All Episodes
Previous Next
Sept. 17, 2024 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
48:56
Springfield, Ohio resident reveals how weaponized migration is ECONOMIC WARFARE...
| Copy link to current segment

Time Text
All right.
Welcome, everybody.
This is Mike Adams here at Brighteon.com.
And today we have a guest, a man named Mark, who lives in Springfield, Ohio.
And of course, we've all heard a lot of different reports of things happening in Springfield and an influx of migrants, or some people call them the newcomers.
And there have been People going to Springfield who don't live there and trying to find interviews or find examples or shoot video that might be interesting to others.
But our guest today lives there and has been part of the community for many years and maybe has a fresh perspective on things.
So welcome, Mark, to the interview today.
Thanks.
Thanks for the invite.
Thanks for having me.
Absolutely.
And I appreciate you taking the time to join us here.
And can I just cover a couple of basic things, like how long have you lived in Springfield?
And what do you do there?
So I have lived here my entire life, which would be 46 years, given just a few years living in Columbus, which is just right down the road.
But, you know, pretty much I've lived here my whole life.
Um, and, uh, and I'm in transportation.
Okay.
Now for, for those 46 years that you mentioned, um, how would you describe Springfield as a, as a place to live?
I mean, not counting whatever we're going to talk about today, the recent stuff, but before that, what, what was Springfield like?
Uh, so Springfield has always been a, A unique community.
I mean, we have a long, rich history here.
A lot of industrial history.
A lot of things were made here.
So, I think people who are from Springfield, they take a lot of pride in the city.
Now, when I was a young kid in the 80s, Springfield was a lot better.
A lot more jobs here.
A lot more thriving community.
Um, and then it just kind of fell victim to, you know, the same thing that a lot of industrialized towns, you know, once the job started shipping to China, um, and dust, the, the industrial world started to change, uh, Springfield changed right along with it, you know, so we, we lost a lot of jobs here.
Um, and then, and then, you know, you had drugs that ushered into the community probably in the late eighties and early nineties, and that really changed.
A lot of neighborhoods and landscape.
But for the most part, I mean, we're a small city, Midwestern city, and people here have a certain set of values.
Springfield's always been a pretty decent town.
You say it's a Midwestern?
Did you say Midwestern?
Midwestern city, yeah.
Really?
Do people in Springfield consider Springfield, Ohio to be Midwestern?
Yeah.
Yes, we do.
Oh, oh, okay.
That's, that's interesting.
I'm, I'm, I'm from the, the central part of the, of the Midwest, like the, the Kansas, Kansas city area.
And, but I, as, as someone from that area, I had never thought about Ohio as being Midwest, but maybe that's just my lack of perception.
Yeah.
If you go outside of the city of Springfield, it's surrounded by corn fields.
So there's not much, you know, in between us and Columbus is, is corn.
Okay.
All right.
Well, fair enough.
I'm, I'm used to seeing that, uh, cornfields and cows and what have you.
Uh, so what about the, what's the demographic makeup of the city of Springfield as, as, as you have known your life?
I mean, was it mostly white town?
No, I would say growing up, man, we were, we're really made a racial, um, a good mix, you know, between white and black.
And, you know, you would have some Hispanics that mostly like, you know, back in the day that the Hispanics that came here were truly migrant workers.
Cause we have some nurseries around, you know, and they would come and they would work those places, uh, during the summertime months.
And then, um, I know they would move on and work somewhere else when it would get cold here.
But, um, yeah, growing up, it was just mostly, you know, white people and, and black people, um, and a pretty good mix.
And how, how are racial relations then during that time?
I mean, did, did white, black and Hispanic folks tend to get along in the town?
Yeah.
Um, You know, it's just like anything else.
You're going to have issues.
And if you would learn anything about Springfield's history, you would know that we've had a white-black population since the late 1800s.
In the early 1900s, we're talking 1904 and 1906, there were two major race riots here in Springfield where dozens of people were killed.
We're talking 1904 and 1906.
There were two major race riots here in Springfield where dozens of people.
Yeah, dozens of people were killed.
We're talking 115 years ago.
So there were racial tensions 115 years ago in Springfield.
But I feel like, you know, you fast forward to me growing up here in this town.
It's been I felt like, you know, pretty normalized.
I mean, we didn't really start seeing racial tension in my, in my eyes until Obama became president and you started seeing kind of, you know, all that jazz being spewed out and, uh, Seems like things, racial tensions started to change a little bit here.
Yeah, well, Obama definitely invoked a lot of racial tension with Trayvon Martin and, you know, kind of whipping up a lot of, a lot of issues.
And yeah, we felt that all over the country, that's for sure.
Um, so of course, Springfield's in the news right now because of the, the Haitian migrants, uh, reportedly something like 20,000, maybe it's only 15, maybe it's 25.
I don't know, have been brought to the town on purpose and put there.
Uh, when did you start to become aware of that?
So probably.
Three, maybe four years ago, you would see, um, you would see a couple of Haitians here and there, but you didn't really pay much attention to it because if you rewind the clock back three or four years ago, we may have had, we may have had a couple hundred Haitians here.
Um, and my understanding, um, they come here like a busload a week or have been for a long time.
And so you fast forward to 2024.
You know, now we're sitting at 15, like you said, 15 to 20,000, um, Haitian immigrants here in the town.
So it's, yeah, it just exploded.
I mean, are there people in the town who are wondering why, like, why, like who's bringing them here and why are they bringing them here?
Have there been like town?
Hall meetings?
Yeah.
So we, yeah, we do, we have a city commission meeting.
So people, um, and, uh, you know, you can watch them, they're online.
Uh, and so people are questioning that, you know, why, why Springfield?
And I, and I will say this just to get it out there, you know, it's, uh, I am not racist at all, or I don't have any problem against Haitians.
You know, I, I understand their, you know, where they come from.
It's.
There's a lot of issues there.
I would probably think that if I was a Haitian and I seen that there was all this opportunity just kind of being given, I would probably jump on board with it as well.
But guess where myself and probably a lot of people in Springfield have the issue.
Like I said, it's not with that really with the Haitians, but it's just.
You know, it's with the government bringing 20,000 people here and just Lopping them down and there was no real plan to handle 20,000 people.
Um, so, you know, like all of our resources are just wiped out.
Uh, we have a local rocking horse centers, a local healthcare center, and it's predominantly for, you know, uh, people who are poor and, um, those resources at that place is just decimated.
And, uh, then you think about the strain on our, Police Department, you think about the strain on our hospital, our main hospital.
It's just, and I can go on and on, you know, homeless shelters have been wiped out and shut down, soup kitchens closed.
No, these are really good details.
I'm sorry to interrupt.
Okay.
There's a slight delay, I think.
But are the local people there aware of how much money is being given to these Haitians by the government?
You know, they're getting, at least the reporting that I'm seeing, is that they're being given debit cards and they're being given a lot of money to cover their living expenses there.
Whereas, of course, the local, the people of Springfield that you grew up with, they have to earn it.
But these Haitians are just being given it.
Is that something that people are aware of?
I mean, there's a lot of talk about that.
I will say this.
I think that from my viewpoint of it, I think that what I've seen is that most of the Haitians here in Springfield, they work, they go to work, they get up in the morning.
I come to work at 4.30, 5 o'clock in the morning, and I see them waiting in line to get in these vans to go to work or I see them dropping off their kids at a certain place almost every morning.
So I see them working.
As far as what they're given, how much money they're given, I couldn't tell you.
I have no clue.
I mean, we know they show up at the Job and Family Services building and they're being given something.
You know, we've heard they're giving vouchers for housing, we've heard they're giving food cards, and I would say the food cards probably, that's absolutely happening.
Money every month, maybe, but I don't, like I said, I don't know.
Well, this is, it's a very interesting economic question, and I'm glad you brought up that they're working, because I want to ask you sort of where they're working, but you know, if you're, if you're an American trying to make ends meet, and you have a job, And the job pays, let's just say $15 an hour, which is not a lot these days, right?
It's hard to make ends meet when you have to pay your own food and your own house, your own rent, everything.
But if you're a Haitian immigrant, you could go work for $10 an hour and still make ends meet because you're getting all this other extra money through the vouchers and the stamps and whatever, you know, coming in from government that the local people don't get.
Doesn't that, in effect, economically displace the Americans of Springfield, Ohio?
It does.
It also causes resentment, you know, because you see, like, everything you just laid out, I mean, if you have one person who's working hard for everything that they have, and they get no handout, and then you got the guy next to them who's, they may have a job, but they're also getting They're getting all this free stuff on top of it.
Yeah.
That causes resentment.
Right.
Well, okay.
What kind of jobs are the Haitians that you see working?
Any idea where they're working or what kind of jobs they're doing?
Yeah.
So, and that's a, that's a whole nother topic because you gotta, if you look, if you're here on the ground and you see what's going on, like you understand that, The Haitians are being taken advantage of by the people, some of the people here locally.
We'll start with landlords, you know, the landlord.
So, yeah, there's there's temporary services here in town, temporary employment services that employ, I would say, probably ninety five percent of the Haitians in town.
And, you know, you will see them bust them off and they work at a lot of, you know, warehouses and factories that are here locally.
And, uh, you know, they, we've had a large, like explosion of jobs here in the last three to five years.
You have Intel who's building major facilities in Columbus area.
And then all the little distributors that's going to, uh, service Intel, you got, you know, Google that's building facilities and what, you know, what they've said is there, there's not enough Americans to fill up all those jobs.
So apparently they've brought in immigrants to take those jobs and, uh, So, you look at the large spectrum of them bringing them here, raising the rents, so they're gouging them for rent, and then taking them back and forth to work.
They're charging them a certain amount of money each day to take them back and forth to work.
And then on top of that, the temporary employment agency will, you know, these jobs might pay 25 bucks an hour, but they're only going to pay the Haitians 16 or $17 an hour.
So there's a lot of money being made.
I see.
Wow.
Wow.
I mean, it sounds like you're describing a human trafficking operation.
It's all these people.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's wild.
It's it's almost like modern day.
Yeah.
Yeah, like a modern day exploitation of the labor of these people who Like you say, okay, so they're incentivized, you know, come to Springfield.
We'll give you this money.
We'll give you vouchers.
We'll pay for your groceries.
We'll give you money for housing.
Then the landlords spike up the housing or the rent.
That displaces the local people.
The work agencies make money.
The corporations get workers that perhaps they don't have to pay as much as they would pay American workers.
I'm just guessing.
And then those corporations pay taxes to the county or the city.
And then the city leaders get to brag about how many jobs they've created, but none of those jobs are for the people and for the Americans.
I mean, wow, that sounds like quite an operation.
Wow.
Yep.
Well, aren't you afraid that your job is going to be replaced by one of the Haitians?
I mean, it could be, but I'm not worried about that.
I mean, it's honestly, I'm not.
I think that a lot of the jobs that they have, the Haitians plugged into doing, and we'll be honest, are jobs that Americans around here just weren't doing to begin with, or they would have been filled by the Americans here.
So like labor intensive type of jobs?
Yeah.
And you know, that's just all where our social culture is.
You know, I think pretty much anywhere you go, you know, you've heard Americans are fat and lazy.
I mean, it's in a lot of sense, that's true, right?
I mean, they don't want to do the hard, the hard jobs.
I mean, it's incredibly hard even to see to get young people to go out and get jobs.
In the summertime.
So, um, no, I, I concur with what you're saying.
I've seen that in Texas too.
Uh, because you know, I, I have, I have a retailer with a warehouse and yeah, pretty much it's so difficult to find people that want to move boxes or sometimes we've hired people and they'll come in, they last two days and they're like, Oh, I've never worked that hard in my life.
I can't do it.
I'm like, are you kidding me?
Yeah.
I, when I was young, I used to load boxes for UPS at three in the morning.
I was chucking boxes into the back of UPS trailers.
That's hard work, man.
And it's 110 degrees in those trailers, but I could do it when I was in college.
I don't know why today's kids can't work.
Yep.
Right.
Yeah.
So, you know, I think that there's, there's a, uh, there's a hole there to fill.
Right.
So it's, that's another reason.
Yeah, interesting.
So your emphasis so far on this is kind of the economic implications.
So I take it that you're not seeing, you know, kind of the more popular sort of click-baity type of coverage is talking about, you know, oh, they're eating cats and they're horrible, they're wrecking their cars and things like that.
No, they do.
No, go ahead.
They do have driving issues, and that's another thing.
They come here and magically get a driver's license, and it's evident in the amount of crashes that we have.
There's a local YouTuber here in town that goes and follows all these crashes around, and sometimes there's three, four, five of them a day.
Really?
Yeah, that just involves a Haitian driver.
Yeah, it's just, you know, the driving's crazy, but as far as the eating cats or dogs, I think that's all... I don't know if that's happening at all.
I couldn't... I can't speak to it.
I would say that that's probably not true.
Okay, so you haven't seen any of that?
Yeah, I haven't seen any of that, no.
But you have seen the car, the crazy driving?
Crazy driving.
For the most part, the Haitians that I see here in town, they stick to themselves.
You know, I don't know if it's just because a lack of integration, but you know, they don't know English or whatever, but you know, they don't really bother anybody.
Um, from what I see, uh, you know, they, there's just a lot of them here.
Um, and they don't know how to drive very well.
So, so, okay.
A question on that then, um, doesn't that raise the car insurance rates of everybody when there are more accidents in that zip code, you know, Are you seeing car insurance rates go up?
Well, I have not with mine yet, but I pay mine up a year at a time, so we'll see when my policies do.
Could be, maybe, maybe not.
But I have heard from other people, yeah, that their car insurance rates have went through the roof.
Wow.
Okay.
Yeah.
See, that's kind of, that becomes a shared cost among, you know, everybody in the region, even if they themselves are good drivers.
So this, what about crime?
Are, are you seeing or not seeing, like, do, do Haitian people form some, are there some gangs or like Haitian gangs that are, you know, robbing commercial properties or anything like that?
Or is that not happening at all?
You know, it probably goes on.
I don't know of it.
I would say that Springfield was infested by crime before the Haitians arrived here.
You know, we had a crime problem.
I mean, I think at one point we were labeled one of the most dangerous cities in Ohio.
Really?
Yeah, and this was before Haitians arrived in Springfield.
So Springfield's always had, you know, in modern times, an issue with crime and When I look around, I still don't see the Haitians doing the crimes.
I still see it's, you know... So is the crime that exists there, is it drug-related crime typically, like meth heads and things like that?
Well, Springfield had a crack cocaine problem.
I don't think that really exists anymore, but then they had a heroin problem and fentanyl is the issue, I think, now.
So I'm not sure about meth, but I mean, You know, you can drive down the main street here in Springfield on Main Street and the homeless people have an encampment set up and any hour of the day you can drive by there and they shoot up in the middle of the daytime.
So it's like something you see in Kensington, Pennsylvania or something.
So...
All right, so quite an existing crime problem before the Haitians got there, and sounds like an existing addiction problem.
But all of those problems require, of course, a lot of local resources, and you've already said that those resources are really getting stretched thin.
So you can imagine like emergency counseling, or first responder, or medical, right?
So that doesn't bode well for the people there, maybe veterans that need help.
That seems to me.
Yeah, so I see more homeless people here now than I ever have my entire time living in Springfield my whole life.
Like, there's homeless people everywhere.
And I think that, you know, there's a couple reasons for that, right?
I mean, there's people who just choose to, they choose to go that path because they're addicted.
But then there's, you know, the homeless shelters here have closed.
Because their resources have been drained.
And you've got people who are getting evicted from their homes, and they can't afford to go rent any place here in town because all the rents have went up.
So, yeah, we've got a lot of homeless people here.
Myself, people at church, I mean, people are concerned with what's going to happen to some of these people when it gets cold here and about.
You know, two months.
Yeah, no kidding.
Also, I would be concerned about the long-term trajectory of this, because how do we know that, let's say there's 20,000 Haitian migrants that have been put there now, how do we know that number is not going to be 200,000 in another year?
You know what I mean?
Yeah, no, we don't know.
We don't know if they've slowed the influx of Wow.
What about self-defense, like firearms?
They've sped it up.
It seems the way that they work, they double down on everything.
So now that there's a tension brought to it, I mean, it wouldn't surprise me if they just didn't double down on it.
You know?
Wow.
What about self-defense, like firearms?
I don't know the laws of Ohio, but is it a state where people can carry concealed easily? - Yeah.
You can open carry, you can conceal carry here in Ohio.
Okay.
So do you hear among local people there a stronger tendency now for people to carry concealed or to be more concerned about the potential of crime and, you know, to take more steps for self-defense?
I'm sure that people do.
Obviously, if somebody's carrying concealed, I wouldn't know.
That would defeat the purpose, right?
But, yeah, I mean, I do see a lot more people open carry now that we have open carry laws that grant you permission to do so.
That's interesting. - Interesting.
Do you feel like this, the trajectory that the town is on, I mean, does this have a happy ending or a disastrous ending?
Well, there's a couple ways you can look at it.
If the migrants continue to pour into the town and they don't integrate and they don't assimilate properly with our culture and how we do things here, then yeah, it's going to turn out bad.
And who knows what that is, right?
I mean, we're a town of 60,000 people.
what that is, right?
I mean, it's just, we're a town of 60,000 people.
There's already 20,000 people on top of that that don't speak their language for the most part.
Don't have the same culture.
So if we get another 10 or 15,000, I think that.
I mean, I just I don't know.
I don't know what's going to happen, but you know, if you look at history.
And if you look at Springfield's population increase over time.
And how it was tracked, you know, we had a large influx of people back in the late 1800s, so.
For a couple decades, the National Road, which is U.S.
40, it started in New York City, and it dead-ended here in Springfield.
So we had, you know, migrants that would come through Ellis Island.
They would work hard.
It would save up money, and then they would hit that road, and they would go as far west as it would take them here, Springfield.
And so that's why the industrialists picked up on, hey, there's a lot of immigrants in Springfield.
So they came here.
They built their factories.
And then before you know it, we had a 20,000 to 30,000 influx of mostly Irish immigrants back then that came to Springfield.
And they weren't received really well then.
People felt that they were stealing the jobs and that they were flooding the town and all the bad things that have been said about the Irish immigrants back in the day.
And that all happened here.
I guess the key difference between those immigrants and the immigrants today is when those immigrants arrived in Springfield, they didn't get welfare checks, they didn't get food cards, they didn't get housing vouchers, and they had to work hard for everything.
So the immigrant today is not the same as the immigrant in the past.
While there are some reflections of today in the past, they're definitely different.
Well, you know, I'm married to an immigrant, by the way, a legal immigrant, you know, and I've found that legal immigrants, they make some of the best Americans, because often they've escaped situations of tyranny that the average American can't even really understand, and so they really appreciate America when they come here.
But, you know, it costs us thousands of dollars and we went through all kinds of vetting and background checks and even medical x-rays and, you know, the whole thing.
But then for these Haitian migrants, it doesn't sound like there's much vetting at all.
I don't even know.
I mean, do you have any idea?
Do they just like raise their hand and hop on a plane?
I don't know how it happened.
I don't know how it happens, man.
We just know that they show up at the Love's truck stop out here, and they get off a bus, and there are big church-type vans that show up, and they load up in it, and they take them into Springfield, and off they go.
So, I don't know what the selection process is.
Yeah, that's a huge question.
Well, have you spoken to any of these Haitian migrants yourself?
You know, just out of curiosity.
I've been in the store or something, and I've tried to spark up a conversation, and I always get the same, you know, no-speak English.
That's what I hear.
So I'm unable to, because obviously I don't speak French Creole.
Not much conversation at all.
Not yet.
Right.
Okay.
That's interesting.
Yeah.
Might, might be worth learning at this point.
But at what point would you consider leaving Springfield?
even though you've lived there your whole life, what would it take for you to leave?
Man, that's hard because you don't want to abandon your...
The place that you grew up at.
But I mean, at some point, you know, my kids are all my son will be 18 Friday.
So when he's 18, all my kids are adults.
You know, so we've raised our kids.
And I guess there's not a whole lot that keeps us anchored.
So, you know, if we see if we see things continue to erode, I don't know if I would move far from here.
But yeah, I would definitely consider if things continue to erode, you know, maybe putting our house up for sale and leaving.
Right.
Well, I mean, and your house might actually be worth a lot more because a lot more demand and there's a lot of government money coming in for housing.
So he might actually do pretty well on that.
Okay.
Okay.
Well, are there any other observations?
I was just going to say, you know, but that's, I feel like that's just waving a white flag, man.
It's, and it's not fixing the problem.
So, um, honestly, I mean it, you know, a fish rots from the head, right?
And so the federal government is the head and all these policies that they make that allow this to happen.
And it trickles down to the state level and then the state gives them the benefits.
So it's hard to blame the people who lead the city here in Springfield, because in a lot of ways their hands are cuffed.
Um, this community was under Democratic, Democratic leadership for decades.
And, you know, we've, we now have a Republican mayor, uh, who I feel like he does a decent job, but, uh, what he stepped into.
I mean, it's pretty much unimaginable what he's got to deal with.
So I think that people who live here, we just can't give up.
We have to fight to try to make it better and come up with solutions.
Well, OK, I'm glad to hear that.
It's going to be challenging for the following factor.
Let me mention this.
So it seems to me like a lot of those businesses, those corporations, factories, warehouses, what have you, they need the labor.
Americans often don't want those jobs.
We already talked about that.
And that is true.
So they bring in Haitian labor.
But you fast forward two to three years, it's going to be robot labor.
I mean, we're right on the verge of a humanoid robot warehouse takeover or basic robotic labor.
Elon Musk's company is producing robots.
China is going to be mass producing a million humanoid robots a year.
The reason I ask you this is because those same business people that are hiring Haitians, they would just as soon replace them with robots if the robots are available.
And then you're going to have 20,000 unemployed Haitians in your town.
Yeah.
What's that going to look like?
I don't know what that would look like.
That's a crazy scenario.
But it's right around the corner, too, right?
I mean, that's exactly where this is going.
Well, we can talk about a scenario that we've already been through, which is, you know, COVID.
And when COVID happened, all the layoffs took place, or they called them furloughs.
That's a nice way of saying layoff.
But, you know, you had You know, thousands of people I know here in the Springfield area that were, that lost their jobs or were laid off during the COVID era.
So what, you know, what if we ever went through a scenario like that again?
You know, which is just as plausible as the scenario that you just mentioned with the robots.
Yeah, that's true.
Another pandemic, another lockdown.
And then the fact that most of these Haitians don't speak English.
That's pretty concerning because how is the town leadership supposed to communicate?
Are you going to have like, you know, Creole translators everywhere?
And, you know, you can see that that Seems like if they're going to bring people to America, they should at least pass some basic English skills.
But that's just, on my part, wishful thinking, I suppose.
I mean, when I go live somewhere else, I learn the language, right?
I mean, I lived in South America, I speak Spanish, I lived in Taiwan, learned to speak Chinese.
I don't expect everybody to speak my language, you know?
Yeah.
Well, what are your other thoughts?
You know, I just, I don't know, I just want people to get the truth of what's going on.
Uh, you know, what's happening here is 20,000 influx of people, no plan to deal with that.
And all the other stuff that's, that's being talked about.
Um, I think it's just, uh, it's like, it's like a smoke screen in front of the real problem.
You know what I mean?
Um, so let's just throw all that stuff to the side and, and really just focus on the core issue of, you know, how many immigrants is enough?
And that's not, that's not being racist.
That's just being logical.
So, you know, do we, do we set an amount?
You know, do we turn a no vacancy sign on in Springfield?
I don't know.
I mean, I'm just saying there at some point there has to be.
There has to be a limit, I feel like.
Because like you said, you can't... Is $20,000 not enough?
So is $50,000?
Or is $80,000?
Is $100,000?
You know, we're not built... Our infrastructure is not built for that.
I mean, we're already drained.
So I think, you know, focusing on the real issues and just not... And now we have a lot of stuff going on in town where There's bomb threats everywhere.
You know, like today, my kid's school is closed because of threats, and I don't know who's causing that, but it's definitely just, it's not allowing us to focus on the real issue.
Yeah, we know who's calling in those bomb threats.
They're called the FBI, by the way.
They're whipping this up themselves, and they're trying to blame everybody who doesn't want to welcome unlimited Migration.
But, you know, I think you've made a lot of really important points here today, and I share with you the idea.
I'm not going to judge any individual based on their ethnicity or their skin color or their language.
I welcome immigrants into America if they're quality people, you know.
But like you, I'm very concerned about how The American people, the citizens who live there their whole lives, paid property taxes, built the community, are being kicked to the curb, you know?
Being displaced and forgotten and replaced.
That's the issue.
I share that with you.
Yeah, I'm not focused on the cats and the voodoo or any of that stuff.
Maybe it's all just rumors, but what's real is the economic displacement.
That's real.
Absolutely.
Is there anything else you want to say before we wrap this up?
No, I appreciate a true conversation on it, and yeah, that's probably it, man.
I just, you know, I say if anybody out there is, you know, they believe in God, say a prayer for our city.
We shall.
We shall indeed.
And thank you for taking the time to join me today.
And don't disconnect quite yet.
Let me just wrap this up and put an end cap on this.
So for the audience here, thank you for listening today.
I hope you realize this is an authentic, unscripted conversation, real conversation with a person, Mark, who lives there, who has lived there his whole life.
And we're trying to bring you real information about this situation.
There's got to be a re-evaluation of these policies.
You can't just drop unlimited numbers of non-English-speaking migrants to move into a town, take over all the infrastructure, take over the housing, take over the jobs, and then just tell the American people, you know, screw you, you're forgotten, because that's what this looks like.
So this has got to be stopped, and there's got to be some sensical way to resolve this issue.
At least that's my opinion.
I think Mark mostly agrees with that as well.
Look, we're compassionate people.
We care about humanity.
We're people of faith.
And we also have the right for self-determination in our own communities and for our own country.
So thank you all for listening today.
I'm Mike Adams here at Brighteon.com.
God bless you.
God bless America.
Take care.
Here at HealthRangerStore.com, we've got all kinds of solutions to help you get ready for the chaos, the craziness that is coming.
Let me just show you what I've put on my desk here.
We've got number 10 cans galore, all kinds of foods.
Also the IOSAT potassium iodide there in front.
But we've got all these foods.
Certified organic, laboratory tested fruits and vegetables.
You can see even heavy cream there, goji berries.
We've got powdered milk.
We've got blueberry vanilla pancake mix.
We've got iodine vials and so much more all available right now.
You can find it at healthrangerstore.com slash get ready.
So just enter that into your browser, healthrangerstore.com slash get ready, all together, all one word, and you'll see what we have available and the prices that we have now.
Some of them are the best prices you're ever going to see because food inflation is getting worse, the supply chain is getting worse, you know the situation.
But I want to bring your attention to two dates that are coming up.
First, we have October 7th coming up.
That's the, of course, the one-year anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel, which then led to this escalating conflict between Israel and Hamas involving Gaza, the whole deal.
Everybody's unhappy, everybody's wanting to kill everybody else, it seems, and some of those people from the Middle East have come into the United States, and because the U.S.
provided weapons to Israel and continues to do so, There are some people that are determined to carry out acts of terrorism in the United States, and they intend to attack and sabotage key infrastructure.
We may see power outages.
We may see bombs.
I mean, I hope not.
I pray we don't.
I pray for peace.
There are people that want to destroy America, and some of them are already here.
And they're going to target bridges, they're going to target maybe, you know, grocery stores or whatever, or sporting events.
I don't know.
But they want to cause chaos in America.
So be very cautious on October 7th, folks.
Be very cautious.
That's a day to be on the lookout.
And then also have backup plans.
Make sure you can cover yourself if the power grid doesn't work for a while, for a few days, or if the water supply doesn't work, or if the grocery stores are shut down, or if there's some other kind of critical security emergency in your area.
Maybe transportation is shut down.
Maybe you can't get gasoline.
Maybe you don't have electricity in your home.
Maybe all the food spoils in your refrigerator.
Just have backup supplies ready.
This is part of what we provide for you.
Healthrangerstore.com slash get ready is where you can find all of these items.
And we've got hundreds of items, heavily scrutinized, laboratory tested, almost everything certified organic, available right now shipping out of our warehouse in Central Texas.
Now, October 7th is just one of the days.
Then we've got the election day.
So November 5th and 6th and 7th.
So, you know, just a month later, we've got another wide open potential for chaos scenario.
I don't know how that election is going to go.
I don't know who's going to win or who's going to cheat.
Well, we know.
We know the Democrats are going to cheat.
We do know that.
But we don't know if they're going to cheat enough to pull out a win or if that's going to be contested.
What we do know for sure is that if Trump's team wins, the radical left-wing Marxists, they're going to erupt in mass violence and protest and start burning down buildings and attacking who knows what.
And we also know that if the radical left wins, there are also going to be a lot of unhappy people about that.
And you know what?
The left-wing lunatics, they may set off their own violence against America anyway, thinking now no one can stop them.
So they might say that that's the right time for them to activate all their invaders and all the illegal migrants and the violent people who have come into this country with the intent to carry out acts of terrorism domestically.
And it's not just me saying this.
You know, even The U.S.
military is warning about this, and National Guard organizations, even the FBI has similar warnings right now.
Everybody knows that this is a season of high risk for terrorism attacks domestically, for sabotage against America internally, by different groups who have different motivations.
You know, some of them might be from the Middle East, and they hate America for America's support of Israel.
Others, they might be Antifa or radical left-wing groups, and they hate America because, well, they're Marxists and they're communists.
Or some people hate Trump.
Some groups just, they just hate the American flag.
They hate freedom.
I don't know.
There are all kinds of psychos and mentally ill individuals out there and violent terrorists, and we need to be prepared with some basic common sense readiness items.
That's food.
Be prepared for a nuclear event.
You know, Iowa sat right here.
This is potassium iodide.
This is FDA approved for emergency use in a radiation fallout event.
We've got that.
And we've also got other forms of iodine available at the store right now.
We've got the things that can help you get through what's coming.
That's all.
Help you get through what's coming.
The whole world's not going to come to an end, folks.
We can get through this together.
We just have to be ready, have some common sense, be wise.
You know, keep a level head.
Whatever happens, it's good to know.
You know, hey, we can handle that.
Grocery stores are shut down?
No problem.
We've got our own backup food.
Oh, electricity is down for a few days or a few weeks?
Guess what?
We've got backup water supplies.
We've got water filters or we have a way to survive.
That's all.
That's what I'm saying is just be ready with all kinds of different strategies for survival.
Right, Rhodey?
Yeah, come on up.
What do you have to say about survival?
Yeah, come on up.
Yeah, you're a good boy.
We got Rhodey here.
He's also all in for survival.
As long as it involves lots of ring toys, then he's gonna be okay.
You good?
Yeah?
Okay, that's what I thought.
Yeah.
He's all into survival, especially self-survival.
But folks, be ready for disruptions.
This is also the season of false flag operations.
So we're facing many threats from many different parties, most of whom really want to destroy America.
And we have to make sure that we don't let them do that.
We need to stand strong and defend this country, defend our communities, defend our rule of law.
And we can't do that if we're, you know, in line at a food bank or starving to death or suffering an infection.
We don't have medicine or natural medicine.
You know, we need to be able to defend ourselves.
And from that place of strength, then we can help defend our communities and defend our constitutional republic at the same time.
So food, healthy food, healthy supplements, superfoods, natural medicine, natural remedies, all of these have a very important role to play in making sure that you are strong and healthy and capable of helping to defend your nation against whatever threats come, whatever happens.
We're going to be tested.
This is an existential threat time for our constitutional republic.
And we're going to be very fortunate to get through this unscathed.
So plan on crazy things happening and also help support us because we're putting out a message of truth, we're doing amazing interviews, we're publishing stories on naturalnews.com, brighteon.com is interviewing industry leaders in health freedom, personal liberty and so much more.
We're putting out docuseries events at brightyou.com.
We're putting out a free AI language model that's focused on nutrition and herbs.
That's at brighteon.ai and so on and so forth.
You know, we have brighteon.io, a decentralized social media platform that cannot be censored.
And we have brighteon.social also, which has been up for a few years and is a really great place for breaking news.
It's kind of like Twitter, but without the censorship.
Yes, Twitter or X still censors.
But all of these projects, of course, cost money.
We reinvest that money into those projects thanks to your support.
So to the extent that you want to help yourself get prepared and also help support us, that helps us build and fund these projects that bring you these free speech platforms, these technology tools that work offline like our AI models, they will work offline.
And empower you with all of this knowledge and technology to help you stay free or to defend your freedom.
So we thank you for your support.
You can support us right now.
Shop at healthrangersstore.com slash get ready and get ready for October 7th.
Get ready for election day and whatever happens after election day.
Get ready because some very difficult times are coming for all of us and across our nation.
But God bless you all.
I pray for your safety.
Thank you for supporting us.
Thank you for praying for us.
And again, shop at healthrangersstore.com slash get ready.
I'm Mike Adams, the founder Brighton and the health ranger store.
Thank you for watching today.
▲
Export Selection