Looking ahead to 2026, it's important to realize that we are actually living through the final stage collapse of the U.S. Empire.
And while it's not going to just collapse all at once or even entirely, the collapse will accelerate in 2026.
And so I'm going to call 2026 the year of acceleration.
But acceleration toward what?
Well, a number of things.
You're going to see accelerated inflation.
You're going to see accelerated unhappiness and social or civil revolts.
More protests, for example, against the Trump administration, more uprisings, more people expressing their extreme unhappiness, often about their economic situation.
There will be accelerated job losses.
There will be accelerated hunger and food scarcity.
On the international scale, we're also going to see accelerated conflict, more wars, even as possibly the U.S.-Russia war via Ukraine.
That's headed for some resolution, but the EU-Russia war is going to be catapulted into a much more accelerated state, let's say.
In other words, even if the U.S. decides that it doesn't want to fight Russia, well, most of Europe does want to.
I mean, the leaders of the European countries.
So that's going to accelerate no matter what.
Clearly, the EU is on a suicide track, and we could call it suicide acceleration for the European countries.
Most of them, not all.
Hungary doesn't want to commit suicide.
I'm not sure about Poland, but definitely France, Germany, and the UK all want to commit suicide.
And they're going to achieve that.
It's exactly where they're headed.
I don't think Italy wants to be part of that, though, either.
We'll see.
Certain factions do, but not all of it.
All right.
So in terms of acceleration, we're also going to see massive acceleration of AI technology.
And that's going to lead to more job losses.
But also, it's this weird duality that I call, well, really the skynet duality or the skynet dilemma.
It's where you're going to have, you know, job losses, but at the same time, you're going to have radical abundance in terms of digital content and assets and creativity and tools in the digital space.
So with the rise of machine cognition being very, very capable, you're going to see an acceleration of, shall we say, digital abundance in 2026 and beyond, especially as the price of AI compute continues to drop rapidly.
But as that is happening, then, of course, more jobs will be replaced, so fewer humans will have incomes, and that's going to accelerate poverty and homelessness.
So yeah, you're going to see the real estate market impacted through 2026 in an accelerated way.
That is, housing prices overall will fall quite a lot.
Maybe not in every area.
There may be migrations into places where people want to live, like Texas, for example.
But overall, in real estate markets across the country, we'll probably see some valuation losses in 2026.
The money printing will be accelerated in 2026.
So the dollar will lose its value in an accelerated fashion, which means that the prices of gold and silver denominated in dollars will rise on an accelerated schedule.
Yes, you're going to see, I believe, well, in my mind, there's no question, you're going to see silver crossing over $100 an ounce in 2026.
And you may recall that earlier this year, just this last summer, I predicted silver would cross $50.
And that's when it was only, I don't know, 30-something, maybe.
So now it's 57, 58.
It's teasing $59 or $60 an ounce.
Sometime in 2026, that'll be $100.
In my mind, there's no doubt.
But I guess we'll have to see.
The market manipulators are working overtime to try to keep that price down, but I'm not sure they can hold it down much longer.
The other big factor that you need to keep in mind for 2026 is the accelerated time compression.
So events will move more quickly.
You're going to feel like you're on a little bit of a different timeline where even the flow of time itself is more rapid.
You're going to see events arriving into your consciousness at a pace that none of us are used to.
The news cycle will become rather frantic and it will be hard to keep up.
And that's between the AI announcements and the robot announcements and the war and the currency collapse and the grocery inflation and all the protests and just everything that's going on.
It will all be happening in an accelerated way.
And that is going to lend itself to an overall feeling of what, uncertainty, discombobulation among the people.
A lot of people are going to feel like they are losing their grip on reality.
And so, yes, you'll see an acceleration of mental health concerns or issues throughout 2026.
And probably you'll see more suicides as well, which is very unfortunate as more people lose everything.
Because I'm also anticipating an accelerated schedule of bank failures.
So this will happen throughout 2026.
We'll see bank failures and those will be connected to, at first, commercial real estate gone bad because a lot of those debt bills are coming due in 2026.
And there's massive exposure because following the COVID years, there hasn't been a return of people to office buildings with cubicles.
And probably they will never return.
So we have a massive inventory of commercial real estate across the Western world that has no use because the world's not structured around people who commute to an office building to work in a cubicle anymore.
Those days are over.
So we have a massive oversupply of commercial office space.
So there's going to be a massive reset in that market.
And then later, and this will spill into 2027, we're going to see consumers defaulting on their debt at a very large scale because of job losses.
And remember that consumers currently owe over $18 trillion in the United States.
$18 trillion is in medical debt, student debt, auto slash car loans, and home loans.
Those are the four big areas.
And you're going to see massive defaults across all those areas, which will expose a lot of lenders and banks and financial institutions to those loans.
So if you thought the big short was interesting back in 2008, the subprime mortgage collapse, that's nothing compared to what's coming.
We're going to see some things that you never could have imagined, financially speaking, with defaults, etc.
And in terms of navigating this, you absolutely do not want to have counterparty risk.
So you want to be very cautious about any kind of dollars you have in the bank or exposure in the stock market.
I was just interviewing a person earlier today who said if he had extra cash, he would be just buying crypto, gold, and silver, and that's it.
Things that you can have self-custody.
Because none of us who are informed trust the system.
We don't trust the banks.
We don't trust the FDIC.
We don't trust the government.
We don't trust the system to continue to function.
We don't know when it's going to crater, but it's better to be out of that system and be fully prepared with your own self-custody before the day comes that the system implodes, if it does.
So getting outside the system in every way that you can with your food supply, with your medicine, with your finances, with your knowledge, with your communications, etc.
Getting outside the system is going to be a very important strategy in 2026 and beyond.
Now, speaking of that, some of the fallout of all this that I've talked about means we will see accelerated auto repos and foreclosures on homes.
As the lenders or the borrowers, excuse me, default on their debt, car repossessions are going to break records and home loan defaults are going to be, like we saw in 2008, maybe even worse.
It won't be pretty.
As a result, a lot of asset prices will crater.
And of course, the wealthy elite, they're sitting in cash waiting to buy up the assets for pennies on the dollar.
As the masses of Americans are homeless and desperate and hungry in many cases.
So it's going to be the great taking, as they say.
It's going to be a reset.
And those people who are not prepared for the reset are going to be just really destroyed by it.
Really destroyed.
So of course, an important strategy is gold and silver or crypto.
I prefer privacy crypto like Monero or Xano.
Gold and silver is critical, I believe, in this time.
Don't take this as financial advice.
I'm not your financial advisor, but gold and silver will make it through this, as they always have.
Precious metals will survive all of this, whereas currency, I'm not so sure about.
But psychological preparedness is also going to be important through 2026, because as I mentioned earlier, we'll have a lot of accelerating mental health issues.
Some people will lose their minds as they're being kicked out of their homes or they wake up and find out that their bank deposits have vanished because the bank has failed and there's no bailout coming.
That will happen.
And people are going to lose their minds.
You're going to see a rise in violent crime.
You're also going to see a rise in just people who snap, you know, people who snap and, I don't know, someone in a car that might try to like smash through the front gate of the White House or some silly attempt like that.
That's not going to go well.
They will be probably shot dead immediately on site.
So don't try that at home.
But watch out for people who are losing it.
You're going to see a lot more people like that.
So it's a good reminder that in 2026, you know, try to go easy on the people around you.
If you're in traffic and the traffic has crazy drivers, you know, don't go insane honking your horn and flipping people off and everything because that might be the final thing that makes somebody snap.
They might be right on the edge and then you honk at them and like, that's it.
That's it.
That's the last straw, you know, and they go off on you, ramming you with their car or something.
So be cool.
Let other people have their space.
It's going to be a lot of desperation, a lot of reckoning out there.
A lot of people realizing that everything they've been taught was a lie and everything they thought they could trust in, like the banks, the dollar, the government, the treasury, etc.
Yeah, it's all going to crumble and it will cause psychological fracturing among a huge number of people.
So you're going to need to give them space and give them some compassion because they're going to get sort of red-pilled all at once.
Whereas you and I, you know, it took us many years to gain all this knowledge.
Some people are going to get red-pilled instantly.
The instant red pill experience, which is not nice, to just suddenly realize everything was a lie, you lost everything, you're penniless and homeless, and you've been replaced by a robot.
Yeah, that's not going to go well.
So be as understanding as you can.
Obviously, try to help people as much as you can.
But like in an airplane situation, you got to help yourself first.
You need to be prepared and ready.
And if you've been listening to my podcast for any period of time, you're already there.
You're well prepared for this year that's coming, 2026.
You're already prepared.
And while you might need to shore up a couple of areas where you could use maybe, I don't know, a little more storable food, a little more first aid, maybe you need to replenish some things that you've used.
That's fine.
But overall, you're prepared.
And you're better prepared than probably, I don't know, 99,999 people out of 100,000 people, maybe out of a million people.
I mean, you are at the top of the game here in terms of knowledge and preparedness.
So stick with that and you'll make it through.
As always, I will do my best to keep all of our AI engines online for you to give you free access to all of our knowledge.
And importantly, our books engine at books.brightlearn.ai soon will be offering full downloads of entire categories of books.
So you can download all the PDFs all at once in one giant zip file for each category.
And in doing so, you'll be able to collect all the books, get them on your computer, on a thumb drive, on your hard drive, whatever you have.
And you'll be able to access those books permanently forever, completely free.
There's no digital rights management, you don't need an internet connection, etc.
So, as the system begins to break down, I believe that it's important For you to have local knowledge, local access, so that you can run, you know, a laptop, maybe a desktop computer, off-solar power, or a tablet, or a phone.
And we're going to make all of this knowledge available to you in various formats, including more audio books and podcast formats.
And coming up next year, if the system holds together long enough, we'll start producing videos, mini-documentary videos about our books at books.brightlearn.ai.
So use the time between now and then to number one, generate the books that you want.
And then secondly, download all the books that you want.
And also download our AI engine so you can use it locally.
And that's free at brightu.ai.
So check it out there.
So thank you for your support.
Thank you for helping us achieve these goals of helping you back and keeping you informed and creating tools and platforms for you.
We can make it through this.
I hope that even as 2026 will be a year of acceleration, I hope you understand that I'm actually an optimist about where all this is headed.
And I think that we can make it through the year together.
All it takes is the right mindset, the right preparedness, the right tools, the right supplies in some cases.
But I think you're already well prepared in all those areas.
So yeah, you're going to be fine.
You're going to make it through.
We all are.
Not everybody will, but everybody listening to this will.
So that's a good place to be, actually.
Help as many as you can.
Pray for those that you can't help.
Some have refused to listen for all these years.
They have insisted that everything's fine.
Everything's going to be great.
Yeah.
Well, you know, it's a harsh day when they realize that they've been living a lie.
You know, it's that instant red pill effect.
So pray for them, but be ready for them to lose their minds.
Also, that's going to happen.
All right.
Thank you for listening.
Mike Adams here, the Health Ranger.
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