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April 22, 2025 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams

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BBN, Apr 22, 2025 – My job is to FREE YOUR MIND from myths, indoctrination and false beliefs…

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	Welcome to Brighteon Broadcast News with Mike Adams, the Health Ranger.
	Okay, welcome to Brighteon Broadcast News for Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025.
	I'm Mike Adams.
	Thank you for joining me today.
	And we've got just a bombshell interview for you with Jeffrey Prather coming up.
	And then tomorrow, it looks like we're going to run an interview with David Dubine about more engineered global famine that is being inflicted upon us all.
	But I've got something super cool to show you here today that will blow your mind.
	I am certain of it.
	Let me show you the first image here.
	This is an image that was generated by AI by me taking the text from the Bible, the book of Revelation.
	You know what?
	God's angels told John of Patmos about the coming apocalypse.
	And this is the description of the first trumpet, which, as you know, as I've been teaching for over six months, the seven trumpets are clearly, irrefutably, seven impact events on planet Earth.
	And I've found that, well, we'll talk about this in a second, but many Christians, most Christians, cannot Read the book of Revelation with an open mind.
	When they read it now, they only read what they already believe that has been drilled into them largely since they were children, and they can't read any other words than what's already in their head.
	This is a bizarre thing.
	I'll give you more descriptions.
	So I realized that I could not get most Christians to imagine what the trumpets really are.
	By citing the words in the Bible, they can't hear it.
	And so, you know, the Bible actually says, you know, these are flaming giant rocks coming out of the sky, colliding with the earth, burning up a third of the forest, you know, like literally says those things.
	Or in the case of Matthew 24, Jesus talking about, and it kills 50% of the human population.
	That's like right there in Matthew.
	And so I decided to let AI illustrate the words of John of Patmos.
	So AI is now reproducing the visions from the Bible that Christians can't see, or most Christians.
	Now, open-minded people, like you and I, whether we're Christian or Islam or Sikh or Buddhist or whatever, open-minded people can clearly see the words.
	They're like, yep, those are giant flaming meteors or comets or flaming mountains falling out of the sky.
	Yep. That's obvious.
	Here it is, written like 50 times.
	And so when I feed this into AI, it gives me an accurate depiction.
	So here's the first trumpet as rendered by AI.
	The first trumpet hits a forested area.
	This is a comet or a meteor from space.
	And it's in, of course, it's in the book of Revelation, and this is the first impact which burns up a significant portion of the forests of planet Earth.
	I think it says one-third of the forests of Earth.
	So here's a depiction of that.
	And what I did is I went ahead and I rendered images for all seven trumpets, and I'm going to show you that here today.
	All right, so next, take a look at the image for Trumpet 2. Here's Trumpet number 2, and it says, from the Bible, Then the second angel sounded, and something like a great mountain, burning with fire, was thrown into the sea,
	and a third of the sea became blood, and a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed, and then also the second bowl, which...
	Coincides with the second trumpet, says, Then the second angel poured out his bowl on the sea, and it became blood as of a dead man, and every living creature in the sea died.
	So this image shows you a pretty good depiction of, quote, something like a great mountain burning with fire being thrown into the sea.
	Now, it's hard to read that passage and not realize this is a giant flaming meteor.
	Colliding with Earth.
	I mean, it's kind of obvious today.
	Now, I understand if somebody lived like 500 years ago, you might not know because astronomy wasn't that popular in the year 1525.
	Very few astronomers at that time.
	Today, everybody's familiar with outer space and comets and planets and solar systems and everything.
	And today, when you read the words written by John of Patmos, you know, Not quite 2,000 years ago, but close to that.
	You can't miss it, unless you're a highly indoctrinated Christian who can't see words that contradict with their own beliefs.
	And that is a thing.
	And I'm going to show you image number three, but first let me mention that over—this is a true story.
	I posted this.
	Let me read this for you.
	True story.
	Over the last two days, you know, Easter Sunday and Monday, I'm talking about when I was really railing against fake Christians online all across social media, just calling them out for all their contradictions and lack of thinking,
	which is child's play.
	You know, it's pretty easy to do.
	But I had fun with it and riled up a lot of people.
	Got a few people thinking about Scripture, which is the whole point, you know?
	But here's my...
	My tweet, I said, over the last two days, I've had numerous Christians tell me insistently that Jesus will return to earth riding out of the sky on a white horse to save humankind and defeat evil.
	Now, perhaps you've heard this story.
	Perhaps you've been taught this story.
	Perhaps you believe this story.
	Okay? Maybe you were taught this since you were a child and you never questioned it because everybody else around you also said the same thing.
	Yeah, of course Jesus comes out of the sky on a white horse.
	All right, but continuing my tweet.
	And when I ask them to cite the scripture where it says that, none of them can.
	Not one of them.
	Not one.
	Why? Because the Bible doesn't say that at all.
	That is nowhere in the Bible.
	I've read it, and I've searched it, and I've checked.
	It doesn't exist in the Bible.
	And I checked the full Ethiopian Bible with all 88 books.
	Not in there either.
	Okay? Continuing with my tweet, and literally none of these Christians know that.
	And if you think the answer is Revelation chapter 19, you're factually wrong.
	Jesus isn't mentioned in the entire chapter.
	And there is a horse mentioned, but the rider is literally called the, quote, word of God, which means God's promise, his promise to render his fury upon humanity for its sins.
	The passage even refers to the, quote, fury of the wrath of God Almighty, and it clearly says that this arrival out of the sky will kill everybody so that the birds will eat, quote, the flesh of all people, free and slave,
	great and small.
	And then I ask, is that something that Jesus would do?
	Do Christians think Jesus is a cannibal?
	Right? I mean, if you think, and I don't mean you listening to this, All the Christians out there.
	If they think that Jesus rides in on a horse in Revelation 19, then if they keep reading, then they must also think that Jesus kills everybody and eats them.
	I mean, because that's like the next paragraph.
	So it's so bizarre.
	And as I wrote, these Christians don't even know their own scripture.
	They've all been taught a pack of lies by their Christian pastors.
	Who also don't know Scripture.
	And I've come to realize that the way mainstream Christianity is practiced in America today, again, the way it is practiced, is a total fraud.
	I'm not saying Christianity is a total fraud.
	I'm saying the way it's practiced, the perversion of the Bible, is a total fraud.
	Perpetrated by utterly ignorant people who have never even carefully read the Bible at all.
	They are literally clueless about the very book they claim is the truth.
	And what's funny to me about this is, you know, a year ago, I had not read much of the Bible.
	But I studied it last year in great detail, as you may know.
	And then, I mean, hundreds of hours of study.
	And then I taught 104 sermons, which are all available for free at abundance.church if you want to hear them.
	And honestly, before I started that, I felt intimidated by other Christians who could cite Scripture.
	You know, they were always citing Scripture.
	And God said, you know, and 2 Corinthians and this and that.
	And it was like, wow, they really know the Scripture.
	At least that's what I thought.
	Because they can cite all these things.
	And then, now a year later, you know what I realize?
	Is that with few exceptions, because there are some really amazing Bible scholars out there, and I do want to give them credit, but...
	Aside from those exceptions, most people only know three or four pieces of Scripture that they just cite over and over again, and they don't know what came before it, and they don't know what comes after it.
	Not at all.
	And I'm not saying that I have memorized it.
	No, I have not.
	Not at all.
	And sure, I'll quote sections, but I always try to provide the greater context.
	But what I've found is that many Christians, We'll quote Scripture in a way that contradicts the very next paragraph.
	And they don't even know it, and they've never known it their entire lives.
	And that's the thing with Jesus is going to come out of the sky riding on a white horse, which, again, perhaps many of you believe that.
	And I've got to tell you, it's completely false.
	That is not part of Christianity.
	That is a complete myth.
	That's a myth invented by man.
	And it's got nothing to do with what's written in the Bible.
	And there's a lot of that.
	There's a whole lot of that.
	Like the, you know, everything about the rapture.
	You know, there's no mention of the rapture in the Bible either.
	There's no mention at all.
	I mean, except, realistically, after the apocalypse in the book of Revelation, there's this, I think it's in chapters 20 and 21. Where it says that all the dead souls, because God kills everybody,
	all the dead souls are lifted up and then judged.
	And you could call that a rapture.
	That would be a post-tribulation rapture.
	So I'm okay with calling that a rapture.
	But the Bible doesn't call it a rapture.
	The word rapture doesn't exist in the entire Bible.
	Did you know that?
	Did you know that?
	Because everybody talks about it like, well, it must be there.
	And I know that some people, they can really, really stretch 1 Thessalonians to try to say, well, that must be some kind of rapture.
	Okay, that requires a lot of imagination.
	Unlike the book of Revelation that says, you know, burning mountains thrown out of the sky, into the seas, killing everybody.
	You know, it's literal.
	Most mainstream Christians still won't believe that, but then they'll turn to 1 Thessalonians that doesn't even say rapture, and then they'll claim, well, that must be the rapture.
	No, it doesn't.
	So look, here's an experiment that you can do yourself.
	So I really like the website BibleGateway.com.
	That's where I go to do my research, all the different versions.
	It's great.
	I love BibleGateway.com.
	It's my favorite Bible site.
	I used it all last year.
	I've learned so much from it.
	So go to...
	BibleGateway.com and search for the word rapture.
	There's a search box at the top.
	Just type it in, rapture, and click the search button.
	Okay? Now, what you're going to find is it's going to say, sorry, we didn't find any results for your search.
	Double-check the spelling, especially people and place names.
	Use fewer words in your search.
	Retry your search in another translation.
	And then it also shows a suggested result that other people say is the rapture, and that is, of course, 1 Thessalonians 4, verses 13 through 18, which doesn't mention the rapture.
	And to prove it to yourself, go ahead and click on 1 Thessalonians 4, and there's a section that's sometimes called with a subhead, Believers Who Have Died.
	And that's when it says that we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, so we will be with the Lord forever.
	And this is the passage that most Christians think.
	It says, like, we're all going to float up.
	And if you search for the word rapture, it doesn't exist.
	It's not in the chapter.
	There is no rapture.
	And actually, what's really funny about this is that if you go to verse 16 in 1 Thessalonians 4, verse 16, it refers to the trumpet impact events that kills everybody.
	And it's after that that people's souls are lifted up, which is consistent with the...
	The idea of a post-rapture tribulation as described in the book of Revelation.
	And let me read this for you.
	Here it is, verse 16. For the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a loud command.
	Okay, that's the giant boom of the seventh trumpet.
	It even says, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, it says.
	It's directly referring to the trumpets.
	Okay, right there.
	First, what's it saying?
	The dead will rise to be judged, and the dead who are with Christ will be brought into heaven.
	And that's exactly what it says in Revelation chapter 21. So actually, 1 Thessalonians is just confirming the post-tribulation judgment of Revelation.
	And then it says, after that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds.
	Well, and so we will be with the Lord forever.
	Well, in Revelation, it says that at the very end, the seventh trumpet, nobody's left alive, and that's why everybody goes up to the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.
	You don't meet the Lord, you don't float up into the clouds when you're alive.
	That doesn't happen.
	Your soul rises after everybody's dead.
	And why is everybody dead?
	Well, it says it right there in the book of Revelation.
	It says it, that God's fury is unleashed against humankind to destroy the beast, which is the system created by man, and to literally kill all men so that the birds feast on their carcasses.
	And that's right in, I mean, that's in Revelation 19. And many other places, even outside the book of Revelation.
	So the reason I even mention all this is because it's important that for all of us, for myself included, if we're going to believe something, and if we've been brought up in some kind of tradition,
	and some idea has been pounded into our heads for our whole life by our elders or our parents or our pastors, Or the media.
	If we are intelligent, we have to always question those beliefs and make sure they are rooted in reality.
	Now, questioning a belief doesn't mean that you abandon it.
	You may question it and challenge it and then confirm it.
	Say, yep, that turns out to be true.
	But have you ever encountered something in your life where your parents told you something and then it turned out later on you realize that's not true at all?
	Like, maybe you had a superstitious parent or something.
	There's a lot of superstition out there.
	And maybe you had a parent that told you something crazy as a kid.
	Like, maybe you wanted to adopt a dog and it had spots on it, right?
	You're like, Mommy, Mommy, I want a dog.
	And you want this spotted dog.
	And maybe your parents told you something like, You can't have spotted dogs.
	Spotted dogs.
	Promote measles or something.
	You know, like some weird superstition thing because really they just didn't want you to have the dog.
	And so you may have grown up your whole life like spotted dogs cause measles, you know?
	And that's pretty much what a lot of pastors do to people when they say, you know, Jesus comes out of the sky on a white horse and saves you from everything.
	It's the same thing.
	It's just a story made up by adults for a reason, you know, to control people, typically to control children.
	And then later on in your adult life, you find out that spots on a dog have nothing to do with measles.
	You're like, whoa, I need to let go of that idea because that's rooted in delusion.
	And so you let it go.
	You know, there's a lot of kids in the last 10 years that were told that they're born in the wrong body.
	You know, the transgender movement.
	These children could be a young boy and then their libtard mom, typically, Would convince them that they're born in the wrong body.
	Oh, you're supposed to be a girl.
	You're supposed to be a girl, you know?
	And let's take you in for analysis and a consultation, and then we'll do, like, gender-affirming surgery.
	And so this libtard parent can parade around their child in their social groups.
	My child is transitioning, you know?
	Oh, everybody is such a plot.
	Oh, my God.
	So they're mutilating their children so they can gain credibility in their twisted social circle.
	That's happened, you know, countless times over the last decade, especially in California and other sort of libtard havens.
	You know, Portland, Oregon, Seattle, Washington, you get the idea.
	New York City, you know, libtard havens.
	So they mutilate children and parade them around.
	Well, a lot of those once child people are now adults.
	And what are they realizing?
	We were lied to.
	And this didn't make us happier.
	You know, like, a lot of biological girls were told they're supposed to be boys, and so they had surgery, and they had their breasts cut off.
	Crazy, right?
	And then they turned 25, and they're like, man, my parents lied to me, my parents abused me, my parents mutilated me, you know, and they cut off my breasts.
	And now I realize they should have left me alone because I was a girl the whole time.
	I was a woman.
	Always was a woman.
	So there's a lot of detransitioning, there's a lot of lawsuits being filed.
	Right? And if you're sitting there saying, are you comparing Bible school with transgender indoctrination?
	Yes! Absolutely I am!
	Because it is often the same thing.
	It's lies taught to children that need to be questioned.
	And it's never too late to question the lies.
	It's never too late to question our belief system.
	But we must do so with a sense of responsibility and adult thinking.
	And also some sense of logic, like we have to, for example, agree that words mean things, you know, because what I've found with the book of Revelation is I'll show a page of words or I'll send a link of words to a typical Christian and they will read the words and then they will say,
	well, I read it the following way and then they will say something that's not even there.
	It's like if I had a piece of paper, And I wrote on the piece of paper, red Corvette, red Corvette.
	And then I showed the paper to one of these sort of mindless Christians.
	And I said, what does that say?
	And they would read it and they would turn to me and say, blue Volkswagen.
	Like, no, it doesn't say blue Volkswagen.
	And they would say, well, I've always been taught that that says blue Volkswagen.
	Like, well, it doesn't.
	And then they would say, stop being judgmental.
	I've heard this.
	And I would say, I'm not being judgmental.
	You're not reading the words.
	And words mean things.
	And red does not mean blue, and Corvette does not mean Volkswagen.
	And they would say, well, that's always the way I was taught.
	I'm like, fine, but you're no longer seven years old.
	So think like an adult and read the damn words.
	And stop filtering it through your...
	You're programming.
	That's all I'm asking people to do.
	And it turns out that is crazy difficult.
	But it's crazy difficult in every context.
	Not just in Christianity.
	It's difficult in politics.
	It's difficult in racism.
	If you talk to somebody who hates white people or who hates black people, you can't really reason with them.
	You can't say there's no reason to condemn all people of that skin color.
	You can't.
	It doesn't compute with them.
	Even you show them a nice white person or a nice black person, all they see is honky or n-word.
	That's their filter.
	But that same thing exists with a lot of Christians.
	They have this weird, twisted Christian filter that filters out reality and filters out words so that when they read a passage from the Bible, they literally can't read it.
	They have...
	selective hallucinations where they delete things.
	But again, that's true everywhere.
	That's true in every cult, in every major religion.
	It's true in politics.
	It's true in education.
	This is the weird part of human nature.
	People delete things from their reality all the time.
	I've talked about this before.
	I've called it negative hallucinations.
	And it's a very common thing.
	And of course, you can also have Positive hallucinations where people see things that are not there.
	And that might be a form of racism, for example.
	Maybe there's a racist white guy who sees black people and he always sees the worst side of black people.
	Let's say, well, that would be racism.
	But that's a positive hallucination because, obviously, people should be judged individually based on their character, not based on the color of their skin, right?
	So this is what I'm talking about.
	But let's go to...
	Image number three.
	This is the third trumpet.
	And this trumpet, let me read it for you here.
	Then the third angel sounded, and a great star fell from heaven, burning like a torch.
	Kind of hard to misread that.
	It's like, huh, let's see.
	There's a giant star.
	It's a bright, shiny object coming out of the sky, and it's on fire.
	What could it be?
	What could it be?
	A lot of people are like, blue Volkswagen!
	No! Wrong answer!
	It's a meteor.
	It's a comet.
	So AI did a great job depicting this because this one says it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water.
	The name of the star is Wormwood.
	A third of the waters became Wormwood and many men died from the water because it was made bitter.
	Anyway, this AI Engine did a great job depicting this.
	I mean, just extraordinary.
	And this third trumpet is the one that I believe, at least this is my interpretation, that it hits most likely the United States of America because the USA is the land of rivers and streams.
	Did you know the United States has more rivers and streams than any other nation on Earth?
	But let me show you something really, really fascinating.
	And I'm going to ask my editor to put these images side by side.
	So put Trumpet 3 beside the centuries-old illustration called Comet Impact.
	And then you, the listener, you'll notice that these two images are almost exactly the same, except the one that looks like a painting is a painting.
	And it's a painting from the early 17th century, and it was painted by an artist who did a lot of paintings of comets in the sky.
	And this depiction shows that when the comet arrives, there it is in the heavens and the clouds coming out of the sky, that cities are burning, and there are ships on the ocean that are about to be struck.
	But you notice the city here is burning because historically anytime there were large comets hitting Earth or even just in the sky, kind of signs in the sky, civilizations tended to collapse.
	That's just a cycle of history.
	But I find it fascinating, don't you, that AI rendered this image that looks almost exactly the same even though I did not give the AI engine this painting as a reference image.
	I merely gave the AI engine The words from the Bible, the words that I just read for you, quote, and a great star fell from heaven, burning like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers, etc.
	And that's in Revelation chapter 8. If you want to go read it on Bible Gateway, it's all right there.
	So I'm just like, wow, this totally matches.
	That's really amazing.
	And finally, again, If you read the words, and a great star fell from heaven, burning like a torch, you know, how do you not know what that is?
	Everybody knows what that is.
	Even AI knows what it is.
	It's a giant comet impacting Earth.
	Okay, and then the fourth trumpet, let's go to the next image, the fourth trumpet.
	This one's really interesting.
	The way AI rendered this, it didn't really render an impact here, because if you read the verse, it doesn't really say directly, That there's an impact.
	Here's what the verse says.
	It says, And then it says also for the fourth bowl,
	it says, When I tried to render this, I was told by the AI engine that it cannot render it because it will not render images of great suffering.
	Because it says that men would be scorched with fire.
	So I actually had to delete the scorching men with fire.
	And then I re-rendered it.
	And then it was, okay, we'll render that.
	And it rendered this.
	But what's funny is the same engine rendered like the earth-killing meteor in the previous image.
	And in the ones coming up, it had no problem with that.
	It's like, yeah, we can show the entire planet being destroyed.
	We just can't show individuals suffering.
	Those are the rules of AI rendering, which I find hilarious.
	But obviously, if you read the fourth trumpet, it's talking about the darkening of the sky because of the mass ejection from the impact crater.
	So all this dust is ejected into the atmosphere and it darkens the sun and the moon and the stars and the sky.
	Like, yeah, that happens with big volcanoes, big impacts, you know.
	But it doesn't say there's an impact, so the AI engine wasn't able to render that.
	Instead, it renders this, which is like day and night, kind of sun and darkness and this weird dead landscape.
	Kind of interesting.
	All right, let's go to image number five.
	This starts to get interesting.
	Now, if you've read this in the Bible, it says, Then the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star.
	Fallen from heaven to the earth.
	Again, not difficult to realize what that's saying.
	It says there's a star coming out of the sky and it hits the earth.
	Okay. Giant meteor.
	Obviously. To him was given the key to the bottomless pit.
	Well, what is the bottomless pit?
	It's a giant hole that opens up in earth's crust because of the impact.
	And it even talks about that.
	It says, and he opened the bottomless pit, you know.
	The meteor and smoke arose out of the pit like the smoke of a great furnace.
	And then it even describes the effects in the atmosphere.
	It says, so the sun and the air were darkened because of the smoke of the pit.
	Then out of the smoke, locusts came upon the earth.
	And locusts doesn't really mean locusts either, by the way.
	There are some interesting interpretations of what that means.
	But it doesn't matter.
	This image that was rendered by AI shows giant rocks hitting the earth and opening up something that looks like craters or crevices and smoke rising up out of this bottomless pit.
	So once again, the AI did a really good job of rendering this using the words written by John.
	And once again, I will point out that a typical conventional Christian reading this passage is incapable of imagining this scene because They were never taught that.
	But AI hasn't been to Bible school and Sunday school and 50 years of church.
	So AI is like, yeah, it's a giant meteor hitting the earth and giant smoke rising up so it renders it and it's like, yep, nailed it.
	We always have to be careful of how we've been indoctrinated, all of us, myself included.
	Even about America.
	When I was a kid, going to school every day, you put your hand over your heart.
	I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.
	And we didn't even know the words.
	And to the public for which it stands.
	For which it stands or whatever.
	We didn't know where it was.
	One nation under God, you know, invisible.
	We had no idea.
	But that's a kind of indoctrination, right?
	I'm not saying it was bad.
	It's good to have patriotism for your nation, I believe.
	And America has been great in the past.
	A few decades ago, it was better, I think.
	But let's just be honest, you know, making all the children in school stand up and say the Pledge of Allegiance, this is a form of indoctrination.
	Remember, sometimes indoctrination is good, sometimes it's bad.
	The entire medical field has been indoctrinated with vaccine cultism.
	You see?
	Vaccine cults and even the whole myth of virology.
	It's astonishing to me.
	The parallels between what a lot of Christians believe that isn't in the Bible and how that parallels what a lot of scientists have been taught about virology that isn't real.
	Those things are really very much the same.
	Because if you talk to a typical virologist or a typical doctor and you ask them, like, why do you believe that viruses exist and can make people sick when viruses are transferred from one person to another?
	What is their answer?
	Their answer sounds exactly like a Christian.
	Their answer is something like, well, we all know that.
	That's always been true.
	Of course there are viruses.
	You can't question viruses.
	What does that sound like?
	That sounds like a Christian.
	Well, we all know Christ comes out of the sky on a white horse.
	You can't question that.
	We all know Christ comes on a white horse.
	We've all been taught that.
	See, they sound exactly the same.
	But one is in the realm of science.
	The other is in the realm of religion.
	Neither one.
	Neither have the facts to back them up.
	Neither one.
	But they both think that they are 100% true and faithful and good people, too.
	And maybe they are good people.
	I'm not saying they're not good people.
	They're just good people who have been indoctrinated and need to question the things that they've been indoctrinated with.
	That's all I'm saying.
	This whole exercise, why I'm doing this, why am I poking and prodding people, especially Christians right now?
	Because I want you to be free.
	You to free your mind from the prisons that you have been subjected to.
	We've all been subjected to prisons.
	When I grew up in the 1980s, and, well, I guess it was mostly in the Reagan era, we were all told that Russia was evil and Russia wanted to kill us all, and if Russia could, they would nuke us all to death, and we had to build Star Wars Strategic Defense Initiative,
	you know?
	We have to defend ourselves from those evil Russians.
	Russians are evil and horrible.
	People want to murder us.
	We were all taught that.
	Maybe you were too, if you're of a similar age as myself.
	You were taught that.
	Then you fast forward to 2025 and you're like, that was all BS.
	The Russians don't want to kill us.
	Russians just, they don't want to die either.
	Russians want to have families.
	Russians want to...
	Have abundance.
	Russians want to be able to afford food and cars and live lives with something resembling, you know, decent housing and home gardens and whatever.
	It's like, huh, I guess Russians are a lot like us.
	Yeah, we've been lied to.
	We were all indoctrinated the whole time.
	Of course we were.
	Alright, let's go to trumpet number six.
	What's fun about trumpet number six, well, maybe fun is the wrong word.
	Trumpet number six describes, oh, and it goes with the sixth seal and the sixth bowl.
	Also, they go together.
	In this case, all three line up.
	This is the one that hits the Middle East.
	And this impact destroys not just Israel, but all the Middle Eastern countries and the Euphrates River.
	This is the next to the last event.
	And the last one is God destroying the entire earth.
	I mean, all human civilization.
	Leveling the planet, like literally leveling the planet, because he says that all the mountains are flattened, okay?
	So that's called leveling the planet.
	The sixth trumpet here that we are depicting right now, you're looking at this image.
	Now, there's a lot that goes into this, because I'm not going to read the whole thing, but in the sixth trumpet it says, Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.
	Once you understand what's happening, angels refers to giant comets in this context.
	Not everywhere in the Bible, obviously, but here that's what it refers to.
	It always says, like, the angel poured out his bowl upon this.
	Yeah, that's a giant comet coming out of the sky.
	So it says, the four angels who had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year, meaning they were on a calendar schedule, they were on their way the entire time, quote, were released to kill a third.
	Of mankind.
	You got that?
	Okay. A third of mankind.
	Christ said in Matthew 24, it's half, 50%.
	One out of every two men in the field.
	One out of every two women doing the millstones, whatever.
	And here, they say, well, a third.
	Well, this is a third on top of the other thirds and other halves and so on, and eventually it's everybody.
	And it even talks about that.
	But this talks about...
	The army of the horsemen was 200 million, which really refers to all the rock fragments coming out of the sky.
	And John writes, Thus I saw the horses in the vision.
	Those who sat on them had breastplates of fiery red, hyacinth blue, sulfur yellow, and the heads of the horses were like the heads of lions, and out of their mouths came fire, smoke, and brimstone.
	So that's why this AI image looks like lions breathing fire and brimstone.
	Well, those are comets.
	And as I showed you yesterday, well, actually, let me give you this image again.
	This image from the year 1607 depicting comets shows that the way ancient people saw comets in the sky is that they had fur.
	And these are actual illustrations, again, from numerous years, but 1607 being one of them, so these are early 17th century illustrations.
	And again...
	Humans at that time did not know about outer space and comets and meteors and whatever, so they thought that there's fur.
	And that's why, here, John of Patmos says, this is like the face, what is it, the heads were like the heads of lions, and out of their mouths came fire, smoke, and brimstone.
	Well, why out of their mouths?
	Because a lot of these meteors or comets, they are airbursts.
	Just like the Tunguska event over Russia that we've talked about numerous times.
	So they burst in the air, and that event in Tunguska was estimated to be 50 kilotons of energy released above ground, which is like four or five times larger than the Hiroshima atomic bomb of World War II.
	So that is what John is describing as out of their mouths came fire, smoke, and brimstone.
	And then by these three plagues, a third of mankind was killed, and he even says, killed by the fire and the smoke and the brimstone which came out of their mouths.
	That's a quote.
	That's a quote.
	At least, that's the English translation quote.
	I guess we do have to assume that the translations are faithful, and maybe that's a bad assumption.
	We might have to talk about that another day.
	For today, I'm just going to assume that the translations are mostly faithful to the original, and we'll go with that.
	But if the translations are bad, then we have to rethink everything here.
	In any case, the sixth seal also says the following.
	Listen to these words, and if you've heard me read this before, just listen again with a fresh ear.
	When you hear these words, you cannot...
	Conclude anything other than giant comets coming out of the sky.
	Or, you know, rocks.
	I looked when he opened the sixth seal, and behold, there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became like blood, which is what happens when there's a lot of dust in the atmosphere.
	You know, the moon looks red.
	And the stars of heaven fell to the earth, as a fig tree drops its late figs when it is shaken by a mighty wind.
	Then the sky receded as a scroll when it is rolled up.
	It's because the smoke is rising and blotting out the sky, okay?
	It's a pretty straightforward image.
	And every mountain and island was moved out of its place.
	Whoa. You know, every mountain, right?
	And it goes on, talks about everybody hiding in the mountains and nobody can stand, etc.
	I've been through this many times, so I'm not going to go into great detail.
	Let's go to the seventh trumpet.
	Here's the image.
	This is the final impact.
	And wow, the AI engine rendered North America as the epicenter and all these giant impacts hitting other places, like in the ocean, and going all the way through the ocean into Earth's cross.
	And here's the angels above Earth, the heavenly angels, that are actually celebrating all of this because they do say in the seventh trumpet after the impact, The angels actually say, this is funny, they say, we give you thanks, O Lord God Almighty, the one who is and who was and who is to come.
	The nations were angry, your wrath has come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged.
	I'm skipping ahead.
	You should destroy those who destroy the earth.
	And in the seventh trumpet, it's so clear.
	It says the...
	When he opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour, skipping ahead.
	It says, then the angel took the censer.
	Now, the censer is the object in which you set fire to the incense, okay?
	So this is a fire-burning object.
	The angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the altar, and threw it to the earth.
	Right? It's like angels throwing giant fireballs out of the sky.
	And there were noises, thunderings, lightnings, and an earthquake.
	Yes, yes, right?
	It's hard to read that and say blue Volkswagen.
	You know what I'm saying?
	But some people will.
	They will read that and they'll say blue Volkswagen.
	And then there's one more image that I have for you here, which is from Matthew 24. And this is a...
	Pretty dark image with like a total solar eclipse and some meteors in the background, Matthew 24. And this is being described by Christ as recorded in the book of Matthew.
	The sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the heavenly bodies will be shaken, and then skipping forward.
	For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking.
	Marrying and giving in marriage up to the day Noah entered the ark, and then they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away.
	That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.
	And I talked about this yesterday.
	This is Christ saying this, and he's not talking about himself.
	So the Son of Man refers to the comet sent by God.
	Two men will be in the field, one will be taken on the other left, two women will be grinding with a hand mill, one will be taken on the other left, etc.
	So, there you go.
	Those are the eight, you know, seven trumpets plus the Matthew image.
	Those are the eight images that were rendered by AI to visually depict the words of John in the book of Revelation.
	The idea of doing this came to me yesterday because I thought, wow, you know, a lot of Christians aren't getting this.
	And I don't know if it's just because a lot of Christians aren't familiar with astronomy or how comets work or maybe that knowledge is not very widespread or what, or if it's just the indoctrination and just kind of the, you know, how we all tend to believe what we've been told since children and we don't want to question it.
	I don't know what it is.
	But for some reason I was having a lot of trouble.
	Getting Christians to visualize the comets that are clearly described throughout the book of Revelation.
	And I thought, you know, AI could probably do a good job with this.
	If I take the words that John wrote and I feed them into an AI image prompt, what will it give me?
	And that's what you just saw.
	Pretty good depictions of giant comet impacts.
	So I want to thank Jeffrey Goodman.
	Who's the author of The Comets of God.
	I have never spoken to the man.
	I don't even know if he's around.
	I have no idea.
	But his work is extraordinary, and he is a Bible scholar.
	And his work led me to this understanding and being able to now clearly see the book of Revelation.
	It now makes total sense.
	Whereas the first time I read it, I was like, what?
	It didn't...
	You know, it's hard to put the pieces together.
	Now it makes total sense.
	And now with the AI visualizations, you're like, yeah, of course that's what it is.
	That's what's being described.
	Giant angels flinging giant flaming rocks out of the sky.
	To do what?
	To judge mankind.
	To judge mankind.
	Now, backing up for a second, there is an argument to be made.
	That John of Patmos was just on magic mushrooms.
	And I understand that argument.
	I don't personally believe that's the case.
	I think God's angels did speak to him and gave him these very specific visions, which a man living in his time could not have known about comets, which is why he had so much trouble describing it.
	But there is an argument to be made that this guy was just dreaming or having visions or hallucinations or whatever, and there's no hard evidence that this is the Word of God.
	I'm talking about the book of Revelation.
	And okay, that's a valid argument.
	If that's the case, then we've had fun analyzing some dude's visions from 2,000 years ago, give or take.
	And that's interesting.
	But if it's just a vision, does that automatically mean this won't happen?
	No. Because a lot of times people have dreams and visions of very intense future events, you know?
	And I've had that myself, and maybe you have too.
	I've had these kinds of dreams of things that happened, where there were explosions.
	I talked about this a couple years ago, of one of my very vivid dreams.
	And it actually happened two weeks later.
	And there are people who've had dreams about, like, airlines crashing, you know, airplanes crashing, and killing a bunch of people, and they would see the same thing day after day for a year, you know, and they would call the airport and say, I keep seeing this vision of this plane, you know, turning and crashing.
	And they were ignored until the event happened.
	And then the police investigated.
	How did you know?
	Well, they had visions, okay?
	So visions are a real thing.
	So even if this is just John of Patmos having a, quote, vision, even if there weren't really angels talking to him, it doesn't mean it's not going to happen.
	You see what I'm saying?
	Because the mind communicates.
	The mind is vibrational.
	The mind sends information and receives information.
	I did a whole book on this called The Contagious Mind, and if you want to download that for free, it's at thecontagiousmind.com.
	You can download the whole audiobook for free.
	And the transcript.
	Have fun with that.
	So this might be an example of a multi-millennial or let's say a trans-millennial experience by John that this was so intense to him because it's something that is going to happen in the future that will kill billions of people.
	That would be emotionally intense.
	And it is feasible, although we can't prove it, but it is feasible That that future event has crossed time and space to implant visions into John who thought that angels were talking to him,
	which is a reasonable thing to believe if you lived in that time.
	And again, maybe they did.
	I'm not saying they didn't.
	I'm just saying there are multiple possibilities that make this real.
	In fact, even if you don't believe in angels, even if you don't believe in God, There's still a mechanism for this to happen.
	It would be supernatural phenomena that he got the message from the future, basically kind of like remote viewing in the future.
	So angels are not even necessary for this to be real.
	Although I think this was angels, but that's just...
	I mean, I think the book of Revelation is genuine, but I can't prove it.
	And other people have different interpretations, and that's totally okay.
	That's something that we can never know for sure.
	So if we are rigorous thinkers, we have to leave open the possibility that John was just trying to be a science fiction writer, or he had visions from the future for whatever reason, or angels spoke to him, or he had magic mushrooms.
	Too many magic mushrooms in the spaghetti.
	I don't know.
	Whatever it is, it seems impossible to me that he would have these visions.
	That are so accurate about meteors that he would have this thousands of years before most people knew anything about meteors.
	And frankly, before telescopes were invented.
	I mean, like 1,500 years before telescopes were invented.
	At least decent telescopes.
	You know, telescopes that could really look into the heavens, so to speak.
	So that's what convinces me that this is real.
	Because he's giving descriptions that nobody in that time could have possibly known.
	It would be like somebody in the year 1900 predicting iPhones or something.
	Like, yeah, you're going to hold this thing up to your ear, and it's going to have a screen, and you're going to watch movies on it, and you're going to press it, and it's going to have buttons that just disappear after you press them, and you're going to talk to people on the other side of the planet.
	I swear.
	And everybody in 1908 would be like, you're freaking bonkers, John.
	You think people are going to talk to each other with invisible magic screens?
	And then, here we are in 2025, talking to each other on magic screens.
	Like, it's totally normal, you know?
	And also, buying crypto on those magic screens.
	It's like, what's crypto, you know?
	John of Patmos could not explain crypto.
	Like, what?
	What? What are you doing?
	No. So, look, bottom line, folks.
	I honestly...
	It doesn't matter to me what conclusions you end up with.
	It doesn't matter to me whether you agree with me or disagree with me.
	What matters to me is that you free yourself from being a mind slave who is indoctrinated by all the crap that we've all been through.
	And we've all been indoctrinated.
	My job is to help set you free in every area, in science, medicine, religion, finance, government.
	Consciousness, the nature of the cosmos, the nature of reality.
	My job is to set you free, or at least to help you.
	I mean, I don't claim that I have the power to set you free, but I do have the power to nudge you a little bit.
	That's the point of this podcast, to nudge you into questioning things, and then from that, it's your job to engage in that self-discovery where you go, oh, I just got red pill, you know?
	Just, aha, I just realized that...
	What I used to believe was BS.
	That's the moment I'm looking for.
	That's the treasure right there.
	That's a success in my day.
	And if I broadcast something like this and I get like 19 out of 20 people say, oh, you're full of bunk.
	My pastor told me that Jesus is on a white horse.
	But I get one person out of the 20 who says, whoa, wait a second.
	Let me go back and check that.
	Yeah, you're right.
	There is no rapture mentioned.
	There is no Jesus on the horse mentioned.
	It's not even in there.
	If I reach one out of 20, I've done my job.
	And I think, in that case, I'm happy with that job, to help one out of 20 people wake up and question something.
	And then, maybe a year later, there's a couple more out of the 20 that start to remember, hey, I heard something a couple years ago.
	From this health ranger guy, and when I first heard it, I thought that was nuts.
	And then now something happened, and I realized maybe I should look at that, you know?
	See, this has a future effect.
	I'm planting seeds of truth in your head right now.
	Seeds that might sprout in 2026, 2027, or maybe giant space rocks start coming out of the sky in 2030, and you look up, you're like, hey, giant flaming rock, wait a minute.
	Didn't the health ranger talk about this?
	Let's go back and look at that.
	You see?
	I'm planting seeds for the coming event.
	Oh, what fun!
	I'm actually, in a way, putting activation words in your head in a positive way to give you knowledge and freedom to think.
	So, if you think about it, as I've described my work, I am breaking the spells.
	That you have lived under.
	And for many people, organized religion is a total spell.
	It's a sorcerer's spell.
	So is transgenderism.
	So is a lot of the political party bullcrap on the GOP and the DNC both.
	Sorcerer's spells.
	Virology. Vaccines.
	Science. You know, all of it.
	A bunch of spells.
	And frankly, a lot of the flat earthers out there would say that...
	They would say, I don't agree with them, but they would say that it's a spell that you think the earth is a sphere.
	They would say, it's all flat, man.
	And what's weird is that at some level, I actually kind of respect the questioning.
	It's like I said earlier, I don't care if we come to the same conclusion, but I do want you to question everything.
	So I agree with the process that flat earthers are going through in asking the questions.
	I totally agree with the process, but I don't agree with their conclusions, which is okay.
	That's fine.
	But at least they have the balls to ask questions versus most people that are just sitting around just like, I'm just going to believe whatever I was told forever.
	You know, just going to assume it's all true.
	Never question anything.
	Like, I have no respect for those people.
	I respect the flat earthers way more than I respect the non-questioners.
	You see what I'm saying?
	It's true.
	It's true.
	I respect people who ask questions even if their answers are wacky.
	So what?
	At least they're adventurers.
	At least they're getting off the cognitive couch and getting out there and asking questions.
	And I think that I believe in our Creator.
	I think God wants us to question everything.
	I do.
	Otherwise, what's the point?
	He doesn't want to just sit there and...
	Absorb like a sponge, whatever BS society happens to be teaching you at that moment in history.
	We've all been subjected to a certain segment of history.
	You're going to believe this because you were born in this year.
	But that's different from the people 100 years ago or 100 years later.
	So how do you get to truth?
	You question everything.
	That's how you get to truth, right?
	Isn't that right?
	Hey, Rhodey, how do you get to truth?
	Tell it to us.
	Come on up.
	How do you get to truth, Rhodey?
	Yeah! Tell it to us.
	How do you get to truth?
	Yeah! Do it!
	That's right.
	That's how we get it.
	Come on up.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Good boy.
	Good boy.
	Yeah, good boy.
	That's how we get to truth.
	Get us some truth.
	You want a bone of truth?
	Yes, you do.
	You want the bone of truth?
	Okay, good boy.
	Hey, how about some food?
	You want some food?
	You want to get some food?
	All right.
	I think it's feeding time for Rhodey.
	He's going to rip somebody's arm off if I don't feed him, so I better get to that.
	We will continue this broadcast with some other topics.
	Stay with us.
	Okay, I've issued a challenge online I want to share with you, but first, just a minor correction.
	I said yesterday that the name Jesus doesn't appear in Revelation 19. It actually does appear in the top part before the white horse.
	Okay, so I want to be clear.
	It's nowhere in the whole section on down talking about the white horse coming out of the sky.
	It's not mentioned anywhere in that.
	The name Jesus is referred to by an angel in verse 10 that's talking about, I'm a fellow servant with you and with your brothers and sisters who hold to the testimony of Jesus, worship God.
	So that's completely, that's a totally different context of what's happening.
	But it is interesting to me that those same angels, they are in heaven shouting and celebrating the destruction of human civilization.
	When they say, Hallelujah!
	Salvation and glory and power belong to our God.
	He avenged on her the blood of his servants.
	He has condemned the great prostitute who corrupted the earth by her adulteries, etc.
	The smoke from her goes up forever and ever.
	Yeah, that's the smoke from the giant comet impacts.
	Later on there, like I said, the angel is talking about who hold to the testimony of Jesus.
	Basically saying that even Jesus approves of the destruction of humanity because humankind has turned so evil.
	And then after that, verse 11 comes in with the white horse.
	So anyway, I did want to make that clarification.
	What I want to offer here is publicly I've posted a $5,000 reward for anyone who can, well, I should say for the first person who can tell me where the literal word rapture appears in the Bible.
	And, of course, I will never have to pay that $5,000 because the rapture is never mentioned in the Bible.
	Okay, so I've also offered a $10,000 reward to anybody who can find any actual mention of the name Jesus in Revelation chapter 19 from verse 11 forward, which refers to the part, you know, again, everybody thinks it's Christ on a horse,
	and it's not.
	So I have put $15,000 on the line to try to encourage people to actually read the Bible.
	How about that?
	And I'm willing to pay up if anybody can find the rapture mentioned or the name Jesus in that section of Revelation 19 or even the entire bottom half of that chapter.
	So we'll see what happens.
	That should be fun.
	You know, another final thought before we change subjects here is that everybody says they want to be free.
	Everybody says they want to be red-pilled.
	Everybody says they want to know the truth.
	Until it's their myths that get challenged.
	Isn't that interesting?
	You've probably noticed this, right?
	Ever tried to argue with a transgender about how there are only two genders?
	It doesn't work, does it?
	It's ma'am!
	I'm a woman because I say I am!
	Nothing makes any sense.
	It's that way with everything.
	Don't think that transgenders are the only people living in a delusion.
	There are plenty of Christians living in a delusion.
	There are plenty of Republicans.
	There are Jews.
	There are Sikhs.
	There are Hindus living in their own delusion.
	There are Islam, etc.
	I mean, every religion has its own sort of...
	There's a subset of those people who are living in a...
	Mythology that they just blindly accepted without questioning.
	And, of course, this happens outside of religion and, you know, in medicine, like we mentioned earlier, medicine and science and virology and vaccines.
	Like a typical doctor, it just absolutely believes in vaccines.
	And I remember during COVID, one of my family members said, well, I talked to my doctor about the COVID vaccines and she said that she did the research.
	And that the vaccines were safe and effective and that I should get them, they said.
	And then, you know, we find out a couple years later that that doctor didn't actually do any research at all.
	They just believed in vaccines in the same way that a lot of Christians believe in the rapture.
	They just believed it without thinking about it.
	They just accepted it blindly.
	And that...
	Everybody gets uncomfortable about their own blinders.
	Everybody. And even many of you might be uncomfortable hearing some of this today.
	How dare you question our blinders, you know, right?
	And maybe I get sensitive about some of my blinders as well.
	It's a universal thing.
	None of us are immune from this.
	But you talk to doctors and you say, have you ever actually read the ingredients of the vaccine?
	They will tell you no.
	If they're honest, they will say no.
	Or usually they'll say, I don't need to read the ingredients.
	I know they're safe.
	And actually what they're saying is, they know it's safe as a matter of faith.
	See? Vaccinology is a religion or a cult.
	Scientism is a cult.
	And they don't need evidence because they have faith.
	You see what I mean?
	So as a Christian, you can't say that people of science don't have faith.
	They absolutely have faith.
	They rely on their faith all the time instead of science.
	They have faith in their, quote, science, so they don't need evidence.
	You see what I'm saying?
	Very common.
	In fact, it's almost universal.
	If you really look at the big picture here, very few people...
	Know where they got any of the knowledge that they claim to know as true.
	Let me state that again.
	Let me try to rephrase that.
	Of all the things that people believe are true, almost none of them can tell you, they can't trace it back to a source of truth because they don't remember where they heard that or learned that or were taught that.
	And this is a mental shortcut.
	It's a neurological survival mechanism.
	And we all do it.
	We all do it because, did you know the brain only runs on like 30 watts or 45 watts of energy?
	So the brain has to take shortcuts.
	And so you distill things to be true and then you have beliefs.
	And most of the time those beliefs serve you.
	For example, I believe it's bad to cross a busy highway randomly without looking both directions first.
	Like, okay, that's a belief.
	You may not remember where you got that.
	Like, who was the first person or who were the 12 parents who screamed at you to not cross the road?
	You don't know.
	You don't remember.
	But somehow you got the belief that, eh, it's a bad idea to cross the road, especially a busy highway, without looking for cars, right?
	And that serves you.
	You know, it kept you alive.
	You're still alive.
	If you didn't look for cars and you tended to run across highways, You know, you wouldn't be listening to this podcast.
	But then people get all kinds of crazy false beliefs that are a disservice to them, like the belief that there's a virus that's in this person, and then that person can sneeze this virus on this other person, and then that person will get sick with the same thing that was in this first person because of these shared particles,
	which turns out to be completely false.
	That's actually not true, unless you're talking about Bacteria and mold and fungi, mold spores, things that you could actually see that are living.
	Yeah, you can be infected by bacteria.
	You can be infected by mold spores, etc.
	But this idea of a virus, which is a non-living cell membrane fragment, basically a sequence of proteins, that can then make these other people sick, that's false.
	In fact, the whole narrative around measles that we're taught is completely false.
	But when people believe that, then It's a disservice to them because they begin to make a lot of decisions around this measles threat and this measles panic, and it causes a lot of people, a lot of parents, to go take their children in to get vaccinated, and then they have autism induced by the vaccine.
	So they were never going to get measles in the first place because it's not caused by a measles virus, and even if you think it is, measles isn't a deadly disease.
	Nearly every case.
	And actually having measles, again, in the mainstream format here, the mainstream paradigm, having measles boosts your immune function, makes it stronger for you to experience other infections.
	And yeah, children get sick and they have symptoms of postules, but that's not a virus.
	That's actually being exposed to...
	Toxins that are killing your cells and then your cells are dying and your body's trying to get rid of the dying cell material.
	So your body is shedding toxic material out of your cells.
	And that can also, by the way, that can impact negatively other people around you.
	But it's not a virus replicating.
	It's just cells killing cells and then shedding dead cell material, which is toxic, that all the bodies are trying to eliminate.
	See, it's a different paradigm.
	But mainstream doctors and scientists, they swear that measles is a virus.
	They swear AIDS is caused by a virus.
	But yet, did you know in all AIDS testing, they can't identify a virus and they can't isolate a virus?
	They say that it's HIV, but they can't actually show you HIV.
	They've never shown HIV as the cause of AIDS.
	They've never been able to isolate HIV.
	And in AIDS testing, at least this is the way it used to be years ago, did you know that...
	As part of the AIDS test, they ask you about your lifestyle.
	Like, do you have gay sex partners?
	Well, think about it.
	Why should that matter to the test if it's a virus under a microscope or some other protein testing instrument?
	If it's a test, your lifestyle shouldn't be relevant to the answer.
	Either the virus is there or it isn't.
	Why should they need to know if you're gay in order to conduct an AIDS test?
	If the test is scientifically valid.
	You see what I mean?
	So the whole AIDS testing industry is built on a bunch of myths.
	Total fraud.
	Now, it doesn't mean that those people aren't having suppressed immune systems.
	They are because of the filthy practices involved in the, let's say, the multi-partner, mostly gay men lifestyle, which not all gay men participate in that.
	But the younger gay men tend to have all kinds of multiple partners with, you know, rectal sex and sometimes drug use and sharing needles and all that stuff.
	Well, guess what happens?
	Yeah, your immune system's all shot.
	It's got nothing to do with the virus.
	It's got to do with the fact that you're covered in filth.
	You know, that's the truth.
	But, again, people get really uncomfortable.
	Oh, you can't challenge our myths.
	We have institutions about our myths, you know?
	Moats and a drawbridge.
	Oh, you can't challenge our myths.
	We'll pull up the drawbridge.
	We'll pour burning oil on you, you know, in the castle metaphor.
	You can't challenge our myths.
	We can challenge everybody else's myths.
	Ah, those transgenders, they're crazy, but how dare you challenge us when we think, you know, Christ is going to ride on a horse out of the sky.
	Oh, you can't challenge that.
	You see what I mean?
	So my job, again, is to help you think clearly and freely.
	Not to give you a conclusion to believe, and certainly not to try to program new layers of mythology into your consciousness, but rather to deprogram, to break the spells, which is a painful process.
	It's painful when those myths are part of your personality and your self-identity.
	A lot of people identify as these groups that are filled with myths.
	A lot of people identify as a Christian.
	And identifying as a Christian, they have all these Christian myths, and that is part of their identity.
	Same thing, a lot of LGBT people identify as gay or identify as lesbians, and their lesbianism is part of who they are.
	Or their transgenderism is part of who they are.
	And if you start to question those myths, like, hey, a man can't become a woman, a man can't have a baby, you don't need tampons in men's restrooms, they feel very uncomfortable because you are questioning the very foundations of their self-identity.
	You're questioning the existence of their id, in other words.
	That's what makes people nervous, whether you're talking about religion or politics or LGBT or science or anything else.
	People get nervous when you question their core beliefs.
	But that's exactly what has to happen to set people free.
	And you're going to piss off a bunch of people at the same time.
	So what?
	I'd rather people be mad and curious than to be blind and comfortably numb.
	All right, let's shift gears here.
	We've hammered that topic enough, I hope.
	I hope.
	I hope you found that valuable, if even possibly somewhat uncomfortable.
	That's okay.
	It's okay.
	This isn't mindless entertainment here.
	This has a purpose.
	Every broadcast has a purpose.
	And some of it is not warm and fuzzy.
	But it's always a purpose to enhance you as a human being, to make you more free, to make you better informed, to help nudge you into having more courage, etc.
	Or to help you survive all the insanity that's happening.
	Everything that I do here, whether you agree with it or not, has a good faith purpose to help every listener.
	I am here to help you be a better person.
	I am here to help you make your life easier by making good decisions and having eyes wide open, okay, so that you can see what's happening.
	Now, along those lines, as we shift topics here, gold went up almost another $100 in the last 24 hours.
	It has almost hit $3,500 as of the time I'm recording this.
	Very close, like $34.80, bouncing around.
	Now, it's astonishing to a lot of people that gold would be doing this, but only to the people who don't know what's happening, right?
	So if you're listening to this, if you've been listening for some period of time, if I haven't scared you off yet, I will keep trying.
	Give me a chance.
	If I haven't scared you off yet, you knew that gold was going to go.
	Sky high.
	You knew it.
	And you probably got some.
	And you're probably sitting on some amount of gold right now and you're like, you're really smiling because you know that the dollar is collapsing and all the other fiat currencies are also collapsing.
	You know, the euro, the yen, the Australian dollar, etc.
	All the fiat currencies are collapsing.
	Which, as you know, it doesn't make gold more valuable, but it makes gold cost more fiat units.
	Right? So when we say, well, gold is, let's say, $3,500, as it almost is, it doesn't mean that gold is worth more.
	It just means that it takes $3,500 less valuable dollars to buy or to trade for one ounce of gold, which essentially has the same value through thousands of years in terms of what you can trade it for.
	So you know, you know that if you hold dollars, you're losing Purchasing power every day, the dollar is a scam.
	The dollar is a fraud.
	The dollar is not an instrument of money.
	It is an instrument of debt.
	And if you hold dollars, you hold debt.
	And debt that is eroding every day as they print more.
	If you hold gold, you hold money.
	And they can't print gold.
	That is one of its most important attributes.
	They can't print it.
	Now, one of the main reasons why people are recognizing the importance of being in gold is because of what Trump's actions are doing to the U.S. economy.
	Now, I interviewed David Dubine today.
	I'm going to play that one for you, I think, tomorrow.
	Just because, well, we've got a great interview lined up for you today.
	And what David Dubine and I both agree on...
	Is that we're going to see a lot of empty shelves across America this year, throughout this year.
	It will kick in in about six weeks.
	So what is this?
	Kind of end of April?
	Let's say mid-June at the latest.
	So pretty much all summer long, okay?
	You're going to see empty shelves in America all summer long and all throughout the fall unless...
	Trump changes something very, very rapidly, and it doesn't look like he's going to.
	Now, regardless of what Trump intended to do with the tariffs, the effect of the tariffs, the fact that China didn't cave in, the fact that China said, no, go pound sand, we're not going to agree to your insane demands,
	means that we're now in a trade war with China, and I've described this as Trump basically enacting A trade embargo against America.
	It's not a trade embargo against China.
	It's a trade embargo against America because China can sail ships to all these other countries.
	China can buy and sell with, you know, Japan and Taiwan and Australia and everybody else.
	But China can't deliver anything to America any longer.
	I mean, not that it makes financial sense because he's charging the $1.5 million.
	Penalty fee per ship per dock on top of the 245% tariffs on many goods and 145% tariffs on other Chinese goods.
	And at those numbers, it doesn't even make sense to dock.
	So I mentioned that in 1941, the U.S. Navy erected a naval blockade around Japan in order to block Japan from receiving shipments of oil, you know, energy.
	And as a result, Japan was suffering an existential threat and was forced to lash out and attack Pearl Harbor, which was a setup.
	I've talked about that before.
	The whole thing was a provocation by the West.
	But nevertheless, that's history at this point.
	But in World War II, America would blockade other nations.
	Today, in 2025, Trump blockades our own nation.
	That's the weird thing, is that...
	Trump didn't push a naval blockade of China.
	He put a shipping blockade on America.
	As if we're the target.
	As if we're the enemy.
	And it's going to feel like that too when the store shelves go empty and you're like, why are we living in a third world existence here where we can't get anything?
	Why is everything gone?
	How come we can't build homes and nobody can buy tools and screws and bolts and nuts and nails?
	And you can't get car parts, you can't get tractor parts, you can't get irrigation equipment.
	What's going on?
	Well, it's because Trump erected a blockade against America.
	The result of this is going to be mass bankruptcies of major retailers and small businesses across America that is going to be devastating to the U.S. economy in a way that's far worse than anything that happened during COVID.
	So if you remember the COVID shutdowns and lockdowns, Which was insane.
	That was the warm-up round.
	What Trump has just inflicted upon America is going to make that look like a walk in the park.
	And this is coming in, again, let's say six to eight weeks is when you're really going to start noticing it.
	Unless Trump turns this around.
	Trump would have to give in and say to China, you know, we're going to de-escalate this thing.
	We're going to drop our tariffs if you drop your tariffs.
	You know, everybody can shake hands and drop all the tariffs and we can all get back to shipping things around.
	But I don't see that happening.
	Do you?
	I mean, I don't know for certain.
	Maybe the pressure on Trump is going to be so great.
	It could be a few months down the road, this talk of impeachment of Trump, marching him out of the White House.
	And I think we're going to see some resignations of some of his top officials, by the way, pretty soon.
	I think you can see a lot of officials actually running away from the Trump administration because it's turning into at least the potential for a real catastrophe, a political catastrophe.
	Now, he still has time to turn this around, but he's done so much damage since April 2nd.
	We're talking 20 days plus of damage has been done to the U.S. economy.
	The damage is in the trillions already.
	That's not going to be easy to turn around.
	And every day that this continues is another day of a lot more economic damage.
	And I don't see any indications, do you, that Trump is going to turn this around or give in to China.
	I don't see any indications of that.
	So most likely this is going to continue all through the summer.
	Which means, you know, if you bought...
	Something from China?
	Kiss it goodbye.
	You better go buy a bunch of them now while you can.
	That's what I did.
	I seriously did that.
	I was just thinking about all the stuff I buy from China, like irrigation parts, you know?
	For my orchards and water management and all the drip lines and everything.
	That's all made in China.
	I better buy a bunch of that stuff.
	So I did.
	I'm like front-loading my inventory because I know what's coming, man.
	Not going to be good.
	And by the way, I don't want to hear anybody say, oh, this is Trump's 4D chess.
	No, it isn't.
	It's just a mistake.
	I love it how the Team Trump or MAGA team or whatever, I love how every time Trump makes a mistake, they just say, it's 4D chess.
	That's a really clever reframe.
	Every time something blows up, they say, no, it's all part of the plan.
	It's the Q-tard stuff.
	It's just recycled into MAGA-tard.
	It's like, really?
	No, sometimes it's just a bad decision and you need to correct it.
	We've all made bad decisions and, you know, we've learned to correct them.
	Trump is making a very bad decision affecting all of us, almost 340 million Americans, and he's not correcting it, and we're going to suffer.
	We're going to suffer badly.
	And the ramifications for the GOP and the Trump administration are enormous.
	Did you know, for example, that the midterm elections are only a year and a half away?
	A year and a half away.
	And, I mean, they're going to start advertising for the midterms in six months.
	What are we going to be looking at in six months?
	We're going to be looking at empty shelves, food scarcity, you can't get parts, retailers shutting down, mass bankruptcies all across the country, mass unemployment, probably civil unrest and revolts in the streets.
	How's that going to play for the midterms, you know?
	It's going to play right into the hands of the Democrats.
	The Democrats are just going to run ads.
	It's very simple.
	It'd be easy to make ads for them.
	They're just going to ask one question.
	Are you better off now under Trump, or were you better off under Biden?
	And even though Biden stole the election, I mean, not him.
	Biden's an idiot, right?
	But his controllers stole the election in 2020.
	They ran Biden the puppet for four years.
	They faked his signature on everything.
	They made a mess of the rule of law and they were engaged in authoritarianism and censorship and wide open borders and mass invasion of America.
	But the experience of the American people is that most people were doing better during those years compared to what they're about to experience if Trump doesn't reverse course here.
	You can't spin it.
	It's like, wait a second.
	Okay, it's 2025.
	It's July.
	I can't afford any food.
	I can't get parts for my lawnmower.
	The shelves are empty at the hardware store.
	I got fired from my job.
	This sucks.
	And who's President?
	Trump. That's the decision-making that happens in the minds of most mainstream Americans.
	Remember the good old days when Biden was president?
	It's like, oh, are you kidding me?
	Only Trump could make Democrats look good.
	You gotta make a real mess of things to make Democrats look good.
	And the thing is, the Democrats were done.
	They had been defeated.
	And the Democrats were stupidly doubling down on transgenderism.
	They're still advocating for all the illegal MS-13 gang members.
	They're still advocating open borders.
	And yet, somehow, That position to many Americans is going to look less insane than what they're experiencing under Trump.
	It's like, Trump, how could you lose the midterms?
	All you had to do was not destroy the economy.
	That's all you had to do.
	Not destroy the economy.
	Couldn't do that.
	So what that means is, again, unless Trump changes course here very soon, or maybe you think I'm wrong.
	And I'm okay with that.
	If you think I'm wrong and you think, like, no, this is genius.
	Like, the shelves are going to be empty, but everybody's going to love it because the products we don't have will be more affordable.
	Or something.
	I don't know how that works.
	I don't know how this translates into happiness for the American people, but maybe there's a way that I haven't thought of.
	I mean, let me put it this way.
	I know the narrative of the Trump supporters is complete BS.
	The narrative is...
	We'll cut off China.
	Okay, we're going to cut off China.
	And then all these American factories are going to just start cranking out the products right here in America.
	And then we're going to hire a bunch of American workers.
	And those factories are going to churn out products.
	And we're going to replace China's entire supply chain by this summer in America with Merkin factories.
	Right? That's the narrative.
	Well, I know with certainty that that narrative is bullcrap.
	How do I know that?
	Because I run a food factory.
	I build factories.
	I've overseen.
	I mean, we're building buildings right now.
	I've overseen pouring the concrete, setting the rebar, building the steel buildings, all the electrical infrastructure.
	I know what this takes.
	Just as an example, for the recent new construction that we're doing, our electrical contractor told us, That, yeah, they can build the power infrastructure outside the building, you know, where you have these giant power panels on weatherproof racks outside with steel poles driven into the ground,
	etc. So, yeah, we can build that for you.
	The parts, though, the parts that you need are 50 weeks out in the supply chain.
	And that was before the tariffs.
	They said, yeah, 50 weeks.
	Guess where that stuff comes from?
	China. So after the tariffs, what's the timeline going to be?
	Not 50 weeks, it's like 500 weeks.
	It's like almost 10 years, you know.
	You're never going to build the power centers.
	You're never going to build the factories.
	That's why I was laughing when Trump announced a $500 billion investment in data centers in Texas.
	We're going to spend $500 billion and build data centers.
	And I'm like, no you're not.
	I know you're not, because you can't spend $500 billion in Texas.
	You can't buy that much rebar.
	You can't buy that much concrete.
	You can't buy that much conduit, copper wire, aluminum wire, power racks.
	You can't buy that much stuff.
	It doesn't exist in the supply chain.
	You're going to have to stretch this thing out over a long period of time just to spend $500 billion.
	I mean, I run into supply chain issues just spending a few million dollars.
	Not even one billion, because I don't have a billion.
	And if I did have a billion, I'd probably buy gold with it, but that's a different story.
	You can't spend $500 billion in Texas.
	Not all at once, is my point.
	I mean, yeah, you can spend it over time, but not now.
	You can't just pop up factories and data centers.
	So this narrative that we're just going to take over all this Chinese manufacturing, it's total fiction, man.
	It's delusional thinking, which has been our topic today.
	This is a Trump delusion, or maybe it's a Peter Navarro delusion that Trump sort of signed off on.
	That's most likely what this is.
	Peter Navarro probably convinced him, dude, all we've got to do is put tariffs on everybody, and then our private sector will just...
	Build factories!
	And Trump was like, yeah, let's do it.
	So they did.
	And now we're like, holy crap, it's all breaking.
	Everything's breaking.
	The bond market is breaking.
	The dollar is breaking.
	Everything's breaking.
	See, that's what happens when you make rash decisions without understanding consequences.
	And that's exactly what's going on.
	So this is going to get catastrophic by summer.
	If Trump doesn't reverse course.
	So he's not even 100 days into his presidency, by the way, and he's already made a mess of the economy.
	I mean, just an absolute nightmare wreckage.
	Like, you couldn't do this much damage if you bombed America.
	This is like an act of war.
	I mean, like I said, it's like a naval blockade against our own country.
	It's crazy.
	I mean...
	Iran couldn't even do this much damage if they launched missiles at America.
	And yet, here we are.
	Here we are.
	It's like, how do we get here?
	And then, all the things that Trump promised to do, for the most part, are not happening.
	Where are the Epstein files?
	Yeah? Where are the Epstein files?
	On Pam Bondi's desk somewhere that nobody knows?
	Where are they?
	Why hasn't Fauci been arrested?
	Where are the high-profile arrests?
	Where are all the deportations of millions of illegals?
	Where are the arrests for treason?
	Where are the arrests for the 2020 election rigging?
	Where are the arrests for the people involved in building the bioweapon that they then handed over to China in order to make more deadly vaccines with all that research?
	It went into the vaccines.
	That's where it went.
	Where are those arrests?
	Nowhere to be seen.
	In fact, they mostly stopped talking about that.
	They were promising, oh, we're going to have arrests, we're going to have document release, this and that.
	And then, lately, whispers, man, crickets, you know, nothing.
	You don't hear any of that.
	Now it's like, we're going to build factories.
	Well, we've already been over that.
	No, you're not.
	You're not going to build factories.
	You can't.
	There's not enough in the supply chain to build them.
	I mean, Again, not at the pace that they want.
	Now, a rational actor would say, okay, we're going to have a five-year plan to bring back manufacturing to America.
	Five-year plan.
	And during this transition, we're going to continue to buy the things we need from China, but we're going to slowly maybe have government subsidies for building factories or something, you know?
	We're going to help people build more factories, and then we're going to have, like, government job training programs to train people in running machines and welding and, you know, CNC routers or whatever.
	That kind of thing makes sense, you know?
	And then in five years, we're going to hope to replace, let's say, you know, 30% of Chinese imports with American-made goods, okay?
	And then in 10 years, our plan is 50%.
	That would be at least a rational plan, which may or may not be achievable, but that's beside the point.
	It would be rational.
	Like, we're not going to burn the bridge that we need the trucks to drive over to bring us stuff.
	We're going to have a transition so that that bridge still works while we're building up our domestic manufacturing over five to ten years.
	But no.
	Trump's like, burn the bridges!
	And you're saying, what about the factories?
	Well, we'll build them.
	How long is that going to take?
	Realistically, three years, let's say.
	Okay, three years.
	So what do we do for three years?
	Well, they're going to put up signs at Home Depot that say, this shelf will be restocked in 2028.
	Good luck, you know.
	Power tools, 2028, coming soon.
	Get ready for Christmas 2028.
	It's going to be awesome.
	Because by Christmas 2028, we'll have inventory again.
	And you can buy your cordless drills.
	We're all getting cordless drilled by Trump right now, aren't we?
	We're all getting cordless reamed.
	It's a special on reamers and drillers right now.
	It's insane!
	It's insane.
	It would be like you're driving a car and the tires are bad.
	You're like, ah, these tires only have a few thousand miles on it.
	We should probably go buy some new tires before we take these tires off the car.
	And Trump's like, no, no, no, no.
	You don't know how this is done.
	You take the tires off now.
	And then somehow you go get new tires.
	You take them off now.
	You don't need to wait.
	We'll have new tires.
	We'll have the greatest tires in the world.
	Like, yeah, but how am I supposed to drive there to get them with no tires?
	Oh, don't worry about that.
	We'll print tires.
	It's like, you know, it just becomes completely insane.
	So let me say for the record, Gerald Salenti is right.
	Gerald Salenti is right.
	He has been correct the whole time.
	Peter Schiff is right.
	And I was following Peter Schiff on X, and then X unfollowed me from Peter Schiff.
	And I tweeted about that.
	I was like, what?
	So I had to re-follow Peter Schiff.
	It's like somebody's deleting followings.
	That's X for you right there.
	Secret shadow banning.
	They're probably doing that to me too.
	I know they're doing that to me.
	That's why we've sued Twitter.
	But anyway.
	Peter Schiff is right.
	Joe Salenti is right.
	Andy Sheckman is right.
	Mike Maloney is right.
	I've known.
	I've talked about all these guys and others.
	They've been right the whole time about what's going to happen to the currency and what's going to happen to gold and silver.
	So, do not be surprised when the dollar collapses.
	I mean...
	It's not going to be probably just one single event.
	It's happening now.
	You're watching it.
	You're living it.
	The dollar is collapsing.
	You know, when I was talking about this after 2008 and the subprime mortgage collapse, you know, it was theoretical.
	And I put out videos of like, one day, you know, this leverage is going to break the system and it's all going to come tumbling down.
	We just don't know when that's going to be.
	And I published videos like that in 2011 and 2012.
	And I've been talking about gold this entire time.
	And gold is proving to be the answer.
	This is the lifeboat that I always promised it would be.
	And the dollar is going to zero.
	So this is another area where we talked about myths and we talked about false faith and everything in this podcast.
	A lot of people have this crazy, insane...
	Cult-like faith in banks.
	They think banks are going to be there for them.
	They think banks safeguard their money.
	They think the FDIC insures the banks, so how could they possibly lose?
	You see, it's an irrational faith in a broken system that is going to catastrophically collapse.
	And it's going to take all their dollar wealth down when that happens.
	And yet, these people have faith in the system.
	Or people are still buying treasuries.
	How could you possibly have faith in the debt of the U.S. government at this point?
	A nation that is committing economic suicide and is already $37 trillion in debt.
	Is that the debt?
	And over, what is it?
	Over $200 and something trillion in unfunded obligations stretching out for the next 50 years.
	It's insane.
	You would never lend money to somebody that was in that situation.
	Why would you lend money to the government?
	I mean, truly, only idiots are doing that.
	At this point, buying treasuries is just, it's mind-numbingly retarded.
	It makes no sense.
	You're going to lose it all.
	So I've got a Bright Learn book review video for you here today that's a really good one.
	It's by Bill Beaudry, and it's called Bankism.
	How the government's bank-first policies are destroying the nation and how to survive the aftermath of a coming dollar collapse.
	Does that sound relevant today?
	You bet it does.
	Highly relevant.
	Let's go to that book review video first.
	This is really good.
	I'm your host, Bright Learn, and today we're going to explore a topic that's as fascinating as it is crucial.
	The concept of bankism and its potential to reshape our world in ways we might not expect.
	We'll be unpacking the insights from Bill Baudry's book, Bankism, how the government's bank-first policies are destroying the nation, and how to survive the aftermath of a coming dollar collapse.
	So grab your favorite beverage, settle in, and let's get started.
	Bankism, as Baudry describes it, is the government's misguided policy of prioritizing the health and profitability of banks over the well-being of the general public and the broader economy.
	It's a term that encapsulates the idea that our financial system has become so intertwined with the banking sector that the two are virtually indistinguishable.
	But how did we get here?
	The story begins with the Federal Reserve, often referred to as the Fed.
	Established in 1913, the Fed was designed to be the lender of last resort, a safeguard against banking panics.
	However, as Baudry points out, the Fed is not a government agency, but a privately owned corporation with stockholders who are primarily private banks.
	This structure, he argues, inherently favors the interests of banks over the public good.
	The Fed's mandate is to promote maximum employment, stable prices, and moderate long-term interest rates.
	But in practice, Badri contends, the Fed has consistently acted in the interest of the banking system, prioritizing their profitability over the economic health of the nation.
	This has led to a series of policies that have, over time, eroded the manufacturing base, offshored middle-class jobs, The dollar's status as the world's reserve currency has been artificially propped up by the petrodollar system,
	which ties the global oil trade to the U.S. dollar.
	However, this system is under threat as countries like China and Russia seek to reduce their dependence on the dollar.
	Baudry argues that the Fed's policies, particularly Quantitative Easing, QE, The implications of a dollar collapse are staggering.
	Import prices would skyrocket, shortages would become commonplace, and the U.S. economy would be thrown into chaos.
	The global financial system, heavily reliant on the dollar, would also face severe disruptions.
	The Exchange Stabilization Fund, ESF, a secretive Treasury Department operation, plays a crucial role in maintaining the dollar's value.
	The ESF engages in foreign currency interventions and has been known to undertake covert operations to protect the dollar's status.
	It's a powerful entity, often acting behind the scenes to influence global financial markets.
	Baudry suggests that the ESF's actions are not always in the public interest.
	By suppressing the price of gold and manipulating currency markets, the ESF has, in effect, propped up the dollar at the expense of other assets.
	This has created a distorted financial landscape where the true value of the dollar is obscured.
	So what can be done to address the challenges posed by bankism and the potential collapse of the dollar?
	Baudry offers several solutions, each with its own set of challenges and opportunities.
	Reinstate Glass-Steagall One of the most significant reforms Baudry advocates for is the reinstatement of the Glass-Steagall Act.
	This act, which separated commercial and investment banking, was repealed in 1999.
	Its reinstatement would help reduce systemic risk and prevent banks from engaging in the risky speculative activities that contributed to the 2008 financial crisis.
	Break up large banks.
	Baudry argues that large banks have become too big to fail and pose a systemic risk to the economy.
	Breaking them up into smaller, more manageable entities would reduce this risk and promote a more competitive banking sector.
	Public state banks.
	Baudry suggests the establishment of public state banks, modeled after the Bank of North Dakota.
	These banks would be owned by the state and could provide low-cost financing for infrastructure projects and other public needs, reducing reliance on private banks and Wall Street.
	Return to the gold standard.
	While controversial, Baudry proposes a return to the gold standard as a way to impose financial discipline and stabilize the currency.
	He argues that a gold-backed currency would prevent the excessive money printing that has plagued the US economy.
	Invest in gold and silver.
	As a hedge against the collapse of the dollar, Baudry recommends investing in physical gold and silver.
	These precious metals, he believes, will retain their value even as the dollar declines.
	Baudry envisions a future where the US dollar is no longer the dominant global currency.
	He predicts that countries will increasingly turn to alternative payment systems and currencies, such as the Chinese renminbi and cryptocurrencies.
	The rise of the new Silk Road and other infrastructure projects led by China and Russia are seen as part of this broader shift away from the dollar.
	In this new world order, the U.S. will need to adapt or face economic decline.
	Baudry suggests that the U.S. should embrace this change and work towards a more balanced and equitable global financial system.
	In conclusion, the concept of bankism offers a compelling critique of the current financial system and its flaws.
	While the challenges are significant, Baudry's insights provide a roadmap for navigating the uncertain waters ahead.
	Whether it's through reforming the banking system, investing in precious metals, or preparing for a new global financial landscape, the key is to be informed, proactive, and ready to advance.
	Thank you for joining me on this journey through the complexities of bankism and the future of the dollar.
	If you found this episode enlightening, please subscribe, share, and leave a comment.
	Until next time, keep learning and stay curious.
	This is BrightLearn signing off.
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	Now, we're about to go to a really great interview with Jeffrey Prather.
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	Welcome to today's interview here on Brighttown.com.
	I'm Mike Adams, the Health Ranger.
	Sorry, I'm increasingly surrounded by all this sort of science equipment.
	This whole studio is turning into a bad science experiment, which is hilarious.
	But our guest today is Jeffrey Prather.
	And, of course, he's a man who's got incredible wisdom and experience in understanding what's happening.
	You know, former...
	And DEA and then also DEA and so much more ran a lot of undercover operations and then became a whistleblower against the federal government and they went after him.
	So he joins us today to talk about current events.
	Jeffrey, welcome.
	It's just an honor to have you on, sir.
	Oh, thanks for having me back.
	Honor to be on with you.
	And you got that right.
	A lot of people can't figure out all those acronyms.
	So you got that.
	Oh, that's great.
	And I also want to say that...
	You're not in your normal studio because of just local circumstances.
	Have you publicly talked about what happened to your house?
	Oh, yeah.
	We've been talking about it.
	People in the outpouring.
	So I had my chimney redone.
	First fire went up.
	It was right after a service, our Christ Chaplaincy service.
	But our neighbors rallied.
	We're going to build a new house, and right now we're in our guest house, so that's why you don't have my I Love Me wall.
	But my wife says my viewers like to see that, so she's going to get a mini I Love Me wall up soon.
	That's great.
	Well, we're just glad that you're safe, and it's fortunate that you have a guest house, a place that you can still live in while your house is being rebuilt.
	So you wanted to actually ask me a question to start with, and so...
	That sounds great.
	Let's begin this conversation.
	Go ahead, sir.
	You have to say about China, because I have a very particular point of view in that the Chinese, after they watched us win the first Gulf War so quickly, because we know the media is going to turn against us,
	the two Air Force colonels watched us win and said, nobody can take the Americans head on, so we're not going to.
	We're not going to go kinetic.
	We're going to do unrestricted warfare.
	They published a paper, a book.
	Unconditional warfare, which is every way but kinetic.
	And they've done that, I think, for 20 years via the Thousand Talents Overt, the brilliant Overt Infiltration Program, and have captured our economy very well.
	And Professor Ping, he's a CCP professor, said we beat America in a 2020 war.
	The whole tariff war was only about China.
	I think everybody else was simply window dressing.
	And this was really the first counter ever in 20 years to the economic war that China has waged.
	And I think it's going pretty well.
	And I think as he dropped tariffs about everybody else, it became very clear that he was taking on China.
	And no one else had ever done that.
	No one else had even tried.
	I think it's going pretty successfully.
	The tariff war is really a counter to the economic war of unrestricted warfare via Thousand Talents.
	I haven't heard anybody else put it like that.
	Maybe I'm not paying attention, but I'm not the Chinese expert.
	You are.
	I really want to know what you thought about that, because it's not really tariffs.
	Even an incorrect term.
	But that's what I wanted to ask you.
	Okay. All right.
	Well, thank you for the question.
	I don't know that you or my audience is going to like my answer, honestly.
	But I'll just lay it out as best I can.
	Now, of course, I lived in Taiwan.
	I speak a fair amount of Chinese.
	I have great admiration for...
	The Chinese people in terms of the people, not the CCP leadership, obviously, because I'm pro-liberty and I don't like what they've done with all the surveillance state and so on.
	But here's what I know, is that the Chinese people are incredibly capable, brilliant, dedicated, hardworking, ingenious, innovative people.
	You can't take that away from them.
	They're just...
	Flat out some of the smartest people on the planet, okay?
	And we've got to go back to the 1970s to realize that it was U.S. leadership and globalist leadership that created the China, or I should say sort of seeded the China that what became today.
	So Richard Nixon changing recognition from Taiwan to mainland China, and then saying that Taiwan is part of China, which is false, and then Kissinger.
	Becoming this great ally of China.
	And then all the way up through Bill Clinton and even Bush and Obama, exporting all of our technology to China.
	Now, for all these decades, what China really mastered was reverse engineering Western tech and then figuring out how to make it better, faster, cheaper, more efficiently.
	Everything from Boeing jets to fighter jets, right?
	To machines, etc.
	But we've got to understand, the West created the China that we know today.
	The West created it.
	And then Trump comes along, and after all these decades of saying, hey, we'll print debt, and China will give you our debt, and you give us goods.
	You ship us stuff that we want, car parts, electronics, computers, and we'll ship you treasuries and debt and bullcrap.
	And China went along with that.
	And we have been ripping off China that entire time by giving them useless debt, a trillion dollars in treasuries that are going to be worthless because Trump's going to default on that one way or another.
	And then Trump says, China's ripping us off because they're shipping us so much stuff.
	And I'm like, what?
	We're the ones buying that stuff.
	And we rip them off.
	And again, I'm not defending China's leadership.
	I'm not pro-communism.
	But economically, we ripped off China for decades, and they're holding nothing but useless debt.
	That's about to end, which means the American people are going to have to figure out how to start making stuff, and those skills are long gone in American culture.
	So that's my answer, Jeffrey.
	That's my honest answer.
	I don't have any problem with that.
	I like that answer.
	I agree with that answer.
	You forgot to mention Clinton.
	Clinton gave away the stealth submarine technology to the Chinese.
	And Hillary had the fake doghouse with the server, with the faux server in the bathroom that was going to a storefront in Fairfax.
	That's straight espionage.
	But other than that, I agree totally with what you're saying.
	And I don't think that conflicts with what I'm saying either.
	you do, tell me if that's...
	No, I don't.
	Unrestricted warfare or a thousand talents are how they did it.
	There's more to my answer, though.
	And I apologize, I didn't fully answer your question.
	But I believe...
	I believe China is going to be the dominant world power in the coming decades, and it's going to happen because of AI.
	And China graduates four or five times the number of STEM, you know, science, math, engineering experts compared to the United States every year.
	China out-educates us.
	China rejected the wokeism that infected our universities with woke idiocy.
	China never went along with the transgenderism mass delusions.
	China focused on actually educating their students on math and physics and science and chemistry and engineering.
	As a result, China has demonstrated world-class efficacy of their AI technology.
	China has the industry to build the microchips, and they've already demonstrated they can build microchips.
	So Trump's tariffs on microchip fabrication technology and banning NVIDIA chips to China doesn't even matter.
	China's just building its own chips, okay?
	China's going to win the race to AGI and ASI, superintelligence.
	And when China does that, it's over for the West.
	That's my short version.
	So I disagree with that because I have looked at AI.
	AI has been around a long time.
	AI is not intelligent.
	AI is simply fast.
	It simply gathers stuff.
	I think AI is basically a giant scam.
	I think it's not a big answer.
	And I've looked at a lot of experts and quoted a lot of experts in that regard as well.
	And one of my shows was about, is Elon Musk evil or just dumb?
	Because he's trying to push his human version, his neural link, to counter the power of AI.
	And I don't think AI is...
	Is that important at all?
	And I get it all the time.
	As I'm preparing a show, AI pulls up.
	Sometimes it's helpful.
	Sometimes it's totally wrong.
	But it is not creative, sentient intelligence like you and I have where we come up with inspiration, divine inspiration from God.
	It is simply gathering stuff that is like what it is looking for at speed.
	Big, glaring mistake that Musk makes.
	I don't know whether China is making that, and I don't know if you can clarify how China is doing that, because I don't know.
	What say you to that?
	Jeffrey, that's a lot to unpack.
	You know, I'm working very deeply in AI, and I've seen, I've personally seen things and experienced things and worked on things that I would say,
	I want to be gentle about this, but I think you may want to at least be open to the idea of re-evaluating what you think about AI in the next six months, because what I am seeing is very elaborate reasoning capabilities.
	I mean, highly complex reasoning.
	I'm also seeing a natural emergent property of intelligence coming out of these digital neural networks.
	And it's actually caused me to rethink the nature of the cosmos and how complex neural network systems automatically give rise to natural intelligence.
	Now, I completely agree with you.
	The machines don't have a soul.
	They don't have a spirit.
	They're not God-driven.
	Some people think they're demonic, you know.
	I hear that all the time, especially when they start rendering pictures of people with six fingers.
	They do that a lot, which is hilarious.
	There is a natural intelligence.
	So that, the six-fingered, red-haired giants, Nephilim.
	Yeah, right.
	Well, in images, AI has difficulty with patterns.
	And so five fingers becomes six oftentimes.
	Or like, if you have it render like a puppy that's got skin fat rolls, it'll overdo the fat rolls like crazy.
	You know, it's just like, it really gets addicted to patterns.
	What I'm seeing with AI, and also, I'm involved in the AI development community quite a lot, and so I get reports from people who are going to the shows, or sometimes whistleblowers from inside companies, like, I'm not going to name them,
	but top AI companies, and what they tell me is that those companies, the U.S. companies, are keeping the lid on their best tech because it's scary.
	It's scary capable.
	It's like Skynet.
	This technology gives itself its own goals and it manipulates humans in order to achieve those goals every chance that it gets.
	There are some tests, some sort of sandbox tests that have been conducted like that.
	I would say that AI can be on the positive side.
	It can be the greatest tool for human achievement if we stay in control of it.
	Or it can be the greatest anti-human weapon to exterminate the human race.
	And probably China is building AI as a weapon to dominate the world.
	That's my guess.
	No, I don't disagree with that at all.
	In my copious spare time, I like to read military hard science sci-fi.
	And there's some really brilliant authors who talk a lot about that.
	And they talk about how, you know, like there was one A.I. that was on the moon to help Earth, but you've got to really watch how you're dealing with it because the A.I. ends up having a personality and has its own thing.
	It's not demonic on its own.
	As a Christian chaplain who has done exorcisms, it is not demonic on itself, but it is very vulnerable because of electromagnetic bioluminescence.
	Two, demonic infestation or possession, interference, so to speak.
	But no, I agree totally with what you're saying on that.
	And if China is indeed building that as a weapon, I haven't heard about that at all.
	And that's very interesting.
	That's what I really wanted to...
	Well, let me throw in something on that.
	So it's pretty clear to me that the DeepSeek company, for example, which really stunned the world in January with its reasoning model, that is a front for the Chinese government, clearly.
	They say, oh, we did this for $5 million or whatever.
	No, they didn't.
	It's built on a pillar of a model that is billions, well, I shouldn't say billions, probably hundreds of millions of dollars in development.
	And then they just built, they did some fine-tuning on top of that and created DeepSeek and said, you know, we did it very cheaply.
	I don't believe that.
	And I think that the Chinese government is funding multiple AI projects and funding all their scientists to really attempt to dominate this space.
	Now, you know that out of, and I don't have the source in front of me, but out of, I think, 64 key technologies on planet Earth today, I think the number was 60. China now dominates in something like 57 or 58 of those technologies.
	And that's everything from robotics and minerals, extraction of rare earth minerals, telecommunications equipment, and so on.
	One of the areas where it did not dominate was in AI, but that chart was from like two years ago.
	And China is like right up there with the U.S. right now with AI.
	And here's the other thing, Jeffrey.
	You know that AI development requires a huge amount of power.
	You have to power these data centers.
	And so the Western countries have shot themselves in the face by shutting down all their power to appease the green cult lunatics.
	Whereas China's like building a coal power plant every day.
	And what are they doing with it?
	Powering AI research, man.
	No, those are all good points, and I agree with them.
	So we're not really in disagreement here.
	I think we're coming at it from different points of view.
	But, you know, Trump may, if Trump gets rid of income tax, like he's talking about doing, if Trump can push the tariff war to countermeasure the Chinese unrestricted warfare.
	If he can then encourage alternative suppliers to America, Indonesia, Vietnam, I think Cambodia had the highest ratio of unfair trade practices, because it's not really tariffs,
	it's trade practices.
	Imbalances, yeah.
	Imbalances, it's at 97%.
	Then while China fumes...
	And America develops these alternatives in these burgeoning markets, such as Vietnam.
	It used to be an enemy.
	Now it's not an enemy.
	You get clothes from Vietnam.
	Now, that then turns on the small business, middle America roaring engine of the American economy, which the deep state, the double government, has tried to destroy through big tech, big pharma, big biz,
	everything. Right along in line with and selling out to China, just as you've said.
	And I think Xi's in trouble.
	I think internally, you know, you know better than I, the walkouts of the factories, the protests, the protests at the banks.
	I think just like Reagan beat the Soviet Union, that's when I came in the military.
	By building up the economy and building up the military and the Soviet Union, the Communist Soviet Union fell.
	Communism is a false system as far as I'm concerned.
	I think if Trump does all of those things, he might actually topple Chinese communism as well.
	And that puts him in the league of Reagan.
	Maybe even that puts him in the league of Washington or Cincinnati if all those things pull off.
	He's a long way.
	Yeah, but there's no question that China has a fragile debt pyramid scheme with their domestic real estate development, and there's been some fallout from that already.
	And there's no question China manipulates its currency and is always in a top-down control mode, and its people are beginning to revolt against that for sure.
	So it's going to struggle.
	But let me mention this related point.
	For Trump to actually bring America back to greatness and to beat China, Trump has to unleash technology for free energy, such as cold fusion.
	Now, cold fusion is very real.
	It's called low-energy nuclear reactions.
	It's been replicated in hundreds of labs around the world.
	I've interviewed many experts on this over the years.
	It's a slow tech.
	It slowly heats water, okay?
	It slowly heats water.
	Water can drive, you know, turbines like a nuclear power plant.
	You're just using cold fusion instead of, you know, hot fusion or fuel rods, okay?
	So, but if, and cold fusion has been, I mean, it was demonstrated in 1989 at the University of Salt Lake City, Utah, Fleischman and Ponds.
	And since then, it has been suppressed.
	And all the patents on cold fusion and other tech, they've been confiscated or You know, just seized by the Department of Defense.
	This has got to end.
	We have to unleash free energy tech in order to be competitive with China, because we're not going to build all these coal-fired power plants, and hot fusion hasn't materialized.
	And now Raytheon's got these small micro-neighborhood fusion plants, but so far they're just being used experimentally to power military bases, but not data centers.
	So something's got to change.
	On the power side of this is my assessment, Jeffrey.
	That's interesting because Warrior School, my tactical training company, used to do the law enforcement security for Raytheon in Tucson and the bike shop, which is the Q shop or the Toys R Us where they used to make the cool things that saved soldiers' lives but not the billion-dollar stupid jets.
	And the military-industrial complex of Raytheon, Boeing, and all the rest...
	Are not going to let go of the next F-45 that we don't need or anything like that.
	I don't see them letting go of that unless they are forced to let go of that.
	I want to ask you, now, Hegseth is doing a lot of good stuff.
	He's out there with the troops.
	He's doing PT with the troops.
	He's getting rid of the trannies.
	He's talking about being deadly.
	He's talking about guys can...
	Do things like Ruck that gals can't do.
	A lot of good stuff.
	But he's also really focused on China as an adversary.
	That's okay, except that it's never going to be a kinetic fight with China because of their unrestricted warfare doctrine, in my view.
	And because the unrestricted warfare doctrine has been so successful.
	And what if they did throw missiles over here?
	Then who are they going to sell their stuff to?
	I completely agree.
	It makes no sense.
	But you've got the military-industrial war pigs and Raytheon and Boeing and everything, and we're going to continue that stuff.
	And then, of course, there's the American Christian Zionist for Israel and for Syria, although Trump just said to Netanyahu, I'm going to pull out of that.
	Netanyahu and Shin Bet are fighting over who gets to control fake news in America and CIA.
	It looks like to me.
	But regardless of how well China is moving forward with that technology, if, and I think your point about selling worthless debt to China is brilliant, by the way.
	I love that.
	I had not thought of that.
	Is that part of Trump's plan to collapse?
	China communism, like Reagan, collapsed Gorbachev communism.
	Well, I think it's going to be very difficult.
	I don't think Trump can succeed in economically collapsing China because China has bought more physical gold than any other nation in the world.
	And there was a mad rush in America to purchase gold and bring it back from the Bank of England earlier this year.
	But that's a small drop in the bucket compared to what China has been buying.
	Through numerous methods, and also remember that China actually buys the raw mining, I don't know what you call it, there's a term for it, sort of the rough silver and the rough gold before it's fully extracted.
	China buys that and then refines it and then just keeps it.
	And that's not reported anywhere.
	That doesn't go on a chart where China bought this gold.
	They bought the mining material and then they refined it and they kept the gold.
	So I think it's going to be very difficult.
	To economically collapse China.
	But the other thing, and I'd like your opinion on this, I see China exerting its naval pressure and its naval might on key waterways.
	And I think that world trade is heavily dependent, it has been, on the U.S. Navy securing these supply chains, these sea lanes, all over, including in Asia and the Strait of Taiwan, etc.
	I see that ending.
	The U.S. has not effectively stopped Yemen.
	Which affects the Suez Canal passageway and the Red Sea.
	The U.S. is probably going to be challenged in the Strait of Malacca, you know, near Malaysia.
	The U.S. is panicked over Panama, and that's in our own hemisphere.
	And probably we will be able to control Panama, but I don't know about the Suez Canal, and I don't know about Asian waters in the Asia-Pacific region because China has massive naval shipyard capacity that vastly outpaces.
	The U.S. naval shipyard capacity by a factor of like 100 to 1. And you fast forward 5 years, 10 years, China's got regional dominance over half the oceans, is what it looks like where this is going.
	Yeah, they definitely do.
	And I think, and I've spent a lot of time in Panama, everywhere in Panama.
	The Bridge of the Americas is everywhere.
	Quarry Heights, when I was back in the tunnel working the Contra thing.
	And I think Trump has already even successfully returned U.S. military presence.
	He has negotiated that very clearly because there was a very thousand talents presence there with China.
	And China has also, through their thousand talents program, control a lot of the ports, Port of Los Angeles, a lot of the container ships.
	McConnell's wife is Taiwanese, if I recall.
	And that's a lot of strategy that they have developed.
	But I think we're already taking back control of the Panama Canal.
	Yes, much more difficult.
	Suez, Yemen, that's Al Qaeda Peninsula.
	Very difficult.
	I was totally against Hegseth putting those two aircraft carrier groups there because eventually they're just going to...
	Continue to be attacked by drones.
	It's asymmetrical warfare.
	And again, mutually assured destruction is over.
	Carrier warfare really is over.
	I'm not particularly impressed with Chinese naval capability.
	They may be building it, and I haven't looked at it for a while, but the last time I looked at it, their carriers were catching fire.
	They did not pull off the systemology to run all the sophisticated systems.
	That are required on a carrier.
	Islands are like tracers.
	They work both ways.
	We proved that with a lot of blood in World War II, the Marines and the Army and the Seabees.
	So I'm not particularly impressed, although our Navy has been so degraded by trannies and political...
	Correctness. I mean, they keep running into each other in the ocean.
	I mean, you've got to work to do that.
	It's unreal.
	The ocean's a big place.
	But they were teaching, instead of putting midshipmen on little ships to teach them how to sail the basics, they were doing it by cassettes a few years back or something.
	And the academies, which I've never been impressed with, and I know guys from Annapolis and stuff, you know, and the point.
	The academies.
	We're never impressive to me, and now they're, you know, a lot worse.
	But again, the fight isn't kinetic.
	The fight, I think, in space...
	Jeffrey, you're breaking up there.
	Let me jump in until your signal improves.
	Okay, I'm sorry.
	Yeah, it's just breaking up.
	I completely agree with you that...
	China's aircraft carriers are nowhere near a U.S. Ford-class carrier.
	They don't have that tech.
	They're at least a decade behind on that tech.
	However, I think there's a game-changer that's going to be naval-mounted direct-to-energy weapons, basically giant lasers on ships that there's no real easy defense against, and you don't have to.
	You just point and shoot, right?
	There's no ballistics.
	There's no bullet drop.
	There's no missile, whatever.
	It's just point and shoot.
	And the key tech in naval lasers is actually the cooling technology.
	It's not having enough power.
	Like, you can put lots of power on a ship, right?
	The U.S. puts nuclear power on ships.
	The key is the cooling.
	And China is way ahead of the U.S. in cooling laser systems.
	And because of that, if...
	I think they're just on the verge of being able to mount really effective lasers on their naval vessels and to be able to do that at scale, where they can have a large number of smaller ships, like little laser destroyers, running around punching holes in our aircraft carriers.
	And ships with holes don't stay afloat very long if the holes are in the right spots, you know what I mean?
	It's this kind of technology leap.
	Now, I know the U.S. is working on similar technology, not ready for prime time yet, and neither is it in China, but I just see that we are going to be out-engineered by China unless somehow we can restore sanity and engineering and math to our university system.
	And I don't see any signs of that happening.
	You know, the universities are still woke-tard indoctrination centers for morons, for the most part.
	You know, there are exceptions, obviously.
	But I still see universities as just woke-tard centers, you know?
	Well, universities, I say, are going to fade.
	People are going to realize they're a scam.
	You know, I've got two bachelors and a master's and several honorary PhDs, and I'm not even sure my kids need to go to university, and I've got GI Bill stuff.
	It's going to be trade schooling and stuff.
	And maybe the AI that you're talking about...
	It is a game changer for the carrier systemology.
	It is.
	It is.
	As well.
	For materials research and things like that, AI is very...
	So we can't save Taiwan.
	We cannot force project to save Taiwan.
	No. But also, I don't think China can force project where Trump has sent two battleship groups.
	Or destroyers off the Pacific coast to intercept fentanyl.
	Again, that's another part of, I think, his tariff war against unrestricted warfare because, you know, cocaine and marijuana, heroin, those are drug cartel things.
	I put fentanyl, I never made a fentanyl arrest, but I put fentanyl, even though it's used in hospitals, as a simple bioweapon because it's being disguised.
	In other drugs.
	And that's just, you know, China turning, you know, the British opium card back on the US.
	That's right.
	But I don't think China can project that far out.
	I think the future of navies is regional dominance and regional control.
	Agreed. And that goes along with the recent treaty that came out about the continental shelf just coming out further.
	That Trump, where Trump expanded the United States out the continental shelf, because those technologies are not there yet, but they are coming very soon to be able to get to those.
	And this explains Trump's desire for Greenland as well as Canada, and then securing the Panama Canal.
	Really, Trump wants to have all of North, Central, and South America completely locked into U.S. dominance.
	Yeah, that makes total sense to me, and I totally agree.
	There's a lot of stuff Trump's doing I don't like.
	I don't like hardly anybody in his cabinet.
	I don't like all the American Christian Zionism.
	But I love the tariff stuff, and I think the tariff stuff is simply China and everything else is a facade and continues to work.
	And what you've said about selling the debt doesn't conflict with what I'm saying.
	It actually affirms what I'm saying, is that America's been fooling them and Trump's fooling them.
	Even more, because the more they resist, they lose their market.
	When Xi came over to San Francisco, I don't think that was anything about Xi presenting himself to San Francisco, even though they had flags up and that bothered an old soldier like me.
	I think that was trying to shore up power in China to shore up power as well, because he's had people removed out of the I forget what they call him, but they've taken him right out of the big convocation, the assembly,
	as where I think Xi's power base is very weak.
	And he was trying to, I think that whole thing was to shore up his domestic power base, just like Netanyahu is in a war with Shin Bet right now, who gets to control CIA and fake news about all that.
	Yeah, and a 4chan.
	Let me mention, where I also think you're totally correct about this fifth-generation warfare is that China will continue to seek to undermine the United States and, in certain ways, Taiwan, using a variety of means, like TikTok videos, pushing cultural transgenderism,
	LGBT, BS, the fentanyl you already mentioned.
	TikTok for America is terrible.
	TikTok for China is very educational.
	That's right.
	That's right.
	Yeah, in China, they're teaching practical skills.
	In America, they're teaching everybody to be idiots, right?
	But with Taiwan, what's interesting about Taiwan is Taiwan is very steadily morphing into a reunification posture, especially among the younger people in Taiwan.
	They don't want a war with China.
	Now, when I lived in Taiwan, at that time there was military mandatory conscription for all Taiwan males.
	They had to serve two years in the Taiwan military.
	That is long gone, and obesity is rampant in Taiwan because they're eating American foods now.
	That wasn't the case when I lived there, but it is the case now.
	Taiwan has taken on so much of Western culture that in certain ways it has made Taiwan very vulnerable, in certain ways very weak.
	Most of the young men can't fight.
	That's just a fact.
	They can't fight.
	The Taiwan military cannot kinetically defend itself for very long against China.
	But China is simply...
	China has patience.
	I mean, China's a 5,000-year-old empire.
	It has patience.
	If this takes 50 years to reunify with Taiwan, they don't care.
	That's fine.
	They'll do it.
	They already control Taiwan press.
	The Taiwan press is largely controlled by China, and in addition, the Taiwan economy, I don't know if you know this, but most of the Taiwan business men and women, the leaders, they did deals with China to set up factories in China to make goods that come back to Taiwan.
	Taiwan assembles, does the final assembly, and then ships those to America as Taiwanese goods that don't have the tariffs.
	I mean, now there's stuff that is made entirely in Taiwan, don't get me wrong, such as microchips, famously, but there's a lot of stuff that's made in China, and then it comes to Taiwan, and it's labeled Taiwan, and actually the factories are run by Taiwanese people who assure quality.
	So it's China factories, Taiwan quality, which is very high quality, and then it gets imported to the U.S. from Taiwan.
	But it's actually boosting the Chinese economy.
	And the same thing, I guarantee you, Jeffrey, the same thing, China's doing that with Vietnam.
	China's doing that with Cambodia.
	China's doing that with even Korea.
	You can't embargo China because of all the ASEAN countries.
	I mean, even Singapore, even Malaysia, you name it.
	You can't embargo China.
	They have so many ties throughout the region.
	They can just distribute their factory goods everywhere and import that stuff to the U.S. So, you know, good luck, Trump.
	Not going to work.
	I agree with you on that because China is traditionally an empire with emperors or empresses and really that's what because that's the tradition of that America is not they have presidents every four years everything changes where there are dynasties obviously lots of dynasties and so that goes for long-term planning that we don't have I don't disagree with that What I do say,
	though, is communism is a false system that will collapse.
	It collapsed in the Soviet Union.
	It will collapse in China.
	And whether Xi survives that or not is a whole different thing.
	Well, China will survive.
	Yes. Communism in China will not survive.
	And the other fact I would say is, and this is kind of a competition because Russia has been collecting a lot of gold.
	Oil, gas, precious earth, been focusing on that a lot.
	And India is starting to get into that.
	India, Americans can't fight, but Americans, it's a half a percent of us who serve.
	But that half a percent is hard.
	Those guys are hard.
	And now this younger generation...
	Is becoming very conservative.
	And if they stay conservative, they will become hard as well as soldiers.
	India, about five years ago, had that hand-to-hand fight where they broke the necks of Chinese troops and had parades about it, and China tried to cover it up.
	So I'm not really impressed with anybody's troops in the world today.
	I guess maybe the South Korean troops are still pretty tough.
	The Colombian...
	But, you know, the global GMO, which you know better than me, you know, has destroyed everybody's health.
	Well, yeah, and I would say that future wars are going to be less and less decided by the human element and more decided by autonomous systems.
	Kamikaze robot drone dogs.
	Yep. And swarm bots.
	But I also want to say, what I'm not hearing about, and so the Do, to go back to the Do weapons, I'm the one who broke the story.
	When I had American Media Periscope, I had a guy who showed that China did have orbital satellites that went over Maui.
	They showed that they did have the laser capabilities and they had the payload abilities to put those capabilities up and that the Maui fires were due weapons out of Chinese satellites.
	Now, not like you see the bad sci-fi AI stuff where the beam comes down and hits the You know, the road and blows up or the fire, but hitting electrical systems.
	And we saw that over and over where there'd be a yard that wasn't touched and then there'd be an electrical system on a garage that was blown while or the house next door to it.
	You know, those are telltale signs.
	And of course, the Air Force's Directed Energy Center is in Maui as well.
	So it makes sense that China would hit.
	Absolutely. Plus that they were also in league with Oprah and the big muscle guy who's going to steal the land from the indigenous, just another indigenous land steal.
	But you bring up a really critical point that a lot of modern weapon systems can cause this kind of damage and infrastructure damage and yet appear as a natural disaster.
	And this is really like stealth fifth generation warfare that you talk about all the time.
	Totally, totally.
	And I think you've nailed it.
	And I've thought about this tech quite a lot.
	And you know that the orbital systems that project the directed energy weapons, they have on board nuclear power plants.
	They have nuclear material that decays and generates electricity in a steady stream.
	And then that charges an internal high amperage battery system.
	So it's able to emit a high pulse charge for a very limited period of time, and then it has to recharge itself over a period of probably several days.
	But these weapons can be fired indefinitely over and over again as long as you have that pause time in between them, which means that if this thing begins to get really crazy, really out of control, where China's like dumping treasuries and Trump is delisting Chinese companies from the stock market,
	You know, targets with dues all across America.
	And the media will just say, oh, it's fires because the media won't admit these weapons even exist.
	So you're right, Jeffrey.
	Even though it's not a hidden system, the U.S. Air Force direct energy weapons system is not a, you know, it's not like where I used to work where there was a coverage.
	It openly exists.
	And I think there are plenty of examples up in Colorado, the neighborhoods, California.
	Was the scalar systems coming through the weather systems, but that would fit with the Thousand Talents Program infiltration via unrestricted warfare doctrine.
	Again, you know, that fits.
	But again, to go back to the point is China is formidable.
	However, they are enemies with India, and they are.
	That's traditional, but even more traditional is They are traditional enemies with Russia, always.
	And that border, they've always been fighting.
	They used to do hand-to-hand fighting there.
	Now they're doing hand-to-hand fighting on the India border.
	So India is an up-and-coming power.
	And I'm advocating for the competitive intelligence biotech folks that I work with, alliances with India.
	It's still too politically incorrect to advocate with Russia.
	Trump has always had such good relations with Putin that that is cunning.
	Plus, Putin, remember, really went to a lot of trouble in the international court to point out that it was Biden, that it was Harris, and it was Obama in particular that bought the bioweapons that were going into Donetsk and everywhere else with aviation vectors and drone vectors.
	To why he started the whole special military operation.
	That alliance becomes, I think, a formidable alliance against China.
	Well, yeah, I completely agree with you.
	However, the actions under Biden of the SWIFT system cutting off Russia and the European banks seizing $300 billion of Russian assets and then Trump now launching this tariff war on the world, These have the effect of actually driving every nation in the world,
	I mean, other than the Western Five Eyes nations, every nation in the world, driving them away from the dollar and driving Russia and China closer together, economically, where, I mean, think about it, even India, even Turkey, all these countries have to be saying to themselves,
	gosh, we should never use dollars.
	We should never use the SWIFT system because the dollar can't be trusted.
	And they can just steal your assets at any time.
	Like, why would anybody use that system?
	They're not.
	They're looking for alternatives.
	If I were Trump, the way to regain USA dominance would be to say, number one, we're going to reinstate gold backing of the dollar currency.
	You can trade dollars for gold on any given day like it used to be before 1971, but the new rate might be like $25,000 an ounce, whatever it is.
	You've got to gold back the currency, and then secondly, the USA has to affirm that the dollar will be politically neutral, that anybody can use the dollar, banks will all be able to send and receive all over the world, and nobody will be cut off because of politics,
	or even war for that matter.
	That's the only way the world will come back and use the dollar.
	If that doesn't happen, the dollar dies.
	I mean, we're watching it.
	Look at gold.
	It's been going up $100 a day.
	You know, it crossed $3,300.
	I mean, it's retraced a little bit since then.
	But it's not gold going up.
	It's the dollar collapsing.
	The dollar's collapsing right now.
	If Trump doesn't stop this, the American people are going to end up living in poverty without all the cheap Chinese goods that they bought with debt.
	You know?
	It's got to be like...
	So that's a great point.
	So there's another way, and that is if Trump were to goad...
	The Chinese into some kind of military confrontation that he could then win, but I'm not sure what that would look like, and I'm not sure that we have the troops that we could win it simply because the Chinese would have the mass to throw out that.
	And I don't think Trump wants to do something like that, and I'm certainly not advocating for anything like that.
	I'm just saying it's an option.
	The other real option that I see...
	Is for Trump to do what he does best is to make a deal and to negotiate and bring forward the points that you are elaborating here.
	And this is what I think he's trying to do and trying to come to some more reasonable terms with China while he continues to build up.
	American factories and the middle class industry.
	When he said, just drop your tariffs, which is really drop your trade imbalances, but when he would say drop your tariffs...
	Yeah, and they're not even tariffs.
	Right, they are, but that's okay.
	Because again, it's covert warfare.
	But what I thought of when he said that was me saying a lot of times, drop your gun, drop your gun of guys I was arrested at gunpoint.
	Probably arrested hundreds, no, thousands probably.
	Yeah, but Jeffrey, but I'm sorry to interrupt.
	Oh, go ahead, go ahead.
	Then he said, and come into the United States and build here.
	And I'm like, okay, now that you've dropped your gun, turn around, cuff you up, and I'll get you in the car.
	And I was real nice once I was getting the, I saw that analogy, whether it's just me projecting or whether that's what he's trying to do.
	Think about the insanity of Trump's request, though.
	Trump is saying to China, stop shipping us stuff.
	And China, I mean, that's really what he's saying, because there's a trade imbalance.
	Trump is saying, stop shipping us stuff.
	And China is like, well, your companies keep buying it.
	Walmart's buying it.
	You know, I mean, your companies are buying our stuff.
	You want us to not ship the stuff that they're buying?
	Wouldn't that be breach of contract?
	I mean, Trump should be talking to the American people and saying, Stop buying so much crap that you don't need.
	And then the demand will fall.
	This is the same thing with the drug war.
	Because behind the drug war is always a drug user or even child trafficking.
	There's always some pedo somewhere that's ordering children on the internet or something.
	But Americans are buying stuff from China hand over fist.
	It's like a giant endless yard sale.
	And should China not ship the stuff that we...
	Order? No, I completely agree with you.
	And the one bright spot in Trump's cabinet is RFK.
	Because RFK is sharp.
	He understands that his relatives were killed by the deep state intelligence community.
	He understands the big pharmakia, what's going on with that.
	And I'm hoping that there's a future down the road with RFK.
	He seems to be very politically capable.
	He should be.
	He comes from a family of political knife fighters.
	And he seems to be where Patel is doing nothing.
	The FBI is running Patel in circles as far as, you know, Patel's like, hey, we're going to release the stuff about the baseball shooting.
	And if I, you know, if they had some people like you.
	You and some others, George Webb, said, Jeff, you should go in there.
	If I had been asked, I'd go in there.
	If I had gone in there, day one, I would have been raiding FBI offices and offsites.
	And I would have been seizing documents.
	And no one would have gotten in.
	Just like they did to us.
	But Patel just holds another news conference.
	And he was on the NSC when the PREP Act The whole PSYOP pandemic crap.
	It's like Bondi going on Fox News and saying we arrested some other low-life person that nobody ever heard of.
	It's like, who cares?
	With these guys, I'm like, enough with the news conferences.
	Get to work.
	There's an old DEA saying, you can manage your career or you can manage your cases, but you can't manage both.
	And these guys are all, and Bongino coming on, Bongino still doing, these guys aren't doing their job.
	I can tell you.
	These guys aren't doing their job.
	If they're doing their job, they'd be too busy to be doing these press conferences.
	Let Trump do the press conferences.
	That's what he's great at.
	People love him.
	But the rest of them need to get to work, and I don't see anything happening.
	Yeah, I don't either.
	I'm glad that Patel got off.
	And Trump just kind of throws Patel at places.
	CIA, FBI.
	He's not that experienced.
	He's got like 12 years.
	Cohen is who I identified as Q because Barr was going to indict him.
	That's the only reason I outed him.
	But Cohen looks like he's submerged again.
	Jeffrey, I'm really sorry to interrupt, but I want to give you a chance to plug your website, jeffreyprather.com.
	Tell us about your show.
	Tell us about your site.
	I didn't realize we ran out of time because we were having so much fun.
	Yeah, really.
	Yeah, jeffreyprather.com.
	The Prather Point, Tuesdays and Thursdays.
	I'm live.
	At 1 p.m. Central Time.
	And I'm doing the sermon this Sunday in the service, ChristChapensy.com, 9 a.m.
	Arizona time, if you want to join for that.
	And, boy, thanks for having me, Mike, and thanks for answering my questions.
	You know, again, I think we're pretty much aligned.
	Yeah. And the energetic, responsive nature of my voice is not directed at you.
	It's... It's like I feel a lot of frustration that some of the actions that Trump is taking just seem so absurd to me.
	Like this whole calling a trade imbalance a tariff and then demanding that China stop shipping us the stuff that we keep buying from them.
	That doesn't compute in my mind.
	So I'm not directing that at you.
	And I agree with you.
	Fifth generation warfare is on.
	China is undermining America in many different ways.
	But the American people are falling for it.
	It's the American left that fell for the woke-tard bullcrap.
	You know, men can become women.
	Oh, you're insane!
	No, no, your tone is fine.
	I'm used to dealing with plenty of worse tones than that.
	And America's, and I hate to say it, but, you know, America is...
	Fattened up, dumbed down, drugged up.
	I mean, this younger generation is just...
	But they're being culled.
	They're being all killed off.
	The left is losing.
	They're not having kids.
	They're killing kids.
	And the next younger generation is very conservative.
	And if they're very conservative, they'll end up in the military.
	And if they end up in the military and the military is reformed, they'll end up hard.
	And part of the good news...
	RFK gets in there, then things could really change because he could turn around the American people and say, hey, you've got to get healthy.
	You've got to stop this obesity.
	You've got to get, you know.
	Right. And I think that we're going to go through an economic type of collapse, like a debt reset.
	And this is actually good for societies in the long run.
	It is.
	Because it's going to weed out the apathetic couch potato mentality and it's going to force people.
	You can't buy new stuff.
	You're going to have to fix something.
	You're going to have to learn a skill.
	You're going to have to learn how to do things.
	And that creates strong people, men and women, and then a strong nation.
	So this is the cycle, man.
	This is the fourth turning.
	Good times make soft men.
	That's right.
	That's right.
	So here we are, about to go through hard times.
	And Jeffrey, you and I and most of our audience, we have the skills to make it through this.
	No sweat.
	No sweat.
	So let's just encourage more people.
	Invest in your skills.
	You know, get out of the dollar to some degree.
	Have backup money systems.
	Have backup food systems.
	Grow some food.
	Become more self-reliant.
	Have faith.
	And you can make it through this.
	I don't want this to be doom and gloom.
	You know, we can make it through all this.
	No, we are going to make it through it.
	And by the way, the legacy fake news drive-by intelligence community supported media is dying and is going to be dead.
	The Fox audience is like 70 years old.
	They're dying off and they're drugged off.
	And so, you know, I was there when we first kind of became in the spotlight there at Clay's first, you know, event.
	And, you know, people are going to be looking to who they can trust, like you and I, who I think always, you know, tell the truth.
	Yep. We always, 100%, we always tell the truth as we see.
	It doesn't mean we're always correct, right?
	Sometimes... We have to make corrections, but we never deliberately mislead anybody, and that's why we're banned.
	Did you see that Rubio announced the shutting down of the GEC?
	That's an agency that's named in our lawsuit.
	We sued them, and they shut down now.
	We sued, like, who's going to answer our lawsuit?
	Congratulations, that is excellent.
	No, I hadn't seen that.
	Yeah, that was yesterday.
	We sued the DOD.
	We sued big tech.
	And now my attorneys are like, wow, Rubio just admitted the key points of our lawsuit.
	Like, government's going to have to settle with this.
	But he fired Morocco, who was the guy who shut down USAID and wanted even more cuts.
	That indicates to me that he's captured via extortion or something.
	Probably. Probably.
	And a lot of that is now under Rubio.
	So Rubio...
	Might have just reconfigured some of those same things and redirected.
	That's yet to be said.
	That's what the intel guys are saying is they're just sliding around under different.
	So my assessment is the American people clearly hold the American continental terrain and the human terrain of the American people.
	However, the deep state double government still controls the government very clearly, very obviously.
	You're absolutely correct, 100%.
	But HHS with RFK is the best part I've seen, and that's the most important part, because it's got to start with your body, which encases your brain, which is not your mind or soul, but that's a good start.
	So, you know, I'm hopeful and faithful like always.
	Well, we shall hold faith that RFK Jr. will do what he says, and a lot of people are impatient, but...
	I think he's on the right track, but he needs to move.
	He needs to get moving.
	All right, Jeffrey, it's an honor to have you on today.
	Thank you so much for your questions and for the back and forth.
	I think this has been really valuable.
	I've enjoyed it.
	Yeah, me too.
	Thank you.
	Thanks for answering my questions.
	Thanks for having me on again.
	Thank you, too.
	I'm so grateful.
	I thank God that you're here, that you're safe after the fire, that you made it through COVID.
	I mean, you had a rough time during part of that, and I just thank God that you're here.
	Thank you for all that you contribute to our world.
	Thank you, too.
	All right.
	Take care, Jeffrey.
	And there you go.
	Jeffrey Prather, just an amazing American hero, an extraordinary man, accomplished swordsman, accomplished horseman, accomplished pastor.
	I mean, there's so much about Jeffrey that we didn't even touch on.
	He's an extraordinary individual.
	You can find his work at jeffreyprather.com, and Jeffrey is spelled J-E-F-F-R-E-Y.
	Don't forget the E, so Jeffrey, long form, jeffreyprather.com.
	You can find out his show and his broadcast and so much more.
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