pay for the demise of their very country that they love and appreciate.
	And so, you know, I totally get where people are frustrated, you know, and sometimes...
	The thing I have to say, I'm a fellow citizen who's just as frustrated.
	It's not any prettier up close, I can assure you.
	But the thing we also have to realize is that we didn't get here overnight.
	You know, some of these issues were. Now, I'm not saying that...
	You know, Congress is way too timid to take big and bold action, and they use that as an excuse, you know, and I don't think we should be using that as an excuse.
	We need to take big, bold action.
	But even then, it's going to take some time to dig ourselves out of the hole that we've created.
	And so that's something to remember.
	As we get through this November for the next November and the next November and the next November and in what we're doing to educate our kids and all those different kind of things.
	Some of these things are generational.
	Understanding the role and the purpose of government and the principles that make America great.
	I remember growing up and hear about the family as the building block of a healthy society, and it's your first institution of government and care and concern and all these different kind of things.
	And understand the role that all these different things have.
	I mean, these are things that need to be taught generationally and passed on to the next generation that end up having an effect in how we are governed.
	So there's a lot of work for all of us to do, and we've got to live as engaged citizens, too.
	Part of that is voting, but part of that is...
	I mean, our audience, as you can probably tell, they're very well educated, more so than just the average person out there.
	But I would even say that among the public, They don't really want the federal government...
	They don't want to live through the effects of the government balancing its budget because people want the handouts or the benefits or the grants and this and that, and what government always finds easier is just print more money, and that way there's a slow erosion of the value of the dollar, but that's different from cutting people's benefits.
	You see what I mean? It's like the public also has to take some responsibility for this.
	Sure, yes. And that means people need to learn about economics, and that's a tough one.
	Yes, yes, but the principles aren't that tough.
	The basic core principles of, okay, the government spends more, you're inflation.
	So I think, yes, what you're saying is true, but we also need people who are willing to go make the case to the American people as well.
	We need Americans who are willing to be engaged and maybe put down your favorite episode for that night and pick up a book or whatever.
	Watch a podcast that's going to learn.
	I heard someone once say we are a functionally illiterate nation.
	We have virtually 100% literacy rate, but we don't read anything of importance or value.
	Good point. Right. That's something we all need to, and something I remind myself of, too.
	The Kamala Harris campaign, her website has no policy statements.
	Right. Her campaign is about having twerking celebrities and pop culture songwriters and whatever.
	Right. And, you know, I was joking with a friend the other day.
	I said, you know, the Trump campaign wants to get America working.
	The Kamala campaign wants to have America twerking.
	I'm like, that's the difference, you know?
	I don't need pop music stars.
	I want an economy that functions so we're not having empty food shelves.
	Yeah, it is a stark contrast.
	And it's been, you know, if it wasn't so, if the stakes weren't so high, it would almost be comical.
	You know, what, maybe six weeks ago, they were talking about replacing Kamala on the ticket.
	Yeah. Looks lost.
	He's disappeared, by the way.
	He vanished. Yes, exactly.
	And so, oh, they're going to replace him instead.
	Then all the buzz seemed to be like they wanted to take it to convention so that even the Democrats wouldn't get Kamala.
	But best as I could tell, it looked like Biden pulled a fast one on him and said, OK, I'll bow out since you're forcing me out, but I'm going to name Kamala as the successor.
	And then, you know, the whole band gets together again and, you know, now she can do no wrong.
	Right. And but here's the funny thing about that.
	They could switch it to another person next week and all the Democrats would just say, oh, yeah, now her.
	Yeah. Or whatever. Maybe it's Hillary.
	I mean, who knows? Yeah.
	It'll probably be Kamala.
	I'm not making a prediction.
	I'm just saying that it doesn't matter who it is, because for most Democrat voters, it's just a proxy for this anti-Trump, anti-America hatred.
	And that's their platform right now, is name-calling against Trump.
	He's going to do all these things to the country that he didn't do the first time, and all these civilization-ending things that he's never done.
	Right. And that they've actually, you know, we had relative peace under President Trump.
	We didn't start new wars under President Trump.
	We had relative prosperity.
	We had relative prosperity and we had every single demographic flourishing.
	That's right. Affordable groceries, affordable gasoline.
	You know, and so, you know, you think about the economy and you They want to fight the semantic demographic battles, not the real ones.
	They want you to be offended by what someone says that might be not the choice word for the week of how to name this particular demographic, but when they actually want to make the lives of the demographic better by, you know, Making the economy work better for them.
	Yes. You make energy more affordable.
	You let farmers have more freedom to farm the way that they can produce more food more efficiently.
	And that's the American way.
	Yeah, totally. Well, Congressman, it's been an honor to have you here.
	Thank you so much for sharing your time and your thoughts with us today.
	Definitely. Yeah, appreciate it.
	I really enjoy this and the freeform format.
	No teleprompters here.
	No, no. There's just two guys talking about America.
	Yeah. We appreciate you very much.
	Thanks so much. Let me give out your website again.
	So, folks, you want to support Representative Michael Cloud.
	The website is cloudforcongress.com.
	Election Day, of course, November 5th, and you are free to donate.
	Right here, there's a donate button. If you're an American citizen, you can donate.
	And if you're not, don't vote.
	That would be my...
	But anyway, cloud4congress.com.
	And here in Texas, I'll say this on behalf of other Texans, we're very proud to have Representative Cloud as our representative in Washington, D.C. We wish we had more people like you there.
	Oh, thank you. Very kind.
	Our nation would be so much more headed in the right direction if we did, but we're so thankful and grateful that you're there.
	So God bless you. Thank you.
	God bless you. Thank you all for watching today.
	Mike Adams here, the founder of Brighteon.com.
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	Welcome to today's sermon.
	I'm Mike Adams, and we're continuing with the Gospel According to Mark, focused on Mark 13 here today.
	Now we just finished previous chapters of Mark talking about the money changers and render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and so on.
	That's definitely worth checking out.
	But chapter 13 here, this is one of those chapters that a much larger number of people are familiar with, at least various interpretations.
	This is a chapter that's taught a lot in churches across, well, America and around the world today.
	But one of the things that I find in teaching these sermons and then having conversations with people about these sermons is that shockingly few people have read the actual chapters.
	Many people have received interpretations about the chapters, but they haven't read them.
	Like previously when we were talking about the loaves and fishes and the miracle of Jesus feeding 5,000 soldiers with, what was it, five loaves of bread and two fishes— A lot of people thought that the Bible said that Jesus sort of brought into reality like thousands of loaves of bread and maybe thousands of fishes or what have you, but it says no such thing.
	It actually says there's only two pieces of fish or two fishes in that whole thing, and somehow he divided up two fish into 5,000 pieces.
	That's literally what it says.
	So Don't take your memory or an interpretation of a chapter as the actual gospel if you haven't gone back and read the gospel itself.
	So I'm hoping that one of the things that I encourage many of you to do is to maybe, you know, you hear my interpretation, you're like, whoa, I never looked at it that way.
	So go back and read the chapters and verses for yourself.
	Now, I usually read from the New King James Version.
	And obviously there are different versions and maybe different versions have different interpretations and that's totally fine.
	But read it yourself in some edition.
	Read it for yourself because you may have been taught something that's kind of a, you know, kind of a mythology version or a storyteller version of what's actually in the Bible.
	And I find this to be the case with Mark chapter 13.
	So let's actually read it together and I'll give you my interpretation.
	And one final disclaimer.
	Obviously, there are many, many people who are more in-depth Bible academics, Scripture academics than myself.
	And they will be able to pull in pieces from many different locations and maybe tie them together in ways that I cannot.
	And that's okay, too.
	I believe that we're all on the journey of learning to understand more and more each day what God was trying to tell us through Jesus, in this case.
	What was he trying to tell us?
	What does it mean? And so, well, we'll read this, and then I'll give you my interpretation, but it's okay if you have a different interpretation as well.
	Let's jump in. So verse 1, this is chapter 13 again of Mark.
	Then as he went out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him, Teacher, see what manner of stones and what buildings are here.
	Now remember, this is after Jesus overturned the tables of the money changers and the sellers of the doves and the people who had turned the church into basically a marketplace, like a flea market in the church.
	And Jesus did not like that.
	So verse 2, Jesus answered and said to him, Do you see these great buildings?
	Not one stone shall be left upon another.
	That shall not be thrown down.
	He's saying that one day this will all be destroyed.
	Verse 3, Now as he sat on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter, James, John, and Andrew asked him privately, Tell us, when will these things be?
	And what will be the sign when all these things will be fulfilled?
	And Jesus answering them, verse 5, For nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be earthquakes in various places, and there will be famines and troubles.
	These are the beginnings of sorrows.
	All right, let's try to unpack this.
	So several elements here.
	Of course, number one is don't be deceived by false prophets and false gods.
	That's number one.
	And many will come in my name, he says.
	A lot of people saying they speak for me, but they do not.
	They deceive you. And then he says, don't be troubled when you hear of wars and rumors of wars, because it doesn't mean the end is here.
	He says, in essence, that repeatedly over time, nations will fight each other.
	Kingdoms will fight each other.
	And he's saying, there are going to be earthquakes, and there are going to be famines and troubles, and what he's implying is that this is going to happen quite regularly.
	These things will repeat themselves.
	And he's saying, you know, don't be alarmed.
	This is not the end of times just because there are earthquakes or just because there are famines.
	And in fact, if you think about the time since this was stated, since this actual time in history, you know, how many centuries have gone by and how many times have we seen famine and earthquakes and war?
	You know, not to mention recent wars like World War II or World War I. Or, you know, other European wars before that and what have you.
	Wars all over the world.
	Lots of earthquakes all over the world.
	Lots of signs that in that moment could be interpreted as the end times, but they weren't the end times.
	Think of this, for example.
	If you were living in Europe in World War II, let's say you were living in Poland or Italy or France or the UK, and World War II was being waged right through your communities and Your churches were being bombed, and maybe your home, maybe your community was just being gutted.
	Think about the citizens of Germany in Dresden.
	Dresden was firebombed by the Allies.
	Or think about the Japanese civilians of Nagasaki or Hiroshima.
	That would have seemed like end times.
	Giant fireball in the sky, mushroom cloud, radiation, mass death and suffering, and wormwood almost, the water turned bitter, undrinkable, and people's hair was falling out.
	I mean, that's pretty much end times, right?
	But it wasn't. It wasn't the end times.
	And so it's very easy for us looking at things today, right now, to feel like this is the worst it's ever been.
	And there's some truth to that.
	There are things that are happening today that have never happened before.
	You know, the governments of the world have never been more powerful in terms of censorship.
	There is a great weaponization of government against the people and against the church.
	And many of the attacks on humanity are unprecedented, such as COVID, bioweapons, and vaccines, and so on.
	But what Jesus said is, you know, be careful.
	Do not be troubled, for such things must happen.
	But the end is not yet.
	So, an obvious question that you may be asking is, well, to what time period was Jesus referring?
	And here's my view of the Bible.
	Being assembled by people who were in connection with the divine, timeless God, that were given words to write That were assembled in many cases.
	And, you know, not all of them.
	Some of them were lost. But whatever was assembled was inspired in one way or another by God himself.
	And then that became the Bible as we know it today, the 66 books of the modern Bible.
	But remember, there are a lot of other books that did not make it into the Bible.
	So there are a lot of scrolls and teachings, you know, still out there.
	And maybe we'll get a chance to talk about those at some point.
	But I believe that God's teachings are meant to represent multiple times simultaneously.
	So when we talk about the destruction of the temples, yes, that could have happened in 70 A.D. And also in another time yet to come.
	It could be referring to multiple times simultaneously because the mind of God...
	Being omniscient, powerful, timeless, he is able to encode messages and truths in ways that can be interpreted by people of different times.
	There is a Bible code, and I don't mean necessarily the common term Bible code, which refers to lining up the Hebrew letters in a grid, XY grid, and then finding all these words, although that's a very interesting study of Scripture.
	But I'm talking about There's a code, there's encoding of multiple meanings.
	And people who teach the Bible often talk about the different layers of the Bible.
	No doubt you've heard some of this.
	You know, there's the literal layer, and then there's the metaphoric layer, the spiritual layer, and so on.
	You know, you can read the Bible seven different times, and you'll learn seven different levels of wisdom from it.
	Because every time you read the Bible, you yourself are a different person.
	Which means that the Bible is a living document.
	It's living because when you're reading it, your consciousness is interacting with it, but your consciousness is never the same twice.
	Now, yes, that's also true of other books or even watching a movie.
	Maybe you watched a movie when you were younger.
	20 years ago, you saw a movie, whatever.
	Maybe you watched The Matrix, which came out, I think, in 1999.
	And the first time you watched The Matrix, you were like, whoa, that's pretty wild.
	And then maybe 20 years later, you saw it again.
	You're like, oh, that's what it means.
	Well, the same thing is true at a much deeper level, at a more transcendent level with the Bible.
	So even if you've read a chapter, you are not the same person that you are now versus who you were at the moment that you read it.
	So go back and read it again when you get the chance.
	Revisit the chapters that spoke to you, and you will find that they speak to you in a whole new way.
	And along these lines, by the way, I know with certainty that I could never have understood the Scripture today the way I'm helping to share it with you.
	I never could have understood it without...
	and censorship that I've gone through.
	All of the efforts to silence my voices and destroy our platforms and to threaten our business and everything, we have been through all kinds of hell that's been placed upon us by weaponized governments and weaponized regulators and frankly a bunch of Satanists we have been through all kinds of hell that's been placed upon us by weaponized governments and weaponized regulators
	But it's because of those experiences that I now have much deeper understanding of what the Scripture is trying to say.
	I don't yet have full understanding.
	I'm not sure that any human is ever capable of that because no matter how much you know, there's always another layer or level to learn.
	But I do know that I have much greater understanding today than I could have five years ago or ten years ago.
	And I would imagine you share that as well.
	Read the Bible today.
	It's different than the Bible you ever read before.
	All right. Continuing now.
	Remember, Jesus just said there will be earthquakes in various places and there will be famines and troubles.
	These are the beginnings of sorrows.
	And then in verse 9, he says the following.
	But watch out for yourselves, for they will deliver you up to councils, and you will be beaten in the synagogues.
	You will be brought before rulers and kings for my sake, for as testimony to them.
	He's saying basically to the disciples and the followers of Christ, you're all going to be arrested and beaten.
	There will be an attack upon the church.
	They're going to haul you before the kings and the judges, and they're going to consider you guilty because you taught my word.
	That's essentially what he's saying.
	Continuing verse 10, and the gospel must first be preached to all the nations, but when they arrest you and deliver you up, do not worry beforehand or premeditate what you will speak.
	But whatever is given you in that hour, speak that, for it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit.
	See?
	You say, yeah, you're going to be arrested.
	Yeah.
	You're going to be jailed. You're going to be condemned.
	And in that moment, the Holy Spirit will speak through you words of truth, words of courage.
	You don't have to pre-plan that because what will come through you is God's will.
	Verse 12, Now brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child.
	And children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death.
	And we see this today with a lot of younger people condemning their parents for supporting a particular political candidate or supporting a particular law or a particular nation, for that matter.
	Verse 13, and you will be hated by all for my name's sake, but he who endures to the end shall be saved.
	Now, this verse, see, this is one of those examples of the timelessness of the Scripture.
	He says in verse 13, you will be hated by all for my name's sake.
	What do they call it now in the halls of the globalist cabal when they're directing big tech to censor people who cite the Bible?
	What do they call it? Hate speech.
	That's right. Hate speech.
	Jesus told you that was coming nearly 2,000 years ago.
	He knew that citing scripture would be considered hate speech.
	And this is what's happening in our world today.
	Look at the arrests of the founders of free speech platforms.
	Look all across Western Europe at the censorship of those who say anything about supporting the rule of law.
	Supporting their national boundaries, citing scripture, condemning those who engage in sodomy or exploitation of children or trafficking or all the sins that are mentioned time and time again throughout the Bible.
	All those people are being silenced and in some cases arrested and jailed.
	And what are the charges against them?
	Hate speech. That's right.
	But he who endures to the end shall be saved.
	So this is Jesus saying, keep the faith.
	Keep the faith. We shall prevail.
	Do not give in to the tyranny.
	And then Jesus talks about the Great Tribulation.
	And I'm going to shorten this a little bit, but he's talking about people fleeing the Corrupt governments and the globalist assault on the church.
	This is what he's talking about.
	He says, pray that your flight may not be in winter.
	You know, woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days.
	Verse 19, for in those days there will be tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the creation which God created until this time, nor ever shall be.
	He's saying there will be one moment in human history which is the tribulation.
	And this will not be repeated.
	So this isn't like earthquakes and war and nation against nation and kingdom against kingdom.
	This isn't like plagues and pestilence and locusts and whatever.
	This is the tribulation.
	One and only.
	And in verse 20, he says, And unless the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh would be saved.
	But for the elect's sake, whom he chose, he shortened the days.
	Now, I'm going to be careful touching this one because there are many interpretations.
	But the overall implication here is that God did create the universe.
	He controls the movement of the planets and the sun, the moon, the earth, the spinning of the earth.
	He controls the duration of the day.
	He controls all the forces of nature.
	That's what this is talking about.
	And because he shortened the days, he was able to, in essence, save humanity or save those who are Christians.
	But there are many different deeper interpretations of that, which I'm not going to get into right now.
	Perhaps we'll circle back around on that.
	But understand, there are obviously many different interpretations of tribulation and the rapture, and pre-trib, mid-trib, and post-tribulation interpretations and so on.
	I'm not going to give you my interpretation because, well, I haven't made up my mind yet.
	We have a lot more scripture to cover here.
	But I do say that God wants us to be ready, God wants us to be mobile, and to have a bug-out bag.
	Because verse 15, let him who is on the housetop not go down into the house, nor enter to take anything out of his house.
	Let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.
	And this is following verse 14.
	So when you see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.
	So he's saying, when you see this, you do not have time to go home and pack.
	You need to have your bug out bag ready.
	You need to flee to the mountains. You need to flee out of the fields.
	You need to be ready to move, move, move, because it's going to come so fast.
	So what is this abomination of desolation?
	Obviously, we have to go to Daniel chapter 11, which of course deserves its own sermon.
	But essentially, you have the warring between the kings of the North and the South.
	And obviously, these also may be metaphors for—there's a term called the Global South today— Which refers to basically the BRICS nations.
	It refers to India, Iran, Brazil, much of the Middle East, of course, Central and South America.
	That's considered the Global South today versus the North, which would be considered today the Atlantean or the Atlantic nations, the Western nations, basically the U.S., the U.K., France, Germany.
	Australia, even though it's in the southern hemisphere, is part of the west, which would be considered the north, at least metaphorically here.
	But if you read what Daniel chapter 11 talks about here, let's go to verse 29, talking about this war.
	At the appointed time, he shall return and go toward the south, but it shall not be like the former or the latter, for ships from Cyprus shall come against him.
	Therefore, he shall be grieved and return in rage against the holy covenant and do damage.
	This is the king of the north decrying God and violating the agreement with God.
	Basically, you could say shaking his fists at God and saying, you know, forget you.
	We don't need you.
	We're going to wage our war by ourselves.
	Something like that. So let's read Daniel chapter 11, verse 20.
	There shall arise in his place one who imposes taxes on the glorious kingdom, But within a few days he shall be destroyed, but not in anger or in battle.
	And in his place shall arise a vile person, to whom they will not give the honor of royalty.
	But he shall come in peaceably and seize the kingdom by intrigue.
	So this is a great deceiver, right?
	This is someone who speaks with a forked tongue.
	This is a metaphoric vision for the Antichrist, right?
	Verse 22,"...with the force of a flood they shall be swept away from before him and be broken, and also the prince of the covenant with God.
	And after the league is made with him, he shall act deceitfully, for he shall come up and become strong with a small number of people, possibly the globalists.
	He shall enter peaceably even into the richest places of the province, and he shall do what his fathers have not done, nor his forefathers.
	He shall disperse among them the plunder, spoil, and riches, and he shall devise his plans against the strongholds, but only for a time.
	So this is someone who is infiltrating the political apparatus of the kingdom, but not with violence, rather with deception, and he's looting the treasury to pay off all the right people.
	And yes, we see those things happening today.
	We see all this international money laundering and kickbacks and fraud and people paying off other people in order to keep corrupt regimes in power.
	Verse 25,"...he shall stir up his power and his courage against the king of the south." So, in other words,
	deception and backstabbing, treason, traitors that take down the king of the south.
	Both these kings' hearts shall be bent on evil, and they shall speak lies at the same time, but it shall not prosper, for the end will still be at the appointed time.
	In other words, they're not changing history.
	They're just playing out their roles as part of history.
	Verse 28, While returning to his land with great riches, his heart shall be moved against the holy covenant, so he shall do damage and return to his own land.
	Again, damaging the relationship of his kingdom with God.
	Verse 29, at the appointed time, he shall return and go toward the south, but it shall not be like the former or the latter, for ships from Cyprus shall come against him.
	Therefore he shall be grieved and return in rage against the holy covenant and do damage.
	So he's shaking his fist at God and saying, I don't need you.
	We don't need you. Quote, so he shall return and show regard for those who forsake the Holy Covenant.
	In other words, allies against God.
	And forces shall be mustered by him, and they shall defile the sanctuary fortress.
	Then they shall take away the daily sacrifices and place there the abomination of desolation.
	In other words, he is taking what his kingdom regards as spiritual protection, the sanctuary fortress, and putting instead there a great enemy against God, the abomination of desolation.
	Verse 32, those who do wickedly against the covenant, he shall corrupt with flattery.
	He's telling everybody, you're so powerful, you're so great because you're waging war against God.
	But the people who know their God shall be strong and carry out great exploits.
	And those of the people who understand shall instruct many, yet for many days they shall fall by sword and flame by captivity and plundering.
	A great war, many people dying, property being destroyed, homes being destroyed.
	And skipping ahead to verse 36, then the king shall do according to his own will.
	This is the complete rejection of the covenant with God and also God's laws.
	He shall exalt and magnify himself above every god, shall speak blasphemies against the god of gods, and shall prosper till the wrath has been accomplished, for what has been determined shall be done.
	He shall regard neither the god of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god, for he shall exalt himself above them all.
	So here he is saying that he is God, that he has replaced God, and that He's telling the people of his kingdom that you have no place for God, the legitimate God in your life.
	You don't need God.
	And he's bringing up political leaders and military leaders who themselves also hate God.
	Does this sound familiar?
	Does anything ring a bell about what's happening in our world right now?
	Very much so, right?
	You don't get to be a political leader today, not in our rigged, corrupt, kabbalistic system, unless you despise God and despise life itself, the lives even of children, unborn children or young children, because they are constantly attacked and mutilated or murdered by the political leaders of our day who are given great praise by the corporate media.
	So continuing, this is, again, Daniel chapter 11, verse 38.
	But in their place he shall honor a god of fortresses, and a god which his fathers did not know he shall honor with gold and silver, with precious stones and pleasant things.
	So he's honoring the god of war, or you could say, you know, the Department of Defense with a lot of money because the military-industrial complex earns a ton of money by waging war.
	Verse 39, thus he shall act against the strongest fortresses with a foreign god, which he shall acknowledge and advance its glory, and he shall cause them to rule over many and divide the land for gain.
	So what are we talking about here?
	We're talking about, if you were to say that this applies to modern times, you're talking about the war machine that seeks to conquer and divide lands in order to plunder their mineral resources.
	Ukraine, anyone? Russia?
	Oil in the Middle East?
	You know, you look at the wars happening today and the wars since, well, since the Desert Storm Gulf War, what have these wars really been about?
	Control over resources.
	Plundering. The plundering of riches.
	We even have senators who talk about why We can't let Russia conquer Ukraine because, not to protect the Ukrainian people, but because Ukraine sits on trillions of dollars of lithium and other very important precious metals and sometimes rare earth minerals and also farmlands and so on.
	This is the way the West sees the value of Ukraine.
	Not in its people, not in its history, not in its culture, compassion, humanity, churches, nothing.
	In fact, the Orthodox Church of Ukraine was just outlawed by the government of Ukraine.
	They are banning the church and they're going to arrest the priests.
	This is what we're talking about right here.
	At least this is a reflection of what we're talking about, where the government will come in And we'll start arresting your church leaders.
	Again, back to Mark 13.
	Jesus talks about this directly, and this is happening in Ukraine right now.
	So back to Mark 13, verse 21 says, As we have, you know, explained the abomination of desolation.
	Verse 21, So the word elect here, there's a footnote that means the chosen ones, okay?
	So he's saying that there are going to be some really amazing and mystifying and impressive signs and wonders to deceive.
	So what could those be?
	One of those could be, just as kind of an off-the-wall example, but what if the governments of the world fake an alien invasion, okay?
	Now, I don't know if you've seen some of the videos recently, but all over the world, there are videos now of what appear to be practice exercises of flocks of drones that are forming up to create images of large circles in the sky.
	Some of them appear to resemble alien motherships and things like that.
	And also in this last 4th of July celebration, there were many drone demonstrations in the sky at night with beautiful lights.
	So instead of fireworks, they had drone demonstrations and they could animate giant horses in the sky and they could have the American flag in the sky.
	They could simulate fireworks, but they were just drones.
	And China has done some amazing drone work in the sky with like a giant swimming red dragon.
	And I ought to include a video here if I can find that for you so you can see what I'm talking about.
	Maybe you haven't seen this before.
	So if I can find a video like that, I'll put it for you right here.
	Alright, yeah, we found the video.
	Check this out. Look at that. This is a giant...
	This is 1,500 drones in the sky in China carrying out some amazing display of an animated dragon that appears to be flying in the sky.
	This is done with nothing but drones.
	Coordinated. And obviously they can animate almost any kind of image or creature in the sky.
	So when Christ says that false prophets or false Christs will show signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the chosen ones, yeah, do not be surprised if something appears in the sky, and it could even be a bunch of drones that create the face of God, let's say.
	And so whatever government is running the drones is trying to make you think that God is appearing in the sky or make you think that there's an alien invasion or make you think, you know, meteors are falling out of the sky or make you think there's another pandemic that's going to kill us all unless we do what we're told.
	Okay? These are the kinds of things that are designed to deceive.
	These are signs of the Antichrist.
	The power... Of infiltrating government, infiltrating the banks, and being able to rule the world without war, but rather a psychological war.
	You could say the info war.
	That is, Jesus Christ warns us about fifth generation warfare.
	And then now continuing with Mark chapter 13.
	This gets interesting.
	Verse 24, but in those days after that tribulation...
	Remember the one and only tribulation.
	He says, And then he will send his angels and gather together his elect from the four winds, from the farthest part of earth to the farthest part of heaven.
	So cosmic stuff here, right?
	Something is going to happen where the sun's going to be darkened.
	What could that be?
	Something maybe in the atmosphere, a meteor impact, an object passing between the earth and the sun, but something's also going to darken the moon.
	So this is a big deal. Maybe a swarm of meteors.
	Maybe the earth is struck by a number of meteorites.
	Maybe this is a Sodom and Gomorrah takedown of the most sinful pro-abortion cities in America and around the world, possibly.
	These are just guesses. But whatever it is, quote, they will see the Son of Man coming in the clouds with great power and glory.
	Christ will appear in the sky.
	Now again, The global cabal could try to fake that with drones at night, and they could fool, they could deceive many Christians who would look to the sky and say, Oh, Christ has returned!
	No, it's just a bunch of government drones, by the way, so make sure you know what you're looking at.
	But then, in verses 28 plus, he essentially says that all of this will happen within one generation of the time of him speaking.
	He says, when you see these things happening, know that it is near at the doors.
	And he appears to be referring to, you know, the tribulation.
	Or he may be referring to the return of God, that he is near.
	A couple different ways to interpret that.
	But he says, assuredly, I say to you, this generation will by no means pass away till all these things take place.
	And this is why some people interpreting this entire book of the Bible, specifically this chapter, they say that all of this already happened.
	Some people say that it all happened in 70 AD or thereabouts.
	And I think the term for that is called preterism.
	Some people call it the AD 70 doctrine.
	And they are saying that this prophecy and other prophecies in the book of Revelation have all been fulfilled.
	And of course, a lot of other people say, no, no, no, they have not been fulfilled, or they say that the Bible is timeless, like, as I have mentioned earlier, that the lessons of the Bible, they speak to people across many different time periods, many different generations, and I tend to settle with that point of view myself that the same lessons and the same warnings that are taught to us, they do happen again and again, but Jesus only talks about one tribulation.
	Only one. And I don't know if that's happened, but I do know that we should be ready for it to happen, you know, just in case, because we don't know the timeline.
	And lots of people can debate pre-trib, post-trib, what have you.
	But here's what Jesus says that no one knows the day or the hour, right?
	Verse 32 in this chapter.
	But of that day and hour, no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.
	Not even Christ himself knows the day or the hour.
	So he says, verse 33...
	This is Christ as a preparedness person.
	Take heed, watch, and pray, for you do not know when the time is.
	It's like a man going to a far country who left his house and gave authority to his servants and to each his work and commanded the doorkeeper to watch.
	Did everybody have a doorkeeper in those times?
	It's like, help one, a doorkeeper.
	Like, what do I do, boss?
	Pretty much you just watch the door.
	All right, what's the pay?
	You know, verse 35, watch therefore, for you do not know when the master of the house is coming.
	In the evening, at midnight, at the crowing of the rooster, or in the morning, lest, coming suddenly, he find you sleeping.
	You don't want God to come back and find you sleeping spiritually, is the point here.
	Verse 37, and what I say to you, I say to all.
	Watch. He's saying, open your eyes.
	Get red-pilled.
	Awaken. This is what he's saying.
	Open your eyes. Look up.
	Watch the sky. Watch what's happening in the world around you.
	Be aware. Be awake.
	Be alive. And be ready.
	No one knows the day or the hour, but we must all be prepared and ready at all times for all possibilities because we live in a world, well, a universe created as a kind of simulation by a multidimensional, supernatural, timeless being, the mind of God that created all that is.
	And he can move stars and planets around, by the way, and he is watching us.
	And I would suspect that right now, he's not too happy with what he's seeing.
	So, be ready.
	Be ready for the wrath of God.
	Be ready for the return of Christ.
	Be ready for the tribulation.
	Be ready for the rapture.
	Be ready for nearby cities to get hit with giant space rocks.
	See what I'm saying? Be ready for earthquakes and war.
	And be ready for, you know, fake alien invasions in the night sky.
	Be ready for it all.
	Be mindful. Otherwise, you will be easily deceived.
	So that's my take on Mark 13.
	And if you have a different interpretation, totally okay.
	But read it again.
	See what you think. Take the words that I've shared with you and see if it makes sense.
	I believe I've only given you words of encouragement and readiness, preparedness.
	And remember, it's not just about being a prepper, like, oh, I've got extra food and iodine and, you know, emergency backup radios and whatever.
	No, this is also more importantly about spiritual preparedness.
	If God calls you home tomorrow, are you spiritually ready?
	That's the most important part of this.
	You know, heaven is your backup comms plan.
	Right? Heaven is your ultimate asset protection strategy.
	You know, you're worried about asset protection.
	Do I have enough gold and do I have enough silver?
	Nothing wrong with that on planet Earth, but your assets that count are assets in the spiritual world with God.
	That's where it's going to count.
	Proverbs 10, verse 22, the blessing of the Lord makes one rich, and he adds no sorrow with it because you don't have to file taxes and Pay taxes on the dividends of the interest earned of Caesar's fake money.
	No, the blessing of the Lord makes one rich.
	So focus on that and you too shall be rewarded.
	Thank you for listening today.
	I'm Mike Adams, and we have many more sermons available for you where we interpret, of course, different parts of the Bible and the foods and nutrients, herbs, and superfoods of the Bible, which is our special focus.
	And you can find those at the same place that you found this sermon.
	So thank you for listening. God bless you all.

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