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July 8, 2025 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams

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Trump's tariffs and currency manipulations cannot compensate for America's lack of education...

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	Let's talk about Trump's economic policies because he just announced major new tariffs on America's allies.
	So Japan in particular and South Korea have both been hit with 25% tariffs, which is really large.
	So in other words, any goods coming from Japan or South Korea will have an additional 25% government fee or essentially a tax, but called a tariff imposed at import time.
	They have to pay that to the U.S. government in order to clear customs.
	And then, of course, this increases the prices to the end users, the American customers.
	So although it's not a direct tax, it does, well, it causes a couple of things.
	Obviously, it increases prices for the end users, and it also disrupts supply chains.
	But is it worth it?
	Some people are celebrating Trump for these moves.
	And remember, he just announced, I don't know, 20-plus countries are being hit with these new tariffs.
	So here's a typical pro-Trump response on Twitter.
	Quote, CNBC just admitted Trump's tariffs have brought in over $121 billion for the U.S. Trump was right.
	Their experts were wrong.
	Trump has been right about everything.
	All right.
	So that's the pro-Trump take.
	So let me ask you this question.
	Is the goal of tariffs to increase government revenues in order to make the government more solvent?
	Well, if so, I mean, help me reveal the bad logic in that statement I just read for you.
	If so, you know, we just passed the big beautiful bill, or Congress did, that increases government debt ceilings by $5 trillion.
	But we brought in $121 billion in tariffs.
	So let's see.
	A trillion dollars is $1,000 billion.
	Okay?
	So tariffs are a drop in the bucket of government debt spending if you're trying to use them as a revenue source.
	So as revenue, it just doesn't work.
	The math doesn't work.
	So to say, well, Trump was right, that misses the bigger picture.
	Because when these tariffs go up, what's going to happen with the products coming to the United States?
	Number one, think about what comes from Japan, what comes from Korea, what comes from Vietnam, which was also hit, Thailand, Indonesia, Taiwan, etc.
	Not to mention China, which is a separate negotiation.
	But what kinds of things come to America from all of these countries?
	Well, car parts, for example, but also machinery parts, electronics, farming and agriculture parts and machines.
	I mean, I own Kubota equipment, which is made in Japan.
	And I got to say, I switched away from John Deere, even though I still have John Deere tractors.
	But I stopped buying John Deere tractors and I started buying Kubota equipment because the engineering is just so much better.
	Japanese engineered equipment is extraordinary.
	And you know what else?
	The engines start.
	I know, I know.
	It's like, what?
	You're kidding me.
	We've never seen that before.
	Yeah.
	The engines of Japanese equipment actually start for some reason.
	It's like magic.
	None of us can figure it out here in Texas.
	We're like, you want engines to start?
	Yeah, it'd be awesome.
	Japanese have figured it out.
	No way.
	So now then, if you want to buy Kubota equipment, you're going to have to pay 25% more, which will still make it less expensive than like, let's say, Caterpillar or John Deere or whatever.
	Kubota is still probably a better value from U.S.-made equipment.
	But why are we punishing Kubota?
	And in essence, punishing U.S. farmers making farming more expensive because getting good equipment costs more money.
	Now, there's another equipment company called Coyote.
	It's spelled K-I-O-T-I.
	Now, a coyote equipment is from South Korea.
	It's part of the Daedong Corporation.
	Now, coyote equipment, and I have some experience with coyote equipment, it's well-made, not as good as Kubota.
	If I have to choose, I'm going to choose Japanese engineered agricultural equipment over South Korean, by the way.
	But the South Korean equipment is also very reliable and lower price.
	So it's more affordable for farmers.
	But now that's going to go up 25%.
	So, you know, this is punishing U.S. farmers.
	Now, of course, you might point out, well, the point of these tariffs, which is a protectionist, you know, economic policy, is to make sure that U.S. manufacturers can be more competitive so that there are more U.S. workers hired in U.S. factories, right?
	Right.
	But did you know that John Deere is in the process of moving a significant portion of its manufacturing away from America and moving it to Mexico?
	So they used to manufacture in Iowa compact track loaders.
	And instead, they're moving it to Ramos, Mexico.
	Now, I actually own a John Deere compact track loader.
	And let me tell you, I've never told this story, but the, you know, a compact track loader, it's like a skid steer, but it's got tracks.
	In less than 50 hours of use, which is nothing on a skid steer, the entire left sprocket, which is like the, you would call it an axle in a vehicle.
	This is the powered sprocket that drives the tracks.
	The entire left sprocket of this John Deere compact track loader broke and it just broke to the side for no reason.
	Was literally just driving along without even a very heavy load, and the whole thing just broke.
	It's like plunk, and it broke the hydraulic hose and all the hydraulic fluid leaked out.
	And then the machine, of course, locked up because without hydraulic fluid, it can't function.
	So I had to call John Deere and say, hey, this is insane.
	Now, to their credit, they did a warranty repair, which the repair crew told me cost John Deere $12,000.
	Okay, so John Deere sells equipment in America that's crap quality.
	When it breaks, they will fix it as long as it breaks under a certain number of hours and within a warranty period.
	Yeah.
	But you could spend, you know, you could spend more than six figures on a high-end piece of equipment from John Deere, and it'll break in less than 100 hours, and it'll break to a point where it cannot be used at all.
	And you want to know why it broke?
	So see, this is really important to understand about global trade and Trump favoring U.S. companies.
	You know why it broke?
	Because there's something like 24 giant bolts arranged in a circle around the perimeter of this sprocket.
	These are big bolts.
	And, you know, they're a special alloy to have very high strength.
	I don't know what category they're called, like, I don't know, category six or whatever kind of bolts.
	They're supposed to be tightened to a certain number of foot pounds each.
	These bolts were not tightened at the factory.
	So John Deere will make a very expensive machine with all kinds of parts, all kinds of electronics, you know, all kinds of hydraulics, the pumps, the diesel engine, everything.
	And because they have no quality control at their manufacturing facilities, either in America or in Mexico, they will neglect to tighten the bolts.
	I tell you, that will not happen with equipment from Japan.
	I've never seen that with a Kubota piece of equipment.
	It doesn't just break or the wheel fall off or something like that.
	That does happen with John Deere.
	I know because I experienced it.
	So just because Trump is offering economic protectionism for U.S. manufacturers doesn't mean their quality will improve at all.
	See, think about that.
	Because U.S. manufacturers do not have a culture of quality.
	For the most part, there may be exceptions to it, but for the most part, they don't.
	You want to know who has a culture of quality?
	Look no further than, let's say, Toyota.
	Hmm, what country is Toyota from?
	Oh, Japan.
	Oh, yeah, if you want quality control, if you want a culture of manufacturing that has quality checklists and quality testing throughout their entire supply chain, that's Japan.
	That is not the United States.
	The U.S. and I found this out with a vehicle, another vehicle I have, a truck with a diesel engine in it.
	I may have mentioned this a few months ago.
	There's a plug in the diesel engine that just came out and it just spilled out all the oil all over the road.
	And I took it to the truck dealer.
	I'm like, hey, this is an American-made car, right?
	Yep, American-made.
	Like, what happened?
	And then they said, oh, well, I mean, the mechanic looked at it and said, well, turns out that somebody at the factory forgot to put threadlock on this little tiny plug that prevents the oil from spilling out all over the street, right?
	So I said, well, how much does that thread lock cost?
	They said, oh, like 20 cents, you know.
	So, well, how much is this engine overhaul repair thing going to cost?
	Well, when it was all said and done, they had to remove everything off the front end of that truck.
	And in doing so, the dealer damaged the radiator because they set it down wrong.
	So they broke the radiator.
	They had to order a new radiator.
	The whole process took, I think, five weeks.
	Five weeks with my truck in the dealer's garage, right?
	Five weeks, and they said it cost $5,000.
	That was billed to the truck manufacturer, an American company.
	So, again, another example.
	So American manufacturers of agricultural equipment, construction equipment, I mean, I don't know about Caterpillar.
	I don't own any Caterpillar equipment.
	It's very expensive.
	But also truck or car manufacturers in America, they have no quality control.
	Their stuff just stops working.
	Trump, his policies will make it more competitive for those crap quality manufacturers in America to sell you stuff that breaks.
	While it's more expensive to get stuff brought in from other countries that actually will last.
	I mean, look, don't hate the messenger.
	I'm just telling you my experience.
	This is exactly what I've experienced.
	And John Deere is also horrible because they have this software lock-up system where you can't even use some of their more advanced tractors unless it checks in with their central servers.
	And if you modify the tractor, if you don't use like John Deere parts, they can lock up the tractor and prevent you from starting it.
	You can't even run your own tractor.
	There have been lawsuits over this.
	John Deere believes that you don't have the right to repair John Deere equipment.
	Think about that.
	You don't have the right, they say.
	If you touch the equipment that you bought from John Deere, they say the warranty is void.
	Think about that.
	How insane is that?
	A Kubota doesn't throw a fit if you use a non-Kubota belt or Something in the engine.
	They don't go insane.
	Yeah, I mean, you have the right to repair your own tractor for God's sake, but not if it's John Deere.
	But these are examples of the lack of quality of equipment manufactured in America.
	And you know why this happens, right?
	You know why.
	Because the American factory workers today, they're all cooking meth.
	I mean, not all, okay, but many of them, they show up, they're high on drugs.
	They're high on drugs.
	They're on meth, they're on weed, they're selling weed.
	I mean, look at Boeing.
	Look at the whistleblowers at Boeing.
	They're like selling meth in the parking lot and then, you know, assembling planes that don't work sometimes in the Boeing factory.
	See, America does not have a culture of precision.
	Clearly.
	And to make it even worse, John Deere and other companies are moving manufacturing to Mexico to lower costs.
	Let me ask you this.
	Does Mexico have a culture of precision?
	No.
	No, nada.
	I'm not saying that all Mexicans are bad.
	Not by any means.
	We love Mexican culture here in Texas.
	And Mexicans tend to be really amazing artists and they have a very strong work ethic and they are very disciplined.
	And many of them are very accomplished people in all kinds of different ways.
	But I'm saying, culturally, that is not a culture of precision.
	It's a culture of, that's good enough.
	That's good enough.
	Close enough.
	Which, I mean, that works for drywall.
	Doesn't work for tractors, turns out.
	I mean, go into any new home, like tour a new home as if you're a prospective buyer.
	Any new home where all the internal electrical work and drywall has been done by Mexicans.
	Now, again, I honor their work ethic.
	I honor their discipline.
	And, you know, most Mexicans in America just want to have a job and get paid and go home and be with their families, etc.
	So I'm not culturally slamming all Mexicans, but there is not a single electrical outlet panel in that home that is square.
	Not one of them is actually level with the ground.
	They're all off.
	10 degrees here, 15 degrees there, 20 degrees there, because it's good enough.
	It's good enough.
	And again, it's just a cultural thing.
	It's good enough.
	That's not the way it is in Japan.
	You look at home construction in Japan, and those electrical outlets are square because it's a culture of precision.
	Now, much the same thing has been true throughout history with Germans, too.
	The German people are known for precision with machinery, precision with electronics, even precision in software, etc.
	The problem with Germany is they take like 16 weeks of vacation every year, and so hardly anybody's ever working.
	So everything that comes out of Germany costs three times as much as it should.
	And they have no energy because the U.S. Navy bombed the Nord Stream pipelines, and the German government is turned into a bunch of woke tards at this point.
	They don't even want their own domestic energy supply.
	So the German economy is collapsing, including German automobile manufacturing.
	But that's a separate story.
	But nevertheless, you can't take away from the German people the fact that they have a culture of precision.
	Now, does China have a culture of precision?
	Not really.
	Nope.
	Taiwan, more so, a lot more so, especially with microchips, Taiwan was heavily influenced by the culture of Japan because of Japanese occupation of Taiwan following World War II.
	And the whole history of Taiwan and Chiang Kai-shek and all of that, if you don't know about that, understand that Taiwan actually learned a lot of its manufacturing know-how from the Japanese who were occupying Taiwan.
	And also, the Japanese taught the Taiwan people woodworking skills, timber management, food production, agriculture, things like that.
	So, and believe me, remember, I lived in Taiwan and I spoke with Taiwan old-timers who lived there during Japanese occupation, and this is what they told me.
	I mean, they're long gone now, but they told me this years ago when I was in Taiwan.
	Anyway, my point is that these tariffs from Trump, they are messing with your freedom of choice.
	Whereas you would think that a manufacturer that makes a higher quality product would, of course, be a higher price, and then a manufacturer that makes a lower quality product would be a lower price, and that then the American consumer would have freedom of choice.
	Like, hey, I can go with the low-end tractor here.
	Mahindra from India, if you want like the very basic tractor that it does run, it runs like as good as any Indian railway car.
	It runs.
	It's made in India.
	That's like the starting level.
	Yeah, you can buy the Mahindra, but it's not going to be like a Kubota on the high end.
	Not even close.
	But these tariffs mess with all those prices, sending confusing signals to consumers.
	And they might think that, oh, this coyote tractor from South Korea, it's really high priced now.
	It must be much higher quality than what a consumer expects.
	And it turns out that may not be the case.
	Or I don't know what the tariffs are on India, but maybe they're going to be 20% as well.
	I don't know.
	But India is going to get hit by the 10%, which is the BRICS penalty.
	So let's talk about the BRICS penalty next.
	But let me just summarize this and say, I think it's Wrong for Trump to punish our allies with these high tariffs.
	Trump should not punish Japan, Korea, Taiwan, etc., in my view, with these tariffs.
	And I think it's only going to encourage these countries to accelerate their expansion of non-U.S.
	markets in order to bypass those tariffs.
	So that's point number one.
	Secondly, then, Trump has a 10% tariff surcharge on any country that is a member of BRICS.
	Now, BRICS, which of course started out as Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, yeah.
	BRICS has expanded to the BRICS plus countries, which is like 21-plus countries.
	But Trump's going to charge an extra 10% for India.
	And India does manufacture a lot of stuff, like I said, the Mahindra tractors and so on.
	So India is going to pay a big price because their membership in BRICS, and the reason they're in BRICS, is exactly to avoid the punitive sanctions under the dollar.
	So understand that since the end of World War II, the dollar has been the global currency, the world reserve currency, or the currency of settlement and trade around the world.
	Everybody could trade in dollars and everybody could buy debt in treasuries.
	And of course, the oil-producing countries like Saudi Arabia were convinced, you know, through Bretton Woods and other arrangements to sell oil in dollars, and they take those dollars and buy treasuries.
	So this was the money creation scam of the West, really, that continues to this day.
	And that would allow the West then to inflict economic sanctions on any country that did not do the bidding of America.
	These are the sanctions that have been inflicted against Iran since, I don't know, 1979 or something.
	These are the sanctions that have been inflicted upon Russia since 2022 and also earlier years.
	I mean, Russia got cut off from the SWIFT system, which is controlled by the West.
	And of course, there are economic sanctions against China and sanctions against African nations and sanctions against South American nations, etc.
	You know, Trump, well, not just Trump, but every U.S. president wields economic sanctions around the world like bully weapons.
	And frankly, the world's other countries are sick and tired of that.
	And BRICS offers them a settlement system that bypasses the use of the dollar.
	So the fact that Trump is punishing nations that are participating in BRICS actually encourages those nations to want to use BRICS even more.
	So the net effect of this, this decision from Trump, is going to be the acceleration of a global move away from the dollar.
	And I think the finance minister of Russia just recently said that countries can trade in their own currencies.
	And that shift has taken place dramatically since 2022, by the way.
	So almost all the trade between Russia and China, for example, takes place in their respective currencies.
	And then whenever there are imbalances in settlements, those imbalances can be settled in, guess what?
	Gold.
	Exactly.
	So you wonder why Russia is stacking gold and why China is stacking gold.
	There's one reason.
	There are many reasons, but that's one of them.
	And what the BRICS countries are working on doing is setting up gold depositories that are held in different member nations.
	So basically like a guarded, armed, secure gold storage facility where every country has gold deposited in every one of these facilities.
	And then, and let's say every bar of gold has a name attached to it, like this bar of gold is Russia, this bar of gold is China, you know, this bar of gold is India, etc., or Turkey or whoever.
	Then when there's a settlement imbalance, for example, if Russia is selling a lot of oil to China and China doesn't sell as much stuff back to Russia, then Russia is going to end up with too much Chinese currency.
	And so in order to resettle that, they would send some of that currency back to China, electronically, obviously.
	And then China would give Russia some of the gold bars that are held in storage, which only means that the label of who owns the gold changes from China to Russia.
	So that way they can carry out settlements without physically moving gold around.
	This structure is being set up right now.
	So whether you're talking about the ruble, the rupee, the yuan, the, I don't know what's the currency of Iran.
	I should know this.
	But whatever all the currencies are all around the world, they can trade with each other and then they can settle in gold and that way they can bypass the dollar.
	And when they do that, importantly, they pay no tariffs, or I should say at least they pay no U.S. tariffs.
	And they're not subject to U.S. sanctions.
	So they can trade amongst themselves, which is what they've been wanting to do.
	In essence, the whole world is tired of being bullied by the United States.
	The whole world is tired of it.
	So you could say that Trump's tariffs are bringing in billions of dollars in the short term.
	Yeah, okay.
	Billions of dollars, which doesn't count for anything compared to the trillions that are being increased in terms of government spending and debt.
	But the real effect is that these other countries are increasingly and almost with a sense of urgency developing their own settlement systems that will bypass the dollar.
	So what Trump has actually accomplished is a global movement away from the dollar.
	Trump is essentially selling that idea to the whole world by weaponizing the dollar even more.
	And when the dollar is abandoned by the rest of the world, the cost to the American consumer will be absolutely devastating.
	So, yeah, Trump may be collecting a few billion dollars today, but 10 years down the road, the American people are going to find themselves living in destitution and poverty because the dollar will be abandoned by most of the world.
	That is underway.
	Look, BRICS is desperately needed by those countries in their own minds to trade amongst themselves.
	And if there had been any hesitation whatsoever, there is no more hesitation now because of Trump's actions, because Trump continues to weaponize the dollar.
	And you even have countries like Turkey, which is a member of NATO, that is very interested in BRICS.
	And we also saw Vietnam get officially accepted into the BRICS plus nations just, I don't know, a month ago, something like that.
	More and more countries are going to join BRICS, which means more and more countries are going to thumb their noses at the United States.
	Now, there's something else going on, which is that as more and more American people are thrust into poverty because of the money printing and the inflation, you're going to see a continuation of the plummeting of consumer purchases of imported goods one way or the other.
	I mean, across most industries, consumer purchases have plummeted in the last six months, if not the last year.
	I mean, some of it happened under Biden.
	Some of it is accelerating under Trump.
	People do not have the discretionary income that they used to have.
	That's because of inflation, because of so much money printing.
	What that means is that there's less discretionary income for consumers to spend on imported goods, which means that overall the trend is that there will be less and less tariff money for the government to even collect because people just won't be able to buy as much stuff.
	It also means that for an exporter like a company out of Japan, like Kubota, that if their exports are a giant pie chart, the slice of that pie chart that is currently America, you know, American consumers buying their products, that's going to get smaller and smaller and smaller over time as the American economic collapse continues to accelerate.
	So the pie of exports will shift fairly dramatically over time to where this Japanese company won't even care nearly as much about U.S. tariffs because they've got markets all over Southeast Asia.
	They've got markets in Thailand.
	They've got markets in the Philippines.
	They've got markets in Australia.
	They've got markets in Canada, Mexico, etc.
	Even all over Europe, etc.
	So Trump is not doing us any long-term favors, I think, with these punitive policies.
	What he should be doing, in my opinion, is making America more competitive by radically reforming our culture through education as a starting point, but also finding ways to promote excellence in mathematics and science and engineering.
	Whereas in our public school system today, it's considered uncool to be good at math, and you end up graduating absolute idiots who are utterly illiterate.
	They cannot read, they can't write, and they can't do basic math.
	And that's true across most U.S. cities.
	And you can't tariff your way out of a public education system that grinds out woke idiots.
	You can't tariff your way around that.
	Sooner or later, you actually have to graduate people who can do something useful.
	And you have to have a culture of quality.
	And you have to have business managers who know how to do quality control checks.
	And you have to have a supply chain that functions, which is not the case right now, largely because of these tariffs.
	Much more difficult for U.S. automobile companies to get the parts they need.
	For example, a month ago or so, I mentioned Ford had to shut down its production lines.
	Why?
	They couldn't get the neodymium magnet material out of China.
	Why?
	Because of Trump's tariffs.
	So Ford had to shut down.
	I mean, it was only temporary, but it's a major disruption.
	And a lot of people were laid off for those days, and they went home, and they didn't earn any money, and then they can't afford to buy things, etc.
	So there's a domino effect of economic consequences for all of this.
	Now, fiscally, globally, what America should be doing is instead of saying, we're going to be the world's currency bullies, and we're going to demand that you do what we want, or we're going to sanction you, which means we're going to punish you to where you can't transfer money or certain companies can't transfer money.
	You can't use Western banks.
	You can't wire money, et cetera.
	You can't use Swift.
	We're going to punish you.
	Instead of that, what America should be doing is saying, we support fair and free trade internationally.
	Fair and free trade all over the world.
	Opening up the supply chains and competing with other countries.
	And then some people say, well, you know, China doesn't engage in fair trade.
	They manipulate their currency.
	To which I would respond, are you aware of how much the Trump administration has manipulated the dollar currency?
	Yeah, it's down, what, 11% now since Trump took office, something like that, 11%.
	And many experts believe it's going to fall another 10% this year.
	So that would mean a drop of 20% in the U.S. dollar in one year.
	That is a policy-driven dollar devaluation, which is designed to improve U.S. exports by making dollars cheaper, right?
	So it makes it cheaper for overseas consumers to purchase U.S. goods because the dollars are cheaper to acquire, and those are the dollars they use to pay for the goods that they're buying from the U.S. And Trump is making Sure, that there are very low or non-existent tariffs on the receiving side of that.
	So, Trump even warned Japan: don't you dare retaliate against our 25% tariffs on your goods, because if you put up tariffs on our goods, then we're going to add another 25%.
	We'll make your tariffs 50%.
	So, Trump is saying that Japan, you're not allowed to put tariffs on our goods, but we are allowed to put tariffs on your goods.
	And we, the United States, we're going to manipulate our currency, which is a violation of World Trade Organization rules, by the way.
	We're going to manipulate our currency by 20% in one year, which also that's been the accusation against China.
	Oh, they manipulate their currency.
	They're so evil, right?
	We've heard this over and over again.
	Now, when the U.S. manipulates its currency, it's a good thing.
	Trump is winning.
	Trump is a genius.
	When China does it, they're evil.
	You see what I mean?
	So with the 20% currency devaluation plus the 25% tariffs on Japanese goods, think about it.
	It results in a highly manipulated and artificial trade bias between the United States and Japan.
	And then that will be celebrated as, you know, 5D chess or something.
	Look, look, our trade imbalance with Japan is shifting in our favor now.
	Because, you know, Japanese are buying more U.S. goods and U.S. consumers are buying fewer goods from Japan.
	Yeah, that's because of the artificial interference of tariffs and currency manipulation.
	So it's not fair trade from the U.S. side at all.
	It's all manipulated.
	And that's what the world is growing tired of.
	Now, another factor in all of this that's really important to understand is that Trump just promised Netanyahu that he would have the U.S. taxpayers bankroll the construction of IDF military bases and runways and buildings and so on to help the IDF continue to wage its illegal genocidal war against its neighbors.
	So it's more money creation.
	It's more weaponization of Israel in the Middle East, which is, of course, earning both Israel and the United States a very low reputation around most of the world.
	By far, the vast majority of the world's population now have a very dim view of both Israel and the United States, you know, because of this ongoing genocide that's taking place.
	And yet, what Trump is doing is saying, well, we're just going to keep burdening U.S. taxpayers by printing more money, sending it to Israel to keep building the war machine, even though Trump campaigned as being the peace president.
	So as the world notices here, it's hard not to notice, the ability to have the world's reserve currency allows you to print an unlimited, essentially an unlimited amount of currency to fund war.
	And thus, these other countries around the world that are opposed to the actions of Israel, and that would include obviously Iran, but also Russia, China, Turkey, no doubt, many other countries, they have another incentive to not use the dollar,
	which is they don't want to provide the United States the ability to keep printing more money in order to wage wars in the Middle East or elsewhere, or, you know, providing weapons to Ukraine for that matter.
	So there is a widening realization that to buy U.S. dollars is to support war on an international basis.
	But by avoiding U.S. dollars in your trade, then at least you're not fueling the war machine.
	At least you're not expanding the M2 money supply, which is sort of the pillars upon which additional debt currency printing is based.
	So there's that.
	So the bottom line takeaway from all of this is that the U.S. dollar is failing.
	I mean, its value is collapsing, maybe 20% this year.
	The yield for treasuries continues to climb overall because fewer and fewer overseas countries or investment houses or hedge funds, et cetera, wish to invest in U.S. treasuries because the rate of return of 4.8% or 4.9% or even 5% is just not good enough because the dollar keeps losing so much value.
	And this typical knee-jerk reaction of, hey, everybody, let's just put our money into treasuries, that's over for the most part.
	Instead, people are putting their money into gold and silver because they know gold and silver are going to be around.
	They don't know that about the dollar.
	See, the rise and fall of empires, it's a predictable pattern.
	It's a blueprint.
	And usually it's a military overextension where an empire, like let's say the Roman Empire, was overextended with too much occupation, conquest, and it had to maintain long supply lines of military bases and military support in numerous regions where it never was able to achieve the actual cultural cohesiveness.
	I mean, local regions would continue to rebel against Rome, and Rome had to increasingly rely on things, you know, like coercion and censorship and punitive arrests of dissidents and, you know, the putting to death of people, things like that, in order to maintain its power and control.
	Think about the history of the British Empire and the occupation of India.
	The Indian people were never on board with that.
	So the British had to operate on, you know, frankly, all kinds of cruelty and threats and coercion and violence against the Indian people.
	And eventually, that fell as well.
	The same thing is going to happen to the U.S. Empire.
	The U.S. Empire, which has military bases all around the Middle East, all over the place, from Kuwait and Iraq and, you know, Afghanistan, Qatar, UAE, I mean, all over the place, not to mention Israel.
	The U.S. is not going to be able to maintain that forever.
	And the U.S. is already running into the fact that it cannot produce the munitions, the interceptors for the Iron Dome of Israel or the Patriot missile batteries in Ukraine.
	The U.S. can't keep up because it doesn't have the industrial output capacity that's necessary to maintain all of that.
	And what else is amazing in all of this is that Trump says that all these other countries that export goods to America, they have to pay for the privilege of being able to sell their goods to the largest consumer base in the world, which is the American consumer.
	However, the American consumer is steeped in debt.
	The American consumer is running out of money and the dollar is collapsing in value.
	Like we said, groceries are getting incredibly expensive.
	Gas is relatively cheap right now, but that could change at any moment based on what happens with Iran.
	I mean, gas could be $10 a gallon two weeks from now, depending on what happens there.
	So it's not hard.
	I've said this before.
	It's not difficult to be a nation of consumers who go into debt to buy everybody's stuff.
	That's not difficult.
	That can be replicated anywhere in the world.
	And the only reason it's possible in the U.S. is because the U.S. dollar is the current global reserve currency, but that's also changing quickly.
	The hard part in this equation is making stuff, building tractors that don't fall apart, for example.
	Building vehicles that don't fall apart.
	Manufacturing, supply chains, quality control, electronics, computing, telecom, microchips, medical devices, et cetera, optical devices.
	Germany's really well known for optics.
	These are difficult things to do.
	And the U.S. has fallen way behind in those areas of actual manufacturing.
	We've become a consumer debtor nation.
	We don't save money.
	We don't make stuff.
	We go into debt to buy other people's stuff.
	And then Trump thinks that that puts us in the strong bargaining position.
	Not really.
	Not in the long run.
	It doesn't.
	It puts us in the weak position because countries around the world can develop their other markets, which is automatically happening.
	People in China are becoming more wealthy.
	People in Russia are becoming more wealthy.
	People in Iran, et cetera, are becoming more wealthy.
	So these manufacturers can choose to just say, yeah, we just don't want to mess with America anymore.
	It's just too insane.
	We can't even predict what tariffs are going to be next month or what the currency is going to be next month, the dollar.
	We're just tired of it.
	We don't want to subject ourselves to U.S. sanctions or the whims of Trump, how he feels on a certain day, etc.
	So they can just say, we're just not selling to America any longer.
	And none of this will change until America's education and culture also change.
	And so just to demonstrate this and also to wrap up this special report here.
	So I want to share this video clip with you of an interview with a music artist who goes by the name Suki Hana, which sounds Japanese, but she's not.
	She's a black American artist.
	And she was interviewed.
	I regret that I don't have the name of the person interviewing her.
	But this is a, oh, I guess it's with Bobby Altoff.
	Okay.
	This is a hilarious clip that shows you a shocking level of idiocy in American culture today.
	Now, this doesn't apply to everybody, but this is, I mean, just the fact that this is possible is absolutely shocking.
	But I'll leave you with this clip.
	There is a little bit of profanity in it.
	Not from me, but from Suki Hana.
	So check this out.
	And I'm telling you, this is real.
	Unbelievable.
	Here we go.
	That's amazing.
	I didn't know that about you.
	What do you know?
	That you're a musician.
	So that's why I'm interviewing you today so I can get to know you.
	So I'm a musician.
	What the fuck that means?
	Make magic or something?
	What is musician?
	I think you're confusing that.
	Yeah, I'm not no musician.
	I make music.
	I make music.
	And that's not all I do.
	I make music.
	I act.
	I'm a TV star too, a young mom.
	Just really quick, I think you're confusing.
	I'm not confusing nothing because you don't know.
	You thought that all I was was a magician or whatever the fuck you said.
	See, that's what I think you think I said.
	I said musician.
	Not magician.
	I don't think, baby.
	I don't think.
	What is that?
	That's ghetto.
	I don't think.
	I know.
	So you think.
	I didn't say magician, Suki.
	I said musician.
	And I think you are a musician.
	No, baby.
	I do the music.
	So you, just really quick for the record, could you say you don't think you're a musician?
	None of that.
	But then after that, you just said I do music.
	Yeah, I do musique.
	So in other words, you're a musician?
	No, I'm not.
	Okay.
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