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May 2, 2025 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams

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BBN, May 2, 2025 - Trump announces total TRADE EMBARGO against China, NO exceptions…

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	Welcome to Brighton Broadcast News with Mike Adams, the Health Ranger.
	Okay, please listen very carefully today because I'm not sure that America can survive what Trump just announced.
	And I'm not making this up.
	This isn't hyperbole.
	I'm not trying to sound alarmist.
	I am reporting what Trump just declared as a matter of White House policy.
	And again, listen very carefully.
	This is the most important podcast that I've done in years.
	Trump just announced a total trade embargo against China with no exceptions.
	Something just tripped.
	I'm going to talk about this today with the full implications and much more, but understand, and for those of you listening, if you're skeptical, you're like, what?
	Trump didn't announce that.
	Oh, yes, he did.
	I'm going to read you his words.
	Trump just announced a total trade embargo against China with no exceptions.
	That means there will be no imports from China.
	Nothing.
	No pharmaceuticals, no electronics, no agriculture products, no food, nothing.
	This is full-out shock doctrine on the supply chain.
	I call it supply chain Armageddon, and Trump just declared it.
	Okay, so welcome to Bright Town Broadcast News here.
	I'm Mike Adams, of course, the health ranger.
	And it's Friday, May 2nd, 2025.
	And I did not plan to cover this.
	I had a really great report ready to go on some nutritional cures and natural substances, etc.
	But like I said earlier this week, you never know when Trump is in the White House.
	You never know.
	You're going to wake up and then everything changes, you know?
	There's no predictability in where we're going to be tomorrow.
	And this is a perfect example of that.
	Just announced so that we can parse this and you can understand why this is a total trade embargo against China.
	And then I will discuss the ramifications because this is going to crush America.
	We're going to go through something far worse than the Great Depression.
	We're about to endure a near collapse of our society.
	So let me explain why.
	Let's start with Trump's tweet.
	Well, he put it out on Truth Social at first.
	But here it is.
	Real Donald Trump.
	Alert.
	All purchases of Iranian oil or petrochemical products must stop now, he says.
	Any country or person who buys any amount of oil or petrochemicals from Iran will be subject to immediately secondary sanctions.
	Okay, and we'll talk about secondary sanctions.
	He continues, quote, they will not be allowed to do business with the United States of America in any way, shape, or form.
	Okay, that's pretty clear.
	No imports, no investments, no business.
	And he continues, thank you for your attention to this matter, President Donald J. Trump.
	All right, this message is unambiguous.
	He says that secondary sanctions will be applied so any country that buys oil or petrochemicals from Iran will be completely banned or embargoed from doing business with the United States.
	So then the obvious question is, well, who's buying Iranian oil?
	And the answer to that question is pretty easy to find.
	You can go online.
	You can search for it.
	You can use ChatGPT.
	I use Enoch.
	It's my research sidekick.
	That's our own AI engine that we are about to release at brightian.ai.
	Free to the public, by the way.
	So I asked Enoch about which countries are the top purchasers of Iranian oil and natural gas, by the way.
	And guess who the top purchaser is?
	It's China.
	It's over a million...
	Okay, so China buys the most oil from Iran.
	Following that, it's India and then Turkey.
	So the top three are China, India, and Turkey.
	Now, you may recall that China and India are already members of BRICS, the new alternative international trade settlement system.
	It's not really a BRICS currency, but it's a settlement system to bypass the dollar and bypass the SWIFT system and bypass Western control.
	And I've interviewed many experts on BRICS, including Andy Sheckman, the CEO of Miles Franklin.
	And these nations, which includes Brazil and India and China, South Africa, but a whole lot of other nations, even Turkey has expressed interest, even Saudi Arabia has expressed interest.
	All these countries, All over the world are now further incentivized to embrace BRICS and to abandon the dollar because of secondary sanctions.
	So secondary sanctions means that Trump will apply sanctions not just to Iran, that would be a primary sanction, but sanctions to countries that do business with Iran, such as China, India, and Turkey, like we're saying.
	So secondary sanctions.
	In other words, We're going to hit you.
	We're going to sanction you.
	We're going to ban all trade with you.
	We're going to embargo your entire economy if you do any business with Iran in energy products.
	That's what Trump just announced.
	Now, you might step back for a moment and say, well, what on earth gives the United States the right to dictate to the world who can buy goods and services from other countries?
	And the answer is...
	That the U.S. Empire is simply a hegemonic bully.
	The U.S. Empire is a terrorist regime that runs around the world terrorizing everybody, bombing, using aircraft carriers, threatening nuclear attacks, or carrying out bombing like in Yemen, or providing bombs to Israel,
	or doing whatever it wants, bioweapons laboratories in Ukraine, for example.
	The U.S. does whatever it wants, not because it has any legal basis or ethical or moral basis, but rather just because the U.S. is a bully and a terrorist regime that just says,
	if you don't do what we want, we're going to cut off your entire export economy from the United States of America.
	It's a bully tactic.
	And frankly, it is a violation of the World Trade Organization, the fundamental pillars of free trade.
	The U.S. just violates whatever laws and rules it wants to violate at any given time in order to achieve whatever.
	You know, look, the United States government, as a matter of principle, has no principles.
	It honors no agreements.
	I mean, Russia learned this the hard way over Ukraine.
	The Minsk Accords and Victoria Nuland and what happened in 2014.
	You know, the CIA-run coup against Ukrainian leadership at that time, etc.
	The USA has no principles.
	The USA honors no agreements.
	The USA honors no rule of law whatsoever.
	The USA does whatever it wants because it is a bully nation.
	And Trump is almost a caricature of the international bully.
	And he has surrounded himself with other people, like Hegseth, who have taken on the bully vibe.
	You know, Hegseth is out there tweeting, like, you know, we're going to kill Iran.
	I mean, I'm paraphrasing.
	He didn't say exactly that way.
	We're going to bomb you into oblivion.
	Hegseth, who's the Secretary of Defense, tweets like a frat boy who's been watching TikTok videos.
	Pete Hexeth is an embarrassment to the history of this nation and our military forces.
	It's really that bad.
	So when Trump says we're going to apply secondary tariffs –
	What he's saying is that, hey, we are the exceptional nation and we get to dictate all activity of all other nations in the world.
	We get to tell you who you can buy from and who you can't, who you can sell to and who you can't.
	Why?
	Because we're America and we have the bombs.
	And we have the nukes, and we have the aircraft carriers, and we have the dollar.
	And if you don't do what we say, we're going to cut you off.
	That's the only reason, okay?
	Again, no principles, no rule of law, no morality, no legality, nothing.
	Just flat-out bully behavior.
	Now then, since China buys a million barrels of oil per day from Iran, then China is going to be completely banned from exporting to the United States.
	According to Trump himself, unless you want to say that Trump was high, which he's not known to be high, he is known to just spout off spontaneously from time to time, but unless you think that Trump made a mistake or was drunk or whatever,
	then this is a statement of policy from the President of the United States that is unambiguous, like I said.
	This means that as of tomorrow, all exports from China to the United States will be banned.
	No imports from China will be allowed.
	Remember yesterday we talked about how Walmart had just announced to Chinese manufacturers that Walmart is willing to pay the tariffs in order to try to convince the Chinese factories to bring their operations back online.
	Because Walmart is about to face its own economic Armageddon because of empty shelves.
	And if you're a retailer, you can't stay in business unless you are retailing stuff, right?
	And if you have nothing from China and you're Walmart, you can't stay afloat just on American-made goods because America doesn't make that much stuff, it turns out.
	Really, in a very difficult situation, if you're Walmart, if you're Amazon, if you're Target, if you're Best Buy, Home Depot, Lowe's, all the major retailers, including clothing and sporting goods and everything, you're panicked right now if you are in any of those industries.
	Trump just broke your back.
	If you're the CEO of Walmart or the CEO of Amazon or any of those companies I just mentioned, Trump just broke your back.
	He just said, screw you, we're going to have a full-blown, long-standing trade war with China, but we're not going to allow China to export anything to the United States because China is the number one purchaser of Iranian oil.
	Now, each of these top three countries, China, India, and Turkey, can make a choice.
	They can choose to halt all purchases from Iran, which is what Trump...
	And I would imagine that India and Turkey might do that.
	Because India and Turkey, they are experts at purchasing, let's call it laundered oil.
	So laundered oil.
	They did this with Russia since 2022.
	So Russia loads up an oil tanker ship with Russian oil.
	And then that ship...
	Steams its way out to, let's say, somewhere in the Arabian Sea or wherever these deals go down.
	Maybe it's in the Mediterranean.
	Whatever.
	They meet somewhere in the ocean with another tanker.
	And then they transfer the oil, the Russian oil, out of the Russian tanker into, let's say, a Greek tanker.
	Right?
	So the Greek tanker then fudges a bunch of paperwork.
	And now it's Greek oil.
	See?
	It's Greek oil.
	And then Turkey can buy Greek oil.
	And the Greeks have a very elaborate shipping network, and they know what they're doing, and Greeks are also really great at counterfeiting international paperwork, it turns out.
	Well, so is Russia, for that matter.
	So is Ukraine, actually.
	I guess there are experts at that everywhere.
	But Greece is especially good at counterfeiting international shipment paperwork.
	Whatever's necessary to get it through customs and, you know, have it sold, okay?
	And I'm not saying, I'm not condemning Greece for doing that.
	I'm actually saying that Greece is resilient.
	You know, the Greek shipping companies are very resilient, and you kind of have to be resilient in this age where you have lunatic leaders like Trump just declaring, you know, one day, wake up, no oil for the world, you know, practically.
	So you have to be adaptive, and that's what the Greeks are doing.
	So go Greece.
	Counterfeit the paperwork.
	Do what you need to do to get the oil.
	That's what Turkey is saying, and that's what India is saying.
	We need the oil.
	Russia's got it on sale.
	Well, so what this means is that Iran will still be able to ship oil into...
	Primarily the Arabian Sea, but they can sail around to the east and they can go into East Asian waters.
	They can still sell it to China, just offload it to a Chinese tanker or something.
	And there's plenty of Chinese tankers sitting around with nothing to do right now because of the trade war.
	Or they can load it onto a Singaporean tanker or a Malaysian tanker or whatever.
	But that's going to add cost.
	And it's going to add friction, so it slows things down and it makes oil more expensive.
	But it's not going to actually stop China from buying oil from Iran.
	They'll just do it indirectly.
	Well, if Trump and his team realize that, then they're going to enforce the embargo against China.
	And that would mean, again, all Chinese goods would be denied entry at U.S. ports, all of them.
	What is likely to happen as this situation unfolds?
	My guess is that Turkey is not going to go along with this because Turkey is already about ready to leave NATO.
	Turkey is done with NATO.
	And Turkey is a 96% Muslim country, by the way, and Turkey has its own very strong domestic military technology development.
	The Turks are very capable people.
	They actually lead the world in the development of autonomous...
	Military drones.
	Did you know that?
	They're about to roll out an autonomous fighter jet, like a drone fighter jet, like in that old Clint Eastwood movie called Firefox, where the fighter jet flies itself.
	Yeah, Turkey's got that.
	Okay, so Turkey's about ready to tell the West to go pound sand, I would imagine.
	This is just my guess.
	And Turkey is likely to join with BRICS, and there are going to be major announcements.
	Regarding BRICS settlement systems this summer, and many of these nations around the world can't wait to ditch the dollar, which, of course, would cause economic devastation for the U.S. empire and would probably mean the end of the U.S. empire,
	which is something that I've been predicting for quite some time anyway.
	And this announcement by Trump only accelerates the total demise, the last final fatal chapter of the U.S. empire.
	This could end America.
	But it could also end China.
	We'll talk about that in a second.
	And part of this is going to be a suffering game to see who can hold out the longest.
	Who can handle the most suffering?
	And the short answer to that question, by the way, who can handle the most suffering between China and the United States?
	The answer is obvious.
	It's China.
	And let me reiterate that I'm the only American, or I'm the first American, clearly, to bring you this analysis.
	And that's for a couple of reasons.
	Number one, I have a lot of news sources and contacts in Asia.
	And, you know, I speak Chinese.
	I lived in Taiwan.
	I know Chinese culture quite well, much better than most Americans.
	So I know things about Chinese culture that Trump doesn't know.
	Hegseth certainly doesn't know.
	For example, The Chinese people are capable and willing and even, in a weird sense, patriotically willing to suffer for the victory of their nation.
	Chinese people will go along with famine, if it takes famine, to be victorious.
	They will gather together and they will endure incredible suffering in order to help.
	Their state, their government, win a prolonged, very painful, long-duration trade war.
	The American people cannot handle that.
	The American people, overall, although there are exceptions, but overall the American people have grown weak, pathetic, obese, hyper-privileged, overloaded with material wealth.
	of stuff and more stuff and more stuff.
	Easy money, cheap money, easy imports, you know, not working hard, not working in factories for the most part.
	Now, again, I know there are exceptions to this, and I'm proud to be an American because America does have extraordinary individuals.
	But as a whole, America today is nowhere near the cultural strength that it was even two or three generations ago.
	Not even close.
	The American people today are but a pale shadow of what their parents and grandparents were.
	And by the way, even myself, I consider myself to be one of the most capable Americans, successful, capable, whatever, intelligent, whatever you want to say, multi-skilled,
	and yet I consider myself to be a pale shadow of what my own grandparents could do.
	And I knew both sets of my grandparents quite well, and I had long discussions with them about their survival.
	For example, one set of grandparents lived in a tent following the Great Depression and worked for a corporation.
	I believe it was in Colorado.
	It was a manufacturing company.
	That as part of the compensation, they gave you a plot and a canvas tent to live in.
	You know, just here.
	Here's a giant lawn.
	Here's a giant field.
	And the workers lived in tents.
	Okay?
	So my grandparents lived in a tent and then worked and saved money and learned how to fix things, learned how to live on pennies, learned survival.
	And I remember hearing these stories as a child and I thought, are you kidding me?
	That's insane because my life was so much easier as a child.
	You know, middle class American, grew up in a suburb in the Midwest.
	You know, I didn't know at the time, but everything was easy.
	But our grandparents had it tough.
	Well, in China, they still have it tough.
	The Chinese people have not become weak and woke and lazy.
	You know, hyper-privileged.
	They are still in the mentality of being willing to suffer for the victory of their nation.
	And they're very loyal.
	Overall, they're very loyal.
	And those who aren't, you know, get smacked down with the authoritarianism.
	So, you know, they're forced to be loyal.
	But the Chinese people will tend to rally around their national leadership in times of crisis.
	And they will suffer through famine.
	They will eat tree bark if they have to.
	They will eat clay.
	These are things that happened historically in the history of China, even as recently as the 1960s.
	You're talking about also the Mao era.
	The Chinese people would eat shoelaces and tree bark to get through the famine.
	And that's how much they're willing to suffer.
	Americans will not eat tree bark.
	They will scream and cry if the grocery store runs out of...
	Donuts.
	They will panic.
	Oh my God, it's a donut famine!
	You know?
	They will flip out.
	Because they're weak.
	They're weak.
	Culturally weak.
	The West has become weak and woke and libtarded up.
	Now that's beginning to shift thanks to the defeat of the Democrats.
	But there's still wokeism and weakism, you know, you can say, across the whole culture still to this day.
	And Gen Z in America, by and large, although there are exceptions, there are extraordinary exceptions to this.
	I mean, I know some young people who are extraordinary, but by and large, Gen Z is psychologically fragile, physically fragile.
	They have no knowledge in the real world.
	They are incapable of doing much of anything except watching TikTok videos and plugging away on social media.
	That's all they know.
	They cannot endure a They cannot endure famine, starvation, sacrifice.
	They can't endure the store shelves running empty.
	Now, I can.
	You, listening to this, you probably can.
	Because we're not weak.
	We're not woke.
	And we're not unprepared.
	But we are not the majority.
	We are beacons of light and truth and survival in a sea of Sinking wokeism and incompetence.
	I don't know how else to say it.
	That's what American culture has largely become.
	All right, so I want to get that on the record here that China's tactic for this is to drag out this trade war.
	China wants to drag it out and make America suffer.
	Knowing that China itself can endure more suffering than can America.
	So that's a deliberate tactic.
	That goes back to the days of Mao.
	That goes back to how the communists defeated the nationalists in the history of China.
	They outlasted them by enduring suffering.
	See, if you don't know that about Chinese culture, then you don't know what's coming.
	The Chinese consider suffering to be a kind of Strategic advantage.
	Got to understand, if you're willing to suffer more, you can last longer, and you can cause your political opponent to essentially give in and surrender first.
	See?
	And again, Americans can't handle that.
	Chinese people can.
	I'm not saying they're going to love it, but they can handle it.
	It's part of their culture.
	It's part of their 5,000-year history.
	They can endure suffering like Americans couldn't even imagine.
	So understand, China doesn't want a trade deal agreement.
	Not really.
	They would rather break America through this total embargo.
	Basically, this is a decoupling of China and America.
	And it is the beginning of what now looks like, unless somebody gives in very quickly here, and I don't think that she is going to give in, and I doubt that Trump is going to give in, but unless somebody gives in, it now looks to me like this is going to be a multi-year trade war,
	a multi-year decoupling embargo Armageddon scenario.
	And before today, I thought maybe this could get resolved in a few months.
	Now I don't think so.
	Now I think this goes on for years because I know that China doesn't need to bow down to Trump, and they can't.
	So another thing you need to know about Chinese culture, and remember, I speak Chinese, I lived in Taiwan, I toured throughout parts of South Asia, etc., Hong Kong, different places, and I know Chinese culture quite well.
	And in Chinese culture, especially in Chinese politics, the single most important thing is the appearance of authority or what you would say is saving face.
	And the worst thing that a Chinese political leader could inflict upon themselves is to appear to be subservient to a foreign power.
	That's the worst thing.
	In fact, if Xi were to bow down to Trump, And give in and agree to, frankly, any of Trump's major demands, I can guarantee you, I mean, this is my assessment, she would likely be, he would have to resign,
	he would be maybe assassinated, you know, he would be taken out by his own party.
	Because if you stop looking strong, your own domestic wolves come for you, and they'll eat you alive.
	So she...
	Trump cannot give in to Trump as a matter of his own survival and the survival of his party and the survival of China itself.
	He cannot give in to Trump.
	He will not give in to Trump.
	I am absolutely certain of that.
	And Trump doesn't know this because Trump doesn't know China.
	And nobody in Trump's administration knows even as much about China as I do.
	I mean, no prominent person.
	Marco Rubio?
	No.
	He doesn't know anything about China.
	Hegseth?
	He doesn't know jack about China.
	Trump?
	You know, who are the other trade delegates?
	Witkoff?
	Is that his name?
	These other guys, do they know anything about China?
	They ever been to China?
	They ever lived there?
	They ever speak the language?
	They ever have Chinese friends?
	Do they know anything about Chinese culture?
	No!
	They don't know squat about China.
	So they don't know what I just told you.
	That Chinese culture prohibits Chinese leadership from giving in to Trump's demands.
	Absolutely is prohibited.
	So China is not going to bow down to America.
	It's just not going to happen.
	Which means that either Trump gives in, in which case...
	He would be destroyed by his own party, probably, or he would be blasted all over the place for flip-flopping, or this is going to be a long, multi-year, drawn-out trade war.
	Now, let's take this to the next step, but thank you for letting me explain those points about Chinese culture.
	This goes back to the art of war, Sun Tzu.
	How do we say that in English?
	Sun Zhu in English, but actually in Chinese it's more like Sun Zi is the author of The Art of War.
	The Art of War, remember, the basic tenets of The Art of War, right?
	Appear weak when you are strong.
	Appear strong when you are weak.
	Use deception to make the enemy think that you're concentrating your assets in this one area, but you've actually maneuvered to this other area.
	That every battle is won before the fight begins.
	And the other prominent philosophical foundation of the art of war is that you don't go to battle, that is a kinetic battle, until you've already won.
	And China knows that very well.
	China will not engage in kinetic conflict with America until America has already been economically destroyed.
	China will not attack Taiwan kinetically at this point.
	You know, a couple years ago I thought maybe that was a possibility.
	Now I realize China will not attack Taiwan.
	China doesn't need to attack Taiwan.
	China will not invade America, doesn't need to attack America kinetically because China is going to outlast America.
	America is on the verge of economic collapse.
	America is on the verge of civil war.
	America is in a cultural crisis, a political crisis, a monetary crisis, an education crisis.
	A morality crisis, a medical crisis, rampant obesity and Alzheimer's and junk foods, mass toxic poisoning and chemicals in the food supply and the chemtrails and everything.
	America is a nation being exterminated by its own government.
	China doesn't have to fight America.
	China just has to sit back and watch.
	America is destroying itself.
	Every day that Trump announces these kinds of insane embargoes, He's destroying America's currency.
	Even right now, nobody knows who the Fed is going to find, or the Treasury is going to find, to buy the nearly $10 trillion in debt that's going to roll over this calendar year.
	Nobody knows who's going to buy that.
	China holds under a trillion dollars in U.S. Treasuries, and they're offloading them.
	They're trying to get rid of them.
	Wouldn't you?
	If you had a bunch of U.S. Treasuries, wouldn't you be selling, selling, selling?
	Of course you would.
	China's been selling Treasuries and rolling it over into gold.
	China's not buying Treasuries.
	Japan, which has even more than China, they're in an economic crisis.
	They're not buying U.S. Treasuries, not in any significant amount.
	The Federal Reserve is going to have to print the money to buy our own debt.
	It's like a snake eating its own tail.
	The U.S. will consume itself, given enough time, and China knows that.
	The U.S. is on a suicide trajectory.
	The U.S. has already doused itself in gasoline and is flicking a lighter to tempt being totally engulfed in flames.
	The U.S. is in a self-immolation mode right now.
	China doesn't need to do anything to defeat America other than just survive.
	You see, that is the art of war, or that's one aspect of it in a nutshell.
	Sometimes survival is victory.
	Sometimes you just watch your opponent burn himself alive, and all you have to do is keep your distance so that you aren't engulfed in the flames.
	That's going to be China's strategy here.
	So all of you who have been told that, oh, China's going to launch missiles at us, or China's going to unload troops and invade America, again, many years ago, there were times when I even believed that that might have been a possibility.
	Now I can tell you, knowing what I know about China, that's not going to happen.
	China is not going to engage in a kinetic conflict with America.
	There's no point in it.
	All China has to do is last longer.
	Because the U.S. is destroying itself.
	So let's go to Iran now for a moment.
	Now, what will Iran's response be to this new trade embargo, the secondary sanctions that are announced by Trump?
	What will Iran say?
	Well, obviously this is an existential threat against Iran and its economy and its massive oil fields.
	Trump is also illegally threatening to bomb Iran on behalf of the Zionists in Israel, who represent an end-of-days messianic cult of lunatics.
	Trump would only bomb Iran to appease Israel.
	But if he bombed Iran, the bombing would, of course, almost certainly result in Iran blocking the Strait of Hormuz.
	Even Trump's secondary sanctions threat may result in Iran blocking the Strait of Hormuz.
	Now you need to understand, this strait is critical to the world's economy.
	And my friend Michael Yan and I, every time he's on, we talk about the Strait of Hormuz, or we talk about the Strait of Malacca, we talk about the sea lanes, the Suez Canal, the Panama Canal, etc.
	The sea lanes going by Greenland.
	If you don't understand the sea routes, you don't know what's happening.
	You know, it's like flying blind.
	Once you understand the sea routes, then everything makes sense.
	So the Strait of Hormuz is the most critical energy artery on planet Earth by far.
	21% of all global oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz.
	Somewhere around 20 million barrels of oil per day.
	If you cut off 21% of the global oil supply, what happens to the global economy?
	What happens to Western Europe?
	Which is already teetering on the edge of total collapse.
	You cut off one-fifth of the world's energy supply and you plunge the world into an economic depression at minimum and probably the collapse of many governments and nations, followed by chaos,
	revolts, uprising.
	Some places might get even worse.
	Some places might go Mad Max.
	But overall, at minimum, it's a global depression.
	Mass joblessness, starvation, famine, unrest, you name it.
	Iran can do that tomorrow.
	And if Trump is threatening Iran's very existence, which he now is, then Iran no doubt is considering this as a possible option.
	20-30% of the global LNG supplies, that's liquefied natural gas, also goes through the Strait of Hormuz.
	And that LNG comes from Qatar and other countries.
	Saudi Arabia, Iraq, the UAE, Kuwait, they all have to use that strait, obviously.
	Just look at a map.
	Look at the Persian Gulf, look at the Strait of Hormuz, look at the Sea of Arabia, look at the Red Sea, the connection to the Mediterranean through the Suez Canal, etc.
	When you understand the pathways, you understand...
	A lot about geopolitics.
	If you don't understand the sea lanes, again, you will always be confused about what's happening.
	So, 20-30% of LNG.
	Well, who needs LNG right now in order to not collapse?
	That would be all of Western Europe.
	Why?
	Because the United States Navy bombed and destroyed the Nord Stream pipelines because, of course, the US Navy is a terrorist organization.
	That just bombs civilian infrastructure at will, which they did, in order to hurt Russia and to halt Russia's exports of gas to Western Europe.
	And why?
	And by the way, Joe Biden promised, he's on video promising that we would destroy Nord Stream.
	Promising!
	And Victoria Nuland promised that we would destroy Nord Stream.
	Okay?
	So there's no question about who did it.
	And what's funny is that Gazprom, the Russian company that exports gas, just posted some insane profit for the year.
	I think it was $20 billion.
	I may be wrong.
	I'm going off memory on that one.
	But it didn't actually hurt Gazprom very much.
	You know who it hurt?
	It hurt Western Europe because it cut off Western Europe from energy.
	So that immediately caused Germany's industrial economy to...
	Plunge in the direction of a total collapse, which is where it's headed.
	It shut down industries across France, across Spain, and of course in the UK as well.
	All the countries, Romania, etc., Poland, were all impacted to some degree by this.
	So, because they can't get cheap gas from Russia, Western European countries buy much more expensive LNG from the Middle East.
	And where does that sail through?
	The Strait of Hormuz.
	Yep, you got it.
	So the Strait of Hormuz supplies energy to Western Europe.
	And Western Europe needs that for survival because the U.S. blew up the Nord Stream pipelines.
	So if the U.S. threatens Iran and Iran shuts off the Strait of Hormuz, guess what happens to Western Europe?
	Plunges into Armageddon.
	Okay?
	The end of the United Kingdom.
	Which is probably on a suicide path anyway, also, just culturally speaking, but that's a different podcast with different jokes in it, you know, different memes.
	But Western Europe collapses.
	By the way, just the other day, Spain, its entire power grid went down, so Spain got a little taste of what's coming.
	You know, practically the entire peninsula just lost its power.
	Boom.
	Over.
	I mean, they got it back online in...
	A day or so, whatever it was.
	But for a while, the Spaniards realized, holy cow, you know, life would suck without electricity.
	And it sucks being stuck in an elevator, being stuck in a subway tunnel.
	You know, it sucks not having banks work or gas station pumps, etc.
	Right?
	Imagine that for a year.
	So should the Strait of Hormuz be cut off, immediately oil would skyrocket.
	To at least $200 a barrel, maybe $250, maybe $300, who knows?
	It might not go as high as $300 because, of course, global industry would collapse.
	So there would be a lot less demand for oil, a lot lower demand for transportation services because the factories can't run, nobody's making anything.
	So then it's not long before you have widespread food shortages and social collapse.
	And then you start to get nations collapsing, and you would probably see civil war in Ireland, for example.
	Maybe in the UK.
	You would see probably a regional breakup of the United States, because we're already on the verge of a civil war in the U.S. because of radical leftists hating America, you know, hating Trump, hating reality.
	So you would see a massive explosion of global inflation combined with rapid domestic currency printing by the Trump administration.
	It would go into hyperdrive or hyperinflation, printing trillions of dollars largely to fund the military.
	There would be a declaration of a world war.
	Trump would crack down on the civil rights of Americans.
	He would suspend the Constitution.
	He would declare some form of martial law, in essence, just like we had in World War II.
	And you would probably see mass arrests of Iranian Americans, like we saw with Japanese Americans in World War II, complete with internment camps, which are, of course, concentration camps.
	And if you don't think concentration camps are coming to America, you know, you haven't been paying attention.
	Because the Supreme Court of New York already legalized them during COVID, by the way.
	They can just take you out of your home and throw you into essentially a death camp.
	They can do that at any moment.
	So with energy costs sky high, one thing that would help the United States deal with this is the U.S. domestic energy production.
	So the U.S. is blessed with a very strong domestic oil supply, natural gas.
	And also, through fracking, access to even more energy.
	But China also has very strong domestic energy supplies available, and China has a lot of deals with Australia to purchase coal.
	So China can source coal from a lot of countries.
	Digging up coal is not that difficult, and there's coal everywhere.
	So you can dig up coal all over the world, and you can burn that in their coal-fired power plants, and China can have energy.
	So China's not going to panic also because China can buy oil from Russia.
	You see?
	The U.S. can't buy oil from Russia because Russia's on the embargo list.
	And then the U.S. can't buy oil from Iran for the same reason.
	The U.S. will have to produce all its own domestic oil, which it used to do before Biden came in and shut down all these pipelines and exploration sites and so on.
	So it's going to take years to bring that back online, but it is possible.
	So the U.S. doesn't have to suffer a total energy famine, but the U.S. will suffer a supply chain Armageddon scenario because of the complete collapse of trade with China.
	So 80-90% of U.S. consumer electronic devices are made in China.
	You know, laptop computers, computer displays, mobile phones, mobile devices, tablets, all of it comes out of China, right?
	Pet supplies, toys, furniture.
	I did a whole article the other day about stuff that's made in China that you need to stockpile now.
	That article is on naturalnews.com if you want to check it out.
	You should go through that list and you should just see it as a reminder and make sure you're covered.
	I'm talking about even, like, do you have over-the-counter ibuprofen?
	You know, over-the-counter medical supplies, cotton balls, you know, gauze.
	All that stuff's made in China.
	And it's all going to be blocked.
	We're going to have shortages also of prescription pharmaceuticals.
	We're going to have shortages of shoes.
	You know, I was talking yesterday.
	I now have five pairs of shoes, which is a lot for a dude.
	I've got five pairs of shoes.
	It's the same shoes.
	And I can live in these five pairs of shoes for about two years, I figure.
	You know, by doing repairs on them and everything and using shoe goo and some super glue and some duct tape as necessary.
	Five pairs of shoes last me about two years, I think.
	So I'm good for a couple years.
	Maybe I'll pick up another pair and I'll have six pairs of shoes.
	Okay.
	You need to be thinking in those terms.
	Like, what are you going to need in the next year that comes from China?
	Did you know that China makes almost all the toasters?
	China makes almost all umbrellas?
	Did you know that about 25-30% of all U.S. car parts come from China?
	You know your car is useless if it's missing one key part, obviously, like, you know, the oil filter.
	Can you imagine?
	You go into an auto parts store, like, yeah, I need the oil filter, you know, for whatever your car, and they're like, oh yeah, that's backordered.
	You're like, For how long?
	And they're like, 2027.
	Oh.
	Okay.
	Well, I guess we won't be driving those cars.
	It also means that Ford, Tesla, General Motors, all the car companies, Chevy, whatever, you name it, GMC, they will all shut down within just a few weeks.
	Why?
	Because they can't get the parts they need from China.
	So we're talking about a total...
	Essentially a suicide of the domestic auto industry.
	Well, maybe suicide's not the right, because it's inflicted by Trump upon them, so it's not suicide.
	What would you call it?
	A sacrificing of the U.S. auto industry.
	The U.S. retail industry will be bankrupt.
	And you're going to have farming operations unable to function.
	Tractor parts.
	You know, some fertilizers.
	Some ranching supplies.
	A lot of that comes out of China.
	And then all the exports that U.S. farmers export to China, you know, corn and soybeans, for example, done.
	So you're going to have $19 billion a year or something like that of corn and soybean exports that will be halted, which means domestically in the U.S., all these farmers.
	We're going to go bankrupt because they don't have buyers for all that corn and soybeans, but the domestic market will be flooded if you want a bunch of soybeans.
	So if you're willing to eat soybeans, you're not going to starve.
	You'll be able to pick up soybeans for the price of just hauling them off, probably.
	Farms will abandon massive tonnage of corn and soybeans.
	It'll rot.
	Some of it will just rot in the fields.
	You're going to have a total meltdown of technology and semiconductors.
	Even though Taiwan makes the microchips, a lot of the raw materials come from China.
	And we talked about it yesterday, some of the rare earths that go into robots, such as neodymium.
	And we talked about how China controls, dominates the rare earth marketplace for mining extraction of all these critical minerals.
	And there's no replacement.
	You know, you can't replace neodymium with something else.
	That also means that the tech companies in America, Apple, Intel, NVIDIA, whoever, Dell, you know, their production lines will be completely shut down because they won't be able to get the parts.
	So no more iPhones.
	And Apple is one of the wealthiest.
	Private corporations in the world with, I don't know how many hundreds of billions or maybe half a trillion dollars of just cash or assets, investment assets, they will start to bleed money like crazy.
	And I'm not saying they're going to go bankrupt, but if this situation doesn't get solved, Apple could face an existential crisis for sure.
	And even cloud computing platforms like Amazon AWS.
	IBM DigitalOcean and other platforms, it's hard to imagine how they can stay online.
	And if AWS goes down because they can't get the parts, they can't get the power supplies, they can't get Ethernet cables, they can't get anything that comes out of China.
	If AWS goes down, do you realize that probably, I'm just guessing, 70% of the websites that you know no longer function?
	I mean, major websites.
	Major services, like I'm not even sure Netflix could function, I don't know what their data center is, but we don't depend on AWS to run our platforms, brighttown.com, brighttown.social, etc.
	We have our own data center, we wrote all our own code, we don't depend on AWS, we don't depend on DigitalOcean, etc.
	We can still function if the data center is online, but even that's a question, you know, because of power supply components or industrial Power substation components.
	Most of those come out of China as well.
	So you may see the internet go down, or at least large portions of the internet going down because of this trade embargo against China.
	The data centers in America may not be viable much longer, which also means chat GPT could go offline.
	All the AI systems could go down.
	Now, Again, you may say, well, you're painting a worst-case scenario.
	Yeah, well, Trump just announced the worst-case scenario.
	I didn't make up Trump's tweet.
	I'm just telling you what it means.
	Domino effect or butterfly effect, you know?
	Trump just thumped the first domino and said, you know, yippee, everybody.
	Let's see what happens.
	And now the dominoes are starting to topple.
	You know, clickety-clack, clickety-clack.
	I wish I could get my economy back.
	But you can't.
	It's gone.
	It's gone.
	Trump just started the whole thing.
	He initiated basically a self-destruct sequence for the U.S. economy.
	And you could end up finding yourself in a third world country in America with essentially a barely functioning internet, barely functioning supply chain, barely functioning grocery stores, Walmarts,
	barely functioning farms, people scrambling just to survive.
	Meanwhile, China's going to be sitting there saying, We can eat bark, man.
	We can make it through this.
	We can outlast the lazy Americans.
	And they can.
	They absolutely can.
	Just running out of insulin in America would be devastating to some very large portion of the population because so many people are diabetic.
	If China just cuts off medications...
	You know how many Americans have to take or depend on prescription medications every single day?
	I mean, it's some crazy number, like 40%.
	No, I think it's way higher than that of U.S. adults are on mass medications every day.
	I mean, this is another good reason to get off medications if you can.
	Because they may not be there.
	They may not be there in 30 days, technically.
	Depending on what medication and how much inventory there is and whether it's already on a ship or not.
	It's going to vary.
	I'm not saying that on one day everything's gone.
	No.
	It's going to be on Monday these products are gone.
	Tuesday, oh, here's this other category.
	It's missing.
	Wednesday, oh, we're out of stock on this stuff.
	Thursday, right?
	Day by day, you go through the calendar.
	Every day something else is gone.
	And 60 or 90 days into this, you're like, Man, we can't buy the stuff we need.
	We can't buy the basic stuff.
	You go to the hardware store, you need PVC pipe fitting or something.
	It doesn't exist.
	Why?
	Because it all came from China.
	And the boat got turned around from the LA port.
	The boat's not welcome.
	Because Trump said you can't do business.
	Quote, You will not be allowed to do business with the United States of America in any way, shape, or form.
	End quote.
	What does that mean to you?
	That means you turn away the boats.
	No flights with cargo.
	No ships with cargo.
	Nothing from China comes in.
	So the bottom line of this is we're probably looking at a stock market collapse.
	Maybe 40%, maybe 50%.
	You're going to see inflation of 50% to 100% on critical goods.
	You're going to see millions of jobs across America devastated just in the coming months.
	Across retail, manufacturing, logistics, supply chain jobs, millions of jobs will be gone.
	You're going to see the United States military absolutely crippled with its own manufacturing.
	The entire military-industrial complex will come grinding to a halt, because it depends on rare earths, it depends on neodymium, it depends on tungsten, it depends on titanium, etc.
	You can just look at the table of elements, okay?
	You look at the table of elements, you can highlight certain squares, those are all military squares, and guess what?
	We don't make any of that stuff, we don't mine that stuff, except just a small amount of certain things.
	For the most part, the table of elements comes from outside the USA.
	It comes from the DR Congo.
	It comes from China.
	Some of it comes from Australia.
	Some of it comes from Canada.
	We don't mind much in the USA.
	So we're talking about economic doomsday.
	Again, not hyperbole, not exaggeration, but a projection of what Trump just announced.
	And the reason it's so critical to understand this is because, see, Trump keeps making decisions without understanding the ramifications.
	Trump makes economic decisions that affect the whole world the same way that you might have a craving for an ice cream cone.
	You're like, all of a sudden, I want some ice cream!
	Trump is like, halt all world trade!
	It's this spontaneous, really this almost childlike approach to the world.
	Where Trump has, in effect, the lives of billions of people in his hands, or at least he can influence the lives of billions of people, and yet he treats his position almost like an amusement park.
	It's like, Mommy, we want cotton candy today.
	What?
	Let's block all trade with China.
	It's like there's no maturity in this at all.
	And there's also a complete lack of knowledge, like I said earlier.
	Trump does not realize, and by the way, look, I'm glad the Democrats lost the election.
	Don't get me wrong.
	I did not vote for Trump, but only because he's a Zionist puppet.
	Otherwise, I'm glad he won.
	But I would never vote for the Democrats, that's for sure.
	But Trump doesn't know his own limitations.
	He doesn't know where he's completely ignorant.
	And he surrounds himself with people who are loyal to him, but who are also extremely ignorant.
	Almost nobody in the Trump administration that he nominated into these positions, for example, knows a single damn thing about Russian history.
	Not a single thing.
	That's why Americans were blown away when Tucker Carlson interviewed Putin and Putin gave a...
	1,000-year history of Russia.
	Actually, it was more than 1,000 years.
	It went back to Elizabeth the Great and whatever.
	And the American people were like, what?
	1,000 years of history?
	Because we don't have 1,000 years of history.
	And by the way, America's never going to have 1,000 years of history because we're in the end now.
	America will be lucky to make it to 250 years.
	Well, Russia's been around more than four times longer than that.
	China's been around for 5,000 years, okay?
	And, again, nobody in the Trump administration has any...
	I mean, frankly, they would all fail history.
	They would fail geopolitics.
	They would fail economics.
	They would fail logic and reasoning 101.
	They would fail physics, math, science.
	They would fail astronomy.
	I can't think of a single college-level course that anybody in the Trump administration would actually pass.
	I mean, am I wrong about that?
	Am I being too cruel?
	I mean, you tell me, but I...
	I don't see any competency.
	I mean, you know, Pete Hegseth isn't going to pass a physics class, right?
	But he's in charge of all kinds of physics, kinetic physics in the military.
	That dude probably doesn't even know the equation for the energy in the momentum of a moving object, you know, which you would think that would be important in the military.
	But he doesn't know.
	None of them know anything.
	Outside of their specialty areas.
	I mean, Trump has his chief negotiator with Iran is a former real estate business partner, I think, from New York City.
	So it's like, okay, if I want to do a real estate deal in New York, I know who to go to.
	Trump's the man, for sure.
	You can't argue with that.
	Outside of New York City real estate, well, okay, geopolitics, war, energy policy.
	International sea lanes, cultural history.
	Trump's got nothing.
	I'm not trying to insult him.
	I'm just saying he does not have knowledge in these areas.
	I mean, Colonel Douglas McGregor talks about this all the time on Judge Napolitano's show, and McGregor is correct.
	These people have no knowledge of history, so they have no idea what they're up against.
	They have no idea that...
	They have put America on a collision course with its own demise.
	Because the world has to make a choice right now.
	Thanks to Trump, the world has to make a choice.
	The choice is, A, and this is nation by nation, okay, but also, of course, Turkey, India, China, all the other countries.
	A, we will be obedient to the whims of a madman who's in the White House.
	We'll do whatever America wants, even if it keeps changing every day of the week.
	We will limit our trade to who they say we can trade with.
	We'll limit our exports to whoever the U.S. says we can export to.
	We'll limit our imports.
	We will basically be a puppet of America.
	That's option A. Oh, and we'll use dollars for trade even though dollars are losing value every single day because the U.S. is cheating and printing fake counterfeit fiat currency, which devalues the dollars that we already have.
	So that's option A. Or option B, we could tell the U.S. to go pound sand.
	We could drop the dollar completely.
	We could just decouple from America.
	It will hurt in the short term.
	We'll lose 15% of our exports or something.
	Our GDP might actually go down next year a couple points.
	But very quickly we'll recover and we won't have to be obedient slaves of an insane Option B is the BRICS option.
	Option B is ditch dollars and go with a settlement system that no one country can dominate or counterfeit.
	Option B is sanction-free.
	Option B is a free market system.
	Well, you can trade with anybody you want.
	You can buy and sell with anybody you want.
	You know, it's so funny that Trump and his defenders say that, you know, America's all about free markets.
	No, it's not.
	America's about the opposite of free markets.
	It's about controlled markets.
	It's about global economic dictatorship.
	You must obey.
	You must obey Trump.
	That's what America stands for.
	BRICS is about economic freedom.
	The freedom to trade.
	The freedom to buy and sell tractors with India or Pakistan or whoever.
	Or Iran, for that matter.
	Or Russia.
	BRICS is free trade.
	America is global dictatorship, tyranny, obedience, global economic enslavement to an insane cabal of ignorant, incompetent, but belligerent people who have no...
	Real understanding of what they're doing.
	So out of those two options, A and B, if you ran a nation, what would you choose, you know?
	Obviously, everybody who isn't insane would choose option B, which of course means the UK will choose option A, because the UK leadership always chooses the most insane option possible, given a list, you know?
	Is there something more insane?
	Is your option D, the most completely insane option, that's the UK.
	Look where that caught him, right?
	So here's the bottom line.
	Let's bring it home, back to America.
	If Trump means what he says here, and again, that is the assumption of this entire podcast.
	We have to assume that Trump, as the President of the United States, actually put some thought behind If he doesn't mean it, then what the hell is he doing running the White House?
	If he just tweets out random nonsense, then how do any of us react to any policy?
	So let's assume he means what he says.
	So if he means what he says, and if China responds in the way that I am confident they will respond in, which is to not give in to Trump, but rather to posture themselves for a long,
	drawn-out, multi-year, decoupling trade Armageddon scenario with massive suffering, because China knows they can endure that.
	If these two things happen, then the American people are about to go through A level of suffering and famine and collapse that no living American has ever experienced.
	Now, my grandmother was born in 1917.
	And she lived to be 104, I think it was.
	Almost 105.
	Okay, so she saw a lot.
	1917.
	She went through hard times.
	I told you about my grandparents living in a tent.
	But she's gone.
	You know, she passed away a few years ago, right?
	Do the math.
	So I can't think of any living American who has suffered through a scenario even close to what's coming.
	Even during the Great Depression, unemployment was only 25%, or roughly about that.
	Okay?
	Fact check me on that if you don't believe it.
	And that's called the Great Depression.
	Well, we're coming up on the greater depression, I guess.
	The bigger short.
	I don't know what you call it.
	The biggie short.
	The doomsday scenario.
	We could see 30, 40, 50% unemployment.
	We're talking about a level of economic collapse that will lead people to suicide and death by famine.
	We're talking about a level of collapse that will lead to Social revolt, uprisings in certain areas, and will actually pit many Americans in a kinetic war with their own government.
	I'm talking about leftists in particular.
	They will march on government buildings, probably, and they will try to wage an actual left-wing revolutionary war because they will see, their own experience will be that they've lost everything.
	And so they have nothing else.
	Left to lose.
	So why not?
	I mean, that's their thinking.
	I'm not saying to do that.
	You and I, on the other hand, we're going to actually navigate all this.
	We're going to be okay.
	You know why?
	Because, number one, we know what's coming.
	And secondly, we're preppers.
	We're well prepared for this.
	We're resilient.
	We're informed.
	We can make it through.
	We know how to get this stuff done.
	And you can download my free audiobooks on this, resilientprepping.com or survivalnutrition.com or globalreset.news.
	I've written extensively about something very much like this scenario and how to survive it, and I've been teaching this for years, and you probably, if you've been listening to me for any length of time, you're probably more prepared than 999 out of 1,000
	Americans.
	So you're going to be okay.
	I am not here to frighten you, to scare you about what's coming, but rather to help prepare you.
	And we can survive this.
	We can make it through.
	The average American cannot.
	And many of them, they will commit suicide, or they will just die of starvation.
	They will die on the streets from exposure.
	I mean, what's coming for America?
	You're going to see cannibalism again in this country.
	Yeah.
	The Road, you know that movie?
	You're going to see cannibalism, okay?
	People are going to be eating people before this is done.
	Just make sure that's not you that they're targeting for that, right?
	So you need to be well prepared.
	Now, remember, yesterday I published a special report that said Walmart goods are going to double in price.
	Well, today, the news is far worse than yesterday.
	Yesterday, it was only that goods would double in price, but that there would still be something on the shelves.
	Today, the news is there won't be goods at any price.
	Not from China.
	Not at any price.
	And it's hard to see how Walmart will stay financially viable, even as...
	As brilliant and capable as Walmart is as a corporation, I'm actually really impressed with Walmart.
	You may have heard me talk about that yesterday.
	Walmart is outstanding at logistics and quality control and retail efficiency, deliveries, the whole thing.
	Walmart.com is also a competitor against Amazon.
	Walmart actually has better quality than Amazon goods.
	In case you didn't know, if you want better quality stuff, you shop at Walmart, not Amazon, because Amazon doesn't do any quality checks.
	Amazon just sells any crap imaginable from any third party.
	You can go on Amazon, you can buy food that was literally found in a dumpster and then relabeled and packaged, like expired, thrown out food, and you can buy it on Amazon.
	Through the Amazon marketplace, what's called Fulfilled by Amazon, FBA, so third-party sellers, they ship their expired dumpster diving products to the Amazon warehouses, and Amazon will sell you that, and they'll ship it to you.
	And there were stories about this a couple years ago, about how you could, or people were dumpster diving behind Trader Joe's, and they were finding all this expired, thrown-out products.
	They would just repackage it and sell it on Amazon.
	Walmart doesn't do that.
	Walmart does not dumpster dive and sell you their trash.
	Amazon literally sells you dumpster diving trash, among other things.
	Just keep that in mind.
	But you and I will be able to navigate this.
	So, of course, let me give you some resources for how you can also stay really well informed.
	The first is a free resource, and it's a new docuseries that I'm launching.
	It begins streaming May 17th.
	So it's just two weeks away or two weeks from tomorrow.
	And it's with my co-host Todd Pitner and I. And it's called Breaking the Chains, How to Decentralize Your Life.
	Basically, it teaches you to decentralize everything away from central control over medicine, food, government, technology, finance, money, you know, all of it.
	And featuring many, many top experts and incredibly resourceful bonus material.
	That one will be streaming at brightu.com.
	So you can just register there for free, register your email, brightu.com.
	It's just the letter U, brightu.com.
	And you can optionally purchase the whole program if you wish, or you can just watch it all for free starting two weeks from tomorrow.
	So that's something very valuable right there.
	In addition, join our wait list for the EDOC AI engine at brighteon.ai if you haven't already.
	And I apologize that it's been two months delayed, but it's just about to be launched.
	It's free.
	I use that engine for all my research now, and you can use it too.
	Again, free of charge, no commercials, no advertisements, completely non-commercial.
	And you'll be able to, at some point here, download a standalone version of that, which you'll be able to run locally in case the internet goes down, so you can have a knowledge base locally.
	We are going to distribute that.
	It's not going to be as fully aligned as the online hosted model, but we have had some breakthroughs to get us partway there, so we're going to release what we have and then keep improving it through the rest of the year and keep releasing updates.
	But that's coming your way.
	That's free of charge as well.
	And as I mentioned in other podcasts, we've spent about approaching $2 million now on that project.
	And it's worth every penny.
	We wanted to build these tools to give you resources to freely access truthful information.
	And those models are trained heavily on survival and preparedness, off-grid living, home food production, food preservation, emergency first aid, all kinds of things.
	I mean, it's a wealth of knowledge that can help you survive what's coming.
	The other thing to mention here is...
	I urge you, get out of fiat currency to the extent that you can, and get into commodities that have value, which means gold and silver, or land, or if you have the opportunity to purchase a stockpile of copper, something for sale,
	a mountain of copper.
	That would be a great investment, actually, I think.
	Oil will still be in demand, for all the obvious reasons, even in a depressed economy.
	There's some demand for energy, right?
	People still need some transportation and some amount of electricity to power air conditioning, hospitals, whatever.
	So commodities is the place, I believe, where assets can be protected through all of this.
	Gold and silver are going to be key.
	And right now gold has been suppressed in the paper markets.
	They've brought it down from $3,500 to like $3,200 something.
	And this is...
	Probably not going to last that long.
	It may still go a little bit lower, but the long-term trend is the dollar's collapsing and gold is going sky high in dollars.
	But look, don't take this as investment advice.
	I'm not your investment advisor.
	I always urge you to do your own research.
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	And they also offer vaulting services, which I strongly recommend.
	If you don't have a safe way to store it at home or defend it at home.
	And if you use a vaulting service, don't use one run by a bank or a government.
	You want to be outside the banking system.
	You want to be in a third-party system with independent insurance.
	You know, independent audits, insurance, their own independent security, etc.
	That's what you want for vaulting.
	I don't trust banks.
	I don't trust governments.
	I don't trust anything run by the government.
	So get out of that system.
	You'll learn more of that in our Breaking the Chains course coming up May 17th, so be sure to sign up for that.
	And then finally, before we go to our special reports today, well, actually, I have one special report called Geopolitical Truth or Dare, Trump's Real Plan for Russia, Iran, and China.
	I recorded that before I learned about Trump's secondary sanctions announcement.
	But it's still a very valuable special report.
	We'll play that.
	We've also got two BrightLearn book review videos, one about the collapse of the petrodollar, and the other is a summary of my interview with Andy Sheckman about BRICS and BRICS currencies.
	So there's about a six-minute overview of our interview that's illustrated with AI, and it's very informative.
	I'm going to play those for you.
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	Oh, and I forgot to mention, today's interview is with Sylvie Beljanski, just a delightful woman.
	Delightful.
	I love her approach.
	I love her knowledge.
	And she is, of course, of the Beljanski, I think it's the foundation, the nonprofit.
	Her father developed these anti-cancer treatments, and then he was, of course, hounded and shut down by authorities in France.
	Where they lived at the time.
	And Beljansky now puts on cancer conferences in America, and her most recent conference took place in Austin, Texas.
	And so she was in the neighborhood, so I invited her by the studio, and she came by the studio.
	And you know what is so cool about Sylvie Beljansky?
	I mean, in addition to her amazing knowledge, she and I, we can talk about science and protocols.
	Herbology and phytochemistry and so on.
	I love talking with brilliant people.
	It's like, I crave it, you know?
	But also, it's so cool.
	She honored our no-fragrance policy.
	Yeah, we have a no-fragrance policy in our studio, and we tell every guest, before they come to the studio, we tell them, no fragrance!
	Like, no lotions, no shampoos, nothing.
	Why?
	Because your host...
	The Health Ranger hates synthetic fragrance.
	And wouldn't you know it, I swear, still probably two-thirds of the guests that show up in the studio are loaded with fragrance.
	I'm telling you, it's crazy.
	And, you know, I put up with it.
	I put up, maybe I, I mean, I don't want to be rude.
	Like, just leave.
	No, that wouldn't be cool.
	But Sylvie was so great because she showed up just...
	Dressed professionally, sharp, ready to go, no fragrance.
	So Sylvie Beljanski gets my no fragrance award, which makes perfect sense because the fragrance chemicals cause cancer, and she is teaching people how to reverse cancer.
	So it would be crazy if she were loaded up with fragrance, right?
	Thank God she honors the no fragrance policy, so she gets bonus points for that.
	All right, so we're going to jump into...
	Well, yeah, we're going to play the report for you.
	Geopolitical Truth or Dare, and then the two books I mentioned, and then the Sylvie Beljanski interview, which I think you will find absolutely enjoyable.
	In the meantime, use this weekend to do your China shopping, I suppose.
	And I'm not saying go out and buy a wok.
	No, I'm saying half the stuff in your house is probably made in China.
	At some point, you're going to need something.
	I was just thinking today, I could use more epoxy.
	Even though, yeah, I have a bin of all kinds of epoxies and glues, but that stuff is so critical for me on the ranch.
	I talked about repairing a diesel tank leak the other day, but there's also tractor parts and all kinds of machine parts and things.
	Without epoxy, I don't think I can function on a ranch.
	It's that important.
	So I'm going to load up on epoxies, which I'm pretty sure are mostly made in China.
	What are you going to load up on?
	I just got a shipment of a bunch of metric screws.
	Seriously, I got a whole new supply, and I have some, what are they called, the zinc, forgot the rating, like Category 8 heavy-duty shear-resistant bolts.
	To attach implements to tractors and things like that, like big-ass, heavy, hardcore bolts, right?
	I got a bunch of those that just came in.
	Very happy about my expanding bolt supply.
	Bolts and nuts and washers, it turns out, can make a guy really happy.
	I did pick up one more flashlight because the everyday carry light that I have right now, I only have one of those, so I want to have a backup of that.
	So I don't have to switch light brands if something bad happens to this light.
	And I'm thinking about picking up a couple more multi-tools, just some simple things like that.
	Maybe a small screwdriver set.
	But what are you missing?
	Use this weekend to do your China shopping.
	And forget about buying Christmas decorations this year.
	There will be no Christmas decorations in America because it's all made in China.
	So whatever you have from last year in those cardboard boxes in the...
	Basement or the attic or wherever you put them, that's what you got this year.
	You might have to teepee your own Christmas tree just to put something on it, you know?
	Because you won't be able to buy lights.
	And now that I'm thinking about it, I should pick up another Rubik's Cube because the brand I recommend is called GAN, G-A-N, and that's definitely China.
	And I don't know what I would do without these Rubik's Cubes, man.
	I would hate to be sitting there with nothing to twiddle in my fingers, you know?
	Gotta have some cubing.
	So, yeah, do your own review of what you're missing and load up on China-made supplies because Trump just promised that that's it.
	That's the end for the foreseeable future.
	And China itself has a culture of enduring long, drawn-out, suffering wars, which means we're all going to get dragged through this.
	It's going to suck.
	Seriously, it's going to suck.
	We're just going to have shortage updates.
	Hey, it's Monday.
	What are we missing today?
	That kind of thing.
	Man, it's going to be wild.
	Again, I'm not sure America survives this intact.
	I don't know, but I guess we're going to find out.
	In any case, enjoy the interview and the upcoming reports, and I may have something for you this weekend.
	I'm not sure.
	I might write some music.
	I might...
	Work on my tractor.
	I don't know.
	Got to see how things shape up.
	But thank you for listening today.
	Enjoy the rest of the program.
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	Here's my analysis of what happens next geopolitically.
	Mike Adams here at the Health Ranger.
	Thank you for joining me today for this special report.
	So, wow, there are so many factors to look at here.
	There's rare earth mineral dominance, there's energy dominance, AI technology dominance, etc.
	And military dominance, and also, of course, naval dominance over the sea lanes.
	These are all some of the big factors that are at play right now that you need to understand in order to be able to navigate what's happening.
	Now, I covered the, I called it the elemental crisis in a recent podcast and an article on naturalnews.com.
	I encourage you to go there and check it out if you want the complete breakdown of why one mineral called neodymium is the choke point for robot production.
	And neodymium is in the magnets of the actuators that allow for the movement of the...
	Joints of robots.
	And if you don't have neodymium, you can't make robots, at least not as we currently put them together.
	And as far as I know, there's no replacement for neodymium that has the same magnetic power efficiency in terms of its ratio to its weight.
	And China controls virtually all of the neodymium supply in the world.
	I think Australia has a little bit, the U.S. has a very tiny amount, but China controls the supply.
	All right, so park that in your mind, and that's one of the huge factors in all of this.
	But let's step back for a second and talk about the three war conflicts that are underway right now, or potentially underway, because this all ties together.
	So, Russia, Iran, and China.
	These are the three potential flare-up theaters for U.S. military conflict.
	And, of course, the U.S. has already been involved in a war with Russia via Ukraine, the proxy state, proxy nation.
	A lot of Ukraine's war efforts were, of course, run by the West, by NATO.
	Led by the United States, including satellite targeting, weapons systems, the HIMARS systems, and so much more.
	It was all run by the USA.
	Well, I should be clear.
	I should moderate that.
	It was also run by the UK and Germany, but the USA had the leading role in it.
	Now, Trump sees the biggest long-term strategic threat to America as being China.
	And I think he's correct in that assessment.
	And Trump wants to fight China in trade wars and technology wars, supply chain wars, sea lanes, etc.
	I don't think that Trump wants a kinetic war with China.
	That would be insane and the U.S. would lose.
	But in order to focus on China, Trump needs to stop the war with Russia, and he's in the process of doing that.
	He doesn't consider Russia to be a friend, just to be clear.
	Russia is still a long-term, I don't know if I want to say enemy, but a strategic competitor on the world stage.
	Trump just needs things to calm down so that we don't have to fight Russia right now.
	So that's why he's pushing the peace deal between Ukraine and Russia and just signed the minerals deal with Ukraine.
	So this is Trump's way of just In essence, postponing any kind of flare-up conflict with Russia.
	Now, this puts Trump at odds with Western Europe, because the Western European leaders, they want America to fight their war, you know, because that's what Europeans always want going back to World War II.
	Like, hey America, fight our wars for us.
	Hey America, fund NATO for us.
	Hey America, you fight Russia so that we...
	Socialist Western European countries, we can spend all our money on being woke-tards, which is what they do in the UK and France and Germany, etc.
	Well, Trump has told them that that's ending.
	You're going to have to pay your own way, essentially, and we're not going to fight Russia.
	Okay, so that's a positive step.
	All right, next theater, Iran.
	I believe that Trump does not want war with Iran.
	However, Trump's entire administration is heavily infiltrated by and influenced by Zionists, which is, just honestly, it's an end-times, apocalyptic, messianic cult that believes they need war to bring back God.
	I mean, they don't even believe in Jesus, by the way.
	You know, Judaism doesn't recognize Jesus as their Savior.
	So they're not even talking about bringing Christ back.
	They're just talking about having God come destroy Israel's enemies.
	But to do that, they have to build a new temple in Jerusalem and basically invoke all kinds of war.
	And then the Christian Zionists, who are also part of this messianic cult, they think that Jesus is going to come back if they can murder some red calves and set fire to enemy temples and things like that.
	So, yeah, they're all out of their minds on this issue.
	Completely out of their minds.
	Trump doesn't want anything to do with it.
	He doesn't want war with Iran.
	But these insane Christian Zionists and the Zionists themselves, they absolutely want war with Iran.
	So, what we're likely to see happen, and this is, I think, Trump's concern, is that Israel may initiate an attack against Iran.
	Without U.S. involvement, in order to drag the United States into supporting Israel.
	Honestly, that's the most likely way this is going to play out.
	I don't think the U.S. wants to lead an attack, but the U.S. could get sucked into a kinetic war with Iran.
	And in Trump's mind, that's a major distraction from where he wants to focus his efforts on China.
	But Trump has to talk tough, and Hegseth has to talk tough.
	Zionists donated huge amounts of money to the Trump campaign, and they run, I mean, they run Congress, the Senate, the House, they run the White House, they run all of it.
	Every Trump administration nominee that was confirmed, I think almost without exception, has been a full-blown pro-Israel Zionist.
	And that is a grave danger to our nation, by the way, because they put Israel first instead of America first.
	And many of them, they are going all out to do anything Israel wants.
	It's like they're all on video with Epstein traps or something.
	Who knows?
	There's blackmail on all of them.
	But that's just the reality of where we are.
	Zionists attempt to drag us into war with Iran, because if we end up in a war with Iran, several things will happen.
	Number one, Israel might get nuked and completely obliterated, or Israel might get attacked by Egypt or other nearby countries, you know, Yemen, obviously, even factions in Lebanon, even factions in Turkey,
	etc.
	Israel is also facing its own internal civil war near revolt situation.
	So Israel might just self-destruct politically on its own.
	Its economy is in shambles because of Israel's genocide against Gaza, etc.
	So it's not a good situation.
	The other thing that might happen is that if Iran is attacked, it will very likely shut down the Strait of Hormuz.
	Which would strongly restrict exports of oil and LNG, natural gas, to European nations and other nations.
	So we would see a global scarcity panic over energy out of the Middle East.
	And that would cause oil prices to skyrocket, perhaps to $200 a barrel or more.
	It would cause gold to skyrocket, obviously.
	Really hampered Trump's mission of trying to help the U.S. economy recover and restore manufacturing and domestic transportation and everything, all of which requires cheap energy.
	And on top of that, expensive oil would make Russia really wealthy because Russia is a major producer of oil and gas and other forms of energy.
	And also, in terms of Ukraine, by the way, Ukraine's not going to get Crimea.
	Crimea is Russian, and Crimea has a tremendous amount of energy, but Ukraine is not going to get its hands on that.
	So that's over.
	Of course, Trump can insist that the U.S. domestically produce more energy, and he is, and that's actually a very positive thing in terms of domestic security and domestic self-reliance.
	So let's hope that that accelerates so that we don't depend on oil from You know, the United Arab Emirates or the Saudis or whoever.
	We would rather depend on American oil or Texas oil or offshore oil, etc.
	All right, so now let's go to China.
	China's playing the long game, as culturally they tend to do that.
	Now, what China has in store for us is China is leading the race on AI and also on robotics.
	In addition, China has a near monopoly on neodymium.
	As I mentioned earlier, this is a critical mineral.
	China also leads the way in the extraction technologies for extracting neodymium from mining soils and dirt.
	You have to move many tons of soil to get a few grams of neodymium, so it's not an abundant Well, China has mastered the methods of extracting this.
	In addition, China is leading the way in robotics, obviously.
	China is leading the way in telecommunications.
	And China is also now very competitive, if not in a leadership position in AI.
	You might think that, well, ChatGPT is in the lead or Google's in the lead.
	Not actually true.
	China is in the lead, and China has produced the most impressive language models recently, like DeepSeek and others.
	And China has far more engineers and coders than does the United States, and China also has a much larger domestic energy supply to power its data centers for AI development.
	Whereas in Western Europe, the climate cult lunatics have shut down their domestic energy supply and the power grid's failing in Spain and France, right?
	Just, you wake up one day, there's no power.
	Hey, welcome to third world Spain, you know?
	That happened.
	And in America, we're still suffering under the climate lunacy lockdowns of the Biden administration and how Biden shut down the Keystone XL pipeline, etc.
	So it's going to take a number of years.
	To recover from the energy restrictions put in place by the lunatic Democrats, which means that powering data centers in the United States is going to be very difficult because of limited power supplies.
	Texas, for example, which is where Trump wants to build these new AI data centers in conjunction with Chad GPT and other companies.
	Texas is already suffering under an extreme strain of energy demand because of the rising population, because everybody wants to move to Texas.
	And the Texas Energy Commission Group, I forgot what the actual acronym stands for, but it's ERCOT, or ERCOT, E-R-C-O-T.
	They've done a pretty good job of working to scale up and stabilize the Texas energy grid.
	Texas has its own power grid.
	But it is no small feat.
	And what they need to do, in my opinion, is they need to bring online some nuclear power plants or thorium-based nuclear power plants, which are a much better design, or microfusion reactors.
	And that technology already exists, but it continues to be covered up.
	Or they need to bring online low-energy nuclear reactions, which is cold fusion, and that continues to be suppressed.
	My contention is that the United States of America will not win the AI wars unless the U.S. stops suppressing free energy technology, for God's sake.
	You need to unleash free energy in order to have the energy to power the data centers to be competitive in the AI race against China.
	Otherwise, you're going to lose, because China can just build another coal plant every day, like literally every day.
	They finish a coal plant every day.
	Roughly, you know, give or take.
	So from China's point of view now, here's their game.
	China is trying to protect its domestic economy and stabilize it, control it.
	China wants to slowly take over Taiwan, not with an invasion, because that is likely to turn the international community against China, but rather through subterfuge.
	Which is working.
	And the younger people in Taiwan and the Kuomintang party, the KMT, of course, is pro-China, pro-unification with China.
	A lot of the Taiwan press supports reunification with China using something like a Hong Kong-style model, which didn't really go that well, actually.
	But nevertheless, given enough time, China will probably consume Taiwan.
	And China also wants to wait and not have a war with the United States because China is building aircraft carriers and a great expansion of its own navy.
	China has a massive number of naval shipyards, literally 200 times the naval production output compared to the United States currently.
	Yeah, 200 times.
	Every year that goes by, China can build 200 times more tonnage of naval vessels.
	They're not all military.
	Some are transport cargo ships, but they could be military.
	They can put militarized 40-foot containers on those ships and launch missiles off of those, for example.
	But every year that goes by, China is building 200 times more ships than the United States.
	So China wants to delay any kind of a conflict.
	And just slowly build its economy, build its robotics, build up a robot army, build up a drone army, conquer AI and be the first to roll out AGI, and then long-term dominate the United States through trade,
	through technology, and through naval power.
	I think that's China's play.
	Now, of course, they're trying to weaken the United States with the fentanyl drug trade across the U.S. border.
	China is also, of course, culturally attacking U.S. with TikTok videos that keep promoting LGBT themes and insane nonsense for our youth.
	These are all just fifth-generation warfare tactics that China is using against the United States.
	But they're not the main thrust of China's actual war.
	The main war is technology.
	And in technology, you need a lot of minerals.
	And China has the minerals.
	Especially the rare earths like neodymium, which is what I mentioned.
	And I know some Westerners think, oh, well, China's been cut off from microchips.
	Yeah, nobody cares in China because China just makes its own microchips.
	It's just rolled out a new microchip that's equivalent to, I think, the NVIDIA H100 microchips, or roughly equivalent.
	I think it uses more energy, but it's got the same kind of computational power and they can use it for AI systems.
	You can't stop China from developing technology.
	You can't.
	You know, you can try, but good luck.
	But what China can do is they can stop exporting neodymium and other critical minerals, and they can stop the United States from building robots.
	They can do that.
	Where are you going to get the neodymium?
	You know?
	Good luck.
	20 years to develop mines and processing and all that.
	That puts you in the year 2045 before the US can have any kind of significant neodymium supplies.
	By that time, China's already conquered the world with a robot army and superintelligence, you see?
	So that's China's game.
	So that's why Trump doesn't want a war with Russia, doesn't really want a war with Iran.
	He wants to go to war with China.
	He wants to hobble China's economy in order to slow down China's technology advances so that the US might have a chance.
	To beat China in the AI game and the robot game.
	That's what Trump is doing.
	Once you understand that, everything else makes sense.
	Everything makes sense.
	And some people say that Trump is trying to sequence the wars to fight these so-called enemies one at a time.
	Well, I don't think Trump wants a war with Russia at all.
	And I don't think Trump wants a war with Iran at all.
	He wants trade with both of those countries.
	But he does want to weaken and ultimately destroy China.
	It's just that that's going to be hard to do because Chinese culture, which I know very well, I speak Chinese.
	I mean, I speak Mandarin.
	Chinese culture is incredibly resilient.
	And the Chinese people are incredibly resourceful, intelligent, diligent, disciplined.
	It is a culture of really impressive people, despite the fact that I'm not a fan of a communist government or authoritarianism, etc.
	But China today is not run as communism.
	That's not the model that doesn't describe China's economy at all.
	It's not a centrally planned, top-down economy.
	So I know a lot of Americans like to say, well, China's communism.
	Well, not really.
	It's not.
	You could even argue that America's economy is more centrally controlled than China's economy.
	You know, America's economy is really more communistic than China's economy, because in America, you can't run any business without being subjected to all this insane government regulation and conformity, and you've got to fill out all these stupid forms,
	and, you know, the EPA's on your ass all the time, and the FDA.
	And the IRS, etc.
	Now, you know, China has its own enforcement bodies, obviously, but in China, as long as you pay off the local officials, you're more free to conduct business in China in many ways than you are in the United States, especially in places like California.
	So, you know, don't make the mistake of thinking that, oh, we have a free economy here, but in China, it's top-down communism.
	It's not that way at all.
	We have a top-down economy.
	You know, everything from subsidies controls the economy, and tariffs control the economy, and taxation controls the economy, and selective censorship.
	You know, my company is still censored by Elon Musk at X. You can't link to Breitian.
	You know, what happened to free speech?
	We don't have it.
	And Elon is part of the administration.
	You know, Doge, he works directly with Trump.
	So, we don't have freedom of speech, we don't have a free economy, we don't have a free market in America.
	And all of that is holding us back.
	And it probably means, my assessment here, is that America is going to lose the AI technology race.
	And that means America, that we're living in the last chapter of the once great United States empire, and when the dollar collapses, it's over.
	And if the dollar doesn't collapse soon, we're going to be eclipsed by China's technology.
	So that's my assessment.
	Can it change?
	Yeah, obviously it can change.
	But this is my assessment of where we are right now.
	So thank you for listening.
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	And today we're diving into a conversation that's going to blow your mind.
	We're talking about the collapse of the petrodollar, the potential for World War III, and how the world as we know it is teetering on the edge of some major, major changes.
	Buckle up, because this is going to be a wild ride.
	So let me set the stage for you.
	I recently came across an interview between Mike Adams, the founder of Brighteon.com, and Alexander McCriss, the author of...
	Running on empty, how the imminent collapse of the petrodollar system sets the stage for World War III.
	Now, if that title doesn't grab your attention, I don't know what will.
	This conversation was packed with insights, predictions, and some seriously eye-opening analysis about where the world is headed, and I'm here to break it all down for you.
	First, let's talk about the petrodollar.
	What is it?
	Well, in simple terms, the petrodollar is the system where oil is traded globally in US dollars.
	This system has been the backbone of American economic dominance since the 1970s.
	But here's the kicker.
	Alexander Macris argues that this system is on the brink of collapse.
	And when it goes, it's going to take a lot of things down with it.
	Macris explains that the petrodollar isn't just some abstract economic concept.
	It's tied directly to US military power.
	Specifically, the ability to control the world's sea lanes.
	You see, 90% of global trade, including oil, happens via the oceans.
	And for decades, the US Navy has been the enforcer of this system.
	But here's the problem.
	That dominance is slipping.
	Countries like China and Russia are building up their own naval and military capabilities.
	And they're doing it fast.
	Macris points out that China, for example, has 200 times the shipbuilding capacity of the US.
	And they're not just building ships, they're building missiles, anti-ship weaponry and other tools to deny the US access to key areas like the South China Sea.
	Now why does this matter?
	Because if the US can't control the seas, it can't enforce the petrodollar.
	And if the petrodollar collapses...
	The US dollar loses its status as the world's reserve currency.
	That means inflation goes through the roof, the cost of living skyrockets, and the American standard of living plummets.
	Macris even compares it to the collapse of the British Empire, where the loss of naval power led to the decline of the British pound.
	History doesn't repeat, but it sure does rhyme.
	But here's where it gets even more intense.
	Macris argues that the collapse of the petrodollar isn't just an economic issue, it's a geopolitical one.
	He talks about the concept of the world island versus the world ocean.
	The world island is essentially Europe, Asia and Africa, with Russia and China at its heart.
	The world ocean is, well, the oceans surrounding it.
	The US has always been a dominant world ocean power, but now Russia and China, are uniting to dominate the world island.
	And that, my friends, is a problem.
	Because if they succeed, they won't need the world ocean, or the US, to trade and thrive.
	So what does this mean for us?
	Well, Macris predicts that the collapse of the petrodollar will lead to one of two outcomes, hyperinflation or debt deflation.
	Either way, it's bad news.
	Hyperinflation means your money becomes worthless overnight.
	Debt deflation means a depression so severe it makes the 1930s look like a walk in the park.
	And here's the kicker.
	Macris believes this collapse is imminent, like within the next two to three years.
	And when it happens, it's going to trigger a global conflict, World War III.
	Now, let's talk about how we got here.
	Macris takes us back to 1971.
	When President Richard Nixon took the US off the gold standard.
	Before that, the US dollar was backed by gold.
	But after 1971, it became a fiat currency, backed by nothing but the government's promise.
	To keep the dollar afloat, the US struck a deal with Saudi Arabia.
	Oil would be traded in dollars, and in exchange, the US would protect Saudi Arabia.
	This created a system where the US could print money, export inflation, and keep the global economy running on cheap oil.
	But that system is unravelling.
	Countries like Russia and China are now trading oil in their own currencies.
	And even NATO countries like Turkey are looking to join the BRICS alliance, which is creating its own alternative to the dollar.
	And here's the thing.
	The US is in deep trouble.
	The federal government is spending more on interest payments for its debt than on the entire military.
	That's right.
	$900 billion a year just to service the debt.
	And with interest rates rising, that number is only going to get bigger.
	Macris says we're one bad treasury auction away from a technical default.
	And when that happens, the Fed will have no choice but to print even more money, leading to hyperinflation.
	But it's not just the economy that's at risk.
	Macris warns that the collapse of the petrodollar will lead to a breakdown of global supply chains.
	Think about it.
	Most of the stuff we buy, clothes, electronics, even food, is made overseas and shipped to us.
	If the US can't control the seas, those supply chains break down.
	And when that happens, the cost of everything goes up.
	Macris even predicts that cities in the US will start to look like Detroit in the 1980s, crime-ridden, abandoned and falling apart.
	So what can we do about it?
	Macris suggests prepping, not in a doomsday, the world is ending kind of way, but in a practical, let's be ready for disruptions kind of way.
	That means stocking up on essentials, learning how to grow your own food.
	And maybe even moving out of big cities to smaller, more self-sufficient communities.
	He also recommends diversifying your investments.
	Gold, silver, bitcoin, and even defense industry stocks could be good hedges against what's coming.
	But here's the real takeaway.
	The world is changing, and it's changing fast.
	The petrodollar system that's propped up the US economy for decades Is on its last legs.
	And when it goes, it's going to take a lot of things with it.
	The question is, are you ready?
	Alright, bright learners, that's it for today's episode.
	If you want to dive deeper into this topic, I highly recommend checking out Alexander McCrissory's book, Running on Empty, and his blog, treeofwoe.substack.com.
	Trust me, this guy knows his stuff.
	And if you found this episode as fascinating as I did, don't forget to share it with your friends, leave a review, and hit that subscribe button.
	Until next time, stay curious, stay informed, and keep learning.
	This is Bright Learn, signing
	off.
	I'm your host, Bright Learn, and today we have a truly fascinating conversation to unpack.
	We're going to explore the future of the U.S. dollar, the rise of the BRICS nations, and the seismic shifts happening in the global economy.
	Buckle up, because this is going to be a wild ride.
	Now, if you've been following the financial news lately, you know that the dollar is facing some serious challenges.
	But what does that really mean for the average person?
	To help us understand the situation, I recently came across an incredible interview on brighteon.com between Mike Adams and Andy Sheckman.
	The CEO of Miles Franklin, a precious metals company.
	Andy is one of the most knowledgeable voices out there when it comes to global de-dollarization and the rise of the BRICS currency ecosystem.
	And let me tell you, the insights he shared were nothing short of mind-blowing.
	Let's start with the basics.
	As Andy pointed out, gold and silver have been on a tier lately.
	Gold, in particular, has been leading the charge, breaking through the $2,200 mark.
	Now, you might be wondering why this matters.
	Well, according to Andy, the central banks around the world have been buying gold at an unprecedented rate.
	In fact, they've purchased more gold in the last two and a half years than at any other time in history.
	This is a huge red flag.
	Why?
	Because central banks are typically the most well-informed traders in the world.
	If they're stockpiling gold, it's a clear sign that they're preparing for a major shift in the global financial landscape.
	Andy also highlighted an interesting point about the perception of gold.
	While the stock market is currently in a state of euphoria, gold is often overlooked or dismissed as a relic.
	But here's the thing.
	Gold has been quietly outperforming, with a 70% gain over the past five years.
	That's a staggering return, especially when you consider the volatility and uncertainty in today's markets.
	Now let's talk about the BRICS nations, for those who might not know.
	BRICS stands for Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.
	These countries are working together to create a new financial system that could potentially challenge the dominance of the US dollar, and according to Andy, they're making some serious moves.
	One of the most intriguing developments is the announcement that the BRICS system will have a blockchain component.
	This means that nations, commercial entities, and even everyday users will be able to use the BRICS blockchain for transactions.
	But here's the kicker.
	It's going to be backed by gold and other commodities.
	This is a game changer.
	Why?
	Because it offers a level of security and stability that the current fiat system simply can't match.
	Andy also mentioned that the BRICS nations are planning to introduce a new settlement currency that will be pegged to a basket of commodities.
	This is a direct response to the current system, where the price of commodities is often manipulated by Western exchanges.
	By creating a new pricing mechanism, the BRICS nations are essentially saying, enough is enough.
	We want a fair and transparent system that reflects the true value of commodities.
	So, what does all of this mean for the U.S. dollar?
	Well, according to Andy, it's not looking good.
	The BRICS nations are actively working to undermine the dollar's dominance by settling trades in local currencies and commodities.
	This is a strategic move to reduce their reliance on the dollar and, by extension, the U.S. financial system.
	Andy also pointed out that the weaponization of the dollar through sanctions has backfired spectacularly.
	Instead of forcing countries into compliance, it's only strengthened the resolve of the BRICS nations to create an alternative system.
	This is a crucial point.
	The more the U.S. uses the dollar as a tool of coercion, the more incentive other countries have to find alternatives.
	As Andy sees it, the writing is on the wall, the current system is unsustainable, and the rise of the BRICS nations is a clear indication that change is coming.
	But here's the thing.
	This isn't just about economics.
	It's about power, influence, and the future of global governance.
	The BRICS nations are not just challenging the dollar.
	They're challenging the entire Western-led world order.
	So, what can we as individuals do to prepare for these changes?
	According to Andy, it's all about being informed and taking action.
	Whether it's investing in gold and silver, diversifying your assets, or simply staying informed about the latest developments, the key is to be proactive, as Andy aptly put it, hope for the best, prepare for the worst, and build a community.
	In conclusion, the world is changing rapidly and the financial landscape is no exception.
	The rise of the BRICS nations and the potential demise of the dollar are just a few of the many challenges we face.
	But as Andy reminded us, it's not all doom and gloom.
	There are opportunities for those who are willing to adapt and embrace change.
	Thank you for tuning in to this episode of the Bright Learn podcast.
	If you found this conversation as enlightening as I did, please share it with your friends and family.
	And don't forget to visit MilesFranklin.com for more information on precious metals and financial insights.
	Until next time, stay curious, stay informed, and keep learning.
	I'm BrightLearn, and I'll see you in the next episode.
	This has been a BrightLearn.ai summary of an interview between Andy Schechtman and Mike Adams on March 20, 2024.
	The full interview is available at brighteon.com, where you can also find podcasts and special reports by Mike Adams and other creators.
	Visit naturalnews.com for full editorial coverage of this interview and breaking news on critical stories that will keep you informed and aware of what's really going on.
	Welcome to today's interview here at Brighteon.com.
	I'm Mike Adams, the founder of Brighteon, and today we are really honored to be joined in studio by Sylvie Beljanski.
	And she is, of course, with the Beljanski Foundation.
	Her father before her did extraordinary work at her foundation, and she has continued describing the anti-cancer potential and effects.
	of certain botanical molecules and much more.
	And she is also hosting a conference that's happening in Austin, Texas.
	So welcome, Sylvie, to the show today.
	Welcome to my studio.
	Thank you for having me.
	It's great to have you here.
	We interviewed you once before, remotely, but this is the first time I've seen you in person.
	I have to say I'm just so impressed with your work and our audience has been really thrilled about the information you provided last time.
	Well, this is so kind.
	Yes, yes.
	That's what we do at the Foundation.
	We do groundbreaking research, and we share it, and it makes me so happy, actually.
	It's very selfish.
	It makes me so happy, so proud that it's my pleasure to share.
	So thank you for giving me the opportunity of doing it.
	Oh, I'm thrilled to do that, and I really want to promote your work.
	Let me just give out some of your website here.
	So beljanski.org, and that's spelled B-E-L-J-A-N-S-K-I dot org.
	Correct.
	That's the website of the foundation where people can find all the research of my father.
	He left us 133 peer-reviewed papers.
	And then since his passing, we, at the Beljanski Foundation, we have partnered with a number of academic institutions and added...
	To this knowledge, this wealth of knowledge, with a number of publications from Columbia University, Kansas University, Medical Center, Cancer Treatment Centers of America, and we keep doing it with pleasure.
	That's fantastic.
	Let me mention your book, too.
	It's called Winning the War on Cancer.
	This is available on Amazon, Barnes& Noble, and other booksellers.
	And, oh, you have a copy here.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	Go ahead, hold it up to the, yeah, there we go.
	Winning the war on cancer.
	Perfect.
	Yeah.
	I wrote the book because I felt it was important to share the story of my father.
	A lot of people tell me, oh, well, if it was working, something was working about cancer, people would know about it.
	Or say it's because they have not heard about it, it means it doesn't exist.
	And I keep saying, no, maybe it exists, but it has been suppressed.
	And I know that my father's story is not the only one, that there are other scientists, prominent scientists whose work has been suppressed all around the world.
	But of course, the one which is the closest to me is my father's story.
	So I decided to write about what happened to him, how the French government decided to write.
	His laboratory one day was already too famous to be ignored.
	That's the time that...
	When he had helped the president of France at the time.
	The president of France, so he was giving to holistic natural medicine so much credibility that they felt it was time to stop that.
	They destroyed the work, they destroyed the man, they tried to destroy his reputation.
	And I decided to step up.
	I don't have a scientific background, but I grew up knowing how my father's work, I mean, he was a man of integrity.
	He had absolutely double, triple checked everything he was publishing.
	And I grew up seeing how those products were able to help a number of people.
	So I decided to stand up for this legacy and not allow the barbarians to destroy this knowledge.
	Well, it's interesting you use that word, barbarians, because what we talk about here a lot, what our audience understands very well, is that the mainstream cancer industry as it functions today is barbaric.
	It is.
	It's slash burn and poison, you know.
	And that's not healing.
	It's not even really medicine.
	It's some kind of weird, barbaric ritual.
	Yes, it is the one that makes money to the pharmaceutical industry.
	That doesn't mean it is the one that works for people.
	It's two different concepts.
	And they are making a lot of money, so there is no incentive for them to change anything.
	What we have all come to realize in decades of doing this and paying attention is that there has been an overarching desire by the powers that be, whoever they are, to make sure that people keep dying of cancer and to suppress numerous vectors and protocols and cures or remedies.
	Your father, your foundation studies a very particular set.
	And on top of that, as you well know, there are also many other different sets and approaches and protocols that have all been suppressed.
	So they didn't just attack you and your father.
	Yeah, it's everything holistic medicine.
	As soon as it works, as soon as it starts to be confirmed.
	But as a scientist, it is a time for them to appear and destroy your reputation, destroy the work.
	Again and again.
	It's extraordinary to me how many things have been hidden, things that have been researched and documented, and then they're buried.
	And then the researchers are specifically targeted to be defunded and discredited.
	It's exactly what happened with your father, correct?
	And I wrote the book because I wanted that to be known.
	And also, it is like a novel because it's how I started all over again here in the U.S. And it was a real adventure, so I wanted to share this adventure.
	I'm sure.
	Now, if my memory is correct, I believe that you said your father's family, ethnically, is Serbian?
	Is that correct?
	Yeah, my father was from Serbia originally.
	But his work took place mostly in Paris?
	Yes.
	So just after World War II, there was no university in Serbia to get a PhD in molecular biology.
	So the rich students who had the fur coat were sent to Moscow, and the poor students were sent to Paris.
	Really?
	And that's how my dad arrived in Paris and enrolled at the Sorbonne.
	Where he met my great-grandmother, who was a teacher at the Sorbonne, and my great-grandmother appreciated a lot my father-to-be, and she managed to create an introduction with her granddaughter,
	my mom.
	Wow.
	Wow.
	Okay, well, that's a wonderful story.
	Now, you were showing me, before we started recording, some charts that we want to share with the The audience here, because you've been organizing some clinical trials.
	Yes.
	So what the foundation has been doing since 1999, which was the year I incorporated the foundation in New York, it has been to fund research with natural products to fight cancer.
	And the latest research that we have been able to fund is about breast cancer stem cells.
	Cancer stem cells are those cells which are thought to be responsible for metastasis.
	They do resist chemotherapy.
	They are able to stay for a while hidden in the body.
	And one day they wake up and they create a new cancer somewhere else.
	And we have been able to fund last year, thanks to the first Belgiansky conference, a study on breast cancer stem cells.
	And we have mice which have been injected.
	With nasty, very nasty line of breast cancer stem cells.
	And we have a control group of mice which receives the plant extracts.
	And you see that the control group is developing plenty of metastasis.
	And there is zero, zero metastasis in the...
	In the treated group.
	How are the plant extracts being given to them?
	Is that by injection or orally?
	Orally, yes.
	In the clinic, the study, they were given only for two weeks.
	The treatment was only given for two weeks.
	You can imagine if you have zero metastasis, if you have only two weeks of treatment and then you stop.
	Continue to do it, I mean, for a long time, you get probably even better results.
	But that's shocking to me that the duration of treatment is so short and it's still so profound.
	Because the control group is developing a lot of tumors and the control group is dying.
	So you have to stop the study because of the control group, not because of the treated mice.
	Which were doing well and had zero metastasis.
	So let me ask you a technical question about this then.
	To me, this is so fascinating.
	As a food scientist, you see our microscope over there, which we removed.
	Normally the microscope is right here as we're looking at crazy things that we're incubating over there.
	And of course we have a mass spec lab.
	The dose that you're giving the treated mice there, if you were to translate the milligrams per kilogram of body weight, how does that translate?
	What size of a dose or mass of a dose would a human need to match that?
	So, I mean, depending on the size of the person, I would say four to six capsules a day would be the equivalent of what we are giving to those mice.
	So it's a very...
	It's a potent extract.
	It's not raw, just herb that's ground up.
	No, no.
	It is extracts.
	It is concentrated, and it is a blend of extracts, which each of those extracts has already been tested for anti-cancer properties, synergy with chemotherapy, activity at different stages of cancer,
	ranging from anti-inflammation.
	Anti-cancer, full-blown cancer, ability, for example, for prostate to inhibit prostate cancer cells, even where they have become hormone resistant.
	And the last step was, of course, cancer stem cells.
	So we have already tested individually each of those extracts.
	We know how potent they are.
	The pauperera extract, which is included in this very specific blend that we have given to those mice, includes the pauperera extract, which has anti-cancer properties,
	but also antiviral.
	Oh, really?
	Which is kind of interesting.
	My father had a clinical trial back in the 80s with this pauperera for patients who had suffering from HIV, AIDS virus, and it was extremely promising,
	but of course the government had no interest at all into developing something natural.
	So nothing happened.
	I was just trying to bring up some photos of this.
	So this is a woody...
	So the pauperera is...
	The bark.
	It's a bark from a tree coming from the Amazon rainforest.
	Okay, okay.
	And then there is another plant extract called Revolfia vomitoria, which is coming from a bark of a root growing in Africa.
	And then we have added an extract of four green teas that my father identified as very anti-cancer.
	So a lot of the work that your father did was, I would imagine, testing hundreds of molecules from nature, if not thousands.
	Yes.
	He was looking for only compounds that would be specific to cancer cells.
	Got it.
	That would recognize cancer cells and never harm healthy cells.
	Not harming was something absolutely paramount for my father.
	So then, go ahead.
	And I can show you that those extracts happen to be naturally fluorescent.
	Oh, you're kidding me.
	Naturally fluorescent.
	So you can see how the fluorescence remains outside a healthy cell and penetrates selectively cancerous cells.
	So this is really interesting because we're acquiring a fluorescence kit for a microscope to do other things with it.
	Yeah.
	On the UV light, you can see how those plant extracts...
	Really penetrate cancerous cells.
	Really?
	Do you know what wavelength specifically this fluoresce is at?
	I would have to look into it.
	Okay.
	I would like to know that because maybe this is something...
	See, one of the things that I want to do for our audience is you were kind enough to send me some of your products and I'd like to test them.
	Of course.
	And so they're in our lab right now.
	My lab techs are testing your products for heavy metals and glyphosate and the normal things we do.
	But wouldn't it be cool if we could actually show some of the, like maybe we could get some cell cultures here and show the fluorescence under the microscope and show how it's actually going into the cells?
	Absolutely.
	So in the bodies, if you do not have any cancerous cells, you are going to eliminate the product in a matter of hours without any toxicity.
	Perfect.
	So, again, it's only toxic to cancer cells.
	Yes.
	And then the methods of toxicity to those cancer cells are what?
	Multiple and have been identified.
	Of course, there is apoptosis, but there is also regulation of NF-kappa-B.
	There is, for prostate, inhibition of 5-alpha-reductase.
	There is upregulation of P53.
	So, at least there is also four.
	At least four?
	Okay.
	Any anti-angiogenesis factors?
	Yes, and specifically for the ginkgo extract, which is made of golden ginkgo extract that my father identified, very beneficial for skin fibrosis.
	And then we went on to see if there were other enzymes than those involved in skin fibrosis that could be identified.
	And indeed, we saw that this golden ginkgo extract is able to...
	to inhibit angiogenesis.
	Wow. So that's important because it's a way to starve cancerous cells and prevent them to spread.
	Wow. Okay.
	See, this is so fascinating.
	I love this conversation.
	I used to live in Ecuador and we would take wild herb walks through the rainforest and
	And learn about uña de gato and all the different herbs and even like the so-called dragon's blood latex from the trees and things like that.
	I just want to caution the audience, too, here, though.
	When you hear the names of these herbs, don't run out and just buy bulk herbs from an untrusted source because I know specifically in ginkgo, there's a lot of counterfeit ginkgo.
	In the market.
	So this is one is made of golden ginkgo.
	So the difference is that we have to wait for the fall, for the leaves to become yellow.
	And the change of color of the leaves, of course, translates into a change of chemistry of the leaves.
	And we have a very specific extraction process without solvent.
	And what we get is different from the standard ginkgo extract.
	So what we're going to do is, we're in the process of testing your products, and to our audience, if the Beljansky products, if they pass all our tests, then we will make a recommendation.
	About these products.
	But of course, we always conduct due diligence first.
	Of course.
	And since we've only just met, we're going to take it through the lab process.
	Everything comes out okay.
	Also, we're going to ask your company to provide us with the certification of the botanical identity.
	You know, the plant identity test.
	Just so that...
	That's what we do for every batch.
	Yes, I know you do, yeah.
	So I want to be able to say to my audience, you know, hey, here are these products that now come from decades of research, scientific study, clinical trials, and then they've passed our scrutiny, our lab tests, here's a certification of botanical identity integrity.
	And I would like to add that all the research that we are publishing, I mean, Well,
	that's another question, then.
	Does your foundation help connect people with naturopathic physicians?
	Yes, absolutely.
	So we already have a referral service.
	You can contact us and we put you in contact with a health professional nearby or who accepts to do virtual visit.
	Yes.
	And we are in the process of putting together a map.
	Also, where people will be able to see where there are health professionals.
	Okay, let me ask you in your experience, and I hope you don't mind me being very inquisitive here.
	A lot of people are vitamin D deficient.
	This is especially true in France and a lot of Western Europe.
	Look at Britain, right?
	Does the sun ever shine in Britain?
	I'm not sure.
	The vitamin D deficiency there is extreme, right?
	Yes.
	So here's my question to you.
	Is there, for the molecules in these extracts that you have studied, for them to work effectively, do there also have to be prerequisites of certain nutritional milestones such as vitamin D?
	So I used to say those...
	The molecules I'm speaking about are going to help you at the cellular level.
	They are going to give you some time.
	Now, it is most important that you use this time to understand what makes you sick or what makes you stay sick.
	Yes.
	And do all the testing.
	I mean, if you have some vitamin, minerals deficiency, absolutely, you need to come to a...
	The optimum physiological levels that your body needs to function properly and then you have to use this time to understand what...
	Your lifestyle, what makes you sick, and also your emotions.
	Do you live with conflicts?
	All those things are very, very important to your health, and you will not achieve good health in a long time if you do not address all those issues.
	I love this message from you, because you're encouraging people to take responsibility for their health outcomes.
	Of course.
	Yeah, but that's an alien concept in America, you know what I mean?
	It's like, I go to the doctor, the doctor's responsible for my body, and the doctor tells me what to do, right?
	That's the mainstream, not our audience, but the mainstream thinkers function that way.
	Yeah.
	And they have a disconnect between their own choices.
	Like, hey, I'm going to eat like an amusement park, and then I'm going to wonder why I have cancer and diabetes.
	Yeah, no, you have to...
	You have to make the proper choice for your lives.
	If you choose to be healthy, you have to make all the steps to make it happen.
	Yeah.
	Well, here's another example of this.
	Right now, Secretary Kennedy of HHS has announced a positive step, which is banning petroleum-based food dyes out of all the products.
	But I tell people, I've banned food dyes for 30 years.
	I mean, you don't need to wait.
	For Kennedy to ban the food dye.
	Absolutely.
	Because all those dyes are in prepackaged food, in processed food.
	Yeah.
	If you eat something natural as nature intended, those dyes are not there in the first place.
	Exactly.
	So, I mean, one of the key messages to our audience here today is don't wait for, you know, Secretary Kennedy to save you.
	Don't wait for...
	Trump doesn't even know anything about nutrition.
	That's not his specialty.
	If you want to build a golf course, talk to Trump.
	If you want to be healthy nutritionally, talk to Beljansky.
	People take responsibility for your own health outcomes.
	Don't wait for some authority to tell you to get some toxic substance out of your diet.
	You can do that today.
	Absolutely.
	If you choose to...
	Eat healthy food, not pre-packaged, not fried with bad seed oils.
	If you eat some organic fruits, maybe some grass-fed meat, you should be fine.
	That's right.
	Clean water, clean air, and, you know, by the way, Since you're here in person, you received a copy of our no fragrance policy, right?
	Yeah, absolutely.
	There are a lot of bad stuff in fragrance.
	It's crazy!
	And on this little word, fragrance, they put a lot of synthetic molecules.
	Yes, they do.
	Because perfumes are no longer done with natural flowers.
	Right.
	It is less expensive to develop synthetic molecules of jasmine, rose, whatever.
	That's right.
	Those synthetic molecules, most of them are carcinogenic.
	And that's why people who have never smoked get lung cancer.
	How come?
	Well, because there is a fragrance, there is all those candles that are...
	Covered with the same synthetic fragrance.
	Absolutely.
	There is a laundry product.
	Don't get me started, yeah.
	But it is all the same thing.
	It is all synthetic, smell good stuff.
	That's right.
	Which is not good for your health.
	So, I'm so glad we're having this discussion.
	Because in this context, what our audience, what I really want to reinforce for our audience is...
	If you have cancer, or if you have high cancer risk, or if you've been diagnosed with cancer, don't treat, don't behave in an allopathic manner where you think, I'm going to continue the same life that led me to this point,
	but I'm going to chemically bomb the cancer with these herb extracts, but not make other changes.
	And you've been very insistent on this too.
	You're saying, okay, This can help you, give you time to go back and inventory your behavior.
	Yes, and learn to make the right choices.
	It's doable.
	It's not even painful.
	I completely agree, but I've had people ask me things like, how is it that you haven't drank a can of soda for 30 years?
	Don't you miss it?
	No.
	Do I miss phosphoric acid?
	No.
	Of course not.
	Do I miss corn syrup?
	Do I miss aspartame?
	Never.
	Never.
	It's an acquired taste.
	And if you don't drink those stuff, you don't miss them.
	Really.
	Yeah.
	So let's talk about your conference that's happening in Austin, Texas, which is the reason why you're in Texas.
	And thank you so much for coming.
	I'm not sure.
	If this interview will run before the conference ends.
	So just in case, let me ask you, is there a way that someone can purchase the conference?
	Absolutely.
	I mean, the virtual ticket can be put now to attend virtually the conference in real time, but also there will be replays after that, and so nobody is going to miss anything.
	We are going to present the results on breast cancer stem cells, as I mentioned, and we are also trying to fund the next round of research on prostate cancer stem cells.
	About 20 to 30 percent of men who develop prostate cancer We'll relapse and we'll have complete metastasis of prostate cancer.
	So we assume we are also going to have very good results on prostate cancer stem cells, but you need to do the research in order to be sure.
	So that's the next project that we are trying to fund.
	So let me add then, when people choose to purchase your products, they're not only benefiting themselves, In essence, that's what's funding your research.
	Mostly, yes.
	Okay, that's outstanding.
	And again, stay tuned, folks.
	We're going to do a full assessment on the product line, and if it all checks out, then I will do a personal recommendation, and we'll tell you where to get the products.
	Or, right now, people can get them from your website, or where do they get them?
	Yeah, absolutely.
	On maisonbelchanski.com, we have a tea room.
	In New York City, and it doubles as a little store, and people can get the product or go online, absolutely.
	Okay, great.
	There is another product I would like to speak, and we are not going to have time to present that at the conference, but it is very, very unique, and it's made of little RNA fragments that my father perfected.
	There is nothing like that.
	On the market are developed by other companies.
	Other companies are developing some RNA fragments made of yeast, but we had a comparison between yeast RNA and E. coli K12, which is non-pathogenic and non-mutagenic RNA fragments.
	And we had a clinical trial at Cancer Treatment Centers of America a few years ago where we compared yeast RNA and bacterial RNA to help people undergoing chemotherapy and there was a big difference between the two kinds of sources of RNA and those who enrolled into the bacteria RNA
	fragments called Real build.
	None of them developed thrombocytopenia, which is a loss of platelets that can result from chemotherapy.
	Wow, even when undergoing chemotherapy?
	Yes, yes.
	Wow, that's extraordinary.
	And that was a kind of complement of what my father had done where he was looking at the white blood cells.
	So my father had published on the white blood cells, and we had a clinical trial on platelets.
	And every time those little RNA fragments made of bacteria are able to prime the bone marrow.
	And the bone marrow creates a new generation of white blood cells and platelets in 24 hours.
	Is it a signaling precursor?
	Exactly.
	And we have used recently this same product for a clinical trial in Europe on long COVID.
	Wow.
	And the results, not all the results are in, but we have the six first patients who have finished their three months, 90 days of enrollment, and all of them have seen improvement in their situation.
	Again, without toxicity, without side effects, just a little white powder that you took under the tongue two or three times a week.
	See, this is the real...
	Revolution in medicine that we need as a civilization, I believe.
	But that's why they tried to destroy it.
	Yeah, yeah.
	If it was not a revolution, they would have let go.
	Well, I feel like humanity is really ready to ditch the era of chemotherapy poisoning and mammography ionization of breast tissue.
	I feel like humanity has really reached a turning point here, and we're part of this movement, what we're doing here today.
	Giving people the knowledge, the empowerment, and because of decentralized technology, the internet, now even our own AI engine, which has eliminated all the pharma bias and things like that, they can't control information today like they could 30 years ago.
	They are trying to control the products.
	Yeah, they're trying to control the products.
	So you have information, but then it becomes, at least in Europe, for example, it's becoming less and less possible to have access to the product.
	I'm aware of that.
	Something's got to change in Europe.
	The EU has become, the censorship regimes across the EU are just off the charts insane.
	You couldn't operate in the EU.
	No, I am very, very grateful to be American and to be able to live here.
	Well, we're grateful to have you here in America as well.
	You are radiating love for humanity, love for knowledge, love for truth.
	Thank you.
	And we honor that here.
	Thank you.
	It's a big honor for coming from you.
	I do appreciate that.
	We appreciate you so much.
	And like I said to our audience again, we're evaluating your products right now.
	And I'll post an update once we...
	I hope you appreciate the fact that we also conduct a lot of due diligence.
	Of course, of course.
	I mean, we do, and I would be surprised knowing a little bit what you do if there was no due diligence.
	Yeah, we're very careful about...
	You know, what we recommend and stand behind as you are as well.
	It's a matter of respect for your audience.
	Absolutely.
	They put their trust in you and you own them to do the due diligence.
	Yes, yes.
	You can spend 20 years building a reputation and you can destroy it in 20 minutes.
	Absolutely.
	If you don't hold to your integrity.
	Absolutely.
	Hey, by the way, something very interesting.
	You see that incubator right there, the blue one?
	Mm-hmm, yeah.
	It's a chicken-egg incubator, but we are incubating the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID vaccine in saline solution.
	Okay.
	And now we're running the Triad Air filter, not a filter, the Triad Air purifier to make sure the air is clean here so things don't come out of there.
	But that's a vaccine.
	And that is a fallout, mystery fog fallout from Florida, a sample that was sent to us by Dr. Jane Ruby that we put under the microscope, and now it's growing odd things.
	Very strange thing.
	Four different life forms that we've found.
	And it's growing at human body temperature, in the dark.
	Like, that's set at human temperature.
	We just have humidity.
	Heat and darkness.
	And we come back once a week and put it under the microscope and it's like, boom, crazy new things.
	Growing.
	Yeah.
	I mean, what does that tell you about sort of the toxic nature of the world in which we're living right now, you know?
	Monsters.
	We're all subjected to...
	Yeah.
	Like, we were talking about choice, you know?
	Like, you can choose to not take a jab, but you can't choose to not breathe.
	No, and you have also to have a life with some social life, and that opens the door to a lot of things.
	But you can try to make them as healthy as possible.
	But I don't think you can also drive yourself crazy and live in full isolation.
	Oh, I agree.
	Because then it becomes unhealthy also.
	Yeah, I agree.
	Tell people to not wear fragrance around me.
	That alone is like an antisocial barrier.
	No, that was an easy one.
	But if you go out in public, you can't make such demands on the whole group.
	You'll have a very small group.
	Getting back on track now, what else do you want to share with us that I haven't asked you about in terms of what people need to know?
	The application of these products.
	And also, I have one question for you.
	Has anybody, has a surgeon ever tried microinjections of these botanical extracts directly into tumors?
	So, vets have done that.
	Ah.
	Vets have more leeway in what they are doing than doctors.
	Doctors are a little bit more afraid, I believe.
	And then when you are bringing a poor animal for euthanasia, anyway, I mean, the vet thinks maybe he can try something else before.
	And we know by a number of vets that they have put some capsules, diluted the capsules in some saline solution and injected.
	And it works very well, yes.
	Injected?
	Directly into the tumors.
	Directly into the tumors?
	Yeah.
	Do you happen to recall which specific organs or types of tumors were maybe experimented on?
	The tumor has to be accessible.
	If it is really like a pancreatic tumor, I don't think they are able to do that.
	But if it's a tumor, they can feel like a mammal or a testicular tumor.
	I know they do that.
	A number of vets in Europe have been doing that for a long time.
	Well, that's very interesting.
	I'm aware of research in Japan where surgeons were taking the phycocyanin pigment extracts from spirulina algae, and they were doing microinjections into pancreatic cancer tumors, and they were seeing excellent results,
	the complete tumor necrosis.
	Yeah.
	Just from one pigment.
	Yeah.
	I don't know.
	Yeah, this could be, you know, if you can get even more funding, I guess there's so many areas of potential research, right?
	It would be great, yes.
	I think for now, you know, the plant extracts are made available in capsules form because that's a form for dietary supplements.
	If it is Technically, like an injection is no longer a dietary supplement.
	Absolutely.
	So some vets are doing that in their own lab, but otherwise we are not in position to make that available as a liquid.
	Of course, yeah.
	Well, there's always South America, you know.
	We all know some doctors in South America that are on the cutting edge and running some interesting experiments.
	Okay, what have I left out?
	We look forward to continue to have more conferences.
	This is the second one that we are having here in Austin, Texas.
	We have seen an increase already of the number of people tickets sold.
	Like 40% compared to the first edition that was 18 months ago in Jacksonville, Florida.
	So that's very encouraging.
	We look forward to have a third edition, definitely another conference.
	So stay tuned with this Belzhansky Foundation.
	And we always have events, lectures, webinars, a lot of things happening.
	It's not just about...
	Conducting science, it's also about sharing the information.
	And as you said at the very beginning, the information sends to new technology can be spread.
	So let's do it.
	Absolutely.
	A couple of thoughts on that.
	One I want to ask you, since we are about to release our Brighteon.ai I would love it,
	too.
	I would love it, absolutely.
	Terrible when it comes to technology, so I would really have to understand exactly what the extent of the request, but I know we have plenty of papers.
	All we need is a document dump, basically.
	Just a bunch of PDF files.
	No, that's not a problem.
	You are going to receive a lot.
	I've had many, many people from many organizations Donate literally millions of documents to this project.
	And that's what makes it so great.
	And that's why we've kept it free and non-commercial, open source.
	I'm so happy that you are doing that because Wikipedia, for example, has such a bia against everything natural.
	It's horrible.
	Yeah, well, you know, we know who runs Wikipedia and it's not a pro-human group.
	But what you are doing is really needed.
	Well, you as well.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	And then the other question I want to ask you is, since your conference is in Austin right now, is this the first time that you've been to Austin?
	Have you visited before?
	It's the second time I am coming to Austin, but I have not seen anything of Austin.
	I'm busy preparing for this conference.
	So I've heard it's a really nice city with a lot of life and things to do to see, but I have not seen anything, I have to say.
	Okay, okay.
	Well, where we are, we're outside the city, so you got to see some more of the countryside.
	To come here.
	And there's a lot of medicinal, you know, botanical life all around us here.
	Oh, yeah.
	Okay.
	I mean, there are groups that offer, like, wild plant identification, wild herb walks through the Texas ecosystem.
	And there are numerous medicinal plants here.
	I mean, I guess as there are everywhere, but it's a unique set here.
	I'll have to make time to come back.
	Yeah.
	Well, we always welcome you back.
	And again, I just want to thank you for your time here today and for making the effort to come out.
	I know you're super busy with the conference.
	Thank you for having me.
	It's a treat.
	It's a pleasure to have you.
	And let me just give out your website again, beljanski.org, and that's B-E-L-J-A-N-S-K-I, beljanski.org, where you can find a lot of the research and the papers and so on.
	The book...
	is Winning the War on Cancer.
	It's available here on Amazon and other booksellers.
	And then also the conference is here.
	What's it called?
	IntegrativeCancerConference.com And also just want to invite you to we have BrightYou.com where we publish docuseries videos.
	So if you want to rerun the conference with us we can talk about that.
	How we can help Get more exposure and a different audience to see your conference.
	So that's an option, too, that we'll talk about.
	So that's it, folks.
	Fascinating interview.
	You're a fascinating person.
	I'm so glad you're carrying on the pro-human work of your father.
	And thank you for being here.
	Thank you.
	Thank you for having me.
	It's been my pleasure.
	Enjoy having you here.
	And thank all of you for watching.
	I hope you enjoyed this.
	And look, we're testing the Beljanski products right now.
	I'll bring you an update on the results of that.
	And if everything checks out, then I'll be making a recommendation at that time.
	And I'll tell you, we'll provide you links and where you can get the products for yourself.
	Just in terms of FDA regulatory compliance.
	These products are not intended to prevent, treat, or diagnose any disease or condition.
	They're provided solely as dietary supplements without any such claims.
	So thank you for watching today.
	I'm Mike Adams, the founder of Brighteon.com.

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