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June 12, 2025 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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BBN, June 12, 2025 – Trump now facing a FOUR-FRONT WAR that could end America as we know it
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Well, buckle up, folks.
Wow, welcome to Broadcast Broadcast News for Thursday, June 12, 2025.
I'm Mike Adams here.
Thank you for joining me.
We are facing three potential wars all at the same time, which could trigger a fourth war.
Plus, we have economic warfare, the tariff wars, etc.
But the three main wars that we're facing right now is, of course, Iran.
And there have been...
I'll talk about that.
We've got Russia, of course, Russia still promising some kind of response to the Ukraine hybrid drone attack on the Tu-95 long-range nuclear bombers on those Russian airfields.
There hasn't been a response to that yet, so that could be interesting.
And then we have Los Angeles, which is this domestic insurrection.
And according to...
Not actually today, but I'll play it tomorrow.
But according to Matt Bracken, this is almost certainly the real deal.
It's going to expand dramatically.
And this is sort of a go for broke type of moment for the radical left.
They realize that if they don't win this, So they're all in for the big overthrow attempt, you know, the Marxist revolution to take back America and end, you know, corporatism or whatever, end Trump.
And they're going to, I guess, reclaim America, at least in their minds, they're going to reclaim America for Karl Marx or something.
Two dates here that you need to have in mind.
The first one is this Saturday, June 14th.
And, of course, you're probably aware this is a day where there's a big military parade.
It's the 250th anniversary of the United States Army, I believe.
And it also happens to be Trump's birthday.
So it's a military parade.
I guess it's happening in Washington, D.C. I really haven't looked into the details of the parade because That has been overshadowed by this group pushing this so-called no-king's massive resistance in 50-plus cities nationwide this Saturday.
And this is clearly, they're looking for a George Floyd type of moment, and they're setting this up in advance to have this massive, massive day of rage, outpouring, resistance, revolt, insurrection, whatever.
And when I interviewed Matt Bracken, he said that between now and Saturday, which is only a couple days away now, it's clear that the left is looking for any opportunity to create a sort of Mexican George Floyd moment.
I think Matt Bracken said Jorge Floydo or something.
But he was saying what the radical left wants right now is like...
They can run it nationwide and use it to depose Trump and have anger nationwide.
Everybody getting upset, blah, blah, blah.
And I think that Bracken is correct about that's what the left wants.
But, honestly, I don't think that more than half of America would side with the left in a situation like that.
My belief is that the American people are so fed up with the illegal invasion.
They're so fed up with the looting and the street crime and the hijackings and the home invasions and the traffic violations of illegals who don't have insurance and don't have a driver's license and they just...
They use the shoulder as a third lane.
Never use their turn signals, etc.
I don't think the American people are going to just all at once feel sorry for the illegals.
Even if there is some kind of incident, let's say.
Even if there's bloodshed in one of these protests, in fact, Don't even go to these events.
Just don't go.
Don't feed into it.
Don't even create an opportunity for them to surround your vehicle to where you have to run over a couple of them to get away from a dangerous mob.
Just don't go, you know?
Leave your guns at home and leave your ass at home, basically.
Stay home.
So that's my overall advice.
But that said, we now have United States Marines that are defending federal buildings in downtown Los Angeles, or at least nearby.
And we have, then the local officials have announced at least a two-day evening curfew.
But I don't think that covers Saturday, by the way.
So Saturday night could get super crazy.
But what I'm saying is that if United States Marines end up shooting some of these violent protesters who are attacking federal buildings and setting police cars on fire and shining lasers and throwing bottles and fireworks at soldiers and National Guard troops, etc., if some of these protesters get shot, I don't think that America is going to weep for the protesters.
I really don't.
This is not 1970.
This is not the time of bleeding heart liberalism or where the media has the dominant narrative.
Not at all.
I mean, who even watches CNN anymore?
Nobody with a brain.
I think CNN's largest audience is the captured audience of people waiting to board their flight at the airport.
That's pretty much their entire audience.
Nobody else watches CNN.
Nobody watches CNN voluntarily.
Let me put it that way.
If there's nothing else on, they might look at the screen.
Otherwise, nah, they're not tuning in.
So I don't think they can control the narrative the way they used to.
In fact, I'm certain of it.
Back in 1991, the first Gulf War, you know, CNN and the CIA totally controlled the narrative.
They had General Schwarzkopf and, you know, every day was another video game of live streaming of missiles flying into windows and...
No, you're not.
It was all caught on satellite downloads and everything.
CNN faked the whole damn thing, right?
But those days are long gone.
That's not going to happen.
Again, I mean, the American people aren't going to fall for the left-wing narrative.
And like I said, people are so fed up with the violence, with the looting, that even ideas that were once considered pretty radical a few years ago, like let's say the idea that every shopkeeper should have the right to shoot looters, which General Flynn, I think General Flynn talked about that on X, and I also posted about asking the question of what people thought.
It's kind of considered common sense.
Most people, I mean, I should say most informed, intelligent people, if they ponder it, they're like, yeah, you know, shopkeepers should be allowed to shoot looters on site because, you know, people come in in a mob.
And they ransack a store.
And they just steal everything and they can wipe out a shop owner.
They can cause injury.
They create hazards.
They sometimes start fires.
There's a lot of economic damage and also sometimes damage to the people there.
And why shouldn't shopkeepers be able to defend themselves?
It's just like a homeowner.
Somebody bursts into your home.
Well, in my view, of course you have the right to shoot them.
You know, I'm not saying to go outside the house and look for people to shoot.
No, I'm not saying that at all.
If they burst into your house, it's kind of open season on them right there.
And I think I speak for all intelligent people when I say that.
I don't know of any intelligent person that would say no to that idea.
A shopkeeper, isn't their shop equivalent to your home?
If people burst into the shop and begin destroying property and they have the intent to steal mass looting, organized looting, let's say even three or more people, let's say, then why shouldn't the shopkeeper have the legal right to just open fire on every last one of them?
So you see, America has arrived at a very different place from what the left We're done with the BS.
More and more Americans are in that camp now.
Hey, if there's some violent looters that happen to, you know, if they're throwing a Molotov cocktail at a federal building and some United States Marine, like, shoots them in the face and then the Molotov cocktail drops on their head and sets their head on fire, I'm pretty sure half of Twitter would give a thumbs up.
Like, nice shooting wrecks, you know?
It wouldn't be the outrage that the left is counting on.
It would actually be probably a really popular misogynist.
And I know it sounds crazy, but this is the place where we've arrived at in our world today.
There's also a very strong desensitization to violence, and some of that has been achieved through, of course, movies and television and so on.
You watch a typical TV show, and there's so much insane violence and gore and blood and whatever.
And I don't even want to watch that stuff.
In fact, I meant to bring this up anyway.
I am currently watching a 20-plus year old series because I found the old DVDs.
I actually bought the DVD set years ago.
And it's called 24. And it's co-produced by Kiefer Sutherland.
And 24, at the time, it was strongly accused of promoting Torture.
And this show came out really right after 9-11.
The first season, I think, was in 2002.
And then, I mean, it was incredible how much content they put out.
They did like 9 or 10 seasons of, well, 24 shows per season because it was depicting real-time events hour by hour for a 24-hour period, right?
So this must have been exhausting for Kiefer Sutherland.
to be involved in that project.
Nevertheless, I'm astonished at how that show is better than anything.
I should say by better.
It's more interesting.
It's got better script writing.
It's not woke at all.
There's no wokeism because that was like pre-woketard.
And it's just a really well-written show that did not rely on gore and blood.
You don't see Blood splashing on the camera lens and people's limbs being torn off.
But they did have a lot of sort of implied stress, torture type of scenes where somebody would be screaming while someone else was holding up a little arc lighter to their nipples or something, like a shirtless man, and they would...
They're like...
I mean, and arc lighters, they're not really torture devices.
They don't hardly put out any voltage at all.
So, you know, it's kind of laughable.
Like, this is a torture scene?
I mean, that's nothing compared to what TV shows show today.
But the series was accused of showing a lot of torture.
And since then...
And people watch shooting videos on YouTube.
I mean, I've seen shooting videos mostly from channels that talk about gun rights and self-defense.
They're kind of assessing, like, did this person do the right thing?
So I've seen those kinds of videos.
I've had some of those in my own training.
You know, firearms training classes and so on go through those kinds of videos.
But some people spend all day just watching violence or maybe sex and violence, you know, very animalistic types of things.
So if there's somebody in the real world in L.A. that ends up setting their head on fire and then getting shot, that is not going to really register that much, is my point.
On the outrage scale, people are going to be like, well, he asked for it.
He shouldn't have had a Molotov cocktail.
That's pretty much going to be the answer.
As an example of this, yesterday I saw that the governor of Texas, Governor Greg Abbott, in a tweet, he used the term FAFO.
F around and find out.
And I even replied to him there on Twitter.
I said, I love it when the governor of Texas invokes the word FAFO.
Because, I mean, how hilarious is it?
The governor of Texas, who I think he did deploy the Texas National Guard to San Antonio because of radical left-wing protests.
And I think the guard was called out.
Maybe it wasn't the guard.
Maybe it was just the police.
But they were called out to Austin last Saturday because, you know, the lunatics in Austin were getting rowdy.
But anyway, the governor was like, you know, FAFO.
That's exactly the attitude that most people embrace right now.
And, you know, Texas is famous for having Texas Rangers.
And even Matt Bracken brought this up.
The saying used to be, one riot, one ranger.
And I know some former Texas Rangers.
And a ranger would show up at a riot, and he would read them, literally, the riot act.
That's where that phrase comes from.
He would read them the riot act and he would say, you know, in 10 minutes...
And then, in ten minutes, dude would start shooting.
And it was like, well, faffo.
We read you the riot act.
We gave you ten minutes to leave.
You stuck around.
You're getting a bullet.
And that is no longer outside the Overton window of what is acceptable behavior today because of You know, changing circumstances and the violence of the lawless left.
The more crazy the left becomes, in other words, the more tolerant the American people will become for law enforcement to get aggressive.
And for all of us who watch those, was it LAPD or was it L.A.?
Yeah, I think it was LAPD trapped underneath that overpass bridge in L.A. while...
We saw that.
I think you saw that video.
And we were all asking the same question.
Why isn't SWAT shooting these asshats on top of the bridge?
Why isn't somebody taking these guys out?
AR-15.
Not even the full mag, probably.
I mean, any of us who are trained in battle rifle fundamentals, any of us, and I'm not advocating vigilantism, don't get me wrong, I'm just saying, theoretically, any of us could have resolved that problem and helped those police officers with a 30-round magazine and the AR-15.
We could have cleared that bridge.
It's like, oh, you want to throw bricks?
Bullet through the neck, you know, or, well, more likely through your torso, because that's what you aim for.
But that, in terms of taking out those terrorists or rioters, whatever you want to call them, in terms of taking them out with an AR-15, that would have been, from a technical viewpoint, it would have been a series of shots that were so easy, like shooting, what do they say, fish in a barrel.
Or do they say catfish in a barrel?
Is that the saying?
I forgot.
Shooting catfish in a barrel, which sounds like you're going to get catfish water on your face if you try that.
There's going to be splashes involved.
But anybody competent with an AR-15 could have taken out all those people on that bridge, and that would have absolutely solved that problem.
And we're all asking the same question.
Why aren't the police allowed to carry out necessary police activities?
And surely all of you listening who are members of law enforcement, you are very much aware of this same question.
Because especially if you're in a blue city, You know, it's crazy.
They send you out like, hey, go, you know, interdict these 500 violent insurrectionists.
And then you ask, well, what are the rules of engagement, sir?
And then the.
Just be targets for the rioters.
That's all you're allowed to do.
You can't shoot back.
And you're like, well, what the hell?
You're sending us out there as just, like, mobile targets?
That is not cool.
That's not okay.
But of course, that's what happens when you have a blue city run by communists and Marxists.
They don't like police to have any power to carry out policing because, you know, well, that would stop the insurrection, right?
So they need the insurrectionists to have unlimited power over law enforcement.
And that's why Newsom and Mayor Bass and all the other left-wing lunatics out there, that's why they, oh, they screamed bloody murder when Trump started to deploy the National Guard because they don't want law enforcement to stop the insurrectionists.
And even then, the National Guard really only rolled out with paintball guns.
And I saw many videos where they were firing paintballs at people's feet.
Kind of a warning.
Several warning shots.
And yeah, paintballs hurt.
They leave welts, but they're non-lethal, obviously.
But like I said the other day, how much you want to bet those cops are cranking up the velocity?
Because I don't know if you know this about paintball guns, but I used to play paintball.
Every one of those guns has an adjustment of the pressure, which changes the velocity of the paintballs coming out.
And when you play paintball, there's only a certain velocity allowed.
And I don't recall.
Maybe it's like 1,200 feet per second or something like that.
But you can crank those things up if you're willing to use more gas, compressed gas.
You could crank them up to like 2,000 feet per second.
And then...
I wouldn't be surprised if a bunch of cops are cranking those paintball guns up to maximum pressure.
I mean, wouldn't you?
Wouldn't you?
I mean, people throwing, you know, setting your cars on fire and throwing Molotov cocktails at you and trying to bash you on the head with concrete, and all the city gives you is a paintball gun?
Wouldn't you crank that sucker all the way up?
I want like tear gas paintballs.
So when I hit people, they cry for three hours, you know?
Yeah, every cop wants to be able to defend themselves against these lunatics.
So my point is, if the cops in L.A. were given permission right now, and I'm talking about LAPD right now and L.A. County sheriffs, okay?
If every one of those Leos were given permission right now to just start opening fire with live fire on anyone who was throwing a projectile at them, then America would cheer.
America would cheer.
And yeah, there'd be a lot of dead rioters.
And America would cheer.
And it doesn't mean America is cruel.
It doesn't mean that America is bloodthirsty.
Once law and order to be restored.
Damn it.
You know?
America is tired.
At least this is my perception.
That the American people are ready for the police to be given rules of engagement that allow them to use deadly force to defend themselves against deadly force.
I'm not saying that cops should run around just looking for people to shoot, like targeting people who are just standing there or whatever.
But if somebody...
It could be a piece of concrete.
It could be a frozen water bottle which could cause a lot of damage.
It could be like a fireworks mortar that's going to explode and those can be deadly.
You don't know what it is.
I think that anybody in this context, in this insurrection, anybody throwing objects at law enforcement Should be shot on sight.
And that every member of law enforcement should be given permission to carry out that self-defense action.
That's what I think.
And I bet you most of America stands with me on that very point.
Because it's almost like logic 101.
What's the best way to stop people throwing deadly objects at police?
Answer.
Shoot the ones who do.
Right?
And then you're like, oh.
Huh, for some reason, no more objects are being thrown at police.
Either they're all dead now, which is totally acceptable, or secondly, they saw what just happened and now they are rethinking their plans.
Either one of those answers is okay with me.
And like I said, I think most of America is with me on this very point.
So my guess is that then what the radical left is going to have to do here is they're going to have to false flag And I think they're willing to do that.
And let me just restate why I think that's the case.
Because a legitimate shooting of rioters by either United States Marines or National Guard troops or law enforcement, a legitimate self-defense shooting is not going to cause a George Floyd uproar across the country, even if it's caught on camera.
For the most part, most of us will just cheer and say, who's next?
And also, United States Marines, who are guarding the federal buildings there now, they typically operate with a very high degree of discipline.
And they are not going to open fire unless they're given a command to do so, weapons-free or whatever the official order is.
Rules of engagement now include You know, fire if fired upon.
Things like that, right?
And Marines choose their targets carefully.
They don't just spray and pray.
They don't just put your rifle on full auto and just wave it around, you know, like, gonna get you, all you suckers!
No, that's not the way Marines fight.
Not at all.
They're going to put it on like maybe three round burst mode.
They're going to choose targets and better that better that better that got that one better that better.
Stop that Molotov cocktail.
Three-round burst.
That's how you have controlled fire.
Or, if you're like me, I wouldn't even want that.
Semi-auto is perfectly good.
Just double taps on all the targets where you need to put those rounds.
And then you have maximum control the whole time.
So I don't think they're going to be able to bait Marines, in other words, into an undisciplined rage reaction where some Marine is just going to go off and carry out some mass shooting.
But, I wouldn't put it past the leftists to dress up as a Marine, right?
Because there's access to United States Marine uniforms or whatever, and all the gear, the helmets, the boots, you know, everything.
Even the patches can be counterfeited.
I wouldn't put it past them to have a fake U.S. Marine, maybe even an AI-enhanced video, right?
The whole thing could be a deepfake, right?
And then they could stage something where some innocent protesters and even a couple of children get shot up.
But the very first thing that's going to happen is most of America will question the legitimacy of that video.
Because we're on to them now.
We know the games they play.
Nobody trusts the mainstream media.
Everybody knows Governor Newsom.
Everybody knows Karen Bass is a communist who visited Cuba multiple times.
Everybody knows these California leaders are all traitors who probably need to be mass arrested, in my opinion.
Everybody's onto them.
So we're not going to believe automatically some kind of staged event.
Which is why yesterday I mentioned that a more likely scenario is some kind of a false flag dirty bomb attack that Really, the narrative could blame it on anybody.
There won't be any video, let's say, or very unlikely to be video.
So watch out for those kinds of false flags.
Okay, let me get back on track here.
So the two dates you need to really watch out for are, number one, this Saturday, June 14th, obviously, and then also July 4th, because there's going to be a big military parade on July 4th, and obviously there's a lot of symbolism because that's Independence Day.
A lot of flag waving on And also a lot of crowds in public places that are rather vulnerable from a security standpoint.
So as I said earlier, I'm not trying to dissuade anybody from enjoying a July 4th fireworks event or time with your family or barbecue grill or whatever.
I don't want to take away from quality time.
But I do think it's important to be on high alert during, especially this Saturday and then July 4th.
And by high alert, I mean keep your head on a swivel.
Be at that orange alert level.
Don't just have your head buried in your phone all the time.
Be alert of your surroundings.
Watch what's happening with people and cars around you.
You don't have to be paranoid, but just be alert.
And, of course, be ready to record things.
Be ready to get out of a situation.
Make sure your gas tank is full in your vehicle.
And if you are able to carry firearms with you, you know, You might want to double check them.
Are they functional?
How's that red dot sight battery looking if you use red dot sights?
Or the flashlight on your pistol if you use flashlights, etc.
You know, just double check everything.
Make sure you're good to go.
And if something goes down, that you can evade or escape that situation.
You know, make sure if there's a dirty bomb in your city.
That you have a bug-out bag ready to go, and that you've got backup plans for everything, you know, gear and communications equipment, emergency medicine, water.
You really should have your vehicle should have some stash in it, basically a go bag situation where you're ready to go.
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Now let's shift over to Iran, because that's another massive story.
So the word is, and some of this comes from the Washington Post, so, you know, take it with a grain of salt.
But the rumor is that it looks like Israel is going to strike Iran on its own.
That Trump has told Israel to back off and do not bomb Iran because we're still negotiating with Iran on a nuclear deal.
And, oh, as a side note, Trump did announce a deal with China, a trade deal.
And I think, hopefully we'll have time to get to that coming up, but it's interesting.
Nevertheless, Israel plans to strike Iran, because Israel is, of course, led by a warmongering war criminal, Netanyahu, who's an absolute lunatic and who has dragged America into multiple wars over many, many years, using all kinds of various forms of explosives, everything from 9-11 to the exploding pagers, So much more in between, it turns out.
Israel's entire modus operandi, frankly, has been just dragging America into fighting its wars.
And so Israel, or Netanyahu, believes that if they bomb Iran without U.S. permission, then Iran will retaliate, as it has promised to do, and then following that retaliation, Israel will say, oh my God, we're under attack!
Help us, America.
Help us.
Join the war and bomb Iran.
And probably America will then bomb Iran because, of course, most of the Trump administration is under the thumb of Zionist Israel.
I mean, it's so obvious, and AIPAC funds almost every member of the United States Congress.
Almost all the senators put Israel first and America second.
If not last, if they're a Democrat senator.
So there's tremendous political pressure for America to help bail out Israel, even if we didn't want Israel to start the bombing in the first place.
Or at least that's what Netanyahu is counting on, and he's probably correct in that assessment.
But understand, there are a couple of things here.
It looks like Israel's going to strike Iran's nuclear facilities.
And those facilities are deep, deep underground.
I am not aware of how Israel can do any permanent serious damage without using tactical nuclear weapons.
And if Israel starts to use nuclear weapons, then, you know, all hell breaks loose.
Probably involving Russia at that point.
But I do want to remind you that according to The patterns, remember I melted and then refroze the xylitol crystals and using morphic resonance, which is a natural law of the universe put in place by our creator, I was essentially using the xylitol crystals to carry out remote viewing of what happens this summer in the Middle East.
And as you saw before, I don't know if we could...
But I showed you these images before where one of the images was a falcon.
Here's a falcon in a burning tree.
And I'm showing you the image right next to the real Falcon.
And Iran, or Persia, is the home of falconry.
So the fact that these crystals sketched out a falcon with a white face and gray feathers and eyes and claws and everything, tail, beak, you name it, sketched it out in tremendous detail as this falcon was perched in a burning tree, but the flames were going around the falcon.
Is that Iran is going to be bombed, but that the bombing will not topple the royal families that are in control of Iran because the Falcon survives.
And then you may recall this other image which shows U.S. stealth bombers flying over the desert and dropping bombs on the desert.
And clearly in this image, And remember, you're looking at nothing but xylitol crystals.
This is a sweetener.
Under a microscope.
Under my microscope.
Remember that the images of the stealth bombers here flying over the desert and the bombers have a kind of a crown symbol in them.
And they're dropping bombs on the desert ground and then parts of the desert are on fire.
It even depicts the flames.
And then finally another image that came out of this same, well, this is really a prompt, kind of a cosmic prompt, morphic resonance prompting using crystalline structures to help sketch out answers visually.
It's kind of like an AI engine, actually.
It's asking AI to generate an image, but in this case you're asking the universe to do it through morphic resonance, which is a law of God.
That God put into the universe.
But the third image here is the image of the one-horned ram.
This is all on the same slide about the Middle East this summer.
And the one-horned ram, I was really shocked when I saw that image, not only because it's so clear, it shows the ram, it shows the snout, the eyes, the ears, the one horn, the mouth, the nostrils, the top of the skull, everything.
It's like, wow.
This just sketched out a freaking one-horned ram here.
And then I looked up, like, what's the significance of the ram when it comes to Islam?
And remember what I said when I first ran with this?
The ram is tied, in Islam, the ram is tied to Abraham, or Ibrahim, and the ram is a symbol of sacrifice.
And in Islam, it's Obviously, I haven't read all the works of Islam, but my understanding is that Abraham was given a choice to either sacrifice his son or he could substitute a ram for his son, and God would be appeased by sacrificing the ram.
So the ram signifies a sacrifice of a family member, and the one-horned ram, remember in Scripture, and this is true, Both in Islam and in Judaism and Christianity, the horns very often represent national leaders or royal families or a king, let's say.
So the fact that here's a ram that's being sacrificed and a horn is missing tells me that there's going to be a leader that is killed as part of a sacrifice to appease God, but that in the end, the falcon is...
So that's the way I interpret that.
Which means, if you believe that, and it's fine if you don't, I mean, that's just my interpretation.
You are free to interpret it however you wish, or to not interpret it.
You are free to look at those images and say, I don't see a ram.
I don't see stealth bombers.
I don't see a falcon.
I don't see anything.
You are totally free to say that, too.
But I pity you.
If you open one of those books that has that quiz, like, there's 14 animals hidden in this picture, this, you know, this sketch picture, and you're supposed to identify, like, the spotted leopard and the turtle and everything.
I bet you can't find any of those things if you can't see this ram, because the ram is right there.
It's, like, looking at you.
You can almost hear the ram complaining, or whatever.
All right?
So, okay, all jokes aside.
You know what I'm talking about?
Those puzzle books where you have to spot all the animals, you know?
And you'll spend 30 minutes like, there's a turtle!
You know, whatever.
But my interpretation is that yes, Iran's going to be bombed.
And no, it will not topple.
It won't end the Iranian regime.
It won't topple the government, but a leader will be killed.
A significant leader.
Maybe the top.
Or maybe a family member of the top leader.
Something like that.
That's sort of what it means to me.
Now, you know, you can discount all that and that's fine.
But the Washington Post is kind of saying something very similar right now in terms of the attack posture of Israel.
So, you know, come think of it.
I haven't even finished going through that slide because I've been distracted by these L.A. riots, you know?
So I need to finish going through the war slide.
There's a lot more images there to be found.
Oh, I did find a war horse in that that really stands out.
I forgot to even mention that.
And I haven't published that, so I won't show you that yet, but it's coming.
All right, so what I need to tell you about Iran, sorry about getting off track here, but Iran has promised that if Iran is attacked by Israel, then Iran will launch Iran.
barrage of missiles to attack every US military base and CIA base and whatever intelligence base you know military base in the region and of course there are at last count the last numbers I saw there about 55,000 US troops stationed in bases all around Iran but of course mostly to the west of Iran at the
And these U.S. bases are all within striking distance, including, of course, Afghanistan and whatever bases are in Syria as well, and other places.
So Iran has said, we're just going to launch, we're going to hit every American base in every country, even if those countries are allies.
They've actually put out a preemptive warning about this, saying that we're just going to bomb all those bases.
So, a warning has gone out from the United States government.
Apparently there's a high alert warning.
The State Department has now authorized the evacuation of personnel in Iraq.
And, let's see, the Pentagon is approving the departure of family members all across the Middle East.
So, this is obviously, you know, this is a big red flag that the U.S. State Department believes that Israel is about to strike Iran.
Now, if Iran then retaliates with missile strikes on U.S. bases but also potentially striking Israel, then the question becomes, does Iran have nuclear weapons?
I believe the answer is that Iran has, let's call it, let's call it snap-together nuclear weapons, or in a sense, they've got all the nuclear weapons components, at least this is my assessment.
It's based on conversations, interviews, sources, etc.
But I believe that Iran has nuclear warheads on one side of the room.
Ten floors underground in a bunker.
And then on the other side of the room, they've got a ballistic missile.
And then in another room, they've got the rocket fuel stored to load up.
Like, they've got the components.
And I don't know how long it takes, but I would imagine they've got these in a state of readiness to be able to launch them quickly.
And it wouldn't be difficult to imagine that Iran has nuclear weapons acquired from either North Korea or Russia or...
I don't think China would sell Iran nuclear weapons, but there are always black markets as well, so there could be nuclear weapons.
There could also be nuclear weapons that are on the ground, in a van.
That somebody drives into a city somewhere and just kamikaze run, pulls the ripcord and kaboom!
The van is atomized.
So we could be looking at a near instant escalation of what could very quickly become world war because if Iran is attacked, Russia is not going to just sit by idly.
And the other factor that's really critical, I believe, is that Iran has much, Better air defenses than what I think the West anticipates.
And that's because Iran has been purchasing air defense systems from Russia.
And Russia has apparently the best anti-air defense systems on the planet right now.
I think they're called the SA-400s.
And I know, I think the 500s are under testing, but the 400s are widely deployed.
They've even got older models that are still pretty good.
So if Israel bombs Iran, I mean, I have questions about refueling.
How do they handle the long flight distance and the refueling?
Don't they need U.S. help for the refueling?
I don't know.
Maybe Israel has its own refueling planes.
I'm not sure they have enough of them, though.
But in any case, everything they put in the air that gets close to Iran is at risk of being shot down, A relatively small nuclear weapon, if indeed that's what it is.
So you can see how this whole thing can go sideways very, very quickly, and it can involve the U.S., and it can involve Russia, and possibly a Russian response, even as Russia is clearly trying to de-escalate the situation.
Israel just wants to crank the fire up to 11 for the whole region.
And say, you know, let's all die again, you know?
I'm not liking where this is going.
So how serious is this risk of Israel striking Iran?
Well, the Washington Post quotes a, quote, a senior diplomat who says, we think it's more serious than any other time in the past.
Kind of the understatement of the year, huh?
Yeah.
Now, General Kurilla, Karilla, who is known by Michael Yan, by the way.
Michael Yan, I believe, photographed.
Michael Yan was the battlefield photographer taking photos on the day that Karilla was shot and nearly killed.
At least that's my memory.
I think that's what Michael Jan said.
And Jan has...
because the man took shots, I think it was his leg, and he kept fighting.
So, you know, Carilla is not a snowflake.
Put it that way.
But he is kind of a neocon warmonger, right?
So Corilla and others really want to bomb Iran, like Mark Levin and some of these other influencers that are pretty much all full-blown Zionists.
Oh man, they really want to bomb Iran.
And so does Lindsey Graham.
Lindsey Graham wants to bomb everybody because maybe it would give him more, you know, cocaine-filled...
Whatever Lindsey Graham's little scheme is, I'm pretty sure it involves illicit substances.
But certainly a lot of money laundering, that's for sure, at least in my understanding.
So there are a lot of people in power in America that want to see Iran bombed.
And of course, all of Israel wants to see Iran bombed.
They should be careful what they ask for.
Because you know how many nukes it takes to destroy Israel?
Only one.
Whereas Iran is a massive country compared to the size of Israel.
So I even looked it up.
Israel's about 22,000 square kilometers.
Iran is 1.6 million square kilometers.
So how are you going to nuke Iran?
I mean, the whole country.
You can't.
You can't.
It's not that difficult for one nuke to destroy everything on the surface of Israel.
Also, Iran has, what is it saying here, almost 90 million people?
And Israel had 10 million people, I believe, before this recent war.
And I think Israel is down to maybe 8 or 7 million people because of so many people leaving.
Some number being killed in fighting, etc.
So Israel doesn't have a big base of people to draw from, and it would really only take one nuke right up the schnozzle up of Israel.
Is that a correct word?
Let me correct that and say the exhaust port of the Death Star, right?
Like one photon torpedo.
Took out the Death Star.
Pretty much one Iranian nuke takes out Israel.
So if Israel starts this war, they had better pray that somebody doesn't nuke them, which could include Iran, possibly could include Russia, although I wouldn't predict that.
But it's a possibility, especially as the situation escalates.
But I ask you this question.
What do you think will happen to the price of oil in the world the moment Israel bombs Iran?
The price of oil will limit up day after day.
Limit up, limit up, limit up.
You're going to see oil easily go to $150 a barrel.
Maybe $200, I mean, depending on the situation.
If Iran then closes the Strait of Hormuz, we've talked about those scenarios.
I forgot what percent, it's like 20-something percent of the world's oil travels through the Strait of Hormuz, and I think it was 30 percent, give or take, of the world's liquid natural gas, LNG, which also supplies Western Europe with energy.
So if Iran shuts down the Strait of Hormuz, then now you have a global energy crisis on your hands.
And then you start seeing crazy, insane inflation because of transportation prices and energy prices in the goods and services that consumers are purchasing.
You know, grocery prices, for example, would absolutely skyrocket.
You would also see gold and silver skyrocket.
Silver already hitting about $36.50, even higher.
And that's spot price.
Silver is probably headed to $40 plus.
That is, if...
So all of this is going to have a rather damaging impact on the U.S. dollar.
It's going to harm world trade.
It's going to cause all kinds of tensions, obviously.
It's going to interfere with international shipping and transport.
It may affect the Suez Canal.
It's going to be a mess, and Israel doesn't seem to care.
As long as Israel gets what it wants, which is getting the U.S. to fight its wars and to die for Israel, well, then Israel's happy.
But I don't know about you, but I don't want to see U.S. soldiers spilling blood on the battlefields of Iran Can continue their genocide in Gaza.
I'm not down with that.
Alright, so watch out for that Iran situation.
And then Russia.
So, yeah, the Russia situation continues to worsen for Ukraine in the sense that Ukraine is steadily losing territory, losing more men.
By many accounts, the military front of Ukraine is on the verge of collapse, but hey, we've heard that before.
It hasn't happened yet.
They do seem to be incredibly resilient.
Maybe they will hold out even longer.
But it seems that any attempt at negotiation between Russia and Ukraine has ended in failure because the two sides are just too far apart.
Ukraine wants all of the territory back that Russia has adopted.
You know, since, what was it, February of 22. But you've got to remember that those Donbass regions, Donetsk and Luhansk, I believe, they voted to join Russia.
So they don't want to be part of Ukraine.
They want to be part of Russia.
But there are other regions that Russia has taken as well, and it's moving into a new region that I cannot seem to pronounce.
It's a very long Russian name.
I'm not even going to try it.
Nevertheless, Ukraine's situation is not looking good, and yet they don't appear ready to negotiate at all.
So Russia is almost certainly going to continue its sustained campaign of just pounding away, grinding down the manpower and the remaining armored vehicles, whatever tanks are left.
You realize almost all of the Abrams tanks that the U.S. donated to Ukraine?
They're all gone, except I think two of them, something like that.
They've all been destroyed.
So Ukraine's running out of armor, Ukraine's running out of men, Ukraine's running out of munitions, etc.
Yes, they managed to pull off a couple of pretty clever attacks with those drones that launch out of the back of trucks.
That was innovative, but it was almost certainly a CIA operation, maybe MI6, you know, British intelligence, which almost seems like an oxymoron when it comes to the military.
They weren't even operable.
It was basically a bomber plane graveyard that Ukraine bombed.
One of them.
I think they hit three airfields, maybe a fourth.
But one of them was just a graveyard anyway.
Those planes weren't going anywhere because they had no engines.
So once you hit them with explosive drones, you can say, okay, now they have no engines and they're no longer airworthy.
So is that a success?
I don't know.
But the important thing here is that Russia still reserves the right to retaliate against that attack.
And Russia, according to, I think Scott Ritter said this, I think he said that Russia can manufacture something like 80 Oreshnik missiles per year, something like that.
If that's 80 per year, how many do they have on hand?
I don't know how long they've been making them, but reasonably, they have at least a couple dozen Oreshniks, let's say.
Any one of which can be rather devastating.
And remember, the Oreshnik missiles, they are not nuclear, but they use kinetic.
High-density impact cones, basically, that come down at Mach 11, I think it was.
And then they hit the ground and they just turn everything into dust.
Everything that they strike is just atomized, including multiple floors down.
So Russia can hit underground bunkers and destroy them.
Russia can hit, obviously, anything on the surface from headquarters buildings, munitions depots.
But also probably aircraft carriers, I would imagine.
It's a big floating rectangular target from above.
You know, you look down.
There's a giant rectangle in the ocean.
Can we hit it?
Hard to miss.
Look how big it is.
There's a couple of floating football fields.
Aren't they like 300 meters long or something like that?
That's like three football fields in length.
Pretty big target.
Anyway, my point is that Russia can strike military bases in Romania.
Or Poland?
Or Germany?
If it chooses to.
I'm not saying it's going to, but it could.
And at the same time, Russia could also use Oreshnik missiles to strike targets in, well, in Israel, if it chose to.
Including taking out underground bunkers where maybe Netanyahu has a hammock or something.
And probably, like, a really large supply of frozen pizza or whatever he's into.
I don't know, like cheese pizza or whatever.
Whatever he's into, I'm sure he's got a big supply of that underground somewhere.
Nevertheless, Russia's Oreshnik missiles have a very broad range.
They can hit targets in London, they can hit Paris, they can hit Berlin, obviously, and they can hit Tel Aviv.
They can also, well, when mounted on the proper ICBMs, they could easily hit, let's say, Diego Garcia.
The Air Force base in the Indian Ocean where the stealth bombers were parked for some period of time.
I don't know if they're still there.
Maybe some of them are still there.
But they could all be destroyed just within minutes by Russia without using nuclear weapons.
So, this question remains.
What is Russia going to do?
Now, think about the timing of all of this.
Trump is facing a triple threat, like a three-front war, and I haven't even mentioned China yet.
We'll get to that.
Trump's facing Los Angeles insurrection.
He's facing basically a Netanyahu insurrection in the bombing of Iran that seems highly likely.
And then he's facing a possible retaliation from Russia.
Now, what does this do to U.S. military forces?
It spreads them very thin.
Very thin.
And I don't mean the personnel, because right now it seems like America does have Enough bodies in uniform to protect federal buildings and things like that.
Although, for some of those chunky Marines, that might be the only exercise they've had in the last six months is walking around the federal building.
We'll see.
A lot of them are, frankly, I mean, some, not all.
I'm not putting down Marines as a whole because I respect U.S. Marines, but they don't make them like they used to, and a lot of them are...
Let's just be honest.
There's a lot of obese military personnel who really can't go toe-to-toe with Russians or Iranians or Chinese or anybody else just because of all the unhealthy food, the processed food, obesity, overweight, everybody's on antidepressant drugs, and they're just...
They're not very mobile, because they're overweight, okay?
I wouldn't say this about...
You can still do your architecture on your computer with your CAD designer, even if you're overweight.
I get it.
That's fine.
But I'm saying soldiers, they've got to be mobile, which requires you to be lean and strong and resilient, etc., right?
That's critical.
And the U.S. military is not in tip-top shape, and a lot of them got vaccinated, If they exert themselves too much, some of them just keel over and die suddenly because of the fibrous clots, of course, caused by Operation Warp Speed.
So our military is not in the shape it used to be.
And then on top of that, we have sent, over the last several years, the vast majority of domestic munitions, at least this is my understanding, From guests I've had on talking about the depletion of munitions at even National Guard bases and places like that.
We have sent drones.
We have sent tank rounds.
We have sent almost all of our artillery rounds.
We've sent all the javelins, the anti-tank weapon systems, and a bunch of other stuff.
We've sent bombs to Israel.
We've sent tanks to Ukraine, like actual tanks.
Here, have 25 tanks.
And try not to lose them too quickly.
And as a result, domestically, the U.S. military is, I wouldn't even put it at 50% readiness.
Now, I'm sure General Carrilla would disagree.
Oh, no, sir, we're 98% readiness.
No, you're not.
You're lucky to be 50% readiness right now.
You don't have the munitions.
Your personnel are chunky and obese.
You still got too much wokeism in the ranks of the military.
They haven't trained enough.
They rely too much on technology and not enough on hands-on skills.
They're not as good at handling rifles as they used to be two generations ago.
Not even close.
So then the question becomes, how will this military fight a domestic insurrection that turns into a raging multi-city civil war?
And the answer from Matt Bracken, who, again, I just interviewed, the answer from Matt Bracken is that the U.S. military really can't defeat the insurrectionists.
And he said that L.A. is the size of 10 Fallujahs, and way more complicated.
Even if you sent in 10,000 Marines into Los Angeles, you still, you could not defeat the drug cartels.
You couldn't do it.
Too many of them, they flow like water outside of your checkpoints, etc.
So unless you're going to deploy literally hundreds of thousands of troops across U.S. cities, there's no way that you're going to be able to stop the insurrection using the military.
Think about that.
Now, to put a cherry on top of all of this, Because, you know, we got the bananas, we got the ice cream, and we got the whipped cream around.
We're making a giant banana split, right?
Split three ways, in this case, Russia, Iran, and L.A. Well, there's a cherry on top of this three-way banana split.
That cherry is China.
And China, upon seeing any of this stuff happen, will probably come to the conclusion, because they are mostly rational, the conclusion that, hey, America's weak and vulnerable, chaotic, disorganized, overstretched.
We should probably take Taiwan right about now.
Or unleash cyberattacks or add to the chaos or whatever.
China's probably standing by and just saying, you know, we'll pull the trigger when America is on its knees.
Could be domestic riots, you know, could be war with Iran.
Could be cyber attacks, going insane, whatever.
I have a feeling that America won't be able to defend Taiwan, for example, in the middle of a war like that because, well, you know, America's forces will be occupied, including most of the Navy.
And even then, how are we going to defeat China with our Navy so close to China when China can manufacture and launch an endless stream of shore-based Anti-ship missiles.
You know?
If you sail anywhere near China, they just launch missiles and take out your ships.
You can't defend against 500 missiles coming in at your ship at one time.
Sorry, it doesn't work that way.
So, China may take advantage of all of this and add a fourth dimension to this war, or a fourth front, which would just be catastrophic for the United States.
And in that kind of a situation, don't be surprised if desperate measures are called for and either Trump or maybe state governors or some other officials start to deputize citizens in America.
Citizens who have had some level, maybe they're veterans, some level of military training or law enforcement training.
They might be retired cops.
They might be former cops.
They might be former soldiers, veterans.
All of those kinds of folks.
I don't anticipate mass deputizing of just, you know, any guy with a rifle, because that's a recipe for disaster.
There's got to be some level of discipline and command and control.
So even if these people were deputized, they would be under the control of some, I don't know what rank, but some unit that answers to, eventually either to the governor or to Trump, right?
It's not going to be a free-for-all.
Vigilante bonanza.
It's like, everybody grab a gun, go shoot them up.
No, it's not going to be like that.
But understand, there are probably at least 10 million gun-owning Americans, many of whom are veterans, law enforcement, etc., who are more than willing to step up right now, if called upon, to do things like defend this bridge, defend these refineries, defend this port.
Like, we need a perimeter of defense, and anybody comes within 100 yards, you shoot them.
I could see that kind of thing happening, because the U.S. military, not only does the military not have enough bodies to protect all the assets across America, but, again, I'm not even sure how much the military has stockpiled in terms of munitions, whereas people in Texas or Nevada or Idaho, You have any idea how much ammo they all have stored up?
Like, they got underground bunkers stocked with ammo.
You know,.50 caliber ammo cans stuffed with like.308 NATO rounds or whatever.
And the reason I know this is because I have some of that too.
I mean, we all do.
We all have some level of ammo stockpiled away.
And a lot of that ammo, you know, is good for decades.
I still have a can from 1998, by the way.
I saw that the other day.
I'm like, wow, I wonder if that's any good.
I don't know.
Those are 308 rounds I have from 1998.
I don't know if the primers even work, but hey, it's better than nothing.
But imagine what that would do to America if you've got full military deployment across the cities, and then you've called up a couple of million deputized veterans.
To just try to guard everything, guard power substations, you know, try to prevent the enemy from blowing stuff up.
That's going to make America a very difficult place in which to function in terms of transportation, logistics, imports, exports, obviously using the Long Beach port would be probably out of commission, or just traveling, or just going to work.
Getting to your bank, doing banking, doing finance, and of course the financial markets would be going insane during all of this as well.
So that's what we have to look forward to for the rest of this year and probably next year, maybe the year beyond.
And I wanted you to be fully aware of this, not trying to push doom and gloom or anything.
I actually think that...
The event coming this Saturday is called No Kings.
No Kings.
And it's going to be this uprising in at least 50 cities across the USA.
I was thinking, wouldn't it be better if we had an event called No Traitors?
And in the No Traitors event, that Federal Trump and the DOJ would have massive squads of U.S. Marshals or Special Forces go arrest all the traitors.
We'll call it the No Traders Day.
And open up a new wing in Guantanamo or whatever is necessary and take them out of here and get them to turn on each other and expose the whole money laundering cartel of California government and all the NGOs and the USAID slush fund money and all of that.
That's what you need to do.
If you want to cut the head off this snake without plunging America into years of battlefield warfare, You need to go in and you need to arrest and remove the kingpins of this, who are the Democrat leaders like Newsom and others.
There are many others, the ones donating all the money to the NGOs, the ones running the slush funds, etc.
You arrest them, you take them down to Guantanamo, and then you interrogate them.
You know, like Jack Bauer did in 24. He was always interrogating everybody.
With really not that aggressive means.
Some of it was pretty funny, actually.
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So we'll go to that special report next, and then following that, we will have a featured interview for you with John Roy from Dawson Knives.
Check it out.
I think you'll really enjoy that interview coming up.
I just finished interviewing Matt Bracken, and we focused on what's happening in Los Angeles, the insurrection, and also the longstanding attempt to conquer the American Southwest by these invading forces, which don't really represent Mexico.
This isn't about Really annexing the U.S. and giving it to Mexico.
This is about a different group of terrorists and narco cartels and foreign interests and corrupt officials really separating the Southwest from the United States of America.
And as you can tell right now, the officials in California, they don't want to be subjected to the laws of the United States.
They certainly don't want Trump or the feds there in any capacity whatsoever.
And they really do want sanctuary status.
They want to be lawless.
They don't want to abide by any immigration laws.
And the governor, Newsom, said that Californians should perhaps stop paying federal income taxes.
And so these are secessionary conversations or comments that are being put out there.
And it's very clear that that portion of California, not the whole state, not the rural areas, not Northern California, etc., but that portion, the L.A., San Diego, Sacramento, the West Coast, the Bay Area, etc., yes, they want to be a separate country.
But these groups, like historically La Raza, You know, the people, the neighborhood, the barrio groups, etc.
What they want to do is they want to conquer and run the entire American Southwest.
And that way they'll be free to do their drug trafficking, their human trafficking, you know, headquarters for all their narco cartels, etc.
For them, it's about expanding their operations, which are currently in northern Mexico, expanding them to taking over the American Southwest.
Now, the other thing that Matt Bracken said is that weaponized immigration is a ratcheting effect, that under a Democrat, there can be 10 million people walking across the wide-open border, zero enforcement, everybody's told to stand down, you know, all the ICE and Border Patrol, etc., all told to stand down, and the treasonous left-wing judges will sue any governor, like the governor of Texas, Who tries to stop it?
Or they'll sue a local mayor or a local police force that tries to stop it.
And then when a Republican gets into office and tries to reverse all of this migration, then they might have a 1% effect compared to the 100% of who came in.
So 10 million come in, you might get 100,000 out.
And since it's the mere presence of the illegals in the United States that effectively rigs elections, it steals House seats for states like California because House seats are apportioned based on population census data, regardless of citizenship.
And it also steals Electoral College votes because the Electoral College numbers for each state are also based on population because of the House seats.
So just the fact that they are here, Means they're already stealing our future, they're rigging our elections, and they're giving Democrats the ability to cheat by having too many seats, too much representation that they don't actually deserve, according to the United States Constitution.
I don't think the Founding Fathers ever could have anticipated that our officials would tolerate mass weaponization of migration.
And that we would just sit back and let our country be completely invaded and overrun.
But that's exactly what has happened under Democrats like Obama and, you know, Bill Clinton.
But it's also happened under Republicans as well.
Just not as much.
And, of course, Trump is the one trying to stop this and reverse this more than any other president in our lifetimes, basically.
I mean, Reagan signed an amnesty deal that granted amnesty to millions of illegals, and it was contingent upon the United States closing and securing the border.
It was supposed to be a one-time deal.
It was like, okay, we'll give these illegals, we'll give them citizenship, but no more.
And that was in the 1980s.
And then look what happened.
It was weaponized and mass immigration.
Well, you can't even call it immigration because...
Anyway, according to Matt Bracken, this situation is going to get a whole lot worse because there's really no effective way, even for a standing military, an army, to get the millions of illegals out of America.
Now, remember, under the Biden administration, they were deliberately flown to swing states.
They put them in Pennsylvania.
They put them in Michigan.
They invaded communities with illegals in order to alter elections for the foreseeable future.
And they did that strategically.
It was really weaponized migration in order to rig future elections.
And now it falls upon Trump and Tom Homan and Noam and, you know, everybody else in the Trump administration to see if they can reverse this before the next election.
Four-year election or even before the midterms.
And in order to do that, they're going to have to deploy the military seemingly rather aggressively.
Now, my comments on this are, I'm just describing what would have to happen for millions of illegals to be deported.
I'm not, at this moment, I'm not endorsing these tactics.
I'm just saying that if millions are to be deported, It would have to involve a massive military operation across nearly every major U.S. city with troops on the streets, with checkpoints, and you would see America turned into a full-blown battlefield.
Because at that point, the radical left would, of course, they would begin setting off bombs, bombing troops, IEDs would be on the roadways in America.
They would bomb federal buildings and commit arson and they would take down the power grid.
The radical leftists here would operate as full-blown terrorists to just take down America, cause massive chaos, and to tie up federal resources as much as possible.
And it really wouldn't be that hard for them to do so because, as Bracken says, America has been built as a high-trust society.
Which is why our power grid is not well protected.
And it's why our water systems are not well protected.
So if there is a dedicated, mission-driven group of terrorists and saboteurs, without that much effort, they can take down power grid substations.
And they can take out water treatment or water pump stations, even the ones that serve LA.
Or they can take out bridges or...
You get the picture.
That's probably going to happen if the Trump administration gets aggressive with deploying soldiers on the streets.
And then there are, of course, a lot of civil rights questions that come up automatically in this, such as the question, like, do we really want a country where we have checkpoints, military checkpoints on the streets?
And we essentially are living under a state of martial law, sort of.
Semi-martial law.
Not that the military is in charge.
Trump is still in charge.
But the military is running everything on the streets and there are curfews every night, etc.
Do we really want to live in a country like that?
Well, if we say no, then we're going to lose our country.
In other words, it's bad no matter what.
If you don't get aggressive with the invaders and just let them be, then they will take over the country.
They're in the process of doing that now, and it will only increase every year until they just outnumber the American people.
But if you do get tough and aggressive with them, then America will be turned into a battlefield with active-duty soldiers on the streets for years to come.
It will look like a war zone, and some cities will probably be destroyed in this process, or at least rendered uninhabitable.
So those are the only two choices, it seems.
Either surrender America, or turn America into an active war zone in an effort to try to save it.
So which one of those options do you want?
I'm curious.
If you think about it, would you rather...
Or would you rather have a country that is, in the short term, turned into a war zone, but that has some kind of long-term chance of getting these invaders out of the country and restoring?
The Constitutional Republic.
Even though that would mean that especially in the cities, the blue cities and the blue states, you would be living through a war where the left-wing city leaders, who are almost all Marxists and communists, they would be siding with the insurrectionists that are trying to overthrow America.
And if you live in one of those cities, you'd probably have to flee.
And those cities, again, will become uninhabitable, but also inoperable in terms of commerce and transportation.
And then you have to ask about the LA ports, Long Beach ports.
What about shipping?
What about imports and exports?
What about the railways, etc.?
Basically, you're looking at a very severe shutdown or disruptions of the United States of America as we know it.
Possibly followed by secession.
Even if you, quote, win the war, there may be areas like the West Coast that just decide they don't want to be part of this nation at all because it's too militant, let's say, you know, whatever complaint they come up with.
And so you'll probably see secession.
And then from that, The bottom line is you are very unlikely to see the United States of America remain intact as you currently know it for much longer.
Now, I've had a seven-year prediction on the record saying that the USA would no longer exist as we know it by the end of 2025.
And here we are.
That prediction might end up being a little bit early.
It might take another year or two for this domestic war to run its course.
But you can clearly see the beginning of this effort for the lunatic Democrats to begin the process of secession or to begin the process of insurrection.
And I think the only way this actually ends is when Trump declares a war and deploys the troops domestically and that's going to be a nightmare scenario.
It's not a scenario that I wish to see happen.
I just don't see any other option if we're going to take our republic back.
Do you?
I mean, how else can this situation actually be resolved?
I don't know of any other answer.
I'm open to other answers.
I hope there's a better way.
Maybe you can just...
But I doubt it, because there's always another Marxist to take their place.
In any case, my interview with Matt Bracken will be running probably tomorrow, I'm guessing.
And you can check it out at brighteon.com.
In the meantime, pray for America, and get prepared.
Be safe, everybody.
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I'm Mike Adams.
Thanks for listening.
Hey, since the L.A. riots are getting out of control and they're starting to spread to other cities, New York, Austin, Dallas, etc.
And also this coming Saturday, they're probably going to explode in Florida.
I thought I would give you a quick overview of self-defense and try to save you a bunch of time on what to get and where to practice your skills.
If you're concerned about, you know, chaos or anarchy or violence coming to your neighborhood or wherever you happen to live.
I mean, there is a scenario I talked about where this whole civil war situation escalates and then radical violence.
And that would cause a massive wave of American refugees to flee these cities.
Cities like, you know, Houston, let's say, or it could be cities like Denver.
It could be, you know, New York City, it could be L.A., whatever.
So we could see waves of refugees.
Across America, and that would put a lot of pressure on rural areas.
And although, of course, most Americans would not be instantly violent criminals, of course.
Maybe if they're fleeing a city where the power grid has gone out, these are people that are seeking help with food and water and shelter and emergency medicine and things like that.
And of course, you and I, we will help as many people as we can.
But the longer the situation goes on, then the more desperate people become.
And then you start to get more and more of impolite behavior, we'll say.
Looting, stealing, looking for food, carjackings, things like that.
And even previously polite people can become desperate lawbreakers under the right circumstances.
You as well.
All of us.
If it becomes life or death, if you're starving to death, And you see a retail store with some food in there, and you are literally starving to death.
You're probably going to break in there and try to get some of that food, even though you know it's against the law.
So famine makes people do crazy things.
And famine breaks down the politeness of society.
So let me just quickly cover what I've learned about firearms and defense and training, especially for those of you listening on the older side.
If you haven't done a lot of training with firearms and you feel like, hey, I need to get one, I need to know what to do, let me give you some tips.
The first thing to realize is that you're going to need more than one firearm.
The common setup is to have a Glock or a Glock-like pistol.
It could be an M&P shield or whatever.
It could be a Palmetto State Armory Glock or a Glock Glock.
Like, I carry a Glock 43 right now, or a customized version from Shield Arms.
You can go there, you can reach them at shieldarms.com, by the way.
I'll mention them again because they also offer a pistol, sort of an AR-15 pistol that I recommend.
But nevertheless, I carry a Glock 43, an extended customized version, and it's...
Easier to carry, easier to conceal.
And in my case, even though I'm a pretty large person, you know, I'm over six feet tall, I find that even with my hand size, I like the smaller frame of the Glock 43. I think it's a 43X is the official model.
Anyway, check out shieldarms.com.
And you can use discount code RANGER to save, I think it's $50 off of a rifle there if you want to check them out.
And they've got the extended steel magazines.
See, the reason I stopped carrying Glock for many years is because the polymer mags, the catch on them that keeps the magazine in the gun would wear out if it rattled.
Over time, because I carry daily, every day, without exception.
And so those mags would drop out.
So if you carry a Glock, don't carry polymer mags.
Carry steel mags.
And the place to get the steel mags is shield arms.
But remember that you're going to need to learn how to shoot an AR-15 rifle as well.
And especially for those of you who are on the older side, or if you're a female listening to this, You may not have the shoulder strength of a male, and so I strongly recommend AR-15 pistols with folding braces or an extendable arm brace, which is still shorter than a regular rifle stock.
So the nice thing about an AR-15 pistol is it can have a much shorter barrel than the normal 16-inch barrel, and a lot of people use a 12-inch barrel.
And then they use a folding arm brace or an extending arm brace.
And that makes a perfect size for a person who doesn't have a large upper body strength or just a smaller framed person, which often includes a lot of women and a lot of elderly people.
And yes, an elderly person can easily handle an AR-15 pistol in that configuration.
It barely kicks at all.
And with just a little bit of training, you can be far more accurate.
With an AR-15 pistol or rifle than you can be with a Glock pistol.
Rifles are easier to learn to shoot, faster to get up to speed, far more accurate, and they have, of course, far more range.
And if you have to choose a caliber for an AR-15 pistol, I recommend 300 Blackout.
Not the standard 5.56 rounds, but 300 Blackout because of its versatility.
And it tends to cycle better in the shorter barrels that you would have with an AR-15 pistol.
So you can check out, there are some folding models of this with arm braces at shieldarms.com.
Another brand that I recommend is Sig Sauer.
The Sig rifles, the MCX rifles, I own several of those.
I have a lot of experience with them.
They're heavier up top, so they require even more upper body strength.
They can be fired in the folded position because, you know, they have a totally different recoil mechanism and a bolt carrier system compared to a standard mil-spec AR-15.
So anyway.
Oh, but six-hour rifles can get crazy expensive.
That's for sure.
Anyway, this is a good time.
To get squared away with your rifle, your pistol, and also if you're looking at ballistic body armor, you can find my links to those affiliate partners at rangerdeals.com.
Just go to rangerdeals.com.
I've got ballistic vests there.
I've got a link to Shield Arms with the discount code.
What else do I have?
Oh yeah, 1791 gun leather.
I gotta show you that, man.
It's incredible.
I've been using the same holster now for...
A year and a half, almost two years, without breaking it.
That's because it's made out of leather, but it's custom-formed to my pistol.
And it's been fantastic.
And there's a discount code there on rangerdeals.com.
If you want holsters that are really, really reliable and that hold up, that's your answer right there.
1791 Gun Leather is the company.
Their stuff actually works.
It's amazing.
That's why I promote them, because I went through like 10 holsters over a few years and kept breaking them just by wearing them.
You know, a lot of holsters don't hold up to actually everyday carry, but these do from 1791.
All right.
Anyway, stay safe, everybody, and check your local laws.
Make sure that you're abiding by laws when it comes to body armor or rifles or pistols or what have you or suppressors.
You know, I often say, yeah, I own suppressors, I own guns and rifles and whatever, but it's all legal.
I don't do any illegal stuff.
I don't have, like, drop-in full auto triggers because that's illegal.
I don't have illegal suppressors.
I don't do that stuff.
Keep it all legal, but even in the legal realm, you can get really well prepared, and what you're missing is not a full auto trigger or something silly like that.
What you're missing is practice time.
You just need better skills.
You know, I've said before, when I was timing my own trigger, I was easily firing, what, four to five rounds a second on an AR-15.
That's fast enough, you know?
You probably can't even, you know, choose targets that quickly.
So you don't need crazy illegal stuff.
You just need practice for the most part.
So get proper training, get safety training, you know, follow all the rules of firearms.
Assume they're always loaded.
You know, don't sweep people with the barrels, etc.
Be smart, be safe, follow the law and be prepared.
You can also check out more of my videos on preparedness topics, including firearms and more at prepwithmike.com.
I'm Mike Adams, the Health Ranger.
Thank you for listening.
Take care.
Welcome to today's episode here on Brighteon.com.
I'm Mike Adams and today we're joined by John from Dawson Knives, which is a third generation family run knife making, well, a family of knife making experts.
They're based out of Arizona and they use nearly all USA components to make their knives.
And of course, we've worked with them for many years to have custom design, custom form knives, high quality Magna Cut steel G10 handles.
And famously now, one of the knives that we came up with together, I named it Escape from L.A. And look at what's happening.
So welcome, John, to the show today.
It's great to have you on.
Yeah, you were kind of prophesying there, man.
I mean, that Escape from L.A. knife and looking at all the riots and everything that's going down there.
Yeah, that knife is designed to escape a city where the power grid has failed.
And, you know, because it's got a pry bar on the front of it, which is very unusual for a knife.
Anyway, welcome to the show today.
I know you've got some new things to announce.
I've also got your knife under the microscope here that we're going to show the audience for the first time ever.
Actually, yeah, go ahead and show the microscope.
Here's a live microscopy look, and there's your logo.
Since 1973, Dawson, right?
So we're going to actually take a very high-end look at the blade and some of the materials and the angles, the sharpening, etc.
Anyway, welcome to the show.
So, how you been?
Been really good, Mike.
Thank you for having me here.
I always love you guys.
You guys do an awesome job.
You guys are first class in how you handle us and how you handle your customers.
We get a lot of good feedback.
We've been making knives for you guys for many years now.
And we've been working really hard coming up with some really new designs.
Talking about one of them just recently with this new cutlery design that we've worked with you.
We talked about it over a year ago.
It was back in January about possibly kitchen knives, which would really go well with the Health Ranger.
And we haven't done kitchen knives in 30 years.
So we used to do it when we first started back in the 80s and 90s.
And then we just kind of moved into the survival market.
We came out with a lot of, you know, the Spike and a lot of other different designs.
During, in 2001, you know, Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom.
So we started focusing on that a lot more, helping our soldiers abroad.
But now, ever since we started talking to you, it really got us thinking.
You know, maybe we should make a kitchen knife.
So we worked with some chefs and came up with the design that we have today.
All right.
Well, let's just actually jump right to that because I've got one of those knives right here.
And this is called the Hearthfire.
Yes.
And what's the actual blade length on this?
Is it six inches?
Yeah, so it's a little over six inches.
It's about six and three-eighths.
So just in that area.
And this is made with MagnaCut, correct?
Yes, it's made with MagnaCut steel.
So it's one of the few kitchen knives out there that are actually made with MagnaCut steel.
Now, tell our audience about MagnaCut steel because it's a revolutionary alloy with anti-corrosion properties, but it's also about to get a whole lot more expensive.
So talk to us about the benefits of MagnaCut.
I love MagnaCut for all the tools, the machete, the hatchet.
You know, all the other, the combat knives and so on, which I've given to many of our guests here.
But tell us about MagnaCut.
So, MagnaCut was actually invented by my good friend, Larry Thomas.
He's actually, well, he was out here in Arizona.
And his family used to do the shows out here.
And we knew his dad.
He always made Damascus.
And we'd see him at the shows because we were all growing up.
And Barry would be at the shows with his dad.
Darren Thomas.
So he came up during COVID with this alloy.
He's got a doctorate in metallurgy.
And what he really did was find a way to make a super stainless without using a lot of chromium, which can make your knives brittle.
You get a lot of chipping from that.
So he found a way to only use 10% chromium, which is technically not a stainless.
But by all the different alloys that he's put into it has allowed it not to have any chromium carbides.
And so you get a super stainless steel that's easy to resharpen and is extremely tough and also very heat resistant.
And then you, what Dawson did on top of that was you developed your own heat treating protocols that are not known by anybody else as far as I understand.
Is that correct?
Yeah, that is correct.
So we came out with our own proprietary heat treat with MagnaCut.
And the cool thing about that is that with our heat treating techniques, we actually get a differential heat treat.
We were one of the first, and still to this day, the only person that has ever put a hard line or a hemone line on a powdered metal MagnaCut steel.
And so we have a lot of processes that we do for that that is our family secret.
We've studied a lot in heat treating.
And we've worked in metallurgy a lot.
So with this process, you get a razor sharp cutting edge.
So that edge lasts a little bit longer than a lot of our competition using MagnaCut.
So we can usually go about, you know, one and a half times longer.
And then you get a lot of strength behind it.
And that's what's really important.
There's a lot of flex.
We've done videos with the Escape from L.A. just showing that pry bar feature and able to chop through nails.
We've shown in our sword videos the way that it can bend.
We've shown we had a machete video that just the way it could chop and how it could take so much impact and even in hitting metal.
So, it's pretty impressive what we've been able to come up with, and we pass that down generation to generation, and we have third generation learning that today.
Yeah, I've really used your knives as tools on my ranch, and I just posted a video because my jogging path got some cedar elm trees very, I don't know, an inch diameter or smaller.
They were kind of overgrowing the path.
So, I took what we call the extreme outfitter.
And here's one right here.
And I forgot the exact length of this blade, but I love the design.
I love the weight.
It's incredibly useful.
And usually with just one strike, you can sever a small tree or a tree branch, and I was just able to clear the path very quickly.
And, you know, very practical.
It's not just me, like, looking for things to chop.
No, I need to jog here, you know, with my dog.
Who's sitting over here.
So we use these every day and also I use the Escape from L.A. I use that pry bar to deal with the fence post nails that are nailed into wooden posts.
Very common in Texas.
So when you have fencing wire, it's nailed with these staples.
And these staples, that's what that reverse hook feature is all about.
You can pry those staples out of it with that special knife Escape from L.A. So very practical.
Yeah, when you told us what was the purpose for that, it took us a little while to figure it out.
We actually had to hammer in the staples, find the right staples and pry them out.
And we were surprised how well that worked out.
It made an awesome tool.
We worked with you through the revision.
So that escape from LA was really hashed out over a period of time to really perfect.
This idea and this tool.
That's why there's nothing like it on the market.
Now, when we get to the Outfitter Extreme, we really worked on balancing it.
Right now, it is the only machete that Dawson offers.
So, that's on your side right now.
And so, your guys can get that.
This machete is balanced really well.
We really took it through its paces.
We chopped everything from large branches.
We've hit mesquite with it.
We've hit all kinds of stuff with this machete, and it just works really good.
And just getting that grind line and the way we grind also helps with those dynamics.
So our edge angle on that particular machete, so you can still cut brush and still hit hard, heavy limbs, we put it about 18 degrees.
Oh, wow.
Okay, we're going to go to the microscope shortly and take a look, but let me mention to the audience, if you want to get the new Chef's Knife, it's, Only a couple hundred sets are being made available, and the ship time is two to three weeks.
You can find it at healthrangerstore.com slash chef, C-H-E-F, and it's the Hearthfire knife, and it's available in a couple of different colors for the handle.
And, of course, this knife will last you a lifetime, and you will never break it in your kitchen, even if you tried to.
It would be very hard to figure out how to break it.
It will make cooking an incredible delight and it's something that will, again, last a lifetime.
The G10 handle, the full tang design.
What's the actual thickness of the steel for this knife?
Very good question.
So it ends up getting at 0.100.
So we use 3 /32 inch stock and then we get it down to 0.100.
The cool thing about this kitchen knife, it's the only Dawson kitchen knife that exists.
We did a trial run on our site and everyone loved it.
We have people wanting more.
So I was so happy with this collaboration because we started this way back in February.
And it really helped us to, when we go to the design of this knife, and that's one thing I wanted to show everybody, we really made it so it's unique because it has a hollow grind.
So a lot of your kitchen knives are flat ground, which is not bad.
I mean, it still makes a good kitchen knife, but with the hollow grind allows us to cut really finely into like any vegetables or meat, steak, and it actually pushes away.
So that way you don't get that suction to it and you can keep chopping and cutting.
So it's just a really universal knife.
It's a chef's knife.
Everybody uses one in the kitchen.
One of the chefs that helped us design this went to Scottsdale Culinary and is in San Jose.
She does amazing work.
So she helped us really work out this design, this little cut-in right here.
So if you look at the bottom, it's got this little profile cut-in.
So that really helps you to start your cut and you don't have to worry, especially if you're moving really fast and you're grabbing right here, you have a lot of control.
So there's a lot of little features with this knife that once you start using in the kitchen, you really see how robust.
We have one guy separating chicken bones and no edge damage.
He was just chopping right through.
So it's pretty impressive.
Yeah.
Well, thanks for mentioning that.
And the hollow grind, that refers to the shape of the grinding away of the metal to make, narrowing it down to the cutting edge.
But it's the shape of that that helps.
Move through like meat and steak and things like that, correct?
That is correct.
So when you look at it, it's actually kind of curved like this.
Yeah.
So you have your point and then it's curved.
Right.
So what that does is that it creates a channel so you don't have that suction.
So air, blood, whatever can escape through that.
Or, you know, water.
And so that way it actually helps separate the vegetables and everything and pushes them apart while still giving you a very clean cut.
By the way, why are you wearing, like, Gun Range Ear Pro today?
I'm just curious.
So, you know, that's a good point.
So everything that we do, it's a lot of tactical.
And so we were trying this.
I could hear you really good.
We had another set, and I'm just like, you know, I just can't really hear very well.
So these are our tactical Gun Range that we use out in the shop.
We also use it because when we're manufacturing, we have these here, but I can also plug them in to So those are just regular gun range amplifying ear protection?
Yeah, these are, I think these are walkers.
Okay.
They work pretty well, yeah.
Yeah, okay.
All right, cool.
All right, well, then loud noises will not faze you.
Okay.
Let's go to the microscope.
So we're starting here at a 5X magnification right now, just to show that this is the Dawson knife.
And this one is a slightly different shape of another kitchen knife that we have not yet announced, but this is the prototype for it.
And you've got the same kind of grind, the hollow grind, that you can see right there.
But what I want to do, John, is go to the blade edge here.
and show people as we zoom in what this looks like let me let me actually find uh Oops, that's as far left as we can go.
Alright, we'll center it here.
And then we're going to start to really zoom in.
And it's going to swap lenses.
And then we'll focus it in, and you will begin to see...
okay so there's MagnaCut at 80x With the sharpening that you have put on it, you can see the consistency of it right there.
We can go in, let's go to 200x.
It's going to swap lenses again.
And this begins to start to look like a scanning electron microscopy.
Let me show you something else.
We'll go to 400x, and I'm actually going to Let me do a depth focus here.
We can get it all in focus at the same time.
All right.
It's compositing.
There we go.
So there's the image of the Edge at 400x.
Pretty wild, huh?
Yeah, it's pretty cool.
Actually, I used to work on electron microscopes a long time ago.
Did you?
Yes, I did.
I actually interned at Intel.
This is back when I was going to college in Phoenix.
At the old Williams Air Force Base before it was the Arizona State Technological Institute.
Yeah.
But yeah, so I worked on M-rays, electron microscopes, and some KLA.
But yeah, so that's really cool.
So when you look at that, you can actually see both things.
So you can see the secondary bevel, which is the cutting edge, right where you had it.
You can actually see that divide line to the actual grinding edge, so where you had that.
And it's pretty cool when you're looking at it, because at the top part, you can tell that that's only going through a 240 grit, and then it's going through a satin finish that's about a 400 to 600.
When you look down the edge, that part right towards the very bottom of your microscope there, you can tell that it's a lot finer.
So we go through a 400 grit.
And then we're going to a thousand grit, which is helping us with the stropping and really knocking it down to get that fine cutting edge.
Oh wow, gosh.
You know, you're right because I didn't realize we weren't at the very edge.
That was just the transition.
Which is really cool.
I thought that was perfect because you can see the transition between what's happening over there at the grind and then getting down to the bevel.
So you can tell the difference there when you get really close and why the grits are because that's important.
A lot of people, if you look at that top part where we grind at 240, that's where they stop when they're sharpening.
Oh, wow.
They're like that, so at the bottom, Nobody does that.
They don't have the time.
So they only go to a 240, and that's why our cutting edge is so much better.
You see, it's so much finer there.
I can see it.
It looks more like ridges and canyons.
Yeah.
Right.
Okay.
So then, if I then move down to the actual cutting edge, which is way down here.
Here we go.
And, of course, I have to refocus.
Okay, so now, ho ho ho, Exactly.
And you can actually see that cutting edge is that micro line right there that we actually strop.
So that's leather strop right there.
So you can actually see at the very end, that's a micro edge that's actually cutting the material that's separating right to your secondary grind, which then is going to your main bevel.
Well, I'm going to go 1000x on this just for kicks, okay?
Okay, go for it.
Let's see what that looks like.
Okay, of course focusing is really tricky at 1000x.
Oh yeah.
So stand by here and we get, oh my goodness.
All right, let me do a depth composition here.
Actually, let me try some light.
There we go.
Okay, there you are.
Yep.
And then let me get a depth composition here and then we'll be able to take a look at this at 1000x.
All right, stand by.
It's compositing.
There it is.
Perfect.
Wow.
So, yeah, you're at 1000X.
Now you're starting to see that 1000 grit imperfections, which is pretty cool.
But you can tell right over here on that final micro edge where it's really reflective.
That's really nifty because you can tell how clean that is and it's actually showing out on your microscope.
So that's where you're cutting.
So that's starting that whole cut.
So where you're stropping, you're actually working on that very bottom.
Oh, you know what else?
We can actually do a 3D display here.
I forgot to mention that.
Give me a second.
We can actually rotate this and we can look at the uniformity of it from a Z height.
Are you seeing that?
Yeah, I can see that.
That is so cool.
Let me put the scale numbers on here.
We can see now that, I mean, the uniformity, you know, the height is zero, relative.
So it's completely uniform, which means smooth surface, and even less than a micron, a lot less than a micron.
So let me blow your mind.
That's done by hand.
Well, that's Nobody else could nail it like you guys do because of the techniques and the years of experience, the hand grinding.
And I still got to thank you for taking the time to hand grind my Windstorm sword because I know that thing took a long time.
You know, I tell you what, I actually personally ground that Windstorm.
Did you?
Yes, I did.
I'm one of the two that could do it in the shop.
And it's tough.
It's a tough play, but, you know, it's like any art, and we take it very seriously.
So when someone starts, it's five years just doing the rough grinding.
So only five years, only doing the rough.
They're not getting down to the finishing.
We've got to make sure that they have the right mechanics.
And then it takes another two years to do all the finishing work and getting them all down to that final stage.
Right now we have one person that's third generation and...
So he's doing all the grinding.
He's been with us for seven years.
He's a fine young man.
And so we passed that down.
But it's a seven-year process to teach someone how to grind like that, to sharpen like that.
This is what I want to mention, that we carry a whole line of your products.
If you go to healthrangerstore.com, search for the word knife.
And right here, you'll see, here's Escape from L.A., right here on the left.
And that's got that, actually, let me just click on that because it's got that really funky wedge on the front.
Look at that, right?
That's an escape tool, okay?
That's for prying things open.
And then we've got the mass ratio, bushcrafting, resonance, tactical consequences, covert knife, etc., and then the chef's knives and the other things.
The thing is, folks, when you support Dawson Knives, you're supporting an American company, a third-generation American company, Located in Arizona, sourcing the steel from, I believe, New York.
That's where it comes from, right?
Yeah, so I actually would like to talk about that.
Well, both things, but I'll start with the steel.
It was made by Crucible Industries in Syracuse, New York, and they ended up going out of business in March.
So it's sad that they've been a legacy in this country since 1906.
But they ended up going out because of bad policies from the previous administration.
And so with that, they ended up getting bought out by a French company.
So there is no more powder metal being made in the United States.
Oh, no.
You just can't get it.
They were the last ones.
You're kidding me.
So what we are seeing, I know it's tragic.
It really is tragic.
We knew those people for a long time.
For 50 years, we've been buying steel for them.
And so now...
It's still an amazing facility.
In fact, the powder metal actually comes from Switzerland.
And then they bring it over here.
So, I mean, they do a fantastic job over there.
But we are dealing with 50% tariffs on steel right now, dealing with the EU.
Even though that's separate from Switzerland, it's still coming from France.
So they're dinging us for France.
So it's 50% of the tariffs, and then they had their own inflationary problems, just like we do here.
And so it's another 30%.
So when we are looking at that steel, we just got a huge markup for June to buying the steel.
And then in July, we'll reach that full 80%.
And they're saying it could go as much as 100% in the coming months past that.
Okay, that's...
That sounds like insane international politics.
So here you are, a company that has been buying from Syracuse, New York, for, you said, 50 years.
Yep.
And then the Biden policies of cheap steel imports, probably, caused this company to go out of business.
And then the tariffs that the Trump administration is putting on this deal from Europe is adding 50% currently.
And then the fact that the Nord Stream pipelines got blown up back in 2022 or whenever that And I'm sure that's part of the 30% factor that you're talking about, right?
Yeah, that pretty much hit the nail on the head.
Oh, and don't forget, the battle on coal.
That affects steel.
You've got to have coal to make steel.
So that really drove the prices really high with regulations against steel companies here.
So all those factors really came into it.
So that means the prices that people are seeing right now, if you go to healthrangerstore.com, search for knife, and all these prices, which, you know, obviously these are higher than prices of sort of made in China, cheap steel throwaway.
Amazon.com crap.
But these prices are about to take another leap, much higher, is what you're saying.
These are the lowest prices people are going to see for the foreseeable future.
Yeah, I mean, we've talked to other guys in our industry, too, about this, because we all got hit with this in June, and everyone agreed we just can't eat that, you know, 80%.
Yeah, no kidding.
So prices are going up everywhere on MagnaCut.
We're going to have to raise our prices.
A lot of these people are going to have to raise their prices.
It's just the way it is.
And, you know, what you're seeing with all this steel that is on your side, that is the last of the American-made MagnaCut.
Wow.
So that's the last of it.
Once that's gone, I have to place an order in June.
That's one set of increase, so that when I price my other in July, then I'll have a full set of increase on our products.
Wow.
Okay, well, that's going to hurt, obviously.
And it just, you know, people wonder, why is everything so expensive?
Well, this is why.
You just explained it, you know, 50% tariffs, massive inflation across Western Europe, and the closing down of a longstanding American steel business that we don't want to see go.
I mean, gosh.
I wish there was some way that these changes and policies could help bring that company back, but I guess it's too late.
Yeah, I really wish that American companies would have stepped up in March to buy it.
So people have asked me, why don't you find an American alternative?
Isn't there something in America that you can get?
The answer is no, and we have looked.
Powdered metal, there was only two places making it, this type of powder metal, and that was the United States, and the other place was Switzerland.
So losing the United States, well, now we only have the Switzerland.
People will say, well, there's other companies that are American companies like Carpenter.
Yeah, well, they get it from Switzerland.
So when you look at it, it's all coming through here.
So is someone going to step up?
I hope so.
But it takes almost five years with the current regulations to get a steel plant that can do this process.
Oh, yeah.
So it's going to be a premium.
So right now, it's a fantastic deal.
And it's still going to be a deal coming up in the future.
But you're going to have some of the best metal in the world.
And these kitchen knives are heirloom pieces.
And that's what I wanted to talk about, a little bit about us.
And you were mentioning how we're an American company, and we've always sourced everything in the United States since we started this business in 1973.
But now, you know, there's so many things that go on in the world with politics and as we just talked about with our steel.
But even more so than that, and I wanted to share this with your audience, every purchase that happens with these knives, we here at Dawson Knives, we take 10% of that and we follow what Christ teaches.
You know, we feed the hungry, we give drink to the thirsty.
We clothe the naked, and we help those that are alone or in need.
And that's what we take with that money.
We help food banks around in our area and other places in our state and even in this country.
We help with water programs, clean water programs.
So we help with those, and we're getting ready to post a lot of that on our website.
is something we took for granted, but we realized that a lot of companies don't do that.
We also help with...
And so we take that and we follow those commandments that Christ gives us.
And that's just who we are as a company and how much we love this country in America by trying to keep all the dollars here in this country as much as we can.
Not only employing American workers, but also helping other companies employ American workers.
And then those that are in need in this country, we focus on that and helping them to get a leg up and get back on track.
It's very commendable.
I'm glad you mentioned that because this is about giving back and keeping all of us, keeping the whole system working here.
And times are tough for the American people.
Jobs are being lost, but you guys have been...
And by the way, there's a number of tactical guys that I've given your knives to that absolutely love them.
Guys that operate here in Texas at the border.
And they've sent me photos.
It's right.
I mean, they mount them on the side of their ruck sacks, you know, so they can get to them quickly.
It's like the number one tool that, it's their go-to tool.
And those guys put your knives through absolute hell, by the way.
I mean, they'll dig in the sand with your knives.
Like, okay.
Like, they'll do horrible things to your blades that would make you cringe.
Like, pry rocks out of the gravel, you know.
It's like, ah, that's not what knives are for.
But they'll do it.
And they hold up.
Thank you, John, for what you and your family do to help support Americans and help those in need.
Let me bring your attention now.
I have a 2000 optical magnification, almost like an electron microscope photo of your knife right here.
This is on my microscope.
Wow!
Yeah, so that's 2000X.
We actually have an electron microscope simulation feature on this scope.
So, that's what you're looking at.
That's what your edge looks like.
Yeah, you know, it's always funny because we always heard from Laren Thomas.
He says, you know, when you get down to the edge, what you don't realize is that you're really having micro serrations.
That's right.
And when you get to that 2,000, that's really what's cutting.
So, it's micro serrations that are going against whatever material you're trying to cut.
That's correct.
Yeah, absolutely.
And I mean...
We can go to 2500.
Let me focus on that.
Let me kick in the electron microscope simulator.
Watch this.
We didn't get the focus quite right there.
I need to go down a little bit more.
There we go.
Let me go right to the edge.
Okay.
Stand by.
It's going to compose that picture.
There it is.
Wow!
This is so cool.
You can see those little micro serrations that you're talking about there.
Yep.
This is so cool.
And you can even tell, like, you know, because it's hand-done, you can see just the little bit of the valleys and everything, you know, and just the little difference.
I think this is just remarkable.
Yeah.
This is so cool.
It really shows just the quality of your blade.
In fact, you know what?
I don't even know where I put it, but I bought like a cheap Amazon.
Like a $20 flimsy blade somewhere.
I was going to compare them under the microscope, but I don't even know where that is.
Who cares?
There'd be no comparison.
But tell us about, you know, what's the most common cheap steel that's used for the $20 knives that people buy online or on eBay or at a flea market or a gas station?
You know what they're going to put on it?
Stainless steel.
They're never going to tell you what it is.
Or it's going to have some weird long number.
It'll say 14CR.
So, I mean, they're just putting the composition number MO2.
That's all China has because, you know, they can't name it.
If they name it, it would make no sense and we wouldn't understand it.
So they just put the chemical composition or they just put stainless steel.
And what type of stainless steel?
A lot of it's not even hardened.
I mean, it's just soft steel.
So when, as soon as you cut with it after a few times, you have to resharpen it, but you can't resharpen it because it's, you know, that's the thing.
China has been trying to flood this market.
And when they flood this market, you buy one of their stuff or you buy, you think I'm getting a higher quality one.
I'm spending a hundred bucks.
It's still China stuff.
I found out that even some brands that we've seen in the kitchen market that are well-known, that claim to be American or started there, all their products are made in China.
My sister-in-law bought one of their chef's knives.
I'm not going to say the brand, but bought one of theirs.
It's very well-known.
And it was Chinese steel.
And so we just started testing it.
I was like, well, I mean, maybe there's some craftsmanship or something in this.
But no.
We found out the edge retention was, so there's a scale of 1 through 10. We also have a 1 through 10 scale.
Edge retention was like a 2. So it wasn't that great.
And they were touting it all, and they were really hiding the fact that it's made in China.
But they still had to put it way at the bottom, kind of hidden in the dark, just to try and keep the reputation.
So you're surprised, because then you're just leasing.
You're never going to own anything.
You're just going to have to lease and buy more of the crap, and then you're going to end up paying more than buying one American-made piece that you can pass down for generations.
And that's our whole goal here at Dawson Knives, is to make knives that last for generations, that can be passed down, that are heirloom quality, and American craftsmanship.
You know, I'm glad you mentioned that.
And because of the construction that you use here on the G10 handles, the handle is actually replaceable.
Yeah, so this is the first in our line.
So we call them our Gen 2 lines.
And you can actually change out the handles.
You can buy handles.
You can replace them.
So, it's all manufacturing and how we work that with the handles.
But yeah, and plus, if you want to change the color, some people want to change it.
Maybe I like this color.
They can set it up for that.
They can even have one time when they're using it in their kitchen.
And if they wanted a display piece for the holidays, they can change out the handles to a nice, fresh set.
And so it looks really impressive.
And that's great too, because in case the handle were to get damaged, which would still, it would take a lot of abuse because it's, You could swap it out.
So, okay.
That's just extraordinary.
Let me give the website again, healthrangerstore.com slash chef.
We'll get you the hearthfire knife.
And let's see, I've got that, I believe, right here.
Yep.
And again, that's pre-order only.
There's only a few hundred sets available.
And it's a two- to three-week shipping time on that.
And then we've got the current inventory.
Of the other knives, this is the last run of the American-made MagnaCut steel.
And after these are sold out, all these machetes and different covert knives escape from L.A., after these are sold out, the prices are going to have to go up.
And that's just reality.
Hopefully Trump and the EU will figure out something to drop those 50% tariffs, but you never know.
We're hoping, too.
Yeah, I would imagine.
All right.
So, how's the situation there in Arizona in terms of, you know, job opportunities, people being able to find people to work for you, the supply chain, things like that?
How's it working out there?
You know, I'm going to tell you, one good news for us is that most of our material, except for, you know, we just talked about the steel, it all comes from the United States.
So that helps us through these supply chain increases that you're seeing.
I mean, you're going to pay a little bit, but at least we're not paying tariffs for anything else.
So that helps us a lot.
As far as the job market out here, And hiring people is getting really tough.
You know, it's just finding people, A, who want to work, B, who have a work ethic, and C, who are not on drugs or some type of other addiction.
And that's really hard, you know?
And, you know, we minister to a lot of people, and we're very happy about that.
I just noticed that even in our ministry work, that that has grown exponentially.
And especially with what's going on in this country and this nation.
And I'm finding that a lot of the youth are trying to look for God.
So we help them in that.
But as far as hiring, it's hard to find good people.
And we were just fortunate recently.
We just hired somebody.
And this guy is phenomenal.
He's doing really well.
So that's awesome.
It's a tough market.
I'm going to be honest.
It's a tough market out there.
But I know that if we can just continue to emphasize America first and not worry about the rest of the world, we're going to do all right.
Yeah, I completely agree with you.
And I also love the fact that what you're doing is you're keeping this skill set and this tradition alive.
Teaching your family members and other people, you're sharing knowledge about how this is done.
To me, this is absolutely critical.
And I think that one of Trump's political goals, of course, is to bring back manufacturing to America.
Well, you're already manufacturing in America, and the tariffs are hitting you and hurting you, so I wish that wasn't happening.
But overall, what you are doing is what most Americans want.
They want to be able to buy locally.
Folks, if you're watching and you've ever been out to Walmart, you're like, where's the stuff that's made in America?
Here it is.
It's at healthrangerstore.com slash chef.
It's right there.
There's your answer.
It's not as cheap as the Walmart stuff.
Not by a long shot, but it's quality and you'll only have to buy it once.
Remember when you could buy, like back in the 70s, you could buy a refrigerator and it would last 30 years.
I mean, I still like my mom has a fridge.
You don't throw them away.
They just run forever.
You know, I think that is so amazing you brought that up because I just, in the last two weeks, had to replace three appliances that were bought right after COVID.
Oh, wow.
I had a refrigerator go out, I had a washing machine go out, and then my oven went out.
And it was ridiculous.
So it came in threes.
And, you know, to repair them, I had them come out.
It cost me as much to repair the wash machine as buying a new one.
Even the guy told me, you know, you're better off buying a new one.
At least you get a five-year warranty.
So I ended up calling and talking to the rep at LG.
And I talked to some of the other reps because, you know, we have some connections in the industry.
And they're just like, look, they're testing them mechanically to last seven years.
But we can't stay in business if they last beyond that.
And as far as the electronics in it, that's anybody's guess.
So you better have a five-year warranty because you're going to end up having to repair it or replace it within that time.
Because that's the only way we can stay in business.
And at least he was up front.
And I appreciate that.
But yeah, I mean, it's no longer the 1980s refrigerator outliving like three generations worth of people anymore.
Yeah, well.
Maybe you guys should get into the refrigerator business next.
Yeah, I'm in the wrong business.
All right.
Well, in any case, hey, refrigerators use stainless steel, so at least you have the steel connections there so you know what you're doing.
It's just that every fridge will come with a hollow grind on the front door.
Yeah, it's like a warped mirror image, which would be kind of cool, but I don't know.
Yeah.
All right, John.
Is there anything else you want to add before we wrap this up?
I think that, you know, I want to finish on this, that we're kind of like a small duck dynasty here.
I have three generations with a family, with three families all working here.
It's amazing now that I get to see the third generation coming through, and some of them are starting to get married.
Some of them are just really taking on the trade and just loving it here.
And it just brings so much passion and energy and a lot of this new innovation.
You know, this is really the family farm.
You know, Dawson Ice is like the family farm.
And we try and keep that American tradition.
You know, people that love God, that love this nation, that love to work hard.
And that appreciate and fly the American flag proudly.
And I think that's what we have to do, you know, to bring this nation back is to really just show this love and have this willingness to get in there and say, hey, you know, this is a great place.
Yeah, it's really messed up right now.
There's a lot of things wrong.
And realize, you know, there's a lot of people going through stuff.
But, you know, let's help one another.
You know, I never liked it when Obama came up with this see something, say something.
You know, everyone's, you know, looking at their neighbor weird.
That's not America.
Spying on your neighbors, yeah.
Yeah, exactly.
And so I think that, you know, coming back, bringing Christianity back in, you know, all my kids read the Bible.
It's so cool watching them write in their Bible and, you know, what those scriptures mean to them.
And really helping other people out.
And that's why I love working with your company, Mike.
You guys really embody that.
And I hope to continue this relationship for a very long time.
Well, thank you so much.
And we feel the same way about you.
And it's amazing because we've worked together for a couple of years now, or more than a couple, to innovate these new knife designs that nobody else would have ever come up with, especially Escape from LA.
But also, you know, the machete, the hatchet designs, which you have been an innovator for a long time, for decades.
And then my wildness just got kind of dropped into it with some of these designs.
But I love the fact that we have now this chef's knife.
Again, it's called Hearth Fire.
It's available now.
It's the last chef knife of this size that you'll ever need to buy because it won't break on you.
So go to healthrangerstore.com slash chef.
If you want to take advantage of this before the MagnaCut price increases, kick this thing into an even higher price than it is currently.
So this is actually the lowest price you're going to see ever.
Just ever.
It's even lower than the competition.
I'll tell you that.
Anyone else make MagnaCut and there's only like two other people and it's the lowest out there.
It's because we really appreciate your customers.
They're wonderful.
And I really thank you, Mike, for helping them out.
All right, thank you so much.
It's always an honor to have you on, John, and have a wonderful day.
God bless you.
Thanks for joining me today.
It's been fun.
God bless you, Mike.
All right, take care.
All right, folks, there you go.
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