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Sept. 5, 2024 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams

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BBN, Sep 5, 2024 – DOJ rolls out carefully timed accusation of Russian influence...

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	Alright, we have major breaking news to cover today.
	Welcome to Brighteon Broadcast News for Thursday, September 5th, 2024.
	This is Mike Adams.
	Thank you for joining me today.
	Now, two big stories to cover here.
	One, which actually is a couple days old, but new information is coming out.
	You know, there was a massive strike by Russia using Iskander missiles onto a training facility in Ukraine.
	Now, this happened a couple of days ago, but what we're learning is that the death toll is really substantial.
	Officially, Ukraine says the death toll is 49 killed and 219 wounded.
	Then other sources within Ukraine are saying the death toll might be as high as 190 killed.
	Some Russia-linked sources are claiming 600 people killed.
	So, you know, probably the real number is somewhere in between all of that.
	But importantly, what's now being reported is that the Swedish company known as Saab, S-A-A-B, They manufacture AWACS aircraft, you know,
	airborne command center aircraft, and that reportedly many top management executives of Saab that were part of the AWACS aircraft systems, they were there, and they're all dead.
	And it's being reported that Up to 15 trucks were used to evacuate the dead.
	And that the hospitals in central Ukraine, see if I can get the city for you, the hospitals were absolutely overrun with casualties.
	But if this Saab company, if it has lost most of its executives who were involved in this AWACS aircraft project, then that project's done.
	Like, that's over. So this was a significant strike by Russia using hypersonic Iskander missiles that can travel at, I believe, over four times the speed of sound.
	And they're unstoppable.
	And not only was this training facility, which I think the Western media describes it as an educational institution, as if it's a university, you know?
	Like when Israel bombs universities in Gaza, they never report that.
	But when Russia bombs a military training facility, then it's reported as an educational center.
	Well, it was a military training facility.
	And Russia taking this out, first with one Iskander that apparently produced most of the casualties, and then something like maybe 10 minutes later, As rescue trucks were moving in to evacuate the wounded, Russia hit them again with another Iskander missile.
	So we're talking about a delayed double tap.
	I mean, I hate to use such crude words, but that's what this was.
	And I mean, just absolutely vicious on Russia's part.
	Killing, clearly killing hundreds of people, including rescue crews and, you know, wiping out the executives here of Saab.
	And whatever military recruits were being taught, you know, you could say they were like military students or, you know, military trainees.
	They were being trained in running the AWACS aircraft, and they're mostly dead now.
	So this strike by Russia...
	It's being reported even widely in Western media that this has really devastated the morale of Ukrainian troops.
	And you notice yesterday there were massive firings or resignations of top cabinet members in Ukraine's military.
	And with this strike and with Sweden now, you know, realizing that dozens of their top corporate executives just got blown to smithereens...
	Doesn't look good for Ukraine.
	It looks like Ukraine is going to be probably done before the end of this year.
	And I would not be surprised if there are some kind of surrender negotiations.
	Maybe they'll be called peace negotiations or ending the conflict or whatever they're called, but essentially it's going to be terms of surrender.
	And it might happen before Election Day in America, although I'm pretty sure the U.S. will do everything it can to try to keep Ukraine alive and humming through Election Day.
	So it's possible it might take longer than that.
	It could happen later.
	It could happen in late November or December.
	But I'd be really shocked if Ukraine, as we know it, is still...
	You know, standing by January.
	Maybe they will. They have been incredibly resilient.
	But whatever you think about Ukraine and Russia, I have repeatedly been calling for peace.
	You know, I would love to see this come to an end.
	I would love to see an end to the violence and the bloodshed.
	I would love to see de-escalation.
	And so the good news in Whatever end comes from this is that maybe young men would stop dying.
	That would be a positive thing.
	Ukraine is not going to end up with all the territory it used to have.
	That's clear. But it would be a blessing if the violence could stop.
	So that's the first major story today.
	Now, another major story.
	There are several. This has been a very busy day.
	Another major story surrounds the Department of Justice issuing indictments against two Russian nationals linked to RT that apparently, from what's being reported, they tricked sort of conservative-leaning influencers in the United States, including Tim Pool and others who are part of this company called Tenet, Tenet Media.
	They were tricked into receiving, at least the company received up to $10 million.
	And they were tricked because these Russian nationals pretended to be somebody else and they pretended to want to pay for a content production.
	And this content was, I guess, controversial content.
	I don't think it was pro-Russia content.
	I think it was just content designed to get a lot of eyeballs and maybe stir up controversy.
	I don't know.
	But I've recorded a special report on that that covers the basics of that indictment.
	I'd like to run that special report first right now, and then we'll come back after that with some additional information that has come to the surface since I recorded that a couple hours ago.
	So let's go to that report.
	Let's talk about the DOJ indictment that was just handed down.
	As part of what the DOJ claims is a Russian...
	Now, yeah, this sounds exactly like the 2016 election, Russia, Russia, Russia, where they made up all this nonsense, accusations against Trump, claiming he was run by Russia.
	This really smacks of that.
	But here are the facts of their indictment, which I read in detail.
	They're indicting, apparently, two Russian nationals, That, if I understand it correctly, have some kind of links to RT. And according to the DOJ, these Russian nationals, they hid their identities and they took on the names of other people who were not Russian.
	And they made like fake resumes and fake contacts and everything.
	And then using that...
	They reached out to this company in Tennessee, which appears to be the tenant media company that handles a lot of outspoken, trending conservative content creators, content influencers like Tim Pool, most notably, and Lauren Southern, and some other prominent people as well.
	Apparently, there's a woman named Chen who is part of the Tenet Media Company.
	I don't know who she is. I think she and her husband run it together.
	I mean, that's my best guess.
	Again, I'm going off of the DOJ's indictment, which didn't fully paint the whole picture.
	So, you know, innocent until proven guilty, folks.
	By the way, this whole thing looks like a political hit job.
	Looks like a setup to me.
	Just in time for election season to claim that all the Russians are buying off influencers in the U.S. But anyway, the DOJ indictment apparently indicts these two Russian nationals who, again, impersonated other people and tricked the Tenet Media Company in Tennessee into thinking that Tenet was being paid to produce content And apparently they received up to or close to $10 million over time to produce content and to distribute this content on YouTube and a lot of other places.
	This content was also distributed on TikTok and some other platforms.
	I don't know all the platforms. It's basically all the platforms where I'm banned.
	It's where the content got distributed.
	So anyway, the allegation of the DOJ is that, aha, this is a Russian influence operation.
	These Russians paid off this U.S. media company to produce this content.
	Now, as far as I can tell, the content, it wasn't like pro-Kremlin content at all.
	It was just content mostly about America, talking about...
	Probably transgenderism and the open borders and inflation.
	Some of the content was about Ukraine versus Russia.
	But there's plenty of room for criticism over there with NATO's problems.
	I mean, I've been very critical of NATO and what's going on there.
	It doesn't mean I'm pro-Putin or anything.
	I'm just saying, hey, we've been lied to about a lot of things.
	Anyway, So this company, apparently Tenet, it's not named in the DOJ indictment, but it's pretty certain that it's Tenet.
	And Tim Pool already put out an announcement in defense.
	He says, if indeed these allegations are true, then we are the victims, he says, that we were tricked.
	We were deceived by whoever these two indicted people are.
	They tricked us into thinking that they were somebody else.
	And that appears to be, you know, the case.
	I think Tim Pool is absolutely correct in that.
	The DOJ claims that they got a hold of a contract between Tenet and these Russian nationals, who again, pretended not to be Russian.
	But this contract apparently, according to the DOJ indictment, offers content in exchange for money.
	Well, That's not an unusual arrangement for some company to be hired to create content.
	I mean, that's what movie studios do.
	They hire directors and actors to produce content, to produce a movie.
	Podcasters are paid all the time, mostly by sponsors.
	I mean, I have sponsors for my podcasts.
	Of course, I'm very open about who they are.
	Like, here's the satellite phone company, or here's a sponsor, maybe our own store, or maybe a gold retailer or somebody.
	I'm always very open about who the sponsors are.
	And by the way, there's no foreign money coming to me to tell me what to say.
	But I think even the tenant company, I don't think that they...
	It doesn't look like that this foreign money controlled what they said.
	It looks like it was just, hey, we'll pay you to produce content that's popular.
	And that's what they did.
	And as Tim Pool said in his statement, like, nobody had approval over his content other than him.
	I mean, he decided what to say.
	He decided what guests to have on, and so on.
	So I agree with Tim Pool that if indeed, if Tenet is the company that's involved in this DOJ indictment, but Tenet wasn't indicted, just to be clear, and Tim Pool wasn't indicted, but if that's the company, Tim Pool's completely innocent.
	Lawrence Southern, totally innocent.
	I think Benny Johnson, innocent.
	I think there's another man, is it Dave Rubin?
	Innocent. These people...
	They had no knowledge.
	Even if they took money to produce content, they had no knowledge that it was Russians because the Russians intentionally deceived everybody by changing their identities and trying to trick people.
	So I actually wonder...
	If it's not actually Russians, we have to consider this scenario.
	Was this some kind of a deep state operation?
	Was it MI5 pretending to be people pretending to be Russians?
	Was it CIA pretending to be people pretending to be Russians so that they could announce this right before the election and claim Russian influence over conservative influencers?
	The timing is highly suspicious to me.
	And what the left-wing media is doing with this is so predictable.
	It's just like 2016.
	It's just like the whole first term of the Trump administration, which we all know turned out to be a total hoax.
	So I would not be surprised if this was actually a deep state honeypot trap.
	And by honeypot trap, what I mean is, you know, a lot of people who are, let's say, YouTubers, if somebody comes to them and says...
	We'll give you $10,000 an episode to produce episodes.
	You know, an hour each.
	Ten grand. And you can choose the topic.
	You don't have to do what we...
	Just make sure it's, you know, controversial and, you know, click-baity or whatever.
	Like, just make sure it's going to be...
	It's going to get a lot of eyeballs.
	That's all. Just make sure it's controversial.
	Most people would take that money.
	Most people would take that money.
	You know I wouldn't take that money, and I don't.
	Nobody pays me to produce anything.
	I mean, we're supported by you, our viewers, or our sponsors, both, or our store sales.
	Given how difficult our economy is, and, you know, inflation, food inflation, and skyrocketing prices of insurance and everything, a lot of people are in a lot of financial hardship.
	And if somebody approaches them and says, you know, here's 10 grand, or 50 grand, or in some cases, some of these influencers can earn, you know, a couple hundred thousand dollars an episode.
	I mean, you tell me, wouldn't most people...
	In the world, take 50 grand per episode and maybe not ask very many questions about where that money came from.
	You know, as long as it wasn't...
	Some obvious, like, we are Russians.
	You must make Russian content, you know.
	We are going to pay you to spread this information across America.
	Now, like, if that was said, then, yeah, you should have the sense to say, no way, man, that's crazy.
	I'm not going to do that. But if it's money that, let's say, came from the United Arab Emirates, which I think is one of the personalities that was created by these front people, or if it came from, you know, Italy, or if it came from, I don't know, some European country, or Canada, I mean, most people would just cash the check, create the content, most people, and say, wow, that's awesome.
	That was the easiest money I ever made.
	And if they could do that daily...
	You know, most people would do that.
	And then if it later turned out, oh, guess what?
	That money actually came from Russia.
	You know, a lot of these people were like, whoa, holy cow, I had no idea.
	Which is the truth. So to me, this is what this whole thing looks like.
	It looks like a honeypot trap.
	And it reminds me to maybe just offer some advice.
	And this is the advice I live by, too.
	If something is too good to be true, and if it looks too good to be true, it probably is.
	There's probably something wrong with that picture.
	If somebody's walking up to you and offering to write big fat checks without you earning it or reciprocating in some reasonable way, you may want to watch out.
	It could be a trap.
	It could be I don't know.
	I mean, it could be entrapment.
	It could be the FBI trying to entrap you and make it look like you've taken money from, you know, the drug cartels or whoever.
	You know, it turns out the money was laundered from a guy who knew a guy who knew a guy who had a cousin who once smoked pot.
	You know, it's like, what?
	And the indictment comes down.
	You're like, I don't even know these guys.
	But this is how entrapment works.
	They entrap you.
	They entice you. And you have to be willing to say no.
	You have to be willing to walk away from something that looks too good to be true.
	Easy money is very often a trap.
	Now, if you work your tail off and you earn sponsorship money, As we do.
	Well, yeah, that's legit.
	I mean, you're not going to make a fortune.
	You're not going to get rich. You're not going to retire on the sponsorship money.
	If you're lucky, it might cover some of your production costs or some of your bandwidth costs.
	And that's normal.
	It's normal for people in media to be broke, actually.
	How many people do you know who are publishing articles or doing videos?
	They're not doing well financially.
	That's actually very common.
	So just watch out for...
	Watch out for money that's too easy.
	Watch out for traps, honeypot operations, entrapment situations.
	Watch out! So as far as our own operations go, I put out a detailed tweet about this, just to be clear, just to be on the record.
	Let me explain it here.
	If anybody's wondering, no.
	Nobody pays us.
	We don't have any hidden money coming in to produce content.
	We have sponsors that we disclose, and you'll hear me mention, oh, you know, this is a sponsor, this is an affiliate.
	Or on my website, rangerdeals.com, we have each one of those companies.
	There's a logo there that indicates, is it a sponsor?
	Is it an affiliate?
	Do we get paid a percentage or not?
	Or do they donate products to us as a result of us spreading publicity about their company?
	Because a lot of those companies, we don't have any kind of sponsorship arrangement.
	I just help promote them, and then they will donate products to us, and then typically I donate those products to local churches and ministries.
	I've already done that. I mean, I've already got letters on file from the places that we donate to.
	A lot of what I do is actually trying to get resources into the local community, into other churches and other ministries, and just to help the local community to be more resilient in case of emergencies, things like that.
	But anyway, that's just me.
	There's nothing wrong with people taking money honestly, transparently, earning a profit, There's nothing wrong with that.
	Entrepreneurs deserve to be rewarded for their success if they've earned it.
	And I'm not opposed to that on the commercial side.
	I'm just saying that a lot of what we do is non-commercial in essence, and we have a non-profit organization for that purpose.
	But whatever the case may be, the most important thing is that content producers should be Honest and open and transparent with their audiences about, is anybody paying for this show?
	Is there a sponsor? Is this an affiliate?
	Is it completely unrelated?
	Those questions should be answered up front.
	And as long as you do that, it's all good.
	And so, look, bottom line, Tenet Media, I'm pretty sure they're the company that's sort of implied in the DOJ indictment.
	Tenet Media looks to me to be completely innocent in this, from what I can see so far.
	It doesn't look like they had any idea that these people were related to Russians at all.
	It looks like they were just taking money to produce content of their own choosing.
	And that is incredibly common in podcasting.
	I mean, radio shows. I mean, Rush Limbaugh gets paid to produce radio shows.
	Left-wing radio personalities get paid.
	Howard Stern gets paid to produce radio shows.
	That's not a crime.
	That's just money for content.
	Very common. Anyway, those are my thoughts on the matter.
	Thank you for listening.
	Mike Adams here, brighttown.com and naturalnews.com.
	Take care. All right, so now continuing with our coverage of that topic, Zero Hedge has since reported that two of the commentators of Tenet Media, quote, believed to be Tim Poole and Benny Johnson.
	Signed contracts which paid Poole $100,000 per podcast, while Benny Johnson was paid $400,000 per month, plus a $100,000 signing bonus for four weekly videos.
	Now, wow.
	Wow. This is actually in the indictment, although the indictment just says Company 1 and Commentator 1 and so on, or Commentator 2.
	But Zero Hedge is reporting that that's Tim Pool and Benny Johnson.
	Now, I don't even know of Benny Johnson.
	Apparently, he's a popular podcaster.
	I had never heard his name until this thing happened.
	I'd heard of Tim Pool. But I've never had any interaction with Tim Pool.
	But I don't believe that Tim Pool is a Russian spy or anything.
	I think it's nonsense. But check this out.
	If you're being paid $100,000 per podcast, okay?
	$100,000 a podcast.
	Like, number one, that's a crazy, insane amount of money to produce one podcast.
	I mean... I wish I were paid $100,000 a podcast.
	I mean, I would donate it all to the church.
	The church would have millions of dollars, you know.
	But no one's going to pay me $100,000 per podcast because a normal podcast couldn't possibly be worth that much.
	But here's the thing. Even if somebody wanted to sponsor your podcast and they offered to pay you $100,000 per podcast.
	Now, Tim Pool does have a big audience.
	Granted, you know, millions of subscribers, I think, on YouTube.
	But I always find it suspicious, like, why are these people allowed to stay on YouTube?
	When people like me are totally blacklisted and banned off YouTube, I can't even post a Bible sermon on YouTube.
	The Bible sermons get banned.
	So why is Tim Pool allowed to sort of organically proliferate on YouTube?
	I'm always suspicious of that, by the way.
	I'm not accusing Tim of anything.
	I'm just saying... It's odd to me.
	I think that the people who are allowed to succeed on YouTube in a big way, I think they're selected.
	That's just my theory.
	I think you have to be selected to be popular.
	Because if it was truly organic, you know, my podcast would be very popular on YouTube because I wouldn't have been banned.
	But we had to sue Google.
	Over the deplatforming that I have endured.
	But anyway, if you were paid $100,000 per podcast, don't you think that whoever's paying that would want you to plug something?
	This is not a crazy idea, right?
	If somebody pays you $100,000, they would want you to plug something.
	Like, mention our website or plug our product and Maybe somebody comes to you and wants to offer you $100,000 per episode and maybe it's like a beer company or something.
	You've got to plug their beer. Or it's a soft drink company or whatever.
	You would normally plug something if you're getting paid $100,000.
	But apparently, Tim Pool and Benny Johnson and the others, at least to my knowledge, I don't think they were plugging anything that is associated with this payment.
	Seems to me like, from my reading and my current understanding, and I apologize if I'm reading this incorrectly, I'm not accusing these individuals of any wrongdoing.
	In the worst case, they were just tricked.
	But wouldn't you have asked questions like, who's paying me $100,000 and doesn't want any credit?
	Isn't that a reasonable question?
	I mean, somebody shows up at your front door, say, here, I'll write you a $100,000 check.
	Per podcast. Just make some podcasts.
	And you're like, what do you want me to say?
	Oh, anything you want. Just do podcasts that are controversial.
	Okay. Do you want me to plug something?
	Who's the sponsor? Oh, don't worry about that.
	You don't need to plug anything.
	Just cash the checks and keep making podcasts.
	I don't know about you folks, but my Spidey sense would be going insane at that moment.
	And I would be...
	No, thank you. This is way beyond fishy.
	There's something that doesn't pass the sniff test here, right?
	Wouldn't you ask that question too?
	People don't just run around writing you checks to do podcasts with no plugs, no credits, not selling anything, not recommending anything.
	That's something super fishy about that whole thing.
	So My understanding of how this went down is that people like Tim Pool with Tenet, they were cashing these checks, you know, collecting the money, which must have seemed really lucrative, 400 grand a month, and maybe having a, like, a don't ask, don't tell policy, like, where's this money coming from, possibly?
	Just saying. Again, I'm not accusing them at all of being, you know, Russian agents or anything.
	Again, in the worst case, they got tricked.
	They got tricked, but they also didn't ask any questions, is what it seems like to me.
	And I would not fall for this, I guarantee you, because I have been offered things like that before, and I said, no, no, because...
	Looks like a trap. Looks like a honeypot.
	Looks like a setup.
	There was one such deal, I don't know, it was like 18 months ago.
	Somebody tried to give me, I think it was 10% ownership in a company.
	They just want to give me 10% of their company.
	And have me sign something that would accept the shares of the corporation to put my name on this corporation.
	And then I was thinking, that seems really, really odd.
	And then a few weeks later came out that I think one of the principals there was already, yeah, was under indictment by the DOJ for some kind of fraud.
	And what it looked like to me then at that point, of course, I had already said no.
	I'm like, you know, this doesn't pass the sniff test here.
	But what it looked like to me was that the DOJ was willing to go lenient on this person if they entrapped other conservative influencers.
	And in fact, that offer that had been made to me, To say, here, we'll give you 10% of the company.
	Just sign here. That same offer had been made to other conservative influencers, several of them that I know, some of them that I've interviewed, and They all also backed out of it because they knew something was wrong.
	So that's a kind of an FBI or DOJ entrapment type of thing.
	But it plays on a person's greed.
	So if you're, I don't know, greed-driven and somebody comes to you like, hey, we're going to have a billion-dollar company, would you like 10%?
	Like, whoa, you know, if in your mind, you're like, ka-ching, ka-ching, oh, this might be worth $100 million.
	And if you're, you know, naive and inexperienced, you might be like, sure, where do I sign?
	You know, and the minute you sign it, guess what?
	They got you. Then what they do is then they just have that company do something crazy, some kind of fraud.
	And then they have the DOJ indict the company, which would be part of the plan.
	And then your name's on the company.
	As a shareholder, right? And then what happens next?
	Oh, the UK Daily Mail does a story about you being one of the owners of a company indicted for fraud by the DOJ. You see how that works?
	You see the trap? That's how they set those things up.
	They play on your greed.
	And I think this is how they ensnared, you know, Tim Pool and Benny Johnson and others.
	And again, I'm not accusing them of doing anything illegal.
	I'm saying they were tricked.
	I think they were tricked.
	But I bet you they won't be tricked again.
	This is the last time for them.
	Because you get burned like that, you get burned bad once, you learn.
	And if you're wise, maybe you never fall for getting burned like that.
	But if you're not wise, if you're too young, too inexperienced, too gullible or naive, you're going to get burned and you might end up in prison.
	You will certainly end up Harming or destroying your credibility as an influencer, that's for sure.
	So I just want to share all this with you, listening, because you might think that many of us who are podcasters or influencers, that it's just a simple thing.
	You just do your broadcast and you put it out there and then you have sponsors and you collect money from the sponsors and that's it.
	No. You got to navigate not going to jail from all these traps and honeypots and fraudsters and infiltrators.
	I mean, ask Alex Jones about infiltration and all the former staffers that were paid money to lie about him.
	And then there were stories written about him in all the corporate media papers.
	I know of at least one ex-employee of InfoWars that was paid $50,000 to fabricate absolute, complete, made-up lies.
	They took the money.
	They made up the lies, got published in corporate media.
	And then that was used to try to twist the jury to find Alex guilty and to fine him $1.5 billion to make the jury mad at Alex.
	Like, oh, he must be a Nazi.
	This is how it actually works in the world of deep state operatives.
	And I have no doubt there are deep state people probably involved in this whole indictment, this DOJ indictment and this whole RT thing.
	It's super, super sketchy, let me tell you.
	So let me read a couple of tweets for you just to wrap this up.
	So Jordan Schachtel, excuse me.
	On Twitter, he says, Lauren Chen is in big trouble.
	Now, Lauren Chen is, I believe, one of the owners of this tenant media company, okay?
	So, again, these are the words of Jordan Schachtel.
	This is not my opinion.
	I don't know Lauren Chen.
	I don't know what she's done or what she has not done.
	But I'll read the rest of this tweet.
	Quote, According to the DOJ, she and her husband worked with the Russian government to launder sanctions-busting money into her media company Tenet to promote Moscow's interests in the U.S., Like, that's a summary from Jordan Schachtel of what the DOJ says in its indictment.
	And that's a pretty accurate assessment.
	I've read the indictment.
	Now, Mike Cernovich then responds to Jordan's tweet.
	And here's what Mike Cernovich says.
	Now, Cernovich is, of course, a conservative influencer, an author, an analyst.
	Here's what he says.
	Quote, they let her off.
	Most likely, she entered some off-the-books deal to protect a federal asset who Tenet Media aggressively promoted and for access to all her devices.
	Plus, they were able to monitor her under FISA and no doubt did a few hops off that.
	So what Mike Cernovich is saying here is that, if I'm reading this correctly, that he believes that there is a federal asset that That works for Tenet as an influencer.
	What do you think about that?
	Now, for the record, I'm not making that accusation.
	I'm not accusing anybody of being a federal agent working for Tenet.
	But Cernovich is pointing that out.
	And it is...
	It is curious to me that Lauren Chen has not been named in this indictment because it would seem like she's the one in the US who would be targeted for violations of FARA, F-A-R-A, which is also what Scott Ritter is being targeted under because Scott Ritter, you know, his home was raided by the FBI and Just a few weeks ago.
	And Scott Ritter was paid.
	I believe he said he was paid by RT for articles.
	But not like crazy 100 grand.
	It sounds like he was paid like 500 bucks an article or whatever is a normal article fee for writing articles.
	Or maybe it was Sputnik.
	Maybe it was RT. I don't recall exactly.
	But Scott Ritter, he writes for a lot of different publications.
	And it's...
	Pretty customary to get paid a per-article fee, right?
	That's not crazy. Nevertheless, I think that the DOJ is accusing Scott Ritter of violating the foreign, what's it called, like the Foreign Agent Reporting Act, I think, Farah, for not disclosing that he received payment for the articles.
	Well, we'll see where that goes, but Scott Ritter says, you know, that's That's nonsense that, yeah, he received payment, but nobody told him what to write.
	You see? He wasn't directed of what to write.
	So I think for Farah to apply, I think there has to be an exchange of money for narrative, right?
	So in other words, if Russia went to Scott Ritter and said something like, Scott, we'll pay you $500 an article, but your articles have to say that NATO was run by idiots or they have to say something good about Putin or they have to say something bad about but your articles have to say that NATO was run by That would be tit for tat right there, right?
	That would be money for narrative.
	That would be a violation of Farah, I think pretty clearly.
	But if there's no evidence that anybody told Scott Ritter what to write, then I don't know how that could be considered a Farah violation.
	But just as a piece of advice from my point of view, by the way, like I wouldn't even accept payment from anybody that's on any U.S. sanctions list.
	You know, like that's if somebody from Iran or North Korea or Russia or I don't know if China's on the list or what, but if somebody from any of those countries came to me and said, hey, you know, we'll pay you 500 bucks an article to write these articles.
	You know, my first answer would be, no, because isn't your country on the sanctions list?
	I mean, I don't want to have DOJ breathing down my neck because of $500.
	Are you kidding me? Or even $5,000, you know?
	It's like, no. No, thank you.
	I would rather sell low-margin organic food And make a lot less money than be paid by somebody that's going to get me in all kinds of, you know, international trouble or DOJ trouble.
	I don't want to take money that creates even the appearance of, you know, a violation of some federal act, right?
	So I think it's wise, like, don't take money from people offering money.
	These kinds of deals, whatever they are, from Iran or Russia or whatever.
	But you know what's funny is if you did take money from Israel and then you wrote a bunch of pro-Israel articles, I bet you you would never be prosecuted.
	Right? Like if AIPAC came to me, let's just imagine this, right?
	Let's say AIPAC came to me and said, Hey, Mike, we noticed that you've been kind of critical of Israel.
	So, hey, would you like half a million dollars to maybe...
	Maybe be less critical of Israel or something like that, right?
	Now, I wouldn't do that, obviously, but if I did...
	Do you think I'd be prosecuted by the DOJ for taking money from Israel to say nice things about Israel?
	No! No way!
	You'd never be prosecuted for that because, well, that's an allowable kind of grift, you know?
	I mean, think about Congress.
	AIPAC pays all this money to Congress, and did you know that AIPAC never has to register under FARA, F-A-R-A, which is really weird because clearly AIPAC is, you know, distributing money For the interests of Israel, which is a foreign country, but somehow, somehow, AIPAC is immune from that registration.
	So, you see how this is always selective.
	If somebody like Scott Ritter is saying something nice about Russia, oh, you know, your home's gonna get raided, you know, you might get prosecuted, you're definitely gonna get smeared in the media, that's for sure.
	But if you're pro-Israel, well, you know, that's totally different.
	Nothing bad will happen to you at all.
	Proceed. Anyway, as a tangent to that, I might have all kinds of nice things to say about Israel if they would arrest Netanyahu, by the way, which it looks like they might be doing.
	I mean, a lot of protests there right now.
	A lot of Israelis not happy with Netanyahu.
	I don't have a beef with the Israeli people, and I certainly don't have anything against Jewish people, most of whom also oppose Netanyahu.
	I've been critical of Israel's leadership.
	Not Israel as a nation or as a people.
	So my tune on Israel absolutely could change if Netanyahu is indicted as he should be for the war criminal that he is.
	Maybe somebody else comes in and replaces him who's pretty awesome.
	I will absolutely reevaluate that at that time.
	And I reserve the right to do that.
	Same thing with Trump.
	I've been critical of Trump.
	Let's say he gets elected. I mean, I am going to vote for Trump, just to be clear.
	I'll be voting for Trump.
	Let's say he gets into office.
	By some miracle, the Democrats can't cheat their way through this election.
	So Trump gets into office and he starts doing things.
	Hey, if I don't like what he's doing, I'm going to say so.
	I'm not some Trump groupie, but if he does good things, I'll say so too, right?
	We'll congratulate him for doing amazing things.
	Or, you know, we'll hammer him if he's doing wrong things or not doing the things that need to get done.
	Like, building the wall, right?
	So, I think that's the most honest way to approach all this.
	Like, don't take money to control your narrative.
	Just be honest about everything.
	You know, look at the situation honestly.
	Tell the truth as best you see it about everything happening in the world.
	Ukraine, Russia, Israel, Palestine, you know, the USA, Trump, Kamala, China, Taiwan, you know, all of it.
	Iran. And that's what I've always tried to do, is just give you the best assessment I can.
	Anyway, let's see.
	Going back to some of the tweets about...
	Who is it? Lauren Chen.
	Again, that's her name. Lauren Chen, yes.
	With Tenet. So Jordan Schachtel, he tweeted out something else.
	He says, interestingly enough, in recent weeks, Lauren has been telling her followers to boycott Trump.
	It's entirely unclear if she was doing so at the direction of the Russian government, nonetheless, worth noting.
	That's from Jordan, again.
	And then he cites a tweet from Lauren Chen, who, again, I don't know who this person is.
	I've never met this person.
	But apparently this person runs Tenet.
	Lauren Chen did appear to be Telling people to not vote for Trump.
	So who knows?
	I mean, every person is free to reach their own conclusions about whether you support Trump or not.
	But I would just say overall, this whole thing really, really looks like a honeypot trap.
	It looks like that Tim Pool got swept up into this without knowledge of what it was.
	But honestly, he could ask a few more questions like, where is this money coming from?
	Why is all this money coming?
	Or was Tim...
	I mean, I don't know, but sometimes people, you know, when they become popular, they get a little bit...
	Prideful, shall we say?
	I don't know if that's Tim or not.
	I don't know him. But sometimes people get a little bit prideful and they think, I'm worth it!
	Yeah, of course they're going to pay me $100,000 just to say whatever I want.
	And... Yeah, I don't think so.
	Not really. I don't think anybody cares about anybody else's opinion for $100,000.
	Unless... Unless they can sort of nudge it, you know, nudge influencers.
	I think that's the name of the game, is the nudge.
	All right, so anyway, we're going to move on, but I want to play a video for you here that's a new topic, and this just blew my mind.
	We were talking about Israel here.
	There's a video here from a couple of younger podcasters.
	I don't know who these guys are either, but they go by the name Two Nice Jewish Boys.
	Like, that's the name of their podcast.
	And this apparently was broadcast on August 9th, so just about a month ago.
	And listen to what they say.
	Listen to what they say.
	Well, okay, you listen and then I'll comment, but it's crazy.
	Two nice Jewish boys.
	What do they have to say? Check this out.
	If you gave me a button to just erase Gaza, every single living being in Gaza would no longer be living tomorrow, I would press it in a second.
	That's just, I think, I mean, I think most Israelis probably agree.
	If that's the choice, yeah. Yeah.
	Mm-hmm. No, even if it's not like right now.
	Yeah, no. I would press it right now.
	Mm-hmm. Yeah, same with the territories.
	Give me that button and press it right now.
	There you go. And I think most Israelis would.
	Yeah, most Jewish Israelis.
	They wouldn't post, they wouldn't talk about it like I am.
	They wouldn't post, they wouldn't say I pressed it.
	But they would press it, right?
	Like if they were in a closet alone, they wouldn't even hesitate.
	Someone came to them and said, no one will know.
	You press this. You'd be like, hey, is there another one?
	Wow. Wow.
	You know, I've been obviously very vocal and very critical about the genocide that's happening in Palestine.
	You know, the Israelis killing the Palestinians and mostly women and children.
	And I've called for peace.
	I've called for de-escalation.
	I've called for ending the bloodshed.
	I've called for recognizing the humanity of the Palestinian people over and over and over again.
	And some people have said, well, how dare you call it genocide?
	Nobody's calling for genocide. Just watch this video.
	These dudes, they're saying that they could press a button, which, let's just be honest, it would be called the genocide button.
	They would press that button.
	They would wipe out, as he says, every living being in Gaza and in the West Bank, every Palestinian, every child, every senior citizen, openly stating that that's exactly what they would do.
	And interestingly, And to give this guy credit for his honesty, he's not saying this in an angry rage.
	He does not appear to be drunk or high.
	His words appear to be very well-considered, well-formed, thoughtful even, and obviously raw and honest.
	But again, I give him credit for that.
	And he says that most...
	Jewish Israelis would do the exact same thing if given the opportunity.
	Just that he's one of the few people who's willing to state it publicly.
	He's probably right about that.
	Because most other Israeli people who would support such a thing, the genocide magic button, they would not say it publicly.
	They say it to each other quietly.
	Most likely, right?
	But they would try to not say it publicly.
	Like Netanyahu tries to not say it publicly, but you know this is what he wants.
	This is what he's doing. But these guys are just out here saying it.
	Like, leave nothing to the imagination.
	This is it. They just want total extermination of the Palestinian people.
	So... And then they wonder, and then they wonder why the International Court of Justice indicts Israeli leaders for war crimes.
	I mean, this, it's pretty crazy.
	It's pretty crazy. And, of course, I denounce such things, and I am calling for peace.
	Now, in fact, I have a special report on this that I recorded earlier, which is why the Zionist claim to Palestinian land is biblical fraud.
	You know how many of these people, like perhaps these two nice Jewish boys, they claim that they have the right to all this land, which they think gives them the right to slaughter all Palestinians who are in the way.
	That claim is fraudulent in four different ways.
	And as I am teaching the scripture, my Bible sermons each day, as you may be aware, I've come across some very important things, even in the Old Testament, that talk about this so-called promise, this covenant between God and the Israelis and why that covenant was broken.
	And also other reasons why this claim to be able to murder all Palestinians, this claim is rooted in fraud.
	And I'd like to play that for you here coming up in just a second, but there's one other interim topic that's important for us to share.
	And it's this concept of multi-generational transference of guilt.
	Now you notice in the United States there's a lot of debate happening in California right now about reparations for blacks.
	And the idea of this, now keep in mind, by the way, California was never a slave state.
	So there are no people who ever lived in California who were slaves.
	I mean, they were never slaves in California.
	There could have been, maybe, you know, in the mid-19th century, there might have been slaves possibly in Mississippi or somewhere, and maybe they escaped and then they went to California.
	But what I'm saying is there were no slaves, actively slaves, in California.
	But Far more importantly, nobody living in California today ever owned slaves.
	And no black person in California today was ever a slave.
	Why?
	Because so many years have gone by that all the people who either owned slaves or who were slaves have, of course, passed away.
	But there's this idea, especially in Marxism or the wokeism of California, there's an idea of multi-generational guilt transference, which says that if you're white today in California, that you must accept which says that if you're white today in California, that you must accept the guilt for the actions of not just your ancestors, but other people's white ancestors from, you know, seven,
	You are guilty for what they did.
	Even though you living today in 2024, you obviously did not even exist when those ancestors carried out whatever actions they carried out, such as owning slaves or committing crimes or raping or pillaging or whatever they did.
	And of course, this concept of multi-generational guilt transference, if you keep going back in time, then it turns out like everybody has in their ancestry, you know, a murderer, a rapist, you know, a horrible person, a thief, a fraudster.
	You go back through all of human history.
	And sooner or later, somebody in your family tree or in your ancestry, you know, did horrible things.
	In fact, there are a whole lot of people today, like hundreds of millions of people today, I believe, who are one way or another offspring of Genghis Khan because he was such a prolific rapist.
	Now, seriously, I mean, just talking about anthropology, he raped so many people and impregnated so many women that his offspring are so numerous now across the world.
	Like he's the common ancestor of so many people.
	Many, many, I believe it's multiple millions of people, and that's what they have in common.
	They're all descendants of a rapist.
	Does that mean that they are guilty for the rape?
	Well, no, of course not.
	That would be absurd. Just as it would be absurd if you today were held accountable for the actions of your ancestors, whatever they did, if they were slave owners, Why should you be held accountable for their actions?
	Now, Kamala Harris, one of her ancestors, was a slave owner, it turns out.
	Does that mean Kamala is guilty of owning slaves?
	No, of course not. That would be insane.
	Should Kamala pay reparations to black people, even though she herself sometimes identifies as black, especially when talking to the union workers?
	You better thank a union worker!
	Remember all that pandering that she did the other day?
	She was really going full black right there, at least attempting it.
	Pretty much just pissing off black Americans in that attempt, by the way.
	Talking to them like their children or something.
	We're on to you, girl. We know what you're doing.
	But should she pay reparations to black people?
	Because her, I don't know what it was, great-great-great-grandfather, whoever, owned slaves?
	No. That's insane.
	So this idea of multi-generational guilt transference This is not valid in a world of reason.
	It's not valid.
	Obviously, you didn't even exist when your ancestors did things, so you had no role in their decision.
	Therefore, you have no culpability in their decision.
	The only exception being if you are a time traveler.
	If you could go back in time and meet your own great great great grandfather and convince him to do something evil and then you could teleport back into the present As a time traveler who is actually guilty of a historical conspiracy to commit a crime in 1752, then possibly you could be convicted for that.
	But I think there's a statute of limitations that probably would have expired.
	Probably doesn't reach back to the 18th century, is my guess.
	So... Once we understand this concept that multi-generational guilt transference is not valid, then when we look at what the Zionists are claiming in Israel today, they are claiming a multi-generational claim of ownership over land that goes back, what, 3,000?
	No, more than 3,500 years.
	What is it? 4,000 years nearly?
	Yeah. What year was Abraham living in Genesis, right?
	What year was that? Let's just call it 4,000 years.
	I think it's close to 4,000 years ago.
	So does a claim to property from 4,000 years ago, does that transfer to the current generation of people?
	Well, obviously no, but...
	Even the people who are Israelis today, are they even the offspring of Abraham in Genesis?
	Because it turns out, as you're about to hear in my special report, it turns out that the real offspring of Abraham are the Palestinians.
	Generally speaking, the Palestinians.
	The followers of Muslim and the Arabs in the region, they are Abrahamic.
	They are the actual Semites.
	Whereas the present day Israeli occupants who came to Israel 1948, they are mostly European Jews.
	So they tend to have far less genealogy tied to Abraham compared to the Palestinians or the Jordanians or the Iraqi people or the Iranians and so on.
	So some very interesting facts to consider in this claim that the Zionists claim that this land is theirs.
	Now, before I play this report, I just want to be clear.
	My position is to call for peace.
	I want to see an ending of the hostilities.
	I want to see an ending of sending weapons to Israel.
	And I want to see a negotiation for real peace and coexistence.
	But that is...
	Contingent upon the Palestinian people being treated like human beings with essentially equal representation in whatever government system exists.
	And that requirement is absolutely unacceptable to the political leaders of Israel.
	Why? Because there are far more Palestinians than there are Israelis.
	Far more. And so if it's a true democracy, you know how we're always told, like, Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East.
	It's not a democracy at all.
	It's an oligarchy of privileged people who – they have the right to vote as Israelis, but the Palestinians get zero representation.
	So that's not a democracy, it turns out, not even by any stretch of the imagination.
	So in a democracy, the Palestinians would outvote the Israelis – And that's why the Israelis absolutely do not want that.
	They need to rule over, in their minds, the Palestinians, or as this guy says, the two nice Jewish boys, they want to press a button and just exterminate all the Palestinians.
	That's their final solution.
	And then they would have all the land and resources and water and farms and homes and everything for themselves, and they could build the beachfront properties on the west coast of Gaza right on the Mediterranean Sea.
	Isn't this beautiful? Yeah.
	Pay no heed to all the graves that were bulldozed underneath the foundation of your new condo, right?
	So, with that in mind, this concept of multi-generational transference of either ownership or guilt, consider this special report that I recorded earlier.
	Check it out. Welcome, this is Mike Adams here with Abundance Church, revealing why the present-day Zionist claim to own the land under which the Palestinians have been living for centuries is a complete and total fraud.
	It's a legal fraud, it's a biblical fraud, and it is an historical fraud as well.
	And here's why.
	First of all, let's start with the claim that the modern-day Zionists make.
	They say that God promised them that land.
	Therefore, and this is the way they describe it, They have the right to take it, no matter who's there, no matter how long they've lived there, they have the right, they say, to murder people, to remove them from the land, and to take their homes, to take their farms, their orchards, to destroy their families, to forcibly relocate them, to make their lives a living hell, to try to force them out of the area.
	And this is exactly what the Zionists have been doing since 1948.
	The Nakba, as it's called, when they showed up in Palestine and said, well, this is all ours now.
	We're just going to take it and murder anybody who gets in our way.
	And year after year, they kept taking more and more land and murdering more and more Palestinians until they had essentially shoved the Palestinians into two regions.
	The Gaza area, as it's known, Gaza Strip, which is a giant prison camp, in essence, fully controlled by Israel.
	The water, the electricity, the food in and out, the medicine, the bandwidth, everything controlled by Israel.
	It's a prison camp. And then also, of course, the West Bank, where Israel continues to expand its so-called settlements there.
	By force, by shooting and killing people, forcing them off their land.
	So this is what modern day Zionism claims, is that, again, they say, God promised us this land, therefore we have the right to kill whoever's on it and to take the land from them.
	So let's look at that claim.
	Is this a claim that is recognized by any court in the world, right?
	The answer is no. There is no court, not a UN court, not an American court, not a European court, no court that would say that just because you claim God gave you a piece of land that you have the right to go kill people who are on it.
	If you march over to your neighbor's house and burn it down and murder all the women and children and men in the house and you roast them to a crispy critter status and then you bulldoze their home and then you steal the land and build your own home on it and then you claim, well, God told me that I could do this.
	Guess what's going to happen to you?
	You will be arrested for murder.
	And you will not end up with the land because there is no court in the world that would recognize such an absurd claim.
	If everybody in the world could just say, well, I have a religious book, and in this book we claim that God told us we can kill all these people and take their land.
	If that were accepted by a court, what would our world look like?
	Well, it would be a Zionist battlefield.
	The whole world would be.
	In an endless fight, then it would become might makes right, and whoever just commits the most violent crimes wins the most land and resources, which is the way Israel works today, by the way.
	That's the way Zionists operate.
	But just to be clear, that claim is not recognizable nor enforceable by any court in the world.
	Secondly, what's the basis of this claim?
	Well, according to the Zionists, In the book of Genesis, now remember, Jews study the first five books of the Old Testament, but they do not recognize the existence of Christ or the New Testament or the resurrection of Christ.
	In fact, it was the Jewish leaders that demanded the murder of Christ.
	This is... Elucidated in the books of Mark and John.
	I've actually taught sermons on this.
	It's abundantly clear.
	The Bible leaves no doubt.
	It says the Jewish leaders demanded Christ be murdered, and they appealed to the Roman court run by a local Roman judge named Pilate, said, you have to murder Christ.
	That was the Jewish leaders that said that, okay?
	So let there be no doubt that modern-day Judaism does not We don't recognize Christ as a savior or even as a figure at all.
	Christ doesn't exist to them, nor do Christ's teachings.
	So we're talking about the Old Testament, old school, you know, the wrath and vengeance version of God, which was rooted in a lot of violence and mass killing.
	And that's what modern Israel is still working off of.
	Just kill everybody that's in your way.
	That's Old Testament.
	So they say that in Genesis that God promised the land to Abraham.
	It's in chapter 12 of Genesis.
	Here it is. Now the Lord had said to, well, Abraham, I'm just correcting the name here, said, I will make you a great nation.
	I will bless you and make your name great and you shall be a blessing.
	I will bless those who bless you and I will curse him who curses you and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.
	And skipping ahead to verse seven, then the Lord appeared to Abraham and said to your descendants, I will give this land.
	And there he built an altar to the Lord who had appeared to him and he moved from there to the mountain east of Bethel.
	and so on and so forth.
	Now, so this is God promising to Abraham this land, and this is what is cited, one of the main things that's cited by modern-day Zionists in Israel to say, See, God promised the land to Abraham.
	Well, there's a problem with this.
	There are several problems with this.
	Problem number one, historians date this to be about 4,000 years ago.
	I originally thought it was maybe 5,000 years, but I looked it up and it says that it's roughly almost 4,000 years ago.
	So we'll call it, you know, we'll call it like 2,000 BC roughly.
	There's a lot of uncertainty about the exact year, but that's pretty close.
	So, 4,000 years ago, God spoke to Abraham in the Old Testament.
	And then, after waiting something like 3,930 years or something, then Israel shows up in Palestine and says, this is ours now?
	Because God made us a promise 3,930 years ago?
	I think your claim has expired just over the fact that you didn't put up no trespassing signs.
	The Jewish descendants, they did not take care of the land.
	They weren't growing food on the land.
	They weren't building homes on land.
	They weren't even there for almost four millennia.
	And then to show up and say, well, now it's ours.
	This claim, again, would not be recognized by any court in the world.
	It's an absurd claim, especially given the fact that there are multiple religious books in the world.
	And given that governments are not allowed, at least Western governments, are not allowed to endorse one specific religion, All religions have to be given the same weight in America, for example.
	What if there's another book, like a book from the Sikhs, that says, no, all of the Middle East is ours.
	Or maybe there's a book from the Buddhists that says, well, all of Asia is ours.
	And then there's a book from the Hindus that says, no, the Middle East is ours.
	And there are similar claims in other religious books.
	Or then a book comes out of the Amazon and turns out that the Amazonian Indians had ancient stone carvings that said the whole world was theirs.
	Or the Mesoamericans who became Native Americans, they find like a tablet that was written in some ancient language found on a stone and says, no, actually, guess what?
	Jordan is ours.
	This is absurd.
	If you run around the world saying that, well...
	All these different books claim that this land belongs to these groups of people from 4,000 years ago.
	Then you have anarchy.
	You have chaos.
	You have no property rights recognized.
	You have war, which is exactly what Israel has thrust us into.
	So that claim is absurd.
	Even squatting laws that are recognized in every Western country.
	Squatting laws say that if you don't take care of a piece of land...
	For even sometimes as short as one year or two years or five or maybe ten years, you lose it.
	If somebody else comes to that piece of land, let's say you own a ranch in, let's just say Texas, where I am.
	If you own a ranch in Texas and you just abandon it and then other people start taking care of it, start farming it, Start building infrastructure.
	You know, you would call them squatters, but after a period of time, the state recognizes ownership as to belong to the squatter because they're the ones who have been stewarding the land over a period of many, many years.
	There are squatters laws all across the United States.
	Now, I know those laws have been abused by people claiming homes, just like showing up Taking somebody's home over the weekend and then say, oh, you can't kick us out.
	I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about long-term, multi-year stewardship of a piece of land.
	The point is, the Israelites, or modern-day Jews, they abandoned that land for nearly 4,000 years.
	They did not take care of it.
	They did not farm it. They didn't build infrastructure.
	They weren't living there, except for a few sort of scattered people here and there.
	So their claim is null and void.
	By any legal measure, their claim is null and void.
	They abandoned it. Who was taking care of it?
	The Palestinians were.
	Sort of the indigenous people of the Middle East, the Native Americans of the Middle East, you might say.
	They were farming it.
	They had their families there.
	They had their religious practices there.
	They have their language.
	They built infrastructure generation after generation after generation for literally thousands of years.
	You don't just nullify that because you show up with a book, even if it's the Old Testament, and say, well, this book told me that God can command us to kill all of you and steal all your land.
	Sorry, that doesn't fly.
	And any person who believes that is an idiot, including Christian pastors who are pushing this.
	You're morons.
	Absolute morons.
	That's not what Christ taught.
	Just have a claim from 4,000 years ago, show up and start slaughtering and murdering women and children and take their land.
	That's the opposite of what Christ taught.
	It's an anti-Christ philosophy to push that.
	But a lot of Christian pastors are pushing that and they're Satanists.
	They're straight up Satanists. Now, but there's another even bigger reason why this claim to own Palestine is also fraudulent.
	And this is the ultimate kicker of it all right here.
	So God promised the land to the descendants of Abraham.
	So who are the descendants of Abraham?
	The Palestinians.
	The Palestinians and many other groups in that region, the Jordanians and in many cases the Syrians and some Egyptians and so on and some Iraqi citizens and some Kuwaiti citizens and some Turks and so on.
	Those are the offspring of Abraham.
	And indeed, they did inherit the land that God promised.
	Who are the Jews that came to Palestine in 1948?
	They were Europeans. They are not descendants of Abraham, for the most part.
	They are Europeans.
	Mostly white Europeans.
	So Netanyahu changed his name to sound Jewish and he's an imposter.
	He's an imposter who pretends to be Jewish Moved to Israel and then, like a Satanist, began to manipulate the Israeli people into thinking that he was their leader, but he's pushing anti-Christ philosophies the entire time.
	He's an imposter. So the people living in Israel today are mostly Europeans, not descendants of Abraham.
	Thus, the original promise of God, if you think that promise is still valid 4,000 years later, that promise has been fulfilled by the people of Palestine living there.
	Therefore, the European Jews still have no claim to their property because they're not largely descendants of Abraham.
	And then finally, there's even one more reason why the claim of modern-day Zionists is null and void.
	Think about it. God promised this land to the descendants of Abraham as part of a covenant.
	And if you haven't read the books of the Old Testament, it's worth doing so.
	I know they're long, really long, and sometimes the family tree stuff gets crazy boring.
	But if you go through and if you read Leviticus, Exodus, and Numbers, and Deuteronomy, And, of course, Genesis.
	If you read the first five books of the Old Testament, one thing becomes very clear.
	The ancient Israelites, the Jews of their time, they broke their covenant with God.
	They broke it so many times that God would do things like unleash giant fireballs to kill hundreds of them alive while they were burning incense outside his tabernacle.
	Seriously. There's one scene as part of the journey where God is trying his best to lead the evil, wicked Israelites to the Promised Land, and all they did was complain and whine.
	There's one point where he's very angry with them, and Moses says, well, what shall we do, God?
	And God says, well, get like 250 of them to burn incense in front of the tabernacle.
	And so Moses goes out and recruits 250 of these just wicked, evil people who are the ancient Israelites, gets them to burn incense in front of the tabernacle, and God unleashes a giant wall of fire and burns them all alive.
	And then he opens up the earth and swallows more people alive and closes the earth over them.
	And Moses is like, whoa, whoa.
	I guess he's mad. Yeah, I wonder.
	I wonder why he's mad. Because the Israelites, they repeatedly broke the covenant with God.
	See, the story of the Old Testament is essentially God trying to nurture this one civilization, the ancient Israelites, the ancient Hebrews, trying to nurture them into some kind of civilized society.
	And so he gives them all these rules, kosher food rules and circumcision and tells them like...
	Stop having anal sex with each other.
	No more sodomy.
	Don't worship all these false idols.
	And only worship me.
	I'm the one true God.
	And then he gave Moses the Ten Commandments.
	Stop killing each other.
	Stop fornicating everywhere.
	Stop being wicked and evil.
	Stop being driven by greed and selfishness and covetousness and so on.
	He gives these rules over and over again.
	And then in the New Testament, of course, the same or many of the same philosophies are repeated, but in a different context.
	Nevertheless, the Old Testament was God trying to take these evil, wicked people, the ancient Israelites, and make them civilized.
	They try to make them into good people.
	And it failed.
	It failed.
	They repeatedly turned against God.
	They broke the covenant over and over and over again.
	And in those first five books, what does God say?
	He says, this is the covenant.
	This is the agreement from God to the ancient Israelites.
	He says, look, and obviously I'm paraphrasing.
	He says, if you will follow my laws, I will bless you with incredible abundance.
	You'll have the fountains of living waters.
	You'll have all the grapevines and the figs and the pomegranates.
	You'll have all this land. It will all be yours.
	You will have happiness. You will have joy.
	You will have families. And you will grow to so many numbers that we can't even count them.
	And you will be blessed.
	But, God says, if you turn against me, I will take it all away.
	I will take away everything from you.
	I will take away your spices, your cinnamon, he says.
	He specifically says, I'm going to take away your cinnamon.
	Because it was a very valuable spice in that day.
	It says, I'm going to take away everything from you.
	The water, the land, the fruits, the orchards, everything.
	And, of course, there are many instances in the Old Testament where God unleashes vengeance upon, like, Sodom and Gomorrah or the Pharaoh of Egypt to try to set his people free, the Israelites, to try to bring them to the promised land.
	But over and over again, the ancient Israelites, they turn against God.
	In that, they broke the covenant.
	They broke it so many times, you can't even keep track.
	They broke the covenant, which means that God's promise, if there was ever a promise to give them this land, that promise was nullified by the Israelites themselves.
	They broke the covenant with God.
	And that is why God tried something different.
	In the New Testament, God decided to send a portion of his own soul to animate a human person known as Jesus of Nazareth.
	To actually create the Son of God as Jesus.
	To come to earth and to live among the people.
	First person view, right?
	And to teach something different than the Old Testament God of wrath and vengeance and violence and let's burn everybody alive.
	Instead, Christ taught love, acceptance, forgiveness, coexistence, humility.
	These are the teachings of Christ that The Jewish tradition today still does not recognize.
	And the leaders of Israel absolutely do not recognize the existence of Christ or the teachings of Christ, which makes it doubly bizarre that Christian churches in America today will support Netanyahu, who is an anti-Christ demonic war criminal who won't even recognize the existence of Christ as a savior.
	What on earth are Christian churches doing advocating for that?
	They've become anti-Christ churches.
	But Christ was sent here to try something different.
	It's God saying, you know, okay, for roughly 2,000 to 3,000 years, I tried vengeance and wrath and burning people alive with fireballs and having flaming mountains falling out of the sky to destroy their wicked cities.
	I tried that. Didn't work.
	The ancient Israelites, still evil, wicked people.
	So let's try something new.
	let's try sending Christ to act in love and forgiveness.
	Christianity was supposed to be based on that.
	Love and forgiveness and coexistence and compassion doesn't mean that you can't defend your home.
	Obviously, if an invader comes to your home, breaks through your door, as Hamas did on October 7th to Israel.
	Yes, Israel on that day or days after had the right to kill those invaders.
	Absolutely.
	Just like you have the right to defend yourself against a home invasion.
	But if somebody invades your home and you kill them in self-defense, you don't then have the right to go march over to their neighborhood and burn down the whole neighborhood and kill all the women and children who are related to that person.
	That's what Israel is doing.
	They've gone way beyond self-defense.
	Now they're in vengeance mode.
	And they are carrying out genocide.
	And they're carrying it out, clearly, because they intend to eradicate the Palestinian people.
	And then to steal their land because they claim that God gave them the right to do so.
	So this is an evil, wicked agenda being pushed by the Zionists, and the fact that they're citing God as justification makes it purely satanic and evil.
	And the fact that Christian churches are endorsing this and supporting it reveals that those so-called Christian churches are anti-Christ hubs for Satan because they refuse to teach the Word of Christ.
	And what his disciples taught, which was peace.
	It was find a way to get along with other human beings.
	And importantly, what Christ and his, well, apostles slash disciples, what they taught was that Christianity and the principles of Christianity, love and forgiveness, apply to everybody, the Gentiles, not just the Jews, the But to everybody, including in Colossians, well, I call it Colossians, even include the barbarians.
	Paul's letter to Colossae said that the teachings of Christ, we have to reach out to even the barbarians.
	And to uplift them with the word of Christ and the teachings of Christ, the teachings of love and forgiveness and acceptance and morality and all of these things that even modern-day Judaism will not teach because it's rooted in a history of vengeance and violence, the wrath of God, and utterly decimating your so-called enemies, genocide, ethnic cleansing.
	That's what Israel is focused on today.
	That's what drives Israel's policies today.
	And that is so anti-Christian.
	It is anti-Christ.
	It's anti-God. But that's what passes for, I don't know, diplomacy today.
	It's completely insane. So to summarize...
	There are numerous reasons why this modern day Zionist claim to the land of Palestine is absurd.
	Number one, no court would recognize it anywhere in the world just because your book says God gave you that land doesn't count.
	Secondly, it's been 4,000 years for God's sake.
	You didn't put a no trespassing sign on the land.
	You didn't take care of the land. You did nothing.
	You showed up 4,000 years later nearly and then you claim it's yours?
	Well, what about the people who've been living there?
	For generations and centuries.
	What about those people? Oh, you're just going to kill them?
	Sorry, doesn't fly.
	Thirdly, the modern day Israelites are Europeans, not descendants of Abraham for the most part.
	The real Abrahamic people are the Palestinians, which means that if God promised it to the descendants of Abraham, then Palestinians living there fulfills God's promise, doesn't it?
	And then finally, the last point, as I just mentioned, is that the ancient Israelites were so wicked, they broke the covenant with God again and again.
	God essentially gave up on them.
	He couldn't turn them into honorable people.
	They were so wicked, so vile, so greedy, so selfish.
	They were so just evil and satanic that God had to try something different.
	Hence, Christ and the New Testament, which Judaism refuses to recognize.
	So, even God gave up on these people being so evil.
	God gave up on Netanyahu long ago.
	Netanyahu is run by Satan.
	The leaders of Israel today are Luciferians.
	It's a satanic death cult.
	They have nothing to do with God.
	They will invoke the name of God as a cover story for their evil.
	Because, of course, Satan and his serpents will try to deceive you into thinking that they don't exist or that they represent God.
	They are false prophets.
	Jesus and his disciples warned about false prophets.
	And the Christian churches in America that are pushing all this nonsense, they are also anti-Christ institutions.
	They are satanic.
	They answer to Lucifer.
	And yet they pretend to be temples of Christ.
	They are not. Christ would disavow them if he were to return today.
	He would disavow them for their violence, for their murder, for their slaughter, for their disobedience to his teachings.
	No question about it. It's all written in the Bible, Old Testament and New Testament, which I have been teaching a lot lately.
	I've recorded now, I think it's 36 sermons from the Bible, both books, Old and New Testament, well, collections of books.
	And what I'm telling you here is written in black and white.
	It's incredibly clear.
	There is no doubt that The only way that people are fooled is that they don't read scripture.
	If you read it, you can't help but see what I'm explaining here.
	But a lot of so-called Christian pastors are, of course, demons.
	They are satanic, like the Pope of the Vatican, right?
	He is a satanic entity who has infested the body of the Pope and has been trying to run the Catholic Church.
	As a Satan-worshiping entity that, you know, traffics children and sodomizes children all over the world and is now pushing for the migrant invasion of Western Europe, which is going to result in the mass burning of Christian churches all across Europe.
	Another church just burned up in France the other day.
	Western Europe is going to be completely overrun by Islam.
	And the Pope, oh, that makes him very happy because he is, of course, a satanic antichrist entity.
	He's got nothing to do with Christ.
	The Pope is a demon.
	And if Christ were here now, he would say so.
	In fact, Christ would cast out the demons from the Pope and all the criminals at the Vatican.
	Now, I'm not saying that all Catholics are Satanists, not at all.
	I'm talking about at the top.
	Same thing with Israel.
	The demons are the people at the top.
	In fact, most Jews around the world oppose what Israel is doing today.
	And there's an effort underway right now to arrest, to get Netanyahu out of office and arrest him and charge him for the crimes he has committed because he's so evil.
	So understand, Jewish people around the world, they oppose what Israel is doing in Palestine.
	And Catholic people around the world, they oppose what this woke pope has become.
	It's the leaders of these, well, countries or institutions that have been infested with demons and have turned against Christ and turned against God because Satan is making his move right now.
	Satan is moving to take over this world, and he's doing it by taking over the institution of the church.
	As well as government and so-called science and medicine and education and pop culture and everything else.
	But have no illusions.
	Satan has taken over a lot of the mainstream churches.
	That's why you have churches that have just recently fallen.
	One of them, one of the pastors, had to admit to fondling a 12-year-old.
	It was years ago, granted, but...
	That is not a wise behavior for anyone associated with the church.
	The church is falling because it's been infested by demons.
	That's why. And if you read the New Testament, Christ and Paul and his letters to the Corinthians and so on and Timothy's letters over and over again reminded people, stop becoming evil.
	Remember that you only have wealth and blessings because of the grace of God.
	And only by following the teachings of Christ will you continue to be blessed.
	And if you reject Christ in your life, then you will be overtaken by evil.
	Your nations will be overtaken by evil.
	And then you will end up in famine and war and pestilence and economic collapse.
	And guess what?
	Guess where we are right now in the world?
	France, Germany, UK, much of Western Europe.
	What do they have? Famine is growing.
	Economic collapse is happening.
	Massive de-industrialization.
	40% of the industry has collapsed in Germany.
	Wars are happening in Ukraine and Russia.
	Wars in the Middle East.
	Famine is coming. Pestilence is coming.
	Why? Because the world has turned against God and the churches have largely turned against Christ.
	That's why I think it's so important that the new remnant, people like myself and others, to just step forward into this space to be authentic with the teaching of Christ.
	To literally teach what the Bible says.
	And not to promote war and promote big governments and promote the corruption of Rome and all of that.
	But to teach what Christ taught, to teach what Paul taught, to read his letters, study them, and then to walk in that path.
	And by the way, you're going to see a lot of new churches rise up.
	I know what's happening behind the scenes, okay?
	I'm not the only one launching a church.
	There is a new wave of real Christians who are launching churches, teaching the word of Christ, and doing it without compromise.
	And these are not mega churches.
	These are not going to be wealthy churches.
	These are not churches that you will ever see in luxury and private jets and giant church buildings and halls.
	These are humble, local, small churches, small congregations of people who just want to help each other.
	People who just want to grow food, raise children, have a happy family, have a happy life, help people get healthy, and help save human civilization from all the Satanists that are trying to destroy it.
	So you're going to see a lot of interesting things happen in the coming months and especially next year as well as Christ works through those of us who are willing to believe in him and to follow his teachings and to practice faith.
	Christ will work through us.
	And I say that humbly.
	I don't know all the plans that Christ has for my organization or my teachings.
	And when I first said, like, a couple months ago, I'm going to record 100 Bible sermons on food and nutrition and healing and God's molecules, honestly, some people told me I was crazy.
	It's like, what are you doing that for?
	It's a waste of time. No, it hasn't been a waste of time.
	I did it because I was called to do it.
	I was called to walk in faith, do 100 sermons in 100 days.
	I didn't know exactly why.
	Now it's becoming more and more clear.
	Those of us who are willing to humbly follow Christ, well, there are amazing things that we can do together for humanity.
	But humility is key.
	We are never going to be mega church pastors, mega wealthy, luxurious luxury cars and jets and boats and mansions.
	If you're interested in that, you're not following Christ anyway.
	You got the wrong track.
	This isn't about gathering wealth.
	It's about distributing resources to the people to help save humanity.
	The proper role of the church is to be a pillar of strength, sustainability, and redundancy for the local community.
	And to uplift people and bring more people to the teachings of Christ.
	Which is why we have to be open to followers of Islam.
	Hearing our words or followers of Buddhism or followers of Hinduism.
	Hearing our words.
	Jesus spoke about this.
	His disciples spoke about this.
	You have to branch out.
	You can't just say you're going to run around the world and kill everybody who's not a Christian or not a Jew.
	That doesn't win you friends, it turns out.
	When you start bombing and murdering all the families of an entire nation in the Middle East, you You're not going to be looked upon as a religious, spiritual leader by those people who had their children buried in concrete rubble because you bombed their hospitals and you bombed their residential buildings and you bombed their universities and schools.
	Yeah, they're not going to look upon you as friendly or even godlike, obviously.
	So if you want to succeed in the teachings of Christ's Then go out into the world with a sense of basic human dignity, for starters.
	Stop murdering everybody with whom you disagree.
	Stop stealing their land.
	Stop bombing their children to death.
	But Israel will never understand this.
	Because the Zionists rule Israel right now, and the Zionists are Satanists.
	They are anti-Christ by definition.
	They do not recognize Christ.
	They do not recognize his teachings.
	And of course, they do not follow his teachings.
	They do the opposite.
	They are all about wrath and murder and destruction and suffering and death.
	And that's why Israel, by the way, had the highest vaccine compliance of any nation in the world, I believe.
	They were pushing the death jabs on their own people.
	So the Zionists that run Israel, they're not afraid to murder their own Jews.
	Right? Not to mention murdering non-Jews that happen to be near them as well.
	Think about that. What kind of morality does a nation have that murders its own people with a biological weapon and then bombs its neighbors to death, killing women and children by the tens of thousands?
	Is that God-like?
	Is that Christ-like? No, of course not.
	And any Christian pastor in America or anywhere in the world, in the UK, in Australia, in Canada, any Christian pastor that endorses that behavior by Israel, you have turned against Christ.
	You have turned against God.
	You are wicked.
	You are evil. You are called out in the scripture itself.
	You are exactly the kind of person that God warned about, that Christ warned about.
	You've turned wicked and evil.
	Now, Can you repent?
	Can you turn against your wicked ways and come back to Christ?
	Yes! Yes, Christ gives you that opportunity.
	He died for your sins.
	He died to wash away your slate of wickedness.
	You can come back to Christ.
	But in order to do that, you have to denounce the Zionism violence, genocide, ethnic cleansing, and mass murder of other people.
	That's the only way you can come back to Christ.
	If you want to save your soul, there's a pathway to do it.
	Thank God that His Son, Jesus, gave you an opportunity to do that, but you still have to take the opportunity.
	So, look, the choice, it's a spiritual choice for every person.
	You can be on the side of Satan and evil and death and destruction and suffering.
	That would make you pro-Netanyahu.
	That would put you in the seat.
	Of supporting Israel's genocide.
	Or, instead, you can choose salvation, you can choose peace, you can choose de-escalation, you can choose love, and forgiveness, and acceptance, coexistence, all these things that Christ taught.
	But a lot of Christian pastors in America today, apparently, they've deleted the entire New Testament.
	They might as well just rip it out of their Bibles because they don't believe it anyway.
	Like everything from Christ forward, they should probably just, frankly, given that they're such Satanists, I wouldn't be surprised if some of them set that section of the Bible on fire because they're walking with demonic entities.
	They would probably burn their Bibles.
	I mean, that's what they are.
	Demons pretending to be pastors.
	And Christ would call them out in an instant.
	And God will call them out one day if they don't turn against their wicked ways.
	So think about this, folks.
	As Michael Jan says, big boy rules apply now.
	Big boy rules. You're going to leave this earth one day.
	You're going to be judged for what you endorsed versus what you called out.
	And if you're not on the right side of God and humanity and peace and love...
	Your soul will suffer for eternity.
	You will leave scars upon your soul that can never be healed.
	And yet there is an opportunity right now to correct that record, to denounce the violence by the Zionists in the Middle East, and to get on the side of Christ and God.
	You can do it now.
	It only takes an instant.
	You can ask for forgiveness.
	You can repent against your sins.
	You can call for peace.
	And there's no better time to do it than the present.
	So do you want to be saved?
	There's a pathway to do it.
	Or if you want to be cursed for eternity, just follow what the U.S. State Department tells you to do, or follow what Netanyahu tells you to do, and they'll gladly drag you to hell.
	If you follow those warmongering lunatics to hell, God has no mercy on you.
	Because you've chosen the path.
	Think about it.
	And thank you for listening today.
	I'm Mike Adams of abundance.church and I normally teach about food, nutrition, superfoods, and essential oils of the Bible.
	Those are my normal topics.
	I'm not actually focused on geopolitics much at all.
	But I had to speak out against this genocide that's being done in the name of God, which is blasphemy.
	And so I'm on the record speaking out against it and calling for people to come to Christ and to embrace peace and to embrace the Gentiles, people of all other religions and belief systems.
	We must treat them with dignity as they are all God's children.
	If you live your life seething with hatred toward those who practice Islam, then you are not walking in the path of Christ.
	You're walking in the footsteps of Satan.
	Christ said, embrace all human beings as God's children and teach Christ to everyone who's willing to listen.
	And those who aren't willing to listen, still, still treat them with respect and with understanding.
	And maybe one day they will come to Christ and they will learn Christ's teachings.
	That's the way you do it.
	You don't bomb them, you teach them.
	Thank you for listening today. God bless you all.
	I'm Mike Adams. Take care.
	Okay, now, changing topics yet again.
	Apparently there was a school shooting in Georgia.
	Happened yesterday. And it looks like, from the information that we're told so far, four people were killed.
	Two staffers, school staffers, I think they were teachers, and two students.
	And then... The shooter, who is in custody, is reported to be 14 years old.
	This was at the Appalachee High School, and AWR Hawkins is reporting that the FBI was made aware of this shooter in 2023 while investigating the source of online threats.
	So the FBI, this is according to Fox 10 Phoenix, I don't know why Phoenix is reporting on this in Atlanta, but it says the FBI had a joint statement with the Jackson County Sheriff's Office revealed that Gray, apparently that's the name of the shooter, was on law enforcement's radar more than a year before Wednesday's school shooting.
	The FBI's National Threat Operations Center received anonymous tips about online threats to commit a school shooting and And then law enforcement then interviewed this 13-year-old Colt Gray.
	That's his name. He was 13 at the time.
	And then he denied making the threats.
	Let's see. His father was interviewed.
	The father stated he had hunting guns in the house, but that his son did not have unsupervised access to them.
	And then it says law enforcement, there was no probable cause for arrest or to take any additional law enforcement action.
	And then now it's confirmed that this young man, now 14 years old, he has been charged in the murder of two students and two teachers at the Appalachee High School.
	And there have been various reports of a number of injuries.
	But I want to point out that, of course, the White House is immediately calling for a complete ban on all AR-15s.
	You know, restrictions on handguns, more red flag laws, and so on and so forth.
	Well, this kid was 14, right?
	You do realize you can't buy any guns at 14.
	In some states, you can buy rifles when you're 18.
	But I'm pretty sure you can't buy a pistol until you're 21, almost everywhere, maybe nationwide.
	And even then, you have to go through the FFL, you know, the Form 4.
	You have to pass the instant...
	Background check system, which is run by the FBI. So if they had flagged this kid, I mean, first of all, you couldn't even buy a gun at a gun shop.
	If you walk in and you're 14 years old and you say, I want to buy a gun, you know, the gun shop owner is going to say, get lost, kid.
	You know, come back when you're 21.
	There's no gun shop owner or employee that's going to sell a gun to a 14-year-old.
	Guaranteed. Never happened in America.
	He must have acquired this gun some other way, possibly from his father, maybe from somebody else, maybe from a friend.
	I don't know. Maybe we'll find that out.
	But he did not buy this at a gun shop.
	So all the gun control laws would not even apply to this situation because he didn't buy a gun.
	He did not buy this gun.
	No way. And again, he's only 14.
	So, you know, when you buy a gun, you have to show your ID. And your concealed carry.
	Like, when I purchased a firearm, you know, of course I have a concealed carry, so I show my concealed carry and I show my driver's license.
	And then, yeah, here you go.
	You know, they fill it in.
	It's in the form, you know, keep records.
	Because I've passed all the background checks and everything, you know, because I have concealed carry and I've got some suppressors and whatever, you know, all went through the ATF, you know, all got the tax stamps and everything, got all the permission, all that stuff.
	So it's all on the up and up because I don't do illegal weapons, obviously.
	But even if you tried to at age 14, nobody would sell you one.
	So these gun laws, they would not make any difference whatsoever.
	Would not have prevented this shooting.
	I'm curious what the motive was in the mind of this shooter.
	What did he think that he was...
	Like, why was he mad at these teachers and these students?
	That's a question.
	Was the kid maybe...
	Was he bullied? No.
	Was he made into a psycho-transgender?
	Because we've seen those shootings.
	Was he on psychiatric drugs?
	Was he a demon-worshiping, like, cat mutilator type of person?
	Because we've seen those in the past.
	The kids that like to torture small animals and things.
	Yeah. They're demonic, possessed shooters.
	And sometimes they're more than one of those.
	Sometimes they're on-site drugs and they're demon-possessed.
	And they're maybe transgender on top of that.
	Yeah. Those people can snap.
	And we've seen that time and time again.
	So... I don't know what the real story is behind this yet, but it's kind of early in the investigation, and I imagine we will hear more in the days ahead.
	I do want to offer prayers for the families of the victims of that shooting, and I want to reiterate, this is why we need armed defensive personnel in the public schools.
	You want to keep the students safe?
	You do that by putting firearms into the hands of responsible, mature adults who have appropriate training and who have passed appropriate background checks.
	And guess what? There are hundreds of thousands of retired veterans all across America who would be happy to volunteer to run security in public schools to help keep children safe.
	You wouldn't even have to pay them.
	It's just that these liberal cities and liberal counties and liberal states, they don't want the children protected.
	It's like they actually want school shootings because it gives them an excuse to try to ban guns.
	And, of course, we're always suspicious when things like this start happening close to the election.
	Like, you know, whoa, was this kid, like, put up to this?
	Did somebody, you know, was he MKUltrad?
	Was he incentivized?
	Was somebody controlling him, influencing him, brainwashing him?
	You know, how was this kid possibly manipulated?
	I don't know the answers yet.
	These are just possibilities.
	But I guess we'll learn more in the days ahead.
	But just prayers for all those who...
	Who lost loved ones.
	It is a tragedy.
	And again, the best way to stop this tragedy is to have armed personnel in the schools who can stop the shooters.
	Oh, I should add, by the way, in fact, this shooter was stopped by an armed SRO, which is a school resource officer.
	So this is being reported by AWR Hawkins.
	Let's see. The shooter was armed and our school resource officer engaged him, and the shooter quickly realized that if he did not give up, that it would end with an officer-involved shooting.
	He said the shooter gave up, got on the ground, and the deputy took him into custody.
	So here we go.
	This shooting might have been 20 or 30 dead, if not for the SRO, the armed officer, who engaged the shooter.
	And made him stop.
	And also took him alive, which is no small thing.
	That's the hardest part of all.
	Take one of the shooters alive.
	Wow. I'm impressed.
	So lives were saved by a man with a gun who used it to stop the violence of a boy with a gun.
	Okay, that's the true story of what just happened.
	So does this mean that we should let the government take away our guns?
	No, of course not. Then we'll all be victimized by psycho shooters and no way to defend ourselves.
	That's not okay.
	We obviously need to be able to defend ourselves and our children.
	But I do have to call out the hypocrisy in all of this, of course.
	Here we have the White House saying, oh, we have to take away all guns from all Americans because four people were shot in this school.
	But then when you point out, what about the 40,000 civilians that have been killed by U.S.-provided weapons to Israel and the bombing of Gaza?
	Should we take away those weapons from Israel?
	No. And what will the White House say?
	Oh, no, no, no, you can't take away that.
	Israel has the right of self-defense, they say.
	But you see, they don't believe that you have the right of self-defense.
	They want to take away your weapons over four people being shot.
	They won't take away Israel's weapons over 40,000 people being bombed and killed.
	Think about that.
	Yeah, seriously. Four versus 40,000.
	But the White House won't take away the weapons from Israel, of course.
	You know, mostly because of AIPAC, which brings us back to Farah and the foreign agent reporting.
	See, it all comes full circle, doesn't it?
	Okay, we're going to jump into the interview now with Colonel Douglas McGregor.
	I recorded it two days ago, saved it for you today.
	It's hard hitting.
	I got a lot of positive feedback on my interview with Andy Sheckman yesterday.
	Thank you for that feedback.
	I agree.
	That was just one of the best interviews that he's ever done.
	Very hard hitting.
	If you missed that, go back to yesterday's podcast or the interview and listen to my interview with Andy Sheckman.
	Really important information about global de-dollarization, BRICS currencies, all of that.
	Today, this interview is just as important.
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	I asked him about Israel and Palestine and Hamas.
	I asked him about Ukraine and Russia.
	I asked him about BRICS, nations, elections, and so much more.
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	Colonel Douglas McGregor is someone to be listened to.
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	He's extremely well-informed, well-read.
	He has studied war, especially the European theater, I believe, Russia-German relations.
	He knows the history of war in Europe going back centuries, and he was also a U.S. Army colonel.
	I think he was involved in tank battalions or something.
	I don't know the right terms, but he was involved in tank combat, as I understand it, anyway.
	Hope I didn't get that wrong.
	Don't mean any disrespect if I did, but watch this interview.
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	Thank you for listening. Welcome to today's interview on Brighteon.com.
	I'm Mike Adams, the founder of Brighteon, and today we're joined by a very important guest, someone who has, I believe, incredible insights into world events, and if more people would listen to his words, I think that we would be a safer world by far.
	His name is, well, retired Colonel Douglas McGregor, and he's the CEO of OurCountryOurChoice.com.
	We'll talk about that coming up, but welcome, Colonel McGregor.
	It's an honor to have you on the show, sir.
	Hey, happy to be here. Well, you are a prolific analyst these days, and I've followed a lot of your videos.
	You are really up to speed, so let me just start out with breaking news.
	The nation of Turkey, a NATO member, I'm saying that for our viewers, I know that you're aware of that, of course, but a NATO member is now saying that they wish to join BRICS, which is the Russia, China, Brazil, Iran currency settlement Brazil, Iran currency settlement system.
	In your view, Colonel, what do you believe are the ramifications of this announcement?
	Well, it depends on your perspective in Washington.
	I'm sure Washington will view this in almost exclusively negative terms.
	Your audience needs to understand that Brazil, Russia, India, China, Saudi Arabia, Got together and formed this, not necessarily an alliance, but a partnership with a strong economic content and a desire to ultimately build over time an alternative to the U.S.-dominated global financial system.
	Most Americans don't understand how we've operated since the end of the Second World War.
	We built a system that obviously was favorable to ourselves, which is not surprising and didn't bother anyone at the time because we were viewed as inherently positive as a force and an influence in the world.
	But it's taken the last 60 to 70 years to convince people that that's not really the case.
	We certainly damaged ourselves in Vietnam.
	I don't see how you couldn't killing two million Vietnamese and turning the country into ruins.
	We then moved from that away from those policies of intervention and nation-building, and we recovered somewhat.
	But of course, that was largely thrown away after the 1991 Desert Storm campaign.
	We got back in the business of directly involving ourselves using military power as well as financial power.
	And the way we use financial power is very straightforward.
	If you want a loan from the World Bank, we want you to adopt these policies.
	If you want to grow this crop, we'll have to approve it because we think you should grow a different crop.
	In other words, we were very, very intimately involved in the way economies were developed, particularly in the developing world.
	So over time, we became, in the eyes of people in the developing world, another version of their colonial masters.
	And that's why you've seen us recently tossed out of Africa, We've been tossed out of many places, although we don't give it much coverage in the media.
	And I think that's only going to pick up and worsen now because we're seen today as a catalyst for conflict.
	Wherever we go, we promote violence.
	We cultivate hostility as opposed to having been seen 80 years ago as this inherently positive force that wanted people to live free and independently on their own.
	I mean, even Harry Truman Who today would not recognize the Democratic Party used to say, quite frankly, we don't care what the Soviet Union does or how they govern themselves.
	That's their affair. We would just prefer that they not be aggressive towards their neighbors.
	And I think that was the general view of almost everyone in the United States in the 50s and early 60s.
	And then we took a turn for the worst, in my judgment, and began thinking that We could reshape the world in our image.
	And that's got us into a lot of trouble.
	I think your description is very accurate there.
	And I believe that most Americans still suffer under the illusion that the United States military can project absolute military dominance or kinetic dominance all over the world.
	But I was just reading yesterday That Iran has introduced five new aircraft domestically produced, one of which is a stealth fighter, and of course Turkey is a global leader in unmanned aircraft and fighter jets and drones that it exports all over the world, many of which are far more sophisticated than what the US is producing.
	What are your thoughts?
	Is there this lagging effect among maybe Americans who aren't aware that Turkey and that Iran and other countries, Russia in particular, have really made these incredible leaps in military technology that have surpassed our own capabilities in certain cases?
	Well, in some cases, I still think we hold a comfortable lead in the aerospace industries.
	In almost every other area, we are somewhat competitive, but not as competitive as we used to be.
	If we go back to this idea of BRICS and you look at Turkey, Turkey is, I would describe, the 500-pound gorilla in the room in the Middle East.
	The Turks effectively dominated the region for at least 500 years, and they have a very martial culture.
	There are people who are very proud of their past, but they are not necessarily inclined to dislike us or fight with us.
	And I would argue that you have something similar in Iran.
	Iranians have a much less martial outlook.
	I don't think the Iranian people as a whole are even remotely martial in their orientation towards military power.
	Absolutely not.
	Have very small ground forces, couldn't move into any neighboring country and have much impact if it was a purely military enterprise.
	They are influential politically and economically, and that's where they have invested heavily.
	But most of their weaponry is purely defensive.
	The Turks, on the other hand, could put two million men into the field in the space of 30 to 45 days.
	Wow. And they're very ferocious fighters.
	And right now, our problems in the region stem almost exclusively from our unconditional support of Israel.
	And we have to remember that for many, many decades, presidents of the United States have supported Israel, but they have also set limits to what they would permit the various prime ministers of the Israeli state to do.
	Because we have interests in the region.
	We want, or have wanted in the past, good relations with the Saudis, close relations with Turkey, We've ended up in this unfortunate no-win situation with Iran and Syria and now increasingly in Iraq because we've built enemies in places where none existed previously.
	And again, much of this is attributable to our interventionism, but it's also attributable to our more recent unconditional support of whatever the Israelis want.
	The Israelis in 1956 during the Suez Crisis Actually joined the British and the French, who intervened to put an end to the NASA regime.
	It didn't work out that way, and General Eisenhower, who was president at the time, pulled them out and told the Israelis to get out of the Sinai.
	So they fell back behind their current borders.
	Subsequently, we had presidents like Kennedy and Johnson, ultimately Nixon, who supported them, but also set limits, ordering them not to cross the Suez Canal, the Nile River, To get out of Egypt in a hope of building some sort of peaceful negotiating system with Israel's neighbors.
	What we have today that we've never had before is a president who sets no limits.
	A president and an administration that has said, not only do we unconditionally support Israel, we're going to do whatever Israel wants.
	And we're going to commit the use of our armed forces In pursuit of whatever Israel's goals are.
	This is a huge departure from past practice.
	Fundamentally diverges from anything we've done in the past.
	I don't think most Americans understand that.
	So the Turks are watching this, and the Turks who've always tried or thought they would like to be members of the European Union have given up on that.
	They've come to the realization that they are Muslim Turks.
	They will never be Europeans.
	And so they said, fine, then we are going to become part of the Muslim world.
	But we still want good relations with our neighbors.
	And the Turks have generally managed that.
	They have always had a partially tense relationship with Iran.
	They actually were fighting with the Iranians back before World War I. I think it's important to understand that now the Turks have largely given up on us because Turkish public opinion is ferociously anti-Israeli.
	They do not approve of the mass murder expulsion policies in Gaza.
	They don't approve of what is happening now with Hezbollah.
	They certainly are sitting by watching with great concern what may happen with Iran in a regional war.
	The Turks didn't want us to go into Iraq in 2003, and we ignored them.
	That's true. I'm sorry to interrupt, but I wanted to add that isn't some of the Turks' grievance with Israel, a lot of that is also being transferred to the United States.
	There was a video recently, you may have seen a couple of US sailors that appeared to be somewhat beaten or physically assaulted in Turkey when they were on shore.
	But a more important question is, what about Turkey's NATO status?
	Because It seems to me right now they're leveraging their NATO status in order to achieve a lot of exports of their drones and other technologies, so it's important for their economy.
	But long term, you know, the West doesn't get along with Turkey.
	As you just mentioned, Turkey was never allowed to join the EU, and now that they're joining BRICS or intending to, this seems to be exacerbating the separation.
	What are your thoughts? No, I think you're right.
	It's inevitable at this point because our relations with Turkey have been severely damaged.
	We've asked them to go along with policies that are antithetical to their interests.
	And they are not at all supportive of what the Israelis are doing.
	If you go back 20 years, they took a very different position vis-a-vis Israel.
	And Erdogan, the president of Turkey, despite his public rhetoric, has been very reluctant to stop trade with Israel.
	It's only quite recently that they imposed sanctions on about 54 different items that the Turks produce that the Israelis buy.
	But they still allow oil and natural gas to flow into Israel through Azerbaijan, down out of the Caucasus, through their borders.
	I don't know if that's going to continue much longer.
	The Turks have fought at least 60 to 70 major wars against the Russians.
	Over the last three, four hundred years.
	So there's no love lost there.
	But the Turks want to get along with the Russians.
	And the Russians want to get along with the Turks.
	They've managed to patch up some of their differences and cooperate.
	The Turks have been able to compromise with the Russians on issues.
	We don't compromise.
	It's our way or the highway.
	And this attitude has simply convinced most of the world to bail out on us.
	You're looking at about 84 countries who want to join BRICS. If you add up the numbers, I think there are 131, 132 nations on our planet.
	And you add the five or six, you're up over 90, 95 countries who will join BRICS, an alternative trade system, economic system with, as you point out, new monetary system potentially.
	This is horrendous.
	This leaves the United States and North America with most of Europe and probably Australia and New Zealand on our own.
	This is not a good thing for us.
	This reflects the bad policies and the bad decisions we've made for many years.
	It's just that within the last few years, it's gotten completely out of control.
	Yes. Okay. Our country, our choice, most of the people there are dissatisfied with the outcomes of many elections, where people voted for one or the other party, never saw evidence for real fundamental change that they wanted, either in domestic or foreign policy.
	And so we're trying to unify people across party lines.
	We're trying to organize around issues that we can agree on.
	We talk a lot about what we don't agree on.
	We don't often point out that most Americans, most of the time, for instance, in fact overwhelmingly, would like the borders to be secure.
	They would like to see the criminality in the country systematically reduced.
	They'd like to see more effective policing.
	They would like to see judges and courts stop putting policemen in jail and begin to jail criminals.
	They would like to see an end to this massive invasion of millions of people into our country about whom we know absolutely nothing that we cannot possibly assimilate, especially at a point in time where our economy is losing steam and we can't employ them.
	And finally, we want people to become concerned about electoral integrity, straighten out the electoral process once and for all, stop the sexualization of our children.
	These are the things that we can unite around.
	And then, of course, end these endless open-ended military commitments overseas that have cost us trillions and trillions of dollars, tens of thousands of lives, American lives are being destroyed.
	We talk about those who were killed.
	We're wounded. We never talk about the terrible casualties that we have in our ranks.
	We don't talk about the suicides that continue day after day among people who served in the armed forces.
	In general, I think we want real fundamental change.
	We want a new direction. And that's what we're about.
	I think everything that you mentioned, Colonel, is right on track.
	And this has been really brought home in Aurora, Colorado, where we have illegals now that have taken over, I believe, it's reported two residential apartment buildings.
	And there was also, reportedly, in Chicago, a building was taken over by illegals.
	I mean, people like myself and some of my guests that I've interviewed have long called this an invasion.
	But we were accused of hyperbole.
	Seems like now it's looking a lot like an invasion when you have illegals crossing the border, taking over your residential buildings.
	How do you not call that an invasion?
	No, it definitely is an invasion.
	And if you look at the policies this government has embraced, they're fundamentally anti-American in content.
	You don't tear down national monuments.
	You don't degrade national holidays.
	You don't attack the historical record and try to revise it and make it into something it isn't, unless you want to fundamentally destroy the country.
	And I get the impression that there are people in Georgia and Washington who see the destruction of everything as somehow or another a precondition to the emergence of a better America.
	And of course, this divides us.
	I mean, you look at CRT, This thing called diversity, equity, and inclusion.
	All of this is fundamentally anti-white.
	A lot of it's anti-Christian.
	And this divides people.
	This makes matters much worse.
	That's one of the reasons that they're having so much trouble recruiting for the armed forces.
	Why would the average American male want to join this organization under any circumstances?
	We're in a lot of trouble, Mike.
	Yeah. Well, clearly we are. And I would add that the university system is also anti-Asian.
	And they routinely discriminate against Asians now.
	Well, they discriminate against anybody who's talented and capable.
	You know, we've lost sight of the criticality of rewarding people on the basis of their performance.
	You know, in the military, we used to talk about character, competence, intelligence.
	Now we talk about the racial makeup, the sexual preferences.
	And the more perverse or strange the preferences are, the more they seem to like people.
	None of this makes any sense.
	This goes back to this issue of sexualization of children in school.
	You know, it comes very close to the kind of thing that happened in 1918, 1919, and 1920 in Russia when Russia fell into the hands of the Bolsheviks.
	Bolshevization was a process that was designed to change everything.
	They set out to destroy the family.
	You know, living with someone, being married to someone, all of that became irrelevant.
	The women at the time, who were among the most radical in the Communist Party, talked about sexual relations as no different from any other physical action to include urination or defecation.
	I mean, this is the sort of underlying badness that we're dealing with, and it needs to stop because we know it has never worked.
	We have a long record of tragedy and misfortune that began with that revolution in 1918, and it continued until the early 90s.
	And the strange thing is that we obviously in the West did play a role in ending it, but the people that were now so anxious to destroy in Russia were the ones that walked away from it and wanted nothing to do with it.
	And yet, for some reason, suddenly, they're being made into an enemy.
	It doesn't make any sense.
	I'm glad you brought up Russia because I wanted to ask for your assessment also of what's happening with the conflict with Ukraine.
	Of course, one F-16 reported lost already.
	We knew it wasn't going to be a wonder weapon that would change everything overnight.
	Nothing is.
	But with your significant experience as a U.S. Army colonel, you know all about the battlefield.
	What's the situation right now?
	Well, I did study Soviet-German relations, and that's where most of my graduate time was spent.
	I would simply say the following.
	The war in Ukraine was lost at least 18 months ago.
	The Russians gained control of the territory that contained most of the Russians in Ukraine, because their original purpose in going in was twofold.
	Number one, We're going to go in and liberate the Russians who are there because Russians had been reduced to second and third class citizens in Ukraine.
	The Ukrainians were busy trying to turn them into Ukrainians, abolishing their language, their culture, their traditions, their church.
	So that was part of it.
	The other part was that we had built this enormous Ukrainian force, equipped it, poured a lot of money into it in terms of training and preparation to attack Russia.
	And indeed, when the Russians intervened, That was the plan.
	They had been shelling and attacking periodically the two provinces in the east since 2014 and killed at least 14,000 people in the interim, probably more.
	So when the Russians went in, it was to stop that violence and also to preempt what they saw as clearly a dangerous instrument that emerged in Ukraine that was directed at them.
	Their fear, of course, was that inevitably eastern Ukraine would be turned into a platform for missiles from the United States that would then threaten the Russian nuclear deterrent and Russia in general.
	That was exactly the NATO plan.
	There's no question. Absolutely.
	It still is, unfortunately. Yes, it still is.
	I mean, what about the recent permissions, I believe, from the State Department and the Pentagon saying that Ukraine can strike now deep into Russian territory using U.S. missiles?
	Mm-hmm. Well, imagine what would happen if the Russians or the Chinese or someone else were in Mexico and you saw them build a large Mexican force that was designed to attack us.
	What would we do?
	How would we respond? I rather think that we would begin turning large areas of Mexico into parking lots.
	The problem is Americans don't get a true picture of how this developed, what's really happening.
	If they did, it would all end tomorrow.
	And the mainstream media has adopted this narrative, fabricated by the CIA and MI6 in London, that says the opposite, that this is an unprovoked invasion, which of course is utter complete nonsense.
	We did everything we possibly could, certainly since 2014, some would argue earlier, to push the Russians into doing exactly what they did.
	And I think that people that did this completely misjudged the situation.
	They didn't understand the Russians.
	They didn't understand what they were doing.
	I mean, this is an area that probably has swallowed more lives and blood than almost anywhere else in the world over the last several centuries.
	And this is an area that's thousands of miles away from us, a place about which we know almost nothing.
	And the people there We're not the ones that necessarily chose this.
	In other words, the Ukrainian people didn't go to the polls and say, we want war.
	In fact, when they voted for Zelensky, they voted for him because he promised them peace.
	He promised them a new arrangement with Russia and an end to all of this.
	So this whole thing is a disaster.
	How is it, however, because I'm tuned in to alternative media, watching you and Judge Napolitano and so many other analysts, you know, the Duran and those guys that do a great job.
	How is Ukraine still functioning as a military and a government when we're told the losses are estimated 1,000 to 2,000 a day on many days?
	Germany has said no more equipment for Ukraine.
	The U.S. has sent most of the ammunition, the artillery ammunition that it had.
	It seems like the supporters of Ukraine are saying, well, we don't have any more equipment and maybe not any more money for you.
	And yet Ukraine has not fallen completely.
	It's lost a lot of territory, but it has not fallen.
	How is that still happening, and how long will that last in your view?
	You know, I don't like historical analogies when the distance between events is so great, but I think it's fair to say that Ukraine is in a position today similar to the Confederacy in the spring of 1865.
	And you'll recall that in desperation, Lee launched some offensive operations that had no chance of success.
	And suddenly the Union armies that had finally broken through the densely forested areas and crossed the appropriate rivers were now positioned to fall directly on Richmond and what was left of his army.
	I think that's what you had today.
	When we ask, how can they keep it up?
	I think they're keeping it up for two reasons.
	First of all, they're sitting on a pile of U.S. cash.
	Most of the leadership has put hundreds of millions of dollars into foreign banks, which I'm sure they will live on once the war ends and they try to flee.
	But also, the Russians have chosen not to advance as the Union armies did in the spring of 1865.
	They've chosen to wait because I think they were hopeful that there would be a negotiated settlement.
	I think it's pretty obvious now that that's not going to happen.
	So I would expect that something like that will occur now.
	We've been waiting for it.
	And President Putin, I know, is under enormous pressure to do it.
	And I think they will.
	I think over the next month or so, we're going to watch this regime fundamentally rooted out and destroyed in Kiev.
	The thing I hope they don't do, which is unfortunately what many people in Russia want them to do, is march all the way to the Polish border.
	I know Putin doesn't want to do that because he knows the people that live on the other side of the river are really Ukrainians.
	They don't want to be ruled by Russians and he doesn't want to rule them.
	So these are some of the reasons that the place persists, but it's an empty facade.
	And you're right. This is at the end of the war.
	And most of the casualties, the most horrendous casualties armies take, come after defeats when they're retreating and withdrawing.
	That's when the Germans lost more people in the last six months of the war than they did in the rest of the war.
	That seems hard to imagine, but it's true.
	Once you break, your front crumbles and your forces start to pull back and withdraw.
	That's when the heavy casualties occur, and that's happening in Ukraine right now.
	They're staying into Kursk, by the way, so everybody understands.
	The Ukrainians that are inside Russia that still remain are in little pockets of 3,000 to 4,000 each spread along a road.
	They're being annihilated, and they're caught.
	They can't get back into Ukraine because they're cut off.
	This is the worst of all circumstances.
	Unless they surrender, I expect most of them will be killed in short order over the next few days.
	It reminds me of a miniature version of the Soviets surrounding and forcing the surrender of Germany's 6th Army in World War II, right?
	But a much smaller version of that, but it's like, hey, you...
	They broke into Mother Russia, right?
	The mainland of Russia.
	Mostly, as I understand it, a rural area, not heavily populated.
	So, of course, they were able to proceed several kilometers into the country.
	But what are they thinking?
	To this day, aside from the nuclear power plant, what on earth are they trying to do?
	Just have a better negotiating position to say we have some of your land?
	I've heard this operation referred to in several circles in Europe as the quote-unquote Kavoli plan.
	So perhaps this General Kavoli, who is the Supreme Commander in Europe, is the author of this dumb idea.
	It's possible. Unfortunately, the Ukrainians have been doing most of the things we've told them to do, all of which were wrong, all of which have failed.
	And this was the worst of all possible decisions because they lost most of their best equipment and best troops.
	So there's not much left.
	And really, the ball is now in Putin's court.
	And I think they're going to march west.
	As I say, how far they go will depend heavily on somebody raising their hands in the west and saying, that's enough, let's end it.
	And it could end very quickly, but we have to do certain things.
	We have to suspend all military aid to Ukraine.
	We can certainly provide humanitarian aid, but through a third country.
	All U.S. personnel, military and civilian, have to get out.
	The Russians will not tolerate any of us or the British or other NATO forces in Ukraine.
	And then we have to accept the fact that the outcome of this war is that Ukraine will be neutral, which I think was always the right answer from the very beginning.
	Ukraine could have been a very wealthy, prosperous bridge between Russia and Europe.
	Instead, it's been turned into a large graveyard by people in Washington, London, and in Kiev.
	But Colonel, those steps that you mentioned that are necessary for some sort of peace accord or settlement to be reached, I cannot imagine, and I say this with respect, I'm not attacking you, but I can't imagine anyone in the State Department, in the Pentagon, in the Biden administration, but I can't imagine anyone in the State Department, in the Pentagon, in the Especially before the election.
	I can't imagine them admitting to any kind of defeat or even de-escalating in any significant way whatsoever.
	It's like the culture of Washington today, it's not compatible with negotiating peace.
	It's just not. Yeah, it's not rational.
	No. And we've lived at the center of the universe, our own universe for so long.
	It's hard for people to imagine a world in which we are one of several great powers.
	We like to think of ourselves as the only remaining superpower.
	It's all misleading.
	We certainly have tremendous advantages in some areas, but we suffer in many others.
	And right now, we haven't talked about it, but our social cohesion as a country is at an all-time low.
	You've got people in Washington who have been working for years to bring in as many people as they could Who are as fundamentally different from us in cultural terms, historical terms, linguistic, ethnic as possible, so that they could undermine our social cohesion.
	That seems to be working.
	I think we're at real risk as a major country today because we don't have the uniform confidence in our institutions and our way of life, in our values that we once had.
	So that's another problem.
	Let me shift gears just a little bit.
	There was news that Volkswagen is going to be shutting down its principal factories in Germany.
	We've seen massive deindustrialization following what I believe is the U.S. destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines.
	That's not the official explanation.
	The official explanation involves, I think, a fishing boat or something, but it's absurd.
	But Germany is suffering rapid deindustrialization as a result of loss of access to cheap energy via Gazprom of Russia.
	Where do you see this going, and are you surprised of this Volkswagen announcement?
	You know, I should say that I'm surprised at what the Germans have done to themselves.
	By following us blindly into this valley of death that we created for them and the Ukrainians.
	I think it will stop.
	But the first thing that has to happen is this current government needs to go away.
	And ultimately, at some point, I suspect someone will have to prosecute the people in charge for what they've done to the German nation.
	The second part is that you've got to get the alternative for Germany into power.
	And the alternative for Germany, like all of the center-right parties in Europe, anything that is anti-migrant, anything that is against the massive infiltration and invasion of Europe by millions of people from North Africa, the Middle East, and elsewhere is immediately tarnished as a Nazi.
	There's no respect any longer for the preservation of Western civilization.
	Anyone who stands up and says, We can't absorb these people.
	They don't want to be absorbed.
	They need to go home, is immediately attacked.
	Well, the AFD just won in local elections, I believe, a significant, what, 32 or 33 percent of the vote.
	That doesn't give them national power yet, but is that in process?
	Do you think there's a political revolution underway?
	Yes, I do.
	The Germans... Remember, have been on the national apology tour for 80 years, apologizing to everyone in sight for all the terrible evil things they did and for quote-unquote starting the Second World War.
	The truth is the Germans did not start the Second World War.
	Everything that happened in Germany was a reaction to communism, Bolshevism in Russia, the emergence of Stalin's Russia.
	And the fear of communism and the mass murder programs in the Soviet Union in the interwar years.
	The Germans, and they're not the only ones, virtually all the Europeans were horrified by it.
	But, you know, this is the phony narrative that was created that this happened exclusively in a vacuum, that Hitler woke up and decided to start a world war.
	No, he had help from somebody named Stalin.
	Without Stalin, there could not have been an invasion of Poland.
	Without Stalin, there could not have been an attack on the West.
	So that's all misleading and fundamentally wrong.
	The Germans need to put an end to the apology tour.
	Perhaps they will, because it's gotten them into this position they are now.
	They are now a nation living on the precipice of poverty and destruction.
	Absolutely. So I think the AFD will win some more elections.
	But right now, the fools in the CDU, the Christian Democratic Union, Have declined under any and all circumstances to cooperate with them, with the AFD. This is why, beyond Germany, however, as you know, the churches are burning in France.
	And in the UK, they're jailing people who protest the illegals.
	And in order to make room in the jails, as I understand it, they're releasing violent criminals onto the streets.
	So the UK government has basically decided to commit national suicide as well.
	Has Western Europe lost its ability to defend its culture, its borders, its language, its very existence?
	Well, I think that's the point, isn't it?
	That's where we started.
	There is a failure of character.
	People are afraid to stand up and dismiss out of hand all these ridiculous allegations about all the destruction that European states have wrought in the world.
	In fact, without the Europeans, without us, there is no green revolution.
	Without the Europeans and us, there is virtually no technology.
	Nothing on the scale of what exists today would exist without us.
	But instead, people apologize.
	And we've had universities populated with committed Marxists, communists, anarchists, call them what you will, who have been preaching this nonsense for decades.
	Surprise, surprise.
	The elites that are governing have imbibed all this nonsense.
	So this man, Stormer, the Prime Minister of Great Britain, seems to be determined to set up an Orwellian state that is designed to punish and suppress the English-speaking British peoples and raise up anything that is not British, anything that is not European, and exalt it.
	The only solution is to remove him.
	And I think at some point something like that is going to happen in Great Britain because the elites there have betrayed their people.
	And I would say that this is true across most countries of Western civilization.
	Canada, for example, Australia, New Zealand as well.
	The elites have betrayed their own people.
	At what point, I mean, you've studied and taught history.
	At what point are these tipping points reached in history where failed systems finally either collapse or are radically reformed in a way that makes them sustainable?
	Well, actually, I did not teach history.
	My background is in international relations and comparative political development.
	I usually have to say that.
	Sure, I read lots of books and I studied history because you can't study international relations without some understanding of political economy and economic development as well as history.
	That's right. I think the issue right now is that we have been on a long march into the land of what I call wishful thinking in pursuit of the unattainable.
	The country where everything is free Nothing costs anything.
	Everybody is a ward of the state, and they all live happily ever after.
	It's kind of post-modernism on a communist model.
	And I think people, wittingly or unwillingly, have fallen for that.
	All you have to do is go to the elections, and each time you have a major election, people are promising everybody everything for nothing.
	Well, it's failed.
	It can't work. And we are now reaping the harvest.
	And in the meantime, we have been told that we will improve and benefit from the influx of all these non-Europeans in great numbers.
	They will expand and improve our society and our cultures.
	They haven't. They won't.
	And we need to come to terms with that reality and defend what we have.
	We've always had people inside our societies who were different.
	That's not an issue, but those people came in small numbers, and they adopted our value orientation and our way of life.
	That's true in Great Britain.
	It's true all over the continent.
	That's not what we're getting now.
	The invasion is exactly what you said it is.
	It's an invasion designed to replace us, those of us that the government and the ruling elites don't like, with more obedient supporters, more What's the right word?
	Satiated consumers?
	Yes, and Mexico has announced it's going to be busing illegals across Mexico to the border with Texas.
	So now there's free air-conditioned transportation for the illegals that are making their wait.
	How nice.
	I'm sorry? How nice.
	Yeah, I know. Such a convenient invasion.
	OurCountryOurChoice.com, I have to ask you, longer term, because I know you're a strategic thinker, is it that at some point, perhaps in the next elections, that your organization might endorse candidates or even field candidates or have candidates that closely follow what Our Country Our Choice is advocating?
	What's the plan politically?
	We are talking about becoming the foundation for a new party, potentially in the spring.
	We aren't there yet.
	We have a lot of work to do.
	And we're going to wait and see how this election turns out.
	And we certainly hope that this election will change things, that things will improve.
	But we have to be realistic.
	You mentioned to me before this began whether or not I had any feelings about people who should be sitting in the cabinet We all welcomed RFK Jr.'s decision to join President Trump.
	We see this as the kind of unified effort that we desperately need.
	We don't need the Uniparty.
	We know what that is. That's the swamp.
	But we do need a unified effort that is trying desperately to transform what Americans want into reality.
	And I think there's a good chance.
	We are going to wait and see how this turns out.
	The problem that I see, though, is that unless you are willing to get out of the beltway, get out of Washington, reach out across the country, pick up people, individuals, Americans, and bring them in and put them into positions of authority inside this vast bureaucracy in the executive branch, you're not going to get very far.
	I agree with you.
	Because the people that you're picking from inside the Beltway, they have an interest in changing nothing.
	Nothing.
	Remember, everyone is interested in maintaining the flow of money.
	That's right.
	They don't want to disrupt it.
	That's our problem.
	100 percent.
	100 percent.
	And I have asked that question of Trump supporters and his campaign manager and, of course, RFK Jr.
	has been asked that very question as well many times, and he has said recently that he believes Trump learned a lot of lessons, harsh lessons, from his first administration and would not make the same mistake, but time will tell.
	But, of course, I say that the Secretary of Defense should be...
	Half jokingly, Jill Stein.
	You know, just to throw water in the face of the establishment.
	But I'm not serious about that.
	But I am serious about RFK Jr.
	should run HHS if he's given the opportunity.
	That would make a significant difference in my opinion.
	I think, kind of like your take on this, but I think that RFK Jr.
	is now one of the, perhaps the very best thing about the Trump campaign.
	What do you think? No, I wouldn't disagree with you.
	I think so. I think he's a good and decent man, and he's quite serious, and he's very knowledgeable.
	And if he ends up in Health and Human Services, and he is allowed, allowed to do what he wants to do, he could have a very powerful and positive impact.
	The problem in Washington is that a president comes into office, he can only do two or three or four things.
	Within the space of perhaps the first year.
	Some people would say even sooner in the first six months.
	After that, his power begins to erode or ebb.
	So what are the top priorities for this president when he comes in?
	I've never heard Donald Trump say what they are.
	The only thing that I've heard with absolute certainty that he says he wants to do is secure the border and begin what he called the largest deportation operation in the history of the country.
	Well, I certainly support it, but I haven't seen any details.
	I'd like to see some details.
	I've heard lots of assertions, but they're empty, unless there's some meat on the bone, if you understand me.
	So that's fine. Clearly the border and what's happening here is number one.
	I think right next to it has to be, end this nonsense overseas.
	The world has changed.
	Having forces distributed all over the globe is no longer...
	Maintaining order. We're simply putting people out there who can become reasons for anger, objects of hatred, more important in any real war.
	Anything that far forward is going to be very difficult to protect.
	We'll lose them. I think it's time for us to come home.
	People say, well, that's isolationism.
	Well, when we lived in this sort of isolationist environment that people complain about, we were probably the most prosperous and successful nation in the history of the world.
	I think the objective is not to be isolationist.
	We want to do business with everyone.
	We should trade with everyone.
	To the extent that we can help and assist people on occasion, that's fine.
	But committing ourselves to unconditional support, or even conditional support, as we have with NATO, doesn't make any sense anymore.
	The world has changed.
	Yesterday's opponent is today's friend.
	Tomorrow's opponent may be someone that we never expected.
	We have to live in a flexible world.
	We need to treat the world as potential liability You know, partners.
	In other words, let's work with people on a case-by-case basis and get out of this business of treating certain numbers of people as permanent enemies and thinking that certain other numbers are permanent friends.
	There's no such thing as permanent friends or enemies in international relations.
	And get back to the idea that Washington promulgated and his successors followed for at least the first 150 years, and that was war is something to be avoided.
	It's not your first option in the conduct of your foreign policy.
	That's right. That's right.
	Well stated. Last question for you today, Colonel.
	About Iran, there's been a lot of speculation about why is Iran pausing so long in its anticipated retaliation against Israel?
	Do you have any insight on what that is?
	Or maybe will they not retaliate against Israel's assassination in Tehran?
	I think there are a couple of reasons that are very important to keep in mind.
	The first is that when it became clear that the Israelis were provoking intentionally the Iranians and the Hezbollah and so forth and the Iraqi militias by killing people, assassinating people, Putin traveled in the region, and he essentially urged everyone to exercise restraint and patience and said this will exhaust itself.
	Israel is not a strong country.
	It's very dependent on our foreign aid and on the diaspora to keep it afloat.
	We think that 500,000 to a million Israelis have left the country.
	That's not surprising.
	Israel is a place of very limited strategic depth.
	They can't field forces for very long without putting the survival of the state at risk for reasons of economy.
	So I think he said all of those things.
	And I think he also said, if you can, let us wait until the outcome of the next election.
	And maybe there's a way out of it.
	Now, recently, he's concluded that the election isn't going to change anything as far as Russia is concerned in Ukraine.
	It may be that the people in the Middle East have also reached the same conclusion.
	They see us as inextricably intertwined with the Israelis and their enormous financial power exercised Through the very powerful and influential Jewish elite in the Western world and the United States.
	But there's something else.
	The Russians and the Chinese have come to the aid of Iran, particularly the Russians.
	There are thousands of Russians on the ground in Iran right now.
	They are assisting the Iranians in putting together as effective an air and missile defense structure as they possibly can.
	At the same time, they provided some new weapon systems, new electronic warfare systems, and improved satellite communications.
	So I think the Iranians have concluded, we can afford the time.
	We'll get stronger.
	We'll be more prepared.
	On the other hand, the longer this drags on, the weaker Israel becomes, because it's not a strong economy.
	Most of its manpower is not engaged in prosperous activity.
	And the hatred and hostility to Israel for what it's done has just metastasized.
	So I think they've said, let's exercise patience and do what President Putin has urged.
	And then finally, remember, we've got three carrier battle groups, I don't know how many ships total, over a thousand fighters, hundreds and hundreds of other aircraft, and of course bombers, from Diego Garcia to Italy, all ready to launch.
	Well, what happens if they sit and sit and sit for long periods, particularly if you're at sea?
	It's not easy.
	It's very hard to provision and sustain that for a long period of time.
	Again, I think from the Iranian standpoint, they look at it and they conclude, we can get stronger.
	We will have more allies and more friends.
	the Americans will become more isolated because of their failure to exercise the historic restraint over the Israelis that they're known for Well, I would add to that, and we're going to wrap this up, but I would add that reportedly Hamas has just been able to add 3,000 more soldiers to its group, and Israel has called up something like 15,000 reservists in the last couple of weeks, indicating the IDF is losing a lot more soldiers than they are admitting to.
	And I concur with what you said about Israel's economy.
	The Yemen groups there harassing the ships and actually destroying several of them have absolutely shut down port operations for Israel.
	And Israel's economy is in a state of accelerating collapse as a result.
	Not just tourism.
	I'm talking about industry and investment as well.
	So it does look dire for Israel right now from that point of view.
	Yeah, and the thing that we don't seem to understand, and I'm somebody who has always supported Israel, I would like Israel to survive.
	I don't know how it survives in this current setting.
	If there is a war, it's going to be very hard for Israel to survive.
	And I don't think that's the desired outcome.
	In other words, that's why we've always had presidents that have exerted certain amount of influence to restrain the Israelis.
	Because it wasn't just because we had interests that were at stake, it was also to protect them from themselves.
	Good point. Good point.
	Yeah. All right, Colonel Douglas McGregor, it's an honor to have you on.
	Thank you for your insight and your analysis.
	I think it's spot on.
	And folks, if you want to join Our Country, Our Choice, go to the website, just like I said, OurCountryOurChoice.com, and learn about the organization of which Douglas McGregor is the CEO. And Colonel McGregor, let's see if we can help you get to a million members soon.
	I mean, you're halfway there right now, and you started from zero now.
	You know, what was it?
	Less than a year ago, I think.
	What was it? Yeah, no, that's true.
	And I think there are a lot of Americans...
	Who, like us, are going to watch how this election turns out.
	That's right. And that'll have a big impact on our future and what we do in the future.
	So thanks, Mike, for everything.
	I appreciate it. Thank you, Colonel.
	God bless you. Take care.
	Same to you. And thank all of you for watching today.
	Mike Adams here at brighteon.com.
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	Welcome to today's sermon from abundance.church.
	I'm Mike Adams. Thank you for joining me today.
	And have you ever noticed how it's easy for people, all the people out there in the world around you, it's very easy for them to be evil.
	It takes discipline and focus and dedication to be good people.
	Why is that? And what did the Bible have to say about that?
	I would say that starting off, it's very easy for most people to be evil because they don't have to really...
	Try. All they have to do is just follow their urges, follow their greed, you know, accept a lot of short-term thinking rather than considering the long-term ramifications or the betterment of society as a whole.
	In other words, being evil or doing evil is kind of the default way that human neurology is wired.
	It's like people think, oh, it's all about them, and all they have to do is worry about themselves, and from that comes selfishness and greed and also sometimes jealousy and tyranny.
	But to think about the betterment of others in society, to be a citizen who is moral, to have compassion, to have kindness, to have forgiveness, to be generous.
	These require a much higher level, much more mature thinking that takes effort.
	And you could argue it takes training.
	It takes learning these things.
	It's not just automatic.
	You don't just... We're good to go.
	This is, well, you could think of it as a burden, as Paul did.
	In fact, we're going to be covering another letter from Paul, this time to the citizens of Philippi.
	Of course, I'm referring to Philippians, the book of Philippians in the New Testament.
	This is another letter from Paul to the congregation of the church there.
	And this letter was written from prison.
	And in prison, Paul had kind of a thought experiment to go through.
	He thought on one hand, I could be executed and then I would join Christ.
	You know, I would join with the Lord in heaven and that would be something to rejoice.
	That would be very easy.
	All I have to do is just endure the execution and then I will be saved.
	I'll be joining the Lord in heaven.
	But he also realized that probably the far more important thing for him and the more burdensome thing is to be spared and to be ultimately released from prison to where he could go on and teach the word of Christ in this earthly realm, which would involve a lot more effort, frankly.
	It's work to travel around, especially at his elderly age, travel around and teach the word of Christ and also frequently being arrested or threatened with arrest and always being persecuted or spat upon and so on, mostly by the religious leaders of the Jews. mostly by the religious leaders of the Jews.
	Right.
	And he was once one of them, you know, and Paul used to run around persecuting Christians.
	And so that's why he understands the importance of speaking out against that.
	So Paul himself writes about this in verse 19 of chapter 1 of Philippians.
	So he's saying that he is living close to Christ or Christ is living through him, whether he lives or dies.
	He's going to serve Christ either way.
	And that his experience of persecution and possible execution actually mirrors much of the experience of Christ himself.
	And so this creates closeness that Paul is essentially giving his life to Christ and whatever happens to his life is also walking with Christ either way.
	He goes on in verse 21,"...for to me to live is Christ and to die is gain.
	But if I live on in the flesh, this will mean fruit from my labor." Yet what I shall choose, I cannot tell.
	He's saying, fruit from his labor, he's saying that there will be gains for Christianity by Paul continuing to evangelize, to teach Christianity, bring more people to the Christian church, bring more followers to Christ.
	That's the fruit from his labor in the earthly realm.
	Verse 23, he continues,"...for I am hard-pressed between the two, having a desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better." And remember,
	he's writing to the congregation of the churches of Philippi, right?
	So they wrote him a letter, He read that letter in prison, and then he's responding, also still in prison, he's responding to the congregation, the actual Philippians, and saying to them that this is the choice, and either way he's with Christ, but probably he's going to have a lot more work to do.
	So this is a good example of what I'm talking about, where being good and doing good in the world takes effort.
	It's not the easier choice.
	This is exactly what Paul is talking about.
	It would have been easier to just be executed and then join with God in heaven.
	So nevertheless, ultimately, in chapter 4 of Philippians, he talks about how our citizenship is in heaven.
	So in the long run, even though it's important that we fulfill our mission here on earth, and that we do good on earth, and we teach goodness, and we help bring people to this knowledge, this enlightenment, or at least understanding of what is morality, you know, what's the greater good for humanity.
	But ultimately, we are citizens of heaven.
	It doesn't mean that we have to try to rush to be there like, you know, some kind of suicide cult or anything.
	But rather that that's where we're going to ultimately end up, and that's where our actions really count.
	So in verse 17, again, this is in chapter 3, it says, Brethren, join in following my example and note those who so walk as you have us for a pattern.
	He's saying, you know, I'm demonstrating a more appropriate way to live with Christ.
	Verse 18, for many walk of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ.
	He's saying there's a lot of fake Christians.
	That's exactly what he's saying.
	A lot of fake Christians out there who claim to be followers of Jesus, but they don't really walk in the footsteps of Jesus.
	He continues, He's talking about the corruption of the church.
	Yet again, are you getting the idea that the church was totally corrupt?
	Then as now also, the churches are so corrupt.
	It's sickening how many people claim to be following Christ or teaching Christ, and yet then on their own they're just greedy for money and luxury items and indulging with way too much food or processed food, and they're actually destroying their communities.
	This is what Paul is talking about.
	Verse 20, for our citizenship is in heaven, he says, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body that I believe he's referring to the body of the church, right? who will transform our lowly body that I believe he's I believe he's referring to the body of the church, right?
	The congregation, the elect.
	So in other words, we are going to undergo a transformation personally, but also as a group, as a congregation.
	And The church, the body of Christ, shall through effort, through work, through dedication, through obedience to God, shall move closer and closer to perfection, which is signified by Jesus Christ himself.
	And this will happen over time, and it will take work.
	And he even adds, by which he is able even to subdue all things to himself.
	So, the Lord has...
	Such incredible power that he can transform almost anything but it's going to take human effort in addition to that.
	This is what the scripture says about this.
	Now, I have to continue this sermon recording in a different environment, so you're going to hear some audio changes, but as we continue, we will get into hard work of being a good person versus the easy, seductive path of being evil or selfish.
	We'll talk about that much more.
	Now, to understand human nature, it's really useful to study human anthropology, as I have done.
	And when we look at human anthropology, we realize that humans are wired by default for selfishness because it's a survival mechanism.
	And without training in morality or religion or, you know, higher forms of functioning in society, a typical human being will just steal everything that they need for themselves.
	They will not think about other people except their close family members.
	And there's an anthropological reason for that because they share genes.
	They share genetic code.
	And a lot of human anthropology is focused on the genetic survival.
	Of an individual.
	And genetic survival means, very often, taking from others for yourself, taking more than you need, that is greed and also thievery.
	Exploiting your position of authority or power over others in order to gather more resources for yourself.
	So that's tyranny and authoritarianism.
	And then also, for males, engaging in highly promiscuous sexual activity in order to impregnate as many women as possible.
	So that could involve either consenting sexual relations or rape, both of which have occurred obviously all throughout human history.
	And for women, it typically involves choosing a mate who has higher quality genetic code, which typically means choosing someone who has more power, more money, more celebrity status, or who appears to be more handsome or more adventurous and so on.
	So that's part of the mating ritual between men and women.
	But both men and women, by default, they want to survive as individuals.
	And that means thinking selfishly by default.
	They do not automatically think about the benefit of other people or the greater good in society or teaching morality, teaching the rule of law.
	These are things that have to be learned and then they have to be applied with effort.
	These are properties of a civilized society.
	And children must be taught these things in order to follow them.
	This is why homeschooling is so important.
	This is why Bible study for children is so important.
	You need to give them an understanding of what is morality.
	You don't just steal all the cookies for yourself.
	You don't just run around raping people because you want to.
	You don't just give in to these basic instincts that are wired into The human nervous system via these principles of anthropology that I'm talking about here.
	And if you don't educate people, if you just leave them to be savages, they will carry out all these things I'm talking about.
	And it's easy for them to act that way.
	In other words, selfishness is easy.
	It requires no effort.
	Greed is easy.
	It requires no effort.
	Stealing from others and justifying it to yourself, for many people, it's easy.
	It requires no real effort.
	What's hard, as Paul's talking about, is serving Christ and living a life in service, teaching others to In his case, traveling and working to influence people to be more faithful to the church and to the teachings of Christ.
	This requires effort, but it is from this effort that civilization becomes sustainable.
	Now, think about it. Think about a farmer who's growing food.
	Now, the successful production of that food will require something like, typically, 120 days for the crops to grow, and then they have to be harvested, and then processed, typically, in some way, and sent to market, what have you.
	But if you live in a society where there are no rules of private property, for example, then anybody can come along and just steal the crops when they're close to harvest time and the farmer can't do anything about it.
	Or if there's just no rule of law in society, if it's just chaos and violence and mass theft, you can't successfully grow food because you need a stable environment for at least 120 days.
	Actually, much more than that.
	You need a stable marketplace to purchase seeds and to sell finished goods and to buy farming equipment and to maintain farming equipment.
	You need a supply chain of parts and fuel and all these other things.
	And for this system to work, you have to have a civilization rooted in some forms of basic civility and morality.
	That is, the rule of law, the recognition of private property.
	Which is absolutely critical for human society.
	Oh, and by the way, that's something that is not recognized by the Marxists and the communists.
	They don't believe in private property.
	And that's why their people usually starve in horrible famines.
	And anybody that comes along and tells you that the government should set the food prices or the government should control food distribution, they are communists.
	And that will lead to mass starvation, typically by design, such as the Holodomor, That affected Ukraine where the Stalinists were trying to punish Ukrainian separatists and so they starved millions of them with an engineered famine.
	So the pillars of morality that Paul was teaching through Christ's teachings, these are not just the pillars of the church.
	These are the pillars of sustainable civilization.
	One way or another, across the world, any society that has had any success whatsoever in feeding its people and engaging in productivity, producing things, has one way or another, even if they haven't accepted Christianity, they have accepted Christianity.
	Many of the basic principles of morality, which is the right to engage in a contract, the right to have private property, the right for investors to own factories or to build factories in order to produce things.
	And sometimes these are called tenets of capitalism, but mostly capitalism is just rooted in fundamental human rights, individual rights.
	Which are tied to morality that was taught by Paul and by Christ himself.
	Remember, Christ wanted people to be free.
	To be free to produce what they wanted.
	To be free to speak how they wish to speak.
	To be free to even consume what they wanted.
	To be free to keep the money that they earned.
	Remember when he overturned the tables of the money changers in the temple.
	What was he protesting against?
	Not against trade.
	He was protesting against the money changers cheating people, taking too much money from them out of a sense of unfairness.
	But Christ himself, the things that he taught and the things that his disciples taught What are the basic principles of free market capitalism rooted in individual property rights, individual ownership of land so that a farmer can produce food and he can have an expectation that he will have the right to sell that food?
	Or, again, an investor can invest in a factory, let's say, and he can have some reasonable expectation that he'll be able to sell the goods out of that factory and ultimately one day maybe repay the cost of building the factory.
	So these are actually biblical principles, but they take real work to achieve success.
	And so one of the costs of having a lack of good education in the Western world today is that people are not taught these things.
	And with so many people not teaching any kind of spirituality or religion or faith or morality to their children, those children end up Just pursuing their basic instinct neurology, which is rooted in selfishness and greed and thievery and authoritarianism and tyranny over others and so on.
	And that's why so many people who get into government...
	That's why they become tyrants and satanists, because they seek positions of power in order to rule over others, in order to function as parasites, to take money out of society, effectively stealing from others, while dominating power over others and restricting others from being able to speak.
	For example, government sponsored censorship.
	Or to prevent people from being able to run a business over zealous weaponized government regulation targeting small businesses in particular.
	These are the kinds of things that resonate with the more, you could say, the reptilian brain stems of human beings, the neurology of survival, which is not sophisticated.
	It takes no effort to invoke the neurology of survival.
	You're born with it. And sadly, most people just stay there their entire lives.
	They're just rooted in greed and sexual escapades and domination over others and stealing from as many people as possible in order to enrich themselves.
	And these people can end up running governments.
	They can run churches.
	They can run universities. They can certainly run corporations, as we have all seen.
	And there are many other examples like that.
	They can run schools. They can run entire nations, and they do.
	There are, in effect, then evil people all over the world, and maybe they didn't start out to become evil, but since they never made any effort to be good, then the evil just was a natural expression of them Basically answering their basic human neurology, their animalistic instincts of greed and survival and genetic replication and so on.
	I mean, that's what drives most of humanity.
	You look around today, most people are driven by these basic instincts.
	They're not driven by morality because it takes effort.
	Now, when you're a child, of course, you are expected to be more self-centered, actually, because children are working to survive and children are competing with siblings for parental attention and resources from parents.
	I mean, this starts early on with children trying to breastfeed.
	The more a child can successfully breastfeed and get the attention of his mother, then the more calories he can have and the faster he can grow, or he or she can physically become a larger child and compete more successfully with other siblings or even cousins or what have you.
	And that's all part of survival.
	But as you grow out of being a child and you become an adult and possibly you become...
	A person of some credibility in society, whether in a position of government or a corporate board member or what have you, you are supposed to become more mature and you are supposed to refocus your efforts away from your own greed and to think about other people instead.
	Sadly though, our politics today are dominated by people who are still stuck in that childish greed.
	Many people run for office because they want to be powerful.
	They want to have more resources for themselves.
	Why is it that members of Congress, they may get elected to Congress while they have no money whatsoever.
	They're funded by somebody else.
	And then a few years later, they end up being multimillionaires.
	How did that work?
	Well, it's because insider trading is legal if you're a member of Congress.
	And so they engage in insider trading, which is a form of greed and selfishness and taking money from others to bring it to yourself for your own selfish gain.
	And we've all seen this.
	We've witnessed this in politics over the years.
	You can see, you can tell right away who's doing it for just greed and power versus actually serving the people.
	Serving the people is hard for most human beings.
	It requires a dedicated effort to think about others and put others above yourself.
	It requires compassion and empathy.
	And neurologically speaking, there are things called mirror neurons that exist in the human brain that help a human being simulate what it must feel like to somebody else to endure what that other person is going through.
	So the fact that if you feel any sympathy, if you feel compassion for fellow human beings who may be suffering or may be hungry or may be in a war zone or what have you, that's because you have mirror neurons.
	There's a part of your brain that is that human part.
	It's part of your human expression.
	It's to care about other human beings.
	And that's a good thing.
	It makes you closer to humanity.
	It makes you more of an actual humanitarian.
	But for people who lack those mirror neurons, they are incapable of feeling the pain in others.
	They are incapable of putting themselves in other people's shoes.
	So they are incapable of empathy.
	These people become sociopaths, or at least that's the label given to them.
	Some of them can become high-functioning sociopaths, and they can fool people into thinking that they are good people when they're not.
	And some of those people become governors or presidents or high-level politicians or senators or what have you.
	Some of them become corporate leaders.
	But behind the act, they're actually sociopaths who are incapable of feeling anything for fellow human beings.
	Now, low-functioning sociopaths may become serial killers or violent criminals or rapists, and often they'll end up arrested and thrown in prison.
	So this is why the prison system is filled largely with sociopathic individuals.
	Not entirely, but that's largely the case.
	Sociopaths are capable of exerting violence against others without regard, again, for what other people may feel.
	And so there may be even physiological reasons for this, but there are typically behavioral reasons.
	Most of these people who become sociopaths, they were abused as children.
	Many of them were sexually abused.
	Some of them were beaten, but sexual abuse is probably the most common thing.
	And what happens is the neurons turn off in the brain as a protective mechanism so that that child no longer has to endure the suffering of the abuse as it's happening.
	But then they grow up and go through their lives without those mirror neurons and then they become sociopaths and then, you know, they're elected governor or what have you.
	So that's kind of a summary of how that happens.
	And this is why Paul's teachings and the teachings of Christ in the New Testament are so important, because we don't want to raise up a generation of sociopaths and psychopaths and mass murderers and greed-driven, power-hungry politicians.
	But sadly, if you look around society today, that's exactly who dominates pop culture, Hollywood, music, government, entertainment, many corporate entities, and so on.
	And that's what we're fighting against, is all this evil in the world.
	We want to bring people back to morality.
	Back to selflessness, not selfishness, and thinking about others instead of only thinking about yourself.
	And that's part of what Paul was teaching, and that's part of what Christ has been teaching.
	So, hope you enjoyed today's sermon, and thank you for listening.
	We've got a lot more at abundance.church.
	I'm Mike Adams. Thank you for listening.

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