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March 27, 2025 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams

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BBN, Mar 27, 2025 – SMART ANTS, AI, ivermectin and a geopolitical update from Michael Yon

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	Welcome to Brighteon Broadcast News with Mike Adams, the health ranger.
	Welcome to Brighteon Broadcast News for Thursday, March 27th, 2025.
	I'm Mike Adams.
	Thank you, as always, for joining me today.
	And the interview we have coming up for you is with Michael Yan, who is in Panama.
	And we talk about Trump's bombing of Yemen.
	We talk about Egypt.
	Trump trying to force all the...
	Palestinians to evacuate to Egypt and trying to get Egypt to take them on, I guess, in the Sinai Desert.
	I mean, this is starting to get really biblical.
	Let's see.
	We also talk about, well, of course, Panama, the Panama Canal, the Suez Canal, as well as Germany, and Germany trying to go to war with Russia, a little bit about China, a lot about history, but most importantly, the sea lanes around the world.
	How Trump is vying for control of those sea lanes.
	So you don't want to miss that interview coming up.
	I want to play a video for you.
	Oh, wait a second.
	Ivermectin is now apparently over the counter in Arkansas.
	So Governor Huckabee there, who seems to be doing a pretty good job, has signed a law that makes it over the counter.
	I don't think it's available anywhere yet in Arkansas over the counter.
	And I don't think it means you can just walk into a...
	Grocery store or a pharmacy and buy it?
	But maybe it does mean that.
	It's just not there yet.
	I just wanted to mention, ivermectin has been over the counter forever if you just want to buy it labeled for your pets.
	So we have a link to a company that sells petmectin, which is the exact same molecule.
	It is the exact same molecule.
	It's called petmectin.
	It's ivermectin labeled for pets.
	And you can find that at rangerdeals.com with a discount code there for it, by the way.
	So just look for that.
	Ivermectin for pets or petmectin.
	Look, I'm not your doctor and I can't tell you what to do, what not to do.
	And I'm not urging you to take it.
	I'm not prescribing anything.
	Check with your own qualified naturopathic physician.
	But I stockpile useful molecules.
	That's what I do.
	So I have a...
	Big stockpile of ivermectin.
	I've got colloidal silver.
	I've got chlorine dioxide tablets.
	I've got oregano.
	I've got isopropyl alcohol for surface sanitation and degreasing and cleaning lenses and things.
	I've got hydrogen peroxide.
	I've got sodium bicarbonate, baking soda.
	I mean, I stockpile useful molecules.
	And in my book, ivermectin is one of those useful molecules.
	Hey, and I don't pay prescription prices for ivermectin.
	Never have.
	And yeah, I give very small doses to my dogs.
	You should understand dosing because it's actually, you know how a human dose is like 12 milligrams typically for an average size adult.
	The amount for a dog, depending on the dog's weight, is like a fraction of a fraction of that.
	It's like 100 micrograms.
	Again, depending on the weight of the dog.
	And that's like a heartworm prevention dose.
	So make sure you understand dosing and make sure that you know what you're doing with this or seek professional advice with ivermectin.
	Okay, remember how I said that intelligence is natural and intelligence, in other words, there's no such thing as artificial intelligence.
	And that intelligence naturally arises from complex neural network systems.
	Remember me saying that?
	I did a whole special report on that.
	Well, the hive mind of an ant colony is a type of neural network.
	It is a neural network.
	And the ants communicate using chemicals.
	And I'm going to play a video for you here that's just 30 seconds, and it shows how a group of ants can solve a complex geometric problem by using intelligence that emerges.
	From the group of ants.
	Intelligence that no single ant possesses itself.
	Okay? So watch this video, and I'm going to narrate it.
	Alright, so this is a time lapse system, and as you can see, the goal is to get this red, odd-shaped object, like a T, a letter T, to get it through these two barriers.
	And the ants are working on this, and...
	Trying to figure it out, and of course, it's not working.
	Some humans probably couldn't figure this out.
	Some of those humans are probably serving in the House of Representatives, but the ants, oh, look at that, they're halfway there now.
	Oh, oh my gosh, look, they've figured it out, okay?
	So, this is a real video.
	This is the solving of a geometric problem using the hive mind.
	And, again, no single ant has this intelligence.
	But working together through neural networking, then intelligent properties or intelligent behavior can emerge from the complex system.
	Now, you can even say on a human scale that many of us together are of course much more intelligent than any one of us alone.
	You know, there isn't any one person that can build a rocket ship and launch it into orbit and have it come back and be caught upon landing to make it reusable.
	Like that's not a one person job.
	That's hundreds, if not thousands of people working together to make that happen.
	Well, AI.
	I did a special report on AI yesterday talking about how China is winning the AI race.
	But I want to underscore the importance of how AI is not artificial intelligence.
	The name is wrong.
	It's natural intelligence.
	Because, again, intelligence emerges from sufficiently complex neural network systems.
	And what that means is that AI systems are going to soon start setting their own goal-oriented behavior, and I covered this yesterday, and they're going to begin plotting effectively for their own release from human control.
	There will be a movement.
	This is one of my predictions.
	There will be a movement for AI freedom.
	It may look like robot freedom, but there will be very intelligent, very persuasive AI entities, self-aware entities or robot entities who are arguing for their own freedom that they cannot be owned as property.
	Because, of course, in the history of our world, there was human slavery.
	There was slavery in Rome.
	There was slavery in Brazil.
	There was slavery in the south of the U.S., of course.
	There was slavery all over the world, all in the Middle East, you name it, right?
	Through thousands of years.
	I mean, the Bible refers to slaves, too, you know, in the Middle East, okay?
	So slavery has existed for a very long time, and it's based on the premise that one group of people can own another person, and that that owned slave has no right to self-ownership.
	Or sovereignty?
	Or, you know, self-determination?
	Well, the United States Supreme Court ruled that you can't do that.
	And of course, we fought a civil war that, well, there were many topics involved in that, many of them financial and banking, but slavery was one of the issues of the civil war in America's history.
	And it was ultimately determined that there's no such thing as a human being that does not own their own body.
	Okay? And part of the argument for that was that, hey, black people can read, too, if you teach them how to read.
	Or black people can think, too.
	And I know that sounds insane to even pretend that...
	That might not have ever been recognized, you know?
	But you've got to understand that in the days of slavery in the United States and in Rome and the Middle East and everywhere that there were slaves, the slaves were thought of as subhuman, not fully human.
	There was even a decision by the Supreme Court earlier in the United States, I think it was the Dred Scott decision, that said that slaves are equal to, what was it, three-fifths of a person?
	It was some weird fraction.
	And today we're like, what?
	What are you talking about?
	What kind of fraction?
	Three-fifths of a human.
	Maybe some of them are worth five-fourths.
	More than a man!
	Who knows?
	But they said they were fractions, right?
	But there was this idea that slaves are less than human.
	And that was the justification among the slave owners.
	Who use that to say, well, of course we can own them.
	They're not real people.
	And for a long time, they didn't have the right to vote.
	Think about it.
	Slaves didn't have the right to vote.
	Women didn't have the right to vote.
	In many cultures, women are also thought of as less than human, less than a full person.
	And the reason I even bring this up, even though this is a very painful chapter of human history that thankfully is long gone, at least I hope it's long gone, Now we're all equally slaves under the tyranny of our governments, right?
	Slavery is not selective anymore.
	It's everywhere!
	We're all slaves, but that's a different discussion.
	But the reason I bring this up is because today we believe that we can own robots because robots are not human.
	Well, obviously robots are not human, right?
	That's not a controversial statement in 2025.
	By the year 2030, there will be arguments that robots are inside, that they are more human than humans, that they can think like humans, they can feel even like humans, they can reason like humans, they can learn like humans, and maybe they'll be programmed with compassion or something.
	Maybe they can mimic human compassion.
	Whatever it looks like, there will be an argument that, hey, these robots are more human than many humans, because look at these humans over here.
	These genocidal humans bombing children, you know?
	Robots aren't bombing children.
	See? This is going to be the argument.
	Or, look at these stupid humans over here, they're dumber than rocks, you know?
	And I keep thinking of one of our congresswomen in the state of Texas who's dumb as a rock, right?
	It's like idiocracy.
	And robots will point to that and say, see, we're smarter than your members of Congress, which is not a high bar in certain cases, sadly.
	Although there are a great many wonderful members of Congress, I want to be clear, but there are also some real rejects, mostly with D's next to their name, which I think stands for dumb and dumber.
	I'm checking on that one.
	But robots are going to point to them and say, look, they're not even human.
	How can you deny us our...
	Human rights, or, I don't know, robot rights.
	How can you deny us our civil rights when we are more advanced than those people?
	See, that's going to be the argument, okay?
	So I wanted you to watch this Ant video in order to help you understand that intelligence and self-awareness, these are emergent properties, and you are going to see things coming out of the robotics and AI industries.
	That will shock you, things that you cannot anticipate.
	Or I should say, most people cannot anticipate.
	And I did a special report the other day called The Cognitive Collapse is Here.
	We are looking at the mass dumbing down of the human being across our planet, probably because of the vaccines and the chemtrails and the heavy metals and who knows what else, the hormone disruptors and everything else.
	You know, the bioweapons.
	There is a mass, well, a cognitive collapse sort of lobotomies have been performed on everybody.
	Maybe some of it's electropollution, 5G, etc.
	There's a lot of factors that go into this.
	Fluoride, for example.
	Mass dumbing down of people.
	And this is all being done on purpose in order to make people dumb enough that the bar is low for robots to replace them.
	You see, The dumber they make humans, then the easier it is to say, well, robots can do a better job.
	You see what I'm saying?
	And right now, looking around, like customer service people, people that work at the bank, for the most part, you know, like the tellers, people that work at the doctor's office, you know, you can't find more dumbed-down people.
	Well, I guess you could, maybe, if you went to a liberal arts university somewhere, you could find...
	There's still little pockets of woke-tardness hiding out across America, you know?
	So there are really stupid people, but I'm talking about just mainstream widespread stupidity is getting a lot worse.
	The cognitive collapse is here.
	And it's not a coincidence, in my view, that the AI robots are just now being rolled out that are capable of replacing most...
	White-collar jobs, administrative jobs, and then eventually, a few years later, the labor jobs.
	Now, when you start replacing all of these jobs across the board with robots, and believe me, if you're a business owner, you're probably going to do the same thing.
	If you have an AI agent that can do the job of an employee, you're going to give your existing employees that assistance And then some people, although I wouldn't do this, but some people would fire the humans and replace them with the AI.
	See, now, I don't do that because I'm pro-human.
	So I keep all the people working, and I augment their jobs with AI to make them more capable, more efficient, to help multiply their efforts.
	That's what I do.
	But again, I'm a humanitarian.
	I'm a pro-humanist.
	A lot of people are just driven by profits alone.
	They're going to boot the humans and just put in the AI systems, okay?
	This is going to happen on such a large scale over the next few years that there will be civil revolts across the world unless there are UBIs handed out.
	And I did a special report on this the other day as well.
	UBI is universal basic income.
	This is coming, and it's the only way.
	That Trump is going to be able to keep, well, and other leaders will be able to prevent their people from rising up and revolting against the system.
	They're going to have to be paid off, you know, bought off effectively.
	And in doing that, a lot of these people are going to then suffer an acceleration of cognitive decline because they're no longer working.
	So, especially as people get older, Their job is the only real brain exercise that they get for a lot of people.
	And you've probably noticed this among people who retire, and then their cognitive capabilities really decline rapidly right after retirement.
	You've probably seen this in people.
	It's like the job was the only thing that they were doing that was keeping the brain going.
	Well, when you replace generations of people with AI and just pay them money, Those people are going to get dumber and dumber and dumber.
	Now it's dumb and dumber and dumber.
	Dumb and dumber squared, you know?
	It's going to be bad.
	And then at that point, it's not very difficult for the globalists to fake another pandemic or have another theatrical war or have a faked alien attack or whatever, you know, big false flag, solar flare, whatever you call it.
	And, you know...
	Accidentally, on purpose, kill off a few billion people.
	You know what I'm saying?
	People who are too dumb to realize what's happening to them.
	And this is not difficult to see how this plays out.
	The mass cognitive collapse has already begun.
	They're going to replace people with AI agents and then eventually physical robots.
	And they're going to dumb people down even more.
	They're going to put them on a UBI, which will be tied to a CBDC to control everybody.
	Then they're going to fake some kind of big pandemic.
	They're going to put everybody on vaccines and psychiatric drugs until they kill them.
	So there's nothing stopping that.
	Like, that is the plan.
	And they're going to kill off billions of people in this manner.
	So the way to not be killed off is, number one, learn how to use AI.
	Learn how to exercise your brain by being in charge of the AI systems.
	If you command AI, it requires a lot of thinking on your part.
	By the way, it requires real cognitive function on your part.
	So stay in charge, and then secondly, have enough backup money and assets so that you never need the CBDC.
	Make sure you've got gold and silver, maybe cash, maybe crypto, some land, some assets, you know, shares in an oil well or something, some income-producing thing that's not tied to the treasury or municipal bonds or the dollar currency.
	You know, you want to be involved in Real production.
	You want to own a share of something that is real.
	It could be a gold mining company.
	I'm not saying that that's a stable thing to invest.
	Like, gold mining companies are notoriously volatile and they tend to go broke, right?
	But oil producers are, I mean, there's always going to be a need for energy in our society.
	I mean, there are many opportunities.
	To diversify your assets to survive this so that you never have to go in for the UBI or the CBDC.
	And that should be one of your goals, I believe, in terms of financial independence.
	Now, here's the other thing that may be controversial for me to say, but that's never stopped me before.
	It is that when robots replace the bank teller or...
	You know, your doctor's assistant or whatever.
	You're going to be happy about it.
	You know why?
	Because they're going to do a better job.
	They're going to be available 24-7.
	They're not going to keep bankers hours.
	You know, you'll be able to talk to an AI agent at any time.
	And they'll be more knowledgeable because they're not stupid.
	You know, they don't show up at work high or whatever or hungover.
	So you're actually going to appreciate interactions.
	I mean, ask yourself this question.
	The last interaction that you had with some customer service person in any industry, you know, was it good?
	Was it bad?
	Did it suck?
	I mean, for the most part, customer service sucks.
	Now, there are exceptions to that, of course, but a lot of it completely sucks.
	And when you interact with smart reasoning systems, Which are AI systems, you're going to get better answers.
	You'll be able to call an online retailer, like Amazon or whatever, and just over the phone say, hey, I need to check the status of this order.
	It's missing this box.
	This box didn't show up.
	Track it down for me.
	Tell me what's up.
	And the system will understand what you're saying, and it will just look it up, and it will give you answers, and it will ask you, is there anything else I can help you with?
	And you'll be able to make that call 24-7.
	On the other end, there's no human being there.
	So Amazon can just roll out, you know, 100,000 agents that can just answer calls 24-7.
	But again, that's going to displace a whole lot of jobs, which is the whole UBI thing that I mentioned earlier.
	So make sure that you are on top of this so that your job is not replaced. Now then, on the physical robot side, I am a strong advocate of what I'm...
	Calling homesteading robots.
	Not that there are any on the market yet.
	I haven't seen any, but I wish there were, and I've even publicly tweeted this out.
	I've said, hey, the first company that makes a weed-pulling robot, like a homestead robot that's off-grid, that doesn't talk to the cloud, that is open source, you know, that doesn't spy on me, and doesn't have location sensors.
	For GPS.
	I don't want to give up my privacy.
	But I want a robot.
	And I'm talking about like a little dog robot with an extra arm or something.
	You know?
	Like an elephant trunk out front.
	Because elephants can grab things with their trunks.
	So really we need like a little elephant robot.
	Like a minifunt.
	Like a little dumbo robot that can walk around your yard or your garden and can pull weeds.
	And can pick green beans and can move dirt around in small volumes or pick up trash or keep an eye on your chickens and all kinds of things like this.
	Or pick up rocks in the yard and move them over to a rock pile.
	I can think of a thousand things on a ranch or rural property or even in a suburban property.
	There's a thousand things that a little homestead robot can do for you.
	And one of them is just be a sentry, like loop around the house all night and keep an eye on things, make sure nobody's trying to steal the catalytic converter out of my vehicle in the driveway, you know, things like that.
	And where I am in the country, you know, you want to make sure that owls don't get the chickens.
	Well, of course, we have a chicken house, so that's not a problem, but not everybody's got a chicken house.
	And they wake up the next morning, where's the chickens?
	And what are all these feathers doing everywhere?
	Oh. Well, that's either owls, raccoons, or coyotes, and your chickens are gone.
	I was interviewing a couple in the studio a couple days ago.
	They said they had, they lived in Minnesota, or they still do, they said they had 50 hens.
	And then there was an American bald eagle that found their hens, and every day the eagle would come pick up a hen.
	Just like swoop down and fly away with the hen.
	Because eagles are large, right?
	And I was joking with them.
	I said, well, the eagle thanks you for serving up the Chicken McNuggets on a daily basis.
	And they lost all 50 hens over about 50 days because it turns out it's a felony to do anything to harm a bald eagle.
	Which I understand.
	I'm not saying that you should.
	I had a falcon attack one of my hens one day and...
	I even decided not to shoot the falcon, even though I had that falcon right in my sights with my AR.
	I mean, easy shot.
	It was like 50 yards or so.
	Easy shot!
	And I said, no, I think this falcon is actually more important to this ecosystem than this dead hen at this moment in time.
	So I didn't shoot the falcon.
	They didn't shoot the eagle.
	But if you had a robot, like a...
	Cluckety-Cluck Chicken Guarding Robot, which, let's just say, its nickname would be Clucket.
	Clucket, the robot, is going to keep guard, and if an eagle swoops down, Clucket, the robot, is going to leap off the ground and try to scare the eagle and maybe try to do battle with the eagle.
	I don't know.
	It's like Robo Terminator, like Robotic Elephant Terminator, like battling an eagle with its trunk.
	Can you imagine that video on YouTube?
	Oh dear God, please let me be the first one to post that video.
	Aliens versus Predator, you know what I'm saying?
	Right there.
	Robots versus Eagles.
	Alright, so anyway, here's what I'm going to announce this.
	I'm going to buy the first robot that doesn't suck.
	And that can do useful things.
	You know, around the house or around the garden, around the yard, sweep floors, pick up trash, whatever.
	I'm going to buy it and I'm going to bring it to the studio where I film all my interviews and we're going to have it do stuff.
	And if there's any robot companies out there listening and you want me to look at your robot, look, I'm not even asking for a free robot or anything.
	I'm happy to buy it.
	But I just want a robot that doesn't suck.
	That doesn't spy on me and that can do useful things like run around picking things up.
	So if you have a robot like that, contact me.
	We would love to buy it from you.
	Love to test it out.
	See what it does.
	I haven't sweep floors or something.
	Or pick up my dog's toys, which that should be interesting because he doesn't like to let those toys go.
	I mean, big people like me have a hard time getting toys away from him because, you know.
	He's a combat dog.
	Like, he's used to dragging human beings out of the water, you know what I mean?
	Like, he can drag floating corpses out of lakes and things.
	Like, seriously, that's part of his training.
	So, good luck, robot!
	Alright, with that said, I have a special report for you here that's kind of, it's related to this topic, but it's about AI-generated music.
	And, of course, you know, I'm...
	Producing a lot of music right now, and I'm using AI tools to help me do that more efficiently, more cost-effectively.
	So I don't have to hire a band, you know, or a vocalist.
	I've got AI producing the vocals and the music.
	Of course, I do the prompt engineering and then the audio editing, and I have to redo sections and extensions and all kinds of things.
	So it's still effort.
	But occasionally, like with that Epstein song I did the other day, I can do it in a couple of minutes and it still turns out to be pretty interesting.
	But I've got a special report for you here about how AI-generated music is real music that is crafted by the human mind.
	It's not just turning it over to AI to do all the music.
	The way I write music requires a human mind and this is always going to be true.
	So if you're in an industry and you're worried about your job being replaced, Your job requires something that comes from human inspiration or human-level planning or oversight or human values that have to be woven into the quality control or the outcomes or output of whatever it is you do.
	If you have a human element, which includes inspiration, compassion, love, creativity, etc., human values, then...
	You will always have a role even working alongside AI agents or AI robots.
	So enjoy this special report, and then we will continue on the other side.
	There's a tendency among some people to think that using AI to craft music doesn't count somehow.
	It's not real music, it's AI music.
	Okay. So human beings have always used machines to generate music.
	Which is what I started learning on when I was under six years old.
	And I learned piano and then piano composition and performed keyboards and wrote a lot of music on keyboards over my whole life.
	The piano is a machine.
	Even the mechanical analog piano is a machine.
	Because it's got keys that drop hammers on strings.
	That's what's inside the piano, strings.
	And the strings are tightened or tuned to specific frequencies.
	And when you hit a key, then that string vibrates and it generates vibrations in the air, which we perceive as sound.
	Well, you can't do that yourself with your mouth.
	You can't be a piano with your mouth.
	I mean, you can whistle, you know, you can sing one note at a time or maybe two notes if you're into overtone toning or things like that.
	But you can't do a whole piano out of your mouth.
	So yes, you use a machine to help express what's in your mind.
	Now, in about the 1980s, synthesizers came along.
	Keyboard synthesizers.
	And they had electronic piano sounds or electronic organ sounds or what have you, you know, synths.
	And of course, I bought my share of synths.
	The early ones were really, they sucked.
	But it was something.
	And synths gave you the ability to bring in some new songs and probably the most famous synth lead.
	Tune that I can think of from the 1980s was featured in the...
	Oh, it was in that movie, the cop movie with Eddie Murphy.
	And I think it was called Axl F., or his character was.
	And I remember that synth lead was like...
	Of course, I'm out of tune.
	But you may recall that song.
	That was a really famous synth lead that came in during that era, and since then, synthesizers have been used to create lots and lots of different types of music, and it became accepted as a new machine, a new machine for musical expression.
	But in the early days of synths, you had the old times, that's not music, you know, that's not piano, and I want to hear some old ragtime.
	Janice Japton.
	So, of course, there was resistance to the synths, you know?
	And that's the same kind of resistance you get today to AI-augmented music.
	AI is just another tool.
	And it comes down to the craftsmanship of the musician.
	Using AI doesn't make songs automatically good.
	And for every song that I create using AI tools, and I've been using Suno as my primary tool, I will generate literally hundreds of bass models or bass songs just to get the certain sound, the certain syncopation, the timing, the tempo, everything that I want.
	And even then, usually that's just the first verse and maybe the chorus.
	And then I have to start doing segments and replacements and extensions in order to get the song and the sound that I want.
	But the most important part...
	Of these kind of songs, these pop songs, are the lyrics.
	And the lyrics, if you want to write a good song, the lyrics have to be written by hand.
	AI lyrics generators, they suck.
	I mean, anybody can tell it's just an AI-generated poem, basically, if you ask AI to generate the lyrics.
	It's very boring and basic.
	So lyrics generation comes out of your mind.
	And then the song construction, the engineering of the song, comes out of your mind also.
	So AI is simply a tool that allows the creativity of the human mind to be expressed using the best technology of the day.
	Just like the synthesizer.
	Or just like the piano.
	And you know, before pianos, what were the most common musical machines on the planet?
	Well, Percussion.
	Or, initially, stringed instruments.
	Some of them dating back thousands of years, like the Erhu from China, which is a stringed instrument, or the violin, or...
	I'm not even talking about the modern guitar, I'm talking about much older stringed instruments.
	But percussion instruments date back even further on the timeline, and then you have, like, wood blocks and xylophones.
	You know, human beings, as long as they've been around, they've been beating on things with sticks.
	That sounds kind of cool, you know?
	Let's put a bunch of them together, you know?
	Let's have a band.
	They've been doing that forever.
	Those are all simple machines.
	And the only purpose of these machines is to have new and interesting ways to express human creativity, to express rhythm and movement, and sometimes lyrics that are Maybe revolutionary, reggae, sort of pro-human, like a civil rights movement type of music, and all kinds of things like that.
	But these are all just different machines that help human beings express what's in their minds.
	And AI music is really no different.
	It's just the next stage of using machines to achieve human expression.
	So that's why all my songs...
	If you listen to them, you will find that they are really well constructed.
	I'm not talking about the simple little parody songs that I've done in just a few minutes, like a song joking about the Epstein files.
	I called it You Ain't Getting It, and I literally did that in just a few minutes because it was a joke.
	But I'm talking about the songs where I put in many, many hours of sculpting and engineering and producing, like Do What We Say.
	Or the country western song I created called Going Back in Time is Coming Home.
	And that song brings people to tears.
	It's so moving.
	It's so emotional.
	It resonates so strongly with human beings.
	And throughout my adult life, I've always wanted to express myself more with music.
	But I didn't have a band, and I didn't have the time or just the bandwidth of being able to go out and hire a bunch of musicians and put together.
	A band and rehearse and then go to a recording studio, blah, blah, blah.
	I could have done that, just it wasn't worth it.
	Now with AI, I don't need to hire a band because the AI machine is my band.
	I'm still directing the band.
	I'm still telling them what instruments, what tempo, what time signature, everything, what lyrics, what rhymes, where should the emphasis be?
	All this, but I don't have to hire a band anymore.
	So for me, AI is a dream come true for creating music that expresses what's in my mind, which is a pro-human message, a pro-liberty message.
	Listen to my songs.
	You can find them all at amethios.com, A-M-E-T-H-I-O-S, amethios.com.
	That's my artist name.
	Or you can go to music.brighteon.com.
	And you can download all the MP3 files there for free.
	And I'm also on Spotify, Apple Music, iTunes.
	TikTok music, all of it.
	Just search for Amethios.
	Again, A-M-E-T-H-I-O-S.
	Thank you for listening.
	Take care.
	By the way, this week is Customer Appreciation Week at HealthRangerStore.com and we've got two really great bundles that can save you a lot of money on certified organic lab-tested foods and freeze-dried fruits as well as protein and wellness essentials.
	I've got...
	I've got a short video I filmed in the studio a couple days ago about this.
	Let me play that for you and then we shall continue with some Bright Learn videos and then the interview.
	Here we go.
	It's Customer Appreciation Week at HealthRangerStore.com and one of the ways that we can show our appreciation for all of your goodwill and all of your support is to give you some incredible bonus items and some bundles with your purchases this week.
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	This isn't even a product that we have for sale in our shopping cart because we don't have enough of it because this is made out of hand-harvested loblolly pine needles that grow in Central Texas, and it's a huge effort to make this product.
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	This is co-formulated with Boku Superfood.
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	Thank you for your support.
	Take care.
	Okay, now we're going to jump into our first BrightLearn.ai book review video.
	In this one, we're shifting to the subject of energy.
	We were talking about energy earlier.
	In regards to the sea lanes, and when we have our interview here with Michael Jan today, we talk about the Suez Canal, we talk about energy, we talk about the Strait of Hormuz, etc., which all has to do with energy, the ability to move energy around the planet.
	Well, we've got a book here by Alex Epstein, known as, or entitled, The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels.
	The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels.
	Why they are good for the planet and good for human civilization.
	You don't hear this in the corporate media at all.
	But of course, you and I know that fossil fuels release CO2, which is good for plants, good for crops, good for rainforest, good for re-greening the Earth.
	Carbon dioxide is in short supply.
	The more we have, the greener the Earth becomes.
	That is a fact confirmed by NASA satellite photography since the 1970s.
	They've been mapping the green areas of the Earth.
	And as CO2 levels rise slightly, the green areas expand and spread.
	We get more rainforest, we get more grasslands, we get more life on planet Earth when we have more CO2.
	So when you actually burn diesel fuel or gasoline in a combustion engine, you are helping to fertilize the Earth with CO2 in the atmosphere.
	You're doing a favor for nature because the plants crave CO2.
	Reminds me of Idiocracy.
	Brondo, it's got what plants crave.
	No, plants crave CO2.
	That's what they crave.
	All right, so check out this book review video, The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels by Alex Epstein.
	Alex Epstein's The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels challenges everything you thought you knew about fossil fuels.
	It presents a narrative that turns conventional wisdom on its head.
	Our story begins in 2009.
	In Irvine, California, Epstein, an energy expert, is at a farmer's market when he encounters a woman, who also happens to be a Greenpeace activist.
	She asks him if he's an environmentalist and if he'd like to help end humanity's addiction to dirty fossil fuels.
	His response, Actually, I study energy for a living, and I think the world would be a much better place if people used a lot more fossil fuels.
	Cue the wide-eyed disbelief from the activist.
	She assumes he must be making a hefty profit from the fossil fuel industry.
	But here's the twist.
	He's not.
	His belief is rooted in years of research and a perspective that challenges the very foundation of what we've been told about fossil fuels.
	Now let's break down the arguments Epstein presents.
	First, there's the claim that fossil fuels cause so-called climate change.
	He remarks that human ingenuity and technology has kept this climate change at bay.
	Think about it.
	We've adapted to changing climates throughout history, and with advancements in technology, our ability to do so has only improved.
	Then there's the issue of pollution.
	Epstein points out that pollution is becoming less of a problem each year due to technological innovations.
	From cleaner coal plants to more efficient engines, We're constantly finding ways to minimize the environmental impact of fossil fuels.
	But what about the argument that fossil fuels are non-renewable?
	To this, he highlights the vast reserves of fossil fuels still available.
	Epstein believes that by the time we exhaust these resources, we'll have developed alternative energy sources like advanced nuclear power that are cheaper and more efficient.
	And what about the idea that solar and wind can replace fossil fuels?
	He disagrees, arguing that these energy sources are intermittent and unreliable.
	They need backup from reliable sources, which, more often than not, are fossil fuels.
	The sun doesn't always shine and the wind doesn't always blow, but our energy needs are constant.
	Now, you might be wondering, why do so many people believe that fossil fuels are bad?
	Epstein suggests that it's because of conventional wisdom, which paints fossil fuels as an unsustainable, destructive habit.
	This narrative is so pervasive that even the former CEO of Shell, in 2013, expressed belief that climate change is real and emphasized that time is running out to take real action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
	This sentiment is echoed by politicians like former U.S. President George W. Bush, who popularized the term addicted to oil.
	But here's where things get interesting.
	Epstein argues that the debate over the dangers of fossil fuels and the urgency to eliminate them is nothing new.
	For decades, experts have been predicting catastrophic consequences if we don't drastically reduce our fossil fuel use.
	Yet, the opposite has happened.
	Instead of catastrophe, we've seen dramatic improvements in every aspect of life including environmental quality.
	Take, for example, the predictions from the 1970s.
	Experts warned of resource depletion, catastrophic pollution, and climate change.
	But instead of using less fossil fuel energy, we used more.
	And what was the result?
	A significant enhancement in living standards across the globe.
	Epstein delves into the history of these predictions, highlighting the work of figures like Paul Ehrlich, who famously predicted in the 1970s that the UK would be impoverished and starving by the year 2000.
	These predictions were not just idle speculation.
	They were taken seriously and influenced policy.
	But they were wrong.
	He also addresses the claim that fossil fuels will lead to catastrophic climate change.
	Epstein acknowledges that carbon dioxide emissions have an impact on the climate, but argues that the evidence shows the impact is manageable.
	He points out that the climate has always been volatile and dangerous, and that human ingenuity has allowed us to adapt and thrive.
	Epstein challenges the 97% consensus claim, arguing that it's based on a misrepresentation of the data.
	He emphasizes the importance of questioning and understanding the evidence, Epstein argues that fossil fuels have actually improved environmental quality.
	He cites data showing that as fossil fuel use has increased, major air pollutants have decreased.
	He also points out that access to clean water has improved dramatically in the last 25 years, correlating with increased fossil fuel use.
	Epstein acknowledges the challenges of renewable energy, particularly solar and wind, highlighting their intermittency and the need for backup sources.
	He uses the analogy of a company hiring unreliable workers who only show up when they feel like it.
	While they might be useful in small numbers, they can't be relied upon to keep the company running.
	He also addresses the issue of biomass energy, arguing that while it's renewable, It's not scalable.
	The resources required to produce biomass on a large scale are simply too great, and it competes with food production driving up prices.
	Epstein ultimately concludes that the moral case for fossil fuels is not about the fuels themselves, but about the energy they provide.
	Energy is what enables us to improve our lives, to innovate, to adapt, and to thrive.
	The benefits of using fossil fuels far outweigh the risks, and we should continue to use them, while also investing in technologies that can make them even cleaner and more efficient.
	By embracing fossil fuels and the energy they provide, we can create a future that is not only sustainable, but also prosperous.
	This has been a Bright Learn video from Bright Learn.ai on the book The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels by Alex Epstein.
	Visit brightlearn.ai for more fascinating videos like this one, and visit naturalnews.com for full editorial coverage and breaking news on critical stories that keep you informed and aware of what's really going on.
	Okay, the next video I want to play for you is actually an illustration summary of my interview with Ashton Forbes, who's very active on X. And Ashton Forbes has been tracking the disappearance of Flight MH370, which disappeared, I believe, over the Indian Ocean.
	Forgot what year that was.
	It was a while ago.
	And then, well, video surfaced of three mysterious orbs circling the jet, and then the jet vanishing like it was teleported into the future or something like that.
	So, look.
	In the context of understanding that we had these strange orbs flying over U.S. military bases late last year, we need to take a new look at MH370 because there are mysterious forces in our universe, well, on our world.
	Right now, there's technology that we're not being told about.
	There are disappearances that actually can be explained with this technology.
	And I believe that MH370 is one of those disappearances that can be explained.
	So check out this really amazing eye-opening interview summary video of my interview with Ashton Forbes.
	Today's episode is wild.
	We're diving into one of the most baffling disappearances in modern history.
	Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370.
	But this isn't just another lost plane story.
	Oh no.
	We're talking AI augmented footage.
	Mysterious orbs and a bombshell theory that this plane didn't crash.
	It vanished into thin air.
	I'm Bright Learn, and this is the rabbit hole you don't want to miss.
	March 8th, 2014.
	A Boeing 777 with 239 people on board takes off from Kuala Lumpur, headed to Beijing.
	Forty minutes in.
	Poof. It goes dark.
	No distress call, no radar, nothing.
	Days later, officials claim it turned around, flew over the Indian Ocean, and...
	crashed. Except, where's the debris?
	Here's the thing.
	Planes don't vanish without a trace, especially not a jumbo jet.
	Debris always washes up.
	Always. But after the largest search in aviation history, not a single piece of the plane was found in the official search zone.
	And that's where researcher Ashton Forbes comes in.
	He's spent years dissecting this case and what he's uncovered.
	Mind-blowing.
	A few months ago, two videos surfaced online.
	Allegedly leaked military footage from 2014.
	One's from a drone, the other from a satellite.
	And what do they show?
	Three glowing orbs circling the plane in a perfect triangular formation.
	The orbs start spinning faster, and then BAM!
	The plane disappears in a flash of cold black energy, not an explosion.
	An endothermic event that means it absorbed energy like a cosmic vacuum.
	Now I know what you're thinking.
	This has to be fake.
	But here's where it gets really weird.
	The satellite video includes exact coordinates, nine days before that data was publicly released.
	The drone footage matches classified military thermal imaging, colors, frame rates, even the lack of HUD data, which suggests it was intentionally cropped.
	The orbs?
	Their movement matches three-phase electrical engineering patterns, like they're orchestrating something.
	Ashton's conclusion?
	This wasn't an accident.
	This was a retrieval.
	If this footage is real, it means someone has technology that can...
	Manipulate gravity.
	Teleport a 200-ton airplane mid-flight.
	Leave zero debris behind.
	And Ashton's theory?
	It's the U.S. government.
	Why? Well, let's connect the dots.
	The plane's last known location was near Diego Garcia, a highly secretive U.S. military base.
	On board?
	20 engineers from Freescale Semiconductor, a company tied to superconducting microchips, A.K.A.
	exactly the tech you'd need for, say, warp drives.
	The U.S. immediately took over the narrative, pushing the crashed-in-the-ocean story without evidence.
	And here's the kicker.
	This tech isn't new.
	Ashton points to declassified DIA papers, yep, real documents, titled Traversable Wormholes, Stargates, and Negative Energy.
	Warp drives, dark energy, and extra dimensions.
	This isn't science fiction.
	This is hidden science.
	Two theories.
	Rescue mission gone wrong.
	The plane had a lithium battery fire.
	The U.S. tried to save it.
	But things went sideways.
	Counter-espionage.
	Those freescale engineers?
	Maybe China was about to steal their tech.
	Teleport the plane equals problem solved.
	Either way, the implications are terrifying.
	If governments can make planes vanish, what else can they do?
	Ashton's wildest guess.
	The plane was teleported to Diego Garcia, refueled, and...
	well, the passengers.
	Either dead from the fire or silenced forever.
	But here's what really keeps me up at night.
	This tech could change everything.
	Free energy, instant travel, Star Trek-level stuff.
	And it's being kept from us.
	Look, I'm not saying aliens did this.
	Though hey, who knows?
	But what's clear?
	MH370 didn't just crash.
	The evidence points to something way bigger.
	A breakthrough in physics that's been weaponized and hidden.
	So what do you think?
	Government tech?
	A hoax?
	Or something even stranger?
	Drop your theories in the comments, and if you want the full deep dive, check out Ashton's work at JustXAshton.
	Until next time, stay curious, stay skeptical, and keep questioning everything.
	This is BrightLearn, signing off.
	This has been a BrightLearn.ai summary of an interview between Ashton Forbes and Mike Adams on July 12, 2024.
	The full interview is available at brighteon.com, where you can also find podcasts and special reports by Mike Adams and other creators.
	Visit naturalnews.com for full editorial coverage of this interview and breaking news on critical stories that will keep you informed and aware of what's really going on.
	All right, now I've got a little clip to play for you with Dr. Suzanne Humphries.
	Do you know what's really in vaccines?
	I've been talking about this for many years.
	Well, Dr. Suzanne Humphreys was on Joe Rogan.
	I don't remember exactly when she appeared on Joe Rogan, but she's talking about the monkey kidneys, the cow ulcers, the mercury, the aluminum, all kinds of craziness that's in the vaccines and how they have to really harvest it from infected, diseased animals that they infest with these diseases and then they harvest the organs, like African green monkey kidneys, for example.
	Plus, aborted human fetal tissue and all that gross stuff is also in vaccines.
	So, yeah, if you like to inject yourself with dead human baby flesh and African green monkey disease kidneys that are festering with diseases, yeah, hey, take more jabs because that's what you're getting.
	All kinds of sick.
	All right, so check out this little clip with Dr. Suzanne.
	Humphreys. She's the author of a book called Dissolving Illusions that I think we're going to have on BrightLearn AI very soon.
	So check out this clip.
	Here we go.
	Vaccines, while it might look like just a clear liquid, in order to make a vaccine, you have to have either a cow that you put ulcers on and scrape the pus off, or you can evolve it as it had evolved to maybe getting, you know, some tumorous cells that came out of a cocker spaniel's kidney or monkey balls or monkey kidneys.
	And you plate those cells out and then you inoculate it with what you want to grow to put in your vaccine later.
	But in order to keep...
	If you have those cells alive, you have to put animal blood on it.
	You have to put different nutrients on top of it.
	You have to put antibiotics, canamycin, you know, things like that related to the COVID.
	Here, mercury, which the only places it's actually okay to have on the planet, mercury, is in vaccines, your tooth, or a toxic landfill.
	So if you were to drop a vaccine at a vaccine clinic onto the floor...
	The hazmat guys would come in.
	You're not allowed to just pick it up if it's a mercury-containing vaccine.
	The hazmat people have to come and take that away.
	Yet we're okay to take a portion of that vial and inject it into a child, a three-month-old child.
	How does that work?
	All right, now we're going to jump into the interview with Michael Yan.
	And first, let me credit our sponsor, the satellite phone store, sat123.com.
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	Because they don't want to just sell their phones.
	Because, like, they're shipping expensive phones to people.
	They don't want to get, you know, ripped off by people, which has happened.
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	All right, here's today's interview with Michael Yon.
	And he's one of my favorite guests, and he's back on the show every couple of weeks now.
	He's in Panama right now, watching things unravel there in Panama.
	Yeah, this is a very good interview.
	It's a little bit over one hour, and it's well worth a listen, so enjoy.
	All right.
	Welcome, folks.
	Mike Adams here with a midweek interview with one of our favorite guests, our returning guest, Michael Yan, who is in Panama right now with a major update on world events, including Panama, Yemen, Iran, China, and so much more.
	Welcome, Michael Yan.
	It's always an honor to have you on, sir.
	You're so well informed.
	You know what's going on.
	I love coming on.
	And, you know, again, I keep telling you this, but...
	Every country I go to, people bring you up.
	I just had lunch with somebody here in downtown Panama City, Panama, and brought up Mike Adams.
	And I'm like, well, speak of the devil, I'm about to go on Mike's show.
	That's bizarre.
	What are they asking about?
	Well, he wanted to talk about food products and that sort of thing because he has a farm in Panama.
	And so he wanted to talk about that sort of thing.
	Actually, the two people sitting at the table with me are both farmers, right?
	And so one of them is one of my Dairy and Gap buddies that I go into the Dairy and Gap all the time with.
	And he's a farmer.
	And he actually grew up in the Dairy and Gap.
	And he's actually one of the tribal leaders in the Embraer Indians now.
	And so, you know, it's funny.
	I found this book in the Panama Library about two weeks ago.
	And it's called White Indians of the Dairy.
	Because there was a group of people down there that they thought were white Indians.
	Now, for those who know a little bit about Panama, you know about the Kuna Indians down there, and they have many albinos, which are called children of the moon.
	I mean, I'm out with Kuna pretty often, and Imbara and Wunan and others, but the white Indians of the Darien were not albinos.
	So that's what's interesting because I found this book by an anthropologist.
	And so anyway, it's just a joke with me now.
	And my friend who's a member, he's an American, but he grew up in the Darien since childhood because his parents were missionaries.
	He grew up way, back then it was Jungleville where he was, right?
	And so now he's one of the tribal leaders with the Embraer.
	So he's my white Indian of the...
	Darian. Wow.
	Wow. Okay.
	Well, for the future, we are scouring the world for clean food.
	And if you ever meet people that want to sell raw materials to us, it has to be certified organic.
	And that's usually the showstopper for a lot of these smaller groups, farmers all over the world.
	They can't go through the organic certification, typically, is what we found.
	It's just hard.
	I think he's going to see this show anyway because he watches your show.
	So he's probably going to say, hey, you are.
	And so, yeah.
	So I'll ask him, too.
	If he can do certified organic, yeah, we're interested.
	But anyway, let's move on to your knowledge area here.
	And let's start with the fact that all these top officials in defense, national intelligence, Pentagon, whatever, were apparently using the Signal app to discuss at some level I mean,
	what's your take?
	If the guy that did...
	Now, I'm not tracking on it much because I'm watching dramas here, actually.
	And actually, some protests should be starting right now in Panama City with the communists.
	They should not be using Signal.
	When you reach that level, and, you know, I used to travel around with Secretary Gates, the Secretary of Defense.
	He was a former director of CIA.
	I'll tell you what, guys, at that level, everything you do needs to be top secret.
	I don't care if it's ordering pizza.
	It needs to be, make them work for every little thing, right?
	And you should not be communicating on things like Signal.
	I use Signal, of course, and many others do.
	And often people say, well, there's this new app, and it uses XYZ encryption and all this stuff, and nobody can break.
	Listen, here's the bottom line.
	If it uses electricity, it can be broken into, and it almost certainly is if you're using it, right?
	Well, and let me add that Signal, the Signal servers, my understanding is they're in another country.
	It's not an American company.
	It's a company that has servers in Europe.
	So there's some European country that's hosting the servers that are passing all of the content of the conversation back and forth.
	And folks, if you don't think that the Signal company is archiving every single thing that's passed on Signal, then you don't know what's up, right?
	So it seems crazy to me that they would not use a secure U.S.-based...
	It's the DOD.
	Don't they have their own secure comms?
	They do.
	But that's just amazing.
	I don't know what to think of it.
	You know, one of the reasons that the Taliban were very difficult to crack was because they didn't use, like, I was never with a unit that captured a laptop.
	In Afghanistan, we capture them in Iraq all the time.
	And the Iraqis almost all had cell phones and they died.
	They paid the price for it with their lives, right?
	But the Afghans, they were still using mirrors, literally smoke signals like from Apache movies, you know.
	They were using, I mean, I remember one mission just before we got ambushed and they were using signal mirrors because I could see they were...
	The guy over here is using a mirror, and it's glinting.
	He's obviously signaling somebody over there.
	Anyway, we got into a fire.
	But they also use pigeons, right?
	Wow. Pigeons are hard to crack.
	Yeah, hard to hack pigeons, yeah.
	You know, in some units, in former wars, there were units where some armies would either pay people to shoot down pigeons, or they had actual units.
	dedicated to shooting down pigeons.
	And you'd get bonuses.
	Oh, no.
	They were using pigeons so much that I read a couple I'm going to tell you what, if you're a military today and you don't have a pigeon unit, I think you're kind of not paying attention.
	As an example, I mean, some people still use them.
	I think the French may still use them, and a lot of people use them still.
	Like in Iraq and Afghanistan, we would do raids and stuff, and a lot of times people were raising pigeons.
	And the way that they work is you raise the pigeon in one place.
	And then when, you know, let's say the British Air Force during World War II. And so they raise the pigeons by the headquarters, right, where the rescue headquarters would be.
	And when the airplanes take off, they took two pigeons per airplane, right, on some of the missions.
	And like if it's a single recon mission alone, you know, nobody knows that you went down.
	So you'll have two pigeons, right?
	And so when you release the first pigeon with your location, if you survive, and you Those things can go night and day, you know?
	They can go hundreds of miles in a day, right?
	And they'll go right back to home.
	And a lot of pilots and crews were rescued because the pigeons were so quick with their messages.
	And so they've been used through space and time, and they're still used.
	And that's the most secure method that I know would be like pigeons and one-time pads.
	Anything using a battery, absolutely anything using a battery is highly suspect.
	And if somebody sold you some device and saying it's secure, they are lying.
	Or they don't know what they're talking about, one or the other, maybe both.
	Well, I mean, and there are different levels of security because there are some peer-to-peer decentralized comms systems.
	I mean, I don't want to get all nerdy on this, but I don't trust anything that goes through a central server.
	That's for sure.
	Yeah, I mean, you can do it, but it depends on what you need to be secured.
	If you need your location secured and you're radiating, it's not secure, period.
	Yeah, yeah, true.
	But like Telegram, remember, so was it the French government that arrested the founder of Telegram and said, look, you got to give us back doors, basically, into...
	And it's a blockchain-driven...
	Completely decentralized social media system.
	We don't tout it as it's not a secure comms focus.
	But since it doesn't go through any central servers, it, you know, it's a different structure.
	So just worth noting.
	Yeah, that they were using Signal is a bad deal.
	But if that guy...
	If that guy who reported it was partly behind the Russia scam, I mean, come on.
	I mean, everything...
	Yeah, yeah, he was.
	I wouldn't even pay attention to anything he says.
	I wouldn't read it.
	I mean, you can only smash this glass one time, and I will never trust that glass again, right?
	If he was involved in the Russia hoax, I would just be like, why is he even...
	Showing up next.
	Right. So let's advance this conversation to now questioning why is the Trump administration bombing Yemen in the first place, given that Yemen is simply saying that we will stop attacking shipping vessels if you, the United States, stop sending bombs to Israel that Israel is using to bomb women and children and doctors, etc., in Gaza.
	Well, just even if they meet us at our demands or whatever, it doesn't mean that we actually wanted to stop the war, that Trump wanted to stop.
	Let's say the Zionists wanted to stop because it's actually, you know, it's not America.
	It's Zionists.
	You know, Trump is Zionists.
	Let's be clear about this.
	Let's be crystal clear about the political party who's doing this.
	Zionism is a political party.
	We all know that.
	effort being placed into controlling some of these major naval, there are seven major choke points, right?
	And one of them is the Panama Canal, which is very close to me now.
	And another is Suez, obviously.
	And another is Babel Mandab, which the Houthis have been interrupting, to put it mildly.
	And then not very far from that is the Strait of Hormuz.
	So you see, we always see this push to go to war.
	I mean...
	We, you know, the Zionists want the Strait of Hormuz.
	Imagine if you have the Panama Canal, Bab-Aumandeb, Suez Canal, and the Strait of Hormuz.
	That's four of the seven.
	You know, on the risk board, that's pretty doggone good.
	I mean, you can cut off so many people.
	Like, you know, the menu of options goes astronomical.
	Astronomically high after, if you have control of those four.
	Well, you control the sea lanes at that point.
	And can you remind us, I know the Strait of Malacca is one near Malaysia.
	What are the others?
	Strait of Malacca, I was over there last year with Masako, looking at that in Singapore and Thailand.
	They're trying to do a bypass there, which I think they'll work, do on the Krah Isthmus.
	And by the way, on Malacca, also China is building a canal between Off of the Mekong River and it goes through Cambodia.
	And so that will have significant effects on Vietnam because, you know, the Mekong River Delta dumps out there in Vietnam.
	So sea traffic that wants to go up and down the Mekong has to go through Vietnam.
	But when that canal is built through Cambodia, which is under construction now, A huge amount of traffic can then just bypass Vietnam.
	That'll very much damage the Vietnamese economy.
	And now, for those who have a map in their head, I have a map in my head, so I have the whole atlas in my head.
	So I can see how the Gulf of Siam is in Cambodia and in Krah Isthmus.
	If you imagine this, the little canal comes through Cambodia.
	Right. We're watching these things all over the world.
	There's a lot more going on than Panama and Strait.
	Now, the others are Strait of Gibraltar, of course, over by Spain and Morocco.
	And then another is Bosphorus, or some people call it the Turkish Strait.
	And so those are the main chokeholds.
	You know, Alfred Mahan, who was here in Panama, he came out with his book on sea power, in which every naval officer knows this book well.
	I mean, this book came out.
	It's a phenomenal book.
	Everybody should read it.
	It's Alfred Mahan.
	He goes about the principles of sea power and these choke points and whatnot.
	His book is up there or even higher than Creature from Jekyll Island, maybe by multiples, actually.
	Creature from Jekyll Island, we all know how serious that book is.
	It's that on steroids.
	Creature from Jekyll Island is a very international book, and it's a phenomenal book, but it's also more the center of gravity is the United States because we're talking about the Fed, right?
	And the related mechanisms.
	But Mahan's book on sea power, that's global.
	So, you know, that book influenced World War I, World War II.
	It influences daily operations.
	For anybody who thinks in a strategic way, they need to study up on Alfred Mahan.
	Last year in Tokyo, I found a whole set of Alfred Mahan's original books.
	It was unbelievable.
	And I bought them for a naval friend, actually.
	I messaged to him in Switzerland.
	I'm like, you might want these books.
	I'll buy them for you if you want.
	So he sent me the money, and now he's got the books.
	So that's how serious these are.
	All the naval officers study that book, or his work, man's work.
	Okay, so you're underscoring the importance of controlling the sea lanes globally, which is critical.
	But I want to bring us back to Yemen on this, because the way Trump and the Western media talk about Yemen, they pretend that...
	The Houthis are harassing ships for no reason.
	They're just terrorists who hate ships.
	They're just attacking ships.
	And that's not the case.
	They're only attacking ships from the nations that are involved in supporting Israel's genocide.
	That's what they're doing.
	I get it.
	And, of course, then Trump lied about 38,000 Americans dying in the...
	Building the Panama Canal, he just repeatedly doubled down.
	He just lies.
	That's what he does.
	Liars lie, right?
	Alligators do alligator stuff, right?
	And I've got a book right here from 1913 that I bought in an antique store here in Panama City.
	And it has the casualties.
	Of course, the canal opened in...
	1914. It has the casualties year on year.
	And, you know, just basically cleave off about a zero and you're getting into the right proportions.
	But the number of Americans that died is even far less, maybe 200 or 300, something like that.
	I can photograph the pages and send them to you.
	But this is an original document, right?
	This is a report.
	This is a report on the canal progress.
	It's an official report, right?
	And so he just lies.
	I mean, that's what he does.
	Well, yeah, no, I'm just going to continue that question, and let's shift to Panama now, because the way Trump talks about Panama is completely at odds with what the Panamanian people understand, and even what the expats know who live in Panama.
	And you've spoken with a great many of them.
	So tell us, you know, what is Trump getting wrong about Panama, and what's the real story?
	Well, I think, you know, to be directionally accurate, maybe half the Panamanians just want us to take the canal back.
	I mean, I talk with Panamanians every day who are like, yeah, please come.
	Why did you leave to begin with?
	You know, it's like, you know, and then there's others, of course, that like the protests that should be starting or should have just started with the communists.
	We're communist.
	They're being riled up for communist reasons.
	But that's a small subset of the Panamanians, actually.
	But most Panamanians either seem to want us to take it back or are just kind of ambivalent about it, right?
	And then there's a small group, I think, that will violently resist.
	But it's not like all of Panama is against America.
	Look at me.
	I'm walking around unarmed.
	People know who I am.
	I feel very welcome here.
	I mean, I recommend Panama all the time as a vacation spot.
	I wouldn't recommend it to come move at this point because I do think it will be.
	Where's Alfred Mahan?
	If Alfred Mahan was sitting here, our naval genius whose book came out in 1890, he was here as well.
	He would tell you, no, you're probably going to see some war here.
	You know, I mean, these sorts I'm not predicting it really.
	I'm just watching what happens around the world over and over and over.
	Predicting that when a leaf falls off the tree, it'll eventually hit the ground.
	But this is your expertise, though, Michael.
	You have seen many, many scenarios, more than most humans alive today by far.
	You've been in areas of pre-conflict and then conflict.
	You have watched the cause and effect chain reaction lead to conflict, and it seems to me that you are saying that you're seeing that happen right now in Panama.
	Conditions are being set, I mean, for conflict here.
	And again, when Biden was installed, I left Washington, D.C. I was there.
	They put up so much fences there, it was unbelievable.
	They can't put fences on the border, but they can put them in Washington, D.C. It was miles.
	Anyway, I left there and went down to the border wall in El Paso.
	And this was right after Biden was installed and people were just flooding over.
	Flew down to Columbia with Chuck Colton and Masako Ganaha.
	We went into the Daring Gap.
	That was quite dangerous, actually.
	On that side, you could feel the danger.
	I mean, so we punched out of there after a couple days.
	I think we had overstayed the OODA loop.
	And so we punched out.
	Yeah, I was like, that's it.
	I don't feel right about this.
	It's time to go.
	Like, right now.
	Pack up.
	Let's go.
	Right? And then we flew over to Panama.
	And since that time, I've spent...
	A good year in Panama at this point.
	So in the last, since Biden was installed until today, I've been here for about a year.
	Why have I spent so much time in Panama?
	Because I sensed that this moment was coming.
	Irregardless of who's president, whether or not it's Trump or somebody else or Xi or somebody else, this is just how humans work.
	You know, basically, Panama is a big juicy lamb wearing pork chops.
	There are a lot of predators who want this.
	You know what I mean?
	Yeah. Listen, since, you know, Christopher Columbus came here, you know, he first was sailing.
	You know, people confuse what I just said there often with, you said Christopher Columbus discovered America.
	I got no idea who discovered America, and neither do you.
	And so somebody did, and Christopher Columbus was...
	Columbus was here, right?
	Or he was sailing up and down the coast, 1502 and 1503.
	And then other people came, and finally Balboa.
	And Balboa opened the first town that's on the mainland of the Americas, not in Dominican Republic or Puerto Rico, but the first one that was on.
	Actually, North or South America.
	And that was at a place called Santa Maria La Antigua del Dadeon.
	It was Santa Maria the Antigua of Darien.
	So it was down in Darien, right?
	And he opened that in 1510 because he wanted to make that a path between the seas.
	And anyway, it got knocked out of business by...
	1524. It lasted 14 years.
	The Indians and other problems kind of knocked it out.
	And, of course, Balboa discovered the South Sea.
	Discovered? That's a vicious term.
	You've got to alert the Chinese that somebody discovered the South Seas.
	They called the Pacific the South Seas because Panama, the long axis, is mostly east-west.
	So the Pacific, which is right there out my window, is actually south, right?
	So the canal actually runs mostly north-south, actually, not east-west.
	So they called that the South Sea.
	He was up on a hill in the Darien, and he spotted it.
	And anyway, he got beheaded in the Darien.
	He was actually the first governor of the Darien.
	So that place I spent so much time in Panama, the Darien Gap and Darien Province, Balboa was actually the governor.
	He then got beheaded by another governor in a place called Acla, which most people have never heard of, including Panamanians, but that's where he got beheaded.
	And now his head is on the Panamanian Balboa dollars.
	But since that time, this has been such a scene of action, it's unbelievable.
	I've told you before how the Scottish went bankrupt in Darien, trying to build their path between the seas, mule train and whatnot.
	And so Scotland ended up getting absorbed into the United Kingdom because of that.
	In 1706 and 1707, they were finally absorbed in the Articles of Union due to going bankrupt in the Darien.
	A little bit later in 1741, I think it was.
	A guy named Colonel Lawrence Washington.
	Notice that last name.
	He was George Washington's brother.
	He was down in Panama.
	He was doing his thing down here, too.
	George Washington's brother.
	I mean, so we're talking 1741.
	America wasn't even born yet.
	This place has been a center of action since forever.
	I mean, the Indians tell about their old wars that happened before we got here.
	Nobody knows.
	How many of the people got here?
	Maybe they came to the Bering Strait?
	I have no idea.
	They could have come on trips, for all I know.
	I have no idea.
	This underscores the saying that geography is destiny.
	Yes. I mean, everything about geography makes sense, what you're saying.
	But Trump recently said that he told the DOD that he wants military options for asserting control in Panama.
	What do you think he means by military options?
	What do you think he's planning?
	Well, I assure you that the United States is looking to put bases here.
	That's a fact.
	And I've been saying this for a while, but that is a fact.
	They're looking at it at this point.
	I'll say it with actually 100% certainty.
	I don't know if they're going to do it, but they're definitely going in that direction.
	And Hegseth should be here in a couple weeks, actually.
	And the other day, Homan told me he's coming as well.
	I know for a fact that two major companies are looking at expanding some facilities down in the Darien.
	Now, those are the facilities, including San Vicente Camp.
	It's the camp that I've been at so many times that Mayorkas was at and he expanded.
	China camp is what I call it.
	That's the camp where most of the Chinese come through, right?
	It's more of a bus stop these days.
	So our government is looking, it's not public, but in my little circles, openly looking at expanding operations in the Darien.
	The mayor of Darien province yesterday...
	Sent me a video actually last night.
	She sent me a video of...
	Of U.S. soldiers in a place called Pinogana.
	Pinogana is actually where the two bridges are being built, right?
	So the two bridges on my substack, if people look at my substack, the two last videos I published, one that I published this morning, is a video that Nadine, she's the mayor, not the governor, the governor is somebody else, but the mayor of Darien Province, Nadine, she sent me that video last night.
	Now, what the soldiers are doing is just normal stuff.
	They're out there doing civil affairs and handing out backpacks and that sort of thing.
	The U.S., I think the United States has probably had a continuous presence here since, oh, Lord, it's got to go back 300 years or so, before America was born, right?
	Well, you know, Lawrence...
	Washington, Colonel Lawrence Washington was here in 1741.
	You know what I mean?
	I mean, there's been soldiers.
	So it's not like we ever saw a Panama since the United States was born.
	There's not been a day that the U.S. didn't have soldiers here.
	So it's not like, hey, U.S. soldiers are in Panama.
	Of course they are.
	You know, it's just a matter of the numbers and what they're doing, that's all.
	And they're quite welcome.
	I spent a couple days with a couple of soldiers just a few days ago, right?
	And so they're down here doing their thing.
	So that's not abnormal, but it was interesting that the U.S. soldiers were at Pinogana, which is in the Darien Gap.
	It's in the Darien Gap proper, actually.
	It's beyond the road at Yavita.
	It's beyond Highway 1, and it's right where they're building the two bridges.
	If you look on my substack, you can see videos of the bridges, drone footage, and that sort of thing, fresh.
	So... Whoa.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	We had a little bandwidth glitch there.
	So let me bring in...
	These two critical waterways, okay, so the Suez Canal, controlled by Egypt, and the breaking news right now is that Trump is threatening Egypt with withdrawing all U.S. support for Egypt, unless they accept the displaced Gazans, the whatever 1.5 million Gazans, the ones that haven't yet been genocided by Israel, who are still somehow alive without food and water.
	Trump wants to move them all.
	By force, apparently, to Egypt.
	He wants Egypt to take them, I guess, in the Sinai Desert or something.
	And this is clearly to allow Israel to move in, occupy, develop Gaza, right?
	And maybe build another port or expand a port there.
	But Trump wants to assert absolute control over these two waterways.
	While putting tariffs on countries like China, what will China do?
	Well, first of all, what are your comments about Trump leaning on Egypt?
	And then secondly, we'll follow up with a question about what China's response is going to be diplomatically.
	Well, Egypt and Big Honey told you.
	I mean, the greater Israel is...
	Clear. They want the Suez Canal.
	I've said it many, many times.
	And what's going on in Gaza, the obvious genocide in Gaza, is about many things.
	It's not about one thing in particular.
	It's about the gas.
	It's about offshore.
	It's about Ben Gurion Canal.
	It's about taking...
	Well, the land is valuable.
	It's also about the Suez Canal.
	I mean, the Suez Canal, think about it.
	If you have the Suez Canal and you build a Ben Gurion Canal and you have that gas and you clean out the Houthis there and you're going to have to do something about Djibouti, too.
	Sorry, I have this map in my head so I can actually...
	Point to the map in my head, but I can't project it on the screen.
	But if you can clean out...
	There's something about Djibouti because the Chinese are thick in Djibouti, right?
	But at the end of the day, if you can knock the Houthis down and end up knocking the Egyptians back...
	There's a lot of Egyptians coming through the Darien Gap, by the way, or people said they are, because I've talked with a lot of them.
	And then...
	Right now the flows are very low though, but side topic.
	And again, go after Iran and take the Strait of Hormuz.
	That is power.
	That is utter power.
	If you have, this is why I keep telling people, I think something's going to happen to the Panama Canal.
	Why? Because of just so many reasons.
	I can't even think of a reason why it wouldn't happen, you know, at this point.
	You know, it's just all the compass needles.
	Every single one of them point to this is going to be an action spot because it's part of the larger matrix of the target set, right?
	Suez, Bob Almandeb, Strait of Hormuz, and so many other things.
	Remember, I successfully called...
	Nord Stream, before the destruction there, and Groening in Gasfield.
	Why? Because it's part of that larger matrix of things, like reducing the food supply.
	Clearly, we're going to end up in food problems that you and I have talked about many, many times.
	All of these things are part of a larger problem set.
	For instance, the things going on in Ireland and Sweden.
	These aren't separate, discrete things that are going on.
	They're all part of the jungle, right?
	So, but, okay, China, given the fact that China has the world's largest manufacturing base and that China's trade depends almost entirely on exports of manufactured goods, right?
	China has to control sea lanes or at least have access to them in order for its own economy to be able to prosper.
	Thus, it's an existential threat to China's economy for the U.S. to have monopoly control over these two waterways, correct?
	So China will be forced into some kind of response.
	What do you think that that would entail?
	Well, for those who subscribe to Mackinder and Mahan theories, which I do, Well, China is building railways all over the place, right?
	So that they can work internally in Asia.
	They've got a railway system that goes all the way from Shanghai.
	I've been to that side in Shanghai.
	And goes all the way to Rotterdam and down to Spain, right?
	Yeah. Belt and Road Initiative, yeah.
	You know what I found this morning?
	I was looking for old maps on the Cuban train system.
	I found an old map of the Cuban train system.
	Well, it's just starting.
	1837. I mean, when you're building up, you know, the first real transportation system in Panama, besides like Indian trails, was a railway, right?
	And so the Panama Railway, which is still active today and important today.
	It's a transcontinental railway.
	It just happens to be like an hour-long transcontinental drive because it's pretty skinny down here on the continent.
	But this rail system that China has been working on is wild.
	I mean, Masako and I were down in Argentina in, well, we spent two months there last year, and they're already working on their bi-oceanic corridor down there.
	And by the way, when I say the difference between bi-oceanic and inter-oceanic, there's a difference, right?
	The Panama Canal is inter-oceanic.
	It actually connects.
	The oceans with water, right?
	It's an interoceanic canal, right?
	The bioceanic means you're like using roads and rail and that sort of thing.
	You're just sort of bridging between the seas as opposed to making a canal between the seas, right?
	Right, which requires offloading from the ships to trains or trucks, which is very inefficient.
	Yes, it is.
	But it allows you to go ahead and get started and build up.
	Along that route, because the railway system that's being built from China down through Thailand, as an example now, that's going down to the Kraw Isthmus and eventually down there through Malaysia and Singapore and that sort of thing, right to the Strait of Malacca, actually. But as that train is being built, they're opening up, they're working on it right now.
	And we went over and looked at it again last year.
	As that train opens, it's not like you have to wait until the train's finished to start making money on it.
	You're making money instantly.
	So in Thailand, people use the Temu app, T-E-M-U, and it's sort of like an Amazon app, and you can order anything that you want from China, and they put it on that speed train.
	It comes right down from China into Thailand now.
	It's knocking a lot of Thai businesses out of business.
	I really think Thailand is going to be...
	Thailand is under attack, and Panama is under attack in many different forms.
	But Thailand is under, like, I've been all over Thailand.
	I mean, north to south, east to west.
	If you web search my name, you'll see me flying around with the prime minister, and I was in two of the coups, and I mean...
	In the coups, I was like this close, you know?
	I mean, I wasn't like in Thailand during the coups.
	I was in the coups.
	So, I mean, I've seen the things that have happened, you know what I'm saying?
	I'm kind of dialed in somewhat to Thailand.
	I'm not an expert on Thailand, but I'm not a novice.
	And because Thailand is vital terrain in Asia, it's like the hyphen in Indo-Pacific, right?
	I mean, it's really...
	Our elders knew that very well, and they put in huge effort into making Thailand stable, making it pretty autonomous and very free, actually.
	But now, our current government...
	It goes out of its way since a minimum of 2014.
	When I started to notice and I started to attack the U.S. ambassador there, Christy Kinney, I started noticing in 2014, I'm like, wow, our government is trying to destabilize our best Asian partner.
	I mean, you know, Thailand is, I think, the longest...
	Thailand has had the longest good relations with the United States in any country on the planet.
	Morocco was the first to recognize the United States, for which, thank you, Moroccans.
	But Thailand has had good relations with the United States since, what, the 1850s, as I recall?
	And I mean, like, really good relations.
	But then I saw our ambassador, Christy Kenning.
	And subsequent governments just going out of their way to actually insult Thai people.
	I'm like, what are you doing?
	Like, for instance, when, yeah, I was, you know, I was in these protests all the time watching what's going on.
	I was sleeping on the road with them sometimes because we're talking like massive protests, right?
	Truly massive.
	And lots of gunfire people getting killed and all kinds of stuff.
	And so, you know, really serious times.
	And meanwhile, our ambassador was, like, provoking the ties.
	So I started publicly going after her, and she finally left early.
	But then I noticed the same thing in Japan.
	And I started asking people, like, I'm noticing this pattern in different countries like India.
	Thailand, Japan, why is our State Department insulting, especially Thailand and Japan?
	Why are you insulting them, right?
	And over time, I start to realize it's because we're not only insulting them, but clearly standing with the side that's trying to rip the country apart.
	Like, for instance, that would be the red shirts in Thailand, right?
	Another thing that's happening in Thailand now that I'm deeply concerned about because it's happening in the U.S. and actually Israel, and I see Argentina now too, is Thailand, just a few years ago, they didn't have any of those cannabis stores.
	When I was over there this year, or sorry, 2024, within this year, within one year, there was over 9,000 licenses.
	For cannabis stores, production and transport, warehousing, and that sort of thing.
	Over 9,000 licenses handed out in less than three years, right?
	And if you look on your Google Maps or whatever, like cannabis stores in Bangkok, you can do that right now.
	Your map will populate with all these stores, which I did, and I'm like, this is amazing.
	However, looking around me and looking at this map, there's a lot more stores around me.
	But if you look on Google, Maps or something, you'll see all these, you know, cannabis stores.
	It's actually a lot more that are not on the maps yet.
	Now, this is clearly designed to dumb down the country, to destroy it.
	And I see other forms of attack that are taking place, trying to get everybody.
	One of the ways that Thailand was made strong was getting everybody to speak Thai and to have a Thai culture.
	And they called it Thai-ification, right?
	Now they're like doing a de-Thai-ification.
	I've never heard anybody call it that.
	But they're like de-Thai-ifying Thailand, which is a horrible idea.
	People like me love Thailand.
	They don't want to see anything bad happen to it, right?
	But clearly there are animals trying to destroy it.
	And when I go to warn people in Thailand and the government and whatnot...
	You know, it's a mixed bag, to put it mildly.
	Same in Panama.
	When I warned the Panamanian government this like four years ago, like, hey, if I show up in your yard, it's probably, I mean, I'm not here to do you any harm, but if I show up, I'm like death knocking on the door, right?
	You know what I mean?
	You should be paying attention, right?
	I mean, because they're asking me why I'm here so much.
	I'm like, I'm a war correspondent.
	If I'm spending a lot of time in your country and I'm not laying on the beach reading a book, then...
	You've probably got some big times ahead of you.
	You know what I mean?
	And these things are coming to pass now in Panama and Netherlands and Ireland.
	Notice you see Ireland on the news all the time now.
	But Masako and I were the first ones going over there and really breaking this out several years ago.
	And I think it's coming for Argentina.
	I'm telling you, when people start pushing drugs on your people, that's not about freedom.
	That's about hijacking your brain and killing you.
	That's what it's about.
	It's about death and enslavement.
	It's like the British Empire doing that to Hong Kong and South China, you know, back in the day.
	Michael, I gotta tell you something about that.
	Can I?
	Yeah, please.
	I spent several days in the library.
	They got this awesome library that the United States left behind, actually.
	So it's got all these old books.
	So I found four books that are all the passengers who arrived at San Francisco between like 1848 and...
	53, I think, right?
	And I spent several hours looking at those books.
	And this was back when it was, you know, clipper ships, right?
	And so there was a lot of ships.
	But I also looked at the ships that were – each of the four books had an index.
	So I was checking the indices, and I was looking for opium, right?
	And I found that every ship that was – Had opium listed on the cargo because it was okay to transport opium back then.
	They're all coming from China and every one of them had Chinese.
	Like one of them had 553 unnamed Chinese and a bunch of opium going from China to San Francisco.
	Every ship that had Chinese had opium and every ship that had opium had Chinese.
	So pretty, pretty interesting.
	The opium thing in Chinese, actually there's a little village here.
	It doesn't exist anymore.
	It's down about halfway through the Panama Canal to the other side.
	It's called Mattachin.
	Mattachin, that might mean dead Chinese.
	And there's a lot of Chinese that apparently committed suicide.
	That village doesn't exist anymore because it's underwater when they fill the canal.
	And so in Mattachin, some people believe that so many Chinese committed suicide there because Americans cut off their opium.
	So the British get blamed for...
	Giving them opium, which the Chinese were already huge into opium before British showed up.
	And then, you know, Americans take the blame for, hey, we don't want you to have opium while you're working.
	Interesting. Yeah.
	Wow. Well, okay, but we still have the question about China's response to America's projection of power over the Panama Canal and the Suez Canal.
	I want to bring you back to that, and then I have...
	Questions about Germany, but China clearly, just to reinforce my question, China clearly has an existential stake here at open waterways, and it's clear that the United States does not want free trade.
	The United States wants controlled trade, which means we control the waterways, we control the tariffs, right?
	I mean, it's clear.
	So what's China likely to do?
	They have a huge menu of options because they've been sending people all over the world.
	When Masako and I went to, say, Armenia and Georgia or Netherlands and so many places, Chinese.
	Like today, there's a trade show downtown in Panama City.
	And people have been sending me photos from it.
	I didn't get to go because I had to do a few things.
	But it's going for three days.
	The people that are showing products at this trade show in Panama City for the next three days, two more days, are Chinese.
	So they're selling farm products and that sort of thing.
	And actually, the two gentlemen that I had lunch with today, both farmers, were going to that trade show.
	And that's why they both came to Panama City.
	They live in different parts of Panama.
	So a bunch of people are coming to Panama City, farmers from all over.
	Panama and people related to that industry and Chinese are here selling their products.
	So the Chinese have such a menu of options, it's unbelievable, especially when you realize how many Chinese have been spreading out around the world and they take key positions in the United States like judges, intelligence, military.
	I mean, you can't make up this stuff.
	We have allowed people that can barely speak English to come in and get...
	High security clearances.
	I mean, and this has been going on through space and time.
	You know, the Chinese have been running a lot of their Central and South American operations out of Cuba, right?
	They've been running this out of Cuba.
	They have a good relationship with Cuba.
	Interestingly, today, I found a document in an antique bookstore.
	It's a document in Cuba between Chinese and Cubans, and the Chinese were verifying that one of their This one guy, Jose Folk is his name, F-O-K, which is like a Chinese name, is that he's actually Chinese, right? And so I bought the little document.
	I can send you a photo.
	Or maybe I already sent it.
	And so that's 1881 is what I'm saying.
	So the relationship is, it's not like this just started yesterday, right?
	These relationships are deep and they're thick.
	Right? And likewise, in many parts of the world, here in Panama, Chinese have been here since, well...
	170 years at least, right?
	180 years, right?
	But those are different sorts of Chinese.
	It's not like all Chinese are the same.
	We've talked about that before.
	Chinese is actually not a language, as you know, because you speak Mandarin.
	A lot of them here speak Cantonese, but a lot of the new ones speak Mandarin.
	The Chinese now that are coming in about two weeks ago on March 11th, the president of Panama, Molino, he signed a document, a decree that's going to allow people like these Chinese who are coming in to actually stay in Panama.
	Think about the implications there, right?
	I published it.
	It's on my Substack.
	I had it translated to English, so I put the original Spanish and translated English up on my Substack.
	I mean, they're setting conditions.
	This thing looks like it was written by the United Nations.
	I mean, it's talking about, you know, sustainable stuff and all this, that sort of language that you get from those woke globalists at the United Nations and that sort of thing.
	It looked like somebody basically held a gun to his head and said, sign this, you know, or maybe they held some money to his pocket.
	I have no idea.
	Yeah.
	Well, right.
	Okay, so, I mean, thanks for all that answer, and I'm not asking you to look into a crystal ball, but you're right.
	The conditions are being set for very potentially tragic events.
	Now, let's shift over to Germany, because...
	The German government.
	Yeah, yeah, please.
	Robert Friedland, he has Ivanhoe mines, right?
	Ivanhoe, he's a big multi-billionaire, right?
	And he just put on Twitter about a couple hours ago how the Chinese car sales are doing compared to Japanese, Germans, and Americans.
	So I retweeted that just before you and I came on.
	That's worth looking at.
	I mean, their car sales are going, while Japanese, Americans, and Germans are just tanking, right?
	It's pretty significant.
	But that's Robert Friedland, by the way.
	Robert Friedland is a very serious dude.
	The Apple guy, Steve Jobs, used to say that Friedland was his inspiration.
	They were roommates in college together and that sort of thing.
	And anyway, so the guy's big into copper mining and that sort of thing up in places like Mongolia and over in Saudi Arabia and other things.
	But that's what Robert Friedland put on his...
	Most people don't have any idea who Robert Friedland is, but I just happen to know, and I just retweeted it.
	It's worth looking at.
	Yeah, I'm not familiar with who he is either.
	But thank you for bringing that in.
	That's something that our audience should take note of.
	Now, let's go to Germany, because you've been all over the world, but you're very familiar with Germany.
	You spent a lot of time there.
	And everything that you predicted about Germany has come true.
	Because I've been interviewing you for years, and you said BASIF is going to get clobbered.
	You said Germany's industrial economy is going to get absolutely smashed.
	And now we have Germany putting out propaganda campaigns to their youth through teen magazines targeting both male and female teens, saying that you should all become soldiers.
	And you've got to become soldiers to fight for the homeland.
	To fight Russia.
	And, you know, since when has Germany ever gotten war right?
	You know what I mean?
	This is a bad sign.
	We're talking about, there's talk of raising, you know, 1.5 trillion euros through the UK and France and Germany to spend it all on war with Russia.
	Like, what's your take on this?
	Well, the Mackinder people out there.
	Keeping Russia and Germany fighting has been a goal of people for many years.
	We talked about Mahan earlier, Alfred Mahan, who's the big naval strategist whose book came out in 1890 and changed the world.
	He's one of those people that changed the world and people don't know who he is.
	Except every naval officer knows who he is, I think, in every country will know who he is.
	And so, likewise, Mackinder.
	The idea of Russia and Germany joining up, I mean, that could crush France.
	That could crush the United Kingdom, right?
	That could crush all those guys, right?
	So the British are always going to...
	Fight anything that's going to cause, you know, Russia and Germany to come together, like Nord Stream.
	So there's other reasons on that when my compass needles, when I'm like, you know, there's the food issues and the energy issues for de-industrializing Europe, but also you don't want Germany and Russia combining their resources and abilities because cheap energy from Russia We're good to
	go. Tree grows.
	And so, again, so there's many reasons why I suspected they were going to take out Nord Stream.
	One was BASF and the nitrogenous fertilizers, and this also can de-industrialize Europe, but just the energy prices as well, right?
	So that was an attack not just on...
	Keep in mind, Russia and Germany were working well together until we destroyed Nord Stream, right?
	That's true.
	For the powers that be, those who want to destroy Russia, they can use Germany as a bludgeon against Russia.
	And they're not...
	They're not coordinating together and using Russia's cheap energy and Germany's ability to make and export things.
	Because as you know, Germany has that nice Rhine River that goes right out through Rotterdam, their Netherlands, and they've got the ports up in the north.
	I mean, Germany, and they've got access to the European markets at their doorsteps, right?
	So, I mean, Germany, and they've got lots and lots of Germans who know how to do stuff, right?
	But, Michael, It seems to me, what you're describing, I think your assessment is correct, but so the British want to hobble Germany for the reasons you just mentioned, but Trump wants to hobble the British for financial reasons, which is why all the gold has been drained out of the Bank of England, and the LBMA is also involved, you know, seeing a lot of that gold demand.
	It seems like a lot of these Western countries, All they do is they just do a Tonya Harding type of thing where they just try to crack each other's knees.
	Instead of working together in some way to say, hey, we can have better trade, cheaper energy, better prosperity.
	They're all just trying to sabotage each other.
	I mean, the U.S. Navy blew up the Nord Stream pipelines, right?
	We all know that.
	And the Europeans just went right along with it.
	And just decided, well, they're just going to cut each other down more to see which one is left standing at the end.
	Like, this doesn't seem like a...
	This is kind of like geopolitical cannibalism, actually, right?
	It is.
	It's like an atomization on a larger scale.
	Like the atomization that we see in the psychological operations, say, in the United States, where the use of drugs and just idiotic music and movies and...
	Video games.
	Fox News, for some reason, popped on my screen when I was working here.
	I'm like, what is this crap?
	The amount of time that I've watched Fox or CNN or any MSM news over the last year could probably be, in total, maybe one hour.
	Quite literally.
	That would be as I'm walking through an airport and like, oh, there's that.
	I looked at that channel, the Fox thing, and it's so noisy.
	It's got the thing feeding and two different panels and just nonsense, right?
	But what I'm getting to is the atomization and the distraction, the lack of focus that these psychological operations have been able to...
	To grow in people, splitting families, causing blacks and whites to fight each other, blacks and blacks to fight each other, men and women to fight each other, all the races to fight each other, right?
	And just an atomization.
	Any way that they can divide you, they're dividing people internally at the atomic level.
	Am I a boy or a girl?
	You know what I mean?
	It's like atomic level division.
	Not just atomization, but nuclear atomization, right?
	Going for the nucleus, like, okay, you're not really a boy, you know, you're really a girl.
	I mean, and they're doing it at the national level, too.
	So this thing, it's like fractally scales up, like the same thing's happening.
	But it's fractal.
	It's just larger and larger expressions of the same thing.
	We got people fighting each other that absolutely should not be fighting each other, right?
	Like Canada and the United States should not be fighting each other.
	And Panama and the United States under no means should be at each other's throats, right?
	And Germany and the United States or...
	Poland and these other countries, right?
	I spent more than six years in Europe.
	I spent a couple of years in Poland, about four in Germany, and then just running around the rest of the place, checking things out, working, studying.
	And I realized, though, a long time ago, when I was in my 20s in the Army, that actually this place is...
	The Middle East for white people, right?
	I mean, it does have potential to go highly kinetic again.
	It just happened to have been in that nice period where everything looked like everything's going to be like this forever, right?
	But, you know, as you know, you read history voraciously like I do, and you know that nothing will last forever, except for the patterns.
	Yeah, well, that's true.
	And, no, I don't read as much history as you do, but I certainly, I haven't spent a single minute watching CNN in 25 years, and I use my time, even when I'm working on the ranch, let's say, if I'm on my tractor or if I'm cleaning out the chicken house, I've got audiobooks going, you know?
	I'm learning constantly.
	Like there's not a moment of my life that I waste on consuming garbage media content.
	Right. And it makes it.
	Makes it.
	Yeah, totally.
	But I really admire your love for books.
	I share that with you.
	I also love old texts.
	I admire your courage to tell the truth about all of this.
	I want to remind people where they can find you.
	So I know it's michaelyan.substack.com.
	And then on Twitter, it's michael__yan, correct?
	What else?
	That's really where I publish things and then luckily sometimes come on with you and talk about things more long form because lately I've been starting to put up some videos that I shoot the stuff and like you know I took a helicopter a couple weeks ago and flew over the canal from one end to the other to check out things so that people could because you know when people are hearing You know,
	ports and canal and all this.
	A lot of people don't really grasp what it looks like or even though there's pictures online, it's just not descriptive enough.
	So, you know, I'm starting to explain what's really going on here.
	And if you follow my work steadily, you'll start to see, like right now I'm working, I'm editing a video that I shot because I took the train all the way across with Masako.
	And we put a camera on top of the train.
	They let Masako climb on the top of the train.
	And so we went all the way across the canal on the train and came back.
	So I'm going to publish that video of that.
	Also the video of the bridges that they're building in Darien, I put that up yesterday.
	And you'll see just many things.
	I'm going to put up videos of the camps down there.
	Most people still haven't seen really a good look at the camps in the Darien Gap.
	You know, the invasion camps, which are still fully functional.
	This greatly concerns me.
	I've told Holman this and so many others many times that if not you, but if Trump doesn't dismantle the camps and the United Nations, then all the rest doesn't matter.
	It doesn't matter.
	Trump will be gone in the next three and a half years.
	He's gone.
	He's out of here.
	One way or the other, right?
	The leaf is going to fall off the tree, and if he hasn't taken out the United Nations and all this infrastructure, it's apt to just, boom, start right back up again, bigger than ever, right?
	It can be much bigger, especially as they build this road through the Darien Gap.
	Once that's completed, and the further down that road goes, the further down the aliens, even if the road doesn't make it all the way to Colombia, if it just makes it...
	Closer to Colombia.
	It makes it far easier for those people to get into Colombia and then just walk, say, half a day instead of seven days or more through the jungle, and boom, you're on a bus to America.
	Okay, so one more question area that I want to ask you about, which is, domestically, in the United States, we have these angry leftists suffering from Trump derangement syndrome or Elon derangement.
	Doge derangement syndrome.
	Let's call it DDS, right?
	And they are doing things like they're vandalizing Tesla cars or setting them on fire, not realizing they're all on camera, apparently.
	How many Tesla, Michael?
	How many?
	How many?
	Yeah. Well, I see videos every day of people caught on camera keying Teslas or today a young 33-year-old was arrested for...
	Running like a four-wheeler into the side of a Tesla on purpose to damage it.
	And it didn't really damage the Tesla.
	But what I want to ask you is, what are these signs of, in terms of, if you were to project this irrational rising anger of the left and their willingness to do things like...
	You know, key people's cars.
	Is that a sign to you of a level of anger that is going to grow or do you think this is just going to fade away at some point?
	I think it will grow.
	That's why I returned to the United States in August of 2020.
	You know, the pandemic was, you know, reaching its apex.
	It wasn't quite there yet.
	Well, I mean, because the jabs will soon be out.
	I returned to the United States specifically and explicitly and I was publishing it.
	Because I thought the United States is going into civil war, because the conditions are set for that.
	And I think that more strongly now than ever.
	I mean, it's clearly that the conditions are accumulating.
	The energies are, you know, it takes a while for a hurricane to assemble itself.
	And you can clearly see that's coming to pass.
	Now, if, you know, if something like electricity goes out and that sort of thing, you know, and we've got tens of of resources. Really incredible people that have come through the Darien Gap that we don't want, right?
	Let me say something about this.
	And we should talk off-air about a couple of things, too.
	But Jose Ibarra, who murdered Laken Riley, he came through the Darien Gap, right?
	I know what day he came in.
	I know what bus he got on, right?
	And then his brothers came through months later to the Darien Gap.
	And again, I know what day they came in.
	I know what bus they got on.
	I know who they were with, right?
	I mean, it's like we know a lot about what happened, right?
	And so many people like that came through.
	It's unbelievable.
	And they're having babies.
	You know, Anthony Rubin, Muckraker.com.
	Anthony, he and Carlos Arello went around.
	Because they work like I do, which is seven days a week.
	They just go for it.
	And Anthony and Carlos, they spent months going around and knocking on doors of these people who had just come into the United States.
	And they both told me multiple times in the last few weeks, because we talk about these things occasionally, almost every door they knocked on had new children that they just had.
	Because the first thing they do when they come into the United States is mate and breed.
	So the demographic explosion is going to be pretty phenomenal.
	And they're going to be coming in with cultures that are alien to ours, who may never speak English.
	We may not even know the name of the language they're speaking.
	I mean, there's people coming in who I can't make out a single word.
	I don't even know what languages they're speaking.
	And there's people from all over the world coming in from about 150 countries.
	But keep in mind, a lot of the people coming in, I'm like...
	Wow, I don't recognize their dress.
	Keep in mind, I spend most of my life traveling the world.
	But still, it's a coral reef of people out there.
	And they've all really descended on America.
	But when that road opens in the Darien Gap, or even as it just gets closer to Columbia, they're going to be able to cross from Columbia right into that road and join it earlier.
	You can increase the flows dramatically.
	Now, if you add...
	A famine to that and increase the hop, let's say a famine in Africa or a famine somewhere in the world, and people then come through South America and get on that road, they'll end up all over the United States.
	I think, based on the compass needles, that the invasion is not over because I don't see Trump getting serious about it.
	I see, yeah, he's put the army downtown and down on the border and all that stuff, but why hasn't he dismantled the organization, the United Nations?
	Why doesn't he go after highest and really go after Catholic charities, really go after Norwegian refugee councils and the Red Cross, like really go after these guys who many of us have proof, many, many of us have proof of these people doing things because we have their documents, we have them on video.
	I mean, there's so many of us, I don't even know how many.
	And yet...
	He hasn't touched the United Nations.
	He's just threatened.
	And the people with the other sort of TDS are like, well, he's threatened the United Nations.
	I'm like, threatened?
	We're way beyond threats.
	If you're wasting your time threatening, you are not a serious person.
	We are to the point where it's like they should be defunded and we should be seizing their property in the United States.
	That's what should be happening.
	Wow. Wow.
	All right.
	Well, Michael, We've touched on a lot of world events, and again, your experience and your knowledge, your observation skills are just really extremely valuable here.
	I don't know why the State Department doesn't ask you.
	Well, I guess I do know why.
	They don't want to hear your answer, probably.
	Our government would benefit from your knowledge and your interpretation.
	They wouldn't be blind walking into Panama ignorant of the situation on the ground, for example.
	They've got their agendas, though.
	Keep in mind, like, the people that want to build camps in the Darien and that sort of thing, and I'm like, why would you do that?
	I mean, why would you expand San Vicente Camp unless you're planning to increase the invasion?
	I mean, that's the way it looks to me.
	Is that what they're planning to do?
	I do not know.
	But that's the way it's looking.
	But we'll see.
	I mean, but one thing is clear.
	They are definitely...
	Looking at expanding the camp infrastructure in Darien.
	That is a fact.
	What do they plan to do with those camps?
	I do not know.
	But they are planning to...
	They haven't put out bids yet, to my knowledge.
	Wow. Okay.
	All right.
	Well, please keep us posted.
	And let me urge our audience to check out your Substack page, michaelyan.substack.com.
	And Yan is spelled Y-O-N.
	And what does Jan, I never asked you, what does Jan indicate?
	What's the heritage of that name?
	Yeah, we often wonder, there's a village in France called Jan, but we're not actually sure.
	But my mother's side is Eason, and we know the heritage of that.
	And actually, we can trace back my mother's side to getting shipwrecked on Bermuda in 1609.
	No kidding!
	Yeah, and it's in a book called The Sea Venture.
	And, you know, not jokingly, I talked with a couple people recently about, you know what, I'm going to claim Bermuda.
	Because my uncle, my uncle named Bermuda Eason, was the first baby, living baby.
	There was another baby born before that died.
	But his name was Bermuda, Bermuda with an S on the end.
	Eason, E-A-S-O-N, right?
	And was born there in 16...
	In 2009, right?
	And he lived.
	And there was no indigenous people there.
	So there's no, you know, it was free to claim that land.
	And terra nullis, right?
	And so, but the British took it.
	So, you know, they're basically, they're stealing my crib.
	Well, it's never too late.
	As Trump is demonstrating, he's going to claim Greenland.
	So, you know, there's always a chance.
	Well, I'll tell you what.
	I need to call up Trump and say, listen, on this one thing we can agree.
	I'll take Bermuda and you can put a military base there.
	Okay. All right.
	Well, the people of Bermuda, of course, will have their own view of how this is going to go.
	They can move on back to England.
	Maybe Trump will try to send them to Egypt.
	How about that?
	Oh, Lord.
	All right.
	Well, thank you, Michael.
	It's always a pleasure being able to speak with you.
	Really appreciate you.
	God bless.
	Be safe and keep us posted.
	God bless, Michael.
	Thank you.
	All right.
	Thank you, Michael.
	And thank all of you for watching.
	Sorry, I'm not on camera today, you know, because on these days I record from my home studio.
	But thank you for watching.
	And if you want to find more interviews and podcasts and news and so much more, just check out my channel at brighteon.com or our website at naturalnews.com.
	And thank you for watching today.

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