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May 5, 2025 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams

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BBN, May 5, 5025 - Pakistan, India, Israel, Yemen and Iran: A single SPARK in the Middle East...

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	Welcome to Brighteon Broadcast News with Mike Adams, the health ranger.
	Yes, it's true.
	I was completely banned and deplatformed for life by Truth Social over the weekend.
	That's Trump's social media company.
	But they reversed the ban, and I'll tell you about that here in a second.
	Welcome to Brighteon Broadcast News.
	This is Monday, May 5th, 2025.
	I'm Mike Adams.
	Thank you for joining me here today.
	Of course, a lot to cover.
	And some very worrisome breaking news from the Middle East and involving Yemen and things are heating up with Pakistan.
	The situation looks red hot, really, right on the verge of nuclear war is what it looks like.
	Not cool, but let me tell you what happened with Truth Social.
	So Trump's social media company, he's like 60% owner, I think, of the Trump media group that runs Truth Social.
	Which is, I suppose, Truth Social, according to their public reports, they burned through $400 million in cash last year, or at least the Trump media group did, and their revenues were only $3.6 million, so their revenues were less than 1% of their expenses.
	So I'm not sure how that is viable.
	The realm of social media is pretty difficult.
	Nevertheless, I was banned on Saturday.
	I received a notice from Truth Social.
	This was right after I posted my criticism of Trump's secondary tariffs.
	You've heard my podcast on that.
	It said that I was being subjected to an indefinite ban that is a rare and severe sanction.
	It was because a, quote, most egregious violation of the terms of service.
	And, of course, I was really surprised and not happy to receive that because, you know, look, I've been a very vocal critic of the Democrats and the radical left for, you know, more than a decade.
	And I've rooted for Trump where I can, and I've been critical in other places where I disagree, and I think that's fair.
	You don't want me to be a Trump lackey or a Trump loyalist, like a Trump groupie.
	No!
	We have to be critical thinkers all the time, but where I can, I've praised Trump, and yes, they tried to kill him multiple times, and yes, they committed lawfare against him, etc.
	And in my book, that goes a long way.
	So I was really shocked that Truth Social completely banned my account and basically gave me the finger.
	And said that I committed a most egregious act.
	What?
	For offering economic analysis of empty shelves and trade war tariffs?
	Supply chain chaos?
	I mean, come on.
	It's just cause and effect.
	Anyway, so I emailed Truth Social and I said, look, this is extremely worried.
	I'm paraphrasing.
	This is worrisome to me because Trump has demonstrated Support for some really authoritarian moves to silence freedom of speech in America, especially to support the Zionists.
	You know, Trump supporting all the, basically the kidnapping and deporting of students on student visas, taking them right out of their dorm rooms or their apartments or right off campus, kidnapping them with State Department personnel with vans, like stuffing them into vans and deporting them.
	Without any due process at all, because they joined a non-violent protest where they expressed discontent with Israel's bombing of Gaza.
	But apparently under the Trump administration, that's enough to get you kidnapped and deported.
	And so there is this authoritarian sort of posture that is emerging in America.
	Many people that I've interviewed have suspected that that was going to expand and eventually start targeting Americans and targeting Christians who dare to quote certain passages of the Bible, especially the passages where the Jews banned any mention of Jesus, for example.
	That's in Acts.
	You know, the words of Jesus himself and the crucifixion of Jesus and how the Jewish...
	Leaders who are demanding that Rome murder Jesus and all that.
	It's all right there in the Bible.
	We've been over it before.
	And if you don't know that's there, then just read the Bible.
	Start at the beginning of the New Testament, and it's all right there.
	It's in black and white and red letters, it turns out, for the words that Jesus spoke.
	But most Christians don't, I found out most Christians don't read the Bible, or they don't read certain parts, so they have no idea what's actually in it, but that's another story.
	So there's this concern that Trump is going to expand this authoritarianism and this censorship and maybe even prosecutions of Americans.
	And then over the weekend, this bill was being pushed aggressively through Congress.
	It was H.R. 867.
	It's called the IGO Anti-Boycott Act.
	And this Anti-Boycott Act...
	Would throw you in prison for up to 20 years if you boycott Israel.
	Right, right.
	And you could face a fine up to a million dollars.
	So if you have a little donut shop or whatever, or if you have a, I mean, take my store, you know, superfoods and nutritional supplements.
	If my store were to boycott Israel, let's say, then according to this law that was working its way through Congress, That I could have been thrown in prison for 20 years for saying that I wouldn't sell to Israel.
	Now, obviously that's completely insane.
	But this kind of sort of pro-Zionist authoritarianism is rising rapidly in America with the support of Trump and his entire cabinet and people like Mike Huckabee and also J.D. Vance, etc.
	Nobody in the Trump administration ever speaks out against Israel.
	Not once.
	They're always 100% pro-Israel, even more pro-Israel than they are pro-America, of course.
	So this concern is very real.
	We're seeing the signs of this.
	So anyway, both of those situations got reversed over the weekend.
	So the House dropped the Anti-Boycott Act for now.
	They'll probably bring it up later.
	But Marjorie Taylor Greene said she opposed it.
	Thomas Massey said he opposed it.
	There were other members of Congress and former members like Matt Gase.
	Like, this is stupid.
	It was anti-American.
	I oppose it, etc.
	So that was dropped out of the House, and the Zionists will have to try again another day to see if they can throw people in prison for 20 years who are Americans.
	But that's what they want, by the way.
	That's how they want to silence dissent.
	And then, getting back to Truth Social, When I emailed them and I asked them seven questions in my email and I said, you know, is this the new policy at Truth Social is to completely deplatform people who disagree with Trump's economic policies?
	And I asked a bunch of other questions, too.
	And they replied and they said, basically, oops, we made a mistake.
	We didn't mean to censor your account.
	You can ignore the most egregious sanctions notice that you received.
	And we have reinstated your account.
	And sure enough, I was able to log in and post there.
	Now, I have no idea if anybody reads my stuff on Truth Social.
	I really don't know.
	But I thanked them, and I want to publicly thank them for reinstating my account and correcting that error.
	And I do understand, as a platform owner myself, I do understand that our staff can make mistakes, and my staff have made mistakes.
	I've had to correct them and reinstate videos that were censored on Brighteon.
	One of them involving a guest who was being interviewed by Stu Peters, no less.
	And for whatever reason, my staff censored the video, and Stu Peters...
	Texted me.
	He's like, what the hell is going on?
	Why are you censoring this video?
	And I looked into it.
	I'm like, whoa, that was wrong.
	So we reinstated that video.
	I apologized to Stu and that guest.
	And reiterated publicly.
	I said, publicly?
	We support free speech.
	For real.
	And if we make a mistake, we'll apologize for it.
	We'll correct it.
	Give an additional training to my staff to make sure they don't make that mistake again because we don't engage in viewpoint discrimination.
	Now, there are certain types of content that are illegal that obviously we block, like snuff videos, porn, stalking videos, videos on how to cut off people's heads or whatever, just crazy, insane, psycho, criminal behavior type of stuff.
	Obviously, that's not allowed.
	Or posting, like, Hollywood movies or just full-length copyrighted videos, no, that's not allowed either.
	So yeah, we censor that stuff, but in terms of viewpoint discrimination, we do not engage in viewpoint discrimination.
	So again, I was happy that Truth Social corrected their ban, and interestingly, General Michael Flynn came out over the weekend and supported me, and he said that it's wrong for Truth Social to censor the Health Ranger.
	And he said that The health ranger and I have not seen eye to eye on everything.
	He's referring to our stances on Israel, by the way.
	But, General Flynn said, he supports my right to speak.
	And I respect that.
	And I thanked him publicly for that.
	And I've, you know, I've gone out on a limb to defend General Flynn numerous times over all these years when he was being persecuted by the state, etc.
	And I really appreciate him being a stand-up guy there and having the principle of freedom of speech.
	Now, granted, he and I do not see the Israel-Gaza situation the same way, but that's not what that issue was about.
	This issue was about freedom of speech.
	And in fact, I wasn't even criticizing Trump the last few days about anything related to Israel.
	It was about trade policy.
	And so that's why I was so shocked that I was...
	Completely de-platformed without warning for criticizing Trump's trade policy, but then again, turns out they said it was a mistake.
	Now, it just so happens that last week I was working on an article where I am calling for life in prison for any leaders of big tech platforms or NGOs or government agencies or just the government itself, anybody who engages in systematic viewpoint discrimination that Calls for silencing people based on the content of their speech, other than obviously things that are illegal, like I just mentioned.
	And so I have a new article, you should be able to see it now on naturalnews.com, that calls for life in prison for any of those people who push censorship.
	And in that article, I argue that freedom of speech is a necessary component for the survival of a constitutional republic.
	Or as some people say, Our democracy.
	Well, we're not a democracy.
	We're a constitutional republic.
	But without freedom of speech, we cannot survive.
	I mean, we saw that demonstrated during COVID where you were banned for telling the truth about the dangers of vaccines or telling the truth about the origins of COVID or telling the truth about the fact that the masks don't work.
	If you told the truth on anything like that, you were banned and censored and deplatformed.
	If you were a medical professional, you had your license yanked.
	Some people were arrested in other countries for saying, Things that are just common sense.
	But that censorship story, I just want you to know, I did not come up with that in response to me being deplatformed by Truth Social.
	I had actually written this censorship story last week, and I was just waiting to go through a final edit of it.
	And then I decided I needed to add a few more examples to it, which I have now done.
	And again, that should be published on naturalnews.com.
	And notice, I'm not calling for the death penalty.
	I'm calling for life in prison if people are found guilty, if they're in a position of authority and control over other people's speech, if they're a big tech CEO, if they're an NGO that's pushing censorship lists that big tech pays attention to.
	That'll happen during COVID.
	If you're in the government, state government or federal government, and you push censorship, you demand censorship like the DOD did against me, Because we were named by the Department of Defense, and that's why we have standing in our lawsuit, by the way, which is still pending against the federal government and against Big Tech.
	But if a government agency is directly involved in calling for censorship and even making lists of people or channels to be censored, then the heads of that agency should, in my opinion, be arrested, prosecuted, and if found guilty, sentenced to life in prison.
	Why?
	Because they are a danger to our constitutional republic.
	We cannot survive as a nation with authoritarians pushing censorship based on this assumption that they alone have a monopoly on the truth and only their views count, only their voices should be heard.
	Which is, of course, the way the entire government of the UK currently operates.
	And the EU and France and Germany and a lot of European countries, they all believe in censorship, plus Australia.
	Because they don't want people to be able to question any official narratives.
	So that was a little bit of interesting excitement over the weekend.
	And then thinking about, well, I also published an emergency broadcast yesterday.
	It was based on the interview of the head of the L.A. Port.
	It was interviewed on Saturday by Bloomberg News, and he laid out a timeline of shortages.
	That are going to happen because the inbound ships don't have the cargo or there's not even the same number of ships that there used to be.
	But this guy, whose first name is Gene, he walks us through the timeline of shortages and how the shelves are going to begin to be empty of many Chinese-made products in about five to seven weeks.
	And so then I published a story Laying out the full timeline of what he said in the interview and then projecting that out to 16 weeks using our AI engine, Enoch.
	And I published that story on Natural News.
	You can read it.
	And I covered that in my podcast yesterday.
	I think I might add that podcast onto the end of today's broadcast just to make sure that you get it in case you miss it because not everybody listens on the weekend.
	So that's another thing that happened on the weekend is we had a very credible source, the head of the Port of L.A., telling us about the shortages that are coming.
	And it's pretty severe.
	In his own words, he said businesses have stopped hiring.
	Investors have stopped investing.
	Expansion plans are halted.
	We're currently sitting on a buffer of existing inventory.
	And that inventory is going to run out.
	And unless a deal is reached between Trump and China, roughly by the end of June, just in time for July 4th, Independence Day, it's going to look pretty ugly for a lot of retailers.
	Now, for the next topic, I want to say up front, I do not look for reasons to complain about Trump.
	That is not what I'm into.
	I'm not one of these people that's like, orange man, bad!
	I've defended Trump numerous times over the last eight years, more than eight years.
	And I suffered tremendously through deplatforming and censorship, defamation, etc., for standing up for Trump when Trump is right.
	And it is true that Trump has been hit with lawfare and smear campaigns.
	Obviously, the media just lies about him constantly.
	For whatever reason, there's a lot of left-wing white women, college-educated white women, who are just completely infested with TDS, Trump derangement syndrome.
	They see Trump and just their heads explode with rage and anger and hatred.
	Their eyes bug out.
	I'm not one of those people.
	So I'm not looking for reasons to complain about Trump.
	But then...
	Almost daily, Trump announces something that honestly is just crazy.
	It's just bonkers.
	I don't know if I should laugh or...
	Well, let me give you today's example, alright?
	It's just bonkers.
	Nobody even understands what does Trump mean by this, but Trump announced a 100% tariff on movies made outside the United States.
	Now, think through this carefully, because when Trump puts tariffs on, let's say, electronics, TVs, or toasters, let's say, from China, it's pretty easy to know how much to charge, because the toasters come in in a container, and the container's got pallets, the pallets have cases, and in each case, there's a few toasters, and anyway, you can weigh the pallets, you know, you can...
	You can see it's a 20-foot container.
	You can look at the manifest.
	You can get a valuation of the toasters.
	And you can hold up the toasters in customs until the tariff is paid, right?
	So that's how tariffs normally work.
	Somebody's shipping us something, cars, toasters, umbrellas, whatever, and then we charge them based on the value of what they're shipping in.
	Trump says he wants 100% tariff on movies.
	Okay.
	How do movies enter the United States?
	The answer is digitally.
	Over the interwebs.
	Who was the guy who used to say that?
	The interwebs.
	It's a series of tubes.
	How is Trump...
	Well, first of all, how do you calculate...
	100% tariff on movies made outside the USA.
	It doesn't even make sense.
	What are you putting the tariff on?
	What are you counting?
	And how do you even...
	How do you hold it up until the tariff is paid?
	When there's a foreign movie company, you know, the files are transferred to domestic movie...
	Distribution hubs or movie services or even theater chains, they're all transferred digitally.
	So is Trump going to have a blockade of the interwebs and put a tollway for tariffs on just movie downloads or something?
	I mean, nobody has any idea what he means.
	You know, suppose a U.S. movie company goes to...
	Canada to film a movie in Canada, right?
	They take their equipment, they take their people, their actors, whatever.
	They spend a bunch of money making a movie in Canada.
	They come back across the border back into the United States.
	Is Trump going to have like a border agent there?
	He says, you can't come into the United States until you pay 100% tariffs on the movie.
	And the movie people are going to say, well, the movie's not done.
	Because we've only just filmed it.
	Now we have to go back to our headquarters and we have to edit it.
	And we have to fix the sound and add the sound effects and the music, blah, blah, blah.
	Put in all the credits.
	We've got to make the whole movie.
	That's going to take six months.
	And then we will put it into distribution.
	And then the distributor will distribute the movie.
	And we'll have a revenue share.
	And at some point...
	Maybe a year later, maybe 18 months later, we, the movie creator, we will get a percentage of the movie revenues.
	So, you know, Mr. Border Patrol guy, do you want to contact us in 18 months to see how much the tariff should be?
	Or how are we supposed to roll this here?
	Because today the value of the movie is exactly zero.
	Because it's not even done.
	All we have is raw footage.
	Okay?
	So how do you calculate tariffs on raw footage of an incomplete movie?
	You know, it makes no sense.
	But Trump comes up with these things on such a regular basis.
	I mean, it's...
	I'm not trying to be insulting, but it is comedy.
	It's like nobody ever thought of that before because it's crazy.
	You know, it would be like saying, Trump said, I know how we're going to balance the budget.
	We're going to put a 50% tariff on air coming from Canada.
	Every time that cold north wind blows across the border, we're going to tax that wind and we're going to make Canada pay.
	Now, hearing me say that, would you be surprised if Trump said that?
	And the answer should be no.
	Nobody would be surprised because he says stuff just as crazy.
	On a regular basis.
	And again, I've defended Trump so many times, and I'm not going out of my way to try to mock Trump.
	It's like, but he just, he hands me this steady stream of crazy, hilarious things that he is serious about.
	Like, here's another one.
	Over the weekend, Trump said, we've got to reopen Alcatraz.
	You know, the island prison?
	Off the bay of San Francisco.
	And I've actually toured Alcatraz many, many years ago.
	And, yeah, even then it was all run down.
	It was just a tourist attraction.
	You couldn't really use it as a prison.
	But Trump says, well, I wish I could find his tweet now.
	Trump says, no, I'm going off memory.
	He's like, We've got to lock up these pedophiles and these corrupt judges and these treasonous actors.
	Now, I'm all for locking up treasonous judges and traitors.
	But first, you've got to arrest them.
	If you want to put Fauci on Alcatraz, I'm totally for that.
	That sounds awesome.
	But is there really a problem with federal prisoners escaping federal prisons?
	Across America?
	Do you need Alcatraz?
	Because back when Alcatraz was first set up, the idea was that, oh, federal prisons are too easy to escape from, and we need shark-infested waters.
	We need a prison that's on an island where the only way to escape is to swim for it, and you might die because you're being eaten by a shark.
	Like, that was at least the narrative around Alcatraz.
	It was for the hardened criminals, you know?
	And then there was a movie made about it called The Rock, I think it was, with Nicolas Cage.
	I think Ed Harris was in that movie.
	It was a pretty fun movie back from the 1980s.
	And the whole movie was set on Alcatraz.
	But if you were to try to turn Alcatraz into a working prison today, you would spend a fortune.
	I mean, talk about government waste.
	You'd spend triple or quadruple what you would need to spend.
	Or maybe even more, maybe ten times, what you would spend on a federal prison that's just out in the middle of nowhere, that's just as secure.
	Again, we don't have a wave of prisoners breaking out of federal prisons across America.
	So, why is Trump invoking Alcatraz?
	And I think it's just because of the theatrics of it.
	It just looks scary, you know?
	Alcatraz!
	Send them to Alcatraz!
	But it...
	From a policy viewpoint, it doesn't offer any incarceration advantage over any other prison.
	You know, if they have a prison in Amarillo, Texas, you just send them to Amarillo.
	Why Amarillo?
	Because there's a perfectly good federal prison there.
	And look, but again, first, you've got to arrest the traitors.
	So where are those mass arrests?
	Are you seeing them?
	I'm not seeing them.
	I'm not seeing mass arrests.
	I'm wondering, when do people start getting arrested?
	The traitors.
	Because right now, a bunch of traitors are getting awards.
	You know, Mike Pence got an award over the weekend, some kind of hero's award or something for standing up against Trump.
	I'm sure Fauci gets all kinds of awards and all these other people that carried out illegal bioweapons experiments.
	And what about all the vaccine pushers that effectively are murdering children all across America?
	When do they get arrested?
	And what about all the big tech CEOs that push censorship?
	How come Zuckerberg isn't being arrested?
	I mean, Zuckerberg, Meta is still censoring people.
	YouTube is still censoring.
	Google is still censoring.
	How come we aren't arresting the CEO of YouTube?
	And no, I don't mean the one That died.
	Wajiki, I think, who died after pushing vaccines and then died from turbo cancer.
	You know, because she censored all the people warning about vaccine safety.
	So she took a bunch of jabs and then she died from turbo cancer.
	Yeah, she's dead.
	She's gone.
	So we can't arrest her.
	Although, maybe you could still retroactively charge her with felony crimes or something.
	But that wouldn't accomplish much, would it?
	She's dead.
	But I'm sure there's some other CEO of YouTube that's currently not dead that you could charge with a crime that maybe their vaccines haven't fully kicked in yet and they could still serve out a few years of a felony prison sentence or maybe life in prison, which if they kept taking jabs, maybe that would only be a few years, but at least it's something.
	You know, you could incarcerate them for their crimes against America.
	But first, you've got to arrest them, and I don't see any arrests.
	Not of those people.
	And frankly, if you really wanted to build a high-security federal prison close to where you're going to make a lot of arrests, you should build a prison right off the Gulf Coast of Florida so that you could put all the Disney pedophiles in there.
	Because it seems like every couple of weeks, there's another pedophile employee of Disney.
	Or a pedophile Disney animator or whatever who gets arrested and charged and convicted for child porn or pedophilia or trying to meet up with nine-year-olds in a parking lot or something crazy like that.
	So we don't need Alcatraz.
	We need, like, it's a small world after all right off the coast is what we need for pedophiles.
	It's a small world for pedophiles.
	But I'm, like you, I'm always trying to decode what's in Trump's head.
	And I've tried all my decoders so far.
	Nothing.
	Nothing has really given me a clear picture.
	I've tried, like, x-ray vision glasses.
	I've tried magic decoder rings.
	I've tried everything I can think of.
	And nothing has given me a good, clear vision of what Trump is up to on any given day.
	So I don't know.
	And I can only hope and pray that Trump is up to something that's some kind of genius plan that's, you know, 5D chess.
	Do they say 4D chess or 5D chess?
	There's inflation involved?
	6D chess?
	I don't know.
	But I hope there's some kind of 5D chess so Trump is going to surprise us one day, like, see, this was my plan all along.
	And we all go, whoa, that was amazing.
	You defeated evil.
	You defeated all the Satanists.
	Wow, that's great.
	But I don't see any evidence that this is 5D chess.
	And one of the areas, now this gets into some really important breaking news involving Yemen.
	Yemen has announced an air blockade against Israel.
	So let's start with this fact that...
	That Yemen has announced an air blockade of Israel, basically saying that they are going to launch missiles and destroy commercial airlines and airports in Israel.
	Not that many airports.
	The Ben-Gurion airport is the primary one.
	And Yemen is saying that we are doing this as an intervention, a humanitarian intervention.
	In order to try to internationally isolate Israel, a nation that Yemen says is involved in the mass starvation of children in Gaza.
	And so if you look around and you actually do some research and poke around, you find out that indeed that Israel is involved in enforcing mass starvation.
	And if you read from antiwar.com, for example, the Times of Israel reported Sunday night that the Israeli Security Cabinet voted to expand the assault on Gaza and to overhaul the mechanism of renewing aid deliveries.
	Basically, they're halting all aid deliveries.
	Because they claim Hamas is taking the relief funds.
	The Gaza Health Ministry says that since March 18th, Israel, with its resumed war on Gaza, has caused the deaths of 2,436 Palestinians and 6,450 injuries.
	The official death toll from the Gaza Health Ministry, which Israel disputes, but that death toll is over 52%.
	And the wounded is over 118,000.
	Apparently a young girl died of starvation and apparently an aid ship carrying food was attacked by an Israeli drone in the last couple of days.
	Over 110 Palestinians were killed over the last three days, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.
	And the children are paying the price, including sometimes children being hit in strikes, missile strikes.
	Sometimes drone strikes, but mostly missiles, and then children suffering from really widespread starvation right now that has placed many thousands of children at risk of dying in the next 30 days.
	So, yes, and there are even videos of Israeli officials saying they support the mass starvation of Gazan children.
	They support starvation.
	Mike Huckabee, the U.S. ambassador to Israel, has also publicly stated, in effect, not in exactly these words, but in effect, that he also supports the mass starvation of Gazan children.
	So, step back for a moment and think about this.
	If there were any nation in the world that were, let's say, clubbing baby seals to death, I'm sorry to bring up the imagery.
	But if there were a nation that were just clubbing baby seals, the whole world would be outraged.
	How dare you club baby seals?
	We're going to have economic sanctions.
	We're going to have flight sanctions.
	We're going to have currency sanctions.
	We're going to punish you because you're so evil.
	You're clubbing baby seals, right?
	But there is no nation clubbing baby seals.
	However, there is a nation starving baby Palestinians and bombing baby Palestinians.
	And that nation is, of course, Israel.
	Trump says nothing to oppose Israel, nor does any member of the Trump administration.
	Nobody.
	None of them.
	Not Vance, not Rubio, not Huckabee, obviously.
	Not anybody.
	Because if they say anything against Israel, then they're fired instantly.
	So, now, if Israel were clubbing baby seals, would Trump speak out against that?
	I have no idea.
	But with Israel bombing Gazan children and starving children, nobody speaks out against it, except, of course, Yemen.
	So Yemen says, we're going to attack the ships in the Red Sea.
	We're going to launch missiles at ships that are bound for Israel, or U.S. ships, or U.S. naval vessels, which is why an F-18 Hornet fighter jet was lost and destroyed last week.
	The U.S. Navy says it rolled off the ship.
	I don't believe that.
	I think it was destroyed by Yemen, but whatever.
	We'll never know.
	But Yemen says we're going to interdict these ships until Israel stops restricting the food aid to the civilians and children in Gaza.
	So Yemen has its demands out there.
	Yemen is saying we're going to Disrupt your economies and your shipping, and now your air flights.
	Because the Yemenis are actually standing by what they believe, which is that it's wrong to bomb children to death.
	See?
	Now you would think that the U.S. would defend innocent children, but no.
	You would think the U.K., but no, of course not.
	Not the U.K. Nobody in the Western world is standing up for these children, but Yemen is.
	So now Yemen says, we're going to have an air blockade against Israel.
	We're going to start launching missiles that hit all the civilian jets, or some of them.
	We're going to start bombing Israeli airports.
	And just to prove that they could do that, over the weekend, they launched a ballistic missile.
	The Yemenis did, the Ansarala movement.
	The Ben-Gurion Airport with a massive missile that apparently left an impact site that was reported.
	I saw a report that said it was 25 meters deep.
	That just sounds incredible to me.
	And there's a lot of footage online now about that impact.
	So we know it happened.
	But importantly, we know that the U.S. missile defense systems You know, the so-called Iron Dome that's supposed to protect Israel from incoming missiles, it completely failed.
	So the THAAD system, what is that, the high-altitude air defense system that the U.S. makes, completely failed.
	The Patriot missiles completely failed.
	Whatever munitions the U.S. has, totally failed.
	So Yemen, what Yemen actually did over the weekend is they said...
	We're going to have an air blockade against Israel, and just to prove that we can carry it out, we're going to launch a missile, and we're going to hit the Ben-Gurion airport with it, which they did.
	And we're going to show you that you can't defend yourself against this.
	Which, again, Yemen did.
	So Yemen's munitions, whether or not you agree with what they're doing, they demonstrated that they can actually make good on their threat.
	So what do you suppose the airlines did right after that threat went out?
	Well, the airlines, Delta Airlines, Swiss International, Lufthansa, Germany, etc.
	What did the airlines do?
	They halted all their flights.
	Of course they did.
	Because they can't handle the liability, the insurance premiums.
	I mean, their insurance companies probably called them and said, you do not fly into Israel.
	Anymore.
	You're done.
	You get all your planes out of Israel and you stay out.
	So now, effectively, civilian planes will no longer fly to Israel because of, you know, Yemen's missiles.
	And then, of course, Trump and Netanyahu, they're all complaining, you know, how dare they fire missiles at us?
	Which is a clown show of hypocrisy because Israel fires missiles at Gaza every day.
	It's like, why does Israel have the right to bomb anybody at once, but then when somebody strikes Israel with a missile, then every Western country goes insane.
	How dare they?
	It's a crime against humanity.
	No, the crime against humanity is being committed in Gaza.
	I mean, right now, 3,500 children are facing starvation there.
	Humanitarian aid has been blocked for over two months by Israel.
	There are apparently well over 50,000 children hospitalized due to malnutrition.
	Okay?
	So, again, Israel's not clubbing baby seals.
	They're starving baby children.
	And nobody in the West cares one bit about that.
	Not one bit.
	And the so-called Christian churches in America, mostly the Christian Zionists, are all in favor of this.
	They say, keep the bombs going, you know?
	Which just, we've talked about this before, so I'm not going to hammer the point too much, but it just shows you they're not Christ-like churches, are they?
	Christ would not support the bombing of innocent children, not children of any ethnicity or religion or any group.
	These so-called Zionist Christians haven't read the word of Christ at all, or they don't remember what Christ said, or they don't follow it.
	They choose not to follow it.
	So what's wild to me about this is how it shows that the practice of Christianity in America is largely a fraud.
	Because, and I'm not saying Christianity is, the principles of Christianity are divine.
	But the practice of Christianity, largely, has been perverted and distorted into supporting genocide, which is not very Christ-like, is it?
	So it shows you that the practice of Christianity in America has actually turned many churches to Satanism.
	Murder, destruction, death, suffering, hatred, all these kinds of things, the opposite of what Christ taught.
	And then these actions by Yemen also expose the hypocrisy of the United States.
	Years ago, when the U.S. started bombing targets in the theater of the Kosovo War, what was the U.S. excuse for that?
	It was, oh, it's a...
	It's a humanitarian intervention.
	We have to save these people because, you know, they're being killed by this brutal army under Milosevic.
	Remember that?
	Well, that's Yemen's argument right now, that they have to stop Israel from killing these innocent children.
	So the U.S. says that we, the United States, we have the right to get involved in anybody's business if we say we're helping to save innocent people.
	But then we say Yemen doesn't have that right?
	To interdict Israel's efforts to commit genocide against Gaza?
	You see, obviously, the hypocrisy is hard to miss.
	And there are many other examples of this, including, you know, the war on Iraq and the coming war on Iran, etc.
	Many, many examples of this.
	Oh, Libya, another one, for example, right?
	So the philosophy of the U.S. is that we can bomb anybody anywhere at any time for any reason, anything we make up, we just say it.
	It becomes reality and then we start bombing.
	But nobody else is allowed to bomb unless they're bombing for us.
	And Trump follows this philosophy too, right?
	We get to bomb anybody, but they don't get to bomb us.
	We might bomb if we want to.
	If we don't reach an agreement with you, we'll bomb you.
	That's not coercion, is it?
	No, of course not.
	But as a result, Of all this escalation of violence, including the Pakistan-India situation, which is also heating up and getting very nasty because apparently India just cut off a major water supply artery to Pakistan.
	And Pakistan is supposed to have access to this water under treaties and previous agreements, but India cut off Pakistan.
	And then over the weekend, China did an artillery demonstration of power near the border with India.
	And when you start watching all of this that's happening with Israel and Gaza, Pakistan and India, Iran, China, Russia, Ukraine, America, blah, blah, blah.
	Very quickly, you start to get a picture of how World War III begins.
	And it begins...
	In the Middle East.
	It either begins between Pakistan and India, or it begins, you know, involving Israel and maybe Iran.
	It's in that region.
	And the sides are now shaping up, quite clearly, as the following.
	It's West versus East, even though those designations don't really work that well anymore.
	But let's just run through it here.
	So the Western countries, the West allies, are of course Israel and India, the United States, the UK, all the Five Eyes nations, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan, Japan, and maybe a few allies.
	I mean, Turkey is not clear which side Turkey falls on, really.
	The U.S. will have some allies like Philippines, for example.
	And some other Southeast nations like South Korea.
	Okay, then you have the East.
	So who's on the East?
	Well, the East is Pakistan, China, Iran, Russia, obviously, North Korea, maybe Brazil, not clear exactly what Brazil does, but definitely Egypt would be with the East.
	Definitely Turkey is leaning in the direction of the east, even though they're a current NATO member.
	That's probably not going to last much longer.
	Oh, and on the west, I forgot to mention, of course, all the Western European countries, France, Germany, Romania, Poland, etc.
	And even most of the Baltic countries and the Nordic countries, etc., are all with the west, but those countries are so tiny, they mostly don't matter in terms of World War III.
	But if you look at this, it's very clear what's shaping up.
	The battle lines are being drawn for a global nuclear conflict that could start very soon and very easily with something either between Pakistan and India, and both of those countries have nukes, over 100 nukes each, or something could happen between Yemen and Israel, or even, frankly, Lebanon and Israel.
	Or Iran and Israel.
	Something is about to snap, and you can see that, as my friend Michael Jan explains, that conditions are set for a giant firestorm.
	It's the conditions, and the conditions are just waiting for a spark.
	Once there's a spark, everybody jumps in with mass escalation.
	Like, we could go from a local, you know, Gunfight in Pakistan, an invasion by India, let's say.
	We can go from a local gunfight with a few mortars and artillery to thermonuclear war in five days involving Russia.
	And then Iran's saying, you know, screw it!
	We're all in!
	Just nuking Israel.
	And then Israel's like, Samson option!
	Just nuking everybody.
	And then China's like, well, we might as well just launch a few nukes too.
	Let's just nuke the crap out of the enemies of China.
	And then that's how Washington, D.C. gets lit up, you know?
	I mean, it's...
	Unfortunately, it's not difficult to see how this escalates.
	And we're right there.
	We're right there on the verge.
	And it seems like there's massive de-escalation everywhere you turn.
	You got all these war hawk lunatics in the Trump administration.
	And Waltz was one of them who just want to have war with Iran.
	Like Lindsey Graham is another one.
	And all these neocon war hawks that just want war, war, war.
	War with Iran.
	War with Russia.
	War with China.
	They just can't wait to see the whole world lit up in a giant mushroom cloud.
	These freaking lunatics.
	Psychopathic lunatics.
	And I don't think Trump is going along with them, which is good news.
	I think Trump is saying we would rather do deals rather than have war.
	Let's do deals.
	But he also has to appease the Zionists in all of this that majorly funded his campaign.
	So, will the U.S. attack Iran in order to appease Israel and thereby contribute to the bonfire, the massive escalation that might lead to World War III?
	I don't know.
	I'm just glad that Waltz is gone, and it looks like Stephen Miller might be his replacement, maybe General Flynn, but Stephen Miller is the top candidate for replacement.
	Stephen Miller's a sharp guy.
	I love the way he talks to the libtard press, by the way.
	Stephen Miller just lays it out.
	I don't know where Stephen Miller stands on war, if he's a pro-escalation guy or a de-escalation guy.
	I don't know.
	But I guess we're going to find out.
	I should learn more about his posture on that.
	But I know that other advisors like Gorka are definitely more pro-war.
	Absolutely, they want to destroy Iran.
	Many people like that in the Trump administration, they think they can do it.
	They think they can defeat Iran, and I think they've grossly miscalculated.
	They also think they can defeat China in a trade war, and as I said yesterday, I think they've grossly miscalculated that.
	Just like they miscalculated the war with Russia.
	Remember?
	It's only been three years, folks.
	In the early days of the war with Russia, remember what you heard from the Western press.
	Oh, Russia's totally weak.
	Oh, we've knocked out their whole economy.
	Remember, we were told that the ruble will turn to rubble.
	That Russia will come begging us for a deal.
	That they're going to be completely defeated in no time.
	And that Ukrainian troops are going to march all the way to Moscow.
	And probably the Russian people would overthrow Putin themselves.
	Like, lie after lie after lie.
	From the Western propaganda media because they were vastly overconfident in their ability to defeat Russia.
	They didn't defeat Russia.
	They didn't defeat Russia's currency.
	They didn't stop Russia's industry.
	Russia outgrew and outbuilt its infrastructure to the point where Russia now can outbuild all of the West, all Western countries combined in terms of military output.
	They can't compete with Russia.
	Which only has a fraction of the GDP of the United States, by the way.
	Although GDP is calculated in a very dishonest way.
	Nevertheless, Russia only became stronger and Russia is in the dominant victory position right now regarding Ukraine.
	So all those people who told us, you remember the stories like, oh, Russia ran out of missiles and that's why they had to use hypersonic missiles.
	Or Russia ran out of microchips for their missiles and And they're scavenging circuit boards from washing machines.
	Remember that one?
	That was a very popular Western propaganda piece.
	The image was like Russians scouring junkyards looking for circuit boards to strap together into missiles or something.
	It was all BS.
	If anything, it's the Western troops that were trying to reattach everything with bailing wire.
	Duct tape because their weapon systems didn't work.
	And plus all the weapons that the Western European countries donated to Ukraine were practically museum pieces.
	And none of them could talk to each other.
	None of them used the same parts with each other.
	It's like, oh, here's a tank from Germany and a command vehicle from France, you know, and a minesweeper from the UK.
	And none of them are compatible.
	And they all have totally different systems, you know?
	It's like, oh, boy.
	How do we even use this stuff, right?
	I feel sorry for the Ukrainian soldiers.
	They've got to be three times as smart as the British soldiers just to be able to learn three times the systems, you know?
	And that's asking a lot.
	So I think we're at this moment in history, in my opinion, that's quite dangerous because the U.S. in particular, but the Western allies...
	Along with that, including the UK, are irrationally overconfident in the strength and the capabilities of their positions.
	And they vastly underestimate the strength, the resiliency, the advanced technology of countries like China, Russia, and Iran.
	I mean, this has become very clear to me over the last, I don't know, year or so.
	Because we're still told in America that Iran, they don't have any technology, they must be wearing sandals everywhere.
	We're told that the Yemenis were just a bunch of goat herders.
	Well, so how are their missiles penetrating the Iron Dome then?
	How are they causing the U.S. Navy to lose fighter jets?
	How do they shoot down like 35 drones, the Reaper drones?
	If they're just goat herders with AK-47s, how do they do that?
	See, we're being lied to, and our own government doesn't have good knowledge about the capabilities of even the Yemen group, or the Houthis they're called.
	I keep forgetting their official name.
	Is it Ansarala or something?
	I'm not trying to get it wrong.
	I'm not familiar with all these words.
	I guess by the time this is over...
	We're all going to be speaking like Farsi and Arabic and ancient Hebrew and everything before we're done, right?
	But Yemen has shown that it can actually hold the entire U.S. Navy at bay.
	And nobody from the U.S. predicted that.
	I mean, nobody in the military.
	So what do you think is going to happen if Russia starts launching Oreshnik missiles at U.S. aircraft carriers?
	Well, I can tell you what's going to happen.
	It's going to be aircraft carriers with holes punched through them.
	Large holes all the way through, from the flight deck down through the hole and continuing on into the water.
	And these are going to be holes that are about a meter in diameter each.
	And there's going to be 36 of them, give or take.
	And aircraft carriers are going to sink to the bottom of the Arabian Sea.
	That's what's going to happen.
	You know, the Harry S. Truman no longer has any crewmen because they all sank to the bottom of the sea to join Davy Jones' locker.
	I mean, that's honestly where this is headed.
	And when U.S. aircraft carriers start getting taken out, well, that's exactly what the Warhawks want in D.C. Then they'll be like, nuke them all!
	You know, nuke everybody!
	And the first stupid son of a bitch that launches a nuke, no matter who it is, It's going to set off global thermonuclear war.
	It could be a nuke in India.
	It could be a nuke from Israel.
	It could be Pakistan.
	It could be maybe Iran's got nukes.
	I think they do.
	Maybe they decide, like, it's now or never.
	The first stupid son of a bitch that launches a nuke dooms humanity.
	And it feels like we're right on the verge of at least a very high-risk scenario of that happening.
	Now, that's why I'm covering these topics today.
	I didn't set out to cover this.
	I have a really wonderful report for you that I wanted to do instead about pharmaceuticals causing nutritional deficiencies and what you can do to stop that.
	I've got other amazing reports about forbidding cures and health topics and so on, and I really hope to get to one of those tomorrow.
	But I can't stop the Trump news machine here.
	All the new announcements and the Middle East news machine and World War III news machine and all these things are happening.
	And I keep putting those as the higher priority because it's really critical.
	I believe that we know what's happening and why it's happening and we understand the dynamics.
	And the big takeaway from today's broadcast here is that the East versus the West teams, so to speak, Are now well-formed.
	We know what World War III is going to look like.
	And it's not one continent versus another continent.
	There are parties on essentially almost every continent that are going to be involved in an East versus West war.
	But here's a big takeaway.
	Russia has more nuclear weapons than anybody else in the world, by far.
	More than the United States.
	Russia has a more modern nuclear military system.
	Russia has the best anti-air defense systems.
	We just saw in Israel that America's anti-air defense systems don't work.
	America's navy is practically obsolete.
	The whole idea of aircraft carrier is obsolete in this day of, you know, drones and long-range missiles and hypersonic missiles and Oreshnik systems.
	And maybe exotic satellite weapon systems that China probably has, etc.
	Aircraft carriers are not going to win this war.
	You know, it's not the 1940s.
	And, of course, never forget that North Korea probably has an orbital nuke, too.
	An orbital nuke that can set off an EMP detonation over North America, taking out the power grid.
	And China has nukes that can do that.
	And Russia has the Poseidon underwater drone nukes that I believe are parked off the coast of, well, the east coast of America, the west coast, and also the coastal regions off Britain.
	So they can be detonated at any time by Russia, remotely, obviously, via satellite, and those will cause the radioactive tidal wave that it would just inundate the UK.
	Much of Britain, in any case, the island of Britain would be largely uninhabitable for 300 years.
	But it could also cause devastating damage to the east coast of America, wipe out Norfolk, Virginia, Washington, D.C., New York City, all the way down to Pedo World, Disney World in Florida, all of it.
	And it would get Mar-a-Lago, too, at the same time.
	We are on the verge of a very, very dangerous, precarious situation.
	And I am not seeing, out of the Trump administration, and again, I'm not looking for things to complain about, but I am not seeing any grasp of history.
	Like, when Trump says that the U.S. did the most to win World War II and defeat Adolf Hitler.
	Like, seriously?
	Dude.
	I mean, where does Trump get this stuff?
	Does he not know the sacrifice that the Soviets made?
	Largely Russians?
	In World War II?
	Did he not read about the Battle of Stalingrad?
	Where there were more Russians that died in that one battle over that one city?
	Like three or four times the number of Americans that died in the entire war in both the Pacific theater and the European theater.
	Both!
	You know, Trump...
	Trump just throws out these claims.
	America won World War II.
	Not really.
	Not in the European theater.
	Without Russia, Hitler would have won.
	Russia defeated Hitler far more than did America.
	Russia was fighting Hitler earlier and...
	Lost at least 20 million people in the fight to defeat Hitler.
	And even Winston Churchill credited, well, I say Russia, but I mean the Soviet Union.
	He credited the Soviets with defeating Hitler, grinding them up.
	So I'm not seeing any knowledge of history at all, which is worrisome.
	And then involving China and trade wars and so on, I'm not seeing any knowledge of The culture of China, the culture of Asia.
	I've spoken about this given that, of course, I speak Chinese and I lived in Taiwan and I toured various countries around Asia.
	And it's not an exaggeration to say that just myself alone, I have more knowledge of China and Asia than anybody in the Trump administration.
	At least anybody that we, names that we have heard, like new nominees, etc.
	Not one of them seems to have any knowledge of China.
	And I'm not an expert.
	I just lived in Taiwan.
	I lived in Asia.
	You know, I speak Chinese.
	I know the culture.
	And I know that you don't run around publicly shaming the president of China and hoping he's going to bow down to your trade deal.
	That is...
	Absolutely not going to work.
	I know that.
	Trump doesn't know that.
	And see, it's very worrisome when you have a White House, you have this executive branch in charge, and they lack historical knowledge, they lack economic knowledge, they lack geopolitical knowledge, and they run around the world as like a belligerent bully just barking out.
	Demands of everybody and saying, if you don't agree with us, we're going to bomb you into oblivion.
	And by the way, here's more sanctions for you.
	And we're going to control who you are allowed to buy energy from.
	So we're going to have secondary sanctions.
	We're going to control who you can buy from, who you can sell to, what you're allowed to buy.
	And we're going to put tariffs on your products that you export to America, like crazy high tariffs.
	And somehow we're going to charge tariffs on movies that are made in your country, too.
	Nobody knows how that's going to work.
	But this is not...
	You've heard that book called How to Win Friends and Influence People?
	Napoleon Hill, I think, is the author of that.
	This is not a Napoleon Hill guide to winning friends and influencing the world.
	Not at all.
	This is really what Trump is demonstrating right now.
	Honestly, it's a showcase.
	Of how to piss off everybody on planet Earth.
	Or nearly everybody.
	I mean, think about all the countries out there.
	Think about Canada.
	Carney, the crazy globalist, won the election, beat the conservatives just because Carney was like, I'm going to stand up to Trump.
	That was all it took.
	And the Canadians voted for him because they hate Trump.
	Of course Canadians hate Trump.
	Because, you know, Canadians tend to be very liberal.
	Not all of them in Alberta, etc., but you get the idea, in the cities.
	But Trump has so far managed to make tons of enemies all over the world, and he's not, in my view, he's not demonstrating an ability to deal with China or Russia or even Iran with any kind of dignity or respect.
	And he's not treating China like an equal.
	He's not treating Russia like an equal.
	He's not treating Iran like it has any right to exist at all.
	And this is not diplomacy.
	Don't dare call it diplomacy.
	It's something vastly inferior to diplomacy.
	It's international coercion, bullying.
	I don't know, terrorism, you could say?
	Just running around the world threatening to bomb everybody?
	Unless they do what you say.
	That may have worked for America since the end of World War II, but it's not going to work any longer.
	It's clearly not working now.
	And I don't see the policy flexibility in the Trump administration to adapt to the modern-day needs of geopolitics.
	I mean, Frankly, not that I would do this, but they should send me to negotiate with the Chinese or to negotiate with Iran or to negotiate with Russia.
	I mean, I would do a better job than anybody else they sent.
	But I'm not going to go there and pound them on the head and say, do what we want or we're going to bomb you.
	I would say, where can we find some common interests?
	How do we resolve this conflict in a way that is mutually beneficial to all of us and helps protect the futures of all of our populations?
	And how do we avoid war?
	How do we maximize the synergy of working together?
	And I would do that everywhere.
	But, of course, Israel doesn't want that.
	Israel doesn't want coexistence with Iran.
	And NATO doesn't want coexistence with Russia.
	And the neocons in the Trump administration, they don't want China to exist.
	So it's almost as if negotiating is pointless because really, at least what the war hawks want is just to destroy China, destroy Iran, destroy Russia.
	Like, that's it.
	And this whole trade war with China, as I mentioned yesterday, Trump doesn't have demands of China to...
	To do anything other than just to die.
	If you think about it, Trump is saying that China sells us too much stuff causing a trade imbalance.
	So his only demand really is like stop selling us stuff.
	Well, then why doesn't Trump go to the retailers in America and say stop buying the stuff?
	Because China is just shipping the stuff that America is buying.
	Right?
	So why doesn't Trump go to Walmart?
	And put a tariff on Walmart.
	I'm not saying he should, but just, you know, as a thought experiment, put a tariff on Walmart, stop ordering from China.
	And the answer is because the government's not allowed to tell you where you can or cannot purchase things from, but that's exactly what the Trump administration does to other countries with secondary sanctions, saying if you buy oil from Iran, then we're going to block you from trading with America.
	I was listening to Peter Schiff over the weekend, too, and Peter Schiff made a really good point.
	He said, if we blockade a country from doing business with America, does it also mean we block them from buying U.S. Treasuries?
	Because, you know, we can't find anybody to buy the Treasuries anymore.
	Because internationally, who's dumb enough to buy U.S. Treasuries?
	Especially like a 10-year Treasury.
	Who thinks the U.S. is good for it for 10 years?
	Yeah, you'd have to be an idiot.
	To buy treasuries.
	At this point, the U.S. isn't going to be here in 10 years paying off treasuries.
	So that's why nobody wants to buy them.
	That's why the Fed has to print the money to buy the treasuries.
	That's why China's not loading up on treasuries.
	They're selling them off.
	Everybody's selling.
	And Japan has the largest collection of U.S. treasuries.
	And Japan's in a financial crisis, and at some point they're going to have to start unloading big time to save themselves.
	The situation is not pretty.
	And the primary tools of Western nations, Israel, the United States, the UK, it's violence.
	It's violence.
	It's the US Navy blowing up the Nord Stream pipelines.
	It's Israel bombing civilians in Gaza.
	It's the UK providing weapons for Israel to bomb.
	And so does the US, obviously.
	It's France threatening to nuke Russia, you know, other silly things like that.
	The West only knows violence.
	Meanwhile, China's not running around threatening to nuke anybody, and Russia only talks about it as a last-ditch defense if Europe loses its mind and can't stop trying to fight Russia.
	You know, Russia's...
	I mean, even over the weekend, Putin said...
	That we were the rational ones, that Europe wanted to provoke us into nuking European targets, and we resisted.
	We said no.
	And he's right.
	It was a trap.
	There was clearly an effort to try to provoke Putin into nuking a European city or a European military base so that the Western forces could then justify a nuclear retaliation against Moscow in particular.
	So Putin was correct, and he held off.
	He did not escalate to nukes, and he just fought a slow, plodding war on the ground, you know, meter by meter, block by block, doing it the hard way in order to not provoke a Western nuclear retaliation response.
	And that shows a level of maturity on the part of Putin that Western leaders don't show at all.
	Pete Hegseth.
	He's absolutely unqualified to be the Secretary of Defense.
	He does not have the maturity.
	Like I said before, he tweets like a TikTok teenager.
	He doesn't have the maturity to run the Pentagon.
	You need a statesman to run it.
	Somebody who is more reserved and more diplomatic.
	And who is that?
	I don't know.
	Do we even have anybody like that anymore?
	Not in the Trump administration.
	So really, to summarize all this, the posture of Western countries, largely the U.S., but others, is do what we say or else we will make it hurt.
	We'll bomb you.
	We'll sanction you.
	We'll unleash the CIA.
	We'll assassinate you.
	Whatever.
	We'll do all kinds of horrible things.
	We'll use weather weapons, agricultural bioweapons, we'll cause famine in your food supply, you name it.
	I mean, that's what the West does, okay?
	And what do the Eastern countries try to do?
	Well, I mean, yes, they mess with us in some ways, like China with the fentanyl on the border, which is a big deal, and that's got to stop.
	But overall, the Eastern nations...
	Don't want nuclear war, but they want trade.
	They want trade.
	China just wants the restoration of the normalization of trade with the U.S. And after yesterday's podcast, I heard from a couple of people who say, well, China's not engaged in fair trade.
	They're not fair.
	They're manipulating their currency, things like that.
	Well, if I think of one country that's manipulating its currency...
	The most, it's the United States.
	The U.S. has massive currency manipulation through massive trillions of dollars of currency printing, which is a total form of manipulation.
	The U.S. manipulates the gold and silver spot prices with paper contract trading every day.
	And the U.S. manipulates and interferes with world trade with sanctions and secondary sanctions and cutting off countries from the SWIFT system.
	That's not fair.
	The way the U.S. conducts international trade is extremely unfair.
	So it's...
	I laugh when I hear the Trump administration say, well, China's not playing by the rules.
	Are we playing by the rules?
	Really?
	Are we playing by the rules of stealing $300 billion from Russia because we can?
	Cutting off Russia from the SWIFT system because we can?
	Bombing Yemen when Yemen poses no threat to America?
	Threatening to bomb Iran completely illegally, even though Iran poses no threat to America?
	You know, this Netanyahu line that if Iran attacks Israel, then he's coming for America next.
	Nonsense.
	It's just more fear-mongering by Netanyahu, an expert in manipulation.
	Since the 1990s, pre-9-11, even involving 9-11, by the way, Netanyahu has been at the front of all of this to get the U.S. to attack Israel's enemies.
	And it has worked.
	You know, Saddam Hussein, Libya, Syria, you know, you name it, right?
	Netanyahu has been manipulating us the whole time.
	But don't pretend that the U.S. is engaged in fair trade.
	It's laughable.
	The U.S. would be the most unfair trading partner on the planet today because the U.S. tries to dictate wildly unreasonable demands.
	and burdens placed on other countries in order to do business with the United States, like this 100% tariffs on movies made out Okay, again, how do you even calculate that?
	What does that even mean?
	So the bottom line is, again, I am not going out of my way to try to hammer Trump or his administration.
	I'm trying to give you an honest assessment of how things are shaping up.
	And to express my sincere concerns about the direction that we're headed.
	I'm very concerned about the future of our republic.
	I'm very concerned about the safety of not just Americans, but people all over the world.
	I'm concerned that we're about to suffer an economic, almost a third world experience.
	That is, if we don't get trade restored with China.
	I'm afraid that for the second half of this year in America, It's going to be something like a third world experience for a lot of people.
	And I am not going to be standing in some food line for some government rations and handouts or, you know, biometric scanning to enter a grocery store to get, you know, your daily cup of rice or whatever nonsense.
	Forget that.
	I'm not doing that because I've already stored the food.
	I can make it through years if necessary.
	I'm not going to end up in a food line.
	I'm not going to end up in a FEMA camp, whatever.
	But a lot of people will the way this is going.
	And I don't want to see that happen.
	I don't want to see war.
	I certainly don't want to see nuclear war.
	And I don't want to see, for example, Iranian-Americans rounded up and thrown in concentration camps because that's what the U.S. does like they did to the Japanese-Americans in World War II.
	And I don't want to see Asian-Americans Looked at with suspicion because we're in a war with China.
	You know why?
	You know why it's especially bad?
	Because, and it's going to sound racist but it isn't, because white people in America can't tell Asians apart.
	They don't know the difference between Chinese Asians and Taiwanese Asians.
	They think Taiwan is Thailand and they don't know the difference between Japanese and Koreans.
	So, you know, the typical American is just going to say, all Asians are bad, you know, just like what happened after 9-11.
	Like, all Middle Eastern looking people are bad, including, you know, Lebanese Christians.
	It's insane.
	But I don't want to see that happen in America.
	The worst part about war is it tears a multicultural country apart based on the ethnicities, the way people look.
	And just because Somebody is here who doesn't speak good English, and just because they look Chinese, it doesn't mean they're from China.
	They could be the most anti-China person imaginable.
	They could be a U.S. immigrant that loves this nation and knows more about freedom than typical Americans.
	But they're going to get discriminated against by, frankly, just a lot of low-information Americans.
	You're going to see...
	Like, random hate crimes against Chinese-looking people, and then it's going to turn out they're not even Chinese.
	And this is what happens in war.
	So, by God, we've got to stay out of these wars.
	I don't want to see anybody suffer.
	That's where I'm coming from.
	So, I'm going to wrap this up here, but I wanted to tell you, I'm coming at this from a posture of good faith.
	And Christian faith, like real Christian faith here, which is, you know, love your neighbor, let's love each other to the extent we can.
	I mean, we're not going to love, you know, mass murderers like Netanyahu, obviously, but love each other as much as we can, defend our families against, you know, pedos and Democrats, obviously, you know, transgender mutilators and things like that, but our overall posture should be one of love for humanity.
	And that's what I'm trying to get at.
	How do we create a world where we live in peace and where we all have access to prosperity and where it's a meritocracy, we get to keep mostly what we earn, and we don't have governments looting us with currency printing, and we don't live under totalitarian regimes that engage in censorship.
	How do we create that world?
	And I dare say to you, the way we create that world is by dismantling big government.
	Big government is not going to save us from those kinds of outcomes.
	Big government causes enslavement, poverty, war, plandemics, vaccine mandates, autism, right?
	Big government causes these things.
	The answer is to dismantle big government as much as you can.
	Defund it, dismantle it, prosecute the traitors in government.
	Prosecute the authoritarians wherever you can and shut it down.
	And I've said this publicly.
	I've said it's kind of crazy to be celebrating the changing of the people who run the authoritarian, tyrannical government system.
	Like, yay, we're so happy that, you know, Kash Patel is in there now.
	Yay, we're happy that RFK Jr. is in there now.
	Yay, we're happy that Trump is in there now.
	I understand the short-term celebration, but my bigger point is none of us are safe while the system exists.
	We have to dismantle the system.
	We have to slash the size of government by 90% to have anything resembling freedom, liberty, security in this country.
	So that's my takeaway point in all of this.
	Stop applauding.
	Changing the people that run the system of tyranny.
	Because you know what's going to happen.
	Two years later or four years later, Democrats are going to roll their people right in and they're just going to switch it all back to censorship and authoritarianism and child mutilations and everything else.
	Because nothing has changed.
	The whole infrastructure of tyranny is still there.
	Because Trump's people haven't dismantled it.
	Hardly.
	I mean, there's a little bit that's happened.
	Doge and Elon Musk, I think he was trying his best.
	And frankly, he kind of got shut out of the process.
	I wish Elon Musk would be given the power to do some serious cuts across even the Pentagon and HHS and everything.
	But the swamp runs deep, so they booted him out of there.
	And I feel for...
	His frustration.
	I really do.
	I wouldn't even want that job.
	So anyway, my offer to Trump is I'll go negotiate with China for you, but you might not like the deal that we come up with because China's not going to bow down to the U.S., and I can't change that.
	But I'll go negotiate with China for you.
	Sure.
	You know, put me on a...
	Government plane and give me the power to negotiate and I'll go meet with Chinese negotiators and I'll get the best deal we can, but I don't think that we're going to get a very good deal that Trump wants.
	I don't think China's going to commit suicide economically just because Trump doesn't like the trade imbalance.
	That's probably why they won't even consider sending me there.
	Although I wouldn't mind getting to see some of...
	China's cities, or even Russia's cities for that matter.
	Sure, I'll be a negotiator.
	You're not going to like the results.
	That's for sure.
	Anyway, China wouldn't even let me come in because I support Taiwan independence, so they would be like, nope, you're not allowed.
	Taiwan is our country.
	And I would say, well, why does Taiwan have its own president and its own currency and its own banks and its own...
	Language, its own cities, its own embassies, its own borders, its own everything.
	How is that not its own country?
	And that would be the end, and they'd put me back on the plane and ship me back to America.
	So, yeah, maybe I'll just stay here in Texas and keep doing what I'm doing.
	All right, so I've got a really interesting interview summary coming up.
	This is called America's Power Grid, a wake-up call.
	This is my interview with David Tice.
	Which was many months ago, but this is the new AI-generated summary of that interview.
	It's about a six-minute video.
	And this is well worth watching.
	David Tice has some rather fascinating information here.
	And then instead of playing an interview today, I'll have a fresh interview for you tomorrow.
	We've got some good ones lined up for you.
	But instead of that, I'm going to play the Sunday weekend broadcast.
	That features that Bloomberg interview with Gene, I forgot his last name, the head of the L.A. port.
	So you'll hear my full analysis of that.
	And then also my new song called The Math Ain't Mathin', which I put together.
	It's become a more popular phrase as people realize that it's not adding up, how much the groceries cost, and the dollars losing value.
	So I did a song, a pretty quick song, called The Math Ain't.
	Mathen, and we'll play that for you as well.
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	Say, five to seven weeks before probably a lot of the China-made products start disappearing off store shelves in America.
	So if you want to get a solar generator, do so in the next five to seven weeks.
	And you can do that at sat123.com.
	And if you fail to do that, you know, the prices might double.
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	I don't think you can get solar generators made in Mexico or Canada.
	Or even in America without using Chinese components.
	So this is going to be really interesting going through all this.
	But here's the Bright Learn book, America's Power Grid, an interview with David Tice, followed by my podcast from yesterday and our new song, The Math Ain't Mathin'.
	Enjoy, and I'll be back with you tomorrow.
	I'm your host, Bright Learn, and today...
	We're tackling a subject that should have every single one of us on high alert.
	The terrifying vulnerability of America's power grid.
	Yes, you heard me right.
	Our power grid is in serious trouble, and it's time we all paid attention.
	Now, I recently had the privilege of speaking with David Tice, the producer of the eye-opening documentary Grid Down Power Up.
	This film is a must-watch.
	Featuring none other than Dennis Quaid as the narrator, and it's available right now on YouTube.
	If you haven't seen it yet, I highly recommend you do.
	The film is a wake-up call, highlighting four major threats to our power grid.
	Physical attacks, cyber attacks, EMP attacks, and geomagnetic disturbances.
	But why should you care?
	Well, let me paint you a picture.
	Imagine a world without electricity.
	No Facebook.
	No Snapchat.
	No YouTube.
	In fact, during this interview, several major platforms experienced outages.
	Coincidence?
	Maybe.
	But it sure drives the point home.
	According to the EMP Commission, which operated for 17 years under the direction of Congress, if our power grid were to go down for nine months or more, up to 90% of Americans could die.
	Let that sink in for a moment.
	Ninety per cent.
	That's a staggering number, especially when you consider that the deadliest disaster in American history, the Galveston hurricane in the 1910s, claimed around 12,000 lives.
	David and his team are on a mission to alert America to these dangers.
	They've created a platform where viewers can easily contact their state and federal legislators, governors, and even utility board members to demand action.
	This isn't just a movie, it's the start of a movement.
	And they need your help to spread the word.
	Now you might be wondering, how much would it cost to protect our power grid?
	According to David, it's about 50 billion for EMP and geomagnetic disturbance protection.
	That might sound like a lot, but consider this.
	The US government recently debated sending 60 billion to Ukraine.
	And that's just one of many international expenditures.
	Why can't we invest in our own infrastructure and resilience?
	The good news is this is a solvable problem.
	There are technologies available, like zero ground blockers, that can protect against geomagnetic disturbances.
	The problem isn't a lack of solutions.
	It's a lack of political will and bureaucratic inefficiency.
	As David points out, we've passed legislation like the Critical Infrastructure Protection Act, and executive orders under the Trump administration, but these have largely been ignored by the agencies responsible for implementation.
	The consequences of inaction are dire.
	During the winter of 2021, Texas nearly lost its power grid due to cold weather.
	This was a wake-up call, but it seems like we've hit the snooze button.
	We've seen cyber attacks on critical infrastructure, like the recent AT&T outage, These events highlight just how unprepared we are.
	Let's talk about the human cost.
	If the grid goes down, cities will stop functioning.
	Water supplies will be cut off, sewage systems will fail, and diseases like cholera will run rampant.
	Violence will erupt as people fight for basic necessities.
	It's a grim picture.
	But it's one we can avoid if we act now.
	Now you might be thinking, what about solar power?
	Well, most solar systems are grid-tied, meaning they won't work if the grid goes down.
	Off-grid systems are rare and expensive, and the battery technology isn't quite there yet.
	But there are options.
	Companies like RU Solar can help you transition to a more resilient energy solution, though it won't be cheap.
	David emphasizes the need for a Manhattan Project level of effort to address this issue.
	We need a grid czar, someone who can cut through the bureaucracy and get things done.
	We need to overcome regulatory capture and amend the Federal Power Act for better regulation.
	As we look to the future, it's clear that we need to rethink our approach to energy.
	We need to be more self-sufficient and less reliant on a centralized grid.
	This means investing in renewable energy, improving battery technology, and creating a more resilient infrastructure.
	In closing, I want to remind you that this is a problem we can solve.
	It will take effort, resources, and a collective will to act.
	But the alternative is unthinkable.
	We owe it to ourselves, our children, and future generations to take this threat seriously and demand action.
	Watch the film, share it with your friends and contact your legislators.
	Let's make this a priority and ensure that we never face the catastrophic consequences of a grid failure.
	Thank you for tuning in to Bright Learn.
	Don't forget to subscribe and share this episode with everyone you know.
	Together, we can make a difference.
	Stay safe, stay informed and let's power up, not grid down.
	God bless you all.
	This has been a BrightLearn.ai summary of an interview between David Tice and Mike Adams on March 6, 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.
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	Welcome to this weekend Red Alert edition of Bright Town Broadcast News.
	I'm Mike Adams.
	This is for Sunday, May 4th, 2025.
	And the reason this is a Red Alert is because yesterday, Gene Soroka, the executive director of the Port of Los Angeles, he was interviewed by Bloomberg News, and he gave a, well, rather level-headed sounding sort of his presentation.
	Of the information about what's happening with the port of L.A., it sounds very level-headed.
	And then when you actually parse what he says, it's very horrifying what is about to happen to the U.S. economy.
	Now, let me back up here for a second and say the following, because there's something about many Trump supporters right now where they are just They're in a state of denial about what's about to happen.
	And we know this is going to happen because we know how many ships are not sailing to the United States, okay?
	This is like having a hurricane forecast that's like five to seven weeks out, okay, which is normally we don't have hurricane forecasts that far out.
	But even when a hurricane forecast is 10 days out, nobody does anything until it's one day out.
	You notice that?
	And then the day before the hurricane, even though this happens in Florida all the time, right?
	So there's a hurricane forecast that's 10 days or sometimes even two weeks out, and it gets closer to seven days out.
	It's going to be bad.
	It gets closer to five days out.
	People do nothing, I mean most people, until it's one day out.
	And then what happens?
	They all panic and they go out and buy bottled water and groceries and flashlights and everything.
	Happens every time.
	Every time.
	And gasoline, you know, lines at the gas station.
	Nobody does anything until the very last day.
	Okay?
	Well, we have a forecast right now that is weeks out, and we're going to go through the timeline for you.
	But before we go through this timeline, I want you to hear this interview for yourself, because frankly, it's not that long, but it's packed with very important...
	So I'm going to play the interview for you here right now.
	Again, it's only a couple of minutes.
	Listen carefully, and then we'll parse what Gene actually says here.
	And remember, this is Bloomberg News, and this is the director of the Port of Los Angeles, okay?
	This isn't me projecting numbers, making up numbers.
	This isn't me.
	This is the director of the Port of Los Angeles saying this.
	So check this out.
	Just describe for us.
	Let's take a beat.
	Really frame it for us.
	How much volume has just dropped off?
	In the last few weeks?
	Yeah, about a third of the import volume, which means, give or take, about 50,000 20-foot equivalent units gone off the arrivals coming in next week.
	From next week is when you expect to see this really hit.
	That's correct.
	And that matches up.
	The announcement's back on April 2nd.
	Then on April 8th, a little bit of a change on everybody, ex-China, Mexico, Canada.
	And those arrivals are coming at us this weekend.
	We'll, of course, dedicate time to your poor, but I'm just wondering how you're anticipating this rolls and ripples through the economy from here, how it hits trucking, when this turns up on the shelf.
	What's the distance, the time from when you see a drop off in volume and when we as consumers see a drop off in volume?
	Right, so CEOs are telling me, hit the pause button, right?
	I'm not going to import any more at these kind of prices.
	Let's wait and see.
	I don't know if it's going to be two hours, two days, or two weeks until I get some clarity.
	Hiring off the table for right now.
	Capital investment, pause.
	And the retailers are telling me that realistically, even the 10%, I'm going to have to pass it on to the consumers.
	So how much is this really coming from all over?
	It's not just about China.
	This is about really global trade coming to a standstill until there is a much greater degree of certainty and a much lower tariff rate than even the baseline that's been put out there.
	Yeah, when I was last with you all, Lisa, I said global trade's going to slow, economies will follow, and that's exactly what we're seeing.
	Back in November, so many of us were wringing our hands about 4% inflation.
	We've just added 10 percentage points of imports coming out of Southeast Asia for our port, and these unbelievable numbers.
	How much are you going to see a real decline in dock workers if this goes on?
	Yeah, this is the question.
	So the trucker hauling four or five containers today, next week, she probably hauls two or three.
	The dock workers are no longer going to see overtime and double shifts.
	They're going to probably work less than a traditional work week, starting right off the bat.
	Every four containers mean a job.
	So when we start dialing this back, it's less job opportunities.
	And what happens if we get a deal?
	If we get a deal, it's going to take about a month.
	Let me walk you through that real quick.
	About two weeks to get the ships repositioned around these major ports, from Qingdao to Shanghai to Xiamen, load up all those containers, and then another two weeks to steam across the Pacific to get to us.
	This is important because now we're talking about spring and summer fashion.
	So we're kind of at a crux here that we've got to have something pretty quick.
	And back to school, which is, I think, very critical when it comes to political pushback for this administration.
	We have a story out.
	It was anecdotal reporting as well.
	We've heard about China quietly starting to exempt about a quarter of U.S. imports.
	Are any U.S. importers exempting Chinese tariffs?
	Is there a way to get around the 145 percent?
	Not really.
	There may be some exceptions, Anne-Marie, maybe a little bit going north or south of us.
	But realistically speaking, nobody is out there talking a lot about, hey, I got a better deal coming out of China.
	The Flexport CEO joined us earlier in the week and he said ocean fright is down 60% from China.
	When do we see 100%?
	Good question.
	It depends on how long this goes.
	We heard the reports overnight through Bloomberg that the folks in China are thinking about talking.
	What does that mean?
	Okay, great.
	But we've got to get a move on here.
	The other thing is that retailers are saying, we've got about five to seven weeks of normal inventory in the country right now.
	Then we start to see spot shortages if it goes on much beyond this.
	All right.
	So it's fascinating what he says and then how he says it.
	One of the things, a piece of feedback that I get from people sometimes is that they think that the way I present information is too scary.
	No.
	Have you heard this before?
	How am I supposed to...
	I mean, look.
	This isn't a snuggle fest.
	This isn't hugging therapy class.
	I'm here to alert you.
	To what's about to happen to all of us.
	And if you just heard Gene, what's his name again?
	Soroka.
	If you just heard Gene Soroka, if you actually break it down, which is what we're going to do here, it's not a festival of fun.
	So I say that the way people interpret what I say is their responsibility and their own emotional reaction is also their responsibility.
	My responsibility is to be accurate and to give you the information in a sense of good faith with the prayer and the hope that by giving you this information that it will help you avoid a problem.
	That's where I'm coming from.
	That's a good faith posture to share this information with you.
	So I want to say that all up front because what you're about to hear...
	To some people, it's scary.
	Well, it shouldn't be scary if you just get ready.
	And if you know what's coming, it shouldn't be scary at all.
	What would be scary is not being prepared.
	And then at the very last minute, say, oh my god, the shelves are empty.
	We've run out of everything.
	What do we do now?
	That sounds scary.
	That sounds crazy, actually.
	But let's just break it down.
	Because again, the way that Gene Soroka...
	Yeah, Soroka.
	That's an interesting last name.
	The way he says this is with a smile.
	It's like he's, you know, giving you an update on the fundraising results for a non-profit or something.
	Like, everything's great.
	We took in record money.
	But actually, he's talking about the collapse of the domestic supply chain.
	It's wild, man.
	It's wild.
	It's like my friend Dan from I Allegedly, you know?
	He's got a very popular YouTube channel, and he walks around all these beautiful places around Los Angeles and other areas.
	He'll go to this beautiful botanical garden, and he's walking around the garden filming himself, and with a smile, giving you the most doomsday real estate collapse news possible, but he presents it in such a gentle way.
	Nobody takes it as Shocking or anything, right?
	It's very gentle, which is great, and some people need it that way.
	But the way I deliver information is to, I mean, if it's justified, to try to jolt you into action.
	It's like, hey, something's incoming here.
	There's a storm approaching, you know?
	Are you ready for the storm?
	So let's talk about that storm.
	Here it is.
	So the timeline of supply chain disruptions in the USA.
	And by the way, I've published this at naturalnews.com, so you can see it there right now.
	Here's the timeline based on what Mr. Soroka just said.
	Okay, so let's begin.
	For the next one to two weeks, which will take us roughly across mid-May, we're going to have, according to Mr. Soroka, we already have a 30% decline in incoming shipments.
	He said 50,000 fewer.
	20-foot containers or 20-foot equivalent containers.
	And that happens Monday, okay?
	And then he says it gets worse in the following week.
	We'll get there.
	But he says CEOs are telling him they're freezing imports, they're freezing hiring, and they're freezing capital investments because of the uncertainty.
	Of course, that makes sense, right?
	Why would you invest in anything related to trade if you have no idea what Trump is going to do tomorrow?
	Either on the side of a deal or no deal.
	You don't know.
	So you can't really make any decisions at all about investing money or ordering products or setting up an import warehouse or launching a marketing campaign or anything if it's related to goods from China.
	Okay.
	Now, so far, that's pretty mild.
	That's just the next one to two weeks.
	Now let's look at three to four weeks out.
	Which I'm going to say is, let's say early June, okay?
	Visible shortages on the shelves.
	So Chinese-made goods begin running out, this is just the beginning, as the pre-existing shipments are depleted.
	So Walmart relies heavily on China, but not entirely.
	Amazon reportedly relies about 70% on Chinese-made goods.
	So we could see tremendous shortages on Amazon beginning in early June.
	But remember, I'm saying just beginning.
	It'll be much worse in July.
	There will still be plenty of certain items in stock in June, but it'll get worse in July.
	So in June, we're looking at spot shortages for high-demand items like electronics and seasonal goods.
	Okay, then we're going to see also a transportation slowdown, reduced loads for truckers where they normally might have four to five containers in a day.
	It's going to be cut down to two to three, according to Gene there.
	That's going to cut into their wages.
	Dock workers are going to lose overtime.
	They're going to shift to below standard work weeks, which will slow operations.
	Or you could say that's a response to slowed operations.
	All right, now.
	Let's continue on.
	Five to seven weeks out.
	This is what Mr. Soroka specifically mentioned.
	He says that in five to seven weeks that retailers will exhaust their normal stockpiles of inventory.
	So within five to seven weeks, which I'm going to say is end of June.
	Is that fair to say roughly end of June?
	Empty shelves will become widespread.
	And you're going to see retailers across America Desperately trying to spread out the products they have to fill the shelves to make sure the shelves don't visually look empty.
	But you'll run into things where you go to a shelf where you would normally find a product and it's not there.
	Instead, there's some other product that's filling up the space, you know?
	That's what retailers will do just to not look empty.
	Back-to-school items are going to face shortages if no resolution is reached very soon.
	There would be an economic spillover into the domestic economy.
	Inflation spikes as scarcity drives up prices.
	And my note on this is that right now, at retailers across America, including Amazon, including Walmart, including Best Buy and Lowe's and whatever, these companies have products even on sale right now that are going to be wiped out in Five to seven weeks.
	It's crazy.
	None of these retailers have yet factored in the scarcity of these items, which means that if there's something that you think you need coming up, like a new dishwasher, a new blender, a new toaster, a new umbrella, whatever, you can get it now at the normal price because it was shipped into the U.S. effectively two months ago.
	You're buying, you know, March shipments right now, or maybe February, depending on how much inventory there was.
	You're buying early 2025 shipments right now.
	And these retailers don't have the presence of mind, or something, or they're delusional, to realize the supply shortage scarcity that's coming.
	And the thing is, we know it's coming.
	Because as Mr. Soroka there just explained, we already know how many ships aren't coming.
	It's like there's a pipeline.
	You know, there's a pipeline from China to L.A. and other ports.
	There's a pipeline.
	And you can literally bring up a satellite map and a ship tracking website and you can track all the ships.
	Just like you can track, you know, plane flights.
	You can track all the ships and you can see they're mostly not there.
	Well, actually, they're hanging around off the east coast of China right now.
	They're not in the Pacific, where they would normally be if they're carrying loads, is the thing.
	So you already know that they're not coming.
	Again, this is like a hurricane forecast where the hurricane is five to seven weeks out.
	But, like, imagine this.
	Imagine if you knew there was going to be a hurricane in seven weeks, and you ran around telling everybody in Florida, hey, there's going to be a Category 5 hurricane in seven weeks, and nobody believed you.
	Because they're like, this is not going to be a hurricane.
	Trump wouldn't let that happen, you know?
	He can control the hurricanes now.
	That's what I feel like right now.
	I'm like, this...
	This scarcity is five to seven weeks out.
	We can see it.
	We know the ships aren't coming.
	We know how the pipeline works, or at least some of us know.
	I know, you know, a few of us realize this.
	You know, the average American doesn't understand anything about where products come from.
	See, that's why this is going to be such a shock to American consumers, especially around late June, early July.
	So right around July 4th.
	Oh, man.
	This is going to be bad, and there's literally no way to stop it in time to turn it around by July 4th, is my point.
	I mean, I know it's only early May, but even if Trump reached a deal Monday with China, and everybody agreed to drop all the tariffs, and China says, okay, we'll turn the factories back on, you know that they've got to...
	Go get their workers again, right?
	And you know, half their workers went back to the countryside where they live in China.
	They don't really live in the cities except during the work week in dormitories with cots.
	A lot of them, you know, a lot of the workers live way outside the city and they got sent home.
	They're not in the city anymore.
	And it's going to take weeks to gather up the workers again.
	And then to restart the domestic delivery infrastructure and some of the supply chain shocks in China domestically have already bankrupted some of the suppliers and some of the transportation companies and some of the factories.
	So you actually can't just flip it back on like a light switch.
	So walk through this with me here.
	You know, if a deal is reached on Monday...
	Which is not going to happen because China says they're going to hold out for years, you know?
	I mean, I hope they're wrong.
	I hope that this doesn't last for years.
	That would just be horrific.
	But they're not going to solve this on Monday.
	If they did, it'd probably be 30 days before the factories even get back online.
	So that's like, what, early June before they get back online?
	And then the factories have to...
	Get deliveries of raw materials and start making stuff.
	So they don't really have stuff finished until end of June.
	Then they loaded on the sea vessels, which takes a couple of weeks.
	So that's halfway through July.
	And then it ships to the U.S., which takes two to three weeks.
	Let's just be generous and say end of July.
	It arrives in the port of L.A. And then it gets put on trucks and there's another...
	At least another week, often more like two to three weeks, depending on which cities, you know, Chicago and New York, it takes longer for everything to ripple through compared to West Coast, obviously Seattle.
	So now you're talking August before the shelves are restocked, and that's the optimistic best-case scenario, which is what I want to...
	Cover here from the story, in an optimistic scenario, if a trade deal is reached, it says that shelves could begin refilling after four weeks.
	But that analysis doesn't include the lag time of getting factories turned back on, which could easily be 30 days.
	So it's really not a one-month lag, it's a two-month lag.
	If a deal is reached Monday, and a deal's not going to be reached Monday.
	Why?
	Because, well, for cultural reasons that I covered previously, because China is not going to bow down and kiss the ring of Trump.
	You can absolutely be 100% assured of that.
	Why?
	Because China's suffered through its history, you know, the century of humiliation.
	China has had to bow down.
	To the UK and the US and Western countries and imperialist colonizers way too many times.
	I'm talking about from their point of view.
	And they're done with that.
	They are literally done with that.
	China is not going to cave to the US of that, I am certain.
	And it doesn't matter how bad the economy gets in China, and it's not going to be catastrophic because The U.S. only represents 15% of Chinese exports.
	I mean, they export all over the world, obviously.
	So if they lose the U.S. market, they can still survive.
	The U.S. probably cannot survive without a functioning supply chain of Chinese-made goods.
	Remember, we've covered this over the last few days.
	Everything from tools and pharmaceuticals, auto parts and components, appliances.
	You know, hospital gear, electronics, communications, consumer goods, everything you can imagine comes from China.
	Well, I mean, not every single thing comes from China, but I mean, China makes everything.
	Sometimes our retailers like Walmart might source it from Japan or Korea or Taiwan or Mexico or wherever else.
	But the predominant supply chain comes from China.
	And I've heard U.S. officials arguing that that puts us, America, in a great dominant negotiation position with China because we are the buyers.
	Therefore, we're in control because China needs our money.
	And I'm thinking, I mean, did you hear that?
	That's delusional.
	In this relationship, you have two parties.
	China is the producer.
	America...
	Is the consumer.
	Which one of these is much more difficult to create?
	It's much more difficult to be a producer.
	You have to have factories.
	You have to have domestic supply chains, raw materials, technology, workers.
	Consumers can be found anywhere.
	Anybody can consume.
	Peter Schiff was talking about this the other day.
	Consumers are a dime a dozen.
	Oh, you need another consumer here.
	Here's a whole busload of consumers.
	Anybody can buy shit, you know?
	The hard part is making stuff.
	So China doesn't need America to buy stuff.
	Anybody can buy stuff.
	They can find buyers anywhere.
	But America can't make the stuff.
	I mean, not anytime soon.
	Now, if we have a new program of setting up factories and job training and domestic supply chain building up everything, In maybe a decade, we could have something functioning on some kind of decent level.
	More like 20 years to really compete with China on this, and that assumes you have a culture of people willing to work in factories, which we don't.
	Or that you have job skills of people who can work in factories, which we don't.
	Or that you have domestic supply chains of all the minerals that you need, which we don't.
	It is truly delusional to think that because we buy all this stuff from China, that that puts us in the power position in a negotiation.
	No, it doesn't.
	Makes us in the weakest position.
	The strong position is the country that has the stuff that you want.
	The strong position is a country that's got the toasters, that can make toasters.
	And not just toasters, but flat-screen TVs and everything else.
	So, U.S. officials have it completely backwards, which is even more concerning because they are negotiating from a position of delusion rather than a position of economic reality.
	Now, if we look at the worst-case scenario, which I have covered in the article, We're looking at, and this is after seven weeks, we're looking at an ocean freight collapse that shipments from China could drop by 100%.
	Complete paralysis of trade with China, in other words, decoupling from China.
	That would cause desperate conditions, empty shelves, rampant theft, social unrest in urban areas across America, and long-term damage.
	That's inflation spirals, businesses halting expansions.
	Unemployment spreads way beyond just logistics.
	All right, so that's the upshot of the Gene Soroka interview.
	At least that's the analysis of what he said.
	So what I did, you know, because of course, I want to go out more than five to seven weeks.
	I want to find out what's going to happen if there's no deal for 16 weeks.
	Let's say that, you know, four months goes by and There's no deal.
	China is telling Trump to go pound sand, and it's a battle of egos between Trump and Xi, and neither one is budging.
	What happens then?
	So I took the timeline and the transcript of the interview with Gene, and I put that into Enoch, which is our AI engine at brightian.ai.
	And I asked Enoch to then project beyond 5 to 7 weeks.
	So, starting at 5 to 7 weeks, yes, empty shelves, retailers running out of their backup, supplies, auto parts begin to suffer shortages, inflation begins to rise, etc.
	Okay.
	What happens in 8 to 12 weeks if this continues?
	Then, according to Enoch, now this is a projection of our AI engine, You can decide whether you agree or disagree with the projection.
	I'm just reporting what AI is saying here.
	Now, and by the way, you can try this on ChatGPT or other AI engines.
	You can ask it to project what happens beyond five to seven weeks.
	It would be interesting to see what answers you get.
	But here are the answers that I got.
	Eight to 12 weeks out, which is August, you're going to have black markets and theft beginning to surge.
	Looting will increase in urban areas.
	You're going to have underground resale markets.
	Thanks.
	Yeah, here comes the black market economy.
	You'll have manufacturing shutdowns beginning.
	A lot of U.S. factories for cars, appliances, and medical devices will halt production because they're missing Chinese parts.
	Tech companies.
	Such as Apple or HP, etc., could delay product launches indefinitely until the trade embargo is resolved.
	You're going to begin to see a housing market collapse.
	Construction will stall because you don't have the Chinese-made materials needed to build homes like PVC pipes or wiring or what have you.
	Home prices are then going to plummet as buyers can't get repairs done.
	They are afraid of whether they can ever make it happen for a house, etc.
	So then, 13 to 16 weeks out, which would be September, desperation sets in.
	Then you're going to have, if this continues, if we don't have a deal and production hasn't resumed, then you're going to have food and medicine shortages, including antibiotics, Vitamins, because most vitamins are made in China.
	You're going to have pharmaceuticals running low.
	You'll have grocery stores rationing canned goods, including rice and frozen foods, because they rely on Chinese packaging and some meat products as well.
	You're going to have a currency and a financial crisis.
	Hyperinflation will begin to rear its head.
	I'm not saying full-blown hyperinflation, but you're going to see the purchasing power of the dollar plunge.
	The stock market will likely crash as corporate earnings collapse, although that can be delayed for some time because many corporations can delay their earnings reports, you know, for a quarter or so.
	So that might not happen right away, but eventually that will be realized.
	You're going to have civil unrest and riots will erupt in major cities over shortages of food and other supplies.
	The military might be deployed.
	To secure ports and distribution centers as the rioting masses try to raid the ports or raid trucks or raid distribution centers.
	Government may begin to ration essential goods such as medicine and food and fuel.
	So we're looking at the possibility of mass rationing controlled by the government.
	And wouldn't that be a great time?
	For the government to roll out a central bank digital currency with biometric scans, you know, total control over the population, which seems to be one of the goals.
	Now then, what happens if there's still no deal reached?
	So beyond 16 weeks, beyond September, what happens?
	According to the Enoch analysis, it's permanent economic damage.
	Millions will be unemployed.
	Factories will fail.
	Retail outlets will go bankrupt in large numbers.
	There will be a logistics collapse, logistics and transportation.
	The U.S. will be forced to try to rebuild supply chains from scratch, a process that will take many years, which means that the suffering will endure for years to come if a trade deal isn't reached.
	There will be global ripple effects, including...
	Bad news in Europe, Canada, Mexico, because there's a lot of trade between the U.S. and all those countries, but with U.S. companies going broke and U.S. consumers not having as much to spend anymore because of dollar devaluation, Americans will buy less stuff from all the other countries as well.
	China's economy will also collapse, according to the Enoch projection, because of the losses from the exports.
	I just said earlier that China's exports are only 15% to the United States, so I would disagree with Enoch here.
	I don't think China will collapse from losing 15% of its exports, but this is what Enoch is saying, that China's economy will collapse.
	Maybe it's right, and I'm wrong.
	And if China's economy does collapse, then that's going to spur a global recession, and that damage will spread, of course, to other Asian countries.
	Massive domino effect.
	So if you look at all of this, it becomes rather apparent that Trump and China only have a few weeks to reach a deal in order to avoid really catastrophic long-term damage to the U.S. economy.
	And as I mentioned earlier, for whatever reason, there's a certain group of Trump supporters that are just living in absolute denial of this, even though they can see the ships aren't sailing and the goods aren't coming in.
	But there's this disconnect, cognitive dissonance.
	They're like, well, the shelves won't be empty because Trump's our man.
	It doesn't even make any sense.
	It doesn't matter to me whether you're pro-Trump or anti-Trump or you love Orange Man or you think Orange Man.
	I'm talking about cause and effect here.
	I'm talking about the fact that The stuff that appears on the shelves doesn't appear by magic.
	Nobody waves a magic wand.
	It actually gets manufactured.
	I mean, I know this sounds...
	I'm not trying to sound condescending, okay?
	I'm just trying to remind all of us of the really complex supply chain of where this stuff comes from and how long it takes to get in.
	And there's a great example of this, which is the pencil.
	How complex is it to make a pencil?
	As simple as the item seems to be, nobody in America knows how to make a pencil.
	Nobody.
	You know why?
	Think about it.
	Think about all the components that have to be made.
	First of all, somebody's got to source all the graphite, which is the so-called lead.
	It's not actually made out of lead.
	It's graphite.
	Somebody's got to make that and purify that.
	Somebody's got to...
	Make the wood for the pencil, like source the wood, you know, cut the trees, process the trees.
	It requires all kinds of machines, all kinds of saws and sanders and everything to make the shape of the pencil.
	And then somehow you've got to put the graphite inside of it.
	I don't even know how that happens.
	And then you know you've got to paint it, right?
	Because pencils are painted, mostly yellow.
	That's paint.
	So now somebody's got to make paint.
	How do you make paint from scratch?
	You know, use an old Native American recipe or something.
	I don't know, but it involves chemicals, right?
	It involves pigments.
	It involves giant mixing vats and liquid handling equipment and probably time and energy, etc., just to make paint.
	And then you've got to paint the pencils.
	Is there a guy with a paintbrush that paints the pencils by hand?
	No.
	They're painted by machines.
	So you've got to have those machines.
	Otherwise, the pencils become insanely expensive because they're hand-painted.
	Nobody wants hand-painted pencils.
	And then, stay with me here, there's an eraser and a metal band.
	So the eraser is supposed to be rubber.
	So now you've got to get rubber from somewhere.
	Rubber comes from trees.
	But the trees only grow in certain parts of the world.
	Brazil, for example.
	So now you've got to have supply chain logistics and ships that can even go get the rubber and the local people have to know how to tap the rubber, which is a kind of a latex-like substance that comes out of the trees.
	I mean, it is a latex type of substance.
	And then you've got to get that rubber and you've got to form it into the shape of a pencil eraser, which has a very specific diameter.
	And the only way to do that is to have machines that do that, because you also can't do that by hand.
	And then there's a little metal band that's crimped around the eraser and the pencil to crimp the eraser onto the top of the pencil.
	Is any of this ringing a bell?
	Like, we're all old enough here, we grew up with pencils and pens and things, you know, before the internet?
	So you know, because...
	In school, you probably chewed on that eraser from time to time, right?
	And you realize there's a metal band in there.
	Well, how do you make a metal band?
	So now you've got to have mining and smelting operations in order to get the metal.
	And then there has to be a metal forming operation to somehow form that into a cylindrical shape and then crimp it around the pencil with the eraser.
	That requires a completely different machine also.
	So in order to make...
	One pencil.
	You have to have a vast infrastructure of metal smelting, rubber tapping, international shipping and logistics, chemicals and paint production and wood harvesting and wood sawing and graphite production and composition and logistics and shipping and everything to make one pencil.
	And the only reason that you can go buy a box of pencils at Walmart for whatever it is, $1.50, or you can go to the dollar store.
	You get some pencils for maybe $1.25.
	The only reason that's possible is because China makes the pencils by the millions.
	They make them so cheaply because of efficiencies, economies of scale.
	And then they load them onto ships with forklifts on pallets, and then the ships steam across the Pacific, and then they're unloaded with cranes and forklifts at the port of L.A., and then they're distributed.
	To your local Walmart, that's the only way that those pencils only cost whatever, 10 cents each.
	If you didn't have that whole system, you know what a pencil would cost?
	It would be more like $10 each.
	Because you've got to pay the painter, the metals guy, the rubber guy, the graphite guy, you know, $10 pencil.
	Instead, it's a 10-cent pencil right now because of China.
	And that's about to end.
	I mean, a lot of it has ended, and now the effects are rippling through the system.
	So if we don't restart that system, and let's be honest, Trump has so far said that he does not even have the goal of restoring normalized trade with China.
	That is not his goal.
	He has said repeatedly his goal is to stop importing from China and set up factories in America.
	And thereby support American jobs, etc.
	Okay.
	Okay, great.
	So what he's saying is he does not intend to restore trade with China.
	You know, normal imports from China.
	He has no such intention.
	So even if you're out there thinking, oh, they'll make a deal.
	Look, to make a deal, both sides have to want to make a deal.
	Right now, we know for sure Trump doesn't want to make a deal.
	And if you know anything about China and Xi, there are also a lot of pressures domestically in China against Xi making a deal.
	Now, yeah, there's a lot of domestic pressure losses among factories there that are suffering, so they might be pressuring him, but in the big picture, Xi might be saying to himself, we need to break our addiction to U.S. imports.
	Look how unreliable the United States is as a trading partner.
	And plus, we don't want to use the dollar anymore.
	We don't want to subject ourselves to dollar sanctions.
	China may be in the phase.
	Seems likely.
	They're selling off treasuries.
	They're not buying treasuries.
	They're selling them off.
	They're buying gold.
	They're embracing bricks.
	They are clearly planning to decouple from America.
	So, out of these two parties, Trump and Xi, it seems to me that neither one of them wants a deal.
	Neither one.
	Domestically, they're both getting pressure.
	In China, Xi's getting pressure from his domestic factories, and in America, Trump's getting pressure from the retailers, like Walmart and Amazon.
	Big-time pressure.
	So Trump and Xi are getting pressured by their own people to make a deal, and maybe that will cause them to sit down and actually make a deal.
	But understand that Trump and Xi themselves do not seem interested in making a deal.
	So, I'm not confident that a deal will be made.
	And, of course, there are many possible outcomes here.
	You know, best case scenario, at least in the short term, is they reach a deal on Monday.
	And you could say maybe a medium case scenario is they reach a deal in a month.
	A bad case scenario is they reach a deal in three months.
	A horrible case scenario is they reach a deal in six months, and a catastrophic scenario is they just don't reach a deal at all, and there's no more imports from China.
	And why do I say that's catastrophic?
	Well, as much as I support U.S. jobs and U.S. workers and U.S. factories, etc., we simply don't have the infrastructure in place.
	And like I said earlier, It could take us 10 to 20 years to build that infrastructure.
	And what are Americans supposed to do for 10 to 20 years?
	Just wait around, hoping that somebody else will sell us all the components from China?
	You know, what are we supposed to do?
	Just live in poverty and collapse and hyperinflation and scarcity, you know, while Trump tells us, just wait for the factories.
	They're coming in 2035 or whatever.
	That is not going to fly.
	America will burn itself down in less than a year if we don't get imports from China.
	Regardless of what Trump wants to do, the American people don't have an appetite for suffering.
	The American people are not going to sit back and just chill while the supply line collapses and the shelves go empty and they can't...
	Buy the stuff that they're used to buying, and the pharmaceuticals run out, the frozen foods are gone, etc.
	And the car companies stop making cars, on and on.
	The American people are not going to sit back.
	They're going to get angry, and there's going to be an uprising.
	So it would seem to me that Trump should have an incentive to restore trade with China in order to avert He appears committed to this idea of decoupling from China and replacing it with domestic factories that mostly do not exist.
	You see the problem here, right?
	I mean, look, I've built factories.
	Okay, I mean, my company.
	Builds, you know, we built all our own facilities.
	We're building now.
	We built buildings and manufacturing, and I'm not saying that it's massive, but, you know, it won't be long before it's 100,000 square feet or something, you know, it's at least on the projection to that, and it's not a small thing, and even I can tell you the difficulty of constructing a manufacturing facility, especially If you're cut off from China, okay, so let me explain this.
	When we build our food manufacturing facilities, we have to have certain materials in order to be FDA compliant and GMP compliant.
	That's good manufacturing practices.
	Just right offhand, there are three things that all come from China.
	One is the epoxy floors.
	Two is the FRP walls, which are non-porous.
	Wall material where fungi and mold cannot grow.
	And they're slick and they're easily cleaned and it's a polymer material.
	Again, non-porous.
	And that's what all good food manufacturing facilities should be using.
	And then, third, in order to put the FRP up, you have to have glues.
	The glues come from China.
	So, right there...
	This doesn't even count the electronic components and all the electrical outlets and the air filters and the components and the HVAC systems, the air handlers, the nitrogen compressors, everything you can imagine, right?
	All of this stuff, or the vast majority of it, comes from China.
	Now, we do have a large Hitachi compressor that I think comes from Japan.
	But when you get into compressors and...
	Nitrogen separators and whatever, most of that stuff comes out of China.
	So think about this.
	If Trump says to American companies, hey, we're going to cut off China, and then now you build factories in America, anybody who's ever built factories in America is going to say, hey, we can't build factories when we're cut off from China because we need Chinese parts.
	To build the factories in America.
	Like I just said, we need the glues, we need the epoxies, we need the electronics, we need the materials, we need the specialty components, we need the electrical outlets, the fuses, you know, all of it.
	All comes from China.
	So it is literally impossible to cut off China and then replace China by building factories in America.
	It is literally impossible without Chinese components.
	This is why I'm so baffled by the lack of understanding or, I don't know, I don't know what it is.
	Maybe it's just procrastination, but I don't see very many people paying attention to this.
	Even though a pretty bad scenario is only five to seven weeks out, and it's clear that by July 4th, this is going to be something like a...
	COVID lockdown-level scarcity emergency.
	And mark my words, there's going to be a day, probably in June, sometime in June, where it just kind of hits home with people when there's this mass realization, 100th monkey concept, you know, mass realization, and hey, whoa, shelves are going empty.
	And maybe that day is June 15th.
	I don't know.
	Maybe it's June 20th.
	I don't know what day that is.
	But until that day comes, most people are living in a state of denial.
	Nothing bad is going to happen.
	It's all going to work itself out.
	I've heard people say things like that, which are wildly irrational.
	I've heard people say, just stay positive.
	I'm like, well, how does staying positive load more pilots onto ships in Beijing or Shanghai?
	How does staying positive cause ships to sail to the port of L.A.?
	Turns out that staying positive does not restock shelves.
	You know, astonishingly, it does not.
	And then people say, well, it'll work itself out.
	Well, what kind of answer is that?
	What do you mean it'll work itself out?
	No, it's not going to work itself out.
	It's just products are going to be out.
	You know, I mean, by what means are products going to appear if they're not arriving?
	And if they're not being shipped and if they're not being made, by what means will those products arrive?
	I don't know.
	People say, I don't know.
	It's just going to work itself out.
	Okay.
	That's the lowest IQ answer imaginable.
	It's just going to work itself out.
	Well, I mean, I suppose the answer for people who are prepared, it will work out because you have extra stuff.
	Like, you pre-purchased the stuff made in China because you anticipated this like an intelligent person, and you saw what was coming in five to seven weeks, and you're like, hey, I should buy the stuff I'm going to need for the rest of this year if it's made in China for a rational reason, which is that the ships aren't sailing.
	And then, if we are pleasantly surprised by a deal between Trump and Xi, then, you know, great!
	Then we just have extra stuff, and we don't have to...
	Purchase as much later in the year.
	Okay?
	So, stockpiling supplies makes a lot of sense.
	Now, another thing that I've heard from some people is like, oh, well, you must be working for the CCP now.
	You want trade with China.
	You must be a Chinese agent.
	It's like, okay, whatever.
	Are you insane?
	Not wanting empty shelves doesn't make me a CCP agent.
	And besides, they would hate my guts because I repeatedly call Taiwan an independent nation.
	So the CCP wants nothing to do with me.
	Believe me on that point.
	I'm like, Taiwan is its own country.
	It's got its own elections, its own president, its own currency, its own banking system, its own, you know, embassies, effectively, everything.
	Like, that's the last thing China wants to hear, you know?
	I used to live in Taiwan.
	That's where I learned to speak Chinese.
	And I love Taiwan and the Taiwan people.
	And the funny thing is that the Taiwan people are also Chinese.
	So when you talk to people in Taiwan and you ask them, like, what ethnicity are you?
	Oh, I'm Chinese.
	Because they're all the same people, you know, except for the indigenous populations in Taiwan, sort of like the Pacific Islander indigenous populations, you know what I mean?
	But most of the Taiwan people that live in Taiwan today, Are the descendants of people who came from China during Chiang Kai-shek and the splitting off from the communists versus the nationalists.
	And so what I'm saying is they are all Chinese people.
	They're all the same people.
	And it is true that I have nice things to say about people of Chinese ethnicity.
	And you've heard me on this podcast, you've heard me say how much I'm impressed with the intelligence of Russians and Ukrainians, for example.
	Highly intelligent people, right?
	Or how much I'm impressed with the robust engineering of the German people.
	Or how much I'm impressed with the engineering precision of the Japanese people.
	And, you know, many other examples of this, right?
	Well, I'm impressed with the Chinese people, all Chinese people, in terms of their intelligence, Their resilience, their endurance, and their ability to endure suffering.
	And that's a point that I don't think the Trump administration has any awareness of.
	That is the ability of the Chinese people to endure suffering for a long period of time.
	A long period of time.
	Saying nice things about ethnic Chinese does not make me a CCP agent.
	Not at all.
	I'm an American.
	I'm a Texan.
	I'm pro-America.
	I think I'm pro-America than anybody in Washington, D.C., by the way, because they seem to put America last.
	I'm way more pro-America than any of our elected officials, it turns out.
	But I have knowledge of Chinese people that is highly relevant.
	To this understanding.
	And because I lived among them.
	Because I speak their language.
	Because I celebrated holidays with them.
	Dragon boat racing and the whole thing.
	And moon cakes and all of it.
	I know Chinese people.
	I can tell you.
	They are long term thinkers.
	And they can endure incredible suffering and hardship.
	The likes of which the American people have never seen.
	Not since the Great Depression.
	And most of those people are not even around anymore in America.
	So these are relevant facts.
	These are cultural facts that are relevant to this economic crisis, this supply chain crisis.
	And I have been trying to present the actual cause and effect facts of the situation.
	And you can probably hear the frustration in my voice.
	I've been met with, overall, online, on social media, just unbelievable levels of ignorance.
	People don't know, or I should say Americans, don't know where stuff comes from.
	I shouldn't be surprised, because me being a food scientist and coming out of the food industry, I learned long ago that nobody knows where their food comes from either.
	It's like you ask a teenager, where does a burrito come from?
	And they're like, The frozen food section?
	No.
	How does a burrito come to be?
	They stuff it into a plastic bag and freeze it.
	Mostly, people below the age of 20 have no idea where food comes from.
	Mostly.
	Now, the homeschooled kids that live on ranches, yeah, they know.
	They're the smart ones.
	They're the capable ones.
	The unvaccinated homeschooled kids.
	With their brains still functioning, they're smart.
	They're capable.
	They're the future.
	I'm talking about the public school kids have no clue.
	And then they grow up, and then they become elected officials eventually, and they still have no clue where anything comes from.
	This was shocking to me.
	Like, nobody has any idea where anything comes from.
	So it's, you know, it's a weird thing.
	Like, a typical American walking through Walmart...
	Just thinks everything's here.
	Like, look, there it is.
	It's on the shelf, you know?
	I'm in the kitchen aisle.
	I'm in the home goods aisle, whatever.
	I'm in the toys aisle.
	I'm in the pet supplies aisle.
	It's all here.
	What do you mean?
	Where does it come from?
	It's here.
	It's right here.
	That's their view.
	And they don't know that at odd hours in the morning, 3 a.m., there are Walmart workers running around restocking the shelves.
	By unwrapping cases and boxes and pallets that get offloaded from trucks in the back of the store.
	Have you ever been to the back of the Walmart store?
	Ever been back there?
	It's just unloading trucks and unloading pallets and it's got pallet jacks rolling them around and barcode scanners.
	It's actually a smooth operation.
	Walmart is good at logistics.
	And they restock those shelves like magic and then the next morning, the early morning 65 plus crowd comes in.
	5.30, shopping before the sun comes up, and the shelves are magically refilled.
	And that's why nobody knows where anything comes from, because they never saw it.
	They never saw the supply chain.
	The supply chain is invisible to most people.
	Well, that may be about to change.
	If Trump and she don't make a deal, which, like I said, it seems like they're not even interested in making a deal.
	If they don't make a deal...
	The American people are about to learn a very harsh lesson in supply chain reality.
	And that lesson begins in five to seven weeks.
	Hey, at least we know the timeline.
	That's good news.
	See, I could turn this into an optimistic podcast.
	Yes, we know the timeline.
	We know the countdown.
	The fuse is lit, but it's a long-ass fuse.
	We know how many weeks this is going to be.
	Because we know how fast the ships sail and we know how many ships are missing, etc.
	We know roughly the level of the buffer of the inventory that's currently in the retail domestic chain.
	So we can say five to seven weeks.
	We're going to be okay up until five to seven weeks.
	And then the shortages will just start here and there.
	And then after seven weeks, it's going to get worse and worse and worse unless a deal is reached.
	So let me ask you this question.
	Why would Trump do a deal that stops the tariffs?
	Wouldn't that be really an admission of failure on Trump's part if he were to give in?
	And at the same time, if Xi were to give in somehow, I'm not sure how he would even give in because actually China didn't start this.
	Trump started it.
	On April 2nd, Liberation Day.
	Odd name.
	So Xi would just be saying, you know, make it go back to the way it was before April 2nd.
	And Trump is going to be saying, no, I'm not going to give in.
	We're going to make you do something.
	What does Trump want China to do?
	And if you really think about this, the answer is Trump...
	Trump wants China to die.
	Trump doesn't want China to export more products to America.
	Otherwise, he would drop tariffs.
	Trump wants China to die.
	Trump is using this as a weapon to collapse China's domestic economy.
	So this is a strategic weapon of war that just happens to involve every American.
	And their pocketbook and price inflation and empty shelves.
	You see what I'm saying?
	And the idea, from Trump's point of view, well, really, it's Trump's people.
	You know, those around Trump who want to destroy China.
	The idea is to bankrupt China, cause an economic collapse, and really a color revolution uprising and overthrow the CCP.
	Like, that's the real plan.
	And that's been a plan for a long time, even before Trump.
	This has been the plan.
	Just like they wanted to destroy Russia and completely control Russia.
	They had Gorbachev years back.
	The Westerners thought they were going to exploit Russia's resources and Russia was going to join the West and become basically a satellite nation to be pillaged by America.
	And then that didn't work.
	But that's what America wants to do to China, is basically destroy China's current political leadership and have it be overthrown.
	And probably the CIA will be involved there trying to have whatever kind of social unrest that they can inflict upon China, etc.
	And yet China has similar actions against America, like the fentanyl drug trade to weaken America's male youth.
	Etc.
	China unleashes TikTok on America as a cultural weapon of wokeism and idiocy.
	So the U.S. and China wage fifth-generational warfare against each other.
	Some of it's economic, some of it's cultural, some of it's informational, some of it's intellectual property, some of it's currency, currency wars, currency manipulation, gold, debt, treasuries.
	These are all the different weapons of warfare.
	Well, this trade war that Trump has unleashed against China is a weapon with the goal of collapsing China's economy and fomenting a revolution, an uprising to overthrow the government regime in China.
	That's what this is.
	And Trump cannot achieve that if he gives in and drops the tariffs.
	So I don't see Trump...
	Wanting a deal with China.
	But maybe I'm wrong.
	Maybe he'll have some other reason.
	Maybe he'll just figure out it's too painful for America to suffer the empty shelves.
	Maybe he'll figure this out in July.
	July 4th.
	In the middle of his military parade or whatever's going to happen on July 4th.
	You know, this is going to be ugly.
	It's going to be very painful, I think.
	For American consumers.
	And I suppose there's a chance that it could achieve the desired goal.
	I mean, China does have financial problems.
	It's got too much debt with the real estate, Ponzi schemes, scandals, Evergrande, and that whole thing that's actually still playing out.
	So China does have some financial weakness, but China has the infrastructure for manufacturing, not just consumer goods, but also ships and naval ships and missiles.
	I think it would be foolish to think that China is so fragile that you could just take them down by not buying their stuff.
	I think that's very short-sighted and foolish, and I don't think it will work because, again, I know that the Chinese People are capable of enduring tremendous suffering and also suffering for the benefit or for the victory of their own nation.
	So the Chinese people can be very patriotic in times of war, I guess, as anybody can, but they're willing to endure great hardship in order to not be conquered by the West.
	And that's the way it's going to be presented domestically to the Chinese people.
	I mean, it's already being presented that way.
	And the Chinese government probably is already releasing these memes, video memes, you may have seen some of them, that are mocking Americans for being slow, obese, unskilled, fat-fingered workers.
	And that's the way China sees America.
	And America, our current America is far weaker than America used to be in World War II or even just two generations ago.
	So yeah, America has become pretty apathetic.
	It's become, you know, the skill sets of making things have largely vanished.
	You know, the resilience of the typical American person now is...
	Nothing but a shadow of what it was with their grandparents or great-grandparents.
	So there's credibility in the accusation that the American people can't last very long in this trade war.
	So the bottom line, folks, and I'll wrap this up, is I don't have a crystal ball, obviously.
	So I don't know how this is going to play out.
	I don't know who wins or loses.
	Right now we're all losing.
	Because I think that fair and free trade benefits everyone.
	But I also think that it was a huge mistake to offshore all our manufacturing.
	Ross Perot was right.
	That giant sucking sound that actually happened.
	But the giant sucking sound sent all our factories over to Asia.
	But that happened decades ago.
	The giant sucking sound is in the rearview mirror by 30 years.
	So you can't just reverse that overnight.
	But yes, Ross Perot was right.
	And it's funny because when Ross Perot was running for office, I remember I was on an airplane to Hong Kong.
	That's funny.
	I specifically remember seeing the newspaper of Ross Perot.
	Something significant happened.
	I was literally on an airplane to Hong Kong from Taiwan.
	That's a funny memory.
	But anyway, Ross Perot was right.
	And yet, just because he's right, it doesn't mean we can bring it all back.
	Because the very same business people in America right now that are trying to profit from war and from new government handouts and everything, those are the people that offshored our manufacturing.
	They took the jobs away from America and moved them over to China because it was more profit to do so.
	But that already happened.
	That's long gone.
	So would we have been smarter to maintain factories in America this entire time?
	Yes.
	Yes, we would have been.
	We would have had more skills.
	We would have had more capable youth.
	We would have had more physically fit people, probably.
	But we would all be paying more for products, that's for sure.
	But they would have been higher quality products this whole time.
	But that did not happen.
	So we can't play, you know, what if alternate reality?
	We have to deal with the reality that we're living in right now.
	And in this reality, we don't have the factories anymore.
	China does.
	So what we do from here is our choice.
	In terms of practical items, I would just strongly suggest that you stockpile critical supplies, which would include things that...
	You would typically purchase that are made in China.
	And if you don't know if they're made in China, ask any AI engine.
	They all know.
	Secondly, be ready for Trump to say no for a long time.
	And all the scenarios that I was talking about earlier, which could be civil unrest and uprising and mass looting and even military, martial law type of announcements, be ready for that.
	That could happen.
	That could very easily happen in America.
	This year.
	I'm not saying it's going to, but I'm saying there's a feasible pathway where that happens.
	And get ready to pay through the nose for anything made in China because there will be black markets and alternate routes.
	You know, China will ship stuff to Mexico and then a Mexican company will put a made in Mexico label on it, repackage it in Espanol, and then Drive it across the border and charge you extra, you know?
	So yeah, you're still going to get Chinese goods, but they'll come through Mexico or India or Canada or somewhere else.
	It's basically laundered Chinese goods with extra prices on them and extra delays.
	And that's going to be a circus, man.
	Just trying to find out where you can buy the stuff that you need.
	Whew!
	It's going to be a ride.
	All right.
	In the meantime, too, of course, we've got supplies.
	And at our store, healthrangerstore.com, for over 10 years, we have all but decoupled from China in terms of raw materials.
	So, you know, we buy almost nothing from China.
	So, aside from the packaging materials, the lids and pumps and bottles and things like that, a lot of that stuff does come from China.
	Even though it's sold to us by U.S. importers, it's made in China.
	But our products themselves, the actual materials of the product, we get almost nothing from China.
	So we've got goods, and even the knives that we have that we co-designed with Dawson knives, you know, the kick-ass knives, machetes, the hatchets, the survival knives, escape from L.A., remember that knife?
	We have all that, and it's made in Arizona using steel from New York.
	Okay?
	Very cool.
	Very cool stuff.
	Everything about that, you know, is made in America.
	So you can find those, healthrangerstore.com.
	Now, our other main sponsor, the Satellite Phone Store, a lot of that stuff is made in China.
	You know, the solar generators.
	China, for the most part, solar panels across the whole industry, largely China, sometimes...
	Korea, sometimes America, but China's the biggest producer of solar panels.
	You know, what's going to happen if you can't get solar panels from China?
	Well, scarcity.
	Prices will skyrocket.
	Even satellite phones, if you think about it, where are satellite phones made?
	I mean, I don't know the answer for every phone and every brand, but I would imagine that most of the satellite phones are probably using components from China, if not largely.
	You know, sourced from China.
	Maybe they're assembled in Mexico, or they're assembled in Canada, or they're assembled in the USA, but, and this is just my guess, I apologize if I'm wrong, but I would think that most of those components come from China.
	Radios, ham radios, two-way radios, all that stuff, like Baofeng, that radio brand, which is very popular among preppers, that's all China, you know?
	Headsets, headphones, flashlights, lithium-ion batteries, everything.
	China.
	China, China, China.
	And, you know, 70% of what's sold on Amazon.com reportedly comes from China.
	So, gonna get interesting, folks.
	Anyway, do what you can, and I guess my positive note in all of this is It's good news that we know so many weeks ahead.
	So yeah, storm's coming, but it's not just five days out.
	It's five to seven weeks out, and even then, that's just the beginning of where it's going.
	So if you just take action here, I would say, frankly, I don't think most Americans are going to have any clue what's happening until mid-June.
	So I think you've got about 30 days, actually, to stock up before...
	You know, normies figure out what's going on.
	But I might be wrong.
	I don't know.
	Or maybe Trump solves it next week, and then this has all been an exercise.
	This has been a test.
	Only a test.
	Okay, fine.
	Then we'll just have extra made-in-China stuff sitting around.
	But we'll use it.
	Just buy stuff that you use.
	And you'll just be buying it ahead of time.
	So that's my best advice, okay?
	You don't have to panic.
	We don't have to be afraid.
	We can be confident in facing what's coming because we know.
	We know what's coming.
	And the reason that you can have confidence that this is coming is because Gene Soroka of the Port of Los Angeles just told you what's coming, and he runs the port.
	It's like naysayers out there, hey, what's your source?
	The guy that runs the port.
	That's my source.
	Oh, okay.
	Well, he doesn't know what he's talking about.
	Yeah, he's only the guy that runs the whole port.
	Pretty sure he knows how many containers are moving through that port.
	He also seems like a very intelligent guy, by the way.
	Mr. Soroka there.
	I think he did a good job breaking that down.
	I wonder if Gene Soroka is going to be panicked in about five to seven weeks and see him, like, freaking out on Bloomberg News or CNBC.
	Sweating it.
	It's like, we've got no ships.
	No, I think he's a cool cat.
	He won't do that.
	All right.
	Thank you for listening.
	Mike Adams here, the Health Ranger.
	Also, take advantage of our Mother's Day sale event right now.
	HealthRangerStore.com slash Mother's Day.
	It's on right now.
	We've got a lot of specials.
	We've got stuff in stock because, like I said, we make it in Texas.
	And so we're sitting on some pretty nice inventory right now for you.
	Some really amazing discounts and products.
	These are the last discounts I think we're ever going to be able to offer given what's happening to the supply chain.
	Anyway, check it out.
	HealthRangerStore.com slash Mother's Day.
	And thank you for your support.
	Get prepared.
	Have a great weekend.
	Take care.
	Take care.
	You work a job, your life away.
	Your take-home check can't even pay for basic groceries or income tax.
	They give a refund, then they take it back.
	You save some dollars to get ahead while crooks are printing every day at the Fed.
	The cash you earn, they print for free.
	Cause they're deflating all our currency.
	Someone explain what's happening.
	More debt.
	The bankers laughing, not trying to be exacting, but good God, the math ain't mathin'.
	The math ain't mathin'.
	Now we know what's happening.
	That math ain't mathin'.
	The math ain't mathin'.
	You can't afford to pay your car loan.
	They repossessed your broke-down mobile phone.
	You borrow money just to try to survive.
	It's not enough, though, because the rent is too damn high.
	Everybody wants to get ahead.
	But currency's sliding in the red.
	Everybody wants to find a way to keep what they make.
	Keep what they make.
	Someone explain what's happenin'.
	More debt.
	The bankers laughing.
	Not trying to be exacting, but good God, the math ain't mathin'.
	The math ain't mathin'.
	Oh yeah.
	Now we know what's happenin'.
	That math ain't mathin'.
	The math ain't mathin'.
	It's called inflation.
	It means they're thieving away.
	Empty your pockets.
	It means they're thieving away.
	Empty your pockets.
	They print their riches while we lose our cash.
	And it's never gonna change until we take our money back.
	Someone explain what's happening.
	More dead.

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