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Top news analysis, Green Tea miracles and a new interview... (BBN, July 25, 2025)

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	All right, folks, welcome to Brighteon Broadcast News for Friday, July 25th, 2025.
	And I'll start out with the question.
	At what point did you realize that most of the human race was cognitively retarded?
	And I remember the moment where I realized that.
	I think it was when I was in kindergarten.
	It might have been first grade.
	But I remember my gym teacher, I was in gym class in elementary school, and my gym teacher was spinning around slowly while standing, you know, just standing and kind of spinning his body around slowly.
	And he was asking all the students to count how many times he turned around.
	You know, he's doing like a pirouette, right?
	But slowly.
	Asking the class to count how many times he turned around.
	And he was facing us.
	There's like 20 of us kids in the class.
	He was facing us, and he started to rotate to his right.
	He started to rotate clockwise.
	And he must have just barely started.
	Maybe he was 30 degrees into the 360, right?
	And I started hearing the kids next to me on the left and the right, they started counting.
	One, two, three, four.
	I'm like, what the hell?
	He hasn't even done one.
	And then he goes around.
	He's like 90 degrees and like seven, eight, nine.
	Like, what?
	What on earth?
	I'm looking around.
	I thought I lost my mind.
	I'm like, have I been teleported to Retardo land here?
	Of course, I went to public school, so that might explain some of it.
	Anyway, he completes the one circle, right?
	He does a 360 standing.
	He completes one circle, and by that time, the class is like 12, 13.
	Like, they're just, they, apparently their parents taught them to count, but not to count things.
	This is like, just go one, two, three, four, five, but they don't want to atty it to anything.
	And I was the only kid in the entire class who got the right answer, which was one.
	You turn around one time.
	And my gym teacher even pointed it out.
	It's like, you're right.
	And I'm like, how could that be that I'm the only one that knows you only turn around one time?
	I mean, in my mind, I said that.
	But that's the day that I realized I was surrounded by retarded people.
	And then what I found out is that going all the way through elementary school and middle school and high school and even college, et cetera, is that the only way that I could interface with other humans was to pretend to be so much dumber than I actually am.
	And I found out, I mean, to this day, guess what?
	Same rule still applies.
	It's amazing.
	And I'm just wondering, do you share some of that with me?
	Have you realized that sometimes you have to like lobotomize yourself even to be able to interact with different groups of people?
	And I'm finding it true no matter what, no matter, like looking at the White House report on AI, it's like written by retarded people.
	And I think those are some of the successful, wealthy, billionaire class people.
	And it just goes to prove that in order to become a billionaire, you don't have to be not retarded.
	You just have to know the right people in government, get the right insider information in your trading.
	You too can become a billionaire, even if you're dumb as a rock.
	And then there's a real advantage to stupidity in certain cases because stupid people never have to be concerned about what might happen next.
	Because stupid people don't understand repercussions, cause and effect, or trends analysis into the future.
	So the real challenge, as probably most of you share this with me, the real challenge of being an intelligent, informed person in a world of stupid people is actually finding a way to be a joyful person, even though you know all kinds of things that the dumbed down, like happy but stupid people, they don't even have to worry about.
	Like they're happy because they're stupid.
	Whereas you and I have to choose happiness despite the fact that we know so much.
	You see what I'm saying?
	So here we are.
	So welcome to today's broadcast.
	A little bit of philosophy for you right up front.
	Now, I've got a great interview for you today.
	Let me tell you.
	With a very intelligent person, you know, academic leader, military leader, geopolitical analysis leader, speaker, writer, Colonel Douglas McGregor.
	Yeah, I'm going to be playing that for you coming up today.
	Always appreciate that man, just an extraordinary mind.
	And I always, he and I always have great conversations because, of course, we can talk at that level.
	And you probably noticed this, like what gets me the most juiced up about interviews is when I get to interview really bright people.
	I'm like, whoa, I don't have to hold back.
	This is awesome.
	We can just go.
	So that's what we did.
	That's coming up.
	And then also earlier this week, I was interviewed by Aaron Day for his show.
	And I plan to play that for you as soon as Aaron makes that available to me.
	I think maybe that'll be Monday.
	We'll see.
	But that's an amazing interview also with another high IQ individual, Aaron Day.
	Totally gets it.
	And then I also got to interview Matt Kim, who's another super bright guy, pro-Liberty guy.
	Can't wait to play that interview for you.
	That'll be early next week.
	So you don't want to miss that.
	And speaking of bright people, also, don't forget that earlier this week, Monday, I think it was Monday, I ran the interview with Catherine Austin Fitz and super bright lady, just top of the class.
	I mean, her mind is so sharp that it just gives me tingles.
	So you don't want to miss that interview.
	If you have missed it, go back and watch it.
	You're going to love it.
	All right, let's cover some news.
	Amazon has purchased a company called B, like the, like a honeybee, B-E-E, a company called B that offers a wearable watch that constantly listens to everything you say.
	If you want to purchase a surveillance spy grid device that you wear around that spies on everything you say, you're going to be able to buy that soon from Amazon.
	Everything that you say and everything, every sound around you will be uploaded to the Amazon cloud for analysis or future law enforcement demands to be used in court cases against you, whatever.
	And I'm thinking, it's crazy to want to wear this, but why don't we make senators wear it and make all their recordings public?
	I mean, they claim to represent us, don't they?
	And also members of Congress.
	Wouldn't it be great if they had to wear a 24-7 audio device?
	Or maybe they could have hours off, you know, for personal private time.
	Everybody's got to use the toilet sooner or later, right?
	You don't want to hear them snoring at night.
	But at least during work hours, shouldn't we be able to log in and hear everything that they are saying and every person that's trying to influence them?
	Because they're supposed to be public representatives.
	So I think it's silly to wear one of these B devices yourself, but I think it'd be great to make them wear it.
	I mean, if they're representatives, that is.
	In geopolitical news, France, well, Macron has announced that he is going to have his nation, well, the nation that he leads at the moment, France is going to officially recognize Palestine as a nation.
	And then Mike Huckabee, the U.S. ambassador to Israel, who is a straight-up full-blown Zionist, he tweeted out on Acts.
	He's like, you can't just say you just recognize a country out of nothing.
	And of course, I responded to Huckabee.
	I'm like, how do you think modern Israel came into existence 1947, 1948?
	It was just declared into existence by the United Nations.
	So Huckabee, the ambassador to Israel, has no idea about the history of modern Israel.
	That's frightening.
	In tech news, the Starlink satellite system suffered a global outage.
	It lasted about two and a half hours.
	So if you have a Starlink system and you're wondering, like, what happened?
	Yeah, that happened to everybody.
	Even the soldiers in Ukraine that are using Starlink systems for all their frontline communications.
	Starlink went down, down hard.
	And none of us know why.
	It was just down.
	And then I remembered that Russia had put out an announcement a couple weeks ago, I think it was, saying that they now have the capability to start shooting down satellites with their anti-air defense systems.
	And I knew that that was a capability, but I don't think that's what happened.
	But I'm just wondering.
	Because the Starlink satellites, there's a lot of them.
	There must be thousands, and they're small.
	And it wouldn't be worth the cost to shoot those down, you know, especially when other Starlink satellites could just kind of heal the gap and make up for the missing ones.
	So my guess is that what happened at Starlink, here's my guess, and this is from experience.
	I say this as someone who has run R ⁇ D teams and built platforms and, you know, I've done this for decades.
	In my experience, the entire Starlink outage was because one guy messed with a config file and accidentally had one extra dot in some IP address somewhere in that config file.
	So it was like 192.168.101.whatever.
	And it's like, dude, that extra dot, I took down the whole freaking global system, right?
	So if you're wondering how fragile our modern society is, you know, there you go.
	There you go.
	Elon Musk apologized for the outage and said they would find out what caused it, which is also scary because it means they don't know.
	I can tell you, it's an extra dot in the config file.
	It always is.
	It always is.
	It's like when someone blows up a border router at an ISP, you know what that is?
	It's an extra dot.
	Someone just typed in the wrong IP or something.
	That's always what it is.
	All right, there's a new bill in Congress that's been introduced by Congressman Gozar.
	It's called H.R. 4668 that would end the legal immunity of the vaccine manufacturers.
	This was covered by Children's Health Defense and other news outlets, including natural news, of course.
	So, wow, this would be amazing.
	So be sure to contact your Congress representatives and tell them to support 4668, HR4668, and also tell them they should wear the B audio surveillance watch and let us all listen to their lives, which would probably be boring most of the time.
	Okay, in other mysterious news, eight children suffered seizures at a choir concert at Harvard.
	And then the ambulances showed up and took some to the hospital and the others recovered.
	And nobody knows why.
	It's just like eight children suddenly had seizures.
	And they're all like, what happened?
	And the only thing they could think of is they used some kind of cleaning chemicals in the choir room before the concert.
	Like, what did you spray?
	What did you spray that caused seizures?
	But they had hazmat teams go through there and they couldn't find anything that would have possibly caused Seizures.
	So, and I'm even wondering why is it only eight children that had seizures?
	Why not adults?
	Were there adults in the room?
	How come they didn't have seizures?
	What was going on?
	Makes you wonder if somebody is testing like an MK Ultra cognitive takeover weapon or something.
	Because Harvard would be the perfect place to do that.
	As long as they're messing with your brain, they might as well do it with like weird flashing lights and seizure induction, maybe like remote audio beamed into your brain, things like that.
	So strange things are happening.
	The Olympics, the U.S. Olympic Committee, to be specific, has banned transgender athletes.
	That is, they banned biological males from competing as females.
	And of course, you and I, our question would be, what took you so long?
	I mean, why did this even have to be banned?
	Isn't it implied in the fact that you have women's sports?
	Isn't that effectively a ban of men in the women's sports category?
	I mean, as long as there have been women's sports, men have been banned from women's sports.
	I mean, I don't know why you even had to have a debate about this.
	It's so abundantly obvious.
	But of course, there are a bunch of disappointed feminine men now who realize they're losers, who cannot compete against other men.
	And so they're mentally ill thinking they're women, and they're also losers who can no longer win gold medals by beating up other women.
	Wow.
	Why did it take so long?
	Because everything's insane.
	And Candace Owens is being sued, apparently, by what?
	Macron and his, I mean, speaking of transgender, his, let me get this right, wife?
	Is that the right term for that person?
	Is it Brigitte, Briguette, Brickette?
	What is, I'm honestly, I don't cover this story that much.
	It's some kind of Brigitte person who is much older than Macron, but apparently his wife, we'll say.
	And so they're suing Candace Owens because Candace Owens says that person's a dude.
	And got to say, takes balls to sue Candace Owens.
	That's no question about that.
	All right, and then we've got some sad news that RFK Jr., the head of HHS, he is now defending the mass murder and starvation of children in Gaza.
	And he says that any accusation that Israel is engaged in genocide is, quote, blood libel.
	That's what he says now.
	Dr. Simon Goddick tweeted this.
	He says, as founder of Children's Health Defense, he's supposed to defend children.
	Instead, he dismisses the mass murders in the Middle East as blood libel.
	He's more interested in shielding the perpetrators than standing with innocent children.
	And then there are photos of RFK Jr., quote, with his handler is the accusation.
	I'm very disappointed in RFK Jr., a man that I called an American hero, but he has betrayed humanity in the sense that he stands by and actually excuses mass genocide, mass starvation, the mass slaughter of women and children.
	There's no excuse for that.
	And it's clear that he is run by Zionists.
	Dr. Jack Cruz adds, quote, under RFK Jr., 25,000 kids a day are getting loaded with bioweapons.
	He's talking about the vaccine injections.
	And 5,000 Americans are dying a week because he won't stop the mRNA program.
	Unacceptable, says Dr. Cruz.
	Also in other news, Hulk Hogan passed away today at the age of 71.
	Hulk Hogan.
	A legendary figure to a lot of people our age, especially men who, when they were younger boys and teenagers, they looked up to Hulk Hogan.
	I wasn't ever a super fan.
	I was a fan of, you know, like wrestling because, of course, I was like, that's all fake, you know?
	I knew that when I was nine, right?
	And there were debates among, you know, the retards in my public school classes.
	No, it's not fake.
	It's totally real.
	Totally real.
	One, two, three, four, five, right?
	And that's also when I knew they were all retarded.
	But I'm like, are you kidding me?
	It's absolutely totally fake.
	But anyway, whatever.
	Hulk Hogan was an extraordinary athlete.
	It does take athleticism to fake a wrestling match, it turns out.
	It takes a lot of athleticism.
	And Hulk Hogan, in many ways, was an inspiration to many people.
	And he inspired a lot of young boys into activities like wrestling, which is a very healthy activity, develops the body and the mind.
	I'm all for children being actively involved in sports.
	When I say I'm not interested in sports, what I mean is I'm not interested in watching other people play sports, like while I'm sitting on the couch and eating Doritos or whatever, which I don't do.
	I have no interest in other people's sports.
	I'm very interested in actually engaging in sports and like, you know, learning Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu or things like that.
	And by the way, just as a side note, who still watches golf on TV?
	Is there any activity imaginable that could use fewer brain cells than watching golf?
	Like, nothing's happening.
	Oh, my God.
	I have a hard time sitting through university lectures, though.
	And watching golf, to me, it's like torment.
	It's like If somebody wanted to torture me, they would force me to watch golf all 18 holes.
	Oh my God, I can't do it.
	Now, I love the idea of playing golf in the sense that, you know, let's develop skills, let's learn how to, you know, how to swing the what do you call them?
	The clubs, the woods, the nine irons.
	I mean, that takes skill.
	That takes dedication.
	It takes mental focus.
	I'm all in favor of doing it, just not watching it.
	All right, in other important news, the Ninth Circuit Court ruled that the California ammunition background check law violates the Second Amendment.
	So there was a three-panel judge that affirmed the permanent injunction of the lower district court.
	So what this means is that if you live in California, you can now order ammunition online and have it shipped right to your house.
	You don't have to go through the FFL procedure anymore.
	That's right.
	So for all of you listening in California, and I know there's lots of you, today is ammo purchase day.
	This is the day to load up where the state doesn't have a record of what you bought, right?
	This is the day.
	So where do you go to get ammo and what should you buy?
	Well, I'll give you my opinion.
	I've often plugged the website called ammoseeq.com.
	They're not a sponsor.
	I've never, I don't even know who runs it.
	It's just a really useful site.
	And there you can shop for the best ammo prices from all the different retailers.
	They survey all the retailers in real time to give you the best prices.
	And of course, what should you buy?
	Well, I mean, obviously, you should buy ammo for the firearms that you have.
	For most of us, that's like 9mm for the pistols, you know, 5.56 for rifles.
	And then if you have some more fancy rifles, you might have a 300 blackout rifle.
	A little bit bigger rifle, you might have a 762 by 51 or a 308 Winchester round capable like an AR-10.
	Or you might have hunting rifles like 300 Windmag or what have you.
	That's what I like is the 300 Wind Mag.
	That's one of my favorite rounds.
	Or you might have something even bigger.
	Anyway, whatever it is, this is a great time to buy in California.
	So, you know, load up.
	Load up.
	And I noticed that Phoenix Ammunition online just said they're going to ship to California now, as long as they can.
	They're going to ship to California.
	I don't know about the other online retailers like Midway USA or Brownells or others.
	I guess you can check their websites.
	But when you're ready for firearms themselves, I want to tell you about not a sponsor, but a company that has given us a discount code, and I love their firearms, and that's ShieldArms.
	ShieldArms.com, use discount code RAINGER, and you'll save big bucks on their rifles, their pistols, and all their other gear.
	And they've got the steel mags and the Glock 43X pistols.
	And they've got some really cool stuff coming out soon that I'll be talking about when it does come out.
	Something really innovative for the industry.
	They also have the folding AR-15 pistols, which should be very interesting.
	I also bought from Palmetto State Armory.
	I just bought, I haven't even seen it yet.
	It hasn't arrived, but they announced a folding arm brace AR-10 style pistol that shoots the 7.62x51, but as a pistol, so I couldn't resist.
	I had to buy one of those.
	Can't wait to try that out.
	With a 12.5 inch barrel, by the way.
	Imagine that.
	Putting your 308 rounds through a 12.5-inch barrel with an arm brace.
	Yeah, that sounds like full-blown Texas fun right there.
	So that's Paul Meadow.
	I'm looking forward to that.
	Hope that runs well.
	We'll see.
	I'll throw some rounds through it and see what happens.
	Also, if you're looking for really good holsters, I have been a big fan for two or three years now of a company called 1791 Gun Leather.
	And I think that's their website.
	Just put a .com on that.
	Or you can find them at rangerdeals.com.
	If you scroll down, you'll see 1791 Gun Leather.
	They've got the holsters that have a special polymer sandwiched in between two layers of leather.
	And then what you do is you get that, you heat up a pot of water, and you take that holster and you put your pistol in it, unloaded, of course.
	You jam your pistol into that holster, and then you put that in a plastic bag, and then you dunk it in the hot water for a very specific amount of time.
	It's a couple of minutes.
	And you pull it out and you press it down and you mold that holster around your pistol.
	So you have a custom, a custom-made holster specifically for your pistol.
	And it works great.
	And these are the only holsters that I have never broken.
	Because many of you who have holsters, you probably have those Kydex holsters.
	Kydex is a material, it's a polymer-type material.
	Well, every Kydex holster I've ever tried, I have broken.
	They shatter, they fracture.
	They don't stand up to everyday carry.
	Not in my world.
	I'll be rolling on the ground under the vehicle, trying to loosen the oil plug bolt or whatever, and then it cracked.
	There goes the Kydex holster.
	Dang it!
	It just broke another holster.
	And so I got tired of that, and I found the 1791 gun leather, and their holsters are just amazing.
	I've never, in fact, I'm still wearing the very first holster I ever got from them.
	Still wearing it.
	I got it on right now.
	Not one stitch has come out of it.
	Amazing.
	Oh, and I am seeing now, I'm seeing a message from midwayusa.com.
	Quote, we are no longer required to ship your ammunition purchases to an FFL.
	You may now order ammunition on our site without selecting an FFL and have your order shipped directly to your residents.
	So there you go.
	There you go.
	today is ammo day.
	Now, I just bought a bunch of ammo.
	So, and I'm in Texas.
	We don't need no stinking FFL for ammo.
	That would never fly in Texas.
	So, I just bought ammo.
	I'm all set for a while.
	By the way, the whole world has come to realize that Israel is starving the children of Gaza to death.
	And Representative Randy Fine says, let them starve.
	He's all for it.
	Because, of course, he's eaten enough food for a thousand Palestinians, I believe.
	Or maybe he's eaten some of the Gazan children.
	I mean, I don't know what he ate, but it's a lot more than what any Palestinians are able to get their hands on in terms of calories, that's for sure.
	What a disgusting human being Randy Fine is.
	Well, the whole world is waking up to this.
	The New York Times even ran an article talking about how children in Gaza are starving, but didn't even mention that Israel is involved.
	Nope, nope, not Israel.
	They're just starving for no reason.
	All this food is sitting there just outside the gates, but for some reason, for some reason they're starving, but no one knows why.
	Wow.
	It's amazing how through all the years, all the years that the United States said that we had to intervene for humanitarian reasons in places like Kosovo or Somalia.
	Oh, it's humanitarian.
	What about the African tribes are butchering each other with machetes?
	We must intervene.
	But when hundreds of thousands, reportedly, of Palestinians are injured, killed, missing, or starving, the United States says, well, Israel has a right to defend itself.
	How sick and twisted is that?
	Listen to this one-minute video from Gerald Salenti talking about how American taxpayers are funding the genocide in Gaza.
	And Gerald Salenti is a real American.
	He is such an admired man for his heart, his intellect, his courage, for daring to tell the truth on an issue like this.
	Check out this video.
	Yep.
	You kill them, murder them, genocide them, but all those dirty Hamas, they won't have a deal.
	All right.
	This is horrific what Israel is doing to the Palestinian people and horrific that the United States supports this as well as other countries.
	Oh, now they came after Macron de Khatzon that he wants Palestine to be a two-state solution, which Netanyahu came out.
	How dare the Palestinians have freedom in the country that was stolen from them?
	Israel allocates 247 additional million for West Bank settlement projects.
	Isn't that nice?
	They're not settlements.
	This is stolen land in violation of the Geneva Convention and Article 242 of the United Nations.
	And by the way, it's our money.
	Plantation workers of slave land, the Obama deal, gave Israel, gives Israel almost $4 billion a year.
	Yep.
	So there you go, Gerald Celenti on what's happening with Israel and Gaza.
	All right, here's what I want to do next.
	I want to bring you some positive, uplifting information.
	I got a mini documentary for you here about green tea, which contains L-theanine, which has amazing benefits along with other phytonutrients.
	So this is my voice doing the narration, and then we had AI put the images together.
	And this is one of several new mini documentaries that we'll be posting at healthrangerreport.com.
	I played one earlier this week for you on DMSO, which is DMSO is an amazing substance.
	And the things that it is able to treat are just, really, really just extraordinary.
	Anyway, enjoy this documentary on green tea.
	It's a few minutes long.
	And then I've got two special reports for you.
	One about why NATO countries are trying to force Russia into a nuclear war.
	And then after that, I've got a special report that's saying, hey, follow what I teach in my podcast and your life is going to get better.
	I mean, even just experiment with the things I'm talking about in terms of nutrition or avoiding toxic fragrance chemicals, getting more sunshine into your life and things like that.
	You're going to find that your life will dramatically improve.
	No matter where your health is right now, it can get even better.
	So that special report is coming up.
	And then today's interview with Colonel Douglas McGregor.
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	For centuries, whispers of a miraculous plant echoed throughout the sacred halls of emperors and monks alike.
	Legends spoke of a brew so powerful, it bestowed clarity of mind, longevity, and even protection from disease.
	But what the ancients knew, modern medicine tried to erase.
	The year was 2737 BC.
	Emperor Shen Nong, the father of Chinese herbalism, Discovered tea when leaves accidentally blew into his boiling water.
	He called it the divine remedy for a hundred illnesses.
	Fast forward four millennia, and modern science finally confirms what tradition held all along.
	Green tea is not a simple drink.
	It's nature's most sophisticated pharmacy.
	Unbeknownst to most people, green tea holds over 200 bioactive compounds, including the Holy Trinity of Health, EGCG, L-theanine, and a battalion of polyphenols.
	Together, they wage war against inflammation, neurological decay, and even cancer.
	But the saddest truth, the pharmaceutical giants don't want you to know.
	If nature holds the cure, why hasn't it been more widely commercialized?
	Because you can't patent a plant.
	And for big pharma, that's a big problem.
	Modern science now confirms its power.
	Polyphenols like EGCG can fight cancer, boost immunity, and even protect the brain from Alzheimer's.
	But this knowledge terrifies those who profit from disease.
	Deep in the underground labs where real science thrives, researchers stumbled upon a revelation that could dismantle the cancer industry.
	EGCG isn't just another antioxidant.
	It's a molecular sniper.
	While chemotherapy carpet bombs the body, EGCG infiltrates cancer cells with deadly precision.
	It hijacks their communication, sabotages their growth signals, and triggers apoptosis, the cell's self-destruct sequence.
	But here's what most people don't know.
	In multiple studies spanning decades of research, EGCG was found to suppress the AP1 protein, a master regulator of tumor formation.
	And in other published research, prostate tumors fed green tea extract grew 80% slower than the control group.
	Colon cancer cells, their metastatic enzymes were literally disarmed.
	Now ask yourself, why is this not front-page news?
	While EGCG wages targeted biochemical warfare on cancer cells, L-theanine, green tea's other secret weapon, rewires the mind itself.
	Unlike caffeine's chaotic jolt, L-theanine orchestrates a symphony in your neurons.
	Within 30 minutes, it floods the brain with alpha waves, the same frequency found in elite athletes and Zen masters.
	A university-led study found it boosts GABA by 40%, literally switching off anxiety.
	In ADHD trials, children given L-theanine showed a 27% drop in impulsivity.
	But big pharma's response?
	More synthetic pills with side effects worse than the disorder.
	The real health conspiracy isn't about hiding this cure.
	It's about hiding the fact that this cure was always right there.
	It's been known for thousands of years, and it's available to you right now in a simple cup of tea.
	We live in a world drowning in synthetic chemicals, where illness is currency and cures are censored.
	A world where big pharma profits off sickness, not health, where conventional medicine pushes psychotropic drugs on children, antidepressants on the brokenhearted, and chemotherapy on the desperate.
	But what if the answer has been quietly growing in nature all along?
	What if one humble plant, green tea, could unravel the stranglehold of big pharma?
	Think this sounds like a conspiracy theory?
	Consider this.
	Since 2005, the FDA has issued warning letters to green tea supplement manufacturers demanding they stop making unproven health claims.
	While the same FDA approves deadly synthetic drugs with side effects listed like a horror script.
	The reason?
	Money.
	Profit.
	The global tea industry is worth $50 billion, but the pharmaceutical empire?
	Over $1.3 trillion a year and growing.
	And the longer they can keep people sick, the more profit they can generate for Big Pharma.
	They don't want you to know about the 8,000-plus studies proving green tea's benefits because knowledge is power.
	And when the people awaken with knowledge, Big Pharma loses control.
	But the corruption runs deeper.
	There's also evidence pointing to the fact that major tea corporations are selling contaminated green tea that contains levels of lead and fluoride, substances linked to cancer, thyroid destruction, and even IQ reduction in children.
	They know what they're selling because cheap tea is grown in polluted soil that's sprayed with fluoride-based pesticides and heavily contaminated with toxic metals like lead and arsenic.
	Older leaves that are frequently used in tea bags can be the worst offenders.
	But companies keep selling them because people keep buying it.
	Unwittingly, they don't know that they're buying lead, toxic heavy metal.
	That's why sourcing your green tea from a trusted source that conducts laboratory testing, especially for heavy metals, is absolutely critical to making sure that your green tea offers you health, not harm.
	But if you can source clean green tea, it's incredibly powerful medicine.
	And this truth cannot be erased.
	Across the world, ethical farmers, independent labs, and health freedom warriors are fighting back by sharing the truth about the healing properties of green tea.
	With third-party verified, lab-tested, organic green tea, we reclaim our right to clean medicine, natural medicine, that's naturally compatible with the human body.
	Unlike Big Pharma's synthetic poisons, this substance is healing the way nature intended.
	Consuming green tea, it's more than a beverage.
	It's a rebellion against the medical industrial establishment.
	Every sip is a vote against corporate greed.
	Every shared study breaks their censorship stranglehold.
	The future of health for humanity, of decentralized health freedom and food freedom, belongs to those of us who awaken to these truths and who share them with others.
	Support growers of green tea and support the companies that offer clean, lab-tested green tea.
	Your body, your brain will thank you.
	This has been a HealthRanger Report Investigative Mini Documentary.
	You can find more videos like this at healthrangerreport.com.
	I'm Mike Adams, the HealthRanger.
	Thank you for watching.
	Transcription by CastingWords Well, here we go.
	Martin Armstrong has recently predicted on several shows, one with Alex Jones, predicted that there is a 100% chance of a nuclear war in Europe.
	Now, of course, that's a fairly alarming prediction because it means it's a certainty.
	But Martin Armstrong is not someone to be taken lightly.
	He's extremely well informed.
	He has a lot of experience.
	He has his Socrates cycles analysis computer system that he's been using for decades.
	And then on top of that, Martin Armstrong is just, he's extremely well informed and he knows the cycles of history himself, even without the computer program.
	So we should heed his warning.
	We should take this seriously.
	But why is he arriving at this conclusion?
	And I think the summary of his position is that especially Western Europe, NATO countries in Western Europe, they absolutely need, they need to be nuked themselves.
	As a cover story for the catastrophic situation that they have created for themselves, they've destroyed their countries like the UK, especially.
	And the EU currency is collapsing.
	And they are in dire trouble, dire trouble as a subcontinent.
	And they need war in order to stay in power.
	They need to blame an external enemy to deflect blame from themselves.
	And to some extent, Trump and the United States government needs the same kind of thing.
	Trump needs to deflect from during the currency collapse that's coming.
	He needs to be able to point to somebody else and blame them.
	And so as a result, NATO countries like Germany especially, but also France and also the UK and the United States, they are working desperately to try to provoke Russia to launch a nuclear weapon.
	That's the game plan right now.
	Because if they can convince Russia to launch a nuclear weapon, then they can say, see, Russia is the horrible Satan enemy.
	Russia is a threat to the whole world.
	They started using nukes.
	Unprovoked aggression, you know, just like they said about Russia's SMO into Ukraine, which was not unprovoked.
	It was totally provoked by the West since 2014.
	But it'll be labeled unprovoked aggression.
	And then there would be a lot of consensus and support among the people supporting their own governments to go to war with Russia.
	And the other thing that goes along with this is the fact that many of these governments, like the UK, are facing a domestic uprising, possibly a revolution or a revolt, because the government is so bad, so insane, you know, arresting their own people for posting memes instead of arresting the illegals that are raping daughters all across the country or committing acts of violence in addition to that.
	So the UK government wants to be at war with its own people.
	It wants to control its own people.
	And the best way to get support for any emergency measures that it wants to take is to be at war with Russia first.
	So whatever it takes, the West is going to attempt to start a nuclear war with Russia.
	That's where Martin Armstrong is absolutely correct, I believe.
	And those methods could include a false flag attack.
	In other words, nuking a city in Europe or a military base or some other target, nuking it, and then saying, oh, that was Russia.
	You can see them doing that.
	I mean, who pulled off 9-11, right?
	Who blew up Nord Stream pipelines?
	That was the U.S. Navy that did that.
	So you can absolutely see them carrying out a false flag operation to blame Russia.
	I mean, it's the blueprint of the way the West operates.
	Now, once that happens, then understand that all these Western countries will be able to basically trample all over civil rights and legal rights of their own citizens.
	They'll be able to get the free speech bans that they want.
	They'll say, we're going to block any website that says anything critical about our role in the war or anything that's pro-Russia, you know, whatever that might be.
	It could be anything.
	And we're going to have to, you know, take all your money.
	It's not us.
	Russia did it.
	But in order to protect you from Russian, you know, financial cyber attacks or what they'll just make it up.
	Then we're just going to have to, you know, take all your money and then reissue a new currency that's safer from Russian cyber attacks.
	And it's called the, you know, the dollar blockchain or whatever.
	It's going to be the CBDC.
	It's going to be the treasury coins, whatever.
	And again, they'll use war with Russia as the excuse.
	So war with Russia is absolutely necessary from the point of view of the governments of the West because they have run out of options.
	They can no longer maintain control.
	They can't achieve the mass censorship they want.
	They don't have a really good way to arrest and jail all the political dissidents that they want to lock up, especially the Palestinian supporters, you know, that they're trying to lock up.
	They also can't allow the American people to sell dollars and buy gold too much.
	If that begins to go mainstream, then, oh my goodness, they can't let the dollar collapse like that.
	They can't let people have financial sovereignty with precious metals.
	So they will have to urgently issue some kind of a crackdown, some kind of emergency.
	And it's great to be able to blame Russia.
	So that's the point of view from the West.
	Now, let's take a look at this from Russia's point of view.
	What is Russia's game plan in all of this?
	Russia knows that if they go along with the escalation, it's going to be very bad for them because Western countries do have a lot of nuclear weapons, etc.
	And Russia knows that right now, domestically in the United States and Western European countries, that probably half or more of the people oppose these wars.
	They don't want war with Russia.
	So Russia doesn't want to give the domestic populations of Western countries any reason to think that Russia's such a bad country that they have to be destroyed.
	So that's why Russia would be extremely reluctant to use a nuclear weapon, especially not to use it first.
	Now, if they are attacked with a nuclear weapon, then you could see Russia responding with nuclear weapons, no doubt.
	But I am highly doubtful that Russia would be the first to initiate nuclear weapons because they want to be seen as being on the moral high ground side of this entire equation.
	That's really critical for them.
	So Russia, and you've seen this strategy with Putin, Russia is willing to take a lot of abuse, actually, and to take a lot of missile strikes and to just sustain a lot of damage and not retaliate against Western targets outside of Ukraine.
	Russia could have bombed or they could have used Oreshnik missiles to strike military bases in Romania or Poland, for example, or Germany, but they haven't.
	Why?
	Because they don't want to hand NATO Article 5 escalation.
	So Russia is actually being very, very strategically smart right now by being willing to take more abuse and to not retaliate outside of Ukraine itself.
	That's smart on their part.
	Russia also knows that time is working in their favor.
	So the longer this war drags on, actually, the more beneficial it is for Russia.
	Now, think about it this way.
	Russia knows that the United States is suffering a lot of financial turmoil, political turmoil.
	There's a very strong growing anti-war movement, even among Trump supporters like myself.
	I mean, overall, I've supported Trump, especially against all the insane Democrat plot to try to destroy Trump with the Russia collusion hoax and all of that.
	I defended Trump through all of that.
	I don't agree with everything that Trump does, but as a former Trump supporter, I am a peace advocate.
	And I want to encourage Trump to get us out of these wars.
	And Russia knows that.
	And there's a lot of us.
	You know, Judge Napolitano, Gerald Salenti, Scott Ritter, for example.
	These are all peace activists.
	Well, maybe that's not the right label, not for Scott Ritter.
	He's not a peace activist, but we don't want to get caught in the quagmire of endless wars.
	Also, the United States has run into a lot of financial trouble.
	The dollar keeps getting weaker and weaker.
	The debt keeps getting worse and worse.
	And the political upheaval in the United States, the fact that, for example, the DOJ just launched a task force to investigate the Russia collusion hoax among the Democrats, if we see, for example, Barack Obama being arrested and handcuffed and criminally charged, and James Clapper and John Brennan and Jim Comey and whoever else, do you realize what that's going to do domestically?
	There's going to be a revolt, practically a civil war in certain cities.
	Not the whole country, but maybe regionally, some civil war type of activities.
	That destabilization is going to be a big distraction for the White House, and Russia knows that.
	So all Russia has to do from their point of view is just delay, just delay the whole operation.
	That's why they don't seem to be in any big hurry, actually, in Ukraine.
	They're just slowly, methodically causing casualties among the Ukrainian soldiers.
	And Ukraine is increasingly unable to replenish those soldiers once they are lost.
	Regardless of how much equipment comes in or how many tanks or how many artillery rounds, whatever, it doesn't matter.
	You don't have the men.
	You don't have the men.
	And there's not much more Ukraine can do except dramatically lower the recruitment age to something like 18.
	But Zelensky is already facing pretty big protests in Ukraine right now because of Some of the anti-corruption body and how Zelensky moved to put it under his command because it doesn't want anybody looking into the corruption of his regime because it's crazy corrupt, of course.
	I mean, isn't every regime corrupt?
	Nothing unusual, but it is bad.
	So the protests would be insane.
	And there's a risk of a revolt in Ukraine if they lower the recruitment age to something even to 20 years old.
	There'd probably be a massive revolt in Ukraine.
	I'm just guessing.
	I don't know.
	I don't live there, so other people know better than I do.
	I'm just guessing.
	So Russia, they know that all they got to do is just stay on the current path, and they're not sitting down and surrendering anything to the West.
	They're not even willing to engage in negotiations unless the West agrees to certain bullet points pre-negotiation.
	And so far, the West has not agreed to any of those demands.
	So all Russia has to do is stay the course.
	They don't even really have to gain much more territory, although they are gaining territory on a fairly steady basis right now, small pieces here and there.
	But they don't really even have to do that in order to, quote, win the conflict.
	All they have to do is wait for the West to be worn down, to run out of money, to have a currency collapse, to have a domestic uprising, for Ukraine to run out of men, etc.
	So from Russia's point of view, there's really no reason to use nuclear weapons.
	They don't want to accelerate the timetable of conflict.
	And the only reason to use nuclear weapons would be in retaliation or if they are existentially attacked or threatened with their very existence in some way.
	So yeah, if that happens, Russia is going to nuke the bejesus out of whatever the threat happens to be.
	But I don't think Russia is going to initiate that.
	Now, back to the West, from the point of view of Western nations, they were hoping that they could achieve regime change in Russia, that they could make the war so unpopular in Russia by causing so many casualties that Putin himself would be overthrown.
	And this was also exacerbated by some of the domestic terrorist operations that were run by a combination of Ukraine and MI6, like the theater shooting that happened a couple years ago, just mass shootings and bombing bridges and things and killing commuters on trains, those kinds of activities.
	Those are designed to make the war burden domestically very politically expensive for Putin.
	But it hasn't achieved its goal.
	In other words, Putin hasn't been overthrown and Putin's popularity, by all accounts, is still very high among the Russian people.
	Although, who knows for sure?
	I don't know.
	But I don't hear all kinds of Russian people screaming about how we have to end the war.
	Mostly, what I hear from people who have been to Russia is that the Russian people are saying we have to be dedicated to finishing the war whatever it takes.
	And Russia's approach to war, which is to preserve men, not to preserve land, you know, to maneuver to minimize the loss of men, even if you lose territory, that tactic that Russia has been following has actually served them very well in this case.
	At times, they've had to retreat, but they've done so in the preservation of men.
	Whereas Ukraine, by and large, has ordered its men to hold this territory at all costs.
	We can't lose any more territory.
	But in doing so, they would lose a lot more men.
	Because sometimes it's a suicide mission to stay put.
	Sometimes an organized retreat is the best move, you know, to live and fight another day.
	But in many cases in Ukraine, the military men are being lost because they're ordered to defend at all costs.
	So as time goes on here, this becomes a war of attrition where Ukraine is losing a far higher number of soldiers than is Russia.
	And I don't know what the ratio is exactly.
	It might be 10 to 1.
	It might be higher or lower, but 10 to 1 is probably a pretty good, rough estimate, which means for every 100,000 Ukrainian soldiers that are killed or wounded, you might have 10,000 Russian soldiers.
	Well, even if it were on par, even if it were one-to-one, Russia can outlast Ukraine because Russia has a much higher population level and Russia has a much larger number of not only active duty soldiers, but recruits going through the pipeline to become soldiers.
	Russia's recruiting, I think I heard something like 30,000 new soldiers a month.
	That may not be exactly right, but I think I heard something in that range, which would be extraordinary.
	I mean, that's a high number.
	And a lot of that is national pride, because the Russian people want to fight for mother Russia.
	And you could say, well, that's because they've been propagandized and they don't really know what they're signing up for.
	Okay, whatever.
	But the numbers are there.
	And the Russian soldiers right now are the best trained or the most experienced land fighting forces in the world.
	You can't even argue with that.
	There's no other land fighting force on the planet right now that has just achieved three years of battle and has worked out all the modern warfare with drones and everything better than Russia.
	Nobody.
	Not China, not the United States, not Ukraine, certainly not Germany.
	Certainly not the UK.
	The British military is a joke compared to Russia.
	So nobody's got this experience.
	So Russia's military is the fighting machine right now, which means they are able to largely dominate the tactics on the battlefield and to choose whether they want to expend men or not to either gain territory or to give up territory when it preserves their men or preserves their equipment.
	So, as a result, because Russia is not in a panic, their battlefield effectiveness is very high and their battlefield losses are relatively low, which means again that Russia can sustain this operation for the long haul.
	Whereas Ukraine's time is running out.
	Zelensky's time is running out.
	It's not just the protests.
	It's also the patience of people like Trump.
	You know, Trump doesn't want to forever be caught up in this war, especially as the midterms start getting closer and closer.
	And since Trump ran on peace, at some point, he's going to actually have to demonstrate that he's a peace president or that he's capable of bringing these nations to some kind of negotiated peace.
	Trump falsely says that Russia isn't willing to negotiate.
	That's not true at all.
	Russia's happy to negotiate just on Russia's terms.
	Just like Trump says, well, we'll negotiate with you on our terms.
	What are the terms?
	A 30-day ceasefire before we sit down.
	Well, the reason Russia rejects that is because it's a trick used by the West.
	It's a trick that's been used before.
	To call a ceasefire, sit down to negotiate.
	And then what did America do in Iran?
	Well, they murdered the negotiators, bombed the country anyway.
	And they used the ceasefire as a ploy, a deceptive ploy to just rearm and then reattack.
	Putin's not stupid.
	He knows that.
	In fact, Trump is stupid to think that Putin is stupid.
	I mean, Trump is vastly underestimating the sophistication of Putin.
	But Putin's not falling for it.
	So yeah, Russia will negotiate on their terms.
	And what are their terms?
	Well, Ukraine has to never join NATO, and Ukraine has to denazify, whatever that means.
	And the West has to guarantee that they're not going to use Ukrainian territory for staging missiles that could be nuclear missiles, things like that.
	And also, Russia says we're not giving back any of the territory that we currently occupy, period.
	So if you don't agree to those terms, we're just going to keep fighting it out on the battlefield because Russia is winning.
	So that's why Martin Armstrong's warning about all this should be taken seriously.
	Yes, this is headed for something like a nuclear war because of the desperation of the West, not the desperation of Russia.
	Russia can continue on its current course for years.
	The West can't.
	The West needs to accelerate this.
	And so they'll turn to nuclear weapons to accelerate it.
	The real question in my mind is when the West uses a nuke on Russian forces, will Russia just absorb that?
	Will they respond with non-nuclear strikes, such as Oreshnik missile strikes hitting NATO military bases?
	My guess is it depends on where the nuke came from.
	So if the West drops nukes from, let's say, bombers, and if those bombers took off from a military base in, let's say, Poland, then Russia will say, you know, we're just, we're going to obliterate that military base, and that's our response.
	And it's hard for the world to blame them for that.
	It seems actually appropriate.
	But I don't think that Russia will nuke every city in Western Europe, because that would be an unjustified escalation.
	That's my guess.
	I'm not a mind reader, so I can't get into the mind of Putin or, God forbid, Trump.
	No one knows what's happening in that head.
	We don't even dare try to guess that.
	But I'm guessing that Russia will take a relatively non-escalatory track as this war progresses, but the West will try to escalate at every opportunity.
	So the bottom line, folks, is get ready for nuclear war.
	Be sure to be fully prepared, stay fully informed.
	Listen to all my podcasts at Brightown.com, all my interviews.
	I just interviewed Colonel Douglas McGregor, for example.
	We talked about this.
	And be sure to get fully supplied and stocked up on the things that you need to be prepared.
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	Take care.
	This podcast is going to sound, it's going to sound egoistic, but it's not.
	And I assure you that I'm presenting this from a place of love for fellow human beings.
	I love life.
	I love protecting life.
	That's part of my mission.
	That's why I'm here, to help empower and uplift people with knowledge and protect lives, or really to help you protect your own life, to help you be the best person that you can be so that you can pursue your mission in life.
	So with that as the context, let me just offer the following statement.
	And I know that most of you listening to this, you take into account the information that I provide.
	You'll think about it.
	You may use it.
	You may reject some of it.
	That's all fine.
	But my message to especially the rest of the world is if you want to be a more successful person in all the ways that really matter, like your health, Your morality, even protecting your financial assets so that you're not a slave to the system.
	If you want to be more independent, if you want to be more successful in all these ways, listen to the information that I'm offering.
	If more people would follow the lifestyle that I espouse, that I teach, and let's be clear, I learned this from others.
	You know, I was reading books of people that came before me who taught me these things.
	So I'm just standing on the shoulders of other giants before me.
	But if more people would listen to the information that I have to offer and actually incorporate it into their lives, they would be far better off, far better off in every way.
	For example, the people who listen to me and did not take the COVID jabs are obviously far better off, and most of them are still with us.
	Whereas the people that took the jabs, a whole lot of those people are no longer with us, sadly.
	The people who listen to me on the collapsing dollar and the importance of owning gold and silver, to the extent that those people stacked gold and silver, they are smiling big right now because their gold has gone up almost, well, 100%.
	And the silver has gone up almost 100% as well.
	I mean, it just depends on the timeline I'm talking about, obviously.
	But I've been recommending gold and silver for many, many years.
	And you may recall that I even mentioned just a few months ago that I bought silver at $30.
	And I even said publicly, I said, when it dips below $30 spot price, I'm going to load up.
	I'm going to buy it.
	And I did.
	And I mentioned it publicly.
	And I, you know, gave a source, our sponsor, where to get it.
	And now silver is $39.
	It's gone up almost a third just in a few months.
	Astonishing.
	It's like a 100% annualized return, you know?
	And of course, I've talked about using nutrition to prevent chronic degenerative disease.
	And to the extent that people do that, their lives are so much better.
	They live longer.
	They have less chronic pain.
	They're not addicted to prescription pharmaceuticals.
	They don't go in and out of the doctor's offices all day.
	I mean, this is really the most important area where I'm just shocked that more people don't follow the lifestyle that I espouse because it's not that difficult to be healthier.
	It's really not.
	And if you follow my advice on eliminating toxic fragrance chemicals out of your life, which I have railed against for years, then you will have noticed something by now.
	You will have noticed that your sense of smell and your cognition are both enhanced by the fact that you're not smothering your brain with toxic fragrances.
	And if you stop using all those toxic laundry detergents and dryer sheets and cosmetics and shampoos that are loaded with fragrance chemicals, if you stop using them all for a year and use clean products, then if you go back and smell one of those things, oh, you're blown away.
	Oh my God, I can't believe I ever used that.
	That's insane.
	How did I not smell that?
	And see, that brings me to a really interesting phenomenon in dealing with all kinds of people.
	And this could include family or friends or the public or anybody.
	Very few people are really willing or they don't have the courage or the determination to acknowledge and eliminate the toxins out of their lives.
	Very few people.
	It's always been surprising to me.
	Very few people read ingredients labels and avoid hidden sources of MSG.
	Very few.
	Not even 1% of the population.
	Very few people give up toxic fragrance products, cosmetics, lotions, shampoos, deodorants, whatever.
	It's shocking.
	It's like you're poisoning your skin every day.
	And your underarm deodorant is made with aluminum, which is going right into your blood.
	You're poisoning yourself.
	And a lot of these people think that they're healthy.
	They really do.
	Because they eat a salad once a week or something, you know?
	And for whatever reason, it's women that, of course, use far more cosmetics than do men.
	And women have the hardest time giving up toxic products.
	All the skincare, all the facial, all the cosmetics, all the perfumes, whatever.
	They tend to, many of them, they identify with their toxic products as sort of who they are.
	It's like, I'm not me unless I'm wearing, you know, Brand X facial moisturizer or whatever.
	Or I'm not me unless I'm using this brand shampoo.
	It's my favorite shampoo.
	I love the shampoo.
	Yeah, but when you walk around, you are a cloud of perfume that is just bizarre for everybody else.
	And one of the ways that I know this, that this is even true among people in the health freedom community, is that I have a very strict policy in my studio where my producer talks to every guest before they come to the studio and says, look, all fragrances are banned in the studio because Mike is very, very sensitive to them and doesn't want to smell your shampoo or your detergent or whatever.
	And if you come to the studio, you have to not use any of that stuff, period.
	Otherwise, don't come.
	We'll do it on, you know, Zoom or whatever.
	And to this day, wouldn't you know it, so many of the women that show up, not all of them, but many of them are still loaded with fragrance.
	And a couple of times I've asked them, said, didn't my producer talk to you about this policy?
	That you can't come in Here and pollute my studio air with all your fragrance.
	And they will say things like, Well, I got rid of everything.
	I didn't use anything.
	I'm like, Oh, oh, yes, you did.
	And then it always turns out, Oh, well, that shampoo, I didn't smell anything in that shampoo.
	Or I put on the skin lotion.
	I didn't smell anything.
	Yeah, that's why we have the policy because you can't smell it.
	You see what I'm saying?
	People do not know that they are living a toxic lifestyle.
	And even when you require them to give up the toxins, they are incapable of doing so because they don't think that they're using them.
	But this is true in so many areas of life, isn't it?
	This is also true in sometimes relationships or marriages.
	Somebody will have a toxic spouse or a toxic fiancé, boyfriend, girlfriend, whatever.
	They don't see the toxicity because they just get used to it.
	It's like a person who can't smell their laundry detergent all over their body because they're just used to it.
	But again, back to the main point, if you follow my information and you get rid of toxins out of your life, you are going to be happier.
	You're going to be healthier.
	You're going to be more free.
	You're going to live longer.
	You're not going to have to go in and out of hospitals all day.
	You're just going to be a far better person and better able to pursue your mission, whatever your mission is in your life.
	You'll have more time to do that and you'll have more enjoyment to do that because you won't be living in a state of disease and pain all the time.
	Now, nutrition is a difficult one for a lot of people because people also don't see their nutritional deficiencies.
	Because if you're vitamin D deficient, you can't really tell until you start growing cancer tumors or you have really weak, fragile, mushy bones or things like that, early stages of rickets.
	So people that have vitamin deficiencies or mineral deficiencies are very, very common.
	They just don't know it.
	And their doctor doesn't tell them about nutrition typically because that's not something that doctors really focus on.
	So the only way to really understand that you have nutritional deficiencies is to be well educated about nutrition and to understand that the food supply is stripped of its nutrition and minerals.
	And then to understand that just to eat the kinds of foods that existed in, let's say, the Bible, the Old Testament days, everything in the Old Testament was organic, natural, and loaded with nutrition because they didn't have pesticides and herbicides that they sprayed on the crops.
	So the very first fruit mentioned in the Bible is grapes, actually, the vine.
	And the grapes in the Bible were so nutritionally dense compared to anything that you would get today that by today's standards, Bible grapes would be called superfoods.
	Loaded with resveratrol, loaded with proanthocyanidins, loaded with, you know, PCOs, and everything that's in the grape seeds and in the grape skin and in the grape leaves, just loaded with nutrition.
	And that's what people ate in that time.
	And they were healthier than we are today by far.
	So if you don't recognize that today's food is shadow food, then you'll never know that you're nutritionally deficient.
	And that's why I strongly advocate superfoods and smoothies and eating organic and so on.
	And even then, I have to supplement also.
	Even though I have a clean diet, I have to supplement.
	And even despite all of that, I tested my hair one time for metals to compare it to rabbit hair because my dogs had killed a rabbit.
	And so I decided, hey, let's clip a little bit of the rabbit fur here and let's do some science on this.
	So we tested heavy metals on the rabbit fur.
	Wouldn't you know it, my own hair was far more contaminated with metals than the rabbit fur.
	And my hair is probably among the cleanest of most human beings.
	So how toxic is the average human that doesn't even pay attention to health or detoxification?
	And the answer is highly, highly toxic.
	And then lastly, there's a difficulty, a built-in resistance in everybody to changing habits.
	And so even when a person knows what's going on or they should know, they don't want to change.
	So for example, if a person comes up to me and says, hey, I'm having all kinds of sinus congestion, I'm having headaches.
	I'm having constipation.
	I'm having skin eruptions.
	And my cardiologist says I've got a buildup of arterial plaque.
	And, you know, what's going on?
	And I would say, well, I'm not your doctor, but just by chance, how much dairy do you consume?
	Like, oh, I drink milk all the time for the calcium, you know, and I have ice cream and I have butter and I have cheese, but just a lot of milk.
	I drink milkshakes and I have milk in my cereal and milk this and milk that.
	I'm like, okay, all right.
	Well, there's your answer.
	All the symptoms you just described come from consuming homogenized, processed, you know, pasteurized milk.
	So why don't you try giving up all dairy for 30 days and see if you're a whole new person?
	And I check back with him a week later.
	Have you gotten rid of milk?
	No.
	No, I haven't gotten rid of milk.
	It's just, I just love the milk.
	And I'm like, well, so how are your symptoms?
	You still having all the snot and the constipation?
	Yep, it's all still there.
	I'm like, okay, what did you expect?
	So, you know, call me back whenever you're willing to give up milk for 30 days.
	And if you're not, stop wasting my time.
	And it's a hard one for people.
	People want to be able to continue the habits that brought them to this bad situation because those are their habits.
	That's what they know.
	That's what they love.
	And they don't want to face the reality that they might have to change something.
	Like people that drink a lot of soda, right, what do they have?
	Kidney stones.
	Why?
	Phosphoric acid in the soda.
	Phosphoric acid in the sodas?
	It dissolves their bones and sends minerals into their kidneys where there's some remineralization and then they get kidney stones.
	And they also tend to have, obviously, blood sugar swings and often type 2 diabetes.
	So the typical person that's drinking sodas all day, which in Texas is a Latino person, by the way, Latinos love soda for whatever reason.
	I don't know.
	You tell me.
	I don't know.
	They're obese and diabetic and they have kidney stones.
	It's like common thing, right?
	And you say, hey, why don't you give up soda for 30 days?
	Oh, I can't do that.
	I love the soda, you know.
	Okay.
	Well, enjoy your kidney stones.
	You know, because I hear that it hurts like hell to pee out kidney stones.
	But if you love that kind of fiery pain, keep drinking soda, man.
	Cause and effect.
	It's your life, your choice.
	I'm just sharing with you how to solve this problem if you happen to have any interest in it.
	But most people don't.
	So most people just keep drinking soda, keep eating cancer-causing foods, whatever.
	So don't be that person.
	And I would guess that if you're listening to this and you've continued through this podcast, you're probably a person that's willing to make changes to achieve better results.
	And I say thank you and welcome.
	And, you know, you're part of my kind of people.
	Because I will change.
	When I get new information, I will change like that.
	If it's to improve my health or to improve my fitness or whatever.
	That's why I started on certain nasal peptides, like BPC 157, which has been a game changer for me.
	I didn't know about it a year ago.
	I learned about it, tried it, and it's like, wow, this is amazing.
	This is having huge healing effects on my body.
	And so, you know, I will change and adapt.
	And that's what we all need to do if we want to be more successful.
	And that is not a popular message.
	That's why so many of the sort of popular, you know, cult leaders or self-help leaders, you know what their message is?
	And also a lot of church pastors, you know what their real message is?
	Like, you don't have to change anything.
	You don't have to take responsibility for anything.
	Like Jesus will save you or whatever.
	You don't have to stop poisoning yourself.
	Jesus will save you.
	Nonsense.
	Jesus wants you to make good decisions in your life.
	And that's what I'm helping people do is to make better choices, have better results.
	And then you can thank God for putting all this natural medicine on this planet that we have access to.
	That's how Jesus helps you.
	He just gave you all the medicine.
	It's in all the plants and the flowers and the herbs and the tree bark and everything and the sunshine and the minerals and the water.
	It's all there.
	You know, if you don't see God's miracles in the world around you, that's on you, not on Jesus.
	So don't believe any guru that tells you you don't have to do anything different.
	They're lying.
	You absolutely have to do something different.
	And that's why I'm not a pop culture guru because I can't lie to people.
	I can't attend, you know, I can't speak to a whole group and say, hey, everybody, you're going to be awesome.
	You don't have to do anything different.
	Nope.
	I can't do that.
	I'd be like, hey, most of you are poisoning yourselves and you should stop doing that.
	And then half the people get up and leave.
	I'm like, awesome.
	Now we have a better group.
	This is great.
	Let's continue.
	So that's my approach.
	Thanks for listening.
	Enjoy.
	Incorporate as much as you can.
	Make the changes that work for you.
	And feel free to reject the things that don't work for you.
	I'm totally okay with that.
	But make constant improvements in your own life and you'll be very happy that you did.
	All right.
	I'm Mike Adams.
	Check out all my interviews and podcasts at brighteon.com.
	Take care.
	Welcome to today's interview here on Brighteon.com.
	And today we're very honored to be joined by just, I think, a top analyst, a very important voice for our time, Colonel Douglas McGregor.
	Welcome, Colonel.
	It's just an honor to have you on the show.
	We love and appreciate your work and appreciate your time.
	Good.
	Happy to be back.
	Thanks.
	It's great to have you back.
	So let's start with the fact that Trump has launched more airstrikes now in his first six months of his presidency than Joe Biden did in his entire four years.
	How does this square with the idea of being the peace president?
	Well, it's hard to make the argument, isn't it?
	Yes, yes.
	You know, I think people are beginning to look at what's happening and wondering what they did.
	You know, one of the phrases I use of people, I said, well, I think you got into a car driven by President Trump.
	You got out of the car that was driven by President Biden.
	You thought you were headed in a new direction.
	In reality, you just changed lanes.
	And I think that's effectively what's happened.
	Now, was President Trump ever going to do all of the things that he said he was going to do?
	That's a different question.
	But I think certainly in foreign and defense policy, he's taken a dramatic U-turn from where he was when he ran for office.
	Well, you said in a recent interview, because I do watch most of your interviews because I think you're so informative, but you said that you think that Trump himself has a sense of good faith in what he's attempting to do, but he's surrounded by a political infrastructure that is steering him in a completely different direction.
	Can you offer some more details about that?
	Yeah, well, I think you have to see the people that are around him that interact with him on a daily basis.
	And those people are all rabid neocons.
	People like Lutnik, Vitkoff, Rubio, Hag Seth, ultimately Radcliffe over at the CIA, and I'm sure his son-in-law, Kushner.
	All of these people are basically pushing him in the same direction.
	Then you also have to take into account the people that donated to his campaign.
	Where did most of his money come from?
	And I tell people, you know, you've got to go back and look at the Republican National Convention in August last year.
	And I don't know if you watched all of it.
	I did because I've always watched these conventions whenever I could, even when I was on active duty and frankly growing up, because my mother was very heavily engaged in Republican politics in Pennsylvania.
	And I was struck, I think it was the second night, could have been the first, I thought it was the second night when this gentleman walked out onto the stage to the podium and behind him hung this giant Israeli flag.
	And above this Israeli flag were the words, Israel first.
	And in all of my life, I cannot recall any political convention, certainly not involving either of the main parties, Republican or Democrat, ever flying or posting a foreign flag.
	And certainly no one ever suggested anything other than the United States and its interests.
	I'd never seen anything like Israel first.
	I think many of us were stunned by it and then sort of gradually walked away from it on the assumption that, well, this was important for President Trump's donors.
	So he did that.
	I don't think we understood what was happening.
	And so if you go back to that event and you trace forward, you can see that all of the decisions that are made are made with that Israel first as the lodestone guiding foreign and defense policy.
	I'm really glad you mentioned that.
	And that clearly is, at least that's my perception as well, and of many.
	But let me bring up this issue where the Trump administration really differs from Israel's analysis.
	And that's about the results of the bunker buster bombing of Iran.
	Now, both Iran and the Trump administration claim that all the nuclear material was destroyed, that the nuclear infrastructure was essentially completely obliterated.
	That was their claim the very next day, which of course is easy to dispute.
	But Israel says now, no, it's possible they didn't destroy the, what, the 60% enriched uranium, and that we may have to bomb them again.
	So here we have a split and Trump recently saying, at least reportedly, that Netanyahu is a bit of a madman.
	What do you make of that split?
	There is no split.
	If the Israelis want us to re-engage with them against Iran, we will do that.
	And President Trump has said several times, if it becomes necessary to bomb Iran again, then I will do it.
	Note the word necessary, whatever that means.
	I think we have to understand something.
	Go back to the Netanyahu Trump meeting in the Oval Office, the last one, before this, the last one, the one that preceded the bombing.
	And he sort of sat there grinning like a Cheshire cat on the chair saying, well, we want the Libyan model.
	In other words, we want to do to Iran what was done to Libya.
	And then he smiled.
	Trump didn't really react to it, but I think that Detanyahu was telling the truth.
	They want Iran to go the way of Libya.
	We know how things have turned out in Libya.
	The country was destroyed.
	It's still divided.
	It's mired in civil war.
	And this is after, of course, Qaddafi gave up any nuclear-capable weapons or biological or chemical weapons, whatever he had.
	He opened everything up to our inspection, let us remove it.
	And of course, he was rewarded by being attacked and destroyed.
	That also set in motion, wasn't the only thing, but it certainly set in motion the migration out of North Africa towards France, Italy, and into Europe, which is now beginning once again to become a serious problem.
	So I think we have to go back to that, and I still think that is exactly what Mr. Netanyahu wants.
	And again, you've got to go back and look at the Israeli view of the world.
	And their view from the very beginning has always been that if all of their neighbors are trying to kill each other or are in conflict, that that's a permanent strategic benefit to Israel.
	Well, I understand some of that makes sense.
	But on the other hand, if you have a policy that foments and cultivates destruction all around you, eventually it's going to turn on you.
	And I think that's what's really happening right now.
	But I don't think that was President Trump's preference, but I think that's President Trump's dilemma right now.
	Okay, okay.
	You also said the so-called 12-day war, you were pointing out just how effective Iran's missiles were at bypassing the so-called Iron Dome defenses and achieving kinetic destruction of specific targets in Israel, some of those being infrastructure targets such as fuel refineries and ports and military targets and so on.
	Do you think that Trump is willing to go in and resume that war, more bombing of Iran, and on behalf of Israel?
	I think the answer is yes.
	But what more can the U.S. do other than start to try to put, dare I say, boots on the ground, which would be a Suicide mission, I think.
	Well, I don't know about that, but I think we have to look at what's been happening in the region because we're focused almost exclusively on Iran, and yet there are activities in Central Asia, activities in the Caucasus, activities in Syria involving the CIA, MI6 from Britain, the Mossad.
	We and the Israelis and the British have been stirring up unrest in Central Asia without much success, by the way, in the hopes of creating an Islamist problem for Russia.
	For instance, after we left Afghanistan, people were shocked to see planes land with pallets of cash that were then picked up from U.S. military transports by the Taliban.
	And people said, well, why are we sending this material to the Taliban?
	Well, they weren't going to the Taliban.
	The shipments of cash were going into Central Asia, into Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkestan, where there are Islamist elements that we've decided to weaponize against Russia.
	Now, it hasn't worked out very well because Russia has excellent relations with the Central Asian republics.
	In fact, the leadership in the Central Asian republics is very friendly to President Putin because President Putin has been a reliable ally for them and helped them to quell unrest and is seen as a guarantor of security to some extent against China.
	Now, the people in Central Asia all want to do business with the Chinese, but they don't like the Chinese.
	And so the Russians interface with these countries so that the Chinese can move in and build infrastructure.
	And that includes infrastructure that reaches across Central Asia, down through the Caucasus Mountains, and all the way into Iran.
	And we've already seen the first Chinese rail transport train, if you will, terminate in Tehran.
	So that route now exists.
	That infrastructure is only going to grow.
	At the same time, the Israelis have been very active in cultivating the Azeri Turks in Azerbaijan because the Azeris needed their help and assistance to attack Armenia, which they've done.
	So Armenia lost territory as well as a lot of soldiers to the Azeris and their attacks a couple of years ago.
	And much of that success was facilitated by the use of Israeli drones.
	Now attention has been turned away from Armenia directly towards Iran and secondarily towards Russia.
	And the effort in Iran is very simply to do to Iran what we failed to do to Russia.
	You've got to go back and look at our original strategy, which was we're going to force regime change.
	In other words, after all, Putin is a dictator.
	Nobody likes him, so it'll be easy to remove him from office.
	Secondly, we're then going to divide up Russia into smaller bites and pieces that then we and specifically the financial interests in London and New York City can devour their resources, minerals, and so forth.
	That's failed.
	We've lost that war.
	The best that we can do now, if you're interested in harming Russia, is somehow or another keep the war going in Ukraine to the extent that you can, although I think it's going to be very difficult in the near future.
	I think that war is coming to a close.
	But having said that, we've now turned our attention to do the same thing to Iran.
	The Azeris think they have the opportunity to move into northwestern Iran, which is also Azeri and Turkic, albeit Shia, as far as religion goes.
	They've been part of the Persian culture and civilization for a long time, but there's this belief that that will cause unrest inside Iran and ultimately help facilitate regime change.
	At the same time, the Kurds in eastern Syria and northern Syria are working closely with the Israelis, specifically the Mossad, to set up their own independent state.
	They in turn are linked to the Druze, and the Druze are, of course, in southern Syria and are effectively being annexed to Greater Israel.
	All of this, of course, brings Iran into collision, not just with the Azeri Turks, but also with us and with the Israelis, because we're behind it all.
	Now it's affected Russia because Russia knows that it cannot afford to lose contact with Iran.
	It cannot afford a hostile state where Azerbaijan is that could destabilize southern Russia.
	Remember, southern Russia is very similar in many ways to Mexico for us.
	In other words, southern Russia is the soft underbelly, the strategic underbelly that's open to attack.
	And they don't want that.
	So our involvement, along with the Israelis, is now putting us on a collision course with not just Iran, but also Russia, not just in Eastern Europe with Russia, but now directly in the Caucasus and the Middle East.
	Then behind all of this, you have Mr. Erdogan, who wants, on the one hand, to support his Turkish brethren, wants to build a greater Turkey, which I don't think is going to happen exactly as he hopes.
	But at the same time, he's done a deal with the devil, the devil being Netanyahu, in order to get control of most of Syria.
	Only he's finding now that the Israelis are going to attack his surrogates in Syria, which doesn't suit him.
	Bottom line is this war is not only not over, it's just beginning.
	Right.
	And perhaps Erdogan needs to reconsider the fact that the greater Israel map encompasses much of southern Turkey also.
	I mean, that's one of the ultimate aims here.
	Well, I think they're looking also at Egypt.
	Yes.
	Much of the Egyptian army that is sitting across from the Israeli border, and you have the Israelis who want to push the starving and dying Gazan population into Egypt.
	Well, Egypt can't absorb any more people.
	It's got 100 million as it is.
	And in that sense, it's kind of an economic basket case.
	But it's also a repository of Arab nationalism.
	It's the largest Muslim Arab state In the world, and the population is violently anti-Israeli.
	So, General Sisi, who is the leader of the country, has to be very careful how he proceeds.
	He wants to get along with us, but he knows that if he actually attacks the Israelis trying to push the Gazan population, the Palestinians, into the Sinai, he's not just going to be at war with Israel, he's going to end up at war with us.
	In the meantime, the Russians and the Chinese have come into Egypt to help the Egyptians, the Russians especially.
	The Russians had a long relationship during the Cold War with the Egyptians.
	They actually got along very, very well.
	I think we're going to see a resumption of that because that's really the only way that General Sisi, his government, and Egypt can survive in the face of Israeli aggression.
	Because the Israelis very definitely want to capture the Sinai and northern Egypt.
	Yeah, and control of the Suez Canal is critical for China and Russia trade, energy movements.
	Except that keep in mind, one of the reasons they're building the one-built-one road all over Central Asia is to avoid sea transport.
	Because they've got a problem.
	It's called the United States Navy.
	And with five or six nuclear attack submarines and the U.S. Navy, you could shut down all the coastal traffic, all the sea lanes into and out of China.
	In other words, nothing goes in, nothing comes out, or you sink it.
	They know that.
	So to avoid being entirely dependent on the sea, they are building this dramatic infrastructure that reaches all the way to Europe, all the way down into the Middle East, the Arabian Peninsula, and ultimately to Africa.
	That's their purpose.
	That's an ins, how do you say, an insurance policy against being isolated by the U.S. Navy.
	Exactly.
	All right.
	Well said.
	Since you mentioned Russia, let me ask you a question about Trump's threat.
	He announced a 50-day timetable.
	I don't know.
	I've heard Trump's brain described as a random number generator.
	I thought that was particularly interesting.
	But it's about 40 days away when Trump promises to put secondary tariffs on any nation that purchases energy from Russia.
	Now, those secondary tariffs, Trump threatens, would be 100% on top of whatever existing tariff rates there are.
	And obviously, that would impact China, India, Turkey, I mean, Iran, but even the EU.
	I mean, the EU purchases gas from Russia, especially since the Nord Stream pipeline is no longer functional.
	So do you think Trump means what he says on that, or is he going to back down?
	Well, let's look at how successful our tariff war has been thus far.
	The Chinese are now dumping our treasuries at high speed.
	The treasury market is very, very fragile.
	In order to attract foreign investment in the United States, which is not coming, by the way, to the United States at this point, you have to raise yields.
	That means that your 10-year bond is inching up towards the 5% level.
	The 20 and 30-year Treasury bonds are already up nearly at the 5% level.
	If you hit the 5% level on the 10-year bond, everyone who is knowledgeable about the bond market says that's when we go into default because we can't pay the interest on our debt any longer.
	At the same time, you've got Pow, who is the target of abuse for the president, who is doing what he can to suppress interest rates, but he can't suppress them any further.
	So we're in a very difficult position.
	The things that he's doing, frankly, are probably irrelevant at this point to the Russians, the Chinese, and others.
	I mean, at some point, you say, well, the hell with the United States.
	We're just going to do business on our own.
	That's called de-dollarization.
	And we're well underway to de-dollarization.
	And in fact, as Nassim Talim has pointed out, the reserve currency is no longer the dollar.
	It's gold.
	It's gold.
	That's right.
	And I think increasingly you're going to see these currencies, the RMB is going to be pegged to gold.
	It's going to be a game changer.
	So whether we like it or not, I think the world is simply going to move on without us.
	And if anything, we're going to find ourselves increasingly isolated.
	Everybody, whether it's Mexico, Brazil, Peru, it doesn't make any difference, wants to join BRICS.
	Contrary to what President Trump said publicly, all BRICS is fading.
	It's absolutely untrue.
	It's the opposite.
	And you have the Shinehai Cooperation Council, all these other entities and trade relationships that have grown up in Asia and now with Southwest Asia, India, the Arab world, and Africa.
	We're not as relevant as we once were.
	I'm also being told that we were a few years ago, two years ago, 23% of the world's gross domestic product.
	I'm told now we're not even 20%.
	So our share of all of this is weakening.
	And at some point, you have to wake up and smell the coffee and say, wait a minute, what am I doing?
	And I think President Trump isn't there yet, but I think he'll get there.
	The problem is, I think when he gets there, it'll probably be too late.
	Well, I think it is too late in many areas.
	In fact, I'd love to hear your reaction to this.
	Yesterday, the White House put out the AI.gov report, an effort to try to achieve AI dominance.
	At the same time, I posted this article.
	The AI race is already won.
	It's been won by China.
	And here's why.
	If you look at this, you see this chart, top power-producing countries.
	You see, China produces 10,000 terawatt hours annually.
	The U.S. produces 4.4,000 terawatt hours.
	And by the way, the 10 new nuclear plants that Trump is planning would bring this 4.4K to 4.5K, in case anybody's wondering.
	And those nuclear power plants wouldn't open until the 2040s because of how long it takes.
	So China is well ahead, and the AI race is a power-intensive race.
	And the entire Eastern power grid, I think it's called the JPL Power Grid, the 13 states in Virginia and D.C., has just announced no more AI data centers are allowed because they're maxed out.
	They've got no more power, right?
	So, Colonel.
	By the way, they're also an environmental hazard and they affect the water.
	They're undetected radiation that's coming out that's beginning to have an impact.
	I'm in Northern Virginia, so I can tell you the people that live here are saying, hell no, we don't want any more of this.
	We don't want to live near it.
	Nuclear power plants?
	No, no, no.
	I'm talking about data centers.
	Oh, the data centers.
	Oh.
	Oh, what are the emissions that you're referring to?
	I am not familiar with the details.
	I just know that communities that are living near data centers are saying that the water that they're getting is no longer purified.
	You can't drink it.
	They're saying that they are emitting radiation in greater quantities than originally promised.
	What I'm trying to do, though, is reinforce your point.
	Yes.
	No more data centers.
	Well, yeah, perhaps some data centers are using surface water for cooling, possibly, and they're just pumping that through and dumping it back out.
	And then the water temperatures are changing algae growth.
	That's interesting.
	But what I wanted to point out in this and get your reaction is that I calculated, I did all the math on this.
	We would have had to have started a national emergency power expansion program in the year 2010 in order to be competitive with China in the AI race.
	But that didn't happen.
	Well, listen, I think you've just hit on a very important point.
	Some of your viewers may remember that when Obama came in, he talked about a massive infrastructure program.
	And that program involved billions of dollars.
	Well, where did all the money go?
	What happened?
	Well, they talked about shovel-ready programs.
	Ultimately, it went to Obama supporters, firms, corporations, individuals that had contributed to Obama's election.
	In other words, not much happened that was of any long-term value.
	But I can tell you, having been there at the time, along with a number of other consulting firms, Aaron was brought in and we all said the same thing.
	You've got to modernize the electric grid.
	You know, we've all been through all of the various war games and simulations that show where all the nodes are for power and electricity.
	We know what their vulnerabilities are.
	And so we laid this out for people in the Obama administration and said, look, this is where we've got to go.
	We need to bury all the power lines.
	I mean, if you go to Europe right now, particularly Central and Northern Europe and Western Europe, you rarely, if ever, see power lines.
	They've been buried.
	They're underground.
	In other words, they're secure.
	And we've got to secure the whole grid.
	The whole grid is anachronistic.
	It's old technology.
	It can't handle the loads.
	That's right.
	So all of this was briefed to the Obama administration.
	We know what happened.
	Nothing.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Dead right.
	I want to give out your website, douglasmcgregor.com.
	And I just want to ask you, Colonel, what is your focus these days?
	I mean, I know you're busy with lots of interviews and speeches and many things, but what's your focus?
	Well, I would say a couple of things.
	First of all, I think that we are on the edge of the proverbial abyss.
	I think the financial crisis that's coming is going to have a terrible impact here.
	You know, Jamie Dimon just a few days ago talked about the bond market, which we were discussing earlier.
	And he said the crack in the system is widening so quickly that we could end up in a situation far worse than anything we saw in 2008 that would probably look closer to the depression.
	Now, this is Jamie Dimon.
	Jamie Dimon is not someone that under normal circumstances would say anything like that.
	He's too busy trying to get people to invest with him.
	But he's turned around and he is sounding a very serious alarm.
	It's a little late in the game, to be blunt, but he's quite sincere.
	You've got to look at all of the leaders in the financial sector.
	You know, somebody like Luke Groman is very knowledgeable, good analyst.
	Go to Jeffrey Goodlock, who is probably the most brilliant of all.
	Then you have Aleister McLeod on gold.
	I would encourage all of your viewers, go listen to these people.
	Absolutely.
	I'm not a financial analyst.
	It's not my forte, but I can listen and learn, and I can see a serious crisis coming when it's coming.
	We're on the verge of that.
	One of the things that somebody asked me, which will happen first?
	Will we be back at war in the Middle East and potentially with Russia by September?
	Or do we have a financial collapse between now and September?
	And I said, I don't know which comes first, but I think they're both very, very likely at this stage.
	I don't see how we weather this.
	I agree with you.
	And I've also done an analysis of the stablecoin, the attempt to sell more treasuries into the new stablecoin markets enabled by the Genius Act.
	So I've crunched the numbers on this, Colonel.
	At best, the Trump administration will only be able to raise about a trillion dollars.
	It's not small change, but compared to $37 trillion in national debt, it's nothing.
	It's a drop in the bucket.
	If Trump doesn't get the debt to GDP ratio down to something closer to 70%, those 10-year rates are going to stay above 5% consistently.
	And then we're in a catastrophe, as you said.
	But the stablecoin situation is not going to solve this.
	No, but I think Scott Besson has gone into this with the hope that it can postpone disaster.
	I think that's about the best that he can hope from this operation.
	Listen, I think Scott Besson is a brilliant man, and I think he's largely correct in most of what he has to say.
	But this is beyond his control.
	And this is not the 1970s.
	You can't put Paul Volcker in there and then stick us all into a cold shower and say, suck it up.
	It's the only way forward.
	I think we have to consider what nobody wants to consider, which is default.
	But let me back up now and say we defaulted twice.
	You've got to go back and look at FDR during the Depression.
	I think it was once in 34, once in 36.
	May have the dates wrong, but they didn't call it a default.
	We simply went to our creditors and said, look, we can't pay the interest.
	Now, why did the creditors listen to us?
	Well, they had two reasons.
	One, we were sitting on top of the largest manufacturing base in the world.
	We had the largest skilled labor force in the world.
	Okay.
	And we had demanded that our creditors from World War I pay us in gold.
	So we had a steady flow of gold into the United States.
	So the creditors said, okay, we'll restructure.
	You don't have to pay everything.
	We'll work out a different plan.
	And we got through this.
	Ultimately, in 1939, when the Germans invaded Poland, you had Morgantow, the treasurer, who testified before the Senate and said, we've done everything we can.
	We don't know what to do now, Frank.
	I wish I could tell you something.
	Everything we've tried has failed.
	Well, he was right.
	It's ultimately the war that dragged us out of the Depression.
	But my point to you is that we have defaulted in the past.
	Nixon's decision to temporarily depart from the gold standard.
	Remember, it was a temporary measure.
	Yes, 1971.
	It was temporary.
	It was also a form of default because LBJ had run the country into the ground.
	People don't realize it.
	We had spent ourselves into oblivion, not only in Vietnam, which was a catastrophe for us, a waste on a scale no one today can even begin to imagine, worse than Ukraine.
	In addition to that, we also had the problem of the Great War on poverty.
	So we were spending it home, spending it overseas, and we went bankrupt.
	To get out of it, we went off the gold standard.
	Now, what are we going to do today?
	Do we have the largest manufacturing base in the world?
	Nope.
	No.
	And do we have people bringing shiploads of gold into New York Harbor to put in New York City under the sidewalks?
	No.
	So I think we're in a lot of trouble.
	And there's been an unwillingness to do an ends-means analysis, an unwillingness to stand up and say, wait a minute, this is crazy.
	Why are we engaged all over Asia militarily?
	China is not going to attack us.
	China's not massing armies on the borders of Southeast Asia.
	We're saying, well, look, they're practicing for a potential assault on Taiwan.
	Well, given all of our threats to go into Taiwan and use it as a platform for attack against China, I'm not terribly surprised by that, but there's still 100 miles of water.
	Good luck if you think you're going to invade that thing.
	I don't think it's going to work out very well even now.
	But, you know, the notion that China is constantly, constantly testing us and all of its neighbors, it's not true.
	The Japanese and the Chinese are doing business in their own currency.
	The Japanese have absolutely told us to fly a kite on Russia.
	The Japanese have said, no, we're not going to abide by these sanctions.
	We're going to continue to do business with the Russians.
	We need their oil and gas.
	I mean, we're losing this battle, if you understand me.
	And we're punishing Japan with punitive tariffs.
	Trump, why does Trump choose our allies to punish?
	And then part of the settlement there, it just shows the utter lack of knowledge among the White House saying, well, Japan's going to open its market to U.S. automobiles and U.S. grown rice.
	If there's two things that the Japanese people don't want from the USA, it's cars and rice.
	I mean, I can't make this up.
	No, no, you can't.
	I think there are a couple of things that are wrong here.
	A friend that knows Trump, he's a mutual friend of me and President Trump.
	And keep in mind, I've always liked President Trump.
	I still like him.
	I don't agree with what the hell he's doing, but I like him.
	But this friend said something to me.
	He said, Doug, you have to understand President Trump believes bullying people works.
	In other words, he thinks if you bully and threaten, you're going to get somewhere.
	You're going to get what you want.
	I was a little skeptical of the whole thing until I picked up a book, a very good book, by the way, the other day that I've had for some time, but I hadn't had time to read through it.
	It's by Fred Kaplan.
	It's called The Bomb.
	And it's a very good discussion of presidents and generals and the secret history of nuclear war.
	Now, I don't know Fred Kaplan, but he wrote a good book.
	And one of the anecdotes that he recounts in there is under the Bush administration, we wanted to negotiate an agreement with the Russians concerning nuclear arsenals.
	And Donald Trump in New York City got wind of this and asked, I guess, the Secretary of State or I think it was the Secretary of State, can I talk to the negotiator and give him some advice?
	I know how to do this.
	I'm a great negotiator.
	He said, sure.
	So he went to see the man who was leading the team to negotiate this arrangement.
	And he said, here's what you do when you get there and you walk into the room with the Soviets.
	You put your finger in the chest of the Soviet leader who's leading the team to negotiate this arrangement.
	And you say, screw you.
	And that's supposed to set the tone for compromise.
	He used a less polite word than I did.
	But the point is that this is supposed to set the tone in his mind based on his infinite successful business experience in New York City.
	Fortunately, the man who led the team paid no attention to it.
	We did get an agreement.
	It took almost two years.
	And that's the other thing that President Trump didn't seem To understand that you have to sit there when you take over the White House and you have to say, all right, how many things can I accomplish in my time here in the four years that I'm going to be here?
	You should come up with maybe the top five.
	You should then look at the top five and say, what can I get done quickly?
	And focus on those, one, two, maybe three.
	And then the others, you have to understand, it's going to take time.
	If you want to negotiate new trade relations with China, well, that's going to take months, if not years.
	That's the nature of the beast.
	That's not abnormal.
	That's the way it is.
	Right.
	And I would add, Colonel, that if you run around the world telling everybody, screw you, then all those nations are just going to turn around and say, screw the dollar.
	And they're going to join BRICS.
	Yeah.
	And that's what's happening.
	And by the way, I saw this recently.
	Somebody said it, this confrontation at a conference between an African leader named Tréor or Treoré or something and then Senator Vance.
	This is shortly before the election.
	And it was very interesting to listen to it because it was a complete failure to understand that much of the world feels as though it's being exploited by us.
	Now, President Trump has presented the picture to us as though we have been exploited by everybody else.
	I know.
	The truth is, it's a two-way street.
	And so you're absolutely right.
	You can't start a new relationship if you're a new president with anybody taking that position.
	But he believes that.
	And trying to derail these bad policies, apparently, is very difficult.
	Some people could do that.
	Some people can stand back and say, look, we tried it.
	It didn't work.
	We're going to take a different approach.
	And we'll provide information on that approach to the future next question.
	I don't see him doing that.
	I don't see him admitting that anything he has said or done might not have been the right answer under any circumstances.
	So I think ego and everything with him is mortgage to vanity as far as I can tell.
	It's impossible for him to be agile in his thinking or behavior.
	Well, and anything good happening.
	And we're about out of time.
	We're going to wrap this up shortly.
	But I would just add that also, I believe that Trump does not realize the interconnectedness of the global supply chain at this moment in history.
	As an example, my own company, you know, we do food manufacturing, fulfillment, we have warehouse operations, everything.
	We were trying to buy about a million-dollar machine from Italy that would help automate some of our manufacturing.
	And then he slaps a 30% tariff on the EU.
	So now it's a $1.3 million machine and we can't get it.
	But that would help if we got the...
	You're preaching in the choir and you're talking about the externalities of the marketplace, the unanticipated consequences.
	No, he's not being involved with that.
	And this is not someone who's manufactured anything.
	That's right.
	He's also surrounded by what I would call financial capitalists.
	Everything in New York City is financialized.
	They're not creating anything.
	They're not building anything.
	They're essentially charging transaction fees.
	That's right.
	Most of the people around Trump have made themselves into billionaires by moving money from point A to point B to point C and collecting transaction fees along the way.
	It's not production.
	And this nation between 18, I would argue this nation between 1865 and 1955 was built by production capitalists.
	That's right.
	They produced something.
	And that's what my company does here in Texas.
	We produce things.
	And Trump, in some ways, makes it more difficult than it should be.
	But Colonel, I want to give out your website again.
	It's douglasmacgregor.com.
	I want to encourage everybody to check out your site, check out your videos.
	You're a frequent guest with Judge Napolitano and others.
	And here's some of your videos here.
	Is there anything else you want to add before we wrap this up, Colonel?
	No, just that, you know, fasten your seatbelts.
	You're going to go on a roller coaster ride over the next 12 months.
	And I can't predict where it will end, but I don't see good things in sight.
	At some point, we're going to have to put the brakes on and change direction because the direction we're headed in right now is not good.
	Okay.
	Thank you for your analysis, Colonel.
	Have a great day.
	Appreciate your time.
	Be well.
	Same to you.
	Thank you, my friend.
	Thank you.
	Bye.
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