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July 30, 2025 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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MEGA-QUAKE rocks the Pacific Rim as tsunami waves crash Hawaii, Japan... (BBN, July 30, 2025)
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Well, the largest earthquake to strike our planet in 14 years, I believe, has just struck.
An 8.8 on the Kamchatka Peninsula off the east coast of Russia with tsunami impacts striking Japan and Hawaii and the west coast of the United States.
By the time you hear this, those waves will have already arrived.
Welcome to Brighton Broadcast News for, what is it, Wednesday, July 30th, 2025.
I'm Mike Adams.
Of course, thank you for joining me today.
And I'll tell you up front, I've got a fantastic interview with former Congressman Dennis Kucinich.
We had an amazing conversation earlier today.
Dennis Kucinich, a former Democrat who ran recently as an independent, he is an extraordinary human being, a truly courageous American, and you don't want to miss that interview.
It's one of the best.
But I'm going to play some of the footage of the earthquake, at least some of the shock effects in Russia.
I'll play those in the background now as we're covering this.
So the footage that you are seeing right now shows the immediate effects of the earthquake in Russia.
And then, of course, the tsunami.
And now this was an ocean-based quake.
It was located, I think the epicenter was many dozens of miles under the bottom of the ocean.
And it happened right along the ring of fire, just exactly where you would expect plate tectonics to be very active right now.
And it's having impacts on Japan.
And reportedly, whales are now washing ashore on the beaches of Japan.
And I don't know if the whales are dead or disoriented or what.
That just seems apocalyptic.
And it's notable, I covered this at the end of June.
Remember that July 5th was supposed to be the day of a catastrophic series of earthquakes and even a new subcontinent appearing, connecting Japan with even the Philippines and so on.
That was part of a manga graphic novel, prophetic prediction by an artist there named Ryo RYO.
I don't recall her last name.
And remember that I talked about this.
I said I did not think that that would happen on July 5th, and it did not happen on July 5th.
But here we are still in July and to have the largest earthquake in 14 years strike very close to that region, just north of Japan, actually, it's notable.
And this quake may be just the beginning of more quakes to come.
Now this quake is officially registered as an 8.8 on the Richter scale.
And as you can see from this earthquake map, there's the 8.8 stack with other aftershocks that are smaller in amplitude.
You can see a 5.6, a 4.6, 4.5.
This is from a website called earthquake3d.com.
And you can go to earthquake3d.com.
You can see real-time earthquake reporting.
And it shows the aftershocks stacking on top of the main eruptions.
You can see there are earthquakes all over the ring of fire happening right now, including all across Southeast Asia.
Let's see, Japan is being hit by some aftershocks right now.
Wow.
All the way south through the Philippines.
Yeah.
Looks like parts of Malaysia getting hit and so on.
Very active situation.
So, of course, there wasn't a new continent that appeared, but this is a very big deal, a very big event.
And of course, waves or tsunami waves are now propagating across the Pacific Ocean.
As I'm recording this, the waves are just about to reach Hawaii.
And there have been attempts to evacuate the low-lying cities like Honolulu.
And we'll play some of those videos for you.
There's a lot of congestion, sort of gridlock right there.
People are not able to exit efficiently because, of course, everybody's trying to get out at the same time.
Also, Oprah is being condemned by everyone because Oprah has this road, this private road that's in her area, some land that she owns that she has refused to open the road reportedly, that would have allowed lots of local Hawaiians to escape, to evacuate the low-lying areas.
And let's see, that's from Wa'ilea to Kula, apparently, is what I'm seeing.
And she's refused to open the road is what's being reported.
All kinds of tsunami sirens are blaring all over Hawaii.
And the people that live there are posting this all over social media.
Donald Trump tweeted about it.
And there's a website, tsunami.gov, that's warning everybody to seek higher ground and evacuate.
And I was asking the question, could this be a weapon system or a weapon that enhances a fault line that's about ready to go anyway?
And it turns out that there is something called a tsunami bomb that was a project under the United States Navy in World War II.
And it was a joint project by the United States Navy and the New Zealand military, and it was codenamed Project SEAL.
So, the weapons were reportedly not fully developed, but the idea was deemed feasible to set off deliberate tsunamis in order to cause damage to target countries.
Now, the fact that this earthquake was set off very near Russia, and the fact that Trump is now giving Russia 10 days, Trump says, in order to agree to a ceasefire, and you have Lindsey Graham threatening Russia with all kinds of, who knows what, like, you're going to pay, you know, we're going to get you these kinds of threats.
It does make you wonder whether this event is fully natural or whether it was set off by a U.S. military weapon in order to target Russia.
If so, it apparently has not done extensive damage to Russia, at least that we can see.
There is a port in eastern Russia that has been damaged, and a lot of buildings were shaken.
You know, there's property damage, but it's not catastrophic to Russia.
And so I think most geologists listening to this would say, no, this is not a weapon.
This is just a natural event.
It's just bad luck.
It just happened to set off 10 days away from Trump's deadline.
Okay, that could very well be true.
I don't know.
But there is something called a tsunami bomb that was under development by the United States military, just saying.
So file that away and keep that handy if that becomes more relevant in the days ahead.
Now, the waves that are headed for Hawaii, as I'm recording this, the warnings say that those waves could reach 12 feet in height.
12 feet is a significant wave height.
And of course, it's not just one wave that's 12 feet tall.
It's a surge of water that continues to come in in wave after wave after wave, with maybe one of them being 12 feet high and then followed by a bunch of other waves, like dozens of additional waves.
So a tsunami is not just one wave.
A tsunami, if you've seen any of the videos from recent tsunamis in Japan and other places, and there was one in the Indian Ocean, you know, a decade ago or so, you will note that it's a surge of water that moves very far inland, typically, in some cases, several miles inland.
So since Hawaii, the islands are, of course, volcanoes that happen to have land that peaks out above the ocean level.
Every Hawaiian island is shaped like the top of a mountain.
So in Hawaii, it's not that difficult to get to higher ground.
All you have to do is just go toward the center of the island.
The problem is that there's so many people in certain places, like Honolulu, obviously, that in that case, the evacuation can really be extremely difficult.
And you only have a certain number of hours in which to get to higher land.
So this is one of those moments when we have to remind ourselves of the importance of having a go bag ready to go in your vehicle.
Do you have a go bag in your vehicle?
Does it have everything you need?
Does it have backup communications, a satellite, phone, you know, emergency medicine, flashlights, firearms where legal, extra ammo, water filter, you know the drill.
Just go down the list.
Does it have all those things?
Is your gas tank full?
What if you don't have any gas in your vehicle?
You're not going to be able to just fill up when your city's in gridlock.
Imagine such an event happening in a place like Los Angeles or Seattle or Chicago.
You're not getting out.
Or Miami for that matter.
You're not getting out.
So, as I've often said, cities are death traps.
And living in a city is putting your life at risk because you don't know what's going to happen.
You don't know what's going to hit your city.
A nuclear weapon, terrorist weapon, power grid failure, tsunami now, all of a sudden, etc.
You just don't know.
So living in a city is not advisable.
And this is just another demonstration of why that is the case.
Now, this is going to cause some level of property damage in Hawaii.
I don't know the level yet.
I might stay up a little later and try to watch some of the early reports and find out what's going on.
The problem is it's going to be dark when the waves hit Hawaii, so whatever video footage is posted is not going to really show us much until the following morning, which by the time you're hearing this, it should be morning in Hawaii.
And you should be able to check the news and see what the situation is.
But I just want to mention that for those people who fled Japan because of the manga prophecy, well, you know what?
It wasn't as big as was warned, but this is still a very big deal.
And, you know, and a 14-year major event.
Yeah, this is a very big deal.
So maybe the Japanese manga artist was actually seeing something, and possibly there's even more to this.
And hey, folks, for a bit of a tangential topic here, it's being reported that there's an asteroid known as 2024YR4.
It's about 50 plus meters across, and it's said that it has about a 4% chance of striking our moon in the year 2032.
4% chance.
Now, actually, it doesn't have a 4% chance.
It's either going to hit it or not.
It's either 100% chance or it's zero.
The 4% comes from our observational uncertainty.
But it's either on track to strike the moon or it's not.
If it strikes the moon, it's said that it will create a one-kilometer-wide crater and that it would be the largest lunar impact in 5,000 years.
It would, I'm wondering, could we see it with our own eyes?
If we look up at the moon, would there be like a I don't know.
That's interesting.
It would probably be visible with a telescope if it were just right, like just on the edge of the moon or something.
But I don't even know which side of the moon it's supposed to hit.
Anyway, if it does hit the moon, then of course it's going to eject some debris into space, and there might be some small amount of that that would burn up in Earth's atmosphere.
So it would be an interesting little falling star show for maybe a couple of weeks or something.
Might hit a satellite or two, but I doubt it because space is large.
But that's interesting, isn't it?
I mean, kind of weird, quote, natural events seem to be stacking up here.
I don't know.
Would it be odd if you looked up at the sky at night and you saw the moon and then an explosion ripped out of the side of it?
Like, whoa, what just happened up there?
You know, of course, the flat earth people would be all angry about that.
There's no moon.
It's a paper plate on a string hanging from the dome.
Okay.
I'm not saying that.
I'm just, that's a little bit of satire right there.
Nevertheless, I'm not going to freak out about a 4% chance of the moon being struck by a rock.
The far bigger thing happening is that Hawaii and the entire West Coast, I forgot to mention that, is going to be hit by a tsunami in the hours ahead.
Again, most likely by the time you hear this, even the entire West Coast will be hit by some, I'm going to say by the time it gets to California, relatively small wave, maybe, I don't know, I'm just guessing, two feet, less than a meter.
So just be aware of it.
Don't panic, but use this as a learning moment about evacuating the city in which you live, if you do live in a city, because sometimes you may not have much of a warning.
Obviously, in fact, what I've been talking about here the last couple of days is the idea that our own government might attack us in order to achieve faster depopulation of the United States for a number of strategic reasons and also to free up terawatt hours on the power grid.
And if that happens, do you think you'll have a warning to evacuate?
No.
There will be no warning to evacuate because the whole point of that plot is to eliminate people.
So there would be no warning.
So you know how they say possession is nine-tenths of the law?
Have you heard that saying?
Possession is nine-tenths of the law.
Like if you have it, that's the biggest argument.
Well, I have a variation of that.
Not being there is nine-tenths of safety.
It's just like, don't be there.
Don't be in the downtown area when it all hits the fan.
You know, it's like I've said, don't go out to these crazy protests and face the risk of protesters surrounding your vehicle where you have to run over them thumpity thump like speed bumps in order to escape.
You know, the best option is to just not be there.
Don't go out to that.
And same thing with the cities.
Don't live in the cities.
If you can help it.
I know some people have special circumstances and family members and jobs, jabs, things like that.
But if you can help it, don't live there.
Now, I've got a special report to play for you here right now, speaking of natural disasters.
This was called the U.S. Empire is like a volcano that's ready to blow up all over its own people.
Like Mount St. D.C. or something.
Mount St. Washington.
Instead of Mount St. Helens.
Anyway, let's play that report and then we'll continue on the other side with additional news about U.S. military readiness or the lack of readiness, actually.
But let's go to that report first.
It is a huge mistake to think that just because something has not happened, that it's never going to happen.
And of course, this is called normalcy bias.
But also, to be intellectually honest, just because something has not happened doesn't mean it's more likely to happen either.
So we have to be accurate in our assessment.
But think about people who live next to a volcano.
A volcano that is, quote, active in the sense that it erupts every, you know, 100 years or whatever.
When you're living there, maybe for your whole life, you're in the shadow of this giant geological monster that can destroy you.
But for your whole life, you've seen that mountain.
Maybe it's in your backyard.
You look out your window, you see the mountain.
And you come to love the mountain.
You never think it's going to turn against you.
You're like, no, that's the mountain that protects us.
There's a lot of mythology about mountains offering protection.
And that's true until the day that something changes and then the magma bursts up through the mountain and suddenly it's a reactivated volcano.
The side blows out.
The magma spews down.
The hot molten rock rolls across your property and kills you if you're in the way.
Not that it's killing you out of cruelty.
It's just cause and effect.
It's just because you're there.
The mountain has No bad faith motivation against you.
It's not trying to hurt you.
The mountain's just being a mountain.
The mountain's going through the natural cycles of geology.
Well, much the same is true with nations and empires.
You've lived under the U.S. Empire, I presume, if you're an American, your entire life, and that empire has always been there.
If you're like me, you grew up saying, I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.
We said that every morning in grade school.
We, in effect, honored the empire like a mountain, that it's our protector.
It's the virtuous mountain.
It's there to help us.
It's there to keep us safe, right?
These kinds of things.
And that's true day after day after day, year after year, decade after decade, until the day comes that the empire mountain erupts and blows the top off and then goes into a nuclear war.
And then at that point, the empire is in the process of potentially killing you.
But it's not that the empire even wants you dead.
It's not that the empire set out to harm a bunch of people.
It's just what empires do.
Empires go to war in the same way that mountains that are volcanic blow their tops and turn into a new active volcano.
It's just geopolitical cause and effect in one case or geological cause and effect in another case.
But it's really the same thing.
So we have lived in the shadow of a great mountain, a once great empire that can erupt with great destructive power.
And when it does, we can be caught in its path.
And that's where we are right now with the Trump administration seemingly trying to cause World War III with Russia.
Why is the U.S. Empire going to war with Russia?
Because that's what empires do when they reach a certain stage.
And you're probably familiar with the concept of the fourth turning or the cycles of civilization, the rise and fall.
We are in the falling stages of this empire.
And in the falling stages, when empires need to cover their tracks and they need to blame an outside entity for all of their internal problems and they need to cover up or wipe out their debt and they need to control their people or even eliminate their people, they turn to war.
That's what empires do.
And you know, the next stage of this, of course, is the collapse of the empire.
You know, we've seen this with Rome.
We've seen this throughout world history, numerous empires, including the Japanese empire during World War II.
We have seen empires grow and innovate and mature and then go into expansion and colonization and then turn to war for lots of reasons and then they overextend themselves and they get destroyed by the war.
We saw that with Nazi Germany.
Nazi Germany was at the peak of human civilization at the time in terms of science and technology, education, universities.
All of the best physicists of that era were Germans.
All of the best universities were German universities.
This is why so many of the names that you recognize in physics today are associated with Germany or German-sounding names like the Heisenberg principle, etc.
Or Niels Bohr.
Just look at the history of physics, atomic physics.
It all traces back to Germany or the history of rocketry.
Even NASA hired Nazi rocket scientists after World War II, Operation Paperclip, gave them new identities, brought them to the United States, which is why NASA is actually an extension of the Nazis.
That's not a coincidence.
It's actually NASA was founded by Nazis, it turns out, and run by Nazis.
Anyway, that's a different podcast.
But to this day, we see the same cycles of civilization repeating.
And it would be foolish to think that the U.S. Empire is somehow exempt from these cycles of civilization that are predictable and that always repeat.
Now, the thing about these repeating cycles is that you can change the duration of the cycles.
You can sometimes elongate the third wave of a cycle, let's say, or one wave might be shortened in duration.
You can alter the timing a little bit, speed it up, slow it down, but you can't stop the cycles because the cycles are based on cultural, civilizational, and sometimes economic cause and effect.
For example, when a nation is young and it's printing its new currency for the first time and it doesn't have any debt, then it can sort of print its way to a lot of economic abundance, seemingly.
But when that nation is old and mature, it becomes heavily burdened by debt.
That's where we are now with America.
And the debt becomes such a burden that the innovation is lost.
The nation has been living with complacency for too long.
The nation's leaders no longer incentivize innovation, but rather they incentivize obedience and profit-taking to sort of function as parasites off the collapsing system.
That's where we are now, where you have all the kickbacks and the money laundering and grift and fraud and bribery, etc.
These are the last-ditch looting efforts to basically to take as much off of the corpse of America as possible while the taking is still good.
That's where we are in the cycles of America, the cycles of history and the next cycle is or the next stage is collapse so collapse means a collapse of the currency a collapse of the centralized government a collapse of the military as we know it a collapse of the culture a collapse of industry a collapse of economic productivity etc and with this you'll see the
collapse of the judicial system and the legislative system, the executive system, etc.
It's all going to be decentralized.
Washington, D.C. will no longer be the capital of what happens next after the United States of America.
This will be a catastrophic collapse.
It is an absolute certainty and many of the actions that Trump is taking now in this last chapter are confirmatory that we are nearing the collapse moment.
And it won't be gradual.
It will be all of a sudden.
It's going to be, in my view, more like the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 than the collapse of the Roman Empire.
It's going to be sudden, not gradual, because time is accelerated today.
Things move more quickly, and we are more leveraged today financially in terms of currency and debt, etc., than ever before.
And information moves at the speed of light now and the speed of the internet.
So things happen more quickly.
So if you are not prepared when that collapse day comes, you will be, well, you will lose everything that you own in dollars.
You will lose everything that you have that's tied to the dollar, which could include a lot of crypto that's backed by stable coins, because the stable coins are backed by treasuries, which will go to zero.
You would lose everything that's in the stock market as stocks crater and are no longer propped up by the government.
You'll lose, obviously, all bank accounts in dollars, pensions, Social Security checks, all that stuff will be gone.
What will have value?
Gold and silver, land, you know, minerals, commodities, these things will have value.
Productive businesses that actually produce things, factories, etc., oil wells, these will all have value.
And your skills will have value.
Medical skills, firearms skills, you know, you're going to have value with your skills.
And to even talk about what will gold and silver be worth in dollars at that time is a nonsensical statement.
It won't matter what it's worth in dollars because the dollars will be mostly worthless.
What matters is what gold and silver will be worth in terms of their actual purchasing power for physical goods, such as land or a home or a business or an oil well, etc., or ammunition.
You see what I mean?
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happen this year it may very well happen this year but if it doesn't just use the time to prepare thank you for listening mike adams here the health ranger naturalnews.com and also brighteon.com take care all right we shall continue now talking about u.s military readiness so check this out and this this is posted by osent defender according to a report by the u.s army the united states fired over 150
anti-ballistic missile interceptors, from a number of its THAAD batteries, that's Terminal High Altitude Area Defense.
These are basically the high-altitude anti-air defense missiles, okay, T-H-A-A-D, THAAD, THAAD batteries, located across the Middle East during the 12-day war last month between Israel and Iran.
Okay, so the 12-day war, that's a hilarious name because...
of course it didn't actually stop in 12 days and it's not even over it's going to be back but the u.s military fired 150 of the fad interceptors okay you got it now in this post that's being called 25 of all the interceptors that have ever been made or ordered by the u.s army okay that's
a quarter of all fads that have ever been made and it's saying in this post that it would take they say it would take a decade to restock that number of fads i don't know if that's true let's see if we can do the math here but anyway it says additionally the u.s navy launched 80 rim 161 standard missile 3 surface to air missiles during
the conflict so 80 of the rim 161s okay the navy maintains a stockpile of just a few hundred sm3s with Raytheon currently only planning to produce 55 additional missiles in total of the IBs.
What is that?
Is that a variant?
And only about 12 of the 2A variants per year until 2030.
Okay, so the number of these missiles that's being produced by our military is very small, like one a month is what it looks like there, 12 per year.
Okay, that's one a month, right?
Recent conflicts in the Middle East with both the House and Iran, alongside an extremely slow production rate of interceptor missiles by Raytheon and Lockheed Martin, have left U.S. interceptor stockpiles dangerously low for a potential future conflict with China in 2027.
Like, what?
Why are they talking about China?
Do you realize that if we tried to fight a war with China or Russia for that matter, the entire U.S. military would run out of munitions in a number of just days?
I mean, everything.
All the cruise missiles, all the Thaad missiles, all the Patriot missiles.
And of course, the imaginary Patriot batteries would not help the ones that Trump says he's sending to Ukraine, the 17 that don't exist.
Imaginary Patriot missile batteries are really inexpensive to promise to countries, but very difficult to deliver.
That's the bad part about that.
But the U.S. military is not going to be able to produce much of anything.
And again, in just 12 days trying to defend Israel against Iran, the U.S. military shot up like a quarter of its entire stockpile in 12 days from just one country shooting at us.
And that country wasn't even China or Russia for that matter.
It was Iran.
So no wonder Netanyahu begged Trump to find a way to stop the war with Iran because as Colonel Douglas McGregor had said publicly, Iran was on track to destroy Israel in another two to three weeks.
And there was nothing the U.S. could do to stop it because the so-called Iron Dome turned out to be a total joke.
A total joke.
They ran out of munitions.
They weren't stopping much of anything.
And also Trump's plan for the so-called Golden Dome that's going to protect America, he says, against Russian missiles and China missiles and then North Korean missiles.
Yeah, this whole thing is nothing but a giant money laundering pit of lies and incompetence.
It will never work.
It's not even possible to intercept the incoming ICBMs because the glide vehicles are traveling at anywhere from Mach 10 to Mach 20.
You can't actually intercept them, it turns out.
And they maneuver on top of that.
Yeah, they've got flight control surfaces and they turn a little bit and throw you off.
So you're not going to be able to intercept those.
The whole Golden Dome project is a clown show of corruption, just a bunch of handouts to a bunch of military contractors that will never produce anything that works.
And this reminds me that under Democrat administrations like Obama and Biden, all of the money laundering goes to companies that pretend to build electric vehicles and solar technology.
Under Republican presidents, all the money laundering goes to companies that pretend to build military weapons and defense systems.
So you see how it works?
It's all the same fraud.
It's just, you know, left pocket versus right pocket.
It's the same thing.
In neither case is anything useful actually built.
But they talk about it like it's already real.
Yeah, Trump says it's going to be the greatest golden dome ever.
It's going to block everything.
No, it's not going to block anything.
It's a golden joke, actually.
Or it's a golden shower, not a golden dome.
It's like, yeah, Trump, whatever gets you off, I guess.
You want golden showers?
Yeah, stop wasting taxpayer money on it is my point.
I don't care what you do in the Oval Office, but stop wasting all our money.
So the bottom line is that U.S. weapons manufacturers like Raytheon and others, they barely make anything.
You know why they barely make anything?
Lockheed Martin, Boeing.
I mean, Boeing makes things, but I mean, I'm talking about making things that work.
So Boeing barely makes anything that works.
And occasionally Boeing makes things that don't blow up, like occasionally, you know, passenger jets or things like that.
But the reason these companies don't make anything is because the defense industry is largely just a bunch of money laundering and fraud where these companies mostly support Republicans with campaign contributions.
Then the Republicans start wars or they extend existing wars, which is what Trump is doing.
And then those wars demand more expenditures on all kinds of defense industry weapons and interceptors and things like that.
And then all that money goes back to the weapons companies who barely build anything.
So yeah, they'll churn out like a missile a month or something just to maintain the illusion that they're doing something.
But in the meantime, Russia is churning out like a thousand drones a day.
I mean, Russia is actually producing at a level that dwarfs not just the United States, but all of NATO combined.
And Russia's production is small compared to China's production.
Do you have any idea how many land-based missiles that China already has built and has stockpiled on shore batteries ready to fire onto U.S. naval vessels if there's ever a war over Taiwan?
Do you have any idea?
It's not just a few thousand missiles.
It's not even just tens of thousands.
It's hundreds of thousands of missiles and rockets that China already has manufactured, stockpiled, ready to load in, and ready to fire.
There won't be a U.S. ship sailing after that barrage.
The U.S. can't do a damn thing about it.
So if there's a war between the United States and Russia, the only option for the U.S. is to very quickly go nuclear.
And Dennis Kucinich and I were talking about this in our interview today, which I'll play here shortly.
And I meant to tell Dennis, although we got distracted onto other topics, but I meant to say to him, yeah, hey, look, the U.S. lacks the gradient of kinetic options.
So, whereas Russia has lots of things that can step up the escalation ladder in terms of kinetic violence, including, by the way, the Oreshnik missile system, which is not nuclear, but devastates with great precision certain targets, including underground targets, as if they had been hit by a nuke.
Yeah, that's Oreshnik.
Russia also has very advanced thermobaric bombs, you know, fuel air explosives that are massive in scale.
Russia has drones, very precise drone strike capabilities that it's demonstrating almost every day in this conflict with Ukraine.
The U.S. has none of those things.
The U.S. does not have Oreshnik.
Now, it does have fuel air bombs.
Let me clarify that.
But they don't have combat experience with fuel air bombs.
The U.S. military lacks combat experience.
And as a result, when the U.S. runs out of the interceptors and the missiles and the cruise missiles and the tanks that Russia is blowing up already in Ukraine, the U.S. will have nothing left to use other than nuclear missiles or nuclear artillery, let's say.
So that's the issue, is that the nation that is most likely to be the first to use nuclear weapons in the coming wars is, in fact, the United States of America.
Not Russia, not China, not even Iran, not even Israel for that matter.
It's going to be the U.S. Because the U.S. has no other options.
The U.S. has no depth of munitions.
It has no inventory, and it has no manufacturing capability, no infrastructure to build back an inventory in anything less than about a decade.
And by that time, you know, it's all over.
It's kind of the same problem I've been talking about with the lack of power grid infrastructure in the United States, where China, as of last year, was able to produce over 10,000 terawatt hours of energy on their power grid.
That's for a whole year.
The U.S. is able to produce less than half that, about 4,400 terawatt hours.
And the U.S. is at least 15 years behind when it comes to building power grid infrastructure.
I've talked about that over the last few days.
Whereas China is well ahead on this.
China is building the mega mega dam project, which is three times larger than the Three Gorges Dam.
I guess you could call it the Nine Gorges Dam because it's triple the three.
And this dam by itself is going to contribute 300 terawatt hours to the power grid of China annually, and it's supposed to come online in the year 2033.
So the U.S. is a decade and a half behind on the power grid, and the U.S. is also at least a decade behind on military munitions manufacturing.
The U.S. will never even achieve the level of production and output that Russia has already achieved as of 2025.
The U.S. will never get there.
And don't even think about trying to beat China on production.
So I ask you this question when it comes to international conflict.
Which nations would you bet on?
Would you bet on the nation that can't make any more missiles, really?
The nation that doesn't have much of a power grid?
The nation that has military technology that's 20 years obsolete?
That's the U.S. Or would you bet on the nations that have cutting-edge industry, cutting-edge technology, advanced hypersonic re-entry glide vehicles, plus the Yreshnik system, plus advanced anti-air defense systems, plus the massive manufacturing capability that China has?
Which country would you bet on in that scenario?
Well, you sure wouldn't bet on the United States because the United States has the losing hand in any kind of war with Russia or China or even with Iran for that matter.
So this is why I am astonished at the rhetoric from Trump, who is just flat out constantly lying about Russia.
I heard Trump say that he doesn't know why Russia just wants to kill people.
Russia just, like for no reason, just spontaneously, Russia is just killing people.
What?
Really?
How do you not understand anything about Russia's desire to serve its own national interests by eliminating the Western threat through the proxy nation, Ukraine, that was already shipping missiles very close to Russia with an effort to try to overthrow Russia and to achieve a regime change in Russia and to pillage and loot all of Russia's resources.
That was the ambition of the West.
Trump apparently does not know any of that.
He has no idea.
I mean, he just literally has no knowledge of the history of Ukraine, what happened in 2014, you know, the staged revolution, Victoria Newland, her vengeance against Russia because of what happened to her family members, her grandfather, and she blames Russia for that.
She wants to see Russia completely destroyed, so she ran and handpicked the replacement leaders of Ukraine from 2014, etc., etc.
Trump doesn't know any of that at all.
He thinks that Putin is just killing people for sport.
That's what he thinks.
He has no idea what's actually happening.
And thus, Trump is accelerating the timetable, just announced in 10 days, in 10 days, that's the new ultimatum.
And he's pointed his finger at Putin.
In 10 days, you stop or else.
That's what Trump just did.
Just did that in the last day.
And Putin, Putin doesn't, I mean, what is Putin supposed to do?
Oh, I'm afraid.
I'm afraid of America and its total lack of any military depth.
Oh, I'm so afraid of America that's run out of missiles.
So afraid of America that doesn't have any more technology to inflict damage upon us.
So afraid of America.
No, Putin's not afraid of America.
And Medvedev has said, we're just going to continue to do what we're doing until we achieve the conditions that we've already described to you.
And then at that point, we're happy to negotiate peace on our terms.
On our terms, essentially.
So Trump has given Russia 10 days.
And within 10 days, if Russia doesn't halt all hostilities against Ukraine, Trump is going to pull the trigger on his plan.
And what is his plan?
He's going to allow Ukraine to launch long-range missiles into Russia.
And apparently, the United States has also transported tactical nuclear weapons to be staged somewhere in Europe, where they could possibly be put into the hands of Ukraine through various land routes.
So again, nuclear munitions, possibly nuclear artillery rounds, possibly nuclear weapons carrying like tomahawk missiles or other sort of slow ancient cruise missiles, but they could have nuclear warheads on them.
This kind of thing is what is apparently being given to Ukraine.
And it looks like Zelensky is going to be out and Zaluzhny is going to be put into power.
And then Trump is going to give Zaluzhny the green light to start launching what looks like will be nuclear weapons deep into Russia.
And at the same time, Trump says he's going to put 100% tariffs on every country that buys energy from Russia, which would include, of course, China and India and Brazil and the EU.
So I guess the tariffs on the EU are going to go from 15% to 115% in 10 days, if you believe Trump.
Of course, nobody believes Trump any longer.
And even Trump himself doesn't even believe Trump because he keeps changing, he changes everything, changes the days, the percentages.
Again, Trump's brain is a random number generator, and he's just constantly spouting out new numbers, so nobody knows what the hell he even means.
You know, it's Tuesday.
It's 75% tariff Tuesday.
You know, it's Wednesday.
Nah, we got a deal.
It's 40%.
You know, it's Thursday.
100% Thursday.
You know, it's like, I don't know, hanging out at a Vegas casino with a psychopath.
Or rainman, maybe.
Maybe Trump is Rainman, actually.
Maybe he's counting toothpicks that were dropped on the ground.
Like 75, 76, 77, pretty sure 77, 77 toothpicks.
Like that, that's what Trump sounds like to the whole world.
Freaking rainman for president.
Should be like, get this guy out of the Oval Office, take him to play some blackjack.
You know what I mean?
Put him to good use.
But anyway, so after 10 days, apparently the West is going to start trying to nuke Russia.
How do you think that's going to go?
I mean, I have a serious question.
How is that going to go?
So let's see.
Hmm.
How about this?
Let me bring up a prompt.
I already know the answer, so I'm cheating.
But let me bring up a prompt.
Let's see.
Which nations have the most nuclear weapons?
Hmm.
Okay, let's check that.
All right.
Let's see.
The United States and Russia possess the largest number of nuclear weapons, accounting for 87% of the world's total.
Russia has 6,257 nuclear warheads.
The United States has 5,550.
Okay, now, so Russia has 6,257 nuclear warheads.
How many does it take to obliterate America?
I'm pretty sure you don't need the 6,000.
Like, you could just do it with the 257.
You could probably just do it with the 57.
Frankly, maybe just the seven.
I mean, you don't need 6,257 warheads to do it, but that's how many Russia has.
And Trump is trying to get them to nuke America.
Clearly, clearly.
And this is what I've been saying the last couple of days that has shocked some people and it's red-pilled other people.
Clearly, Trump wants Russia to nuke the United States of America.
That has become abundantly clear.
And He's in a hurry.
He couldn't wait 50 days.
He needs Russia to nuke America much sooner, like within two weeks or something.
And that's why he moved the deadline to 10 days.
10 days.
So think about this.
Right now, Honolulu is trying to evacuate because they know that there's a tsunami coming in six hours or whatever.
Imagine trying to evacuate LA in 19 minutes because Russia has launched an ICBM that's on a trajectory to hit LA.
Well, you can't evacuate LA in 19 minutes.
Not even 19 hours, not even 19 days.
But it won't matter because in 20 minutes, it's turned to ash in a nuclear war.
So Los Angeles will be los ash-alis in 20 minutes or whatever, 22 minutes, 26 minutes, whatever it is.
It's less than half an hour.
Los Ash-alis.
That's what Trump seems to want because he's pushing us directly towards that exact outcome.
And Medvedev basically said, don't play around with us, Trump.
You're playing with fire.
I mean, I'm paraphrasing.
But Miedvedev has said, you know, stop with the games because we have nuclear weapons and we will not hesitate to defend ourselves against your attacks.
Now, Trump thinks that he's just going to be able to just start launching tomahawk missiles deep into Russia, even though Russia knows those cruise missiles can carry nuclear warheads.
Do you think Russia is just going to sit back and say, oh, we'll just trust Trump that those aren't nuclear?
No, no, that's not going to happen.
One tomahawk missile in the air headed towards Moscow could result in Russia pressing the big red button.
What is that button?
Oh, it's the multi-launch button.
Out of the 6,257 nuclear weapons, one of those buttons launches about 600 of them, about 10%.
And again, one button.
And where do those 10% go?
What do they hit?
Oh, just every major capital city of Western Europe and the United States.
Goodbye, Berlin.
Goodbye, Paris.
Goodbye, London.
Goodbye, Washington, D.C., goodbye, New York City, etc., etc.
And then a few minutes later, Los Ashelis.
And, you know, Chicago.
Chicago will be turned to dust.
Now, you might say, no, that's impossible because Russia wouldn't launch its missiles because it knows that America would have a counter launch.
Well, you know what Russia knows about America?
That nothing works in America's military.
And that a lot of those ICBMs have been sitting in those silos for 30 years and nobody even knows if they work.
And guess what?
A lot of them probably don't work because you can't really like test-fire them all the time.
A lot of them are just duds at this point.
They don't even function.
And in addition, the culture of what America has become, which is kind of a complacent, dumbed-down culture, the very people that are required to run the nuclear weapons program are probably idiots.
I mean, look around, folks.
Look around.
These are not the sharp men and women of the 1970s that were in charge of the nuclear arsenal.
You know, people that you could count on, people who could do math, people who had reason and rationality.
No.
Now you've got woke idiot retards all throughout the military who don't even know how to do anything.
I mean, how many times have you seen naval vessels just ramming into other ships?
Oops.
It's like idiocracy every single day.
And the U.S. Army put out a video the other day like, look, look at our advanced tech.
We were able to drop a grenade from a drone, like a DJI drone that you could buy off the shelf.
They dropped a grenade from it.
They thought that was advanced technology.
You know, the whole world was laughing.
Oh my God, that would have been awesome in the year 2015.
And the Army thinks that's great.
That's how advanced they are.
You know, it's like watching a group of retards with weapons shoot their hands off and blow their faces up and things like that.
I mean, that's what the U.S. military looks like to the rest of the world right now.
Sadly, it didn't used to be that way, but it has become that.
And no, Pete Hegseth hasn't changed the culture.
I mean, the freaking Fox News host now is running the entire Pentagon.
Give me a break.
It just added to the clown factor of the clown show.
So, no, I don't even think the U.S. could destroy Russia with a nuclear exchange.
I mean, some of them would work.
Some of the nukes would fly.
Some of them would detonate a few.
But a whole lot of them would probably just fly totally off course, detonate somewhere else, or just not even make it out of the missile silo.
So I don't think that the U.S. military now can credibly threaten a comprehensive retaliatory strike against Russia.
I really don't.
But I am very confident that Russia's military technology functions.
You know why?
Because we've watched it function over the last couple of years.
We've seen some pretty shocking and sometimes scary stuff, like the Oreshnik missile system.
You know, you see 36 plasma charged warheads falling from the heavens at Mach 15 or whatever.
You're like, oh my God, what is that?
It's like Thor's hammer from space, you know?
And the U.S. has nothing like that.
Nothing can even stop it.
And Russia can mount those on ICBMs and they could take out the White House with that missile system.
And there's nothing the U.S. could do to stop it.
Russia could use it to take out an aircraft carrier easily.
Or any military base anywhere in the world, including all over Europe.
And apparently, this is what Trump wants to happen.
He wants Russia to nuke the West, Western Europe, and the United States.
Because that's exactly the path that Trump has put us on.
So, the good news is, I don't think that Russia is going to take the bait.
I don't think Putin is going to be coerced into launching nukes.
I don't.
And even if a tomahawk missile invades Russia's airspace, probably Russia's anti-air defense systems will take it out because the tomahawks are slow-ass missiles.
They're like mopeds in the sky.
They travel slower than passenger jets.
Russian fighters can take them out easily.
Tomahawks were, what?
Is that 1970s technology?
Come on.
So I don't think Russia is going to take the bait.
And that's where we get to the possibility that the U.S., the deep state, would detonate nuclear weapons itself on its own cities.
In other words, if we get nuked, it's probably us nuking us.
Because I don't think Russia needs to nuke the United States.
So at least that's my theory of where this is headed right now.
Hopefully cooler heads will prevail.
But if you listen to Lindsey Graham, that's not a cooler head right there.
That's a hot head.
No coolness is prevailing when it comes to Flimsey Graham.
Now, speaking of tsunamis, don't forget that Russia has the Poseidon weapons system, which are these large underwater drones.
They're like mini submarines that are already rumored to be parked off the east coast, on the west coast of the United States, and also the west coast off of Great Britain.
And these carry 100 megaton warheads.
Mega, meaning million, 100 million tons of explosive potential TNT equivalent that are designed to cause a radioactive tsunami.
And they're just waiting for the go signal via satellite, and they can detonate off the east coast or the west coast, and they can inundate both coasts with a massive tsunami of radioactive ocean water mixed with all the cocktail of,
you know, nuclear weapons, radiation, fallout, but all mixed in with water and then deposited on the land for many miles inland.
And that this weapon system could create a tsunami that's estimated by some people to be over 100 feet high.
So, you know, if you think a three-foot wave or a 12-foot wave hitting Hawaii is bad, try a 100-foot wave hitting the Norfolk, Virginia military base, naval base there, the naval yard where there's aircraft carriers parked, I believe.
A hundred-foot wave hitting that would just obliterate it.
And there's nothing the U.S. can do to stop that weapon system.
Absolutely nothing.
And it would, of course, render large areas of the ocean highly radioactive for decades to come, which means that the U.S. could not harvest seafood either from those areas.
The economic devastation would be almost unthinkable.
That's the kind of fire that Trump is playing with.
You want to threaten Russia?
Be careful what you ask for.
China is believed to have over 500 nuclear warheads.
France has 290, apparently.
The UK has 225, but it needs U.S. permission in order to arm most of those.
India has 172 nuclear warheads, and Pakistan has 170, apparently.
These may be old numbers.
It might be more.
North Korea has got 50.
They just, they don't have the delivery systems yet to put them on ICBMs that can make it very far.
But they're working on that.
My point in all of this is that we may be just weeks away from thermonuclear war.
And so that brings me to my second special report today, which is why Europe wants a high casualty count war with Russia.
Yes, the European leaders, they are demanding war with Russia.
But why, you ask?
Why?
They know they're going to lose.
See, that's the thing.
They want to lose.
They want to lose.
They want to be nuked.
And that's why Kier Starmer and other leaders are driving us directly into that.
So let's play that special report.
And then after that, we'll come back and we'll get ready for today's interview with former Congressman Dennis Kucinich.
You know why the leaders of European countries want a long, drawn-out war with Russia?
It's very simple.
They need to kill off all of their young, capable men in order to avoid an uprising, a revolution, a revolt against their own governments.
So these governments of the UK and Germany and France and other European countries, they are deliberately committing national suicide, allowing a mass influx of illegals and migrants to come in, take over their land, take over their governments, burn down their churches, rape their young women.
And you'll go to jail if you criticize any of that.
If you're a European person, you'll go to jail.
They'll come kick in your door, raid your house, lock you up for posting a mean tweet that even dares to report the truth about radical, illegal terrorists.
And so they need war to get rid of the young males that are the most likely demographic to actually stage a revolution successfully.
So, this is a big part of the motivation behind all of this.
And also, of course, the leaders of the UK, especially, they need a cover story for the economic collapse that they have put in place.
Now, why does the United States want war with Russia?
Well, it's a different reason, but not that far apart from the European reason.
And I've covered this in recent podcasts, but and I think I'm the only one even talking about this, but the U.S. needs to drastically reduce its population in order to free up power grid terawatt hours for the AI data centers in order to compete with China on the race to superintelligence, where China is producing over 10,000 terawatt hours of power annually.
The United States is producing only 4,400 terawatt hours.
And it would take close to about 20 years to build the nuclear power plants that Trump has recently announced.
That's 10 Westinghouse AP1000 power plants.
That would only add a total of 100 terawatt hours to the national power grid, which is a drop in the bucket compared to China.
So the only way to actually free up power grid infrastructure in the short term is to kill off hundreds of millions of Americans.
And understand that there's also the financial reset reason.
So the U.S. Empire, and I don't put this on Trump.
I mean, not Trump alone.
But the U.S. Empire has created such a mountain of debt that there's no way out of it except to default on the debt.
And on top of that, the U.S. government will have to default on the debt obligations or the entitlements that it owes the people.
Social Security, pensions, disability payments, veterans benefits, you know, you get the idea.
Medicare.
I mean, that's actually the largest expenditure.
I think it's the largest is, well, Medicare and Social Security combined would certainly be the largest expenditures, the other two being the Pentagon, you know, war, and, of course, interest on the debt.
But the biggest costs to the U.S. government are, in fact, entitlements.
And the total of entitlements that are owed to the American people are in excess of $230 trillion, which is, of course, many multiples higher than the $37 trillion reported as, quote, national debt.
Okay?
So are you getting the picture here?
The only way for the U.S. government to remain solvent is to find a way to kill off a couple hundred million Americans.
And the only way for the U.K. government to remain solvent and to remain in power is to also find a way to kill off a whole lot of its own people.
And this is actually, I'm not going to say normal.
It's not normal.
It's horrifying and demonic, but it is a repeating typical cycle of history.
When nations reach a certain point of debt obligations and they turn into welfare states, then their only way out of it is to find a way to kill off most of their own people.
And that is achieved through war.
And it's like Gerald Salenti says, when all else fails, they take you to war.
Now, I've covered this in more detail over the last couple of days in my Brighteon broadcast news, if you want to check it there for more detail.
But what I wanted to say here today is that this war is closer than you think.
And we see the rhetoric from Lindsey Graham, Senator Graham.
I call him Flimsy Graham.
Other people call him Lady G. But he's trying to amp up nuclear war with Russia as quickly as he can.
And Trump's people, maybe not Trump himself, but once again, he doesn't seem to be really in charge anymore.
He's surrounded by people who are just begging for war with Russia.
And so that's why Trump recently changed the so-called 50-day deadline to a 10- to 12-day deadline.
And that was two days ago now.
So that's eight to 10 days away from right now.
And when that deadline hits, then Trump has threatened to slap 100% tariffs on any country that purchases energy from Russia.
And that would include China.
That would include India.
Yeah, good luck.
That would include Turkey.
It would include the EU, in fact.
And Trump just reached a tariff deal with the EU that basically is economic suicide for the EU, which would subject EU products to a 15% tariff as they are imported into the United States.
And the EU agrees to buy $750 billion worth of overpriced U.S. energy because the EU, of course, is suffering energy famine since the U.S. blew up the Nord Stream pipelines, cutting off Western Europe from Russian energy.
So when this deadline comes, first of all, Russia is not going to be moved by this deadline.
Nothing is going to change in Russia's actions.
That's already apparent.
Medvedev has already said, go pound sand.
We don't care what numbers you throw out, what days you count.
We will negotiate peace when our conditions are met.
That's Russia's position.
And, you know, to the credit of Russia, they have a consistent position.
It's been very consistent.
Unlike Trump that changes his mind and changes his numbers every day, like rolling dice, you know, again, Trump's brain is a random number generator.
That's all he does, spits out new random numbers on a daily basis.
So Russia doesn't care one way or another about this deadline.
China, though, that's a totally different situation.
If Trump decides to slap an additional 100% tariffs on China in the next 12 days, well, that's going to cause a massive disruption of U.S. automobile manufacturers, among others.
And, you know, it's bizarre because Trump just announced another 90-day extension of the punitive tariffs against China.
That was just announced a couple of days ago.
So China's supposed to have another 90-day window to negotiate some kind of long-term deal.
So if Trump interrupts that and just says, hey, plus 100%, then, you know, all kinds of chaos is going to break loose.
And similar situation exists with India and Turkey and, you know, Brazil, for example.
But understand that none of those countries are going to stop buying energy from Russia.
And what does that tell you?
I mean, they've already announced this.
They're not going to stop buying energy.
It tells you that the U.S. can no longer set the terms of international trade.
The U.S. is no longer in command of allowing countries to buy and sell certain products that only the USA approves of.
So this means the U.S. has lost its leverage over the world.
Lost its leverage to try to punish Russia.
This was designed to punish Russia, to bankrupt Russia by secondary tariffs that punish the countries that do business with Russia, but it has failed.
It has failed.
And it's just like the other day, Trump had to tell his Commerce Department to stop restricting NVIDIA GPU microchip exports to China.
So China is going to get all the GPUs they need to pursue their AI research and dominate because they have all the power.
They've got the power grid that the U.S. does not have.
And Trump just, he had to cave in and bow down and kiss the ring of Xi and say, okay, you can have all the microchips you want.
Yeah, that just happened.
Not that you're being told that by the White House, but that's the reality of the situation.
The U.S. no longer has leverage over the world.
So what does the U.S. have left if the economic sanctions aren't working and the secondary tariffs aren't working and all the verbal threats of Lady G, Lindsey Graham, if that's not working, because everybody sees him as a gay clown, basically.
If all that stuff is not working, what does the U.S. have remaining to use?
Answer, nuclear weapons.
So if anybody takes this war, nuclear, it's going to be the U.S. first.
Or let's say a European country acting as a proxy of the U.S. That's where this is going.
Russia is not going to be the first to use a nuclear weapon.
It will be the West.
And as I said before, one of the potential scenarios is that the West uses nuclear weapons against itself, that the U.S. bombs or nukes its own cities or European cities or European military bases, anything to blame Russia.
And I believe that that's the most likely scenario at this point is Western forces or MI6, let's be honest, it's going to be MI6 and the CIA and the deep state.
They will nuke some target or series of targets in the West and they will blame Russia.
And they might even use Russian uranium to do that because, of course, the U.S. is constantly purchasing uranium from Russia to power our nuclear power plants.
Did you know that?
That's one of the product areas that has not been sanctioned because the U.S. needs uranium from Russia.
So we have all this Russian uranium, and it's a very simple matter to centrifuge that and create nuclear bombs that have certain isotopic ratios that are a fingerprint of Russian uranium with all the certain impurities, etc.
That, again, it's a fingerprint method.
I know this because, of course, I own and run a MassPEC laboratory.
So, you know, we can look at the isotopic fingerprint of, you know, any fallout, and we can tell you the ratio of all the different elements.
And then from that, you can determine where the fuel came from.
So the West can set off nukes and blame Russia.
And credibly, they can even point to the isotopic ratio of the fallout, and they can say, look, it's Russian uranium.
See, it was Russia.
See, that's the plan.
I think that's the plan.
And then the West gets what it wants, war, nuclear war with Russia.
And then the West can claim to have the moral high ground.
Oh my God, them evil Russians, they nuked us first.
Yeah, the West will play victim.
You know, it's no different than Black Lives Matter people spraying, you know, spray painting swastikas on the side of their own college dormitory and then claiming there's racism.
Or, you know, a Zionist group doing the same thing and claiming to be victims.
And how many times, you know, I mean, it's like the juicy smolette of international nuclear geopolitical war.
That's what this is.
It's claiming that, oh, somebody beat you up and put a noose around your neck, but with nuclear weapons.
That's what the West is going to do.
They're going to pull a juicy smolette.
Think about it.
And then it's going to be all hell breaks loose.
And Martin Armstrong, remember, says there's a 100% chance of a nuclear war with Russia.
And his timetable for that is 2025 slash 2026.
So we don't know if that means by the end of this year, possibly, or hopefully not.
It could be next year, sometime next year.
We don't know when.
We don't know who's actually going to pull this off or how many cities are going to get nuked, but we know how the playbook works.
So that's where this is going.
Bottom line is you need to be ready at a level that you maybe haven't Considered before.
This isn't going to be a weekend winter storm.
This isn't going to be a short-term power outage.
It's not even going to be COVID as bad as that was.
This is going to be way worse than the COVID era in terms of government lockdowns and war footing and censorship of freedom of speech.
And everybody has to do what we say because war.
That's coming.
That's coming in spades.
So the bottom line is right now, as you have a relative sense of freedom.
I have to laugh because, of course, extreme censorship is underway.
But you have relative freedom right now to buy the things you want to buy.
You can buy guns and ammo.
You can buy satellite phones.
You can buy gold.
You can buy extra food.
You can buy iodine.
Iodine is readily available even on our website, healthrangerstore.com.
You can buy all these things right now.
You won't be able to buy many of those things when it hits the fan.
I mean, precious metals just skyrocket.
You don't even have any idea how crazy high that's going to go.
Gold and silver will become unobtainium.
Probably the silver market will explode on failure to deliver, and then gold might go failure to deliver, and then treasuries might collapse, and then the debt market implodes, and Trump will say it's Russia's fault.
And everybody, we rescued you.
You just sign up for the CBDC through JPMorgan, and then you got to hand over your eye print or your thumbprint or your nasal swab to get the Morgan coins backed by the full faith and credit of the United States government that's now $40 trillion in debt, et cetera, et cetera.
And your freedom will be gone.
You'll be living under a wartime scenario for a decade while U.S. cities are nuked.
That's what's coming, most likely.
And unfortunately, the people in the Trump administration, most of them are warmongers, and they're totally on board with this and are trying to steer Trump exactly in this direction.
So get prepared in every way that you can, obviously, and we've been over this a thousand times.
To the extent that you can, you know, get your backup food supplies and medicine supplies and listen to all my free audio books if you have any gaps in your preparedness.
And understand that I'll be continuing to provide information.
I'm recording a new special report I'll share with you soon.
And you can shop with us at healthrangerstore.com for all your food and survival supplies.
And I recommend that you do that.
Get yourself squared away.
Maybe you have until Christmas.
I don't know.
Maybe God will intervene.
Maybe aliens will stop the nukes.
I hope.
Who knows?
But probably not.
Probably will end up with nukes going off sometime in the next year or so.
So pray that doesn't happen, but plan for it to happen.
Thanks for listening.
Mike Adams here at the Health Ranger.
NaturalNews.com, Brighteon.com.
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All right, welcome back to the show, folks.
Kind of a grim topic today, isn't it?
But I think it's necessary for us to address the reality of what's happening, how we are being driven into war.
The European leaders and U.S. leaders are both trying to provoke Putin into launching nuclear weapons.
So we can blame them, you know, for all the disasters that have been put in place in the U.S. Now, shortly here, we're about to jump into the interview with former Congressman Dennis Kucinich.
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So we don't want to mess it up anymore.
All right, as I promised for today's interview, we have former Congressman Dennis Kucinich.
I think you'll really enjoy this interview.
And of course, we're talking about peace versus war.
And in the last third of this interview, we talk about health and food and the problems with, you know, HHS and food ingredients and pesticides and pesticide immunity for the pesticide manufacturers.
A lot of really important topics.
So this is an interview you will want to hear end to end.
Just absorb every delicious word of this interview because it's dripping and oozing with, you know, it's like a hot fudge sunday of delicious concepts for your brain.
Like it's like a banana split just oozing with ice cream.
Is that even a good metaphor?
These days?
I don't know.
Okay, it's a delicious cognitive meal.
No, I don't know.
That sounds like cannibalism.
That's not what I meant.
It's just a fun interview.
Okay, enjoy.
Welcome to today's interview here on Brighteon.com.
And we've got a very special guest coming up here, former Congressman Dennis Kucinich, whose voice has been one of courage with a pro-humanitarian emphasis.
And he has not backed down.
He has not compromised.
He has not given in to the warmongers and the violence and the ethnic cleansing, and all the things that we are all called upon to support.
And I have rejected it just as our guest, Dennis Kucinich.
Again, former Congressman Dennis Kucinich.
His website is kucinich.com, which will take you to his Substack page.
I'll show you that in a minute.
But welcome to the show, Congressman Kucinich, or former Congressman Kucinich.
What's the correct title to use for you today?
Dennis.
Dennis.
Okay.
All right.
Well, I don't rest on formality.
You know, I've been a councilman, a clerk of courts, a mayor of Cleveland, state senator, congressman, presidential candidate.
Dennis, it works.
Well, Dennis, I'm always honored to have this conversation with you, and I'm honored to know you and to have been able to speak with you a couple of times previously.
So again, welcome.
Here we are at the end of July 2025.
Trump has shortened his threat of a deadline against Russia to 10 to 12 days rather than the 50 days.
Trump just opened up, ended the restrictions of NVIDIA H20 GPU microchips to China so that China can purchase those microchips to pursue even more rapid AI development.
What do you make of the current situation, U.S., Russia, and China?
Well, let's first talk about Russia.
We all remember that President Trump made this statement that he'd settle the Russia-Ukrainian war in a day.
Would that he had moved in that direction.
Unfortunately, the temperising that's come out of the White House has set the stage for an elongation of the war.
And the attempts of the Biden administration to try to use sanctions to punish Russia proved to be futile.
Russia has actually improved its economic position, taking a different direction with the way it manages its economy away from the United States.
Now, what I'm concerned about, Mike, I'd like to know what you think about this, is that with the president enmeshed in this Epstein matter, I'm concerned that this shortened timeframe to deal with Russia,
in addition to that, the placing of nuclear weapons, they moved him from New Mexico to an Air Force base in eastern England, that he's ratcheting up these tensions with Russia.
And it could be a handy way to try to deflect public attention from what's going on with the Epstein matter.
I'm very concerned about that because he wouldn't be the first president to do it.
I mean, more recently, that's what President Clinton did when he was in trouble with Monica Lewinsky.
You found a way to bomb what proved to be a pharmaceutical factory in Sudan.
Presidents have enormous power.
They can direct the attention of the world in certain places.
And I think right now the president wants very much to direct the attention of the world away from the Epstein matter.
And, you know, some of his advisors may be saying, hey, just ratchet it up, whether it's Russia or Iran or even China.
Because as we know, with respect to China, there is still that ongoing tension with Taiwan.
And so the president has a choice of places to start to stir it up.
And unfortunately, as he's doing that, people in Gaza are starving and they're being murdered.
And what do I think of it?
The people of the United States and the people of the world deserve better from an American leader.
I agree with your assessment.
And I want to be clear also in this conversation and to our audience that the U.S. has absolutely abandoned any moral high ground in the fact that it is complicit in the mass starvation and the genocide of the Palestinian people.
And yes, it is a genocide.
You know, Mike, you just used a word, moral.
Yes.
And the thing about our nation that we've always wanted to believe about ourselves is that we're moral people.
You know, we may, any one of us, you know, every one of us has feet of clay, but we always aspire to be better.
Crown thy good with brotherhood.
You know, there's a thing about America, there's so much that's beautiful that we know about, but what we're seeing lately isn't beautiful at all.
It's horrific.
And as Mike has pointed out, we are occupying the moral low ground when it comes to Gaza.
And that's never where America should be, ever, ever, in our history.
We were always to be the, in the words of the writer, a shining city on a hill, to be the example for the rest of the world.
And Dennis, I have to add, I'm sorry to interrupt, but there are severe economic and currency consequences for our lack of morality.
Because when the United States demonstrated the moral high ground and was opposed to violations of human rights, or at least strongly pretended to, the world was more apt to trust in the, quote, full faith and credit of the United States government, which is what's backing the dollar and effectively the Treasury bond market.
But now today, what I'm really struck by is the fact that as Trump is negotiating with countries like Brazil or China or Russia, those countries are telling the United States, no, we are not going to bow down to your demands.
You have no leverage over us.
That's been the message from those three countries I just mentioned and many more.
So we have not only lost the moral high ground, we have lost the leverage.
We have lost the credibility in the eyes of the international community, have we not?
We have, but let's look at some of the reasons why and how that's happened.
A major reason is war.
The United States now spends over $1 trillion a year.
It's 50% of our disposable income, on war or preparing for war.
The war in, you know, as a member of Congress, I challenged our position in Afghanistan and said we need to get out.
I led the effort against the war in Iraq, led the effort against the war in Libya, said, look, we have to work for peace in Lebanon and Syria, stop what was going on in Gaza.
This was years ago, with not just the settlers, excuse me, in the West Bank, but also the slow and murderous cadence that was facing the people of Gaza as a result of the Israeli government's decisions.
And as you note, Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Iran, and other nations have formed an organization called BRICS, which is really adverse to the economic interest of America because when these other countries stop using the U.S. dollar,
the primacy of the U.S. dollar has been the way that we've been able to, it has been part of the engine of economic growth in America.
It gives our economy elasticity.
It enables people to be able to invest in the United States.
And as the U.S. loses that, our debts are going to keep increasing.
The quality of life will decline in this country.
And the United States should not be setting itself apart from the world.
We can be, you know, we want to be a great nation, but greatness doesn't mean that you isolate yourself from the world.
And it also means that one must be very careful about the use of military power.
And today, with the threat of nuclear Armageddon that seems to hang over humanity like a sort of Damocles, our leaders have a special moral responsibility to protect our American homeland, but also not to use nuclear weapons anyplace else, because this is no surprise, radiation spreads with the wind around the world.
Any attack anywhere using nuclear weapons can hurt our country and hurt people everywhere.
So President Kennedy said it many years ago.
We've learned to live together as brothers and sisters, and families can have big differences.
We all know that.
But if we don't do that, we could perish as fools.
And this is a time for steadfast wisdom, not for polarizing, not for ratcheting up tensions, but for finding a way to work out our differences without the military.
And, you know, military is always the last resource in a country.
You don't want to use it unless the U.S. itself is threatened militarily.
Then it's your obligation.
Clearly.
But right now, we're holding a gun and we're pointing it all over the world.
Your words resonate with a lot of wisdom, and our audience is hearing them in great contrast to the words of Senator Lindsey Graham.
Senator Lindsey Graham is talking like the crazy cowboy at the bar who wants to start a fight with everybody running around.
Oh, I'll punch you in the face.
But he's doing that to Russia, making all these threats to Russia.
And in the last day, Miedvedev, former president of Russia, got into it verbally with Lindsey Graham and basically told Senator Graham to go stuff it.
But this kind of rhetoric from a prominent U.S. senator whose voice is amplified throughout the Western media, how does this impact the ability of Trump and Putin to even talk or to find some common ground?
Well, it does impact it.
And, you know, I'd like to say from the outset as we talk about Lindsey Graham, I know Lindsey Graham.
I've served with him in the House of Representatives at the beginning of my career in Congress.
He and I got along.
We traveled together.
He can be very funny.
He is very smart.
And I wish that he would just dial it back.
You know, if I was to talk to him now, I'd say, hey, Lindsay, cool it.
You know, we don't need to prove we're the most powerful nation in the world.
We've got to protect our economy to make sure that we are.
But everyone knows that we have this great destructive military power and atomic weapons.
We don't need to prove anything.
But I just say, Lindsay, my friend, just cool it.
You don't have to carry these battles worldwide.
Let's focus on taking care of things in South Carolina, in North Carolina, where they've had some tough times with floods.
Let's start taking, focus on America, my friend, Lindsay.
That's what I would tell him if I was talking right now.
What do you think Russia's posture says about their intentions moving forward?
Let me adjust this to give a better view.
There we go.
Didn't mean to block you there with my laptop.
But, you know, from Russia's point of view, how are their priorities lining up of how they wish to see this special military operation concluded?
Well, I think they have been moving towards conclusion of it.
Now, I don't want to see anybody killed.
I'm heartbroken over what's happened to the people of Ukraine.
But I was also heartbroken over what was going on to the people of Ukraine who lived in the eastern provinces of Donetsk and Luhansk were under attack, and 14,000 of them died before this more formal conflict happened.
And Russia had a constitutional obligation to step in and to protect the Russian-speaking people in the Donbass.
They did.
The United States, it must be realized, in 2014 overthrew the government of Ukraine so that they could position a, you know, together with NATO, be in a forward position to be able to put increased pressure on Russia.
The encirclement that we saw over a decade prior to that was part of this idea that Russia could be dominated.
Well, Russia was not dominated.
They weren't dominated by the blowing up of the pipeline.
They weren't dominated by the sanctions.
This idea that somehow we are going to defeat Russia is a folly because Russia has more nuclear weapons than we have.
And the fact, Mike, that the Department of Defense, no doubt with the President's approval, moved nuclear weapons, thermonuclear weapons into the UK.
So they're in a forward position, potentially to be used against Russia, is insanity.
It's insanity.
Russia's missiles are, they're well equipped with their missiles.
They can deliver these things.
We in America, aside from 9-11 and before that, Pearl Harbor, we don't have the same kind of experience that other nations have had in being devastated by these weapons.
And we really need to go back to our moral compass here, as you talked about at the beginning of this program.
We need to look at the commonalities that we have as human beings.
You know, the thing that I remember years ago when I was playing sports football for St. John Kantus High School in Cleveland, Ohio.
And when we play on a team from another neighborhood, we'd think, my God, those kids have to be so different than we are.
And, you know, we got to beat them.
They're just different.
And, you know, we have ingrained into us this idea that people are just different from who we are.
I've traveled the world.
People are pretty much the same.
The human genome theory says we're 99.9% all made of the same stuff.
Yes.
Which is why this great human tragedy of being pulled into war by politicians who are looking for some advantage needs to be called out.
I completely agree.
And I want to give out your website.
Folks, if you go to kucinich.com, that's K-U-C-I-N-I-C-H, that will forward you to Dennis' Substack page, which is kucinichreport.substack.com.
And there you can see his articles and links to videos and interviews and many other things there.
So be sure to check that out.
And what you just said, Dennis, I think is really key, that we are more than 99% the same, all of us, human beings.
I believe we are all children of God.
We all have dignity, the right to human dignity.
And yet, right now, some people believe that they are specifically chosen by God above all others to have the right to slaughter their neighbors.
So that brings us, obviously, to the Middle East and to Gaza.
And you and I both agree that the United States continuing to provide weapons, bombs, military intelligence, and so on to Israel makes the U.S. complicit in this heinous ethnic cleansing slash genocide war crime.
We have seen recently the President of France announcing that he intends to recognize the Palestinian state.
And then just in the last day, Kier Starmer of the U.K. announced that if a peace agreement is not reached shortly, that he may or his country may recognize Palestine by September.
Of course, there's been a tremendous amount of pushback on that by Marco Rubio, as well as President Trump and obviously Netanyahu.
Do you think that because of all the images of starving children now getting a lot of traction and horrifying people around the world, has Israel finally run up against the limit of its cruelty against other human beings?
Yes.
But the cruelty will continue.
The deception, even about delivering food supplies, that continues, it's ongoing.
The fact that they shut all media out so that people can't actually get independent reports about what's going on.
Look, let's get real here.
They have a plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza.
And if it means killing everyone there, they're going to do it.
I mean, wake up, world.
This is going on right in front of our eyes.
And if you're not looking, it's going on anyway.
People are being murdered because of their ethnicity.
People are being starved to death because of their ethnicity.
People are being denied water and food and health care.
Their schools have been blown up, colleges, universities, you know, doctors killed, hospitals ruined.
But the Israeli government, led by not just Benjamin Netanyahu, but by Mrs. Smotrich and Ben Gavir, have taken us into the darkest period since the 1930s in the world, when Jews were rounded up and murdered by the Nazis.
How in the world can people in Israel not understand the suffering of the people of Gaza?
How can they not know what it means?
I mean, this, you know, I believe in what is called, you know, in Hebrew, it's called tikkun olam, that we're here to heal the world.
And you don't heal the world by murdering people next door.
You don't heal the world by stealing people's land that they've occupied for generations.
You don't heal the world by misrepresenting what's going on and lying repeatedly, changing everything in an Orwellian way and expressing war as peace, expressing murder as the better reason.
We must regain our humanity or America must.
President Trump must wake up to what's happening.
And if he signed on to this, shame on him.
If he agreed with Netanyahu at the beginning, ah, go ahead, you know, we'll build hotels on the sea there.
I mean, please, you know, we're talking about human beings being murdered for this.
But Dennis is fundamentally wrong.
But without question, Trump has effectively agreed with this plan because Trump continues to approve the sending of weapons that make it possible.
If Trump were opposed to the actions of Netanyahu, he could, with one order right now, stop the bombs, stop the money, stop the intelligence, stop the cooperation, and he could publicly denounce Netanyahu.
He has done none of those things.
Well, President Biden could have done the same thing, except it's accelerated.
It's accelerated under President Trump.
And, you know, it would be wonderful if he suddenly understood the grim consequences of this, actually to himself as well.
Because what Netanyahu has done and what President Trump has done in connection with Prime Minister Netanyahu is to jeopardize not only Israel and not only the United States, but their own long-term security.
Yes.
Because there's international laws here that are in play.
You cannot only, you know, it's not only relating to those who commit the crime, but to those who are accessories to the crime.
And with the U.S. providing all these weapons to Israel that have been used to kill tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of Gazans, this has put, President Trump puts himself at jeopardy of being called before the International Criminal Court, whether the U.S. has signed it or not.
Other nations could get jurisdiction.
Well, as you know, the U.S. only respects the ICC when the ICC is doing the bidding of the West.
But when the ICC names Netanyahu or Guevara or others as war criminals, the U.S. says the ICC has no power and will not be recognized.
But I believe what you're saying is that because of the complicity, both Joe Biden and Donald Trump could be considered accessories to war crimes by the ICC.
I mean, if you read international law, that's exactly what it means.
But let's look at this.
All of the international institutions that have been established to try to, as the founding of the U.S. said, to protect mankind from the scourge of war, all of those institutions that are set up,
including the United Nations, the International Criminal Court, and a whole range of other institutions and agreements, are all being not just attacked, but in some cases shredded in the interest of Israel's plan for Greater Israel to wipe out the Palestinians in Gaza and in the West Bank.
I mean, I'm sure it's true for you, Mike, and perhaps many of your viewers.
When you think about this, when you just contemplate that in our time, people are being starved to death in pursuit of a political objective, that people are being murdered to force them from this life so they can't even occupy the land that they've lived on for their families' generations.
It's mind-boggling.
How did America come to stand for this?
Who are we as a nation?
This is what we have to confront here.
Well, let me play Devil's advocate for a moment with you on this, because in private conversations I've had with people who support Israel, essentially, when I've debated with them, essentially their argument has come down to the following, and I'd like to direct this to you and ask your response.
Which is that America's geopolitical interest, especially in energy, but also in halting the growth of the influence of China and Russia with the Belt and Road Initiative and the railway that goes now to Tehran, all the way from China,
land routes that we can't control with our naval projection of power, that Israel is doing the hard work that America cannot do itself, that Israel is sacrificing itself to do the killing that is necessary to defend America's interest in the region.
That's the argument, essentially, that I hear from people.
What do you say to that, Dennis?
Do we expect, as Americans, that we can continue to go around the world looking for dragons to slay and it's not going to come home to bite us?
Do people actually believe that?
Are we going to sacrifice tens of millions, even hundreds of millions of Americans in a nuclear confrontation?
Whatever happened to people being able to talk to each other?
Look, all of us, whether it's friendships, family, or whatever, there's conflict as part of being human.
You have disagreements.
Some can be very serious.
But when we start killing people to further our interests, that's not why the United States was formed.
I mean, read the Constitution.
Read the Declaration of Independence.
It was to get away from these conflicts.
One has to, you know, we have to ask ourselves, are we capable as human beings of evolving, of being more than we are and better than we are?
Isn't that what all of our moral codes are about?
Isn't that what every religion that any of us may observe?
Isn't that what it's about?
And if for some reason, those who believe that United States' destiny is to conquer the world and is to put all these other nations in their place, those other nations have people who are willing to fight for their country too.
And people who love their country too.
I'm glad you mentioned that.
And I would point out, Dennis, that the way the U.S. has interacted with the world since the end of World War II has been in a very commanding, domineering role.
You do what we say or else.
And that has worked until recently.
And now the nations of the world seem to be saying no.
For example, Iran carried out a tremendous amount of damage against Israel in the 12-day missile barrage.
Russia has said no.
We're just going to build out our own economy, our own military technology, our own war infrastructure.
And Russia is now out-producing all of NATO countries combined in terms of munitions and weapons, even under 25,000-plus sanctions from the West, even after being cut off from SWIFT.
China, same thing.
China says no.
We're not going to agree to your terms.
And if you don't like it, we'll cut off all your rare earth minerals.
And Ford can just shut down all your manufacturing plants.
And your defense industry can have no neodymium and other rare earths.
And you can just shut down everything.
The world is saying no, Dennis.
So the equation has changed.
This is what I'm seeing so strongly.
The U.S., but Trump and his officials are still operating as if it's 1992.
That's the issue.
100%.
100%.
Mike, you just put your finger on the failure of American leadership here.
We have the capacity as a country to help our nation adapt to an undreamed of future, but we have to focus on things here at home.
How can you do that when you spend a trillion dollars a year getting ready for war and more once you go to war?
And I was in a briefing today, Mike, where they pointed out that a lot of the basic missile systems that the U.S. would use, the guns that would be used, the tanks that can be used, we've been depleted because we've given so much to Ukraine.
And we don't have the ability to fight a war that's based on tactical means.
What we have, nuclear weapons.
That's pretty much, it's like, you know, you want to, if you're in a conflict, particularly in this world of high technology, you want to be very careful about the escalatory steps.
Yes.
But because of how we've used our resources, it seems that one of the only options we are left with is using nuclear weapons.
That's how we've ignored and wasted our country's resources.
We spent over $5 trillion on the war in Iraq, which we never had to fight.
We spent close to hundreds of billions on the war in Libya.
We've blown so much money helping to support ISIS.
Hello?
And so instead of providing for the common defense, which is one of the purposes of nationhood, we've ventured around the world, spent our defense capital, and now we're saying, well, we've got to spend another trillion dollars a year, forget education, forget health care, forget retirement security, pile it all on the altar of the gods of war.
And you know what?
Goodbye, America, if that's what happens.
We're fighting for the soul of our country right now.
We're fighting for what America really means and what the dream of America has been for the people who founded it so long ago, a constitution that gave us the ability to adapt to an undreamed of future, and yet it's been ripped up, go to war, dominate, kill.
It will come back if we don't restrain this impulse towards this destructive means of dealing with other nations.
And it will come back.
We need to turn things around right now in Gaza.
If France and England are being, you know, feeling queasy about seeing starving people on TV, let me tell you something.
It's only the beginning.
If we let Israel just cleanse this land, kill all the people, and it won't be too long before they're looking at Syria and Lebanon and Iraq.
This megalomaniacal impulse must be set aside in favor of a higher purpose of nationhood, which must always be to take care of our own people first.
I'm really glad you mentioned that because right now it feels like the American people are being fed into a wood chipper.
And we have, for example, sky-high food prices.
Ground beef has never been more expensive in this country.
The dollar has never had less purchasing power than it does today.
It's lost over 98% of its power since 1971 in terms of purchasing power.
At the same time, we are told that health insurance costs are going to skyrocket in the next year.
Some people will pay 70% more next year than they are paying this year.
And that's on top of the 50%, 30%, or 20% increases they've already endured year after year.
I have spoken with elderly people who have told me that they have to choose between living under a roof, buying food, or having health insurance.
They're going to have to let one of them go today, and you fast forward four or five more years, they may have to let two of them go.
We are being driven into poverty while the money goes to AI data centers, the military-industrial complex, and the weaponization of AI technology to be used by the military and by the surveillance grid to surveil the American people under the excuse that we have to catch all the illegals, and therefore we have to surveil the American people at the same time.
You see where I'm going with this?
Well, you're going in a direction that I, I mean, I want to associate myself with what you just said, because we are losing our freedoms.
It's not that we're going to lose our freedoms.
We are losing our freedoms.
And when we see our government pressuring universities to cashier student protesters, it's a First Amendment issue.
Just get swept aside.
Universities, rather than fight, they're just going along.
We've got to get the federal money.
I'm disgusted by that, by the way.
Yes.
I remember that Vietnam era, how students actually helped to turn that around and force the country in a different direction.
They forced the resignation of President Lyndon Johnson in 1968, who said, I will not seek nor will I accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.
And that was due principally to the student protests over the war.
And I'm sure that this government is aware of that because some of them grew up during that time.
And so campuses have to have freedom of speech.
That's the incubators of movements that keep the country fresh.
It's not what's happening.
Now, you talked about health insurance.
If we had a country that really helped people focus on all the ways that they could be able to achieve health for themselves and their family, that would spark an economic boom.
Yes.
Instead of simply shoveling money over to insurance companies who you have to fight to get them to pay, who only cover 70 or 80% of your costs.
Still, people with a major health problem end up going into bankruptcy.
But let's go back to the very beginning.
Health education, giving people a range of options, how to achieve health.
This doesn't really happen.
I fought for complementary and alternative medicine as a member of the United States Congress to include it in legislation.
People need more choices.
They need to be able to make up their mind about what works for them to achieve their health.
And to narrow the definition actually helps the insurance companies rake in profits and the practice of medicine has become narrow.
Medicine years ago didn't even talk about nutrition.
Now there's kind of talking about it.
There's an understanding of the relationship between what we put inside of ourselves and a health condition that arises.
And those are the kinds of things that if we're going to make America healthy again, it's got to be about more health freedom.
People have to be able to choose.
Well, I spent 25 years working on educating people about health and nutrition and disease prevention and healthy lifestyle choices, avoidance of toxins and so on, avoidance of prescription medications where possible.
And yet we are a nation that's overdosed on psychiatric drugs.
We are a nation of rampant obesity because of the ultra-processed foods.
And I'm incredibly disappointed with RFK Jr., who I supported to go to be in that position where he is.
I'm incredibly disappointed that what we get out of HHS today is announcements that Fruit Loops will remove the red dyes voluntarily by 2027 if they keep their word.
No law, no regulation.
What we get, oh, Coca-Cola is going to use cane sugar instead of high-fructose corn syrup.
As if now it's a healthy drink?
No, it's not a healthy drink.
It's an obesity, diabetes-promoting, sugared-up phosphoric acid toxic stew, in my opinion.
But this is what we get out of health and human services.
As opposed to Pepsi-Cola.
Yeah, right, right.
I mean, anybody drinking soda is being misled, in my opinion, by our government to say, oh, it's safer now.
It's better now.
Go ahead, eat the processed food.
You won't have the red dye in it.
Give me a break.
Let me share something with you, Mike, that I seldom have a chance to talk about, but given your interest and your lifelong work and health, as a child, I had a horrible case of Crohn's disease, inflammatory bowel disease.
By the time I was 21, I had radical surgery in order to save my life.
I lost a substantial part of my colon and small bowel to Crohn's.
And my life, I mean, I almost died at age 21 from it.
And those who have it, let me tell you, I understand.
My diet was a mess.
You know, it was colas, sugar, donuts, on and on.
But what happened in, let's see, 1995, I met someone who introduced me to some options.
So I started to move away from certain types of food.
For me, it was animal products, but for others, it's not.
And then I used Chinese medicine.
Long story short, I don't have Crohn's anymore.
Gone.
I'm in the best health I've ever been in in my life, and it just keeps getting better.
So I had to take ownership myself of this.
I had to make some decisions about making some changes with what I ate, how I ate, what I put into me in order to change the outcome.
And as a result, you know, I mean, my blood pressure is somewhere between 90 and 100 over 60.
I have tremendous energy and, you know, can spend long hours working in all kinds of things before I'm tired.
And I wasn't that way years ago.
That's right.
And so, you know, we have to be in a position of making our own decisions about health.
And the insurance companies limit the range of decisions that people can make in some ways so that they can keep cashing in on the insurance racket.
Well, this is the issue.
The financial incentives are in place to keep the American people sick and to generate repeat profits off of managing their sickness.
So we don't have a health care system.
We have a sick care system, in my view.
But I think you and I both agree that there are so many forms of complementary and alternative medicine that are safe, they are effective, and they are low cost that are not available to most Americans.
That would include traditional Chinese medicine, chiropractic care, homeopathy, alternative medicine, herbal medicine.
So many areas to go into.
And think about it, Dennis.
The people that rely on these forms of natural medicine, such as you and I, we tend to be so much healthier than everybody else.
People your age and my age both are dropping dead all the time because they relied on the Western processed food system, the Western medical system, endless pharmacy and doctor visits, and it didn't work.
Didn't work for them.
No, but this is the consciousness that needs to be raised.
We need to raise the health consciousness of our people, and it starts at a very early age, giving children information about how their health can be affected and what they can do to remain healthy.
And this is something that, and exercise and things like that, help our bodies move.
And, you know, really, when I think about it, I think about my own experience, which has been hard won.
Anybody who's been through anything like I just described understands how tough it can be.
The discipline that any one of us needs to engage in to go day to day to day towards a path to health is something that makes, hopefully makes us stronger as individuals.
Yes.
But we get inundated by all these commercials, right?
And certain foods that are not good for us that are connected to lifestyle choices, and it becomes crazy.
And what you talked about, complementary alternative medicine, homeopathy, the chiropractic.
I had a vertebrate that would pop out on occasion.
When I was in Congress, members of Congress have a clinic below the floor of the House of Representatives that they can go to for help.
So I was fortunate because I ran in and I was able to see a chiropractor instantly.
And it was like having an Indianapolis 500 car run off the track, really run off the track into a pit stop, start back out.
Chiropractor, boom, just, you know, push me against the wall.
And before you knew it, I was ready to go in a matter of minutes.
I mean, if people understood the range of options that are there that can move us towards health, people would have a better quality of life.
They'd have a longer life.
They'd enjoy every day more.
And, you know, I respect everyone who's in that struggle because it is a struggle.
This area of health, what's wonderful about it is that individuals can assert their own self-control and they can radically improve their outcomes by making conscious choices, right?
That's what you and I have just been talking about.
But now to pivot back to our...
Go ahead.
Well, but to contrast that with the subject we've been talking about, we do not have much control over what's happening with wars in the Middle East or Russia.
Now, you mentioned the importance of peaceful protesting, and I absolutely agree with that, and that's why freedom of speech has to be respected at our universities.
But this is where many Americans, and myself included, you can sense even some frustration from me, as much as I exercise very strong control over my own health, my own abundance, my own choices.
I have no control over what's happening with wars.
And it seems like even the things that I tried to vote for, now I did not vote for Trump this time around, by the way, but the things over time that I have tried to vote for, those things are abandoned anyway.
So the voters feel a sense of helplessness.
Even those who voted for Trump very largely feel betrayed right now by the non-release of the Epstein files.
And you have Dan Bongino talking about how he's seen things that have damaged his soul forever, but he can't tell us what it is.
It's beyond frustrating for the American people.
Do you have advice for people watching?
How do you deal with this?
Times that try meant souls, all of our souls.
You know, in the hymn, America the Beautiful, there's a line that says, confirm thy goal in self-control, thy liberty in law.
When control is lost and things spin out of control, we all feel helpless.
And yet, the founders gave us a vehicle.
The U.S. Constitution.
That's what we rely on.
The Constitution says a president can't take the country into war without the permission of Congress.
We're not using the Constitution here.
The members of Congress have an obligation under the Constitution to assert their Article I authority.
They're a co-equal branch of government.
They were first in the recitation of the Articles in the Constitution, the executive branch is Article II.
Article I, Section 8, no one can, a president cannot take this country into war without the vote of the Congress.
So this document exists for our protection.
So we need to insist that Congress step up to its role so that we get some control here.
We need to insist that the amendments to the Constitution are protected, that you cannot have unreasonable search and seizure.
This is where the AI and the surveillance society just goes around that Fourth Amendment, which is there to protect us no matter what the technology is.
But, you know, we have masses of information that now can be used to hurt any individual American.
We have a government that has been careless in its use of artificial intelligence.
We have a Congress that won't stand up for the First Amendment, which is all basis of having representative government.
And, you know, you can go down the line, the 10th Amendment, states' rights, how Congress right now is looking at passing a law that would wipe out every state law that has to do with protecting, with assuring that anyone who wants to sue a chemical company to cause their cancer would be able to have legal recourse.
I mean, go back to the Constitution.
If we want to escape this feeling of helplessness, let's go back to what we were given to protect this country.
And until we insist on that Constitution and the provisions of it, we won't, you know, we're seeing our liberties slip away.
The entire judiciary is being nullified by those laws that you just mentioned.
I think one of those just passed out of committee by the GOP, Section 453, I think it is, that grants legal immunity to the pesticide and herbicide manufacturers.
I mean, do people realize that, just like the vaccine companies have absolute legal immunity when their vaccines are either EUA or childhood immunization scheduled, do you realize that a Bayer, which of course consumed Monsanto that makes glyphosate or Roundup,
that when there is absolute legal immunity from exposure to pesticides and herbicides, then there is no incentive for the agricultural sector of America to limit their use to even what they consider safe levels.
There's going to be no limit.
Our food supply, Dennis, will be saturated with cancer-causing chemicals with no legal ramifications whatsoever.
The judiciary and the Supreme Court will be nullified.
Or at least attempted.
I mean, go ahead.
I'm listening to you, Mike, and you're an oracle on this.
What you're saying, everyone needs to hear again and again.
The government needs to exist for us.
We don't exist for the government, but when we see laws that are passed which indemnify big companies from any lawsuits, from any damages that they cause to people, corporations have usurped the government and the government's not working for us.
We're working for them and the corporations they serve.
And Dennis, I'm sorry to interrupt, but this is really critical.
I know you will have a reaction to this.
When that law goes into effect, the wealthy people who can afford to buy organic will buy organic at any price because it's the only food that isn't saturated with poison.
The mass poisoning of the food supply will be selective to lower-income Americans who can't afford to buy organic.
That's who's going to be mass poisoned.
Yeah, well, Mike, you're right again.
And it's not, And they don't have any right to recover.
You have to remember that Monsanto, Bayer, for those who aren't following it carefully, Bayer bought out Monsanto.
But when they did that, they also took the legal responsibility.
Monsanto already got hit for about $12 billion in lawsuits because the chemical called glyphosate that was in Roundup Ready, which people might spray on their lawns, but they certainly have sprayed on fields and farms, was found to have caused non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a form of cancer that killed a number of farm workers and had caused others to be severely injured.
And so people filed lawsuits.
There's thousands and thousands of these lawsuits out there right now, and they just want to cut it off and stop the American people from being able to get their basic rights.
It's called due process.
It's part of the Constitution.
We have a right to be able to state if somebody harms us to be able to recover.
But now all of a sudden, just like the vaccine companies, the chemical companies, no, they won't have to pay if this becomes law.
And let me tell you what is really wicked about this.
Bayer was one of the companies involved in the German chemical manufacturer that was making the gas for the gas chamber.
Cyclon B, yeah, IG Farben.
You got it.
Cyclon B, IG Farben.
That Bayer came from that.
And so they're making, you know, and Germany has very strict laws about the use of this chemical.
U.S. is ready to just give up our people and sacrifice them where Germany protects their people.
And that's the headquarters of Bayer now.
What about Americans?
You're more right than you know.
I mean, of course, I own a MassBack food lab, and we're very, very familiar with contamination limits that are set in the EU versus Canada versus the U.S. versus Japan, et cetera.
Do you know the U.S. has the most lax restrictions on glyphosate contamination of foods or heavy metals contamination by far?
So what happens, Dennis, and again, we're in the food industry, we know this very well, that exporters from India, China, Mexico, anywhere in the world, when they test their foods, if they have high levels of contamination of pesticides or heavy metals,
they immediately direct those exports to the United States because they know it's legal to sell the toxic contaminated foods in the U.S. It would be illegal in the E.U. It would be illegal in Canada, but it's legal in America.
And we are told, oh, we're removing red dye from fruit loops, but the FDA's limit on mercury in foods is still 10 parts per million, which is at least three or four orders of magnitude too high for public safety.
I mean, I could give you so many examples of this.
It's insane.
We are the dumping ground of toxins for the world.
Well, go back to what I was saying.
Does this government exist for us or do we exist for it?
Because when people exist for a government, that's called totalitarianism.
When the government exists for us, that's a republic or a democracy.
So we have to, in a sense, realign the vision that we have of what America should be with the reality and move towards the vision where we're a country that actually protects the health of its own people, a country that actually is aware of what's in the food that people are eating, that would stand guard at the borders and not let food in, that would poison our people.
I mean, this is, it's fundamental, but at the same time, isn't it interesting that we have to have this discussion again about the basics, about what America should be, what America must stand for, about the role of the Constitution in protecting our basic liberties.
We're becoming else.
And Dennis, I know we're almost out of time, and I really thank you for this conversation, but I think you will agree that when I say that we cannot be successful and prosperous as a nation unless we return to the fundamental pillars of good health because of cognitive issues.
You know, China is graduating 500 percent more STEM graduates than is the United States.
And yet then we're about to grant legal immunity to pesticide companies that apply pesticides such as organophosphate pesticide chemicals on the food supply, interfering with brain function, acetylcholinesterase inhibitors that cause like young dementia.
Our brains do not work if we are eating all these poisons.
How can we compete in science and technology and physics and mathematics and even building weapon systems, you know, if that's what you want to do?
You have to engineer them.
If your engineers are all doped up on pesticides, they can't function correctly.
You can't outthink the Russians and the Chinese who are both very brilliant groups of people.
You can't outthink them if you're poisoning your own population, period.
You know, America has had incredible scientific breakthroughs.
You know, we put a man on the moon.
That's worth remembering.
The science that we see at NASA today is the product of generations of Americans who heeded the call of President Kennedy to use the technological genius of this nation to advance the condition of Americans and a human condition.
But if we don't pay attention to our health, if as Mike Adams just said, if you're getting food that is laced with heavy metals, with lead and anything else, the brain is adversely affected.
The synaptic connections you need to make, you know, to have thoughts that are coherent are broken.
And people, this early Alzheimer's that you talk about, there are medical reasons why that's happening.
There's science that explains it.
And so much of it can be traced back through food.
And that's why food is, as far as my wife and I are concerned, it is a transcendent issue.
The quality of our agriculture, what we're doing to the earth, how we're spoiling the land.
I mean, we need to look at the whole range of issues here because if we are what we eat, then we must know what's in the food that we're consuming so we know what we will become.
The answer to America's health is literally right here in this jar.
I mean, if I were to tell you what I have in my smoothies, if our nation could embrace that message instead of censoring people like me, we would lead the world in technology and innovation and health for generations to come.
But here we are.
So we make the best of it as we can.
And Dennis, I so much honor your time, your wisdom, your conversation.
And I greatly look forward to having you on, even though I'm extremely frustrated after we talk about the things we talk about.
But I'm not frustrated at you.
I love having these conversations.
There's a lot of things I could have said as well.
So back at you.
Well, you know, we're dealing with the world right now, but I just want to encourage people to visit your website.
You can go to kucenich.com.
That's K-U-C-I-N-I-C-H.
And that will forward you to kucenichreport.substack.com.
Check out Dennis's numerous articles.
Very important to stay informed.
And Dennis, is there anything else you'd like to add before we wrap this up?
Today happened to be the 101st birthday of my mother, who's long gone.
But I just want to say, mom, happy birthday.
Wow.
Wow.
Happy birthday.
Thank you for bringing Dennis into the world.
Indeed.
Dennis, we're blessed to have you.
I'm blessed to know you.
Thank you for joining us today.
Thanks, Mike.
See you again.
All right.
Bye now.
Take care.
All right, Dennis Kucinich, everyone, just an extraordinary American.
Be sure to visit his website, as I mentioned earlier.
And thank you for watching today.
MikeAdams here, Brighteon.com.
And if you want to be healthy, you don't have to wait for the government to tell you what you shouldn't eat.
You can learn it yourself.
You can apply it tomorrow.
You can get healthier at your next meal if you so choose.
And that's what I teach.
So check out my videos at brighteon.com and articles at naturalnews.com.
And I'm also trying to help prevent nuclear annihilation at the same time.
Because what good is health if you're glowing from radiation?
So thank you for watching today.
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That is our answer of how we make progress as a civilization.
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