Mike Adams and Scott Ritter dissect a NAND gate discovery suggesting light powers a cosmic simulation, while Adams argues all mainstream clothing is toxic due to moth treatments. They analyze Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's Lululemon lawsuit and warn that synthetic laundry products extract chemicals into the bloodstream, potentially causing cancer. Ritter declares the war with Iran an "empire terminating event," noting Russia's yuan oil deals signal the petrodollar's collapse as nations bypass U.S. sanctions. Ultimately, the episode asserts the rules-based international order is dead, replaced by American bullying and inevitable alliance fragmentation. [Automatically generated summary]
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All right, welcome to Bright Videos News for Tuesday, April 14th, 2026.
I'm Mike Adams, and yes, for the last few days, I have not recorded the intro like that with the date because I've actually just started out with a special report.
And I'll probably do that a lot, actually.
But today, I wanted to just give you a quick intro here.
I've got a couple of reports for you here.
One about how the Attorney General of Texas is suing the Lululemon Company, claiming that they might have harmful chemicals in their clothing.
And I'm a little bit skeptical of that, and I explain why.
In my podcast today.
Also, there's been a major, profound discovery in mathematics today that reveals something fundamental about the computational infrastructure of our cosmic simulation because we are living in a simulation.
And so I've gone full nerdfest and I have recorded an almost 40 minute podcast that starts out kind of nerdy and slow.
You might have to wade through some of that.
about this new profound mathematical discovery which has to do with NAND gates of Boolean logic.
That is NAND meaning not AND.
That's spelled N-A-N-D, by the way.
So we start out with NAND gates and then we get into optoelectronics and the computational infrastructure of light and what that has to do with the universe, the construct, and your health and consciousness and so much more.
So it gets pretty deep.
It's very cool, by the way.
So if you listen to that one, you can skip the first five or ten minutes actually.
Just get right into the better stuff.
Just skip 10 minutes.
It's fine.
The first 10 minutes, I'm just telling you how I got into electrical engineering.
But if you want to skip that story, just skip 10 minutes of that report.
But also, I want to tell you today, I just wanted to react to a couple of things that are happening on the world stage.
So, Russia announced that all future oil and gas deals with European countries will be priced in Chinese yuan.
Not even the ruble, but the Chinese yuan.
That's a big deal.
That's a, I mean, wow, the petrodollar is sinking fast, right?
And then also, China announced through official channels, China warned the U.S. that, hey, we, China, we have trade deals with Iran.
We buy oil from Iran, and it's on tankers that are headed to China.
And you, the United States, you have no right to interfere with our private trade deals with Iran.
And so the U.S. naval blockade that Trump announced two days ago would be considered an act of war by China.
So this is going to get interesting to see if the U.S. is dumb enough to try to pick a fight with China right now, while the U.S. is already overextended in Ukraine and in the Middle East.
And also, all kinds of domestic problems.
And then, on top of that, with record debt and money printing, are you going to go to war with China, too?
On top of that?
With all their robots and drones and everything?
I don't think so.
And their nukes?
No.
But hey, Pete Hegseth is probably drunk enough to try it, so stay tuned.
We might end up going to war with China, which would be the shortest war in history.
It lasts about 24 hours, and then the entire U.S. Navy would be destroyed.
But there you go.
That maybe Hagshaft will try it and then Trump will call it a victory.
You know, we're winning.
That's all of our ships are at the bottom of the oceans.
We're winning.
And all the Trump supporters will be like, we won.
Look how awesome we are.
We won so much that our ships even float at the bottom of the ocean.
That's how much winning we have.
We're not limited to just the top of the water.
In other words, our Navy can go anywhere it wants.
Aircraft carriers can be submarines.
They can just go to the bottom of the ocean and hang out there until we want to win some more.
Because that's the way MAGA talks today.
It's bizarre.
Let's see.
All right.
There's something else.
Oh, yeah.
You know how Trump said the U.S. Navy has a blockade now on the Strait of Hormuz?
But before Trump's blockade, there was the Iranian blockade, which was really not a full blockade.
It was a selective blockade.
It was letting ships sail through as long as they were going to friendly countries.
that is friendly to Iran, countries like China and Pakistan, what have you.
Well, the Trump blockade added another level of blockade to the Iranian blockade.
And remember how up until just two days ago, Trump was screaming at Iran like, open the freaking strait.
You have to open it, and we're going to open it, and we've won a total victory.
We've annihilated Iran.
We've destroyed their entire Navy and their Air Force and all their leaders.
They're all dead.
We've completely won.
How many times has Trump said all that stuff in the last six weeks, right?
Over and over and over again.
There are probably 30 examples of that in the last six weeks.
And then Trump says, well, forget all that.
Now we want to close the strait.
All right.
So what's happening is then there's this cognitive whiplash happening among the remaining Trump supporters.
And granted, there's not very many of them and they're not very smart, but they're still out there.
And they don't know whether to cheer some ships moving through the strait or to condemn it.
Because Before Trump had the blockade, every time another ship would sail through the strait, they would cheer.
They would say, See, the strait's open.
Trump opened the strait.
We have control.
The ships are sailing.
It's wide open.
And then Trump closes the strait.
And now those same people are like, Wait a second.
Now the ships are sailing.
That's bad.
That's bad.
Bad ships.
So they're very confused now.
Is it good if the ships sail through, or is it bad?
I'm sorry to.
Mock them with the kind of, you know, the stupid voice there.
But they deserve it because they are acting so stupid.
But the cognitive whiplash, like these people are going to need chiropractors, you know, because their necks are getting bent so out of shape.
You know, ships are good.
Ships are bad, you know.
And then probably since today is Tuesday, Trump might go full Taco Tuesday today and he might actually just abandon the blockade because it doesn't seem to be working anyway.
And If he tacos out, then the Trump supporters are going to have to reconfigure again another whiplash.
Oh, now ships are good again.
Ships transiting are good.
So on Monday, ships transiting were good.
On Tuesday, it was bad.
And then on Wednesday, it'll be good again.
Because this is what happens when you have a president that has literally no plan.
There's no consistent, articulable plan.
There are no stated goals other than the one we hear all the time that Iran cannot have nuclear weapons.
There's no cohesive messaging from JD Vance and Witkoff and Kushner and Trump and the White House and Carolyn Levitt.
They all have different stories, they all have different goals.
There's no cohesion.
It's wild.
Like everybody's just making it up as they go along, which is pretty much the way Trump operates.
So even if Trump says, well, like, we've achieved all our goals, even early, like, which goals are you talking about, dude?
The one where you said we have to open the straight and then you changed it to we have to close the straight?
So did we close it early or did we open it early?
Did we open it and now we closed it early or did we open it late and then close it early?
And like, someone please explain what's going on.
It doesn't make any sense.
Trump is just rambling.
He's like a rambling moron at this point.
And everybody around him is trying to hurry up and recalibrate to his latest ramble.
It's like being around a crazy person that you have to obey at all times, even though they keep changing what they're doing every five minutes.
It's like, oh my God.
But he's the president.
And so this is what's happening to all of America.
And it's driving everybody bonkers.
Because.
You know, Trump is burning down the world's energy infrastructure and food and fertilizer shipments, etc.
And no matter what he does, whether he opens the strait, closes the strait, sets the strait on fire, his supporters say, We're winning, we're winning.
And you're not winning.
Because here we are, what are like, how many days into the war are we here?
Like 40 days or something.
The U.S. still doesn't control the Strait of Hormuz.
Period.
Still doesn't.
So, no, you're not winning.
And no, you haven't overthrown the government of Iran.
And no, you haven't.
Seize the enriched uranium.
You haven't achieved any goals.
There's not one goal that you could even name that has been achieved that is strategic, other than just you know, you blew up a bunch of buildings on the surface, mostly schools, you know, but you didn't stop, you didn't destroy all the missiles in the underground, the mountain bases.
You didn't overthrow the leadership, you didn't steal Iran's oil.
You know, I mean, you haven't done anything.
This is a total loss for Trump and America.
Any way you look at it, if you're rational.
The only people that call it a win are people who are just either paid whores or are stupid.
Honestly, those are the only two people who think this is a win.
There's no rational explanation of how this is a win for America.
The winning state was achieved.
before February 28th.
The winning state was when we didn't yet attack Iran and the strait was open.
That was a win.
And Trump screwed that up and launched the war.
Now we're just losing every single day in every way possible.
There's no winning for the U.S. that has come out of this.
So, anyway, I mean, you can see what's happening.
And it looks like it's only going to get crazier from here forward.
So, there you go.
And then, in order to distract you from all this stuff, the White House puts on more Truman Show theater.
What do they have today?
They had a DoorDash Grandma.
Who showed up at the White House and delivered McDonald's to President Trump, who looks like McDonald's is the last thing he needs in his diet, frankly.
And then they claim, like, this is just a normal thing.
Like, Trump orders a DoorDash, and then the DoorDash grandma, who they flew in from Arkansas, by the way, just happened to just get all the way through White House security and just walk right up to the president.
Really?
And then the first thing Trump says is, this doesn't look staged at all.
Actually, it does.
And then she said that because of Trump's no tax on tips policy, that she has saved $11,000 in not reporting tips income or having it exempt.
$11,000?
She just made that up.
How could she save $11,000 in taxable tip income?
If she's only probably earning 20K, 30K, 40K a year delivering DoorDash, I mean, she's not making hundreds of thousands of dollars in tips.
I mean, the numbers don't even add up.
And then people notice that she's in some other video testifying in another congressional hearing in some state.
And it's like, okay, so she's.
They hire her to show up and play a role.
And that's what it is.
She gets paid to perform so that Trump and the White House can distract you from the fact that they're losing the war with Iran in every way imaginable.
That's what this was all about.
It's all theater, it's all Truman Show.
Nothing is real coming out of the White House, everything is a fake story, even like JD Vance coming out of the negotiations.
With Iran saying that, well, he found that Iran, they didn't even have the authority to make any decisions at all.
So the Iranian team was incapable of agreeing to anything.
That's total projection.
The truth is that JD Vance had to call Netanyahu to get approval for anything.
And Netanyahu bragged about that and said, yeah, they report to me talking about Vance and Trump.
Netanyahu bragged about it.
So JD Vance doesn't have any authority.
Neither does Trump when it comes to making agreements with Iran.
Netanyahu calls the shots.
Trump and Vance are just Netanyahu's little bitches, actually.
At least the Iranians showed up with people who could talk and think and who were prepared to reach an agreement and sign intentions and everything.
But JD Vance was just there as a clown, kind of like the DoorDash grandma.
He's like the Islamabad dash, the fake negotiation dash clown or something.
Everything that this White House does is a total clown show.
It's just.
It's just so stupid.
Like, they actually think you're so stupid.
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Like, Trump put out that image that depicted him as Jesus with the heavenly light behind him, like the sunlight of God, while his glowing hands were healing a sick man like Jesus, you know.
And then he got so much backlash from that that he deleted the photo.
And he was asked about it by a reporter.
And he said, I didn't think that that was depicting me as Jesus.
I thought I was just a doctor.
A doctor?
Wearing white robes with hands of light with angels coming out of the heavens behind you.
Yeah, right.
So that's what a doctor is now.
But Trump just thinks you're so stupid that you'll believe anything he says.
Oh, yeah, all doctors have glowing hands and white robes with a red long vest that looks like something Jesus would wear.
Yeah, sure, I saw that at the hospital last time I visited the doctor.
Sure, yeah.
Nobody believes that.
Trump thinks you're an idiot, which makes him an idiot.
Of course, he was posting a picture of himself as Jesus after attacking the Pope and also mocking Islam on Easter.
I mean, you can't make this stuff up.
It's just layer upon layer of insanity and stupidity and incompetence.
And it just, I'm sorry about the profanity, but literally every day at the White House, Trump is just making shit up and trying to sell it as reality, and none of it's real.
You know, even the whole attempt to extricate the uranium, you know, that was sold to us as a pilot rescue mission.
No, it wasn't.
It was an attempt to seize the uranium, and it went badly, and we got a bunch of planes and helicopters shot down.
Probably a bunch of soldiers killed that you'll never hear about because everything coming out of the White House is fake and gay, including the casualty numbers.
So we're in a timeline that is, well, fake and gay, I guess would be the best way to say it.
Especially when Lindsey Graham shows up.
You can't get more fake and gay than that cat right there.
I inserted the term cat as a nice cover for what I wanted to say, and I just decided to go with cat instead.
But anyway, there you go.
So that's my take on things that are happening, and we've got a couple of special reports for you here, followed by another amazing interview for you here today.
So stay tuned and enjoy the rest of today's broadcast.
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Well, we are sure on a weird timeline.
That's for real.
Welcome.
Mike Adams here.
I've got a number of important things to share with you.
One of them comes from a breakthrough science paper today that you may or may not care about, but it's something that blew my mind.
And it's a science paper that shows that all elementary functions of math sine, cosine, tangent, Exponentials, log functions, powers, roots,
hyperbolic functions, pi, etc., can be derived from one binary operator, which in computer hardware is called a NAND operator, that's N A N D, which is a not AND, by the way, in case you're wondering, or a NAND gate.
And this really blew my mind because this is one of the most important and profound discoveries.
Frankly, in the history of computer science and computer hardware, and I'll explain it a little more in a second.
But the reason this matters is because this is going to revolutionize the design and the scaling and the ease of manufacturing things like GPUs for AI inference, as well as microprocessors, all kinds of electronics will be impacted by this.
Now, a NAND gate, as I said, it's a not.
And gate.
The reason this intrigued me is because you may or may not know this, but I originally went to college to study electrical engineering.
I was going to be a double E.
Yeah, because, well, you know, I aced all the math of the college entrance exams and I was given numerous scholarships and opportunities.
I was actually invited to attend MIT, but I didn't have a I didn't have a full ride to MIT.
And so I met with an MIT advisor.
And I don't know if it's still the case, but there were MIT advisors, you know, alumni all over the country.
So I actually visited and met with an MIT alumni who looked at my scores and everything.
Yeah, you should go to MIT, but you're going to need about $50,000 a year to pay for room and board and food.
you know, whatever, plus the tuition that you need, because again, I didn't have Fulbright scholarships there.
So I didn't have that kind of money.
This was in the 1980s.
I lived in the Midwest, middle class family.
My parents didn't have that kind of money.
I was mowing lawns, you know, for a couple of dollars.
So no, I did not go to MIT.
But I did initially my first semester of college, I was actually studying to be an electrical engineer.
But it turns out that, as fate would have it, just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you love doing it.
I was really great at math, but it wasn't what I loved doing.
And I ended up doing a lot of other things, more arts kinds of things, writing, actually a lot of creative writing and things like that, and also learned how to juggle.
That was, oh, I'm sorry, that was my second semester in college.
I learned juggling flaming pins and also.
I think it was my second year in college.
I learned how to juggle seven rings with a homeless British man who would hang out on campus.
I mean, his name was Andrew, by the way.
His name was Andrew.
And he was homeless, long hair.
And he just would hang out on campus.
And he was a juggler.
So he would juggle in the commons area.
And he would juggle rings and pins and stuff.
And one day I had time between classes.
And I said, hey, I wouldn't mind, because I learned how to juggle a couple of semesters ago with some pins, flaming pins.
And you want to throw some pins around here?
Let's just do some juggling.
And he was like, hell yeah, I've been waiting for that.
Well, with a British accent.
And so he first taught me how to juggle six pins between two people.
And that's actually pretty easy, it turns out.
Six is not a problem because the rhythm works.
If you know anything about juggling, you juggle three pins, and it's one, two, three, one, two, three, one, two, three.
It's just like juggling three balls or three beanbags or whatever.
It's one, two, three, one, two, three.
So if you're juggling six pins between two people, it's the same thing.
It's one, two, three.
Three, but it's like one to throw or one to pass, one to pass, one to pass.
Or you can increase the passing if you can pass more than one at a time.
But anyway, when you want to go to seven pins or seven rings, things get crazy because then you have an extra pin in the pattern.
Now you got to do some funk, some funky rhythms and things.
And that was extremely difficult.
But over the period of the semester, While mostly skipping class, I did learn how to juggle seven pins and I did some amazing creative writing.
The problem was, I wasn't enrolled in any creative writing classes, and so I ended up changing my major to becoming a well, we called it technical writing.
It was an interdisciplinary degree.
And my college advisor, who was it?
His first name was Doug.
What was his last name?
He was like a very well known writer.
A PhD, I mean, obviously, PhD, and he was like, I don't know, he was a very successful writer.
Anyway, he became my advisor and he advised me through the rest of my college education with a degree in technical writing, which combined, interestingly, mathematics and economics.
I ended up with a minor in economics.
I think I ended up with a minor in math, too, come to think of it, but.
Pretty much forgotten those classes.
That was not the fun stuff.
And then I did a lot of writing, and I ended up graduating with this degree, and I ended up being a technical writer.
And I got my start out of college writing software manuals for antivirus security companies.
And actually, one of the main companies I worked for in its early days, I lived in Taiwan, and I wrote the documentation for the company now known as Trend Micro.
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So, you've heard of Trend, you know, they're one of the biggest antivirus software companies and security companies in the world.
And they had a major investment from SoftBank, which is a Japanese venture capital company.
And I was actually there when that investment came in.
And I was part of a team of like, I don't know, 20 people or something that we had.
And, you know, used to hang out with the engineers and we would talk about antivirus security and talk about heuristics and everything.
And then I would write up the manuals.
I did all the documentation for antivirus security software.
But I explain all that to share with you that yes, I actually got my start in electrical engineering.
And so I had classes in circuit design.
And so we would do logic gates and we would do like, you know, OR and AND, obviously, and then not AND, which is NAND.
Or, of course, there's NOR.
And, you know, there's a bunch of different logic gates.
And you put billions of these together and you have a microprocessor.
I mean, I'm oversimplifying it, but that's basically how it works.
And then, you know, we studied what is a transistor, how do transistors work, and, you know, you have the control that comes in and allows the signal, the high voltage signal, to either pass or to be stopped based on the control signal.
So that's how transistors work, but they're actually little quantum devices.
Nobody exactly knows entirely how they work, but whatever.
We know how to harness them and make microprocessors.
I don't mean to geek out on you here, but I have to explain why I got so excited about this paper.
Because if you want to build a microprocessor that does things like, let's say, addition, you could do that.
You can do that with just logic gates, you can do it with ANDs and ORs and whatever.
And you have to have enough registers of the bits to store the current status.
And of course, all of this is happening in binary.
Which is later translated into either hexadecimal or decimal.
And you have to have a clock with a cycle timer.
And that's what it means when you have a CPU that's got like, you know, 5 gigahertz or whatever.
That's 5 billion cycles a second.
So there are 5 billion clock steps happening per second that allow each of the logic gates to process one incoming, what do you even call it?
I don't know.
Like one pending little operation at that logic gate.
So, you know, a clock determines the cycling, how quickly things move through the logic gates.
But if you combine enough of these gates, then you can create addition, you can create subtraction.
If you get more complex, you can create multiplication, et cetera.
And this is all like really old school, you know, circuit design from the 1970s, let's say.
But then as time went on and these, The circuit designs and the microprocessors had multiple cores and multiple pipelines, and then the CPU to memory bandwidth and the speed of that bandwidth became very important, or the speed of communication between memory and the CPU became critically important, especially now in the age of AI inference.
And that's why high bandwidth memory is in such short supply right now.
And that's why GPUs are expensive because they have to use very high speed memory because they have to shuttle all of the storage states back and forth between the CPU on the GPU, which I guess technically you just call it a GPU.
But anyway, so this paper comes out and says you can do everything with just one logic type, and that's called the NAND or the NOT.
And I'm like, whoa, are you kidding me?
You know, you're giving me chills.
Is this for real?
This is crazy.
Yes, you can do almost, well, nearly everything with a NAND gate plus the number one.
So you need the NAND gate and you need the integer of one, which kind of makes sense.
So you might wonder, what is a not and gate?
Well, let's start with an and gate.
So an and gate.
It has two inputs and one output.
So, an AND gate means that if input 1 and input 2 are both true, let's say, although it's represented by higher voltage, but whatever, they're both true, then the output is set to true.
Or you could say if both of the inputs are equal to 1, then the output is 1.
That's called an AND gate.
Like A and B have to be true for the answer to be true.
That makes sense.
That's reasonable.
Well, a NOT AND is a little bit different.
What it means is that a not AND gate is only, well, let me say it this way.
When the inputs are both true, then the not AND gate produces false on the output.
Okay?
So it's the opposite of AND.
And if one of the inputs is true and one of the inputs is false, then the output of the NAND gate is true.
So, in other words, both of the inputs have to be true for the NAND gate to produce a false or a zero or a low voltage.
Now, that kind of gate actually can be built in physics, just like a transistor can be built or an AND gate or an OR gate, etc.
These can be built in physics, and they are.
They're built in physics all the time.
And what this means is that since this is now a fundamental Physical phenomenon that is consistent with the laws of physics and the way the universe works.
What this means is that this is part of sort of God's logic.
This is part of the logic of the cosmos.
And it can be scaled very easily with the same component just massively scaled over and over and over and over and over again, billions of times or trillions of times, even potentially, but just arranged in a certain way.
And if you arrange them in a certain way, then you can produce almost all math.
So, and there are, and I simplified, it's not just two inputs of NAND gates.
There are also three input NAND gates.
And then you can kind of cobble these together.
You can do four input functions, which begins to be groups of NAND gates.
And then you can put NAND gates with NOT gates.
And, you know, you could create any kind of logic you want.
Anyway, those of you who are electrical engineers, You know exactly what I'm talking about.
And those of you who aren't electrical engineers, you probably don't care what I'm talking about.
But the reason you should care is because this is kind of like the equivalent of finding the God particle in physics.
Or this is the equivalent of discovering the unified field theory of, let's say, electromagnetism or something.
That's what this is.
This is such a big deal to find.
It's a unified logic gate.
The NAND gate, or not AND, is the unified logic gate behind.
Almost all math that is physically imprinted into the structure of the cosmos is a big deal.
It's almost like if you're going to find this funny, but you know how I've said like carbon dioxide is God's molecule?
The NAND gate would be God's logic, or God's logic function, let's say, NAND.
It's the basis of all math and all AI, or nearly all, not exactly all, but most of it.
So, That's a pretty big deal, folks.
So I'm actually reading from the paper here.
It says, A single two input gate suffices for all of Boolean logic in digital hardware.
Wow!
Wow!
And the paper goes on No comparative primitive has been known for continuous mathematics.
Computing elementary functions such as sine, cosine, square root, and log has always required multiple distinct operations.
But here, in this paper, I show that a single binary operator, together with the constant 1, generates the standard repertoire of a scientific calculator.
This includes constants such as e, pi, and i, or, you know, imaginary.
Arithmetic operations including addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and exponentiation, as well as the usual transcendental and algebraic functions.
Wow!
The paper goes on and says that such an operator exists was not anticipated.
I found it by systematic exhaustive search and established constructively that it suffices for the concrete scientific calculator basis.
So every such expression becomes a binary tree of identical nodes, yielding a grammar, like a hardware grammar, a structure of how these are put together that is simple.
This uniform structure also enables gradient-based symbolic regression using EML trees as trainable circuits with standard optimizers.
It goes on, I demonstrate the feasibility of exact recovery of closed form elementary functions.
From numerical data at shallow tree depths up to four, the same architecture can fit arbitrary data.
Anyway, he goes on and obviously gets a little bit more technical here.
And this is from Andrej Odryzwolek.
Okay, I'm guessing that's either Ukrainian or Russian or something similar.
All right, so this is being published in the symbolic computation category of, oh, it's from Cornell University, I think.
All elementary functions from a single binary operation.
That's the name of the paper.
Holy cow.
Again, I'm sorry, I can't cover up my excitement about this.
I mean, it would be like finding a subatomic particle that was.
Responsible for all mass, or something like that.
You know, it's that big.
I think it's that big of a deal.
This is a big deal.
What will we do with this knowledge?
Who knows?
I mean, there's so many applications of this, but I want to add that I bet you we can find this in nature.
I bet you this is all over nature.
I bet this is in plants.
I bet it's in different ways of processing light.
I bet you that optoelectronics or optics as computational devices.
I bet you there are NAND gates when it comes to light processing.
And so you could actually end up with optoelectronic light computers that use a fraction of the power of the current electron based systems and also don't generate much heat at all.
And I bet you we could take AI inference and we could make it a million times faster and a million times cheaper with a million times less heat, et cetera.
By using NAND gates in light circuits or light Boolean logic.
I'm just guessing.
Actually, you know what?
Now I got to look that up.
Let's see.
All right, so I'm asking Are there NAND gates in optoelectronics and light based computing?
Here's the answer yes.
NAND gates are fundamental components in both optoelectronics and all optical logic systems.
Okay, well, I guess that's not such a huge realization then, because the answer is basically saying, well, of course there are NAND gates.
Yeah, obviously.
Serving as universal building blocks capable of cascading to perform any complex logical operation.
Yes, that's what we're saying.
Recent research has successfully demonstrated these gates using diverse mechanisms, including diffractive neural networks.
Holy cow.
Gallium arsenic heterostructures.
Wow.
That's interesting.
And nanowire networks.
Wow.
Okay.
Gallium arsenic heterostructures?
Man, that would be like you could turn solar panels into machine consciousness.
I don't know.
Let's see.
Semiconductor heterostructures.
What are the novel structures based on gallium arsenic quantum wells?
There you go.
Quantum wells.
And zinc oxide ITO devices have realized NAND gates that operate at room temperature, offering advantages such as polarity-independent operation and radiant emission.
Whoa!
Wow, what a great way to get rid of heat in space.
That's awesome.
Nanowire systems?
All optical NAND gates have been constructed using aligned nanowire networks, where logic inputs are defined by laser wavelength and polarization, enabling arithmetic functions like binary addition.
No way!
By polarization?
So, polarization would indicate zeros or ones instead of voltage differences.
So, that way you would conduct the computation at maybe six to nine orders of magnitude less energy.
Oh my God!
Well, clearly, maybe I should have been an electrical engineer because to me, this is really fascinating stuff.
Okay, look, I'm not going to keep hammering you with this, but I just want to emphasize that to those of us who are interested in the way things work, which I assume includes most of you listening to this, this is a very big deal.
And what it means is that we are nowhere near the peak of computational efficiency or scalability.
Now, we have achieved, let's say, the end of Moore's Law, named after, you know, what was it, the co-founder of Intel, which said, I believe, that the number of transistors on any microprocessor would double every, what did he say?
Was it 18 months?
Roughly 18 months, give or take.
But that has reached a physical limit because of the physics of transistors.
You can't just keep squeezing more and more transistors onto a computational system.
Platter because you start getting into, I think, not just nanometers but picometers, and you know, you get to the limit of how physics can function in a working transistor.
Cosmic Computational Infrastructure00:15:39
And we're very close to that limit right now.
But we are nowhere near such limits when it comes to optoelectronics and light processing.
And since I guess you can polarize light to be zeros or ones, and you can use NAND gates in optoelectronics, then Based on this paper, we now know that light gives rise to all math.
And that's kind of biblical.
That's kind of like God said, let there be light, and then it gave rise to everything.
You know?
I mean, I'm saying that kind of poetically, let's say.
I'm not saying that light created, you know, mass or the rules of mass and space time distortions and all of that.
But I am saying that light is far more functional than most people.
Have ever probably understood.
And this brings me to my conclusion of this podcast, and you may find that a relief if you think I've been nerding out here, so I apologize.
But I believe, you know this, I believe that we live in a simulation.
And this simulation is a self computing simulation.
We live in a cosmos that is a giant computer.
And everything that's happening around us in real time is constantly recomputing its state.
So that's not just spin states of subatomic particles or what have you, protons.
It's more than that.
The entire fabric of reality is actually only being projected into existence and actually, let's say, collapsing the probability fields by doing computations when you are observing it.
And so, we as observers, we're living in a computational simulation that is efficient because it only does the math when it needs to, when you're noticing things.
It doesn't have to do the math all the time for things that people aren't looking at, you know.
But when you look at it, then all the probabilities collapse into the calculated current state.
You know, Heisenberg principle and all that.
Quantum mechanics, right?
I mean, it gets into many interesting areas.
But light is the key computational backbone.
Light is the computational infrastructure of our cosmos.
That's what I believe.
And I know that lots of people have all kinds of fun blowing their minds with the double slit experiments and, like, does it go back in time if you use a mirror over here and then it reflects half of them over this way and then, oh my god, it.
Have you seen those experiments?
They're all kinds of fun.
And if you try to think about it rationally as if light is a particle, then it makes no sense.
And also if you try to think about, oh, light is a wave, then it makes sense sometimes, but not other times.
The real way to look at light is that light is math.
And the computation of the math isn't actually completed until it needs to be.
And the math will be completed at the most efficient possible path of the light based on you as the observer also taking that into account.
So, I mean, I could go into more detail, but this is why the double-slit experiment is so baffling to people because they don't realize that they are part of it, that they as the observers are part of the experiment.
And if you're not observing, if you're not looking, if you're not tied in, I mean, they have remote instruments that do the counting, but that still requires a human observer.
To be aware of what's happening.
Anyway, there are different kinds of ways to test all of this and go back in time, things like that.
But we are part of the experiment, and light is doing math.
That's my point.
Just that light is doing math.
And yes, I'm oversimplifying a lot of stuff, just in the interest of time.
But light is doing math.
And think about what that means in your body.
You know how, like earlier today, I was out getting sunlight.
You know what I like to do?
I've said it many times here.
You know, I get as naked as possible and I run around the forest with sunlight.
That's called exercise and sunbathing at the same time.
I mean, I'm not actually naked.
I have shorts on, but I'm shirtless, right?
So I'm running around with no shirt and shorts and tennis shoes and getting sunlight.
Well, what do you think that that light is doing in your body?
It's doing math in your body, okay?
It's not just warmth, it's not just making vitamin D.
The light is actually activating an intelligence in your body's.
Cells.
This is why red light therapy is so amazingly healing, by the way.
And all the different wavelengths matter so much.
And you know, if you get sunlight more midday, you're getting the shorter, more yellower wavelengths.
And then if you get sunlight in the afternoon or closer to sunset, you're getting the deeper red, more reddish wavelengths that are longer wavelengths that penetrate your body more.
And each of these different frequencies of light has a different kind of math that comes with it.
And it interacts with your body and your cells and the.
innate intelligence of your cells in different ways based on what your cells need, what you're lacking, you know, what you're trying to get rid of disease or whatever.
So light is not just math, it's not just the mathematical backbone of the universe.
Light is also medicine.
Light is medicine, yes.
And when you understand that, you know, then you understand why there's evil in the world.
That is always talking about darkness.
And like Israel, they launched a bombing campaign of Lebanon and they called the campaign Eternal Darkness.
Like that was their actual name.
And it makes perfect sense because if you're evil and you're dark, you're going to be talking about darkness.
If you're good and positive and loving and compassionate, you're going to be talking about light.
Whereas, you know, darkness is ignorance and darkness doesn't do any math.
Darkness can't solve any problems.
You know, it's the light.
It's the living light.
It's the energy of light.
It's the wisdom of light.
It's the backbone of the entire construct in which we live, which is, again, a computational simulation.
And it's funny because sometimes people ask me, well, if this is a simulation, where are the computers that run it?
And I'm like, dude, we're living in the computer.
We are in it.
This whole system is the computer.
You look around.
I mean, again, the light is doing math all the time.
Photons or, you know. make believe photons, electrons, which aren't even real exactly, but you can call them that.
It's doing math all the time, all the time.
Spin states, orbital patterns, whatever.
It's doing math.
Everything around us is doing math.
So the computational infrastructure of the simulation is not only all around us, it's also within us.
It's in our cells.
It's in our neurology.
It's in our voice.
It's in our consciousness.
We are part of the computational infrastructure of the cosmos.
Understand?
So it's not like, oh, there's a computer out there above all of us somewhere, like there's a giant server room in another dimension that is rendering this reality.
No, we are co rendering this reality as we also experience it.
We are interacting with the light.
We are beings of light.
We are beings made of atomic matter that ultimately is an expression of light, you know, the conversion of matter to energy, etc.
So, I don't want to get too carried away here, but yes, when I saw the science paper, it reminded me of all this stuff.
It's like, oh my God, this is proof of the simulation, yet again, or at least another demonstration of the simulation, that the fundamental logic of the cosmos.
I mean, you can derive almost all math from one fundamental logic.
Logical function, that is, that we now know, since I just looked it up, is also part of optoelectronics.
Isn't that interesting, isn't that interesting?
And again, I bet you, we would find this throughout nature, we would find it in animal physiology, we would find it in plants.
There might be something like this in, I mean, at the chemical level.
You know, I'm talking chemistry, I'm talking proteins, protein folding.
Perhaps, you know, I bet you, there are NAND operations in biology.
Okay, now I got to look that one up too.
Okay.
All right.
I typed in Are there NAND logic operations found in biology?
And here's the answer.
My God, blow my mind again.
Yes, NAND logic operations have been successfully engineered and validated in living biological systems, including E. coli and yeast.
You didn't know that, huh?
So the E. coli in your peanut butter.
It's actually microprocessors in there.
These gates are typically constructed by combining AND and NOT gates or by utilizing protein protein interactions coupled with DNA looping to produce a high output whenever at least one input is low.
That's the NAND logic.
So, yeah, you can do it in yeast, which is Saccharomyces cerevisae.
Okay, I'm not familiar, obviously.
You can do it in E. coli.
Which means, which means there's probably NAND logic in your gut.
Because you have E. coli in your gut, probably.
I mean, hopefully.
If you don't, you're in trouble.
There's NAND gates across Bacillus, Clousey, and humans.
What?
Confirming their existence as functional components in synthetic biology.
There are 10 experimentally validated NAND gates across different species.
Oh, oh my God.
So NAND operations have been performed using DNA translocations through biological nanopores in droplet networks.
Yeah, that wasn't on my bingo card for today.
But there we go.
See, I mean, I knew it.
I knew it.
Looked it up.
It's true.
Of course it's in biology because it's a basic function of the cosmos.
NAND gates.
Not Bill Gates, but NAND gates.
It's amazing.
It's amazing.
So what does that mean?
What if, think about it, if it's in E. coli and it's probably in your gut bacteria, what if your gut bacteria are freaking doing math?
Like, they're probably doing more math than most of us do on a daily basis.
There's a lot of math going on in your gut.
Yeah, you might be crapping integers at any moment.
Who knows?
Or, you know, hurling fractions.
I don't know.
This is up to you.
But, okay, anyway, I'm going to end it there before this gets completely out of control.
Wow, wow, we live in an amazing universe, and I would say God is everywhere.
God, I mean, God, the designer, the engineer of this entire simulation, our creator, has built the entire computational infrastructure into literally everything into the elements, into the rocks, the dirt, the microbes, the freaking light rays, the water, the biology, neurology, everything.
Everywhere you look, there's intelligence.
This is why I've said to people, you've heard me say this, if you've listened for very long, I've said there's no such thing as artificial intelligence.
All intelligence is natural.
And it's a natural part of the construct of the simulation.
All intelligence is natural.
Even microchips.
It's all natural.
Wow.
Bottom line, I'm so glad that the darkness isn't going to win.
Because there's light and wisdom and intelligence everywhere.
You know, the ultimate love of the Creator is found in the fact that our Creator infused life into every single thing that makes up the universe around us, including electromagnetic propagation, as we call it in certain frequencies, light.
But, you know, It goes way beyond what we can see, obviously.
So, most light is invisible to humans, obviously, or what we would call electromagnetic propagation is invisible to us, which means that most of the mathematics is taking place in the universe is also invisible to us.
It's a great unseen computational backbone of the cosmic simulation that we are inhabiting.
So I'll just leave you with that thought for today.
Hopefully that'll kind of pull you out of the doldrums of all the Iran war and the Strait of Hormuz and gas shortage and all that garbage.
Think about the fact that the universe is an amazing simulation infused with incredible gifts of computational infrastructure and that you are part of it and that it's part of you.
It's in your cells, it's in your gut, it's in your neurology, it's in your perception, it's in your consciousness, and you interact with it, and you can even sort of hack it.
You can change it by changing your perceptions and changing your intentions, changing your speech.
You can actually sort of reform the entire system around you because it responds to your consciousness.
Anyway, I'll cover that another time in more detail, but what an incredible day, an incredible science paper.
and an incredible realization about the world or the universe in which we live.
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Well, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has announced that is launching an investigation into Lululemon over what he calls the potential presence of toxic forever chemicals in activewear, saying that it's possible the company has misled consumers about the safety, quality, and health impacts of its products.
And Lululemon is an activewear brand that generated $11 billion in sales in 2020.
It's got a focus on wellness, etc.
Okay, so Ken Paxton, who I overall think Ken Paxton is doing a great job as Attorney General of Texas.
And I would support him for Senator as well, especially over Ted Cruz or John Cornyn.
But anyway, the forever chemicals issue is something that there's a lot of confusion about this.
And I'm not trying to detract anything from Ken Paxton's efforts here, but folks, The truth is that every piece of new clothing from mainstream retailers, every single piece is highly toxic when you first get it.
It's highly toxic.
Why?
Because if they didn't spray it and soak it with toxic chemicals like formaldehyde and others, then all the clothing would be eaten by moths and insects during shipping, you know, across the ocean typically for a lot of these clothes.
It'll all be eaten up by moths before it got to you.
And then, you know, you would open it up as full of moth holes.
So they basically saturate new clothes with all kinds of toxic chemicals.
And that's why, and this is true for, you know, uniforms of flight attendants.
This is true for sportswear.
This is true for suits.
This is true for jeans, t shirts, everything, socks, underwear, you name it.
And I've often said to people, If you wear new clothes without washing them, you're crazy because you're just basically inundating your body with unbelievable toxic chemicals.
In fact, I say that for new clothing, you need to wash it twice.
That is, wash it once and then dry it, which kind of vents out some of the VOCs and other toxic chemicals, and then wash it again and then dry it again.
And only then would I wear it.
So I'm talking about two cycles of heavy-duty washing and drying.
And don't be afraid to use a lot of water during this wash cycle.
You need a lot of water because water is a great solvent for many molecules and a lot of these chemicals, and you need the water to pull out these chemicals.
So that's number one.
Now, whether Lululemon has, I don't know, extra chemicals in their products, I guess Texas is going to find out.
But I would guess, I mean, it's just my guess that Lululemon isn't any worse than anybody else.
That's my guess.
But I am a lab scientist.
I mean, I run a multiple mass spec laboratory, I do food contamination testing, et cetera.
I'm a published scientist, a patent holder, et cetera.
I mean, I do know what I'm talking about when it comes to chemical contamination.
Although I'm not a textiles expert, I'm a food expert, but some of that definitely applies.
Because we've tested, actually, we've tested many fibers, we've tested textiles before, we've tested soils and hair and things like that.
We've done a lot of testing over the decade plus that we've been doing this.
And what's interesting is.
For Ken Paxton to know is that our lab is not that far from the Texas Capitol in Austin.
So, you know, hey, if Ken Paxton wants to come visit our lab, I'd be happy to give him a tour.
And maybe we could do some testing for you, you know, free of charge, obviously.
We would just donate that to the great state of Texas.
But I have known before that Ken Paxton, his office would sound the alarm over things like glyphosate, I think, or maybe heavy metals.
I forgot which issue it was.
And I wish he would have called me because I could give him truly authoritative ISO accredited testing and also expert analysis and opinions on what this means.
Because sometimes lawmakers get overly excited about very low levels of contamination.
It's like, oh, it's got five parts per billion glyphosate.
It's going to kill you.
Not really.
Not exactly.
You're getting that in your beer, you're getting that in your bread.
I'm a stickler for scientific accuracy when it comes to real numbers with contamination.
And I do sound the alarm when I think it's appropriate.
Like, hey, if there's crazy mercury in that skin whitening product that's sold in Mexico, of course, they use a lot of mercury in some of their cosmetics.
It's crazy.
But I don't think that we should sort of sound the alarm on things that aren't really alarming.
So, In my point of view, if Lululemon clothing, if the toxins wash out with two washes, yeah, I'm not so concerned about it because that would be the way I would wear clothes anyway.
I would wash them twice.
Not that I would wear Lululemon.
I haven't put on a pair of yoga pants in a while, or never.
But I would wash them twice no matter what.
So I don't know that that's such a big issue.
I guess it depends on whether it persists in the clothing, and that's a whole different series of testing.
Nevertheless, I would direct Ken Paxton.
I mean, if I had an opinion on the matter, I would say you should look at the fabric softeners and the dryer sheets sold at Walmart and the grocery stores, HEB, et cetera.
You should look at the laundry detergents.
They're loaded with toxins.
And the dryer sheets that, you know, I've talked about these for years, how toxic they are.
It's unbelievable.
The truth is that.
People wash and tumble their clothing in cancer causing chemicals on purpose every day.
This is why I can't live in a neighborhood, by the way, because I smell the neighbor's laundry as they're venting out of their dryer.
They're venting toxic chemicals into the neighborhood.
Have you ever done that?
You ever been walking down the sidewalk in a neighborhood?
You know, oh man, those people are doing laundry again, like fuming up the whole neighborhood with their toxic cloud of cancer chemicals.
Yeah, sure enough, you know, the husband there just got diagnosed with turbo cancer.
I wonder why.
Yeah, because you're.
You're soaking your clothes in cancer chemicals.
Again, I can't live in neighborhoods for that very reason.
I can't live too close to other homes because they're always venting toxic chemicals through their laundry.
So, my guess is this is a guess as a scientist that Lululemon's clothing is not nearly as toxic as the fabric softwares, dryer sheets, and detergents that are sold at mainstream retail stores.
That's my guess, and I'd be willing to put money on that.
So, again, I would direct Kent Paxton, you should be looking at Procter Gamble.
You should be looking at Tide, laundry detergent, and what are they like?
Bounty?
Is that Bounce?
Bounty?
Bounce, I think, is one of the dryer sheet companies.
I don't know their names because I don't buy this crap.
Whatever it's called.
That stuff, I'd be looking at that and saying, what are the chemicals in there?
And then it.
If I were you listening to this, and you know how I feel about fragrance, I hate it.
I hate synthetic fragrance.
I can't stand it.
If I were you, if you don't want to have turbo cancer, then I would get rid of all the toxic detergents, all the toxic fabric softeners, personal care products, skin lotions, shampoos, bar soaps, body soaps, deodorants, and all that garbage.
And if you're looking for a source of where to replace all that stuff with ultra clean, zero fragrance, no synthetic fragrances at all.
It's my store.
I created all these products at healthrangerstore.com because I need them.
And also, of course, I want to share them with you.
But I need them too.
I can't stand store-bought soap.
I can't stand store-bought shampoo.
I can't stand store-bought deodorants or laundry detergents or even automatic dishwasher detergents.
My company formulated all of these ourselves with the most pristine, heavily scrutinized ingredients imaginable.
Trust me, just go to healthrangerstore.com and look at the ingredients on the home care products there.
You'll be amazed.
You'll be amazed.
And then, on top of that, we test all of our products in our laboratory, our mass spec lab, to make sure they don't have heavy metals or glyphosate or whatever.
We do a lot of different tests.
If you want ultra clean products for your home and your personal care and your, you know, from your mouthwash to your deodorant to your first aid lotion, all this stuff, just shop with us at healthrangerstore.com.
Now, we don't have every single thing.
We don't have sunscreen lotions and stuff.
We don't have moisturizer lotions.
But most of those are just garbage from the stores anyway.
They're like mineral oil, like petroleum products and fragrance and garbage.
It's like, who would even wear that?
Well, the same people that would buy, I guess, sportswear and not wash it.
And then they would go work out at the gym and get all sweaty.
And then they would soak their clothing with their sweat, which is the perfect chemical extraction recipe.
To actually extract the chemicals and put those chemicals onto their skin to absorb them.
You do know, right, that in our laboratory, when we want to extract the toxins from clothing, we use water.
You know, we use water.
I mean, we might use a little bit of acetonitrile, we might use a little bit of methanol, whatever.
We might use a little bit of IPA, but it's mostly water because water is the solvent that does the extraction.
Well, if you sweat, You're extracting all the toxins out of your clothing into your skin.
That's why you should never wash your clothes in toxic laundry detergent because it's extracting the cancer chemicals right into your skin and then you're absorbing it right into your bloodstream.
That's why so many women have lymph node cancer, by the way, which becomes, in many cases, breast cancer.
You know why?
Because they're wearing bras that are loaded up with fragrance chemicals and toxins.
And they're wearing like sports bras that are actually compressed against their breasts.
So they have a lot of contact, a lot of contact pressure.
And then they go to the gym and they work out and they get all sweaty.
They get sweaty.
And then the sweat just extracts the toxins, pushes it into their breasts and their lymph nodes under their armpits.
And then they get diagnosed with cancer.
It's like, well,.
You know, I mean, I'm not trying to blame the victim here.
I'm trying to educate you listening so you don't do those things.
Because I don't want you to get lymph node cancer or breast cancer because of the toxic laundry that you're using or the detergents or whatever.
It's crazy.
It's actually crazy.
So, personally, I'm not so concerned about Lululemon.
Probably their stuff is way overpriced.
It's probably made somewhere for like a dollar and then they sell it for $75.
I'm just guessing.
I don't know.
That's just my guess.
But I very much doubt that Lululemon is a health risk.
I think the real health risk is what you're washing your clothes in and drying your clothes in every single day.
And that's why you need to use ultra clean products for that.
Ultra clean products.
Pristine.
like what we sell.
So yeah, sure, I'm going to pitch my store for you there because it could literally help you avoid exposure to deadly toxins.
And I want you to be healthy.
So shop with us, healthrangerstore.com and get our ultra clean laundry detergent and our dishwasher detergent and our body soap.
And, you know, when we have different kinds of, I don't want to call them what flavors, but Different varieties like lavender.
That's lavender essential oil in there.
We don't use artificial lavender.
Like we have a lemongrass shampoo.
That's actual lemongrass oil in there, folks.
We don't do like fake blueberries and stuff.
No, never.
We're not into that at all.
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You're going to get real essential oils or you can get completely unscented, which is what I use.
But I also like, I really like our orange.
Our citrus body soap.
I love that one actually.
It's great to wake up with because citrus kind of wakes you up and alerts your senses.
It's great in the morning.
Like washing with citrus soap, super clean, no synthetics, no artificial, nothing.
You can get that at healthrangerstore.com.
And I think you'll really enjoy it.
So there you go.
That's my take on it.
Of course, just to be clear, Lululemon didn't pay me to say any of this.
Nobody pays me to say anything.
Except, I mean, we have sponsors, you know, like the satellite phone store, et cetera, that we have affiliate sponsorships with it.
But I tell you that I'm saying there's no secret payments, you know, especially from some sports apparel company like Lululemon, which would never dare be associated with some of the things that I say anyway.
It'd be like Nike would never offer me a contract.
I wouldn't take it.
Are you kidding me?
No, I have integrity, you know, so I'm just saying it like it is.
So there you go.
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This war with Iran could be categorized in what I would call an empire terminating event because it exposes the weaknesses and frailties of the entire system.
What leader is more effective?
The guy that kicks down the door and starts screaming at you from day one on everything, yelling, yelling, yelling, my way, only my way.
There's a lot of resentment that comes from that.
Not too much gets accomplished.
Or the guy that comes in and says, hey, talk to me.
We could have been that leader.
We chose to be the one who screams and yells and shouts.
And the problem with that is.
People just stop listening.
You bully people, but you don't lead people.
You don't motivate people.
All right, welcome back to my part two of my interview with Scott Ritter, who's just an extraordinarily courageous and insightful person, former UN weapons inspector, United States Marine, intelligence analyst, and so much more.
He's got a wealth of experience that's highly relevant to what's happening in the world today.
And if you missed part one of our interview, that's available at brightvideos.com.
Scott's website is found at scottritter.com, and he does.
I don't know, 50 interviews a week or something.
It seems like it.
It's a lot.
Welcome back, Scott Ritter.
It's an honor to have you back on the show.
Thanks for sticking with me here.
Thanks for having me.
So, you kind of heard my intro there.
I'd like to get your take on what happens when the U.S. is no longer able to project power in the Middle East.
The U.S. military bases in the region have been largely destroyed or abandoned.
Clearly, Iran is going to maintain control over the Strait of Hormuz, giving Iran direct control over essentially.
20% of the world's oil and energy and gas, et cetera.
I mean, that's a rough number.
That puts Iran in control of more oil than the United States itself.
I mean, it's extraordinary.
So, what happens in your view with the US empire if this reconfiguration goes in that direction that we've just talked about?
Well, I think that this war with Iran could be categorized as what I would call an empire terminating event because it exposes the weaknesses and frailties of the entire system.
The United States has been struggling to sustain its global hegemony that it's enjoyed since the collapse of the Soviet Union when it became the sole remaining superpower.
But we have behaved.
In an egregious fashion, we had an opportunity to reconfigure the world in a realistic manner, one that recognized that the United States is a major power, but that the United States is not the singular power, that other nations matter, other peoples matter, and other opinions matter, and that we could have taken advantage of our.
You know, singularly strong position and create a new world order where we would be listened to because we were listening to people.
I mean, I just ask people to reflect on leadership, just basic day to day leader.
What leader is more effective?
The guy that kicks down the door and starts screaming at you from day one on everything, yelling, yelling, yelling, my way, only my way.
There's a lot of resentment that comes from that.
Not too much gets accomplished.
Or the guy that comes in and says, hey, talk to me.
What's on your mind?
We've got this problem.
How do you think it?
It should be so.
What would be a good outcome for you?
Let me tell you where I'm coming from.
Maybe we can come together and work on this.
The next thing you know, you have a solution.
Everybody's happy and everybody's working together as a team.
We could have been that leader.
We chose to be the one who screams and yells and shouts.
And the problem with that is people just stop listening.
You bully people, but you don't lead people.
You don't motivate people.
And at some point in time, you're no longer the strapping man that you were with the broad shoulders and the narrow waist and the granite jaw that people fear.
Age catches up with you.
You start to get a belly, and maybe you don't go to the gym as much as you used to, and the muscles start to atrophy, but all you got is a big mouth.
That's the United States right now.
We are somebody who's already gone through a middle age crisis and we didn't recognize it.
We're past middle age.
We have arthritic knees.
I'm starting to describe myself, a belly that isn't going to go away.
And you can go to the gym and lift all you want.
You're just going to get weaker because you're at that point where your body just isn't building mass anymore.
Normally, when you get to that age, you'd rely upon wisdom to lead.
Yeah, you're not going to go out there and bench press 315 pounds.
You don't need to.
You're going to go out there and be smart.
You have wisdom, but we're not even smart and wise.
We can't bench press.
We can't lead.
And this is where we're at today.
We bit off more than we could chew.
We've been telling the world that we are the unsurpassed military power.
And the world, for the most part, believed it because we used to be the unsurpassed military power.
But what happens when your bluff gets called and then suddenly they realize that the emperor has no clothes?
And this is what's happened here with Iran.
You know, if we were the unsurpassed military power, we should have won this war in a matter of days.
We would have struck with extreme force, with extreme precision, and we would have manifested the conditions that we wanted for victory.
We would have collapsed the regime.
We would have had something to replace it.
We would have suppressed their missiles, and we would have had a plan.
We didn't have a plan.
What we know now is that this war was thrust upon us by Israel, that Bibi Netanyahu and his head of the Mossad got a one on one with Donald Trump in the White House where they convinced him that with precision guided strikes, we could end their regime.
People would rise up in the streets.
Overthrow, and we didn't need to worry about anything else because now we own Iran and everything's hunky dory.
And Trump bought into that.
Everybody in his cabinet, without exception, disagreed.
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said the Israelis oversell.
We shouldn't buy into their optimism.
Marco Rubio and the director of the CIA said this regime change is fantasy.
It's not going to happen.
They didn't even invite Tulsi Gabbard there, the chief, you know, the director of national intelligence.
JD Vancey, I'm just dead set against this war.
I think it's wrong.
We shouldn't be doing this.
And Donald Trump went, that's okay.
We're going to do what the Israelis said.
And it turned out to be unattainable.
And now we're humiliated.
We went at them with everything we had except nuclear weapons.
We used the most advanced weapons, the most advanced fighters, the most advanced bombers.
We pummeled them.
I mean, we're so proud of ourselves blowing up these buildings.
Hell, we even got a girls' school.
That's how good we are.
175 dead girls, ages of 6 to 12.
Good job, America.
But, you know, Pete Kedge says the same lethality, lethality, no rule book, just lethality.
And now we've done the lethality thing.
And what have we accomplished?
Nothing.
The regime's stronger than ever.
We didn't sink their Navy.
Again, I'm just reminding the American public that their Navy just mined the Strait of Hormuz.
Right.
The Navy we destroyed just mined the Strait of Hormuz.
We control the Iranian airspace, except they shoot down our airplanes and humiliate us because they just waited till we used all of our standoff weapons.
And now we have to come in closer to them.
And they come out and say, Bring it on, baby.
We got you.
Boom, boom, boom.
But I want to get into the currency consequences of this.
And I know you're not an economist, and I'm not either, but it's very clear that.
Iran has already set conditions of allowing certain ships to pass, for example, allowing one tanker to pass because they paid for their oil in Chinese yuan currency.
And also the so called toll, which has been rumored to be maybe $2 million per vessel, with $1 million going to Iran, $1 million going to Oman.
At least that seems to be part of the last round of so called ceasefire terms.
But clearly, that's not going to be payable in dollars.
That's going to be crypto or gold or yuan or rubles or something.
And it seems to me that, I mean, you know the history, Scott.
You're very well schooled on this that it was the U.S. presence in the area that forced or at least pressured Saudi Arabia and Qatar and Kuwait, et cetera, to sell all their energy in dollars, creating global demand for the petrodollar that gave the backing for the U.S. to print unlimited currency.
Seems to me that that's ending because of Iran's.
Assertion of the control over the strait.
Iran can say to any country, if you sell your oil in dollars, that oil's not passing through the strait.
Couldn't they?
They could.
Look, Iran can get away with a lot right now because it's war.
You know who's not going to be happy about Iran insisting on yuan payments?
China.
They're not ready to become the petro yuan.
Yeah, good point.
There's no currency out there that can match the dollar.
So, again, if Donald Trump had functioning brain cells and he had people around him, you know, what I would be telling Donald Trump is that we concede the toll.
We don't articulate too much about long term ownership, but what we say is that.
There is a need for reconstruction.
A lot of damage has been done in Iran and in the Gulf Arab states.
So, part of our peace proposal is that Iran, together with a Gulf Arab conglomerate, maybe with the Americans involved to oversee, you know, I don't know how far we can push that one, but why not try?
Trump's already trying.
We'll collect a toll.
And then that money will go into a pool that then will be allocated to every nation to rebuild.
You know, based upon the damage done, a percentage will go to each nation, and that we will collect this money until which time reconstruction has been done.
It's like, you know, the throughway.
You build the throughway in New York, you put up a toll booth, and you're supposed to collect tolls until which time you've paid off the cost of the throughway, and then the toll booth goes away.
But no one would trust the U.S. to be the toll collector, clearly, right?
I said there would be, A body that does it, not the United States.
Okay, yeah, right, right.
Yeah, I didn't mean to misrepresent what you said.
I'm just asking.
I'm just spitballing right here.
But what I'm saying is that if you have good negotiators, I can save the dollar because there is no alternative to the dollar right now.
So what you do is you yield to the Iranians that which should be yielded and can be yielded, but you retain enough leverage to keep the dollar in play.
And China would support this because China is not ready.
To print yuan like we print dollars.
That's right.
That would be very damaging to China's current ecosystem.
Yeah.
And so, you know, I again, I think that we could salvage the dollar, not because it's the right thing to do, but because it's the only thing that can be done at this point in time, because there is no alternative to the dollar.
You know, so yeah, I mean, currency is an issue, but it's a card that the Iranians are just playing to irritate us right now.
It's not.
It's not going to be part of their long term solution.
It can't be part of their long term solution because the Chinese aren't ready to jump up and say, Yeah, we're ready to underwrite the global oil energy market with our currency.
The dollar is the reserve currency of the world, and it will be that way until an alternative comes up.
And as long as the dollar is linked to petroleum, that means that it is the natural choice for this.
If Trump keeps screwing around with the deficit and everything else and the dollar devalues, who knows where the world will come?
Maybe they'll have no choice but to come up with an alternative.
This juncture, I don't think I'm not as afraid of losing the petrodollar as I am of.
You know, first of all, the United States has to resize.
I think the American people need to understand this.
We can't be what we were 20 years ago.
You know, we can't be the global policeman because to be the policeman, you have to have a body of law that you respect and the world recognizes.
We, you know, we've never really respected the United Nations in the charter, but we've played that game.
But what we did is we created something called the rules based international order.
And that, I mean, you know, The Biden administration just straight up said that's what makes America the rules based international order, not the United Nations Charter, not anything.
This system of rules and entities, organizations that are beholden to the United States, act on behalf of the United States, that we link the world in, that's gone.
The rules based international order is dead.
So the question now is what replaces it?
And we don't have a vision for that.
What Trump wants to replace it with is bullying.
Right.
That there's no rules.
We just come in and we're going to kick your butt.
You know, well, gosh, the first guy he picked on in the schoolyard kicked his butt.
And so that's the end of bullying.
We're not going to bully anybody.
As I said before, the Pacific, our national security strategy document dated November of last year, articulated a policy posture in the Pacific that said that we must have conventional military overmatch with the Chinese, that the Chinese must be convinced that they can't win a war against us.
Well, we haven't achieved that at all.
Just the opposite.
Because what we, even though, I mean, any real military analyst went, Oh, we don't have that right now, boss.
I don't know how you're going to get it.
But, you know, you can bluster, you can walk the walk and, you know, make people think.
But we just got beat by Iran.
We can't control the Strait of Hormuz.
What makes us think we can control the Strait of Malacca in Indonesia, a critical choke point?
We can't.
What makes us think we can control the South Chinese Sea, where the Chinese have installed military bases?
We can't.
We can't control anything.
Which means around the world, everybody has their hand on the throat of the United States and its allies.
We need to adjust to this reality.
We have to start changing our expectations of how the world responds to us.
Yes.
NATO Arrogance and Economic Decline00:09:34
And so I'm really glad you brought us to this point of the discussion because you, for several years, you've offered really outstanding commentary about the Russia Ukraine conflict.
And you've visited Russia.
You know, you've extensively.
Traveled through Russia to promote your book, I believe, and other things.
And the US failed to topple Putin.
The US failed to rape and pillage Russia.
The US military, through the proxy of Ukraine and NATO, really failed there.
And now it has failed again with the Strait of Hormuz.
So this is actually two strikes, two failures back to back.
And I mean, what are your thoughts on the pattern that's emerging here?
The world is noticing, obviously.
But I call it an empire terminating event.
You know, as we speak, NATO is going through its final death throes, which I think is a great thing because NATO, in my opinion, has no right to exist after the Cold War and has been sort of the source of much of the problems we face today, especially in Ukraine.
But, you know, Marco Rubio has just articulated that we are probably going to withdraw 100,000 troops from Europe in the near future and that we're going to view NATO now on a case by case basis based upon the membership.
That's not how an alliance works.
It's a collective.
Article 5 is supposed to apply to everybody.
And what we're saying is, no, if you didn't come to our assistance in the Strait of Hormuz, we won't come to your assistance.
So it's the end of NATO.
It's the death of NATO.
And this is a wonderful thing.
I literally think we should be ringing the bell, singing Ding Dog, The Witch is Dead, The Wicked Witch, because NATO is a horrible organization.
It only represents, it's literally an organization that exists outside the framework of law.
And they've acknowledged that.
They've acknowledged that NATO.
Functions independent of the United Nations Charter.
They proved that with Kosovo.
And they're now, you know, their approach towards Russia and Ukraine is the same way.
So this is a good thing.
It's also a good thing that the tripartite pact that we had with South Korea and Japan, which actually increased the possibility of nuclear war with North Korea, that's going to collapse as well.
The Japanese and North Koreans can no longer hide behind the artifice of American security guarantees, and they will have to learn to engage diplomatically with North Korea.
And this is a good thing.
They'll have to engage diplomatically with China and Russia.
AUKUS, the American, the Australia, United Kingdom, US, a little three way going there.
Australia is done with us.
They don't have any diesel right now.
They're rationing gas.
Their stores are empty because of us.
And they recognize that the United States provides zero security whatsoever.
The nation that's going to resolve Australia's energy crisis.
Crisis isn't the United States, it's China.
And so you're going to see Australia recognizing the reality that America's bad, China's good, and they're going to go that way.
India, likewise.
And Taiwan.
I mean, couldn't that very easily happen with Taiwan?
Yeah, it's over.
If I were Kuomintang right now, I would just basically tell the Taiwanese people in the next election, you have to push out this government in there, bring us in, and we're going to solve the problem with China, that our future is with China.
The thing about losing this war.
Against Iran, is that nobody views their futures being good with the United States?
Everybody's going to be looking to renegotiate or just walk away.
And, you know, it's up to the U.S. government to resize.
If we continue to insist that we are King Arthur and you are nothing but knights around my round table, at some point in time, we're going to be sitting at a round table all by ourselves and everybody else is going to be off in the cool boys' table with Putin and Xi Jinping and Modi and the people that matter, all sitting around together.
Working out problems.
We have to stop being arrogant.
That means not just our government.
Our government is a reflection of who we are as a people.
We're not exceptional.
People, Americans need to understand that there's nothing exceptional about us.
And I want to add that you're not, this isn't just you talking.
This is actually happening.
A high level official of the Kuomintang in Taiwan is actually meeting with President Xi of China.
And you can bet what they're discussing like, how can we get diesel?
How can we get gasoline?
How can we get natural gas?
Because you're exactly right, Scott.
The U.S. umbrella of protection, even over Israel and Japan and South Korea and the Persian Gulf states, that umbrella has been disintegrated.
It's gone, it's finished.
Look, and just think of the arrogance of the United States for a second.
I mean, Marco Rubio, who's currently the Secretary of State, at one time was talking about Brazil when he was a senator.
And Brazil was talking about not trading in the dollar.
And he said, We can't allow that to happen because if they stop trading in the dollar, that means we are not going to be able to impose sanctions on them.
And then how will we control their economy?
He did say that, yeah.
And I'm like, Oh, that's refreshingly honest there, Marco.
I appreciate that.
But that's the arrogance that we have.
We.
Again, I'm an American.
I'm as patriotic as it gets.
And you attack my country, you put down my country without purpose, and you'll get a fist or a headbutt or worse.
I just, I love my country.
But I'm also a realist here.
I don't believe in arrogance, I believe in being humble and humility.
We think we can control the chip market.
And that we can prevent China from having access to advanced microchip manufacturing technology.
And we actually impose sanctions on China saying you can't have access to the chips that are built in Taiwan, that we're going to relocate to the United States because we don't want you to have access to it.
And the Chinese are like, hmm, let's think about this.
We got a population of, you know, one point something billion.
Why don't we just get, oh, I don't know, a couple, 30 million?
Scientists to work this issue.
And today they build advanced chips.
They solve the problem.
Our arrogance never once factored in the fact that the Chinese can solve this problem themselves.
We keep saying we're going to deny you access to this, deny you access.
That's the wrong move.
The right move is to say, hey, China, we got great chips.
Want some?
Invite us in.
We'll come in and we'll set up a joint production facility.
Yeah, and then they wouldn't have developed their own UV lithography technology, Huawei microchips.
And we've been from their economy.
We have good relations.
We can get access to the chips we need in the quantities we need.
We're tied into their rare earth metal and rare earth materials that we can get their permanent magnets.
Wow, that's what happens when you extend the hand of friendship.
But instead, we are arrogant and we say, We are exceptional and you can't be like us.
You're inferior to us.
We have to maintain our superiority.
Drive around your average American city than drive around your average Chinese city and compare and contrast.
Get on a high speed train in America, the Acela train connects New York City with Washington, D.C.
I travel it frequently.
It's supposed to be a high speed train.
I just know that we go around South Philly, we have to slow down very slow and the train's rocking back and forth as if it's.
Because of the quality of the rail.
Meanwhile, I can get on, I haven't done it yet, but I plan on it, get on a high speed train in China, and I can put a glass of wine on a pencil, and it's just going to stay that way because it's a smooth ride all the way.
Or visit a Russian city for that matter, right?
I just came back from Russia, and I'm just here to tell you guys for all the people that are like, oh, the Russian economy is collapsing and all that.
Look, the Russians aren't happy.
There are things happening on the periphery, but restaurants are full, stores are full.
People make money, they earn a living, they have a high standard of living, and they are happy.
It's a happy nation.
The war, of course, is preventing them from being able to explode economically.
God forbid this war ends, and you're going to just see Russia go off the rails in terms of positive things happening.
You know, but the American people who buy into the notion, you know, Joe Biden, the ruble is rubble.
Really?
Right, right.
The dollar is rubble, baby.
Instead of being able to compete with the world, it seems like the American empire just wants to destroy everybody else's economy, bring them down to where we can assert control.
And I'm like you, I love America.
I love the founding vision of America.
I'm incredibly frustrated with who's running it right now and how they're twisting.
The original founding intent, but I will fight for the founding principles of America.
Absolutely.
Even though I'm disgusted with my current government.
Media Poison Fuel on Demand00:06:22
But Scott, we're almost out of time.
I want to be respectful of your time.
Let me give out your website again.
It's scottritter.com.
We'll take you to Scott's Substack page where you can find all kinds of good stuff there, all the videos.
And of course, you can follow Scott on numerous channels.
Hey, Scott, real quick, what are you doing?
I know you go on Judge Napolitano's show quite a lot.
You've been on many shows.
What are some of the shows that you go on?
Oh, I mean, I do Judge Napolitano quite a bit.
I do Nima Rostrami.
He's a great show.
Yeah, Dialogue Works is a fantastic show.
Danny Haifong.
Yep.
I go on his program.
Garland Nixon.
Yep.
I've had him on that.
And then I basically have to learn to stop saying yes because it's problematic to my work.
But, you know, I today, one, two, three, this is my sixth show today.
Wow.
Wow.
And tomorrow, if I have discipline, I might only get away with three.
I want to drop it to two a week.
But here's my thing I don't wake up every morning and go, I need to be on the internet.
In fact, my whole approach is I need to be writing.
I have a book that I need to finish, I have articles that I need to do.
I'm a writer.
I have a movie I'm making.
I just got back from Russia where I did the filming for a documentary film that I'm doing about Chechnya.
And that's a very intensive project.
So I need to be doing all that.
My problem is that I get people calling me.
I mean, I get 12 invitations a day to do stuff.
And my approach is that if somebody has taken the time to reach out and say, we think that what you have to say is valuable to the overall discussion, who am I to say you're wrong?
I mean, for instance, you're the one who called me.
I didn't call you.
And you said, or your producer said, we want you to come on the show.
Yes.
Who am I to sit there and go, man, I'm not going to do that?
Because you made a decision.
That your audience needs to be engaged with a specific kind of thing.
And so, this is like a duty and responsibility right now.
I hear you.
To do this, I pray for the day where I don't get a call, where people say, nah, we don't want to hear from Scott Ritter today.
Because you know what?
I get to work then.
I get to write.
I get to relax.
I get to play with my dogs.
I get to do things that make life enjoyable.
But we live in very troubling times right now where the principles of debate, the dialogue, and discussion are so absolutely important.
And if I can contribute, To a debate, dialogue, and discussion about these issues, then that's sort of what I need to be doing right now.
Well, Scott, you and I share actually a lot in common on that.
And yesterday, for example, I got wound up into this really important AI project I'm working on for humanity, for knowledge.
And I thought, I got to cancel my interviews today.
And so I talked to my producer.
I said, I'm really thinking of just canceling.
Who do we have?
And she said, Scott Ritter.
I'm like, oh, shit, I can't cancel Scott Ritter.
So I'm here, buddy.
I mean, I'm here because of you.
Otherwise, I would have canceled.
So that happens to both of us.
No, but this is, and here's the other thing that I want to make a pitch for.
You know, mainstream media is horrible right now.
It's actually a poison pill for American society because it promotes ignorance.
The antidote to this poison is what people call alternative media.
I don't like that term, I'd like to call it independent media, where, you know, people who have the desire and have the expertise are able to provide, you know, Their own vision of what's going on, fact based, different analysis.
This is the fuel that makes democracy work.
That's true.
I can't, I can't.
Another reason why I do this is because, you know, trust me, I'd love somebody else to be the diesel in this engine.
But right now, you know, this is fuel on demand.
If people are saying, you're the diesel, we need you to keep this engine running right now, then we have to do that.
But this is how we save America.
Because America gets saved by overcoming ignorance.
Half the policies our government promotes out there are policies that are sold to the American by exploiting their fears.
And their fears are a byproduct of their ignorance.
We empower people through knowledge and information.
When you are equipped with knowledge and information, you are no longer ignorant, you're no longer afraid, and you can stand up and hold your elected representatives accountable by saying, I disagree with you, and this is why.
Shows like yours, shows like Judge and others, this is.
The juju that makes America work, that's going to save the American Constitutional Republic.
Because the Constitutional Republic doesn't work without an informed electorate to hold people who otherwise would transition the tyranny accountable for what they do in our name.
So I applaud the work that you do, and I would encourage your audience to continue to support you as much as they can.
Well, God bless you, Scott Ritter.
Thank you for all of that and for your time today.
And I wish you well.
I'll give out your website one more time again, scottritter.com, which forwards you to the Substack site.
And Scott, thank you again for all that you do.
Please keep doing what you do and find that balance in your life as we're all trying to do so that we can, you know, we can still, you know, do the things that are important to us personally.
But thank you for your time today.
Thank you very much for having me.
All right.
Take care.
That was Scott Ritter, everybody.
What an extraordinary American and a United States Marine as well.
Wish we had more Scott Ridders out there who just have the courage to stand up and tell it like it is.
If you missed part one of our interview, that's available at brightvideos.com.
And as always, you are free to share this interview and you can repost this anywhere that you think it might not get banned.
I mean, isn't it crazy we get banned for telling the truth, but it's been that way for a decade now in America.
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