Health Ranger - Mike Adams - Bright Videos News, May 11, 2026 - Famine Foods, Human Extermination, and Data Center BACKLASH
Aired: 2026-05-11
Duration: 02:09:27


=== Data Center Pollution Crisis (11:28) ===

[00:00:11]  The backlash against AI data centers is growing across America.
[00:00:17]  And for good reason, people are seeing their electricity bills skyrocketing, which means that consumers are subsidizing, in essence, through the power companies, the very data centers that are displacing the resources that those people need to live, like water or electricity or farmland, for example.
[00:00:39]  And that's infuriating to a lot of people.
[00:00:41]  Why should we pay, they say?
[00:00:44]  For the electricity subsidies of these horrific data centers that come in and that emit all kinds of light pollution at night and noise pollution 247, and in some cases, water pollution as well.
[00:01:01]  And that, frankly, these AI data centers may be involved in building AI systems that will go full Skynet or that will surveil us using AI mass surveillance or weaponization of systems using artificial intelligence.
[00:01:19]  So, it's not surprising that there's a growing backlash against this.
[00:01:24]  Now, for the record, I'm not opposed to AI per se.
[00:01:30]  I mean, I use AI, but I use it for positive things.
[00:01:32]  I use it for creating open source books and sharing knowledge with humanity.
[00:01:39]  I use AI to build infographics that explain complex concepts.
[00:01:44]  I use AI to help set people free, but the way I use it is an exception.
[00:01:51]  Most AI is used either for profit or power, or increasingly by the governments of the world for surveillance and building autonomous weapons.
[00:02:02]  And more and more people are realizing that.
[00:02:04]  Now, I'm not saying that we should ban all data centers, just to be clear, because data centers do things other than just AI.
[00:02:12]  They also host websites and host data and host teleconferencing companies, et cetera.
[00:02:18]  Lots of things they do.
[00:02:21]  But we shouldn't be building them right next to human neighborhoods.
[00:02:25]  That doesn't make any sense.
[00:02:27]  So, data centers should be built in areas far from where humans live.
[00:02:34]  They can be built on oceans, actually.
[00:02:37]  There are floating data centers.
[00:02:39]  I've seen that as a pilot project.
[00:02:42]  And that's not going to disturb people to have them floating in the ocean.
[00:02:46]  Or you could build them in deserts where you can have a lot of solar energy right there in the desert because there's not much rain, obviously.
[00:02:55]  So, you get A lot more solar energy, or you could build them in orbit.
[00:02:59]  So, orbital data centers is a thing, and that will increase in the years ahead.
[00:03:06]  But of course, it requires launching them into space, and that takes time and a lot of money.
[00:03:13]  And there's you know more design effort is needed, etc.
[00:03:18]  So, there are ways to build data centers right now that don't interfere with human neighborhoods, but each one of those ways is more expensive, it adds Some level of cost.
[00:03:33]  And that's why the tech companies that are building these, i.e., Google and Meta and Tesla, even and others, they don't want to pay the extra cost that's required to build them more ethically.
[00:03:49]  So, as a result, we're going to see more and more people uprising against the data centers.
[00:03:53]  Now, the city councils appear to be paid off or threatened by the lawyers of the tech companies.
[00:04:02]  We're seeing that more and more.
[00:04:04]  So, we're seeing either the zoning officials or the city council members being intimidated and then choosing to side with big tech rather than siding with their own people.
[00:04:17]  And my guess is that we're going to witness even more of that in the years ahead because big tech has a lot of power, a lot of money, and a lot of legal might also.
[00:04:30]  So, be aware of that.
[00:04:31]  This is going to lead citizens to feel more powerless.
[00:04:36]  During all of this.
[00:04:38]  And as a result of feeling more powerless, I think we're going to see more citizens going vigilante.
[00:04:44]  They're going to take matters into their own hands.
[00:04:47]  And I want to be clear I don't advocate this.
[00:04:50]  I'm not calling for it.
[00:04:52]  I'm not even justifying it.
[00:04:55]  I'm just observing.
[00:04:57]  I've seen the anger in the city council meetings.
[00:04:59]  I've seen what these data centers are doing to people, ruining people's lives, making it so they can't sleep at night, taking away the water where they have no water pressure in their homes.
[00:05:10]  Destroying the value of their homes and many other things, destroying the cleanliness of the water supply, things like that.
[00:05:19]  Because of these things, there's no doubt in my mind that we're going to see humans revolting against data centers and we're going to see them ultimately attacking or sabotaging the infrastructure that feeds the data centers.
[00:05:35]  And that will probably gain some traction because you see, data centers are pretty vulnerable.
[00:05:44]  Their existence relies on basically goodwill of the surrounding community.
[00:05:50]  And data centers rely on power transmission lines, typically, unless they have their own power.
[00:05:57]  But if they have their own power, then they're relying on gas lines or something similar or solar fields.
[00:06:04]  And all of these systems have vulnerable points of failure that could be targeted by sabotage teams.
[00:06:11]  In addition, sabotage teams.
[00:06:14]  Could carry out things like just arson, you know, just trying to set things on fire, for example.
[00:06:22]  Or they could attempt other forms of sabotage that I'm not even going to go into, but there are many creative ways for people who are willing to break those boundaries to attempt to sabotage data centers.
[00:06:40]  And so even right now, this is why data centers are not giving tours, not even to journalists.
[00:06:48]  And they have high security, restricted access, because the companies that run the data centers are increasingly realizing that they are viewed as the enemy by the people.
[00:07:01]  They're viewed as the enemy.
[00:07:02]  And that's a bad place to be.
[00:07:06]  If you're a corporation, if you're a business, and you have a building in a community, and that community hates you and wants you destroyed, that's a bad situation for you.
[00:07:17]  And this is exactly where data centers find themselves today.
[00:07:21]  And by the way, It's not always the fault of the data centers themselves or the companies.
[00:07:26]  There are smaller companies that run data centers that aren't Google, that aren't building AI, that aren't trying to build Skynet.
[00:07:33]  They're just trying to host some servers and provide a business for web hosting or data storage or things like that.
[00:07:42]  So you can't just universally blame all data centers and say all data centers are bad.
[00:07:48]  It's not that simple.
[00:07:51]  And that's why companies like Google go to great lengths.
[00:07:55]  To disguise their ownership of data centers, they will form shell companies and then have those shell companies buy the land and do the construction, et cetera.
[00:08:04]  And then you try to look up the permits, and some of them are classified.
[00:08:10]  And what they do is they go to the zoning people or the city council people and they say, Well, you have to sign NDAs in order for us to build a data center, and we're going to bring all kinds of jobs to your town, which is often not true.
[00:08:26]  That's Often just an exaggeration.
[00:08:28]  But then the local government is tied up with NDAs, so they don't answer to the people when they're asked questions like, Who's behind this?
[00:08:39]  What are the future plans of expansion?
[00:08:41]  How is this going to impact the community?
[00:08:45]  Are there water quality tests being conducted?
[00:08:47]  And the answer they get from the town leaders is, Oh, well, we can't answer that because we've signed NDAs.
[00:08:54]  Well, so where are your loyalties then?
[00:08:58]  Right?
[00:08:59]  Your loyalties are just with the tech companies if that's what you're doing.
[00:09:04]  You're not answering your own people.
[00:09:07]  So that just adds to the frustration of the people.
[00:09:10]  And that's going to lead to even more anger and possibly lashing out in the years ahead.
[00:09:18]  So, anyway, the bottom line is that the companies building data centers that want to be safe, that want to avoid the backlash.
[00:09:29]  They are clearly going to start looking for data center land that is far from human populations.
[00:09:36]  And in some states, like Florida, Governor DeSantis there already signed into law something.
[00:09:46]  I don't know the details of the law, but I believe it says that data centers cannot be built in an area where they cause an increase in electricity costs to the local people.
[00:09:57]  So there's something about who's paying for the electrical infrastructure.
[00:10:01]  That's going to force the data centers to sort of carry their own weight.
[00:10:04]  At least that's my understanding of that law so far.
[00:10:08]  And that's a good start, but I don't think that law addresses the noise pollution and the light pollution and the water pollution aspects of it.
[00:10:17]  And those are very serious issues in the minds of people all across America.
[00:10:22]  This is only going to get worse when AI surveillance begins to really show itself and it shows that.
[00:10:32]  Many of these data centers are powering authoritarian governments, either at the state or federal level, that are trampling on the rights of the people.
[00:10:42]  So, as that happens, data centers will be hated, absolutely hated by the people.
[00:10:48]  And you'll probably see more attacks and more sabotage and things like that.
[00:10:53]  So, it's going to be humans versus machines.
[00:10:55]  Really, this is sort of a variation of the Terminator series.
[00:11:00]  And a lot of people are going to declare themselves to be John Connor.
[00:11:04]  And they're going to think in their own minds that they have to blow up the data center in order to save humanity.
[00:11:10]  So, you know, be ready for that kind of thing to happen.
[00:11:14]  And wherever you live, or if you're buying land, buy enough to have a buffer space if you can, or make sure you're in an area that's unlikely to be later zoned as a data center, although you don't always control that because the zoning can change.
[00:11:34]  And of course, the zoning can change completely outside of your control as well.
[00:11:39]  So, get ready for all of this.

=== Famine and Fuel Shortages (15:42) ===

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[00:12:33]  Take care.
[00:12:34]  I want to comment on the fact that there are many experts and analysts who are saying that there will be famine in America and that there will be fuel shortages beginning later this summer in the United States.
[00:12:47]  That is, we could run out of diesel, they say.
[00:12:50]  And even though I've been on many shows talking about The global famine.
[00:12:57]  I've been very careful, very specific, naming which countries are most vulnerable.
[00:13:02]  And those countries tend to be countries in Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia for the most part.
[00:13:08]  And I've named those specific countries.
[00:13:11]  And I have also, in covering all of this, made a conscious decision to be more optimistic about the outcome for the United States.
[00:13:26]  And I think there's justification for that at some level.
[00:13:30]  But some of the experts that are warning about what will happen in North America are very credible people, such as Michael Jahn or Chris Martinson and others.
[00:13:42]  And so I want to comment on that here and tell you that one of the reasons I made a conscious decision to be more optimistic is because I don't want to dwell on doom scenarios.
[00:13:59]  And I'm relying on the fact that most of you listening to this are already very well prepared.
[00:14:05]  And of course, you can think for yourself as well.
[00:14:08]  You know, you can decide how bad you think it's going to get.
[00:14:10]  And honestly, we don't know yet if the Strait of Hormuz is going to stay closed.
[00:14:15]  And so I prefer to talk about the effects that are already baked in rather than the effects that could happen if the Strait stays closed for another two, three, or four months.
[00:14:30]  Although that is certainly.
[00:14:32]  Within the realm of possibility.
[00:14:35]  But one of the things that got me thinking about the fact that I need to do this podcast is when Professor Jiang, he's been right about a lot of things, not everything, but most things, and he is putting out the message through various interviews that, in his view, he thinks that the war with Iran will go on for many, many years.
[00:15:02]  In fact, He's not even willing to put an end date on the war with Iran as he sees it.
[00:15:09]  Because, as he's explaining it, the United States is fighting for its hegemonic global dominance position, where the U.S. has been the unipolar nation of power and power projection through the U.S. Navy since the end of World War II, essentially.
[00:15:28]  And fighting Iran is part of a U.S. strategy to maintain that dominance.
[00:15:36]  And remember, that dominance includes U.S. dollar dominance, petrodollar status, which requires very strong control over the flows of energies through the various sea routes that define our world, and especially the choke points.
[00:15:53]  Strait of Hormuz being one choke point, Panama Canal, Suez Canal, Strait of Gibraltar, and Strait of Malacca are probably the most critical points.
[00:16:03]  In fact, yeah, there's no doubt those are the most critical points.
[00:16:07]  So, Professor Zhang.
[00:16:08]  Don't think that this war with Iran is going to end anytime soon.
[00:16:13]  And he also seems to agree and understand one of the things that I've said before, which is that Iran cannot surrender control over the Strait of Hormuz to the United States.
[00:16:25]  At the same time, Russia cannot allow Iran to be defeated by the West, and to some extent, nor can China, because Iran is the gateway.
[00:16:37]  It's the gateway between.
[00:16:38]  You know, the Middle East and most of Asia.
[00:16:45]  I mean, not all of it, but most of it.
[00:16:47]  If the West were to control Iran, then it would be a tremendous defeat for Russia and China, and it would expose, in essence, their southern flank.
[00:17:00]  So when all of the major players are fighting for their existence or fighting to defend their current dominant positions, in the case of the USA, Then there's no room for compromise.
[00:17:13]  It's a winner take all type of conflict.
[00:17:17]  There is no middle ground, in other words.
[00:17:19]  From the United States' point of view, either the U.S. controls the Strait of Hormuz or the U.S. loses its position as a dominant unipolar currency, you know, world reserve currency status country.
[00:17:35]  But from the point of view of Iran, if Iran gives up control of the Strait to the United States, then Iran.
[00:17:43]  Becomes more of a third world power instead of a first world power, or let's say a dominant power in a multipolar world, which is exactly where Iran is currently headed.
[00:17:56]  By controlling the Strait of Hormuz, Iran can assert control over 20% of the world's oil supply and more like 25% of the world's natural gas supply and a huge portion of the world's helium, etc.
[00:18:10]  In other words, if Iran can hold its position, And survive the US attacks, then Iran emerges as far more powerful than it has been since, let's say, thousands of years ago.
[00:18:26]  So that's what's at stake.
[00:18:29]  Given that, it seems unlikely that there will be any kind of a quick solution for the Strait of Hormuz.
[00:18:35]  And given that, it almost certainly means that the oil shortages, the fertilizer shortages, the gas shortages, et cetera, Will last a lot longer than what I had hoped or what I wanted to see in terms of a more optimistic outcome.
[00:18:57]  So, I do need to be intellectually honest about that.
[00:19:01]  Even though I'm not trying to push doom, I do need to tell you that based on what I just said, I don't see a quick resolution.
[00:19:11]  And if we don't have a quick resolution, then these other experts that I mentioned are absolutely correct.
[00:19:18]  In that eventually the fuel shortages and the food shortages come to America.
[00:19:24]  Now, America is better buffered than most countries in the world against that.
[00:19:29]  But there are other countries that also have a lot of self reliance, like New Zealand, for example, and you could say, you know, Papua New Guinea.
[00:19:40]  They have a lot of food resilience.
[00:19:42]  A lot of countries in Central and South America can become very self reliant if they have to.
[00:19:49]  But the United States is not permanently insulated from the catastrophic collapse of oil and urea and fertilizer that.
[00:20:02]  That would emerge from a continued long term closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
[00:20:06]  So that means we have to seriously consider what life is going to look like in America if this closure continues for many more months and potentially through the end of this year and even also potentially for many years to come.
[00:20:25]  That's not an implausible outcome given the priorities and the nature of the fight as I just previously described it.
[00:20:35]  So Let's take a look at the United States.
[00:20:39]  The U.S. imports millions of barrels of oil every day, even though the U.S. is a net exporter of petroleum products, including distillates and so on.
[00:20:53]  But to simplify it, the U.S. primarily exports light crude oil and primarily imports heavy crude oil because U.S. refineries are built around the chemistry that works well with heavy oil.
[00:21:07]  And when I say heavy oil, you know, it's more sludgy, et cetera.
[00:21:11]  It's the kind of oil that Venezuela produces in abundance, which tells you something about why Trump targeted Venezuela.
[00:21:19]  But the U.S. domestically doesn't actually produce enough heavy oil in order to feed the demand for domestic energy that can be processed with domestic refineries.
[00:21:34]  So, you know, it's easy for Trump to say something like, well, We produce more oil than we need.
[00:21:40]  We export oil to other countries.
[00:21:41]  That is true, but all oil is not the same.
[00:21:45]  So we export one kind of oil and we import a different kind of oil.
[00:21:49]  And what that means is that if there is a global supply collapse of the kinds of oil that we import, then we're in deep, deep trouble because then we will start to have shortages of refined fuel products, including diesel fuel and kerosene, jet fuel, et cetera, in the United States.
[00:22:09]  Even though We have our own oil supply, even though we have our own refineries, it's not the right kind of oil.
[00:22:16]  So, it is plausible that in the United States, we could see extreme fuel shortages after the summer or maybe later in the year if the strait stays closed.
[00:22:31]  And even if we can find a way to buy the oil that we need, you know, the heavier sludge oil, which is somewhat likely, maybe we could.
[00:22:42]  Maybe we could somehow crank out more oil out of Venezuela, even though the infrastructure there is wrecked.
[00:22:48]  And it would actually take many years of infrastructure investments to get Venezuela producing more oil, it turns out.
[00:22:57]  But if we turn up the crank on what we have right now, we might be able to produce another half a million barrels a day.
[00:23:03]  Or, you know, if we really go crazy, possibly maybe a million barrels a day.
[00:23:08]  That's not enough.
[00:23:11]  Now, if we start bidding up the price of oil to try to import it from other countries, Then, yeah, possibly we could redirect some of the heavier crude oil that's coming out of certain countries and we could redirect it to us.
[00:23:25]  But at a cost, at a cost that could easily, on a global scale, push oil above $200 a barrel.
[00:23:34]  And some analysts, even major bank analysts, I'm thinking like Goldman Sachs, et cetera, and I don't recall the exact numbers that they mentioned, but across the board, many analysts are predicting that oil could hit $180 to $200 a barrel later this year.
[00:23:54]  And then, if you extend into 2027, depending on how bad things get, that number gets even higher, much higher.
[00:24:01]  I mean, in some people's minds, it becomes hundreds of dollars per barrel.
[00:24:05]  And I don't mean just 200.
[00:24:07]  So, what happens to the economy when oil is, let's say, $200 a barrel?
[00:24:14]  And the answer is that you start to move very quickly through recession into depression.
[00:24:25]  You crush.
[00:24:27]  Many different markets that depend on transportation, such as airlines.
[00:24:32]  You crush new car sales, RV sales, the travel industry, and you also cause a spike in food prices.
[00:24:41]  And you end up in a situation where FedEx and UPS have to have surcharges on every shipment.
[00:24:49]  So then e commerce companies like my own start getting hammered with surcharges on every box that you ship out.
[00:24:57]  So then e commerce becomes more expensive.
[00:24:59]  Groceries become more expensive.
[00:25:00]  You see the point here.
[00:25:02]  And ultimately, because of the transportation costs associated with construction materials, then you start to get a major hit on the homes market, real estate, especially new construction.
[00:25:15]  And this is a cascading problem, obviously.
[00:25:19]  So, can we live through that?
[00:25:20]  Yes, we can.
[00:25:21]  It's not the end of the world.
[00:25:23]  But is it going to be economically very painful?
[00:25:25]  Absolutely.
[00:25:27]  Now, then we haven't really considered the food issue yet.
[00:25:32]  So, let me talk about that for a moment.
[00:25:34]  Yes, we produce a lot of our own food in the United States.
[00:25:37]  Yes, we are the breadbasket of much of the Western world.
[00:25:40]  However, growing that food, being that breadbasket, requires imports of fertilizer.
[00:25:49]  And, you know, we currently import fertilizer from many different countries, but you have to understand that in almost every country, in fact, I can't think of an exception to this, where fertilizer is produced, including in the US, the feedstock of that fertilizer is natural gas.
[00:26:08]  Because it's simply the most cost efficient way to produce nitrogenous fertilizers.
[00:26:14]  So you pump gas into the system, and we've talked about this.
[00:26:17]  You know, you have the Haber Bosch process, and you can essentially crack the N2 nitrogen gas molecules out of the atmosphere, and then you can form them up with hydrogen.
[00:26:30]  You can make ammonia, and you can turn ammonia into urea, and then combine it with other things, and you end up with all these complex fertilizers that farmers used to be able to buy at $400 a ton.
[00:26:42]  Or $500 a ton, and now they're paying $800 or $900 a ton, that's going to go above $1,000 in the United States probably by the fall.
[00:26:55]  And so, right there, you can see there's a shortage and there's a very high price hike coming, which will cause farmers to have to borrow more money to plant their crops, which means that farmers will need more money liquidity.
[00:27:13]  They'll need To have sources of loans in order to buy that fertilizer, or they have to cut back on the fertilizer.
[00:27:21]  And that creates two problems.

=== Soaring Fertilizer Costs (06:28) ===

[00:27:23]  Number one, if you use less fertilizer on a crop, you get a nonlinear response in the loss of the crop yield.
[00:27:31]  And I've used the example before of if you reduce crop fertilizers on corn by 10%, you get much more than a 10% drop in the yield of the corn.
[00:27:41]  Now, how much drop do you get depends on a lot of conditions, but it could be 20% or 30%, just depends on many other variables.
[00:27:50]  But it's not a straight linear response.
[00:27:53]  Now, if you drop your fertilizer to 50%, you can get much less than a 50% yield, you see?
[00:28:01]  And remember that our world could only feed 8 billion people because of fertilizers that produce much more output with the same agricultural acreage.
[00:28:15]  So even though you say the United States is blessed as the breadbasket of the world, the U.S. has all this acreage for farming and agriculture, that is true, but that acreage.
[00:28:26]  Could be cut in half in terms of its yield, or in some cases more, without affordable, abundant fertilizers.
[00:28:34]  So it's not a question of how much acreage you have, it's a question of how much yield you can get out of those acres.
[00:28:42]  And without abundant and affordable fertilizer, then your yields absolutely plummet.
[00:28:48]  And without natural gas based fertilizers, the supportable population on planet Earth is only about 4 billion people.
[00:28:58]  Not 8 billion.
[00:29:00]  And some people say it's actually more like 3 billion people, but I've been more optimistic saying it's only half the population that won't make it if we were to lose all nitrogenous fertilizers.
[00:29:13]  And I'm not saying we will, we're not losing all fertilizer.
[00:29:17]  We're losing 25%, let's say, of the fertilizer of the world.
[00:29:24]  The remaining 75% of the fertilizer just becomes much more expensive.
[00:29:30]  Which results in the domino effect of food prices going higher and farmers using less and food yields going lower, et cetera.
[00:29:37]  So, even losing 25% of the world's fertilizer can also have a nonlinear response in the price of food and the availability of food.
[00:29:47]  So, if you lose 25% of fertilizer, that doesn't mean your food is only 25% more expensive.
[00:29:52]  In other words, you lose 25% of fertilizer, food could become 50% more expensive.
[00:29:57]  And now, these are just numbers.
[00:30:00]  That I'm estimating, just to be clear, I'm not citing USDA figures here, but the overall principle is accurate, even though the numbers are going to vary by crop and by season and by soil conditions and microbiology and rainfall and everything else, right?
[00:30:18]  So there's like a thousand variables.
[00:30:20]  But overall, if fertilizer goes up 25% in price, your food goes up much more than 25% in price.
[00:30:28]  Now, since we're talking about America today and not Sudan, Or Ethiopia or Bangladesh.
[00:30:36]  Let me ask you this question.
[00:30:37]  In America, who do you know in your circle of friends and acquaintances and family members, et cetera?
[00:30:44]  Who do you know that can easily absorb a 50% increase in the price of food?
[00:30:50]  And the answer is probably not that many people.
[00:30:53]  There are some.
[00:30:54]  There are some.
[00:30:55]  There are people who are very well off financially who can just write that check.
[00:31:00]  They can just say, well, my food bill last month was, I don't know, $600.
[00:31:08]  Or maybe it's a lot more than that.
[00:31:10]  And my food bill this month is going to be $1,200 or whatever.
[00:31:13]  There's plenty of people who can just pay that.
[00:31:17]  But there are far more people who can't.
[00:31:20]  For many Americans, even a 25% increase in food costs results in them having to make extreme cuts in expenditures and other areas of their life.
[00:31:32]  And they don't have a buffer zone, they don't have savings, and they don't have a lot of discretionary income.
[00:31:39]  So, where do those cuts come from then?
[00:31:41]  If you have to eat, and yeah, everybody has to eat.
[00:31:47]  You might think, well, so I'm just going to eat cheaper food.
[00:31:50]  I'm going to buy, you know, lentils and potatoes and whatever else.
[00:31:56]  Well, did you know that the price of potatoes is being reported now as going up 700%?
[00:32:06]  I mean, I hope I'm quoting this correctly, but I saw charts that showed that effectively the spot price of potatoes right now is seven times higher than what it has been.
[00:32:18]  Now it was very, very low until recently, and now it's seven times higher.
[00:32:22]  And you know, maybe it's a blip, maybe because I'm not in the potato market, so I don't know the potato industry.
[00:32:30]  Maybe there's something happening that's just short term.
[00:32:33]  I don't know, or maybe maybe the chart's wrong.
[00:32:35]  I don't know, but it wouldn't surprise me if potatoes became seven times more expensive.
[00:32:43]  And see, that's the problem.
[00:32:45]  You can tell people to change their eating habits, like stop buying, you know, prime rib steak at $50 a pound or whatever it is.
[00:32:55]  You know, stop buying so much meat and start buying more vegetables, which are cheaper things like rice and potatoes and things like that.
[00:33:05]  Well, or corn.
[00:33:08]  Well, number one, that begins to resemble a 15th century diet where the impoverished masses couldn't afford much meat.
[00:33:17]  They couldn't afford cheese and milk and meat.
[00:33:20]  You know, that was a delicacy to be able to have meat.
[00:33:23]  I'm talking about like the Middle Ages of Europe.
[00:33:27]  And that's why the invention of pumpernickel bread, which I covered in another podcast, out of pre Germanic peoples of northern, what would be called northern Germany today, the Westphalia area, the invention of pumpernickel bread was such a critical innovation for those people because it delivered high iron absorption from the bread.

=== Bacon Grease Survival Cooking (10:26) ===

[00:33:52]  And the other main source of iron is meat.
[00:33:55]  But since those people did not have much meat, And any iron that they ate in wheat was bound up in molecules from phytic acid, which is, you know, part of what you get in wheat grain.
[00:34:11]  Those people were often iron deficient.
[00:34:15]  And they ended up having to get their iron from pumpernickel bread and also zinc and copper and other trace minerals as well.
[00:34:25]  But a lot of those cheaper crops, such as corn, Or rice are crops that require very high levels of fertilizer to be produced.
[00:34:37]  And they've only been cheap because fertilizer has been cheap itself.
[00:34:42]  You see what I mean?
[00:34:44]  So then the question becomes well, what kinds of crops can people shift to in their diets that will be more resistant to higher prices of fertilizer and reduce crop yields?
[00:35:00]  And you're not going to like that answer because the answer is soy and beans and legumes.
[00:35:06]  And so, you know, you're going to get to eat, well, and peas.
[00:35:12]  There's an old rhyme that actually, I think it came out of Western Europe centuries ago.
[00:35:18]  You've probably heard this.
[00:35:19]  Pea porridge hot, pea porridge cold, pea porridge in the pot, nine days old.
[00:35:25]  So, what was that rhyme about?
[00:35:27]  Well, it described the diet of medieval times and sometimes beyond that, where you would have a pot over a fire in a fireplace in your domicile.
[00:35:42]  In the pot for your protein, you would put peas.
[00:35:46]  And you cook it up and you try to add something that might make it taste decent a little bit of onion, a little bit of garlic, some salt, if you could get it, whatever.
[00:35:54]  You throw some carrots, whatever you have in there.
[00:35:57]  You make a giant pot of pea porridge and everybody eats the pea porridge, but you don't eat it all.
[00:36:04]  You leave some in the pot.
[00:36:05]  And then the next day, you scrounge up whatever else you can get from the garden or the forest in the back and you throw that in and you mix it with the two day old pea porridge.
[00:36:15]  Okay.
[00:36:16]  You cook that again.
[00:36:18]  You keep cooking it so it doesn't go bad.
[00:36:20]  You cook that again and then you serve that up.
[00:36:22]  Everybody gets a spoon or a ladle of the pea porridge.
[00:36:27]  So that's day two.
[00:36:29]  It goes on day after day.
[00:36:30]  You just keep throwing stuff in.
[00:36:32]  And occasionally, if you can get peas, you throw more peas in.
[00:36:35]  So pea porridge hot, pea porridge cold.
[00:36:38]  Pea porridge in the pot, nine days old.
[00:36:40]  It's probably older than nine days sometimes because that's what impoverished people could afford.
[00:36:46]  And that's also where things are headed for many Americans.
[00:36:52]  If the situation doesn't get turned around, Americans are going to have to get their protein from legumes.
[00:37:01]  Now, for the vegetarians, they're like, well, I already do that.
[00:37:04]  Okay, great.
[00:37:06]  You're going to be on that diet by force, economically forced on the diet.
[00:37:16]  There's going to be a lot of new non consenting vegetarians in America.
[00:37:23]  And maybe if they could get some bacon grease, they'll throw a little bacon grease in there.
[00:37:27]  Pea porridge with bacon grease, pea porridge with lard.
[00:37:31]  Yeah, because that's where this is going.
[00:37:34]  So a lot of Americans are going to have to start eating the way their grandparents or their great grandparents ate, which was to conserve everything.
[00:37:44]  If you cook bacon on the stove, you save that bacon grease.
[00:37:48]  You had a container for bacon grease.
[00:37:52]  I mean, you save the bacon grease.
[00:37:54]  And then you use a little bit of that bacon grease.
[00:37:56]  For the next thing that you're doing, you're making gravy or you're, you know, you're making, I don't know, lasagna or whatever.
[00:38:04]  You can throw some bacon grease in there in order to do that.
[00:38:08]  And you don't throw it out because bacon grease, those are difficult calories to get.
[00:38:14]  You don't throw that out.
[00:38:16]  And that's the way grandparents and great grandparents, you know, the pioneers of America, that's the way they live.
[00:38:24]  So some of you may have experienced this if you're old enough that.
[00:38:28]  I mean, did you ever see this when you sat down at a family Thanksgiving dinner or Christmas dinner or something?
[00:38:37]  Where if there was one person in the family who didn't like to eat the fat of a piece of steak or the fat of bacon or whatever, and they would take the fat off and push that to the side of the plate.
[00:38:53]  Okay.
[00:38:54]  Now, I'm not trying to be insulting or judgmental, but did you ever have a grandma or a grandpa?
[00:39:03]  Who would take that fat and put it in a container and use it for another meal?
[00:39:10]  Yeah, because that's the way they survived.
[00:39:12]  Okay.
[00:39:13]  And that might seem gross to a lot of people today.
[00:39:16]  It's like, oh, you just throw it out.
[00:39:18]  Well, the throw out culture of America is about to become, you know, a famine culture.
[00:39:25]  You don't throw out calories if you get hit with famine or the risk of famine.
[00:39:30]  So those are some of the changes that we are going to see in America if the Strait of Hormuz stays closed.
[00:39:38]  It's like, well, Trump bombed Iran.
[00:39:40]  Now we got to reuse the bacon fat.
[00:39:41]  You know, like that's the way it's going to be in a lot of families.
[00:39:43]  Christmas dinner, what do you got?
[00:39:45]  Um, turkey giblets.
[00:39:48]  It's like, what are giblets, man?
[00:39:50]  What are the giblets?
[00:39:52]  Well, you don't want to know, but it's got some fat and some protein, and you're having giblets.
[00:40:00]  It's like, to this day, I don't know what giblets are.
[00:40:04]  And the other thing you might know, do you like black eyed peas?
[00:40:08]  See, I like black eyed peas.
[00:40:11]  If you make black eyed peas, you normally want to make them with bacon grease.
[00:40:16]  I mean, that's the southern way of doing it.
[00:40:19]  And that it's more tasty and it's actually a more complete intake of calories.
[00:40:24]  But did you know that black eyed peas were renamed?
[00:40:27]  I think it was back in the 1940s or 1950s.
[00:40:32]  They were renamed.
[00:40:33]  I think the USDA had something to do with it.
[00:40:36]  And they used to be called, I'm remembering, I think they were just called cow peas.
[00:40:42]  And cowpeas were considered a legume that was only valuable to feed to cattle.
[00:40:48]  Did you know that?
[00:40:50]  And then there was an effort, as I'm recalling, there was an effort to try to repackage cowpeas to be good for humans.
[00:41:00]  And so they had to rename them.
[00:41:02]  So they called them black eyed peas.
[00:41:04]  And since then, humans have been eating them.
[00:41:08]  And again, they can be quite delicious if you cook them up correctly, you know.
[00:41:12]  Basically, bacon grease and salt.
[00:41:15]  I mean, maybe a little bit of pepper, some onions, or whatever.
[00:41:20]  So, we're about to see more pioneer cooking in America.
[00:41:25]  About to see some old school recipes coming back around.
[00:41:30]  Because, you know, for the price of one expensive Uber Eats meal, you can eat black eyed peas for two weeks or more.
[00:41:38]  You know, black eyed peas are cheap.
[00:41:41]  And that fact is going to have to be rediscovered by a lot of Americans.
[00:41:46]  And that might not be a bad thing, frankly, to have a little bit more pioneer cooking, you know, more food, self reliance, and things like that.
[00:41:53]  And you can grow peas yourself.
[00:41:55]  You can grow, you know, green beans, and you can obviously augment your diet in your own garden.
[00:42:03]  And that's a good thing for more people to learn how to do that.
[00:42:06]  It's just that they're going to be forced to do it, you know, it's not like they signed up to do it.
[00:42:13]  But hey, they're going to have to learn or starve.
[00:42:17]  So, anyway, let me just bracket.
[00:42:19]  This entire podcast by saying that everything I just described is only going to happen if we end up with an extended closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
[00:42:33]  That is, if it's closed for several months.
[00:42:37]  And that could very well happen.
[00:42:40]  I mean, several more months from what it is already.
[00:42:43]  So if it remains closed through June, July, August, whatever.
[00:42:50]  That's when we're going to start heading into that kind of territory.
[00:42:53]  And the longer it stays closed, the worse it gets.
[00:42:56]  So, food security is going to become a form of wealth in America.
[00:43:03]  It'll be a very valuable asset.
[00:43:05]  And those who want good food security will stockpile food.
[00:43:11]  And you can do that with our online store, of course, healthrangerstore.com.
[00:43:17]  And the good news there is that we have food that was grown before the Strait of Hormones was closed, and food that is laboratory tested for heavy metals and glyphosate.
[00:43:28]  And we test many items for atrazine.
[00:43:30]  We test everything for microbiology.
[00:43:33]  There are other tests that we do as well.
[00:43:34]  We test the Animal derived products like cheese and cream powder for dioxins.
[00:43:40]  And we've already published those test results and it's ultra clean.
[00:43:44]  So if you want really clean, certified organic, long term storable foods, superfoods, and nutritional supplements, you can get all that at healthrangerstore.com.
[00:43:56]  And it's a good idea to do it now because shortages are coming.
[00:44:00]  And I told the story recently where we had ordered, I think, 20 pallets of a grain and we had to send those back.
[00:44:07]  Because we had to reject them because of a quality issue.
[00:44:12]  And so that was 60,000 pounds of food that we had to reject.

=== Migration Pressure from Starvation (10:34) ===

[00:44:18]  Probably we're going to see a lot more of that.
[00:44:22]  So get the food now while it's clean and relatively affordable compared to where it's going.
[00:44:30]  That's my advice.
[00:44:32]  And thank you for your support.
[00:44:33]  And get ready for some interesting times.
[00:44:36]  Pea porridge hot, pea porridge cold.
[00:44:39]  Pea porridge in the pot, nine days old.
[00:44:41]  If you don't want to eat nine day old pea porridge, get yourself some storable food or garden seeds and grow your own food right now.
[00:44:48]  And then you can have a more diverse diet than pea porridge or black eyed pea porridge, nine days old.
[00:44:58]  That doesn't sound fun, actually.
[00:45:00]  No, no, thank you.
[00:45:03]  Like, one time is okay, not every day.
[00:45:05]  All right.
[00:45:06]  Thanks for listening.
[00:45:07]  Take care.
[00:45:08]  One of the things that Not very many people are thinking about is the wave of human migration that will follow the mass starvation that's already baked in for 2027.
[00:45:20]  So, welcome to this podcast.
[00:45:22]  I'm Mike Adams.
[00:45:23]  And, you know, my friend Michael Jahn, he talks about human osmotic pressure.
[00:45:29]  And it's this pressure that pushes masses of humans from one country to another.
[00:45:37]  And there are many reasons for that.
[00:45:38]  War causes people to leave countries.
[00:45:42]  But also hunger causes people to seek out food in neighboring countries.
[00:45:48]  And when you look at who's going to be starving because of this war with Iran and of course the, the lockdown of the Strait of Hormuz and the shortage of fertilizer and so on, those countries are located primarily in Africa, some in the Middle East and then Southeast Asia.
[00:46:07]  So you're talking about countries like Sudan and Ethiopia, Yemen will be impacted substantially here.
[00:46:17]  Nigeria, to some extent, but not as much as other countries because Nigeria is a wealthier African nation.
[00:46:24]  Egypt will be impacted.
[00:46:26]  India will be impacted.
[00:46:27]  Bangladesh, I've already mentioned.
[00:46:28]  Thailand will struggle.
[00:46:30]  And a lot of other Southeast Asian countries will be caught up in this.
[00:46:36]  And the question is where will the people go?
[00:46:38]  Where will they try to go?
[00:46:40]  They will try to go to wealthier nations where there's more food abundance.
[00:46:46]  So, for those in Africa and in parts of the Middle East, They will attempt to go increasingly to Europe.
[00:46:54]  And Europe is already under tremendous migration pressure from the Middle East.
[00:47:00]  Many countries in Europe might be characterized as being overrun by illegals taking over countries like Germany and France and the United Kingdom and many other areas.
[00:47:15]  The United States has been under extreme migration pressure for many, many years, and that's only going to increase because of the famine situation.
[00:47:25]  But also, countries like Russia and even China itself.
[00:47:31]  Will see many attempts at increased mass migration, although they tend to have more strict immigration policies.
[00:47:41]  And so they're less vulnerable to being taken over by mass migration.
[00:47:45]  Whereas the United States will probably fall back into Democrat control.
[00:47:51]  And then we will once again have open borders.
[00:47:54]  So get ready for an open borders policy, potentially as early as 2029.
[00:48:01]  And believe me, even in 29, there will be plenty of mass migration taking place because there will be hunger and starvation around the world that will last for many years, just stemming from the current war.
[00:48:16]  So we're going to see, even though under the Trump years here, we have seen a massive plummeting of illegal immigration into the United States, that is likely to be reversed in 2029 and then beyond.
[00:48:32]  So you could expect.
[00:48:33]  A huge wave of immigration into the United States from that point forward.
[00:48:39]  Now, of course, the effects of a wave of illegal mass immigration or even legal mass immigration, there are many effects.
[00:48:48]  Some of them are economic.
[00:48:49]  It creates additional economic stress on the citizens of the countries that are impacted.
[00:48:54]  But it also creates social upheaval and cultural upheaval.
[00:48:59]  And then when there's enough immigration, for example, Many followers of Islam from the Middle East are currently immigrating into countries like France.
[00:49:10]  Then you start to get Christian churches burning down and you start to get a lot more violence.
[00:49:17]  You get robberies and rapes, especially.
[00:49:22]  And as we see in European countries right now, the government itself is defending the illegal immigrants and punishing its own citizens for daring to say anything about illegals.
[00:49:35]  Like, you can't say that they're involved in crime.
[00:49:38]  At all.
[00:49:39]  That's a crime to say that they are involved in crime.
[00:49:43]  But what's interesting to me, by the way, as a side note, is that these same countries also, at the same time that they're defending Islam, they're also defending Zionism.
[00:49:54]  So you're not allowed to criticize Zionism in the UK, for example, and you're not allowed to criticize Islam, either one.
[00:50:04]  Even though those two factions, in many ways, are in opposition.
[00:50:10]  To each other in a lot of the target countries.
[00:50:14]  But ultimately, if you extend this, what you discover is that this creates a lot of economic instability in the target countries.
[00:50:24]  And if you look at Western Europe, this will be, I believe, the area that is the most economically impacted by the wave of migration due to starvation.
[00:50:37]  And it is these countries, Western European countries, that are already struggling under industrial collapse.
[00:50:42]  Due to the energy collapse, because of the destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines and also the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, blocking gas exports and oil exports, etc.
[00:50:54]  So, the stresses on Western European countries, in particular the UK and France, these will only be exacerbated by the mass starvation and famine.
[00:51:09]  And you're going to see a situation where the citizens of those countries strongly revolt against government handouts, government welfare to the illegals.
[00:51:23]  We've seen a little bit of that in the United States.
[00:51:26]  Not much, but we will see that exacerbated substantially in 2027 and beyond.
[00:51:34]  You know, because the locals will be saying to each other, hey, we're struggling.
[00:51:37]  We're struggling with the economy.
[00:51:39]  We're struggling with job loss.
[00:51:41]  We're struggling to be able to afford food.
[00:51:43]  So, why is the government handing out free food to the migrants that don't even legally have a right to be here?
[00:51:51]  So, you're going to see a lot more of that.
[00:51:53]  So, expect protests in those Western European countries and a lot of social upheaval.
[00:51:59]  Possibly some political reformations or radical changes in election results resulting from all of this.
[00:52:11]  In other words, Trump's war with Iran is going to destabilize Western Europe, which frankly has seemed to be part of Trump's goal all along here.
[00:52:21]  One of the reasons why the Nord Stream pipelines were destroyed, and that was under Biden, not Trump, is because the U.S. wants to weaken Western Europe.
[00:52:31]  And make Western Europe dependent on U.S. energy exports and make sure that Western European industry cannot outcompete the United States.
[00:52:41]  See, a lot of what the U.S. is trying to do right now is to hobble the other nations around the world, to cut them off at the knees, to cut off the trade routes to China, for example, to cut off fuel exports from Russia, or to cut off the financial trade capabilities of countries like Russia or Iran.
[00:53:05]  So, as long as the US can cripple Western Europe in terms of energy, and then even cause a wave of economic costs due to mass migration stemming from famine, in the eyes of the US empire, that's a win because the US figures, well, we can probably feed our own people.
[00:53:29]  We're not going to starve.
[00:53:31]  And we can probably finagle enough oil trade to get the oil we need.
[00:53:38]  In exchange for exporting the oil we don't need, because the U.S. both imports and exports different kinds of oil, the U.S. will be relatively well off in all of this.
[00:53:49]  Even as Western Europe is hit very hard, even as Russia is suffering under economic sanctions, or Iran, or Cuba, or other countries like that, the U.S. figures, again, we are more isolated, we're more self reliant.
[00:54:08]  Self sustaining.
[00:54:10]  So if we cripple the rest of the world, if we cause chaos, even human migration chaos, economic chaos, energy chaos, industrial chaos all around the world, then we, the United States, we emerge stronger out of all of that chaos.
[00:54:26]  And that is clearly the main strategy of the United States right now it's not to compete with the world, but to cause chaos in the world, to bring the rest of the world down.
[00:54:40]  So that we look stronger in comparison.
[00:54:45]  That's, I mean, that's literally the plan.
[00:54:49]  It's unbelievable.
[00:54:50]  But pay attention to all of this.

=== Argentina Brazil Energy War (09:35) ===

[00:54:53]  You can follow more of my podcast at brightvideos.com or my articles and infographics at naturalnews.com.
[00:55:01]  And I'll be interviewing Michael Jahn again soon, and we'll talk to Michael Jahn about human osmotic pressure and other similar topics.
[00:55:09]  So stay tuned for all of that.
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[00:55:25]  Thank you for listening.
[00:55:26]  Take care.
[00:55:28]  They want to depopulate and control the remnant.
[00:55:30]  It's very clear.
[00:55:31]  They want a lot fewer people that they can control.
[00:55:34]  Basically, serial numbered people without real names, your name number, your number such and such, right?
[00:55:42]  And they want those people to be disposable, just completely disposable, like a sheep.
[00:55:48]  A sheep has a tag in its ear, a cow has a tag in its ear.
[00:55:51]  They want people just like that.
[00:55:52]  It's crystal clear.
[00:55:53]  They don't hide it.
[00:55:53]  They want you to have a chip.
[00:55:55]  All right, welcome everyone.
[00:55:57]  We have Michael Jan joining us today for an urgent interview.
[00:56:01]  I'm Mike Adams with brightvideos.com, and Michael joins us.
[00:56:05]  I think, Michael, are you in Japan right now?
[00:56:08]  I'm in Japan.
[00:56:09]  Misako and I were just down near Mount Fuji looking for a place to open Kinjiro House, which is a, which is, you know, I've talked about Kinjiro quite a few times, which is a, Kinjiro is a figure in Japan, very famous.
[00:56:23]  He was famous for helping people get through a famine in the 1800s.
[00:56:28]  And so we were down there by Mount Fuji looking at, you know, the food resilience in those areas because clearly you've been talking about it, I don't know, a thousand times, two thousand, three thousand, you know, that we're going to almost certainly end up in huge famines.
[00:56:45]  And it's clearly coming.
[00:56:46]  It's just a matter of how is it going to look.
[00:56:48]  We don't know that, but we can clearly see that the asteroids are coming right at us.
[00:56:52]  In fact, this is what I wanted to talk with you about today.
[00:56:56]  And to our audience, you know, I want to give you credit, Michael, because I've been interviewing you for many years and During this time, you have spoken repeatedly about not only the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, long before anybody knew what it was, it seems, but also about the engineered global famine.
[00:57:13]  And now we are seeing the actual engineered famine.
[00:57:17]  We're seeing the sabotage of the oil infrastructure globally.
[00:57:21]  We're seeing the shutting down of fertilizer production plants globally, the force majeure of natural gas, et cetera.
[00:57:30]  And as a result, it's on.
[00:57:32]  The famine is going to kick in from here forward.
[00:57:36]  We're seeing a lot of people now suddenly recognizing what you and I, to some extent, have been talking about for years.
[00:57:43]  So, what are your thoughts on that?
[00:57:45]  Oh, you as well.
[00:57:46]  I think, how did we even first meet?
[00:57:49]  I think, you know, because I was talking about the Haber Bosch process and BASF and those sorts of things.
[00:57:56]  And I think it was numerous people saying, hey, this guy, Mike Adams, is talking about Haber Bosch process, you know.
[00:58:02]  And so, I mean, you were already talking about this.
[00:58:04]  So, we were on parallel tracks.
[00:58:07]  And then, you know, then we started combining information, which.
[00:58:10]  Made it more robust because then you could fill in blanks for me and I could fill in some other blanks.
[00:58:15]  And then, you know, you know how it goes.
[00:58:16]  One plus one equals three, you know?
[00:58:18]  And so, you know, it's been that.
[00:58:21]  It's not just one plus one.
[00:58:22]  There's a lot of people out there that see this and they're filling in other blanks.
[00:58:25]  So it helps, as you know, you and me and us as a collective.
[00:58:29]  But how is this going?
[00:58:31]  I just got a message this morning.
[00:58:32]  Actually, one was from Brandon Weickert.
[00:58:34]  I think you know Brandon quite well.
[00:58:35]  Brandon, you know, he's talking about how the Russians are now starting to threaten to close.
[00:58:40]  Dana Strait.
[00:58:41]  Misako and I were just up at the Dana Strait a few months ago, warning about this because the Dana Strait is, again, that's one of those no-brainers.
[00:58:49]  If you're going to work to create global famine, you're going to close Hormuz, you're going to close the Bosphorus, you know, you're going to close both of those straits by Turkey, you're going to close Baba Mandeb, or maybe the Houthis will do it for you, Suez, Strait of Gibraltar, probably, which would be easy anyway, and Malacca for sure.
[00:59:09]  And you would go also for, or at least to control Panama, because if you're trying to famine China, you would want to cut China off from Brazil, right?
[00:59:19]  And And because they get a lot of food from Brazil, and it's not the only place, but if you cut Malacca, cut quite a few of the other things, and cut and control Panama, which China wants to do, and the Zionists also want to control Panama.
[00:59:34]  They're fighting over Argentina and Panama.
[00:59:36]  I think we're going to end up seeing a war between Argentina and Brazil at some point, which is related to the energy that's really thick down in Argentina and also the food, which is really thick in Brazil.
[00:59:47]  And so, anyway, skipping past all this, it's clear that we're setting up to.
[00:59:53]  Block Malacca.
[00:59:54]  Now you've got the Chinese and the Singaporeans and the Thais all getting huddling together in the last week or so, big time on building that Kra Isthmus Canal, which you and I have talked about, I don't know, 20 times probably.
[01:00:06]  So, I mean, so the Kra Isthmus Canal is now fully, you know, on the front of the table for the Chinese and the Thais and the Singaporeans and some others.
[01:00:16]  And, but, you know, they're talking about not even starting until like 2030, which is way, I mean, this famine will be a blazing by then.
[01:00:25]  This is way, way behind the curve.
[01:00:27]  So that would be an ameliorate.
[01:00:29]  Others are the railway systems and pipelines that they've been building across Asia and other places.
[01:00:36]  But there are just no easy workarounds because there are just a few, let's say a couple handfuls.
[01:00:43]  It's not just like seven or eight, but there's other places that aren't normally called main choke points.
[01:00:49]  Like mainly when you talk about main choke points, you're talking about Panama, Suez, Turkish Strait, let's say Bosphorus.
[01:00:57]  You're talking about Gibraltar, of course, Dana Strait, Malacca.
[01:01:01]  Hormuz, Baba Mandab, you know, around the tip of Africa and South America, right?
[01:01:07]  South America can be a workaround down there.
[01:01:09]  And so, but the closing, but there's others too, like Hamburg.
[01:01:13]  That's why Misako and I were recently in Hamburg.
[01:01:16]  Hamburg is the biggest harbor in Germany and the third biggest in Europe.
[01:01:21]  But there's also Rotterdam and Antwerp.
[01:01:24]  Rotterdam's the biggest in Europe, and it's also at the mouth of the Rhine River, which is basically the Mississippi for Europe.
[01:01:32]  The Rhine River is huge.
[01:01:34]  That's where BASF is on the Rhine River.
[01:01:35]  You know, that's where, you know, you've talked about Haber Bosch many times.
[01:01:39]  That's where they started production in 1914 for nitrogenous fertilizers.
[01:01:44]  But Antwerp is big.
[01:01:46]  The overall theme here that you and I talked about many times, our listeners are aware of it, that the world's 8 billion population is only alive because of, you know, Haber Bosch process is feeding at least 4 or 5 billion.
[01:02:02]  But it's the routes and resources, as you say.
[01:02:05]  These routes enable this global shipping, which becomes an economic issue.
[01:02:11]  You have to be able to ship things economically to make food affordable so that people can survive and eat.
[01:02:17]  And if these routes start getting cut off, which is exactly what's happening, then the entire economic situation changes.
[01:02:24]  And Michael, the thing that strikes me in this is that I think until about two weeks ago, a lot of people assumed that you and I were just being alarmist.
[01:02:33]  And now, You have mainstream media.
[01:02:37]  You have Forbes and Bloomberg and everybody talking about the coming fuel and famine.
[01:02:43]  And, you know, we weren't making it up.
[01:02:45]  We were just ahead of the curve.
[01:02:47]  Yeah, that's the way it normally looks, right?
[01:02:51]  And every war that we've ever studied is about routes, resources, and ideology.
[01:02:56]  And keep in mind, ideology is about human resources.
[01:02:59]  And the biggest resource out there is human resources.
[01:03:03]  And, you know, for Misako and I were talking just a couple of days ago while we were out on the highway and saying, you know, all this infrastructure that you see, whether it's the roads or the bridges or the Panama Canal or whatever, Suez, All of this physical infrastructure, which is considerable, would pale in comparison to the amount of effort that's been put into human infrastructure, human brainwashing, human influence, human.
[01:03:31]  I mean, this is unbelievable.
[01:03:33]  I mean, entire new languages are deployed in the service of these things, like modern Hebrew, you know what I mean, to replace Yiddish, those sorts of things.
[01:03:44]  Entire languages like modern Mandarin, modern Hebrew, I think the Mandarin that you speak is from Taiwan, right?
[01:03:52]  That's the old Mandarin, right?
[01:03:53]  But then the Chinese came out with modern Mandarin.
[01:03:57]  So this is part of the game.
[01:03:59]  Big strategic language weapons, as an example.
[01:04:05]  All right, Michael.
[01:04:05]  So here's the thing a lot of Americans are only just now realizing a couple of things, one of which is that fuel storage is going to start running out in July in the United States.
[01:04:22]  It doesn't mean that, you know, it's going to be full Mad Max, but we won't have the buffer that we currently have.

=== Scarce Fuel and Mad Max (10:36) ===

[01:04:28]  And when fuel becomes scarce, then of course farming becomes difficult and transportation and all of that.
[01:04:35]  So, can you walk us through, Michael, some of what you see happening in, I'm talking about the wealthier Western countries, the US, Canada, Australia, UK, et cetera, for the second half of 2026?
[01:04:47]  What do you see happening?
[01:04:48]  Right.
[01:04:49]  It's the stuff you've talked about for years.
[01:04:51]  You know, the fuel energy prices.
[01:04:53]  Chris Martinson talks about this all the time.
[01:04:55]  I think you just had Chris Martinson on, actually.
[01:04:57]  I know you did.
[01:04:58]  And so, Chris Martinson, by the way, we just had a cut in video.
[01:05:03]  It wasn't because we were cutting something out, it was because I had some problem with my microphone.
[01:05:08]  But the, I mean, when the energy prices go up, all prices go up.
[01:05:12]  And we already know that many people in countries, even like Japan, which, you know, most people see Japan as being very wealthy, but it's a very wealthy country filled with people living on the edge, just like the United States.
[01:05:24]  It's just that the social cohesion and the, And let's say that the Japanese aren't as, you know, call of the wild or planet of the apes when the lights go out, right?
[01:05:34]  But they're also living on the edge insofar as money goes, right?
[01:05:38]  They're not, this is not a, it's a rich country filled with people that are not rich, just like the United States, you know.
[01:05:44]  And so what will this do?
[01:05:47]  One of the things that leads to famines is when people, or let's say contributes to famines, is when people cannot afford food, they start stealing it.
[01:05:55]  And they'll start stealing it from the store.
[01:05:56]  They're hungry.
[01:05:57]  I mean, it's not because they're thieves, they're hungry.
[01:05:59]  They got children to feed, that sort of thing.
[01:06:00]  We all know that.
[01:06:02]  And they'll start stealing it from warehouses where they work or they just break in, trains and the whole works, right?
[01:06:08]  They start also stealing it directly from farmers.
[01:06:10]  So the food stops growing because farmers go out, they got to make money too.
[01:06:14]  And so people start, you know, it gets to be called the wild.
[01:06:18]  So the famine often will grow, especially now there's different sorts of famines.
[01:06:23]  I've noticed in my years of study of famines, there's some that are like a light switch, like Mount Fuji is not far from me.
[01:06:29]  In 1707, Mount Fuji erupted, caused instant famine.
[01:06:33]  I call that a light switch famine.
[01:06:35]  Often those are caused by like locusts or volcanoes or something.
[01:06:38]  And that's a quick famine.
[01:06:41]  It's like, boom, turns on and it's gone.
[01:06:43]  Game on, right?
[01:06:45]  Then there's the slow ones like Weimar, Germany, or this.
[01:06:49]  It slowly fades in.
[01:06:51]  Those tend to be by far the worst.
[01:06:52]  The ones that sort of fade in, and you start to see, you know, people start to steal more.
[01:06:57]  There's a lot more adulterations that go into the food, like sawdust.
[01:07:02]  Every famine book that I've read always has sawdust in the bread, right?
[01:07:07]  There's always, you know, the bread being baked suddenly has sawdust in it.
[01:07:10]  This, things like that.
[01:07:11]  People start eating the grass, uh, Roofs off of their buildings and that sort of thing.
[01:07:18]  So, you know, the bark off the tree, leather, people are always eating leather in famines and eating mud.
[01:07:24]  That always happens as well.
[01:07:26]  So, the, and yeah, every famine book that I've read, which is be a couple dozen that I've actually read that are books, not just, you know, studies and that sort of thing, which would be a lot more.
[01:07:37]  But you'll always see that people go for tree bark, they go for leather, they go for anything made out of leather, horse saddles, the horse, of course, and just basically anything that.
[01:07:47]  Walks, crawls, flies, or swims, and things that don't.
[01:07:51]  And your nose leads you to things, you know, like women with pica, you know, that go for the.
[01:07:55]  I was down in Nicaragua, no, down in Costa Rica some years ago, and the neighbors were from Nicaragua.
[01:08:04]  And one of the women, she had a baby, she said she sometimes wanted the dark mud and other times the orange mud, right?
[01:08:12]  I mean, your body knows what it needs and it goes for it.
[01:08:16]  And sometimes it goes for the neighbor.
[01:08:18]  Yeah, those are mineral deficiencies, especially during pregnancy, that drive people to eat mud or dirt.
[01:08:26]  It's interesting that that's been noted throughout history, even to this day.
[01:08:30]  But you mentioned also that people eat thatched roofs.
[01:08:34]  I mean, I guess the material, they'll eat almost any material that they can get their hands on, including cannibalism.
[01:08:43]  Now, how bad do you expect things to get?
[01:08:48]  In the United States, I don't expect to see cannibalism, but I do expect to see a lot of food lines and a lot of people displaced out of their homes because they're spending a lot more of their income on food.
[01:09:00]  But what do you see?
[01:09:02]  Oh, I would totally expect to see cannibalism in the United States.
[01:09:06]  Really?
[01:09:07]  But you know, yeah, on eating the thatched roofs, by the way, that's something I've seen.
[01:09:11]  It pops up everywhere eating grass, of course, and thatched roofs.
[01:09:14]  And in fact, just the other day, I was looking for any old, Paintings or anything of people like eating a thatch roof.
[01:09:20]  And I found one from Old Russian Famine and I bought it actually.
[01:09:24]  It's only like 20 or 30 bucks.
[01:09:26]  It wasn't a painting, it's just an illustration.
[01:09:28]  But from anyway, but now I don't know if others have noticed this, but as someone who has tracked cannibals, I did this in India and Nepal and other places, California actually.
[01:09:40]  I'm more tuned into it, right?
[01:09:42]  And so what I'm getting to is I don't know if others are noticing this, but there's a clear, more of a A low rumble of stories and items that you see around for recent years about cannibalism, right?
[01:09:59]  Cannibal, you know, the cannibal cult, whatever it is, the rock band or whatever that crazy band is.
[01:10:05]  There's so many like that.
[01:10:07]  There's many, there's many just references to cannibalism that I was not used to seeing when I was growing up.
[01:10:13]  But now, having tracked the cannibals, it leaps off the page to me when I see it.
[01:10:18]  And it's clearly, it's clearly, they're habituating people to it subtly.
[01:10:24]  And nudging.
[01:10:26]  Right.
[01:10:27]  So, along with this, it looks like fuel rationing is going to be coming even to wealthy nations.
[01:10:34]  And with fuel rationing, of course, the only way for the government to enforce that is to have some kind of ID that tracks people's fuel consumption, where you're limited to how many gallons a week.
[01:10:47]  But that's what we saw in places like Venezuela for food also.
[01:10:51]  So you go in a grocery store, you scan your thumbprint, you're biometrically approved to purchase one chicken a week or something like that.
[01:10:59]  Do you see that coming also to North America?
[01:11:02]  Definitely.
[01:11:03]  I mean, I don't think.
[01:11:05]  The way things are barreling now, that's what they want.
[01:11:09]  And you can see how many fertilizer plants have burned down in the United States.
[01:11:13]  It's a lot.
[01:11:14]  Actually, Catherine Austin Fitz, didn't you have her on recently?
[01:11:17]  I don't know if you did or not.
[01:11:18]  It was a few months ago, but yeah.
[01:11:20]  She had a report come out in her Solari report recently that was mapping out a lot of these things that have been hit.
[01:11:28]  So she's, and you obviously are tracking this, and you have unbelievable tracking abilities.
[01:11:33]  I mean, mapping abilities with your AI and that sort of thing.
[01:11:36]  But as you can see, they've been setting the table for this famine.
[01:11:39]  For years now.
[01:11:40]  So it's taken a long time to set conditions for this.
[01:11:43]  And as you know, these people don't think in five year plans.
[01:11:47]  They have a five year plan for taking out the garbage.
[01:11:50]  These people think in terms of like 200 years or 300 years, right?
[01:11:53]  They really over the horizon planning.
[01:11:56]  So, I mean, they've been setting that, you know, Malthusian ideas have been in place a long time.
[01:12:03]  They've been growing, they've been getting control of the food supply and getting control of everything that they can get control of.
[01:12:10]  But one of the things, there are many, many books about depopulation techniques.
[01:12:14]  I have many of them in our library right here.
[01:12:17]  It's taken years to collect them.
[01:12:19]  But this is an art and a science that most people aren't aware of.
[01:12:23]  It's not hidden, it's not like hidden away.
[01:12:26]  It's just that most people don't go to that section of the library.
[01:12:29]  Not that it's all in one section of the library, but it's there, it's wide open.
[01:12:34]  You can look up the Bulgarians and the Turks and the Greeks swapping population.
[01:12:38]  There's a book on that from 1932, which I have here.
[01:12:41]  All kinds of things like this.
[01:12:43]  But what's amazing, I mean, what you just said is accurate, but in AI or in the corporate media or search engines, the idea of depopulation is still widely labeled a conspiracy theory, as if it doesn't exist and it never existed, and it certainly doesn't exist today.
[01:13:05]  And yet, when you talk to those who are pushing climate alarmism, many of them openly talk about the importance of depopulation.
[01:13:15]  And it goes back decades, even to.
[01:13:18]  Ehrlich, with the population bomb book and President Richard Nixon, and they were saying, you know, let's put chemicals in the water and the food for depopulation.
[01:13:28]  So this isn't new, is it?
[01:13:31]  No.
[01:13:31]  And even with Ehrlich, with the population bomb, you know, he went off to India.
[01:13:36]  That's the story they tell, and yada, yada.
[01:13:38]  I've been to India, and you go there, and you're like, hey, there's a lot of people here.
[01:13:41]  You know, it's an extraordinary number of people.
[01:13:45]  And they say there's over a billion people, and I think I saw every one of them.
[01:13:48]  Yeah.
[01:13:49]  Yeah.
[01:13:51]  But, you know, even Ehrlich, that, you know, some people say it was a groundbreaking or, you know, seminal book or that sort of thing.
[01:13:58]  But even that was just an evolutionary book.
[01:14:00]  There were many books before that.
[01:14:02]  Malthus, of course, which I have his, I have Ehrlich's book.
[01:14:05]  I have the Malthusian books.
[01:14:06]  I have them all here.
[01:14:07]  I have the originals, right?
[01:14:09]  And so it's been going on a long time.
[01:14:12]  Even he was just another guy that showed up playing rock and roll, which had already been developed, let's say.
[01:14:19]  You know what I mean?
[01:14:20]  Right.
[01:14:21]  And so, and keep in mind, there's multiple.
[01:14:24]  Lines of weaponry that are going on in this war.
[01:14:26]  One of them is just intoxicants, which is a huge weapon system, right?
[01:14:32]  Intoxicants, music.
[01:14:34]  Music is absolutely massively part of this system, right?
[01:14:38]  Not just music, but sounds, actually.
[01:14:40]  And so, in every form of brainwashing, every art and artifice that you can imagine, which is a lot because you studied this for years, but just imagine it's all at the table all the time.
[01:14:54]  And so, in one sense, we sort of really do live in a large Truman show.
[01:15:01]  And some people can start to break their way out of it, and some people don't.

=== Crypto Mining as Weapons Program (03:54) ===

[01:15:05]  I was talking.
[01:15:05]  With somebody on the phone a couple nights ago, and he's just totally not even willing to approach the wall of the Truman Show.
[01:15:14]  He wants to stay right in the middle of the stage, so to speak, and just be I'll just live in my Truman Show and be a nice boy, you know.
[01:15:23]  Wow.
[01:15:23]  Well, that's not going to serve that person very well, given what's coming.
[01:15:29]  And the one thing that we see in America right now is that there is a very strong financial and infrastructure preference for building data centers.
[01:15:39]  Seems like data centers have unlimited funding, unlimited support.
[01:15:43]  They're being granted access to all the water, all the farmland, all the power.
[01:15:48]  And yet the supply of food and energy to humans is being cut off.
[01:15:56]  It's almost like there's a replacement plan to replace humans with AI or silicon data centers.
[01:16:03]  Do you see that too?
[01:16:04]  Yeah.
[01:16:05]  I mean, you talk about this all the time.
[01:16:07]  I think you talk about this like every.
[01:16:09]  18 hours.
[01:16:10]  You know, I mean, you're always talking.
[01:16:14]  So, you know, this subject better than I do.
[01:16:16]  You know, it's interesting.
[01:16:17]  I was talking with somebody that we both know about 24 hours ago, and maybe he'll watch this because he's a very serious guy.
[01:16:24]  He watches your show a lot.
[01:16:25]  But, you know, he's doing the Bitcoin or let's say crypto mining thing.
[01:16:30]  And, you know, he was telling me about how much investment that he put into it and that sort of thing.
[01:16:34]  And he hopes to break even soon.
[01:16:36]  And basically, I broached the topic of you're part of the data center.
[01:16:41]  Infrastructure.
[01:16:41]  You know what I mean?
[01:16:42]  You're paying for the electric.
[01:16:43]  You're not really mining crypto.
[01:16:46]  They're actually, you know, giving you some pay.
[01:16:48]  You're, you're doing part of the, you know, you're part of the distributed network and, you know, you're paying for the electricity at your home level, right?
[01:16:57]  You know how this goes, Michael, very well.
[01:16:59]  I mean, it's not, it's not like you're just mining crypto out there.
[01:17:02]  There's other things going on in your computer that you're paying for and, and, and that, you know, you're doing the computation.
[01:17:08]  I, you know, this stuff has been going on since it must be at least the 80s, right?
[01:17:12]  Because I remember there were, uh, They were doing some idea, trying to get people with their home very slow computers, maybe the 80s or the 90s, you know, to calculate some astronomical things because it's, you know, there's a lot of mathematics involved.
[01:17:28]  And, you know, if they distribute the calculations with little computers around the world and get everybody a little piece of the puzzle, they say, you know, they can get.
[01:17:37]  That was in the 90s.
[01:17:39]  Was that the 90s?
[01:17:40]  So now, if you can imagine how that may have been actually just sort of an experimental or an evolutionary stage for what we're at now.
[01:17:48]  Now you've got people mining for Bitcoin like crazy and paying the electric bill and getting some little Bitcoin change.
[01:17:58]  Well, yeah, but the Bitcoin uses a tremendous amount of electricity.
[01:18:04]  I mean, it still does because it's a proof of work network.
[01:18:08]  And the difficulty of the work in the blockchain for Bitcoin is very high, very high now.
[01:18:16]  But it seems like the power is going to shift from crypto.
[01:18:23]  Into AI and specifically building simulated worlds, and within those worlds, then spawning artificial intelligence that these scientists hope they can bring back into this world.
[01:18:36]  You know, I mean, this is a weapons program.
[01:18:39]  I mean, clearly, it's designed to build a super intelligence that can dominate this world.
[01:18:44]  But in order to do that, they have to build these other worlds.
[01:18:46]  And so, in order to do that, I see Trump and others justifying taking away resources from humans, saying this is.
[01:18:54]  This is a military program.
[01:18:56]  It's national security.
[01:18:57]  We have to give all the resources to the data centers.

=== Blockchain Power Shift to AI (08:08) ===

[01:19:00]  Humans, you know, be damned.
[01:19:02]  And that's what I see happening right now.
[01:19:04]  I think it's obvious.
[01:19:07]  I mean, it's like they don't hide it.
[01:19:10]  This is not even conspiracy theory.
[01:19:12]  This is the stuff they say, right?
[01:19:14]  And they say it, they write it, and they're doing it, right?
[01:19:17]  And so, and also keep in mind every war we've ever heard of is routes, resources, and ideology.
[01:19:23]  And ideology is about human resources, right?
[01:19:27]  I mean, you know, the Jesuits were going around the world for so long and they, not just them, but so many others.
[01:19:33]  And it's about human resources, right?
[01:19:35]  It's about, you know, getting people in your architecture, right?
[01:19:39]  And so this is just the way it goes.
[01:19:43]  And when they see these globalists, the subset of people that are very, you know, let's say, and they call us nationalists, nationalists versus globalists, they see us as like cattle, of course.
[01:19:56]  And they're really clear.
[01:19:57]  They don't hide it again, they're open about it.
[01:19:59]  And so, when the cattle, they've got too many cattle, they call some off, right?
[01:20:04]  And that's what they're doing.
[01:20:05]  They're calling the cattle right now.
[01:20:06]  They're just reducing the population because the population is, you know, useless eaters, as they say.
[01:20:12]  And they're in the way.
[01:20:13]  And again, this is an old game.
[01:20:15]  There's zero new about it.
[01:20:16]  It's been done more time.
[01:20:18]  I study this seven days a week and I have no idea how many times this has happened.
[01:20:22]  It's so much that just learning the names of all the places this happened would be like learning, you know, the English language.
[01:20:29]  You know what I mean?
[01:20:31]  It's a.
[01:20:31]  It's a big task just to memorize the names.
[01:20:36]  It's going on all the time.
[01:20:38]  It's never ended.
[01:20:39]  It goes back to the edge of time and back to the edge of recorded history.
[01:20:44]  But never before in history, though, has the population been this large, which means that this effort will be a larger depopulation effort than anything in history.
[01:20:57]  Although there are many examples, like you said, like Ukraine, 1930s, the Holodomor.
[01:21:02]  How many tens of millions of people were starved to death on purpose?
[01:21:06]  And, you know, there's history of China, you know, history of Cambodia, et cetera.
[01:21:09]  But in this case, there's going to be a lot of social upheaval as people are being slowly starved to death, isn't there?
[01:21:19]  I mean, talk to us about the upheaval side of this.
[01:21:22]  What's going to happen to the civil stability of our world?
[01:21:27]  Right.
[01:21:28]  You know, during the 1840s, when the Irish famine really kicked off, there was actually a lot of famines around Europe in the 1840s.
[01:21:35]  That's why they call it the hungry 40s.
[01:21:38]  And, you know, in every case, you're going to get upheaval, right?
[01:21:41]  Often it's the government, let's say in the different famine period with Mao.
[01:21:46]  I mean, he's using that to control the population.
[01:21:49]  He was killing off people he didn't want, right?
[01:21:52]  And Stalin has done the same thing.
[01:21:54]  And the British have done the same thing.
[01:21:55]  So there's nothing new about this.
[01:21:58]  It's very, you know, for them, it's like building a bridge or a canal.
[01:22:02]  I mean, every bridge and every canal is different, but they also.
[01:22:06]  If you know how to do it, you can go do your calculations and get the material and do it.
[01:22:12]  It might take 20 years to build a big canal, but you can do it, you know?
[01:22:16]  And that's what they're doing with the famine.
[01:22:18]  If you want to make a famine, you can do it.
[01:22:20]  If you want to put China in famine, and if they can't resist you enough, you can put China in famine.
[01:22:27]  And for instance, not just China, but Japan, where I'm at now, the United States, you can do it.
[01:22:34]  And many people in 2020, when I started saying the United States can go into famine, there was always the tisk, tisk, don't you understand?
[01:22:42]  The United States is the biggest food producer in the world.
[01:22:44]  And I'm like, before I put my mouth to this microphone, trust me, I will have studied that in detail.
[01:22:51]  I understand that the United States is a massive food exporter, and trust me, it can be put into famine.
[01:22:57]  And Ukraine has been a huge food exporter when it was put in famine.
[01:23:01]  Henan province in China, which is where some of the worst famines happen, was a breadbasket of China.
[01:23:07]  Just because Thailand, I've been warning about Thailand for years.
[01:23:11]  I flew in four or five years ago to meet with Abhisit.
[01:23:13]  I've mentioned this numerous times with you.
[01:23:16]  And I flew in from Europe and said that Mark, his nickname is Mark, I wrote the last two pages of his book actually.
[01:23:23]  The Simple Truth is the name of the book.
[01:23:24]  And I flew in to warn him that Thailand could be put into famine, right?
[01:23:28]  Now, keep in mind, people that live in Thailand, they're like, that can never happen.
[01:23:32]  This is Thailand.
[01:23:33]  This is like the land of plenty.
[01:23:34]  I'm like, trust me, it can happen.
[01:23:37]  And here's the mechanisms by which it can happen, right?
[01:23:40]  And now it's happening by the mechanisms that I said, because I know what they're doing.
[01:23:45]  I'm not a genius.
[01:23:46]  I just study seven days a week like Rain Man.
[01:23:48]  That's it.
[01:23:49]  And after, you know, like the teachers would say in school, The best form of cheating is just to do your homework.
[01:23:57]  You know, if you do your homework, it's like you're going to feel like cheating because all these, this is such an easy test, you know.
[01:24:04]  Yeah, yeah.
[01:24:04]  Well, exactly.
[01:24:05]  But I'd like to talk about the specific mechanisms.
[01:24:08]  Let me point out, just to get us started, that obviously the U.S. imports fertilizer.
[01:24:14]  And obviously, there's no strategic reserve of fertilizer like there has been of petroleum.
[01:24:19]  So when the fertilizer is gone, it's just gone.
[01:24:22]  And it doesn't matter how much land you have, if you don't have the fertilizer, it's not going to produce at the level.
[01:24:29]  That creates that food abundance.
[01:24:32]  And they're doing so many things, so many attacks here and there.
[01:24:36]  Like, you know, World War II wasn't won on D Day, right?
[01:24:39]  Or, you know, Okinawa or anything.
[01:24:41]  These were all battles, major battles, but in and of themselves, they were on the big picture, they didn't mean anything if you didn't have all the other battles, right?
[01:24:49]  So we've got so many battles against our food supply, like choking down Hormuz, right?
[01:24:55]  Like blowing up energy pipelines and sources, you know, refineries and that sort of thing, replacing.
[01:25:04]  Farmland with wind turbines, which is there's a lot of that going on, but all none of these, you know, replacing food crops with ethanol production.
[01:25:13]  I think you've talked about that many times, right?
[01:25:16]  So instead of growing for food, you're growing for energy, right?
[01:25:20]  And another thing is like dope.
[01:25:21]  I mean, you have a lot of places, instead of growing okra, they're growing, you know, cannabis or they're growing opium in different countries.
[01:25:29]  Like when I was in Afghanistan, it was like Wizard of Oz.
[01:25:32]  There was so much opium, I couldn't believe it.
[01:25:35]  I wrote about this in 2006 and I was like, I can't believe there's so much opium here.
[01:25:40]  Not only that, it's right outside the bases, like so close to the bases, you could hit it with your left hand with a baseball.
[01:25:47]  You know, you could just like throw it and hit it.
[01:25:49]  It's that close to our perimeter, right?
[01:25:51]  I mean, if they were in a firefight, shell casings from the machine gun would be landing in the opium.
[01:25:56]  You know what I mean?
[01:25:57]  It's that close.
[01:25:58]  And it was so we were letting it grow.
[01:26:01]  And I wrote a series of dispatches called The Perfect Evil.
[01:26:04]  In any case, it wasn't food that was being grown.
[01:26:07]  And, you know, then they had food shortages.
[01:26:09]  I'm like, food shortages?
[01:26:10]  How can you have food shortages?
[01:26:11]  They're growing opium all over the place.
[01:26:14]  But keep in mind, when Mao had the great famine that he made, China was still exporting food while people were starving to death.
[01:26:24]  Ireland was doing the same thing.
[01:26:25]  During the Irish famine, 1845 to the early 1850s, people argue when it ended, but there was still food being exported, actually, because there were some of the counties in Ireland which were not even in famine on Ireland, right?
[01:26:41]  And then there was some famine, some counties.
[01:26:43]  I have a map of the counties that were.
[01:26:45]  You know, not in famine at all.
[01:26:46]  And some were just, you know, had some food issues.
[01:26:49]  And others, I mean, they were down to cannibalism, right?
[01:26:52]  So, I mean, it was, you know, and even during that time, there were still people making vodka and that sort of thing out of the alcohol or making alcohol.
[01:27:00]  They're saying not necessarily vodka, but they're making, you know, alcohol out of some of the food, the potatoes that they did have, that sort of thing.

=== Deliberate Famine Strategies (07:38) ===

[01:27:08]  Yeah.
[01:27:08]  I mean, these sorts of things are, you'll find as these famines unfold, there'll be some people like Kenjiro here.
[01:27:15]  The reason he's so famous in Japan is because he saw a famine coming.
[01:27:20]  Mike Adams, you are basically Kenjiro.
[01:27:23]  He saw famine coming, and his statue is all over Japan.
[01:27:26]  His name is Kenjiro, right?
[01:27:28]  And he saw famine coming for various reasons.
[01:27:30]  This is the 1800s, and he started warning people and he started telling them what to do, what to plant.
[01:27:36]  Don't plant the rice, plant the millet, all kinds of other things.
[01:27:39]  And the people that listened to him, none of them died, but a lot of other people died.
[01:27:43]  So if you look up Kenjiro, Neinomiya Sontaku was his real name.
[01:27:47]  But his nickname is Kenjiro.
[01:27:49]  His statue is all over Japan, right?
[01:27:51]  There's one in Los Angeles, too.
[01:27:52]  I've gone over there and seen it near Japantown.
[01:27:55]  But, you know, not far from the 442nd Regimental Combat Team Memorial, for those who know where I'm talking about.
[01:28:02]  And so, but the.
[01:28:03]  No, I'll take that.
[01:28:04]  There are a lot of things that you can do.
[01:28:08]  He does have, there is a resemblance.
[01:28:09]  If there were a Japanese version of me, he would look like that.
[01:28:12]  That's you, man.
[01:28:14]  That's you.
[01:28:14]  Like walking around with a book.
[01:28:16]  Talking to me.
[01:28:18]  I know.
[01:28:19]  I call him my brother from a different mother.
[01:28:21]  Not only a different mother, but a different century and a different race.
[01:28:29]  I got his back.
[01:28:30]  I got his back.
[01:28:32]  All right.
[01:28:33]  That's cool.
[01:28:34]  I'll take that for sure.
[01:28:35]  Yeah.
[01:28:36]  And, you know, he's got sandals on and he's got a little backpack and everything.
[01:28:40]  I'll take that, especially with that very modern hairdo going.
[01:28:45]  He's rocking that hair right now.
[01:28:47]  Masako doesn't like this statue because he's all dressed off of boys.
[01:28:51]  Flamboyantly, she's like, Kenjiro never dressed like that.
[01:28:53]  He's got other statues where he's dressed, you know, more like a farm robes and stuff.
[01:28:57]  Yeah, yeah, that's probably more accurate.
[01:28:59]  You know, artist, artist rendition here.
[01:29:02]  Yeah, well, I'm dressed like a farmer every day, um, every literally every single day.
[01:29:07]  I'm just people like, don't you ever have clean pants?
[01:29:10]  Uh, no, I actually don't.
[01:29:12]  No, because pretty much there's going to be, you know, dirt or grain on them or something.
[01:29:18]  Um, okay, so then.
[01:29:22]  It seems to me that you and I both know that the famine's going to get bad in 2027, for sure.
[01:29:29]  But the longer the Strait of Hormuz stays closed and the more destruction there is of the infrastructure, from fertilizer production to gas exports to pipelines getting bombed, refineries getting blown up or burned down, sabotaged, whatever, then this starts to extend out three years, five years, even in some cases, 10 years.
[01:29:51]  What do you see as the longer term timeline of what we might be facing?
[01:29:56]  Oh, it'll be years because this is completely by design.
[01:30:02]  I think it'll be years.
[01:30:03]  Of course, we don't know until we get there, but the way it's shaping up, it looks like years because this is a slow famine.
[01:30:10]  Slow famines tend to come in slowly and then they'll build.
[01:30:14]  I think you're right on the timing.
[01:30:16]  It's funny because independently, you and I came to the same idea on the timing.
[01:30:19]  Like, probably late 2027 is when it'll be super obvious to everybody, you know, because it's still not obvious to a lot of people.
[01:30:27]  I think it's still not obvious to most people, actually.
[01:30:31]  But you can see, you know, basically it's like a hurricane that's way on the other side of the Atlantic right now.
[01:30:37]  It's obvious to the people with the satellite and, you know, hurricane chasers.
[01:30:42]  But I think it'll, Likely, keep in mind, as these slow famines progress, that second season often is far worse than the first.
[01:30:53]  So, in other words, if it really kicks off in late 2027 and it's really obvious, it'll probably be a lot worse in 2028, 2029, right?
[01:31:02]  Because in that first season, it starts, people start robbing the farmers, robbing the warehouses, robbing the trains, and everything breaks really, honestly, breaks down internally, not just, you know, closing Hormuz, which not.
[01:31:19]  I shouldn't use the word just, just closing the Strait of Hormuz as if that's a just.
[01:31:24]  I mean, that's a major event or Malacca, but it happens internally, is what I'm getting to at sort of an atomic level.
[01:31:31]  It happens locally when people steal everybody's avocados off their tree and that sort of thing.
[01:31:38]  And actually, sometimes, you know, people look at what's happened.
[01:31:42]  I just saw something in the news the other day where a bunch of fruit trees are being cut down in California.
[01:31:48]  Did you see that?
[01:31:49]  Yeah, that's because of the closing of that canned fruit company.
[01:31:54]  It's peaches.
[01:31:55]  It's 400,000 peach trees, isn't it?
[01:31:57]  420,000, I think, is what they said.
[01:31:59]  That's right.
[01:32:00]  That's right.
[01:32:00]  Number 420.
[01:32:03]  But why would they do that?
[01:32:06]  They would do that again to cut.
[01:32:08]  Otherwise, they would just, knowing that famine's coming, you would never cut those down.
[01:32:12]  But if you want to control the food supply, you don't care about the people, you just want control, you're going to cut them down.
[01:32:19]  You're not going to let them just go on their own.
[01:32:22]  Well, and also look at what the IDF has done to the Palestinians in Gaza.
[01:32:27]  One of the first things they do is they burn the olive orchards.
[01:32:31]  And olive oil is one of the foods that the U.S. imports, like 99% of the olive oil, mostly from Italy and Spain, et cetera.
[01:32:40]  But the fact that there's a force that's burning the future of food, just like we mentioned with the peach trees in America, why would you cut down 420,000 peach trees?
[01:32:53]  Knowing that famine is coming, it just has to be deliberate, right?
[01:32:59]  And you know, it's funny.
[01:33:00]  I was talking with an Iranian lady a few days ago, Massaka and I were, and uh, and and she's in communication with her mother in Iran.
[01:33:08]  And and and uh, but she said that her grandmother, uh, her her uh, I asked her, What's what what are the the health tips that your grandmother, an Iranian lady in Iran, she's passed away now, but what what were your what were her health tip tips?
[01:33:23]  And she said, Good oil, good salt, and good water.
[01:33:28]  Good oil, good salt, and good water.
[01:33:29]  Yeah.
[01:33:30]  And those are like the basics good water, good salt.
[01:33:33]  And anyway, a good oil.
[01:33:37]  Yeah, it makes sense.
[01:33:37]  Well, like not the crap that we eat in America, all the cottonseed, soy, corn, oils, you know, these cheap oils that we eat, which are, you know, making America diseased, right?
[01:33:51]  And not able to even function as a society with high health care costs, et cetera.
[01:33:56]  But isn't that part of this also?
[01:34:00]  The economic incentives for governments that are broke, like the United States, to kill off the people who have high health care costs, social security benefits, Medicare, disability from the federal government, even veterans benefits, et cetera.
[01:34:15]  You know, there's a financial incentive for a government to make people die as soon as possible if those people are receiving any kind of federal benefit.
[01:34:25]  I mean, that's obvious.
[01:34:27]  Right.
[01:34:28]  Yeah.
[01:34:28]  I mean, they, they, Because they're looking at people as human resources.
[01:34:34]  I mean, literally, that's what it's called.
[01:34:36]  And when did the name human resources actually start to be used in the corporate world?
[01:34:40]  I don't know.
[01:34:41]  Actually, etymologically, I need to look that out.
[01:34:44]  I've got a whole section, I've got a bunch of old books on etymology.

=== Government Incentives for Death (12:53) ===

[01:34:47]  I'm going to look at it as soon as we hang up.
[01:34:50]  But human resources, again, the whole ideology thing is about human resources.
[01:34:54]  But again, they look at us as human resources, they look at us more as meat bots, as sheep.
[01:35:00]  You know, and so as soon as we're reached our expiration date, they want us out of the way.
[01:35:07]  It's that simple.
[01:35:08]  Look at Canada is doing a MAID program now.
[01:35:11]  They're killing massive numbers of Canadians, just putting them to death.
[01:35:16]  You can go, there's probably somebody right now in Canada going to the doctor who will be put to death today, who is perfectly healthy.
[01:35:23]  Literally walk in, don't expect to be put to death, make some complaint about your knee.
[01:35:29]  The next thing you know, you're in the little Pod and you're gone, you know, watching some whale movie.
[01:35:34]  You know, and that's it.
[01:35:36]  Yeah.
[01:35:36]  Well, and it seems like, I mean, they're starting to roll out the Hantavirus narrative already, which seems like COVID 2.0.
[01:35:45]  While they ignored the actual real threat of the parasites, like the screwworms that you warned about for so long, they largely ignored that, but then they're pushing this Hantavirus, which seems entirely contrived.
[01:35:59]  And maybe they're going to use that in the same way they use COVID.
[01:36:01]  What do you think?
[01:36:03]  Oh, yeah.
[01:36:03]  It's just the number of brain cycles I put into Trump statements or Hantavirus would be, I don't know, half a brain cycle.
[01:36:10]  You know, it's like that alleged assassination attempt, you know, in the press thing recently.
[01:36:17]  I put literally probably one minute into that, you know, and that seemed like a wasted minute I can't retrieve.
[01:36:24]  You know, it's just like it gets to the point where you're like, okay, that's trash.
[01:36:28]  Next, you know, we got to focus on the, on the, with Hantavirus, of course, they'll use it.
[01:36:33]  They'll, you know, I want to, Private chat today.
[01:36:36]  They were talking about how the British parachuted in some troops to help somebody with some patient somewhere and did a, I don't know, 10,000 kilometer flight or something, parachuted people out the back of an airplane.
[01:36:48]  Just totally kooky type stuff, you know?
[01:36:51]  But, you know, making the big show of it.
[01:36:53]  And it seems like they can push not just the masks again, which never worked, but also then the lockdowns.
[01:37:01]  So they can have another reason for lockdowns, which combined with the fuel shortages and then the coming food rationing.
[01:37:09]  This could be way worse than COVID.
[01:37:10]  This could force people to die in their own homes all across first world countries because they'd be threatened with arrest if they come out of their own homes.
[01:37:21]  Actually, you know, a pattern in famines is you'll often start in the beginning, you'll start to see a lot more people on the streets.
[01:37:27]  I see this recurring in all the famines I've studied.
[01:37:30]  There'll be a lot more people on the streets for a while.
[01:37:32]  They're looking for food.
[01:37:33]  And often people are carrying spoons, actually, which was interesting because when I was in the army, All the SF guys, all the Green Braids that I knew, we always carried a spoon in our pocket.
[01:37:45]  It was pretty odd.
[01:37:47]  Because you didn't want to be without your spoon.
[01:37:49]  We were often quite hungry, but in training and whatnot.
[01:37:53]  But what I'm getting to is in famines, you'll often see there's actually a famous photo of a Dutch boy holding a spoon.
[01:38:01]  But often when people finally die, they're actually in their beds.
[01:38:05]  They're actually back at home.
[01:38:06]  People often will die during famines back at home.
[01:38:10]  Others will have gone off to a different country and that sort of thing.
[01:38:13]  And like the Irish down in Argentina or Chile or America, that sort of thing.
[01:38:18]  So that human osmotic pressure gets to be.
[01:38:21]  That's why I spend so much time on the Darien Gap.
[01:38:23]  And I said this over and over.
[01:38:25]  I think there's going to be famines.
[01:38:26]  And I think places like the Darien Gap and corridors through places like Bahamas or just coming up Camp of the Saints style up the Mississippi River by ships, I think it's going to become intense.
[01:38:37]  I think they intentionally have created the infrastructure and the human infrastructure as well for helping hundreds of millions of people migrate during famine.
[01:38:49]  And I think that's coming.
[01:38:51]  That's.
[01:38:51]  And I've said this many, many times, including with you, that I think dairy and gap, I think, is far from over.
[01:38:59]  Right now, it's just a trickle, but it's far from over.
[01:39:03]  So I'm really glad you brought that up because I wanted to ask you about this.
[01:39:07]  It seems to me, and, you know, I lived in South America for a couple of years.
[01:39:15]  I think of Central and South America as places of food abundance where there's a lot more local knowledge of how to grow food.
[01:39:22]  You know, gardening is still.
[01:39:24]  More common there.
[01:39:25]  And I think of North America as being a lot more barren in terms of if there's a collapse, fewer people know how to grow food in North America compared to Central and South America.
[01:39:36]  So, why would starving people in South America head to North America?
[01:39:45]  Is it just a perception?
[01:39:47]  Oh, well, first of all, you can bring people in from Africa and other places in Asia into South America, which has been most of the people that came through the dairying gap were not actually from South America.
[01:39:59]  A lot were from Colombia and Venezuela, and that's a huge amount came from Venezuela.
[01:40:04]  But a lot of people that came through the Darien Gap were from Cuba.
[01:40:07]  They were from Haiti.
[01:40:08]  They were from Africa.
[01:40:09]  They were from Ghana.
[01:40:09]  They were from Bangladesh, right?
[01:40:11]  So you just get them to South America.
[01:40:15]  But keep in mind, I think you're going to see Brazil get destabilized.
[01:40:19]  I think that there's part of the Zionist infrastructure that wants to, they want to destabilize.
[01:40:27]  I think.
[01:40:28]  I think we're going to see a war between Argentina and Brazil at some point.
[01:40:31]  But in the, in the interim, I think this is my guess.
[01:40:34]  Argentina is going to go for Malvinas, which is Falklands, right?
[01:40:37]  I think when we were, when Misako and I were down in Buenos Aires, I don't know, a year and a half ago now, you can see that there's signs all over the place about, you know, Malvinas is Argentina and, you know, Falklands.
[01:40:48]  And right now they're British, of course, but I, but I think that they'll take those.
[01:40:53]  There's a lot of energy in Argentina.
[01:40:55]  There's a lot of food.
[01:40:56]  Uh, there's lithium.
[01:40:57]  There's, there's, there's that.
[01:40:59]  Well, I mean, Argentina, the whole name is Arge Silver.
[01:41:02]  It's named after silver.
[01:41:04]  The country's named after silver, right?
[01:41:07]  Yeah, good point.
[01:41:11]  But it's very close to Uruguay and Brazil, and Brazil's got a lot of food and a lot of other stuff, right?
[01:41:19]  And that bioceanic corridor that goes from Brazil through Paraguay through Argentina and Chile, China's been working on that.
[01:41:26]  Massacre and I got on a train, a little tiny train that the Chinese built up in northern Argentina when we went.
[01:41:33]  Actually, very interesting.
[01:41:35]  But they've been working on that quarter.
[01:41:37]  Now, keep in mind Chile and Brazil, which is on the bookends there, Chile's on the Pacific side, Brazil's on the Atlantic side, those are closer to China.
[01:41:46]  They're not buddies with Israel at all.
[01:41:48]  Paraguay's very close with Israel.
[01:41:50]  They don't like China at all.
[01:41:51]  They still recognize Taiwan.
[01:41:53]  Argentina is sort of like Panama.
[01:41:57]  You got China and the Zionists are fighting over Argentina, just like they're fighting over Panama.
[01:42:02]  And they're fighting over Thailand.
[01:42:03]  A lot of people don't see this.
[01:42:05]  And a lot of Thais are finally waking up to it that a lot of the Zionists are actually colonizing Kotao, Copanyan, and Kosumui.
[01:42:16]  Spent more than three months on those islands.
[01:42:18]  I'm very familiar with them.
[01:42:20]  Those are strategically placed islands.
[01:42:23]  And a lot of the Zionists also are colonizing up in Pai, Thailand.
[01:42:27]  That's where the Japanese were.
[01:42:28]  A lot of the Japanese were in Pai in World War II because it's a strategic place.
[01:42:33]  And a lot are going to the Philippines and, of course, Greece and other places that are strategic.
[01:42:39]  They're not going off to hide away somewhere.
[01:42:42]  They're going to colonize strategic places, right?
[01:42:47]  It's not running away.
[01:42:48]  It's It's, I mean, some of the colonies, some of the people are just running away off to, I don't know, Miami or something, but others are going to strategic places like Panama.
[01:42:59]  Wow.
[01:43:00]  Wow.
[01:43:00]  And that's because Israel itself is so threatened by the current war.
[01:43:05]  Its ports aren't usable.
[01:43:07]  Its economy is collapsing.
[01:43:09]  Its people are having to flee because of the conflict or what?
[01:43:15]  Right.
[01:43:16]  And keep in mind, there are many, many groups.
[01:43:19]  I don't even know the numbers, it's so many again.
[01:43:22]  That are transnational.
[01:43:24]  They are like the Zionists are transnational and Jews as well are transnational.
[01:43:29]  Catholics are transnational.
[01:43:30]  Jesuits and all this is transnational, right?
[01:43:33]  Mennonites, Amish, like Mennonites.
[01:43:35]  We went to see Mennonites in Belize.
[01:43:39]  Mennonites are opening a camp now in Suriname.
[01:43:41]  We went down to Belize, Misako and I, to talk with Mennonites because we wanted to talk with Mennonites.
[01:43:46]  Ann Vandersteel came down there as well.
[01:43:47]  We all went down there and Taylor Kramer, we all went down there and we were talking with Mennonites.
[01:43:53]  And they speak old German.
[01:43:55]  Luckily, I speak German as well.
[01:43:57]  They can understand my Hochdeutsch, but their Naderdeutsch was, I only got maybe 30 or 40% of what they were saying.
[01:44:03]  They speak old German.
[01:44:05]  And anyway, but I was speaking with them.
[01:44:07]  A lot of the Mennonites are leaving Brazil.
[01:44:10]  And I wanted to talk with Mennonites because they know how to do stuff.
[01:44:13]  You know what I mean?
[01:44:14]  Like old people's stuff.
[01:44:16]  Like, you know, they know how to fix something with a piece of leather and a knife, you know.
[01:44:21]  And so they, when the Belize government tried to force them to take the jab, they're like, nope.
[01:44:28]  Mennonites not going to do it.
[01:44:29]  And they stuck together and they grow a lot of the food in Belize.
[01:44:33]  So the Mennonites sent off feelers down to, for instance, in Suriname.
[01:44:37]  That's one of the places.
[01:44:38]  And now they're building a camp there.
[01:44:40]  And so you can see in the news where there's an information war.
[01:44:43]  I haven't looked lately, but that information war to try to stop the Mennonites from building a new camp out in Suriname.
[01:44:50]  They're saying they're destroying the jungle or whatever.
[01:44:52]  But once the Belize government tried to force the Mennonites to take the jab, which they didn't take, the Mennonites are like, we're out of here.
[01:45:00]  And now the Belizean government's like, uh oh, you know, our farmers are going to punch out to Suriname or whatever.
[01:45:06]  And, but keep in mind, if you're going to think in terms of resilience, I'm thinking in terms of the neighbors I want are Mennonites.
[01:45:13]  They're Amish.
[01:45:14]  You know what I mean?
[01:45:15]  They're that.
[01:45:16]  That's why Misako and I were just out checking different parts of Japan where the people, there are parts of Japan where the people are far more resilient than others, just like in America.
[01:45:25]  There's parts of America where the people know how to go get a bear.
[01:45:28]  You know what I mean?
[01:45:29]  And, and there's people in Japan that know how to go get a bear.
[01:45:32]  This place is filled with bears, man.
[01:45:34]  Japan.
[01:45:35]  It's unbelievably filled with bears.
[01:45:37]  Yeah, you've spoken about that quite a bit before.
[01:45:40]  Remember your story of the bear that got into the hotel and the bear hunter.
[01:45:45]  That was, and remember I said that's called Airbnb or Bear Bnb?
[01:45:51]  Bear Bnb.
[01:45:53]  Yeah, Bear Bnb.
[01:45:55]  But in the U.S., let's go back to the U.S. What states or cities are going to be the most vulnerable then between now and 2030 as things happen?
[01:46:03]  Like, for example, we already know that California has to import all its diesel fuel and gasoline.
[01:46:10]  California doesn't have functioning refineries or Not that I'm aware of.
[01:46:14]  Maybe they have one.
[01:46:15]  But also, they don't have nuclear power plants except maybe one small one.
[01:46:20]  They don't, you know, California has shut down their energy like Western Europe.
[01:46:25]  And as a result, clearly that's vulnerable.
[01:46:27]  But what's your overall assessment of where are people vulnerable in America?
[01:46:33]  Oh, all these big mega cities like Los Angeles, you know, Los Angeles, the whole thing, you know, I spent a couple of years in California, so I'm pretty familiar with it.
[01:46:40]  I mean, all those mega cities, New York or whatever.
[01:46:45]  Florida, I love Florida.
[01:46:46]  I grew up in Florida, but I'm also looking at this through a war lens.
[01:46:50]  Florida is not that resilient because there's too many people.
[01:46:53]  If there weren't that many people, you could do fine.
[01:46:56]  But keep in mind, Florida was one of the last places that was truly settled in the United States, believe it or not.
[01:47:02]  You might think, you know, Florida, that would be easy, but I assure you, you know, Josh is a swampland.
[01:47:08]  Yeah.
[01:47:08]  Oh, man.
[01:47:09]  Josh Phillip, he works, you know, at Epoch Times.
[01:47:13]  Josh and I, we've been all over the place together.
[01:47:15]  But at one point, Josh said he went to live for a year out in the Boonies, you know, to sort of meditate and get to know himself when he was younger.
[01:47:24]  And I said, Where did you do it?
[01:47:25]  And he said, He went to Florida.
[01:47:26]  I said, Florida, are you crazy?
[01:47:28]  You'd have been better off in Alaska than Florida.
[01:47:32]  And he's like, Oh man, it was tough.
[01:47:34]  It was really tough.
[01:47:36]  And I said, I'm sure you learned a lot about yourself living off grid in Florida for a year.

=== Location Matters in Settlements (12:44) ===

[01:47:41]  I sure did.
[01:47:41]  All right.
[01:47:43]  Yeah.
[01:47:43]  No kidding.
[01:47:44]  But so the, but why would, See, I believe this is clearly an anti human agenda being carried out by globalist forces, but it seems to me they're going to be killing off the people who support globalism, which is the city people.
[01:48:02]  You know, the people who support climate change are city people.
[01:48:05]  The people who support gun control are city people, or abortion tend to be city people.
[01:48:10]  The people they're not going to be killing off is all the country people all over the world.
[01:48:15]  Isn't that true?
[01:48:17]  Right.
[01:48:18]  Well, I mean, they're going to go for it, and they can do it with, you know, With aerosol sprays or so many other mechanisms.
[01:48:26]  There's so many mechanisms where to start.
[01:48:30]  And they're going to go for it because the country people are on the country that they want, right?
[01:48:35]  So they're going to go for it.
[01:48:37]  But at the end of the day, these globalists are going to fight each other as well.
[01:48:41]  And because that's just their nature, they are evil per se, they are intrinsically evil and they don't trust each other.
[01:48:49]  They're going to fight each other.
[01:48:51]  And but right now, they're all, you know, Busy getting what they can get, you know, because right now, as they kill people off, they're getting their property.
[01:49:00]  A lot of people say, Why would they do?
[01:49:02]  Why would they kill off all the people?
[01:49:04]  They're killing off their markets.
[01:49:05]  They're like, They don't want you.
[01:49:06]  They don't want your money.
[01:49:07]  They're going to take your property, you know.
[01:49:10]  And if you're like a billionaire and you're not in the club, and by the way, if somebody tried to push the jab on you and you're a billionaire, well, you ain't in the club.
[01:49:19]  You know, a billionaire is not big money for these people, right?
[01:49:23]  If you're a king or a queen royalty somewhere and you took the jab, you're not in the club.
[01:49:29]  They're coming for your kingdom, right?
[01:49:31]  They're coming for everything.
[01:49:32]  You got to keep in mind, these are the sorts of people that make countries.
[01:49:37]  All the countries on the Arabian Peninsula, for instance, the ones I call the 1922 synthetic countries like Bahrain and Kuwait and UAE and Oman and Emirates, Qatar.
[01:49:50]  I mean, those countries, or if you get into the peninsula, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, these countries, Saudi Arabia, these countries were made synthetically to get control of routes and resources, just like the countries in South America as well.
[01:50:05]  The United States.
[01:50:07]  were made that way.
[01:50:08]  The United States was built on basically a company town sort of methodology.
[01:50:13]  A huge amount of the United States was built on, I mean, just a bunch of company towns hobbled together and became a giant corporation.
[01:50:21]  As you know, the United States is actually a corporation.
[01:50:24]  And so the, and, you know, in many, you know, the city, the town you live in is probably incorporated, right?
[01:50:31]  I mean, this is old stuff.
[01:50:33]  And now you've got these big corporations which are transnational, right?
[01:50:37]  They're They don't have countries like BlackRock.
[01:50:40]  It doesn't have a country, it might have a headquarters somewhere, but that doesn't matter.
[01:50:44]  We can shut that down and open it, they can distribute it right.
[01:50:47]  And these are these are these are not they have bases in Atlanta or something, but that's not them.
[01:50:54]  They're there, there's so many transnational uh architectures, whether it's religious or whether it's uh various uh companies or or cults or whatever you want to call them.
[01:51:06]  You know, there's there's many, many, many, and like for instance.
[01:51:10]  Mennonites.
[01:51:11]  Again, they're transnational.
[01:51:12]  There's many, many people like this.
[01:51:15]  Yeah.
[01:51:16]  Well, exactly.
[01:51:17]  So it seems to me like this is going to be a drawn out, multi year process.
[01:51:23]  And importantly, that this war with Iran, and we know Trump just had to fabricate excuses to launch the war, but the war with Iran has nothing to do with Iran's so called nuclear weapons.
[01:51:36]  This seems to me like this is a much higher level war against humanity and an excuse to block.
[01:51:44]  The flows of gas and oil and helium and sulfuric acid out of the Persian Gulf, which means it's going to last a long time.
[01:51:52]  Oh, right.
[01:51:52]  I mean, on this, I know Hormuz is very important.
[01:51:57]  I've been talking about it for years and saying that I thought this would come.
[01:52:00]  In fact, you did.
[01:52:01]  Yes.
[01:52:02]  Yeah.
[01:52:02]  In fact, I published, somebody just asked me this morning.
[01:52:05]  He said that some of his friends don't believe that I said last year, or I said it more than before last year in writing, that I thought the United States slash Israel would probably close the Strait of Hormuz and blame Iran.
[01:52:16]  You did say that.
[01:52:18]  So I sent him a link.
[01:52:19]  I'm like, you know, somebody found me the link, you know, a couple weeks ago.
[01:52:22]  And I mean, I'm sure there's, I've said it many, many times.
[01:52:26]  It was obvious, right?
[01:52:27]  It was obvious.
[01:52:28]  Now, keeping that in mind, Hormuz, whereas it looks like it's strategic and it is on one level, but when you're talking grand strategy, like really big strategy, Hormuz is almost a tactical battle.
[01:52:41]  You know, it's, I mean, even Malacca is basically as big as it is, as massive as it is, right?
[01:52:49]  It is absolutely vital.
[01:52:52]  But on the grand scale, on grand strategy, on multi century strategy, that's a tactical battle, actually.
[01:52:59]  It's super strategic on the level that most people analyze things.
[01:53:03]  And most people, actually, even the military, you know, the generals and the admirals and the, you know, the many analysts out there, they generally stop at strategy and think and represent that like that's the highest level.
[01:53:16]  But there's another level, which is much, much higher, which is, you know, grand strategic level.
[01:53:21]  And that's the one, those are the people that.
[01:53:23]  Think in terms of centuries, right?
[01:53:25]  Those are the terms, those are the people that built so many of these countries I'm looking at in Africa, right?
[01:53:31]  Those countries didn't exist 150 years ago, all these African countries.
[01:53:34]  None of them, right?
[01:53:36]  And none of the ones in the sub Saharan, for sure.
[01:53:39]  And so they built these countries, but they can then tear them apart.
[01:53:44]  The reason that these countries were all stood up and now have a sense of nationalism is because of the information war to make nationalistic.
[01:53:53]  These are all synthetic countries and they were all built for purpose.
[01:53:56]  Their borders are all for some specific purpose, right?
[01:54:00]  They're there for, you know, this place has got oil, this place has got, you know, This river, we need to whatever you know, Panama Canal.
[01:54:07]  We built Panama on November 3rd, 1903.
[01:54:10]  Republic of Panama was born.
[01:54:12]  We sponsored a rebellion from Colombia, which itself was a synthetic country and remains so.
[01:54:18]  And so, and the United States is as well.
[01:54:21]  But we took in November 3rd, 1903.
[01:54:24]  We made Panama so we can make Panama Canal.
[01:54:26]  It's that simple.
[01:54:27]  If Panama can out, if Panama was somewhere else, we wouldn't have put so much effort into it.
[01:54:31]  It was all about location, location, location.
[01:54:34]  Likewise, with Thailand, we put the United States put huge effort into stabilizing Thailand.
[01:54:39]  Over the years.
[01:54:40]  Now it's clear.
[01:54:42]  Israel, 1948, Israel was created for this purpose to eventually control the Suez and control the Middle East, control the oil, and control the language was created.
[01:54:54]  This language was created to do that.
[01:54:57]  Modern Hebrew, and they knocked the Yiddish out, right?
[01:55:00]  And that sort of thing.
[01:55:01]  They literally created that language to create Israel, right?
[01:55:07]  I mean, that's how deep this stuff goes.
[01:55:09]  The Schofield Bible.
[01:55:10]  Michael, it's just so comprehensive.
[01:55:13]  And in modern Mandarin, China was created.
[01:55:17]  The China we know now is like the Chinese Soviet Union, right?
[01:55:21]  It's like the United States, the United States, right?
[01:55:24]  It was created over time and hobbled together.
[01:55:29]  I know Americans don't, I'm deeply American, but I'm also, the more that I study, just imagine me as a doctor who studies anatomy all the time, right?
[01:55:39]  At some point, I'm like, well, we're built like the other people, right?
[01:55:43]  The United States is built like the Soviet Union was built, was built in similar ways that China was built.
[01:55:49]  And how they're trying to hobble together the EU, which kind of eventually will split apart.
[01:55:54]  But now they're trying to split all these things apart, like Thailand.
[01:55:57]  Thailand was a bunch of different places.
[01:56:00]  They hobbled it together, so many countries, right?
[01:56:03]  And then did these huge information campaigns, often revolving around language, like making modern Mandarin or modern Hebrew or the Thaiification program in Thailand or getting all the people in Panama to speak.
[01:56:17]  Spanish instead of Imberah and Kuna and Nobe Bugle and all those other languages down there.
[01:56:23]  So, I mean, this is very comprehensive and it's very cookie cutter.
[01:56:27]  I mean, every cookie is different, but when you know how to do it, you're like, okay, here we come with the language program.
[01:56:32]  Do we want, which languages do we want to mitigate, get rid of that language?
[01:56:36]  You know, we'll call it Hebrew, but it'll be a different actually Hebrew, and we'll call it Mandarin, but it'll be a different Mandarin.
[01:56:43]  And that cuts people off from their history.
[01:56:45]  It cuts people off.
[01:56:46]  And then you write a new history in that new language.
[01:56:49]  So, all the books, you know, like for instance, in Israel, they, Brown deeply upon Yiddish, right?
[01:56:54]  The Yiddish doesn't get.
[01:56:55]  I can understand a lot of Yiddish when I'm reading it, actually, because I speak German and a lot of Yiddish is based on German, right?
[01:57:03]  But they've worked very hard to get rid of it.
[01:57:05]  This is comprehensive.
[01:57:06]  It's not just physical, it's the space between our ears that the human infrastructure and the routes, the human resources of, you know, ideology is that's the main.
[01:57:20]  Like when you're building human resources, one of the main shovels, And it is going to be ideology.
[01:57:29]  Right, right.
[01:57:29]  Okay.
[01:57:30]  So we're almost up on time here, Michael, but last question for you then.
[01:57:34]  What is, you think, the vision of what these global elite want the world to look like after they manage to kill off anywhere from two to seven billion people?
[01:57:45]  What is it that they're, how do they want the world to look and work at that point?
[01:57:50]  Is it like robots everywhere, AI?
[01:57:53]  What is it?
[01:57:55]  Same thing you talk about all the time.
[01:57:57]  I mean, you talk about this all the time.
[01:57:59]  So this is nothing new to your, it's funny how we, parallel, though came to these same ideas.
[01:58:06]  They want to depopulate and control the remnant.
[01:58:08]  It's very clear, and a lot of this will be done by me.
[01:58:11]  Keep in mind, there'll be a lot fewer people, and the people that they do have if if if, they succeed I it's not, it's not in set, set in stone that they're going to succeed right, they may utterly fail, they may be destroyed.
[01:58:23]  Actually right, because you know they're, they're not invincible.
[01:58:27]  There is nobody that.
[01:58:29]  There ain't a, there ain't a, you know, a horse that can't be rode or a cowboy that can't be thrown?
[01:58:34]  Right, And they're not invincible.
[01:58:37]  In fact, they're a little wacky, to put it mildly.
[01:58:40]  They don't trust each other.
[01:58:42]  But what do they want?
[01:58:43]  They want a lot fewer people that they can control.
[01:58:46]  Basically, serial numbered people without real names, your name number, such and such, right?
[01:58:55]  And they want those people to be disposable, just completely disposable, like a sheep.
[01:59:00]  A sheep has a tag in its ear, a cow has a tag in its ear.
[01:59:03]  They want people just like that.
[01:59:04]  It's crystal clear.
[01:59:05]  They don't hide it, they want you to have a chip.
[01:59:07]  Instead of a tag on your ear like a sheep or a cow, they want you to have a chip in your hand.
[01:59:14]  But why do they want humans at all?
[01:59:16]  What do they still need from some remnant?
[01:59:20]  Well, they still want to live.
[01:59:22]  They still want.
[01:59:22]  You know, one thing, one piece of evidence that they're not the super ultras that they make out to be, they're aging at the same pace as everybody else.
[01:59:31]  Like, you know, the second tier would be the Bill Gates class.
[01:59:35]  You know, they're incredibly wealthy, but they're obviously not the first tier.
[01:59:40]  Those.
[01:59:41]  All these people are aging at the same rate that other people age, you know, like Soros, all these guys, the Clintons, all these people.
[01:59:48]  You know, if they were super ultras and they had total control over, you know, they had these magical powers that they pretend to have, why would they be aging?
[01:59:59]  Sometimes they seem to age a lot faster than other people, right?
[02:00:03]  You know what I'm saying?
[02:00:03]  They're not the super ultras that they make out to be.
[02:00:06]  They're just the man behind the curtain and they're not invincible.
[02:00:11]  They, uh, and, uh, And the main thing is, don't help them along, right?
[02:00:17]  Don't help.
[02:00:18]  You know, all is not lost by far.
[02:00:21]  There's no way that all is lost.
[02:00:22]  It's just that this is another challenging time we're going through.

=== All Is Not Lost Yet (04:25) ===

[02:00:26]  Right.
[02:00:26]  Okay.
[02:00:27]  Well said.
[02:00:28]  Tell people how they can follow you on X and your Substack as well, I think.
[02:00:32]  Yeah.
[02:00:33]  I'm on Substack.
[02:00:34]  My name is Michael Yon.
[02:00:35]  You can find me on X, Big Honey on X, or just Michael Yon Substack on Substack.
[02:00:42]  Yeah, absolutely.
[02:00:42]  Also, I want to mention you've done a number of really great interviews with Michael Ferris.
[02:00:47]  Coffee and a mic, and I really enjoy those.
[02:00:50]  And uh, Michael's invited me on to join him pretty soon, I think this next week.
[02:00:55]  Um, oh, he's always talking about you.
[02:00:57]  You need to go on a show, and uh, I mean, that would be good.
[02:01:00]  I've been on a show, yeah.
[02:01:02]  Um, yeah, I thought you had been on it, right?
[02:01:04]  Because I was like, no, I love it when you're on a show because it's a long format, you know, really in depth conversations.
[02:01:13]  And what other shows are you on that you want me to mention here?
[02:01:18]  I was just on with Catherine Austin Fitz the other day, and uh, It's great.
[02:01:22]  Oh, good Lord.
[02:01:23]  I do quite a lot.
[02:01:25]  I was just on with Catherine, and I'm sorry, I've got an immediate brain block here.
[02:01:29]  But it's been quite a lot, though.
[02:01:32]  I mean, unfortunately, I'm in Japan, and so I'm doing it often at two in the morning.
[02:01:38]  Oh, yeah, yeah, exactly.
[02:01:40]  Sorry to keep you up like that.
[02:01:41]  But I was, the sun is up, man, now.
[02:01:45]  Okay.
[02:01:46]  And you, being an old army guy, you can catch an hour of sleep here or there.
[02:01:53]  I mean, I don't mean an old guy, I mean a veteran of the army.
[02:01:56]  You sleep whenever you can, like you're used to that.
[02:01:59]  I get good sleep, man, for whatever reason, despite knowing what's going on.
[02:02:03]  You know, yesterday, Masako and I went to the park, and we were, for a couple of hours, I was reading Pinocchio to her because we, this is an old copy of it, and because we study together.
[02:02:16]  We study together a lot.
[02:02:18]  And we're going through Pinocchio now because there's a lot of deep lessons in there.
[02:02:23]  It may seem like it's off on a tangent, but it's actually not.
[02:02:26]  When you see so many things, And so we'll study together and then we'll go off and on tangents.
[02:02:33]  And anyway, by the end of the day, you know, whether we're out recently looking for Kanjiro House near Mount Fuji, by the end of the day, man, we're ready to crash.
[02:02:43]  So we crash hard.
[02:02:46]  Oh, yeah.
[02:02:46]  Well, I tell you what, look, people really appreciate you and your analysis, and I do as well.
[02:02:52]  And you've been ahead of the curve.
[02:02:54]  Again, you called it about the Strait of Hormuz over and over again.
[02:03:00]  And the Strait of Malacca.
[02:03:01]  You've really seen a lot of this coming.
[02:03:03]  So I just want to give you credit for that.
[02:03:05]  Oh, thank you.
[02:03:06]  Thank you.
[02:03:07]  Actually, again, like my old teachers used to say, when you do your homework, it feels like cheating.
[02:03:12]  Or, I mean, the best cheating is to do your homework.
[02:03:15]  But when you do so much homework, it actually feels like cheating to predict, like, the Danish Strait may be blocked or that Malacca may be blocked.
[02:03:24]  And it sounds so crazy at the time to say Nord Stream or Groningen.
[02:03:29]  But it wasn't crazy at all.
[02:03:30]  Just like the things that you're saying, it's not crazy.
[02:03:32]  Actually, it's kind of a no brainer.
[02:03:35]  Because we know how that crocodile hunts.
[02:03:37]  It's obvious.
[02:03:39]  I gave a speech at a conference in 2019 that talked about how Earth is being prepared for a post human future.
[02:03:49]  And in 2019, that sounded completely radical.
[02:03:53]  And that was a lot.
[02:03:55]  It's true.
[02:03:56]  Yeah.
[02:03:57]  Yeah.
[02:03:58]  2019, that would be radical.
[02:04:00]  Wait, that's not on the edge.
[02:04:02]  That's like over the horizon, over the edge.
[02:04:07]  But it's It's crystal clear.
[02:04:09]  But, you know, but again, a lot of these, oh man, I took them into the other room, but I just had these old books come in, children's books, and they're talking about, you know, weather machines and heat rays from the airplane and shooting a heat ray out this window of an airplane causing fires and stuff.
[02:04:29]  These are old, old books.
[02:04:30]  One of them was Homework Machine, Danny Doyle books, I think.
[02:04:34]  Yeah, it's just amazing.
[02:04:36]  These are old books, Automatic House.
[02:04:39]  Long before any of this stuff was done.
[02:04:41]  Wow.
[02:04:41]  And now there is a homework machine.
[02:04:43]  It's called ChatGPT.
[02:04:45]  Yep.
[02:04:46]  Yeah, it's wild.
[02:04:47]  Okay.
[02:04:48]  Well, thank you so much, Michael.
[02:04:50]  It's always a pleasure to speak with you.

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