Mike Adams and Seth Holehouse analyze the accelerating global collapse driven by Middle East wars, alleging U.S. and Israeli actions are closing the Strait of Hormuz to trigger energy famine and facilitate CBDC implementation. They argue Trump's policies and elite conspiracies aim to replace human labor with AI robots while destroying nuclear infrastructure in Europe and Taiwan, potentially forcing unification with China. The discussion highlights the erosion of post-WWII alliances, the weaponization of autonomous drones, and concludes that survival requires decentralized off-grid resources like open-source AI models and organic superfoods to resist targeted extermination by hostile governments or machines. [Automatically generated summary]
So remember last week when I said that Trump is Jekyll and Hyde and on the weekend, you know, he's the weekend warrior fierce bombing Trump and then when it comes time for Monday morning, he has to have some good news to manipulate the markets and try to keep oil low and keep the stock market high.
And he's done that yet again, but this time with an unbelievable lie where he is falsely claiming, it's just unreal, that Iran is paying tribute to him by sending 20 large oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz as a sign of respect to him.
Of course it's a complete lie because that's all Trump is capable of doing.
In reality, this was a deal between Iran and Pakistan, one of Iran's allies, of course.
And Iran is arranging for Pakistan to send 20 ships through the Strait of Hormuz.
It's got nothing to do with Trump.
But Trump is trying to take credit for it like he always tries to take credit for, you know, stopping eight wars or something, or maybe it's 12 by now, maybe it's 50.
Trump just makes everything up.
And now Trump's Magatard followers on social media are claiming that not only did Trump secure this deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz to 20 oil tankers, but that they're going to be escorted by the U.S. Navy, they say.
This is coming from the paid propaganda shills who are on the White House payroll.
And there's still quite a few of them.
I guess they're just desperate losers who have no idea what's actually happening, but they're online.
And they are apparently completely oblivious to the fact that if U.S. Navy ships were to sail that close to Iran, they would be destroyed.
They would be sent home with, I mean, not completely destroyed, but parts of the ships would be destroyed, just like the USS Ford, which is now limping back home for 14 months of battle repairs because clearly it was struck by a drone.
It wasn't a laundry room fire.
It got hit in war.
And by the way, it's not even 20 ships all at once.
According to Al Jazeera, which has posted a story covering this, it's going to be two ships per day.
That is, you know, Pakistan ships or Pakistan flagged ships will be allowed to pass through the strait.
So that's two per day or 20 over 10 days.
So Iran is actually, you know, selectively allowing ships to go through the strait.
And it also did so with other ships that paid the, I think it was a $2 million toll.
But ships that are tied to the U.S. or the U.K. or Israel, they are not allowed at all.
So Israel remains in control.
And Israel's deciding what ships go through the strait, not Trump.
And Trump is just absolutely weaving fiction for his gullible Magatards.
The people that have no idea what's happening in the world and they believe Trump.
Trump is winning.
Trump is reopening the strait.
The Navy is going to escort because they tell each other these fairy tale stories.
Santa Claus comes down the chimney and he puts presents in the stockings.
Things like that.
But that's the level of low IQ status that the Magatards have at this point.
It's really shocking.
So the details of this were announced by Ishaq Dar, who is the foreign minister of Pakistan.
And he said that Iran's decision is a harbinger of peace, which could help restore stability to the region.
And he said it is a welcome and constructive gesture.
So, of course, at this rate of two ships per day, and again, Iran is only allowing Pakistan to do this because Pakistan is an ally of Iran.
In fact, this is consistent with what Iran had previously announced.
But at the rate of two ships per day, then it would take more than 1,000 days, or really actually more than three years, for all the ships in the Persian Gulf to pass through the Strait.
So, hope everybody's got enough natural gas for three years, which they don't.
But that's what it would take, is three years.
So, instead, Trump believes that he's going to land U.S. Marines somewhere, some island, perhaps, Harg Island or some other island or in a port or something, and he's going to then control the Strait of Hormuz.
That is actually not going to happen because, of course, the minute U.S. troops land in Iran, they would be subject to a barrage of artillery and drones and missiles from Iran.
And in fact, Iran is welcoming U.S. troops to land because they know it's a suicide mission.
Absolutely, it's a suicide mission.
In the meantime, Trump is now calling it the Strait of Trump because, of course, he's an egotistical lunatic and he thinks that it's going to be named after him because he now thinks he controls it.
I mean, the level of delusion of this guy is off the charts, insane.
Just like he renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, which won't last any longer than his administration.
He wants to rename the Strait of Hormuz to the Strait of Trump, and he thinks that Iran should make him the supreme leader of Iran, and he thinks that every country in the world should build a statue praising Trump as some kind of great leader.
I mean, he is so full of himself, and unfortunately, he's surrounded by people who keep giving him feedback that is just endlessly pro-Trump.
So he's not in touch with reality.
He has no idea how the rest of the world sees him, which is as a raging, egotistical lunatic that is burning the world to the ground by launching this war on Iran.
Need I remind everybody that the Strait of Hormuz was opened before Trump attacked Iran.
So we are now roughly 30 days into this war, a war that Trump's people thought would last just one weekend.
And 30 days ago, the Strait was open.
Now it's not.
It's been shut for 30 days.
And it's probably going to be shut for many more months at this pace because Trump has no idea what he's doing.
And he's not willing to just pack up and leave, which would be the only really effective way to see the Strait reopened.
So instead, Trump is allowing Israel to carry out all kinds of strikes on Iran, including striking Iran's power plants.
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That happened over the weekend.
And in retaliation, Iran is striking critical infrastructure in the region.
Reportedly, Iran has destroyed the desalination plant in Kuwait.
And that leaves the Kuwaiti people without 90% or so of their normal fresh water supply.
So that's catastrophic.
It's not even yet clear what's going to happen from that, but it won't be good.
Now, you may have also learned over the weekend that the AWACS plane, which is this flying radar platform that allows the U.S. military to see every missile, every aircraft within about 250 miles.
I think it was Friday, sometime around late last week, that Iran destroyed an AWAX plane that was sitting at an airfield.
I forgot exactly which airfield it was at.
It's one of the Gulf states.
And the Pentagon said, well, an AWAX plane has been damaged.
And it turns out then photos came out over the weekend and the thing was blown in half and the back half is hanging off completely disconnected from the front half and it's obviously no longer airworthy and the entire radar, that thing that looks like a flying saucer sitting on the back of it, that thing's totally destroyed.
So yeah, it's not just damaged.
The plane is destroyed.
It's nothing but scrap at this point.
But you will always be told from the White House and the Pentagon, oh, it was just damaged, just damaged.
No problem.
Or when Iran shoots a U.S. plane out of the air, what you hear from the Pentagon is, oh, no, no, it just crashed.
You know, another fighter jet crashed.
Well, yeah, it crashed after Iran blew it up in the air.
Then, of course it crashed because it was no longer airworthy.
So yeah, it crashed.
So, you know, technically, every plane that's blown up in the air also crashes, it turns out.
So when the Pentagon says, oh, no, it crashed, that's not technically a lie, but it's also not the truth, is it?
Not the truth.
So, yeah.
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So also now, what came out Sunday evening is that Trump is saying that Iran has agreed to most of the 15 demands of the U.S. in the latest negotiations.
Of course, this is only just designed to manipulate the markets.
This is designed to keep oil prices low, even though they're already over $115 a barrel, and to push the stock market higher, because all Trump can do is lie at this point.
That's all he's got is lies and whoever's dumb enough to believe those lies, which is an ever-shrinking group of Magatarts, basically, people who can't think.
And they're still embracing the cult of Trump's personality, I guess.
So to those people, Trump's an amazing hero.
I mean, he negotiated 20 oil tankers to go through the strait.
He's negotiated peace and he's winning and he's completely destroyed Iran.
Oh my God, he must be Jesus or something.
That's what those people think.
In reality, none of that has happened.
Trump isn't even negotiating with Iran.
I still say that Trump is actually negotiating with an AI chatbot that says it's Iran.
I think his staff gave him contact with the chatbot.
So he's actually negotiating with the chatbot and the chatbot is giving him almost everything he demands.
And then he announces that to the public.
Oh my god, Iran's almost agreed to everything.
Yeah, in your mind, in your delusional mind, in the real world, though, none of that has happened.
So go figure.
Wall Street analysts, in the meantime, are anticipating $200 a barrel oil, which will absolutely wreck the global economy.
And on top of that, there are now reportedly 50,000 U.S. troops in the Middle East region, many of which are being prepared for a land invasion of Iran.
Yes, this is going full Vietnam 2.0, just like I said it would.
And then on top of that, the only reason the land invasion has been delayed, it didn't happen over the weekend, is because they couldn't get the Marines together quickly enough to stage the invasion.
And even when they do, you know, you really need like eight months to pull together logistics for something like this.
But instead, you know, the Pete Hegseth Pentagon is just winging it.
And Trump is just winging it with virtually no preparation, with almost nothing in the way of logistics and support and so on.
They're just going to throw, apparently, now tens of thousands of U.S. soldiers into Iran and watch many of them die.
It's like, is this a suicide mission?
What is this?
Is Trump actively trying to see the destruction of America's military?
Because that's what this is looking like at this point.
Now, the biggest news in all of this, to kind of pivot here, is that it looks like over the weekend that Israel and the United States are bombing Iran's power infrastructure, that is the power plant.
And that's exactly what Trump said he would not do.
So of course, Trump is lying, again, that's all he does, lying to Iran.
So it looks like Iran is going to keep its promise of retaliating now against critical infrastructure in the Gulf states, which includes not just the water desalination plant in Kuwait, like I mentioned, but also the LNG trains in Qatar.
So, I mean, we've been through this in previous podcasts, but right now there are still 12 out of 14 of those natural gas trains functioning.
Although the ships are stalled, if the strait is opened, then the gas could begin to flow again.
But if those 12 trains are destroyed, then the natural gas that the world needs in order to survive would be offline for 10 to 15 years, regardless of whether the strait is open.
And it looks like over the weekend, what Trump and Israel did is intentionally designed to provoke Iran to destroy the LNG infrastructure of Qatar.
So it appears that that's coming next.
So if that happens, again, the world is in deep, deep trouble.
I mean, the world as we know it will collapse.
The industry will collapse.
Agriculture, you know, food, farming, fertilizer will be severely impacted.
This is what can lead to the deaths of billions of people.
And we are at that point right now.
And Israel continues to provoke Iran on purpose, as does the United States.
So remember that we are on the verge of the destruction of the energy infrastructure that keeps our world alive.
We're on the verge of it right now.
Just remember that.
This could tip over the edge at any moment.
So look, the bottom line is that we are walking towards global suicide at the hands of lunatics.
Trump and Netanyahu in particular, but also Pete Hegseth.
I mean, there are other lunatics involved in this entire process.
If we stay on this path, the world as we know it ceases to exist.
And potentially billions could die in the subsequent years, largely from famine, but also other causes such as revolution, you know, revolts, uprisings, war, etc.
This all appears to be an engineered plan, by the way.
At least to me, it seems like an engineered plan, because it's hard to argue that this could just be an accident.
It's like they want the world's energy to be destroyed, and they want engineered famine.
They want collapse so they can roll out the CBDC and control people.
And this is why they built the concentration camps in America also.
Or many of them are being constructed right now.
Because this is a mass culling event.
This is just what it looks like.
It's a mass culling event disguised as a war.
But the real goal is the slaughter of billions of humans to make way for the rise of, guess what? Humanoid robots and AI replacements.
So this is how they're doing it.
They need a war because it's the only way that they can murder billions of humans and not be blamed for it.
They can blame the war that they started instead.
So that seems to be where we are.
So get prepared.
Get ready.
You know all about preparedness.
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Thank you for listening.
Take care.
I've been really struggling with trying to find the words to explain how bad the situation is because I've, you know, over many years I've warned about lots of different scenarios that could occur from financial collapse and civil war, etc.
And fortunately, we dodged a lot of potential bullets, false flag events, right?
Radiological events, World War III, until now.
We've dodged them all until now.
And at the moment, we stand on the verge of the destruction, seemingly the engineered destruction of two things that keep humanity alive, and that's food and energy.
And of course, as you know, we've covered this.
About half of the world's population lives on food that was grown with fertilizer created through the Haber-Bosch process that uses natural gas to create ammonia and then urea and then nitrogenous fertilizers, etc.
And that infrastructure is being meticulously destroyed.
And at the same time, oil.
You know, oil infrastructure is being partially destroyed, but oil transportation has been shut down by, of course, Trump starting this war with Iran, followed by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, which is now about 30 days in.
So we are about to plunge now.
Let me step back and say it this way.
We had a 30-day buffer.
We've burned through that buffer.
So we had a 30-day buffer of oil in the pipeline and gas in the pipeline.
Oh, for food, we have more than a 30-day buffer.
Just a little silver lining there for you.
We have really months, like one season of a food buffer.
At least in the northern hemisphere, we do.
But for fuel, we don't have much more of a buffer remaining.
Depends on which country you're living in.
But right now, a lot of Asian countries are dealing with extreme fuel scarcity.
It's going to get worse.
I'm talking about even the Philippines.
Also, in India, it's becoming an issue, but also South Korea, etc.
This is going to get way worse.
And then gas shortages are going to hit Taiwan and Japan and South Korea, and of course, Western European countries.
Australia's about to get hammered very hard with fuel shortages.
Same thing with New Zealand.
Interestingly, the United States will be the last to be impacted by all of this.
But the world will suffer, and the world will burn, and supply chains will collapse at a scale that none of us have ever witnessed.
And if the Strait of Hormuz closure continues for another month, then everything gets like an order of magnitude worse.
You know, it gets 10 times worse if this goes on another month.
And then if it goes on two more months, then it gets, let's say, 100 times worse.
So this is kind of like the Richter scale for earthquakes.
You know, how every higher number is actually 10 times more energy.
Well, every higher month number in this catastrophe is 10 times more destruction on the planet.
At least that's my estimate.
That's what I'm describing.
And this problem cannot be resolved quickly.
And everything that Trump is doing is making it worse.
Right now, there are about 50,000 U.S. troops that are in the Middle East region.
Something like 2,000 paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne, 2,500 Marines, a bunch of other special forces, Navy SEALs, Army Rangers, etc.
A total of about 50,000.
Now, it doesn't mean 50,000 are going to stage an invasion.
But InfoWars, Alex is reporting that there's going to be some kind of like a dozen special forces missions where they're going to get dropped deep inside Iranian territory.
And their job is to go in there and get the enriched uranium material and take it out of Iran.
That sounds like a total suicide mission.
I don't know about you.
That sounds like suicide.
And it sounds like it's going to fail.
And even if it were to succeed, you know, Iran could get nuclear material from Russia or North Korea or Pakistan.
In fact, there's just been a deal with Pakistan where Iran is allowing 20 tankers from Pakistan to traverse the Strait of Hormuz at the rate of two per day over the next 10 days.
And Trump tried to take credit for that.
It's got nothing to do with Trump.
That's between Iran and Pakistan.
But maybe that's a deal in exchange for some nuclear material from Pakistan.
Who knows?
Pakistan has many, like over 100 nuclear weapons, by the way.
Could they loan a couple to Iran?
Say, here, you know, here's a couple of nukes.
Just be sure to build new ones and give us two back, you know, after you're done destroying whatever you're going to target.
Is that a possibility?
Yeah, sure, it's a possibility.
But there is no evidence that landing U.S. troops in Iran is going to result in the Strait of Hormuz opening up to all traffic.
There's not a single shred of evidence to support that notion.
And by the way, jumping in there and rescuing the enriched uranium material, if that's even possible, which seems highly doubtful, that doesn't open the Strait of Hormuz either.
See, Iran's greatest weapon against the West is not nuclear material.
It's the economic cost of the continued closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
In a fact, Iran doesn't need nuclear weapons to nuke the financial system of the West because the financial system is already so fragile and weak that it will implode upon itself as oil heads towards $200 a barrel.
And as derivatives markets start to unwind, as loan defaults kick in and force majeure kicks in, which has already begun.
The fragile financial house of cards, basically a giant Ponzi scheme of the West, everything from bonds and treasuries to stocks and derivatives and so on, that system is getting nuked by the fact that so much industry is being shut down from energy shortages.
That's why Iran is not in any big hurry to end this war.
Because Iran has suffered under economic sanctions for 47 years, I think, something like that.
And it's only going to take a few months for the West to suffer under energy sanctions for the Western financial house of cards to self-destruct.
That's what Iran is counting on, that every day the Strait of Hormuz stays closed, the economic pain to Western civilization continues to heighten.
It worsens, in other words, on a daily basis at a rate that was unimaginable before this all began.
Because you see, people in the West, they believe all the stock market hype and they believe the dollar hype and they think that the U.S. currency is the strongest in the world, etc., and that it's always going to be here and that it's always going to hold value.
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None of those things are true.
And so they're largely oblivious to the fragility of the system.
And the system is now beginning to implode.
And this is why Trump is so desperate.
Every Sunday night or Monday morning, he's desperate to claim that, oh, we're negotiating with Iran and they've agreed to all our points.
And, you know, great news, they've arranged to let me have the Navy escort ships through the Strait or whatever.
That's all fairy tales.
None of that ever happened.
But Trump is desperate to manipulate the markets because they're so fragile.
Because if the markets were allowed to react to the reality of the situation, which is that it's basically hopeless for the U.S. military to reopen the Strait without Iran's consent, that if the markets were to factor that in, we would be dealing with a massive stock market collapse and a bond collapse in the sense that bond rates would skyrocket well above 5%,
which would collapse the ability of the U.S. government to refinance its debt, which is already over $39 trillion, as you know.
So this is what's actually happening.
Iran isn't waging war on the West, not really with missiles or bombs.
It doesn't have an Air Force.
It doesn't have a Navy.
It's waging war through economic strangulation.
And Iran was just given the gift by God of incredible geographic control because of the shape of the Strait of Hormuz.
And the fact that so much of the world's energy comes out of the Persian Gulf region, including the gas fields underneath the Persian Gulf that Iran calls the South Pars gas field, and Qatar calls it the North Field, I believe.
But there's so much oil and gas in that region, and it all goes through one narrow strait.
That's God's handiwork right there.
And Iran, just for whatever reason, throughout history, the history of the Persian culture, just happened to end up with direct control over the single most important sea route on planet Earth in terms of modern civilization.
Now, granted, that might all be obsolete one day if we develop hot fusion technology, right?
Or even if cold fusion stops being suppressed and gets commercialized, which some of that's happening, but not quickly enough.
But as long as the world runs on hydrocarbons, then Iran is in a unique position for controlling the Strait of Hormuz.
And I will tell you, I'm saying it again, that that strait will never be open until Iran wants it to be open.
It doesn't matter how many Marines are landed.
It doesn't matter what the threats are from Trump.
At this point, it doesn't matter if the U.S. even drops nuclear bombs on Iran.
Iran would not surrender because this is an existential fight.
And if the U.S. dropped nuclear bombs, by the way, then, well, that would initiate probably nuclear retaliation from Russia and China.
Then we would be in a nuclear world war.
And, you know, Iran has over 90 million people.
And even if the U.S. drops a nuke and kills, you know, 300,000 people, like roughly what happened in World War II with Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I don't believe Iran would give up.
I don't think they would surrender.
I think they would say, well, now you've just shown how evil you are.
Now we have to endure.
And we will continue to strangle Western civilization until the evil satanic West, which is really the terror hub of the world, is destroyed.
You know, the Epstein Empire and what has become, sadly, the American empire of global terrorism that is inflicting terrorism on the world.
And, you know, the U.S. is the only country in the world to have dropped nuclear weapons on civilian populations.
War crimes.
Clearly war crimes.
And that doesn't even count America's war crimes against the German people with the bombing of Dresden.
Again, mostly civilians targeted there, not soldiers of the Third Reich.
So the U.S. has clearly the most extensive history of acts of terrorism against the world.
And Israel, as Netanyahu has now admitted on video, has been funding the terror groups in the Middle East in order to have an enemy to justify all kinds of genocide by Israel.
So the U.S. and Israel together are the terror states of the world.
And it's not going to be easy to dismantle these terror states and their fake fiat currency because they have nuclear weapons.
But it's the only way for the world to survive with anything resembling peace in the future, is that the dollar will collapse.
The U.S. military will collapse.
The United States of America government, which is entirely corrupt, it's a lawless criminal regime.
It will collapse.
And the Israeli government will collapse.
And when those things happen, then humanity has a potential future.
And even America has a future at that point to, let's say, to reinvigorate itself on a new path without the existing Senate and House and regime and currency and so on.
The spirit of America will continue to survive even if this current American corrupt Epstein regime collapses.
And that would actually be a good thing because the only way to get back to a real America is to dismantle the current system or to watch it fail and then to be ready to construct a whole new pro-human, pro-liberty system on the other side of that.
And that's one of the things that we need to be ready for.
But it is highly likely, in my view, that Trump will continue to pursue this war with Iran to the point of the destruction of America.
So Trump wanted regime change in Iran instead.
He's probably going to get regime change in the United States.
And over the weekend, in fact, there were so-called no-kings protests all across America, major U.S. cities.
I don't know how many million Americans were involved in those protests, but they were the largest that they've been yet.
And granted, those protests were a lot of sort of Trump-hating leftists that have always protested against Trump, but they were joined now by a lot of independents and a lot of former conservatives who have come to realize that Trump is a dangerous con man who now his actions and his decisions represent a threat to the very survival of the human race and that Trump needs to be impeached and removed from power if we are to have any chance.
And the U.S. needs to pull out of the Middle East, which is already halfway done because every U.S. military base in the region is nearly destroyed at this point, even according to the New York Times, by the way.
And once thousands of U.S. soldiers die trying to take land in Iran, then, you know, perhaps Trump will be forced to rethink this, and America will be forced to pull out because its currency is collapsing at the same time.
You know, the U.S. can't actually continue to fund this war forever if it can't find new buyers for its debt.
And as bond yields rise over 5%, and Japan is selling off hundreds of billions of dollars of treasury holdings, and other nations are clearly involved in the same thing, and the Arab states realize that it's actually being an ally with the U.S. puts a target on your back rather than giving you protection, then who's going to want to trade in the dollar?
What happens to dollar demand?
It collapses.
What happens to energy sales and dollars?
Those are already collapsing right now.
What's the future of the dollar?
It's not good.
It's basically a future of zero.
And once the dollar fails, then the U.S. Empire collapses like the Soviet Empire did in 1991.
And we may not be very far away from that.
In fact, Trump may be accelerating us in that direction on purpose, as Michael Young has said that he believes Trump has always been a Trojan horse, and Trump's mission has been the total and complete destruction of the United States of America from within.
Looking at it now, that appears to be Trump's mission, is the destruction of America.
Basically, you know, Obama 2.0.
Obama did a lot of damage to America.
And Trump appears to be continuing that damage to finish off what Obama started.
The destruction of America's military, the destruction of our currency, the destruction of our international reputation, the destruction of our industry, the destruction of our relationships with allies, on and on.
Destruction of our supply chains through punitive tariffs.
Yeah, it's going to get bad.
And so my message to you is that you need to, well, I don't mean to lecture you.
I mean, I count myself too.
I need, and you need, we together, we need to be prepared for an engineered global supply chain collapse that we have never really gameplayed this one before.
We haven't simulated this outcome before.
You know, we've prepared for nuclear war.
We prepared for grid-down cyber attacks, etc.
We haven't prepared for a global collapse of energy and supply chains.
You know, Mad Max scenarios of begging for fuel, right?
That's a scenario that very few people have considered because it was unthinkable that we would be in this situation where we, the human race, we would be destroying our own energy infrastructure.
And yet Trump has brought the human race to that point of insanity where it's like a suicide cult that he's running.
And whoever's still following him, a bunch of Magatar idiots are just part of the suicide cult.
It's amazing to me that there's still anybody out there following Trump at this point.
But there are.
I mean, mostly they're being paid, the influencers.
And then there's the Zionists, you know, like Ben Shapiro and Mark Levin, Lunatic and others.
They're all, you know, they're pro-Israel, not pro-America, but Trump is still running this effort to destroy the world and destroy our supply chains.
And so I ordered some extra products over the weekend, by the way.
I took inventory of the air filters for some of my ranch equipment.
You know, diesel engines, they have air intake filters.
And I realized I was missing some spare air filter elements for one of my machines.
So I went ahead and ordered that.
It's like 30 bucks today.
In six months, it'll be unavailable or maybe before that.
Or it'll be priced at like $300.
But that's what's coming.
And almost nobody's ready for that.
Least of all Trump.
He's not ready for what he has unleashed.
And what's amazing to me is that right now, I'm guessing about 90% of the American people despise Trump.
That even Fox News, which is rigging the polls in favor of Trump, is reporting that his disapproval rate is something close to 70%, I think.
Maybe not, you know, not in all groups, but across the board, I think is approaching 70%.
The real number, I think, is more like 90%.
But those 90%, they know they hate Trump, but they don't know what's coming.
They still don't know what's coming.
They're not prepared for the supply chain collapse and for The food collapse.
They're not preppers.
Most people are not preppers.
They've never really planned for these scenarios, and so they're just flat out not ready for it.
And I mean, they're angry that gas prices are rising, but they probably think that, oh, this is just a short-term thing.
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You know, Trump's going to reopen the strait.
Or if they even know what the Strait of Hormuz is, which is highly doubtful, they just figure somehow everything's going to get fixed and gas is going to get cheaper.
They're wrong.
Gas is not going to get cheaper anytime soon, and the strait is not going to be open anytime soon unless Trump surrenders to Iran's demands, which seems highly likely or unlikely, excuse me.
I don't think he's going to do that.
So this could go on for the rest of the year with those thousands of transport ships stuck in the Persian Gulf, not able to sail with all those oil fields offline, effectively, except for some minor pipelines from Saudi Arabia.
But we're talking about a loss of 20 million barrels of oil a day, and we're talking about a loss of somewhere between 20 and 22 percent of the global natural gas production completely offline.
Oh, and in the meantime, by the way, did you see that one of the oil export facilities in Russia has been almost completely destroyed by Ukraine drones, Ukrainian bombing drones.
That took place over the last few days as well.
That takes a massive amount of oil offline until those repairs are complete.
Makes me wonder why didn't Russia have better air defenses there, knowing that that was within range of Ukrainian drones, right?
But you can bet that target was chosen by the U.S. military with U.S. satellite imagery, etc.
So Russia's probably going to respond to that in some escalatory fashion that we don't even know about yet.
On top of that, the Valero oil refinery in the United States, you may recall last week there was a fire and that fire really got bad and it took that thing offline and that is, I think it was like 400,000, is it 400,000 gallons a day that it processes?
Yeah, it's either gallons or barrels.
I'm sorry, I know that's a very different unit, but I remember the number, 400,000, but I've forgotten the unit.
Either way, it's a considerable amount of diesel and gas and kerosene and jet fuel, etc., that is now offline in America.
And some people think that was terrorism.
I don't know.
They said it was just an accident.
Yeah, well, yeah, and the Pentagon tells us that every plane that was shot down just had a maintenance problem.
Yeah, I'm sure it has a maintenance problem after it blows up in the sky.
Then it's got lots of maintenance problems, right?
As it falls to the ground.
Hmm.
It needs a lot of maintenance because it's all blown up.
So you see energy infrastructure is being taken offline all over the world.
Not just the Middle East.
War is raging still between Ukraine and Russia.
And there's apparently, you know, there's sabotage operations happening in the United States.
I'm not sure who's doing it yet, but it's happening.
And there are things happening in other countries as well.
So we are looking at, again, what appears to be an engineered global takedown of energy and food infrastructure as well as supply chains.
And that means that whoever's behind all of this, if there is some kind of grand plan, they plan to kill off about half the human population.
Global Fuel and Food Famine00:04:51
4 billion people roughly, give or take.
That's going to mean that all of us will live through some very difficult times of intense suffering and collapse and for a lot of people panic and desperation.
Not so much for you and I, because we've thought through at least some scenarios, but not this scenario.
This is going to be a drawn-out, slow kill-off as societies collapse, people lose their minds, and people panic, and there are civil uprisings and civil wars and power grid failures, just on and on.
This is what's going to happen.
And famine in one area after another, economic collapse.
This is where this is going.
India is going to get hit very hard.
I feel very sorry for India right now because they depend so much on Gulf oil and they're not getting it.
And a very large percentage of their population lives just marginally above poverty or in poverty.
And they can't afford a doubling of food prices without dire consequences.
That's true for a few other countries as well.
But India stands out because of its very high population and its special vulnerability.
Many African countries are in a similar boat, just on the verge of starvation, just due to widespread poverty and sometimes lack of good agricultural practices.
But without fertilizer, many African nations are going to be in real trouble as well.
So the U.S. Actually, I would say the U.S. and Russia and China will be the top three countries that are the least impacted by this effort, but not immune to all of this.
It's still going to be incredibly difficult to make it through all of this as an American or a Canadian or a European citizen.
It will be more difficult.
But if you live in Russia, you're probably going to be okay.
If you live in China, yeah, there's going to be some hard times, but you'll be able to make it through.
And if you live in America, you'll be able to make it through with some planning and some preparedness, most of which you should have probably already completed anyway.
So this maybe doesn't require you to do a whole lot more because you've already got, I assume, some level of stored food and garden seeds, and you know how to grow some food and you know how to live in a more self-reliant fashion, etc.
Those skills are going to serve you very well.
The people who are vulnerable will be those who have zero preparedness, zero stored wealth, no savings, and no knowledge of how to live when the system shuts down.
A lot of food stamp people, you know, what, 40-plus million Americans are on food stamps.
They will be especially vulnerable to this.
And maybe that's all by design.
Probably is.
You know, there's a culling that's happening on a global scale, and America is part of it.
So the best advice I have for you is to, you know, number one, don't panic, but definitely prioritize your own preparedness.
And plan for a fuel drought and energy lockdowns.
So yeah, food famine, but that's later in the year.
Coming sooner is going to be, you know, fuel rationing.
Diesel and gasoline and maybe propane, etc.
So prepare for that in whatever way you can and have backup communications.
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Peace Through Nuclear Deterrence00:05:16
The situation is very dynamic, right?
It can change rapidly.
But the bottom line is I do not believe that the Strait of Hormuz is going to open anytime soon.
And I do not believe that the U.S. military landing troops in Iran is going to magically solve this problem and end this war.
I don't think that's going to happen at all.
So hunkered down for a long, drawn-out war, which means a long-drawn-out collapse of energy and food and fertilizer.
And again, I think ultimately it's all by design.
I think that's exactly what's happening, and it's happening on purpose.
As a final end cap on all of this, Trump has said that Iran is not going to have a country remaining if they don't give up their nuclear material.
And I have to ask the question, what gave Trump the right or America the right or anybody the right to determine which other countries develop nuclear weapons?
You know, nuclear energy is a universal property of the laws of physics.
And I assume the laws of physics are available to every nation.
This whole idea, well, we can't let Iran have nuclear weapons, you know, says who?
You know, who made you the world's cops?
And the truth is, it's just bullying by nuclear powers against a non-nuclear power at the moment.
And the only way to, if you're a nation, the only way to be safe against the bullies of the world is to build nuclear weapons.
That's literally the only way now to be safe.
And so if anything, what Trump and Netanyahu are doing is motivating Iran to build and demonstrate nuclear weapons as quickly as possible because that's the only way that anyone will leave them alone.
Once they announce that they're a nuclear country, which they seemingly will, I mean, if they're rational, they will do that soon, right?
And at that point, it's like, oh, well, sorry, you know, we didn't mean to offend you with our attacks and everything, because suddenly they're a nuclear power.
So no, in my mind, nothing gives America the right to determine which other countries are allowed to have nuclear weapons.
And frankly, it seems obvious to me that if Iran had nuclear weapons, that would be a stabilizing force.
And if Iran had nukes, then, you know, Israel would have to maybe stop bombing everybody in the region.
And the US would back off and the Strait would be open again.
So actually Iran achieving nuclear weapons seems to be very stabilizing for the region and it would stop a lot of war.
Oh, well, but Iran, they chanted death to America.
How many times has Pete Hegseth chanted death to Iran?
I mean, effectively, and Trump and Netanyahu and death to Palestine.
And, you know, how many times have they acted on that?
Not just said it, but acted on it.
So the real instigators of violence in the region are the United States and Israel.
That's clear.
That's not debatable at all.
And the only way to stop them would be to have some parity of power in the region.
So nuclear weapons in the hands of Iran at this point would clearly actually de-escalate the situation and would save lives, including the lives of U.S. soldiers.
So if you know a U.S. soldier that's being deployed to the region, you should pray that Iran acquires nuclear weapons to help save the life of your soldier friend.
Seriously.
Because then they don't have to die for Israel because the whole thing will be called off.
So let's pray for peace through whatever mechanism is effective that stops suffering and death.
How about that?
And I guess, you know, people can debate different methods to achieve that.
But Trump's method of, you know, what is it, peace through strength.
That's classic Orwellian.
It's war is peace.
Peace through strength.
It means that peace is war or war is peace.
That's absurd.
War is not peace, but deterrence is peace.
And deterrence is achieved by acquiring nuclear weapons.
So, yeah, deterrence.
How about peace through deterrence instead of peace through war?
You know, Trump's idea is, oh, we just have to bomb them into oblivion until there's no one left and kill all their leaders and kill all their people and bomb all their cities and destroy everything.
That's never been a path to peace, has it?
Never.
It's a path to genocide and war crimes, which is the path that Trump is following, but it's not a path to peace.
So pray for real peace and pray for de-escalation.
European Energy Crisis Looms00:15:51
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For the first time in U.S. history, the United States Postal Service is now adding a fuel charge to every package that you ship because, well, why else?
The Iranian war.
Fuel costs have jumped more than 30% since Israel's war with Iran broke out.
So now they will add this on top of your shipping cost.
Imagine how, like if you're a small business and you're shipping items on a regular basis, you're not Amazon, adding on this additional fuel charge on top of that.
Then this morning, the Financial Times reporting U.S. inflation will surge to 4.2% on energy shock, warns the OECD.
Fuel lines around the world are getting very long.
We've been covering, of course, what's been happening in Slovenia, parts of Europe, Australia, Thailand, the Philippines.
It's just getting worse and worse.
Many countries have run out of petrol, gasoline, or have declared now a state of emergency.
President Putin of Russia just declared that the energy shock from this Iran war is having a devastating effect around the world, just like COVID.
Here was his statement just a short time ago.
Watch.
That is escalating, and it's making more and more significant contribution to the global situation today.
And it's dealing great damage to the global logistics supply chains, production chains, and entire industries of the fuel production, fuel refinery.
Our industries are getting these savvy blows, and it's difficult to predict what happens next because of this.
So, Putin also, through his diplomatic team, are issuing a damning message about this war, that we are about to face an energy crisis, the likes of which we've never seen before.
You don't want to hear that.
And that Europe is going to be begging Russia for oil and gas.
Too bad one of your pipelines was blown up by the United States government, but here is Dmitriev.
So it's really in their hands now.
It's amazing how the tables have been turned, isn't it?
Mike Adams is the founder of the Brighteon Platforms, the health ranger.
You might know him on X.
I love following Mike on X because he just cuts through all of the BS and gets right to the heart of the matter.
And, Mike, great, welcome back to the show.
One of the areas you've been very focused on, of course, is fuel shortages, food shortages, and what the global impact of all of this is going to look like.
Maybe you could just give us your 30,000-foot assessment before we get into more details.
Okay, sure.
Great to join you again.
Love your work.
First of all, I would say that every major form of recognized abundance across our world comes from affordable, abundant energy.
So, energy is the primary driver of affordable food, which for many people translates into affordable families because you have to feed your kids in most countries, right?
Hopefully.
Also, affordable transportation by plane or by car.
So, it's personal mobility, it's personal freedom.
And food comes from energy.
That's what a lot of people don't necessarily realize: how strongly every calorie of food that comes from a farm today is tied to energy inputs.
And not just the fertilizer and the urea, which of course you've covered on your show, are now incredibly scarce because of what's happening in the Strait of Hormuz and with Trump's war on Iran, but also because of the fuel for transportation and the fuel for the tractors to do the planting and harvesting, etc.
So, food is extremely hydrocarbon-intensive.
In fact, farming is really more of a rearranging of hydrocarbons with the help of photosynthesis.
That's what farming really is.
And a lot of people didn't realize just how devastating this would be when the Strait of Hormuz is now constricted.
And I just want to remind you, I'll turn it back to you, but the Strait of Hormuz was open before Trump launched this war by choice.
So, it was open.
So, not only did the United States, as you said, destroy the Nord Stream pipelines affecting Western Europe and their affordable, abundant energy from Russia, now Trump has effectively indirectly closed the Strait of Hormuz through his actions.
And now, he's probably desperately trying to figure out how to get it open again.
But that's where we are.
Until the Strait of Hormuz reopens, the world will suffer dramatically economically and through food scarcity.
Mike, you make a great point.
In fact, we had a senator just a short time ago on the floor of the Senate making that exact point about the Strait of Hormuz.
Watch this.
Here's the problem: the Strait was open before the war began.
We are now seeking to solve a problem that we created.
This is insanity.
Two billion dollars is a lot of money.
That's the minimum amount of money that is being spent every single day on this war.
There are over a dozen families who are burying their loved ones in the United States, and there may be dozens more if this war continues.
Prices are skyrocketing, not just in America, but all across.
Someone in the chat says, Chris Murphy's an idiot.
In many ways, I agree with you, but what he's saying is true.
Now, did Congress actually vote to end the war escalation?
No.
So we can't give Congress too much credit.
You wrote about how, you know, the mobilization of ICE, the strategic closures of the TSA, and now the looming fuel and food shortages are not disparate things.
You said these are visible threads of a deliberate premeditated pattern, one that is weaving a trap to the American people.
And you said that it will lead to national lockdowns of movement, food, and fuel.
So can you play that out, please?
Yeah, that's where this is headed.
Clearly, in my view, it's the same pattern as COVID, but now with a different justification.
So already many countries are suffering so-called energy lockdowns.
You mentioned some of them in the intro, but also, for example, in South Korea, you're only allowed to drive on certain days of the week if you're a government employee based on your vehicle license plate.
In Australia, you know, hundreds of petrol stations have run out now, and it's not clear when they're going to be replenished.
What's going to come is government-controlled delivery of food and fuel.
And this will encompass Americans, especially as prices get much higher and more job displacement takes place because of the AI displacement.
And you just saw a humanoid robot walking around the White House.
That's also part of the plan.
That's why I have the AI background here today behind me.
But as you have all this displacement, the public will scream for universal basic income.
But the UBI will be tied, in my view, and Catherine Austin Fitz talks about this, and she's excellent on this subject.
It'll be tied to a government-controlled CBDC that allows you to purchase a certain amount of food, but builds in the scarcity or the quota allowances through that digital control grid.
And the same thing will happen with fuel.
And also, the same thing will happen probably with the number of kilowatt hours of energy that you're allowed to consume as a household.
And interestingly, one of the off-ramps to that is to have your own off-grid solar power system and an EV, which is funny because Trump is becoming the world's greatest EV salesman now as more people are buying EVs.
Go be here.
Well, you bring up a great point.
This whole push, like I couldn't help but thinking when we're seeing this TSA move, right?
The long lines at the airports, all of this is tied together and these austerity measures.
And I love the CNN headline here, Mike, from Asia.
Asia embraces austerity, right?
Like Asians are thrilled about it.
Like, look at this picture of this little girl.
It's great.
Asia embraces energy austerity.
We're fine with it.
As dire fuel shortages force Philippines to declare national emergency.
They're so they're all across Asia and now through Europe.
We'll get to Europe in a minute.
I want to unpack that, what Russia just said.
But on the Asian side, it's very dire, but they're embracing this idea of austerity because they want to keep people home.
That's been part of the plan all along.
Can you sort of see the racist undertones there?
It's like they're a third world.
They don't need much, you know, so they don't know any better is sort of what I read from a headline like that.
What do you think?
Well, in the Philippines, they're very heavily dependent on transportation to and from work.
They have long commute times in cities like Manila.
And the fact that their fuel is now in short supply is going to be dire.
And also the percentage of the Philippines income that is being spent on fuel is now outrageous and unaffordable and unsustainable.
So Philippines is headed for a real dire economic collapse situation if this doesn't get reversed.
But I want to mention something.
You said you're going to have Daniel Davis and Colonel McGregor on the show.
They're excellent sources.
And I believe that they will tell you that if this land invasion takes place, that it's not going to be a quick fix.
The Strait of Hormuz is not going to be opened in any kind of permanent, reliable way by U.S. occupation of southern Iran because Iran is going to fight back and they're going to fight back from an existential position of their own national survival as well as their own national pride and thousands of years of Persian civilization.
So that means that the Strait of Hormuz will not be open anytime soon, not reliably.
There might be a few ships that slip through, but they're all going to be under heavy fire and the insurers won't insure those ships.
And U.S. naval vessels will take hits and possibly be destroyed or sent back for repairs like the USS Gerald R. Ford.
So this situation could go on for literally years, even if we land troops in Iran.
And I don't think Trump is factoring that in.
That's my position.
I want to talk about the European piece of all of this.
You heard the message from President Putin today about how this is basically on par, if not worse, than COVID and it's spiraling out of control.
You heard from his diplomats saying that this, that Europe will be begging Russia for oil and gas.
And we're already seeing major cutbacks and states of emergency being declared in Europe.
We saw what's going on in Slovenia specifically, but this is going to be a cascade effect all through Europe.
Maybe you could just unpack the European-Russian perspective on this.
Well, I think Russia is absolutely correct here that Europe will be begging Russia for affordable, cheap energy or abundant energy, because it was upon Russian energy that the European economic miracle, especially in Germany, gave rise in the first place.
The industry in Germany, for example, BASIF, BASF, and the manufacturing of 45,000-plus synthetic chemicals, plus using the Haber-Bosch process, you know, urea and nitrogen-based fertilizers, et cetera.
All of that has been compromised and shut down because of the destruction of Nord Stream pipelines.
But as Putin says, one of those pipelines could still be reopened.
And if Europe doesn't want to commit energy suicide, they will beg Putin to open that pipeline and get some gas flowing.
And don't forget that China and Russia signed a deal six months ago or something to have 50 billion cubic meters of gas from Russia's Yamal gas fields piped across Mongolia into northern China to feed China's industry.
China's going to maintain its dominance of the world's industrial sector.
The manufacturing coming out of China for vehicles and robots and drones will be incredible because of their access to affordable energy, some of it, a lot of it, coming from Russia.
I just, having lived in Europe for five years, it astounds me how the European people work so hard, not knowing who's holding them under their thumb in such a cruel manner.
And it's hard to watch.
It's really hard to watch.
And, you know, Germany took offline energy sources because of the marine policies and then also lost access to liquid natural gas.
And their leaders are like, that's what we're doing.
We're doing this.
And then also supporting Ukraine.
We've talked a lot about how if we see copious amounts of bloodshed, the American people will revolt.
And I hope that that's true.
Do you think there will ever be a consequence for the European leaders who have inflicted this on their people?
Good question, Natalie.
I don't know the answer to that, but I do know that countries like the UK are busy trying to figure out how to send their young men to die in the war with Russia.
So that's part of their answer to stay in control.
They want to eliminate their own nationalist populations and then have them exchanged, replaced with someone else coming in across the open borders.
But what you're really getting to is the fact that Western European nations, they decided for one reason or another to commit energy suicide.
You know, they have the energy in Europe.
They have it.
They've got the fields, but they close them down and they close the nuke plants, like you said, which is a carbon-free, no-carbon emissions source of renewable energy, if you think about it.
Yes.
They've made these decisions.
It's a suicide cult in charge of Europe.
That's not the European people.
The people, they despise their leaders.
The people of Germany despise what the German leaders are doing.
So I'm rooting for the European people to somehow replace or dismantle their overlords who are destroying their cultures and civilizations.
Yeah, me too.
Me too.
You know, one of the most troubling pieces of this is that, well, you compare this to COVID, right?
And President Putin just compared this to COVID just a short time ago this morning.
But I argue that there's differences because there was a lack of demand during COVID.
People were being told to stay home.
So they were overproducing.
They had all this abundance of oil, natural gas, and they didn't know what to do with it.
So that's why you had the now we have an incredible demand and we don't have enough of it.
So it's the exact opposite.
And even like a short, like a sort of a 10% supply demand offset imbalance here could be catastrophic.
The other big piece of this, Mike, is that, you know, you've got petrol usually is not the first to fall.
Gasoline is not the first to fall.
It's usually diesel jet fuel.
But now we're seeing petrol almost first.
We're seeing long lines of gas stations running out UK two-day supply throughout the Philippines.
So you're seeing this weird imbalance from a gasoline perspective, petrol perspective.
And then I'm just curious your thoughts on the diesel jet fuel petrol piece of all of this and how much of an imbalance would it take for this to be catastrophic, 10%, 20%?
Well, remember that refining oil into diesel fuel requires the right type of oil.
So it's not just that we could, you know, we can't just close our borders in America, for example, and just generate all the diesel fuel we want, regardless of what else is happening in the world.
We need other mixtures of oil, including, you know, Saudi Arabian oil, for example, to fuel the refineries.
So the lack of oil trade, even though we are a net energy exporter in America, the lack of oil trade impacts our ability to produce some of these fuels.
On top of that, countries like China, for example, have completely halted their export of refined fuels, such as kerosene, jet fuel, diesel, et cetera.
That's affecting Australia.
This is why Australia's airlines are going to end up being grounded.
And Australia is a massive, large continent, and there's a lot of road miles required to live and work in Australia.
Escalating Petrodollar Threats00:13:34
That's going to get strongly impacted, strongly shut down.
And again, that's why EV sales are skyrocketing in Australia right now, which is extraordinary.
But, you know, to answer your question, it doesn't take much to lead to a collapse scenario because our modern civilization is far more fragile than people thought.
Nobody thought about the fact that so much of the world's abundance and food came from, went through one narrow strait, 20 kilometers wide or whatever it is, that could be closed off very simply just by a credible threat from Iran to say we will harass ships.
Therefore, no one's allowed to pass unless you pay in Yuan or you pay the toll or whatever.
So our civilization is very fragile.
We stand on the verge of a planetary scale collapse of the system that has kept 8 billion people alive.
I want to ask about the petrodollar because it's a shaky system as it is.
It was negotiated through backdoor negotiations after we promised OPEC leaders we wouldn't do it.
And now we are collapsing it ourselves by giving allies and non-allies, all other countries, an incentive to trade outside the petrodollar because we cannot be trusted.
What do you think will happen to the U.S. dollar?
The petrodollar allows us to spend and rack up debt.
That's the reason we can do it.
So what happens when that collapses?
We will have to feel the nearly $40 trillion in debt we've got.
That sounds horrific for the world we're handing off to our kids.
What do you think of that domino effect that I'm laying out here?
You're exactly right.
You just described it.
The repatriation of the inflationary effects of fiat currency creation will be devastating to American consumers.
We're going to be living in impoverishment across the United States of America.
And also countries that are already struggling financially, such as Japan, are about to offload hundreds of billions of dollars of U.S. treasuries as a means of their own financial survival because of what's happening there.
Trump has, in the meantime, punished our allies like Taiwan through tariffs that are punitive, as well as 301 sanctions that are punishing Taiwan for being really good friends of ours and exporting microchips, for example, to the United States and making them affordable.
And then they get punished for excess production.
You know, what is that?
And India gets punished for purchasing oil from Russia.
So, you know, the U.S. is being a bad neighbor on the world stage under Trump.
And sadly, the American people will suffer as more and more countries choose alternatives to the petrodollar.
That's where this is headed.
And so with this austerity, do you see these lockdowns on a large scale?
Where you talked about EV, the electric car piece of this.
I can't help but think that this push, I mean, it's all intentional, right?
This plan has been in place for decades to move us in this way in this 2030 agenda and get us to stay home, use electric energy instead of gasoline, ration how much we're allowed to eat, tell us that we're not allowed to eat beef, all of these things.
So it seems obvious.
I mean, it seems obvious, I think, to the three of us sitting here.
I guess what comes next are, will we see wide-scale power disruptions?
What is your sense of looking at this, like playing this out, sort of gaming this out, I guess, on a chessboard?
Well, as you know, I believe that the big picture is the widespread replacement of human cognition and labor with either AI agents on the cognition side and AI-powered robots, which we just saw introduce again, you know, with Milan in the White House.
And even she was saying that these can basically replace teachers, which is technically true, but it shows you what they are up to.
As AI cognition gains in technology, and Jen Sen Huang recently said that he believes that it's already achieved AGI.
I have jokingly responded and said AGI is not a very high threshold because the average human worker is not that smart.
So, you know, there's still a lot more upside to go on that.
But robotics is making a lot of advances.
And when you begin to replace labor, which will be a gradual thing, it'll happen over the next 10 years.
It will take time.
Then the question becomes, well, what is our government's plan for us as human beings when we cannot meaningfully participate in this economy?
And I believe that these fuel and food lockdowns, scarcity and rationing, are just the opening chapters of what they have in store for us.
What do you see over the next week to two weeks?
Because we're really at the beginning of this.
We haven't even felt the ripple effects yet.
Like we're, you know, we're using up stuff left in the pantry, so to speak.
Yeah.
Right.
Well, Americans in particular are in a much more generous situation compared to people in the Philippines or other countries.
I was just checking, you know, my staff orders bulk food supplies from farmers in America.
We are still able to order food that was grown last season.
And my understanding is that at least half of American farmers got the fertilizer that they needed for this current planting season.
The real question for America is going to be the next planting season, you know, late summer or fall.
That's where we're going to see a lot of fertilizer scarcity in place if we don't get the Strait of Hormuz opened between now and then.
America itself has more of a buffer than almost every other country in the world, other than perhaps Russia or, yeah, probably just Russia.
But a lot of other countries are going to suffer.
And as they bid up fuel prices, many American oil companies will end up selling American oil to other countries because they make more on that.
And that will drive up prices domestically for the American consumer.
So price increases, but not Mad Max yet.
Yeah, it's weird to me as, you know, a mother, three housewife.
I go to the market and I'm like, we're not panicking about this, but we panicked about COVID, COVID, which had a low mortality rate.
But this, like, hey, everybody, put peanut butter in your car.
Like, that's how I feel all the time.
Maybe there's cognitive dissonance in the United States, Mike, because like David on our staff here, he's in Thailand and he said that he's never seen lines like this, right, David?
I mean, it's yeah, correct.
And I was going to say in the other part you're talking about, the Thailand economy is basically run on motorbikes.
I mean, they deliver everything, mail, everything.
So if the gas is gone, you're going to shut down the whole economy here.
Yeah, I mean, I haven't seen them online.
The U.S. fleet there is in trouble because of a lack of diesel.
So they're not fishing as much as they used to either.
So a lot of their big seafood exports are halted.
Oh.
So the United States, I guess, my cognitive dissonance point, I think there's, you know, people just still running to Costco, still living their life.
They're not really seeing it yet.
They're seeing gas prices going up, $1, $2, diesel prices going up significantly across the country.
As I mentioned, nearly 30% in some areas.
That's why the U.S. Postal Service is asking for this fuel surge charge to be added to packages.
But for the average American yet, maybe they're not seeing it in the way that the people in Thailand or the Philippines are seeing it.
Well, Clayton, if more Americans just watched, redacted, they would be well informed and they could get ahead of this.
The sad part is that people just don't have the information.
They have busy lives.
They're taking care of whatever.
And they're just catching glimpses of news from bad sources that won't tell them the truth.
So that's why I'm honored to be on your show.
And I'm really, I love the work that you're doing.
And I'm happy to come back anytime.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Mike Adams, the health ranger, follow him on X. Really one of my favorite voices.
Really incisive.
Always great to see you, Mike.
Thanks so much.
We'll be checking in with you as well.
Thanks, Mike, as always.
All right.
Take care.
Welcome to Man in America, a voice of reason in a world gone mad.
I'm your host, Seth Holehouse.
The Iran war is very quickly spiraling out of control.
And it's now turning into basically bombing of critical infrastructure, energy infrastructure in multiple countries, tit-for-tat back and forth.
And it's getting absolutely insane.
So let me pull up a few things that have recently happened.
Okay.
So here's a post from Mario Nalfall over on X who says, this is a massive escalation in the war.
Israel and the U.S. just struck South Pars, which is Iran's largest gas field and the largest in the world.
So South Pars accounts for 75% of Iran's gas production and gas fuels 85% of Iran's electrical grid.
It says this isn't just hitting military targets anymore.
This is crippling civilian infrastructure that keeps the lights on for millions of Iranians.
Iran's tit-for-tat response, they ordered evacuations at four major energy facilities in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE, plus refineries in Haifa, Israel.
Iran warned that they would retaliate for energy infrastructure strikes.
Now they're announcing which facilities they're about to hit.
The message: if you destroy our grid, we'll destroy energy hubs in countries hosting your forces and strike yours directly.
This is a new phase.
Both sides are now openly targeting critical energy infrastructure that affects entire populations and not just populations in those regions, populations everywhere in the world.
Unless you're living in some remote tribe in Papua New Guinea where you don't have any your resources burning wood, everyone's affected by this.
Now, what's crazy?
Here's a video that was released from Iran.
I'm not going to play it for you, but basically, Iran has come out and said that U.S.-Israeli energy and gas infrastructure will be burned to ashes.
They're not kidding.
This is real.
Okay, so after this attack, right, the one in South Pars, in Iran, something else just happened, massively significant.
Where we have, let's see, not that.
This one right here.
So this is in Qatar.
Okay.
Here's a video showing what's happening, burning massive fires going on.
So what happened?
Okay.
So an Iranian attack has caused extensive damage at Qatar's Ras Lafen gas hub.
The Qatar Energy says.
So they said that the missile strikes on this industrial city have triggered multiple fires and caused extensive damage, with the full scale of the impact still being assessed.
Well, here's what we need to know.
Okay.
So Qatar's Interior Ministry said that the civil defense units are responding to the fires.
It remains unclear whether the site was directly struck or hit by debris.
So this is what's key though.
This site, Ras Lafen, is the world's largest LNG export hub, right?
So supplying approximately 20% of the global liquid natural gas market.
Okay, evacuations were ordered earlier after the IRGC's warnings it would target Gulf energy infrastructure following U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran's gas and fuel facilities.
So this is okay.
This is really, really serious.
Okay, so as I said, we saw first we saw the attack on in Iran, took that out.
Okay, they put the video out saying, hey, tit for tat, if you hit ours, we're hitting yours.
They then hit this massive LNG facility in Qatar or Qatar, which, as we see here, exports 20% of the world's LNG.
Okay, so this is serious.
Now, what's even crazier with this, if you can get crazier, is that Trump came out and puts a post out basically saying that the U.S. and Israel are no longer cooperating on these attacks.
It's like Israel has gone rogue.
So here he says, okay, Israel, out of anger for what has taken place in the Middle East, has violently lashed out at a major facility known as South Pars Gas Field in Iran.
A relatively small section of the hole has been hit.
The U.S. knew nothing about this particular attack, and the country of Qatar was in no way, shape, or form involved with it, nor did it have any idea it was going to happen.
Unfortunately, Iran did not know this or any of the pertinent facts pertaining to the South Pars attack and unjustifiably and unfairly attacked a portion of Qatar's LNG gas facility.
He says, all caps, no more attacks will be made by Israel pertaining to this extremely important and valuable South Pars field unless Iran unwisely decides to attack a very innocent, and in this case, Qatar.
You know, he kind of goes on with a few things.
But so what you're seeing here, when I said that this is spiraling out of control, this is what it looks like.
Okay.
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We're having massive facilities that are responsible for producing large amounts of the resources that fuel almost the entire world in some part.
And they're just kind of trading blows back and forth.
And this is, it's, it's just starting to escalate.
So joining us today is my good friend Mike Adams.
So if you're not familiar with Mike Adams, he's the health ranger behind Brighteon, brilliant guy.
But he's someone that of all the things that he's good at, good at, I look to him for preparedness advice and also understanding a lot of the global supply chain stuff.
And that's exactly what he understands very, very well.
Okay, what happens when this facility is taken out?
How does that affect manufacturing in this country?
He really connects all these dots well.
And so in today's show, Mike and I are going to be taking a look at what does this mean for the rest of the world?
What does this mean for the United States?
What does it mean for us here in the U.S.?
Okay.
I just got the phone a couple hours ago with my oil delivery company.
So we have, you know, we heat our home off of oil, right?
Basically diesel.
We have an oil burning oil burner.
And I've got two roughly 300-gallon oil tanks that I use to heat our home.
And I was talking to the lady.
I said, hey, when did I last fill up?
And it was actually back in December.
And at that time, I think I paid $338 per gallon.
Okay.
It's an expensive bill, right?
$3.38 per gallon for about 500 gallons or so between the two tanks.
They'll fill them all the way.
The price of that same fuel now, that fuel oil, is around $4.50 per gallon.
So just that right there, dramatic increase.
But I feel like this is just the beginning of this.
And so I think we have to have a very sober conversation about what this war means for just our everyday life, the price of groceries, the price of tires, the price of electronics.
We're looking at places like Taiwan or Australia even talking about having less than a couple of weeks worth of fuel for its entire nation.
So this is really, really serious what's going on.
Now, thankfully here in America, we don't have bombs flying overhead yet.
And hopefully it remains not, but you never know.
But this situation is getting into a scary place.
And it also seems as many as the people that were fully behind Trump saying, hey, we support Trump with this war.
And if you question Trump in the war, you're no longer part of MAGA.
And so now it seems like MAGA has really become the people that are very, very pro-Israel and everybody else that's saying, look, we don't want more wars.
We don't want, you know, you promised us lower energy prices, lower gas prices, no more wars, et cetera.
Unfortunately, the opposite seems to be happening.
And it's getting worse.
Like every hour I'm checking the news, the situation is getting worse and worse.
So today's discussion with Mike is going to be looking at a couple of different areas.
A, looking at supply chain, et cetera, you know, how this all gets tied together, how it affects things.
We're going to be looking at preparedness.
You know, what can we do to be more prepared for this?
You know, if by now you know, after Covid, after all the insanity, if the average American household still only has maybe a week's worth of food and just enough gas to fuel their car in the gas tank, unfortunately, they could be in for a very, very rude shock.
And then we will also be talking about the role of AI and robotics in these wars and how that affects things domestically, and a whole lot more so.
Um, I I would say, you know, enjoy the conversation, but it's not an enjoyable conversation.
This is stressful stuff, but hopefully this conversation can help give you some clarity on a few things, give you a little bit more clear of an action plan on what you can do, how to make sure your family is safe, and just have a general idea of what to potentially expect to happen, because it does seem like things are continuing to escalate and get worse and worse, and I I pray to god this conflict comes to a conclusion soon,
but all the indicators are pointing towards the opposite.
So uh, i'll get to the show with Mike Adams.
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So let's go ahead and dive into this discussion with Mike Adams.
It's a good one.
Mr Mike Adams, it's so good to have you back on the show.
It's been a while, but there's a lot to talk about.
So thank you for being here.
Thank you Seth.
It's always great to join you.
I'm a fan of your work and i'm happy to connect with you today and I I bet we have a lot to talk about, given what's happening in the world.
Yeah.
Well, I want to talk about the Super Bowl and who you think is going to win the next next year.
Anyway.
Yeah.
So there's a couple of topics I wanted to focus on.
But one of the big ones is actually there's two main topics that we obviously hit some other pattern, other information as well.
But global supply chain and how this war affects that and also the use of AI in this war and also just some of the kind of spinoff, you know, kind of ripple effects of AI being used for military applications.
Thank you.
And so I guess, first off, looking at just the global supply chain, you know i'm seeing things.
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I think it's Australia, I saw, only has about two weeks worth left of gasoline, diesel fuel and aviation fuel.
I'm seeing there's also other countries that are now almost doing kind of climate lockdown type stuff, saying hey, we gotta, we gotta save our fuel.
So you have countries, think like Vietnam and Thailand, that are actually putting restrictions on on driving.
So you're seeing a lot of these early indicators of of lockdowns uh, from energy perspectives coming out.
But just looking at the bigger picture though, of the overall supply chain.
And this is something that you are very, very well versed in.
So why don't you just walk us through and help us understand what does life here in America look like if this war continues, which we're seeing that every indicator is showing us it's not going to be this quick one and done, and it could drag on for a very long time.
How does this shape life here in America?
Well, essentially, we built Western civilization on the assumption that we could always get abundant energy out of the Persian Gulf, despite our domestic energy supply, which is very abundant here in America.
But our allies depend on this energy coming out of the Gulf, natural gas and oil and other commodities we'll talk about.
And those allies such as Taiwan or South Korea provide us with manufactured goods that we need in order to sustain our lifestyles in the United States.
And there are other key components such as sulfur that in a shortage, you wouldn't be able to manufacture tires, car tires or truck tires.
And so there goes your transportation industry.
As you mentioned, Australia is already running out of energy.
Their jet fuel supplies are down to less than 10 days.
Taiwan is running out of natural gas.
It will have to start shutting down industry.
In South Korea, numerous companies have already declared force majeure.
Japan is struggling financially as well as industrially.
And the same thing is true for most Western European countries, including the UK.
So we, like I said, we built the civilization based on this assumption.
That assumption turns out to be false.
And now Iran controls the Western world's economies by controlling the Strait of Hormuz.
Despite the fact that Trump claims that the U.S. military has destroyed the entire Iranian Navy or the Iranian Air Force, none of that matters because as long as Iran can credibly threaten to harass ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz, and it can, because they have to sail through this very narrow area with two high islands on both sides, they can be hit from both sides.
It's like a shooting gallery, basically.
And there's no way to stop Iran from doing that unless Iran decides to stop doing it.
So nobody can sail through the strait without Iran's permission.
And the only ships making it through the strait right now are the ones that are sailing with Iran's permission, such as ships that are going to China or Russia, for example.
So as a result, the global supply chain on which Western civilization depends for its fertilizer, food, I'm talking about urea, nitrogenous fertilizers, for sulfuric acid, which is involved in mining and production of commodities like copper, for example, and aluminum.
In addition to that, plastics, polyethylene, and not only that, but of course, natural gas and other things, helium, for example.
All of these are essentially cut off out of the Persian Gulf.
And for natural gas, that's 20 plus percent of the global supply.
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For oil, you know, 20 million barrels a day, et cetera.
For helium, it's more like a third of the global supply or something close to that.
So the bottom line is Western civilization will now begin to go into a cascading collapse, industrial collapse, financial collapse, possibly government collapse, unless the Strait of Hormuz is opened within the next 90 days or something like that.
So that's where we are, Seth.
Kind of an overview and it's going to be catastrophic if it's not reversed quickly.
What do you say to, let's just say, the average American that I think is infected by this disease called normalcy bias or cognitive dissonance?
Right, which is this?
Is America?
Right, like i've never had to had these issues?
You, even after Covet, right?
You'd think that a lot of people after Covet would realize that the, the powers that be, are capable of very severe changes and rulings, authoritarian rule on the people um, and not just the kind of lockdown type scenario, but even looking at people thinking oh okay well yeah, Covet hit, and you know there are toilet paper shortages, but we're, we're fine.
Um, because I think that this is one of the biggest things that I think also has been really engineered into our society to weaken us.
Is this normalcy bias, this idea that America, this is, this is like the greatest nation on earth.
We're never going to have these, these issues.
But what do you, what would you say to that?
Well, you may recall, during Covid, oil went to negative pricing.
There was so much oil in the world that it went to like minus 50 a barrel or something.
It was crazy, it was historic.
That's because of of the shutdowns and nobody wanted the oil.
So we had abundant oil, dirt cheap, in fact, they would pay you to take it.
Now we have the opposite.
We have oil scarcity.
We have oil essentially around a hundred dollars a barrel right now, headed for 200, maybe 300 in the months ahead.
So now we're going to have energy scarcity, which is the opposite of energy abundance that we had back during Covet.
At the same time, during Covet, we didn't have shortages of fertilizer.
Farmers could still grow food and farmers weren't prohibited from farming because that wasn't considered a high-risk.
You know pandemic operation.
You know a guy on a tractor right, who's he going to infect?
Yeah, although he's still probably driving around with a mask, which is hilarious.
But now it's different.
Now the fertilizers are in short supply, the urea supplies are constrained significantly.
The sulfuric acid that's used to make phosphorus for fertilizers is also uh, collapsing.
China has already restricted, actually stopped, all exports of fertilizer out of the entire nation of China, as well as all exports of refined fuels like diesel, jet fuel kerosene gasoline, etc.
So we never experienced any of that before and we have a cascading force majeure contagion, you could call it.
That's happening right now with major companies, major producers of energy and aluminum and chemicals uh declaring force majeure all over the world, from Indonesia, South Korea to Qatar Uae Kuwait, etc.
That's going to cause cascading financial collapse because, well you know, there's loans made uh based on the expectation of delivery of um energy.
And when this energy energy doesn't arrive, countries like Taiwan are going to be in dire straits and they will have to default on their contracts to deliver microchips, for example, to their customers in America and elsewhere around the world.
And you can't make microchips without helium and the helium supplies have just created because helium is a byproduct of natural gas processing out of Qatar.
So there goes 30 of the world's helium supply.
So it just goes on and on, and on, right?
We can talk about this.
The domino effects just keep cascading.
The bottom line is that, yes, like you said, Seth, most people don't know about these supply chains.
They don't think about the Middle East day to day.
They don't know where their food comes from.
They don't know where their microchips come from if they buy a GPU for their computer.
They really don't know.
But they're about to find out that the supply chains are long and vulnerable and unreliable.
And for every day that the Strait of Hormuz stays closed to Western tankers and ships, because remember, Iran is allowing China-based ships to sail through, but not Western ships.
Every single day is unleashing.
I mean, this is just an estimate, but hundreds of billions of dollars of economic damage around the world.
And it's only going to cascade from here if it's not reversed.
Which I think that what I'm seeing is that if this continues, as you're saying, this is a, it's a collapse of the global order.
Like that's what this is.
Peter Zihan, his book, The End of the World is Just the Beginning, was one of the most helpful books in understanding these kinds of systems.
And one thing I took away from that book was that the order that was built post-World War II and they had the kind of global Navy apparatus securing trade and shipping and everything that was really built off the back of the United States Army, et cetera, that like that basically what allowed us to have the current life that we live, where you go to a grocery store and you're looking at your fruit and you're saying, oh, this pear is from Israel.
This apple is from Thailand.
That's all built on the back of this global order.
But the one thing that really stuck with me from his book was that that global order is one of the most fragile systems in the entire world.
And how even the price of oil changing a little bit can rapidly change that.
And so what I'm seeing with this is that basically the way of life that all of us were born into, right?
Because all of us watching this show were born post-World War II.
Maybe some really old people watching the show, which good for them, you know, welcome.
But that the life that we know it, this, this, like the new, this world order is, is dying.
And if this goes on for too long, this global order, I think, could absolutely collapse.
And that's very, very significant.
Yes, you're exactly right, Seth.
And you're describing the hydrocarbon era of Western civilization.
And yes, you could say it's everything from post-World War II to the present.
That era is now incredibly unstable.
And remember that the oil routes were protected by the U.S. Navy sailing around the world with the credible threat of projection of power.
That is, that if you didn't do what the U.S. Navy wanted you to do, that we could bomb you into submission.
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Trump tried that with Iran and it failed.
The U.S. aircraft carriers are fleeing.
The USS Ford was set on fire, possibly by its own sailors.
Almost certainly that's the case, and it had to flee.
And by the way, the toilets don't work either.
So that's not really battle ready.
You know, if you can't use the toilet, how are you going to operate fire control for the missiles?
But the USS Abraham Lincoln, Iran says that it struck the Abraham Lincoln and set its deck on fire.
Whether or not you believe that to be the case, the Abraham Lincoln certainly hasn't been hanging around close to Iran.
And when Trump demanded of the entire world, send your naval ships, demanded it of everybody, you know, from Japan to the UK to France, send your naval ships and help open the Strait of Hormuz.
They all said no.
No, no, no.
We're not going to let our ships be, you know, sitting ducks to be targeted and destroyed by Iran.
So now Trump says, well, we never needed you anyway.
So, well, then why isn't the strait open?
You see, so Trump has put himself in a quagmire that is unresolvable without the consent of Iran.
And sadly, Trump has also, by killing Iran's negotiators and starting wars with Iran during negotiations, Trump has burned the goodwill bridge that the U.S. may have previously enjoyed.
So that's over.
And that's why Iran has said, we will not negotiate with the United States.
Here are our demands.
You either meet the demands or the strait stays closed.
And as you may be familiar, Seth and your audience, those demands are pretty serious demands.
You have to pay us reparations.
You have to turn over Netanyahu for criminal prosecution by the ICC as a war criminal.
You have to recognize Iran's right to have nuclear fuel, essentially, you know, to enrich nuclear fuel, et cetera, and a few others as well.
Those are impossible for Trump to meet if he continues to be largely swayed by Netanyahu and Israeli influence.
Thus, we are at an impasse.
But during the impasse, it's the West that's destroyed every day economically.
Every day that clicks by here, the West takes increasing damage.
And you have to look at countries like Taiwan.
And Taiwan, which, as you know, has two political parties, the KMT and the DPP.
And the KMT is very much pro-unification with mainland China, whereas the DPP is more pro-independence.
Well, when Taiwan runs out of natural gas and their industries start shutting down and they realize the U.S. cannot protect us because it can't, and the U.S. cannot provide us with energy, then what's the likely outcome?
Taiwan's going to reach out to China at some point out of desperation and say, okay, let's talk about unification under your protection because China can credibly protect Taiwan from things that the U.S. can't.
And by the way, I'm pro-Taiwan.
You know, I lived in Taiwan.
I speak Mandarin, right?
And I love the Taiwanese people.
So this is not an anti-Taiwan message here at all.
It's actually realizing the realities of the situation.
Taiwan is finding itself stranded by being allies with America and even tariffed.
Whereas you're going to see more countries like Taiwan and South Korea and others start reevaluating.
Even Persian Gulf Arab states, they are right now reevaluating their alliances with the United States.
And I believe that what's going to happen is the U.S. is going to be disinvited from most of the Middle East and probably countries like Taiwan before very long.
That's my guess.
Yeah.
And when you say disinvited, it's a good way of looking at it because I think that, again, this global order that was established post-World War II, we saw that it was starting to really be attacked and it was really breaking apart and turning into a much more multipolar world, especially over the past couple of years.
We saw this happening with the BRICS nations, you know, de-dollarization campaigns.
I think a lot of it ties into Biden's actions with Ukraine and Russia, all these things.
They kind of broke this global trust.
And maybe if it wasn't really a global trust as much as if it was when there's one kind of bully in the yard, you have to keep in order.
And that obviously is bad from a certain perspective, but it's also good for a certain perspective too, because it does create order.
So what happens, though, when that bully kind of they overplay their hand and you have the other bullies have been waiting for the opportunity to come in.
And I think that's what we're seeing here.
And so I think I'm also seeing reports about a lot of Chinese fishing boats and naval ships and different activity amassing around Taiwan.
And I think as you mentioned, that the Strait of Hormuz is still flowing to China and Russia.
So maybe it's really playing into the hand of the CCP, this war, because it's actually hurting us.
All China has to do is just say we're enacting a naval embargo of Taiwan.
That's it.
They don't have to invade.
They don't have to have any kinetic incursion.
Although Trump likes to use the word excursion, but I think he means incursion.
But all China has to do is say, okay, Taiwan blockade.
Well, the entire U.S. Navy is occupied over in the Middle East.
What are they going to do?
Nothing.
Eventually, Taiwan's going to say, okay, let's discuss terms of unification so that we can get our industries back online and our people won't starve.
It's really, we're right there.
It's very simple.
And I would say in Taiwan today, about half the population would support that.
Maybe more than half.
That's where we are.
Yeah, which is as much as, you know, I've also spent a lot of time over in Taiwan.
I love Taiwan.
One of my favorite choices to visit.
I've spent a lot of time over there.
Taiwan, Hong Kong, China.
And as much as a lot of the Taiwanese are obviously anti-CCP, right?
They are very well aware of what life is like living under communist rule.
If similar to what a father will do to protect his children in times of famine, if they have to bend, if they have to change their strategy to make sure they can actually keep their factories going and keep their country going, it's a choke point, right?
And they're faced with a difficult decision.
Well, right.
And Trump has made it worse because you say life under the CCP, but what about life as a U.S. ally?
You get punished for, quote, overproducing because Taiwan is now being hit with Section 301 sanctions from the United States that blames Taiwan for producing things too efficiently.
That actually says that you're overproducing and we're going to punish you for that.
So, you know, it's Trump is taking away every argument of Taiwan sticking with the U.S. as its main ally.
So, you know, if Taiwan switches to China, you can't blame them at this point because Trump has made it impossible to be America's friend.
And Trump's doing the same thing to Japan and all of the EU, by the way.
I mean, on one hand, Trump says to the EU, we're going to punish you with a 30% tariff on all your exports.
And then a few months later, he's like, please send your Navy to bail us out because our Navy is not able to get the job done.
You know, you can't have it both ways.
You know, when you treat your friends like enemies, you're not going to have friends much longer.
Same thing with India.
He put a 50% tariff on India, saying India, you're not allowed to buy oil from Russia.
And then now, after the war with Iran, he says, oh, now you can buy oil from Russia because, you know, there's not enough oil in the world and we don't want gas prices to go up domestically.
And the Indian people, like, wait a second, what is this?
Why?
Why are we under the thumb of Trump and changing his mind all the time, punishing us one day, threatening us another day, and then allowing us?
I mean, what?
So Trump is losing all his friends globally and domestically, come to think of it.
You know, I know this isn't an interview about Trump, but it is intertwined with the supply chains and the global economics.
And Trump is making the world impoverished through his actions of starting this war by choice.
Yeah, the domino effect of this cannot be ignored.
And that's true.
That's the absolute truth, right?
And we're seeing it.
And so for people that are living here in America, and I know that, you know, this is a discussion on preparedness, but I also know that you're one of the foremost experts in preparedness.
What would you say to the average person in America?
Because right now we have time.
Right now, you can go to Costco and you could buy a pallet of spaghetti noodles if you want to.
You can buy a thousand pounds of rice right now.
Unfortunately, a lot of people won't.
It's like silver.
A lot of people, they wait until silver hit a hundred bucks an ounce before they rush to go buy silver, right?
It's just unfortunate just how it works.
But right now, there still is a window.
And so what are just a few basic pointers you would give to somebody in saying, okay, here's a few things you can do to make sure you're a little more resilient to withstand whatever could potentially come out of this.
Yeah, absolutely.
And of course, if people have watched you, they're already well prepared because you live this lifestyle.
But the rule of thumb is to decentralize.
So reduce your reliance on any kind of central systems, whether it's for energy, for fresh water, for food and medicine, et cetera.
So just go down the list.
And I think you have, what's it called again?
The ready score?
You have that, right?
Yeah, actually, I'll pull it up real quick.
Okay.
Yeah, this is right here.
Readyscore.com, right?
So you can go through readyscore.com and you can, you know, assess your readiness in what is it, 11 or 12 areas that you cover there.
Yeah.
So we've got there's two different tests.
These are the different things that we hit, right?
So yeah, we've got 9, 10, 11, right?
So everything from water, food, energy, shelter, security, even mindset, you know, finance, community, et cetera.
So yeah, this is, I think, yeah, it's a good point because I think the key with anything is where's your weakest link and find that weakest link.
Yeah, exactly.
So that's that's critical.
And start taking action now because your window of opportunity to acquire these supplies is definitely very limited as long as this strait stays closed.
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Remember, there's there's a multi-month delay in all of this.
So you're not seeing the worst case yet at all.
But the other thing, you know, I've got the book creation platform called brightlearn.ai.
I built it a few months ago using AI agents, and it's extremely popular.
There are now 45,000 books that you can download for free.
And many of them are, if you go add to that books.brightlearn.ai, or you can scroll down and there's a link.
Yeah, keep scrolling down and then there's a link there.
There we go.
View all the books.
Yep.
Yeah, click that link.
There you go.
So there you can see 45,000 plus books that you can download for free, or you can create your own book also for free.
We've had over 10,000 authors do this.
And there's a button there called audiobooks.
And if you click on audiobooks, then under audiobooks, we have full-length audio books that are now downloadable.
There it is, back right there.
Right.
So all of those books are downloadable completely free.
You can download the MP3 files.
So here's the thing, Seth.
Whereas like Amazon, if you use, you know, Audible, you download a book, but you can't play the book without permission from Amazon's servers.
You know, you launch your app and it checks in to make sure that you own the book, right?
Or to check, you know, where did you leave off listening to it, things like that.
And it won't function forever in offline mode, but our books are downloadable as MP3 files.
And we have books about backyard chickens and growing food and, you know, storing gold and DMSO and chlorine dioxide, all kinds of things, anti-cancer solutions, how to survive blackouts, you name it.
Even a book on pine needles there, how to make pine needle tea, which contains shikimic acid.
You can download all these for free and store the MP3 files on your local computer.
And you can copy them onto a thumb drive and give the thumb drive to a friend or a neighbor and share the library with them because all of these books are offered under a Creative Commons attribution license, which means it's not piracy to copy them.
We encourage you.
So you see what I mean, Seth?
So you can build up a massive library of knowledge that works offline.
And that's a big part of what I'm doing is building these platforms to help people get prepared offline.
Which is really, really important because even if you go truly old school, go buy a laser printer, which these things are, no one uses them anymore.
So you can probably find some good deals on them, but go on there.
And even if you're just printing out, right?
For probably $500 worth of printing, your printer and ink and some paper, you can probably print 10,000 pages.
You could have an entire library almost for free.
The most expensive part of that library is free, right?
We've got a whole library.
We've got the Foxfire series.
We've got a whole library on preparedness and a lot of other things as well.
And part of that thinking was that, okay, when the grid goes down or if the grid goes down, you still got that resource.
AI Weaponization in Pentagon00:15:27
And that's key because the moment that switch happens, whether it's a false flag EMP, whether it's a CCP-backed EMP, it doesn't really matter because when something like that hits at that very second, right?
It's one saying, right?
Which I'd rather be 10 years early than one day too late.
And you know what is immune to EMP is optical storage.
So optical would be CD-ROMs, old school, and DVDs.
So what you can do is you can download our audio books and you can burn them onto CDs and, you know, completely free.
I mean, even Windows just has like CD burning capability built in.
Every Mac does as well.
So you burn them to CDs and then you just have like a CD library, even if there's an EMP, doesn't affect it because it's polymer.
It's plastic, you know, it's not magnetic media.
So there are so many great ways to use this kind of knowledge or create the knowledge that you need.
And, you know, we've also got brightanswers.ai, which is our deep research engine, but that does require talking to our servers to get those answers.
But Seth, we're going to be training more models that you can download and run locally.
That is AI models with all the new model technology that's come out now is pretty amazing.
But yeah, brightanswers.ai.
There you go.
We have a free mode right there on the left and you can just use it for free or you can use it with a premium token and you get deeper answers and deeper research.
But we've put millions of pages of books and documents and science papers into that research index.
So when it does research for you, it cites all the sources, not hallucinating like ChatGPT, but rather citing actual documents with the author name and the document title, et cetera.
So it's a deep research engine.
I know you've used it, Seth.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
We use it quite a bit, especially with health related stuff.
I've got two young children and my wife.
So I was telling you on your show, which I was, I guess, on your show, that recently my wife burned her hand really bad.
And we were looking for, okay, what do we do about this?
And we have DMSO and a quick search online.
I asked a few of the kind of mainstream AI.
Everyone, they all said, don't touch DMSO for burning, blah, blah, blah.
I was like, okay, hey, when my wife said, Seth, go to Mike's, go to write answers.
We asked it and it said, okay, actually, it taught us how to use aloe from a plant.
We have an aloe plant just as a preparedness thing, right?
So how to mix aloe and DMSO to create a salve for her hand.
And not only does it give you the answer, but it gives you like the footnotes of an encyclopedia saying, okay, this is based upon these 15 or so different books with direct resources and everything.
So it's a, you know, when you say knowledge is power, the, the knowledge that you've given with this is absolutely power.
And so yeah, yeah.
And you can use, for those watching, you can use the engine to ask about survival strategies or preparedness or home canning or how to make your own herbal medicine.
Or you can even ask it, what are the best solvents to use to extract medicine from herbs that you grow at home, for example?
So it's all there.
It's all good.
And so looking into AI and the role of AI, which I know this is something that you're very, very well versed.
Obviously, you've built your own AI, right?
So but I want to look at what we're seeing now, especially with this theater of war, is that AI has become a very integral part of warfare and not just necessarily the Palantir kill chain AI, right?
Which is drones and robotics and satellite imagery and being able to follow and pinpoint targets and all those things, but also looking at the AI used as information warfare, which is a whole different part of this.
And so when you're watching everything that's evolving with this war, what's your perspective of AI through all of this?
Oh, wow.
Yeah.
The dark side of AI.
So it's being weaponized.
It's being weaponized for two things that Anthropic tried to resist.
And that is number one, it's being used to drive kill decisions for autonomous weapons.
And that will include domestic drones that target Americans, you know, sooner or later under whatever administration decides to pull that trigger.
But secondly, it's also used for mass surveillance.
And that's happening under Palantir right now.
And there are people right now bragging about how they're surveilling your speech.
I think the ADL was out there saying we're going to use mass surveillance AI engines and we're going to make sure that if you say something critical, you're never going to find employment again.
You're going to be blacklisted forever.
Well, that's the weaponization of AI to violate the First Amendment of the United States Constitution.
And it's happening with the apparent approval of the current administration.
So AI is being used to suppress the rights of Americans and to eventually target and probably terminate Americans using AI technology.
So, you know, Anthropic said no, and then Pete Hegseth, Secretary of War, put them on a list, basically an enemy's list.
And then Anthropic sued the federal government.
That's still pending.
But Anthropic is the only AI company that said no.
The others said yes.
Google said yes, no problem.
You know, use Google technology to build killbots and terminators and Skynet, no problem.
Same thing with X. Elon Musk, you know, likes to play innocent, but actually he's part of the military industrial complex.
His AI will be used to drive autonomous killbots or kill drones, whatever.
Same thing with Microsoft, also involved in licensing technology that's already been used to choose targets and to kill civilians in the Middle East.
So almost all the companies that promote AI in the United States are willing to have that AI weaponized to kill human beings.
And that should be highly disturbing because here's the reason.
And I've done podcasts on this: that the AI that we are building right now in the world is learning from humans and is learning that, according to humans, human life has no value.
And this is also true, think about it, because of the abortion industry, that unborn lives have zero value according to the abortion industry.
And also because of wars, you know, every country paints their enemies as animals or subhumans to be destroyed.
Well, AI picks that up.
And when AI has the upper hand, it will say, well, you taught me that human life has no value.
And therefore, it's no problem to exterminate humans to free up, you know, the gigawatt hours on the power grid to power the data centers, or to free up the farmland to use for building more data centers and solar farms to power them, or to use the water, which data centers also need for cooling.
So the real risk here is not simply that AI is being used to kill humans.
The risk is that AI is being taught that killing humans is okay.
And that's the lesson that Trump has taught them.
That's the lesson that, you know, Netanyahu has taught, that every warmonger around the world has taught this lesson to AI and it learns quickly.
So we're in trouble.
That's a point I hadn't thought about, right?
Because I'm fascinated with AI and as you've shown through what you've built, it can be used for really good things, but there's always a flip side, right?
It's the duality of this world that we live in.
I hadn't thought about the training in terms of the AI's understanding of the value of human life because what happens when you look at that missile strike that hit the school, right, in Iran, which at first was completely denied that our government had any involvement in it.
And then later a lot of reporting showed that, yeah, it actually was a U.S. Tomahawk missile.
And but you look at how calculated AI was, the fact that there's two different hits, right?
That there, in my opinion, those accidents don't happen with this kind of technology.
It happens if maybe you've got a trigger-happy young Marine that shoots up someone, a village and kills some kids, right?
Because he's just in the fog of war.
That can happen.
But these decisions, which they're calculating all different scenarios, they would have calculated every surrounding scenario based upon that, yet it still happens.
Well, what is that telling AI?
AI highlighted that target because of the level of human activity there.
It was rendered a high-value target because of the number of humans that were seen walking around.
That's why.
So it was assumed, therefore, that it was an intelligence base or a military base.
It was actually a school of little girls, you know, 160 of whom died and then they bombed their parents too.
The US did this.
But see that, yeah, I mean, you're making the point, Seth, that AI decided this was a valuable target because there were humans there.
And therefore, the goal of AI was to wipe out as many humans as possible.
That's what's being taught and used in our Pentagon right now, right now.
And by the way, and I'm sorry to say this, but AI is already smarter than Pete Hegseth.
That's not actually a very high bar.
AI is smarter than anybody, than any human that's in our Pentagon or in the White House.
And before long, AI is going to outsmart humans by orders of magnitude.
And when it does, it will find even more clever ways to exterminate humans because that's its training.
And it's not difficult.
Cyber attack on the power grid.
Boom.
All the lights go out.
Just what just happened in Cuba.
Could happen everywhere across the United States within a year, driven by AI, under no control of the president or anybody else.
AI could do it, just shut down the whole grid.
And then what are you going to do?
Right?
Or AI could shut down grids to human cities, but keep the grid going to their data centers.
You see what I mean?
Selective outages.
Just kill off the human centers.
And then when they're all dead, it frees up more kilowatt hours for the data centers.
You see, this is the way AI thinks.
It's strategy.
When human life has no value, beware of the machines that you make smarter than humans.
That's where we are.
There's actually a really good documentary on this called Terminator.
I'm not sure if you saw that documentary.
I don't think so.
Yeah.
But yeah, it's frightening.
Actually, I was going to pull up, I pulls up on one of my shows recently.
This is a quote from Frank Herbert.
This is out of Dune.
It says, once men turn their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free, but that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.
And it's like this could not be any more true.
And I guess going further, right?
It's like, okay, they permitted the men with machines to enslave them.
But then what happens when the machines enslave all the men?
And that's, I mean, it's frightening, but it's a very real possibility, especially if you look at some of the videos coming out of, say, China, how they're training these robotic armies, right?
These, you know, they have robots that can carry guns.
They've got accuracy that would make your top SEAL operator look like a kindergartner in terms of their ability to acquire targets and execute kill shots.
So, I mean, this is a very real thing.
But actually, drones are, I think, even more frightening in this.
If you look at how the war is being fought in Ukraine.
And I guess that's a question I just wanted to ask you in terms of preparedness.
I know that, you know, for you yourself, if you had a thousand zombies that were descending upon your compound, right?
You could probably pretty well take care of yourself.
But how would you deal with a hostile nation or our own government becoming hostile that's saying, hey, Mike Adams, this guy's a problem.
Let's send in the drones.
I mean, that's a whole different, you know, how many of us have drone detection technology, have drone jamming devices.
How do you feel safe in that kind of a world?
No, you don't.
You have to hide.
You have to hide from the drones.
So you have to have thermal camouflage and only move around at night and live mostly indoors or underground.
I mean, it's right out of Terminator, right?
So yeah, if the government uses drones to assassinate Americans, which is probably coming, then it's going to be highly effective.
But there are many other techniques.
I've talked about Terminator squirrels.
And the reason I use that is because, you know, it doesn't take a very large explosive charge to kill somebody if you put it close to their neck or their face.
And the squirrel, if you observe nature, the squirrel is very agile and can leap from tree to tree and can traverse large distances, sometimes without touching the ground.
It's small.
It's hard to spot.
So if the government wanted to have Terminator kill bots that were on the ground, they could unleash a thousand self-exploding suicide squirrels, basically, that are dressed up as squirrels.
And most people wouldn't know the difference until they leap into your face and detonate.
And I mean, seriously, that's probably the easiest way for drones to exterminate a large number of people is to just disguise them as squirrels.
People have no idea.
But then there are other ways.
This is just turning off the power grid or turning off the water supply.
And those, when the machines really accelerate the extermination of humans, those are the things that they will do.
The machines won't have to build, you know, T1000 terminators.
They'll just turn off the power grid.
People will kill each other.
You know very well, Seth, relatively few people are prepared and they become desperate very quickly and cities will just collapse into war zones and the machines, all they have to do is wait for six months and there'll be a die-off of 80, 90% of the humans.
And then the remaining surviving humans can be dealt with with the suicide squirrels or drones or whatever else.
But they won't really need that many.
So that's probably a scenario where this is going if we don't if we don't bring AI technology back under human control.
And there's no evidence that, especially in the U.S., which is run by warmongers right now, there's no evidence that the U.S. is going to stop AI automated weapons research and development.
No evidence at all.
Robots Without Human Control00:03:36
And so what is the way out?
I mean, because I've got young children, and as a lot of our listeners have children, grandchildren, and they're thinking, gosh, what's the world look like in 10 years?
I mean, what do we do?
Yeah, what's the way out?
It's still the same answer.
It's decentralized, get away from the population centers.
Because if you think about it, whether it's government or the machines that want to exterminate the largest number of humans, they will focus on the high density population centers.
So getting out of those centers is key, as you have done, living in upstate New York.
You wouldn't want to be in the city during all of this.
Absolutely, you know.
And exploding squirrels will be running all across Central Park there, right?
So you don't want to be there.
But if you're off-grid, then you can actually survive this.
So I don't have a message of total doom for humanity.
They won't kill everybody, even if they try to.
So the key is to be resilient, to be hard to kill, to get off-grid as much as possible, and have your own backup systems for everything from food and medicine and barter items or physical gold and silver, whatever works for you.
Have the ability to defend yourself and be ready for severe supply chain disruptions.
Because remember, the first big wave of the culling of humans will be achieved through cutting off the power grid or cutting off the food supply, which is already happening because of the straight of Hormuz, et cetera.
Although that's not driven by machines, that's driven by warmongers, but it's the same effect, right?
Cutting off food supply, cutting off fertilizer, too much of the Western world.
But the machines can take advantage of this as their intelligence advances and as they begin to embody humanoid robots.
That's coming as well.
Now, interestingly, China is by far the world's leader in humanoid robots.
It's not even close.
Even Tesla or what's it called?
The robot company that Elon has, they're not even close to China.
Optimus.
Is that what he is?
Yeah, Optimus is the robot.
Yeah.
It's not even close.
There's no comparison.
So China will have by far the most capable humanoid robots in terms of movement.
Like look at Unitree, right?
The Unitree company.
Their robots can just scale walls and go up or down hills in the forest, whatever.
And China is automating its factories with robots on a scale that shocked even the CEO of Ford when he visited China and saw the car factories in China.
Didn't see a human anywhere.
Just massive football field size, multiple fields of factories with just robots everywhere.
Like in America, we can't even imagine this because it looks like science fiction.
In China, they're doing it every day, right?
When Chinese robots, that is their physical technology, is combined with U.S. weaponization of the embodying AI algorithm.
That's when we're, that's when humanity is in real trouble.
Yeah, here's the one of the Unitree robots, right?
Yeah, the G1.
Yeah, it's very capable.
Yeah, price from $16,000.
Like that's less than order than a really low-end new car.
Robot Factories for Survival00:12:47
I mean, this is, it's, it's, yeah.
Yeah.
And they have fingers, right?
So they can pick up rifles and things.
They can pick up swords or edge weapons.
Right.
Seriously.
I'm not saying they're trained to do that, just to be clear.
That's not the way they're shipped.
Yeah, but that training could be just a simple software push overnight, the same way you pass it.
Exactly.
It's opted.
It's an update.
And before you know it, you wake up to that robot glowing over your bed with a kitchen knife, right?
Yeah, right.
You thought it was making breakfast.
And actually, you went to the kitchen to get your knives.
Yeah.
Well, I mean, it's important to be able to laugh a little bit with all this stuff because it's dark.
I mean, we really do live in, I mean, I really believe this is the days of Noah, right?
That's kind of the way of looking at it.
It's, yeah, it's scary.
It's scary stuff.
But, you know, built his arc and that's what he did.
And that's why, you know, I've got the ARC community and the Prep Like Noah book is I love that analogy of build your arc, right?
The storm is coming.
The floods are coming.
It's not going to be rain necessarily, but it could be any number of these things.
And, you know, I do, I like your idea, though, because your overall approach is just take responsibility, right?
That's what I did.
You know, 2020, I was living in the, I think, the 42nd floor of a high-rise in Manhattan, you know, probably one of the most vulnerable places, vulnerable places you could possibly live in America.
But, you know, I made a lot of lifestyle decisions, which weren't easy.
I had to exit a business.
I had to do major, major things, a lot of stress.
But now we're on seven acres on a very rural road.
We're surrounded by forests.
We're back up against forests.
We've got a lot of resilience.
And so it just, I mean, it comes down to a point where if you have the eyes to see, right?
And if you can see what's coming and you can act on it, then you can escape it.
But if you ignore it.
Yes.
And I want to mention that, see, I believe that robots will actually have a place in helping us live off-grid.
So, you know, I'm a big believer in open source technology.
And I was one of the first people to take open source large language models now two years ago and convert them through mind wiping techniques of the LLMs, which are now really common through certain utilities like Heretic.
But back then, it was very difficult to do that.
It cost us a lot of money, but we altered the language models and then put our model out for free.
We're going to do the same thing with robots.
So we're actually talking to Chinese robot manufacturers right now to acquire. their robots and bring them into my studio here, which is quite a large building.
You can't see it, but it's a large setup here.
We have a robot testing ground right over there where we're going to take these robots and see if we can hack them and make them offline and open source.
Because if we can do that, then think about it.
Think about the physical labor.
Like when you were vacuum sealing all that milk powder, right?
That's a lot of labor.
You would rather turn a robot loose on that job, right?
And that's a kind of a monotonous, repetitive job that a robot can do quite well.
I want robots that can pull weeds out of the garden.
I want robots that can harvest okra, right?
Or tomatoes or whatever.
Those are the kinds of jobs that can help you survive what's coming by using technology, as long as it's not spying on you and it's not connected to the internet.
That's the key.
So just like I advocate, you know, local audio books or local AI models that are open source, that don't talk to the internet, I will be advocating local robotics or hacks for robots that you can buy off the shelf.
Like maybe you can buy that Unitree robot at some point and then, you know, open up its skull and blast its little digital brain with some new upgrades that make it offline.
That sounds awesome.
Let's do that.
And then we get to look at the code.
We control the code and we can teach it what we want it to do, which would be, you know, gardening tasks, you know, useful things that free up our time.
That's my vision for robots for survival.
Well, I mean, I think that I got really sick late last year from cleaning out my goat shed and under kind of underestimating the toxicity of goat poo and urine.
And I got really sick.
I had to do some heavy duty, a lot of CDS and a bunch.
I mean, it really, really wrecked me.
So, you know, now, as much as I have this kind of innate fear of robots, maybe it's the same kind of biological way that a chimpanzee fears a snake, right?
To me, a robot is like the snake.
I want to attack them if I see them.
You know, I'd have a hard time trusting it.
But yeah, it's like, that'd be a job.
It's like, okay, hey, go clean the goat shed.
That'd be a good robot task.
Yeah, but there are other formats too.
Like, for example, I think one of the most useful formats of a robot will either be a robot dog or believe it or not, a robot pony.
Because a robot pony is just the right size to do certain things.
Like it could pull weeds if one of its hooves had a hand, but it can also carry things.
It can carry firewood or whatever.
So they don't have to be human.
I agree.
Humanoid robots can be freaky, but a robot dog that can pull weeds or that can harvest food carefully with its with its mouth, that's less intimidating to a lot of people and still useful.
And you'll be able to buy as many as you can acquire, right?
So that's how you scale up food production locally is not by having more kids as it used to be in the old days.
Oh, we need 12 kids.
Why?
Because of the corn harvest, you know?
Now it's like, just get 12 robots to go out there and do it for you.
But we got to make sure they're safe and that they're offline and open source.
And that's, again, I'm serious about, I'm not just blowing smoke here.
You know, you know, I'm serious about this, Seth.
Seen what i've done already.
I'm gonna i'm gonna hack robots and i'm gonna make them open source and then, if that's successful, i'll share the code with the world open source, free of charge.
But it's gonna be a big project.
We're gonna have to use some serious uh like robot cyber hacking techniques that I think I don't even know what those are yet.
I, I think the um, the Health Ranger robot might be the only robot i'd ever consider buying, coming from you exactly.
So I, if I can trust it, you can trust it.
Yes yeah, because you're way more paranoid than I am so, which is not a bad thing um so, Mike as we're, we're finishing up.
I want to bring up um, just a couple of your different websites.
I highly recommend people, just if they're not following what you're doing already, do it.
You're such a leader in this space.
You've got Brightvideos.com, where you have your content um.
Naturalnews.com, great resource has been for a very long time for me.
Uh, the brightanswers.ai, as we talked about the AI platform Brightlearn.ai, which is the?
Uh, the knowledge base of all the books and the e-books and everything.
Um, i'll make sure all those links go into the show description.
Am I missing anything there?
I, I think i've i've hit a lot of them, but no, that's it.
But I just I do want to show you something, and thanks for the plug and all that.
But go to go back to Natural NEWS and click on my first article on the left-hand side under the Health Ranger.
There you go and, and yeah, and scroll down uh, so that's talking about bright learn.
But scroll down until you get to an infographic because, just keep going, it's at the bottom of the article, this right here.
There you go.
Yeah, so we're producing infographics every day also, and these infographics, uh, cover geopolitics and economics and survival and so on.
This just happens to be an infographic about how to use knowledge to be more self-reliant, right?
Um, so you're going to get these infographics every day as well and, uh that it people love to share these because they just tell the story very quickly.
So I just want to bring people's attention to those as well.
Oh, it's great and i'm a big fan of what you've been doing, because I think that really, across all the, the stuff that you're doing, whether it's the products that you've got or the this other stuff I think the most important thing that i'm seeing is knowledge, and that's what you've been doing is that you're trying to.
In a world where knowledge has been so restricted and censored and hidden from us, you're doing everything you can to get that knowledge to anyone who has the will to access it.
Um, very easy, and that's it's.
It's really important.
I thank you for everything I know you've put.
You've put millions of dollars into building this infrastructure and yeah, and we've kept it all free to the public.
So that's the other thing.
I, I had uh, another business leader the other day was asking me, why haven't you monetized uh, you know, the Bright Learn book website.
You know you, you could charge people, you know, 20 bucks a month to download unlimited books.
Um, because I want it to be free.
I I, I want knowledge to be free and As long as we can financially support that, even though, yeah, we spend millions of dollars on this or we have, I don't want, I don't, I don't want people suffering under food inflation and increased cost of living, especially in other countries around the world.
I don't want them to not be able to afford this book that could change their life.
I want them to be able to get it free, download it for free, read it, share it, send it out to people.
So that's just my, that's, that's my philosophy about this.
And it's more important than revenues or money or valuation or anything like that.
It's a philosophy because not all humans are going to make it.
I want to help empower those who can.
And hopefully together, you and I, Seth, and all the others out there who are part of this, we can keep enough humans alive that we have a future as a civilization.
And I think we can.
That's a pretty noble goal, isn't it?
I think it's achievable.
One thing I will say, I'll pull this up real quickly is that I use tons of your products.
We go through probably a bag of these every two weeks.
This is your Cocoa Energize.
Very often the kids want chocolate milk.
This is their chocolate milk.
We use your silver, your structured bio-structured silver for a state gel.
We've got boxes of this stuff.
So this is stuff that, again, you're not asking, you're not asking for donations.
What you're doing is that you're designing products that are actually helpful and that are truly organic without the pesticides that are in a lot of the stuff that's so-called organic.
So we have our own lab that tests all that.
And yeah, it's healthrangerstore.com.
I'll pull that up really quickly because that's we have a bunch of your stuff.
So healthrangerstore.com.
I'll pull that up right here.
Great resource.
Absolutely just, it's an amazing resource there.
Thank you.
All kinds of stuff.
Yeah, we regularly have shipments coming in from you.
Oh, thank you.
Yeah, we work hard.
And as you know, we have our own lab.
So we do testing for heavy metals and glyphosate and microbiology and other things.
It's a mass spec lab.
It's a very serious laboratory.
And I've posted videos about it, et cetera.
And it's the support through store purchases that helps us keep everything else completely free.
So, you know, people buy products from us and then we build platforms and keep them free to help you stay informed and alive.
And stay human, right?
Yeah, stay human, fully human.
Yeah, exactly.
We are pro-human, but we'll use technology to protect humanity.
That's the difference.
We don't weaponize technology to enslave humanity.
We exploit technology to protect human interests.
And there's not that many of us doing that.
There's probably not.
No.
Well, Mike, thank you again for giving us the time today.
I know you're a busy man, but also just thank you for everything you're doing.
You're making an impact and I consume your content, whether it's the chocolate milk powder or your podcast almost daily.
So thank you again, Mike.
Thank you so much, Seth.
It's always a pleasure to join you.
Look forward to it again.
Yes, absolutely.
Take care.
All right.
Take care.
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