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Great Cratering 00:12:17
	It is Friday, February 6th, 2026.
	Welcome to the Great Cratering.
	I'm Mike Adams, and actually this is Brighton Broadcast News, but I'm calling this episode the Great Cratering.
	But don't worry, if you've been following this podcast for any period of time, you've already stacked some hard assets and you're going to be fine.
	But what's not going to be fine is all of the banking system assets, fiat currency stuff.
	Some of the digital assets are cratering badly right now.
	The leveraged, you know, the derivatives and all that stuff, it's cratering.
	And in fact, what's happening right now has surprised me at how quickly it's taking shape.
	Now, I've got a song for you here that I put together called The Great Cratering, as you might imagine.
	But I want to remind you that it was just, what, two days ago, I put out a podcast and it was part of this.
	I said, urgent warning, eliminate counterparty risk or lose everything.
	And I don't know any more clear way that I could have said it.
	And I mean it.
	It's not clickbait.
	It's not hyperbole.
	So I just want to repeat it here today.
	Urgent warning.
	Eliminate counterparty risk or lose everything.
	What do I mean by that?
	Well, what I mean is that banks are going to fail.
	Brokerage houses are going to fail.
	Okay.
	Let's see.
	Some counterparties.
	Maybe a corporation that owes you a pension could fail.
	Governments are going to fail.
	National currencies are going to fail.
	And it could be, it could be that even gold and silver exchanges might fail.
	And a lot of people are concerned about what appears to be shaping up for the COMEX, in fact.
	And if people on social media are doing the math correctly, and I haven't verified it, but they're saying that there's over 500 million ounces of silver contracts that the Comex has agreed to take on for delivery in the month of March.
	And yet there's only something like 120 million ounces of silver controlled by the COMAX that is eligible for delivery.
	Now, I just want to put an asterisk beside that and say the real experts on this are people like Andy Sheckman and David Morgan and Chris Olson and others.
	I'm not the super expert on that.
	So maybe the numbers are wrong.
	Andy Sheckman would know for sure.
	And quite a few other people out there would know for sure.
	So is the COMEX going to be okay in March?
	I don't know.
	I don't know.
	But in the meantime, gold and silver are taking some hits, but nothing like the hits that crypto is enduring lately.
	In fact, I'm going to bring up Bitcoin right now.
	It's sitting at about $63,000, maybe $64,000 per coin.
	And yet the losses are adding up.
	Amazon also, let's see, Amazon lost over 10%.
	And after market trading, US stocks lost a trillion dollars in valuation in the last 24 hours.
	And then crypto lost, what is that, $330 billion in valuations in just the last day.
	So, if you think about it, you know, everything is getting hammered right now.
	But gold and silver are holding quite nicely, especially, of course, if you have the physical assets.
	We'll talk about that in a second.
	But I'm calling this the Great Cratering.
	And so, let me play my song for you here.
	The Great Cratering has begun.
	The numbers fall across the screen.
	The worst that we have ever seen.
	The printing press ran day and night.
	Now, everything is losing sight.
	The dollar's dying, losing ground.
	Feet and paper burning down.
	Bitcoin crashing through the floor.
	Crypto ain't with nothing more.
	Gold and silver taking hits.
	Tech stocks falling bit by bit.
	Paper markets made and played.
	Every charter hand grenade.
	They told us it would be okay.
	They printed trillions anyway.
	You can't make money out of it.
	And now the bill is finally there.
	It's the great cratering.
	Watch it fall.
	Great cratering takes it all, every asset, every dime.
	We won't want this whole damn time.
	It's the great cratering.
	Here at last, free money should create a fair food and rent keep climbing high.
	People watch the savings die.
	Businesses are shutting down.
	Bankruptcies in every town.
	Tariffs choking what we need.
	Supply chains bleed from endless creed.
	AI took the jobs away.
	Can't afford another day.
	It's the great cratering.
	Hear it crash.
	Great cratering.
	No way back.
	Homes are lost and cells are bare.
	Lawless hunters everywhere.
	It's the great cratering.
	Feel the weight.
	We saw it come and turn too late.
	The banks will fail.
	The brokers too.
	Will it take what's left of you?
	Counterparty risk is real.
	Nothing's safe that you can't feel.
	If you cannot hold the thing, you owe nothing but a string.
	Only what is hard survives.
	Gold and silver save our lives.
	It's the great cratering.
	Let it roar.
	It's the great cratering to the core.
	Paper burns, but metal stays.
	Hard assets live beyond the blaze.
	It's the great cratering running through.
	Pull you through What I said, are the only lies
	Alright, there you go My new song, The Great Cratering.
	I hope you can laugh with me at this because, of course, we're all experiencing the great cratering.
	But again, don't shed a tear because you're sitting on physical assets.
	You've got elements from the table of elements.
	Maybe you've got some private crypto.
	I just want to tell you, from what I'm seeing right now, everything is going to get hammered because we're witnessing this unwinding.
	And at the end of the day, the people that lose everything are those invested in dollar assets and leveraged assets and counterparty risk assets that you don't really own.
	And that includes money in a bank, by the way.
	That includes money in a, quote, pooled silver storage that's not allocated.
	You know, what you want is allocated or segregated, which is even more expensive.
	You want allocated silver.
	That if you're buying and storing silver with anybody, any online service or any vault, you want assurances that if you bought 100 ounces of silver, there's 100 ounces there with your name tied to the ownership of 100 physical ounces that exist in their vault.
	Not that you're part of a pool of some paper claims to silver.
	You see what I mean?
	And that's called pooled.
	You don't want to be pooled because the pool has a hole in the bottom and the water is sinking out of the pool.
	You don't want to be pooled.
	You want to be allocated or segregated or just have it physically in your hand or go with a vault like battalion metals that is completely off the grid.
	They're not part of the banking system.
	So they have their own private security, private insurance, Lloyds of London insurance, etc.
	That's safe.
	What's not safe is something that's just a paper claim to paper silver, especially as we approach March with the Comex and who knows what's going to happen then.
	Now, it's interesting because I checked with one of my contacts in the silver industry the other day.
	I said, and I think I mentioned this to you.
	I said, what would happen if the Comex went into default and could not deliver, just declared Force Majeure and then just said, we just don't have the silver, period.
	And maybe they would cash out everybody in fiat.
	Say, here's your money, but there's no silver and that's it.
	What would happen?
	And my high-level silver industry contact said the entire industry would seize up.
	It would seize up and it would cease to function.
	In other words, nothing would move, you know, until this whole thing got sorted out.
	Everybody's silver that's not in your hands or not in a high-quality independent vault that's allocated to you.
	I'm talking about just like paper silver would seize up.
	And even silver dealers would stop buying silver and probably they wouldn't have any silver left to sell.
	Because even right now, the silver dealers have just about run out of silver to sell, even as they can barely afford to buy.
	Isn't that wild?
	How is this happening?
	Even as the price keeps getting hammered.
	I mean, as I'm recording, this is back up to around $73, but it crashed out to $64 earlier in the evening in, I think, overseas markets.
	And now it's recovered to something like 73.
	Remember, I bought it recently at 76, and I'm very happy with 76, by the way.
	That's a great price.
	If I could buy more at 73, I would.
	I would.
	That's just me.
	But I already spent what I had allocated at 76.
	I'm happy with 76 because I know where all this is going.
	Anyway, the point is, this is the great cratering.
	And the question is not whether your asset will rise.
	The question is whether your asset will resist the cratering.
	In other words, if your asset only loses 10%, you're doing great.
	But if your assets are losing 50%, which is what's happening to a lot of assets, not so great.
	That's Bitcoin.
	Bitcoin's down almost 50% from its highs.
	So this is going to be a question of, again, the resistance to cratering.
	Will your assets tend to hold value relative to other assets that are losing more value more rapidly?
	Because this is a shaking out of a rigged system based on trillions of dollars of printed fiat currency.
	And it looks like some of that is unwinding now.
Trump's Alternate Reality 00:07:54
	And the economic implications are going to be devastating.
	Now, believe it or not, Trump thinks that the economy is great.
	And NBC News did an interview with Trump.
	I got to play a few seconds for you of this because it shows you Trump is living in an alternate reality.
	He's not living in the same world that you and I are living in where people are losing their jobs and people losing their incomes and retailers are losing sales and Amazon's laying off and local businesses are shutting their doors, et cetera.
	Discretionary spending is plummeting.
	Trump's not living in that economy.
	I guess because so many people are sort of handing over money to him and his family members as political payola, he feels like, yeah, the economy is great.
	I'm getting billions.
	Yeah, economy is great if you're a member of the Trump family.
	But if you're not, the economy sucks right now.
	So, but let's see what Trump is saying.
	Check this out.
	I'm starting to get great polls on the economy, which I think the polls on the economy are not great.
	They should be great.
	They should be.
	So why aren't they if you believe that?
	I don't know.
	I don't.
	So did you hear what Trump said in that?
	He started out saying, you know, the polls on the economy are great.
	And then the NBC guy's like, actually, they're not great.
	And Trump says, well, they should be great.
	Wait a second.
	I thought you just said they are great.
	And then the NBC guys, well, why aren't they great?
	And Trump says, I don't know.
	I mean, they're like, what?
	What?
	This seems like a Joe Biden moment.
	It doesn't make any sense.
	So I just, I don't know.
	I don't know where Trump is living right now because the economy is absolutely not great.
	The American people are fed up with the pedophiles and the DOJ covering up for the pedophiles.
	They're fed up with the lack of arrests of the traders who rigged the 2020 election, for one thing.
	The people are fed up with food inflation, the rising costs of health insurance, the rising costs of housing, and so much more.
	And then what does Donald Trump do?
	Basically, he's like, let them eat cake.
	He's like, ah, the economy is great.
	What are you talking about?
	We've got $18 trillion coming into this country.
	Yeah, it's going into the pockets of you and big tech and big pharma and all your friends that you invite to the Oval Office, who are all some of the worst mass murderers on this planet.
	But what about the American people?
	Because the American people are getting left behind and also dragged through the mud at the same time.
	And then when the American people start seeing their Bitcoin is cratering by 50% or almost 50%, and also their investments are cratering, their stock market gains are cratering, this stacks up.
	The rising stock market was the one shining example of something good happening, or maybe low gas prices also, let's say, right?
	Low gas prices.
	But hey, we're only one bombing of Iran away from gas prices, you know, tripling.
	And that's not going to be good for the U.S. economy, but Trump keeps threatening that.
	So I don't know.
	Trump is living in economic la-la-land right now and it's just completely out of touch with the American people.
	All right.
	Now, in other news, Trump did do something positive.
	Today, he admits that the ICE immigration crackdown has been, well, overkill, I guess, literally in this case.
	He said that nothing, nothing justified the killings of Renee Goode and Alex Predty.
	I mean, in his words, he said, quote, no, it should not have happened.
	I'm not happy with the two incidents.
	Nobody can be happy, and ICE wasn't happy either.
	Except that, you know, who's really not happy are the people who ICE shot to death who were both American citizens who were not attacking ICE.
	That's very clear at this point.
	They were not attacking ICE.
	Renee Good was trying to drive away, and Alex Predty was simply trying to protect another woman that ICE was assaulting.
	And so it's very interesting because for the last, I don't know how long it's been, week or so since the Alex Predi shooting, almost all of the Trump supporting conservatives were out there, you know, all on social media screaming, it's a good shooting.
	We should keep shooting them.
	Alex Predty deserved to die.
	You know, all of this kind of thing.
	To which I pointed out, you know, that's completely insane.
	You've thrown away the First Amendment and the Second Amendment together.
	And by your own argument, then Capitol Police should have shot every MAGA supporter on January 6th, 2021.
	I mean, by your own logic, right?
	But now Trump has sided with me, which means Trump is contradicting most of his own support base now.
	All these people like Jack Posobiec and Matt Walsh and others, you know, the conservative influencers that were like, ICE is in the right.
	ICE had to shoot them.
	ICE had to kill them.
	They deserve to die.
	Yeah, those people look like idiots right now because, first of all, every rational person seeing, especially the Alex Predi shooting, they can see it was an execution by government thugs wearing masks and having horrible training or virtually no training in policing.
	And they simply executed a man, an American man.
	So anyway, apparently, at least this is my guess, that Trump has calculated that the costs to his political viability are now too high to continue just executing Americans in the streets.
	Although I'm sure Stephen Miller would love for that to continue, you know, the internal fascist is really coming out for a lot of these Trump staffers.
	But Trump has calculated this is not good for re-election, not his election, but the election of the House and for whatever senators are up for re-election.
	It's not going to be good for Trump if the Democrats gain control of the House.
	They're going to impeach him every freaking day that Congress is in session for the next two years.
	I mean, he might be the only president to be impeached 100 times because they will impeach him 100 times because he's violated the law in so many ways.
	I mean, if any president has engaged in impeachable offenses, it's Trump.
	It's Trump.
	And I say that as a former supporter who voted for him twice.
	You know, not the most recent time, but the first two times I voted for him.
	And even I can see this is crazy.
	He's thrown the Constitution away, the Bill of Rights.
	He's trashed it.
	He's got literal government thugs with no warrants, with no constitutional authority, running around America, basically kidnapping people, assaulting people, and shooting people with no repercussions whatsoever.
	And that's just not acceptable.
	And if your administration does that, you know, you should be removed from power because that's not acceptable, not in America, period.
Masked Execution Squad Goons 00:02:22
	So what's happening now is there's going to be a drawdown of apparently 700 of these masked execution squad goons from Minnesota.
	Tom Holman announced that, sounding totally depressed, like he wanted to go kill himself or something.
	I've never heard Tom Holman sound so depressed, like completely defeated, just so unhappy that he couldn't have agents running around Minneapolis just executing people.
	You know, very sad day for Tom Holman.
	Now, I interviewed Patrick Henningsen today from 21st Century Wire.
	I've been wanting to talk with him for quite some time, so I'm really thankful that he took the time to join me.
	And it's a longer interview, so I'm playing half of it today and half of it on Monday.
	And the section where we talk about ICE is really on Monday.
	In today's section, we're talking about Iran and international geopolitics, Russia and China, as well as Israel, what's happening in the Middle East and drones and missiles and the U.S. Navy and all kinds of things, stealth bombers, radar technology, things like that.
	It's a really fascinating interview.
	And Patrick Henningsen is extremely well informed.
	But on Monday, then we talk about what we call MAGA brain rot, which seems to be a very accurate term to describe those sort of die-hard MA people who have lost any ability to think critically about the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
	And it's very easy to see that if you just ask, well, what would you have said if Obama were doing these things?
	If Obama had unleashed masked government agents who, without warrants, without showing any ID, without any rule of law whatsoever, just started assaulting, kidnapping, and shooting Americans in the streets.
	Can you imagine what, let's say, Alex Jones would have been doing?
	Or how the entire conservative base would have erupted and called Obama, you know, a mass executioner or something like that?
	Or even if Biden were doing that.
Concentration Camps and Detention 00:15:43
	You know, the conservatives would have lost their minds.
	Oh my God, we're being hunted and killed in the streets.
	But when Trump does it, suddenly they lose all their principles and values.
	Suddenly it's completely okay.
	And I'm not okay with that.
	And neither is Patrick Henningsen.
	So we had a nice talk about that.
	I've titled that segment MAGA brain rot.
	MBR, I think, is a whole new thing.
	It's worse than the STDs that Bill Gates got, allegedly.
	MBR, MAGA brain rot.
	That's going to be a new term you'll hear more and more.
	And it just means former MAGA supporters who lost the ability to think critically and went all in with sort of the cult of MA, like everything's okay as long as it's under our tribe.
	You know, the Constitution doesn't matter anymore.
	Peace doesn't matter anymore.
	All the campaign promises don't matter.
	The Second Amendment doesn't matter.
	First Amendment doesn't matter.
	Fourth Amendment doesn't matter.
	Tenth Amendment, you know, on and on and on.
	As long as it's MAGA, it's all justified.
	Like, that's MAGA brain rot.
	And there are some serious sufferers of MAGA brain rot right now.
	You can see them.
	Now, there's something else that's happening in all of this that conservatives also used to be very concerned about.
	Remember hearing about FEMA camps?
	Yeah?
	FEMA camps?
	I mean, Alex Jones warned about FEMA camps.
	Jesse Ventura warned about FEMA camps.
	We've heard the rumors over all the years that FEMA was gearing up to build a network of concentration camps to throw American patriots into those camps where they would disappear forever.
	Well, guess what?
	Those camps are being built right now.
	The Department of Homeland Security has repurposed $55 billion of a Navy contract to convert warehouses across America into concentration camps.
	And this story has been making the rounds.
	I'm reading from Common Dreams, but it's covered elsewhere.
	There's, quote, a massive Navy contract vehicle, once valued at $10 billion, it has ballooned to $55 billion to expedite President Trump's mass deportation agenda.
	So it was originally supposed to be $10 billion to facilitate the construction of a network of migrant detention centers, and that was supposed to build those centers more quickly.
	But now it has ballooned into a $55 billion contract.
	And each of these centers is supposed to be able to house 10,000 people.
	And they're being built in Georgia, Louisiana, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Utah, and Kansas, among other states.
	It was authorized through the Worldwide Expeditionary Multiple Award Contract, also known as WEXMAC.
	I guess that's a government purchasing system.
	And it's being used for the, quote, territorial integrity of the United States.
	So this $45 billion increase just happened two weeks ago.
	And then that's to expedite this military-style detention network of concentration camps, which is apparently signaling a long-term escalation of the government's infrastructure of, well, you can call them concentration camps or detention camps.
	And, you know, doesn't it beg the question, if the purpose is to deport illegals, why do you need to hold tens of thousands of them in these camps in America, you know, in Kansas, for God's sake?
	Seriously.
	Why?
	I mean, these expenditures include force protection equipment, eight-foot-high box walls, earth-filled defensive barriers.
	I mean, services extend to medical waste management with protocols for biohazard incinerators.
	I mean, it's all over the country.
	And Bloomberg has covered this as well.
	In fact, I want to show you this graphic.
	So Bloomberg says that U.S. immigration and customs enforcement has used some of this $45 billion increase to purchase warehouses in two dozen remote communities, which could be the largest expansion of such detention capacity in U.S. history.
	And as you can see, yeah, there are going to be concentration camps in Minnesota, Utah, Arizona, Texas, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Georgia, Florida, Virginia, New York, Pennsylvania.
	A lot of them in Pennsylvania, Mississippi, Louisiana, New Hampshire.
	So my question to you is, again, who are these detention centers really for if they're clearly not for illegals because the illegals are being deported?
	So who are they keeping in the concentration camps?
	So, you know, what's bizarre is that as the U.S. economy is collapsing because of Trump's horrendous economic policies, mass money printing, punitive tariffs, cutting off supply chains, cutting us off from key technology from places like China, etc., these abandoned buildings are being turned into concentration camps.
	And, you know, obviously that this is part of the depopulation agenda that Trump ran his first term through Operation Warp Speed, using the military to distribute bioweapons to try to convince people to inject themselves to death.
	Basically, it was, you know, government-assisted euthanasia, and it worked.
	It killed about 1.5 million Americans, according to solid estimates from people like Ed Dowd and others.
	But that wasn't enough, apparently.
	So now they're going to have concentration camps to round up and exterminate probably millions more Americans.
	And that's why they've run these ICE agents on the streets.
	They're testing the execution squads to see what they can get away with.
	And they found that most conservatives in America will totally support it.
	People like Jack Posobic and Matt Walsh and a bunch of others, all the hardcore Trump supporters totally support the execution, the killing of Americans in the streets of America.
	I mean, they've already come out and said so.
	So they won't resist the concentration camps.
	They'll say, yeah, fill them up.
	Keep on filling up the concentration camps, whatever it takes, whatever it takes.
	That's what MAGA brain rot sufferers will tell us.
	So as Bloomberg reports, DHS bought one facility in El Paso, Texas that will be able to house 8,500 people.
	And they're going to be using, so far, at least 23 warehouses.
	And they're going to be warehousing humans.
	On January 16, they spent $102 million to buy a site in Hagerstown, Maryland.
	And then a week later, they bought for $70 million in cash, they bought a warehouse in Surprise, Arizona.
	Yeah, surprise, you're in a concentration camp.
	Yeah.
	So even the Bloomberg article says that a lot of these facilities were originally built for e-commerce, you know, fulfillment centers, distribution centers.
	But the economy is collapsing and e-commerce is collapsing.
	So instead of them being used for e-commerce, they're going to be used as concentration camps.
	You know, that's the shift.
	America's economy, which Trump says is great, is shifting from an economy where people have abundance and can afford to buy things to an economy where the police state gets all the money to execute and round up people and throw them into concentration camps.
	And there's more.
	According to Bloomberg, the federal government also has been touring facilities in 20 additional cities, looking for layouts and looking for the largest warehouses to be turned into concentration camps.
	And so they say DHS says that it needs 100,000 detention beds.
	Again, for what?
	I thought you're deporting these people.
	Aren't you deporting illegals?
	Why do you need 100,000 detention beds, so to speak, in all these states all across America that clearly aren't going to be used just for illegals?
	And it's not hard to imagine given that the Trump administration has been routinely attacking the Second Amendment.
	Judge Janine Pirro has famously just in the last couple of days says she will have anybody arrested in the Washington, D.C. area who has a gun, even though you can have a permit there, but she doesn't seem to recognize that.
	She's totally anti-Second Amendment.
	Even all the gun groups called her out.
	And Trump clearly doesn't believe in the Constitution, obviously.
	He doesn't believe in any rule of law.
	He's already said the only limit of his power is his own mind.
	That's a quote.
	That's disturbing.
	And he is setting the precedent for federal troops to run around the country with no warrants, with no identification, wearing masks, just kidnapping people and throwing them into, basically, let's just be honest, death camps.
	That's what these are going to be.
	They're going to be death camps.
	And if you get thrown into one, you're probably not going to leave.
	They're going to kill you in the death camps, just like they buried the children from Jeffrey Epstein, and the DOJ has zero interest in finding where those bodies are buried, right?
	Even though it's all in the emails, oh, buried the little girls in the golf course.
	The DOJ is like, nope, we have no interest.
	We're just going to move on from here.
	And Trump says we should move on.
	So do you honestly think they're going to care if they just start mass executing a bunch of people in these death camps?
	And they just have bulldozers out the back, mass graves under construction.
	It's just like Israel.
	It's just, you know, caterpillar bulldozers right out of Gaza.
	They're going to do that outside these detention centers.
	And they're just going to throw all the bodies in there, cover it up, and call it deportations.
	Seriously, I'm not making this up.
	I mean, if you had any illusions about this, then you haven't been paying attention because the Trump administration is executing Americans already in the streets of America.
	And they're building concentration camps to house at least 100,000 people, people that they plan to keep in those centers until they can murder them.
	Clearly.
	And we've talked about the Israelification of America and how Israel has been training so many of the ICE agents, which is why they are mass murderers who recognize no human rights whatsoever, no rule of law.
	I mean, it's basically the IDF running in America's streets.
	And the Trump administration has said they want to round up 3,000 illegals per day.
	So if they do that, 3,000 per day, and then they disappear into the death camps.
	And sometimes they grab Americans too, by the way, because they look, they have the wrong look.
	They have brown skin or they talk with an accent or they're just observing ICE and that puts you on the terror list now, as you've seen those videos.
	So let's say that every day there might be 3,000 illegals and maybe 30 Americans in there.
	I'm just guessing maybe it's a 1% ratio of Americans in there.
	And then they're just going to kill them all.
	Because that's the most cost-efficient way to dispatch them.
	You don't have to deal with deportations, really.
	And you just say they were deported and they just vanish.
	And what about the Americans?
	Oh, we don't know.
	We have no idea.
	Are you going to look into it?
	Nope.
	What about these mass graves over here?
	What about these bulldozers that are covering up a bunch of bodies that were captured on drones?
	And the DOJ would be like, no, there's nothing to see here.
	That's not a crime.
	It's not a crime to bulldoze a pile of bodies.
	Why would that be a crime?
	I mean, come on, we cover up for Jeffrey Epstein.
	We've seen worse.
	You know, the DOJ, they've just gone through like 100,000 videos and files of things that are way worse, and they were okay with that.
	Like, well, that's none of that is arrest worthy.
	You know, not the rapes, not the kidnapping, not the child torture, not the child murder and killings, and the disappearance.
	None of that.
	Like, none of that rose to the level of the DOJ thinking that that might be criminal.
	So you think they're going to investigate mass graves in Kansas that are run by DHS?
	No.
	No, they're not going to investigate.
	They're going to say, keep going, keep going, 3,000 a day.
	And this is how you're going to have a genocide in America, which, again, Trump learned from Netanyahu because there's genocide from Israel happening in Palestine.
	There's going to be genocide in America.
	You're going to have death camps all over the country.
	I mean, this is going to become Nazi Germany.
	Death camps all over the country and all the conservatives totally supporting it and all the Christians rallying for it while people are being mass exterminated at the rate of thousands per day.
	And if you say, no, that couldn't happen, I ask you, what would stop it?
	What would stop that from happening?
	What?
	The morals of the Trump administration?
	Like, what morals?
	What are you talking about?
	The rule of law would stop it.
	What rule of law?
	There's no rule of law.
	You realize that, right?
	There's no longer any rule of law in this country.
	It is a lawless regime of tyrannical authorities doing whatever they want and killing anybody they want.
	And then some people would say, well, but it's justified.
	You know, they have to get rid of all those people.
	Otherwise, they'll vote in the next election.
	And of course, the Democrats are going to rig every election.
	That's what they do.
	They routinely do that.
	But that doesn't mean that killing thousands of people a day is the right way to restore democracy.
	You know, I'm not okay with that.
	And if you say, well, gosh, you know, the people wouldn't go along with it.
	The ICE agents would never go along with that if they knew that there were death camps.
	Are you kidding me?
	The ICE agents clapped and celebrated the killing of Alex Predi.
Threatening Citizenship Revocation 00:10:19
	One of them was cheering and clapping right after the shooting.
	Within seconds, he was like, yeah, yeah, we got him.
	Of course, these are Nazis.
	Of course, they support mass executions of Americans.
	They would cheer it.
	They would cheer it.
	I mean, come on.
	Come on.
	Open your eyes.
	History is repeating.
	All throughout world history, lots of regimes and lots of governments have killed millions of people.
	We've gone through some of the examples with Stalin and Mao and Pol Pot and, of course, Adolf Hitler and others, the Khmer Rouge, right?
	All of it.
	Millions and millions and millions of people were deliberately murdered by governments as their people cheered.
	You can't tell me that it's not possible to happen here in America with the level of hatred, the level of lawlessness, the level of vengeance seeking that's taking place right now.
	These are all the conditions that make it actually almost inevitable for this to happen.
	The only question is which government is going to be in power when those death camps go live.
	Is it going to be Republicans or is it going to be Democrats?
	If it's Republicans, they're going to round up illegals and they're going to round up their political enemies and they're all going to disappear into mass graves or maybe incinerators.
	And you know what would be great cover for the incinerators?
	Would be to just fake another pandemic and then say, oh, we have to bring in mobile incinerators to cover, you know, to incinerate all the bodies of those who died from the virus.
	And then they can just say, well, all these dead people, they're dying from the virus.
	You know, we didn't kill them.
	So that way the death camps can just become pandemic isolation centers.
	Seriously, that's why they tested all of this, you know, five years ago.
	They tested the whole script.
	They're ready.
	They've got cover stories for everything.
	But if the Democrats are in charge when this whole scene goes active, guess what?
	They're going to round up Christians and gun owners.
	And they're going to throw them in the death camps and they're going to exterminate them.
	And that's when all the Trump supporters will start screaming about, what about my constitutional rights?
	What rights?
	You mean the rights that you didn't defend for anybody else?
	You gave up the Constitution by cheering for Trump when he was obliterating it.
	You don't get to fall back on the Constitution now all of a sudden because you're the victim of tyranny.
	You have to stand for the Constitution for everybody on the left and the right and anywhere in between.
	You have to be principled if you're going to cite the Constitution.
	So regardless of who you think is going to use this, Trump is building the infrastructure for genocide in America.
	That's irrefutable.
	He's building the infrastructure for genocide against Americans.
	Whether Trump uses it or somebody else uses it, well, I guess we have yet to see.
	And that's debatable.
	But he's building the infrastructure of genocide.
	America's economy is collapsing, so it's becoming basically a giant prison.
	And then, you know, when they roll out the CBDCs after the currency collapse, then they'll have you in a financial prison.
	They'll be spying on you and surveilling all your transactions, and they can lock up your money, you know, which is another form of prison, I suppose.
	Or they'll just, you know, come take you away and say that they're deporting you now.
	You're no longer an American because Trump has promised to do that to certain people.
	Threatening just take away your citizenship.
	And then they can declare you're not an American, which means instantly you are now an illegal because you're in the country illegally if they take away your citizenship.
	You see?
	And then they can throw you in an illegal death camp and make you disappear and call it a deportation.
	And if you don't think that they're going to do that, again, you lack imagination.
	Because believe me, they think about these things all day and all night.
	How to decrease the population, how to get rid of as many people as possible.
	And one way is to just take away the citizenship of people on paper, which of course is wildly lawless and unconstitutional.
	But what judge is going to oppose it?
	Nobody.
	They're all going to go along with it because that's how it works when your empire collapses into runaway fascism.
	And besides, you don't need to do this to deport people.
	All you have to do is take away all the free incentives, take away the food stamps, take away the free health care, take away the free housing, take away all the free money that's attracting illegals into the country.
	And most of them will leave on their own.
	They're here because it pays to be here.
	But don't think for a minute that this infrastructure is just targeting illegals.
	It's being built for you and all of us.
	Yeah, because, you know, they have a term, domestic extremist.
	All they have to do is label you with that.
	And how do you get labeled with that?
	Oh, if you're protesting the next vaccine mandate, you're a protester, peaceful, holding a sign.
	Well, you know, Christy Noam says, you're a domestic extremist.
	And then they can just unleash Homeland Security agents to line up and shoot you in the streets.
	And after they shoot you, they will say, well, you were being aggressive.
	You were there clearly with intent to massacre federal agents with your signs.
	Therefore, they had to shoot you in self-defense because you were terrorists.
	And how do we know that Christy Noam will say that?
	Because that's exactly what she said about Alex Predi, who was not a terrorist.
	So they will shoot you.
	They will murder you and kill you and then call you a terrorist and slander the memory of you after they murder you.
	And again, how do we know they'll do that?
	Because they're already doing it, for God's sake.
	This isn't theoretical.
	I'm not here talking about what if, you know, some horrible worst case scenario.
	I'm telling you about what they're doing now.
	They're already doing these things.
	I mean, they're already building the death camps.
	They're already murdering Americans.
	They're already calling you a terrorist after they shoot you.
	They're doing this now.
	They're already going after the Second Amendment and the First Amendment as well.
	So this is already underway.
	And, you know, Texas Congressman Michael Cloud sounded the alarm on the ATF now storing 1.1 billion firearm purchase records that they have no legal right to retain.
	And Rep Cloud is calling for the ATF to let go of all these records, which, again, they have no legal right to hold.
	But what do you think the ATF is going to do with those 1.1 billion records?
	Well, under Trump, the ATF is hiring, I think, 3,000 new enforcement agents now.
	So they're expanding the ATF.
	They're going to use those records.
	They're going to go door to door.
	And they're going to find all the gun owners at their doors.
	And what are they going to do with them?
	Well, probably going to put them in these death camps.
	I mean, come on.
	What do you think all this is for?
	You're watching the construction of the infrastructure of a massacre being built by a government that already is killing Americans and justifying it.
	And if you're not connecting the dots on this and realizing what's happening, you know, I can't help you.
	It would be like living in Nazi Germany in the 1930s, like, huh, what are all these camps and this barbed wire and this housing?
	What is this all for?
	Huh, I don't know.
	Maybe it's for crafts.
	Maybe it's a farmer's market behind the barbed wire.
	Huh, let's see what happens.
	And then they start getting filled with, you know, war prisoners or civilians.
	And then you're like, huh, are they there?
	Is it a fun camp?
	Are they learning basket?
	What do you think?
	No, no.
	They're actually being exterminated.
	Oh, they're being exterminated.
	Well, you know, I mean, people justify it.
	Just like people in America justify what Trump is doing right now.
	Think about it.
	So, yeah, it's going to get bad.
	And what I say is we need to return to the rule of law.
	I support the Constitution.
	I support Ron Paul, which is basically libertarian conservatism, you might say.
	I support the Bill of Rights and the Constitution, and I support it for all people.
	I mean, all Americans, that is, because obviously, you know, Bill of Rights doesn't apply to people outside of America, although I wish it did.
	But right now, it applies only to Americans, but all Americans.
	So what our government is doing right now is wildly illegal, unconstitutional, immoral, and politically catastrophic, actually.
	And it's only just a matter of months now before the impeachment proceedings begin against Trump as the Democrats return to power.
	It's obvious.
	So Trump's going to spend the last two years of his term trying to stay out of prison, probably, trying not to be impeached.
	Not a good time to be a member of the administration that started killing Americans.
	Just saying, you know, just saying.
	All right, well, we will see what happens, but I'm praying for peace.
	I'm praying for the rule of law.
	I'm praying for civil rights and the bill of rights for all Americans.
	I love America, but we've lost it.
	And we've got to take it back by voting these people out of office, dismantling this infrastructure of terror, domestic terror, government terror against the people, and restoring liberty, sanity, and the rule of law.
	So thanks for listening.
	I'm Mike Adams here.
	You can read my articles on all of this and more at naturalnews.com, or you can catch my podcast at brightion.com.
	Take care.
Why Bitcoin's Proof of Work Collapses 00:14:58
	Okay, wow, that was hardcore.
	Let me play a special report for you here called Crypto Carnage, Why Bitcoin's Proof of Work is Incompatible with the Power Needs of AI data centers.
	And this might explain, this might explain why Bitcoin is being engineered into a collapse scenario, because it will free up power on the power grid that the Department of Defense needs.
	At least that's one of my working theories.
	So listen to this report and then I'll continue on the other side.
	All right, Mike Adams here with my comments on Bitcoin and the current crypto crash or crypto carnage that's taking place.
	Of course, being that it's crypto, we all know that there's carnage that happens every once in a while.
	That's not the end of the world.
	But this one is hitting people particularly hard, I think, because of the, you know, the costs of living are so much higher now.
	There's so much inflation.
	Food is less affordable.
	Rent is less affordable.
	Insurance, etc.
	Whereas a few years ago, people had more easy money floating around.
	Now, every little dollar counts, it seems.
	So a lot of people are really panicking as Bitcoin has plunged from $120,000 to now about $65,000 last time I checked before I started this recording.
	So it's almost lost 50% from its high.
	For Bitcoin, that's not unusual, though.
	It can happen.
	It has happened.
	There's been plunges of 70% or 80%.
	But I do think something is changing on a permanent basis.
	And it has to do with power usage.
	And so my thesis of what's happening is that the powers that be, the political powers that be, they realize that for America to be competitive with China in the all-important race to AI supremacy, that Bitcoin uses just way too much power.
	You know, the hash rate requirements for the consensus mechanism of the blockchain, the mining, as it's called, it just uses so much power.
	It's as much power as an entire nation.
	And in America right now, we don't have excess power.
	The Eastern power grid is toast.
	It's already maxed out.
	And even though there's still excess power in the Western grid and in Texas, that's getting used up very quickly by these AI data centers that are going in.
	And yes, the AI data centers are losing money.
	That's beside the point.
	At a national level, they don't care if the AI loses money.
	This is about a race to superintelligence as a weapon system.
	It's not about always making revenue with the AI.
	It's about beating China to super intelligence.
	But literally, the only way to be competitive in the AI race is for America to stop funneling so many gigawatts of power into crypto data centers and instead make that available for AI data centers.
	And it can literally be the same data centers.
	You switch it over from crypto mining to AI.
	Now, granted, that's different hardware, but it's the same power.
	And in terms of a strategic national plan, this is actually necessary.
	So when you look at this massive sell-off of Bitcoin, you know, Trump is selling off Bitcoin.
	His company sold $5 million.
	BlackRock, hundreds of millions of dollars of Bitcoin.
	All the top exchanges, Binance, Kraken, Coinbase, a bunch of them, they're all selling millions of dollars of Bitcoin.
	They are unloading Bitcoin like crazy.
	No one's ever seen this kind of a coordinated sell-off of Bitcoin before.
	And did I say Binance too?
	Yeah, Binance is selling off all kinds of stuff.
	A lot of people have concerns about Binance right now.
	The point is that what if this really is coordinated?
	What if an order came down from the higher ups that said, look, we got to ditch Bitcoin because it's using too much power.
	Just flat out, it's using too much power for this nation.
	Bitcoin isn't really helping the government.
	You know, the government can't counterfeit Bitcoin.
	That's one of the advantages of Bitcoin is that it can't be counterfeited by any government, unlike dollars or Euros.
	But it wouldn't be difficult for government to look at Bitcoin and say, you know, it's not serving our purposes.
	We're going to roll out something as a replacement anyway, which will be a centralized CBDC that doesn't need a high hash rate blockchain.
	Yeah, it might still be blockchain, but it'll be a very limited blockchain distributed to only a few participating selected partners like JPMorgan.
	So it might be a blockchain with a consensus pool of like seven.
	You know, there's seven different copies of the blockchain.
	So you don't need a hash rate, hardly anything.
	And since the government wants centralized control over your digital money, they certainly don't need a decentralized system that uses a high hash rate and a lot of power in order to achieve proof of work.
	And essentially, what I'm saying here is that the entire concept of proof of work, which was genius in 2011, has become such a beast in terms of power consumption that is no longer compatible with the power distribution requirements of an AI-driven economy.
	Now, through the 2010s, let's say, when Bitcoin was really rising and taking off in years like 2017, et cetera, we had extra power.
	We had plenty of extra power during those years because that was before AI data centers.
	And in fact, NVIDIA was known for making the GPUs that people would use for crypto mining.
	That actually launched NVIDIA, really.
	It was, you know, at first it was video games in the early 2000s, and then it was crypto mining.
	And then it became AI.
	And almost all the sales of the high-end GPUs from NVIDIA now are used not for video gaming, but for AI.
	And I know because I'm one of their repeat customers.
	I just bought several, what is it, the 50-80 cards because it's, it's, I mean, they've got very high inference rates.
	I use them for all our in-house data pipeline processing.
	But these cards are going in place.
	I'm going to be using them for text-to-speech to generate full-length audio books.
	for our book project at brightlearn.ai where we already have over 30,000 free books that are published and downloadable for free.
	But we're going to start churning out audio books.
	So I bought a bunch of NVIDIA cards just for the audio.
	Well, I had to upgrade the existing workstations.
	They've been running, what, like 40, 70 cards, a lot of them.
	And I'm upgrading them to 50, 80 cards, which is the Blackwell class microprocessors.
	It has much more AI inference throughput.
	But my limitation locally is power.
	I'm out of circuits.
	You know, I can only run so many workstations with the GPUs and then I start blowing breakers because I have kind of a like a mini data center that I'm running myself.
	And, you know, the building wasn't built to be a data center.
	So, you know, maxing out the 200 amps of the breaker box or whatever it is.
	It's all maxed out.
	And that's happening at a national level for America.
	And remember that America is way behind China when it comes to annual aggregate power generation.
	China has over 10,000 terawatt hours per year.
	The U.S. has only 4,400 or so, even though that is slowly getting larger.
	China's number is rapidly getting much larger.
	So since power is really the bottleneck for AI, it's not microchips anymore, it's power, then the lack of power in the United States is killing us in the AI race.
	So again, it goes back to Bitcoin.
	Bitcoin's hogging so much power that it's just off the charts.
	And so I don't know how familiar you are with the Bitcoin, the hash rate mechanism, but here's actually how it works, or at least this is my understanding.
	That let's say if the government were to crash the Bitcoin price or whoever is behind this, maybe they were to crash it down to like $20,000 a coin, then most of the existing miners would go out of business.
	And thus they would stop mining.
	And then because the difficulty, the hash rate that's necessary to mine Bitcoins is self-adjusting.
	At least this is my understanding.
	You can correct me if I'm wrong about this, but it's self-adjusting.
	As more and more hash rate is fed into the consensus system, the difficulty rises.
	But if a lot of miners go offline and there's less hash rate going into the system, then the difficulty reduces and then it takes less power to run the blockchain.
	Now, that's my understanding.
	I think I'm right about that, but there may be some details that I'm missing.
	So feel free to correct me in the comments if I didn't get that entirely correct.
	So assuming that's correct, again, I think it is, then the easiest way for the powers that be to reduce power consumption for Bitcoin is to crash the price and put a bunch of miners out of business.
	And then given that a lot of those miners are on the Eastern grid, that frees up Eastern Grid power availability for the data centers.
	The data centers that the CIA is trying to bring online and the DOD is trying to bring online.
	So this whole thing could be a DOD operation, frankly.
	I'm not trying to turn every conversation into a conspiracy theory, but the DOD is probably saying to themselves, you know, my God, this is a national security issue.
	We need this power.
	We need the power on the Eastern Grid.
	You know, it's going to take 15 to 20 years to build power plants or nuclear plants.
	The gas turbines have a 10-year wait time now.
	The solar panels, yeah, we can buy them, but we don't have all the land that we need, you know, the farmland for the solar.
	We need to power these data centers.
	What's the fastest way to provide power to data centers?
	Shut down existing power demand.
	And that's where Bitcoin enters the picture.
	Now, even if that's not the case of what's happening right now, because again, that's just conjecture on my part.
	That's a, you know, maybe this is happening.
	But in the long run, the very design of Bitcoin is incompatible with a society or a civilization that has power scarcity.
	And if you think about what's actually happening right now with more and more electric vehicles coming online and more and more AI data centers, I believe we are entering an era where the blockchain hash rate requirement of Bitcoin is just flatly incompatible with the power grid strains that we are now experiencing.
	And I know that there are other mechanisms of consensus.
	There's proof of work and there's also proof of stake.
	Proof of stake tends to concentrate power into the hands of a few, you know, a few founders typically.
	But then again, Bitcoin is also concentrated into the hands of a few whales.
	So proof of work did not actually achieve mass decentralization as it was designed to achieve.
	There's just a few people that own most of the Bitcoin and there's a few people that control almost all the Bitcoin code.
	And you're probably familiar with the blockchain size wars that Roger Veer and Aaron Day and others have correctly stated that the good guys lost and the bad guys won.
	And as a result, Bitcoin became essentially useless for small everyday transactions because the blockchain size is too limiting.
	And that's on purpose.
	It's a deliberate engineered bottleneck to prevent Bitcoin from ever replacing cash.
	And that was all engineered into the system by the controllers of Bitcoin.
	And some people even suspect there might be back doors built into Bitcoin.
	We don't have any proof of that.
	The code is supposed to be open source and it's supposed to be decentralized, but really it's just a couple of companies that control all the code also.
	And with the Epstein files being released, there's a lot of people who are suspicious that Israel or Mossad might have back doors built into it because of the history of exploding pagers.
	You know, Israel's known to infest supply chains with spyware or remote detonation systems or remote control systems.
	The CIA did that.
	Mossad did that with the CIA and the NSA in the creation of the Stuxnet virus back in the early 2000s.
	There are many other cases of this where both the US and Israeli governments, especially, have weaponized infrastructure and built-in back doors.
	So it's not an unreasonable suspicion.
	It's just that we don't have any absolute proof that that exists.
	But people are concerned about that.
	And then on top of that, some videos are circulating of some well-known people saying, oh, if you knew who was behind Bitcoin, you would sell every coin you had because you could not sleep at night if you really knew who was behind it, which sounds like Epstein and Mossad.
	Again, that's not proof, but it is.
	Those are some of the concerns that are circulating right now that may be feeding into the selling pressure of Bitcoin.
Concerns Circulating About Bitcoin 00:06:36
	Especially in this age of crypto surveillance, more and more people want privacy coins like Monero or Xano.
	Of course, Monero and Xano are also falling at the same time that Bitcoin is falling, because Bitcoin is the anchor.
	It's the rising or falling tide.
	And all ships sink if the tide is going out.
	And that's what's happening with Bitcoin right now.
	But for people who don't want to be spied on by their governments, privacy tokens or privacy coins are a far better alternative because Bitcoin is a surveillance coin.
	And who's surveilling you?
	Well, you know, probably the pedophiles because that's who's running everything, including our own government at this point.
	That's who's running the DOJ.
	That's who's running the FBI.
	That's who's running the banks.
	I mean, come on.
	You know, we don't have to pretend anymore that the pedophiles run most of the world.
	And they're being given a free pass by the Trump administration.
	So what does that tell you, huh?
	Anyway, look, if you're in Bitcoin and you want to get out, you can swap it for other crypto.
	You can swap it for gold-backed crypto tokens.
	I think that the two most popular gold tokens that they claim are all backed by gold, but you should do your own research is Tether gold.
	But I don't trust Tether at all because Tether's tied to all the same people in the Epstein files, it seems, like Howard Luttnick, for example.
	And then there's also Paxos gold, which is, I think, that those are ERC20 tokens on the Ethereum blockchain.
	And that's tied to audited physical gold that's stored in vaults in Switzerland, maybe or somewhere in Europe.
	I don't know.
	That's my understanding.
	But do your own research.
	You can tell.
	I don't have every detail nailed down on all these tokens.
	So do your own research and do what's best for you.
	Or you might just want to choose to hang on to your Bitcoin if you've got Bitcoin.
	You might say, well, you know, hey, it's gone down before.
	It's always recovered.
	You know, this is just another selling panic and we should all not panic and just hoddle and chill, right?
	At least that's the Michael Saylor mantra, hoddle and chill.
	Okay, fine.
	Nothing wrong with that if that's what you want to do.
	This is a time when there's risk everywhere.
	There's even risk in gold and silver, although I would say gold is holding up very nicely, still sitting just below 5,000.
	And silver, despite the volatility, it's between like $75 and $85 right now, which is extraordinary considering where it was just a year ago at $30.
	So, you know, the metals are doing very well.
	Crypto is not doing well.
	Stock market's not doing well.
	There's even a IT stock market bubble popping, some people say, and a lot of software companies are bursting because there's too much leverage in the system.
	So at the end of the day, what are you going to end up with?
	What are you going to be able to hold?
	At the end of the day, when everything's crashing, you're going to have ounces of gold, ounces of silver, maybe some privacy tokens, maybe some land, maybe a house, you know, a roof over your head, a vehicle, some physical stuff, some stored food, some, you know, some diesel fuel, a couple of good batteries for your power tools or whatever you have, you know, a bunch of ammo and a few rifles.
	That's what you're going to end up with because the whole system is coming down.
	It really is.
	The Western banking system is going to fail.
	The dollar is going to fail.
	The U.S. debt market is going to fail.
	It's just a question of when and sort of how mad max does that look when it happens.
	And I don't have the answers to that.
	I don't have the timing.
	That's why I urge everybody to pre-position yourself.
	Be ready for this because you can see there are cracks in the dam.
	The system is starting to crater.
	So the smart play in my mind right now is still in metals.
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	Some people believe right now is a really great discount buying opportunity.
	But do your own research because I'm not your financial advisor.
	And, you know, look, metals could go down even more than they are right now.
	But I just bought, I bought quite a lot of silver at $76, and I'm happy with that.
	And I would buy more if it goes lower, personally.
	And here's my final question to you.
	At what point will gold be higher than Bitcoin?
	That is, will an ounce of gold cost more than one Bitcoin?
	So if gold goes to 10,000 and Bitcoin also drops to 10,000, then they're the same price.
	I think we're going to see a day when gold is higher than Bitcoin.
	And again, I don't know when.
	I don't know at what level they cross, but gold's going to continue to skyrocket because of dollar printing and devaluation of the failed U.S. Empire currency.
	And Bitcoin is, I think, going to continue to be de-emphasized, especially by institutional investors, because of now the extreme high volatility and the intense power usage, as I've mentioned here.
	So that's my prediction.
	Gold will surpass Bitcoin in terms of the price per ounce versus per coin.
	Will that happen in 2026?
	I don't know, but I think it's going to happen.
	So, you know, plan accordingly and make up your own mind and do what's best for you.
	Thanks for listening.
	Take care.
Gold Surpasses Bitcoin? 00:03:35
	All right.
	Welcome back.
	As we are continuing here today with the broadcast, I've got some really interesting things coming up.
	First, I've got that interview with Patrick Henningsen, at least the first half of it.
	That's coming up.
	I've got a special report called Three Key Technologies for Mass Decentralization that you'll want to hear also.
	I've got an update on my AI projects for 2026.
	But also, I just stumbled across a really interesting analysis of the COMEX contracts for March.
	I just wanted to read this for you.
	This comes from Jeffrey Christian.
	Jeffrey Christian's wig is the that's the name the name of the channel on X and And he says that the registered deliverable silver inventories on the COMEX exchange have collapsed to only about 82 million ounces So that's less than I thought he says that total vault holdings are near 411 million ounces,
	But the vast majority are classified as quote eligible but not deliverable.
	So there's an important distinction there.
	Just because they're eligible doesn't mean that they can be delivered.
	So let's see, in January, the month that just finished, more than 33 million ounces were withdrawn in a single week.
	That was almost like a quarter of the registered supply vanishing in days.
	In February, we're already running at 13.8 million ounces being delivered or, let's say, standing for delivery, and that's not slowing.
	Now, open interest in the March 2026 contract currently stands between 85,000 and 91,000 contracts, which of course represents 425 to 455 million ounces of silver that could theoretically stand for delivery, although it's never anywhere near a hundred percent, of course.
	But there are only 82 million, maybe 113 million, something in that range, he says, ounces of the registered metal available.
	So if, if only 20 of the open interest stands for delivery then comes does not have the physical metal to fulfill those obligations, so what would happen?
	What would happen then?
	He writes that march 2026 could mark the Comax funeral.
	He says a failure to deliver would not merely be a silver story.
	It would expose the long-standing fragility of fractional reserve commodity futures trading and would send shockwaves through global financial markets.
	So the disconnect between paper promises and physical reality has reached critical levels.
	Physical silver held outside the system is becoming the only reliable store of value in this environment.
	So there you go.
	There's another look at that, the the march contracts on the Commax.
	That's that's.
	That's a big question.
	Will the Comax default in march?
	Well, I don't know the answer to that.
	I'm not sure anybody does, but it's not looking good.
	Maybe it's a good reason to stock up on some storable food.
Battery Technology Breakthrough! 00:15:01
	By the way, to plug my store Healthrangerstore.com, where you can get lab-tested certified organic, storable food and superfoods and nutritional supplements and personal care products all laboratory tested.
	I've just finished filming a tour of the lab.
	I actually had to film it twice because we added microplastics, so I just finished the updated filming.
	I'll be showing that film to you soon early next week I think and I can't wait to show you that so you can see all the steps that we go through to make sure your food is super clean.
	So you'll be seeing that and you can support us at Healthrangerstore.com.
	Take advantage of the inventory while we have it and while the dollar still functions, because we currently don't accept payment in silver unfortunately, because you can't send silver through the internet Also, unfortunately, but that's the way it is.
	So I've got more ahead for you here on the show.
	A special report on three key technologies for mass decentralization, followed by the interview with Patrick Henningsen.
	And then I'll have more reports for you this weekend.
	All right, enjoy the rest of the show.
	There are three key technologies that are going to lead to mass decentralization and that can empower your freedom and your ability to disconnect from the centralized authority sources.
	This podcast is about those three key technologies.
	And they are, number one, breakthrough battery technology.
	Number two, robotics.
	And number three, decentralized open source AI.
	Now, these three technologies are transformative and they can help set you free, which maybe initially not everybody gets that.
	And some people are very concerned about robots and Skynet.
	Like Skynet's coming to kill us.
	And I'm like, your government's already doing that.
	So you don't need to wait for Skynet.
	And some people are afraid of AI.
	Oh, AI might take our jobs.
	AI is going to uplift you with augmented cognition to do any job of any PhD or any expert in society.
	And then not everybody's thrilled about the battery technology.
	They would rather burn combustion engines, but combustion engines require that you get fuel from refineries, which is under central control.
	I mean, you know, if they won't deliver fuel to you, you're screwed.
	Or if you can't get to a gas station, you're screwed.
	But with battery storage technology, it means that you can erect some solar panels that will last decades.
	And then you can charge your own batteries on your own property without even using the power grid.
	And those batteries can be used in everything from your cars to your computers, to your AI inference workstations, to robotics or drones or anything else that you want to do with electricity, you know, heating and cooling, etc.
	And going off-grid has been extremely difficult because of horrible battery technology.
	Lead-acid batteries absolutely suck.
	And the early lithium batteries also completely sucked.
	Now we have a lot of breakthrough chemistry, even in lithium-iron phosphate batteries, but there's also sodium ion coming online.
	And there are some breakthroughs in the lab with sodium sulfur ion batteries that could be really just amazing.
	But batteries allow you to store your own energy.
	And that's actually really freeing.
	That is a key to decentralization.
	Because if you don't want to be connected to the smart grid or the power grid, and if you don't want the government to have the power to turn off your heating or cooling or to monitor how much electricity you're using or to shut you off if you've posted something on social media that they don't like, well, then you will love breakthrough battery technology.
	It allows you, again, it allows you to stockpile energy that the government can't control or limit because it goes from the sun through your solar panels to your batteries on your property.
	And the government can't tax it either.
	So it's free value from the sky, if you think about it.
	Now, efficient battery storage technology is also going to dramatically lower your cost of living.
	How's that?
	Well, for example, instead of pumping gas or diesel into your vehicle, you'll be able to just get free energy from the sky and pump that into your vehicle.
	And one day when you have robots, the number one operating cost of robots is the electricity over time.
	But if your electricity is free, I mean, yeah, you might have to buy some more solar panels, but you can keep your robot charged for no cost.
	Same thing is true with your security drones or whatever you're running, or your GPUs, running your AI systems.
	So all of that comes for free.
	And because of breakthroughs in solar panel efficiency and collection, distribution locally and storage, power is about to go down in price significantly.
	This is a huge deal for those on the eastern grid, which is already maxed out because of the AI data centers.
	Some areas in the U.S. are already paying over 35 cents per kilowatt hour, whereas you can get it from the sun for about a nickel per kilowatt hour once you amortize the initial investment in the hardware.
	About a nickel a kilowatt hour, roughly, is what it comes to over time.
	So that means driving is less expensive.
	It means running robots is less expensive.
	It means running AI is less expensive.
	So watch for that technology.
	All the best batteries are coming out of China.
	And most of them from one company called Katil, C-A-T-L.
	They've got the best breakthroughs and they're moving into mass production.
	So I'll keep you posted on that.
	Secondly, is robots, of course.
	Robots multiply your human effort so that you can live off-grid more easily.
	That's why I've always said I want weed-pulling robots.
	I want robots that can work on the farm.
	I want robots that can collect chicken eggs or carry wood.
	Robots that can, you know, pick up trash or pluck tomatoes off a vine.
	I want robots that can pick up a water hose and water plants or just walk around and water plants.
	I want robots that can feed the dogs, you know, things like that, basic tasks.
	But those are still complex.
	Don't get me wrong.
	It's going to take a while before those get resolved.
	But once that is resolved, which will happen before the year 2030, we will all have humanoid robots.
	You'll either buy them outright or you will lease them and they will make your life better.
	Because instead of spending time doing the dishes or folding laundry or gathering clothes to put them in the wash or all these other menial tasks, instead, you'll turn those over to your robot.
	Hey, you fold the clothes.
	You wash the dishes.
	You load the dishwasher.
	You take out the trash.
	And the robot will say, sir, yes, sir.
	And it'll get it done.
	And your life is going to get better.
	Just like vacuum robots or floor sweeping robots have saved people all kinds of time not having to sweep their floors.
	Imagine that, but in a humanoid format on two legs running around doing the dishes.
	That's awesome.
	I hate doing dishes.
	I would rather be vibe coding.
	I should have a machine that does the dishes, you know.
	So that's going to be very freeing.
	Now, of course, I am against robots that spy on you, just to be clear.
	I don't want robots that are connected to the cloud and that are running around your house, taking video and pictures of you while you're sitting on the toilet.
	That's not cool.
	So no, I'm not going to be getting robots that are basically just spyware, but there will be robots that are not connected to the internet, or we can hack them and we can disconnect them from the internet.
	That's even better.
	And then we can let them run around and do fun stuff like all the chores.
	So that's the second technology.
	The third technology is AI at the local level.
	And one of the things that's about to happen right now is that the Chinese company DeepSeek is on the verge of releasing a new large language model called DeepSeek version 4.
	It may have a different code name.
	Sometimes it's been referred to as Model 1, which is kind of interesting.
	I'm not sure what that refers to.
	But it could be called Model 1.
	It could be called DeepSeek version 4.
	I believe this is going to be a game changer.
	And in fact, personally, I need to set aside a lot of time.
	When that model gets released, I'm clearing my schedule.
	I have to test the model because I think it's going to be such a breakthrough that we'll need to incorporate it into our own projects.
	But that model, it's going to be as good as anything that ever came out of ChatGPT or OpenAI or Microsoft or Google for that matter.
	And it's going to be available for free.
	And there will be quant versions of it, like Unsloth, Q4, or something even smaller, that will run on local hardware.
	Some of it might even fit into a 32 gigabyte GPU, which is the typical NVIDIA 5090 gaming card.
	Unfortunately, those have gone way up in price, and they're like approaching $5,000 each, which is crazy because I was buying them at $2,400 just two months ago.
	Fortunately, I bought quite a few, so I'm doing fine on those.
	Buy them while you can.
	But you're going to be able to run like world-class PhD-level expert language models and reasoning capabilities and multimodal processing for images, for texts, for audio and speech, and so much more on consumer-grade hardware.
	Well, let's call it prosumer-grade hardware.
	Because I admit, you know, five grand for a graphics card is not necessarily consumer.
	But it is available.
	And it's going to be worth every penny, actually, because you're going to get all the cognition for free, just for the cost of your electricity.
	And that brings us back to solar panels and battery storage.
	So if you're getting your power at about a nickel per kilowatt hour, then that means the price of your AI cognition is also dirt cheap.
	In other words, the intelligence that you have in your life that's helping you to do research and write papers and solve problems, that intelligence gets lower in cost.
	And overall, over time, the cost of inference is currently plummeting by about 40x per year.
	Imagine that.
	So, you know, you fast forward just one more year and all this gets even cheaper.
	So this is the trifecta of decentralization technology.
	Breakthrough battery storage, off-grid robotics, and decentralized open source local AI.
	And that's why I am interested in all three things.
	And that's why I'm spending a lot of time talking about all three things.
	And I am going to pioneer some solutions for you in all three areas.
	We're going to get robots probably before you do.
	We're going to get these batteries maybe before you do.
	We're going to set up systems in our new studio and show you how they work so that you have something to model off of.
	And, you know, let us run the experiment first.
	Let us have the failures.
	You know, let us overspend or waste money on something that doesn't work.
	We'll make the mistakes for you and then we'll show you the mistakes and we'll show you what works.
	But for the next couple years, you're going to see me talking about battery technology, robotics, and decentralized AI.
	And that's going to change everybody's life for the better.
	You'll be more decentralized.
	You'll be more off-grid.
	You'll be more self-sustaining.
	You'll be able to get more done in less time and you'll be able to augment your ideas, your passions, your creativity, your hobbies, everything that you want to do.
	You'll be able to do more of it with the help of robots, even gardening.
	Because, you know, isn't it, it's great to plant a garden.
	I love planting gardens.
	The hard part is pulling the weeds, you know, a month later when they start coming in.
	Or dealing with irrigation or dealing with, you know, harvesting.
	And then after you harvest, then you have to process the food.
	You have to preserve it.
	You got to do canning.
	You got to do drying.
	You got whatever.
	All of that stuff.
	Yeah, that's not so much fun.
	Actually, that's more of the menial labor side of gardening.
	So wouldn't it be great to just automate that, turn that over to some robots?
	Yes.
	Yes.
	And in the meantime, by the way, use all of our AI tools.
	You can find them at, for example, brightanswers.ai is our AI query engine.
	We've got brightlearn.ai is our book creation engine, free to use.
	And we've got brightnews.ai, which is our news analysis and trends engine.
	And we've got some surprises coming for you there too.
	Can't wait to bring that to you.
	And we've got some other things launching.
	BrightVideos.com is in the pilot phase right now.
	It looks messy at the moment, but we're about to launch that officially with some really great content.
	So there's more coming.
	Thank you for listening.
	Take advantage of all our tools and get ready for a really interesting future here.
	Oh, and by the way, make sure you have some gold and silver so that you still have something worth value if you want to buy batteries and robots and GPUs because the dollar is going to crap and you're going to need metals in order to live.
	So be sure to set that aside so that you can buy food and buy robots and things, right?
	You'd probably be able to buy a robot with like two gold coins, you know?
	And then that robot can help you grow tons of food.
	So it changes everything.
	All the equations of agriculture and food production and everything get changed by automation.
	And to access automation, all you need is some gold, really, if you think about it.
	One gold coin for your GPU.
	You got a deal.
	Okay.
	So anyway, thanks for tuning in.
	I'm Mike Adams.
	Take care.
Vision for the Future 00:05:59
	All right, a couple of notes about my own schedule and some of our AI projects and some new things that we have coming up.
	First of all, I'm going to be sharply reducing my interview schedule for at least a month or so so that I can focus on the vibe coding projects, which are the new AI platforms that you know and love, like brightlearn.ai.
	I've got new things to do there, mostly focused on audio books.
	I have to do some hardware installs.
	I've got to do some GPU upgrades.
	I've got to build a bunch of code for automation.
	On top of that, we're going to be launching some new content sites and we have to finalize our new video site, which is brightvideos.com.
	And I just did some backbone upgrades last night and they look great.
	So I'm about to roll that out with all kinds of new technology there.
	That's going to be pretty, you'll love it.
	It's very amazing.
	For example, you'll be able to ask our AI engine about any video.
	So if you watch a video, you're like, hey, that's a really great interview, but I have a question.
	You can ask, there's going to be a ask box right there.
	You'll be able to type in your question and then it'll be answered by brightanswers.ai, which is our AI research engine.
	I've got a lot of other things that are on my list to get done and I just need to take the time to do them.
	And that includes connecting our engines to more real-time, real-world content so that it can answer questions better about things like breaking news items.
	So we've got a great plan to put that in place.
	And I've got, well, there's a couple other concepts I don't want to announce yet, but they're on my build list.
	I'm going to be rolling those out.
	And then also book translations at brightlearn.ai.
	So not only are we going to be doing a lot of audio books that will, of course, always be free, but also book translations.
	So you'll have, you know, Spanish language, French language, Chinese language books available.
	Of course, the translation is automated, so it's not going to be 100% perfect, but these days the AI translation is quite good.
	So plus the fact that they're all free.
	Well, you know, that makes it tolerable if there's a couple of little glitches here and there.
	And all of these projects are part of my overall vision.
	I shared it with you last year.
	I said, my goal is to reach 1 billion people on planet Earth.
	Well, I guess I don't, they could be off-planet.
	That's fine with me.
	But I want to reach a billion people with uncensored, empowering knowledge and information.
	And to reach a billion people, that means we have to go multilingual because I don't, are there a billion people that speak English well?
	I guess if you count India, yes.
	But obviously, I want to target more than just English.
	Chinese is critical.
	And, you know, French, Spanish, German, Italian.
	I want to hit all these languages and many others, even Japanese as well.
	So that's part of my vision with the book site.
	And then we're also, you've seen I've rolled out some little pilot AI avatars with some short videos working on technology to better automate that process because I believe this is the year when we will be able to roll out short documentaries on many of the topics that are currently encapsulated in the books at brightlearn.ai.
	And my vision is that as a book becomes more and more popular, eventually it'll hit a threshold of how many people have read it or downloaded it.
	It will trigger an automatic short documentary video to be created.
	And then my vision is that in 2027, this will expand to full-length documentaries.
	I think 2027 is the year that Hollywood dies, which is a great thing because Hollywood sucks.
	And in 2027, you'll be able to just render your own full-length movie with just by prompting it.
	Instead of like vibe coding, you'll be like vibe filmmaking.
	Just type in your prompt or you could put in a screenplay.
	You could put in specific dialogue, specific scenes.
	You can just, you could be very general or you could be very specific, kind of like you can with our book engine right now.
	You could just say, hey, I want a book about how to cook with rice.
	Or you can give it a whole layout, all kinds of details, different types of rice and everything, and it'll write that book.
	So it's just completely up to you.
	Anyway, that's coming for the video industry or the filmmaking industry.
	Hollywood is about to be obsolete.
	The mainstream book publishing industry is about to be obsolete.
	The audio book industry, as we know it, is just about to become totally obsolete.
	And there are many other things that will be obsolete.
	But the good news is that all of this benefits humankind because you'll have faster access to sort of on-demand content that better suits what you're looking for.
	You know, we don't all want the same libtard Hollywood movies shoved down our throats, right?
	And we don't all want the same books.
	We want customized information.
	We want customized podcasts.
	And that's another thing I'll be working on as well because we have a lot of great text-to-speech technology now that's open source.
	So, man, there's so many projects to work on.
	I will never run out of fun projects to build for you that will help add to your knowledge and your freedom and your ability to decentralize your life away from the control grid.
Off-the-Shelf Microplastics 00:04:26
	Now, then, on top of that, in the lab, so I've just filmed a tour of our new laboratory.
	You'll see that shortly.
	And it's awesome.
	You know, we have so much more space.
	We have more instruments.
	We've just developed a new method for dioxin testing.
	We've developed another method for glyphosate quantitation using ion chromatography combined with mass spec.
	So, that's a really cool method.
	And it alleviates the need for our triple quad mass spec approach, which has worked for years, but it's also very costly to maintain a triple quad mass spec instrument.
	The annual maintenance, just to let you know, the annual maintenance on that one machine is about $45,000.
	That's just to keep it running if nothing breaks.
	Okay.
	$45,000.
	Imagine that.
	And then we have nine machines.
	So you get the idea of how expensive it is.
	So we are all about creating new methods that are more cost-effective so we can keep costs low as much as we can.
	And we're about to roll out a massive amount of dioxin testing results of testing off-the-shelf foods from the local grocery stores in central Texas or maybe stuff we buy off Amazon.
	You know, we're going to test eggs and milk and cheese and meats and I don't know, like fast food burgers.
	Find out if there's any meat in those at all.
	Maybe there is.
	Is that meat clean?
	Is it free from dioxins?
	I don't know.
	We're going to find out.
	And as we do that, you know, we're going to bring you all those results.
	And then the next project that is already behind the scenes, we're already seeing amazing stuff is our microplastics testing.
	So not only are we doing microplastics testing of outside products, we're also adding a layer of microplastics testing to all of our raw materials as well so that we can, you know, if there's any problem, any raw material, we can catch it in advance.
	Or if we see something off the shelf, we can let you know about it and give you a warning about it.
	Now, microplastics are becoming a big deal in the minds of many people.
	And of course, we want our products to be as clean as possible, even though we live in a world where there's plastic everywhere, including in food packaging.
	You know, you can't, it's impossible to have food.
	If you manufacture food or you manufacture supplements, it is literally impossible to have products that never touch plastic because that's how they're shipped, you know, by the, well, the growers or the farmers.
	They're in large bags, or if it's liquid, it's in a large polyethylene barrel.
	So, you know, they're always coming into contact with polymers.
	That doesn't mean there's polymers in the final product, but we want to know as best we can, you know, which vendors are the cleanest.
	And we want to be able to reject if there's any vendors that have a problem with this, obviously.
	So this is our next effort is microplastics testing.
	And we'll be bringing you those results.
	And I remember a few years ago, everybody was really concerned about BPA, a BPA plasticizer chemical.
	And that concern remains very valid.
	That's why we've used BPA-free materials wherever possible in our supply chain and in our manufacturing chain.
	But now the concern has shifted not so much on BPA itself, but rather the plastic pieces or plastic fibers or just little pieces of polymers.
	And I've already seen things under the microscope.
	Well, heck, I'll just, I'll tell you right now.
	We went out and bought a bunch of bottled water, okay?
	And we ran the bottled water through filter paper in the lab to capture microplastics.
	And then we use our dyeing technique and our special wavelength excitation technique with our microscopy in order to find polymers.
	And yes, we are finding them.
	We are finding them in off-the-shelf bottled water.
	So that's concerning.
Acts of Financial Terrorism 00:12:55
	We're going to be bringing you that story and much more in the days and weeks ahead.
	So again, I'll be doing fewer interviews for a while, but I'll be doing more vibe coding and I'll be rolling out more really cool platforms and projects for you to have fun with and to use.
	They will always be free, by the way.
	And we're going to roll out some more science projects for you to see.
	Some of those might be shocking.
	Some of them will be awesome and fun.
	Some of them are visual.
	Some of them are just more chemistry side, etc.
	But I'll bring you all that information over the next couple of months.
	So stay tuned and thank you for your support.
	Mike Adams here, the Health Ranger.
	And you can support us if you want ultra-clean food and supplements and superfoods and storable foods.
	Shop with us at healthrangerstore.com.
	And thank you for listening.
	Take care.
	The risk of any major conflict that's breaking out between the U.S. and Iran is most certainly going to spill over even beyond the Persian Gulf and the Middle East.
	The Iranians said they'll regard any attack by the U.S. also as an attack by Israel and vice versa.
	So both Israel and the U.S. military targets in the region are going to be hit by Iranian missiles.
	And so that's where this type of behavior leads.
	Welcome to today's interview here on Brighteon.com.
	I'm Mike Adams, the founder of Brighteon.
	And, you know, I got to say, I'm really honored to have our guest on today because he has been such an incredible voice of courage and truth.
	I can't say enough good things about our guest, Patrick Henningsen from 21st Century Wire.
	I've even publicly said, this is the guy you need to listen to.
	And I'm serious about that.
	I've watched probably 100 of his interviews over the last few months, and he just nails it every time.
	So welcome to the show.
	Patrick Henningsen, it's just an honor to have you on.
	I greatly appreciate your work.
	Thanks, Mike.
	It's great to be with you.
	Likewise, I'm always been a big fan of your dogged pursuit of the truth as well.
	That's a good description.
	Yeah, I'm a little off the leash in my dogged pursuit sometimes.
	But you, I'm so impressed with your grasp of all of the relevant facts, the backstory, the greater context of what's happening.
	And I think you've got just a very insightful interpretation of so many events.
	So let's start with Iran and the Middle East first.
	Can you give our audience your take?
	And by the way, we'll plug your website.
	I'll bring up your website in a little bit.
	But what's your take on what's happening with Iran and why Trump has been afraid, seemingly, to actually initiate this wild illegal attack against a foreign nation?
	Well, this is the big question that everybody wants to know.
	And I think not just the direct actors, the United States, Iran, I will even throw Israel into that sentence as well, but the entire region of the Middle East and also the world, because the risk of any major conflict that's breaking out between the U.S. and Iran is most certainly going to spill over even beyond the Persian Gulf and the Middle East.
	That's because the Iranians have said that they'll regard any attack.
	This will be the second unprovoked attack by the Trump administration against Iran.
	But the Iranians said they'll regard any attack by the U.S. also as an attack by Israel and vice versa.
	So both Israel and the U.S. military targets in the region are going to be hit by Iranian missiles if Trump goes through with what he's been threatening, which is he's going to bomb Iran.
	And the problem with this, Mike, is that he keeps giving a different reason.
	So it's not that Iran has attacked the United States.
	It's that, well, first it was the peaceful protesters that were being supposedly massacred.
	If you believe any of these U.S.-based NGOs that claim to be Iranian human rights organizations, first it was like 2,000, then 3,000.
	An hour later, it's 5,000.
	Two hours later, it's 30,000.
	Suddenly, like a day later, it's 50,000.
	Then next thing you know, they're saying there's a genocide happening in Tehran.
	The mullahs are genociding their own people.
	Of course, none of this is even remotely true.
	And this was one of the biggest propaganda campaigns that was being driven by Israel, by Israeli media interests, by all these agencies that are hiring these influencers to basically shill for pretty much any issue you can imagine.
	And I know of some of these agencies, and of course they're doing kind of what they call Hezbollah propaganda on behalf of Israel, but some of these same people were also pushing the vaccine, believe it or not, a couple of years ago.
	And then some of them moved on to promote the war in Ukraine, the proxy war, and big up Zelensky and so forth.
	So there are these influence agencies, and they kicked into high gear.
	The Israeli agencies are paying huge amounts of money for people to put up videos, Iranian expats, basically people who support the royal family or the reinstallation of the United States.
	I'm sorry to interrupt, but this is exactly what we saw during the early years of the Ukraine conflict as well.
	The West was just putting out the most insane propaganda possible and trying to create these justifications, saying, oh, Russia committed this heinous war crime in this town.
	I think Bucha was one of them or Bucha.
	We know that that was put together by MI6, British intelligence with Ukraine intelligence.
	And if his rule is we have to bomb any nation that commits genocide, then why isn't he bombing Israel?
	And if his rule is we have to stop any regime that is shooting its protesters, then why doesn't he resign?
	Because his ICE agents are shooting Americans in the streets of America, right?
	So there's total hypocrisy.
	There's no one in the Trump administration is beholden to any kind of truth when talking about Iran.
	It's just another desire to turn Iran into Libya or Syria.
	And that's it.
	It's so obvious at this point.
	And Iraq, you know, Iraq for that matter.
	Right.
	But this is just the biggest propaganda free-for-all pretty much I've ever seen in my life.
	And what they're trying to do is manufacture consent, public consent, for a bombing raid or a major attack on Iran.
	And the U.S. intelligence heads, operatives, Israeli intelligence operatives, Israeli major military opponents are on record as saying that these were Mossad-directed infiltrators brought in, be it the MEK, which are basically run by the CIA and Israeli intelligence.
	That's an Iranian terrorist organization, which works out of a camp in Albania.
	Then there's Kurdish factions that were mobilized and paid to go in there, as well as just agent provocateurs, probably from a few different sources.
	And so that's on record.
	They burned down 250 mosques or set arsonists.
	I mean, that's an Islamic country.
	People who live there do not burn mosques.
	Right.
	I can just tell you that right there.
	And 700 banks were attacked.
	Now, that is a coordinated attack to take down the infrastructure to destabilize society and business and commerce.
	And what they thought is they'd have momentum and then airstrikes could go on, ride the wave of that momentum of instability.
	And then the U.S. would do targeted airstrikes.
	And then by that time, Mike, it's global.
	The narrative would be set.
	The regime is falling.
	And they'd be piling in at that point.
	And it didn't happen.
	They've done this to other countries over and over over the years.
	And also, what you just said, I just want to point out that Treasury Secretary Besant publicly confirmed what you just said.
	And he called it statecraft.
	He said, basically, I'm paraphrasing, but he said, yeah, we work together to crash their currency and crash their banks.
	And that's called statecraft.
	And nobody had to die.
	But he's admitting the whole thing.
	I mean, these are acts of financial terrorism against a foreign state.
	As Rand Paul was asking in a recent Senate hearing, you know, if someone did these kinds of things to America, like kidnapping our president, wouldn't that be considered an act of war?
	By any standard, these are acts of war.
	It's irrefutable.
	Marco Rubio struggled with that question, by the way.
	Yeah, that's right.
	That's right.
	I think that was extraordinary.
	So this is a formula the United States have done to multiple countries.
	And it's only now, and you sort of have to thank Scott Bessett for letting this trade secret, tradecraft secret out of the bag.
	And he's basically saying, laying bare what the U.S. policy of economic warfare has been to take down Syria.
	They attacked the currency in Syria.
	Then they followed up with the jihadists.
	Then they sanctioned them.
	And so that sort of three, that three-pronged attack on the country, then airstrikes by Israel and Syria, they just tortured that country for 15 years until it collapsed.
	And then they declared this is some sort of a wonderful victory.
	Meanwhile, I don't know how many hundreds of thousands of Syrians died or had to flee the country.
	Millions fled the country because of this proxy war that was waged.
	The U.S. did the same thing with Venezuela.
	They attacked their currency multiple times over the last 10 years.
	They sanctioned them.
	They embargo them.
	The same with Iran.
	And then our leaders and our media and our punditry turn around and say, these people are mismanaging.
	Maduro's mismanaging the economy.
	Maduro must go.
	The Ayatollah is mismanaging the economy.
	The Ayatollah Mashko.
	Bash al-Sad's mismanaging the economy.
	He must go.
	They tried it with Putin.
	They failed miserably.
	It didn't work.
	But this is the formula.
	Libya, the same.
	And then they use that as a justification.
	And Trump's doing it as well.
	Tired old dish rag of a propaganda line that while you're strangling this country, literally strangling it economically and hitting it military, and you're blaming the quote regime.
	Same thing we've done to Cuba for decades.
	What are we now?
	75 years of trying to destroy Cuba?
	I mean, what has Cuba ever done to the United States?
	Nothing.
	I mean, the reality is this, Mike.
	If you lift these countries alone and you didn't sanction them, they'd probably be very successful and prosperous, and they would probably gradually liberalize a lot of aspects of their society and economy over time.
	It's just natural that would happen.
	But when you put the pressure on and you put them like you boil them over time, and then you try to assassinate their leadership and you punish them collectively, all you're going to do is embolden the hardliners in all these countries.
	And whatever you think ideologically you want to destroy, you'll make it stronger.
	So what the U.S. and the Israelis have done is really increase the resilience and the resolve of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
	Now, I've been to Iran, okay, and it's nothing like it's being characterized in the West.
	And, you know, they talk about the Ayatollah like he's some terrorist leader.
	He's more akin to, obviously they're under attack, but he is more like a spiritual leader, more kind of in the line of a pope than anything.
	But these are also very smart, well-skilled people who served in the military, as well as being kind of religious leaders.
	And the way the politics is designed in Iran is they have so many layers of parliamentary government.
	There's so much political debate.
	It is so vibrant politically, that country.
	They just have a different system.
	And they are fighting ISIS.
	They've spilled blood on the ground in Iraq.
	They defeated ISIS.
	The Iraqi Shiite militias, the Iranians led by Qasim Suleimani, they defeated ISIS on the ground.
	The United States did not engage ISIS on the ground, period.
	The Iraqis and the Iranians did all the heavy lifting, and Syria did as well, and the Russians in Syria.
	But we've characterized as calling them a terrorist, the world's number one state sponsor of terror.
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	That is a made-up Israeli propaganda line.
	The biggest terrorists, sponsors of terrorism in the world, I'm afraid, is the United States of America.
	That's factually true.
	That's a documented fact.
	Yeah, that's factually true.
	I'll throw Israel in there and the Gulf states who bankrolled a lot of these terrorist bands marauding around Syria and Iraq as well.
	So let me give out your website here.
	It's 21stCenturyWire.com.
	And I want to encourage our audience to check out the site.
	Check out, you do many interviews, many videos.
	You've got articles there.
	We're also spidering and indexing your site on our brightnews.ai, by the way.
	So your news helps influence our trends analysis.
	And hopefully we're bringing you some traffic there.
	I want to mention this, too.
	This is the next question.
	So I did an article today, well, last night on Natural News.
	It said, it's over, how China's anti-stealth radar and missiles have ended U.S. military dominance.
	And I'd like to get your analysis of what I'm about to share here.
	I think you're already aware of this, but let me share it with the audience.
	Of China doing a deal with Iran to transfer these, the JY-27A and LYLC-8B.
	These are anti-stealth radar systems that operate in the VHF and UHF bands, which is very unusual for radar.
	They can detect stealth aircraft up to 500 kilometers away.
	And then on top of that, they gave them, what is it, the HQ-9B, yeah, the HQ-9 surface-to-air missile system, which each missile has its own radar and its own infrared, basically an optical sensor of heat signatures.
	So once the missile launches, it can find the target and bring it down.
	Now, my question to you, Patrick, is do you think that this is a factor in the calculation of the DOD or Trump thinking that if they attack Iran now, they might lose a stealth bomber or two or stealth fighters, and that would be, or maybe even some naval vessels because of Iran's anti-ship missile capabilities, in addition to the damage that would happen to Israel on top of all that, and the U.S. military bases.
	But is this part of the calculation going on right now in your view?
	Yes, yeah.
	This is a very complicated calculation to, you know, to attack Iran.
	And what you're talking about, this anti-stealth radar system, likely Chinese.
	So we got the first clue of this.
	There was Operation True Promise 1 and Operation True Promise 2.
	That's when Iran fired missiles at Israel.
	Number two was the 12-day war last June.
	But prior to that, and when Israel came to mount attacks initially against Iran, Iran's air defense is done in concentric perimeters.
	Well, the Israeli Air Force, the IDF, had to call off one of their first wave of strikes because they got pinged.
	And they had no idea.
	They got pinged, and it was beyond 400 miles or 400 kilometers or whatever the expected standard parameter was.
	And they had no idea what it was.
	So it's more likely it was from a system that they were unaware of or hadn't encountered before, which fits your story, which you've just showed us there.
	That's something.
	And the other thing is Iran has developed its own proprietary air defense systems.
	And if you know anything about engineering and technology, the Iranians are world leaders in a number of fields.
	So they produce more engineering graduates probably than the entire Middle East combined in a single year.
	And half of those are probably women, by the way.
	So this is a very advanced science and technology sector in Iran.
	So that said, then you have the other issue, which is the United States, which you mentioned correctly, Mike, is that you said, is this going to, are these issues in terms of like what kind of attack could the U.S. or Israel deploy?
	Now, immediately they run into two problems.
	One is Saudi Arabia announced that they're going to close their airspace to any U.S. attacks.
	That includes not using the U.S. base, which is based in Saudi.
	U.S. have bases in Saudi, UAE, Qatar, also Kuwait, and also Iraq.
	But they've withdrawn their heavy assets from Iraq because the Iraqis are basically getting pressured from internally in Iraq not to allow overflights over Iraq.
	So if you take away some of these countries that are bordering Iran, the calculus gets much more complicated.
	But that gives an advantage to the Iranians.
	So what the Americans would do is rather than send aircraft, they would do what many people believe the last attack was, which are standoff missiles.
	So these would be fired from submarines or naval vessels quite a ways off the coast.
	These would be Tomahawk and cruise missiles, massive barrages of those, because going over Iranian airspace is risky.
	You have to be very high altitude.
	You know, Trump claims they sent the B-2 bombers in, but it's debatable exactly who dropped what munitions.
	Certainly from a public relations splash point of view with Trump, it's the bombers.
	That would be the great Trump's, it's not a great story for Trump to say, well, we held back the subs at a safe distance, fired, and then submerged and took off.
	That's not a good Trump story.
	But that's probably the most practical way if you're going to engage the Iranians.
	Because you remember, Mike, back in the Iran-Iraq war, the last year was 1987, 88, when the tanker wars were happening.
	That was during, I think, the end of Ronald Reagan's second term.
	And, you know, a U.S. boat, you know, U.S. battleship was taken down.
	The USS Stark was hit by an Exocet missile accidentally by U.S. ally Iraq.
	The U.S. shot down a passenger airline and killed everybody in Iranian air passenger airline.
	I mean, it was a disaster.
	So because it's such a bottleneck, the Persian Gulf, it's the last place where you want to be, you know, putting heavy naval assets.
	And Iran has anti-ship missiles, surface two-ship missiles from their coast, as well as anti-ship missiles that can be deployed from aircraft at low altitude, as well as submarines, which Iran has, as well as potentially mining the Straits of Hormuz, which they could do as well.
	So it's not a great place for the U.S.
	I mean, it's not 1987 anymore.
	This is 2026.
	And also recently, the Shahad drone from Iran, I think that's how you pronounce it.
	You know, the U.S. claims, well, we destroyed it because it was aggressively approaching our aircraft carrier.
	Well, that drone had flown for hundreds of kilometers without being destroyed.
	And clearly, that drone was gathering intel and transmitting it back to Iran.
	And clearly, that was a successful intel gathering mission.
	So for the cost of one $20,000 drone, Iran got to see the entire battle profile of a carrier fleet or group, as it's called, right?
	And that's invaluable information for Iran on how to defend itself or even to attack those ships.
	So, you know, wasn't that a failure by the U.S. Navy?
	Not a success.
	Like, we shot down a drone.
	My question is, how did you let it get that close?
	I think it was a huge mistake, Mike, because, you know, Iran, Shahid drones, they can deploy those hundreds at a time.
	Right.
	All they have to do is swarm a few of the naval battleships or major frigates, and they can empty out all of their anti-aircraft and empty out their anti-missile.
	I mean, it would just take a few swarms of Iranian drones, and there's nothing left.
	And so they won't have even the munitions to protect Israel from an Iranian counter-strike, missile strikes coming from Iran to Israel or even to U.S. bases like Al-Adin base in Qatar or whatever.
	Iran could, because the U.S., the problem is in the age of drones, these naval assets become kind of obsolete in a certain way because to protect themselves, they would need to expend their arsenal.
	And that gives an advantage to the second and third wave attacks by Iranians, which would be more significant.
	Absolutely.
	So in the loitering drones as well, which Iran has, those are deadly.
	I mean, they could take out the surface of an aircraft carry and kind of make the deck obsolete at some point, you know, with a few loitering munitions.
	So it's not a good place to be like pushing an armada around, as Trump likes to call it.
	But, you know, for posturing, sure.
	But practically, when things sort of kick off, but maybe that's the plan, Mike, is that image of the smoking U.S. boat sinking in the Persian Gulf and Fox News would be revving it up.
	They would be basically drooling for Lindsey Graham would be out calling to nuke Tehran at that point.
	Of course he would.
	You know he would.
	Yeah.
	And people are so irrational right now in the U.S. on the on that kind of warmongering end of the Republican Party.
	And the Democrats have a few of those as well.
	And these people are just not thinking straight.
	And I really, I'm scared because, you know, all those U.S. assets in such a shallow waters of the Persian Gulf, it's also kind of who benefits from dragging the U.S. further into escalation of the USA.
	Israel benefits.
	Yeah.
	And have they ever done a false flag against a U.S. naval vessel before?
	Yeah, they have.
	Yeah.
	9-11.
	It's theoretical.
	Yeah, it's real.
	It's a legitimate concern.
	There's another factor here in all of this.
	I'd like your reaction to this, which is that I believe because of China's export restrictions on rare earth that go into the F-35s and submarines and radar systems and so much more, that at this point, losing a B-2 stealth bomber, that aircraft is irreplaceable.
	I did another story on this.
	And I didn't, I'm not here to just plug my stories, but this is relevant.
	It's called Unobtainium and Hopium, How China's Rare Earth Siege Has Neutered U.S. Military Might.
	And in this story, I go through the calendar of restrictions on all these minerals, including the rare earths, the antimony, the terbium, the dysprosium, neodymium, all the magnets and everything, the radiation shielding and the graphite, like the graphite that goes into our stealth fighters.
	Did you know that China controls literally 100% of the graphite market for the world?
	And for other minerals, it's 99% for many of them.
	So the U.S. is, I believe, is in a position, but I'd love your reaction, where even if it is forced to fire hundreds of air defense interceptors or hundreds of missiles against Iran, it can't replace them.
	It just literally can't replace them and it doesn't have stockpiles because they sent all the missiles to either Israel or Ukraine over the last five years.
	So where are we?
	You know, it's like a floating parade to display weapons, but never use them.
	Yeah, Maximum, where we are is that to sustain any kind of military operation, regime change operation, or just destroy the infrastructure of Iran just to show that you can do it.
	You're talking two weeks maximum, two weeks of a sustained military operation of that sort, remotely, standoff, firing in.
	And that's not even to talk about what retaliation might look like just if it was a one-way attack, like with the, like with Iraq, 7,000 cruise missiles in three weeks in the initial 2003 Iraq war.
	So, I mean, but this isn't Iraq.
	I mean, you're talking Iran has ICBMs, hypersonics, very accurate.
	They took out Israel's MOD in the middle of Tel Aviv and their main military research facility between two apartment blocks and didn't hit department blocks on either side.
	I remember that.
	You're not dealing with a slouch sort of military.
	The Iranians are serious, but they're also very careful because they know that they can only really fire if they're attacked first, because that's the rules of the game if you're dealing with more powerful nuclear-armed countries like the U.S. and Israel.
	So they have to kind of play by the rules in that sense, which makes them vulnerable.
	They would love to probably do a preemptive strike, but that might invite hellfire from the U.S. and Israel.
	And it could even invite a nuclear tactical or strategic nuclear strike.
	I can't believe we're having this conversation in 2026, but here we are.
	So, I mean, there's a lot of different possibilities there.
	The bottom line is this, Mike, is that this would not be isolated to the U.S. versus Iran.
	This would be a three-way affair with Israel getting hit and also being involved, as well as multiple Gulf countries, as well as anywhere where there's a U.S. facility from Bahrain, right around the horn of the Persian Gulf.
	Maybe Diego Garcia is within range of the Iranians.
	They could absolutely hit Diego Garcia, U.S. military base.
	And Trump could lose a good percentage of the U.S. Navy.
	I mean, that can happen in this case.
	So, you know, they've been pounding Gaza for two years, and they haven't destroyed Hamas.
	What makes you think that they're going to wipe out the Iranian IRGC and their national defense in two weeks?
	That's not going to happen.
	Yeah, exactly.
	These China radar systems that I mentioned earlier, they're mobile.
	They're mobile.
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	So they're not fixed installations.
	And even though it's like a hundred square foot radar array, it all folds up and the truck drives away or they store it in the cave in the mountain and then they bring it out when they need it.
	But my next question to you, Patrick, is about let's talk about Russia and China, because Russia has said many things before.
	Various speakers, representatives of Russia have said that we can't let Iran be destroyed by America.
	And China has seemingly said very much the same thing.
	And clearly, China is giving weapons assistance, trading weapons for oil.
	And Russia appears to be giving technical assistance, especially on anti-air defense systems.
	I would imagine there are Russian military personnel probably on the ground in Iran running those systems because they are most familiar with them.
	In your view, because you have such a great big picture worldview understanding of geopolitics and routes and resources, what are the key reasons why Russia and China cannot let Iran fall?
	Well, firstly, the future of Eurasia and the future of Russia's economy, China's economy.
	I would even go so far as probably, I could name a half a dozen other countries, including Arab countries and Central Asia, even India.
	India will benefit massively from the middle corridor is what it's known as.
	And this would be the overland trade route, which would connect Russia via Iran, via the Caucasus, via Iran, down to the Arabian Gulf and the Indian Ocean to connect to Mumbai, the port of Mumbai.
	That's called the middle corridor.
	Iran would be obviously hosting that.
	And that would be the hinge, if you will, of China's Belt and Road initiative.
	And look at how much China has invested in networking up Asia, not just overland routes, of course, sea routes as well.
	But so who's building right now?
	China's building.
	These Asian countries are building.
	Singapore is building and investing.
	And what's the U.S. doing?
	What are the Europeans doing?
	They're sabotaging things.
	They're blowing things up.
	They're threatening.
	They're destroying.
	And piracy, stealing people's oil tankers.
	I mean, that's kind of where we're at right now in the early 21st century.
	And so this has been the geopolitical game, Mike, for 300 years, which is always to separate Europe, well, Germany and Russia to keep them apart.
	Two world wars were fought doing that, by the way, at the behest of the British and the Americans.
	But it's to separate Europe and Asia.
	It's always been a priority for the British Empire.
	And as the British Empire subsided, the United States took over the reins of the global maritime trade and mercantile trade and commerce globally.
	Then the United States, it's in their interest, it's their priority to control and dominate global trade and commerce along those waterways, canals, and so forth.
	That's why all these flashpoints are still active.
	Israel plays a role, obviously, traditionally for the British Empire in providing that beachhead for Anglo and now Anglo-American and Western interests in the Middle East.
	But that beachhead has kind of morphed into something like, you know, the tail on steroids is now wagging the dog in Washington to a degree that nobody could probably have envisioned 50 or 60 years ago.
	But here we are.
	So Iran poses a problem for Israel and for the United States and for the West, because when you have goods going directly from Europe through Russia into Iran and to India, that changes the entire world order.
	And so that's the great game that Britain's been fighting for 300 years.
	And wars in Afghanistan and Crimea have been repeatedly fought over this very issue.
	And now before we had the Ottoman Empire, and now we have a collection of other states there, many of them U.S. and Western puppets, of course.
	But the difference is the state of Israel was established in 1948 and it has turned out to be an unmitigated disaster for the region.
	And they bombed and attacked, I don't know, seven countries in the last year.
	And if we just want to extrapolate that record, it's a horror show, really.
	And the United States is giving them unconditional support financially and militarily at the expense of pretty much everybody else.
	And Iran is not a monarchy.
	It is a republic.
	It's an Islamic republic, but it's a republic.
	And all of the Arab republics have also been targeted traditionally.
	The U.S. government was never so concerned during the Cold War with communism as they were with Arab nationalism.
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	Why?
	Because these secular governments that were multi-religious and multi-factional, but were secular and had some state-owned, you know, like energy and some of the main infrastructures they wanted state-owned.
	Egypt and the Suez Canal crisis was over that very issue, as is the Mohamed Mossadegh being overthrown by the CIA and MI6 in 1953 in Iran and installing the Shah was really about whether those assets, those resources were going to be part of the national portfolio or privatized by BP or Shell or whoever.
	Venezuela, same exact story.
	So this has always been the battleground.
	And it's because these independent governments pose a huge problem because, you know, unfortunately, the U.S. doesn't like negotiating for resources.
	They like to dictate the terms.
	And if you read John Perkins' Confessions of an Economic Hitman, I mean, that's one of the great books that kind of outlines this whole process of opening up countries for U.S. goods and markets.
	I had Perkins on the show not that long ago, by the way.
	And he's still doing a lot of activism in these areas.
	You're exactly right.
	But he was part of that system.
	He saw how it worked.
	But I want to upgrade that to 2026 here because his book was written, I don't know, 15 years ago or more, maybe 20 years ago.
	But I want to ask you to contrast the global sort of business model of the U.S. versus, let's say, China.
	And let me set it up.
	So the U.S. is no longer, obviously, the manufacturing or industrial base of the world.
	The primary export of the U.S. is debt and you could argue inflation.
	So the U.S. has to enforce the rest of the world at gunpoint to keep using dollars in order to keep the U.S. regime alive.
	China, on the other hand, is kind of where we were back at the end of World War II.
	China has the factories.
	China has the people, the engineers, China has the people willing to work and make stuff.
	But in order for that to function, the trade routes have to exist so they can export stuff all over the world, which is where we were in the 1950s and 60s.
	But so today, and again, correct me if you think I'm wrong, but seems like the U.S. wants to toss grenades into the birthday party and just blow up all the trade routes, blow up tariffs, sanctions, bombs, regime change.
	And China is trying to say, no, we just want to do business with the world.
	We just want to export, export, export, because that's their advantage right now.
	Does that make sense?
	Or where would you add or agree or disagree with that assessment?
	That's generally absolutely what's happening.
	I would even go down to a little bit deeper than that, Mike, in that how Donald Trump is behaving right now is very similar.
	And where China is is also very similar to when William McKinley was president in the United States and Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders.
	And, you know, the U.S. did not have a muscular foreign policy until the end of the 19th century because something happened after the Civil War and once reconstruction of the South was underway.
	And suddenly, and also mass migration flows from the South to the northern states, cheap labor coming from the South, the United States was very quickly becoming a manufacturing superpower at the end of the 19th century.
	And so what that did was they had this problem in the U.S.
	They started having an oversupply of goods.
	So they had a deflation issue.
	And so this set off alarm bells for industry and the oligarch class of that period, the Rockefellers, the Carnegies, the Mellons, et cetera, the interests of capital at that time, they were like, we need new markets.
	And so suddenly, as if by magic, the United States started engaging in expansionist foreign policy and interventions overseas, wars, things that the U.S. really wasn't that involved in before.
	Suddenly, it became a major priority for the United States in order for its industries to grow.
	And soon after that, the dollar became effectively the world reserve currency after the First World War.
	I know with Bretton Woods and then the end of Bretton Woods and the petrodollar, but before that, by the end of the Second World War, after the Federal Reserve was established in 1913, in terms of total trade and volume of transactions globally, the dollar had practically become a de facto global reserve currency, even though British sterling was the dominant reserve currency at the time.
	And the U.S. played a blinder with the First World War.
	They did the same in the Second World War as they bankrupted Europe.
	They let Europe, you know, our geniuses in Wall Street at the time were absolutely pro-war and were funding both sides of the war both times.
	But the U.S. realized if they just kept feeding this, then these countries were all going into debt.
	They emptied their gold reserves in Europe.
	And then the U.S. just basically said, how much do you need?
	But they demanded payment in gold.
	And so in the Second World War as well, and created all these debt cycles for these European countries and then used that as leverage to basically direct and direct the economies of Europe post-war reconstruction, financial, political, everything.
	And the same in the Pacific to a degree as well with Japan.
	And all of these countries in this system became part of the U.S. global reserve currency system.
	The Euro dollar and then the dollar markets in Japan are absolutely essential, all around the world, in fact, are essential for maintaining the U.S. dollar, the artificial demand for dollars around the world, either because of commodities bought and sold in dollars or because of these giant dollar sinks, the Euro dollar market being the biggest right now.
	But even in the Gulf before, it was also a bigger thing when we were purchasing more Gulf oil.
	But without that, with the amount of money the U.S. government prints in deficit spending, we would have hyperinflationary cycles immediately.
	But because of this World Reserve system, this genius system, we're getting the rest of the world to pay for our, to subsidize our empire and allow us to have a $1.5 trillion defense budget because we're spending $2.5 trillion a year over budget.
	I mean, imagine if every country was allowed to do what the U.S. does.
	I mean, there probably wouldn't be a planet left.
	Well, exactly.
	Right.
	The ability to export your inflation and spread your debt around the world, that's a special privilege that the U.S. has enjoyed, but that's ending, as we're seeing now.
	And it seems to me that when Trump specifically attacks our allies with punitive tariffs, countries such as Japan, Taiwan, India, South Korea, making absurd demands like, oh, India, you can't buy energy from Russia.
	Why not?
	Why?
	And then to say, oh, we're going to steal all this oil on this ship coming out of Venezuela because it's internationally sanctioned oil.
	No, it isn't.
	You in the U.S., you came up with a piece of paper that just said your oil is our oil.
	There's no international law.
	It's all smoke and mirrors, but the U.S. is now engaged in piracy on the high seas, just stealing ships and stealing oil and punishing our allies to the point where, isn't it true that almost every rational nation is looking for alternatives to using the SWIFT system and using the dollar system?
	And gold is really becoming the World Reserve backstop currency at this point.
	Yep, it is.
	It is.
	And the U.S. has only itself to blame.
	I mean, the Trump administration has accelerated this trend by, and this is whenever you see empires that are declining or collapsing.
	One of the things that always happens in history, and I know this because I did my master's dissertation on U.S. financial warfare.
	Oh, really?
	And one of the, yes, at Plymouth University in the UK, where I'm at right now.
	But it's not attacking your enemies or sanctioning your enemies.
	It's sanctioning and threatening your allies.
	This is the telltale sign of an empire that's just about to snuff itself out.
	And this has always happened in history.
	And it's either that the Trump administration or the geniuses that he has orbiting him, like Sebastian Gorka and all these fanatics, Stephen Miller.
	I mean, either they're ignorant or illiterate when it comes to history and geopolitics, or they know exactly what they're doing and they're trying to crash the system in order to somehow get ahead of the markets and then basically be holding dominion over everybody for the next hundred years or how many generations of their families.
	They want to create a new golden age, which is, you know, the golden age in America was basically probably the biggest wealth gap in U.S. history, but we're sort of fast approaching that now.
	It might have been golden for the Rockefellers, but it wasn't golden for everybody else.
	It was hugely difficult.
	And out of that, you got a lot of boondoggle fake industries like big pharma that came right out of the back of that as well.
	And so when we talk about the golden age, I just, I don't know what to say.
	It's ridiculous.
	But they're fetishizing constantly the history, but doing it in a very inaccurate way to the point where it's almost cartoonish.
	I see this with the Trump administration.
	And you've nailed it right there, Mike, is that gold has quietly, or maybe not so quietly, surpassed U.S. treasuries as the number one backstop right across the globe right now.
	And which countries have been accumulating gold reserves steadily for the last decade?
	Quietly, China and Russia.
	So the Chinese are not stupid.
	They have some of the best economists in the world.
	The Russians are very savvy.
	Christina Lagarde, who's the head of the ECB, former head of the IMF, I saw her a couple years ago at St. Petersburg when Putin and his chief economist were up there on stage at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum, and she was just blown away.
	You could see her just oogling at them, like how they managed to deal with all these sanctions and get growth in their economy and balance their books and their balance of payments.
	They absolutely defeated the West in a very high-level multi-level chess match economically.
	And they've done it in ways that we couldn't comprehend.
	By the same token, the Chinese government has such steering power over its economy, and they don't allow the raiders of Wall Street the equivalent to basically sabotage.
	We've got people in Wall Street that are shorting the U.S. economy as we speak.
	I mean, imagine these guys are these guys are causing absolute mayhem unemployment, fuel poverty, hyperinflation.
	And why?
	Because they can.
	And that's how our system works.
	It's not the greatest system in the world for everybody else.
	It might be good for the people who are in Wall Street and who are in the financialized economy in London as well and also in Europe, but especially in America.
	I mean, I've never seen so many people sabotage who it's almost like I think it's the Gordon Gecko kind of era, Mike, where it almost became romanticized that, you know, completely ruthless, even to the fact that, like, you know, the George Soros is the world and so forth, that they just take pride in shorting whole economies.
	Scott Besson admitted that's a U.S. government policy when it comes to taking down a target country.
	I mean, how can the world exist like this without having war?
	Because that's how World War II started.
	It was because of the joint pincer movement to strangle Japan that led to Pearl Harbor.
	Japan had no choice.
	They felt their only option was a preemptive strike against America because this exact same thing, economic warfare, was being waged by the British and the Americans and their allies against Japan.
	And so that's where this type of behavior leads.
	Yeah, which would cut off Japanese.
	It's not cost-free.
	It's very dangerous.
	Okay, this is Mike Adams jumping in here.
	That's the first half of the interview with Patrick Henningsen.
	I'm saving the second half for Monday.
	I'll include the second half in my broadcast for Monday.
	And in the second half, we talk about the subject of MAGA brain rot, as I call it, which is how did MAGA just abandon all its principles?
	And what's the future of MAGA?
	What's the future of Trump?
	What's the future of the GOP?
	What's going to happen in the midterms?
	All those kinds of questions and discussions we cover in the second half of this really amazing interview with Patrick Henningsen.
	So be sure to tune in at brighttown.com or we're on Rumble, also, Brightown Broadcast News.
	Search for that on Monday for the second half of the Patrick Henningsen interview.
	And thank you for listening.
	I'm Mike Adams.
	Take care.
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00:00:11 Great Cratering
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00:20:23 Masked Execution Squad Goons
00:22:45 Concentration Camps and Detention
00:38:28 Threatening Citizenship Revocation
00:48:47 Why Bitcoin's Proof of Work Collapses
01:03:46 Concerns Circulating About Bitcoin
01:10:23 Gold Surpasses Bitcoin?
01:13:58 Battery Technology Breakthrough!
01:29:00 Vision for the Future
01:34:59 Off-the-Shelf Microplastics
01:39:26 Acts of Financial Terrorism
01:52:21 Aircraft vs. Anti-Stealth Missiles
02:07:26 Iran's Strategic Challenge
02:12:47 U.S. Regime and Dollar Dominance
02:27:17 Chemical-Free Cleaning Solutions