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Oct. 14, 2025 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
22:59
How China is BLOCKING U.S. military weapons production
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Welcome to the special report.
Mike Adams here.
I know what caused the explosion of that munitions plant in Tennessee that just well, as we say, it's sploded, it's gone.
Sadly, 19 people were killed in that explosion.
It was a massive, obviously, a massive explosion.
The entire munitions plant is gone and it's not coming back.
It's history.
Okay.
Wiped from the face of the earth.
I'm also going to explain today why China banned the exports of rare earth minerals to many countries around the world that are using those to uh manufacture weapons of war.
So we'll cover that too.
But let's start with the explosion in Tennessee.
Now, uh one of my contacts is an expert in uh let me back up and say he's he's not just like an explosives expert.
He's a guy who works with the Department of Defense in the manufacturing of munitions for the U.S. military.
Okay, so this isn't like I know a guy who blows things up.
No, it's not that.
This is a guy who knows how to make these things because he does it at scale for the government, okay.
And he told me the following.
He said that uh they know why that plant blew up in Tennessee.
And uh it wasn't sabotage, it wasn't an act of war, it was a mistake.
And the mistake is that they fill containers with this explosive called RDX, which has been around over a hundred years.
Uh they use what's a process called molten filled or molten filling.
So what they do is they heat the RDX, which already sounds dangerous.
Uh RDX, by the way, is cyclotrimethylene trinitrimine.
Okay, discovered by German chemist George Frederick Henning in 1898.
Okay.
So just the name sounds dangerous, doesn't it?
Anyway, this stuff obviously, you know, it's it blows up.
They call it energetics in the industry.
These are energetics, things that go boom.
Well, in this plant, they were using an old method, kind of an outmoded dangerous method, which is called molten filling of the containers.
So they would heat up the the RDX and then they would pour it in a molten state.
They would pour it into the container where it goes, and then they wait, you know, wait for it to cool down, and that's how they do it.
Okay.
Apparently that's a bad way to do it, um, as we have now seen because it blew up and killed 19 people.
The correct way to do this is called extrusion filling.
So if any of you listening are in that industry, you know what I'm talking about.
Uh you need to have extrusion filling, which is where a room temperature mass of this RDX stuff is uh pushed through a form to fit a certain shape.
And you can imagine there's all kinds of efforts to stop static electricity and things like that, you know.
You don't want a spark to go off.
Um but in this extruded fashion, it's much safer to handle because it's not hot.
It you know, because you heat it, obviously it is part way toward the ignition state.
So uh apparently the molten-filled plant uh is no longer with us, and so there won't be any more molten-filled RDX packages.
Uh I was also told by my contact that the cost of these energetics, which includes uh gunpowder and the supply chain materials to make things like RDX, the costs have gone up 400%.
And that's just in the last year.
And that includes uh C4, C3, uh cordite, triple base propellants, double, what is it, double base, triple base?
I don't know all the terminology.
I'm reading some of my notes here.
Composition.
Uh the demand for these so-called energetics is through the roof Right now, and the demand is global.
So everybody's arming up for World War III, which may also explain why gold and silver keeps skyrocketing.
But everybody's arming up for World War III.
And the US government is tripling down on its purchases of all kinds of high explosives.
But also on artillery rounds.
Artillery rounds, that's right.
So artillery rounds are being purchased right now around the world at quantities of billions.
So there are contracts going out to purchase billions of rounds of, for example, 155, which is 155 millimeter artillery rounds.
And those artillery rounds are made in different countries, different places around the world, countries in Europe, China makes some of them, etc., and they're made in the US as well.
So anyway, what we know from this is that the world is arming up.
But of course, Russia has a head start on this.
Russia has been self-producing all kinds of munitions and armored vehicles and drones and you know missiles and so on for a very long time.
And Russia has Russia's focus its production on domestic supply chains.
And it had to because of the sanctions and being cut off from the SWIFT system.
But there have been economic sanctions on Russia for such a long period of time, many years, that Russia was forced to really reconfigure its own domestic supply chain for wartime military production.
And as a result, Russia now has massive production capacity that isn't matched by the West.
Now, this is important to understand, because right now, Western countries, including the United States, they have burned through most of their ammo fighting Russia via the proxy state Ukraine.
Also, of course, the US has been sending a lot of bombs and weapons to Israel that had been used this entire time.
And you know the U.S. is now trying to restock Israel, even though there's so-called peace right now.
I don't trust that that's going to last because I've read the history books about Israel and Netanyahu in the Middle East.
Yeah, the peace doesn't last that long.
It might last a while, maybe maybe a month.
Probably not much longer.
So the U.S. is restocking Israel.
Also, the Patriot missile batteries have to be restocked with all the the interceptor munitions, etc.
This is resulting in a huge demand for munitions that it turns out cannot be met by the domestic production capabilities of the United States.
So the U.S. is turning to a lot of other countries to manufacture a lot of these munitions.
These are countries that include South Korea, for example, for naval vessels, as well as various Western European countries for things like artillery rounds.
But it's not just artillery, it's also things like cruise missiles and it's things like drones, it's complex systems that are being manufactured outside the United States.
So the U.S. made a critical mistake here in burning through a lot of its munitions by fighting Russia and actually gutting a lot of its own domestic supply at the National Guard bases or military bases across the U.S. They've been gutted of a lot of munitions.
I don't know how much exactly, I'm sure that's a super secret of some kind, but they've been gutted.
So the U.S. is trying to replenish that as well.
And so far, uh that's running into major problems.
Again, there's just not the supply chain domestically to be able to do that.
And so the fact that the US depends on so many other countries to manufacture these munitions.
This means that China realizes that the U.S. depends on these other countries for these critical munitions, and that's why China has banned the export of its rare earth minerals to those countries as well.
It's the countries that supply munitions to the US military.
And without these rare earth minerals, the US military cannot manufacture the weapons that it needs to fight a war, such as a war with China.
Makes sense now.
China is blocking these minerals exports to these countries not as some kind of a way to economically punish America, but as a way to block America's production of weapons of war.
That's what's going on.
And that's why Trump freaked out last week, and on Friday, he declared we're going to have a hundred percent tariffs on China, November 1st, in a fit of anger that he seems to have partially walked back since then.
But the reason he got angry is because he was probably told by his advisors that this is what China is doing.
China's going to make it impossible for our own country to manufacture the weapons of war and the munitions and the air defense interceptors for the Patriot systems, and you know, Israel's iron dome won't function without these rare earth minerals.
That's what's going on.
So China is actually being very strategic in saying, hey, we're not going to sell the minerals that other countries will use to one day attack us.
That doesn't make any sense, right?
That's what this is all about.
So the U.S. military is actually in a very difficult spot here.
Having burned through most of the ammo that it had, or the munitions, weapons, interceptors, etc., it doesn't have a reliable way to resupply that.
The you know domestic production in the United States is many, many years behind.
And we just don't have the infrastructure domestically.
Now, there's a lot of money being poured into the construction of, as Trump calls them, plants right now in the United States, but they're gonna take years to build.
And even then, you know, there are big tariffs on things like copper and aluminum and so on that go into the construction of those places.
And even when they're built, you gotta find people willing to work there, and that's very difficult, especially when plants, you know, explode and detonate and everybody dies.
So that's not a job that everybody wants, actually.
Especially people with nose rings for some reason.
The nose rings apparently can cause static electricity sparks, it blows your face off.
Yeah, you get a you get a little bit of uh what is it, RDX on your nose ring, you know, because you're down there snorting the energetics, and then uh it blows up and blows your face off.
Okay, bad bad joke.
I can just imagine somebody, some like woke person with a nose ring working in an explosives factory, trying to smuggle out explosives every day to hand over to Antifa or something, you know.
Like committing a felony crime every 30 seconds, you know.
Okay.
Don't let woke leftists work at explosives factories.
That there's rule of thumb for the day.
Uh in the meantime, the U.S. military is gonna face some real problems trying to make all this stuff.
Now, what's bizarre about this whole situation is that uh ammo for civilians is still relatively cheap.
And you know why that is?
Because everybody's too broke to buy ammo.
And there's also not some huge attack on the second amendment right now because Trump is president, not you know, not Kamala or Biden or Obama or some you know, anti-gun left-wing lunatic.
So ammo's cheap.
I mean, relatively cheap, even though gunpowder costs and primer costs have skyrocketed.
And also, you know, copper, obviously, used in a lot of hunting rounds and so on, copper's gone up.
All the costs of ammo have gone up, but yet ammo is still relatively cheap.
That's gonna change probably dramatically when the radical left starts some kind of civil war effort or whatever it is, a regional uprising, some kind of, you know, we're gonna fight in the streets kind of revolt, which is probably coming.
I don't think it's going to succeed.
I'm not too worried about it.
But when that does happen, there's gonna be a lot of domestic interest in people's uh self-defense, let's say.
A lot of people will buy more guns and more ammo at that time.
Ammo might be very hard to find at that moment.
So if you're looking to buy ammo anytime soon, this is a pretty good uh chance to do that right now.
Might be better to buy ammo than silver.
Who knows?
it's good to have both.
Let's let's put it that way.
It's good to have both.
You want to have lead, you want to have copper, silver, and gold.
Like get all the metals in different formats.
And be ready for anything just in case.
But things are about to get dicey in terms of moving into World War III scenarios, which is why you need to prepare and you need to download our free AI model.
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All right, so that's the situation right now.
Pray for peace, everybody, but it looks like the world is gearing up for war.
So prepare for war, even though you pray for peace.
It doesn't look like peace is going to last very long.
And the insane spike in gold and silver prices seems to indicate there's going to be some pretty crazy financial chaos headed our way as well.
So be ready for that.
All right.
Thank you for listening.
I'm Mike Adams.
You can follow me at naturalnews.com or Brighton.com.
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Thanks for listening.
All right, check in gold prices today.
And this is the first week of October, and we're almost at $4,000 an ounce.
I've got on my screen here, 3984 gold is rising very rapidly.
And also silver prices, although a little bit more flat uh today, they're very close to 48 dollars.
Silver is probably going to cross 50 pretty soon.
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Do your own research, but the trend is undeniable.
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Here's a stack of gold backs.
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I give them to guests and other people.
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If you scroll down, let me keep here.
It is this is the recovery chart.
So out of goldbacks, how much was expected in terms of gold mass?
Here's how much we recovered.
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It's going to be something interesting, that's for sure.
Thanks for watching.
I'm Mike Adams of Brighttown.com and naturalnews.com.
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