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May 1, 2025 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams

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BBN, May 1, 2025 – Mineral deals, elemental crisis, China and robots… it’s all connected!

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	Welcome to Brighteon Broadcast News with Mike Adams, the Health Ranger.
	Welcome to Brighteon Broadcast News for May 1st.
	We've made it to the month of May.
	It's Thursday.
	2025 is the year, in case you've lost track.
	I'm Mike Adams, the Health Ranger.
	Thank you for joining me today.
	We're doing something different today, and I've got two really hard-hitting breaking news items to share with you.
	Let me just tell you right up front what it is.
	And I'm not doing an interview today because these reports are going to take up the full time.
	But we'll pick back up with interviews tomorrow.
	First, we have breaking news out of Asia, well, involving Asia, where we got this out of the Chinese language press in Taiwan.
	And Walmart has now been announcing to manufacturers in China Walmart just announced that Walmart itself is going to pay the tariffs.
	And so what this means is that Walmart wants these Chinese manufacturers to begin making things again and shipping things so the shelves aren't empty.
	But if these goods...
	Reappear on the shelves at Walmart, they're probably going to be double the price that you are used to.
	So I've got a special report with that analysis, and I'll be playing that here shortly.
	The second thing I have is a really hard-hitting analysis.
	I call it elemental crisis.
	How China controls key rare earth minerals, such as neodymium, which is the choke point for scaling up Robot manufacturing.
	So if you don't have neodymium, you can't make actuators.
	And if you can't make actuators, you can't make robots.
	And guess who controls the world's neodymium output?
	Oh, yes, it's China with a near monopoly on it.
	The U.S. has fallen way behind.
	And the question is, how's the U.S. going to make robots if you don't have this element that's needed for the magnets in the actuators?
	Well, Trump just signed...
	A new mineral extraction deal with Ukraine, which is part of an overall strategy that Trump is asserting with a pretty long-term strategic vision, actually, to try to acquire mineral rights and mineral resources,
	including from African nations, so that the United States has a future of manufacturing things like robots.
	And whoever makes the best robots and the most robots will probably end up winning wars and even economic wars, kinetic wars, and leading in aerospace and medicine and all kinds of areas.
	So I've got that special report coming up for you as well, Elemental Crisis.
	Then I've got two other smaller special reports.
	One just lamenting how typical people have no idea how supply chains function.
	You know, I did this song recently called Empty Shelves.
	Maybe I'll play it for you today.
	It's pretty funny.
	People like the song.
	I've had a lot of good feedback on that.
	Thank you.
	But I've heard from some people, oh, the shelves aren't going to be empty.
	And as you'll hear in my special report, I ask the question, okay, great.
	Tell me how the shelves get restocked through a mechanism other than magic.
	Your magic wand restocks the shelves.
	No, it doesn't work that way.
	So explain to me, Mr. Non-Red Pill, explain to me how the products will appear on the shelves when the ships from China that bring the products are not sailing.
	And there's no products on the ships, and the ships aren't moving, and I can see on the satellite map all the ships are just sitting around Shanghai.
	Just hanging out in the ocean right there.
	They're not sailing.
	So tell me, dear wizard, by what sorcery do products reappear on the shelves?
	Okay, so that's another special report.
	And then finally, the last report I have for you today, this is pretty bizarre.
	It's about how people are financing their groceries now and food with the so-called buy now, pay later plans.
	BNPL.
	Buy now, pay later.
	People are financing their groceries, and then they're failing to pay off the loan, and then they're getting charged penalties and compounding interest at insane rates.
	And this is how you end up with a $200 pizza or a $100 McDonald's meal or something.
	You just don't pay it off, and then the interest keeps accruing and compounding until it's insane.
	And that's what people are doing.
	So this is a very concerning trend right now, and it's all leading us toward that WEF future of you will own nothing and be happy.
	I don't know where the happy part comes in, but I do understand you will own nothing because that's where a lot, especially the younger crowd, that's sort of where...
	They are headed, for the most part, financing everything and living beyond their means.
	So I've got that special report coming up for you as well.
	So, two things coming up for you.
	And two of them are covering breaking news right now.
	You know, Trump signing the deal with Ukraine and China and Walmart, etc.
	Very important stuff.
	Before we get there, I want to mention something really cool and really interesting.
	You've noticed that this week I've been publishing a story every day.
	And I had not done that for about a year and a half because I was working on our AI project rather diligently.
	And I'm still working on it.
	But now I have AI helping me do all the research for all my stories.
	So that's Enoch.
	That's our AI engine that's actually doing the research.
	And then, of course, I'm checking it.
	Writing my analysis of it, and sometimes I'm adding points or I'm removing things if I don't think they're aligned with what I want to say, etc.
	But I want to mention this because I have become more productive now than at any time in my life in terms of what I'm doing here.
	And I want to share with you the two things in my life that have made this happen.
	Because both of these things are available to you.
	First, just understand I'm producing more stories.
	I have recorded actually voice narration for three mini-documentaries that are now in production.
	We're going to be releasing mini-documentaries on a regular basis.
	And you'll see those released at healthrangerreport.com.
	They're not there yet, but we're going to rework that whole site.
	But I'm also, I'm running...
	The entire data pipeline system, which means overseeing all the Python code, all the file management, all the storage systems, backups, everything.
	I'm writing the batch files.
	I'm writing simple Python scripts, and I'm writing a lot of the file management logic of the data pipeline, including all kinds of prompt engineering for the AI systems that are analyzing incoming content.
	Maybe I'll tell you about that more one day.
	But I'm doing this and I'm doing the microscopy and I'm writing stories.
	Like I said, I'm doing documentary narration and also doing a lot of business activities, doing product formulations, product analysis, product reviews, answering tons of questions that are just involved in running everyday business.
	And I've never been this productive.
	I realize there are two things that have made me so productive.
	And this is beyond the fact that I have really great nutrition.
	You know I consume superfoods daily and neuroprotective phytoconstituents, turmeric and curcumin and so on, sulforaphane, all my favorite things that I consume daily.
	But even beyond that, there are two things that have made a difference in my life.
	Those two things are AI and peptides.
	Therapeutic peptides.
	And the AI, that's Enoch.
	And I'm using Enoch every single day.
	I'm not using ChatGPT at all.
	I'm not using other engines.
	I'm not using Google or Gemini or whatever all the engines are.
	I'm using Enoch for everything.
	And it is astonishing.
	For example, today, I wanted to produce the research and the story outline for the story about the elemental crisis, how China controls key rare earth elements like neodymium.
	But I needed to know what elements go into the manufacture of robots.
	And so I asked Enoch to generate a composition table of all the elements that go into making Humanoid robots.
	And I asked for percentages.
	And it came up with that.
	So actually, let me bring up.
	I asked it to estimate the mass of each element that goes into a 40-kilogram humanoid robot.
	And so here it is.
	It came up with it.
	Aluminum is 12 kilograms out of 40 because that's the skeletal system.
	Iron.
	Which is used, it even tells me it's used in the motor cores, in the gears, and in the steel struts because iron, you know, is part of steel, obviously.
	So that's about 5.5 kilograms.
	And it goes down the whole list.
	It came up with copper for motor windings and electronic circuits, etc.
	Nickel, manganese, cobalt, lithium, chromium, neodymium, praseodymium, dysprosium.
	I mean...
	It really knows its stuff.
	That's for heat-resistant magnets, by the way.
	Lead, tin, gold, silicon, gallium, yttrium, boron.
	That was pretty much the elemental list.
	So then I asked Enoch.
	So that right there saved me eight hours of research.
	Easy, right?
	If you had to research all that manually, how long would that take you?
	It's like a whole day.
	But instead, that became five minutes, right?
	So then I took that list, and I fed it back into Enoch, and I said, hey, Enoch, I want you to tell me now which nations produce these elements, and I want you to sort it from high to low to tell me the top producers of each of these primary elements that go into robots.
	And so it did that, and it came back aluminum, and it lists them by order.
	Who produces aluminum?
	China, Russia, United Arab Emirates, Canada, Australia.
	Iron, who produces that?
	Australia, Brazil, China, India, Russia.
	Copper, Chile, Peru, the DRC, Congo, China, and the USA.
	Nickel, Indonesia, Philippines, Russia, Australia, Cuba, etc.
	So it goes through and it creates that list.
	So I took that list and I asked Enoch, I said, I want you to now put these together.
	And create a strategic metals overview of the top metals in the top countries that control those metals so that we can determine where the United States is strategically weak or vulnerable to the atomic elements supply chain for robot upscaling,
	you know, robot production.
	So that's what it did.
	And it came back with this whole chapter that became the core of my story.
	By the time you hear this, that story's been published.
	So if you want to see this, you can just go to naturalnews.com and you can see my story.
	It's called Elemental Crisis, How China and Russia Control the Critical Minerals Needed for AI, Military Robots, and Economic Domination.
	So I want you to know that that story, the core of it, the research, was all done by Enoch with me prompting Enoch.
	And as a result, the story that it produces, which, you know, of course, I wrote the introduction paragraphs, and I wrote analysis and conclusions, etc., and I edited it, you know, I made changes here and there, and commentary.
	But that story, which would have required probably a couple of days of effort, two years ago, today, less than an hour total.
	Less than an hour for the whole thing.
	So that's AI.
	And that's our Enoch AI engine, but because we're talking about robots, you could use many different engines to achieve the same result if you know how to prompt them.
	And I should mention, by the way, in our upcoming docuseries called Breaking the Chains, How to Decentralize Your Life, my co-host and I, Todd Pitner, This starts streaming for free at brightu.com on May 17th.
	We include AI prompt engineering guides to show you how to get the most out of AI so you can do what I'm talking about here.
	If you're not using AI engines right now or you haven't yet gained a lot of experience with them, it's really important to get up to speed.
	If you know how to prompt these engines, they can save you so much time.
	And effectively, they make you look smarter.
	Seriously, they make you look smarter.
	Because somebody reading this article is going to be like, wow, Adams must have done all this research.
	No, I just knew how to ask my research assistant, which is called Enoch.
	I know how to ask for the research.
	I don't do the research, right?
	And that means you're actually smarter than what people think because, you know, yeah, it takes a smart person to do all the research.
	It takes a smarter person to know how to get somebody else to do the research for you.
	You see what I'm saying?
	In this case, an AI engine.
	And yeah, of course, you or I, we could have done the research manually, but why?
	I mean, we could dig ditches manually, but it's easier to use an excavator, you know?
	We could dig holes with our hands, but it's easier to use a shovel, right?
	I could look up minerals.
	It's easier to let Enoch do it.
	We don't need to spend our lives doing monotonous, silly things that AI can do better.
	It leaves us free to do more interesting stuff like recording voiceovers for really kick-ass documentaries and things like that, which is what I did.
	So the first thing...
	The first of the two that I mentioned here, AI and peptides.
	The first being AI.
	AI will revolutionize your life if you learn how to use it and you apply it.
	Or at least, I mean, it's revolutionizing my life and my work and it's saving me days of time.
	And it's producing really robust results.
	Outstanding results.
	This is what has allowed me to publish a story every day this week.
	I'm now in the rhythm.
	I'm going to be doing that for the foreseeable future.
	I could not do that before AI.
	Now I can.
	So, RAI Engine, ENOC, again, it will be available to you very shortly.
	I do realize it's two months behind schedule, and I apologize for that.
	As Han Solo said on the Millennium Falcon when it failed to go to hyperdrive, it's not my fault!
	Was that from Empire Strikes Back?
	Is that the right one?
	I know that Princess Leia was in the cockpit there at that moment because she looked at him in a very judgmental scowl.
	I remember that scene.
	It's not my fault!
	Yeah, I know what that feels like because that's the way it is with AI.
	But anyway, you'll have access very soon to the Enoch AI engine and you'll be able to use it in exactly the same way I'm using it.
	You can learn how to ask it for these things and we're going to give you some guides.
	And they will evolve over time.
	We'll expand them, give you some prompting tips and different ways you can use it.
	But let me just give you a simple example here.
	Let me just read for you.
	Let's see.
	Oh, gosh, I deleted that one.
	All right, here's my actual prompt.
	And I use an Enoch overlay of a reasoning engine for this.
	So my prompt is, quote, for each of the elements listed below, generate, there's the key command, generate, A detailed report listing what percentages of those elements are mined and exported by which nations.
	And then I even said, in other words, generate a report that lists in order of prominence the countries which are the primary sources for each of the elements listed below.
	And then I give the list of elements, aluminum, iron, copper, nickel, etc.
	And then I said, after you have generated that list, also...
	Generate a list of countries sorted from high-volume producers to low-volume producers, which produce the largest number of the elements listed above.
	Okay.
	A little bit of word salad there, but the AI engine made sense of it, and it generated exactly what I had in mind.
	And there's an art and a science in prompting AI to get what you want.
	And what I have found in working with a lot of people and also...
	A lot of experience myself, is that the vast majority of people are not specific enough in asking AI for what they want.
	They're not specific enough.
	They will type out things like, give me meal ideas.
	Oh, really?
	Just any meal ideas?
	Eat a lizard.
	You have to be more specific than that.
	Give me a meal recipe for a high nutritional density lunch menu for someone who is allergic to almonds or whatever that is delicious but not too high in salt,
	etc., etc.
	That also I could put in the fridge after I make extra and it would refrigerate well and it would still taste good after refrigeration.
	Be specific!
	And the best way that I've learned to describe AI prompt engineering to people is to imagine that the AI engine is a magic lamp with a genie inside.
	Seriously, this is the best way.
	Why?
	Because, number one, you need to talk to the AI and don't be afraid to ask for what you want.
	Suppose you have a magic lamp, you can rub the lamp and the genie comes out and I grant you three wishes.
	You remember, in all the stories and movies, the genie always tries to misinterpret what you ask for.
	Like, make me rich!
	And the genie's like, okay!
	And drops a giant gold bar on your head or something.
	So when you're asking a genie for wishes, you have to be very specific.
	Same thing with AI.
	You need to really lay out what you're asking for, and then it can be amazing.
	And also, don't be afraid to ask for things That you want.
	It's not a programming language.
	You don't have to learn programming.
	You can just use your normal language to ask for things.
	Like, I've had people that are trying to generate, like, an executive report on something.
	Like, you take this list of minerals I have.
	Let's say I ask to generate an executive report about the global supply chain of these minerals.
	Okay, and it generates a report.
	But I think the report is too short.
	Let's say, as an example, because I've run into this with a lot of people, I've had people say to me things like, it's too short, you know?
	I can't make it generate longer.
	I tried five times.
	It's still too short.
	I'm like, well, why don't you just take that report, copy the whole thing, you know, Control-C in Windows, paste it back into the same engine with a query, a prompt, and just say to the engine, Expand this report and make it longer.
	And be like, oh, I didn't think of that.
	Why not?
	Like, how did you not think of that?
	You told me you wanted it to be longer.
	Why don't you just tell the magic genie?
	Which is the AI engine.
	Just ask for what you want.
	And then it spits out.
	Of course, it rewrites it and makes it longer.
	And it spits it out now.
	Oh, now it's longer.
	Great.
	Perfect.
	And it's bizarre to me.
	You might hear a little bit of frustration in my voice, but it's very strange to me that people don't think of asking AI for what they want in the same way they would ask a person to do it.
	Like if you had an assistant, like an intern or something in an office job, and you had a report and you wanted it to be longer, wouldn't you just hand it to your assistant and say, hey, add something to this.
	Add some relevant details.
	Make it longer.
	It's not long enough.
	Make it like five pages.
	Wouldn't you say that to your human assistant?
	Well, ask the AI genie in the same way.
	Exact same way.
	Give it the report.
	Here it is.
	Make it longer.
	And it will.
	So it's really...
	There's something about the way people interact with AI right now that's very self-limiting.
	People don't know.
	And I'm sharing this with you to try to open up also your sort of cognitive flexibility of how you interact with AI.
	Ask it for what you want without limitations.
	Just go all out.
	Ask it like, oh, I want a longer report.
	I want you to put in more details about this and that.
	I want you to use bullet points, you know.
	I want you to have a section in Chinese.
	Whatever.
	Whatever you want.
	If you can think of it, you can ask it.
	And the AI can probably do it.
	If not, you'll find out.
	And then you'll realize, hey, this engine doesn't do that.
	Okay.
	Like, you can ask it.
	Like, draw me a picture of this and that.
	And then you'll find out, like, Enoch doesn't do images.
	You'll find out very quickly.
	I can't draw pictures for you.
	Sorry.
	Ask something else.
	Oh, okay.
	You know, you're not going to hurt it by asking for things it can't do.
	You're not going to hurt its feelings, that's for sure.
	So just ask for what you want.
	Like, I should do a book just called Ask for What You Want, you know, like a cosmic truth book.
	Just ask for what you want.
	That's called prayer when you're doing it to God.
	You know, it's called, like, positive thinking or the law of attraction when you're doing it to the cosmos.
	You should do it with AI.
	It's called prompt engineering.
	Ask for what you want and be specific.
	That's it.
	It's like the secret of life.
	Really, just ask for what you want and be specific.
	Know what you want first.
	That's the hard part for a lot of people.
	Knowing what you want and being able to elucidate that.
	If you don't know what you want, how can you ask for what you want?
	And if you haven't thought about what you want, how do you know what you want?
	A lot of people just bounce through the day like a pinball in a pinball machine.
	This is like reacting to everything.
	Non-player characters.
	They're not thinking about, wait a second, maybe I could be in the driver's seat of my own life and I could ask for what I want.
	There's a whole movie about that, the documentary called The Secret, which I think was a little bit cheesy.
	But the main premise of it was very valid, which is, like, ask for what you want.
	Law of attraction, right?
	But I thought it was cheesy because they had people, like, meditating and saying, I want a luxury car and a mansion, you know?
	Okay.
	Think bigger than that.
	I mean, not in terms of just money and stuff, luxury cars and whatever.
	Think bigger on a cosmic scale.
	Ask for the big things that really matter.
	Ask for world peace or something.
	Something that matters.
	Anyway, that's just my take on it.
	So that's all about the first thing that has greatly enhanced my life and also made me smarter.
	AI will make you smarter.
	And there are some people in technology that talk about and I know this is going to freak some of you out because I don't believe in transhumanism and I'm not saying that but Some people say that AI will become an extension of cognition.
	I will never implant my brain with Neuralink or whatever, and I'm not into transhumanism, and I'm not going to take the mark of the beast, and they're not going to microchip me.
	None of that stuff is ever going to happen.
	I won't allow it.
	But I'm going to use all the available tools to amplify my pro-human intentions, my pro-life, pro-humanity intentions.
	And using all the available tools to do that is a smart thing.
	And that's where AI comes into play.
	Just like I've been describing here today, my own efforts are being amplified, magnified, and made a lot more efficient and effective through the use of AI, but I'm in control.
	I ask for what I want.
	I'm specific.
	I write the prompt.
	And then I make sure everything's good.
	Okay?
	So we must stay in control of the technology, but...
	Be wise enough to use it to amplify our purpose for being here, our intentions, our spirit.
	That works.
	Okay, the second thing that has made a substantial difference in just the last few weeks is this peptide therapy, which I talked about a couple days ago.
	I'm not going to go into a lot of detail here.
	But there's a peptide spray.
	Called CMAX, S-E-M-A-X, that I'm currently using four days a week.
	I'm doing four days with just one spray each and then three days off.
	And not only is this product, which is considered experimental, by the way, don't take this as medical advice, but actually this is a naturally compatible cognitive-enhancing Peptide.
	That's not a pharmaceutical, not a drug, not an injection, not some crazy ozempic type of thing.
	It's something that's naturally compatible with the human brain.
	It's been used in Russia for a long time.
	And this has given me better focus.
	It's given me, actually, even, interestingly, better motivation to get things done.
	And you might think that I don't lack motivation.
	And normally I don't, but...
	There are times where so many things are on my plate that it's a lot to handle.
	There are moments of dread where you're like, oh my God, how am I going to handle all those things?
	Or how am I going to get all those things done on this deadline?
	And this CMAX cognitive therapy product, it changes your ability to look at that pile of things that has to get done.
	And to be able to see it from a new perspective and just say, oh, I can do that.
	Yeah, just step by step, work through it, get it done.
	And that's a game changer.
	And then as you're getting it done, you feel happy about it.
	So, you know, your mood is improved as well.
	This is really a revolutionary product.
	And I just, you know, discovered it recently.
	And I don't even...
	Right now here today, I don't even want to mention the name of the company that offers it because they're being overloaded with orders and their website's gotten really slow and they're behind.
	At the moment, they're behind.
	But if you want to know who they are, you can go to rangerdeals.com and they're listed there as one of the affiliate partners that we work with.
	So you can find it there.
	But I'll tell you what, I'll bring you more details in the coming weeks about peptide therapy and where that can be useful for different types of things.
	But I just want to
	that briefly to say that these two things have made a substantial improvement in my life.
	And they've made me smarter.
	It's AI.
	I'm already doing outstanding nutrition.
	I'm already doing daily exercise and fitness.
	Natural growth hormone production because of all my kettlebells training and the things that I do.
	And I also take elk antler velvet from Daniel Vitalis' company.
	We offer their product in our store.
	I mean, I do a ton of things nutritionally.
	And I'm generally considered to be really healthy and cognitively healthy and productive as well.
	But even I've found that I could be smarter and faster and more effective.
	With these two things, AI and peptide therapy.
	And remember what I said a couple days ago.
	When your brain works better, your life gets better.
	Remember that?
	I just spontaneously came up with that.
	But I think it should be a slogan.
	When your brain works better, your life gets better.
	There's nothing in your life that gets worse when your brain works better.
	Everything gets better.
	You know, your work gets better.
	Your mood gets better.
	Your accomplishments get better.
	You know, indirectly over time, your finances would get better.
	I think your relationships can get better when your brain works better as well.
	Like you might remember your anniversary or things like that.
	Oh, yeah.
	And about that, you know, when your brain works better, your life gets better.
	And you can learn more.
	You can remember more.
	You can process more.
	You can prepare more.
	Big projects that used to seem really difficult, they seem more manageable now.
	It's like it expands the ability of your mind to be able to hold a larger list of things or demands or even stresses or challenges, let's say.
	And that's not something that I expected, but that's what's happening.
	So I wanted to share that with you.
	I think it's something you'll appreciate.
	And we're on this journey together.
	We're living in a crazy time, in a crazy world, and we need to navigate this.
	And look, our brains are under attack every day.
	We're under attack with aluminum poisoning in the vaccines and chemtrails.
	We're under attack with pesticides and, of course, vaccine jabs and shedding.
	Oh, by the way, I've got...
	I've got an article coming up on all the best ways to protect yourself from shedders.
	Yeah, that's coming.
	I've already done the research on it because I used Enoch.
	I mean, it's just here.
	It's in another tab on my screen right now.
	I did that earlier today on top of all the other stuff.
	I just like, you know, boom, right prompt.
	It structures the whole thing.
	But our brains are under attack.
	Protect our cognition to enhance and support our cognition wherever we could do so in a safe, natural way.
	And that's what I advocate.
	So it's really interesting stuff going on.
	Really interesting.
	So here's what we're going to do.
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	Welcome to this special report called Price Shock.
	I'm Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, and you're going to learn about some breaking news here.
	We'll absolutely rock the economy in the U.S., and it will shock American consumers.
	And this news comes out of Asia, specifically Chinatimes.com, which is a Taiwan newspaper, primarily, of course, Mandarin language.
	And even though it's a Taiwan paper, it tends to lean pro-China.
	And there's a really important story that just came out that shows that Prices of Chinese-made goods on the shelves at Walmart are about to more than double.
	Now, this shouldn't be a shocker because of the tariffs, you know, 145% tariff that Trump has placed on almost all goods coming out of China, with a few exceptions.
	But if you go back to April 2nd, when Trump announced the tariffs, and I think he called it Liberation Day, I don't know what we're being liberated from.
	You'll be liberated from your currency, you know, trying to afford to buy anything.
	I don't know how we're being liberated by just having a supply chain collapse, but nevertheless, beyond the politics of it, Walmart had initially told its Chinese suppliers, and Walmart has a very close relationship with...
	China factories, right?
	And those factories operate on very thin profit margins in order to provide overall high-quality, low-priced goods to Walmart.
	And Walmart enforces all kinds of things, quality control documentation, safety standards, packaging, making sure they don't have crazy heavy metals in products.
	Walmart does more than you think.
	Walmart actually goes above and beyond To make sure that the products that you get are not hazardous and not going to break instantly, things like that.
	And that all falls on the Chinese factories, who have traditionally been known as producing cheap, low-quality goods.
	But when Walmart works with them, Walmart enforces a level of quality that is definitely above, let's say, the average Chinese factory quality.
	So believe it or not, even though Walmart is known for cheap, low-cost goods, it's actually way better quality than what you would get from China without Walmart calling the shots, okay?
	So I just want to be honest about what Walmart does.
	This is why Walmart is so successful in retail.
	Well, a number of reasons, but this is one of the reasons.
	Because you can take goods back to Walmart if you don't like it, and if something has a high return rate, They drop that product.
	They've got all the software systems that monitor all the returns and everything, and they know if there's a quality problem with any factory out of China, they will alert the factory, hey, you have a quality problem, we're getting too many returns, and if that continues, they drop that product from their shelves.
	Walmart is a very sophisticated operation.
	Well, so back to the story.
	Walmart initially told the factories in China, you...
	The manufacturer, you will have to pay the tariffs.
	And those tariffs, as you know, again, are 145% on most goods.
	Some goods are 245%.
	But I'm just going to say, just for simplicity here, let's just say it's 150% on most goods from China.
	Well, the Chinese factories, responding to Walmart's initial request, they largely said, no, we can't pay the tariffs.
	We cannot, there's no way that we can pay 145% of the value of these products.
	We might as well just shut down and that's what they did.
	They just started shutting down.
	And remember I brought you a story last week about some Chinese companies had containers filled with goods on ships on their way to U.S. ports and they told the shipping companies The cargo is now yours.
	We are abandoning the cargo.
	Have fun.
	Have fun with the 40-foot containers filled with toasters or whatever.
	It's yours now because we can't pay the freight on it.
	We can't pay the tariffs, right?
	So a lot of these Chinese factories have shut down.
	They've laid off clearly hundreds of thousands of workers by now.
	Maybe it's in the millions.
	I don't know.
	There are reports of some civil unrest in China, Maybe small, localized sort of uprisings or rioting.
	I don't know how to describe it exactly, but unhappy people, let's say.
	It's not out of control.
	It's not a revolution.
	It's just, you know, people are losing their jobs and their work, and it was all unexpected, and this was all caused by Trump's tariffs.
	So there's a lot of angry people in China.
	There's angry factory owners, business owners, investors, and angry workers.
	Families of workers, etc.
	They all hate Trump right now, even more than Democrats hate Trump, it turns out, because they're losing their livelihoods over there.
	So, factories all shut down, for the most part.
	So then what happened?
	Well, Walmart began to notice, hey, there's no ships coming in.
	There's no cargo on the way.
	There's no ships arriving in the ports on the West Coast.
	And if you look at the ship maps, the live maps, all these shipping vessels are still hanging around Shanghai and Beijing, and they're not sailing across the Pacific, are they?
	Why?
	Because factories have shut down.
	There's no goods, or almost no goods, coming to America from China.
	So Walmart has been in a slow-boiling panic over the last few weeks, realizing That within a few weeks, their shelves are going to go empty of Chinese-made goods.
	Because, of course, Walmart doesn't have a massive inventory buffer just sitting around in warehouses somewhere.
	They have a just-in-time inventory system, or nearly just-in-time, and not a lot of buffer in the system.
	And as the current products that are made in China are sold and taken off the shelves, Will not be replaced anytime soon because there are not ships bringing the goods and there are not trucks that take the goods off the ships.
	There are no trucks rolling into Walmart with Chinese-made goods right now.
	If you go to Walmart today and you see stuff made in China, you should get it because that's the last made-in-China goods that you're going to see for quite a while, depending on how this goes.
	Alright, so Walmart is panicking, but they're smart.
	And it's my assessment that they're panicking.
	Maybe they're not panicking.
	Maybe it's very calculated.
	But again, I've got to give Walmart credit.
	Walmart is a smart operation.
	They know what they're doing.
	They're very good at logistics.
	Extremely good.
	Maybe the best, actually.
	Even in some ways better than Amazon.
	So don't discount Walmart's logistics.
	They know what they're doing.
	But in my view, they panicked, realizing that, hey, the fastest way to go bankrupt is to have nothing to sell.
	If you're a retailer, you have to have something to sell.
	And you probably can't get by without Chinese-made goods.
	Now, granted, Walmart does strive to sell a lot of goods that are made in America.
	But, you and I both know that America is not the manufacturing base that it used to be back in World War II.
	And so, can you buy toasters made in America?
	The answer is no.
	There are no toasters made in America.
	Seriously.
	The New York Times did a story about your home, what do they call it?
	Your house without China.
	And, yeah, your home without China.
	They revealed some shocking statistics that all kinds of things, like nearly all umbrellas are made in China.
	Nearly all toasters, like 99%, are made in China.
	And cosmetics and makeup, brushes and nail clippers and combs, everything in your bathroom, everything on your back patio, the chairs, the charcoal grills, everything in your computer room, you know, the computer screens, the table lamps, the first aid kits.
	Flashlights, Christmas decorations, anywhere from 70 to 90% come from China.
	So, sure, you can try to compensate with goods from Vietnam or Korea or Taiwan or Japan, but, you know, Japan doesn't make goods at the price of China-made goods.
	Of course they don't.
	You don't go to Japan for the low-price, cheapest, You go to Japan when you want amazing precision, high technology, you know, nanotech, microtech, when you want computers and electronics and industrial and laboratory equipment that's made with precision.
	That's when you go to Japan.
	And many other things, too.
	You know, engines, for example.
	Japan's is like, they know how to design the world's best engines.
	You go to China when you want it To be really low cost with acceptable quality.
	Like, not the best quality, but I don't want it to break on the first day either.
	That's China.
	So you try to replace China with Japanese-made goods, prices are going to skyrocket.
	Similar situation with Taiwan.
	Taiwan is a much higher cost environment for manufacturing compared to China.
	Taiwan is known for better quality, by the way.
	And, interestingly, a piece of history about that is that during the Japanese occupation of Taiwan which was known as Formosa in World War II there was a Japanese culture rubbing off onto the Taiwanese people who actually learned from the Japanese extraordinary skills in agriculture in woodworking in technology I'm
	not saying the Taiwan people didn't already know how to do things their own way, but Japan in that time was very much ahead of almost all of Asia.
	And so there was a technology and kind of a cultural transfer from Japan to Taiwan during Japanese occupation of Taiwan.
	And And I know this firsthand because I talked to people in Chinese who lived through Japanese occupation.
	And they told me exactly what I'm telling you, okay?
	People who have mostly passed away now, but I asked them these questions when they were still living.
	They lived under Japanese occupation, and they learned from the Japanese, okay?
	So Taiwan ended up with better technology, sort of better manufacturing quality control as a culture.
	Compared to China.
	Mainland China then went full communism after Chiang Kai-shek escaped to Taiwan and set up that government in Taiwan.
	The commies stayed in China and it became a communist country and communism is not known for quality.
	And even today, even though China is no longer straight up communism, it's more of a hybrid economy with more of a free market economic side.
	Combined with an authoritarian government top-down control grid with social credit scores and so on, you can't really call it communism anymore, and China today doesn't have the low quality of product output that you would typically associate with communism,
	either communist China in the 1960s or, let's say, the old Soviet Union in the 1970s.
	You know, you didn't want a car made in the USSR.
	Because it was a piece of junk, right?
	But everything has changed since then.
	China's different.
	Russia's different.
	The U.S. is different.
	But my point is, you can't replace Chinese costs, the low-cost goods from China.
	You can't just replace that with Taiwan, Japan, Vietnam, Korea, Indonesia, or any other Asian country, Malaysia.
	No.
	It doesn't work.
	It just doesn't work.
	So, here's the deal.
	Walmart is offering to pay the tariffs now in order to try to encourage the Chinese companies to bring their factories back online and start shipping something for God's sake.
	Load something onto the ships so that we, Walmart, have something to sell.
	Sam Walton demands, his soul is screaming out, crying out, sell something, dammit!
	So Walmart has said, we'll pay the tariffs.
	Okay, so this is the new deal.
	And the China Times media quotes companies in China that have received now notices from Walmart that says that we, Walmart, we will pay your tariffs.
	So basically, please fire up your factories and start making stuff again.
	All right?
	So here's what's going to happen next.
	You're smart.
	You listen to my podcast.
	You can do the math.
	We all know what happens next.
	So a toaster, and let's just use round numbers for simplicity here.
	Let's say a toaster, just a cheap toaster, China-made toaster, that used to sell at Walmart for $20.
	Okay?
	What was the...
	Costs of that toaster to Walmart.
	And let's just take a guess that that toaster costs Walmart, I don't know, can we say $15?
	So there's roughly like a 33% margin, you know, because one-third of 15 is 5, and 5 plus 15 is 20, and 20 is the retail price to the customer, right?
	So we would call that basically a 33%, you know, Cost increase over wholesale.
	Or you could say it's a 25% margin of the retail that goes to the retailer.
	Either way you want to look at it.
	But let's say the toaster costs $15 to Walmart.
	Everything.
	Freight, you know, like delivered.
	$15 at your store.
	And they sell it for $20.
	And maybe that's not the right number.
	Maybe it's $12.
	But let's just use $15 and $20 for simplicity here, okay?
	That's still a pretty big margin.
	For a high-volume retailer like Walmart.
	So now, with the tariffs of 150%, what does that $15 toaster cost?
	Right?
	So add 150% to that.
	Now that $15 toaster is a $37.50.
	It's a $37 toaster wholesale cost to Walmart.
	What does Walmart...
	Have to sell that toaster for now in order to have a similar margin.
	Well, the answer, of course, is $50.
	Right?
	So a $20 toaster that a consumer was paying $20 at retail.
	Now, using my numbers here, that's a $50 toaster.
	It's the same toaster, folks.
	It's still the same $20 toaster, which is actually a $15 toaster at wholesale.
	But now you're paying $50 for the toaster.
	Can you afford a $50 toaster?
	How many people are going to buy a $50 toaster that just doesn't do anything except toast a couple pieces of bread and maybe you can squeeze half of a bagel in there or something?
	Are you going to pay $50 for a cheap-ass toaster made in China?
	The answer is that there's a demand-price curve.
	So in economics, this is known as demand elasticity.
	So as the price of the product rises, demand, in terms of the number of units that are demanded per month, demand falls.
	So because of the tariffs, even though the quality of the toaster did not go down, it's still the same toaster.
	The demand for the number of toasters will plummet substantially, which means that Chinese factories, the toaster factories, are toast either way.
	Even if Walmart pays the tariffs, that's not going to restore the original volume of demand to that factory because it's no longer a $20 retail toaster and fewer people are going to spend $50 on it.
	In other words, Walmart is trying to put something on its shelves.
	But the things that it's going to have on its shelves will cost a lot more.
	In this case, roughly 150% more, right?
	Which is about what the tariff is.
	Which means that the shelf space turnover will plummet.
	Now, for those of you who are in retail, you already know where I'm going with this.
	If you've been in retail, if you've worked in the grocery industry, retail, electronics, Best Buy, you know, whatever, Lowe's hardware, you know how this works.
	You know exactly what I'm talking about.
	Shelf space in a store has to earn a certain amount of revenue or that space loses money.
	So a certain amount of space, like linear shelf space, and of course the shelves that are at eye level are always more valuable than the shelves.
	At your ankles.
	Nobody looks down there.
	That's why they put the beans and the rice down there.
	The low margin stuff that you have to stoop over and look for.
	The stuff that they want you to buy is always eye level or chest level.
	Your hands can reach it easily.
	Pop-Tarts!
	You don't have to work very hard.
	You just kind of shovel them into your shopping cart.
	So they put the high profit stuff right there within easy reach of people's grubby hands.
	If that shelf space doesn't turn over a certain amount of profit per day, let's say, then they're losing money.
	So if you put $20 toasters on a shelf, and let's say that toaster is taking up 12 linear inches on that shelf space, and that toaster makes Walmart, what do we say, $5 profit, right?
	Well, you might sell one of those a day.
	And so 12 inches of shelf space is earning Walmart $5 a day.
	And you multiply that by all the 12 inches of shelf space at all the different shelf heights and all the different stores, you know, and that's how Walmart is a multi-billion dollar company.
	But if you put a $50 toaster in that shelf space, your sales plummet so much that that $5 a day turnover for that 12 inches might plummet to, let's say, $2.
	Let's say you're giving up.
	In this case, 60% of the turnover profit revenue per linear foot of shelf space.
	Okay?
	At $2 per linear foot, and I'm just guessing about these numbers, but in my mind, this is all common sense.
	At $2 per linear foot, you're losing money.
	And you can't sustain that in the long run.
	So here's my point.
	Walmart...
	Is trying not to have empty shelves, but they're still going to lose money because people won't buy a lot of goods that are priced at 150% higher than what they used to pay.
	Understand?
	So I did a song recently called Empty Shelves.
	Well, Walmart's trying to make sure that they don't have empty shelves.
	They're just going to have shelves that are losing money, which maybe that looks better than empty shelves.
	But they're unprofitable shelves.
	So maybe I'll have to do a follow-up song called Loser Shelves or something.
	You know, Doomsday Shelves.
	I don't know.
	Just Losing Money Shelves.
	How long can you maintain money-losing shelves?
	In a big retail operation like that, not very long.
	Not very long.
	At some point, you've got to stop carrying that product.
	You've got to replace it with something.
	That's going to make more money.
	And what would that thing be?
	Well, you know, in the kitchen section, you need toasters.
	All the toasters are made in China.
	So, you know, you call around all your friends all across America.
	Hey, you guys setting up a factory to make toasters?
	No.
	Why not?
	Because there's no money in making toasters.
	We're making missiles for the Pentagon, man.
	That's big payday, you know.
	Let's make weapons and bombs, not toasters.
	So, the factories in America, they want Pentagon contracts.
	They don't want to make home appliances.
	So there's nobody in America that's going to make toasters.
	Nobody.
	So, you're going to get toasters from Mexico.
	And nothing against Mexico, but I don't want toasters made in Mexico.
	I would much rather have Walmart-enforced quality control safety measures.
	Fire protection, you know, overheating circuit protection made in China.
	Because last time I bought something made in Mexico, it didn't have all those features.
	Again, nothing against Mexico.
	It's just that Mexican manufacturing is not as mature as Chinese manufacturing.
	Not by a long shot.
	And I don't trust things that might catch on fire being made in Mexico.
	Okay, that's all I'm going to say.
	So the bottom line, folks, you are about to see a price shock instead of empty shelves on a case-by-case basis.
	So some things may be empty shelves, but where Walmart can, Walmart's going to pay the tariffs and have something on the shelf that you can't afford.
	So, in other words, you're either going to see empty shelves or have an empty wallet, one or the other.
	Those are the only two choices here, right?
	There's either nothing there for sale or the stuff that is for sale you can't afford.
	Now, on top of this, Trump is, of course, continuing with the Federal Reserve policy of printing trillions of dollars of fiat currency as part of the debt Ponzi scheme.
	In other words, the purchasing power of your dollar is plummeting every day.
	So, we didn't even factor that into this.
	So, that toaster that became a $50 toaster, well, The dollar's losing value, too.
	And right now, the dollar is losing at least 20% of its purchasing power every year.
	It's probably a lot more.
	You know, government inflation numbers can't be relied on.
	Obviously, they're delusional.
	We know.
	I mean, just look at the price of gold.
	Look at the cost of food.
	Look at the cost of insurance.
	Look at how your dollar doesn't buy nearly what it did two years ago.
	That's dollar devaluation.
	That's inflation caused by currency printing.
	So by the end of this year, what was a $20 toaster that then became a $50 toaster now has to be repriced as like a $60 toaster because your dollar is losing value.
	And then that makes the situation even worse, because the American people are being driven into bankruptcy by all these factors together.
	The tariffs and the currency printing, the dollar devaluation, in other words, and the fact that our government continues to send money to Ukraine and buy bombs for Israel and hand out huge checks to corrupt agencies like the FDA.
	You know, and the CDC, and the CIA is still well-funded, etc.
	Meanwhile, you're trying to afford a toaster that's now $60, which is triple the price that it was originally before all this.
	So yes, a toaster that was $20 in January of this year might be $60 by Christmas.
	That's right.
	Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way.
	Oh my god, we can't afford a toaster any day.
	Hey!
	Jingle bells, something smells, dollar prints away.
	You know, I mean, the song writes itself, practically.
	It's like, when Christmas comes around, there's gonna be like, no Christmas goods, no decorations, nothing that you can afford.
	You'll just, you and your family, you'll be at Walmart, like window shopping at Walmart, as if it's a luxury retailer, looking at the shelves.
	I wish we could afford that.
	What is it?
	It's a light bulb.
	You're going to be walking around Walmart trying to figure out what you can afford.
	This is why I put out an article.
	You should read it.
	It's on naturalnews.com.
	Let me find the title for you here.
	I put out this article of all the things that, here it is, Urgent Report, the China Import Embargo, what to stockpile now before America, Runs out.
	And I gave the full list there of critical items that you might want to consider stockpiling because they're made in China.
	And I take my own advice.
	I thought of some other things from doing that article.
	I was like, oh my gosh, I should get these now.
	So I went on Amazon.
	I still shop on Amazon.
	I mean, they've got logistics figured out.
	But you can shop at Walmart.com.
	You can go into retail.
	But I bought a bunch of Chinese-made stuff.
	And, you know, for the most part, it's actually, like I said, with Walmart, it's good quality.
	Or even, you know, Walmart quality is better than Amazon quality, by the way.
	So if you really want better goods, shop at Walmart.com.
	But I shopped on Amazon, and I shopped some locally.
	I got a bunch of Chinese goods.
	And yes, I bought another pair of shoes.
	I'm trying to be Imeldo Marcos now.
	If I die soon, they'll find me with like 500 pairs of the exact same kind of shoe.
	No, not that many.
	I have five pairs now.
	No, I do.
	I bought five pairs of the same shoes.
	Because I'm like, hey, I live on a ranch.
	I wear out these shoes.
	I try to fix them.
	I'll use duct tape.
	I'll use shoe goo.
	I don't care.
	I'll put an extra couple months into them, but eventually they're just shot and I got to change the shoes.
	And I don't want to run out of my shoes, okay?
	So yeah, I bought five pairs of shoes.
	I mean, I just added another pair yesterday.
	So you might think, that's crazy.
	Why are you buying five pairs of shoes?
	Well, I'll just explain why.
	Because you're not going to be able to get them.
	They're made in China.
	And I don't want to hear any women talking to me about how many shoes I own.
	You got a closet full of shoes.
	You got shoes for every event.
	You got shoes.
	You got heels.
	That you only wore to one party.
	I know you.
	I swear.
	You know what I'm talking about.
	You have dresses you only wore one time.
	So don't give me crap about five pairs of shoes.
	That's nothing.
	Women have racks full of shoes.
	It's crazy.
	Like, men have racks with guns.
	Women have racks with shoes.
	There's the key gender difference right there.
	And I do have a rack with guns, but I don't have a rack of shoes, okay?
	And I'm not panicked buying guns because all the guns I buy are made in America, you know?
	So I know I'll be able to get those.
	All right, so bottom line, let me wrap this up with some action items here.
	So obviously, stockpile the stuff from China now, right now.
	You may only have less than two weeks left before the shelves go empty for a period of time.
	We don't know how long that's going to be.
	We don't know if Trump's going to cave on tariffs.
	We don't know what's going to happen.
	But you should plan for months of supply chain chaos.
	And then even when products come back, they're going to be really high priced, at least double priced, maybe more.
	So if you get Chinese goods now, you're getting them at half off, right?
	Look, there's a 50% off sale right now at every Walmart.
	I mean, effectively.
	By paying full price, it's still 50% off compared to what's coming.
	The second thing that you might want to consider doing, of course, to avoid losing dollar purchasing power, look into getting gold and silver.
	Gold and silver are going to hold value.
	They are the asset of protection through all of this.
	And every chance that I get, I mean, I dollar cost average into gold and silver.
	I'll tell you, I don't own any stocks.
	None.
	I don't own any treasuries.
	I don't do investing and day trading, nothing.
	I stack gold and silver, and I have it in a heavily guarded vault, guarded by guys with guns.
	Okay, it's not even in Texas, by the way, in case you're curious, but I have a trusted vault that I work with that's like military-grade vaulted metal.
	Like, nobody's getting in there.
	And it's insured by Lloyds of London, by the way.
	And it's not part of the banking system.
	I don't put gold and silver in safe deposit boxes because the bank can just confiscate that or the government can confiscate that or whatever.
	And I've got some gold and silver, you know, personal possession as well.
	I've got goldbacks.
	I've got some amount of cash.
	But I am stacking assets mostly in metals because I know where this goes.
	At the end of the day, I know the dollar is going to zero, and this is a separate issue from the tariffs and supply chain, but the dollar itself is going to zero.
	Mathematically, that is a certainty.
	I just don't know the schedule.
	How quickly does it go to zero?
	I don't know.
	It could be a few years.
	Maybe it sticks around for a few years after it loses another 90% of its current value.
	People keep it around for some local barter convenience or something, but, you know, like a pencil costs $100 or something at that time.
	Who knows?
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	But I don't, I recommend checking out other mints too, by the way, around the world.
	And the Treasure Island Company represents all these, the main mints that exist around the world.
	I don't buy a lot of American eagles because they're kind of overpriced.
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	So check it all out and get ready for price shock, supply chain shock.
	Buy your Chinese goods now and be ready for a lot of panic and chaos for at least a few months in the marketplace.
	It's going to be interesting to see what Walmart does, how they make their shelves look less empty.
	You're going to walk down an aisle and it'll be like a whole row of coolers.
	Why are the coolers taking up the entire aisle?
	Because that's all we have.
	We just have coolers.
	Oh.
	They did this during COVID.
	Remember some of the retailers would spread out the things they had?
	And you would find at grocery stores, you'd find a whole shelf of just tomato juice, you know?
	It's like 50 linear feet of tomato juice cans.
	Like, really?
	Yeah, they're trying to fill the space.
	They don't want it to look empty.
	Some stores had printed posters that looked like canned soup.
	Because they didn't even have enough canned soup to fill the empty shelves, you know?
	So, Potemkin village time, you know?
	You're about to see some weird stuff.
	You're about to see a supply chain shock that you haven't seen since COVID.
	And that COVID might have been the warm-up round compared to what's coming.
	It depends on what Trump does, right?
	And unfortunately, none of us know what's in Trump's mind.
	I think not even God knows what's in Trump's mind.
	Who knows?
	You might as well just wake up and pick up a pair of dice and roll them.
	And, like, base your Trump assumptions on the roll of the dice, because that's going to be about as accurate as trying to figure it out.
	I have no idea what he's going to do.
	Is he going to raise tariffs to 300% tomorrow?
	I don't know.
	Is he going to drop them to zero?
	I don't know.
	Is he going to exclude some other thing?
	Like, you know, over-the-counter medicines?
	I don't know.
	None of us know.
	We should have a game show called Read Trump's Mind.
	Wrong answer.
	Nobody knows.
	So plan accordingly.
	And that's what I'm trying to help you with right here.
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	Hey
	Welcome to this special report called Elemental Crisis, How China and Russia Control the Critical Minerals Needed for AI, Military Robots, and Economic Domination.
	I'm Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, the publisher of NaturalNews.com, the inventor of Brighteon.com, the creator of Brighteon.ai, our Enoch AI engine.
	Which conducted the research for this report.
	I'll talk about that in a few minutes.
	And I'm known as an analyst, researcher, inventor.
	And what I have to share with you today is a big picture, connect the dots type of story that even shocked me.
	So let me just dive right into it.
	It starts with the fact that Trump and Zelensky have signed an agreement.
	That gives the United States access to mineral resources in Ukraine.
	So, this is a huge deal.
	It's been widely reported all across the media.
	It grants the United States access to the natural resources of Ukraine.
	Even as Trump is really aggressively pushing Zelensky to a peace deal with Russia, even though that peace deal would involve Ukraine giving up its claim to lots, lots of land.
	mostly land in the Donbass region that Russia already controls, but that's not land that the leaders of Ukraine wanted to give up.
	But essentially, this deal gives the United States first dibs on mineral resources coming out of Ukraine, including oil and gas and critical minerals.
	The United States gets 50% of the revenue and puts in 50% of the investment, but Basically, you know how this is going to work.
	Essentially, this is the United States, well, let's say from a negative interpretation, this is the U.S. pillaging Ukraine.
	Although, I don't entirely agree with that designation, but you're going to hear that kind of talk.
	So, some people will say, well, the U.S. is pillaging Ukraine and stealing the resources from Ukraine.
	Okay.
	Well, on the other hand, Ukraine itself is not in a position to build the infrastructure to extract and profit from its own resources.
	And it has a lot of resources: mineral, energy, oil, gas, etc.
	So this is sort of an investment partnership where the US invests half the money to build the infrastructure in order to extract and monetize and export these minerals and Ukraine gets half the revenue.
	Which actually seems like a pretty fair partnership deal, you know, half-half.
	But the thing that I like about this deal, and the reason why I think in this case, I'm going to give Trump credit, and I'm going to say that Trump really does have a big picture view here, or his advisors or whoever's driving this, okay?
	They have a very big picture view that's going to become clear as I unravel it for you here.
	And that begins with the idea...
	That with this deal in place, of course there's a lot of rich people, wealthy billionaires in America that stand to become even more wealthy as they profit from these minerals.
	And you know they're going to be the first people in line to benefit from this.
	It's who you know, right?
	But it creates a financial incentive to end the war.
	And that's not a bad thing.
	This means that America now profits more from peace and from ending the conflict than it does from keeping the conflict going.
	So there's now an internal factional fight inside the United States where the military, the weapons companies, and the Pentagon itself, they want to keep the war going.
	You know, they want more contracts for bombs and missiles and bigger budgets and everything.
	But then there's this other faction of really wealthy people that all surround Trump who want to make billions of dollars off the minerals and the oil and the gas and the exports and the rare earths and everything that comes out of Ukraine.
	And they need peace in order for that to function.
	And let me ask you, would you rather, I mean, if this is the choice, would you rather the mining companies?
	Get rich and we have peace or the weapons companies get rich and we have war and the bombs continue and there's just pain and suffering and more death.
	See, I would rather have peace and I'm willing to support the price of peace, which is that certain connected people, they're going to make billions of dollars off the minerals in Ukraine.
	That's just the way it is.
	I would much rather have that than war.
	Okay, so that's just my opinion.
	But let me tell you where this goes next.
	So setting aside the oil and gas energy resources for a moment, we need to talk about the rare earth minerals and other metal elements or metal-like elements that can be mined in Ukraine.
	So if you look at the minerals that Ukraine is known to possess, and this is, Easy to find.
	I used Enoch in order to do the research on this.
	Ukraine is really rich with titanium.
	It's got one of the largest reserves in the world, and titanium is used in military aircraft and aerospace and medical devices, etc.
	It's a very valuable element.
	Ukraine is rich in iron ore.
	Huge deposits of iron ore, which explains the existence of the steel factories in Ukraine, one of which was famously the site of...
	Quite a bloody battle two years ago, I believe, roughly.
	But the steel factories are really critical because that's infrastructure for manufacturing, including manufacturing military weapons and rockets and buildings, steel I-beam for high-rise buildings,
	etc.
	So you need a steel industry if you're going to have control over the future of your nation.
	Lithium.
	Ukraine is known to have substantial fields of lithium.
	It hasn't been widely produced yet, but the fields are known to exist, and of course lithium is used in electric vehicles and lithium-ion batteries, all kinds of things.
	Coal.
	There's abundant coal in Ukraine, which means Ukraine has massive energy supplies, and think about the geographical location of Ukraine, sort of between Western Europe and Russia.
	With a lot of surrounding nations, smaller nations on the north, etc.
	Energy is what Western Europe needs desperately right now since the destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines.
	They were destroyed by the U.S. Navy in order to cut off Russia's gas exports to Western Europe.
	So Ukraine has the coal, and with some investment and some infrastructure, i.e.
	coal-fired power plants, Ukraine could provide a lot of relatively affordable electricity to Western Europe, at least a lot cheaper than the solar energy resources that they're trying to use in France and Spain,
	which just had a total power grid failure a few days ago, by the way, because the solar fields failed, you know?
	And they lost power for the whole country and part of France.
	That was not cool.
	Ukraine has neon, which is used in semiconductor manufacturing.
	It's got nickel.
	That's a key component in batteries, also stainless steel.
	It's got beryllium that's used in aerospace.
	And it has some other rare earth metals.
	Now, when I was doing this research, one of the metals that I was looking for is neodymium ND.
	And neodymium...
	As you're about to learn here, this is something that needs to be on your radar because neodymium, or some people pronounce it neodymium, I don't know.
	I don't know which way I prefer.
	Either way.
	I'll just call it neodymium.
	It's going to become possibly the single most important choke point rare earth metal for the future of our world.
	Memorize this.
	Again, it's ND, that's the atomic element symbol, neodymium, and you've heard of this in magnets.
	Well, it's used in magnets that make up the motor or the actuators in robots.
	It's also used in wind turbines, and it's used in electric vehicles.
	And neodymium, currently, as you're about to find out, It doesn't come out of Ukraine, but there could be deposits in Ukraine that could be developed.
	We just don't know yet.
	Currently, the number one producer is China, and we're going to get to that.
	So, this Trump deal with Ukraine is designed to end the conflict with Russia, which allows Trump to refocus military and intelligence assets on China or Iran.
	Even Trump doesn't want to fight three wars at once, so he wants to stop the war with Russia and then really focus on economic and trade war with China and possibly kinetic war with Iran on behalf of Israel.
	I guess we'll have to see where that goes.
	But as all of this is happening, China has cut off rare earth mineral exports to the United States.
	Not all of them, but a significant portion of them.
	If we backtrack about seven years, Trump realized that the United States of America was lacking in rare earth minerals that are necessary for military, aerospace, robotics, data centers,
	wind turbines, EVs, all of it.
	And to his credit, in his first term, Trump really worked hard to open up domestic rare earth mineral mining, extraction, and production.
	And it worked.
	We went from having almost no domestic production of rare earths to having a little.
	Not a lot, but it was something.
	It used to be almost zero.
	But thanks to Trump's efforts, it's now higher than it used to be, but is nowhere near, not even close, to what China produces.
	China controls not only rare earth minerals, mining, and exports, China leads the world in rare earth minerals extraction technology.
	Now remember that China is a very advanced nation.
	Very high standards of technology.
	It graduates many more times the number of STEM graduates compared to the United States.
	I think 400% more every year.
	Science, technology, engineering, mathematics.
	China leads the world in the vast majority of critical technologies.
	One of those technologies is minerals extraction technology.
	Now, I don't want to bore you with too many details here, but if you back up, if you find a deposit in the ground that is rich in rare earth minerals, do you know if you move a ton of earth,
	like one ton, you know, let's say a metric ton, a thousand kilograms of earth, And you process that ton.
	How many kilograms of rare earths will you get out of that?
	And the answer is not even kilograms.
	The answer is usually grams.
	You're lucky to get a few grams that is a few thousandths out of the ton.
	So you might move a ton of rock and you might get a few grams of rare earths out of it.
	And there are specific ways that you process that.
	One ton of earth, rocks and dirt, whatever else.
	There's a way you process it to get the minerals out of it.
	For example, did you know that almost all silver production in the world is not intended?
	They're not mining for silver.
	They're mining for other things, and they get silver as a byproduct.
	Did you know that?
	Now, gold mines are set up specifically to mine gold.
	And if you know anything about gold mining, you know they have to move tons of earth to get grams of gold.
	Sometimes just milligrams of gold.
	Depends on how much gold there is.
	It's not a lot.
	Silver, sometimes you get a lot more grams.
	But rare earths, these extremely rare ones, like neodymium, you don't get much at all.
	And there's a specific method, a technology, a knowledge base.
	That China has mastered on how to take a ton of earth and get out the gallium, the neodymium, the silver, every element that you can think of.
	They know how to get it out of dirt.
	And also, notably, China doesn't have much in the way of environmental controls or anti-pollution laws.
	So, you know, they...
	They tend to use really toxic methods to get these minerals out.
	As a result, they pollute their own rivers and they pollute their own crops as a byproduct.
	But they get the minerals.
	They get them.
	They dominate the world in these minerals.
	Now, why does this matter?
	And what is Trump actually trying to do here in terms of setting America up for a future where America can compete on the world stage?
	Let me take a tangential break here and start another thread and then we'll bring it back together.
	We have to talk about the rise of AI robots.
	And AI robots, I believe, it's very clear to me, are going to be the key technology that determines the dominant nation for the future of our world, at least the foreseeable number of centuries.
	Whoever masters robot manufacturing, and importantly, whoever has the raw materials necessary for robot manufacturing, will dominate the world.
	Why?
	Well, where to begin?
	Robot soldiers?
	Robot factory workers?
	Robot home workers?
	Robots?
	When you have general purpose humanoid robots with opposable thumbs that can do everything, everything that a human can do, You can expand your economy.
	You can expand your GDP.
	You can expand your factories.
	You can expand agriculture.
	You can deploy robots in military, in aerospace, in factories, in everything.
	Home care, medicine, surgeries.
	Walking your dog.
	You can use robots for pulling weeds on your farm.
	I keep hoping for a weed-pulling robot, actually.
	That's on my list.
	I need a weed-pulling robot.
	It doesn't even have to be a humanoid.
	I'll settle for a weed-pulling dog robot.
	That's fine with me.
	It just should have a mouth that pulls weeds, okay?
	I'm happy with that.
	But whoever does this the best and whoever can scale it up is going to dominate the world militarily and economically.
	Got it?
	But you might think, well, that's going to be easy.
	You just start up a bunch of factories.
	You just make a bunch of robots.
	Well, the problem with that is that robots have inputs.
	A lot of inputs.
	And many of those inputs are, of course, elements, obviously.
	So aluminum being one of the main ones that goes into a robot, because aluminum is used for the skeleton, the structural support of the robot.
	Guess who the top producer of aluminum is in the world right now?
	Oh, it's China.
	It's China.
	China controls over half of the world's supply of aluminum.
	Russia is very capable of producing and exporting aluminum, but Russia is banned by the West because we cut off Russia from the SWIFT system.
	And so we can't do business with Russia.
	We can't buy aluminum from Russia.
	We can buy it from China.
	And then, of course, we produce our own aluminum production in Australia and other places.
	Canada, even.
	Other places, but China produces the most.
	And China produces affordable, high-quality aluminum.
	Well, so there are other elements.
	There's cobalt.
	The top producer of cobalt, I don't know if you know this, is the Congo, the DRC.
	Or I guess you just say Congo.
	Cobalt is used also in lithium-ion batteries.
	So it powers the robot, right?
	And there are brutal mining practices in the DRC to mine the cobalt, you know, child labor, all kinds of things.
	Russia is reportedly stockpiling cobalt, and you've probably heard of cobalt being used in tools.
	Like, I have drill bits that are made out of cobalt that are incredibly durable.
	They last 10 times longer than the non-cobalt.
	Drill bits.
	So I buy cobalt drill bits.
	And guess where they're made?
	China.
	They're made in China.
	All right, so we can go through this list.
	Lithium, obviously, for the batteries.
	Copper, for all the wiring and the circuit boards.
	You know, there's a lot of other minerals that are involved in this.
	But the choke point, metal or element, is neodymium.
	And there's another one called dysprosium, DY.
	These two together, these...
	These are needed for the robot actuators, i.e.
	the muscles, the parts that make the robots move.
	So how do you move an arm?
	So you have an actuator or maybe more than one at the shoulder joint for different degrees of freedom of movement.
	You have another actuator at the elbow.
	You have actuators at the wrist.
	And then if your robot has fingers, And opposable thumbs.
	You have little actuators in all the fingers and thumbs, right?
	Yeah, actuators in the hips and the knees and the feet and the ankles and the neck.
	Obviously, right?
	Everywhere that there's a pivot point, you have an actuator.
	Every actuator needs neodymium.
	And neodymium is hard to find.
	And so, it doesn't matter how big your robot factories are.
	It doesn't matter how much iron ore or steel that you have.
	It doesn't matter how much aluminum you have or even how much lithium or cobalt.
	The choke point is the neodymium.
	Or neodymium, as some people say.
	So, as much as 90% of the neodymium in the world comes from China.
	And that's an estimate, you know, plus or minus.
	But China dominates the market on neodymium.
	Which means China has a near monopoly on this rare earth.
	And this is on the list that, China has restricted exports for the United States.
	And so what this means is that, think about this, under Trump, the USA put all kinds of economic sanctions on China, and some of this happened under Biden, too, to try to stop China from being able to acquire microchips,
	such as NVIDIA AI chips.
	As well as microchip lithography equipment from European companies that make the machines that make the microchips, the fabrication machines.
	And those come out of Europe and China can't buy them.
	So the West has been at war with China to try to stop China from gaining microchips to try to slow China down on the AI front.
	And in return, China is at war with the West.
	Trying to deprive the West of neodymium and other rare earths in order to slow the West's ability to manufacture robots.
	And robots will largely determine the future of the world, like I said, in military and economic terms.
	Now you could argue that AI, software AI, non-robot AI, will also clearly be a dominant factor.
	AGI, or artificial general intelligence, or superintelligence first, may dominate the world from that point of view.
	And I've even argued that as well.
	That's probably true.
	But it turns out that China's kicking butt on the AI side, too.
	China has released models like DeepSeq R1, reasoning models, that are very effective.
	And now we learn that China has figured out how to make its own AI data center chip systems that are comparable to NVIDIA's chips.
	Even though Jensen Huang of NVIDIA, you know he's Taiwanese, right?
	He's from Taiwan, where I lived.
	And that's why I really like Jensen Huang.
	He's a really, really cool guy, really brilliant guy.
	And Taiwan, of course, has Taiwan Semiconductor and leads in semiconductor manufacturing.
	But China is being forced to develop its own semiconductor domestic infrastructure and manufacturing capability.
	And it's doing very well.
	In other words, the West is not going to be able to effectively strangle China for very long on the microchip side.
	But you can't, you know, on the inverse of that, America can't just figure out how to make neodymium.
	You can't make it.
	It's an element.
	It's on the table of elements.
	You can't make it.
	You have to find it.
	You have to dig it up, you know?
	So China can figure out how to make microchips.
	They're doing it.
	And they're surprising everybody else in the world at how good they are at coming up with microchips.
	I mean, we shouldn't be surprised.
	Chinese are really smart engineers.
	Come on.
	Pay attention, right?
	Smart folks, right?
	But the West can't make neodymium.
	So if you don't have it, you're just bleep out of luck.
	You don't have it.
	So you can't make the robots, okay?
	You can't make the robots.
	So part of what Trump is doing right now, and this is why Trump is negotiating with African nations also.
	And this is why Trump is negotiating with Zelensky and signed the minerals deal.
	This is also why Trump is trying to acquire Greenland.
	It's because of the sea lanes or the international transport of rare earth minerals and other goods.
	But control of the sea lanes is going to be critical here because no one country has everything that's needed to make robots except maybe China.
	China can make robots from everything sourced domestically.
	And Russia's probably very close to that if they haven't already figured it out.
	Russia has been very resilient following all the economic sanctions.
	But the United States can't make robots without sourcing all kinds of things from other nations.
	And in order for those things to come to America, they have to travel by sea, which means that the United States has to control the sea lanes.
	That explains the Suez Canal, U.S. aircraft carriers in the Red Sea.
	It explains why the U.S. supports Israel so strongly, because also they want to build a new canal, the so-called Ben-Gurion Canal, that goes right through Gaza, which is why they want Gaza cleared out.
	They need a new canal from the Mediterranean.
	To the Red Sea, or essentially the Arabian Sea, and they want to bypass Egypt and bypass the Suez Canal.
	They have a plan for that.
	It involves setting off hundreds of nuclear bombs to blow up mountains, basically.
	Yeah, that should be interesting.
	But you've got to think ahead on this.
	You've got to think long-term.
	Trump wants sea lanes controlled by Israel.
	And so does Europe.
	So does the UK, you see.
	But this explains everything about Panama.
	Why is Trump...
	Going crazy about controlling Panama?
	Because of the Panama Canal, folks.
	If Panama did not have a canal, Trump would have almost no interest in Panama.
	Trust me.
	Because that canal, which is, of course, a series of elevation change locks going to an inland lake, it's more than a canal, right?
	It's a complex system, but it saves ships all kinds of time and risk and energy.
	From having to sail around the southern tip of South America, obviously.
	So canals are critical and straits are critical, like the Strait of Malacca or the Strait of Hormuz or the Straits of Taiwan.
	All of these are critical to control.
	This has everything to do with being able to acquire the minerals needed to build robots to dominate the future of our world with robotics.
	And, you know, plus those trade routes are important for your domestic economy to be able to export goods, etc.
	It's a multi-purpose thing.
	But Trump is actually thinking big picture on this.
	He's thinking pretty far ahead.
	Way farther ahead than most Americans are even aware.
	I mean, you know, a typical American doesn't even know where is the Suez Canal.
	Like, is it in Suez?
	No.
	They might be able to guess where the Panama Canal is.
	Is it Panama?
	Yay!
	You got one right.
	But typical Americans have no idea of world geography.
	Many of them can't find America on a map.
	It's pretty bad.
	But this is what Trump is doing.
	So, China dominates neodymium.
	Neodymium is necessary for the actuators of robots.
	And if you don't have neodymium, you can make all the other parts of robots all day long.
	But the robots have no muscles.
	They can't move.
	Their joints don't move without the neodymium.
	So yeah, you can have robot parts laying around all day long.
	Look, we got 5,000 robots just laying on the floor there.
	Do they move?
	No.
	Why?
	We have no neodymium.
	Oh.
	Well, start digging.
	You're going to need some neodymium.
	I mean, we don't have any other way to do this.
	We need magnets.
	Strong magnets, lightweight magnets, you know?
	So getting back to why this matters, there are at least five key areas where robots are going to be necessary.
	Number one is the military.
	And you've already seen lots of demonstrations of dog bots running around, sometimes with guns mounted on their backs, you know?
	Guess who's dominating the dog bots?
	Really, it's China.
	Chinese companies that seem to have the most impressive dog bots so far.
	Now, granted, I've seen Tesla with its robot.
	I've seen some other U.S. companies doing some interesting things, but China seems to be making the best progress in this area.
	So whoever can mass manufacture, let's say like 100,000 military robots, then it's obvious.
	You could send them into an area, you know, conquer.
	Control.
	Kill the enemy.
	Can you imagine what the conflict between Russia and Ukraine would be right now if either side had 100,000 soldier bots?
	Like if Ukraine.
	Ukraine's running out of men, right?
	If they had 100,000 soldier bots or a million soldier bots, just, hey, send them east.
	Find Russian soldiers and take them out.
	And then they wouldn't have to lose men.
	They could just send in robots.
	So whoever dominates that field first is going to have a major military advantage.
	And think about China.
	They could load up 40-foot containers with maybe a couple hundred of these humanoid robots inside one container.
	Just put them on sleep mode, you know?
	They don't need food.
	They don't need water.
	They don't need air.
	Nothing.
	No air conditioning.
	And then you sail up to the port in California, you know?
	You offload the container, open it up, and outspill two million robots or whatever from a bunch of containers, and then you just have Chinese robots everywhere attacking Los Angeles, which might be difficult because parts of it look like they've already been bombed.
	I'm not sure.
	Robots might be confused, like, have we already destroyed this section of L.A.?
	They don't talk like that, but you get the idea.
	They would be confused.
	But you could see an invasion, a robot invasion actually taking place.
	And they wouldn't even have to be humanoid robots.
	They could be dog bots.
	They could be flying drone bots.
	It's all robotics.
	The next thing, medical robots, AI surgeons, but also just sort of robotic hospital workers.
	You're going to be greeted by a robot in the near future.
	It's going to ask you for your insurance.
	It's going to make you go through all the same crap that you go through now with a human being.
	Except your complaints will go nowhere because the robot has no emotions.
	But you'll have a robot hospital worker.
	There's going to be a robot cleaning the floor.
	Robots delivering medical supplies and whatever.
	And robots performing security.
	You're going to have security bots everywhere.
	You're going to have police bots.
	At first, they'll work alongside the humans.
	You know, you'll have a human cop in the car and a robot cop in the passenger seat.
	Every human cop will have a robot sidekick, like Batman and Robin.
	And the human cop will use the robot cop to do the risky stuff, like, you know, clearing a room.
	Kick in the door, RoboCop, right?
	Kick in the door and see if there's anybody in there.
	And if somebody starts shooting, they just shoot up the robot.
	Who cares, you know?
	You can salvage the magnets.
	Recycle the neodymium into the next RoboCop.
	So this is going to be how it's...
	You're going to see this roll out in police, in security, in military, in hospitals, in industry.
	You're going to have industrial robots.
	Like, hey, Bob, it's your turn.
	To clean the fuel rods at the nuke plant today, you know?
	Well, Bob says, good thing we got a robot to do that now.
	Send the robot down there to do the radiation work.
	Or Homer Simpson or whatever.
	You're going to see industrial robots and you're going to have agricultural robots.
	So all the agricultural work or most of it will be automated via robots.
	You're going to have robot strawberry pickers.
	You're going to have robots operating.
	Agricultural equipment, like tractors.
	You're going to have robots pulling weeds.
	That's my favorite right there.
	I want a weed-pulling robot.
	And you're going to have robots planting, using implements, shovels and rakes and whatever.
	They're going to be doing the labor of agriculture.
	And they're going to be working in the food plants and packing food, etc.
	The thing is, growing a human and training a human and feeding a human and everything to the point where that human is useful to society.
	Which typically takes at least 20 years, because everybody knows that teenagers are not useful to society.
	They need a few more years in order to be useful.
	For some people, it takes 30 years.
	It just depends on the person.
	Some people are useful at 20, 25, 30. Depends on the person.
	But robots, you can make them tomorrow, and they can be useful tomorrow.
	They roll off the factory.
	You upload the software, and then they're out there picking green beans the next day, you see?
	And these robots are eventually going to be able to work for about a dollar an hour in terms of total cost.
	Now, it's going to take actually a couple of decades for the scaling up of robot manufacturing to reach the point where they replace all the agriculture workers.
	That's a couple of decades away, just because of the scaling up factors.
	But if you don't have the neodymium, you can't scale up at all.
	So, again, the summary is, whoever has the rare earths, whoever has the neodymium, whoever has the cobalt, the lithium, and aluminum, and copper, can make the most robots.
	And whoever makes the most robots can have the best economy, the best military, the best agriculture, the best medical assistance.
	All of it, you know.
	Schools and factories and warehouses and everything.
	It's all going to be automated.
	Now, I'm not answering the question today, well, what are humans going to do?
	I hope they don't just sit at home on the couch and watch The View all day.
	That would be a waste of a human, you know?
	I don't know.
	You tell me.
	I know what I'm going to be doing.
	I'm going to have weed-pulling robots.
	I'm going to be living off-grid with my robots and my AI.
	And my AI engine right now is kicking butt.
	In fact, I used Enoch to research this whole story.
	And if you want to sign up and join our waitlist for our free AI engine, it's called Enoch.
	You can find it at brighteon.ai.
	It has been delayed now two months.
	I mean, we're already two months delayed.
	The launch is imminent within days or whatever it takes.
	We keep having these strange setbacks like, My developers getting sick.
	They should listen to my nutrition podcast and they'd be much better off.
	But whatever, they're coders.
	They're not health nuts, you know?
	So they get sick and they miss time, whatever.
	We're behind schedule.
	But it's coming and you're going to find that Enoch can help you in tremendous ways.
	Tremendous ways.
	It's trained on off-grid living, herbs, nutrition, survival, preparedness, emergency first aid, everything.
	It is the best engine in the world.
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	You'll be able to use it for free.
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	And you can even download a version that we have coming out that you can run locally.
	That's coming a little bit, maybe a couple weeks later.
	We'll see.
	But the first version is accessible through a browser, and it's free, okay?
	So, that's where AI can help you.
	And one day, you might want some kind of robot helper around the house.
	Like, I mean, you already have a machine that washes your dishes, probably.
	Dishwasher.
	You have a machine that dries your clothes and washes your clothes, maybe.
	Maybe not the same machine.
	You know, you have machines that do stuff for you.
	You're going to want a machine that can do the dishes, that can load the dishwasher.
	You're going to want a machine that can cook a healthy meal, like prepare the meal from fresh ingredients.
	You're going to want that.
	You're going to want not a RoboCop, but RoboCook.
	You're going to want a RoboCook.
	And frankly, you're going to want that cook to use my AI engine to get recipe ideas.
	We have the best recipes.
	So robots will be helpful.
	But if you can't make them because you don't have the rare earth minerals, your economy is going to fall behind on the world stage.
	And that is the critical or what I call the elemental crisis that we are facing right now.
	China is in the lead.
	Russia is gaining rapidly.
	America is falling behind.
	It doesn't have the minerals that it needs to scale up robot production.
	So that's where we are.
	That's why Trump is signing mineral resource deals with Ukraine and trying to protect sea lanes through Panama and, you know, the Arabian Sea region and the Mediterranean Sea, etc.
	That's why that's happening.
	Greenland as well.
	So does it all make sense now?
	That explains the dynamic that you're actually witnessing.
	Whoever controls the elements controls the future.
	And I should also mention that many of these same elements are used in building data centers.
	So you know how Trump announced with all these companies this $500 billion investment in the state of Texas to build data centers in Texas?
	What did he call that?
	Was that the Stargate project?
	Stargate.
	Where are you going to get all the copper?
	You're going to need a ton of copper.
	I mean, like...
	A million tons of copper.
	You're going to need a lot of copper.
	You're going to need a lot of aluminum.
	You're going to need microchips galore.
	You're going to need conductors.
	You're going to need silver, by the way.
	There's a lot of silver that goes into data centers.
	It's used in all the electronics.
	You're going to have to buy up some significant chunk of the world's minerals, whatever's on the open market, and then you know how America's going to operate.
	They're going to threaten to bomb a country if that country doesn't sell us the minerals we want.
	Or, you know, regime change.
	The CIA will take you out.
	Assassins, whatever.
	Or you could just sell us your cobalt.
	Honestly, that's how it works.
	Economic hitman, all that stuff.
	That's the reality of how it works.
	And right now, Trump is in mineral acquisition mode.
	Because that's the only way to compete with China.
	It's the only way.
	You've got to have the minerals to build the machines.
	The data centers and the robots.
	In order to even have a chance at competing with China.
	And the USA is way behind.
	And in terms of military technology, Russia is clearly in the lead with hypersonic missiles.
	With the Oreshnik missile system.
	That suddenly everybody forgot what that was, you know.
	That was the biggest breakthrough in the history of military weapons.
	Oreshnik.
	What does that mean in Russia?
	Is that hazelnut or something?
	That was a quantum leap advancement in a weapon system, and nobody's talking about it.
	That's on my radar.
	Russia has some very smart engineers.
	China has some very capable people.
	China's dominating technology, dominating robots.
	Russia's dominating weapon systems.
	The U.S. had better start to catch up, or we're going to be left in the dust.
	That's where we are.
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	I've come to realize that Mainstream people have no idea how the supply chain works.
	I mean, I've known this, you've known this too.
	People think that products just magically are teleported onto the shelves of grocery stores or Walmarts or Home Depots or whatever, because they don't see the whole operation.
	They don't know that a lot of the goods at Home Depot, let's say, even a lot of food items at the grocery store, they start in China.
	You know, they come out of a factory, but the factory has to have raw materials coming in.
	It has to be transport infrastructure.
	And then out of the factory, it gets put on pallets and it gets packaged and then trucked to the port.
	And then, you know, forklifts loaded up into containers and then giant cranes load the containers onto the ships, right?
	And then the ships sail three to four weeks across the Pacific Ocean.
	to dock at a U.S. port typically on the west coast and then the whole thing is reversed with the cranes and the forklifts and the trucks and then the trucks truck it typically to a distribution hub for example Lowe's you know the hardware store Lowe's they have a giant hub in Wyoming I think it's in Cheyenne and Home Depot's got a few hubs here and there and then at the hubs There are people and logistics software that figure out which products need to be loaded on which trucks that are headed for certain stores.
	So there's a truck going to, you know, every store every day, essentially.
	And the same thing happens with grocery stores, etc.
	Anyway, then there's a bunch of forklifts in the hub that are, you know, rolling around, moving pallets and moving boxes onto the trucks that go to the stores.
	And then the trucks get to the stores.
	And then the people at the stores then have to unload the trucks with forklifts and, you know, pallet jacks, which are sort of hand-dragged devices that you can drag pallets around with.
	We have a bunch of them at our warehouse, obviously.
	And then people have to manually take the stuff out of those boxes, open up the cases, and then stock it on the shelves.
	And that happens at 2 o 'clock, 3 o 'clock, 4 o 'clock in the morning when nobody is there.
	I mean, when customers aren't there.
	So that's why the average American thinks that products just magically appear.
	It's not magic.
	It's a complex supply chain, and it's all breaking down.
	And so I recently released my song called Empty Shelves.
	People love this song.
	I had former cops listening to it.
	They were just laughing so hard.
	They thought it was so funny, which is my intent.
	It's a satire song.
	Anyway, it's called Empty Shelves.
	You can check it out at music.brighteon.com if you want to download the MP3 and watch the music video, which is illustrated in a style of Japanese anime with a Mad Max theme.
	It's pretty funny.
	But anyway, I had some pushback from a couple of people who are not our regular listeners, okay?
	So not people who are educated like you, not people who are Red Pill, just...
	Some people who, like, somebody shared it with, and word got back to me, and they were like, there's not going to be empty shelves, and you're just trying to scare people.
	Like, okay, okay, that's great.
	Explain to me how there won't be empty shelves when the complex supply chain that restocks the shelves has come to a grinding halt, where ships aren't leaving the ports in China anymore.
	I mean, Not anywhere near the normal level.
	Maybe it's down by half.
	Ships aren't arriving at the ports in Seattle and California.
	And trucking companies are laying off people left and right because the transportation demand has fallen through the floor.
	And so the trucks aren't rolling.
	The ships aren't sailing.
	The products aren't getting delivered and the math ain't mathing.
	So you tell me by what magic or voodoo Do products appear on the shelves when the supply chain that delivers those products doesn't function?
	And honestly, the typical American normie person, meaning just kind of like an uninformed, you know, NPC, they've never thought about it.
	They don't know.
	They don't know where anything comes from.
	And they're the ones that are going to be shocked, even scared.
	I'm panicked when the shelves start to go empty.
	Now, I'm not saying that all the shelves are going to be empty because not everything comes from China.
	Overall, I don't even know the percentage, but it depends on the industry.
	So for hardware and tools, maybe it's 70% from China, but for grocery stores and food, maybe it's 15%.
	I don't know.
	It varies.
	So all the shelves won't be empty, A lot of shelves will be empty, and they'll be empty for the things that American people repeatedly need to buy in order to function.
	And yes, I'm talking about appliances.
	I'm talking about parts, even auto parts, you know, oil filters, things like that.
	Electronics, communications, routers, and microchips, and all kinds of things.
	Even the circuit boards that go into things like refrigerators, etc.
	Those are going to be in short supply.
	And so the U.S. assemblers that assemble these things so they can say made in America, you know, made in America by robots using parts from China is typically the situation.
	They're not going to be able to get all those parts.
	And so how are they going to make it in America when their supply chain is what's called intermediate goods?
	These are the goods that are used by manufacturers.
	In order to make products, the intermediate goods supply chain is also breaking down.
	So, you tell me, because I don't know how...
	Is there a wizard?
	Does Gandalf work with Trump at the White House?
	And Gandalf, he has his tariffs.
	Thou shalt not pass!
	And then no imports from China.
	And then Gandalf says...
	Restock the shelves magically, you know, and then everything appears on the shelves.
	Like, that's the only explanation you can come up with if you think that there are going to be no shortages.
	Or, in the case of just most people, they just don't think about it.
	They're just not thinking about it.
	They're too busy thinking about, you know, Friday night, going out drinking or taking the next celebrity cruise or whatever, or, you know.
	Just silly things, sports scores, or whatever.
	I don't pay any attention to any of that stuff.
	But a lot of people focus on that, and so they're going to go to the store one day, and they're going to be like, hey, my wife sent me here to get a toaster.
	There are no toasters.
	There are no blenders.
	And then they go to the hardware store.
	There are no parts.
	There's no PVC adapters.
	Like, what's going on?
	And then they're going to find out, oh, yeah, China stopped shipping everything.
	Two months ago, and now the ripple effect is kicking in, and you've got no products on these shelves.
	And they're like, well, how long is it going to last?
	And you're like, well, you know, how's your calendar look for the rest of this year?
	I only need one part.
	Yeah, today.
	And I know, your car doesn't run without that part.
	Your house doesn't get built without that one part.
	You know, your kitchen sink doesn't work without the one part, and the part's gone.
	Good luck.
	It's going to be a lot of people buying 3D printers and trying to print the parts they need, which is tricky, because the printed parts aren't as strong as, you know, brass and steel and whatever.
	And then you have to get 3D design software and know how to use it and everything, which is a whole learning curve.
	I've been through that, and it's, you know, it's tricky.
	So, there you go.
	The good news is, for you listening...
	You do have a head start compared to the normies.
	There's still probably a couple of weeks buffer here.
	Maybe three weeks.
	Maybe four.
	Maybe if we're lucky, five or six, depending on where you are.
	Depending on the product type and the supply chain status, inventory status.
	You might have six weeks before something runs out.
	Or you might have three.
	It's coming.
	You might have two.
	I don't know.
	Depends on the product.
	Stock up now while you can.
	Stay informed.
	And keep listening to my podcast at brighttown.com.
	You can check out my articles now.
	I'm publishing typically now one article per day.
	I'm back on track thanks to our AI engine that's helping me with all the research.
	So I'm doing an article a day at naturalnews.com.
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	Now the AI is helping me.
	So it gives me all the research that I need to write my articles.
	It's freaking awesome.
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	Take care.
	All right, according to a new survey by LendingTree, which is a company that loans money to people to pay off credit cards or whatever.
	LendingTree says that some crazy high level or percentage of Americans are using what's called buy now, pay later options for purchasing basic supplies, even food.
	Buy now, pay later.
	BNPL.
	That's an acronym we might all want to become familiar with.
	According to LendingTree, something, I think, 41%, if I'm remembering correctly, I may have to fact check that.
	I think they said 41% of Americans were now using buy now, pay later options for various things.
	Now, this is crazy.
	If you think about it, my friend Dan from I Allegedly, he did a podcast about this called The $200 Pizza.
	And he and I were talking about this before his podcast.
	We were joking like, how do you buy a $200 pizza?
	You start out buying a $25 pizza and then...
	You don't pay it off, and you keep accruing interest, penalties, and compounded interest on top of the penalties until you end up paying $200 for that pizza over time because you didn't pay it off.
	So that's a bad way to buy food.
	And more and more Americans are turning to this, and this is something about American culture, where people can't control their spending and they can't live within Their means.
	And it's getting very, very bad because of the availability of easy credit, which is really all a function of currency printing and artificially low interest rates and things like that.
	And we've lived in that era since, well, since 1971, when Richard Nixon took us off the gold standard, money has been easy to come by, or you could say fake money, currency, relatively easy to come by.
	And so we have this culture of going into debt.
	This culture of just living on debt.
	And I understand that debt can be necessary for certain types of businesses.
	You may need to borrow money to buy inventory.
	You know, there's a debt and capital flow that's pretty customary in a lot of businesses, retail businesses, etc.
	I understand that.
	I'm not saying that all debt is bad.
	Like farming, you know, you got to borrow money to buy the seeds, to plant the crops, etc.
	Because very few farmers have all that cash up front.
	So I understand the role of financing and debt in society.
	What I'm saying is, it's bad when consumers are financing pizza and fast food deliveries.
	Because that stuff has a depreciation schedule that is, the duration is just minutes.
	You know, a pizza shows up at your door, it's a $25 pizza.
	Now, 15 minutes later, it's a $0 pizza because you and your friends ate it.
	So the value goes to zero and you still owe the full amount.
	And you're also, you're obliged to pay the interest on it and the fees and the penalties and everything else.
	And that's how people get into trouble.
	So I don't think that many people listening to this are in that situation because our audience tends to be more mature, more well-off, etc.
	But you may have...
	Kids or grandkids who are doing this.
	It's very common among Gen Z right now to finance everything and to own nothing.
	It's just like the WEF said, you will own nothing and you will be happy.
	Well, they own nothing and they're miserable, it turns out.
	They own nothing.
	They don't have any assets at all.
	They don't have homes and cars.
	And part of that is not their fault.
	It's because of all the currency printing destroying the value of the currency.
	Making it so that it's almost impossible to afford a home today compared to what it was when I was in my early 20s.
	I bought a home in my early 20s.
	My wife and I purchased a home together.
	And I still remember that home was $140,000, I believe, is what the purchase price was.
	And at the time, I thought, man, that's a lot of money.
	How are we going to pay this off?
	So my wife and I, we cut any kind of frivolous expenses.
	We lived on the cheap.
	We didn't take luxury vacations or buy luxury cars.
	And we worked hard.
	We worked to late hours of the morning in the businesses that we were working at that time.
	And I got to say, we paid off that house in five years.
	So it was a 30-year loan.
	We just kept paying extra, extra, Extra.
	Until we had that house paid off.
	And then, from that point forward, that's where we started to get ahead in life.
	From that point forward, I never borrowed money ever again for a house or a business or even a car.
	Never borrowed money.
	Stopped borrowing money in my 20s.
	And that's why I'm ahead today.
	But as a result, think about it, I didn't live in a very fancy house.
	I didn't drive a fancy car.
	I didn't have luxury purses.
	I didn't have luxury suits or a $50,000 Rolex watch or all these things that Kristi Noem seems to like to flash around.
	I just think it's crazy.
	You know, why would you buy a $50,000 watch?
	I don't know.
	Look, it's your money.
	You can do what you want with it.
	And I do admire watches, by the way.
	I just, you know, 50 grand?
	I mean, I have a $300 watch and I thought that was pricey.
	And I've been wearing that thing for seven years, and the face is cracked.
	And I've even made fun of myself.
	I think I've shown videos before of how I repair my shoes with duct tape, you know, and super glue.
	It's just because, hey, I got a comfortable pair of shoes here.
	It's perfectly good, except for this one flap that's coming off, and, you know, that's why they make super glue.
	And also, there's a product called, I think it's Shoe Goo.
	A really strong adhesive.
	All my buddies in Special Forces, they're the ones who taught me about that.
	They use that all the time on all their gear.
	When military gear starts falling apart, you get this shoe goo, which comes in this red paste tube.
	That stuff reassembles any kind of fabric, any kind of rubber coating on equipment, anything like that.
	They use it in the military all the time, at least the guys I know.
	So they introduced me to Shugu.
	I think that's the name.
	And from there, I'm like, I'm never throwing these shoes away.
	But eventually, you can't piece it back together.
	You do have to ditch them.
	And since we have the tariffs from China right now, I did go ahead and buy some extra shoes.
	So I don't have like a closet of 100 fashion shoes.
	I have a closet of four pairs of the same shoes.
	Just because there's got to be a supply chain collapse.
	I don't want to run out of these shoes because they're comfortable.
	And yeah, I'm going to repair them.
	I'm going to tape them back up.
	I'm going to glue them back together as long as I can.
	But you will find that a lot of people who are wealthy, actually, they function exactly like this.
	Like, who was the guy who founded Walmart?
	He was this way.
	He would live on the cheap, he would repair things, and frankly, I've been teaching lately, because of the supply chain collapse, you've got to repurpose, recycle, and reuse the things that you have, which is something that I've done all the time anyway, storing piles of extra wire and aluminum cabling,
	high-amp cabling, and I've got piles of PEX pipe and PVC pipe, and then PVC fittings and T-posts, because I live on a ranch, right?
	So you stockpile stuff because you don't know when you're going to need it.
	You don't know when it's going to be completely out of stock.
	You need to stockpile that stuff.
	But this is going to have to become a common behavior among people who make it.
	So bottom line here, folks, live within your means, right?
	If you are wealthy and you want to flash your wealth, that's fine.
	That's your choice.
	But if you're not wealthy, And you're trying to act like you're wealthy by buying cars and homes and watches and purses that you can't afford and you're financing them, that can snowball on you in a bad way.
	And I say it's far better to invest in the things that are going to keep you alive rather than things that are like fashion, you know, or luxury items.
	money on storable food or...
	You know, backup solar generators, you know, prepper items.
	But that's just me.
	That's just my opinion.
	You may disagree with that.
	That's fine.
	That's fine.
	I'm just saying, at the end of the day, when the supply chain collapses, what is it that you're going to wish you had bought?
	Is it a fashion purse?
	Or is it the epoxy glue that's going to repair your diesel fuel tank?
	You know what I mean?
	I tend to buy stuff that's going to help me get through.
	Hard times.
	And that's not fancy stuff.
	It's not fashion stuff.
	It's not flashy.
	Nobody's impressed by the way I dress.
	I get it.
	Probably Roger Stone would give me hell about my total lack of fashion because he dresses very nicely.
	Roger Stone is a fashion-conscious man.
	Regardless of what you think of Roger Stone, the man knows fashion.
	He really does.
	I'm like...
	I have no idea.
	I got my ranch pants.
	I got my duct tape shoes and my t-shirt.
	And that's fine.
	I'm good, man.
	As long as I'm comfortable.
	And I've got diesel in the tank.
	I got, you know, gold in a vault.
	I'm good to go.
	I don't care what I look like.
	And when times get tough, I don't think it counts how much fashion you have.
	Really, it's going to be like, how many rounds of nine mil do you have?
	Right?
	And some.308 rounds,.762,.556.
	How many rounds do you have?
	That's a good reminder.
	I need to be buying more ammo right now because nobody's buying ammo.
	So this is the best time to buy ammo.
	So another good reminder.
	All right.
	Thanks for listening, folks.
	Check out my videos at brighteon.com and my articles at naturalnews.com.
	Also, I've got songs at music.brighteon.com.
	My social media channels are mostly just Health Ranger is my handle on X, on brighteon.social, and on brighteon.io.
	So check all those out, and thank you for listening.
	Be safe, get prepared, and don't finance pizza.
	If you can't afford it, don't buy it.
	Instead, make some beans and rice or something.
	Do something you can afford.
	There's nothing wrong with that.
	It builds character.
	Thanks for listening.
	Take care.
	Hi mom, and to all the moms out there, we appreciate you.
	Happy Mother's Day from myself, Mike Adams, the Health Ranger and healthrangerstore.com.
	We greatly appreciate all the moms out there and the dedication that you have for creating a healthier, happier future for your children and grandchildren.
	And thank you for everything that you've done to help humanity be, well, better as we move forward.
	And to help celebrate that and to help make a healthy living more affordable in this time when so many products are becoming more expensive, we have put together a special for you as part of our Mother's Day sale event.
	And this is called Mom's Ultimate Pamper Kit.
	And if you look at it there, let me walk through it.
	It's got the coconut oil, which has, you know, a multitude of uses.
	The shea butter.
	The body oil there, and then a colloidal silver spray, the colloidal silver deodorant, then we have the tea tree and lavender shampoo, and then our colloidal silver mouthwash with citrus fresh.
	That's actually my favorite one right there.
	And all of these are put together at a substantial discount.
	That's about 40% off the price if you were to purchase them separately.
	And these days, I mean, you're not going to get...
	You know, 40% off almost anything.
	So this is a special kit with a gift, which is the pine needle spray that has silver and iodine in it.
	That's the spray.
	Show that again.
	That's the spray that you see in the center there, just to left of center.
	That's not, you can't even buy that at the store.
	That's only as a gift.
	Pine needle spray with silver and iodine.
	And then also, by the way, the silver fresh liquid deodorant has, it's made with magnesium and baking soda.
	So, no aluminum.
	We don't use aluminum ingredients at all.
	You know, we don't use synthetic fragrances.
	We don't do any of that toxic stuff.
	These are ultra-clean, all laboratory tested, and all available as a discount to you to say thank you during this Mother's Day special.
	And these prices are good while supplies last, or it ends on May 11th.
	But, oh, and you can find it at healthrangerstore.com slash Mother's Day.
	All one word, no space, just healthrangerstore.com slash Mother's Day.
	You'll also get double points during this special event, which is really extraordinary.
	It's almost 10% back that you get in points that you can spend on future purchases.
	That, combined with the discount that we have in this kit, makes this an unbeatable value.
	You're just not going to see this again, especially given...
	You know, what's happening to the supply chain right now.
	So check it out.
	Mom's Ultimate Pamper Kit.
	And remember, those of you who are dads watching this, you can get this.
	You know, get this for your wife.
	Get this for the mom in your life.
	She'll love it.
	She'll absolutely love it.
	So think about moms and grandmothers, wives, anybody who just deserves to be recognized for the contributions they've made to this world.
	This is the perfect gift for them.
	They'll absolutely love it.
	Again, it's called Mom's Ultimate Pamper Kit.
	It's available, healthrangersstore.com slash Mother's Day, and you get double points.
	Order before May 1st if you can in order to guarantee delivery before Mother's Day, although it still may work in the days after that, but we just can't absolutely guarantee it.
	So order sooner rather than later to take advantage of this.
	And thank you for your support.

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