Mike Adams and Bob Moriarty dissect a predicted U.S. invasion of Iran, labeling it a "suicide mission" designed to trigger global energy scarcity via the destruction of the Haifa refinery and Strait of Hormuz. They allege Trump's deceptive theater aims to seize oil routes, causing mass starvation and forcing a biometric CBDC system for food distribution. The duo warns of catastrophic fertilizer shortages, potential American civil war, and insider trading profits, advising listeners to adopt solar storage, buy gold as an Armageddon insurance policy, and view the world through "energy x-ray vision" to survive a planned depopulation targeting billions. [Automatically generated summary]
All right, welcome to Bright Videos News for Tuesday, March 24th, 2026.
I'm Mike Adams.
Thank you for joining me.
And there's a lot happening right now.
There's energy infrastructure destruction that has accelerated.
Some fake moves from Trump.
Probably an invasion of Iran is being lined up for this weekend.
There's missiles raining down on Israel.
Yeah, there's a lot going on.
And I've got a couple of special reports for you on this that really covers everything.
And the most important one here today is about the engineered energy scarcity that is being put in place.
So it's my belief that a large part of what you're witnessing right now with this war in the Middle East is engineered energy scarcity.
That is the destruction of the fossil fuel infrastructure that powers modern civilization all over the world.
And with energy scarcity, then the globalist controllers can more easily, number one, depopulate humanity and kill off billions of people through famine because food comes from energy.
And if you restrict energy, then you restrict food.
And plus you don't have the fertilizers either.
But on top of that, they can make energy very, very expensive, so they can limit your travel.
They can limit your ability to buy food, an ability to feed children, so they can limit population growth and families and reproduction and so many other things.
So I talk about all of that in my special report today, and I give you what I think is the best strategy for escaping the energy scarcity trap.
Because there is a very effective strategy for doing this.
And the bottom line is you have to become more energy self-reliant.
And I will explain the number one best way to do that in the report coming up here.
Plus, I've got part two of the interview with Bob Moriarty airing today.
And then more amazing interviews coming up this week.
So with that said, we're just going to jump into the reports and the interview and enjoy the rest of the show.
I'm going to give you the latest breaking news about the destruction of the Haifa oil refinery in Israel.
Well, at least the reported destruction of it.
But we need to step back for a moment and think about the big picture.
What we are actually living through right now is what I call engineered energy scarcity.
Okay, so energy scarcity is a critical control mechanism for the globalist controllers.
Because you see, energy abundance allows people to do lots of things.
They can travel.
They can manufacture.
They can invent.
They can be mobile.
They can have families.
They can grow food more affordably.
They can feed more kids and have more babies.
And all of these things the globalists hate.
So energy scarcity, which has been the policy in America since at least the end of World War II, but energy scarcity keeps people under control.
It prevents population from rising too quickly.
It prevents people from becoming too mobile.
It makes sure that some large portion of discretionary income is spent on energy, whether it's fuel or electricity, etc.
Energy scarcity is part of the global control grid right now.
It's part of the suppression mechanism.
Another aspect that's separate from that, though, is currency printing to deplete the value of the currency that people are working to earn.
And that way they can never get ahead.
They can never actually challenge the globalist elite who control the real assets and control the banking system.
Because you can't get ahead in this system when the currency is rigged against you and the energy is withheld from you.
Now, this is all by design, obviously.
And I believe that we live in a universe where there's energy all around us.
And there have been numerous patents issued for so-called free energy devices.
None of them are really free energy.
They're typically over-unity energy devices.
And they harvest energy from somewhere.
But there's energy everywhere.
There's energy all around us.
There's energy in matter, obviously, E equals MC squared.
So just a tiny amount of matter produces a lot of energy.
If you know how to harness it, for example, did you know that the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima?
As large as that explosion was, what, 16 kilotons of energy released in a microsecond?
Did you know how much mass was converted into energy during the dropping of the atomic bomb?
Any guesses out there?
Anyone?
Bueller?
No, the total amount of mass was, I believe, only 0.7 grams.
So it was less than one gram of mass.
Produced that much energy.
So there's energy all around us.
There's more energy in your thumbnail than what was released in the explosion over Hiroshima.
Yeah, that's true.
So there's energy everywhere, but energy has to be suppressed and controlled by the globalists in order to keep humanity enslaved.
Because remember that food production depends on energy.
Cheap food comes from cheap energy, but if energy gets expensive and scarce, then food gets expensive and scarce.
And that's how they can reduce population growth, which has been one of the goals of the globalists for a very long time.
But over the years, as so-called over-unity energy devices have been invented, they have been classified.
So you go to the patent office, you file, you get a patent, it's approved.
Hey, this works.
And the next thing you know, the Pentagon takes your patent, classifies it, and then I guess you get a letter that says you're not allowed to talk about this because it's now a national security secret.
So they've done that for decades in order to take energy technology off the market.
And they've done the same thing with cold fusion energy, also invented, well, demonstrated in 1989, right?
Fleischmann and Pons.
Also, now, by the way, cold fusion is not called cold fusion.
It's called low energy nuclear reactions or L-E-N-R.
And I have just received word from an organization involved in cold fusion commercialization that they've just signed a major deal with a manufacturer outside the United States.
That's all I'm going to say.
To integrate this technology into products that they produce.
So yeah, cold fusion is real.
It has always been real, but it was suppressed and controlled in order to create artificial energy scarcity.
So what does this have to do with what we're witnessing right now?
Well, everything.
Because this war in the Middle East is really about in the big picture.
I mean, there are smaller agendas like, you know, Israel wants to take more land and, you know, the Gulf nations are kind of in the way, etc.
There are smaller agendas, but the big agenda is the controlled demolition of global energy infrastructure.
And how do you know that?
Well, because, for example, in, I think it was 2022, the United States also blew up the Nord Stream pipelines, depriving Western Europe of access to affordable Russian gas energy.
That was all part of the engineered destruction of cheap energy for Europe in order to collapse Europe or to collapse the industrial base of Europe, which has happened.
That's exactly what has happened.
Germany and France, etc.
The industrial base is in a state of accelerating collapse.
In Canada, what they do is they try to crack down on fossil fuels, right?
Even though the Albertans resist that and keep pumping oil.
In Australia, they try to shut down fossil fuels.
But given that it's such a large continent, people still need gas to drive from city to city because they're so far apart.
In the United States, under Democrats, they tried to make combustion engine vehicles completely impractical under EPA rules of emissions that would have outlawed all combustion engine vehicles by the year 2035.
Yeah.
So they just said, well, the emissions are just not allowed at all.
So if you can meet that, then you can still have a combustion engine, but of course you can't.
So that was in place, especially in California.
That's been walked back now under Trump and Trump's EPA with Lee Zeldin, etc.
And also, you know, court challenges to the EPA's authority, a lot of other tangential reports that I'm not going to go into there.
But the bottom line is that destroying energy infrastructure is a globalist goal.
And what this war in the Middle East accomplishes more than anything is the potential total destruction of the energy hub of modern civilization on planet Earth.
And specifically, Qatar Energy, which we've talked about over the last few days.
Qatar Energy with its 14 natural gas trains, two of which are already offline, leaving 12.
Now, they're not all the same size, by the way.
The two that were destroyed were two of the smaller units.
So it's not all equivalent.
But they've said that 17% of their gas production is offline for three to five years now.
And as we've covered before, if all 14 trains are destroyed, which could easily happen, all Iran has to do is flip a switch and launch a few missiles and then all 14 trains are gone.
Then Qatar energy would be offline for 10 to 15 years.
And the world as we know it would collapse into, in many places, a mad max scenario with virtually no fertilizer, very little food, very little energy, almost no industry, very little manufacturing, etc.
You wouldn't have helium, you wouldn't have sulfuric acid or sulfur, you wouldn't have a lot of polymers for textiles.
You know, it goes on and on.
And that is being engineered to happen.
I believe that Trump, even though he's falsely talking about peace, he actually intends to invade Iran and to probably send in the 82nd airborne paratroopers plus landing U.S. Marines on southern Iran, the coastline, probably east of the Strait of Hormuz, and to try to invade Iran to try to control the Strait of Hormuz.
When they try that, Iran is very likely to unleash absolute hell against the Gulf nations, and Iran is likely to destroy the water desalination facilities, as well as the remaining energy infrastructure in Qatar, in Kuwait, in the UAE, in Bahrain, and maybe Oman, who knows?
Other areas.
Oh, Saudi Arabia goes without saying.
So this is all engineered energy scarcity.
And what happens when there's engineered energy scarcity?
Think about it.
The Globalist Control Mechanism00:06:37
See, right now, China is releasing open source AI models that have very good machine cognition.
Those models are highly capable.
And it's actually spreading freedom around the world to be able to have your own AI locally running on your desktop on your own hardware and being able to create text or images or audio or video or different modalities.
For example, we now have, I think, hundreds of audio books that you can download at books.brightlearn.ai because I'm running a mini data center of text-to-audio book narration right now.
I have been for a couple of weeks, generating audiobooks for you that you can download for free.
The powers that be don't want the people to have access to that kind of compute capability because it gives them too much leverage.
But every GPU that operates requires electricity, a lot of electricity.
Just one of the workstations in my data center, for example, will typically use about 800 watts as its running audio.
800 watts.
That's the computer plus the GPU inside.
That's significant.
That's like, well, a hair dryer, let's say, running with heat, you know, 24-7.
And getting that much energy, currently, most people rely on the centralized power grid.
Very few people have a solar operation, let's say, or a completely decentralized operation where they're also running data centers or GPUs because they're so energy hungry.
So what this means is that for the globalists to suppress AI inference at the local level, all they have to do is make energy incredibly scarce and expensive.
And also by cutting off helium supplies and natural gas from the Middle East, they can cause Taiwan semiconductor, which makes most of the GPUs for NVIDIA and even for AMD, etc.
But Taiwan semiconductor will go offline soon if they don't get more helium and natural gas.
And that means your microchip supply just grinds to a halt.
No more GPUs, no more local AI inference.
And then, you know, the powers that be can have a monopoly on news and information and videos and audio and books and everything else.
They need an information monopoly.
So destroying abundant affordable energy has multiple benefits for the globalists.
It takes down affordable AI inference.
It takes down microchip manufacturing.
And it also makes food incredibly expensive and scarce, which allows the governments to easily control people and to corral them into a food stamp permission system, which is basically a CBDC.
It's a biometric wallet system where you get digital food stamps, you know, government handouts, basically.
You go to the grocery store, but you have to log in, you know, with your thumbprint or your eye scan or something like that, or your identity.
And then they can control how much you're allowed to purchase.
And they can monitor and track everything that you buy.
And they can also shut off your government-provided digital wallet if you do something that they don't like, such as criticizing the current government administration, let's say.
They could also automatically extract money for your taxes, things like that.
You take it from you.
So energy scarcity benefits the central controllers of power who are the authoritarians and the tyrants that currently rule over humanity.
And what they've realized is that over the last few decades with the rise of the internet and now the rise of decentralized open source AI and the rise of cheaper energy, that people have become too free, too free from the point of view of the globalist controllers.
People are too free to travel.
That's why they tested the COVID lockdowns.
And now they're going to have the energy lockdowns.
That's what's coming next.
Oh, you can only drive on certain days based on your license plate.
Yeah, that's already been officially proposed.
Yep, that's coming.
But people have been too free to travel, too free to eat, too free to live off the grid, too free to have children and populate, you know, and too free to earn money and invent things and create abundance, etc.
And oh, the globalist controllers don't like that.
They want impoverished masses that are easy to control.
They want the masses to always have cancer or type 2 diabetes or heart disease, get you on a bunch of prescription drugs so they can monitor you every time you go to the doctor.
It's all being fed into a biometric monitoring medical system.
They want to be able to control you through pharmaceuticals or through digital surveillance or through a CBDC financial system tied to your ability to purchase food.
So they need energy scarcity in order to accomplish all of that.
So what you're really watching in the Middle East is actually part of a plan, which is to get Iran to destroy the energy hub for planet Earth so that the globalist tyrants can have more control over the remaining population of humanity because they're trying to survive under extreme energy scarcity, which limits their options.
You see, it's actually, it's a very simple plan.
It just involves, you know, a lot of bombs, a lot of killing, a lot of suffering, a lot of depopulation, a lot of starvation, etc.
But hey, that never held back the globalists.
They're all into that anyway.
You know, because they're demons.
To them, this is just a giant demonic, you know, human sacrifice ritual on a planetary scale.
So they love all this.
You know, they're probably licking their lips right now.
Now, what it means for you, though, well, you're going to have to decentralize your energy as much as possible.
Solar Generators and Robots00:11:55
And unfortunately, there are very few ways to do that.
The one way that the globalists haven't yet controlled and they haven't created scarcity yet is sunlight.
Now, they'll try, you know, they'll try to pollute the skies and dim the sun.
But right now, sunlight is free energy that they can't control.
They can control the power grid.
They can control diesel fuel, gasoline.
I mean, did you see a Texas refinery just blew up?
Yeah.
Probably not an accident.
Somebody made a blow up.
So, yeah, they're causing energy scarcity through lots of means.
But from the sun, you can harvest energy.
And with proper battery technology, you can store it.
And it just so happens that right now, batteries that is currently lithium, you know, lithium iron phosphate batteries, some people call them LIFEPO, but that's actually L-I-F-E-P-O.
Those are the elemental symbols of lithium, iron, and phosphate, in case you're wondering.
But people say LIFEPO, not knowing what that means.
It's from the table of elements, you know, 10th grade science class.
But the LIFEPO batteries are dirt cheap now.
They're dirt cheap.
I mean, you can get like 30 kilowatts of storage for under $3,000.
And just a year ago, that would have been almost double that.
Or three years ago, it would have been, you know, five times higher.
It's dirt cheap.
And combined with solar panels and a, you know, an inverter, you can actually store, you can harvest and store a lot of energy to power your own home at the typical residential home level.
It's not that difficult to go completely off-grid right now, especially if you combine it with a backup generator.
And what's that company?
Anchor.
A-N-K-O-R.
I keep hearing good things about Anchor.
What is it?
No, A-N-K-E-R.
Yeah, A-N-K-E-R.com.
Okay, now this is not an official endorsement.
They're not my sponsor or anything.
I don't even own any of their products.
I've just heard that they have a home system.
What's it called?
Oh, here it is.
It's called the Anchor Solix E10.
S-O-L-I-X.
All right.
So, anyway, I'm just bringing it up because this system, which costs a little over $4,000, which, again, I am not endorsing it.
I don't own it.
But it is like a whole home off-grid battery system.
Apparently, you could combine three of these E10 units and you can have, I guess, up to 90 kilowatt hours of storage or something like that, giving a typical household up to two weeks of backup power.
So I don't know.
I've been hearing about this.
And the anchor company, again, A-N-K-E-R, if you want to look at them, you know, I wouldn't mind actually trying one of those units and testing it out, but I don't currently own one.
These are becoming more and more popular because of the unreliability of the power grid.
But the thing is, a lot of people live in counties and cities where you have to have inspections and permits and all this nonsense.
And even some HOAs for the homeowners, they don't like solar panels on the roofs.
It's so ugly to have solar panels on the rooftops.
Run around the neighborhood Nazis writing tickets for having solar panels.
It's insane.
So don't live in those areas if you can help it.
Get outside of those areas where you can just put up your own solar panels and your own battery storage system.
And you don't need a permit, right?
But you do need probably an electrician and maybe some insulated screwdrivers and insulated gloves so you don't shock yourself with high amperage power.
You know, that's never a good idea.
But you can actually build an off-grid system for, you know, a few thousand dollars right now, or you can have it installed.
More and more people are doing that.
And that's probably a very good strategy for where we are headed.
And yeah, I'm moving in this direction too.
I was hoping to wait for the sodium ion battery chemistry, but it appears that this war is accelerating the timetable.
So I don't think I'm going to be able to wait for that.
I'm going to have to get some kind of LIFEPO system in place and tell you what I think about it.
You know, do a review.
Combined with an electric vehicle, then you don't have to buy gas and diesel in order to have transportation.
And that's a big deal.
So although it's quite a bit of upfront cost, you can have a solar array, you can have some energy storage, and you can charge your own car in some limited way using your own off-grid battery system.
Although you're going to need a lot of solar panels to do that because vehicles use a lot more energy than you think.
But did you know that Toyota is coming out with an all-electric Highlander vehicle?
The 2027 model is an EV.
It's not even hybrid.
No combustion engine any longer.
It's just got EV.
Kia and Hyundai, which are both South Korean companies, they've been launching all kinds of vehicles in the U.S. market for years that are EVs.
That are, I mean, some of them are SUV EVs that are pretty impressive, actually.
South Korea is really leading this space quite effectively.
China's got great models, but they're not available in the USA.
So South Korea is by far the best bet.
And Toyota is late to the game.
And the U.S. car companies, I wouldn't buy their crap.
If you gave it to me, I wouldn't take it.
I would send it back.
It's not even not worth owning.
So, you know, right now it's like Toyota and Kia and Hyundai, as far as I can tell, for U.S. consumers.
But if you live in Australia or Canada, you're going to have other options.
I think Canada, you'll have options for Chinese vehicles soon, you know, from BYD, for example.
That'd be a great place to look.
Anyway, my point is that solar is your gateway to decentralized energy now.
With the globalists trying to destroy fossil fuels and destroy natural gas and make oil scarce, you know, and food scarce, etc.
You're going to need to create your own energy locally at your own home or ranch or farm or whatever you have.
And fortunately, this technology is just now breaking through some of the previous barriers.
And the costs are just now getting to a level where it's justifiable, especially with oil prices about to skyrocket even more.
And there's one more aspect to this that you need to consider, which is automation of robots.
So as robots come online and you end up purchasing robots for domestic help, you're going to need to charge those robots.
And of course, this same system can charge robots very effectively.
And robots need a lot less energy than vehicles.
Yeah, a lot less, like orders of magnitude less.
So you could run a robot for days versus like driving your vehicle into town one time or something, you know, depending on the distance.
So you're going to be able to collect power from the sun for free.
You're going to be able to then put it into robots and then have the robots help you live off-grid, such as growing your food or, you know, helping with chores and things like that as they are capable.
And as you know, that's been my dream for a long time here is to have a weed-pulling robot.
That's really all I want right now.
It's just a robot that pulls weeds so I can just do more farming and gardening and food production.
And then later on, if it can, you know, pick okra, that's even better.
And then later on, a year later, if it can, you know, chop okra, okay, I'm impressed, but I don't even need it to do that.
I just need it to pull weeds right now, and I can do the rest.
But the power for all of this is going to come from the sun.
So those people who want to be free are going to have to turn to solar because it's the one source of energy that governments can't restrict.
I mean, not effectively.
They can restrict oil, gas, electricity from the grid, you know, patents for free energy, everything.
And they have.
They're going to restrict all that.
They're going to destroy the energy infrastructure that powers Western civilization.
But they can't block the sun.
So if you have the energy and the equipment to harvest it and store it, which admittedly is going to cost you thousands of dollars right now, you're going to be a lot more self-reliant versus the masses who have no battery backup systems.
They're entirely dependent on the grid.
They're entirely dependent on gas in their vehicles from the gas station.
They're going to be just completely out of luck when the controllers create more energy scarcity.
The average person is just going to freeze in the winter and go hungry and not be able to live with any sense of freedom.
They're going to be subject to the government's UBI or the CBDC for groceries or what have you.
Now, the interim process of getting to this point, by the way, is to get yourself a solar generator.
And our sponsor, the satellite phone store, they have those.
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They've got solar generators with the solar panels.
It has a built-in battery.
They come in different sizes, obviously.
And you can get them that can either charge your phone, charge your laptop, or maybe run small appliances.
And on the larger size, they can run a refrigerator for a number of hours, etc.
But none of those are going to charge an EV.
They just don't have that much power, and they're probably not going to run your household.
But it's an easy way to get started is to get a portable, like a power bank device with some solar panels.
And again, the satellite phone store has those.
Sat123.com.
Sat123.com, it's a good place to start.
And then this, this Anchor Solex E10 household system that I mentioned.
It'd be worth looking into, but again, i'm not endorsing it because i've never used it, it's just I keep hearing.
It was just announced this year, in 2026, so I keep hearing good things about it.
We'll, we'll see, we'll see.
And so remember that if you have energy, you'll be able to grow food.
If you have energy, you'll be able to have transportation.
If you have energy, you'll be able to have the lights on.
You'll be able to have electricity.
You'll be able to run your gpu for local ai cognition, etc.
If you have power, you have wealth moving into the future.
If you don't have power, you will experience poverty because the control system will create increased energy scarcity and take away from you all those freedoms that cheap energy has given us for so long, such as cheap food, cheap transportation, cheap AI inference on local GPUs, etc.
Or even just, you know, refrigeration.
That's kind of a handy thing to have, is a running refrigerator and a freezer so you can store food there.
Ballistic Missiles Destroy Refineries00:04:06
That could be taken away from people very easily, especially if there's a cyber attack on the power grid or a false flag cyber attack to be blamed on Iran.
That is extremely likely to occur, in my view.
I think that can happen actually anytime.
So the bottom line is energy scarcity is being engineered by the governments of the world, or I should say the controllers of the world, the groups that sit above Trump and above nations.
Energy scarcity is part of the plan for mass famine and depopulation.
The current war in the Middle East is being used to engineer energy scarcity through the meticulous destruction of energy infrastructure, including in Qatar with Qatar energy.
Now, on top of that, it appears that, you know, last night Israel started bombing Iran's energy plants.
And, I mean, that was even before Trump's deadline.
Apparently, what's being reported now is that in response, Iran has started launching an unbelievable array of ballistic missiles to hit Haifa, Tel Aviv, and other cities, but specifically the oil refinery in Haifa, which is rumored to have been now completely destroyed.
That's not confirmed from any official sources because there's so much censorship from Israel, of course, right now.
But massive explosions.
I've seen videos online that appear to depict just a sea of Iranian missiles coming out of the sky and detonating on the ground, although we never know what's real in terms of the videos.
But just that one refinery, the Haifa refinery, generates or refines about 60% of Israel's oil, you know, turning it into fuels that people need for their vehicles.
And that is apparently, it's rumored to be gone now or completely destroyed.
If that's true, then Israel will immediately lurch into energy scarcity.
I want to show you some of the footage that has been posted online about Iranian ballistic missiles hitting Haifa.
So, let's take a look at that.
Now, again, we don't know for sure if those videos are legit, but it's clear that Israel cannot defend itself against Iran's missiles.
That's clear.
So Iran has even announced that it has airspace dominance over Israel or what do they call it?
Missile dominance over Israel.
And that's true.
That's absolutely true.
So anyway, if this Haifa refinery has been destroyed, then it's just the start of what's coming.
Probably a lot more escalation.
I'm anticipating this weekend, Trump ordering a U.S. invasion and a mass bombing campaign against Iran and Iran retaliating with more energy infrastructure destruction across the Persian Gulf, including Qatar energy.
And if that happens, then we are in a global mad max scenario.
Harvesting Natural Energy Sources00:07:59
And access to energy will be one of the defining factors that determines your future.
If you have access to energy, you'll do much better, obviously.
If you have solar panels and you have your own storage and you have your own system, you're going to be the new wealthy versus if you're entirely dependent on a centralized system that's controlled and intentionally degraded, then you're going to be a slave to the system.
So remember, in the big picture here, this is a global depopulation agenda that's designed to cause famine and economic devastation across our world in order to achieve the mass death of anywhere from two to four billion human beings, which is a quarter to a half of the current human population.
That's their goal.
And energy scarcity is one of their ways to achieve that.
And even for the survivors of all of that, they will be much easier for the globalists to control because of that engineered energy scarcity.
So I'd like to invite you, as I wrap this up, invite you to look at the world around you in a whole new light.
I want you to look at things and think about the energy that goes into them.
So when you're at the grocery store, think about the energy that went into a bag of potatoes.
It's a lot of energy, you know.
Farming, tractors, harvesting, transportation, plus the sunlight.
Think about the energy that goes into oranges.
When you're driving, think about the energy that goes into your car, just the manufacturing of the car, not to mention the gas that fuels your vehicle.
Think about the energy all around you, the energy that goes into building a home, or the sawing of the wood that goes into the framing of the home, or the energy that it takes to build a concrete building, or pave a road or build an overpass for the highways.
Think about the energy of manufacturing or pumping water so the city has water or the energy that goes into turning on the lights for your city.
Look around the world from the energy glasses, so to speak.
Like you're putting on special glasses and it just shows you, like everywhere you look, it's like kilowatt hours, you know, everywhere you look around.
Special glasses is like energy x-ray vision.
Start thinking about all the energy around you because that energy is about to be made extremely scarce.
And when you understand the world in this way, you'll understand what's going to collapse and you'll understand what will hold value.
Because there are some things that don't require energy inputs, such as the water running down a natural stream.
That's kind of free energy, you know, that's nature.
Nature did the heavy lifting by evaporating the water up into the clouds and then having the water fall back down and then trickle down the stream, right?
You didn't have to put energy into that.
So that's natural energy.
Look at a tree and how it's building itself.
It's constructing its own physical frame.
You know, the bark, the branches, the leaves, the seeds, everything.
It's building it using solar energy combined with carbon dioxide and water from its roots, etc.
But that's sunlight energy.
All trees are solar-powered.
All grass is solar-powered.
Obviously, anything that has chlorophyll in it is a solar-powered life form.
That includes most of the things that you eat that are not meats, right?
So all the crops, etc.
Those are energy-intensive.
But as you look around the world in this way, you will instantly realize where you need to shore up your own readiness, your own backup supplies.
You'll know what's going to run out quickly versus what's going to still be around here for a long time.
For example, cows.
Cows don't need energy inputs.
Cows are very good at walking around and finding grass on their own.
So cows can turn the solar energy that goes into grass into beef food.
So cows, like cattle ranching, will actually be very successful in a semi-collapsed industrial situation because cattle don't need high technology.
They just need barbed wire fencing and maybe some cattle guards, etc., right?
And they are very good at running around and finding things to eat on their own.
So think about this.
Look at the world with the energy x-ray vision and it will give you a whole new understanding of what's happening around you.
In the meantime, you can store your own energy by storing diesel.
I always recommend a 500-gallon diesel tank.
That is, if you can put it where you live, probably not a great idea in a homeowner's neighborhood or something.
Also, you can, of course, invest in solar and battery systems, etc., like I already talked about.
You can top off your fuel tanks, etc.
You can erect wind power if you're in a particularly windy area.
And for some people, if you're lucky, if you have a lot of elevation difference where water's falling or water's running down a stream, you could harvest some of that energy with like a ram pump that can pump water uphill from a stream flow.
Or you can put in like a little water generator, like a flywheel that generates some small amount of electricity that adds to your system.
So look for natural sources of energy around you, wind, sunlight, moving water, etc.
Or, you know, diesel backup generators, things like that.
And think about how you're going to maintain energy abundance moving into the future here.
Because this is going to become very, very critical.
We are watching the engineered destruction of the global fossil fuel energy infrastructure.
And EV sales are skyrocketing.
Let me tell you.
EV sales are just blowing up right now.
And the people who are aware of what's happening are going to rush into solar systems and off-grid home storage systems and probably EVs on top of that.
I don't have an EV because I didn't want to buy one until the sodium ion batteries became available.
But I'm probably going to have to change my mind on that.
I might have to get an EV as a backup means of transportation.
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I'll keep you posted.
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Deliberate Misinformation Tactics00:15:33
I'm Mike Adams.
Take care.
All right.
Well, Trump is becoming far too predictable now.
He's not fooling anybody, and certainly not Iran.
So in this analysis report, and by the way, welcome.
I'm Mike Adams.
I'm going to go over Trump's tactic that he's playing this week.
It's a game.
It's not 3D chess.
It's actually checkers.
It's not even very elaborate.
But here's the pattern that Trump always follows.
So when he wants the enemy to be disarmed, he will announce publicly that we're close to a deal.
And then he will announce that, oh, we're negotiating with them and we're pretty close on all the terms.
Now, Iran used to participate in these negotiations because, well, they were gullible.
And they didn't realize that the negotiations carried out by U.S. representatives, Witkoff and Jared Kushner, that they were all theater to begin with, that the U.S. never negotiates in good faith.
Not with Russia, not with China, and certainly not with Iran.
So the U.S. negotiation was always theater.
And two times before, Trump used negotiations as an opportunity to initiate surprise attacks.
And in one case, last summer, to kill the negotiators with, you know, bombing and missile strikes involving Israel and the United States.
And then, of course, just, what, three weeks ago now, it happened again, where the U.S. was negotiating, you know, presumably negotiating with Iran.
And in Oman, there were representatives that were announcing that there was great progress and there was probably a deal that was very, very close.
And what did Trump do?
He ordered an attack.
So what Iran learned in this is that there's actually no point in participating in negotiations with the United States because the U.S. does not negotiate in good faith.
And so right now, Iran is refusing to negotiate with the U.S. Can't blame them, actually.
So there's no actual negotiation taking place.
So Trump is now inventing negotiations.
He announced to America that he's been negotiating or the U.S. has been negotiating with a high-level official that, at least at first, he refused to name some high-level official in Iran and that he couldn't tell you who it is because he doesn't want that person to be killed.
Well, it kind of leaked out later the name of this man, and then he posted that, no, he's not negotiating at all, that Trump is making it all up.
So here we have the case where the theater of negotiations is still being carried out by the United States, even though Iran is no longer participating in the bad faith negotiations.
So Trump just lies to America and says, oh yeah, they're negotiating with us.
And he said they're actually really, really close.
They've agreed to almost all our terms.
That's what he said.
I mean, I'm paraphrasing, obviously, but that's essentially what he said.
And Iran put out a statement after that saying, no, we didn't agree to anything.
And there's no negotiation taking place.
Trump is making it up.
Of course he is.
In this case, Iran is clearly telling the truth and Trump is lying because that's what he does.
And the pattern, which is my point here, the pattern that Trump is playing out here is to pretend that we're close to a deal, to pretend that there's going to be peace Monday through Friday.
Now, understand, what happens Monday through Friday?
Well, the stock market's open.
You know, the oil markets are open.
Gold and silver are open.
And what Trump wants to do Monday through Friday, so, you know, we're going to call this workday Trump.
Trump wants to have everything peaceful.
Everything's great.
Oil is going to flow, so gas prices stay low.
The stock market's awesome.
Everybody's going to get rich.
Gold and silver are suppressed because, you know, the dollar is strong, right?
So that's weekday Trump, Monday through Friday.
And then in a pure Jekyll and Hyde fashion, we have weekend Trump.
Weekend Trump is kind of the version of Trump like your friend in high school who went crazy, went out drinking and driving on the weekends.
We had a friend like that.
Mostly those friends died, by the way.
They're no longer with us, but they were always crazy.
You knew somebody like that in high school, or maybe you were that person, who knows.
But we all knew somebody who was like, Monday through Friday, you know, they would show up at school.
Friday night, oh, boom, now it's like, you know, weekend party time, get drunk, drive fast cars, see if you can go 150 miles an hour on the highway, right?
That's weekend Trump.
But weekend Trump is really war, like weekend warrior Trump.
He bombs on the weekends.
Think about all the big bombings, you know, all the attacks that have happened, especially involving Iran.
But more than that, they happen on the weekends.
It's usually early Saturday morning USA time or Saturday afternoon USA time, typically.
And the reason that Trump does it that way is because he knows that the markets are going to tank if he were to bomb on a Wednesday or a Monday.
But if he bombs on the weekend, then that gives the White House and the State Department and the controlled corporate media, gives them pretty much Sunday to tell the American people how awesome everything is.
That, yeah, we bombed, but we won.
You know, we destroyed everything.
We destroyed their Air Force.
We destroyed their Navy.
We destroyed all their missile launchers.
And the American people believe that.
And the investors believe that.
And then Monday morning, the markets open up as like a normal market.
So by Trump being, you know, Monday through Friday, weekday Trump, everything's great, but then weekend warrior Trump doing the bombing over the weekend where the markets are closed, then he doesn't have to pay the consequences for his disastrous military campaigns, which are actually failing.
But most of the American people don't know that because they're listening to corporate media, whether it's Fox News or CNN or New York Times or whoever.
So they have no idea what's actually happening.
They think that literally 16 fighter jets from the United States have all crashed out of the sky because of mechanical failure.
Not that any of them were hit by missiles.
They think that the USS Gerald R. Ford, which burned up its back end, they think that the Ford, which now has to undergo 14 months of repairs, so it's out of commission for 14 months, they think that that happened from a laundry room fire.
Yeah.
Is the laundry room hanging out the back side of the ship?
Because the photos I saw looked like it was on fire from the outside.
But a lot of damage.
14 months out of commission.
Right?
So remember, Iran doesn't have to sink an aircraft carrier, just has to make it go back home.
And that's exactly where the Ford is going.
It's got to go back home for repairs.
But we're always told that, oh, it's friendly fire or it's a mechanical problem or whatever.
We're never told the truth.
So Trump's weekend bombing combined with exerting strong media control and censorship, you know, Soviet style, but in the United States, you know, the USSA, that allows Trump to so far not pay the market consequences for his disastrous war.
And what that means is that since he just announced yesterday on Monday that he's going to give a five-day extension to Iran.
Well, a five-day extension ends when?
Friday night, huh?
After the markets close.
What do you know?
And remember, Trump's not even negotiating with anybody in Iran.
It's all imaginary.
Trump has an imaginary friend.
If he sat down in a psychiatrist's couch, the psychiatrist would say, Mr. Trump, are the Iranian negotiators in the room with us now?
He's got, you know, how kids have imaginary friends?
Trump has imaginary negotiation teams on Iran's side that he thinks he's negotiating with, you know, because they're texting him or something.
It's probably Israel.
It's probably Mossad pretending to be negotiating, you know.
But anyway, because they no doubt control Trump's cell phone at this point.
Anyway, notice Trump delayed it to Friday after the markets close.
So here's what's going to happen.
You can practically bet on this, although I'm not saying you actually should bet on it.
Maybe there's a polymarket bet on this.
Who knows?
But I don't place bets on polymarket.
I'm just saying, sometime Friday, Trump is going to announce that Iran has pulled out of the negotiations.
Yeah.
Or that they've, you know, they've refused to meet the demands or whatever.
And Trump's going to tweet this out on Truth Social.
Iran pulled out negotiations.
They betrayed us.
We have no choice now but to attack.
Okay?
Now, again, it's all theater because Iran is not negotiating.
But what's going to happen after that?
It's very clear.
Trump is going to stage a United States Marines land invasion of Iran.
That's where this is going.
Almost certainly.
And the week here, Monday through Friday, gives the Marines and the transport ships and everything time to get ready for that land invasion, which I predict will be a slaughter of U.S. Marines.
But Trump will say, well, they died for your freedom.
Yeah, whatever.
I don't think that's true at all.
They died for the pedophile empire, unfortunately.
And I don't think they wanted to die for the pedo empire.
You know, the Operation Epstein Fury is what this is.
And Trump is just going to throw bodies into Iran.
Doesn't care how many die at this point.
So, yes, a U.S. Marines invasion and also the 82nd Airborne apparently has been given orders.
And I guess they're going to airdrop into Iran something right out of World War II.
You know, a bridge too far.
What was that operation called in World War II where they had the paratroopers go in way behind enemy lines to try to protect the bridges for the supply lines?
Oh my goodness.
Can't believe I forgot the name of that.
Ah, I got it.
Market Garden.
Operation Market Garden.
Yeah, it was an airborne operation.
And I think that's where the saying came, you know, a bridge too far because they were trying to protect the bridges.
Anyway, 82nd Airborne, I think, 101st Airborne.
Eventually, some of these units were overrun.
I don't know all the details.
But Operation Market Garden.
So we're going to see something like Operation Market Garden probably in southern Iran.
And my guess is that Trump will not be taking Karg Island.
That is deliberate misinformation that's being put out through Trump's spokespeople in the media to try to convince Iran that the attack is coming onto Karg Island.
Clearly, you know, another tactic out of World War II, right?
Try to convince the Germans that we weren't going to land on the beaches of Normandy.
You know, classic deception.
In truth, the troop transport ships can't sail through the Strait of Hormuz.
That's too much of a choke point.
So that means they have to land somewhere east of the Strait of Hormuz.
And there's an Iranian naval town or city there.
I don't recall the exact Chabamad or something, Chababad, something like that.
Sorry, I don't know the names of the cities in Iran, but it's to the east of the Strait of Hormuz.
Like Chama, Chama, Yomamabad.
I don't know what it is.
But that's probably where Trump is going to land some troops and parachute some troops and try to take that and then work their way west to try to control the oversight over the Strait of Hormuz.
The U.S. troops are going to get slaughtered.
And we're never going to be told the truth about this.
We're going to be told, oh, it's a total victory.
Mr. 100% approval Donald Trump is going to say we have 100% victory, zero casualties.
Zero casualties.
And then the parents of all the dead Marines will be told that they died in a training accident or a car accident off base or they died from a mysterious medical condition or they died from natural cause, whatever.
The American people are never going to be told the truth.
And look, it is possible that the U.S. Marines and the 82nd Airborne combined, they can temporarily hold some town or a port.
They could hold a port.
Sure, they could.
For a while.
And then what?
Because Iran's going to be launching missiles at the supply ships and drones.
And drones and artillery will be fired upon the troops that are there, which means they're going to be killed.
And somehow they've got to make their way west to the Strait of Hormuz while under artillery fire the whole time and having essentially no armor or almost no armor.
I don't know what they can airdrop out of the cargo planes, but whatever they try to drop, those planes are at risk of getting shot down.
Wouldn't be surprised if the U.S. loses a couple, you know?
But whatever they can drop, it's not going to be heavy tanks, you know.
It's going to be like armored personnel carriers or something.
So the bottom line is this is a suicide mission.
And it might be set up to be engineered for thousands of casualties in order to get the American people really angry at Iran.
Like maybe at some point they'll admit, oh, 5,000 Marines are dead.
And then the American people get mad and say, well, we got to send in 50,000, you know, because that's the way Americans think.
Insider Trading Buying Opportunities00:14:57
Most Americans just, they believe all the propaganda.
They think that we can do anything we want in the world.
No one can stop us.
And that our military is the most superior military force in the world.
And that is simply just not the case any longer at all.
So ultimately, what this means is, you know, Trump doesn't care about the ramifications on U.S. energy prices and gas prices and food shortages, etc., of what he's doing.
You know, he's obedient to Israel.
This is all about destroying Iran for Israel's sake and taking out the Gulf states or having Iran take out the Gulf states so that Israel can expand its Greater Israel project.
But Trump wants to artificially keep the market high while he's actually destroying assets that will come back to haunt the United States.
So that's why he has to play, you know, weekday Trump versus weekend warrior Trump.
Ultimately, though, you can't hide the economic losses from a collapsing supply of fertilizer, collapsing global supply of liquid natural gas, as well as helium for microchips and sulfur and sulfuric acid for industrial processes, etc.
And even disruptions in oil.
You can't hide it forever.
So whatever Trump is doing here tactically is only a short-term strategy.
It doesn't actually work very long.
But he'll use it for as long as he can.
Just lie to the American people.
Like, we're going to have peace.
Oh, and also, I forgot to mention, there's a lot of insider trading that goes on, clearly with people who are close to Trump.
They place bets on the stock market right before Trump announces something that they know will drive the market up.
The same thing happened with tariffs.
So right before Trump was going to announce a tariff on, let's say, copper, some mystery people would place all these options on higher copper prices and then they would make huge profits when Trump announced the copper tariff or aluminum or when Trump would target a specific country like India or China or Japan.
And then when they wanted to make more money, Trump would just announce, oh, we're canceling the tariffs or we're lowering them to 15%.
And then, boom, there'd be a big move in commodities or oil or the markets.
And then the people who had advanced knowledge, they would make sometimes billions of dollars.
And then two days later, Trump would reverse himself.
And he would say, oh, the tariff's back on.
They're not negotiating, whatever.
And then, you know, so Trump is whipsawing the markets up and down while people close to Trump who clearly are engaged in all kinds of insider trading are making billions and billions of dollars.
So there's the profits that are being skimmed off of this war operation and the tariff operations are just unbelievable.
And yes, that's completely illegal, by the way.
Insider trading is totally illegal.
But who's going to prosecute?
Right now, nobody.
Not until the Democrats get in power, which is probably going to happen with the midterms.
And then there's going to be a lot of potentially criminal investigations and indictments in the following years, especially if the Democrats gain control over the DOJ in 2029.
Of course, who knows?
We don't even know if we're going to have elections.
We don't know what Trump's going to do between now and then or what's going to happen with World War, etc.
Anyway, it's clear there's a lot of insider trading going on.
So that's a component of what Trump is doing.
It also explains why it's kind of pointless to be in the stock market.
Because you don't have the information that his associates have.
They've got insider information.
They know in advance what Trump is about to announce.
And they know how that's going to move markets.
You don't.
So you're betting against the House.
So you might as well get all your money out of the stock market.
I mean, get rid of the counterparty risk anyway.
You should get completely out of the stock market because it's all rigged, obviously.
And gold and silver markets are rigged, of course, but this week, because Trump is pushing the good news Monday through Friday, that's going to suppress gold and silver prices.
So this is probably, my guess, this is a great buying opportunity now, just this week, for gold in particular.
For silver, I think silver could still go lower because of the destruction of industrial demand for silver due to the shortage of natural gas.
So for me personally, I'm not buying silver this week.
I bought it last at 76, so I've lost some since then, but I'm just holding on to that silver because I know it's going to turn around.
But this is a buying opportunity for gold, in my opinion, because gold will skyrocket next week if Trump proceeds with his weekend warrior bombing invasion, you know, Operation Market Garden.
Actually, in celebration of Trump, we should call it Operation Rigged Market Garden.
Right?
Operation Rigged Market Garden.
That's what Trump is doing.
So that probably means gold will go up when the markets open on Monday or even Sunday night in overseas trading.
You're going to see gold spike up.
That is, if Trump makes good on his invasion, which is what it looks like he's setting up.
So don't take this as financial advice.
Obviously, do your own research, etc.
But my guess is this is a buying opportunity for gold.
It's a hold and wait moment for silver, in my view.
And next week we could see gold skyrocket and oil skyrocket.
Well, especially if there's a lot of retaliatory destruction of energy infrastructure in the Persian Gulf, then oil is going to skyrocket next week.
You know, $150 a barrel, maybe.
Depends on how much gets destroyed, actually.
$200 a barrel is even possible in the short term, depending on how much gets destroyed.
So that's my take on all of this.
The upshot is Trump has become very predictable.
He's pretending to negotiate.
He's pretending that there's good news.
He's going to reverse everything probably on Friday.
And then he's going to invade this weekend.
And so gold and silver will be suppressed this week.
Gold will probably spike next week if this invasion takes place.
And then energy scarcity will get a lot worse after this invasion and the retaliation attacks from Iran.
Now, by the way, as one final note, I don't think Iran is fooled by any of this.
I mean, clearly they're not.
The Iranian people are very intellectually capable people.
It's a very smart culture, by the way, with a long history of invention and mathematics and, you know, just superior cognition.
And it's not that hard to be smarter than Trump right now, either.
I think Joe Biden was smarter than the way Trump is acting right now.
I mean, yeah, it's bad.
It's bad.
That's saying something.
But Iran isn't fooled, which means Iran is absolutely preparing for a ground invasion, in my view.
I mean, you know, I don't have any special inside information, obviously, from the Pentagon or Iran or anybody.
I'm just looking at the map and looking at the news and just watching open source information and drawing these kind of obvious conclusions that Iran is clearly preparing for an invasion because the U.S. keeps mobilizing, you know, thousands of Marines and the 82nd Airborne.
And what do you think?
They're going to use them somewhere.
They're going to use them.
So things are going to get escalated, let's say, probably this coming weekend.
So, hey, use this week to buy fuel, you know, top off your gas tanks, get more diesel, whatever, because it's going to get worse next week if Trump goes full weekend warrior here.
That's my guess.
I hope I'm wrong.
I hope that Trump is somehow genuinely looking for an exit.
And maybe there's a possibility that he will announce peace even when Iran has not agreed to anything.
That Trump could just say, they've agreed, and so we're leaving.
And then he just pulls back the military, you know, to avoid any further losses.
And then Iran will be like, we didn't agree to anything.
We still control the strait.
And then Trump says to the Europeans, it's your problem, bitches, you know, and just gets out of there.
That's a possible outcome, although I would think that's only like a 10% chance.
I think it's a 90% chance that Trump is going to order an invasion and that it's going to happen this weekend.
But we'll see.
We'll see.
Things can change, obviously.
A lot can change between now and then.
So be sure to tune into my additional podcast this week and I'll give you updates or possibly changes in my prediction based on the reality of what's happening.
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Again, I would not purchase silver right now.
I would hold silver, but I would look at gold, do your own research, see if it's a good fit.
It's definitely down significantly from where it was, maybe almost 20% or something like that.
So this could be the buying opportunity.
But if Trump actually announces peace, like some legitimate peace, then I might be wrong.
Then gold would probably plummet more.
So keep that in mind.
There's always that possibility.
And frankly, I would rather have peace than higher gold prices.
I would rather have peace.
I don't want to see the world burn just to see gold hit 10,000.
No, no, thank you.
Gold is an insurance policy in case the worst case happens.
The worst case could happen in less than a week, it turns out.
So be prepared.
You can catch more of my podcast at brightvideos.com and also my interviews.
I'm doing a lot of interesting interviews this week.
And then in addition, you can catch my articles at naturalnews.com.
Thank you for listening.
I'm Mike Adams.
Take care.
World War II, the Russians lost somewhere around 27 million people.
They were still feeling the effects of World War II in 1991 when the Soviet Union collapsed.
But they had gone through tough times for 40 years and they were used to it.
Americans are fat, dumb, and happy, and they're not prepared.
And it's going to be far worse.
We are probably going to have a civil war.
There are going to be started in the United States.
There are people who are going to freeze in the United States because of fuel that's going to go through the roof.
The cost of food is going to go through the roof.
And it is the end of the empire, and people are not prepared.
All right.
Welcome, everybody, to part two of my interview with Bob Moriarty, a veteran, a financial analyst, an author, a very accomplished pilot and combat pilot who flew 800 missions in Vietnam.
And I love his take on things because he's got great courage.
He's not afraid to tell it like it is.
And he has an urgent warning for the world today that things are changing in ways that very few people understand, but it's now irreversible.
In other words, things have happened that will make this scenario that Bob's going to share with us now inevitable.
It's like falling dominoes.
It's cause and effect at this point.
It cannot be stopped.
So welcome back to part two of our interview.
Bob Moriarty, always a pleasure.
You've just done something that you didn't even realize what you had done.
But I'm going to ask you to do me a favor.
Okay.
I want you to put up the picture of my website again.
Okay.
321gold.com.
Yep.
Okay.
Okay.
You want to know what the future is going to bring?
Look at the price of gold.
Yeah.
To the right-hand corner.
It's been plummeting, and silver is down to 72.
Gold's 46.60.
Yeah, I saw that.
Okay.
Literally.
Okay.
That is one of the side effects.
We have an exceptionally fragile monetary system right now and financial system.
And the price of gold and the price of silver.
Silver is down over 10% once today.
And this all has to do with the chaos that has been created in the Middle East.
Regime Change in Saudi Arabia00:14:28
Now, let's talk about Tactics and strategy.
Is it clear to you the difference between tactics and strategy?
Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah.
Okay.
Let me explain.
Tactics is let's go take this hill.
Yeah.
Strategy is how do we win the war?
Now, the United States is very good at tactics, but it's not good at strategy.
General William Westmoreland was the commanding general of U.S. forces, Vietnam, for years.
And many years after the war, he was at a conference and his equivalent in North Vietnam was General Gia.
Westmoreland went up to Giap and he said, you know, I find it quite interesting that we fought many battles against the North Vietnamese and we won every battle.
And Giap just looked up at him and said, winning battles has nothing to do with winning wars.
Now, one of the things that people who have not been at war don't understand is that killing people has nothing to do with winning wars.
Now, the United States and Israel are extremely effective at killing people.
Millions of people have died since 9-11 in wars started by the United States with no particular reason whatsoever.
Israel has massacred a couple of hundred thousand people in Gaza just in the last couple of two and a half years.
They're very good at killing people, but that's not the same thing as winning wars.
If you're going to win a war, you have to change people's point of view.
Now, the two oldest countries in the world are Egypt and Iran.
Iran has fought thousands of battles, okay?
They won most of them.
They lost some of them, but they're quite prepared to defend their country.
This is existential for them.
They're fighting for their life.
Israel, on the other hand, is doing it to expand their influence in the Middle East, and it's not existential.
Trick question, you know, I love trick questions.
How does a nuclear state of nine people defeat a non-nuclear state of 92 million people?
I think they don't.
I think they don't defeat.
They can.
They can.
Okay.
They can destroy Iran.
And if they destroy Iran, they literally destroy the world's economy.
It's one of those things.
It's a pirate victory that if you win, it costs you far more than if you had lost.
Iran is bravely and intelligently protecting themselves, and they've laid out very clear objectives and very reasonable objectives.
Now, one of the things I enjoyed a lot, I wish I had a list of all the comments when Donald Trump went out and said, okay, we need help opening straight up for moves, and we want NATO to help.
Okay.
I mean, it was funny.
These guys were falling all over themselves.
Hey, Donald, screw you and the horse you rode in on.
this amazing situation where Donald Trump's claiming victory for the last 19 days or 20 days, whatever it is.
And in fact, he's begging NATO to bail him out.
And these people have finally woken up to the fact, wait a minute, it's not our war.
We have nothing to gain whatsoever.
The unintended consequences that you were alluding to, it's very important.
Something like 30 or 40 percent of the ingredients for fertilizer go through the strait of Formula or go through the Red Sea, and those have been shut off as well.
Well, I'm sorry to interrupt.
Okay, go ahead.
Bob, but I want to add something to this because you're going in the right place.
I did some research this morning.
The UAE, all of its oil facilities are now offline.
So it's producing zero oil.
That's the UAE, the largest OPEC producer, is completely offline.
And its gas field is also offline.
We already talked about Qatar Energy declaring Force Majeure on its long-term contracts that are supposed to deliver energy to various European countries as well as many Asian countries.
And in our previous interview, part one, that people can find at brightvideos.com, we talked about how there's a multi-year rebuild time for the two liquefaction gas trains that have already been destroyed, apparently, according to the CEO of Qatar Energy, and that it's a 10 to 15 year rebuild time if all 14 are destroyed, which Iran has promised to do.
So, but my question to you, sir, is what happens to our world if this oil, this gas, this fertilizer is taken offline for years?
What happens?
Well, you could find out by moving to Cuba.
Right.
Lights are out.
There's no electricity in Cuba.
There's no gas.
There's no fertilizer.
There's no diesel for their tractors.
I mean, Donald Trump, you're not old enough to recognize this.
I was around in 1959.
I was 13 years old.
We've had sanctions on Cuba since 1959 because we didn't like Castro.
And he's been dead so long, nobody even remembers his name.
And we've still got sanctions.
And Donald Trump, no planning, no thinking whatsoever, no leadership from the people surrounding him has put an oil embark on Cuba.
And of course, I'm scratching my head saying, what'd Cuba do?
Okay.
And Cuba didn't do anything to the United States.
Iran didn't do anything to the United States.
Russia didn't do anything to the United States.
Venezuela didn't do anything to the United States.
But somehow we've decided these people are all the enemies.
But if you want to see how bad the world is going to be in a year or two, go to Cuba.
And you're going to see what it's like to not have electricity 24 hours a day.
And you're going to see what it's like to have people literally starving in a country that if you could climb a coconut tree, you could feed yourself.
And there are people who are going to starve.
There are several issues that are ultra important.
The fertilizer issue is ultra important because most of the fertilizer or a third of the fertilizer in the world comes through the Strait of Hormuz or the Red Sea.
But why is that important right now?
Well, because this is planting season for the Northern Hemisphere.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Okay, what happens if you don't fertilize her before you plant?
Your crop yields fall by an average of 50%.
Thank you.
It is that simple.
We are screwing around with stuff that is catastrophic.
And I'm the guy who's been claiming for years that the debt mate system is going to collapse.
It's collapsing faster and in a far more dangerous way than I can imagine.
This year, it just happens that the natural gas storage in Europe is at the lowest it's been for many years.
Now, typically, you load natural gas from March until November, and then you consume natural gas from November till March.
So we are going into the period where you load the reservoirs with natural gas.
Guess what?
They ain't going to be any natural gas.
Okay.
And the idiots in Germany have shut down their nuclear plants.
So they got a problem.
So they've got a giant problem.
That brings us to, we have to remind people that the U.S., in an act of terrorism, also blew up the Nord Stream pipelines a few years ago.
No, they didn't.
No, they didn't.
Okay, who are you saying someone else did it?
No.
Oh.
How many pipes were there?
I think there were two that were destroyed, right?
Nope.
Okay, tell me.
There was Nord Stream 1, and there were two pipes, and it was Nord Stream 2, and there were two pipes.
There were four pipes total.
Okay.
Now, I can prove to you with facts and logics that the United States military did the attack.
Yeah, that's, I agree with that conclusion.
Because only the United States military, the most expensive military in world history, could attack four pipes and only take three of them out of production.
Nobody is talking about this.
Germany could go to Russia and say, you know, we've reconsidered our position and we realize how stupid we were.
And we would really like to open that fourth pipe.
And they could do that.
All right.
Thank you for that.
That confirms my point, which is that the U.S., in an act of terrorism against civilian infrastructure, weaponized the, you know, the cutting off energy in order to harm its own allies.
So, you know, the U.S. bizarre.
Where was the Chancellor of Germany when the attack took place?
Well, he was standing right beside Joe Biden approving all of it, I think.
Exactly.
Here's what's crazy.
I wrote an article a few days after that, and I said the EU and NATO just committed suicide.
Yes, they did.
It was suicide.
You got the Chancellor of Germany, the guy who's running the friggin country.
And he said, Joe, yeah, it's okay.
Go ahead and blow up the pipeline.
We don't need cheap natural gas from Russia.
Right.
And then on top of that, isn't there an EU law that was passed that's not yet in effect, but it's going to go into effect that prohibits purchasing energy from Russia?
Right, right.
That's passed, right?
Let's talk about the good news and the bad news.
Now, the bad news is the world economy is about to blow up.
You can look at the price of gold on that chart that just showed, and that said, hey, shit's hit the pan.
But the good news is the Chihuahuas who are running the countries in Europe, there's going to be regime change in Germany.
There's going to be regime change in France.
There's going to be regime change in the UK.
There's going to be regime change in Saudi Arabia.
There's going to be regime change in Qatar.
There's going to regime change in the UAE and the six Gulf states.
And Donald Trump, do you remember what he demanded?
What he said?
A two-word demand to end the war.
Total or no, unconditional surrender.
Thank you.
Okay.
The war is going to end with unconditional surrender, and it is going to end with regime change.
However, like World War I.
It's not the one he thinks.
Yeah.
Exactly.
Okay.
And when the United States, when somebody in the United States government reads the Constitution, says, you know, we got this Article 25 of the Constitution that says when the president's an idiot, you could fire him.
Right.
And somebody's going to say, you know, hey, I got an idea.
You know, why don't we fire this blithering idiot?
He has done more damage to the United States than any president in history.
Totally unprepared.
100%.
And to the extent that, okay, another trick question.
Constitution talks about three crimes and only three crimes.
One of them is counterfeiting, and you know we do that.
One of them is piracy.
Okay.
And Donald Trump, for the first time that I can remember, has gotten the United States involved in piracy.
Got any idea what the third one is?
Treason?
Thank you.
And treason is specifically defined as giving terror and help to the enemy.
And I will absolutely maintain that the enemy is not Iran.
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It is the group of fools, the religious fanatics who dragged the United States into a war.
The United States cannot possibly win.
And Donald Trump is so stupid.
Donald Trump said, I'm going to take my baseball and my bat and I'm going to go home.
Okay, I'm not going to play this game anymore.
And Iran's going to say, okay, take all your troops with you.
Now, were you aware there was a mutiny out there, Gerald Ford?
Yeah, 13 sailors, I believe, was it?
Well, I'm sorry.
The United States admits 13 Americans have been killed.
And I'll tell you flat out.
No, wait, I'm talking about there was breaking news today about 13 sailors went AWOL, but I think it was from Abraham Lincoln.
And that's different from what you were saying.
I think you're talking about the deliberate sabotage of the toilets and the fire in the laundry room.
Exactly.
Exactly.
Funny situation.
I was landing on aircraft carriers when I was 19.
So I got a real passion for aircraft carriers.
The Gerald R. Ford is the most expensive ship in world history.
It was $13 or $15 billion.
And they put in a Septic system where you flushed the pipes out with vacuum and they had taken the design from a hotel somewhere and it just didn't occur to them you couldn't do that on an aircraft carrier.
So literally every six months they have to take the Gerald Ford in and they have to flush the pipes with acid to clean out literally all of the crap.
So Gerald Ford was involved in the kidnapping of Madero in Venezuela and those guys have been on duty for months, okay?
Three or four or five or six months.
And frankly, they're worn out.
So all they had to do to stop up the toilets was take towels and flush them down the toilet.
Now, there's no identifying who that was.
And the captain of the ship said, damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
And the sailors said, well, hell, we got to do something else.
So they started fire.
And the captain said, hmm, you know, maybe we need to go back to Crete and rethink our position about fighting this war.
Now, what they should do with Abraham Lincoln and the Gerald Ford and the other carrier that they're fixing to bring over, they should put a big bullseye on the center of the carrier deck because you have to be aware the Chinese and the Russians are doing the same thing with Iran, the United States was doing with Ukraine.
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They're providing intelligence data.
The Ukrainians have minute-by-minute data, satellite data, of exactly where all the U.S. forces are.
And they have some brilliant missiles.
And if somebody moves one of those carriers within striking distance of one of those missiles, we're going to be burying 5,000 American kids.
And I'll tell you right now, and I'm the only guy with the balls to say it, I controlled hundreds of airstrikes.
Okay.
I was the guy picking targets.
I know how to pick targets.
All of the attacks Iran has made on U.S. forces.
There are hundreds or thousands of Americans who have been killed.
You could not possibly have 13 dead people.
Did you say hundreds or thousands?
Yes.
Okay.
I mean, well, we just saw the funeral proceedings of the soldiers was classified so that no one can see how many coffins, how many draped coffins there are.
Right?
Do you remember what the first thing they admitted to was?
Just the first fatalities?
It was just two.
It was just two soldiers.
Three.
Oh, three.
Three.
They were at an outpost that got hit by a drone.
Well, they were killed.
They fly these people into Dover, and then they have a very elaborate ceremony for taking the coffins off the ship.
And the United States DOD is claiming three people were killed.
And they take the first guy off, and they've got all of the military people carrying the coffin.
And everybody's all prim, and they've shined their boots.
And I looked at the aircraft and I thought, wait a minute, problem here.
That's a big claim for three coffins.
There were three coffins in the plane.
Okay.
So at exactly the same time, they're claiming three Americans have been killed.
There are four coffins.
Huh?
Huh?
Oh, okay.
I took one off and there are three more there.
By the way, is your dog doing okay?
I see your dog in the background.
Is he all right?
Um, my dog requires a lot of attention, and he gets very jealous.
And you can kind of see him in the back.
Come here.
He was, yeah, he was playing with that.
He killed me.
My dog hates it when I get attention.
He does.
I see.
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Okay.
No worries.
No worries.
I have a dog over here too, but he's sleeping at the moment.
All right.
So, Bob, what I want to ask you here as we get towards the final minutes of this, though, is what practically, what does this mean for Americans in terms of scarcity, increased prices, poverty?
You know, I mean, you and I both know, Bob.
I mean, you are well known for seeing way ahead of the curve and for being right.
And you're well known for having the courage to say the obvious, which, yes.
Hang on.
Hang on.
Yeah.
I was wrong.
About.
I got to admit it.
Oh, about what?
I said 15 Girl Scouts.
15 Girl Scouts.
12 Girl Scouts.
Okay.
All right.
But if you fast forward one year in America, what are we looking at in terms of the economic and supply chains and food, et cetera?
Because America may not get hit nearly as hard as some of the Asian countries or European countries, but we're still going to feel a big effect of this that's been set into motion.
What's that going to look like?
Think 1929 times 10.
Whoa.
Okay.
It's going to be worse than anyone realizes.
When, okay, in World War II, the Russians lost somewhere around 27 million people.
They were still feeling the effects of World War II in 1991 when the Soviet Union collapsed.
Vladimir Putin's older brother actually was killed in World War II.
But the Russian, not Russian, the Soviet empire collapsed 1991.
And people had gone on minimum wages, and you couldn't buy an automobile.
It took years to get a telephone.
But they had gone through tough times for 40 years.
They were used to it.
Americans are fat, dumb, and happy, and they're not prepared.
And it's going to be far worse because we have no leadership whatsoever.
Some of the things that Pete Hagstaff is saying and Donald Trump saying, it just absolutely scares me because it's a total revision, an ignorance of international law.
We are probably going to have a civil war of sorts because Americans are going to be very angry when their food stamps don't pay and the cost of gas is $15 a gallon.
And we're going to see that.
Now, I was quite surprised today.
I filled my car up.
The price of diesel here is about two euros per liter.
And when I put the credit card in, it said, okay, you're restricted to 100 euros.
And 100 euros at 2 euros per liter is 50 liters, which is a little bit over 12 gallons.
We are seeing effectively gas rationing right now.
And you remember what 1979 was like, okay?
1979, you only had to wait in line for two or three hours for fuel.
It's going to be worse this time.
And as you pointed out, culturally, the American people have had it good for a long time, for generations, living on the debt Ponzi scheme that U.S. treasuries represent, basically living off of the labor and exports of other countries in many ways.
So the American people, by and large, are not prepared like the Persian people or the Russian people who've survived under sanctions, or even the Cuban people.
The Cuban people are more resilient.
Go ahead.
Yeah.
Question.
What's the debt of the United States today?
Well, I think it just crossed 39 trillion, but that's just official numbers, right?
That's right.
It's not the unfunded debt.
That's funded debt.
We just hit a new number.
You're absolutely correct.
Americans don't have the leadership.
They've been told everything is wonderful and you're Americans and you're better and superior to everybody else in the world.
And they believe it.
They're not prepared for bad times and bad times that are coming.
There are going to people starve in the United States.
There are people who are going to freeze in the United States.
The cost of fuel is going to go through the roof.
The cost of food is going to go through the roof.
And it's end of the empire and people are not prepared.
Well, imagine, though, when the Epstein Empire ends, you know, the people fine, Mike.
It's okay.
When the Epstein Empire ends, you know, look, I got to say, there will be a lot less violence in the world, you know?
I mean, because the Epstein Empire is running around bombing and killing and genociding everybody on the planet.
You just brought up the most important point.
And I totally missed it.
We're going to have peace in the Middle East for the first time in 80 years.
Okay.
Iran is going to win this war.
They're going to do a lot of damage to the GCC that it's going to take years.
However, we are going to have peace in the Middle East for the first time in 80 years.
Yeah.
And stability.
And, you know, look, I'm rooting for humanity.
I'm rooting for the good guys.
And the good guys are not the Epstein Empire.
That's for sure.
But I believe in good people, and I believe in the resilience of people.
But we have become, in America, where I am, we've become a culture, as you said, of complacency.
The American people are largely fat and lazy, and they're not even aware of the things that you and I are talking about here today.
It's a very tiny percentage of the American people that have any idea what's coming.
Most of them will not prepare.
Most people don't know how to grow food.
Most people don't know how to repair anything on a farm, a tractor, a car, nothing.
So it's going to get real interesting here in this country.
That's for sure.
Can you define Armageddon?
Well, I mean, are you looking for the biblical perspective or just the practical?
Yeah.
No, no.
What is Armageddon?
Oh, well, I guess it's the final battle for Earth, right?
The final destructive battle.
Between who?
Between our Creator and Satan.
Armageddon.
It's the final battle between the forces of good and the forces of evil.
Would you accept that?
Yeah, absolutely.
Okay.
How many people in the world are going to vote for Israel as being the cheerleader for the forces of good?
Almost no one in terms of the overall population.
Maybe 1% of the world's population, maybe?
I doubt that.
I doubt that.
Okay.
Israel is prepared for Armageddon.
And what they don't understand is they're going to lose.
Satan is going to lose this conflict.
I completely agree.
And yet they suffer under the delusion of thinking that God is going to save them if they destroy enough other people in other countries and a certain temple that God's going to intervene and save them.
Boy, they're going to be in for a surprise.
And by the way, if Netanyahu's dead, doesn't that also end some of their prophecies right there?
Because wasn't he supposed to be the last prime minister of Israel before the end of days?
Well, he is that.
Okay.
Okay.
I'm just wondering, we're going to have to start.
We're going to have to go to that betting platform and bet how many months it's going to take Israel to admit Netanyahu is dead.
Yeah, yeah.
And I don't know.
When it comes to Netanyahu, I don't need 12 fingers.
I only need one finger to give him.
I can give him two.
I got two hands.
Yeah, two hands.
Bring up our feet also.
Get your middle toe out.
All right.
Well, Bob, thank you so much for your time today.
We appreciate you and your expertise and your point of view.
And let me give out your website again.
It's 321Gold.com.
And I encourage people to follow you.
Don't show that picture, Dan.
Look at the price of gold.
Yeah, yeah, there's gold and silver right up there.
Yeah, there it is.
Okay.
It's it, yeah.
And this is all on Trump, by the way.
There it is.
Silver now, 72.50.
Trump started this.
He did it by choice.
He didn't have to.
He threw the whole world under the bus by starting this war.
That's my opinion.
And silver and gold are getting crushed in the short term.
But the real thing that's going to create is the dollar, ultimately, in my opinion.
Well, the financial system of the United States and the world is literally at a precipice and it's about to fall over the edge.
We are so close to that financial collapse and virtually nobody sees it.
That's right.
That's right.
That's why I think your voice is so important right now.
People need to get prepared and they need to understand that there's going to be a delay between the events that have happened right now that have already happened versus how long in the pipeline of energy and fertilizer and food that pipeline strikes.
You know, you run out of the pipeline.
That's coming.
And people don't realize it.
So time to wake up.
It is.
It is time to wake up.
All right.
Well, thank you for staying up late, by the way, from your home in Europe.
We appreciate you.
And thank you so much for your time today, Bob.
always a pleasure and it's an honor.
Mike, thank you.
You do a great job and frankly, people can learn a lot and you're one of the most you want to provide the things that people need for preparation.
I could show you around my place.
I got six months food here and I got six months fuel and that's probably not enough.
Yeah, I know what you mean.
And I'm, yeah, I'm a prepper and I advocate that as well and self-reliance.
And right now, people are realizing that the world's food supplies could be offline for a decade if this escalation continues.
That's way beyond anybody's storage.
So, you know, good luck, right, to everybody.
Anyway, thank you again, Bob.
Have a wonderful rest of your evening.
Play with your dog.
He's begging for attention.
So we're all good.
Thank you for your time.
We'll talk to you again soon.
Okay, Mike.
Thanks very much.
All right.
Take care.
All right, everybody, this is Bob Moriarty.
And you can catch part one of this interview, by the way, if you missed that.
That's also at brightvideos.com.
And his website, again, is 321gold.com.
He often comments on gold and silver precious metals, but as you can tell, he's very well informed and very bright on a number of geopolitical and military topics.
And that's why I enjoy having him on.
We'll ask him back again soon as well.
It's been too long since I've had Bob on.
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