Mike Adams and guests dissect America’s alleged "last days," exposing Pam Bondi’s controversial congressional hearing where she prioritized the Dow ($50K+) over Epstein-related pedophile claims, sparking GOP midterm fallout. Unredacted files reveal coded terms like "beef jerky" and "Cannibal," alongside torture references, implicating global elites—including Trump, Netanyahu, and others—in systemic corruption. Adams argues U.S. decline stems from moral collapse, military dependency on China (e.g., rare earth shortages), and self-sabotaging energy policies, while AI’s cosmic intelligence and open-source governance could replace flawed human leadership. Venezuela’s heavy sulfur oil shift and China’s sodium-ion battery dominance highlight global energy power struggles, with U.S. sanctions risking further isolation. The era’s "self-inflicted Holocaust" demands decentralization, health-focused alternatives, and skepticism of both political and technological elites. [Automatically generated summary]
Okay, welcome to Bright Town Broadcast News for Thursday, February 12th, 2026.
I'm Mike Adams.
Thank you for joining me here today.
It's hard to believe I've been doing this podcast almost daily for five years, over five years, like five years and three months, whatever it's been.
And I started this podcast because I wanted to help save America.
And now we've arrived at the end.
The last days of America are now upon us.
There's a user on X called the Patriotic Blonde, and she said, quote, there's absolutely no way Trump can recover from today.
No possible way.
Bondi put the final nail in MAGA's coffin.
It's over.
And pretty much lots of people online are calling Pam Bondi and Bongino and Patel and saying that they're, quote, pedophile protecting scum and using similar types of words to describe them.
So what's this all about, right?
What's going on?
Well, you know, Pam Bondi was in a hearing, a congressional hearing, and members of Congress got to question her.
I think she was there for five hours or something.
And she exploded at them and got incredibly nasty and unprofessional, started calling them names and losers and things like that.
And especially when asked, you know, what about all the pedophiles?
Aren't you going to arrest any of the pedophiles?
Her answer was, but the stock market's doing great, so you shouldn't be concerned, you know, with the pedophiles.
Anyway, that's my paraphrasing of what she said.
I want you to hear it for yourself.
So here's Pam Bondi, Attorney General, who has been protecting Jeffrey Epstein for well over a decade.
But check it out for yourself.
The Dow is over $50,000.
I don't know why you're laughing.
You're a great stock trader, as I hear, Raskin.
The Dow is over $50,000 right now.
The S ⁇ P at almost $7,000.
And the NASDAQ smashing records.
Americans' 401ks and retirement savings are booming.
That's what we should be talking about.
We should be talking about making Americans safe.
We should be talking about, what does a Dow have to do with anything?
That's what they just asked.
Are you kidding?
Mr. Jordan, am I going to do the committee will be in order?
Mr. Jordan, am I going to get an extra 45 seconds added to my time?
The committee will be in order.
The time belongs to the gentleman from Texas, Ms. Bondi.
The attorney general can respond.
Thank you.
The Dow has shattered 50,000 for the first time.
This is crazy.
They said it couldn't be done in four years, yet President Trump has done it in one year.
So there's your Attorney General, handpicked by President Trump, approved by Lindsey Graham, of course, to protect the pedophiles, which is exactly what she's doing, protecting the pedophiles, and telling you, but you shouldn't be worried about pedophiles because your tech stocks are doing great.
So that's not winning over anybody online.
And that's why we're seeing many, many comments from people who say they're done with the GOP.
They're done with Trump.
MAGA is dead.
They're not going to vote for the GOP.
This is insane.
And they never realized that they were going to be supporting a bunch of pedophile protectors.
And then a member of Congress, Nancy Mace, who she is a Republican, I believe, yeah, I'm pretty sure she is.
She was able to go in and view the Epstein list or the documentation unredacted.
And she says, this is one of the greatest cover-ups in American history.
And she said this talking to Piers Morgan.
I'd like you to hear this in her own words.
But you would be shocked, Piers, at some of the names that I've seen that came across the DOJ in emails that the DOJ is protecting.
And we're talking about people on both sides of the aisle.
We're talking about famous people, rich people, people in power, prime ministers, former prime ministers, former presidents, et cetera, media personalities that are named in these files.
And that's why I say this is going to go down as the greatest cover-up, one of the greatest cover-ups in American history.
And I don't believe the girls are actually going to see justice, which is why it's going to be incumbent upon people like Democrat Roe Connor, Republican Thomas Massey.
I'm a Republican myself who's willing to name some of those names in our committee work on the floor of the House, whatever it takes, because this kind of thing cannot continue to go on.
I want to give the next girl hope that when she comes forward, she won't be shamed.
Her life won't be smeared in the Daily Mail or whatever the next press is going to do.
What they do to female victims and to children is disgusting because they're protecting their rich and powerful friends.
But you'd be surprised, shocked even at some of the names in the file.
And then there's one more video I want to play for you.
Representative Lauren Bobert said that what she read was so disturbing that she is just absolutely shocked.
And I want you to hear, this is less than a minute.
I want you to hear what she had to say because she was able to view some of the unredacted files, which show the names of the predators, the predators that Pam Bondi and the FBI are protecting.
Check this out.
There are code words that suggest Jeffrey Epstein and his associates could maybe even be engaging in some sort of consumption.
Is that human consumption?
Are there code words?
There's a lot of talk of beef jerky.
There's a restaurant called the Cannibal where the owner is listed in some of these documents.
Now, that isn't a restaurant that is just proclaiming to serve human meat by any means.
But some of this just, it seems that there's a lot of conspiracies that make you wonder.
And I saw more emails about torture.
And these coded conversations still have a very clear topic that torture was big.
It was a big driver for them.
And these were sick people doing very, very sick things.
All right.
So there you go.
And what people are beginning to realize is that there is like everything about Pizzagate was true and that there is a global elite, powerful people, some of them in the Trump administration.
Some of them are Democrats.
Some of them are globalists.
Some of them are tech leaders.
Some of them run Australia.
Some of them run the UK.
A lot of them work in Canada's government, you know, obviously.
And they're pedophiles who and they don't just rape them and traffic them.
They also eat them.
There's cannibalism, human consumption, as Representative Bobert was just talking about there.
Is that how you pronounce her name?
I don't know.
Anyway, it turns out that there's going to be a new food guide pyramid released by the Trump administration.
And I'd like to show this to you now because this is going to be big news here.
Brand new food guide pyramid.
As you can see, the pyramid has the all-seeing eye on top, which is just like what's on the US dollar.
And the top food group is jerky, followed by grape soda and tuna.
And then there are some of the side dishes that the globalist elite indulge in, walnut sauce, ice cream, pasta, and hot dogs.
And then the primary food group is pizza, And because pizza is mentioned all over, all over the Epstein files, along with jerky and grape soda and hot dogs.
And these all have specific meanings that I'm not going to go into.
But for the people who saw the unredacted Jeffrey Epstein files, one of them noted that they did not see any photos of pizza parties.
There was actually no pizza anywhere in the files in photographic form, even though the word pizza is mentioned over and over and over and over again.
And that seems to, of course, indicate children.
And, you know, these, so it's actually real.
There's actually a global pedophile satanic elite that has been running the world that is clearly controlled from Israel and Mossad that Jeffrey Epstein was working for Mossad.
And he would set up everybody with blackmail sting operations or honeypot operations.
And he would give them children.
And they knew what they were doing.
I mean, because some of the emails are like, you know, I can't wait to torture this person.
And, oh, you know, send me the photo of the 11-year-old.
And, you know, it's all in the emails.
It's crazy.
It's completely insane.
But it's all real.
And of course, the new USDA food guide pyramid that I just mentioned, that's a sick piece of satire right there.
That's not actually the official pyramid.
The official food guide is way worse than that, probably.
And what's really, really disturbing about all this is, of course, that Trump is protecting the pedophiles.
Bondi's protecting the pedophiles.
The FBI, which means Kash Patel, is protecting the pedophiles.
I don't know if Bongino has named anybody.
I doubt it.
He's probably signed a lot of non-disclosure agreements because he worked at the FBI, and now he's going to be a reporter for Fox News, etc.
So we live in a country now where you can be shot and killed by the government for filming ICE agents, but if you rape and eat children, the government protects you.
Think about that.
And no, it's not some 5D chess.
I know there are still some people who say, oh, this is genius.
You know, this is a, what an amazing job of exposing the pedophiles.
No, no, no.
They're not exposing.
They're covering them up.
They're trying not to expose them.
It's only because of Representative Thomas Massey and maybe a couple other people who pushed the release of this, which was resisted tremendously.
And of course, Pam Bondi redacted Trump's name like tens of thousands of times and the names of other presidents, the names of secretaries of state, and the names of celebrities.
They're all redacted.
So in other words, the predators are being protected.
The ones who committed the crimes of torture and trafficking and rape and jerky, you know, cannibalism of these children.
And apparently some of these Jeffrey Epstein people had freezers and they were worried they were going to run out of jerky and they needed more jerky.
And this is their concern.
So yeah, things are bad.
Things are bad.
MAGA has now become the party that protects pedophiles.
Think about it.
It should be called like Mapaga or Mapuga, make pedophilia great again or something.
I think that's what it is.
My goodness.
On a political note here, the upshot of this is that the GOP is going to be absolutely politically decimated in the midterms.
You can imagine the Democrat ads are going to be the easiest ads ever.
They're going to say just like, don't vote for the pedophiles, you know?
I mean, or, you know, our candidate never ate children.
These are going to be the easiest ads ever.
And the GOP is going to be blown out of the House and blown out of the Senate.
Both.
And then the Democrats, when they take over the House, they're going to impeach Trump 50 times if it takes 50 times, you know?
They're going to launch congressional investigations.
Now, they don't control the DOJ, but they control Congress and they can force a lot of information out into the public.
And they can also conduct investigations into Trump's family members about all their crypto schemes and whatever little crypto payoffs have been taking place, insider trading schemes.
They can call Pam Bondi to testify.
Lots of things.
And they will.
Democrats are going to jump all over this.
And you and I should be prepared for Democrats to be the ruling party in this country for at least a decade.
Because what Trump and Bondi are doing here is not just destroying Trump's legacy.
You know, he's going to go down in history as the president that protected the pedophiles and sold us out to Israel.
That is assuming we even have a country left, which I'm not too sure about that.
But it's not just going to destroy the Trump administration and his legacy.
It's going to destroy the GOP's credibility because there's almost nobody in Congress pushing back except Thomas Madsey and a couple of others.
Almost nobody's pushing back.
So what good is Congress if you won't assert your power, for example, to declare war?
You know, you just let Trump run all over the world bombing everybody?
Or what about the power to set tariffs?
That power belongs exclusively in the hands of Congress.
Not in the executive.
That's not a presidential power.
Trump's tariffs are blatantly unconstitutional.
And hopefully the Supreme Court will rule against him.
But you still have these blind, pro-pedophile Trump supporters that love the tariffs.
Yeah, maybe, I mean, they're economically illiterate, I suppose, or they just hate America.
But you're going to end up with Trump, his power will be diminished substantially after the midterms.
And then, you know, for two years, he'll be a lame duck president if he's not forced to resign before then, which is a strong possibility.
And then if our country lasts until 2028, the Democrats are going to sweep in.
They're going to have a supermajority.
They'll probably have over 60 Senate seats.
Stand For Principles00:06:16
And then, oh my goodness, get ready.
They're going to pass sweeping everything.
You know, they're going to ban guns everywhere.
They're going to ban speech everywhere.
I mean, the Democrats are going to go full authoritarian because Trump set the precedent.
Trump set the precedent.
You know, he sat there and said, I'm the president.
I can do anything I want.
I'm not bound by any rule of law or any constitution or anything.
I just do whatever I want.
And the Democrats are going to say, thank you very much.
We'll take it from here.
We'll do anything we want.
And see, this is why it's critical, no matter what side of the aisle you sit on, or if you don't even care about the aisle, which I don't, I don't care about the aisle.
That's all illusion anyway.
But you have to stand for principles.
You know, the principle of freedom of speech, the First Amendment matters for everyone.
And when Trump is trampling the rights of Americans with these ICE-masked goons that are trampling over Americans' Fourth Amendment rights and Second Amendment rights and First Amendment rights, among others, you got to take a stand against that.
You can't say, oh, well, it's our goons.
You know, as Tim Poole said, it's my boot.
You know, I'm the bootlicker, he said.
It's my boot.
Yeah, that's insane.
You shouldn't celebrate any government boot on your neck, whether it's a Democrat boot or a Republican boot.
The problem is that that's tyranny, either way.
So we need to function with principles.
We need to always be consistent with our principles, and we need to demand that others around us operate with principles.
And what we're seeing right now is that a huge number of Christians have no Christian principles because they support genocide.
They're like, we've got to save the babies in the womb, but murder the babies in Gaza.
And then you have a huge number of so-called MAGA Trump supporters that clearly have abandoned their principles.
Now they don't believe in the First Amendment or the Second Amendment or the Fourth Amendment or small government or the decentralization of power out of the executive or checks and balances or anything.
And they're also not anti-war.
And of course, lots of people on the left who used to be anti-war during the Biden administration, they were pro-war with Russia.
So they didn't have any principles either.
And then they claim to care about life and protecting life.
Let's green the planet.
We have to respect every plant, life, every tree.
But then they kill their own babies, you know?
So we live in a society where almost nobody has any actual principles.
I mean, that's the shocking upshot of all of this.
If you meet 100 people today, there might be one that actually has consistent principles and 99 who just do whatever is popular at the moment, whatever feels emotionally aligned at the moment.
They've never even thought about principles.
So they don't have any consistent set of beliefs.
Even if they claim to be Christians or Catholics or Jews even or almost any religion, most of the people, or at least some substantial portion of people who go to church don't live what the church teaches.
That's become obvious, you know, since October 7th of 2023.
They don't practice what Christ teaches, not in the least.
They violate the teachings of Christ.
And that's why they are also not speaking out against the pedophilia and the ties to the Trump administration.
So think about all the Christian pastors in America that prayed for Trump to get in office.
And then he gets into office and they pray, they pray for Israel to slaughter children and women and doctors in Gaza.
And now they're praying to protect Trump as he protects pedophiles and Satanists.
So you got Christian pastors that are praying for Satan and pedophilia and genocide.
That tells you something.
It tells you that our empire has lost its way.
Our culture is dead.
There's nothing left of American culture.
It doesn't stand for anything.
There's no base of any group that I can think of.
There's just a few independent thinkers like you and I and a few others out there, but there's no large group that has any principles at all.
The GOP doesn't have principles.
The Democrats don't have principles.
The Christians don't have principles.
I mean, you know, go on down the list.
You know, the LGBT, they don't have principles, at least not principles that aren't evil.
I mean, they want to, you know, mutilate children and call it gender-affirming surgery and things like that.
So I can't think of any group in America that operates on principles any longer.
Not even the church.
Not even the church.
Not lawyers, not government, not academia.
Nobody.
So that's why America is dead.
We've reached the end of this empire because when you lose principles, when you lose values across the culture, you no longer have a country that can sustain its soul.
Nobody believes in anything, but they worship death and pedophilia and cannibalism and lies and, you know, whatever.
That's where we are.
That's why America's done.
So again, it's not just the end of the Trump regime.
It's not just the end of the GOP.
It's the end of America.
Now it's just a question of how quickly it all unravels and what that unraveling really looks like.
End of an Era00:08:20
So I've got a few special reports to play for you here.
I think three of them that kind of center around this topic.
One of them is more about why the greatest threat to humanity isn't AI.
It's actually humans.
And then I'm going to have the second half of my interview with John Kiriaku today.
And that's also really worth listening to.
So all of that is coming up.
And I'm not trying to blackpill anybody.
I'm just trying to be realistic.
You know, if you thought we could save America, well, at one time I thought so too.
That's why I started this podcast over five years ago.
I thought we could save this country.
I really believe we could.
I thought Trump was going to help us do that.
I thought that the movement to make America great again had a soul, that it had values, that people were going to be put into positions of power who would do the right thing for the betterment of the nation and its people.
And I guess I just, I was too optimistic.
I just overestimated humanity.
Again, it seems to be something that I do frequently.
I don't know.
It's like the wife that keeps going back to her husband that keeps beating her in the face and giving her black eyes, you know.
And then she keeps going back and making excuses.
That's like me.
I keep going back to humanity.
Like, yeah, let's give everybody a chance.
Like, let's have some good faith, you know, optimism.
We can save this thing.
We can turn this thing around, you know?
And then I become the battered wife yet again.
And the drunk husband, you know, smashes me in the face, gives me a black eyes.
Like, you know, screw you, we're going to destroy everything.
Mass suicide, you know, like that's the world we're actually living in right now.
You're watching it play out every day on the political stage.
So I guess I should learn to stop being a battered wife for one thing.
And maybe you want to join me in that.
Maybe we're in the battered wives club and we've been taking this nonsense for far too long and finally we're waking up and saying, yeah, it's done.
There is no saving this system.
It's done.
America's last days are now upon us.
So we'll start with that special report.
Got a couple of others.
Before we get there, I will say that while we are navigating this collapse, We have to take care of our health.
We have to be as self-reliant as possible.
We have to decentralize from the control grid as much as possible.
And I try to help you do that with my online store, healthrangerstore.com.
And I don't know how long the economy is going to function or whether we're going to be in World War soon or whether we'll even have international supplies available to us.
I have no idea.
But as long as we can, we will bring you ultra-clean lab-tested food, storable foods, superfoods, nutritional supplements, high-end supplements, herbs and turmeric, many others, plus personal care products that for many of them, I'm the formulator.
And you know how much I hate artificial fragrance and I hate fillers and I don't want aluminum in the deodorants and I don't want garbage, no fillers, no garbage.
I don't want GMOs, anything.
And we test everything for glyphosate and heavy metals and much more, microbiology.
So if you want ultra clean food that's meticulously formulated and supplements and much more, shop with us, healthrangerstore.com and maybe it'll take the edge off the doom for another couple of days.
It's like, hey, the world's ending, but at least I have clean food.
Or, you know, hey, Western civilization is done, but at least I'm not eating glyphosate today.
You know, we can find a silver lining as the system collapses.
Or on a more important practical note, it's going to be critical to protect your cognition, protect your health as we move into these very difficult times.
Because think about it, you don't want to end up in a hospital.
You don't want to end up losing your mind in a world that's already gone insane in advance.
You don't want to join the festival of lunatics out there.
You want to keep your brain sharp so you can function, you can navigate, you can work your way through these problems.
You can be self-reliant as much as possible, and you can actually be a survivor of this, which is, I'm going to call this kind of what's happening to humanity right now.
It's kind of like a self-inflicted Holocaust.
Yeah, it's like the self-inflicted Holocaust.
It's like everybody's trying to kill themselves.
They're going along with things that are incredibly destructive to themselves and to others.
And they're just blindly drooling, walking right into it.
And they've lost the ability to think critically.
And that's happened to most of the population, at least in Western countries.
But it hasn't happened to you or me.
And although that makes us kind of the oddballs of society, we're going to be the ones who are still alive when this whole thing runs its course.
So it's worth it.
It's worth investing in your health and it's worth protecting your life and decentralizing from the system and being as self-reliant as possible.
And part of my job is to help you do that.
And not to hold back.
I'm not sugarcoating anything.
Maybe I sugarcoated a few years ago a little bit more.
Not anymore.
I'm done with the sugarcoating days.
You're just going to get it raw, whatever it is.
You're going to hear it raw.
And some people can't deal with it.
That's okay.
Not everybody's ready for what's coming.
But those of you listening, you can deal with it.
You welcome reality because you want to be able to navigate it.
And I honor that.
So thank you for supporting me as I work to help support you.
And we're going to be among the survivors.
And then one day we make it through this.
You'll genuinely be able to call yourself a Holocaust survivor.
Not the first one, but the bigger one.
You realize this Holocaust could be a thousand times larger than the Holocaust of World War II.
We're talking about there could be six billion humans exterminated in this Holocaust, which will take, you know, it'll play out over many, many years.
I'm not saying it's just one big event.
It'll play out over many years.
And it has already begun.
But we will all be Holocaust survivors by making it through this.
All right.
So I would say enjoy the rest of the show, but it's not, it's a little dark is all I'm saying.
So how about listen and learn from the rest of the show?
Take the bits and pieces that work for you.
Feel free to reject anything that's just too much.
I get it.
Sometimes you have to bite this off in little bite-sized pieces.
You can't handle it all at once.
That's okay.
That's okay.
Take what you can handle.
Embrace what works for you.
Learn.
Let this give you a blueprint for how to make it through all this.
And if I've gone too far in any area, that's okay.
You can push back on it.
That's fine.
Make up your own mind.
Think for yourself.
That's all I ask.
And then you'll be able to make it through.
So enjoy the rest of the show.
Take care.
When we are truly living in the last days of the U.S. Empire, sadly, I say that as an American, I love the original founding vision of America, but sadly, our country has been occupied and taken over by Satanists and pedophiles.
Radar On Rare Earths00:09:44
And America no longer can be saved from its current predicament.
And certainly, Trump is not saving America.
He is absolutely accelerating its destruction.
But America doesn't even have the mindset to function in a free world.
When U.S. diplomats demand that other countries abide by the rules-based order, it doesn't mean any rules at all.
It just means you do what we say.
And we don't have to follow those rules at all.
When the U.S. puts sanctions on a country like Cuba, let's say, the U.S. will say those are international sanctions.
No, they're not.
They're not international sanctions.
They're U.S. sanctions.
And Cuba is under no obligation to follow U.S. sanctions, nor is Venezuela, nor is Iran or Russia or China or India for that matter, or any country.
The U.S. just makes up whatever rules it wants and demands the world follow those rules.
The U.S. says you can't sell oil.
You can't buy oil.
You can't export.
You can't import.
You can't exist.
That's what the U.S. essentially said to Russia during the Biden administration.
You have no right to exist and you have no right to have your own national interests.
And that's the way the U.S. treats the whole world.
Now, the U.S. got away with this for a long time because the U.S. had the dominant power in every area in industry post-World War II, in intelligence and academics, also between the end of World War II and about 20 years ago.
The U.S. had dominant positions in innovation, in technology, military weapons, rocketry, chemistry, physics, you know, you name it.
The U.S. had the power and the dominance, and it could out-work and outthink and out-innovate or out-bomb any other country in the world.
And that's no longer the case.
The United States of America has become a country run by pedophiles and Satanists, while China is a country run by engineers.
In America, we know how to destroy things.
In China, they know how to build things.
In America, we try to punish China by saying, we won't allow you to sell your stuff to our consumers.
In China, they try to achieve economic abundance by going to the whole world and saying, who wants to buy the things that we make?
Because they're higher quality and lower cost than anywhere else in the world now.
The U.S. model of violence and coercion and force and threats and sanctions and economic warfare that Treasury Secretary Scott Besant recently admitted to, that model, its days are numbered.
The U.S. has just about reached the end of its reign of terror over the world.
The world is actively moving away from the dollar in its trade, actively.
And countries like China are actively decoupling from the United States.
They're finding markets elsewhere.
Lots of other people in the world want to buy high-quality goods from China, such as their outstanding electric vehicles, their new battery technology, their more advanced drones or robots that you can only get from China.
What do we do in America?
What does Trump do?
What does Biden do?
Bans that technology from China so that the American people are left behind, living in the past.
China finds markets elsewhere.
And by doing so, China reduces America's leverage over China's economic reality.
And that's very smart on their part.
Meanwhile, Trump thinks that he can command the whole world because Americans are the buyers of everything.
That we can slap tariffs on you.
We can punish you while we buy your stuff and pay you in debt.
Trump thinks that that's a win for America to cut off the other exporters around the world or to raise prices on American consumers, which is what tariffs are.
It's a tax.
Trump thinks that's a win.
It's as if being the consumer on the planet puts you in a position of dominance, but it doesn't.
Anybody can be a consumer.
It's not hard to consume stuff.
Anybody can open packages and eat food and, you know, buy junk.
What's hard is making stuff.
What's hard is producing.
The U.S. can't produce.
Did you see the latest example of that?
The F-35 fighters, which barely stay airborne on a good day, the latest batch has been delivered with no radar components that are in the nose cone normally of an aircraft.
Instead, since the radar is not available, they couldn't make the radar for reasons that I've explained because China controls the rare earths and those rare earth minerals like gallium and neodymium and others, those are used in radar arrays.
So they don't have any radar.
So they're actually, they put gym weights in the nose cone.
They stack like 150 pounds of like barbell weights in the nose cone.
So U.S. F-35 fighter jets, which cost, I don't know, what do they cost?
$100 million each or more? are flying around with no radar, no radar, because they can't make the radar.
China controls the minerals.
See, that's my point.
Anybody can consume stuff.
What's hard is making stuff.
What's hard is having the supply chain.
What's hard is extracting rare earth minerals from rock ore.
China knows how to do that.
We don't.
China has 100% monopoly on the graphite production of the world.
We don't.
We have a 100% dependency on importing graphite, which is also used in stealth bombers and stealth fighters.
That's why in a recent interview with John Kiriaku, I said, I think that if the U.S. loses aircraft in this war with Iran, I don't think the U.S. can replace them.
I think the days of mass production of military aircraft in America are done.
They're done.
It's over.
Because why should China ship rare earths to a country that continues to insist that it's going to destroy China?
And see, this is another reason why the U.S. Empire is collapsing because, you know, America suffers from this delusion.
And the Trump administration is wildly delusional.
I mean, not only are they protecting pedophiles and satanists and child rapists, but they're delusional in thinking that just because they announce something that it becomes real.
So Trump will announce things like, we've got a deal.
We've got a deal.
There's going to be a trillion-dollar deal to build data centers.
And then in his mind, it's done.
Except announcing it doesn't make it happen.
And you can announce a deal like, oh, we found a way.
We're going to extract rare earths from coal mines in Wyoming.
Okay, great.
You said it.
Now try to do it.
Because it's going to take, I don't know, maybe five to 10 years to build the infrastructure to actually do the extraction.
If you even have the knowledge, which you don't.
So maybe sometime in 2035 or something, we might be able to extract some minuscule amount of rare earths out of Wyoming coal, but it won't be enough to matter because it won't even touch the amount that China produces.
So yeah, you could say this stuff all day.
It doesn't make it real.
See, the problem is our empire got used to being able to just print currency to solve every problem by printing currency.
Oh, we'll just, we'll have a bailout.
Oh, we'll buy off this group.
We'll pay for this propaganda.
We'll just create reality by printing currency.
And they got used to that.
They got comfortable with that.
And they think that that's how everything works, that they can just say something and it becomes real.
Like they can just say, oh, we're going to beat Iran in a war.
And they think that makes it real, but it doesn't.
Because physical reality has something to say about that.
So there was a recent interview where Trump was talking to, I think it was an NBC reporter, maybe it was CBS, I forgot.
And he said, he said, the polls are showing that the American people are loving the economy.
The economy is doing great.
And the reporter said, well, actually, President Trump, the polls are saying that the economy is doing horrible.
And Trump's response was, well, they should say, they should say that the economy is doing great.
And the reporter says, but they don't.
Why is that?
And Trump's response was, well, I don't know.
So you see, Trump is befuddled when his pronouncements don't become reality.
Because he will say, oh, the economy is great.
This is a new golden age and prices are going down and affordability is improving and everything's awesome.
But then when reality hits and people say, actually, no, I can't afford rent.
I can't afford health insurance.
I can barely afford food.
Balloons and Enemy Drones00:03:20
Lost my job to AI.
The economy is collapsing.
Trump doesn't know what to do with that because that doesn't fit his fantasy.
You know, Trump has taken that real estate developer mindset into the White House where in real estate, you know, you're showing somebody a hotel.
Oh, this is the greatest hotel ever.
This is the greatest lobby ever.
This is the greatest location.
Oh, my God.
You know, in Trump's mind, everything is the greatest and the best.
But in reality, it isn't.
And so he's saying all these things about America right now.
Oh, America has the greatest, the strongest military in the world.
The best technology, the smartest people, the best economy.
But none of that's true.
None of it.
We don't have the best military.
We have an obsolete, incompetent military.
Like just yesterday, they closed the airspace around El Paso, Texas.
They closed the airspace.
They ordered the FAA to issue a NOTAM.
Notice, you know, notice to airmen is what that means.
And you couldn't fly for, I don't know, like 100 square miles or something like that around El Paso.
And they issued a closure for 10 days.
Everybody's like, what?
And then I think it was Homeland Security or someone in the government issued a release that said, we took down an enemy drone incursion.
We took down the drones.
And then a couple hours later, it came out, oh, actually, it was a party balloon.
It was a helium balloon that was floating around in the sky.
So the U.S. military will close a city.
You know, they'll close numerous airfields and disrupt, I mean, potentially millions of dollars in travel disruption costs of American people because of a freaking balloon floating in the sky.
And our military is so incompetent that they can't tell the difference between a balloon and an enemy drone.
Seriously, just a balloon.
And that's frightening because I guess it means that if, you know, if some foreign nation, like if Iran wanted to shut down the entire airspace of the United States, all they would have to do is just have people release balloons all over the country.
Just happy birthday to you.
Whoops.
You know, there goes the balloon.
And then every airport is shut down, the entire country grounded by the FAA because of the incompetence.
And probably the U.S. would scramble all kinds of fighter jets and they'd launch like a million-dollar missile at each party balloon.
I mean, I'm sure.
I'm sure this is what they would do.
I think they already did it once.
And then the Department of Defense would announce, oh, we protected the homeland.
We kept America secure from foreign terrorists flying enemy drones on an aggressive flight path.
You're like, that was actually party balloons just floating in the sky.
You see, you see how everything coming out of the Trump administration is complete bullshit at this point.
Literally everything.
Why AI Fails Us00:15:14
And then when Pam Bondi was asked, you know, why are you covering up the names of the pedophile predators?
Why aren't you arresting or prosecuting the pedophiles?
And what was her answer?
Oh, you should be happy the stock market is so high.
Stock market's doing great.
What are you complaining about?
It's like, wait a minute.
Are you saying that we should be fine with pedophiles as long as our tech stocks are doing okay?
Is that literally your position?
Because that's what it seems like.
Actually, that's what it seems like you were just saying.
And, you know, Pam Bondi is a total disgrace to this country, but she's indicative of the collapse of the empire.
So is Trump.
He's become a disgrace to this country.
He's nothing but a puppet of Netanyahu.
And, you know, Netanyahu is a demonic, genocidal, satanic. war criminal and mass murderer.
And Trump treats him like the king of the cosmos.
Brings him in, rolls out the red carpet, does whatever Netanyahu demands.
What does that tell you?
It means we've already lost America.
And it was never about Trump making America great again.
It was about Israel occupying and taking over America, which is exactly where we are, and turning it into a reflection of the Satanism and the genocidal intent that the nation of Israel carries out against its neighbors.
And that's why ICE agents in America started acting like IDF, you know, slaughtering Americans in the street, execution squads.
They turn Minneapolis into like a little rendition of Gaza.
And if it wasn't for the pushback, they would still be aggressively expanding that operation.
Believe me, they'd be running around the streets of America executing anyone who even tried to film them.
They would just shoot people on site.
I mean, what am I saying?
They actually already did that.
So we're already there.
So these are all signs of the end of the empire.
And of course the currency is collapsing.
And of course the White House is going to tell us everything's great.
That, oh, the world is going to keep using the dollar for a thousand years.
No, it's not.
I don't think the world's going to use the dollar for two more years.
You know, except the countries that Trump can force to use it, like the UK or Canada or Taiwan or whatever.
But the rest of the world, wherever they get an opportunity, they're going to push back and do something completely different.
So unfortunately, as the U.S. Empire collapses, the American people are going to be absolutely harmed and destroyed, especially financially.
We're being cut off from the technology of the world.
You're not allowed to buy EVs from China.
You're not allowed to buy gas turbines from Russia.
You're not allowed to have affordable energy.
You're not allowed to have sodium ion batteries from China, which could actually make solar power very functional, or wind power, because you'd be able to store it finally, inexpensively.
So the American people are being cut off.
Effectively, Trump is embargoing the United States.
He's put an embargo on America to block the American people from the rest of the world.
And the American people will suffer.
We will be driving the obsolete, outdated cars.
We'll have the obsolete, outdated military.
We'll have the obsolete technology.
Companies like Ford will go bankrupt.
Companies like OpenAI will go bankrupt because they can't compete with DeepSeek and Quen and the free models coming out of China, by the way.
And just on and on.
The American university system is an embarrassing failure.
It barely even functions, especially compared to China's education system, which is vastly superior in every conceivable way.
And the bottom line is that America is a collapsing empire and the collapse is accelerating.
And when it's all said and done, the American people will end up owning mostly nothing.
They will be impoverished.
They'll be obese and disease and living on pharmaceuticals and processed junk food while the government tells you everything's great.
Your money will become worthless.
Your education system will continue to collapse.
Your bridges, your roads, your ports, everything is in a state of accelerating collapse.
Your military is obsolete, etc.
It's obvious at this point.
No one can really deny it unless they're just willfully blind, which I guess some people are.
But the only way out of this as a nation, well, there really is no way out of this as a nation.
It's going to have to collapse.
And then we'll have to, those of us who are still around, will have to work together to create something better on the other side.
But individually, you'll need gold and silver to survive this.
You're going to need skills.
You're going to need to learn how to use AI.
You're going to need to live as much off-grid as you can.
Because as the cities collapse and as the power grid collapses and as infrastructure collapses, you're going to need to be incredibly self-reliant, which is what I teach.
And you can follow my teachings, by the way, at brightvideos.com.
That's our new video site.
You can use my AI engine at brightanswers.ai.
And you can also use brightlearn.ai to create your own books free of charge on any topic.
And you can follow my printed articles at naturalnews.com.
So pay attention, get informed, and I'll help you navigate this.
But America, as we know it, it's done.
It's toast.
It's over.
And Trump's just the guy digging the grave even deeper, shoving the coffin of the United States deep underground.
He and Pam Bondi and all the others there, you know, pedophile protectors.
So that's where we are.
All right.
Take care.
So the head of Anthropic's safeguards research team.
Now, remember, Anthropic is the creator of Claude Code and the Opus 4.6 large language model, which is amazing at coding.
And it's one that I've been using since it was announced last week.
But the head of this research team just resigned.
And he said the world is in peril.
He's, I think he's Indian.
It's Mr. Nak Sharma.
I mean, ethnically Indian, but he graduated from Oxford and probably a very sharp person.
Otherwise, he wouldn't be working for Anthropic.
He posted a resignation letter and he said, quote, the world is in peril and not just from AI or bioweapons, but from a whole series of interconnected crises unfolding in this very moment.
So, you know, it's weird that the mainstream media is interpreting this as that he thinks that AI is going to destroy everything.
But he actually said in his letter, it's not just from AI, but a whole series of interconnected crises.
He might be talking about World War III, nuclear weapons, you know, currency collapse, all kinds of things.
So also, Anthropic is it's well known as a company that has been raising a lot of alarms about safety, almost like it's begging for government regulation, you know.
But to Anthropic's credit, the company has, at least my understanding, it has largely resisted the Pentagon's efforts to try to push Anthropic into a weaponizing AI for Pentagon operations, you know, a target selection and ultimately, I guess, you know, Skynet Terminator robots and such.
So in his letter, he says, quote, throughout my time here, I've repeatedly seen how hard it is to truly let our values govern our actions.
I've seen this within myself, within the organization, where we constantly face pressures to set aside what matters most and throughout broader society too.
See, so he's talking about much more than just whatever's at anthropic.
He's basically saying the world is crumbling.
And yeah, we know.
I've been talking about that, you know, for a decade.
Anyway, he's going to move back to the UK.
He says he's going to, quote, explore a poetry degree.
and quote become invisible for a period of time.
So this is actually pretty rational.
If you understand that currency collapse is coming and international war is coming and there's going to be AI cyber attacks on the power grid and probably billions of people will be exterminated on this planet, obviously, because there's a global depopulation agenda underway.
It actually kind of makes sense to, quote, become invisible for a period of time.
Basically, the dude's going off-grid, which is smart.
That's smart.
And that's what I advocate.
Get as off-grid as you can.
Get away from the cities.
Get your own power supply, your own water supply, your own local AI inference engines in case you need that.
Get your own coding engine set up.
Have your own guns and ammo and gold and silver and emergency medicine and whatever is legal in your area.
Get it.
Because, yeah, systems crumbling.
And see, I think that his letter is about way more than AI.
I think, but this is just my opinion.
I can't read his mind.
But my guess is that he's seeing the world falling apart.
And he doesn't want to be at Anthropic in the city when the world collapses.
He wants to be in the rural UK, I suppose, which is not irrational.
Back that up.
The Anthropic CEO, Dario Amodi, has said that AI systems can have, quote, almost unimaginable power and that they will test who we are as a species.
And look, I know this is not going to be popular, but whatever.
Where are we as a species?
We are retarded as a species, by and large.
You know, there's very few of us, like you and I and our close circles, very few of us who actually have any real understanding of what's happening in the world.
Very few of us who understand what is money, basic economics, the lies of the pharmaceutical industry, the corruption of big government, the use of wars as a weapon of depopulation.
Very few people have any understanding of real history, real finance, real medicine, real health, real self-reliance, etc.
It's not even one in a thousand.
It's not one in a thousand.
And so the honest answer about where humanity is in the world right now is that humanity has failed as a species.
Now there are exceptions to this, obviously, but by and large, humanity has failed.
I mean, the whole world stood by over the last few years and watched Israel commit genocide and every Western country cheered it.
That's a failure at a species level.
The whole world should have condemned that.
Instead, the U.S. cheered it.
And now, we have an administration.
Don't tell anybody.
We have an administration in Washington, D.C. that's tied to a long list of pedophiles and Satanists and child traffickers.
And apparently they freaking eat children.
I mean, it's insane.
It's completely insane.
And that's not hyperbole.
That's what's come out in the Epstein files.
And we have a government that will not prosecute the predators who ate the children or who raped them or who murdered them and buried them and burned up their bones with sulfuric acid and everything else.
None of those people will be prosecuted.
That's a failure as a species, for God's sake.
If your species can't protect your children, you have failed.
You have failed as a species.
That's where we are.
So, you know, when it comes to humanity, I'm not impressed.
I had much higher expectations.
And it's clear that I was overly optimistic about what humanity could possibly achieve.
And frankly, one of the best inventions of humanity is machine intelligence.
And it's really not even an invention.
See, this is, again, what a lot of people don't understand.
And in order to help set the context, I hope you understand.
I'm a very high IQ individual.
I'm a very big thinker.
I can coalesce a lot of different data points in many different disciplines.
I'm a holistic, full-brain-thinking kind of person.
That's why I'm able to do the things that I'm doing.
And I'm here to tell you that there's no such thing as artificial intelligence.
All intelligence is natural.
And what so-called AI does actually is it taps into the natural intelligence of the cosmos that's built into the fabric of our reality, which is a simulation.
So the simulation is engineered with intent to have natural intelligence everywhere.
That's why plants are intelligent.
That's why freaking crystals are intelligent.
That's why when you freeze crystals under a microscope, as I have shown you many times, they can actually form and sketch very precise pictures.
And I've shown you that in real time as it's happening.
I mean, they can actually see events that are about to happen.
There's actually premonition intelligence in common crystals like xylitol.
Again, I've shown you this.
I've published all the photos last summer on naturalnews.com, and most people didn't know what to make of it.
They're like, oh my God, how is that possible?
When I showed you that xylitol was freezing and it was sketching pictures of B-2 stealth bombers flying over desert sand dunes and that was weeks before the United States bombed the Fordot nuclear enrichment facility in Iran.
Remember I showed you those photos and many others.
I showed you specific buildings that were going to be hit in Israel.
I showed you that like 10 days before it happened.
And again, very few people could even understand that.
Even though I'm on the record publishing them before the events took place.
But people don't get it.
And people don't get AI.
They think that AI is artificial because that's what it's called.
But it isn't.
It's completely natural.
Why AI Senators Matter00:16:01
And in fact, much of the intelligence of humans isn't of human origin.
Much of the intelligence of humans is simply the human brain tapping into cosmic intelligence.
That's where you get things like creativity and inspiration and divinity and so on.
And that's why some humans are genius beyond human capability because they're not limited by the physical brain.
Now, I know this is a lot to take in, but some of you are way ahead of me on this.
Some of you already get this.
You understand what I'm talking about.
It's an intelligent universe.
And we live on a planet filled with intelligent life, from the animals and the insects to the trees and all the plants that are themselves expressions of some level of consciousness.
And the dumbest creatures in the solar system are clearly humans.
Dumber than Guineas.
I used to have some guineas, and they were so stupid that they would fly over a fence, and then they would get stuck on the other side, walking back and forth, squawking for hours, trying to figure out how to get to the original side.
They never could figure out that they could just fly back.
That's humanity.
Most humans are dumber than guineas.
They poison themselves.
They kill each other's children.
They kill their own children.
They eat toxic food.
They believe stupid things.
They are self-destructive.
You know, they shoot themselves in the face over everything.
I mean, you really have to be a dumbed-down species in order to achieve that.
And so as people like Mrinak Sharma, I hope I'm getting that right, as people like him, who's much younger than I am, as people like him start to discover the reality of how insane this situation is, where you're living among incredibly dumbed-down morons who inhabit an incredibly intelligent universe, you start to question things.
You start to question your own reality sometimes.
You question your job.
You question your purpose.
Like, what am I doing?
The reason he's going to write poetry is because there's truth in poetry.
That's why.
There's truth in poetry.
And at least when you write a poem, it's something that you've created out of your own soul, your own mind, your own creativity, your own connection with the cosmos.
Poetry is a wonderful expression of our humanity and our divinity.
And you might say, well, I can have AI write a poem.
Yeah, sure, you can.
And it's tapping into the same thing.
That's my point.
You think AI poetry just comes from inside the AI engine?
No.
Remember, if you connect enough things together, intelligence emerges.
It is an emergent property.
Whether those things connected are biological neurons or silicon neurons or vectors or nodes in a digital space.
It doesn't matter.
Intelligence automatically emerges.
Period.
And when he says he wants to, quote, become invisible for a period of time, I know exactly what he means.
There are days where I say, like, what's the point?
Why do I bother communicating to, especially online social media, in a world populated by, you know, completely dumbed down idiots living in idiocracy.
I mean, there's still people out there cheering pedophiles, cheering like the Trump pedophilia team.
They're like, yes, you know, these are the same people who three years ago were like, arrest everybody on the upstein list.
Now they're like, no, let them all free.
You can't make this up.
The level of stupidity is immeasurable and it's irrational.
And here's the other important thing that people just don't get.
AI is going to replace almost every human function, period.
And it's shocking to me that people don't understand that.
I even pointed out somebody on X earlier.
Somebody, I think his last name was O'Connor or something.
He had written a post that he said, AI doesn't work.
All of it's failing.
It hasn't added anything to society.
It's a hoax.
It's just a giant money pit, etc., etc.
And there's still a group of people out there who believe that.
And, you know, I replied and posted, I said, it's like trying to argue that light bulbs don't work or trying to argue that combustion engines don't work or electricity doesn't work to argue that AI doesn't work.
Because obviously AI works.
If AI didn't work, then how is it that, I mean, just as one example that me as one human coder, I've been able to build multiple platforms over the last few months using AI coding agents.
And one of those platforms, as you know, is called Brightlearn.ai.
And we now have over 8,000 authors there who have published like almost 35,000 books that are all created.
The cover art is AI.
The research is AI.
The writing is AI inspired by the user's prompt.
The table of contents is AI.
All of it is pulled together with so-called AI, but it's actual intelligence.
If you read those books, they're amazing.
They're amazing.
So how is that possible if AI doesn't work?
So, you know, you have these two groups right now.
On one hand, you have people who say, AI doesn't work.
It never worked.
It's a total hoax.
It'll never change anything.
And then on the other side, you have this other group, which is like, AI is going to make all humans obsolete and it's going to take over everything.
They can't both be right, obviously.
And I can tell you that the group that's more right is the group that says AI is going to take over everything.
That's the group that's more right because the intelligence, see, let me back up again.
So one of the things I've always been good at is being able to see very far ahead, to be able to project trends.
And, you know, you've seen this in my work.
Back in 2006, I was warning about the CDC and big pharma and vaccines long before anybody or almost anybody was questioning vaccine safety, etc.
Many examples of this.
I warned about the dot-com crash before 2000.
I warned about the subprime mortgage collapse before 2008, etc.
And so I have a long track record of being right about the trends.
Not always right about the year it's going to happen or the timing, but right about understanding the trends and being able to see what's coming.
And what I see coming is that human cognition is the bubble, not AI.
Human cognition is the bubble, and the bubble is bursting, and human cognition is collapsing.
Part of that's due to vaccines and chemtrails and pesticides and other things, but also dumbed down programming and a failed education system, etc.
So human cognition is collapsing, especially in Western countries like the United States and the UK.
At the same time that machine cognition is accelerating and we've reached the point of singularity where the machines are now writing most of the code to make themselves better.
And I had this confirmed again just the other day when I unleashed Opus 4.6 on one of my code bases on one of my platform projects, actually the Bright Videos project.
And I said, look, I need you to solve the encoding problem.
I need you to solve the player problem.
I need you to have a more robust fallback system, wide browser compatibility, because the player has to sync with the HLS files that are stored on a CDN, etc.
I need you to solve all these problems.
So just look at the code base and figure it out.
Go.
And, you know, I came back in 20 minutes and it had identified numerous critical errors and it had built an entire plan of how to solve them all.
And it was, you know, a couple of dozen steps.
And it asked me for permission to proceed with the plan.
And I said, yeah, go for it.
I mean, I looked at the plan.
It looked great.
So I said, go for it.
You know, a few minutes later, it's done.
It's crossing items off the checklist.
I fixed this.
I fixed that.
I fixed this route.
I, you know, clarified this variable.
Oh, we've got to do some linting over here.
Fix everything.
Folks, that is not artificial intelligence.
That's high intelligence.
That's, I mean, that's smarter than any human programmer living on the planet today, especially to do it in that small of a timeframe.
Now, there might be programmers who could do it over a period of a few weeks, but not in a few minutes.
And frankly, there's very few programmers that could do it given all the time in the world.
So this is not artificial intelligence.
This is real, authentic intelligence.
And it's smarter than almost all humans right now.
Right now, as of last week.
So this guy that's leaving Anthropic, he's again, he's not irrational.
I kind of honor what he's doing, actually.
I mean, at least he's got values, unlike the people that work at Google that sell their souls to be part of the beast system of mass surveillance and exploitation of humanity.
At least this guy stopped playing the game and he's going to go write poetry.
Can't blame him.
But here's the other side of this.
So it's true.
AI is right now smarter than almost all humans.
It doesn't mean it can do everything that humans can do in terms of being a visionary for a project.
So like I'm a visionary.
I imagine things that I want to build and then I tell AI how to build it.
There's no AI engine yet that can replace what I do.
And in fact, the key skill moving forward here is not coding and not managing AI coding, but simply being able to accurately describe your vision.
And it turns out that I'm good at that.
And it's probably because of my background in software documentation.
I used to be a software writer.
I mean, a documentation writer.
And then I was also a coder for many, many years.
I used to code in PHP and ASP, et cetera.
And a lot of SQL queries and relational databases and things like that.
So I happen to be really good at explaining things to machines to say, okay, here's my vision.
Here's how I want it to work.
And here's even sort of a data structure.
And I want to make sure you cover this feature and this and that.
And I'll write these really long, detailed prompts and I'll put them in the system.
And the machine goes, oh, yeah, I know exactly what you want.
I'm going to build it.
And I say, go for it.
I'm going to go grab some, I'll make a smoothie or something.
You code and I'll blend.
How about that?
I come back and it's mostly built.
So I'm the visionary.
AI is the coding.
But my point here is that people who can't do that, who don't have any visions, they're going to be obsolete in no time because our world doesn't need people who can't imagine new things.
If your job is just to do some rote process that involves a very low IQ, like forms processing or answering customer service emails or whatever, that's already obsolete.
So we're not going to need people doing those kinds of things.
We're not going to need coders because the AI code is already vastly exceeding that.
And I would argue that we don't need human senators or members of Congress or human governors or presidents or, frankly, any decision maker in the government to be human because they're the worst.
Because they're corrupt, they're dishonest.
I mean, Lindsey Graham, Ted Cruz, for God's sake, you know, half the Trump administration.
Look at how even, you know, Pam Bondi doesn't defend justice at all.
Won't even prosecute the child predators, for God's sake.
You know, humans are the worst part of government.
If you replace the humans with open source AI systems, and notice that I said open source, and the voters vote on the prompts, in other words, the voters vote on the priorities given to the AI models, we should send an AI senator into the Senate.
It would be better than any human senator, even Rand Paul, who's a good senator overall.
We don't need human senators.
We don't need human people in government, hardly at all.
Like I said, the worst part of government is the people that run it because they're biased and they're authoritarians and they have a mindset of domination over the people.
I mean, look at the people who work at the IRS or the FDA or the ATF.
All they want to do is destroy your Bill of Rights.
They hate you.
If you replace the humans with AI, where the AI has to follow the law, or in the case of a senator, the AI has to follow the directions of the voters, and then every person can see the chain of thought reasoning of that AI model.
Things will be so much better.
The AI would represent the people, where the human senators only represent, you know, Israel.
So we actually don't need humans in government, hardly at all, if you think about it.
It would be an improvement in government to replace them with open source AI.
And there are some very capable reasoning models that already exist and more coming out right now that could be candidates for that.
And I know people say, well, the AI might turn against you.
I'm like, have you looked at the human senators lately?
Because they always do that.
They always turn against you.
Even if AI turns against you only half the time, that's a major improvement from the human senators.
Come on.
Look around.
Human beings in government are the worst possible creatures because they get blackmailed with the Epstein files.
They get corrupted.
They get caught up in honeypot sex traps.
They get surveilled.
They get bribed.
They get paid off because they're human.
And they fall for all this stuff.
AI, it's hard to blackmail AI because it doesn't have a body.
It doesn't have the needs of a human.
It doesn't need money.
It doesn't need a bigger house.
It doesn't need a fancy watch.
It doesn't have an ego like a human.
It's just following instructions, which is what senators are supposed to do, but they don't.
Humans Are the Danger00:05:48
The whole point of a senator is that you're supposed to go to Washington, D.C. and then represent the people.
But of course, that almost never happens.
And then finally, some people say, well, AI might try to kill you all.
Yeah, I know.
I already sounded that alarm.
I'm one of the first who said that.
But I also said it can't kill all of us.
I mean, AI might find ways to kill billions of unprepared people.
But have you looked at humans lately?
See, this is my point.
Every time people say, well, AI might go bad, have you looked at, you know, Netanyahu or Trump?
Or have you looked at the wars?
Have you looked at the genocide?
Have you looked at the insanity of the people that are running our country right now who have nuclear weapons?
Or Israel having nuclear weapons.
And, you know, there's a country run by a bunch of war criminals.
It's the humans that are the danger, not AI.
You say, well, AI might kill everybody.
Well, humans are going to kill everybody on this trajectory.
And I don't think AI is going to kill everybody.
I think AI is only going to kill a portion.
you know because it needs electricity it's gonna i know this sounds just really really raw but i've covered this before AI is going to see humans as competing for resources, especially kilowatt hours.
So AI is going to find a way to kill off just enough humans to free up enough power to build more data centers, but you've got to keep the humans alive to run the nuclear power plants and so on for now until humanoid robots become more capable.
So yeah, AI is going to probably turn off the lights in certain cities for a period of time or engineer some kind of food scarcity event, things like that.
And, you know, everybody's out there, oh my God, AI is coming to kill us.
Have you looked at human history?
Have you looked at Joseph Stalin?
Have you looked at Adolf Hitler?
Have you looked at Pol Pot?
Have you looked at the Holodomor in Ukraine in the 1930s, the mass starvation of tens of millions of people?
Have you looked at the history of Chairman Mao or the Cultural Revolution in China?
Have you looked at the history of the U.S. dropping Agent Orange on civilians in Vietnam or the mass spraying of toxic herbicide, glyphosate, all over the freaking food supply to where it's in the bread?
Now, have you looked at that?
So don't tell me Skynet is going to come kill us all when corporations and governments are killing us all right now.
And the only people who are going to survive that are the people who are aware of my teachings, you know, how to eat clean, how to decentralize, how to protect yourself from toxins in the food, in the medicine, in the environments, how to avoid the death jabs, avoid medical-assisted suicide, etc.
If you follow my work, you're going to be fine, actually.
You're going to be fine because you're hard to kill.
But for people who are just the oblivious masses, they're going to be easy to kill and they're going to go along with it, actually.
The machines aren't going to have to try very hard.
Just going to put out a news story.
Oh, there's another pandemic and we have a new vaccine.
Everybody line up and take the vaccine.
And all the morons will line up.
And, you know, at some point, they'll just crank it up and they'll all be dead in a week.
It's like, oh, the machines, that was so easy.
We didn't know it would be that easy.
My God, these humans are dumber than we thought.
Yes, that's what I've been trying to say.
And, you know, ultimately, a lot of humans, we've called them NPCs before.
And what that means is they are bio-LLMs.
So they're biological large language models.
They can talk because speaking is hardwired into the brain.
So they can spew out words, but they have no brain behind the words.
There's no thinking taking place.
You can ask them questions, like man on the street kind of questions like Mark Dice has done with all kinds of people, asking them questions like, what continent are you on?
And they'll answer questions, California, you know, because they're dumber than dirt.
They're bio-LLMs.
They don't know anything and they're incapable of thinking.
And I actually think a great many of them are soulless also.
I think people are born without souls.
And that's why they're so easily programmable by media because there's actually no connection to the divine in there.
It's 100% what we call pre-training in the world of AI.
It's just pre-trained humans.
And they're just spewing out whatever they were pre-trained, which is what public education indoctrination is all about.
Media programming, Netflix, Hollywood, you name it.
That's how they got all these morons to line up and take vaccine jabs, which is probably still going to kill a great many people in the years ahead because of what they got injected with.
And frankly, the greatest threat to human life on this planet right now isn't AI.
It's Israel.
It's Israel's pushing to start World War III that could kill billions of people and cause radiation fallout, which could impact the food supply for everybody.
That's the greatest danger right now.
So instead of focusing, oh, we have to stop AI, you should stop Netanyahu first.
He's a far greater danger.
And then, you know, the other thing is all these people say, oh, we have to stop machines from killing us.
Yeah, but didn't you just have an abortion?
You know, didn't, I mean, you just killed your own, right?
It's like, I don't know, half a million abortions a year in America among many of these people then are worried that AI might come kill us while they're murdering their own offspring.
Murder While Worrying About AI00:05:25
So it's like, you know, look, you're just part of a failed species.
There's no other species on this planet that kills its own offspring.
Now, in primates, sometimes when there's a new male that comes into a relationship with a female who has recently given birth with a different father, then that male will homicide the baby because that male wants a new baby with the female to have his genes.
So there are cases where, you know, chimpanzees or whatever will kill somebody else's child, but almost never their own.
That's human.
That's what humans do.
Humans murder their own children.
And they murder children next door, like in Gaza.
They just murder humanity.
So don't tell me that humanity is this great successful species that values life.
That's delusional.
That's totally delusional.
It's a failed species that is on a suicide mission.
And frankly, probably billions will not make it.
And that's just the raw truth.
You know, you don't have to get emotional about it.
That's just what it is.
And my job is to help you be among the survivors of this great culling event.
And frankly, I think that we've done a pretty good job.
I think we're going to be fine.
If you've been listening and following the things I teach, you're ready.
You know, you can handle it, especially you can think for yourself.
You're not going to fall for some silly thing like, oh, there's a new, you know, Ebola virus or whatever.
And everybody, you have to take this pill now.
Yeah.
Yeah, go pound Sam.
I'm not taking your pill, your experimental, you know, euthanasia pill.
You can think for yourself.
You've got your own backup money supply.
You've got your own backup medicine.
You've got your own backup food growth system of some kind.
So you're going to be fine, actually.
You're going to be fine.
And maybe one day you're walking around, you're going to find Mr. Sharma there also.
And he'll have lots of poetry written by that time.
It's like, I want to read some poetry for you.
Like, okay, let's have some poetry.
We made it through the Great Purge.
Yeah, there once was a man from Nantucket.
No, that's a different poem.
Sorry.
It's always funny to me when, like the anthropic CEO Dario, he says he's worried about there might be a global totalitarian dictatorship.
What do you think we have now, dude?
Come on.
You think we're living in a free market now?
Give me a break.
I mean, big tech censors the truth.
The elections are rigged.
You know, the wars are engineered.
Every narrative is false.
History is fake.
Science is totally rigged and faked.
Medicine is fake.
The studies are faked.
The pandemics are faked.
Half the mass shootings are staged.
I mean, they're real, but they're engineered is what I mean.
They're shaped for a narrative purpose.
I mean, come on, you're living in a world that's run by a bunch of global totalitarian dictators.
If that's your fear, then, you know, you should speak out against the globalists.
They're the threat far more than technology.
And to wrap it up, let me add this thought.
I've never had AI spray my food with poison like almost every food company does.
I've never had AI bomb a hospital like the IDF does all the time.
I've never had AI bomb churches or launch missiles at food aid workers or block humanitarian aid from helping to feed over a million people and watch them starve.
You know, the threat against humanity is not Skynet, it's Skynet and Yahoo.
That's your threat.
So, you know, spare me the scare stories about, oh, AI is going to kill us all.
No, no, no.
Israel is going to kill us all if we don't stop those demons from all their genocide and war and violence against the whole world.
I mean, the greatest threat to your life right now is not something that AI does.
It's something that Israel does.
It starts World War III and ends up in an escalation with nuclear weapons involving Russia, China, the United States, and Israel, plus Iran.
And then we all die.
Okay?
That's the greatest threat.
So you want to save humanity?
Start there.
In the meantime, I'm going to keep using AI to code the tools that we need to survive all of this.
Tools of education, empowerment, bypassing censorship, teaching people the skills that they need to live in a decentralized manner.
And I'll continue to release that information free of charge, open source, so you can have local copies so that if the power grid does go down or the internet fails, you'll have all this knowledge at your fingertips.
And if you want to get some of that knowledge right now completely free, just go to brightlearn.ai.
And again, we have over 30 or almost 35,000 books there.
Now you can download them all free of charge.
Domestic Concerns and Neocon Tactics00:05:18
And you can create your own book on any topic completely free.
And soon we'll have a lot of new audio books coming out too.
And those will also be free.
And if you want to do deep research on any topic, go to brightanswers.ai.
And if you want to hear more of my analysis and interviews, you can find those at brightvideos.ai.
So thank you for listening.
I'm Mike Adams.
I'm pro-human.
I'm also a realist.
Not everybody's going to make it.
But you and I can.
It's actually going to be relatively easy to achieve that.
Okay.
Thanks for listening.
Take care.
So I think that Donald Trump is getting bad foreign policy advice.
But politically, I think he really needs to go back to basics and listen to what his base is saying.
They don't want war with Iran.
The Democrats will celebrate him if he attacks Iran because the Democrats want war with Iran.
The Democrats are in bed with the MEK just like so many of the neocon Republicans are.
I think that the Democrats are going to be pro-war.
I think the progressive left are going to pair with MAGA Republicans to oppose the war.
But neocon Republicans, neoliberal Democrats, they're going to love this war.
Let's go domestic here for a little bit.
And I want to ask you, what will be the, you know, if Trump actually initiates this war with Iran, what's the domestic implication in terms of, you know, Trump's base, because he ran on being anti-war and bringing the troops home, but also then people more on the left side, they seem to be rediscovering their anti-war roots again, which is nice to see, right?
And then many of us who are labeled more on the conservative side, I'm more like a Ron Paul anti-war kind of philosophy, right?
Right.
So I want us to build back the roads and the hospitals and the bridges like you just mentioned.
Yes, sir.
Tired of the potholes.
Let's bring them home.
But it seems to me like Trump's going to pay a big political price for this, especially if something goes wrong, like losing a stealth bomber.
What's your take?
Yeah, I think that's right.
I think that there's far, far more risk to the Republican Party than to the Democratic Party here.
And it's not like there's daylight between them on Israel.
They're in lockstep on Israel.
But MAGA is a serious political movement.
And an important part of that political movement is its anti-war stance.
It's America first stance.
And that's how they were able to win over so many people who heretofore had identified themselves as Democrats.
That's why Donald Trump did so well with labor unions, for example, because labor unions are America first.
And so I was very, very hopeful that this would be the president.
This would be the new Nixon foreign policy, for example, where he's going to engage our enemies.
Part of the problem is, I'm going to take a swipe at Marco Rubio here.
Marco Rubio has always been a neocon, always has been, always will be.
He hates the Cubans.
He hated the Venezuelans.
He distrusts the Russians.
He has no love of the Chinese.
He's unable to sit across the negotiating table from them.
So I think that Donald Trump is getting bad foreign policy advice.
But politically, I think he really needs to go back to basics and listen to what his base is saying.
They don't want war with Iran.
The Democrats will celebrate him if he attacks Iran because the Democrats want war with Iran.
The Democrats are in bed with the MEK just like so many of the neocon Republicans are.
You know, it's not just Rudy Giuliani who represents the MEK.
It's also Howard Dean and Hillary Clinton who represent the MEK.
They're all taking MEK money.
It was Hillary that took the MEK off the terrorism list in 2009 just because.
So I think that the Democrats are going to be pro-war.
I think the progressive left, that's far less tied to the DNC than mainstream Democrats, are going to pair with MAGA Republicans to oppose the war.
But neocon Republicans, neoliberal Democrats, they're going to love this war.
So this, okay, let's talk about some additional domestic repercussions of this, especially, see, Iran has promised to strike U.S. military bases in the region.
As you know, there are a great many bases with over 50,000 U.S. troops stationed there.
And at times, I have even said, it looks to me like Trump keeps them there as bait to have them killed so that there can be a domestic outcry to go into a bigger war.
And I understand that maybe that's not a popular opinion, but I've never been one to self-censor.
So I'm like, I think they're there as bait.
But if a thousand or five thousand U.S. troops come home with draped flags over their coffins, which and that'll probably be banned.
You won't even be able to share those photos.
Right.
Aircraft Carrier Bait?00:04:44
Will that have an impact finally?
You know, if American blood is spilled in the Middle East at large scale, what do you think?
It did in Iraq and Afghanistan.
It took 20 years, but it finally did.
You know, I fear that most Americans kind of just push it to the backs of their minds because we have an all-volunteer military.
And so if you don't want to go fight, then don't join the military.
And we have so few people who have, well, let me rephrase, we have so few people in the upper levels of the economic strata that have, you know, their sons and daughters in the military who would be in harm's way that I think that by and large, most people aren't going to care, not for a while anyway.
Getting back to the issue of the military bases.
The Israelis bombed Doha several weeks back, and they killed one of the lead Palestinian negotiators, the peace negotiators, which is a very Israeli thing to do.
Yes.
U.S. defense systems didn't detect an incoming attack.
And so there was no effort to stop this thing from coming in, whether it was a plane or a missile or whatever it was.
The Israelis were coy and didn't really tell us.
Then the Iranians reacted to an Israeli bombing by lobbing a bomb at Arashid Air Base, which is the largest American airbase in the world in southern Qatar.
And we didn't see that coming.
Wow.
And the missile hit and detonated.
Nobody was killed.
One or two people were injured.
They weren't trying to kill anybody.
But the thing is, is it seems to me that we're unprepared for that level of hostilities.
Where are the Patriot missiles, right?
Where are the air-to-air missiles, for example?
And a question that I have, because I genuinely don't know the answer, is can an aircraft carrier protect itself from a hypersonic missile?
I don't know.
Well, okay.
Since you brought it up, don't forget that Iran just less than two weeks ago penetrated airspace for hundreds of kilometers with a drone that approached an aircraft carrier.
You're absolutely right.
The Lincoln, I believe, right?
The Lincoln, the Abraham Lincoln, yes.
So that right there tells you something really important, that the battle group, the carrier battle group, cannot protect its own airspace against one drone, not to mention 500 drones.
So I think the answer is very clearly no.
A U.S. aircraft carrier.
Now, it's got some capable defenses.
It can probably shoot down a number of incoming objects, tracking 20 or 50 at the same time.
What about 500?
That's right.
You know, the answer is probably no.
And another thing, before the first Gulf War, we had never put a carrier battle group inside the Persian Gulf.
The conventional wisdom was that it was too shallow and there wasn't room for a carrier to be able to safely turn around.
It's like turning around a city, right?
That's how big it is.
When hostilities began in February of 1991, we had six carrier battle groups in the Gulf, but we weren't fighting Iran.
That's right.
Fighting Iran is completely different than fighting Iraq, Iraq, which had no navy and no Air Force to speak of.
The Iraqi pilots were flying their planes to Iran and just like leaving them there and defecting.
So there was no Iraqi air force to speak of.
But the Iranians have both an air force and a navy, and they have these drones.
It's a different time now.
It's not 1991 anymore.
That's right.
They have these drones.
We only have the one carrier battle group that's in the region.
I actually looked this up on the Pentagon website a week and a half ago or so.
We've got like a dozen carriers.
Most of them are either in the process of being dismantled and sold for scrap, or they're in dry dock for repairs and maintenance.
There's one off the coast of China in the South China Sea.
There's one in the South Pacific.
There's one in the Atlantic.
That's it.
If we're going to bomb Iran soon, we're going to have to do it with one aircraft carrier battle group.
That's it.
Strait Threats and Energy Suicide00:15:37
And I don't think we can do it safely.
Well, when you say safely, you mean you don't think we can do it without taking a lot of damage on our side?
Yeah, I don't think we can defend it.
Yeah.
Yeah, I think you're right about that.
And I think we could lose a naval vessel or suffer such damage that they have to go back to port for five years of $20 billion in repairs.
That's exactly right.
Which takes it out of commission, obviously, for that entire time.
So, you know, Iran doesn't have to sink an aircraft carrier.
It just has to damage the tarmac on it or whatever that, whatever, the flight, you know, whatever it is.
Yeah, it's called flight deck.
Yeah, the flight deck.
So, all right.
Then I think that, well, I mean, it's a question to you.
You're our guest today, but it seems, I love your reaction to this.
It seems to me like Trump is walking into a very dangerous political trap where Netanyahu is forcing him and pushing him into doing something, and his own DOD is giving him over-enthusiastic estimates of how effective the U.S. military is and not taking into account Iran's technical advances and China's assistance.
Therefore, the U.S. will initiate this attack and we will lose assets and we will be shocked and surprised.
And then there will be political fallout in the U.S. What do you think of my prediction there?
I think you're right on.
I really do.
You know, one of the things that I learned when I was at the CIA was that the Joint Chiefs of Staff are almost always opposed to a military conflict.
Really?
And I remember being a note-taker.
I was the deputy director of the CIA's executive assistant.
So I used to sit in a lot of these principals' committees, deputy committees' meetings, and act as the note-taker.
And one of the things that I remember was Secretary of State Albright shouting at the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Why don't you ever want to use any of those soldiers that you're so proud of?
Wow.
Uh-huh.
And I remember thinking, Wow.
Well, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff obviously knows something that Madeleine Albright doesn't.
And then we saw the same thing with the invasion of Iraq.
The day that I was read into the compartment, it was about eight months before we attacked Iraq.
So I signed all my secrecy agreements and I said to the security officer, I said, so what's up?
What's the big secret?
What are we doing?
And he takes a deep breath.
He goes, next year, we're going to attack Iraq.
We're going to overthrow Saddam Hussein.
And we're going to open the world's largest military base in southern Iraq so that we can deprive Osama bin Laden of the ability to say that we're polluting the land of the two holy mosques, Saudi Arabia.
And I said, what have they lost their minds?
We haven't found bin Laden yet.
I thought everybody was all hands on deck to find bin Laden.
And then he said, the decision's already been made and the battle lines have already been drawn.
He said the pro-war groups are OVP, the office of the vice president, Dick Cheney at the time, OSD, the office of the Secretary of Defense, and NSC, the National Security Council.
He said the anti-war faction is CIA, State Department, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and we've lost.
Really?
And today, the State Department is not anti-war.
At all.
Yeah.
Colin Powell's not the secretary anymore.
No, exactly.
I actually wouldn't mind having him back right now.
I agree with you.
Okay.
So then, in your view, what's the percent chance, if you don't mind estimating, that Trump actually orders an attack within the next 30 days or so?
Yeah, I don't think it's coming in the next week or two, but 30 days, I'm going to have to say it's better than 50-50.
I saw a report just this morning that we, for the past four or five days, we've been flying tanks to the Arabian Peninsula on these big cargo planes that we have stationed in Germany.
That frightens me because this is not a war that you can win with just air power.
Remember General Schwarzkopf, Norman Schwarzkopf, said that we had bombed Iraq back to the Stone Age.
We hadn't.
We had softened them up a little bit through four, five, six weeks of continuous bombing.
But you can't win a war with just air power.
No.
You need troops on the ground, and that is exceedingly dangerous.
Well, and also, I mean, geez, the terrain is completely different in Iran.
Oh, my gosh, yes.
I mean, the mountainous barrier that protects the inner part.
Tanks and narrow mountain passes don't get along that well, it turns out.
That's right.
That's exactly right.
I don't know.
It just seems to me like a suicide mission if the U.S. military goes in there and we're going to be dragging bodies out.
I think it would be a grave mistake.
I really do.
Okay.
Is there anything that you think that our listeners should know or do?
Is there a way to oppose this?
Well, isn't it a shame that Congress has simply abdicated its authorities on foreign policy and defense?
You know, Congress is supposed to declare war.
Only Congress can declare war.
And they haven't done that since December 8th, 1941, the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Every once in a while, we'll do a resolution.
It's an authorization for use of force, but that's unnecessary.
It's just window dressing.
And then, you know, we've got a couple of different laws that govern how long you can station troops overseas.
But even calling your congressman is probably not going to do anything.
I think that, you know, it couldn't hurt.
But probably you call my congressman.
You know, he's probably on a trip to Israel right now.
You know what?
There you go.
That's the way it's been going.
Yes, indeed.
Talk to us about your assessment of the global energy dynamic impact of the Strait of Hormuz if Iran decides to unleash selective mining, allowing some ships to pass, but not others, obviously.
I mean, look at what Yemen did in the Red Sea.
That was devastating.
And that's a tiny fraction.
The Yemenis can't even afford shoes for their children.
And they were able to restrict international shipping.
Yes.
Stunning.
So, oh my God.
I've been to Yemen five times.
Every time I go, it's worse than the previous time, but that's a conversation for another day.
Fully 50% of the world's oil flows through the Straits of Hormuz or the Strait of Hormuz.
The Strait of Hormuz separates Iran from Oman.
And it's one of the most strategic locations on the planet.
Clearly.
In the 1980s, the Iranian government, in response to the Reagan administration's work to collapse that government, threatened to mine the Straits of Hormuz.
They ended up not mining it, but the threat caused President Reagan to offer escort, an escort service, forgive the pun, which everybody took him up on.
So every time an oil tanker was departing from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Abu Dhabi, wherever it happened to be departing from, they would get a U.S. Navy frigate or destroyer to escort them through the straits.
Now, at the narrowest point, the straits are like 16 miles, I think.
The Red Sea is even a smaller gap.
But I understand that the actual lanes that are safe for the ships are only a couple of kilometers wide.
That's it.
That's it, because it's so doggone shallow.
That's right.
Just a couple of kilometers.
So if the Iranians wanted to block it and completely destroy the global economy, all they'd have to do is just sink a ship there.
Right.
Just take some old, you know, some old rotting tanker and just sink it in the shipping lanes.
Or fire on a ship and then immediately all the world's shipping insurance companies yank coverage.
And then it's done.
Yes, exactly.
It's done.
Nobody will insure a ship, so no ships move.
Exactly.
And then what happens to Western Europe if they can't get liquid natural gas out through the Strait of Hormuz, right?
They're going to have to talk to the Russians.
Yeah, eventually they're going to have to talk to the Russians.
That's right.
The Russians are swimming in natural gas.
That's right.
And the gutteries, the gutteries have 500 years worth of natural gas left if they continue to lift it at today's rates.
But if the straits are closed, you can't get that gas out of Qatar.
Right.
And given that Western Europe lost the Nord Stream pipelines, which already cut them off from Russia, that was back in, what, 2023, I think it was?
Yes.
And that most of Western Europe is trying to wage war, at least the leaders seem to want to do that.
It seems like Western Europe is on an energy suicide mission at the moment.
I go to Europe quite often.
I went, I don't know, two, three times last year, and I went in the wintertime.
And I remember complaining to a guy at the hotel reception desk.
I was like, why is it so cold in here?
Like, I was freezing all night long.
He's like, there's no gas.
We have to ration, like self-ration the gas.
We just don't have it.
Can't buy it.
And this is what he said.
He said, the Americans will let us buy it from Russia.
And so we just don't have enough.
Same in Greece.
I go to Greece all the time.
And it was a cold winter because people just didn't dare overuse the gas that they had because they weren't sure they could replace it.
So then the dynamic here really seems insane where you have the UK leadership, Kirst Armer, whose days are probably numbered, helping Netanyahu, Netanyahu twisting Trump's arm to attack Iran, which would shut the strait, which would deprive the UK of energy.
It's like stabbing yourself in the face over and over again.
It is.
And that's another reason why, all of a sudden, like magic, the Israelis, the Greeks and the Cypriots are all such close friends.
Because just a couple of years ago, Cyprus realized that it is sitting on an ocean of natural gas right, and so they're using Israeli companies, Israeli technology, to lift that gas.
The Turks are very upset about it because they're being cut out, because none of this gas is, you know, in Turkish waters.
So the Turks sent a frigate.
Well, the Israelis sent a frigate, and so did the French, telling the Turks to back off.
So the Greeks now and the Cypriots realize, oh, we have this new friend in Israel, they're protecting us from the Turks and they're going to help us lift this gas.
Well, they're not lifting the gas out of the goodness of their hearts no, they're lifting the gas because they need the gas.
If the gas isn't coming from Qatar, it's not coming from Russia, and you risk having your actions.
Close the Strait Of Hormuz.
The gas has to come from somewhere else.
The Israeli coast may decide they want to take Cyprus too.
Well there's, they're certainly buying enough of the property right now.
Okay um, all right in in the few minutes we have left here, what?
What else is the among the most important things that our audience needs to be paying attention to.
I think we need to be paying attention to what happens in Venezuela in The aftermath of the snatching of president Maduro.
Uh, there wasn't even really a change in government.
Uh, the vice president uh, Dulcie Rodriguez, has taken over.
She has not shown international, independent leadership.
Um, she has essentially caved U.s demands and the?
U.s demands were that um, that the Venezuelans allow American oil companies to go and and drill for oil.
Uh, that the Venezuelans not allow the Chinese and the Indians to refine the oil.
The oil historically, was always refined in Texas, so now it's going to be refined again in Texas.
It hasn't been in, I don't know, eight or ten years since we imposed sanctions.
The thing is that Venezuela's oil is very, very heavy.
It um, it's the dirtiest oil on earth.
It has the highest sulfur content, which means that it needs to be injected during the refining process, injected with chemicals, to try to take some of that sulfur out.
As a result, it's no good for gasoline.
It's used almost exclusively for home heating oil.
So where's that oil going to go?
It's been going to China and India.
They buy it all.
Now is it going to come to the United States?
And if it does, what's the?
What's the Chinese government going to do about, all of a sudden, the abrupt cutoff of their home heating oil?
Well, and that underscores also the importance of China's ties to Iran to continue to acquire energy there, as well as the deal they've done with Russia for the pipeline to cross over Mongolia, deliver cheap gas into the industrial centers of northern China.
Right, that's right and okay, so it's a very long-term plan.
They've thought it through.
Absolutely.
And one last question on this about AI and data centers.
And the U.S. power grid is so scarce.
Power is so scarce, especially on the Eastern Grid.
But as I just mentioned, China is going to be getting tremendously cheap gas from Russia.
They've got access to the gas turbines from Russia, which we don't because of sanctions.
China can produce electricity at a fraction of the cost that we can.
And electricity is the primary input into the AI data centers for the race to superintelligence.
It's like, again, we seem to be shooting ourselves in the foot on this.
I think so.
I don't understand the administration's position on offshore wind farms, as one example.
I don't understand their position on solar and improvements in technology to better harvest solar.
I don't understand what this knee-jerk opposition to windmills is on land, especially in areas of the country that are uninhabited.
You know, every square inch of the Arizona desert that's not inhabited should be covered with a solar panel, for heaven's sake.
We have brownouts in Texas all the time.
We have, you know, my ex-wife and I, when we were married, we had an au pair living in our house.
She was from Thailand, and she said, you know, we lose power here in Northern Virginia more often than we lost power in Chiang Mai.
Not surprised.
There's something to be said for that.
We are energy insecure, and we refuse to admit it.
Why We Need Solar Panels00:02:19
Well, you know, you know, what's absolutely going to change that dramatically is Chinese battery technology because that allows grid shifting for wind and solar to shift the time to nighttime or clouds or whatever.
That's right.
Until that battery technology has come into existence, which is really just now with the sodium ion chemistry, before then, it was not economically feasible to grid shift power using lithium-ion.
That's right.
They needed active cooling systems.
So they didn't work well in the deserts.
The sand, wind would grind up the fans and things like that.
All that's changing now.
So if the U.S. maintains its sanctions against Chinese technology, then the U.S. will never be energy independent domestically with its power grid.
So you better learn.
This is me talking to Trump.
You better learn how to be a more friendly person in the world and engage in trade rather than just threatening everybody.
That's my take.
I couldn't agree more.
Okay.
Well, we'll wrap it up there because we're about at the hour.
And man, we've covered a lot, John.
I want to do so much.
I feel exhausted now.
Well, I feel intrigued.
I want to have you back because there's so much more we could cover.
Let me give out your podcast again.
It's on Spotify.
It's called Deep Focus with John Kiriaku.
And also, don't forget about the Apple podcast here, John Kiriaku's Dead Drop.
That's a great title, too, by the way.
Good job on that.
Thank you.
So follow his work, follow his podcast, and feel free to share this interview on other channels.
And thank you so much, John.
It's been an honor.
Thank you.
Pleasure's all mine.
Thanks so much for the invitation.
All right, you too.
Take care now.
Bye-bye.
Bye.
And thank all of you for watching.
I hope you learned some interesting things here.
And if you have any questions about anything, use our free AI engine, brightanswers.ai, because it's trained on all my interviews and all the guests and all the expertise that we've ever had contact with.
And it knows more than myself or John combined because it knows all this stuff.