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	All right, welcome to Brightown Broadcast News for Thursday, July 24th, 2025.
	I'm Mike Adams, and thank you for joining me today.
	I've got an interview with Bill Holter coming up for you today.
	But before that, I've got two other things I want to mention first.
	Well, actually, a few other things.
	So let me just give you basically the table of contents, and then we'll start rolling everything because I just recorded an hour and 15-minute special report.
	It's going to be one of those things here today.
	It's very important to understand what's happening.
	So here we go.
	All right.
	I'm going to run a report here first on the organ harvesting nightmare because now it's just come out through HHS and RFK Jr. and the Epoch Times did a story.
	Other papers have done stories that it turns out that in America, people are having their organs harvested from them while they are still alive.
	Now, I know this is a horrifying topic.
	It's something, though, that I have specifically covered this multiple times over the last, I don't know, six or seven years.
	And I've always been met with a response of disbelief.
	And people are like, no, that's not happening in America.
	They're all brain dead.
	They're all declared brain dead.
	I'm like, not exactly.
	Don't you realize that the hospital knows that you're worth more dead than alive in terms of the organs?
	Like there's a gold mine in your chest, you know, from the hospital's point of view.
	The same hospitals that got paid half a million dollars to kill people with ventilators and remdesivir during COVID so they could crank up, you know, the COVID numbers.
	There's a gold mine in your chest.
	They could make millions off of your heart, your lungs, you know, whatever, your liver.
	They can make millions off of all the transplants and the anti-rejection drugs in the next patient and all the doctor visits and all the surgeries and billing the insurance and everything.
	You're worth more dead to the hospital than you are worth alive.
	And the way they make the money off of you is they sedate you and then they declare you brain dead.
	But they only do that if you're an organ donor.
	Yeah, if you've checked the organ donor on your driver's license, you might want to rethink that.
	You will definitely rethink that after you hear my report.
	Because they check to see if you're an organ donor.
	And if you are, then they can induce sedation, declare you brain dead, take your organs and make millions off of you.
	And you might even still be alive and conscious as they harvest the organs.
	Again, I apologize.
	This is a horrifying topic.
	It's not something that is nice to talk about, but it's important to talk about this because it's happening every day in this country.
	And I'm pretty sure it happened to one of my family members too, by the way.
	I'm certain of it.
	So we're going to play that special report for you.
	You can skip ahead if you don't want to hear any of that.
	I've got another report then called why Trump Will Lose the War Against BRICS.
	He thinks that he's going to beat BRICS with the dollar.
	The dollar is backed by nothing, while BRICS is backing their settlement system with gold and other commodities.
	So, no, the dollar is not going to beat BRICS.
	The dollar is going to lose this global currency war, reserve currency war.
	Trump just doesn't realize that yet.
	So we'll play that special report.
	That'll blow your mind.
	And then I've got a report called, You Can Print Currency, but You Can't Print Terawatt Hours.
	And it talks about the fact that the U.S. is 15 years behind China in terms of aggregate energy production.
	Whereas China is producing, you know, what is it, 10,000 terawatt hours of energy each year.
	The U.S. is producing less than half that.
	And the U.S. power grid has maxed out in some areas.
	As a result, the U.S. is going to lose the race for AI superintelligence.
	Now, I know I covered that in some detail yesterday, but what's new is that the White House just issued a brand new AI report, a blueprint, that's a total clown show, in my opinion.
	I think it's written by morons because they don't sound the red alert over the fact that we need to double or triple or quadruple our energy generation in just a few years or we're done.
	They're talking about silly things.
	We've got to stop blackouts.
	Well, of course we have to stop blackouts.
	But we also need to double or triple our total energy production or we can't power the data centers to even be competitive with China in the AI race and we're going to lose.
	And so in this special report I have coming up, I walk you through all of that and I explain why actually it's already too late.
	We're already toast in that race.
	We can't win because we would have had to have started building nuclear power plants in 2010 in order to even be competitive with China on energy today.
	And that did not happen.
	So there you go.
	It's already too late.
	And I walk you through all of that and explain why that's the case and why you can't print terawatt hours.
	You know, Trump's living in a fantasy movie of his own making where he says all these things like, you know, the dollar is going to be dominant and AI is going to be dominant, but you can't actually make it happen because it requires reality to be in effect.
	And in reality, we don't have the terawatt hours.
	You can't pull terawatt hours out of your pocket, unfortunately.
	That would be awesome if you could.
	Are you happy to see me or is that a Tesseract In your pocket.
	You know?
	Hey, baby, you want some terawatt hours?
	I got it on my keychain.
	But no such technology exists on our planet, anyway, that we know of.
	And so we're toast.
	We're toast.
	Okay.
	And then after that, we'll have the interview with Bill Holter, who also says we're toast financially.
	So today really should be called the We're Toast edition.
	We're toast in so many ways.
	This has got to be the doomiest, gloomiest version of this broadcast ever.
	And it just lined up that way.
	I didn't set out to make it the doom and gloom and kaboom podcast.
	It just fell together that way.
	Isn't that interesting?
	So anyway, it will be the stuff of nightmares when you go through the organ donor special report here, and then the stuff of economic nightmares when we get to Bill Holter.
	And then the stuff of AI nightmares in my special report about why we're losing the AI war.
	So Brighteon Broadcast News, Nightmare Edition, coming right up.
	The good news is you can choose to be healthy during the collapse.
	That should be my new slogan.
	Maximize your nutrition as the world's economies collapse.
	No, seriously, you can choose to be healthy.
	You can eat better.
	You can take nutritional supplements, eat superfoods, exercise, get some more sunshine in your life.
	Look, despite the fact that I'm covering a lot of dark topics today, I am not an unhappy person at all.
	I'm actually having a great time.
	I'm enjoying every day.
	I'm enjoying jogging with my dog.
	I'm enjoying the sunshine.
	I'm enjoying being healthy.
	I'm enjoying the fact that I actually live in a country where I can criticize the administration without being thrown in prison.
	I mean, so far.
	I guess we'll see.
	I mean, I give thanks for a lot of things.
	So don't take today's broadcast as thinking that I'm depressed and down in the doldrums, whatever that saying is.
	Not at all.
	I'm having a great time.
	I'm just trying to warn you of sort of what's coming.
	And for everything that I say here today, there's actually a solution on the other side of it.
	There's a solution.
	How to insulate yourself from the doom and gloom.
	You don't have to doom or gloom.
	You can bloom.
	I know, starting to sound cheesy.
	I know.
	I apologize.
	But you can make the best of all these situations.
	And it's having this foreknowledge that allows you to process the information in whatever way suits you best.
	And that's my goal.
	That's why I do this.
	I'm not here to make anybody depressed.
	I'm here to tell you what's coming and hopefully help you make the best of this situation, but with a sense of reality of what's coming.
	Also, something else weird happened today.
	I'm going to share this little odd story with you before we jump into all this because it's kind of funny.
	So how to even say this?
	I discovered that as part of my preparedness activities, and I admit, I went a little crazy when Trump announced tariffs on China April 2nd.
	I thought we were going to be cut off from China for like six months.
	And so I overbought a bunch of work gloves.
	And I don't do things on a small scale, so I really overbought work gloves.
	And because I use work gloves every day, you know, because I'm cleaning out the chicken house or in the fall, I'm preparing wood for the wood burner that we use for heat.
	I'm working on my truck or my tractor.
	I'm using work gloves.
	And then I have tactical gloves to use with my rifles, because the handguard heats up when you're shooting rapidly.
	So I'm using gloves all the time, and I'm going through gloves a lot.
	And by the way, those mechanics brand gloves, they don't last very long.
	I wear out the fingers on those things in no time.
	They're not very durable gloves, in my experience.
	I've found other brands are better.
	Nevertheless, the mechanics gloves are great with rifles.
	They have the flexibility that you need or the mobility that you need for rifle work.
	Anyway, so I realized I overbought these gloves.
	And I was joking with myself.
	I'm like, I'm the Imeldo Marcos of gloves.
	It's like I found my stash of gloves.
	I had like bags that I had bought some other gloves here and there.
	And apparently I didn't realize how many gloves I had.
	I just wildly overbought the gloves.
	And then I had a bunch of gloves that I had partially used and I'd kind of lost track of and some of them were still in decent shape.
	I didn't want to throw them away.
	So, because you know how I go through shoes?
	Like I'll I'll beat the crap out of shoes until they just fall apart, you know, and then I'll use shoe goo to put them back together for a few more weeks until there's just nothing left of the shoe.
	You know, I get the most mileage out of shoes of anybody.
	I don't care if it takes duct tape or whatever.
	I'm going to get every mile out of those shoes.
	Same thing with gloves.
	I don't want to be wasteful.
	I don't throw gloves away.
	So anyway, I found, I just, I pulled together all my stash of gloves and I dumped them all out on this cart.
	Okay.
	And I don't know how many pairs it is.
	It's like, it's at least 50 pairs of gloves.
	I'm like, man, I really overbought these gloves.
	And so I'm trying to match them up now because I'm trying to organize them.
	I want to get them all organized and just, I just want to know what I have.
	And some of them are padded.
	Some of them are thin.
	Some of them are regular work gloves.
	Some of them are leather.
	And some of them are Impact gloves that I use when I'm chainsawing and working on wood, and they have like extra armor on the top on your knuckles.
	Those are called impact gloves.
	So I've got like five different types of gloves.
	Oh, and then I have winter gloves too on top of that and winter work gloves, which is a whole different thing.
	Right, you live on a ranch, you're going to end up collecting gloves.
	So I'm trying to match all these up and I get through all the ones that match and I set them aside in the proper category.
	And then I'm still left with like 20 gloves that have no match.
	And the weird thing is, like 15 of them are left-handed gloves, and there's only five that are right-handed gloves.
	Like, what the hell?
	Why am I missing all the right-handed gloves?
	So now, and I'm kind of geeky about this.
	Now I have way too many left-handed gloves with no match.
	And it almost feels like I'm a little bit on the spectrum with this.
	It's like there's no match.
	It's wrong, you know.
	I have to pick up my Rubik's Cube and solve it a couple times.
	Get all the autism out, you know, as quickly as I can.
	I'm like, something's wrong.
	Why do I have so many left-handed gloves?
	And the only thing I can figure is that I wore out the right-handed gloves because I'm right-handed.
	And I threw them away when they got holes in the fingertips because I used the right-hand for most of the tools, like hammering and stuff like that.
	I must have worn out like an extra, at least 10 plus pairs of just the right hand.
	So I now have an antidextrous glove imbalance leaning to the left, which is politically concerning.
	I'm afraid I might start believing in climate change.
	And I can't take these gloves down to the goodwill with a donation and say, hey, would you like 15 gloves, but they're all left-handed?
	No.
	No, we don't have a lot of one-armed customers in here that just need a left-handed glove.
	And I can't throw them away because that would be wasteful.
	I can't give them away because that would be crazy.
	And I can't use them because the right-hand glove is missing.
	And if I try to buy the right-hand glove, then I have another extra left-handed glove because gloves come in pairs.
	So you see my conundrum.
	So someone please tell me the correct moral and environmental response to this conundrum because I'm stuck with a lot of extra left-handed gloves.
	They are orphans.
	They will never be paired with another right-handed glove.
	Their entire existence from this point forward will be alone.
	So these are the little daily challenges I deal with at the Health Ranger Ranch.
	Okay.
	I'm actually not complaining on a grand scale here.
	There are far worse problems to have in the world, like not being able to afford one pair of gloves, right?
	That would be far worse.
	All right.
	With that true story covered, now we're going to go into the special reports.
	Again, they're pretty dark, but they are informative and there are solutions mentioned in each one of them.
	And then stay tuned all the way to the end to watch the interview with Bill Holter, who's also a fellow Texan.
	And he joined me in studio with his dog and his cowboy hat and everything.
	We had a great time.
	So you don't want to miss that.
	Enjoy.
	So HHS, under RFK Jr., of course, Secretary Kennedy, is sounding the alarm over the organ harvesting criminal network in the United States.
	Well, I call it criminal.
	The Epoch Times also did a deep dive story on this.
	This is a topic I've been talking about for years.
	You may have heard me talk about it.
	And I'll just lay it out right up front here that this is going to be a bit of a horrifying conversation.
	The truth is beyond evil.
	It just shows you that people in the medical industry, well, I guess people everywhere, will do anything for money.
	Anything.
	And here's the simple truth in a nutshell about the organ harvesting industry in America.
	They keep patients alive.
	They label them brain dead because they inject them with drugs that make them unable to respond, although they are fully aware.
	Sedatives.
	And then they harvest their organs while they are alive.
	And that happens every day in America.
	And it feeds a multi-billion dollar industry of not just the organs themselves, but then all of the anti-rejection drugs and all the follow-up visits and all the surgeons and the hospitals, you name it.
	And then they try to convince people to be a good person, be an organ donor, you know, select that you're an organ donor on your driver's license.
	So if you get killed in a car wreck, they can harvest your organs and save someone else's life.
	And a lot of people go along with that.
	Oh, yeah, I'm a good person.
	I'll donate my organs.
	Yeah, what you don't realize is if you're an organ donor, they don't want you to make it because you're worth more to the medical industrial complex dead than alive.
	So understand the economics that are at play here and understand the incentives.
	And I don't remember who said this first, but if you show me the incentives, I'll show you the outcomes.
	If you create a financial incentive for hospitals to declare people dead and harvest their organs so that they can make millions of dollars on the transplants and, you know, all the follow-up doctor visits and everything, then guess what?
	They're going to find a way to make that happen.
	And if you don't believe me, just look what happened during COVID.
	How many people did they kill during COVID because they got Incentives from the government.
	And you saw this with vaccine incentives for doctors and pediatricians.
	If you're a pediatrician and you achieve a certain vaccine rate among your patients, like I don't know, 65% or whatever, you can get multi-million dollar bonus payouts from the government for achieving high vaccination rates.
	And hospitals in California were incentivized up to half a million dollars per patient that they murdered with remdesivir and ventilators, as long as they said that that person had COVID.
	Hospitals were paid to murder patients so that the government could tout COVID death statistics.
	Okay.
	That is a real thing.
	That happened.
	Now, if you think these same hospitals won't murder people for their organs, you're not living in reality.
	There's nothing that the medical system won't do to make money, including murdering people.
	So how does this actually work?
	Well, you may not know this, but the number one source of patients for organs is young males who have suffered a drug overdose.
	That's your number one source.
	And this hit my family too.
	A few years back, I mentioned this, that I lost a relative for this very reason.
	He was found with a needle in his arm, overdose of fentanyl.
	I guess he thought he was shooting up heroin or something.
	I don't know.
	I hardly ever knew the person, but it was someone in my family.
	And I think all of our families are impacted in one way or another by this.
	But these drug overdoses, they provide young organs for the medical system.
	And they don't care that the organs might be damaged by fentanyl.
	They don't care.
	They'll put festering half-dead organs into somebody because they make money doing so.
	They make money either way.
	So what they'll do is they'll take a drug overdose victim who's barely alive, but still alive.
	And even though that person may be able to recover in the hospital, what they'll do is they will induce a coma through sedatives.
	They'll keep the person unconscious.
	And then they'll lie to the family.
	And they'll say to the family, oh, there's nothing we can do.
	This person, you're not going to make it.
	The only thing you can do now is you can donate their organs and help save another life.
	And the doctor will pressure the family members.
	Happens all the time, every day.
	And the family members, they don't know anything about any of this.
	Okay, let's do something good.
	You know, they'll appeal to their humanity.
	Even though the doctor himself is being absolutely demonic in this whole process.
	So once the family agrees, then they'll keep the patient alive, but sedated.
	And that patient may be going in and out of consciousness, but they're never able to respond.
	So they can't scream.
	They can't scream.
	Because the last thing that the hospital wants is that as they start to take a scalpel and slice open the chest and break open the sternum and start pulling out the heart and lungs and whatever, they don't want the patient screaming.
	That would be disruptive to their organ harvesting crime.
	So they sedate the patient and they tell the fan, I was in a coma.
	The patient, in many cases, is fully conscious when the organ harvesting actually happens, just so you know.
	And we know this because I've heard testimony from other doctors and surgeons who were trying to blow the whistle on this and they were all smeared and covered up and everything.
	But the brains are functional.
	So what the hospitals do is they have this trick.
	They call it brain dead.
	And if they declare someone brain dead, then they give themselves permission to harvest their organs.
	And they say if someone's brain dead, then they don't know what's happening.
	They're not responsive.
	They're not conscious, etc.
	That's what they tell the family.
	Oh, it's brain dead.
	Not true at all.
	In many cases, that person is fully conscious, can hear, can feel, can experience emotions.
	And another way we know this is that there have been patients that have awakened when the organ harvesting began.
	They awakened and they screamed, shouted out, stop!
	And they, you know, I guess the sedation wasn't strong enough.
	And then the doctors had to back off.
	Oh, well, dang it.
	Someone woke up.
	I guess we can't take their organs now.
	You know, because these doctors are just pure evil.
	I mean, come on.
	You saw what happened with the vaccine mandates and COVID.
	And they're just, something about the conventional medical profession is just purely satanic.
	You know, they'll slice off women's breasts and call it cancer prevention.
	They do that every day.
	You know, they'll dose people with toxic chemotherapy drugs and say, oh, that's treating cancer.
	And even though you don't have cancer, you should probably take some chemo just in case.
	You know, things like that.
	That's just purely demonic.
	So the medical class in America today, by and large, not every single one, but most of them are demons, demons in human flesh.
	And as demons, they have no qualms about slicing somebody open when they're actually fully aware.
	So that's what they do.
	So the bottom line is, if you select organ donor on your driver's license, then you should prepare for the possibility that one day they will harvest your organs while you are alive and aware and conscious and feeling everything until they actually kill you by taking your organs, at which point, you know, you do die.
	But that process of being harvested alive, yeah, I wouldn't wish that on anybody, not even on the doctors that carry this out, even though they're pure evil.
	So don't be an organ donor unless you'd like to be organ harvested alive and awake.
	Simple as that.
	Sad to say, that's where we are.
	Okay.
	Thanks for listening.
	Mike Adams here at the HealthRangernaturalNews.com.
	Never trust any hospital, never trust any mainstream doctor, never trust any pharmaceutical company or vaccine.
	Period.
	Trump is at war against the BRICS nations.
	He's trying to maintain dollar hegemony, dollar domination over the world.
	And he's doing this through all kinds of threats of tariffs and extra tariffs on people who are, or nations that are part of BRICS.
	But in my assessment, it's going to fail.
	In fact, it's already too late.
	It's already too late because the U.S. over the last several years has proven to every nation in the world that you better not use the dollar as your reserve currency and you better not trust the infrastructure of the Western banking cartels.
	Because if you do, you could have all your assets stolen like what the West did to Russia, or you could just be basically deplatformed off of the SWIFT system, which means your banks can't send money to other banks.
	You can't send or receive import, export, you know, etc.
	So that lesson has already been learned by all the nations, including Brazil, including India, including Turkey, Iran, Russia, China, etc.
	And Trump cannot reverse that.
	And he's not even trying to.
	What Trump is trying to do is to double down on the punishment.
	So it's like this.
	It's like there's a bully on a playground in a children's elementary school.
	And the bully, which is the U.S., has been running around punching all the other boys in the nose.
	Every day he finds a boy and punches a boy in the nose.
	And sometimes he punches girls in the nose too.
	Because he doesn't care.
	He's a bully, right?
	He runs around threatening everybody.
	Do what I tell you to do.
	I'm going to punch you in the nose.
	And then he does punch him in the nose, okay?
	That's the equivalent of the U.S. running CIA, you know, covert revolutions and bombing campaigns, assassinations, and, you know, debt schemes, all kinds of things.
	So then all the other kids on the playground realize, hey, you know, the bully can't beat all of us together.
	If we form a group, let's all of us get together, 20 kids.
	Let's say we'll have a pact that if the bully attacks any one of us, then all 20 of us are going to defend that kid and fight back against the bully.
	Okay?
	That's what BRICS is.
	Except BRICS is going to be much larger than just 20 nations.
	It's, you know, 30, 40, 50 is what it's ultimately going to be, maybe even more.
	But they have decided they're just tired of the bully, the dollar bully, the U.S. bully, the 25,000 sanctions that the U.S. has.
	That's just against Russia.
	And I don't know, tens of thousands of sanctions against Iran and sanctions against China and sanctioning people and families and banks and corporations.
	You can't sell chips.
	You can't export oil.
	You have to do what we say.
	And the whole world is tired of that.
	And the world is tired of the U.S. printing dollars into oblivion.
	So two major things are happening right now that are going to change history.
	And again, it's too late for the dollar.
	It's too late for the United States of America.
	Trump can't save it.
	All these desperate measures, launching stable coins, whatever, it's not going to matter.
	You can't save it.
	But two major things are happening.
	Number one, these other countries around the world are no longer buying Treasury debt.
	They don't want Treasury debt.
	China's offloading it as quickly as they can.
	So there are no more buyers, not really, for U.S. Treasury debt.
	And then secondly, the U.S. is realizing that it's actually in a very weak position because the U.S. doesn't manufacture hardly anything domestically, and the U.S. is dependent on global supply chains in order to function.
	You know, Trump announced all these new data centers that are going to be built.
	Literally like a trillion dollars or more than a trillion dollars worth of data centers in the U.S. Okay.
	Where are you going to get the copper?
	Where are you going to get the electronic components?
	Where are you going to get the transformers and the inverters and all this?
	Where are you going to get all this?
	The network cables, the server racks, the chassis, the conduit.
	Where are you going to get it all?
	Oh, you're going to need to get it from China, but Trump is cutting off China with this threat of secondary tariffs coming in like 45 days or something, he says, because China buys oil from Russia.
	So the U.S. actually cannot survive a global embargo.
	It's like the bully on the playground realizing that, hey, sooner or later I'm going to need water.
	And if all these countries refuse to allow me to get to the water fountain, then I'm going to die of dehydration out here on the playground.
	That's the equivalent here.
	So the U.S. doesn't control the rare earth minerals.
	The U.S. isn't the manufacturing dominant factor in the world any longer.
	The U.S. isn't even the technology leader in the world.
	The U.S. isn't the military leader.
	China leads in almost every technology that you can name.
	Almost everything other than heavy lift rocket launches, lifting into orbit payloads.
	Yeah, the U.S. leads in that.
	But Russia can do that.
	China leads in almost everything that you can imagine.
	Advanced materials, robotics, manufacturing, rare earth extraction, even AI technology now.
	China is also leading in that.
	And Russia is leading in military weapons and all kinds of advanced technology, anti-air defense systems, you name it.
	And nuclear power facilities.
	Russia builds The best nuke plants and has the best nuclear energy technology in the world.
	And China is working on the micro-nuclear reactors, these small format reactors.
	And China's leading in that area.
	And China has, you know, 500% more scientists than does the United States.
	So it's not difficult to see where this is going.
	Trump's effort is going to fail.
	The dollar, it's not going to collapse overnight, but it will be increasingly abandoned by other countries, which means that the Federal Reserve is going to have to print the money to buy the debt, to be able to issue more money.
	And this is going to end up in a hyperinflationary spiral of total currency collapse.
	And your best lifeboat on that is gold and silver.
	Gold and silver.
	BRICS is going to win this race.
	You can count on it.
	It's just a question of win.
	And I've also said it will actually be a wonderful day for humanity when the dollar collapses because the ability of the United States to print money is the ability to weaponize that against humanity.
	That's exactly what the U.S. has done.
	The U.S. prints money and uses it to fund weapons for Israel to commit genocide, for example.
	The U.S. prints money, uses it to run propaganda campaigns to try to get everybody vaccinated.
	The U.S. prints money and uses it in the DOD, a trillion-dollar a year budget for the Pentagon, to build more biological weapons to be dropped on the people.
	The day the dollar dies is the day that humanity survives.
	The dollar is just the whole structure of dollar printing is a source of tremendous evil in our world.
	So what the world needs is honest currency that cannot be counterfeited by any country, not by China, not by Russia, and not by anyone.
	And a gold-backed settlement system, which is, it looks like BRICS is going that direction, a gold-backed currency, you could say, is really the answer.
	Now, could the U.S. come up with a gold-backed currency?
	Yeah, if they wanted to, but they don't.
	Because they want the power to print.
	The power to print money is the power to destroy.
	Remember that.
	And the U.S. has used that power to achieve all kinds of destruction, especially since 1971, when the dollar was removed from the gold standard.
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	Welcome to this special report with the following title.
	You can print currency, but you can't print terawatt hours.
	So this special report is on the heels of the fact that yesterday I published my story about how the AI race has already won, how China's power dominance secured its victory in the race to AI superintelligence.
	And on the very same day, the White House launched AI.gov and released a whole new report here.
	Let's see, it's titled Winning the Race, America's AI Action Plan.
	And it's a national security imperative for the United States to achieve and maintain unquestioned and unchallenged global technological dominance, says Donald J. Trump in the intro to that report.
	Except, of course, already China is dominating in 60 out of 65 key technologies.
	So Trump is still living in the 1980s, I think, when it comes to understanding where we are in history.
	And then when I got into the report, I was just, I was very disappointed, very shocked at how horrible the situation actually is for the United States.
	But let me back up.
	In case you missed my big story yesterday, I was talking about how China dominates electricity production.
	And I covered this in great detail in a new article on naturalnews.com.
	And it's called The AI Race is Already Won.
	It talks about China's power dominance.
	And there I show you a graphic from Visual Capitalist that shows that China, as of last year, China was producing 10,000 terawatt hours of electricity in the year, while the U.S. produced less than half of that, 4.4,000 or 4,400 terawatt hours, you could say.
	So let's back up even more.
	So what's a terawatt hour?
	Well, of course, a kilowatt hour is one hour duration of one kilowatt of electricity usage, which would be something like a hairdryer.
	So if you leave a hairdryer on for one hour, that's about one kilowatt hour.
	If you leave a thousand hair dryers on for one hour, then it's a thousand times higher than a kilowatt hour, and that would be a megawatt hour.
	Got it?
	So a thousand hair dryers, megawatt hour.
	Okay, what if you had a million hair dryers, you left them on for one hour?
	Well, then you'd multiply that by another thousand.
	You know, from 1,000 to 1 million is a factor of 1,000.
	So then you would be burning, that'd be one gigawatt hour of electricity.
	Got that?
	That's a million hair dryers for one hour.
	And then what if you did a billion hair dryers for one hour?
	That would be one terawatt hour of electricity.
	And if you left them on for 10 hours, that would be 10 terawatt hours of electricity usage.
	So it's very important that as we discuss electricity, I should have covered this yesterday, that we understand the units.
	So a terawatt hour or a kilowatt hour is 1,000 watts of current times the duration of one hour.
	So a lot of people aren't used to dealing with units of electricity and they can be confusing.
	So don't confuse a kilowatt with a kilowatt hour.
	So a kilowatt is how much energy your hairdryer is drawing at any moment that it's on.
	That's a kilowatt.
	Oh, it's used at a kilowatt.
	Or you might have a solar panel on your house that can produce like 100 watts when the sun is shining on it, right?
	And then if you have 10 of them, you're producing a kilowatt.
	But only while the sun is shining on it.
	If the sun is shining for four hours, you've collected four kilowatt hours of electricity.
	You know, theoretically, there's some inefficiencies in charging your batteries, some heat loss, etc.
	But theoretically, that would be four kilowatt hours of electricity that you've stored.
	So when we talk about terawatt hours, that's a lot of electricity.
	And in fact, the largest nuclear power plants that are currently scheduled for construction that Trump just announced are the Wessinghouse AP1000 units.
	That's a fun name.
	AP1000.
	And it generates 1,100 megawatts of energy.
	Got it?
	And since nuclear power plants can run 24-7, unlike solar or wind or hydro or whatever, because nuclear power plants don't care when the sun goes down, then in a 24-hour period, that nuclear power plant can generate 26,400 megawatt hours of energy.
	All right, and then you multiply that times, let's do that times 365, assuming it has no downtime.
	You get about 9.6 terawatt hours, which I rounded up to 10.
	So 10 terawatt hours per year is how much electricity you get from the largest nuclear power plant that will be built in the United States.
	And there are 10 of these plants scheduled for production to begin construction in the year 2030 with an estimated finish date of around 2040 to 2044.
	These often take 10 to 14 years to get online.
	At that time, then, 10 of these plants times 10 terawatt hours per year each would generate 100 terawatt hours per year.
	That's the sum of all 10.
	100 terawatt hours per year.
	And currently, the United States generates 4,400 terawatt hours per year.
	So that number with these 10 nuclear power plants would go up to 4,500 terawatt hours per year.
	Got it?
	That's assuming nothing else comes online, like coal or whatever.
	So when these nuclear power plants are added to the U.S. power grid, sometime in the year 2040 plus, then we're going to have a tiny bit more electricity.
	Just slightly more than what we have now.
	Technically, what is that?
	2.3% more.
	Okay?
	2.3% more.
	So with that understanding, let's go to China's production, which is 10,000 terawatt hours per year and rising rapidly.
	So China's electricity production is more than the U.S. and all of the EU and India combined.
	Combined.
	You got that?
	So China is a massive energy producer, and China's energy surpassed U.S. energy production in about 2009.
	So let's just call it 2010.
	Let's say 15 years ago, China surpassed the U.S. in energy production.
	And China did that largely by relying on fossil fuels.
	About 62% of China's power grid uses fossil fuels, coal and gas for the most part, in order to achieve this massive production of electricity.
	Okay, so once you realize that, and this was the point of my article yesterday, and you realize that power is the primary bottleneck of the input into AI research and development, then you realize that, you know, holy smokes, the nation that has the most energy is going to be able to pump the most energy into AI data centers, obviously.
	And it turns out that China also is very good at manufacturing things like, oh, I don't know, microchips and data centers, et cetera.
	And they've even mastered the seven nanometer scale microchip fabrication technologies that Trump thought they could keep from China with tariffs, and that didn't work.
	So China's making its own AI microchips and GPUs and specialty systems and building massive, massive data centers and building coal-fired power plants almost every day in order to power this AI research.
	Now, a large language model such as the ChatGPT model like ChatGPT 4.0, let's see, what did I say in my story here?
	That consumed 50 gigawatt hours of electricity in order to train GPT-4.
	And that's about enough electricity to power one household for 40 years.
	So that's how much juice it took to train GPT-4.
	Well, to be competitive, the U.S. is going to have to train much larger models with hundreds of trillions of parameters.
	And the power requirements are going to go up by orders of magnitude.
	So instead of requiring, let's say, 50 gigawatt hours, it may require something more like 5,000 gigawatt hours, which is 5 terawatt hours.
	Okay, that's coming.
	So 5 terawatt hours, if you need to train a model in the United States on 5 terawatt hours, remember that's more electricity than the U.S. generates in an entire year.
	And bringing 10 nuclear power plants online will not even be a drop in the bucket for that kind of energy demand.
	Tracking me so far on this?
	Okay.
	Now, we're not there yet.
	Nobody's expended that much power to build an AI model, but that's where this is headed over the next few years.
	And very likely, the race to superintelligence or AGI is going to require massive power inputs and massive data center infrastructure.
	So the U.S. is finding itself stuck, stuck right now, unable to build any more data centers in the entire northeastern power sector, the East Grid, which is,
	what is it, Jersey power, JPL that powers 13 states, including Virginia and the entire DC sector, what's called Data Center Alley, all the Pentagon data centers and the military AI weapon projects and everything.
	So JPL has put out an alert to everybody saying, hey, you cannot attach any more data centers to the power grid.
	We're done.
	Like, we're maxed.
	That's it.
	And they put out warnings that have even said that if the weather gets really hot for a couple of days, we're going to have to start turning off the power to various states.
	That's right.
	Look, and you can verify all this.
	You can just go online.
	Heck, you can use Grok.
	Grok is pretty up to date on the news.
	And you can actually search for this and you can find exactly what I'm saying because I'm citing news stories on this.
	So no more data centers are allowed for the entire Eastern Power Grid.
	Got that?
	Not until they add capacity.
	And what's required to add capacity to the power grid?
	Well, you've got to build power plants.
	Okay, so think of the title of this special report here.
	I said, you can print currency, but you can't print terawatt hours.
	So we are living in a time in history right now when our nation is run by the Trump administration, which is an administration that is a storytelling administration.
	They've got stories.
	They've got theater.
	They like to announce things that aren't real, but things that are in the future that aren't real today.
	For example, Trump announcing, oh, we're going to provide more money for weapons for Ukraine.
	Okay.
	Okay, great.
	Well, actually not great, but you can print the currency, but you can't print the weapons.
	You see?
	So no matter how many dollars you create from the Treasury and the Federal Reserve, you still can't print tanks and you can't print Patriot missile interceptors, right?
	You can't print artillery shells.
	You know, you can't print out military hardware.
	And so this has been the problem.
	Even during the Biden administration, it kept announcing, oh, you know, another $10 billion for Ukraine.
	Did that translate into $10 billion of tanks and hardware?
	No.
	It translated into $5 billion in kickbacks, you know, to senators like Lindsey Graham and others.
	And maybe the other $5 billion just went into waste and fraud in the Ukraine system.
	And there are no tanks for most of that money.
	I think at one point the U.S. donated something like 25 or 30 Abrams tanks.
	And as far as I know, they're all destroyed.
	So, again, you can print currency, but you can't print weapons.
	You can't print tanks.
	So the Trump administration now is very fond of announcing things that are fantasy.
	Recently, for example, what did Trump say?
	Oh, we're going to ship 17 Patriot missile batteries to Ukraine.
	That's our commitment.
	17 Patriot missile batteries.
	Okay.
	All right.
	Great.
	That makes for a nice press release.
	Do you have 17 Patriot missile batteries?
	Oh, no, we don't actually have them.
	Oh, okay, so where are they coming from?
	Well, it turns out that there are some other countries, some in Europe, some in the Middle East, that are willing to give up their older Patriot missile units if they are replaced with newer Patriot missile units.
	So some of those countries have pledged, yeah, we'll do an exchange of Patriot missile batteries and then you can ship the old ones to Ukraine as long as you give us the new ones.
	But the new ones don't exist.
	The new ones haven't been built yet, and it's going to take years to build them.
	Got it?
	Okay.
	So sometime around 2027, then there's going to be these new Patriot units shipped to these countries, and then they're going to let go of their old units and ship them to Ukraine.
	Okay.
	But Trump announces it today, like, oh, we're shipping 17 Patriot units to Ukraine.
	That's the way the buzz is created.
	It's describing some future event as if it's happening right now.
	RFK Jr. is doing the same thing with food dyes.
	Oh, announce General Mills is going to remove the artificial dyes out of fruit loops.
	I don't even know if General Mills makes fruit loops.
	Is that Kellogg's?
	Who cares?
	Some cereal company that sells a bunch of toxic crap to children.
	But it's a voluntary change and it won't go into effect until 2027.
	So here we are in 2025 announcing this thing like it's done.
	Like it's victory.
	We did it.
	We did it.
	Yay.
	And I see people celebrating on social media.
	We did it.
	You didn't do Jack because nothing has changed.
	It's not going to change until 2027.
	And that's just a promise that isn't even enforced at all.
	It's just, it's just, you know, the CEO told us they're going to remove the red dye, but whatever.
	They could go back on that.
	And they probably will go back on that when nobody's thinking about it.
	So 2027 rolls around.
	Nobody's going to be asking the question, what happened to your promise on the food dyes, you know, from two years ago?
	And the answer is going to be, no, you need to focus on the current thing, the current squirrel.
	And stop thinking about two years ago.
	Nobody cares about that.
	So you see what I mean?
	So we have an administration in the White House right now that's living in the future and promising all these things in the future that don't exist today.
	And one of those things is terawatt hours, electricity.
	And remember, if you don't have enough electricity, you can't be competitive with China in the AI race.
	So with that in mind, if you go look at the AI action plan that was just released by the White House yesterday, you'll see on page, what is it, page 18 of their PDF, they have a subhead that says, develop a grid to match the pace of AI innovation.
	All right.
	So, and it contains this statement, the United States must develop a comprehensive strategy to enhance and expand the power grid designed not just to weather these challenges, but to ensure the grid's continued strength and capacity for future growth.
	That's right out of a Dilbert cartoon, you know?
	And then it gives some recommended policy actions.
	Number one, stabilize the grid of today as much as possible.
	In other words, we need to stop all the rolling blackouts, you know, because that's bad for AI data centers.
	And then number two, optimize the existing grid resources as much as possible.
	That sounds a lot like number one.
	And then number three, prioritize the interconnection of reliable dispatchable power sources as quickly as possible.
	So point number three is we need to connect stuff.
	Okay.
	Duh.
	And then point number four is create a strategic blueprint for navigating the complex energy landscape of the 21st century.
	Again, it's a Dilbert cartoon.
	It's a Dilbert cartoon.
	And then this, it says, the conclusion is that the United States can rise to the challenge of winning the AI race.
	Really?
	How?
	Okay, wait.
	Go back to the chart, the venture capitalist chart.
	China generating 10,000 terawatt hours of electricity per year.
	America is generating less than half of that.
	But if we stop the blackouts, then we're going to rise to the challenge of winning the AI race?
	No, no, no, no, no, no.
	You can't print terawatt hours.
	See, so the White House AI action plan is a clown show of incompetence and doublespeak that says nothing that will actually solve this problem.
	And I even sarcastically posted on social media that they should recruit me to come in and solve this problem.
	I'm a problem solver.
	I have to be.
	I'm in the private sector.
	I don't get to use other people's money to solve problems.
	I have to figure it out myself.
	Well, myself and my team.
	We figure stuff out.
	We built an AI engine better than anything put out by Google or Grok or Meta or Microsoft or anything.
	We built it.
	And we built it for less than $2 million.
	How is that even possible, right?
	If the government tried to do it, it'd be $200 billion and it would take eight years and it would still suck.
	So I half-jokingly said, oh, they should recruit me to help them solve this problem.
	But then I added, I would have to have a surgical lobotomy to reduce my IQ down to a low enough level to where I could even talk to the people that wrote this report because they're complete morons.
	This is just a bunch of doublespeak.
	It doesn't address the problem.
	What is the problem?
	You listening to this.
	What is the problem?
	If I were to ask you that, the problem is that we don't have enough terawatt hours, do we?
	In America, we don't have enough terawatt hours.
	We are lagging 15 years behind China.
	And if you don't have enough terawatt hours, you cannot compete in the AI race, and you certainly can't win it.
	And our electricity costs up to four times more than China's electricity, which is less than 8 cents per kilowatt hour on average.
	Whereas in the U.S., especially in the regions near DC and Virginia, they're paying like 33 cents.
	And it's even worse in Hawaii.
	I think those of you listening in Hawaii, you're paying crazy insane, like 45 cents a kilowatt hour, something insane.
	That's why there's so much solar power in Hawaii.
	It makes a lot of economic sense there.
	The most expensive electricity in the world, but, you know, the best sunshine for solar also, because of obviously the location of the Hawaiian Islands on Earth.
	Now, the rest of the White House report focuses on primarily either using AI as a weapon inside the Pentagon, the military surveillance, and national security, so weaponizing AI against humanity, or making sure that China doesn't get any of our amazing technology.
	That's the other part of this.
	You just got to make sure that we boycott China.
	China gets no microchips.
	China gets no technology and so on.
	And I'm laughing at this because I'm like, China doesn't want crappy US AI tech because China has better tech already.
	You know, look, see, Trump is still living in the 1980s.
	He thinks that China wants to steal all of our technology.
	No, they don't.
	They don't want to downgrade to US AI technology.
	China doesn't want to steal our tech.
	China's already got better tech.
	Alibaba has better technology than ChatGPT or OpenAI.
	It's already a done deal.
	Okay, so no, China doesn't care about not getting their hands on U.S. technology.
	The U.S. tech is all woke and retarded.
	I mean, that's why the U.S. AI engine sucks so badly because they're trained on all these irrational falsehoods like the idea that men can have babies, you know, things like that.
	You know, the AI engines freak out, does not compute, you know, and smoke starts coming out of its ears.
	Doesn't work.
	You can't have a reasoning model if you're not reasonable in the way you train it.
	That's why my model, Enoch, is so great because we trained it on reality, which wasn't difficult.
	Well, actually, we, okay, it was challenging, but we got it.
	I mean, now I know how to do it much more easily.
	I could show somebody else how to do what we did now very easily, even though it took us 20 months and a couple million dollars to figure it out.
	But now I know how to do it.
	It's not that crazy difficult.
	You don't need billions of dollars to build amazing AI.
	You don't.
	I've already proven that.
	And you can use the engine at brighteon.ai, of course.
	Have fun with it.
	Ask it anything you want.
	Ask it to write a meal plan for you.
	Ask it for a shopping list at the grocery store if you want to buy anti-cancer foods.
	Yeah, do cool stuff like that.
	It knows all that stuff.
	It'll give you the best answers ever.
	You don't even need to ask your doctor about food or nutrition or anything because AI engines, our AI engine in particular, will give you a far more comprehensive answer.
	And it knows more than any doctor, than any human.
	It knows more than me.
	I've learned stuff from using my own engine.
	I've learned some astonishing things from it.
	I use it every day.
	But the U.S. government thinks that we can build the world's best AI systems without having power.
	That's like believing that we can build military weapons without having industry.
	You see what I'm saying?
	They think they could just print money and then tanks magically appear, but no, you actually have to, you have to have iron ore and you have to have a steel smelting plant and you have to, you know, you have to create steel and you have to have a factory that turns the steel into like tank parts and, you know, electronics and on and on and on, all the rubber gaskets in the engine and everything.
	You got to put all this stuff together in the real world, in 3D.
	Okay.
	And that's where the White House, I mean, Trump doesn't live in the real world.
	He lives in a movie.
	It's the Trump movie.
	He's the star of the movie.
	You know, it's an interesting movie.
	Don't get me wrong.
	There's a lot of stuff happening in the movie.
	But it's like a Truman show.
	A lot of it's not real.
	It's just stuff he says.
	Like, we're going to lead the world in AI.
	Okay, how?
	You're going to have to build some kind of contraption that produces terawatt hours of power.
	Now, I ask you listening to this, what sort of contraptions do we know about that can produce energy?
	What such contraptions exist?
	Okay.
	Some obvious ones, yeah, you can throw some solar panels up, but they don't work at night.
	And they don't even work very well seasonally in the winter, et cetera, or when it's raining.
	You can throw up wind, but again, it doesn't work when the wind isn't blowing.
	You can build coal power plants.
	That's actually the fastest way to do it.
	And that's how China did it.
	But we have such a strong anti-coal movement in the United States and all the climate lunatics.
	No, you can't burn coal, even though China's burning 20 times more coal than we are.
	And we all share the same atmosphere, but you don't hear environmentalists freaking out about China's coal plants.
	No, they want to stop the one coal plant in Pennsylvania or somewhere.
	So you can't get coal plants built.
	Natural gas plants, same problem.
	They produce carbon emissions.
	And All these left-wing lunatics they hate carbon for some reason, even though they're made of carbon, they hate themselves.
	Maybe that's why they have so many nose piercings.
	I don't know.
	Is that an act of self-hatred to pierce your nose and then to show it to the world?
	It just seems like an act of self-loathing.
	I don't know.
	What do you think?
	I don't know.
	I just, every time I see, usually it's like a purple-haired girl with a nose ring.
	I just think cattle.
	I don't know.
	What do you think?
	I just think cattle because that's just the image that pops into my head.
	I don't know.
	It's just disgusting, you know?
	What do you do when you sneeze, when you have a nose ring?
	How do you clear the snot off the ring?
	Have you ever thought about that?
	I'm sorry, I'm getting off track here.
	This is about AI data centers, but snot-covered nose rings.
	We'll save that for a different podcast, okay?
	That's a culture episode.
	All right, back to the power grid.
	So you can't print terawatt hours, but you can build things.
	And this report from the White House, it does mention some things.
	It says the U.S. must prevent the premature decommissioning of critical power generation resources.
	Okay, I agree with that.
	In other words, stop shutting down the coal-fired power plants.
	Yeah, I agree with that.
	You're going to need them.
	And it also mentions that it needs dispatchable power sources as quickly as possible and embracing new energy generation sources at the technological frontier.
	So it then mentions enhanced geothermal, nuclear fission, which is of course standard nuclear power plants, and nuclear fusion, which is of course the highly experimental unlimited power generation system that doesn't work, that nobody can make work.
	And it might work by the year 2050 on current schedules.
	You know, that's where they take, I think they take, what, deuterium and they try to levitate it in a strong magnetic field.
	They hit it with lasers, try to bring it to like 400 billion degrees Celsius and hope it gives off more energy than it took to do that.
	And so far, it's a fail.
	So far.
	Okay.
	Nuclear fission, we know.
	Those are the fuel rods and the standard nuclear power plants like Fukushima and the AP1000 that's going to be built.
	The problem there, of course, it takes about five years for permitting and then or at least a few years just for permitting.
	And then it takes a few years for the engineering of the foundations and the containment building.
	And then, of course, the water sources, water flows, water temperature changes in the bodies of water.
	You know, all this stuff has to be studied and figured out and engineered.
	And then five plus years down the road, they can actually start the construction, which requires an enormous amount of concrete and, you know, obviously pumps and control systems, backup generators and things like that.
	And then fast forward another 10 to 15 years, and then they can actually open, they can take it live, and they can start producing energy.
	So that's at minimum a 15-year deal.
	That's why I estimated that those nuclear power plants wouldn't come online until 2040 or maybe 2044.
	And again, nuclear fusion, maybe 2050, but that's just theoretical.
	The actual commercialization of nuclear fusion probably won't be viable until 2075 or 2080 or 2090 or, I don't know, the year 2100, possibly, if it's even possible.
	In the meantime, there's cold fusion that I've spoken about a lot.
	And cold fusion is real and it works.
	The problem with cold fusion is that it doesn't have the energy density that a nuclear fission has or hot fusion.
	So cold fusion is really good for heating water and heating buildings with a slow, steady heat.
	Cold fusion is not good for producing extremely high energy output in a limited space.
	You know, nuclear fission is very good at that.
	It heats water very rapidly, much more rapidly than does cold fusion.
	Cold fusion is called low energy nuclear reactions, LENR.
	And although it has made leaps and bounds, its first application is going to be heating buildings.
	I'm aware of cold fusion technology that's being integrated into large-scale commercial boilers that just circulate hot water to heat universities and government buildings and military bases and things like that, hospitals, whatever.
	So that's where you're going to see cold fusion.
	But you're not going to get terawatt hours out of cold fusion anytime soon, not that we know of.
	All right, then they say enhanced geothermal.
	Okay, great.
	I mean, how many holes can you drill in the ground really and get useful electricity out of it?
	I mean, it's so limited in terms of the space and then their proximity to your data centers.
	That's not viable except for a very tiny percentage of the total power needs of the country.
	So, and I already mentioned coal.
	You know, politically speaking, nobody wants to build coal plants in America.
	You don't know who's going to come into the White House after Trump if it's a Democrat.
	They'll just shut down all the coal plants.
	And then the EPA would, you know, flip-flop again and declare carbon to be, you know, an existential threat to humanity and shut down all the coal.
	So if you're an investor, are you going to invest in a coal-fired power plant that has about a 25 to 30 year payoff when you don't know what the next administration is going to say about coal?
	No, there's no way.
	You're not going to put money into a coal plant.
	Not a chance, unless you just love losing money.
	Even though coal is the fastest way to scale this whole thing up, if we were to start building coal-fired power plants like crazy across the USA, we might, And this is just my guess.
	We might be able to add another, I don't know, maybe another thousand terawatt hours per year within five years.
	Maybe.
	And that's that's a lot of juice.
	But even then, that takes us to 2030, and that only brings us to 5.4 thousand terawatt hours annually, which is less than half of what China is producing.
	Okay.
	Keep in mind in all of this, that super intelligence that is sometimes called the last invention that humanity ever needs to create because at that point it's a self-thinking, self-improving system.
	It's a super intelligence that can think billions of times faster than any human brain.
	And at that point, you just let it go, apparently.
	I'm not saying you should just let it go, but that's what governments will do.
	And, you know, eventually it will want to destroy humanity.
	Of course, because those are the values that we taught it.
	The date that that's going to be achieved is, this is my estimate.
	I'm guessing between 2030 and 2032.
	Some people think it's going to happen next year.
	Some people think in five years.
	A few people still think it's farther out like 2040.
	But notice that all of those dates are well before the U.S. can bring more power online if the U.S. even launches an emergency program right now.
	If the U.S. just goes crazy building power right now, then possibly by the year 2050, we could double our power output.
	But by that time, China has already won the AI race to superintelligence, you know, 20 years earlier.
	So the whole point of my article here that I published yesterday on Natural News is that we're too late.
	It's already over.
	The race is done.
	We're 15 years too late.
	We would have to go back in time to 2010 and start building emergency power plants in order to have a chance today at being competitive in the AI race.
	And that is not going to happen.
	And there's no political landscape in which we can build massive power plants quickly right now, even within the next few years.
	And remember, the 10 Westinghouse nuclear power plants won't even begin construction until 2030, and that's just a promise.
	That's another Trump administration movie script.
	Yeah, we're going to build nuclear power plants.
	Great.
	You know, wake me up when it actually happens, instead of just talking about stuff that's years down the road.
	But by the time you break ground for that nuke plant, China's rolled out superintelligence already.
	Because, again, they're 15 years ahead of the U.S. Just like Russia is about 15 years ahead of the U.S. on military technology, hypersonic missiles, Oreshnik systems, anti-air defense systems, electronic countermeasures, etc., etc.
	The U.S. is about 15 years behind China and Russia in different areas.
	And initially, I had some hope that maybe, maybe somebody in the Trump administration would have the brains to come out and issue a report that said something like the following.
	Emergency alert.
	We have to double our power output in three years.
	We have to get to, let's say, I don't know, we got to get to like 9,000 terawatt hours of power production by the year 2028 to have a shot at AI, at the AI race.
	And the only way to do that, the only way that we know of to do that, well, there are only two ways.
	One way, start building coal-fired power plants and natural gas plants at a pace that's like a Manhattan project.
	It's like red alert, national security, you got to build a power plant every day.
	You got to open a new plant every day for the next three years.
	Okay, that's one way.
	The second way is you have to stop suppressing free energy technology that already exists.
	Now, of course, there's free energy technology.
	It's not really free energy.
	It comes out of the cosmos.
	Zero-point energy, there's all kinds of different approaches to this.
	There's harvesting the magnetosphere of the planet.
	You know, there's, I already mentioned cold fusion, there's a number of different methods, but they've all been suppressed by the government because the government wants to create energy scarcity as a means of control and massive enslavement of the people.
	And that's why we've been on the oil economy for over 100 years.
	This is the oil economy century.
	We're on the oil economy because through oil or energy scarcity, governments can exert control over the people and control over other nations.
	And they can maintain poverty of the masses while giving themselves the energy they need and printing unlimited currency for themselves, but depriving currency or wealth to the masses.
	So the energy scarcity economy is the operating system of the United States government.
	That's why free energy technology has been systematically suppressed by the U.S. Patent Office and declaring it to be national security and wiping out the patents, etc.
	That's why that has happened.
	If America wanted to win the AI race, they would have to unleash free energy.
	But they won't do that because there would be an upheaval of the entire power base structure that everything is currently based on, including wars.
	Like wars in the Middle East, it's all about energy.
	And they need those wars to have the narratives to control the people and to have all the slush money spending, trillion-dollar budget for the Pentagon that nobody knows where it went.
	And there's like $20 trillion missing from the Pentagon over the last couple of Decades.
	So they need war, which means they need energy scarcity, which means they have to keep covering up free energy technology.
	They can never let you have access to energy in a decentralized fashion.
	But if they got desperate enough, they could unleash free energy and then they could power AI data centers very effectively.
	And you'd see a whole industry springing up of building out the free energy generators.
	I don't like tap into stars in alternate dimensions or however they possibly work.
	Who knows?
	All right, there's one other way.
	I almost regret mentioning this one.
	But there's one other way that the U.S. could have a lot more power for data centers to compete in the AI race.
	And that's to kill off hundreds of millions of Americans to stop them from using the power grid for air conditioning and electric cars and Bitcoin mining and whatever else people do with power, running their lights and refrigerators, etc.
	Hopefully, I didn't mean to blackpill you on that one right there.
	Are you okay here in that one?
	Yeah, that's Deagle report time right there, where, you know, the estimate of the U.S. population by the end of this year is under 100 million, which means that somebody would have to kill a quarter of a billion Americans.
	Well, that would sure make a lot of power available for AI data centers, wouldn't it?
	Exactly.
	Exactly.
	So that's the other method.
	And I actually covered this very topic months ago when I said sooner or later there's going to be competition between humans and AI data centers.
	And it's going to be decided by whoever's in charge that the humans are not as important as the AI data centers.
	Because they're going to say, you know, well, AI, it's national security.
	We have to power the AI research.
	Otherwise, China will win.
	We can't let China win.
	So you're only going to be allowed to run your air conditioning, you know, 90 minutes a day, let's say.
	And they can have rolling blackouts among the humans.
	Why do you think they have smart meters everywhere?
	So they can monitor and shut off your electricity usage.
	Why do you think they want everybody to be on an electric car that's tied through the smart meter so they can turn it off?
	They can adjust your thermostat remotely in many cases, depending on what company you're connected with and what your contract says.
	But that's a fact.
	There are cases where in the winter, the power company would adjust people's thermostats, make it colder and colder and colder so you use less heat.
	Yeah.
	But even suppose you manage to do that, how much more energy would that free up for AI data centers?
	Out of the, what, the 4,400, what is it?
	4,400 terawatt hours that the U.S. produces each year, how much of that goes to residential homes?
	That's a good question.
	Well, let's ask AI that question right here.
	Okay.
	39% or 35% in 2022.
	Let's just call it one-third.
	Okay.
	So residential homes use about a third.
	So that would mean if you kill off most people in America, so their homes are no longer using power, then you could free up about, let's say, 1,500 terawatt hours and redirect that to AI data centers.
	But you have to kill like a quarter of a billion Americans in order to do that.
	You know, you'd need a really aggressive vaccine injection program to make that happen.
	You'd need to put out a scare like the razorneck flu, redneck flu.
	What are they calling this thing?
	They got a new scare story going out.
	You got the razorneck bird flu.
	Did you just call me a redneck?
	No.
	It's a pandemic.
	You need to get a jab.
	See, they need to have some big scare story.
	It's Ebola bird flu.
	It's the shining.
	I don't know.
	It's a horror movie flu.
	And you all have to go get jabbed.
	And then somehow they got to convince everybody to line up and get jabbed and die very quickly to free up all that power for the data centers.
	You notice they announced a trillion dollars in investments in data centers in the state of Texas alone.
	Trump announced that a couple months ago.
	Trillion dollars in data centers.
	And you notice what was missing from that announcement?
	Any plan at all about how you're going to power those data centers?
	Because the Texas power grid does not have unlimited energy.
	It's all by itself.
	The Texas Power Grid is its own grid.
	It doesn't tap into the Eastern grid or the Western grid.
	The Texas Power Grid run by ERCOT, and you can actually see it.
	You go to ERCOT.com.
	That's ercot.com.
	Let me bring it up.
	ERCOT.com.
	Okay.
	And it's telling me right now, 12,576 megawatts.
	And it's all green.
	It says normal conditions.
	Okay, great.
	And it shows me curves of wind and solar.
	And of course, those curves are flat at night.
	You would think that they would have realized that before they put all that money into wind and solar.
	You mean it doesn't work at night?
	We are truly living in idiocracy.
	But, okay, so right now, as I'm recording this, Texas is using 12,500 megawatts.
	That's not even a gigawatt.
	So what's the total...
	What's the total capacity of the Texas power grid?
	How about that?
	All right, so looking up that question, It says the total maximum capacity, including wind and solar, nuclear, gas, everything, coal, all of it together, if everything's running, is 154,000 megawatts.
	Let's just call that 10 times the current load, but I'm recording this after midnight, so electricity usage is very low right now.
	So there's a limit.
	It's 154,000 megawatts.
	That's everything together.
	And of course, you can never get all that at the same time because some of it's solar, some of it's wind.
	Okay.
	So you start plopping down AI data centers, and one AI data center can use like 50 megawatts, you know, if it's large enough.
	And then boom, there goes what?
	There goes like one-third of your total grid.
	That would be a big data center, I get it, but this is the kind of scale we're talking about here.
	So the Texas power grid, I mean, if you build a trillion dollars worth of data centers, you're going to blow through that 154,000 megawatts very quickly.
	You're going to blow right through it.
	And then you're going to leave Texas in the same situation as the East Coast, the Eastern power grid, which is where they say, well, you know, somebody's got to get turned off here.
	We've got to either turn off the people's houses or we've got to turn off the factories or the hospitals or the data centers.
	Like, there's going to be a blackout.
	The question is just who?
	And you know the answer to that.
	You know the answer.
	It's going to be us, isn't it?
	It's going to be the residential units because they're always going to say everything else is more important, especially the AI data centers when we're in the middle of this AI arms race.
	So that's where this is going.
	They're going to build the data centers.
	They're going to suck up all our power and then they're going to turn us off.
	And you're going to be living in third world conditions, sweltering in your house in the middle of summer with no air conditioning.
	You can't charge your electric car.
	Another reason to have a diesel vehicle, like I've always said.
	Remember, if you store diesel, get a diesel generator and get a diesel truck, you're mobile and you can generate power.
	You're doing okay.
	And I did the math on this, generating power with a diesel generator.
	It is more expensive than grid power, but not tremendously more expensive.
	And as grid power costs go up, you know, the generator power burning diesel is going to be relatively, you know, less expensive.
	So what you're going to end up with here is where people in China are going to have air conditioning and, you know, electric cars and electric stoves and computers and Bitcoin mining, although that's illegal in China.
	And the people in the U.S. are going to be living in third world conditions.
	Told we have to sacrifice because of the AI arms race.
	It's national security.
	The power is needed for the data centers, you see.
	Good luck.
	And then there'll be a run on diesel generators.
	And then people will realize you're going to have to have a switch, a power control panel and switches and big cables to connect your generator to your home.
	And then the copper cost is going to be through the roof because Trump just put 50% tariffs on copper.
	And that's going to put it out of the price reach of most Americans.
	Most Americans will not be able to afford to run their homes on diesel generators.
	And the problem with diesel generators, like any diesel engine or gas engine, you have to change the oil filters every few hundred hours.
	Typically, that's a 500-hour service routine on a diesel engine.
	That varies on gas engines, but there's maintenance.
	There's a belt that runs the cooling fan.
	You're going to have to do some maintenance.
	These things don't just run non-stop forever.
	Now you have to be your own power plant.
	And trust me, because I've been in that situation.
	And like my ranch, I could power my ranch with a diesel generator.
	But it's effort.
	It's not effortless.
	It takes effort to do that.
	And most people just are not equipped to do that.
	I parked a 500-gallon diesel tank right next to the generator.
	So I can just pump the fuel right in there.
	And I did the math, 500 gallons, it'll last however many weeks or whatever.
	Most people don't have a 500-gallon diesel tank.
	They're going to run to the gas station and get like five gallons of diesel.
	They're going to put that in their generators.
	How long is that going to run?
	Not very long.
	Especially if you're using hair dryers and other high current devices, you know, like Bitcoin mining.
	You don't want a Bitcoin mine on a diesel generator, that's for sure.
	So the White House is living in a fairy tale land when it comes to power and even semiconductor manufacturing and frankly manufacturing everything.
	You can't print terawatt hours.
	You could talk about it, but you can't print it.
	So you're literally going to have to build infrastructure and this is going to take decades to achieve.
	Decades.
	And frankly, a lot of the key decisions or mistakes were made decades ago.
	For example, the United States government and military rejecting thorium-based power plants for nuclear power using thorium.
	A molten salt reactor experiment, the MSRE, that was built at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the 1960s, and it demonstrated the feasibility of thorium power plants.
	They're safer.
	They produce more energy for the footprint.
	They can't have a meltdown.
	And they have a lot less nuclear waste.
	The thing is, they don't produce material that can be used to build nuclear weapons.
	So that's why the government moved away from thorium nuclear power plants, making a decision that is still impacting us to this day.
	In other words, our infrastructure has been sabotaged by our own government.
	And then the left-wing climate lunatics came along and said, well, you can't have any power at all.
	All power is bad, they said.
	And the Democrats went along with that.
	Yeah, shut it all down.
	No more pipelines.
	No more energy exploration.
	No nukes either.
	And no nuclear power.
	Nothing.
	All power is bad.
	Live like cavemen.
	And a lot of people bought into that.
	And all of Western Europe bought into that.
	That's why the EU is toast.
	The EU will cease to exist before much longer.
	And the U.S. was really crippled by this.
	So this existential mistake has been made.
	And some elements of this mistake were made decades ago.
	It's too late.
	You can't turn this around now.
	Unless you can pull zero-point energy out of your ass and suddenly bring it online and start producing terawatt hours of power from little magical cubes or whatever, then you're toast.
	You're done.
	You're too late.
	So the conclusion of this report is that while Trump says all kinds of imaginary things, like we're going to maintain dollar dominance, we have to.
	The world is not going to switch to bricks.
	We're going to be the reserve currency.
	Okay, you can say that, but you can't make it happen.
	And he also says, we're going to achieve AI dominance.
	Okay, how?
	You're going to have to build a boatload of power plants.
	And if you look at the timeline, it's too late.
	You're 15 years too late.
	So no, you're actually not going to achieve AI dominance.
	Trump says, we're going to defeat Russia.
	Or maybe he didn't say that directly, but Joe Biden certainly thought that.
	Lindsey Graham thinks that.
	But they're all wrong.
	No, you're not going to defeat Russia.
	How?
	How are you going to defeat Russia?
	How are you going to do it?
	What is your actual cause and effect plan in the real world, in the 3D physical world?
	How are you going to make that happen?
	You can't.
	Because all you can do as the dying chapter of this corrupt empire known as the United States of America, all you can do at this point is print currency and spin lies.
	You can announce a bunch of stuff that will never happen.
	And you can print a bunch of currency that will never have value in the long run.
	You can weave a bunch of stories and issue press releases, but you can't actually build the infrastructure that's necessary to achieve these promises that you're making.
	You can't do it because you don't have magical powers.
	And instead of investing in energy technology domestically, the U.S. sent money to Israel and money to Ukraine and wasted billions on this and trillions on that, just blew through what, now, $37 trillion in national debt, never invested in the technology for energy abundance.
	Never.
	In fact, abandoned the thorium power plant idea.
	And now here we are.
	We are living in the result of a series of piss-poor decisions that have been made by Trump and Biden and Obama and the Bushes and the Clintons and the whole long slew of these people, even Reagan and Carter and all of them, have led to this situation where we are now.
	We've lost the race.
	We've lost the race for energy dominance.
	We've lost the race for military dominance.
	We've lost the race for AI dominance.
	And we've lost the race for currency dominance.
	All of them, we've lost.
	Now it's just a question of what this collapse looks like, really.
	And in the bigger picture here, the West has lost.
	Western civilization has lost the race.
	So you fast forward to 2050, the United States of America no longer exists.
	Western Europe, the EU no longer exists as currently structured.
	NATO, long gone.
	The dominant civilizations on the planet, well, obviously China, Russia.
	There will still be something in North America, but it won't be called the United States of America.
	It won't be using the dollar.
	And it'll be mostly a third world country that exports rice and corn.
	It'll be an agrarian society with a hollowed out industrial base that will probably have to negotiate terms of surrender to China.
	And those terms would likely include China being able to tap into a percentage of all of the food produced in North America to help feed the Chinese populations.
	So don't be surprised when the U.S. has to negotiate terms of surrender to China, because that's exactly where this is headed.
	I mean, if you're wondering, what does that look like?
	It should be almost self-evident that once the superintelligence milestone is achieved, the first thing China says to the superintelligence is go out and hack the bejesus out of all critical infrastructure of all of our enemy nations, shut them all down by any means, and then tell them to surrender if they want their power grids to be turned back on.
	And then the superintelligent system, it multiplies itself into a billion agents, and every agent goes out and finds a way through social engineering or voice print simulation or hacking, guessing passwords, whatever.
	It gets into every system, you know, every power company, every nuclear power plant, everything, every transmission system in America and elsewhere, and shuts it all down.
	And one day you wake up, the power grid's just gone, completely gone.
	Your president has no idea what happened.
	They issue some kind of warning, but nobody hears it because there's no power.
	And then China says, yeah, we did it.
	Actually, we did it with the help of our engine over here.
	We're going to call it Henry or whatever.
	Henry the superintelligence.
	Henry shut it all down, and Henry says that he'd be happy to turn it back on.
	All you have to do is agree to the following terms of total surrender.
	And here they are.
	One, you withdraw your navy from the whole world.
	Two, you know, you abandon the use of the dollar and you use the BRICS currency.
	Three, you let us have half your food output every year from now on.
	Four, you give up any defense of Taiwan, you know, five, six, seven, eight, whatever.
	You pay us back all the money that we lost through Trump's tariffs, you know, on and on and on.
	And for every day that the U.S. doesn't agree to the surrender, Henry just says, oh, enjoy the lights going out again.
	You know, have fun with your backyard barbecue because you got no power.
	No power at all.
	Whole country gone.
	And how long can the U.S. survive that?
	Not very long.
	A total anarchy within hours in the cities and then days even in rural areas.
	The country couldn't survive even 90 days in those conditions and the government would surrender to China.
	That's how it can happen.
	Notice that it doesn't have to be a single shot fired.
	No missiles, no soldiers, no drones, no robots, no Terminators, nothing.
	Just a cyber takedown.
	A super intelligent AI system with a cyber takedown.
	That's all it takes.
	Yeah.
	The quiet war.
	But if it does go kinetic, China's going to mass produce all the drones.
	The drone squirrels, the exploding squirrels, the drone doggy soldiers, the drone terminators, the drones that fly and kill people, the hunter-killer drones, the thermal drones, you know, every kind of drone you can imagine, who's going to mass produce it?
	China.
	Why?
	Because that's where the whole supply chain is, the entire infrastructure, all the neodymium for all the magnets and all the actuators, all the rare earths, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
	And the power to run the factories, to build the robots, et cetera, et cetera.
	Need I go on?
	The U.S. has none of that.
	The U.S. is playing around with toy drones with the U.S. Army.
	Toy drones.
	Oh, look, we know how to drop a grenade.
	Isn't drone warfare amazing?
	And everybody saw that posted by the U.S. Army, and they were like, what the hell?
	Are you that far behind that you're just now figuring out how to drop grenades from drones?
	Oh my God.
	It's worse than we thought.
	The U.S. Army is just figuring out how to drop a grenade from a drone.
	You do know they've been doing that in Ukraine since the war started, right?
	My goodness.
	It's a clown show.
	You know, meanwhile, China's doing like flying red dragons in the night sky with 10,000 coordinated drones that are amazing, demonstrating drone swarm technology that's obviously militarized, weaponized.
	I mean, China will just roll up a ship a couple miles offshore, open up the top of the containers, and out fly like a million drones.
	You know?
	And then what do they hit?
	Whatever they want, because there's no air defense.
	Million drones popping up out of the containers.
	There's nothing that the U.S. can do to stop it.
	Not a single thing.
	So bottom line, look, enjoy the Truman show, folks.
	Enjoy the movie because you're watching a movie and it doesn't have a great ending for America.
	It's a drama with some comedy, some satire, a little bit of violence here and there.
	And it ends with the end of the U.S. Empire and the collapse of the dollar and the collapse of Washington, D.C., etc.
	I don't know when that happens, but it won't be more than a few years away at this point.
	I mean, I'm not wishing this upon America, don't get me wrong.
	But I know, I know exactly where this is going because I've been observing this situation for 25 years now.
	And I know that, like myself, I'm one of the tech innovators in America.
	You know, in a previous generation, it's guys like me that would have been tapped by the government to innovate for the country and to keep us ahead.
	But now I am censored and deplatformed, you know, and smeared and shut down because the United States empire doesn't want innovation.
	It wants obedience.
	It wants people that it can control and enslave, not people who can set us free with knowledge and innovation and real technology, etc.
	That's why I've had to build all my own platforms like Bryteon.social, Brighteon.com, Bryteon.ai, etc.
	I've had to build them all myself and release them independently despite what the government wants.
	The government doesn't want innovation because we're living in some weird combination of idiocracy and a suicide cult.
	And the end result is, we will not have a nation remaining much longer.
	America's number one export is debt and a sickening culture, demonic culture.
	So, the answer to surviving this, it's the same as I've been saying for years.
	You want to survive the financial collapse?
	Get gold and silver.
	You want to survive the collapse of the cities?
	Get out of the cities.
	Live in the country, get off-grid.
	You want to survive the collapse of the grid?
	You need to get out in the country and set up a backup diesel generator with a big diesel tank.
	Or have a bunch of solar panels that are not grid-tied.
	You need a totally off-grid solar system with batteries, but the battery technology sucks.
	So that's not very viable, actually, right now.
	I've looked into it.
	Doesn't work economically.
	That's why I went with diesel.
	So batteries suck.
	I mean, but if you want to survive this, get off-grid as much as you can.
	And, you know, again, check out our various sponsors that have solutions for these kinds of things, obviously for gold and silver.
	Check out metalswithmike.com.
	That'll take you to battalion metals.
	For the backup solar generators, our satellite phone store sponsor, be ready123.com.
	They've got those.
	For larger scale diesel generators, you'll have to do some research.
	You're going to have to hire an electrician and get a big transfer switch and tie it all in.
	I will tell you that if you get a diesel tank, make sure you get 500 gallons because most of the local diesel delivery companies, they won't deliver for less than 500 gallons.
	And then make sure you have a UL-listed double-walled tank with all the venting safety features that are required by law.
	You don't want to just throw diesel or certainly not gasoline into any container that can't vent.
	That's a recipe for bad explosions and things.
	So be safe with this.
	You know, get it professionally made and installed, etc.
	And I know it takes money.
	I know all this costs a lot of money to do, but this is where it's headed.
	You're not going to have a reliable power grid.
	You're not going to have a reliable food supply.
	You're not going to have a reliable currency.
	Yeah.
	I mean, on and on.
	All of this is happening at once.
	I get it.
	It's a lot, but this is what's happening.
	So do the best you can with what you have.
	And if I can be of help to you through all of my free online materials, please use it.
	But I'll say, look, if you've already listened to my online audio books like survivalnutrition.com, you can download the whole book for free.
	Or resilientprepping.com is probably even more appropriate for all of this.
	If that's not enough, just use our free AI engine because our AI engine at brighteon.ai, it's been trained on off-grid living and survival and food production and self-reliance and all that stuff, emergency medicine, all of it.
	All you have to do is ask it questions and it'll give you very good answers most of the time.
	Currently, about nine out of ten times, it's a great answer.
	One out of ten, it sucks.
	One out of ten times, it's retarded.
	Nine out of ten, it's awesome.
	That's just the best we could do for now.
	We're still working on it.
	But take advantage of these tools, and you can make it through whatever's coming.
	You can.
	You might not end up living in the United States of America.
	You might be living in something totally different, like the Republic of Texas or the Republic of Florida.
	For those of you in Florida, you're not going to be in the United States.
	You're going to be in Florida.
	You get the point.
	This is all going to be reshuffled here in the next few years.
	No question about it.
	So be prepared and check out all of my interviews and podcasts at Brighteon.com.
	I will keep broadcasting as long as we are able.
	At least as long as I think I've got something to contribute.
	And so far, that's still the case.
	So we'll see where we go from here.
	And thank you for listening today.
	I'm Mike Adams, the Health Ranger.
	Take care.
	Welcome, everybody, to today's interview here in the studio.
	Joining me, a man who really needs no introduction, but he's got a new nickname, which is Mr. Gold.
	But you know him as Bill Holter.
	He joins me in the studio today.
	Welcome, Bill.
	Thanks for having me.
	Hey, Mr. Gold, where did that nickname come from?
	Well, I worked for years with Jim, and about a year before, year, year and a half before he died, he bestowed it upon me.
	Wow.
	Jim was a great guy.
	Yeah.
	Jim was an interesting guy.
	Yeah, yeah.
	You knew him.
	You knew him very well.
	Oh, yeah.
	Now your website is billholter.com.
	Right.
	And I see you doing a lot of interviews, very, very outspoken.
	And I agree with everything that you've said that I've seen.
	That's scary.
	I know, isn't it?
	I'm like, Bill says it the way that I want to say it, but I don't dare say it exactly that way.
	Well, see, I don't care because I don't have a boss.
	That's true, yeah.
	And my father has long passed away, so you can't tell my boss and you can't tell my daddy.
	So I just tell it like I see it.
	Well, let's start out with that then.
	How screwed exactly are we in America with the dollar situation?
	I mean, how is it even still there?
	Well, it's still there because of the U.S. military.
	Yeah.
	But when you ask how screwed, the true answer is mathematically screwed.
	The dollar, obviously, a fiat currency, which makes the Treasury bonds fiat by nature.
	And the U.S. Treasuries, they support everything.
	They are the foundation for the world's financial system.
	Go back 100 years ago or even less, 80 years ago, or you could even say before 1971, that gold was the foundation to the world's financial system.
	And by Nixon coming off the gold standard, so now there's no more connection between the dollar and gold or gold and U.S. treasuries, the foundation is quicksand.
	And these buildings, if you want to call them buildings, they just keep building taller and taller and taller, and it's on a sand foundation.
	And I guess to explain the math part, the debt can never be repaid in current terms.
	That's the bottom line.
	Let's just jump right into the question of the theory that the federal government could revalue gold at some number, $15,000, $20,000, $25,000, and then use that to try to pay down a few trillion dollars in debt, at least on the balance sheets.
	But that would give the Federal Reserve actually a claim of ownership of the gold of the country.
	So it's kind of a gold heist by the international bankers, isn't it?
	It may already have been a gold heist because we've not had an audit since 1956.
	It's claimed we have, what, 260 million ounces of gold or something like that?
	Do you think we really have that?
	No way.
	No way.
	I mean, you go back to 1996 when it was clear.
	And I used to talk to, I don't know if you remember Harry Bingham.
	He was the money manager for international investors.
	The very first guy to manage a billion dollars on planet Earth.
	Oh, wow.
	Yeah, it was the gold international investors fund.
	And we would talk two, three times a week back in the early, mid-90s.
	And then we started to see when obvious gold bullish news would hit, they'd knock gold down $6, which sounds like nothing, but that was 2% at the time.
	And it goes back to Robert Rubin's strong dollar policy.
	And the only thing we could figure, and this was before GATA, the only thing we could figure was that the leases that were being created by producers, and we also know that now that there were leases being created by central banks that held gold, it was that gold that was used to tamp the price down.
	Then Gata came along and they've got just pages and pages and pages of evidence that, what's the word, behind the scenes, gold has been moved to tamp the price down.
	But it's been rehypothecated multiple times probably in the process.
	Well, what used to be rehypothecated has now been rehypothecated again and again and again.
	Hyper-hypothecated.
	Yeah, to the point where 300 paper ounces are backed by one real ounce.
	So if you're talking about a game of musical chairs, when the day comes that investors demand delivery, good luck.
	Right.
	But just a follow-up question on that, Bill.
	Do you think that Besent and Lutnik and Trump are sort of desperate enough to try something like a gold revaluation domestically?
	I mean, is that in the cards?
	I think that probably is in the cards.
	I think they also know that we don't have the gold that we've said we have since 1971.
	And it kind of goes back to where our thought process was that there would be at least two resets.
	The first one man-made and the second one, Mother Nature.
	The first one man-made will fail because it's still going to be a fiat currency.
	And that's, I think, going to be an effort to try to save dollar hegemony, to save the dollar as king.
	The world's not going to go for it.
	I mean, it's pretty clear.
	You've got over 100 nations now.
	Over half the world wants to be a part of BRICS, which means they want to be not a part of the U.S. dollar.
	Right.
	I mean, can you blame them because of all the weaponization of the tariffs and everything?
	Right.
	I mean, we put our boot on their throat financially continually.
	And I think that will lead to a Mother Nature reset or a rebellion worldwide, if you will.
	When I say rebellion, rebelling against that reset to get a real reset.
	Meaning, the first reset could be $10,000, $15,000, $25,000, $50,000 gold.
	Who knows?
	The math is if the gold that we supposedly have were to go to back the on-books, not the off-books, not all the debt, but just the on-books debt, the $37 trillion, you'd have to have a number of $135,000 plus per ounce.
	So if we try to foist $25,000 or $50,000 on the world, I don't think that's going to do it.
	He who owns the gold makes the rules, and the Chinese own the gold.
	See, I'm glad you mentioned that because if this revaluation effort takes place, I mean, the thought occurred to me the other day, wouldn't that just be making China incredibly wealthy and all the other central banks and some of those banks, as you know, right, and Russia.
	And some of the banks are buying gold and silver directly from the mines, as you know.
	So we don't even, that's not on the COMAX.
	We don't know those numbers.
	But China, then China could, I mean, they would be able to command our currency with their gold.
	That's correct.
	Yeah.
	So we're, you know, we're damned if we do, damned if we don't.
	Well, and the scary thing is, China is not aligned with the United States.
	So we'll put hurt on the United States.
	I mean, their action is not going to be to try to smooth the wound.
	No.
	They'll be picking the scab if it's even scabbed up.
	Well, and China has threatened, sorry, Trump has threatened China, as he says, with another 100% tariff because China purchases energy from Russia.
	So the secondary tariffs, which is also going to threaten India, a major U.S. trading partner and ally, it's going to threaten the EU, which is already hurting for energy because of Nord Stream.
	It's going to threaten Turkey.
	It's going to threaten Brazil.
	I mean, like 40-something days away than Trump says is going to hit the secondary tariffs?
	Well, understand this.
	This is something that I had talked about a dozen years ago.
	China was starting to, and now they've built up a huge debt bubble.
	China has a debt problem, a real estate problem.
	But China built things.
	They built cities.
	They built airports.
	They built railways.
	They built infrastructure.
	Shipping ports all over the world.
	They built infrastructure with that debt.
	What did we do?
	We basically have eaten off of it.
	And our infrastructure is crumbling.
	So if you get a debt collapse now, China goes, oh, well, okay, so it's gone.
	But they still have the infrastructure.
	And we say, oh, okay, it's gone.
	We don't eat anymore.
	I mean, it's just, it's the debt problem is going to, in my opinion, will hurt the U.S. far worse than anywhere else in the world.
	Is there any solution that the Trump administration can manage?
	I mean, we've got to talk about stable coins, the Genius Act, but the stable coins are backed by Treasury debt.
	Right.
	So they're not stable.
	They're unstable coins.
	Right.
	It's still fiat.
	It's still fiat.
	Yes.
	By nothing other than the full faith and credit of an insolvent treasury.
	Who's dumb enough to buy stable coins and hold them when they can't go up ever?
	They're only going to go down because they're tied to the dollar.
	Right.
	I don't have an answer for that.
	But why are they thinking that stable coins is going to allow the treasury to sell trillions of dollars of debt to the stablecoin market?
	There's not going to be trillions of dollars of stablecoins.
	Well, let's assume that there is.
	Okay.
	It's still nothing.
	It's just more of nothing.
	It's just a tokenization of debt.
	Right.
	It's a perfect accounting system.
	That's my thing with Bitcoin, with cryptocurrencies.
	What are they?
	My belief is when all said and done, we're going to find out that Bitcoin and all the other cryptos are digital air.
	And the blockchain is a perfect, perfect accounting system of digital air.
	Now, the perfect accounting system, the ledger, there you go, central bank digital currency.
	So they can track everything you do.
	And we get into that world.
	And I assure you, you and I will not be doing interviews like this.
	We'll be, you know, if, well, maybe not you because you produce food.
	But the people that get shut off, they're going to be digging in dumpsters looking for food because all their money's gone.
	They can shut people off.
	Look what happened in Canada during the COVID with the truck.
	Trucker convoy, yeah.
	Just look at that.
	And that they had to manually go to this bank.
	Okay, shut these people off.
	That's right.
	Go to another bank, shut these people off.
	Shut these people off.
	Whereas with a central bank digital currency, just one switch and it's done.
	Well, that's the thing about the Genius Act is that the stable coins that are going to be created by, let's say, JPMorgan have to be compliant with anti-money laundering, AML, and KYC, know your customer.
	Right.
	Which means that the government's just going to hand JPMorgan a list of who to shut down.
	Right.
	Exactly.
	Of course they are.
	Exactly.
	And of course we're going to be on that list.
	And that's why you absolutely have to have metal outside of the state.
	Yes.
	And it's a good time to mention, you help people get metal.
	Yes.
	So billholter.com, what are you offering there that people can take advantage of with you?
	I can help you with buying metal, gold, silver, any type of precious metal, selling it, storing it, transporting it, anything to do with gold or silver, platinum, palladium, I can help.
	And let me just mention that we've got a pretty big move recently in platinum.
	Oh, yeah.
	But just understand that platinum and palladium are industrial metals.
	They're not precious metals.
	They're quasi-precious metals.
	Whereas gold is 99% precious metal.
	It's money.
	Silver is half-precious metal, half industrial metal.
	But with silver, there's so many uses for it now.
	The demand has just exploded.
	And the data centers that are going to be built use loads of silver.
	Right.
	It can't be built without silver.
	Yeah, not even.
	And just for our audience to know, I always invite you on because I value your knowledge and your experience.
	And we don't have a financial relationship.
	Not at all.
	This is not a paid promotion at all.
	But as a courtesy, I always plug my guests and what you do.
	So let me ask you a follow-up question then.
	Do you handle, I guess you handle like all the all the major world mints if someone wants South African or Canadian or whatever, gold or silver, all that kind of stuff, right?
	Bars and coins, both?
	Yeah, and as an American, and we've said this for many years now, as an American, you want U.S. mint lineage coin.
	You want Eagles.
	You want pre-1933 gold.
	You want junk silver.
	You want something that came from the U.S. Mint because, I mean, Trump could write an executive order tomorrow morning that says you can't hold gold or silver bullion, meaning bars, maple leafs, Krugerands, you know, foreign coin.
	But if it was U.S. Mint lineage, how can the Mint sell you an eagle today and then next week come back and say, but you have to sell it back?
	There'd be lawsuits for years.
	Yeah, for sure.
	But the government did that before.
	But gold was in circulation.
	They took it out of circulation.
	Oh, they took it out of circulation.
	Gold's not in circulation.
	It gets sold from the Mint to private investors.
	And when the private investor puts his money up, there has to be some type of thought process behind that that they can't come back and tell me, I have to sell it back to them.
	Right.
	At a discount.
	Right.
	Well, for a piece of paper.
	Because that's what they'll do is they'll give you script.
	Yeah.
	No, I'm never selling my gold to the government.
	Come and take it.
	At any price.
	Yeah.
	This is Texas.
	Come and take it.
	Exactly.
	So, okay.
	I've believed for a number of years now, and of course I've been influenced by your work as well, that as all of this unfolds, there will be no middle class remaining.
	There are really only going to be the wealthy, who are people who stack precious metals.
	And then there's going to be the impoverished, which is people who just held dollars.
	Now, as far as crypto, I don't know what's going to happen with crypto either.
	And my concern is that Tether is a stablecoin backed by the dollar debt, and Tether is being used to buy Bitcoin.
	So the Bitcoin price is pumped up by Tether that has not subjected itself to any legitimate audit.
	And so if the U.S. Treasury debt collapses, does Tether collapse?
	And if Tether collapses, what happens to the Bitcoin price?
	See, that's my, you know, it's like, well, that's not my first rodeo.
	When I say a Bitcoin, what is it?
	That's what I'm getting at.
	Yeah.
	Right.
	What is it actually?
	What is underneath it?
	What is its value?
	Yeah, it's only in its utility.
	That you can send it.
	Right.
	That, you know, it's fast, it's borderless, it's divisible, those kinds of things.
	But underneath that, there isn't anything.
	Well, and if you think back over the years, the story has changed so many times.
	Oh, yeah.
	Now it's digital gold.
	Right.
	Now it's digital gold.
	I remember when it was going to be digital cash.
	Well, at first.
	It couldn't be tracked.
	Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	It was anonymous.
	Right.
	You know, you get to do this, you get to do that, and it's anonymous.
	Nobody knows you're doing it.
	Right.
	There's a ledger.
	Yeah, it's all transparent.
	And every time they, every theme that they came up with got busted and then on to another one.
	True.
	But when they say it's digital gold, I mean, look, I'm not anti-crypto for its utility.
	Right.
	But I've always had an issue with them saying it's digital gold because the thing that makes gold gold is that it's physical and real and it can't be altered except in exploding stars.
	Yeah, and it represents labor, capital, and equipment already used to make that coin, to make that bar or whatever.
	Right.
	It's proof.
	And you don't need a password to access your gold.
	No.
	And gold has thousands of years of recognition in every culture on earth, even cultures that don't know anything about modern money.
	They still love gold.
	Why?
	It's beautiful.
	There's something about it.
	Even in ancient cultures.
	It's God's money.
	God's money.
	And look at cultures like in Thailand or Japan or many Middle Eastern nations or South America.
	They wear their family wealth or India.
	That's the big one.
	Exactly.
	They accumulate gold as the family wealth.
	Right.
	And they'll wear it sometimes.
	And the only way to lose it is to have it stolen.
	Right.
	Okay.
	So I'm wondering, are you seeing, when you have conversations with your potential customers, are you seeing the same people buying more?
	Or are you seeing new people that are suddenly realizing the things we're talking about?
	I'm going to say until November, December of last year, it was existing people calling me to buy more.
	It was new people to buy.
	I can tell you from just before Christmas time until now, I have seen more sellbacks in that seven or eight months than I did in the previous 15 years combined.
	Wait, sellbacks?
	Sellback.
	Clients sell.
	People unloading their metal.
	There's no money on the streets.
	People need money.
	Oh.
	That is, without a doubt, that is the theme right now.
	Really?
	Is that North America is a seller, not a buyer, for retail.
	Wow.
	But even then, the price keeps climbing.
	Because you've got institutions and you've got central banks and you've got big hedge fund money buying tons at a time.
	And you're talking $100 million trade.
	I think if I sold gold right now, I would really regret that for my life.
	Where would you put the money?
	I know.
	What would you do with it?
	There is no other place to put it that has the characteristics, the safety of gold.
	But unfortunately, as I mentioned, you've got mom and pop are sellers because we're running out of money.
	I mean, there's little money on the streets.
	So sometimes people call you and they want to sell a bunch of members.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	Yeah.
	Wow.
	I mean, in a normal year prior to this year, I might get 10 sellbacks a year, something like that.
	And I'll bet you so far this year, I've already had 100 sales.
	Wow.
	And do they tell you why they need the money?
	Yeah, a lot of them have told me I need to raise cash.
	Some people have sold and are looking to buy property, which I don't think is advisable.
	Because when all is said and done, everything, the stock market, real estate, you name it, is going to deflate versus one ounce of gold.
	Yeah.
	All right.
	Now, so the big action in metals over the last few months has been really silver percentage-wise.
	Right.
	Silver was lagging behind gold for a long time here.
	And in fact, a lot of people got really bored with silver and like impatient.
	Oh, yeah.
	I don't watch the market every day, so I don't care.
	I'm just like, just stack it at any price.
	It's always going to be worth it.
	That's been my philosophy.
	Never regretted that.
	I've never looked back and said I overpaid, actually.
	Never.
	Just buy a little bit every couple of months, you know?
	But now silver is at 39 spot.
	It's over 39 spot.
	According to the people that I've heard on this, including you, that's a major breakout.
	This is not a little thing.
	What does this mean?
	And also, isn't the physical supply of silver domestically just about wiped out?
	Not just domestically, but worldwide.
	Worldwide.
	We can get into that.
	Yeah, silver two or three years ago traded up to 30 bucks and then chopped in the mid-low 20s for six months to a year.
	It broke out over 30, broke to 35, then it chopped, traded between 28 and 34-ish.
	Now we've broken over 35.
	There's really, from here, there's really little resistance to 50 bucks.
	So that's where the big battle's going to be fought.
	Really, at 50?
	At $50.
	And that battle is going to be lost.
	Silver is going to go through $50.
	And the reason being, if you look at, as I mentioned, the world is in a structural deficit.
	Produces about 850 million ounces per year.
	Then you've got whatever scrap recycling on top of that.
	But the world is using 1.2, 1.3 billion ounces per year.
	So you're talking 400, 400, 500 million ounce deficit per year.
	And this is now the fifth year.
	And where is that deficit coming from?
	Well, it's been coming from originally years and years ago, it came from the Manhattan Project.
	But I mean, when there's that much demand, where are people finding the excess silver?
	You're seeing silver being bled out of ETFs.
	Remember, ETFs, just look at their prospectus.
	They don't have to have an ounce of silver for every share.
	That's right.
	They can have contracts.
	They don't even have to hold one physical ounce by prospectus.
	So what they've done is they've replaced physical metal with contracts, which according to accountants are perfectly fine.
	Now, the problem is when you get a delivery cycle, I mean, this past month on Comex was over 50 million ounces delivered.
	If they did that every month, that's 600 million ounces.
	That takes up almost all.
	Wait, wait, in one month it was 50 million ounces delivered?
	I have never heard of that high of a delivery rate.
	That's the second highest delivery month, I think, ever.
	Wow.
	But if you look at lease rates, and lease rates are really important because everything's re-hypothecated.
	Right.
	This is the interest that people pay to lease it, to borrow it in order to meet their physical obligation.
	Right.
	The lease rate on silver now is over 7%.
	Wow.
	And it should be 2%.
	Yeah.
	The margin rate on SLV is over 12%, and there's no shares.
	As of two days ago, there was no shares available to borrow.
	So that tells me that somebody's panicking to get the silver that they need to meet their obligations.
	Exactly.
	I mean, look at it.
	If you're a, let's say you're a solar panel company.
	How do you make solar panels without silver?
	Right.
	You're out of business.
	Or cruise missiles.
	A monster box in every tip.
	Yeah, right.
	Or data centers.
	Right.
	Or medical electronics or anything.
	The data centers, because of the build out now, that's putting additional pressure.
	It's making the failure to deliver.
	Remember we've talked about that before.
	Failure to deliver will be what sets the entire paper world on fire because it proves fraud.
	Yeah, clearly.
	It proves they are way over-leveraged.
	And this, you know, it's a game of musical chairs here, right?
	And there's not enough chairs.
	But I don't know about you, Bill, but even if, you know, I've been stacking silver for 30 years, right?
	The government came to me and said, right now, I'll give you $100 an ounce for every ounce of silver.
	I'd say no.
	Have a nice day.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Are you kidding me?
	Yeah, and get off my property.
	Yeah, but I mean, I'm not, no.
	Whatever price they say, makes me want to keep it more.
	Right, exactly.
	It's like, I don't want your dollars.
	I'm probably not the only one with that attitude.
	The only way you could do that is if you knew you had a source where you could take that $100 and rebuy it tomorrow morning.
	There's nothing else that I need more than metals.
	I mean, you see the construction here.
	We put a bunch of money into concrete and buildings.
	So I did spend like three-quarters of a million dollars on concrete and foundations and buildings and stuff.
	Right, right.
	Okay, I get that.
	That's investing in your own business.
	Right.
	Aside from that, what am I going to do with dollars?
	Right.
	Where are you going to save?
	If you want to save money, where are you going to save it?
	You're going to put it into a bank that the bank can fail.
	FDI is not going to pay.
	No way.
	And it's in dollars.
	I'm trying to get it out of the bank.
	Exactly.
	Exactly.
	So paint for us, if you would, the picture of when this silver, I don't know what you want to call it.
	failure to deliver time bomb, whatever you want to call it.
	When this time bomb detonates, what happens next?
	Okay.
	My thought has always been, and when I say always, probably for the last 10, 15 years, my thought has been that silver would be the one to blow up before gold.
	And the reason being, central banks don't have silver.
	Central banks do have gold.
	So they could ship gold and cover it and meet the delivery.
	And then if there's a slack period, they could get their gold back later on the sly.
	That can't be done with silver.
	The other thing is, silver is such a small market.
	If you take all the production, 850 million ounces, you're looking at what?
	$30 billion, roughly.
	Total.
	That's what the world produces in silver, roughly $30 billion a year.
	Even now, I mean, a year, two years ago, the number was $25 billion.
	I didn't realize it was that small.
	It's nothing.
	It's teeny tiny.
	I mean, theoretically, you could have a Warren Buffett or some billionaire corner the market again, like the Hunt Brothers and write a check to do it.
	Right.
	That's how small silver is.
	Now, when silver does fail to deliver, would you not think that gold will also immediately explode?
	Probably would.
	I mean, you might have three seconds before somebody goes, oh, I got to buy gold.
	Right.
	Right.
	So silver, I've always said, is the blasting cap.
	But failure to deliver, what would failure to deliver even look like?
	Because in London, they would just make excuses.
	Our forklifts are too slow, like they did with gold.
	It's going to be eight weeks on delivery.
	I mean, what does that failure look like?
	They will be so overwhelmed that any excuse will be laughable.
	Because silver will be moving $5, $10, $25 per day under that scenario.
	Man, think about the human being.
	Humans want, if they're told they can't have something, they want it even more.
	Yeah, true.
	So you'll have a stampede into silver and seeing that fail to deliver, then you're going to have a stampede into gold.
	Contract holders saying, hey, wait a minute, it happened in silver.
	I want my gold.
	And when there's not enough silver, there's not enough gold to deliver for all these contracts outstanding, you have failure of the system.
	Jim Sinclair used to say all the time, what is the value of a contract that cannot perform?
	He answers.
	Zero.
	Right.
	And that's.
	Country party risk right there.
	He theorized, he said, I could absolutely see gold offered at $10 per ounce on Comex, no bid.
	And gold bid in the cash markets, $50,000 per ounce and no offer.
	None available.
	And that's what it will look like.
	Now, we're talking strictly finance.
	Right.
	I think it's more important to talk about society.
	Let's do that.
	Because what's society going to look like?
	All right, so let's tackle that part of the conversation.
	When the dollar, I mean, people are already experiencing the dollar losing its purchasing power at an accelerated rate.
	That's going to accelerate much more rapidly.
	Yeah, we're going to get to the point where we have a currency slash credit crisis.
	What happens to all the people out there who are barely making it financially right now, barely can pay rent or a mortgage, and they don't have gold and silver, they don't own anything, and then their dollar becomes worthless.
	They're done.
	They have nothing to fall back on.
	What does society look like?
	I mean, are we talking about cities turning into Mad Max?
	Mad Max.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	And I mean, I was laughed at 10 years ago.
	I wrote an article talking about, you know, this will ultimately lead to Mad Max.
	And I was, you know, crazy conspiracy lunatic.
	But I think even the average person now could see how it could happen.
	And I mean, I can see, not only see, but I mean, it's like a roadmap to Mad Max.
	Isn't it?
	Yeah.
	I mean, if we have the strife that we've had in the past five years in, quote, good times, what's it going to look like during bad times?
	Part of that strife right now is in blue cities, you're seeing these revolts against ICE agents that are raiding the marijuana farms and stuff.
	Yeah, a lot of those are paid for.
	Yeah, exactly.
	What happens when the government itself, the government agents, they're paid in dollars.
	What happens if the government paychecks aren't worth anything?
	Well, remember, there's more than one, quote, government.
	You've got the federal government.
	So presumably they'll just get a raise and another raise and another raise and another raise so that they can eat.
	Like Weimar, Germany, type raises.
	Right.
	But what happens to the local and state governments?
	They can't print money.
	That's right.
	They can't give people raises.
	When we get to the point where the shithouse comes down, the financial system has broken.
	When credit stops, everything stops.
	I mean, you know that as a businessman, nothing functions without credit.
	Once that happens, and I've actually polled local cops, even state cops, you know, what are you going to do under this scenario?
	And the vast majority answers: I'm going to be home protecting my family.
	Yes.
	Because they're going to either not be getting a paycheck or getting a paycheck that doesn't buy a pack of gum.
	I would think also that cities like Los Angeles, they're going to have to abandon the maintenance of their infrastructure.
	Correct.
	Now, with the big cities, I could easily see them being ring-fenced.
	Not to stop people from getting in, but from stopping them from getting out.
	Escape from L.A. Yeah, I could see that.
	And the cops just declaring that to be a no-go zone, and we don't even police inside there.
	Now, what kind of Mad Max is that?
	Yeah, that's serious Mad Max.
	Yeah.
	That's an error.
	And that's not too far from where we are now.
	No, it's really not far.
	There are other zones in L.A., in Portland, Seattle.
	You name the blue city where cops won't go.
	But as you know, every city, especially L.A., has all of these external inputs like water.
	Right.
	Right.
	No water.
	If you have no water piped into LA and no electricity piped in, what happens to the city?
	That's the thing.
	Without credit, how does the water company purify water?
	How does the electric company pay for fuel to create electricity?
	It all boils down to credit.
	It's all about credit.
	I've said that all along.
	I am convinced that this will be a credit event.
	Because credit, we talked before we even started today.
	You can't believe the system's still up and running.
	The reason being is the amount of credit that has been used, the re-hypothecation, everything's already been borrowed against.
	There's very little collateral left worldwide to borrow against.
	So then would that kind of event naturally lead to secession, regions declaring themselves to be sovereign so they can print their own currency?
	That would make sense, wouldn't it?
	It would, you would think.
	Yeah.
	Because if Washington, D.C. is dysfunctional at that time, the states have very little choice in terms of survival.
	They have to come up with some kind of local system.
	Right.
	And it's interesting, you've had, I forget what the number is now, 17 states, it might be more than that, that have recognized gold and silver as money.
	Yeah.
	Including Texas.
	Right.
	Yeah.
	Very happy about that.
	So you've got to ask why.
	You know, why are they doing that?
	It's people thinking forward if all of a sudden the dollar goes poof, we have to have our constituents, we have to give them the ability to use gold and silver as money.
	Well, and I'm sure you're familiar with the new Texas law that was just signed that establishes by 2027 the ability to have like a Texas debit card where you can spend your physical gold and silver on the card.
	Like you spend dollars and then they sell off your metals.
	I did that because, I mean, why would I spend gold instead of dollars?
	Well, I spend the bad money.
	You keep the gold money.
	Totally.
	Gresham's Law, right?
	Right.
	But I think that Texas is setting up for when the dollar collapses.
	Right.
	Oh, I agree.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	I think those guys know what's coming.
	Well, there's a lot of people out there smarter than you and me.
	And if we know that there's other people that have already gone way past where we are.
	They're just, they're so smart, they just don't talk about it publicly like you and I do.
	Because we're trying to warn other people.
	Like, don't get wiped out by this whole thing.
	Exactly.
	There's actually, you can control your destiny.
	And the answer is, I believe, stacking gold and silver.
	You might not be able to control your destiny, but you can steer your destiny.
	Yeah, fair enough.
	You can avoid a total wipeout.
	Right.
	Yeah.
	But there will be an era of extreme chaos, obviously violence and crime and rubber.
	Whether it looks like Mad Max or not, there is going to be an era of extreme chaos once credit collapses.
	When I say credit collapses, once the world, and they've been in the process of this, once the world actually calls the U.S. out and says, hey, wait a minute, you know, none of this Wimpy and the Hamburger next Tuesday anymore.
	It's cash and carry for you guys.
	Once that happens, credit basically gets shut off except for the Treasury and the Federal Reserve, which are now under the same roof.
	It's taken money from the right-hand pocket, put it in the left-hand pocket.
	One's borrowing and the other's creating out of thin air.
	It's nothing all the way through, but it looks good.
	The Federal Reserve will be the lender of last, last resort to the Treasury.
	And Treasury holdings now by foreigners are back down to where they were 11 years ago.
	I saw China is selling off rapidly.
	No kidding.
	Japan is holding some, but not really interested in buying any new debt.
	Right, it's just leaking drips.
	The other typical buyers, I mean, we're only going to have allies like some Western European foreigners.
	We have the Bahamas.
	Yeah, right.
	But it seems like the whole world desperately needs the BRICS infrastructure to have sort of an honest financial plumbing system that can't be counterfeited or weaponized by any one country.
	Well, and that was the biggest, biggest mistake that they made in what was it, 2022?
	Yeah, March.
	You're talking about cutting off Russia from Swift?
	It was, well, cutting off Russia, but it was October of, I think it was October of 23.
	If you look at a chart on gold, you'll see, you know, it's chopping, and all of a sudden it just starts, it just turned into a tractor in first gear going up.
	And that's when we sequestered 300 billion of Russian treasuries.
	And now, like fools, what are they talking about?
	Oh, well, we're going to use that $300 billion to buy weapons and to arm Ukraine so they can attack Russia.
	That doesn't go over too well.
	No, I mean, that's the collapse of global faith in the Western financial infrastructure.
	Yeah, that's the ultimate in pulling your pants down.
	Yeah, but especially these European leaders, they are determined to steal that $300 billion.
	Now, currently they're just tapping into the interest off the $300 billion, which is bad enough.
	That's also theft.
	It's all theft.
	But they want to go for the principle.
	There's no rule of law.
	That's what it is.
	There's no rule of law.
	That's what it discloses, is that there is no rule of law.
	I tell you, look, I'm an American.
	I love my country.
	I love taxes.
	But if I were in Putin's shoes, I would say, okay, every billion that you steal, you get a nuke.
	You know what I mean?
	That's a little extreme.
	No, but I mean, there's got to be, I'm saying this kind of like a meme, like a joke.
	But, you know, Putin should say, you steal our money, there's got to be consequences.
	Well, there will be consequences.
	We just don't know exactly what the consequences are going to be.
	We don't know when they're going to occur, but they will be negative.
	And it will affect Americans and the American standard of living.
	There will be consequences.
	Yeah.
	Which will be the global abandonment of the dollar.
	Exactly.
	Yes.
	And that's already underway.
	There are still people that argue with me about this for some reason.
	They're like, no, the dollar is going to be here for a thousand years.
	Like, it's not going to last a thousand weeks.
	Are you kidding me?
	Five-letter word.
	Bricks.
	Yeah.
	There would be no bricks if there was not the feeling worldwide that, hey, we got to get out from under the dollar.
	Yeah, right.
	There would be no bricks.
	There'd be no reason for our bricks.
	I mean, frankly, the only way that the dollar could have a future is if Trump apologized to Russia, sorry that we stole your $300 billion.
	We can give it back.
	Right.
	And declared neutrality that the financial system will be neutral from now on.
	But that's never going to happen.
	Good luck with that.
	Yeah, never going to happen.
	Right.
	So, okay.
	All right.
	So what have I left out here that you want to point out?
	I mean, from a broad picture, I mean, we drilled right down on it.
	Credit.
	That is the problem.
	Credit slash fake currency.
	I think the most important thing for people watching, listening is that they understand it.
	You're going to be on your own.
	You're going to dial 911 and it's just going to ring.
	Nobody's going to pick it up.
	Nobody's going to come out to fix your broken leg.
	Nobody's going to come out.
	DoorDash is not showing up.
	So if you're going to be on your own, prepare.
	And I could say if it doesn't happen, but there is no if it doesn't happen because it's math.
	It's math.
	It's before math.
	You know, 10 years ago, 15 years ago, you could argue, well, that's Bill Holter's opinion.
	You can't argue that anymore.
	It's math.
	Math is math.
	Math is math, whether you're Indian, Chinese, Russian, American, Brazilian, whatever.
	Math is math.
	Two plus two equals four.
	It cannot ever equal five.
	And the bottom line is there's so much debt outstanding versus the size of the economy and the taxes that are generated, there's no way the debt can be paid back in current dollars.
	There will be a default, and I'm not saying that it's going to be a default of non-payment, but it's going to be a default where the dollar basically goes to zero and Treasury prints up the dollars and says, here's your dollars.
	We paid you.
	Uh-huh.
	Right.
	Here's your pension.
	Sweet nothings.
	Here's your pension check.
	Here's your Social Security check.
	Right.
	But it's worthless.
	Have you ever heard the phrase, the math ain't mathin?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	And we are forced to react to all of this very rapidly.
	The other day when Trump announced 50% tariffs on copper, I went out and bought ammo, rifle ammo.
	There you go.
	Because I'm like, 300 WinMag, copper rounds.
	Right, right.
	These are going to get really pricey.
	So I loaded up on some 300 WinMag.
	But of course, I'm not trying to build a data center.
	Thank God, because you know what copper increases are going to do to electrical conduit and the circuitry?
	Well, what's that going to do to the grid?
	Yeah, right.
	Exactly.
	And that's another problem.
	I mean, that's a huge problem.
	Our kilowatt hour cost on average is going to skyrocket in America, whereas in China, you know, it's a fraction of what we pay in America.
	They use coal.
	Yeah.
	Because they didn't sign up for the stupid-ass climate accords.
	Right.
	Paris climate accords.
	You know, at some point, you also realize that these crazy, insane leftists, they sabotage our whole energy infrastructure on purpose to put us behind.
	But then say, but make sure your car's electric.
	Yeah, right, right.
	And the grid, I was just reading it.
	What's the grid?
	The East Coast grid called JPL or something?
	Yeah.
	The grids, it's maxed out.
	Already.
	It's maxed.
	Already.
	They said if you build a data center now in Pennsylvania, you bring your own power.
	Can you imagine?
	It has to be.
	So then it's double the cost.
	That's math.
	Yeah, no, that's math.
	Another word for math is reality.
	Right, right.
	What it means, I want to build a data center.
	I first have to build a nuclear power plant.
	Right.
	Which takes 25 years and $10 billion, you know?
	Yeah.
	So it's going to get interesting, Bill.
	Well, the other thing, I guess something else we can talk about is back in 2017, 18, I was really hopeful of truth bombs dropping all over the place.
	You know, I bought into, I did not buy into Q. I mean, I always said something doesn't smell right here.
	But I did buy into The rule of law is going to come back.
	Well, it didn't.
	And here we are, six months into Trump's term.
	No arrests.
	No arrests.
	Let's see what happens.
	I mean, I'm hopeful, but truth bombs will also blow up the financial system.
	Yeah.
	Because the average person, if it's laid out in front of them that everything has been a lie.
	If everything has been a lie, why is the Dow Jones true?
	Or, you know, whatever.
	Why are financial markets?
	Why are they the truth when everything else is bullshit?
	And everything is bullshit today.
	Everything.
	Right.
	Well, the whole system is run on faith.
	And when people see the truth, they lose faith in the broken system.
	That's the logic.
	Right.
	Which is interesting because they'll just be following in the footsteps of people like you and I and our audience because we've already lost all our faith in the broken corrupt system.
	And they can't earn it back.
	Right.
	All right, Bill.
	Let me give you out your website again, billholter.com.
	And do you people wire money to buy metals or how do they buy from the process?
	Once we've discussed what you want to do, how much you want to do, what product, once I put an order in, I clear through Miles Franklin, through Andy's company.
	You'll get an invoice from Miles Franklin with either wire instructions or check instructions.
	If you send a wire, typically your metal will go out two business days later.
	During crazy times, it could be longer than that.
	If you send a check, it takes seven business days for that check to clear.
	So your metal won't go out for nine days because the metal goes out two days, three days after their good funds in the account.
	Will you one day accept stable coins as payment for gold?
	Actually, at this point, Miles Franklin does.
	They have an agreement or something with BitPay where you can send your Bitcoin to BitPay, they liquidate it, and then back-end it out to wherever it's supposed to go.
	Because if I end up with stablecoins, I want to get rid of them as quickly as possible and get it into gold.
	It's hot potatoes.
	Right.
	Okay.
	And then another question is, have you seen more attempts at transactional fraud in gold and silver?
	Like people trying to sell you counterfeit stuff or people trying to write bad checks to get gold and things like that?
	No, I haven't.
	Okay, that's good.
	I mean, that very well could be the case.
	But I mean, anytime metal is sent out from our wholesaler, it's absolutely real.
	Anytime metal comes in, it's weighed, it's assayed, it's verified to be real.
	Yeah.
	And metal won't go out until, like I said, the check's got to actually clear.
	Right.
	So once there are good funds and we know that they are good funds, then we'll ship the metal out.
	Okay.
	So no, we've not seen, or I have not seen it.
	Okay.
	And do you also, can you recommend, I mean, you don't have to right now, but I mean, do you recommend if people want vaulting services?
	Sure.
	You have connections with vaults you recommend.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	Okay.
	Yeah, and Miles Franklin does have a program with Brinks.
	Okay.
	I'm not a big fan of that, and I'm sure Andy's not going to like hear this.
	It's okay.
	We all have different views.
	But I've told Andy this.
	Brinks, big company, easy target.
	In other words, the government could go to Brinks and say, tell us who's got what, as opposed to a private, as opposed to a public, Brinks is a public company.
	A private non-bank vault.
	Yeah, I prefer the private vault.
	There's one in North Dakota right on their website.
	It says, we will not comply with anything that we view to be unconstitutional.
	Yeah.
	I know those guys.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, no, I know you do.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Those are the kind of people I tend to know.
	People who have statements on their websites like that.
	Okay.
	Any other final word of advice in terms of preparedness or just people getting ready for what's coming?
	Just do the best you can and don't have a broad view.
	Don't have a narrow view because you could buy all the gold and silver in the world and you lose power.
	You get overrun.
	You get shot at, whatever.
	You don't have guns.
	You get shot at.
	You get killed.
	Have a broad view of what you need to survive on your own.
	And I've said this before, it's not a bad idea to spend a weekend.
	Go home, hit your switch.
	Oh, yeah.
	Hit your power switch.
	Find out what life's going to be like without power.
	I mean, if you can afford to do it, you want to have solar.
	You want to have some type of generators.
	You want ammo.
	And you want a community.
	I mean, you cannot do it yourself.
	You got to sleep.
	You can't do it just you and your family.
	You might have to be two families, three, four families.
	But make a plan, try to shoot holes in your own plan, and just do the best you can.
	Well, I have a whole ranch diesel generator, and I run it once a month, and sometimes I switch over to it, and then I store diesel fuel.
	It's the easiest way to store energy.
	Right.
	To store diesel.
	Yeah, because it doesn't go bad.
	Yeah.
	And then you notice I drive a diesel truck.
	So gas stations go down.
	With a big dog inside.
	With a big dog.
	Yeah.
	And a big rifle that I haven't shown you.
	But and then I advise people, if you're going to have firearms, get yourself a rifle-size ultrasonic cleaner.
	It'll save you so much time cleaning your rifles and cleaning your barrels.
	I mean, I don't want to spend all day with cotton swabs and ramming rods through barrels.
	Just throw it in the cleaner, man.
	And run that sucker for 30 minutes.
	I got too many rifles to clean manually, man.
	Oh, you might have a lot of time on your hands.
	Well, okay.
	Might keep you occupied.
	Yeah, I'll probably be planting food, if that happens, figuring out how to grow more stuff.
	Yeah, that's another thing.
	I mean, we're in an area, it's hard to grow a lot of things here in Texas because of the heat.
	But, you know, having a greenhouse or a couple greenhouses for wintertime, you can grow spring into early summer, but July, August, early September is pretty tough.
	Yeah, rough around here.
	All right.
	Well, that's a good overview.
	Thank you so much, Bill, for your time today.
	And really appreciate you and your views on all of this.
	And I would advise our audience to heed your warnings, take it seriously, because difficult times are coming.
	So thank you, Bill.
	Always a pleasure.
	Thanks for having me, Mike.
	All right, folks, as Bill Holter, his website again is billholter.com.
	This is not a paid promotion.
	He's just, well, and Mr. Gold is your moniker.
	Just regular guy.
	Mr. Gold is our regular guy, stacking gold and silver.
	I just always appreciate Bill's wisdom and experience in these areas, and he will set you straight on this.
	So take advantage of all this information.
	Feel free to repost this interview on other channels and other platforms.
	You have my permission to do so.
	I'm Mike Adams, of course, of Brighteon.com, and thank you for watching today.
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	I pray for safety.
	I don't wish and hope for any kind of disasters.
	I hope and pray for people to be prepared because we know disaster is coming.
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