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	All right folks, welcome to Brytown Broadcast News for Tuesday, August 12, 2025.
	I'm Mike Adams.
	Thank you for joining me today.
	I know yesterday's episode was quite lengthy, and if you missed it, definitely go back and We got a lot of really great feedback about that.
	A lot of new information that people had not heard from me or any of my guests.
	So if you missed it, go back to yesterday and check out that interview.
	I think I'm going to skip an interview for today, except, well, I mean, I'll bring you a smaller interview, a shorter one, because I was at the Ron Paul birthday barbecue over the weekend, and I did interview some people there.
	And one of those people was Luke Rudowski of wearchange.org.
	And so today I thought I would feature the Luke Rudowski interview, and he had just flown in from Poland.
	And so I got to ask him a little bit about Poland and the roller coaster of the Polish government and how insane the politics are there.
	just like they are here.
	But I thought I would start out with a comment about the fact that this Friday is the meeting between Trump and Putin in Alaska.
	Now, Alaska, of course, or what is known as Alaska today, used to be Russian territory.
	The United States purchased it from Russia for just a few million dollars a long time ago.
	I don't even remember the year, but it was in the 19th century.
	And it was a complex situation.
	It was mostly virtually no one lived there.
	It was largely impossible to even enforce, you know, who, who, quote, ruled it or who occupied it or anything.
	And so it wasn't like Russia was being stupid and just said, here, we'll sell this to you for pennies on the dollar.
	It was, actually, the territory was at risk of being taken over from Russia by the British.
	And so there was a sale that was negotiated.
	That was a lot of money in those days.
	Let me look up the year.
	Okay, here it is, 1867.
	President Andrew Johnson signed the treaty.
	and then the formal transfer of Alaska took place on October 18, 1867.
	So the U.S. paid $7.2 million for the territory of Alaska.
	That amount is said to be worth roughly $129 million in 2023, which means, of course, it's like $500 million in 2025 because inflation is so bad.
	Nevertheless, the meeting between Trump and Putin, I can already tell you how I think this is going to go, and I'm pretty confident on this.
	So remember, Zelensky is not part of this.
	I mean, he might be trying to lurk around the corner or something, but he's not part of it.
	So it's going to be Trump and Putin.
	And Trump is going to be shocked by some things that he'll learn directly from Putin here.
	Some of those things will contradict what he has been told by his own staff because of course his own staff lies to him constantly about things like oh the number of Russian casualties or the number is highly inflated before it's given to Trump.
	Millions have died.
	And then the number of Ukrainian casualties is, of course, slashed down to a tiny fraction of reality.
	And that's what Trump is told.
	So Trump is going into the negotiation with Putin.
	thinking that he, Trump, holds the cards and he doesn't hold the cards.
	And he's going to find out that he doesn't hold the cards.
	Putin holds the cards.
	Russia has Nobody wants it to continue.
	And Russia has just pierced through one section of Ukraine's defensive lines, and Russia's seizing more territory before Friday, because possibly the territory lines, the new lines could be drawn based on what Russia occupies on Friday.
	I don't know.
	It's a possibility.
	Anyway, Russia is aggressively breaking through some defensive lines right now.
	I can't pronounce any of the names of the city.
	the names of the cities or towns, really.
	So I'm not going to try.
	But the bottom line is Trump doesn't hold the cards.
	Trump doesn't have the military munitions.
	Trump doesn't have the support of the American people.
	His own vice president, J.D. Vance, said, we're done sending weapons to Ukraine.
	We're done.
	So when Trump goes to negotiate with Putin, what can he negotiate with?
	Really?
	I mean, What cards does Trump have to play?
	Oh, we might nuke you.
	Well, I'm sure Putin would say, well, we might nuke you, you know, two or three times over.
	So there's not, I don't really see anything that Trump can offer except just, you know, how about you get most of what you want and this whole thing stops now?
	You don't have to keep fighting.
	Maybe, you know, maybe that's the offer.
	I don't know.
	But I think the way this is going to go is that at the end of this meeting, Trump is going to come out of the meeting and he's going to boastfully state that It was a great meeting.
	It was a beautiful meeting.
	It was amazing because this is Trump.
	And he's going to claim that an agreement has been reacheded for peace, even though no such thing happened in the meeting.
	And this is also classic Trump.
	He does this all the time.
	He'll announce things publicly that shock the people standing right next to him, who were in the same meetings.
	They're like, what?
	Trump will be like, ah, we've achieved peace.
	Yeah, we're going to give Alaska back to Russia.
	And all the people will be like, what?
	No, I mean, that's a joke.
	He's not going to do that.
	Trump will announce victory.
	And then Putin will go back home and he will say, we don't have a de deal.
	So what's going to happen to the markets, almost certainly, is that, you know, Friday evening and over the weekend, like foreign gold and silver markets begin trading at certain hours.
	You know, there's going to be a smattering of some sell-offs at that time based on what Trump said.
	And probably next Monday morning, gold and silver, this is my guess, they will dip.
	substantially based on Trump declaring, you know, victory or peace or we have an agreement, et cetera, even though it's all made up.
	And that's going to be a buying opportunity.
	Now, gold and silver plummeted actually in the last day quite a lot.
	I think gold went down $60, but I think they could plummet even more next week, Monday, maybe into Tuesday.
	But then at some point, it's going to become apparent that what Trump told the press never happened.
	and that Russia isn't going to honor some ceasefire that Trump made up and that Russia's going to continue to pursue the war until Russia's demands are met.
	And we already know what those demands are.
	Buffer zone and denazification and making sure Ukraine never joins NATO, etc.
	A few things like that.
	So the war is not going to end, even though Trump is going to mislead, I think, a lot of people claiming that he's going to make it end.
	And then when the metals markets figure out that the war is not ending, then they're going to bounce back up again.
	So that's my guess.
	Don't take it as investment advice.
	Obviously, I don't have a crystal ball.
	And a lot could happen between now and then.
	A whole lot could happen, obviously, in just a few days but that's my best guess of where this is going and you know what else is important here is that whatever Trump and Putin might even agree to Zelensky already said no.
	Zelensky said, we're not giving up any of our territory to Russia, period.
	And Zelensky is backed by the insane European leaders, like Kir Starmer and Mertz, et cetera, Macron, all these insane European leaders.
	They want to keep fighting a war because they have a suicide wish.
	They just want to be nuked by Russia.
	So Zelensky and the Europeans are not going to agree to whatever Trump comes up with in his mind.
	And even more, even if Trump wants peace with Russia, which I'm highly skeptical that he does, Trump's own government doesn't want peace with Russia.
	There are so many powerful interests, the military-industrial complex, the Pentagon, senators like Lindsey Graham, et cetera.
	They want war with Russia.
	And so even if Trump were to negotiate some kind of peace, A lot of the people around him, the decision makers, the leakers, the executive branch leaders, they want.
	war, so they're going to sabotage this operation.
	So that's my overall take is that even if Trump and Putin shake hands and say, we declare peace, well, everybody else doesn't want peace.
	Everybody else is going to make sure that this thing escalates into war one way or another.
	And one of the most obvious ways that this is going to happen is that the British intelligence services, MI6, they will carry out a false flag operation.
	And do you remember early in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, there was a town called, I think it was Bucha.
	And, you know, the Western media ran with this big story, oh, all these dead bodies in Bucha, they were civilians massacred by Russia.
	And look how evil Russia is.
	And they had everything was set up and they had a, you know, a female journalist there to tell the story of the massacre of Bucha.
	I think it's Bucha.
	Anyway, that whole thing was set up by MI6.
	They dragged the bodies there and dumped them there and staged the whole town and then filmed it and ran it as propaganda to try to make Russia look bad.
	And there were numerous operations like that carried out by the British, MI6.
	And, you know, I just want to mention on a bigger picture topic here that governments around the world, they routinely stage massacres as false flags.
	And you can think about like when Australia wanted to control the guns, take away guns from the people.
	What did they do?
	Oh, they carried out a stage mass shooting when New Zealand wanted to take away.
	the guns.
	What did they do?
	Oh, they staged a mass shooting in a church or a, what was it?
	I think it was a church or a temple.
	And I'm not saying that people didn't die.
	Yeah.
	The government went out and killed a bunch of people, dragged them into the church, staged them around, and then set up and filmed the whole thing, first person view, and ran that whole operation in order to push censorship and gun control and, you know, to criticize anybody who was dissenting against government tyranny, et cetera.
	They always do that.
	I mean, look at this recent shooting at the CDC here.
	in the United States.
	A lot of questions about that.
	Look at, you know, many years ago, so many questions about Sandy Hook, for example.
	Even though it's clear that children were killed.
	where we were told they were killed or were they killed somewhere else and then arranged there for a narrative of gun control?
	It always comes down to Western narratives, gun control or here, take your vaccines.
	The CDC issued a statement saying that it's the anti-vaccine disinformation that creates a danger for CDC employees.
	Really?
	Well, the CDC creates a danger for hundreds of millions of Americans.
	And the CDC killed or is complicit in the mass slaughter of at least 1.5 million Americans.
	The CDC has been pushing disinformation about infectious disease and virology, everything from Zika and Ebola.
	Remember the CDC intelligence officer that was faking the whole Ebola outbreak in the USA?
	Remember that?
	The CDC puts everybody in danger with their AIDS narratives, which are all false, and all their PCR testing narratives.
	Everything's fake from the CDC.
	So the CDC is a danger to humanity.
	But they want to say, well, if you criticize them, then you're dangerous or you're creating danger for them.
	It's all run by false flag operations.
	Okay, and Bucha was no different.
	It was a false flag carried out by MI6 in order to try to make Russia look like a bunch of demons, which, you know, is bizarre because the UK supports Israel, and Israel's military is run by a bunch of actual demons who are murdering, slaughtering innocent women and children, and doctors and journalists.
	And the UK is totally fine with that, you know, I mean, for the most part.
	Very little outrage from the UK about what Israel is doing.
	But anyway, MI6 is probably the most evil intelligence agency on the planet and there's nothing that they won't do now to create a false flag in order to try to suck the United States back into the war with Russia.
	So you can bet that MI6 is trying to figure out how to sabotage these talks and that's probably why Trump chose Alaska.
	Get as far away from these UK lunatics as possible.
	Get out of the range of their nukes, you know.
	I mean, Trump trusts Russia more than he trusts the British.
	I mean, or British leadership, I should say.
	But then again.
	Don't we all?
	You know, I mean, you know, British leadership, man, there's something like culturally and cognitively wrong with British leadership.
	They have police now.
	They run these honeypot traps where they have like female police officers jogging on the side of the road.
	Like a couple of really ugly female cops, by the way, just jogging.
	And then they wait for somebody to whistle at them or like cat calling like, woohoo.
	Yeah, baby, you know, Austin Powers.
	Yeah, baby, it's my bag, you know, or whatever.
	And then they pull those people over and they ticket them.
	And this is how the UK government spends its resources is arresting people for saying something, for whistling at women who are jogging who aren't even whistleworth, I should add.
	They're not whistleworth at all.
	I saw them.
	I saw an interview like, oh my God, how desperate are these British men to whistle at these people?
	Just saying they need more dentistry in the UK.
	You know, just saying some of the dental work has been lacking.
	And when dentistry goes like full AI robotics, the UK is going to be a gleaming golden age of smiles when that day comes.
	I'll just say this way.
	If I were in the UK driving and I drove by these women, I would scream out in horror.
	And they would still probably ticket me for that.
	But then again, I'd be driving on the right side of the road.
	I might get a double ticket.
	But anyway, whatever.
	They're all insane.
	So don't put it past the lunatic British intelligence services to do something insanely crazy to keep this war going.
	And never forget that it was Boris Johnson who flew over to Zelensky and persuaded him to keep the war going, saying, we'll support you.
	With what?
	You and what army?
	The British Army?
	It's a joke.
	It's a total joke.
	British Army wouldn't even last two weeks against the Mexican narco cartels.
	The British Army is gone.
	I mean, the entirety of the British Army would fit in one football stadium.
	And they don't even have an aircraft carrier that works.
	And it's the Queen Elizabeth.
	And It's about as dead and gone as she is.
	Anyway, speaking of aircraft carriers, China has released a video showing how they would sink a U.S. aircraft carrier.
	Now, granted, I'm going to play it for you.
	It's a CGI video.
	This isn't a documentary.
	But this is the way China believes in their thinking that they could sink U.S. aircraft carriers.
	It's kind of, I don't know, it might be educational.
	I want you to watch this and ask yourself, do you think that the U.S. aircraft carriers could defend themselves against us because I don't think they could.
	I think that China could very well sink U.S. aircraft carriers.
	So take a look at this video.
	Well, what do you think about that yeah you think uh you think china could sink an aircraft carrier that way i'm pretty sure that if they did that trump and pete hegseth would have a press conference and they would say uh it was beautiful it was beautiful they didn't sink the aircraft carrier we just we put the aircraft carrier into submarine mode that's why it went underwater it's now in submarine mode and it's stealth.
	It's now, it's under the water, in stealth submarine mode, collecting water, and it's going to pop up and launch an attack against China somewhere soon.
	It's beautiful.
	It's the most amazing.
	It's a transforming aircraft carrier.
	Yeah, we'll be told something insane like that.
	Like, it didn't sink.
	We went in the submarine mode.
	But then again, you know, this is just CGI.
	might be china's imagination i actually think that the way u.s aircraft carriers would be just And those would come straight down out of the sky, you know?
	They're not going to be moving along with the water like that.
	They're going to come straight down, and they will punch holes completely through the aircraft carrier.
	All the levels, you know, from the tarmac on top, whatever, the flight deck, all the way through however many levels there are, and out the bottom of the ship, and then water will just pour in and put it into submarine mode.
	All right, speaking of China, let's pivot.
	to some news here today because Trump, of course, is making everybody crazy in in the financial markets and the supply chains.
	Oh, it's unbelievable.
	So here's a story out of CNBC that's covering this.
	The news is that Trump is allowing two microchip companies, Nvidia and AMD, and he's talking to Intel at the same time, but Nvidia and AMD are now going to be able to sell all their microchips to China including many of the GPUs that are used for AI training and Nvidia and AMD have to pay a 15 tax on the sales of those chips
	to the U.S. government You're like, what?
	That's not even a tariff because they're being exported.
	I mean, it's like a surcharge on exports to China.
	So remember how we've been told this entire time that, oh yeah, we know China's got much more power than the U.S. in terms of its power grid and, you know, terawatt hours.
	I covered that in detail a couple of weeks ago.
	China produces more than twice the power of the United States of America.
	And it's power that actually determines progress in AI training.
	Well, when combined with microchips.
	So we were told that even though China has a lot more power than does the United States, that don't worry, we will restrict China's access to the microchips.
	And since they don't have the chips, they...
	And then Trump comes along and says, yeah, we can sell them the chips.
	They just got to pay us 15%.
	You know, we get a cut.
	So what happened to that whole argument that we weren't going to let China get the chips?
	Well, that's thrown out the window.
	As long as there's revenue for Trump's, you know, economic miracle, the golden age is upon us.
	We're going to make a few hundred million dollars on microchips.
	that China will buy and use to win the AI race because it has all the power in the world.
	So that just happened.
	That's bizarre.
	Nobody can really figure out why this is happening, but it's probably going to expand to Intel.
	It makes you realize that Trump's economic policies, he runs them the way you would run a real estate empire.
	It's pretty much like, can you give me a cut?
	You can do anything you want as long as we get a cut.
	It's kind of like a New York mafia, actually.
	It's like, yeah, you can have your retail business here, but you got to give us a cut.
	We're going to stop by every couple of weeks, and you're going to give us a cut.
	You're going to give us an envelope full of cash.
	Otherwise, something bad might happen to your restaurant like a fire or whatever this is the way Trump just handles his you know foreign policy here and it's bizarre but this is going to boost the stock value of Nvidia and AMD and it's also going to give China all kinds of microchips that it needs to dominate in the AI race and
	it's already dominating actually and then in related news Trump has now delayed the tariff penalties on China for another 90 days.
	So China is getting the sweet tariff deal while Trump is punishing U.S. allies like India and Japan and Taiwan and Brazil, etc.
	This is a very interesting pattern here and it's been going on for quite some time.
	And, you know, Trump keeps talking tough.
	We're going to get tough with China.
	We're going to put 100%, 150%, 200%, whatever.
	And when it comes down to the wire, it's nothing.
	I mean, I think it's what?
	Well, it's not nothing, but it's 30% or close to that with China.
	And that's small compared to what Trump threatened.
	Again, it's not nothing, but it's much smaller.
	So why is Trump delaying the punitive tariffs on China?
	And the answer is abundantly obvious.
	It's because China is pushing back.
	China is saying, we're not going to fall for your tariff game.
	And if you put those tariffs on us, you're not going to get any rare earth minerals.
	that you need for all your industries including military and aerospace and whatever you know telecom and data centers and all that stuff so china knows that china holds the cards and And basically Trump is going to have to beg China to give us the rare earth minerals and tell us what terms are acceptable to China.
	And that's why these punitive tariffs keep getting delayed.
	So now they're delayed for 90 more days.
	That puts us into November.
	All right, so mid-November.
	So in the meantime, I guess we'll be able to purchase Chinese goods at a relatively lower tariff.
	So, hey.
	take advantage of it while we can.
	But, you know, you got to understand if Trump was really all about we got to create U.S. jobs and protect U.S. industries, etc., and we have to punish our enemies and support our allies, then he wouldn't be giving China a sweeter deal than India or than Brazil for that matter.
	But China gets the sweetest deal because China holds the cards or the rare earths.
	And India is being punished because India is buying energy from Russia.
	But so is China.
	In fact, China buys more energy from Russia than does India.
	So if Trump had any consistency whatsoever with his tariffs, which he doesn't, because remember, Trump's brain is a random number generator.
	And that's a quote from Dmitry Orlov, by the way.
	I want to give him credit for that.
	Trump's brain's a random number generator.
	He punishes our allies far worse than he punishes our strategic competitors or enemies.
	So India must be going insane over this right now.
	It's like, why are you hitting us with 50% tariffs and China's got lower tariffs?
	when China's buying way more energy from Iran.
	So again, Trump's tariff numbers, they don't make any sense.
	There's no consistency.
	And they're really hurting a lot of small businesses in America, including us, because we buy turmeric from India, like I said the other day.
	And there's certain things that we can only get from China, like goji berries from the Himalayan Mountains, the Tibetan regions of China.
	That's where the best goji berries come from.
	So certain foods or supplements or essential oils, things like that, that come from certain countries.
	A lot of those countries are getting hammered, even like Brazil.
	And Brazil exports a lot of coffee.
	So that coffee is going to be very, very expensive in the USA.
	But China is stepping in to buy up a lot of that coffee from Brazil.
	So the Chinese will be enjoying fine Brazilian coffee and the Americans are going to be drinking cheap crap at Dunkin' Donuts.
	So in other news, Trump is taking over the District of Columbia with federal rule and he's going to deploy the National Guard, he says, to, I don't know, to clean up D.C. And this is, I guess he's invoking Section 740.
	of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act.
	And then he even mentions in this video I'll play for you that he should probably do the same thing in other cities across the United States like Chicago and Los Angeles, New York City.
	Wow, this is interesting.
	So we're going to have a police state now in cities across the United States under the justification of cleaning them up.
	Well, a lot of theories about this.
	We'll talk about that on the other side, but check out this video from Trump.
	Here we go.
	I'm announcing a historic action to...
	This is Liberation Day in D.C. and we're going to take our capital back.
	We're taking it back.
	Under the authorities vested in me as the President of the United States, I'm officially invoking Section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act.
	You know what that is?
	And placing the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department under direct federal control, and you'll be meeting the people that will be directly involved with that.
	Very good people.
	but they're tough and they know what's happening and they've done it before.
	In addition, I'm deploying the National Guard to help re-establish law, order and public safety in Washington, DC, and they're going to be allowed to do their job properly.
	And we're going to have the same thing here.
	But then I'm going to look at New York in a little while.
	Let's do this.
	Let's do this together.
	Let's see.
	It's going to go pretty quickly.
	And if we need to, we're going to do the same thing in Chicago, which is a disaster.
	We have a mayor there who's totally incompetent.
	He's an incompetent man.
	And we have an incompetent governor there.
	Pritzker is an incompetent.
	His family threw him out of the business and he ran for governor.
	And now I understand he wants to be president.
	But I notice he lost a little weight, so maybe he has a chance.
	You know, you never know what happens.
	But Pritzka is a gross incompetent guy thrown out of the family business.
	But when I look at Chicago and I look at LA, if we didn't go to LA three months ago, LA would be burning like the part that didn't burn.
	If he would have allowed the water to come down, which I told him about in my first term, I said, you're going to have problems.
	Let it come down.
	We actually sent in our military to have the water come down into LA.
	They still didn't want it to come down after the fires.
	But that was it.
	We have it coming down.
	But hopefully LA is watching.
	That mayor also, the city's burning.
	All right.
	Now, obviously, Trump is pretty exhausted in that video, so let's give him a little bit of leeway as he repeats himself.
	I mean, it's got to be exhausting to be the president.
	Obviously, you barely get any time to sleep.
	And then you're traveling constantly.
	Time zones are all different, and you have no time to exercise.
	I mean, what a horrible life, you know, or lifestyle.
	I mean, I know some people are willing to do it and to sacrifice quality of life for legacy or to serve their country or what have you.
	I got to say, I really enjoy my jog and my exercise in the forest.
	In fact, I want to, I think I'll play that video for you coming up of my exercise in the forest.
	Got a little message for all of our Canadian friends here who are being threatened with prison time for setting foot in a forest.
	So I thought I would put together a little message for our friends.
	But anyway.
	Trump's saying, hey, we're going to control these cities now.
	We're going to get rid of the homeless.
	I don't know where he's going to put them.
	I know that Netanyahu has all kinds of ideasas for how to get rid of lots of people.
	He just says they're all terrorists, you know, and bomb them all.
	Hopefully that won't happen in D.C. So I don't know what this means.
	On the positive side, some people are saying that, oh, well, this means the mass arrests are coming, you know, the QAnon theory.
	I don't believe any of that.
	I don't think there's any mass arrests coming.
	I hope I'm wrong.
	I mean, I'm open to being wrong on that.
	It's just...
	is important politically, like the Epstein file or client list, right?
	Or the traitors, you know, John Brennan and Hillary Clinton.
	And what about Fauci, right?
	Why is he still walking around?
	He's complicit in the mass murder of at least 1.5 million Americans, in my view.
	So I don't think there are going to be mass arrests.
	And I think we're going to end up with a police state society.
	This is part of the big, beautiful bill is rolling out all kinds of biometric surveillance stations.
	They say it's for border security and getting the illegals out of the country.
	But you know it's going to be turned on you and I, right?
	The infrastructure of mass surveillance, of course, is going to be turned against the American people.
	So one of my concerns is that they're going to effectively militarize D.C. and that's just the beginning of where this is going.
	And I should mention to a lot of you listening, if.
	kamala had won this election which Of course, that would have been absolutely horrifying.
	But if she had won and then she wanted to turn D.C. into a police state, I mean, can you imagine how many people on the right would be absolutely losing their minds over this.
	And yet, right now, when Trump is doing it, everybody on the right seems to be totally okay with it.
	It's like, oh, yeah, we need to clean up D.C. Trump's in charge.
	So, you know, who needs civil liberties when Trump is in charge?
	Well, the problem is, of course, Trump's not going to be in charge forever.
	And we don't trust big government.
	We should never trust government.
	Government does not have our interests at heart.
	Government will always be weaponized against the people.
	Even if a new infrastructure of surveillance is set up with, you know, in good faith by a person who wants to do good things.
	Sooner or later, it's going to fall into the hands of a person who wants to do bad things with it.
	That's where this goes every single time.
	So I'm a little bit concerned here, and we need to watch this carefully and see where this goes.
	Anyway, I think this would be a good time to show you a little short video I filmed for you.
	you today because I exercise in the forest, as I mentioned.
	I don't like indoor gyms.
	I like to be outside when I'm exercising, and I was out doing kettlebells and jogging and biking today and the bunny gobbler came with me.
	And so I thought, well, let's just shoot a little video and show everybody what it's like to live as a free man not in Canada.
	You can't even set foot in a forest.
	So check out this video.
	It's got a little humorous twist in it.
	Enjoy.
	Hey everybody, look at the bunny gobbler.
	Hey there.
	Come on, bunny gobbler.
	How are you doing today?
	You find any bunnies to gobble?
	Hey, I wanted to show you.
	This is a message for all of you in Canada where you can't even.
	walk out in a forest without being arrested.
	This is my forest gym right here.
	This is Mike Adams.
	Of course, I've got all my kettlebells here.
	This is my multi-exercise station.
	Almost done for today.
	Got natural sunshine, got trees, leaves, dirt.
	And then I ride my trike out here, get this done.
	And of course, since this is Texas, not Canada, we also bring our Glocks.
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	And even, since it's a private gym, you can work out in dad socks.
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	All right, welcome everybody.
	Mike Adams here at the Health Ranger with our great friend, Luke Rudowski, We Are Change.
	Luke, how are you, how are you, man?
	Exhausted, tired, jetlagged.
	Just came back from Poland and couldn't miss Ron Paul's birthday, so I had to come out here.
	I'm not here, but regretting cutting it.
	The trip's so short.
	I literally flew in yesterday.
	So I'm still.
	So you're about to go to sleep, like right after this talk.
	It's way past my bedtime for Poland.
	For Poland right now, it's like 2 am.
	So I'm a little tired, but good spirits, good people.
	And I mean, it's Ron Paul's 90th birthday.
	Like who?
	It's a big deal.
	You can't miss that.
	Like you have to be.
	They invite you.
	I'm like, I'm there.
	That's why I'm here.
	Yeah.
	Now, Luke, I'm a huge fan of your work, have been for twenty years, and our audience is a huge fan of your work.
	Tell our audience, what, what you're focused on right now?
	All the current news, as soon as it breaks, as soon as it develops, I think it's important to try to understand it from more of an anti establishment mindset.
	And at the same time, whenever I do get the opportunity to travel somewhere, I usually like to do like long walks and to highlight the situation there.
	I just did a bunch of walking talks in Poland that I really enjoyed.
	And there is, there's a lot when it comes to Poland as a country that, um, I think America could learn from.
	And, you know, I was a little biased, but I love being able to just show people different kinds of perspectives that I think are worth entertaining.
	And I think it's all focused about making ourselves and the world better.
	And if we're able to do that in a more kind of inspirational way, that's what I hope to achieve and do.
	Do you cover Polish politics?
	Because that's been a roller coaster, I believe.
	Yeah, that's a bipolar freak show, to say the least.
	The Prime Minister is like a woke globalist EU, like tyrant.
	And then the President is like a Polish.
	right wing boxer, a conservative guy who wants to close down all the borders.
	So I think the best government is no government.
	So I think the left and right wing fighting each other instead of doing things is great.
	So I prefer that.
	And I think stagnation in government is great because it means no government.
	I like that.
	Now, your website is actually one of them that we spider on censored.news.
	So we're always showing your headlines and links to your stories.
	Tell people about your site and your channels and the work that you do.
	It's mainly we are changed.org, youtube.com forward slash we are changed.
	I've been working on it for, as you know, twenty one plus years, even before YouTube.
	even existed, we were we were doing independent media and it's crazy how the landscape has changed it shifted right now we're kind of in this like phase where you do have to produce a lot of content so that's what I'm doing I'm working and doing like five eight videos a day seven days a week yeah adds to the exhaustion and tiredness that I'm feeling right now but I think in in today's kind of day and age you have to be on top of everything you have to know what's going on and
	you have to stay as informed as you can so I do my best as I can with talking to the people that I talk to and you know the reason You know, the researching and the studying, all of it is kind of compounded on the show.
	And I hope people appreciate it.
	And how do you make sense of the fact that now so many influencers are paid shills instead of just like the organic stuff like you and I and all of us old guard people.
	Nobody ever paid us anything.
	They basically tried to stomp on us, but now all these influencers are getting paid.
	Yeah, there's a big influence campaign where big money, whether it's like big soda is one example of it.
	The marijuana industry is another example of it.
	And a lot of prominent right-wingers were bought off to promote a particular message and they never disclosed that particular message or that kind of campaign that they were working on, which is kind of weird.
	Working in this industry, if there's ever any money exchange, you kind of gotta tell people.
	I always tell people, hey, I'm working with this company.
	There's there's sponsored.
	There's, you know, obviously a bias.
	And I think the corporate media is done.
	The corporate media is destroyed.
	And the big money that used to sponsor them understands that no longer do they actually get a return on their investment.
	So now they're moving towards independent media.
	And sadly, a lot of people are being bought off, but they're being called out in real time.
	And seeing them being called out in real time is awesome.
	It's great.
	Because then people get to real life, oh, that guy took money from this.
	And it's super clear and obvious who takes money from whom.
	Yeah, it is abundantly clear.
	And it's also abundantly clear to us, my audience, myself, also that you're the real deal.
	You're a genuine person.
	I've known you, like I said, for over 20 years.
	You've always been at the tip of your game on this.
	Is there anything you want to give people about what's coming up or what you have, something you're working on that's going to be a big deal here?
	Well, I think we're entering a very crazy and insane time in our political discourse.
	I think especially with all the revelations surrounding Epstein, we are at an extremely dangerous point in American history, especially with what is also happening with Ukraine and all the proxy wars right now.
	So I think we're seeing a big kind of unraveling of our society.
	And I think the more informed we could be, I think the more smart that we could intelligent, the more we could just be on top of what's going on, the more of a safeguard we have against being screwed over by all the psyops and all the con games and all the Ponzi schemes that are being set up against us.
	And then you've got to be critical of everyone, just like I always said throughout my like 21 plus year career, don't trust me, don't trust anyone, do your own homework, do your own research.
	If there's something that we teach you, the one thing that we hope to teach you is to be relying on yourself to do your own due diligence.
	We do it as best we can, but you have to understand we're living in a landscape where it's a psyop on top of a psyop on top of a rabbit hole that keeps going much deeper than you expect it to go down.
	Okay, last question for you, Luke.
	And again, thank you for your time.
	I know you're exhausted, but Trump and Putin are about to meet.
	Zelenskyy says he doesn't agree to the terms that Trump and Putin have already talked about the UK government.
	is a total wreck.
	France and Germany, they want war.
	Poland has the largest land army other than Turkey in NATO right now.
	I don't think Poland wants to go to war with Russia, but the UK does.
	What are you, what's going to happen in this situation in your view from what you know right now?
	I remember talking about this situation for an extremely long time because it's building up since past 2014.
	If you look at 2012, specifically, that's when the first type of proxy war with Lindsey Graham, John McCain kind of started in Ukraine with them kind of coming in there and fomenting dissent and wanting to move the government away from a Russian sphere of influence towards the kind of EU sphere of influence, BlackRock and States Street and Goldman Sachs type of influence.
	I think Trump is a very interesting political juggernaut, and anything and everything is possible with him.
	I mean, he says one thing, but he does something completely different.
	I mean, if you look at his Iran policy, it was followed up with the disinformation campaign, disinformation campaign that made everyone think that Israel and the United States was at odds with each other.
	If the Ukraine war stops the war in the.
	Middle East will kick off.
	That's usually how it works here because before the war in Ukraine, it was the war in Afghanistan.
	As soon as the war in Afghanistan ended, it was the Ukraine war.
	Before the war in Afghanistan, there was a kind of ebb and flow of the war in Iraq.
	So the intelligence agencies always need an excuse to do human trafficking and drug trafficking.
	They always need a conflict for money laundering.
	Exactly.
	And if you look at the human souls that are paying the price of the war in Ukraine, it is disastrous.
	And not just young Slavic men, but then young Slavic women are just being trafficked all over Europe.
	Europe, the drug traffic is just horrible.
	It's just awful.
	Ukraine, sadly, beautiful people, but their politicians are extremely corrupt.
	Zelensky understands, like once the war's over, people are going to look at the accounting and the receipts, and they're going to see that a lot of the funds went to him.
	And I think this is why he tried to get rid of the corruption institutions and organizations.
	Definitely.
	So he has an invested interest in keeping this war going because he understands that's how he's going to stay in power.
	Same with Netanyahu in the Middle East.
	He's facing serious corruption charges, and he's not going to face those corruption charges as long as there's a war.
	That's right.
	They need the perpetual war.
	Well, everybody, Lukradowski., we arechange dot org dot Support Luke's work because he's one of the few truly independent and courageous voices who's been doing this for a couple of decades.
	And you can count on this guy to report with integrity and with really strong analysis.
	So thank you, Luke.
	Thank you for everything you do.
	You've been around for quite a while too.
	It's like me, you, Gary Frenchie, Mark Dice, Alex Jones.
	It's like, there's only We've been doing this a while.
	Yeah, there's only a few faces that are like still around.
	So it's good to see that you're still around.
	It's good to see you.
	You're doing good stuff, bro.
	Thank you so much.
	Yeah, thank you, man.
	God bless.
	All right, Luke Rudowski, everybody, we arechange dot org dot Check the website.
	Thanks for watching.
	Okay, welcome to this addendum, which I'm putting at the beginning of chapter five here, because, well, all the other chapters are done.
	And what often happens when I'm working on a book is I will come into some additional information as I'm doing the research and working on the book.
	And it just so happens that a number of really important documents have surfaced here that are highly relevant to this book.
	And I want to go over those with you right here.
	And then we'll get to the rest of chapter five, which is really all about action items to take and some pitfalls to avoid, things like that, sort of the action-oriented chapter of the book.
	So before we get there, I want to show you something called the Bitcoin Act in the United States Senate.
	All right, now this Bitcoin Act, it's not really just about Bitcoin.
	It's a clever name.
	The short title section, if you scroll down a little bit, Bitcoin is an acronym for Boosting Innovation, Technology, and Competitiveness through Optimized Investment Nationwide Act.
	Boy, they had to work hard to come up with that one, didn't they?
	They're really working it.
	Now, this Act is not yet law.
	It hasn't passed the U.S. Senate yet.
	But it will likely pass this year for lots of reasons, some of which will become obvious here shortly.
	If we scroll down to Section 9, which is entitled Offsetting the Cost of the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve.
	Then in Section C, it mentions Federal Reserve System gold certificates.
	Okay, now even though this is under the subhead of offsetting the cost of the Bitcoin reserve, this is actually describing the process that I've been talking about here that raises money, trillions of dollars potentially, for the Treasury to do anything they want with it.
	So here it is.
	Let me read this for you.
	Section C, Federal Reserve System Gold Certificates.
	Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Federal Reserve banks shall tender all outstanding gold certificates in their custody to the Secretary.ary of the Treasury.
	Not later than 90 days after the tender of the last such certificate, the Secretary shall issue new gold certificates to the Federal Reserve banks that reflect the fair market value price of the gold held against such certificates by the Treasury as of the date specified by the Secretary on each new gold certificate.
	And then upon issue by the Secretary, each Federal Reserve bank that receives a new gold certificate shall remit the difference in cash value between the old and new gold certificates to the Secretary for deposit in the general fund within 90 days.
	Got it?
	All right, so what does this say?
	I mean, this is describing the mechanism right here.
	It says that within six months of this law being passed, then the Federal Reserve is going to surrender all its current gold certificates.
	which of course those certificates amount to $11 billion in current valuation of 261.5 million ounces of gold priced at $42.22.
	22 cents each.
	That's what's currently on the books.
	Okay.
	So again, within six months, the Fed surrenders those certificates.
	Then within three months, then the treasury issues new gold certificates at the current fair market value price of gold.
	That fair market value price can be any price that the government sets.
	Because if the government says, we're going to start buying gold at $12,000 an ounce, then that's the current price because lots of people are going to say sold here.
	You can have my gold for $12,000 an ounce.
	So whatever price the government sets will be the current price.
	That is if the government sets a price higher than, you know, the current market price.
	If the current market price is 3,500 an ounce and the government says, well, we'll pay 10,000 an ounce.
	then $10,000 is the new price.
	Okay?
	that happens within three months.
	New certificates from the Treasury go to the Fed.
	Got it?
	And then, into the general fund of the treasury.
	Note that this doesn't go specifically to buying Bitcoin or specifically to anything.
	It goes into the general fund of the treasury, which can be used to pay off maturing bonds or to issue interest payments on existing bonds or to pay down other government expenses in whatever way they want.
	Or they can send it all to Zelensky in Ukraine.
	I'm sure he could use it to buy more cocaine.
	Whatever the case may be, it goes into the general fund.
	All right, so look at the timeline here..
	After this act is passed, there's six months for the Fed to surrender the current gold certificates.
	And then there's three months after that for the Treasury to issue new certificates based on fair market value.
	So in other words, and then within three months, they get paid by the Fed.
	So in other words, when this law passes, There's a maximum of nine months to the gold revaluation day.
	A maximum of nine months.
	But it could be sooner than that because the language in.
	here says not later than 180 days and then not later than 90 days.
	Well, they could do this in 10 days, you know, or 30 days or whatever.
	But no more than nine months.
	So if you've been wondering about what I'm talking about in this book, saying, well, is it really possible that they're going to revalue gold in order to raise all this money to fund the government?
	Yes.
	Look at the evidence so far.
	I've shown you the article on the Federal Reserve website from Colin Weiss talking about five other countries that did this exact thing.
	I've shown you the Treasury training materials.
	That's the Section 2.10 Gold Certificate Account.
	That's under a Chapter 1 balance sheet under Federal Reserve.
	And it talks about exactly this mechanism.
	Quote, when the Treasury monetizes gold, it credits this account in return for deposit credit at the Federal Reserve Bank, etc., etc.
	And it goes on.
	I covered that in a previous chapter.
	I showed you the Federal Reserve accounting sheet, which has a line item for gold certificates.
	It's currently at $11 billion.
	And then now I've shown you this Bitcoin Act that specifically states the mechanism, exactly how this would work, the relationship between the Treasury and the Fed, and how the Treasury issues the gold certificates, The Fed then deposits the money in the Treasury and the timeline for this So if you're wondering, how long do you have to stack gold before all of this happens?
	Well, all you got to do is.
	watch for the passage of this law, the Bitcoin Act, which, again, is named in a bit of a misleading fashion.
	It's not really about Bitcoin.
	It's largely about gold and treasury money, but also something about Bitcoin.
	But if you watch for the passage of the Bitcoin Act, and of course I will keep you posted on this, my guess is this is going to be passed and signed into law later this year.
	Then you and I will know that the clock is ticking.
	You and I will know at that point with certainty that we have a maximum of nine months to stack as much gold as whatever we can or want because then the revaluation is going to take place.
	But here's the thing.
	We don't know the fair market value that the government is going to place on gold.
	And I suppose there is a chance that the government could just say, well, the fair market value, we're just going to call it $3,500.
	And in that case, then, you know, that wouldn't be much of an increase in gold.
	Why would the government do that when that would raise less than $1 trillion when, as we have seen, the government needs at least $20 trillion over the next couple of years in order to pay off maturing treasury bonds.
	And recognize that for every $4,000 of valuation of gold, it raises about $1 trillion in the treasury general fund.
	So if you were going to do this, if you're a desperate Trump administration treasury official, kind of feel sorry for Bescent at this point.
	then you got to figure out how to raise many trillions of dollars.
	And you realize that if you want to raise, let's say, $4 trillion out of nothing, then you have to value gold at what, $16,000 an ounce.
	If you want to raise $5 trillion, you got to value gold at $20,000 an ounce, et cetera.
	Every $4,000 of valuation gives you another trillion of liquidity, and it delays the financial collapse of the U.S. Empire.
	All right, the next really important point that I'd like to explain that nobody is talking about, nobody's explaining this.
	I actually figured this one out for myself.
	You wonder why Trump is blocking imports to the United States.
	Now, he's usinging tariffs as a punitive weapon.
	He's punishing India.
	He's punishing Japan.
	He's punishing Brazil.
	He's punishing the EU.
	And of course, trying to punish China and other countries as well.
	Vietnam, for example.
	And at first you might be thinking, oh, this is all about bringing jobs back to the U.S. This is about incentivizing factories in the U.S. This is about sanctioning countries that don't have fair trade with us.
	What if I told you that that, What if I told you that Trump is blocking imports into the United States in order to make Treasury debt?
	more trustworthy.
	Okay, now in order to lower the yields that the treasury has to pay on the debt that it auctions off, and you might think, what?
	What are you talking about?
	What does that have to do with anything?
	Well, let me walk you through this.
	Do you know the formula for calculating the GDP, the gross domestic product?
	Okay, the official formula is C plus I plus G plus X minus M. And we don't have to memorize this whole thing.
	C is consumer spending and G is government spending and what is m?
	Oh wait i is business investment there we go but x and m are very important here because it's plus x minus m so x represents the dollar value of all exports and m represents the dollar value of all imports did you know that so the GDP is the total domestic production in essence minus the imports.
	So the more we import, the lower our GDP goes.
	And obviously the less we import, the higher the GDP.
	Now, you may be familiar with the concept of the debt-to-GDP ratio.
	We've talked about it here in this book.
	The debt-to-GDP ratio is really critical because history has shown that when countries have a debt-to-GDP ratio that goes over something like 125, 130 percent or so, that country heads to financial collapse.
	And nobody trusts the debt.
	or the treasury bonds of a country that's got a debt-to-GDP ratio approaching 130 percent.
	What's the ratio for the U.S. right now?
	It's a little over 120% and it's getting worse.
	Where does that ratio need to be for Treasuries to be more trustworthy and therefore for Treasury yields to go down, which means that the Treasury would pay lower interest payments on the debt?
	Where does that debt to GDP ratio need to be?
	It needs to be closer to 70%.
	So how do you get the debt to GDP ratio from 120% down to 70%?
	Well, in order to do that, you need to reduce our current debt, which let's just call it $37 trillion.
	You need to reduce it by about 42%, which is about $15 trillion in debt reduction.
	So somehow, you know, you got to bring the GDP back into balance with the debt.
	You got to get this ratio to 70%.
	So you either have to retire $15 trillion in debt or you have to block a lot of imports in order to make the GDP look higher.
	So if you can block a couple of trillion dollars in imports, which is exactly what Trump is doing, And if you can then revalue gold at something like $24,000, then, you know, the gold revaluation could raise $6 trillion plus like we mentioned the stablecoin gambit might raise another one trillion that's seven trillion and then if you could block i don't know maybe a couple trillion in imports even if it hurts american businesses even if it causes
	supply chain chaos.
	But that all goes back on the balance sheet.
	Blocking imports makes the GDP look better, and it helps alleviate the need to raise more money to pay off the debt.
	You see what I'm saying?
	So because of the way the GDP is calculated, blocking imports makes it easier for the Treasury to sell Treasury debt.
	And that's what Trump is trying to accomplish.
	Even though this is ripping apart your U.S. businesses and retailers and it's causing you know huge increases in prices for consumers which is leading to inflation even though it's doing that it's saving the treasury it's saving the ability of the treasury to sell debt with lower yields to make servicing the debt more affordable for the U.S. over the long haul.
	So this kind of gets to exactly what Andy Checkman told me in a recent interview.
	Trump is going to sacrifice the dollar, which means...
	He's willing to sacrifice the dollar in order to save the debt market.
	This is another example of that.
	So blocking imports is a strategy to alter the debt to GDP ratio so that the classification of U.S. Treasury bonds goes into a less risky category in the minds of foreign investors.
	I bet nobody told you that.
	I mean, this didn't even occur to me until yesterday.
	Now, there's one more thing I want to show you here, which is a document from the U.S. government that confirms that population reduction is another important way to save the U.S. government about $11 trillion over several decades.
	This is actually confirmed in this document, which is called FY 2024 Required Supplementary Information.
	It's the U.S. government unaudited for the fiscal years ended September 30, 2024 and 2023.
	Now, in this document, If you scroll down to the bottom of page 20, it's talking about the long-term costs of social security in trillions of dollars based on life expectancy.
	And it says there's a high cost scenario and there's a low cost scenario.
	And in this paragraph, it says the low cost alternative is characterized by assumptions that improve the financial status of the program, such as slower improvement in mortality, in parentheses, beneficiaries die younger.
	Okay, you got that?
	Beneficiaries die younger.
	And then it says assumptions under the high cost alternative worsen the financial outlook.
	And the difference between the low cost and the high cost that is people dying sooner and people living longer is about $11 trillion and so under this chart this is on page 21 the first bullet point says the average annual reduction in death rates if people die at younger ages social security income relative to cost would decrease by $5.1 trillion kaboom there's 5 trillion in savings
	right there with the vaccine jabs killing people younger, right?
	If people live longer, the shortfall would increase by 6 trillion.
	So the difference between that, you know, minus 5 trillion versus plus 6 trillion, that's $11 trillion in difference.
	So in other words, there is a very recognized financial incentive, which is what I talked about in chapter 3.
	There's a financial incentive for our government to figure out how to kill as many people as possible once they stop working.
	once they stop paying taxes.
	So all the retirees, all the boomers, all the seniors, like everybody.
	in that category, everybody who's no longer working, the only way that the federal government can remain solvent is to kill off as many of those people as possible.
	That's why I believe Trump is celebrating Operation Warp Speed.
	He called it the most efficient and most amazing program in America's history.
	What was it efficient at achieving?
	Efficient at achieving early deaths.
	are by saving the government trillions of dollars in long-term entitlement payouts.
	And if you don't believe me on this, let You were the driving force behind Operation Warp Speed, these mRNA vaccines that are the gold standard.
	Now your health secretary is pulling back all the funding for research.
	He's saying that the risks outweigh the benefits, which puts him at odds with your medical community and with you.
	What is going on?
	Research on what?
	into mRNA vaccines.
	Well, we're going to look at that.
	We're talking about it, and they're doing a very good job.
	And, you know, that is a past.
	Operation Warp Speed was, whether you're Republican or Democrat considered one of the most incredible things ever done in this country.
	The efficiency, the way it was done, the distribution, everything about it has been amazing.
	So there you go.
	There's Trump bragging about Operation Warp Speed, which we know was the opening chapter of a program that killed 1.5 million Americans.
	So if you go back to the Social Security documents here, if people die at younger ages, then Social Security income relative to cost would decrease by $5.1 trillion.
	dollars how many billions of dollars has the u.s government already saved from trump launching operation warp speed and killing off people at a younger age than what they would otherwise experience did you know that covet vaccines decrease life expectancy by 37 that has come out of the new studies 37 life expectancy and You know,
	typically the part of the life that is snuffed out is, you know, the elderly years.
	Now granted some people die in the their 20s and 30s after the vaccine jabs.
	I don't think that's really the aim of the vaccine program.
	What they really want to do is kill off the older people that are collecting social security and pensions and so on.
	This is part of the solvency program.
	See, you got to understand.
	Trump has to raise $20 plus trillion or somehow find savings of $20 trillion.
	So he's doing multiple things.
	He's blocking imports to affect GDP, like I just described.
	He's rolling out vaccines, Operation Warp Speed, MRNA to.
	kill off the elderly population which will save trillions of dollars for the federal government.
	He's revaluing gold in order to generate trillions of dollars out of nothing.
	And he may, well, like he reinitiated student loan payback requirements to generate more revenues from the former students, most of whom cannot afford to pay anything.
	But that's four things right there that Trump is doing to try to effectively bring down the debt to GDP ratio.
	Now, you know, some of, I mean, those are four highly destructive things in many ways.
	I mean, obviously killing off a bunch of people is, that's a pretty evil way to balance the budget.
	So is punishing India.
	India didn't do anything wrong.
	Or blocking supply chains for U.S. businesses and U.S. consumers.
	But you see, Trump is already in the phase right now.
	This is the last chapter of the fourth turning.
	Trump is in the lifeboat phase of the U.S. Empire.
	the US empire is on the verge of total financial destruction and Trump can't tell the public this obviously because In fact, they wouldn't let me say this if I had the audience of someone like Joe Rogan, obviously.
	The only way you're able to hear this is because I have a relatively small audience because I've been censored and deplatformed.
	So my reach isn't enough to matter to the White House or to the Treasury.
	They don't care that I reach.
	This book might be listened to by a few tens of thousands of people, whatever.
	That doesn't matter to them.
	So they can't admit that we're on the verge of a financial implosion.
	Trump has to keep saying the economy's great.
	It's a golden age.
	Everything's awesome.
	Prices are going down, even though you know that's a lie.
	You go to the grocery store.
	Are prices going down?
	No.
	You see your health insurance rates, your car insurance rates, your home insurance rates.
	Are those rates going down?
	No.
	They're all going up.
	You know he's lying about that.
	But he has to maintain the lie in his mind to try to convince people everything's great while he's running these emergency operations.
	to do crazy things like exterminate a few million Americans, the older ones, revaluing gold, blocking imports to affect the debt to GDP ratio, things like that.
	Some of these things are totally insane.
	But in Trump's mind and his advisors, these are necessary steps to prevent the total collapse, the fall of the empire, which will happen anyway, but they may be able to delay it.
	In fact, they will delay it.
	They might be able to delay it for years.
	But it's clear they're sacrificing the dollar.
	So yes, everything's going to get more expensive.
	You're going to have supply chain disruptions that are totally insane.
	The value of your dollars in savings is going to plummet.
	Yeah, Trump's sacrificing the dollar, which means he's also sacrificing the middle class.
	Middle class is being destroyed by this.
	It's all to save the treasury or the debt market.
	That's what this is all about, to keep those yields under 5%, even better, like 3.5% is what they would want, or even lower, for that matter.
	That's how they...
	But then again, since when has the federal government ever given a crap about the American people you know never I mean not in our lifetimes so of course they'll sacrifice Americans to shore up their own power you know what do you think 9-11 was all about all kinds of operations all right so just to review what I showed you here today I've shown you the the government FY 2024 document talks about Social Security saving $11
	trillion by killing off people at a younger age.
	I've shown you the Bitcoin Act document that lays out the specific timeline for the Treasury to issue gold certificates in exchange for new money created and deposited in the Treasury General account by the Federal Reserve.
	And now you know that that's maximum nine months from the day that the Bitcoin Act is signed into law.
	And I've also explained to you how GDP is calculated, which includes the value of all exports minus the value of all imports, revealing why when Trump blocks imports, he actually positively improves the GDP, which lowers the debt-GDP ratio.
	You got all that?
	Yeah, not everybody's going what we're looking at.
	So there's actually a secret plan being played out by Trump and his officials, the same people that brought all the gold back from London earlier this year.
	By the way, you think that was just random?
	No.
	It's all part of a secret plan.
	There's a secret plan to save the debt market by sacrificing everybody else and sacrificing the dollar.
	And they can't tell you about this plan, so they have to, But behind the scenes, they're rolling out lifeboats as the Titanic is sinking.
	And you can bet that every single person that is in the loop on this in the Trump administration, every single person is buying gold and silver like crazy right now.
	You can bet they're maxing out every possible way to buy gold.
	And many of us in the freedom movement, you know, we think that's that's a wise strategy now of course don't take this as investment advice because these plans could change.
	I don't know.
	We could be in World War III before any of this happens.
	Maybe the Senate doesn't pass the Bitcoin Act.
	Maybe the debt implosion happens before they can save it.
	So there are risks either way.
	So don't take this as financial advice.
	But if you want to get physical gold and silver, I can't recommend a better partner than our long-term sponsor, which is Battalion Metals.
	I've worked with them for many, many years.
	You can reach them at metalswithmike.com.
	They are our sponsor, to be clear.
	And if you use discount code Ranger, that's my universal discount code, then you can save on the shipping insurance fee.
	They'll waive the fee for your shipment.
	That'll save you some.
	And they have really honest competitive pricing, high integrity operation.
	They don't run bait and switch tactics at all.
	They are super high integrity, insured, bonded, vaulting services, the whole deal.
	So again, medalswithmike.com, if you want to get your hands on some gold and silver.
	But look, talk to your own financial advisor.
	Verify everything I've said here.
	I want you to go find the documents.
	I mean, I've given you the document titles, and they're easy to find like congress.gov is where you can find the Bitcoin Act text.
	I've showed you the articles on the Federal Reserve website and the user manual on the Federal Reserve website, etc.
	So all these are easy to find, but I encourage you verify everything that I've said here.
	In fact, launch a spreadsheet and do the math yourself because that's what I do.
	When I listen to somebody, you know, even like...
	George Gammon, he's got numbers on the whiteboard.
	And I'm just the kind of guy, I'm like Ronald Reagan, trust but verify.
	Like, yeah, I think George is being honest, but I'm going to verify these numbers.
	I'm going to make my own spreadsheet, run the numbers.
	And then sure enough, yeah, George Gamma's numbers make sense.
	But I don't trust other people's numbers by default, and you shouldn't either.
	You should take everything I've said here.
	All the prices I've quoted.
	$4,000 of gold valuation translates into about $1 trillion in new liquidity for the Treasury, et cetera.
	$42.22 is the current official gold price, the statutory gold price.
	261.5 million ounces of gold is what the Treasury currently claims to own.
	11.0.41 billion is what the Federal Reserve claims is the current value, et cetera, et cetera.
	You should take all those numbers and you should check them.
	Make sure that I'm right.
	Make sure that I haven't made a mistake in bringing you these numbers.
	And when you do that, when you connect these dots and you're like, yep, check mark.
	That's correct.
	Boom, that's correct.
	Yes, that's what the law says or the proposed law.
	Boom, yes, that's what the Fed manual says.
	Boom, yeah, that's what Social Security admitted, $11 trillion.
	Actually, it's $11.1 trillion.
	Check, check, check, check, check.
	You're like, holy cow, Mike Adams is right.
	This thing's real.
	This is their plan.
	Okay?
	But don't believe me just because I'm saying it.
	You do the math.
	You check it out yourself.
	You do the research.
	You back it up.
	And when you do that, you're going to go buy as much gold as you can possibly buy, is my guess.
	Again, you know, do what's best for you.
	But I think this is a once in a lifetime.
	I mean, clearly, it's a once in a lifetime.
	It's probably once in the lifetime of the nation.
	Well, I guess it didn't...
	So I guess maybe it's twice in the history of the nation.
	But it's certainly only once in our lifetimes for most of us, unless you were alive in the 30s.
	Maybe some of you were.
	Congratulations.
	But most of our listeners were not.
	So this is once in our lifetimes.
	And all the evidence is there.
	All the signs are there.
	It's in my mind, it's abundantly clear that the number one thing that we all need to do to be prepared for this is to stack gold and arguably silver as well to get ready for the revaluation.
	And I don't mean to buy options on gold.
	I'm not talking about risky leverage.
	I'm not talking about ETFs on gold.
	I'm not talking about gold, you know, gold, well, I guess they're all ETFs, different funds.
	I'm talking about physical.
	Because if the financial system goes down, then I don't know that you can count on, you know, electronically claimed gold or whatever.
	I don't know.
	I guess it depends on how bad it gets.
	But I know that gold and silver in your hands is hard for the government to mess with.
	It's hard for anybody to make it vanish, you know?
	It's hard for them to steal it.
	You've got the physical gold, then you're in command, you know?
	You've got possession of it.
	And that's always going to have value in any system, even if the U.S. falls and collapses and then the new states rise up.
	They will have to launch their own new currencies and states like Texas will no doubt back them partially by gold.
	I have no doubt about that.
	And, you know, gold's a tier one asset that's recognized all over the world.
	Now, I mean, it's recognized in every culture.
	Gold is mentioned over 200 times in the Bible, it's been around longer than any modern nation state or most cities for that matter.
	I mean, gold's been here long before human beings ever walked the earth.
	So gold's going to be around long after we're gone.
	It's certainly going to make it through this U.S. debt implosion financial crisis, which is going to destroy the middle class and destroy the dollar.
	Think about what I'm saying here.
	Double check everything.
	And then I'm going to bring you the rest of chapter five in a separate recording, which is about actions to take and some pitfalls to avoid.
	We'll talk about also storing physical gold and silver in a safe manner and vaulting versus taking possession of it, what forms of gold and silver are wise to purchase, things like that.
	I mean, the short version is get the most recognized versions from, there's about, I don't know, six or seven world mints.
	that everybody recognizes in the gold and silver industry.
	Just don't get these weird coins that nobody's ever heard of and weird sizes.
	It's like one and five eighths ounces.
	No, nobody wants that.
	It should be one Troy ounce, period, or a tenth of an ounce, or a quarter ounce, or a 10 ounce bar.
	Stick with normal things that everybody recognizes.
	Don't go off on weird coins.
	that's just the short version but i'll give you more in the next segment of chapter five so thanks for listening so far and there's more straight ahead All right, for this section of chapter five, we'll be looking at practical solutions of how to do three things, which is acquiring gold and silver, owning gold and silver, and storing or keeping it safe.
	And there's a knowledge set in each of these three areas that's really critical.
	Now, most people, after learning about the information that I've shared in this book, most people realize that they should acquire more gold.
	They see what's happening.
	They believe that the Trump administration is about to engage in the revaluation.
	They also see the collapse of the dollar and the...
	Not hard to read the writing on the wall.
	Not difficult to come to the conclusion that gold and silver are probably the best way to preserve assets through this financial turmoil that we are experiencing at a civilizational level.
	But there's a right way and a wrong way to buy gold.
	There's a right way and a wrong way to own gold.
	And most of you listening are probably not optimizing the best way to own it.
	And also, there's a right way and a wrong way to keep it or store it.
	So let's go through these very quickly.
	For whatever reason, the precious metals retail industry, it tends to attract a lot of shady characters.
	There's some shady outfits out there that make a ton of money by ripping people off, especially people on the older side, by offering them these weird coins that are odd and odd ounces, collectors' editions and what have you.
	that are wildly overpriced, sometimes double or triple the price that they should be if they were closer to their spot price.
	So one of the things I want to do is warn you about those shady gold operators out there.
	And some of them have big name spokespeople.
	They do.
	And I was even approached by one of them a while back, a couple years ago, offering me literally $100,000 a month to plug them.
	because then they could rip off people and make hundreds of thousands of dollars a month in profits.
	And of course I said no,'cause that's, It's immoral.
	I don't want my audience to be ripped off.
	I want my audience to get the best deal possible.
	That's why I'm always negotiating, you know, discounts, discount codes and deals and very limited affiliate arrangements that offer great value.
	And so when it comes to physical gold and silver, whoever you work with, make sure they are highly, highly reputable.
	Now, I routinely interview many different people that are involved in the gold and silver space, like David Morgan or Bill Holter or Andy Schackman.
	for example.
	And all those people are trustworthy people.
	They will be honest with you about gold and silver.
	And there are other people that are, you know, There are other people that I interview in this space as well.
	But our official sponsor, which you should always check out and compare prices if you want, is Battalion Medals.
	And they're available at medalswithmike.com.
	And check them out, talk to them.
	You can trust their integrity.
	You can trust that their medals are real, that they're not overcharging you.
	that they're not trying to sell you some weird collectible garbage, etc.
	They don't do any of that stuff.
	And wherever you get medals, make sure that you get medals that are recognizable by other goldmills.
	and those are widely recognized as well.
	But the one ounce size is the most universal size.
	And then there are only about, I don't know, six or seven world mints.
	You know, there's a mint in South Africa.
	There's a...
	Just a few world mints that are recognized.
	So whether that means, you know, you're buyingying kangaroos or Krugerans or, you know, Britannia's or whatever, or eagles from the U.S. Mint.
	Make sure it's from one of those main mints so that if you go to any gold dealer and say, hey, here I've got, you know, I've got buffaloes.
	Are buffaloes legit?
	Like, yep, we know what buffaloes are.
	Or I've got kangaroos.
	What are those?
	Yeah, those are legit.
	I've got Krugerans.
	Those are legit.
	Yeah.
	Everybody knows.
	So get the common forms that are more liquid because then people don't have all kinds of questions like, what is this?
	What is this weird thing?
	You don't want to buy a bunch of weird things when it comes to gold and silver.
	Now, there are other forms that are more spendable like gold backs, for example, which I'm an advocate of gold backs at some level in your portfolio because it's spendable, because it's like, here's a thousandth of an ounce of gold in a format that's got a
	high utility But if you're just trying to maximize the total ounces of gold that you get for your dollars, then you're going to want to go to Battalion Metals, metalswithmike.com, and just buy ounces or even bars but ounces again are the most recognizable so I just recommend to keep it simple buy one ounce coins so that's the proper way to buy coins don't get talked into some kind of weird thing you
	know you should at the end of the day when you're about to make a purchase you should look at how much money are you spending let's say you're spending a hundred thousand dollars and how many ounces are you getting Whatever that is, you should just double check it, do the math, like how much am I paying per ounce?
	Period.
	Because, you know for gold right now you might pay $3,500 an ounce or something or maybe more depending on where the prices go but if you find out that you're paying like $7,000 an ounce because the dealer told you well these are collectors coins or you know no don't do that you should be paying the spot plus premium which is normal for any coin because it costs money to you know to stamp out coins right costs
	money to mint coins.
	So there's always a premium over spot.
	Like spot is basically the melt value, right?
	So every coin is going to cost you spot plus premium.
	And right now in the silver market, those premiums can be very low, like $3.50 an ounce or something, maybe even lower.
	Whereas when everybody panics and wants silver, those premiums will go up to $12 or more.
	So right now, because premiums are relatively low across the board, this is a great actually get metal at low premiums but you want to make sure you're getting the number of ounces that you should be getting for the dollars that you're spending.
	So always do that math.
	Same thing with silver.
	You know, what is silver right now?
	38 plus spot, you know, plus let's say three or $4 premium, you might pay $42 for an ounce of silver right now.
	And that's reasonable.
	And again, that can go up or down based on the market, depending on when you hear this.
	But if you're paying like $70 for an ounce of silver, you're getting ripped off.
	So don't do that.
	Make sure you're getting a good price.
	All right.
	So that's step one is how to buy it.
	and I I don't recommend buying ETFs because that's just an IOU for silver or gold.
	It's not the real metal.
	I recommend buying the real metal.
	And if you have it vaulted, which is fine, make sure it's allocated to you.
	It shouldn't be pooled gold or silver, which is almost an IOU, really.
	It should be allocated.
	Or you can also get it segregated, which is a very specific, like these are your coins, these are your bars, segregated in its own cage or whatever in the vault.
	That's going to be the most expensive storage option, but it's also the most secure.
	I'm okay with allocated, which is that you've got the claim to X number of ounces of gold or silver in the vault.
	that is physically there that's a little bit different from segregated but I'm okay with allocated I'm not okay with unallocated or pooled so try to avoid those even though the storage costs are much lower the second question is how do you own it and you may think that's a weird question I mean what do you mean I just own it well is it a good idea to own the gold and silver under your name, your social security number?
	Because what if you have a lawsuit?
	What if there's a tax liability on you?
	Then you would have to list that.
	as an asset and it could be subject to confiscation through the courts or through the government or who knows what.
	Or some financial collapse scenario ends up taking it from people like some bank bail-in or whatever.
	So my co-host for my show called Decentralized TV, his name is Todd Pittner.
	He is the expert.
	on a vehicle, it's a tax advantage vehicle called a UNA.
	It's an unincorporated nonprofit association or a UNA.
	And if you want to watch his video presentation of what this is because this is an extraordinary vehicle that can save you a lot of money and help you keep what you earn and also segment your assets under its own EIN number where it's not under your social security number so it's a firewall that protects those assets from any liability that you might have and yet you still have control over that UNA.
	So you can learn about this vehicle at his website.
	It's called my575e.com.
	My575e.com.
	I recommend that you investigate this because this structure called the 575E or a UNA, this is under California law that apparently was written for the California lawmakers and California billionaires and wealthy people so they could keep more of their earnings.
	And it allows you to donate up to 60% of your W2 income into your own nonprofit.
	where you still control it but it's not under your name right you control it but you don't quote own it and you can open bank accountsunt with Kraken.
	You can open accounts with investment houses.
	You can open vaulting accounts.
	You can vault gold and silver or buy gold and silver and hold it in the name of the UNA so that it's segmented from you.
	And it doesn't cost that much money to set these up.
	It's a few thousand dollars and it's a bargain.
	given how much you save and how much protection you get from having this structure.
	It's recognized under California law.
	There's all this precedent with the IRS and tax authorities, etc.
	And it's the vehicle that's used by wealthy people, and almost nobody knows about it.
	And most accountants don't know about it.
	Now, I'm not an accountant, and I'm not your tax advisor.
	So, you know, of course, do your own research on this and figure out for yourself what's the best for you.
	But the way to do the research is to go to my575e.com.
	And there's a video there.
	I think you can enter an email.
	You can sign up.
	And you can also pay $150 and have a like a one-hour consultation with Todd Pittner.
	And he can answer your questions and describe this to you.
	But This is the best way, in my opinion, to legally own gold and silver because it's insulated from you and it gives you all kinds of options that normally aren't available to people.
	And especially if you have a substantial amount of gold and silver and if you ever plan to sell it one day, you know, to redeem it for fiat currency, well, if the price goes up, as we anticipate it will, and then you sell gold, you're going to have a taxable event of a lot of profit.
	You're going to end up paying massive taxes on the profit of that gold and silver.
	But if you own that gold and silver under an unincorporated non-profit association and then you sell the gold and silver in exchange for currency or cash that also goes into the UNA then it's not a taxable event it's because it's a non-profit now again you know do the research learn about this find out why that's the case This is my understanding of it,
	but I'm not an accountant, and I'm not trying to give you tax advice.
	But my understanding is that that is not a taxable event, and it's kept in the UNA.
	So remember, one of the reasons why many people are buying gold and silver right now is because they anticipate the value going way, way up.
	You don't want to end up paying massive federal taxes on that when the dollar is losing value, right?
	You're trying to preserve your assets, not give them back to the federal government, but you want to do so.
	You want to protect your assets in a way that's legal, in a way that's written into state law.
	And even though this is a California law, every American has access to this, even if you're not living in California.
	It's just not available to people who are not Americans.
	So you do have to be an American citizen in order to take advantage of the structure.
	So sorry for those of you in Canada.
	There's nothing like this in Canada.
	Not that I'm aware of.
	But in America, it's readily available.
	And the website to find that is my575e.com.
	And frankly, I would consider a UNA for owning your home.
	or for owning vehicles or if you have a business that has some risk associated with it like let's say you have a you know like a jet ski rental company or something well there's a lot of risk you know people can kill themselves on the jet skis or kill each other or cause property damage and accidentally rammed a boat or whatever.
	In my opinion, you definitely need that under UNA because that segments it and gives you a firewall where the liability protection doesn't, you know, the lawsuits don't bleed over into your personal assets because it's all under the UNA.
	So check out that information.
	Think about that.
	If you're going to own or hold or vault, especially if you're going to vault a large amount of gold and silver, you should think very seriously about creating your own UNA you can have it be your name it can be like your last name like the you know the Jones Foundation or or whatever so you know you make up the name and then you're you're the secretary on it you control it but it has its own EIN number it's not your social security number and you aren't technically the owner
	of those assets so if something happens to you and they say well you have to list all your assets well you don't have to list those because you don't own them.
	But again, don't take this as legal advice.
	You know, get your own advisors.
	I always encourage you to do your own research, get your own advisors and find out what's best for you but at least consider this it's a very valuable vehicle for this purpose all right so that's one way to own gold and silver now how do you store it how do you store it safely well we've talked about vaulting if you do engage in vaulting make sure that it's allocated not pooled but what about physically keeping gold and silver Well,
	I've talked about this a lot in my previous books, like the Global Reset Survival Guide.
	You can download that book for free at globalreset.news, by the way.
	But let me shorten it up here for you, give you the thumbnail version.
	Number one, most thieves expect your gold to be in a safe in your master bedroom closet.
	So that's where most people put their gold and silver because they feel like it's safer if it's closer to them.
	And that's a huge mistake because that's exactly where thieves go.
	And most so-called home safes are not even technically safes.
	They're really just residential security containers.
	I think that's how they're designated.
	They can be defeated in two minutes or less by a thief with a drill.
	Okay?
	So that's the last place that you want to put gold.
	I have suggested previously that if you want to buy, like, fake gold, like, play gold, you can go on eBay and you can buy, like, pirates gold type of, like, metal coins that are painted gold.
	You know, it's just a prop.
	You know, it's like a movie prop or whatever.
	You can buy that stuff and stick it in your safe so that if the thief gets in your house and gets in your safe, they're going to think they got the gold.
	They're going to take that and leave.
	But it's not gold.
	It's just, you know, it's just metal painted gold.
	You don't want to put your gold there.
	So you need to store it in a place that is very unlikely to be found.
	And there's a tradeoff for this.
	So let's look at the gold.
	let's take like the typical thing people put it in a container and they bury it in their yard And then they draw a secret treasure map.
	It's 50 paces from the oak tree or whatever.
	That's one way to do it.
	The problem is then you have to determine who are you going to trust with the knowledge of where it's buried.
	And if you don't tell anybody and something happens to you, then that gold's lost forever, probably.
	And the second part is it's going to take some effort to dig it back up.
	It's going to take a shovel and a few hours of work, perhaps.
	But maybe you like that security.
	Gold that is buried, especially if it's buried beneath at least eighteen inches of soil, is very difficult for metal detectors to pick up at all it's just kind of hard to get to so that is one thing to consider if you do that make sure that you bury it in a container that is crush proof and also waterproof so just think about what those might be now there's a an
	easier retrieval method, I've mentioned this before, you can go out to your Home Depot and you can buy forms for pouring concrete stepping stones or concrete blocks for your walkway.
	And what you can typically do is you can take like a roll of gold coins and you can put it into that when you're pouring the concrete.
	You know, you get the quick concrete mix and you buy these forms and then you can you can pour concrete blocks and
	but you can pour gold in them or other coins or whatever and then if you ever need the gold you know it's just one sledgehammer away Pretty easy to get it and very few people are going to suspect that your your stepping stones are filled with gold because nobody does that So that's something to consider and you can also pour other objects such as like a sitting bench, right?
	Maybe that sitting bench is worth a million dollars because it's filled with gold inside.
	You can probably find a form for that or you can find forms for other things.
	And, you know, you can pour gold into concrete and it's pretty easy to get it out with a sledgehammer, especially when you don't have rebar reinforcement in it.
	Just, you know, concrete by itself is pretty fragile.
	So it's pretty easy to get out.
	So that's something to consider.
	An easier way is to just put it in the bottom of a pot of soup that you freeze in the freezer.
	But of course, that's a more more commonly known hiding place, And that could be found out pretty easily, so I don't recommend that one.
	Another method, which is a little more involved, is to get a, like a rain collection barrel or a storage tank and set it up at the corner of your house where the gutter comes down and have the gutter go into it to fill it with water.
	And it just looks like a water collection tank, but you bury your gold beneath the water collection tank before you put all this in place.
	Now what does that accomplish?
	Well, I mean, first of all, yeah, you put it maybe six inches underground or whatever's convenient for you it's it's hard to move a water tank let's say you know 200 gallon water tank you know that weighs well over a thousand pounds so people aren't going to move that very easily and if they try to drain it it's going to take time mostly thieves aren't looking under water storage tanks for
	gold because almost always that would be a waste of time.
	So think about objects like that, that could be heavy and difficult to move, that could sit on top of your gold, and that would be a great place to hide it where it's still retrievable.
	It just takes effort and time to retrieve it.
	Now, the extreme example of this, which comes with a warning, is if you have a septic tank, then, let's see, like nobody's looking for gold in your septic tank okay you could you could have a gold container You want to make sure it's large enough that it doesn't get sucked up into a septic vacuum pump.
	And you could drop it down into your septic tank with a cable or a chain or something to be able to retrieve it.
	This would just be in extreme circumstances because obviously, once you pull it out, it's going to be nasty.
	But nobody's going to look for gold in a septic tank.
	So that's a very secure way to store it.
	But you've got to remember to remove it before you have your septic tank pumped out.
	Otherwise, your septic guy might find a bucket of gold or whatever.
	It's like, wow, I thought I got into this business to pump shit.
	It turns out I found a pot of gold.
	That would be the most amazing discovery.
	Now, I know that in the past, people have hidden large amounts of gold in appliances.
	You know, they've hidden gold in TVs.
	I don't recommend that because TVs get old and they get thrown out.
	people hide gold in their walls you know they open up the drywall and the stuff a bunch of gold in between the 16 inch And then they put the drywall back in place.
	Yeah, that's not a horrible idea.
	If you can do good drywall, you can cover.
	it up, but of course when you need to get to that gold, you're going to have to take a sledgehammer to your wall.
	So that might not be convenient.
	Now be careful if you live near a river, because all rivers flood sooner or later, and when they do, sometimes your front yard or your backyard can be just wiped away, and there goes your secret buried treasure with it.
	I've heard stories of people who lived in mountainous regions, and then they had...
	It wipe out their yard and takes their gold also.
	You know, good luck digging through all that.
	that, it's a whole mountain of mud that just came down, right?
	Same problem can happen with your home, and you might have a fire in your home.
	Now, gold doesn't burn, nor does silver, but it does melt, so you could end up with a pool of gold that is less valuable and less liquid than the gold ounces you started with, depending on how hot your house fire is.
	But these are all good arguments for storing gold outside the home in some way.
	I say it's good to spread it around a little bit, you know, reduce your risk.
	Maybe you have some vaulted and you have some, And you can have a little bit of your metal kind of distributed around in those different methods.
	The bottom line is be smart about where you're storing your metal.
	and think about think about risk versus security and think about acquiring it in a way that is honest that you get the most ounces of metal for your dollars and make sure that you have access to it.
	So I don't think you should store it in safe deposit boxes at banks because those can be confiscated or banks can have bail-ins.
	And I don't believe in owning gold and silver via ETFs because the ETFs are just paper IOUs or promises that may evaporate.
	So keep all of this in mind.
	All right, let's shift gears here and talk about other commodities, but I don't mean just investment commodities.
	I mean physical things like food or land or vehicles or homes and I want us to look at that strategy in light of the anticipation of the revaluation of gold.
	Now obviously as we've covered so far and as I've confirmed with people like David Morgan, when gold is revalued, no matter what the price is, it's going to devalue the dollar.
	And this is going to then make all physical goods or nearly all physical goods much more expensive in dollar terms.
	At the same time, the counter force against that will be the fact that so many people will become impoverished.
	because their dollars don't go as far and so there will be a reconfiguration of the spending priorities so in other words People won't be buying luxury goods nearly as much or taking vacations or eating out at restaurants nearly as much, especially the higher-end restaurants.
	And people will reconfigure their purchases to the basic necessities, food from the dollar store, which is an atrocious selection of processed foods.
	I just found out because I was forced to walk into a dollar store on a recent road trip.
	And I almost lost my mind.
	Like, no wonder everybody's got cancer and diabetes and heart disease.
	Look at this.
	Anyway, it also looked like a garage sale for some reason.
	Like, everything was just laid out all over the place.
	Sometimes it was on the shelf.
	Sometimes, I mean, it, frankly, it looked like the place had been ransacked.
	But that's just, I don't know.
	That's just a reflection of the culture.
	So, speaking about commodities then, back on track.
	Getting out of dollars and into physical goods will be more important than ever under this new gold revaluation strategy.
	And I don't even mean to say that, even if you agree with everything that I've said here, that I've laid out, it doesn't mean that you should take every last dollar and buy gold with it.
	In fact, the very first things that you should make sure you have are the basic necessities.
	You should make sure you have a roof over your head.
	You should make sure that you've got a food supply.
	You know, you should make sure you've got a means of self-defense, etc.
	emergency medicine supplies, all of these kinds of things.
	Gold is for asset preservation beyond those basics.
	So if you have a decision of whether you should buy gold or should you pay off your house first, I would actually advise you to look into paying off your house first just because we don't know what the banks are going to do with loans or calling in loans or what's going to happen, especially if you have a variable interest rate, that interest rate could radically worsen.
	You know, lots of possibilities.
	I've always said, own the roof over your head.
	Own it free and clear so that all you have to pay is property taxes.
	And even in some places, that's being well there's a debate about eliminating property taxes in states like Florida and maybe even Texas, but who knows?
	That seems unlikely.
	But then think about how are you going to pay your property taxes?
	So in states like Texas, where gold is considered money now legally, it's recognized as money, it's a good idea to have gold and silver to be able to pay your property taxes if your local government is still functioning.
	And that brings up the point.
	point of precious metals.
	So silver is very useful for local payments, local barter, if you're buying food from a farmers market or But silver is, of course, smaller denominations, more divisible.
	That's why it's good to have a supply of silver.
	But in addition to those things, own your home and own the land that you plan to grow food on.
	Now, I know some people say, well, we should all have community gardens.
	Okay, that's great until everybody's starving to death.
	And, you know, community gardens work in a high polite society.
	High polite societies, right?
	or high politeness, or high trust society, where everybody's obeying the rules, and they're not going to just steal your cucumbers or whatever.
	In a low trust society, or low politeness society, yeah, your community garden is going to be just wiped out.
	It's going to get ransacked.
	And the only garden that's going to still be there is one that you can defend.
	So it's important that if you plan to grow food, you're growing food on your own land, that you can defend, and ideally land that is, of course, far away from the cities or or the type of people who might steal from other people's gardens So that means investing in some garden seeds and some high-quality gardening tools, things like that, including power tools for repairs,
	plumbing repair tools like the PEX crimpers or the PEX pipe expanders, and making sure that you've got, you know, power drills or a grinder that are cordless tools.
	I've talked about that previously.
	I settled on the Milwaukee brand because it's very, in my experience, it's been the most reliable.
	But these are kinds of things that you should have in addition to gold and silver.
	Now, the supply chains are getting wrecked for American consumers.
	They're getting wrecked by Trump's tariffs.
	Now, recently, Trump slapped tariffs on India.
	I think it's 50% now total tariffs on India, something like that.
	Or close to it.
	50% tariffs on Brazil.
	And he's threatening 100% tariffs additionally on China.
	Well, this is causing India, which has been a long-time U.S. ally, to meet with China.
	China and to meet with Russia and to meet with Brazil.
	And India is becoming a strong advocate of the BRICS system, which of course is the alternative to the US dollar SWIFT system.
	And importantly, even though Trump has effectively bullied India and China and Brazil and Russia to try to get them to do what he wants, it turns out that His bullying is not working.
	These countries are saying, nope, we're not going to go along with your demands.
	We're going to do our own thing and we're just going to continue to trade with each other, actually.
	In fact, India doesn't trade that much with the United States, and so India's GDP is not significantly harmed by halting trade with the U.S., it turns out.
	But the U.S. is harmed by the inability to source a lot of certain pharmaceuticals.
	electric transformers for new building construction and a lot of agriculture equipment including sort of low-cost tractors and things like that.
	So ultimately what Trump's tactics are going to achieve is strengthening BRICS and driving allies like India and Brazil into the hands of BRICS.
	Trump is even punishing our allies like Taiwan and Japan and even Korea to some extent and also hammering Vietnam with extra tariffs.
	So this is going to cause the collapse of global supply chains, which means that Americans are going to be hard pressed to be able to find things that they take for granted right now.
	And many of these things are based on commodities.
	For example, electrical wiring for new construction.
	It relies on copper and aluminum, and that's going to become increasingly scarce and you can probably imagine a lot of vitamins are going to be very difficult to get because most people most companies import vitamins from China and India that's number one and number two and the vitamin imports have been absolutely halted from China and they're about to be halted from India and that includes you know B vitamins and
	vitamin C and vitamin D and everything else all kinds of extracts and herbs and even certain superfoods and things like that because China and India dominate that market.
	So those are going to become very, very difficult to get, which means that investing in those items that you know are going to experience a shortfall may pay off big time because if the prices of those things triple, then by purchasing them today, obviously you're getting them at one-third the price of where they are going.
	And some of those will double or triple or maybe even quadruple depending on the item.
	This is also a really important time.
	There's a bit of a health discussion here.
	to do your best to transition safely off of whatever prescription drugs that you can let go of under the guidance of a naturopathic physician.
	So go to your favorite naturopath, explain, hey, look, I'm trying to get off these prescription drugs.
	I don't know, what are people on?
	Like antidepressant drugs and high blood pressure drugs and cholesterol drugs and on and on.
	Yeah, well, guess what?
	There's a natural alternative for all that stuff, for almost everything.
	Granted, there are certain health conditions where There's not a natural alternative like you know if you have type 1 diabetes and you need insulin well then you just need insulin There's not like an insulin herb replacement.
	So there are exceptions to that.
	But for most of the drugs that people take, there are either lifestyle changes, food changes, behavioral changes, or natural supplement changes that can replace or even resolve the underlying problems, which should really be the goal.
	This is a really important time to be thinking about that because we're about to experience extreme shortages of pharmaceuticals and, like I said, certain certain vitamins and so on because of these tariffs.
	And when you think about gold being revalued and then the value of the dollar dropping versus gold, well, the value of the dollar is also going to drop versus vitamin C. So the dollar to vitamin C ratio is going to get a lot worse.
	You're going to need a lot more dollars to buy vitamin C, just like you need more dollars to buy silver or gold.
	That's going to get a lot worse.
	So think about all these things that you consume, things that you use, things that are a necessary part of your lifestyle.
	as being other commodities to consider in this process, commodities that might have a fairly long shelf life.
	Vitamin C typically has two plus years shelf life.
	Often it can be even more.
	It can be five years.
	And some of the items that we sell at HealthRangerStore.com, such as the freeze-dried fruits and so on in the number 10 steel cans, they can last a decade even though they're only labeled for two years.
	That's just sort of one of the FDA labeling rules.
	But freeze-dried foods can last much, much longer.
	And in a world where fresh fruit, or certainly organic fruit, is going to get incredibly expensive, even like freeze-dried mangoes which we currently import from numerous countries.
	I don't know.
	Maybe one of those countries is Brazil.
	But wherever it comes from, those supply chains are going to get just wrecked.
	So, I mean, right now, turmeric is already becoming a problem because of the tariffs on India.
	Because we get the cleanest organic turmeric lots from India.
	Whereas the lots that come from Southeast Asia are typically very heavily contaminated with lead.
	You know, lead is the number one concern with turmeric.
	So we get it from India where it's much cleaner.
	And now these tariffs on India, you know, plus 50%.
	Well, that's going to hit the turmeric market hard, and some of the Indian exporters may decide not to export it to the United States at all because it's just too much hassle to deal with the tariffs and the paperwork and the payments and whatever and the delays, you know, and the uncertainty because you don't know if Trump's going to change his mind tomorrow.
	You know, you send turmeric on a ship to America, and that's a couple of weeks.
	By the time it gets there, Trump may have already decided, oh, it's 100% now.
	You know what I mean?
	So why would you even take that risk as an exporter?
	And a lot of people will not take that risk.
	Talking about vehicles.
	So do you own a car free and clear?
	Or some kind of transport vehicle, truck or SUV or whatever?
	Do you own it free and clear?
	You don't want to have to make payments on a vehicle because those payments, I mean, it may be impossible to acquire money easily in the future.
	So you want to own a vehicle free and clear.
	And ideally, you want that to be a diesel vehicle because, as I've said before, you want to store diesel fuel if you can because it's the safest fuel to store and it has more energy per gallon than gasoline by far did you know that did you know that 10 gallons of diesel will take you much farther down the road than 10 gallons of gas given that the vehicle's the same weight yeah it's true diesel has more energy so it's more efficient to store and it's safer to store so
	these are the kinds of things to think about and if you can wherever you live get a diesel generator get a 500 gallon diesel storage tank make sure it's legal make sure it's safe make sure it's a double walled tank with proper ventilation etc and then get yourself 500 gallons of diesel now you can power your generator, and your generator can charge your cordless tools, and your tools can fix your plumbing.
	And then you can also power your vehicle if you need to engage in transport to and from the farmer's market.
	And then you've got your silver, your gold, your gold backs, and your 9mm ammo to barter with at the farmer's market.
	And then you're going to need your AR-15 and your pistol with you in your truck, your diesel truck.
	for safety along the way because you don't want to get highway robbed along the way.
	So these are some things to think about.
	These are commodities that are very, very important to consider.
	I just mentioned ammo.
	Right now, ammunition is the lowest price that I've seen in five years.
	And so I'm buying ammo right now.
	And I hadn't bought ammo for quite a long time because the prices were pretty insane.
	I mean, I've seen 5-5-6 prices almost down to close to like 30 cents a round, which we haven't seen that in years.
	I mean, I think during COVID they were like 50 to 80 cents a round.
	And 9mm rounds are back down to like close to 20 cents in bulk, which is really remarkable.
	So this is the time to purchase ammo.
	Some other really important items to consider.
	If you think there's a risk of a nuclear war, consider iodine.
	Obviously, we have a supply of iodine at healthrangerstore.com.
	We have essential oils.
	We have laundry detergent.
	we have body soap all fragrance free of course We have storable food, certified organic, laboratory tested, different formats.
	We've got them in the Ranger buckets, and we've also got them in the number ten cans, which are the steel cans that are absolutely rodent-proof.
	And remember what I said earlier make sure that you store your supplies your food supplies in something that rats can't chew through because they will chew through all kinds of things in order to to get to what they want in fact I store interesting items and I had a jug of nursery water stored from several years ago.
	It's like a milk jug of water with fluoride added to it.
	And it's sold at pharmacies as quote nursery water.
	It's like fluoride water if you want to poison your baby, you know.
	And so I had a jug of nursery water on the shelf.
	And then this just happened yesterday.
	And I'm walking by and I'm like, oh, my God, the floor is all covered with water.
	And the nursery water is gone.
	It turns out some rat chewed open the nursery water and apparently poisoned itself with fluoride.
	I mean, it was thirsty, I guess.
	and it went after the nursery one.
	water.
	Like, dang it.
	And I've seen rats chew through olive oil plastic jugs.
	Which is why I've said.
	if you buy olive oil, buy it in steel cans.
	And it is available in steel cans.
	So just keep all of this in mind.
	When we talk about commodities, it's not just for investors.
	It's not just somebody that's placing futures on oil or whatever.
	This is for everybody to consider.
	What do you need to live?
	What do you need in terms of transportation?
	What do you need in terms of self-defense?
	And then what do you need as a form of money and a form of asset protection, which would be the gold and silver, etc.
	So consider all these things.
	Now let me give you some additional resources that can connect you with some of our affiliates, our sponsors, etc.
	that offer many, many solutions for you.
	If you go to RangerDeals.com, that's the best place to see our affiliate listings, and there you'll find affiliates that offer all kinds of things from gold and silver to gold backs, to firearms that connects you to shield arms.
	to hop light body armor, everything at a discount because there's a discount code offered there.
	Chlorine dioxide, but the EPA has halted those sales in the U.S. for now.
	Degugled phones and much, much more.
	And then, of course, if you're looking for gold and silver, go to medalswithmike.com, and that will forward you to battalion medals.
	And when you're ready for storable food or to increase your supply of storable food, you can purchase directly from us at HealthrangerStore.com.
	And we are keeping prices as low as we can.
	We never raise prices.
	to gouge anybody.
	We only raise prices as a last ditch effort when we are forced to, when a new higher price batch comes in that we we had to pay more for then we raise the price but if we still have inventory at a lower price for a previous lot of raw materials that came in we will sell it at the lower price even though other companies might be raising their prices to the new price we will go ahead and sell at the lower price until that lot is completely sold So
	you'll notice if you shop with us, even though we are, of course, we're not the dollar store.
	That's for sure.
	not the cheap alternative we are laboratory tested certified organic you know meticulously formulated extremely high quality ingredients like It's not just a bunch of maltodextrin and garbage.
	I don't know what they make this stuff out of, like artificial colors and fake oils and seed oils and crap, right?
	No, we don't do that.
	So our...
	Yes, but we keep the prices down as best we can.
	And we don't price gouge.
	However, you know, if our turmeric price goes up 50 from India guess what our turmeric products are going to go up probably 50 I mean there's there's no way around that for us so and and we're already out we're sold out of turmeric tinctures all right so keep all that in mind and thank you for listening check out all my other books you can go to natural news.com and you can click on my audiobooks and you'll be able to find all my books there.
	I've got a number of books that you will find interesting and valuable.
	Thank you for listening.
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