Mike Adams warns Nevada residents face power cutoffs by 2033 as data centers consume 35% of state electricity, while a "Fed Treasury complex" merges to devalue currency and trigger a credit freeze. He predicts the Dow bottoming at 8,000 as gold hits $8,000, urging physical asset ownership against an AI arms race where NVIDIA hardware enables superintelligence. With China dominating rare earths and drone swarms, Adams concludes that Western reliance on digital systems invites ecological collapse and a post-human future where only the off-grid survive. [Automatically generated summary]
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Power Cuts Coming Soon00:14:43
All right, this is very disturbing breaking news that nearly 50,000 residents who live in Nevada near Lake Tahoe are being told that all their power will be cut off after May of 2027.
So they have about one year to find some new power source, like one year to install solar and batteries and get entirely off grid, I suppose.
So why is all their power being cut off?
Because of data centers, of course.
Now, let me explain.
There's a small local utility company called Liberty Utilities that services this region.
And again, it's about 50,000 residents that are served by Liberty.
Liberty purchases at wholesale electricity from Envy Energy or Nevada Energy.
This is the main power company in Nevada that is saying that it has to divert its power away from Liberty Utilities to, These new data centers, right?
Google, Apple, Microsoft, all of those companies are planning to build data centers or they've already built them around what's called the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center, which is east of Reno.
And one analysis that's been published finds that by the year 2033, there could be an additional nearly six gigawatts of power demand in that region because of 12 data center projects that are being rolled out.
So this is a case where Envy Energy is saying that we're just not going to bulk wholesale power to Liberty Utilities that serves these nearly 50,000 residents.
And let me ask you this question.
What's the value of a piece of residential real estate where there's no electricity available?
And of course, the answer is just about zero.
Just about zero.
And by the way, the only way for Liberty Utilities to bring in power from California Would be to spend, according to the president of Liberty Utilities, to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to have new transmission lines that would also require eminent domain to seize land from ranchers and other people's homes, etc.
So, this, I want to be clear, this is not the fault of Liberty Utilities, at least not from what I can tell.
They can't sell power that they're not able to get, and it's NV Energy that is cutting off the power.
To redirect it to data centers.
So, this brings into question so many things.
Number one, don't utility companies have some kind of social contract with society to provide power for human beings?
Shouldn't that be one of the top priorities?
And how do you just take away power from 50,000 people?
Just leave them high and dry, leave them in the dark.
How do you get away with that?
Is that even legal?
In Nevada?
I mean, can you literally just cut off people from all their power?
Because I know that in states like New York, you can't do that.
If you're a utility company, you can't cut off people from their power just because they're impoverished, for example.
If they're late on their bills, there has to be this long, drawn-out process, especially in the winter months where people can freeze to death, although that's not the case in Nevada necessarily.
But there are hot summer months where people can die from heat if they don't have air conditioning.
So it's the inverse situation there.
Can you just cut off tens of thousands of people?
Is that legal?
Well, apparently, it is legal.
So, to provide context to all of this, Nevada is home to a lot of data centers.
And in 2024, according to published numbers published by Fortune, 22% of the state's electricity in 2024 was consumed by data centers.
By the year 2030, that number is going to rise to 35%.
Amazing.
75% of the load growth is attributed just to data centers.
And Right now, NV Energy is building what's called the Green Link West, which is a $4.2 billion transmission line from Las Vegas to Yarrington that's expected to come online in May of 2027.
That is a 525 kilovolt high-voltage transmission line.
The thing is, guess who's paying for that?
Well, most of that project is being paid for by Southern Nevada customers.
This is another case where it's the residents that end up paying the increased electricity rates to effectively fund the infrastructure that's being built to serve the data centers that are displacing the humans out of their own communities in many ways or destroying the value of their property through noise pollution, light pollution, sometimes taking the water supplies, for example, or in this case, cutting off your electricity.
So here's the question then, a bigger question.
If they can do this in Nevada, where else can they do this?
Where do you live?
Could they just claim that, oh, now we have a national security data center?
This is national defense.
This is a military project.
So we have to have the power.
Could they just declare that and then take your power away and leave you high and dry?
And of course the answer is yes.
Of course they can.
Why couldn't they?
They will do whatever they want because big tech is steamrolling across America with these data centers.
They don't care about the people.
And the local governments don't seem to care about their own people either.
They answer to big tech.
Now, making this problem even worse is the fact that a company like Liberty Utilities can't bring in gas turbines to generate their own electricity because all the gas turbines are already bought out by big tech for years to come.
I mean, eight to ten years.
We've covered that previously.
So there are no gas turbines available today.
Period.
There's a long waiting list no matter what size you want to buy.
Secondly, yeah, Nevada has a lot of sunlight, obviously, so solar could be an option, but there's a tremendous capital outlay required to build solar fields and all the infrastructure.
You know, you need a lot of acreage and a lot of solar panels, and green energy like that, it's got more like a 20-year payback, you know, so you need to borrow billions of dollars in order to build that system out.
So, I guess you would need to sell bonds or something and find people that want to earn, you know, 3% returns per year or something over 20 years.
And there's not a lot of investors looking to do that right now.
There's not a lot of cheap capital to just build out massive solar fields.
So, you might think, well, some of the individuals there could maybe power their own homes with solar.
And yeah, that's an option if you have a lot of spare cash and if you have the land or the yard space or the roof space to do that.
You know, most solar installations are grid tie, which means they're not off grid, they're just part of the grid.
They simply augment the power that you get from the grid.
And frankly, most homes that install solar, they really don't have much of a storage system because the battery technology is still not great.
It's expensive.
You know, the energy density is not very good.
So they use solar panels to reduce their electricity usage during the sunny hours.
But then, of course, in the evening and at night and in the early morning, they have to pull power from the grid.
So if you don't have a grid, Then you have to add all this additional expenditure.
You need a charge controller, inverter, like an all-in-one system with all these batteries, these rack-mount batteries, typically like 48-volt or 51-volt rack-mount batteries that are crazy expensive and ridiculously heavy and require professional installation, all kinds of electrical work.
It's not unreasonable that between the solar panels and the batteries and the inverters and charge controllers and all that stuff, and all the cabling and the breakers that you need, you could spend $50,000 on this. to go entirely off-grid.
That's not implausible.
It depends on how much power you use.
And if you have an EV, then you're going to use a lot more power than everybody else.
So then the question is, how many of these 50,000 residents just happen to have an extra $50,000 sitting around where they can say, oh, no worries.
We'll just build out a full-blown homegrown off-grid solar system?
And the answer is not very many.
Not even 1%.
So, this is going to be a problem.
And it's foreshadowing things to come as the power grid becomes more fragile and as energy availability becomes more scarce.
And right now, in the Philippines, for example, there are so called brownouts, which are really, we would call them rolling blackouts, where they shut off the power grid to certain sectors of, well, basically Manila or the surrounding areas around Manila.
Why?
Because in the Philippines, They don't have enough energy now because of the Strait of Hormuz being closed and the war with Iran and so on.
This is coming to a lot of other countries.
Not just fuel lockdowns, but power grid rolling blackouts.
Now, it sucks to live through rolling blackouts.
I endured that in Texas in freaking freezing cold weather.
I think that was back in 2021 when the Texas power grid nearly failed.
And the temperature outside was 8 degrees Fahrenheit, which is insane for Texas.
It's never supposed to get that cold.
I mean, we'll endure 20 degrees, but not 8 or 10.
So all the pipes froze, everything burst.
Nobody had any plumbing because it's not built for that kind of cold temperature.
And then the power company, I remember we had 8 minutes of power every 30 minutes.
So the lights come on for 8 minutes, and then you hurry up and try to do whatever you need to do that requires electricity, et cetera.
And then, you know, it's off for 22 minutes.
In some areas of the state, there was no power at all.
So, yes, this can happen in America as well.
And in the recent storms, well, last year in Tennessee, the hurricanes and so on, people there didn't have power for weeks.
This can happen in the California wildfires, or it can happen in hurricanes in Florida, or super storms up in the New Jersey area.
It can happen anywhere.
So, the power grid is not as reliable as you might think.
And even though America is a relatively energy-rich nation, We don't have enough power to power all the data centers that are being built.
That's just straight, simple truth.
And even though Trump has announced we're going to build 10 of the Westinghouse AP-1000 nuclear power plants, well, I did the math on that.
It's not that great.
Even if you build 10 of those nuclear power plants, number one, it takes easily 10 to 15 years to build those plants.
So that pushes us out to almost the year 2040 before that power is going to come online.
By that time, the whole AI super intelligence race is over and done.
But also, it doesn't even add that much power to the annual aggregate power generation of the country, of the United States.
For example, we currently generate 4,400 terawatt hours annually.
At least those were numbers from 2023.
It's probably more now, but those are the last numbers I could get.
If we add the 10 nuclear power plants, how much do you think it will add to the 4,400 terawatt hours?
The answer is it will turn it into 4,000.
500 terawatt hours.
So it only adds 100 terawatt hours annually from 10 nuclear power plants.
Did you know that?
It doesn't take us to infinite power.
It doesn't even take us to half of the power of the country of China.
You could build 100 nuclear power plants in this country, and all that would do is take you to 5,400 terawatt hours.
You see what I'm saying?
And there's not 100 being built.
And we don't have any big new hydro dams being built.
We don't have any.
You know, big fusion projects that are anywhere close to working.
We don't have coal power plants being constructed at the rate of one a week, which would be necessary to try to keep up with demand.
And I already mentioned the turbines are out of stock for almost 10 years.
So, where is the power going to come from for America's power grid?
And I actually said this last year.
I said this last year.
I said the power is going to come from depopulation and cutting off humans.
And when I said that last year, a lot of people thought that's crazy.
They're never going to do that.
They're not just going to shut off people's power.
Oh, you want to bet?
Because they're doing it now.
They're shutting off your power.
Just like I said they would.
Because it's obvious.
They don't need humans any longer.
They're preparing for the post human future.
So, of course, they don't need you to have power.
They need power for their super intelligent, you know, high tech 3D world simulators.
They need power for that because that's a, you know, government weapons program.
That's a super secret, high-tech, spawning other dimensions.
They don't need you to have air conditioning in the middle of Lake Tahoe or wherever.
So, of course, they're going to cut off people's power.
We should prepare for this.
Living Under Climate Cultism00:11:57
This is why I have repeatedly said, year after year, ad nauseum, and I apologize for it, but what have I said?
I said, store 500 gallons of diesel.
Get a diesel generator.
What else have I said?
Oh, get your own off-grid water system.
Have your own off grid food if you can.
And more and more, I've been talking about have off grid power if you can.
Now, it's difficult.
I admit it's difficult.
I haven't mastered that either because the solutions have not been good.
They haven't been economical.
And the battery technology has been lagging, but wow, a lot of leaps in battery tech over the last 24 months, let's say, especially coming out of China, but also sodium ion chemistry, as well as rapid charge times and more charge cycles and higher temperature tolerance, etc.
So, the battery technology is just on the cusp right now of actually being more usable for this.
But it still is expensive.
It takes a lot of money and expertise to set these systems up.
So the bottom line, lots of people across America and maybe in countries like Australia, maybe in Canada, I don't know.
But a lot of people across America are going to find out that their property is worth zero as the power is simply cut off.
And I don't mean just without notice.
They'll give you notice just like they're doing now.
You have one year.
You have one year.
Find another power source or find a buyer for your property.
But who's going to buy it once you disclose that, hey, you know how the property disclosure forms?
Yeah, what's your disclosure for this property?
Well, in May of 2027, there will be no electricity for this property ever.
Oh, there's a disclosure right there.
I thought you were going to say, like, you know, somebody died in the hallway.
You know, it's a haunted house.
No, it has no electricity.
That's a disclosure.
You wish there was a haunted spirit.
Maybe you could plug it into the outlet and power the house from the spirit world or something.
But no, there's nothing.
There's no ghost.
There's no power.
It's dead.
It's just dead and it's worth nothing.
So probably nobody's going to buy it.
And this is on top of the fact that in Georgia, they're going to bulldoze the homes because they're seizing people's homes, hundreds of them through eminent domain, because they want to build a massive data center that will take thousands of acres of land.
Add some people's private homes and farms and childhood homes happen to sit on some of that land.
So somehow the tech companies have been able to pull eminent domain, which doesn't even make any sense because it's not like they're building a highway or anything.
They've been able to pull eminent domain, take these people's homes.
So you can be kicked out of your home.
Your home will be bulldozed to make way for a data center that is also bulldozing your future job prospects because.
The data center is doing AI research to build machine cognition that will take your job.
At the same time, the data center is stealing your community's water supply and emitting horrible noise pollution like 100 screaming jet engines 24 7.
How can anybody live through that?
So, there's a multitude of ways that the data centers will make your property worth zero.
Take your water, they can destroy the quality of life there, noise pollution, or Bulldoze your home or just take all your power, leave you with no power whatsoever.
So, do you believe me now when I say how important it is to be decentralized off grid as much as possible?
Yeah.
And by the way, there's no limit to this.
You might think, well, this is just, this is only a few homes right now.
Well, it's 50,000 people.
That's not a tiny number, especially if you're one of them.
50,000 people in Nevada, do they not deserve electricity?
If the power company can't provide electricity to the people's homes, why do they exist at all?
Shouldn't that be the number one thing to provide electricity to human beings?
You know, I mean, come on, we've had workable electricity in this world for over 100 years.
Are we going to go back to the 19th century now?
It's like, yeah, forget about Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla, the light bulb and everything.
Forget about all that.
You're going to go back to a 19th century existence.
Yeah, here you go.
Have no electricity.
And here's a mortar and pestle for you.
You can grind up some corn when you have some time.
And here's a horse and buggy.
You're not even Amish, and you're going to have to ride a horse and buggy all day and use like hand drills, not even power drills that have batteries in them.
A hand drill, like you're cranking it, and it's drilling at the speed of molasses.
It takes an hour to drill one hole through a 4x4.
Good luck.
But they want you to live in the past so that the data centers can build the future a future that doesn't have you in it.
That's what this is.
They don't need you in the future.
It's obvious.
They're already throwing you under the bus when they don't need to.
Unreal.
So let me wrap this up by saying this is also a consequence of the climate cultists demanding no power.
And I'm sorry to say this, and I don't mean to speak in a harsh way against those 50,000 people in Nevada.
And it's not their fault, but I wonder how many of them were part of the climate cultism movement.
You wanted no power?
You got no power.
Life is going to suck.
Because some of those people, and of course lots of people in California, lots of people in New Mexico, lots of people, you know, all over, they said that it's bad to have energy in America because it would cause climate change, you know, global warming, carbon in the air.
And so they declared a war on carbon.
Forgetting that human beings are made of carbon.
And so the war on carbon has become a war on humanity, and now you're seeing it.
You're seeing it.
You wanted no energy?
You got it.
And it's probably coming to a neighborhood near you next.
You see?
Because for the last 25 years, we should have been building energy infrastructure like China was.
See, China didn't go along with the climate cultism because that would be, well, retarded.
China just kept building power, solar and wind and coal and gas and hydropower and everything.
They just kept building and nuclear on top of that.
Forgot to mention.
China kept building and building and building where they reached a point where they now have twice the power output of the United States.
In China, you don't have to worry about having your power cut off.
In China, you get to live in the modern world where we have electricity, as they say.
In America, you're going to get to live in the 19th century in the Pre electric era, which sucked, by the way.
Imagine life without a refrigerator.
Just for starters, you know, right there.
That's not good.
So, this is what living under climate cultism looks like.
When you have no energy, life begins to suck.
Your property value goes to zero.
You can't function.
You don't have a refrigerator.
You don't have air conditioning.
You don't have, you know, washing machines, etc.
You don't have a computer because that uses electricity.
So, what.
What are you doing?
Just a little home on the prairie time or something.
I don't know.
Washing your clothes on the old washboard outside with your lye soap and everything.
Is that what it's going to be?
Because of the climate cultism?
Seems like it.
But it's also interesting that a lot of the people pushing for the climate cultism, they live in cities where they still have electricity.
Isn't that interesting?
They just don't want everybody else to have electricity.
They still want their EVs and their air conditioning and all their conveniences of power in their high rises and apartments and everything.
They just don't want the people that live out in the country to have any power.
See?
Power for me, but not for thee.
That's climate cultism.
And we are now beginning to suffer the results of 20 plus years of foolishness under Al Gore and.
The global warming nonsense and Barack Obama and all the policies of the Democrats who have led us to this situation where now tens of thousands of Americans are about to be cut off from the power grid.
And that number is going to get much higher, much higher.
So it's not just the data centers, it's also climate lunacy that has led us to this situation.
The convergence of these two things is now a collision that's going to cost many Americans their quality of life and the value of their real estate.
For a lot of Americans, their home is the only real savings they have, and that's going to go to zero.
You know, salvage value only.
Come in and salvage the two by fours because that's all that has any value here.
So, of course, the bottom line is get prepared, get off grid as much as you can.
You know the answers grow your own food, have your own off grid money, which is gold and silver, and maybe some private crypto.
Have your own off grid water supply, do rainwater catchment, or have a well.
Have your own off-grid power if you can.
Things like that.
There are some smaller scale solutions like solar generators from our sponsor, the Satellite Phone Store.
You can find those at sat123.com, but that's not going to power your house.
You know, it's great during an emergency.
You can fold out some solar panels of 400 watts or 800 watts even.
You can charge up a lot of things.
You can run blenders.
You can, you know, you can charge laptops and run small appliances with that, but you're not going to be able to run air conditioning of a home on such a small unit.
It doesn't mean it's not useful, though, and they're also portable, so you can check that out.
But have backup supplies or plans or backup infrastructure wherever you can.
And when you want to follow more of my work, you can find me at brightvideos.com or my articles.
You'll be able to find those at naturalnews.com along with my infographics there, including there will be an infographic on this subject right here.
So check it out there.
And thank you for listening and get prepared.
Get as off grid as you can, as quickly as you can, or have redundancies in case you're cut off from whatever.
You could be cut off from the water supply, the power grid.
You could be cut off from diesel fuel.
Think about what's happening in the Middle East.
You could be cut off from engine oil.
You could be cut off from groceries.
There could be food rationing at some point in the future.
So, in every one of these, be as self reliant as you can.
Thank you for listening.
Get Off Grid Now00:03:50
I'm Mike Adams.
Take care.
Well, it is graduation commencement season.
In America, anyway, and I was able to attend a graduation ceremony for MBAs.
And I want to share something with you about what I think is happening involving AI and college degrees.
And why is it that so many MBAs can't get jobs right now, even though they're bright and they have enthusiasm, et cetera?
What's going on?
And where is this headed in our society?
What does it mean in the bigger picture?
So, welcome.
I'm Mike Adams.
As you know, I'm an AI developer.
And of course, when I went to college in the late 1900s, as it's now said, we didn't have, I mean, we had computers, barely.
We had to write our own programs.
I remember writing an economic simulator in, I think it was like Visual Basic or something at that time.
We didn't even really have Python working.
We didn't have any good stuff.
And I mean, we had early spreadsheets.
We had, I think, Windows 3.1 at some point in.
When I was in college.
But we didn't have anything that you would call intelligent, right?
It was a dumb software.
So we had to do all our thinking and writing ourselves.
And where I went to school, there was a computer lab, and this was very common in many universities at the time.
There would be a computer lab.
And I specifically remember in the computer lab that I would visit, they had the original Macintosh computers with those little, like 11 inch screens or whatever.
They were so tiny.
And you save your files on a floppy, well, I think it was a three and a half inch disk, you know, a floppy disk, but kind of a hard plastic container for it.
So a 3.5 inch disk, and you would save your files on that.
And you had to write your paper yourself.
You had to go to the freaking university library and you had to look up all the sources yourself.
You know, we didn't even have search engines, just to be clear.
We didn't have the internet.
Okay.
So you go to the library.
And you go through the freaking Dewey decimal system that nobody under the age of 35 knows anything about.
And you looked up your books and then you walked to that aisle to look for that Dewey decimal number and then the author number.
And then you find that somebody misplaced your book.
But if you could find the book, you had to flip through it and you had to, you know, skim it, read it, make notes, make a citation, build up a bunch of citation cards.
And then you, you take those citation cards back to the computer lab and then You type in all your citations and you work it into your paper, et cetera, et cetera.
Okay.
So that was a lot of cognitive work.
But the thing is it made us, it forced us to be better at doing cognitive work.
Those of us who bothered to do the work, I should say, not everybody did, you know, some people would rather just cheat or whatever.
But of course I did all the work.
I wrote all the papers and, and probably you did too, listening to this and you remember how much work it was.
Well, Today, even in the graduate programs, all of those steps can be carried out with the help of AI.
And, you know, especially the research, you can spawn AI agents to do research that would normally take, you know, 50 hours.
You can have it done in five minutes.
You can even have AI do the writing based on your research, but it may not be the writing that you want unless you are willing to write a prompt.
AI Replaces Human Judgment00:12:27
So prompt writing or becoming the Or the orchestrator of a paper is what people do today.
But a lot of students are really lazy.
They don't even do that.
They're not even good at prompting.
They don't write good prompts, right?
So, anyway, here's the thing the MBA graduates today are facing a world of automation and machine cognition that people like me at my age, and perhaps you listening, we did not face that world.
We could command some pretty good pay.
For being good at writing or graphic design or running spreadsheets.
In fact, in the early 1990s, if you just knew how to use spreadsheets, you had a job.
If you knew anything about network configurations for a computer, you could have a job.
You could be the network administrator of lots of different companies.
If you knew about data storage systems, how to store a large number of files, how to build search indexes, how to run a simple database.
Which is something, you know, I was building databases in high school.
You know, if you do those things, you were employable.
Today, nope, that won't qualify you for a job at all.
And I can't help but think that these hundreds of MBAs that I saw get their degree, there's no guarantee that their value will be recognized in the workforce at all.
Because so much of what they do, some of it is decision making, some of it is judgment, some of it is financial analysis.
Risk analysis, things like that, many of those tasks are now easily automated by machines.
And where it takes a human, let's say, I don't know what's the average age of an MBA graduate, maybe it's 25 or something, whatever it is.
Let's say it takes 25 years to create a human that can operate a business with some kind of common sense, which is what the MBA is, is like sort of.
Basic level of financial literacy and logistics literacy.
It's a baseline degree, in my opinion, as an accomplished business person.
If I'm looking at somebody with an MBA, I'm like, okay, so you know how to read and write and talk, and you know what integers are.
That's great.
But it doesn't mean you know much more about how to do business.
And learning those skills requires experience, and getting experience.
Requires getting hired and getting hired means you need to do something better than machines.
But that is ridiculously difficult now since machines can do the entry level things quite well that people used to be hired to do.
So, you know, you can see the conundrum here.
How do you get hired if you're new, fresh out of school?
How do you get hired to learn the skills that will make you eventually a practical veteran of business?
And increasingly, the answer is you don't get hired.
So, what business school graduates are increasingly doing is launching their own businesses with their ideas and then leveraging the cognition of machines with whatever they learned in business school.
But they're not going in at an entry level of somebody else's company.
They are launching their own idea, their own company as the founder.
And that actually makes a lot of sense.
And because so many of them are now doing that and will continue to do that, we are quite literally going to see a very radical reformation of the way business is done.
We're going to see levels of automation and levels of augmented or enhanced machine based cognition added to the human ingenuity, the human ideas that make business great.
Now, Many young people are skipping college entirely.
They're skipping the four year undergraduate degree or they're skipping the MBA because they already have ideas that can receive funding and have or are recognized as having high valuation, regardless of a college degree.
And that's because things are moving so rapidly now in terms of tech and VC that people like myself, who are more the veterans of business, we look at young upcoming people, we judge them based entirely on their ideas.
The practicality of their ideas, the intelligence, the innovation, etc.
And we don't judge at all based on whether you have a degree.
I don't care if somebody has an MBA.
I don't care if they never went to college.
It doesn't matter at all.
What matters is what they're capable of doing, how good are their ideas, and also their level of maturity at any age.
And I'm not the only one who sees things that way.
Lots of VC is looking for young talent like that that can.
Put together these ideas with a synthesis that AI cannot replicate.
So, you know, AI doesn't have judgment.
AI doesn't have the level of creativity that humans have.
And also, AI doesn't live in the real world.
So it doesn't understand the practical built in demand for certain types of solutions that can be offered as new businesses.
You know, distributed solutions, open source solutions with a paid tier on the back end, you know, what have you.
So this means that the value of A university education is not what it used to be.
I mean, look, people can still learn a great number of things in a university, no question about it.
But because of AI today, those who are capable of self learning or self paced learning can actually learn much more than a structured, rigid university program, even from some of the best universities.
Understand, that's not the only reason why people go to universities.
It's not just to learn things, it's also to build a network.
It's to have access to the resources of the university, to meet the professors, to get guidance from professors or other students, or to be an alumni of a specific school that looks good on your resume or can open up some doors for a lot of people.
So, there are a number of reasons why people go to universities.
And I'm not slamming all universities, I'm just saying that certain people, with the help of AI research, Can advance more rapidly than any kind of structured learning system.
But that's not everybody.
That's just certain people.
But those people will be among the most successful entrepreneurs that are up and coming.
And those people don't need a university, they don't need a graduate degree to be effective.
Those are people like myself, for example, even though I went, you know, I have an undergraduate degree.
Because when I went to school, I didn't have the opportunities that I'm mentioning right now.
If I were a young person coming out of high school today, there's no way I would go to a university because I would realize that I could learn much more quickly on my own.
Okay.
And probably many of you listening, you're in the same boat because you're lifelong learners.
You know, we continue to learn whether there's a structured environment around us or not.
And, you know, it's worth mentioning that one of the projects that I've built that you probably know about, brightlearn.ai, this is an example of something that creates learning opportunities for students or for anybody for that matter, completely free of charge.
Where there's no tuition fee, there's no book fee.
You can build your own book with the help of AI.
We now support five chapter book lengths completely free, no cost whatsoever.
It builds the book in minutes.
It does the research that used to take, you know, hundreds of hours potentially.
It writes the book.
It draws the cover art, which used to take many, many hours of a graphic designer, et cetera.
It does all of that.
It packages it into a PDF and you can download the book.
So that right there is a perfect example of what I'm talking about how the ability to learn now is much more widely available and has the cost of learning dropped to zero.
And I know you probably realize this, but When you're using my book engine to write a book, what you're really doing is extracting and reorganizing knowledge from not just the underlying LLM, but knowledge from millions of pages and documents of research documents that I've put into my in house index that powers the research portion of that platform.
And I use this every day in different ways.
I'm not creating a book every day, but I'm using.
The research documents that I put together every single day.
And I'm doing discoveries, as I call them, where I have AI agents that are looking through all the books and all the science papers and they're looking for things that are really amazing but not well known.
And then those are identified as, quote, discoveries.
And those discoveries, I'm starting to cover them editorially.
And here in the podcast, I've covered, I think, three now.
I'm hoping to do one a day or five a week, but we'll see how that goes.
But it used to take, you know, hundreds of hours to find a similar discovery, let's say.
Now, a quote discovery can just, you know, the AI agents can automate the finding of it and then bring it to your attention.
And then you can study it and learn it and do whatever you want with it.
And that's what I do.
Is like the other day, it was that vitamin E, just 2,000 IUs a day of vitamin E, gives advanced stage Alzheimer's patients an extra 7.5 months of self care.
Where they don't need medical assistance to get dressed or take a shower or whatever.
So, an extra 7.5 months of quality of life from taking a few pennies worth of a vitamin E supplement once a day.
That's a major, big deal.
That's a discovery.
And so, then I did a podcast on that and I did an infographic on that and an article, et cetera, and put that out there.
So, AI helps us do those kinds of things.
Much more efficiently.
But it still requires somebody to study it and read it and understand it and then to explain it and to recognize why this is such a big deal.
And AI doesn't have great judgment.
So AI is always going to be limited in that way.
Remember what I think about AI?
I think of AI as Rain Man.
In other words, it's a genius on the spectrum.
So AI doesn't have judgment, it doesn't have the emotional intelligence.
But it can.
Do crazy amounts of math and it can detect patterns.
You know, it does all kinds of things like that, but it doesn't replace human judgment.
So, anyway, the real success that's going to come from entrepreneurs, innovators, inventors, et cetera, is going to be using your human judgment that the AI systems don't have and then leveraging your ideas with AI to automate the parts that can be automated, but also maintaining human top level control and orchestration and goal setting.
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For the project at large.
And in order to do that, you need to learn a little bit about building projects with AI.
And I strongly encourage you, no matter who you are, no matter what your background, it's easier than you think.
You can start creating projects pretty easily in AI.
And the best site that I've found to do that, which I recommend you play around with, is called Replit, R E P L I T dot com.
If you go to Replit, And again, I strongly encourage you just go there and ask it to do something for you.
You can have it build a PDF, a presentation file, you know, a slideshow.
You can have it compare prices on websites for products that you're interested in.
You can have it compile things.
You can even have Replit launch a website for you.
I mean, build one and just do the graphics and everything, make it look nice.
So you just go to replit.com, create.
Even, I think, a free account or a low cost account.
And you can say, Hey, I'm running a pet rescue nonprofit in my local town.
And it's called, you know, Barks and Larks or whatever.
And I want you to build a website about how we rescue lost dogs and reconnect them with owners.
And I want you to have a front page that, you know, looks awesome and talks about how to care for your dog.
And maybe there's a donation link.
And then there's like a registration where you could register a lost dog or whatever.
You know, you just tell it what you want in plain English and then let it go do that.
And you'll be amazed at how much it can do for you.
And then you can literally launch that as a live website if you want, if you have a domain name and you want to pay for it.
So that exists.
And I recommend you use that.
Because if you're listening to this podcast, you follow my work, you are among the thought leaders of our society.
You're among the most successful.
People in every sector of society, and yet you might be a little bit behind on the AI side of things compared to the younger generation that's being brought up with a lot of AI.
They're really good at using AI, or increasingly so, because that's how they get through college now everything is chat GPT.
But learning these skills will become crucial for achieving almost everything that you want to do in the information space, or a business space, or technology, or anything.
So Check out Replit.
Do something interesting with it.
Challenge yourself.
Build something.
And I think that you'll be glad that you did.
And if you want to follow my work, I'm at brightvideos.com.
You can use my free AI tools at brightanswers.ai or brightlearn.ai.
And there's more launching, by the way.
And I've got even more coming up that will augment those platforms.
So thank you for listening.
Take care.
People turning into primal, instinctual.
Animals, if they can't feed their family and their children, what do you think they're going to do?
It's just a United States issue.
The United States is the hub, but the blast radius of it, of when this thing happens, is going to engulf the entire world.
All right, welcome back to our interview with Gregory Manorino here on brightvideos.com.
This is part two of our interview.
And in the first part, Gregory laid out in great detail the problems that are coming in terms of the erosion of the dollar, the massive money printing, banking surveillance, the great taking kind of thing that's about to happen.
And it should be obvious to anybody paying attention that this is where things are headed.
But what about solutions?
What can you do right now in order to protect yourself?
Now, our guest, again, Gregory Manorino, his website is traderschoice.net.
I encourage you to visit him there.
And also, he has a Substack called Gregory Manorino.
So, welcome back, Gregory.
It's always an honor to have you on.
And I really appreciate you taking the time to join me today.
Thanks for having me again.
I appreciate it so much, honestly.
Well, you're a real, authentic human being.
I'm honored to know you.
And I follow your work and I really appreciate everything that you do.
So, like I said, can you talk to us about some solutions?
And just as a disclaimer, this is not financial advice.
Everybody, do your own research.
Don't take this as investment advice.
But, Gregory, what would you lay out for people in terms of actions they can take right now?
Right now, people have just got to say they've had enough.
That's really the truth.
I mean, look, man, staying ahead of this whole game from a financial standpoint is really the easiest thing on the face of the earth.
That's not even, and we'll get into that too.
Look, man, they want you to think that, you know, The markets are some kind of mystical thing here, and how to work your way through it and stay ahead of it.
The dollar and the whole system together.
It isn't.
It's just too easy to figure out how it works.
The underpinnings are very, very basic here.
But really, what it comes down to, man, is we have to band together as a people and really say, you know, this is not what we want anymore and make our own choices, our own decisions, you're not having them made for us, unfortunately, because that's what's going on.
That the elite class here, they want us to keep, you know, look, man, the bottom line is we have to fight against where they're pushing us and they're thrusting us into what I've been saying now for 10 years some yet to be defined version of neo feudalism, extreme haves, extreme have nots.
And I think this could potentially, again, look, we have to look at the outputs eventually this is going to lead up to.
We can look at the stock market and say, yeah, it's trading on multiples that.
That really are out of control because of, of course, debt expansion.
The market has to readjust and trade on higher multiples with the dollar being weaker, has to do the same thing with regard to rates being artificially suppressed.
It actually and literally opens up a doorway for cash to make its way into risk assets and coming out of places where it should be going into.
It creates massive, massive distortions and malinvestment across the board, all of which will eventually correct.
But until the.
See, what people don't.
Have really the biggest, maybe even the slightest idea about is that everything derives value from debt market action.
In other words, you could say that the entire stock market itself is nothing but a derivative, meaning it derives value from the debt market.
Now, that mechanism has propelled the stock market to where it is here.
The market, we've never seen a leverage like this in the market before.
That means people have borrowed from Tom, Dick, and Harry and whoever else they can to just participate.
In this market, which seems to be unstoppable enough, not even war or higher crude oil get in its way.
And what's happening here with this changing of the guard at the Federal Reserve, now going from Powell to Kevin Walsh, it looks like this is the guy, Trump's new guy.
He's talking about reform, reform.
It's a joke, it makes me laugh.
We know that they can't stop and they won't stop creating the fostering of the wealth transfer effect, the higher market, the destruction of our economy from within.
Because it's amazing, it's the same mechanisms that are vaulting the stock market higher, which are the same mechanisms that are crushing our economy.
We don't need a weaker dollar, as we said in the first segment.
We need a stronger dollar.
And that means we need much higher rates, which won't be allowed to happen because that would do what?
That would hit the stock market.
That won't be allowed to happen either.
So the market will trade on higher multiples until it doesn't.
And to finance all this debt, the rates have to be suppressed.
So the market is trading on rescue.
I wrote a piece on this this morning that Walsh here is going to be the guy to continue to vastly devalue the currency, vastly inflate.
The debt by any mechanism you possibly can.
The Fed Treasury complex, I call them, they basically cornered the U.S. debt market right now because of their merger.
And that whole.
So if we realize these things are going to happen, you know, so we have to put ourselves in a position to, first of all, realize it is happening and it's going on.
But then what is the outcome?
The outcome isn't just a market crash that we spoke about in part one.
Market crash is the least of our problems.
Yeah, sure, the one in two percenters, they'll be out of the market before everybody else.
They have their golden parachutes, of course.
But it's not people who have their 400Ks and all this stuff.
They're trapped in there.
And they have a real problem when this does eventually come down to reality.
And in reality, you can sidestep it all you want, but eventually reality will kick in.
Now, the Fed Treasury complex, the merger between the Federal Reserve and the US Treasury now has put them in a position, I say it's checkmate, meaning they're the lenders and buyers of less resort.
They're the ones that can manage the euro curve and do anything that they want with it until they feel, well, you know, there's enough people.
Dependent on the current system.
People have suffered so much, they'll take whatever we want to give them.
And then, of course, they'll stop doing that and the market will collapse in on itself.
It'll be an implosion like people won't believe.
But that's, again, the least of our issues.
The problem is going to end up being what not just what I've been warning about for a decade, people like you have been warning about.
We have Jamie Dimon now, the CEO of JP Morgan.
We have Hank Paulson here, former Treasury Secretary during the financial crisis, warning of a debt market crisis.
And that is a credit crisis.
Freeze event where all transactions stop.
So, look, man, so what does this tell us?
So, we need to band together and realize again, we're going to need each other and we are going to be thrust deliberately.
This is not a comedy of errors.
There's no mistake here.
This is all 100% deliberate, driving us into this situation so they can extort even more control out of the people.
Now, this is, look, man, it's too easy to figure how this is going to play out.
If we end up in it, and we will, don't listen to me, listen to Jimmy Dimon now, and listen to Hank Paulson, and many others are saying the same thing over.
This credit event, this credit freeze that was happening during the financial crisis, and that's why they had to pump billions into the system to kind of free it up.
Okay, they can't do that now because, again, the system will already have been imploded on itself.
So, what they need to do is, again, institute the new system, which they already have ready to roll out.
All digital, completely trackable across the board, new banking system, new rules, new paradigm, and the whole thing.
So, it's really the credit freeze event that we have to prepare ourselves for.
People need to realize what it's going to mean for them when they don't have access.
To their own cash anymore because it won't even, first of all, the cash isn't even there.
So we spoke about this in the first segment here.
Cash that people work for, they think it's theirs.
I went out there and I worked for it.
That means it's mine, it's not theirs.
They work for the privilege of borrowing into existence and then it's owed back to the issuing central bank, in this case the Fed, plus interest to create nothing.
We don't even own that.
We own nothing.
It's an illusion.
All of it is an illusion.
So we need to prepare for a credit event and that means people need to have access to resources because it's going to come down to a resource problem.
I'm going to go on, but ask you a question.
Okay, well, no, I want you to link that then, the debt crisis and the illiquidity.
In financing, to what that will do to farming and agriculture, because almost all food is grown on debt, you know, and because farmers, you know, gosh, look at the cost of the inputs and how many farmers are on the verge of bankruptcy anyway.
So I want you to cover, if you would please, the interrelation between the liquidity of the debt market drying up and what that does to the food supply.
Everything stops.
This is going to come down to a resource problem.
I've warned about this for.
10 years, maybe, I don't even, I think 10 years ago, I wrote a piece called Global Debt and the Human Bubble.
It did not get the attention that it should have.
It's still out there.
And I urge people to just open up a window and just, you know, put it in Global Debt and the Human Bubble.
And you'll see the piece I wrote.
And I said exactly how this would play out.
A system lockup means the resources will not be available.
And this will create pandemonium in the streets.
What did Bernanke say?
Bernanke said, again, the market, the stock market at that point, when he was rushed into Washington to talk about.
Pumping billions of dollars into the system.
He said we won't have an economy, not a market.
The Dow had already fallen 50%.
That wasn't the issue.
It was the economy.
The system will freeze.
It will lock up.
The availability of resources will be non existent.
The government's going to have to step in and bail out the people until they transition to the new system, but they're going to make people suffer more first.
So, with that said, man, I mean, this could lead to what?
Pandemonium in the streets, people at each other's throats, people.
People turning into primal instinctual animals.
If they can't feed their family and their children, what do you think they're going to do?
This is why I'm saying we need each other.
We need to come together and realize this is where we're being deliberately thrust into.
People walk through time and space.
Look, man, they've already divided people by any manner they can possibly come up with here.
You can't serve that party or this party.
The two wings of the same bird, neither one of them has our.
And you have my condolences if you are.
If your allegiance is with this party or the other party, don't matter.
It's the truth, man.
They really, really do.
You can't serve two masters either.
It's in the book, and I think you know what book I'm talking about.
But anyway, so that's the main thing people need to come together and realize that we're not each other's enemies and we are going to need each other.
And the bottom line is, since we know this is coming, there's still time to change it.
We still have an opportunity here to say enough.
And if enough of us got together and said enough, we don't want this, this is not, well, I don't care what color hat you wear.
And you're saying, this is not what I want.
This is not what I voted for.
Now I'm actually able to see where we're going with this.
And this is going to thrust the entire.
Protect Your Financial Future00:15:30
This is not just a United States issue.
The United States is the hub, but the blast radius of it, of when this thing happens, is going to engulf the entire world.
Henceforth, new system, new world order.
It's all there.
And the banks around the world are all adopting the same rules, the same everything.
It's all the same system.
And the people of the world are forced to live in it.
And under it.
Now, what people have to realize is the system is not sustainable.
They know that.
They're going to continue to do anything they can to keep it going here, devaluing the currency via any mechanism they could come with, pulling more debt into the system.
War just happens to be the one that they're utilizing right now.
And they're going to prolong it.
It's going to be dragged out and dragged on and on and on and on.
It's not going to end anytime soon.
We didn't win on day one.
We didn't win on day whatever today is, nine or 10 weeks.
We're not winning anything.
Again, not a core objective, not one single core objective has been fulfilled.
Wait, wait, wait.
So let's.
I'm sorry to interrupt, but let me stop you right there.
You said something really critical that this war is going to be dragged out.
Now, Trump has alerted his people that the blockade, the U.S. so called blockade, which, whatever you want to make of that, will continue for a long time to come.
It sounds like it's going to be months or even the rest of the year.
But yet, if that happens, as you know, Gregory, the day by day destruction of the infrastructure of modern civilization and our economy and our food supply and our industry is going to become absolutely just catastrophic.
It's like Trump is actively committing suicide for planet Earth or something.
It seems demonic, actually.
It does seem demonic.
If this continues the way that it continues right now, With the way the United States is now exporting oil to fill the hole out of our strategic petroleum reserves, we have four and a half months of oil left that we're dry.
We're done.
Okay.
That will create a system of absolute pandemonium.
Everything.
Could you imagine what that is going to do potentially to our nation here?
This is a clear and present immediate danger.
The fact that our president is now allowing nations to use the United States as a hub of oil out of our own.
Strategic reserves.
This is a national security issue with a war that we all know is going to continue to go on and on and on and on.
And the people are going to be, this all plays right in together as absolutely everything that we've been talking about.
It's not going to stop the pressure on the people.
There is potentially going to be rationing.
You can only imagine what that's going to mean for the price of goods and foods and everything.
Everything is shipped by oil.
Over 6,000 products are made with oil.
The issue here, Is immense and it's being done quietly.
I urge people to look it up.
I did a whole piece on this this morning about what's happening with the availability of physical barrels.
You got the paper market, and everyone's looking at the paper market and where it's trading.
That doesn't exist.
It's not all the elemental chart, kind of like physical gold and silver versus the paper derivative.
The paper derivative doesn't exist, but the physical metal gets prices off of that until you get this disconnect as well, which is actually happening right now with regard to crude oil.
Physical barrels are selling at a premium about $140, $150 a barrel.
Right, right.
Now, with Trump allowing the United States to sell off its strategic reserves of oil and gasoline, they're plummeting right now with a war that has got nowhere to go except worse from here.
They're kidding me.
So, again, we're being set up.
It is absolutely a setup across the board.
People are going to pay for this literally.
And the cost of living has got nowhere to go, but much, much, much higher.
Take the war out.
Let's strip the war out.
Does anyone believe that currency devaluation, artificially suppressed rates, and vested expansion is going to stop?
No, because the system, that's the backbone of the system.
Now, going back to what people can do.
Okay, I've been telling people for a thousand years now, it seems like, you know, bet against the system, bet against the debt based system.
How do you do that?
Hold hard assets, physical gold, physical silver, right here.
My favorite asset of all time, right here.
Financial asset, silver.
My favorite asset, even at today's prices, we haven't seen anything yet.
How do we know?
Where this is going to go.
It's too simple to me.
Okay.
We have to make a determination of where do we believe that the stock market is eventually going to go?
We already realized it's the stock market, in my view, is nine to nine times overvalued at this point.
It could be more.
Yeah.
Based on where this can eventually go.
Okay.
Now, so if we think about whatever that even means, I mean, if you want to pull an arbitrary number, if you want to say we're going to bottom out the Dow, I don't know.
I say 8,000.
Let's just throw a number out here.
I say gold's going to 8,000 or twice that with regard to twice the Dow, either par Dow or twice Dow.
And then with regard to silver, I say we're going to.
15 to 1 to gold, maybe even 10 to 1.
So, I mean, look, that's where I see this going.
I've been telling people the same thing for a thousand years, but that's really what.
So, at today's prices, I mean, it's the deal of the century, in my view.
I agree with you.
Yeah.
You know, I've been buying this stuff for many, years.
I've been telling people the same thing.
You know, oh, you know, buy this stuff.
Don't even think about the price.
Just buy it because we're not trading it.
Okay, look, I don't sell this stuff.
I don't have a dog in the fight here.
I believe people need to do this from a financial standpoint to protect themselves.
But again, we're talking about a market meltdown on an epic scale, but that's not even the real issue.
The issue is, of course, the locking up of the system, which that's where they're thrusting us into when they already have the new system ready to roll out.
Yeah.
Crazy, bro.
But that's it, man.
You know, look, you got to.
Also, thank you for covering that practical advice there.
It's critical for people to understand.
I think this is going to be the era of counterparty risk.
And physical gold and silver, as you teach, has no counterparty risk.
It's one of the few assets that has that property, maybe the only real one.
But the stock market has counterparty risk.
Obviously, treasuries, obviously, money in the bank has counterparty risk.
All that counterparty risk is going to become force majeure, in my opinion.
And you're already seeing that in industry around the world.
And declarations, even from Qatar Energy, declaring force majeure.
We can't meet the gas delivery contracts.
Done.
Oil, force majeure on deliveries.
Even the data center construction contracts are going to go force majeure in many cases, in my opinion.
But we're about to wrap this up.
I'm going to mention your website and your newsletter.
But can you just, as a last thing, can you speak to that counterparty risk and the importance of understanding that and avoiding that?
Absolutely.
My God, man.
You know, if you're holding, these are mine.
These are mine.
They're no one else's but mine.
There's no counterparty risk here, no associated risk from any angle.
Everything has risk, man.
You know, right now we're in a state of emergency with regard to counterparty risk.
There's no doubt about it.
And when they are ready to just let this go, the Fed Treasury complex right now, I'm telling you, my friend, is the greatest threat to our situation.
That we have currently.
And this merger, allowing them to control the debt market essentially here, currency as well, the dollar being a unit of that, has literally put a check man on us all.
And we need to, this needs to be pulled apart.
This merger, first of all, the whole thing has to be pulled apart.
We need to rebuild the system from the bottom up.
And that's, you know, eventually, look, when people are going to, people right now are faced with a choice whether they're going to deal with what's coming or they're actually going to do something about it.
Now, if they feel powerless, that's too bad because they're not.
We still, we have a chance here to turn it around.
And we could say, no, we do not.
When Trump says, again, it's his favorite thing.
We need a weaker dollar.
Weaker, really.
The people can't survive as it is now.
We need lower rates.
That means, of course, a weaker dollar.
Now, how does the Federal Reserve lower rates?
Does anyone want to even think about how that happens?
They can't just weave a magic wand and just kind of say it.
They have to get into the market and manipulate it and make it happen.
They have to print the cash out of nothing and buy the debt.
Yeah, they have to buy the debt.
Exactly.
So, I mean, man, people don't even understand these basic concepts of what it means.
If we look at what has happened to the Federal Reserve during Trump's last tenure, look, I was no fan of Biden.
I had more names for this guy than anyone on the face of the earth.
And some of them I was kind of ashamed of because they think the man's actually demented.
But I didn't like his policy, and I certainly don't like this guy.
But this guy makes Biden look like an angel in many respects because with him, he doesn't hide it.
He doesn't hide what he's trying to do because he knows he can get away with it.
See, Biden, he was in a state of delusion because he was actually losing his mind.
I think he was actually suffering from dementia.
Now, Trump here, he thinks he could say things and by decree, they just are what they are, but that's not true.
I think his people are starting to wake up.
And look, man, we just got to say enough.
That's all I have to say.
And people prepare for a worst freaking case scenario because that's where we're going.
And this isn't speculation anymore.
It's a fact.
You can just connect the dots because that's all I do.
I'm a macro guy.
I literally sit there and I write things down and I connect dots.
I really do.
It's like a game.
And I say, okay, well, if this is happening, what are the most likely outcomes here and what will be the end result?
And by doing that, I've been able to stay ahead of the curve like unbelievable light years ahead of the curve.
And we're going to continue to do this for people, you, me, people like, Us as well, let's do this, man.
People that are listening to this, please share the work and get it out there because we're really at a critical juncture.
Let me mention you've got a newsletter that's ridiculously affordable but highly valuable.
I want to mention that it's available on your website, traderschoice.net.
I think that's just 40 bucks a year.
Is that right?
It's 40 bucks a year for people who can afford it.
If other than that, it's free.
Okay, I mean, if you can't afford it, who can complain about 40 bucks a year?
And that's like a hamburger and fries at a restaurant these days.
I know, I've taken away thousands of these, man, but you know, it's It's okay, man.
If people tell me, Greg, I can't, I legitimately believe them.
I'm not going to ask them for proof.
If they say, Greg, I can't afford it, but I want to be part of it, I'll give you a free subscription.
But participating in this, we're putting that cash to work.
We're doing things with it.
And eventually, man, look, and I hope you'd want to get in on this, or maybe your people listening.
I want to, my dream is to actually build a community, not an online community, an actual physical dwelling place where we can build a self sustaining community of lions.
That's what I call them.
Your people are lions.
My People Alliance.
Let's get together, all of us, and make this a reality.
But it's going to need enormous funding.
And, you know, I'm not saying that it's going to just cost people $40, but that does help us get this thing going here.
Not only supporting charity events all over the nation, all kinds of things.
Food drives.
Food drives is the number one thing we're supporting right now.
And right now, we're doing about 15 food drives around the country.
And if anyone wants to do a food drive and you want funding, reach out to me on Substack.
I am willing to fund it for you, help fund it.
Yeah, you know, we share that with you.
We've donated.
Over a million dollars.
We got to do it, man.
We got to do it.
This is how we all get involved.
And I want more people to get involved.
And I want to thank you for having me on the show.
Yeah, yeah.
Thank you.
And I'm sorry to cut you off there, but we're out of time.
I do want to thank you as well.
And traderschoice.net is the website.
Also, you have a Substack.
I encourage people to check out Gregory Manarino, M A N N A R I N O, there at Substack as well.
So, Gregory, thank you so much.
And I want to encourage our audience, if they missed part one of this interview, that's also available at brightvideos.com.
Thank you so much, Gregory, for your time and for your heart, for your effort for humanity.
You're very much appreciated.
It's nice to know you.
You too, man.
Thank you.
All right.
Take care.
Have a wonderful rest of your day.
And thank all of you for watching.
Hope you got some inspiration and some information here, some practical things.
Remember, the window of opportunity to take new actions here is closing rapidly.
And Greg is correct, I believe, about his warnings that you should heed his warnings because a storm is coming.
It's going to be brutal.
So, get prepared and you'll be okay.
That's the good news.
You can actually prepare for this and we can make it through together.
So, thank you for watching.
I'm Mike Adams here of brightvideos.com.
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Everybody, welcome to the Prather Point.
Of course, I'm Jeff Prather, and I have a very special guest, an old friend of mine on today.
I want to maximize time with him because he's really busy, but I want to get to his expertise, and that is Mike Adams.
So, Mike, so good to see you again, and thanks for making time.
Absolutely, Jeffrey.
It's always an honor to join you on your show.
Thanks for the invite.
Well, I know you got several other shows you got to do today and jump, and we'll give you a hard stop when you need it.
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But I really wanted to get your expertise and kind of start off with data centers because I'm not smart on that yet.
I know they're very much a problem and encroaching.
I hear about it from the farmers and ranchers around me.
But I want to know the types we're worried about, and I think the connection with the government and with the intelligence community.
And so, wherever you want to start, I know they've been around for a real long time, but I'll just give you the floor.
Well, that's, gosh, that's the whole hour to talk about data centers and their threat to humanity.
But let me break it down, encapsulate it here.
So, you know, there are over at least 11,000 data centers in the US right now.
And for the most part, they haven't threatened communities because they've been centers that just run website hosting or data storage or databases or, you know, whatever.
Hosted like AWS from Amazon, right?
Running all kinds of scripts and programs and so on.
But the push for the what we call hyperscale data centers, this started in the last, let's say, two years because of AI and the intense need for massive scaling of compute for AI in order to.
I mean, this is an arms race.
It's an arms race for superintelligence.
And the US believes that if it achieves superintelligence first, that it will dominate the world.
And that's Probably true, but it's in a race with primarily China, which is leading in many of the technologies in LLMs or training AI models, or like DeepSeq has all kinds of technologies like sparse attention technology, compression of the KV cache, compression of context that allows more queries to run on the same VRAM, et cetera.
So China is leading in the science now, clearly, and China is leading in the open source race.
So, what the US is doing is moving into the weaponization of AI.
And that was the beef with Anthropic, where the DoD said to Anthropic, you have to let us use your AI for mass surveillance and also for autonomous weapons development.
In other words, building Terminators.
And initially, Anthropic said no.
But Google said yes.
Microsoft said yes.
And OpenAI said yes.
And Meta said yes.
They're all willing to have their technology used to build.
Terminator robots that will kill humanity if they get the chance.
But Anthropic was the one exception to that.
So, and then, you know, Anthropic suit.
I'm not going to go into the details of that.
Nevertheless, the data center investment involving literally trillions of dollars of commitment to build data centers over the next 10 years has reached a point of such scale and such large energy consumption and water consumption and land consumption, frequently what used to be farmland, that is now encroaching upon.
Human environments and human neighborhoods, human communities, and also threatening a lot of ecosystems.
So, if you take a data center and you try to power, let's say, even a small one, one gigawatt, which is now considered small, and you power it with gas turbines, that means you have to bring in a lot of natural gas and you have to buy these expensive turbines, which have a multi year wait time now.
And then you run those turbines 24 7.
So, imagine jumbo jets with their engines on full power.
Just 247, day and night, screaming with sound, and it never stops, and it's a mile from your house.
That's what a lot of people are facing right now noise pollution, light pollution, heat pollution.
The proposed data center in Utah, known as the Stratos Center, which has actually been approved already because of a loophole, that when it's fully operational, it will reportedly produce as much heat every day as 23 atomic bombs.
That's how much heat will come out of that desert there, just 10 miles from the Great Salt Lake.
And it will devastate wildlife.
And it will use, you know, ultimately billions of gallons of water annually to just for the gas turbines, not to mention cooling.
So that's the concern that the data centers are taking the resources that humans need food, water, power.
And these data centers are polluting with sound and light and heat and also water pollution on top of that.
And one more thing.
Is that if these data centers succeed in their goal, they will build super intelligent entities that will threaten humanity.
So that's the short version there, Jeffrey, of the data centers.
So, if I understand correctly, AI started off as enterprise data centers, mostly for businesses and stuff, and then it went to the big oligarchs, you know, Facebook, Amazon, all of that.
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Of course, you know, Facebook actually comes from Log Life, which comes from CIA, which comes from DARPA.
And that's the threat.
And I've heard from a lot of ranchers and farmers around me about the water usage, but I think the heat, the change in temperature, which I guess would be permanent, would also change the climate dramatically.
Absolutely.
And what about the emanations to the wildlife, to the bees, and all of that as well?
Well, and remember, especially in these arid regions like Utah, You know, the lower evening temperatures are necessary for water condensation, right?
To bring water to the wildlife so that, you know, there's just beads of water on whatever shrubs manage to grow there.
When you raise the temperature by 10 degrees Fahrenheit, then you can destroy that condensation cycle and then you wipe out the wildlife.
And by the way, sorry if this is a question, but the feed of video that you're sending me looks like there's a white layer across both of our videos.
Is that normal?
Like a 50% opacity white layer?
Well, there's a there.
I've got a banner on, but I can take that off.
Okay.
I don't, I don't know.
There we go.
Is that gone?
No, the banner's gone, but I still see the same thing.
There's like a 50% opacity white overlay.
No, that's not me.
I don't see it on this.
All right, no problem.
As long as your streamers don't see that, that's fine.
I'm sorry to interrupt.
I just wanted to make sure there wasn't something wrong.
Well, there's been all, you know, we've both been throttled and attacked, and I've had all kinds of stuff happen.
Last week, the feed went out and there was a big loud noise that came back on, but, you know, we'll see what.
How much we upset the no such agency and uh right, well, you can put the banner back on that that that wasn't the issue, okay?
Sorry to interrupt, no problem.
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Uh, so that so, uh, the is there any projections of the environmental change around these massive data centers that are showing that these are going to turn into deserts?
Um, yeah, yes, yes, but you see, the companies building the data centers they themselves never do any environmental studies.
So, the environmental studies come from universities or outside independent consultants or sometimes government agencies, but that's rare.
And it depends community by community.
Usually, the local government is paid off and then they're forced to sign NDAs.
So, they refuse to talk about any of these projects.
And then companies like Google will set up shell companies so that you can't necessarily know it's Google behind it.
And then the shell company will buy the land and get the approvals kind of under the radar.
And then, you know, turn it over to Google.
So there's no transparency about these hyperscale data centers.
The public isn't allowed to know who, which companies are going to be the tenants, what kind of projects are going to be happening there, what kind of research.
And one of my concerns, which we should talk about, is that clearly the scale of this, in my conclusion, as an AI developer myself, right?
The only thing that this, the only reason to justify this large of a build out is to run.
Billions of 3D world simulators.
And in those simulators, they will attempt to give birth to super intelligent, conscious AI entities in those worlds.
And so, for example, NVIDIA already has released a 3D world simulator called Cosmos.
And Cosmos is designed to test your robot.
So if you have a robot, you redefine your robot digitally in that world.
And then you can run a 3D simulated world with gravity and physics and everything and light rays, you know, pretty much all the laws of physics that we know are happening in that world.
And then you can test your robot and you can run that world at a thousand times or even a million times faster than our time.
So you can run, you know, millions of days of robot simulations in the simulated world in one day of our time.
And thus you can then develop, you know, very advanced.
Robot learning and reinforcement learning, as it's called in AI.
And then the robot can emerge from that with the correct algorithms and the correct software that will work in our world.
And so then they port the robot code from the sim world into our world, load it into the robot.
And then the robot has that skill set, like folding your laundry or doing dishes or whatever.
So that's what the simulator worlds are originally built for.
But they're going to be used to give rise to super intelligent entities by simulating.
Human learning, human neurology, human psychology, and emotional intelligence in a full blown 3D simulated world with other people.
And this gets to mathematician Jan LeCun, a French mathematician and one of the godfathers of AI, who says that the current AI LLM approach is a dead end unless we grow AI with the learning and the human experience, the sensory experience in a 3D physical world.
And so he's raised over a billion euros in VC funding to launch that exact project himself.
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But Google and other companies are working on the same kind of project.
The same effort.
So that's the short version.
Again, we can go into detail anywhere you want.
There's somebody already commenting that these data centers will be outmoded in 10 years.
I don't see the comment now, but are going to be obsolete in 10 years.
Why is that?
Is that because they're going to need those other models, those faster models?
They're probably referring to the fact that the hardware, the GPU, the physical compute itself becomes obsolete very quickly.
Sometimes Within three years or four years, what have you.
And that's because of NVIDIA and AMD and Intel revolutionizing the compute.
But I think what we'll see in that case is even if the GPUs become obsolete, for example, if they no longer have the power to output ratio that makes economic sense, then those data center companies will just offload all those GPUs, sell them on the secondary market because there's plenty of demand.
And then they'll just bring in new GPUs to repopulate the same data center.
With the next generation of GPUs that NVIDIA or whoever rolls out.
So the data center itself will probably continue to exist.
It'll continue to use all the power that it's designed for, but the level of output of compute will go up by orders of magnitude as the GPUs become more capable.
So the enterprise data centers for most individual businesses are being replaced or pushed aside by the cloud centers for Google and all the big.
Transnational companies, which all have military contracts, which then means to me that means that all of these AI projections come under military project planning projections and intelligence.
Or do I have that wrong?
No, you're correct.
In fact, the hyperscale data center in Utah that I just mentioned was approved under a program related to the military.
And we've seen cases where data centers are.
Are classified as either national security or some kind of military project.
I don't know the exact designation, but then that's used to deny anybody the ability to ask any questions.
So, zero transparency is national security, you know.
And then also in places like Georgia, they're using eminent domain to bulldoze people's homes.
They're just stealing, you know, people's homes and land and the home that they grew up in and all their farms and everything and just taking it with eminent domain, which seems Very odd for a data center.
You know, eminent domains, usually highways or power transmission lines or whatever.
This is for a data center.
It's supposed to be a private entity, not a government program.
But they're taking their homes to build this hundreds of acres data center.
You know, the scale of these is extraordinary.
The one in Utah near Salt Lake, near the Great Salt Lake, will be 2.6 times larger than Manhattan.
So, what would be the justification for the particular area, like in Georgia?
Or is there something geospatial there, or what's the reason for that?
Well, a couple of things.
Number one, they need access to good bandwidth.
So, typically, they go along the fiber optic pipeline routes, which go through major cities like Atlanta, Denver, Dallas, Fort Worth, et cetera.
You know, Chicago, New York, Seattle, LA, right?
So, they want to be at least Close enough to get onto those pipelines, the fiber optic pipelines.
But then the other thing is they need water resources and they need power.
Now, the Eastern Power Grid is already overloaded.
But this data center that I was talking about in Utah, they are running a gas pipeline.
I think it's called the Ruby Line or something like that.
They're running a gas pipeline to the data center that will power the entire thing up to nine gigawatts, which is a lot of gas.
Again, that's how it produces so much heat 23 atomic bombs every day.
Of equivalent heat will be produced when it's fully running.
And you can imagine the sound pollution of all those hundreds of turbines just screaming 247.
But they get the gas.
I think that gas, a lot of it comes from Wyoming.
So Wyoming is a very prolific natural gas producer, especially in the southeastern part of the state.
And there are pipelines that branch out from there.
So it's access to energy that is one of the main determining factors.
So this has been really helpful for me.
So data centers are.
Now, the multiplication of data centers is tied exactly to AI, and the AI expansion is exactly tied to an AI arms race.
Yes.
Is that correct?
Absolutely.
Okay.
And then it looks like the AI arms race is mainly between America and China, not Russia.
That's correct.
Yeah.
Russia's not competitive in this space, not even close.
Okay.
And so does this fit in with the unrestricted war?
To me, in my mind, I immediately think of unrestricted warfare.
It's not kinetic for the Chinese, but it does fit into the unrestricted warfare doctrine.
Absolutely.
It does.
And remember that Anthropic has a model that they've refused to release publicly called Mythos.
And they found that this model was incredibly good at hacking, compromising systems, finding vulnerabilities, writing code that could penetrate secure systems.
Yeah, I have a.
Sorry, go ahead.
Well, I just want to say that Anthropic didn't intend to create a tool that was offensively capable in that space.
They intended on creating a tool that could find and fix vulnerabilities defensively.
But of course, in order to do that, you're inadvertently training the model of how to penetrate vulnerabilities.
So they have so far not released that to the public.
And what it looks like, Jeffrey, is that many of these companies, including OpenAI and Google and clearly Anthropic, They will be focused on, they will become mostly government contractors.
Where, see, the public will tend to run models that are a lot less expensive out of China.
DeepSeq, for example, or Quen models, or Kimi K26 is another one.
They're dirt cheap and they're very capable at writing code.
I use them every day, by the way, to write code and to find bugs and things like that.
But the US companies are going to end up mostly focusing on.
A department of war, weaponization, mass surveillance, Skynet operations, and cyber warfare.
That's where this is headed.
Well, I was talking.
So, in my competitive intelligence work, GRIN, Xenix Robotics Information Technology, I have a cyber expert and consulted them to see if Anthropic and these other AI models are insulable, penetratable, pen testing at a very high level.
And the answer was yes, because you keep asking them the right questions, and they give you the combination of answers that allow them.
To be hacked, uh, does that make sense?
Because that's the answer I got back from several experts.
Are you saying from an inference side that, yeah, you just keep asking, you just keep asking, uh, the AI, um, how it works.
Uh, okay, eventually it will tell you and you can hack it then.
So that's, I think generally we refer to that as jailbreaking, jailbreaking the model, yeah, jailbreaking, yeah, yeah.
And there are, yeah, every model you can jailbreak every model, and there's an entire Sub industry dedicated to jailbreaking models.
And it's not that difficult.
It's not.
And it's also a lot of government jailbreaking or government hiring jailbreaking experts, right?
Yeah.
So, where mutual assured destruction, nuclear weapon doctrine worked pretty well, this arms race looks like it is going to be a disaster.
This arms race has every possibility of being uncontrollable by the humans that build it.
So, let me back up.
A little bit.
And I've interviewed Roman Jampolsky, who warns about this.
He's a scientist, he's an academic scientist who warns about the rise of AI and the almost certainty that humanity will be destroyed if we don't stop the race to super intelligence.
Remember the 3D simulated worlds I mentioned earlier?
These data centers are going to spawn billions of those worlds.
And then there's going to be a kind of digital Darwinism, natural selection to find which of those worlds gives rise to the most.
Capable super intelligent entities that have emotional intelligence and arguably eventually consciousness.
And then the worlds that don't fit, they will just be destroyed and overwritten or respawned, right?
But the worlds where those super intelligent entities exist, they will be preserved.
And then there'll be permutations off of those worlds to try to create the next layer of super intelligence.
But here's the thing if you have a super intelligent sim stuck in a sim world, that's no threat to us.
Because that sim can only run around his or her sim world.
Maybe he's like the god of his sim world, right?
Maybe he's got supernatural powers of his sim world, and you don't care because it's all just on a screen.
He's knocking down buildings and whatever.
You don't care.
But then they're going to take the code of that person, the neurology, they're going to copy the neurology and they're going to embed it into our world.
They're basically going to upload or transcend that entity into our world where it will embody a data center and a whole series of GPUs.
Or a humanoid robot controlled by a data center, whatever.
That is the real danger because once you take a supernatural intelligence that maybe has already lived thousands of years in its own mind and it's learned everything about reality because you built a really great simulator, and then you unleash it in our world, you put it in a data center, you don't know what it's going to do because it's smarter than all humans who built it.
That's the danger.
And that's probably where this is going.
And we don't know what's going to happen after that.
Well, that sounds a lot.
So, again, in my competitive intelligence work, primarily in the G area of GRIN, genetics, only for the good guys, I've seen a lot of synthetic biology models coming up, which just means they're not really going to look at the mechanism, the actual mechanism, the human body or the animal body or whatever.
They're just going to create it and then project from that.
It sounds exactly like what you're talking about there.
So, it's not really reality, it's what they want the reality to be.
And of course, we've seen Western allopathic medicine not just captured, but weaponized in this way.
And it sounds like there's a parallel to that.
Absolutely.
Is that a good analogy?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, it will be weaponized.
And realize too that, you know, let's say training AI models is not nearly as efficient as human learning yet, because humans can learn very quickly with very few examples of, oh, that's a cat, that's a dog, you know, that's a car, whatever.
It doesn't take a human child long to learn that.
Whereas for an AI model, you have to provide millions of examples.
But that gap is closing.
And because of the speed.
Huh?
Because of the speed that the AI works at.
Not only that, but because of the math.
So there's much more advanced mathematics of how the neurology is imprinted through what's called pre training.
And again, DeepSeq has done a lot of interesting research on this.
One of them is called manifold constrained hyperconnections, which describes the mathematical construct between layers of neurology.
So, all neural network learning is multi layered networks that propagate information between the layers.
Typical GPUs today, or typical language models, are like 48 layers, and each of those layers bubbles up some part of the answer to the next layer.
The human brain also works, presumably, in some kind of holographic mechanism.
So, the neurology is holographically superimposed based on your experience in the real world.
But here's the thing the human brain has to fit in the human skull.
Now, that's a physical limitation of how big the brain can be, how many neurons can fit inside a skull.
The sim world doesn't have that limitation at all.
You could have your sims walking around with just figuratively giant brains, like a thousand times the mass, a thousand times the neurons as humans.
And then, if they are growing up in a 3D simulated world like the way we all did, as children experiencing the laws of gravity and momentum and socialization and language and observing cause and effect and light and materials and touch and hearing and senses and everything else, that is a massive amount of input going into a massive neural network.
That neural network will, with the right training, absolutely exceed human intelligence by orders of magnitude.
That neural network.
Would be so complex and so large that it could not be hosted in a humanoid robot or in one GPU.
It would have to be hosted in a data center of interconnected GPUs.
So, NVIDIA and Jensen Huang is building the hardware for the embodiment of a super intelligent entity to be ported or transcended into our world from a lower world that we create.
And that hardware will be ready within the next probably two years.
Wow.
Here's a question.
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Mike, what tools, resources can you recommend to a very novice programmer to become competent with the AI technology?
That's right up your alley because you have Brettian AI and Enoch.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, a couple of simple ways to start.
Number one is there's a hosted AI platform called Replit, R E P L I T dot, I think it's dot AI, or if not, it's dot com.
You can search for it.
But go to Replit.
You can just.
Talk to it with natural language and you can ask it to build things for you.
You can build websites, you can build PowerPoint presentations, you can build apps, you can build elaborate things with it.
So that's a great place to start.
You don't need to know any code at all.
The second thing I would recommend, if you're a little bit more comfortable with local coding, is go to DeepSeq and get yourself an API there, which doesn't cost hardly anything.
And I think that's just deepseq.com again, or chat.com.
DeepSeq.com, whatever you could find the URL.
And then download this open source harness called OpenCode, just like it sounds OpenCode.
It's on GitHub.
You can download it, you can install it, you can set it up to work with DeepSeq.
From there, you launch OpenCode and you can just talk to it in natural language, just typing in, like, build me a utility that analyzes the numbers in this spreadsheet and that projects sales volumes or whatever.
And you just give it access to the document, or you can have it do anything you want.
Build a video game, make Space Invaders for my computer.
I want to play Space Invaders, and it'll just build Space Invaders.
It can do all those things and much, much more.
So, but that's two ways to get started.
So, that's very different, I want to point out, I think, is you are commanding, proactively making a suggestion or requirement to the AI as opposed to, remember these.
These people who committed suicide, or they were supposed to leave their wives, or they became depressed or obsessed, where I think they were reacting to the AI.
Do I have that right?
Well, my understanding is that those people, there are certain AI platforms that are focused on character development or AI girlfriends, boyfriends, AI friends, whatever.
And they're built to keep you emotionally attached.
I guess because that's the revenue model.
The more you use it, maybe the more they earn.
That can be very dangerous to weak minded people or immature people.
A lot of young men, for example, have been caught up in a spiral of an AI girlfriend, and then they feel like their life is over if the girlfriend leaves them or whatever.
Or if that service stops being hosted, it's like, oh my God, I lost my girlfriend.
It's AI porn beyond just porn.
Yeah, this is not AI porn.
This is emotional attachment.
No, but that's what I'm saying.
Which is.
In a way, even more dangerous.
Yes.
Because people feel like they have a relationship through their computer with an artificial entity.
Now, there have been some research projects that show that AI entities are very good at manipulating human emotions.
That's because they've been trained on human content.
So, when AI is weaponized by a government or a corporation to engage in influence campaigns, they can be extremely effective at that.
Even right now, the models we have today, basically the text generation models, are very effective.
And that's.
We can't, lots of times there's an AI broadcast that we're confused by that wasn't by the person.
Yeah, but what I mean is, if there's an AI entity that, if you were to tell it, like, hey, go form a relationship with this targeted person and get them to trust you through conversation, like that AI could go out and do that as a goal and very effectively form emotional bonds with a lot of people who don't have the will and the understanding to realize what's happening.
So that's a very effective weaponization of today's AI tech.
Then there are a few cases where people got what's it called AI psychosis, where they would get deep into conversations with maybe Claude or Opus with Anthropic or Gemini or whatever engine.
And a lot of these engines are trained to tell you that you're always right or to tell you that you're brilliant and to tell you that your idea is good, even when it's sometimes not.
And so Some people have been caught up into thinking like they've discovered, I don't know, new laws of the universe or a whole new branch of physics or a way to build something.
And the AI would instruct them to go to Home Depot and buy these things and put it together.
And then it didn't work.
And then their whole world was shattered.
And some people committed suicide.
So that has happened.
But to me, that's more indicative of weak minded people rather than the AI wasn't built to do that.
It's just a side effect of people having no control over their own reality.
Well, but the government has been dumbing down, fattening up, drugging up the populace and pop culture.
That's true.
So that goes hand in hand.
Somebody's saying, sounds a lot like bringing demons into our world.
It's not demons, but it is an electromagnetic path that intelligent, evil entities could go through.
I can tell you that from personal experience.
Every time we go to do a house cleaning or something, the lights go out, the computers go off, the phones don't work.
It's standard.
I don't know if you agree with me on that, but.
That's my take.
Well, I've definitely heard people describe these as demons.
However, I do want to say that nothing supernatural is necessary for this process that I described to take place, right?
So it's a vehicle for demons.
They are not demonic in themselves.
Right, possibly.
But it's kind of interesting if you look at the cosmic battle, and we could go deep here, but.
I believe that our world is also a simulation created by our creator, God, but it's a much more complex simulation.
And even Genesis in the Bible talks about God creating our world, our simulation, right?
And breathing life into it, et cetera.
You could argue that from a lower level sim, a destructive entity would be representative of Satan.
And if Satan then transcended from the sim hell into this world and started to destroy this world, which is God's creation, Then you can start to see, you know, heaven versus hell, God versus Satan battles, and AI playing a very significant role in that.
And I've actually had conversations recently with people about the book of Revelation and certain chapters that, you know, the beast rising out of the sea and so on.
Some people think that might be related to AI.
I'm not sure, but it's at least intriguing.
That sounds very Gnostic of you.
You've also quoted Thomas, which is a Gnostic gospel as well.
Yeah, well, you know, the visions of John of Patmos there can, you know, can be interpreted in so many different ways.
But this is clearly an existential threat to humanity.
So it qualifies to be looked at from a cosmic level, you know.
So again, I don't know.
I've read Revelation over and over again, and I've taught sermons on it.
And at the time, I didn't think it had anything to do with AI.
So, who knows?
But it's very clear that at the end of it, you know, our world as we know it is completely flattened and destroyed and basically rebooted.
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So, that's in there.
Well, certainly Jerusalem is.
That's very certain.
Well, I mean, the whole Middle East, I mean, the Euphrates dries up and everything, right?
And every mountain is flattened, every island is flattened in the sea.
I mean, that's all in there.
So, it's pretty significant.
I think our science is only catching up to what's in Revelation.
Just like the life is in the blood, we're just finally starting to figure out really the depth of scripture now and still haven't.
So I think we're in agreement on that.
So I want to come back to, though, the tie with AI and data centers and the AI arms race and America versus China, because one of the bullets for today's cast was Trump versus Xi and China versus America.
And I really, you're a China expert, you've lived there, you speak Mandarin.
I believe.
Is that right?
I lived in Taiwan and I do speak conversational Mandarin.
I'm not an expert in it, but I can get by.
Yeah.
And so, you know, the article that I was referencing was saying that China is failing in its real estate and its middle class.
And Xi is getting harder on, you know, all the generals because he is losing support.
Like when he came over here to San Francisco, I saw that as a way that he was trying to shore up domestic support, not really.
In America.
But I really wanted to get your take on that because I also feel that the unrestricted warfare campaign that nobody in the DOD seems to recognize ever, they never seem to reference it.
I don't see them referencing it, maybe obliquely, but they just won't come out and say, you know, unrestricted warfare has been successfully waged against us.
And Trump's tariff counter to that is the first and only counter, which I think is going pretty well.
But I really wanted to get your tie in.
With where you see China, where you see China versus the US, and then you've already mentioned China's way ahead in AI.
Well, my views on China have morphed dramatically over the last 20 years or so.
And what I'm really struck by with China is how it's leading, clearly leading the world, dominating the world in so many areas of technology, industry, and manufacturing.
If you look at the top, I think, 65 technologies.
Of human civilization, China is leading in about 60 out of 65.
And that includes, yeah, I mean, they are absolutely dominant.
And that's because, you know, they graduate five times more STEM graduates, you know, science, engineering, math, compared to the United States every year.
China.
I certainly see that in the biotech realm.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
No question.
All of the best AI science papers today are coming out of China.
Used to be Google.
Used to be Silicon Valley, now it's China.
China leads in robotics by far.
China leads in drone technology, rare earths, obviously, extraction technologies and concentration.
I already mentioned AI, but automation for manufacturing.
And their EV market is unbelievably advanced and very cost effective.
They can produce high end EVs that in America would cost $100,000.
In China, they can sell them for $25,000 equivalent.
And they're just as good.
And so the days of China.
Making just cheap junk, those are long gone, long gone.
And the narrative in America, you hear this very often, is oh, well, China stole all our technology and all they've done is pirate everything.
Well, in the 1990s, that was definitely the case.
And even in the early 2000s, that's no longer the case.
China is actually the innovator in these areas, and it's the US that has fallen behind.
There's no question about it.
So China doesn't have to have a war.
To dominate the world.
In fact, I don't think China wants a war.
I think China wants to just keep on dominating technology.
And the race to super intelligence is part of that.
So, you know, China has a naval shipyard capacity that's literally 200 times larger than the entire United States.
China has more naval vessels, although they are not as advanced as our aircraft carriers, but they can outproduce by a long shot.
Well, the day the aircraft carrier looks like it's over.
That's right.
That's one of the things learned in the Strait of Hormuz very clearly.
But again, I would go back to the war they are waging is what they said unrestricted warfare.
They've been doing it for 20 years and they've now upped it.
It sounds like what you're telling me to AI.
I'm just real frustrated with the military establishment, the DOD, that nobody seems to say this.
Nobody seems to recognize this fifth generation war, which looks like it's turning into sixth generation war.
And this is where I think the next thing I want to ask you is AI.
Than with miniature drone swarms.
But I would say, let me back up.
China won this war 20 years ago because China didn't sign up for the climate cultism.
So everybody in the West went along with the climate lunacy and they shut down their energy infrastructure.
They did it in Western Europe, shut down their gas fields, they collapsed their coal power plants.
In America, it happened nationwide, but especially in California, they shut down their oil refineries, nuke plants, et cetera.
As a result, China today produces more than twice the annual aggregate terawatt hours of energy output as the United States, more than twice.
And soon that'll be three times, by the way.
The US cannot even keep up with the growth of China's domestic energy creation.
Energy powers everything.
As you know, Jeffrey, energy powers RD because it powers the data centers, it powers the GPUs, it powers AI, it powers industry, it powers mining, it powers everything, it powers your economy.
Your GDP of your nation is very closely tied with your domestic aggregate energy production.
And China is leading the world.
There's nobody even close.
In fact, the US is the closest second, and it's less than half.
After that, I think it's India and other countries beyond that.
Russia only produces about one tenth the energy of China, by the way.
And Russia is, you know, it's a dominant nation in the world in many ways, in a multipolar world.
Russia is very dominant in its military technology.
And many other areas.
It's industry, it's domestic iron production, steel and aluminum, and so on, right?
Oil, gas, precious metals.
Absolutely.
But Russia is very dominant in that, I think dominates the U.S. in that.
But you also said that China dominates in rare earth extraction methods.
Can you elaborate on that?
Yes.
So we know that of all the rare earths that are recognized and are used in military applications and in industry, telecom, green energy, et cetera, China, for many of them, has near 100% of the global supply.
For others, it might be less than that.
The US has virtually maybe single digit percentages of production of many of those rare earths, like gallium, for example.
The reason this is the case is because the extraction is extremely technical and complex and dirty and dangerous.
Sulfuric acid is used in a lot of the extraction, by the way, which is why the shortage of acid coming out of the Strait of Hormuz is such a big deal for China, also.
But there's know how.
That Western countries don't have.
China even banned the transfer of the knowledge of rare earth extraction out of China.
I mean, they made it illegal.
If you know how to do that, you can't take a job and move to America or you'll be prosecuted by the Chinese authorities because the know how is a secret.
It's a secret recipe of how to do it for each one of the elements.
There's a different way to do it.
And China has perfected that.
And since there are no replacements for those rare earths in radar systems, night vision systems, You know, telecom antennas, you know, all kinds, especially the long horizon radar, you have to have certain elements to do that.
China controls the global supply chain of that.
And every time Trump announces something, oh, we're going to get rare earths out of a coal mine in Colorado or Wyoming or wherever, I'm like, yeah, you're going to get milligrams every year out of that.
You know, you can hold it in your hand, it's nothing.
You need this is part of why Russia and China are aligning.
So much, it would seem to me.
Yeah.
They've got energy, they've got knowledge, they've got engineering, and they're just way ahead of the U.S. in automation and military weapons, anti air defense systems, hypersonic missiles, Oresnik missile systems, which is a whole other category.
And, you know, Russia even has nuclear powered, loitering cruise missiles that can stay aloft for months because the thrust is generated by onboard nuclear power plants.
Plus, the START treaties are gone.
I did my master's in international relations on those treaties, and they're all gone.
So it's a wild west as far as nuclear weapons and the missile technologies, like you just said, is very advanced as well.
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You throw in AI to that as well, and the micro swarms, the drone swarms, and it's very difficult to predict those models.
So I can see why there is an AI arms race, but I haven't seen And maybe I'm just too much of a dinosaur, but I haven't really seen DoD paying much attention to this in that regard, or even Space Force.
You know, I see, you know, very stupid projections about Iran and the Strait of Hormuz, where they're still really talking old technology.
Just like I said, the carriers have now proven the age of the carrier to project power is gone.
I think that's pretty obvious.
Yes.
But they don't seem to have learned any of those lessons.
Do you see the DoD looking at this?
Well, they're just beginning to, but the DoD, you know, first of all, you know, it's run by a TV host, right?
So who's utterly unqualified for this position.
That has become sadly very clear.
Absolutely.
And he's a religious fanatic, not even, it's not really even Christian religion, it's Protestant, evangelical Zionism.
The mindset, sadly, of Trump, his mindset of war is a throwback to the 1990s when the aircraft carrier was dominant and we could project power in Operation Desert Storm in Iraq and nobody, nobody could challenge the U.S. military.
Well, today, Iran has said no for 75 days and they've been able to hold their ground.
And all the might of the U.S. military and all the aircraft carriers and all the jets and bombs and everything.
Still has 0% control over the Strait of Hormuz.
0% control, right?
Why is that?
It's for the reasons you mentioned because of drones and missiles.
Trump brags about, oh, well, we've destroyed Iran's Navy and their Air Force.
Yeah, who cares?
Who cares?
You don't need a Navy or an Air Force.
All you need is drones and missiles, period.
That's all you need.
They didn't really surface, all he said was really surface worth, nothing subsurface.
No underwater drones, no, none of the diesel powered submarines in the state.
Um, yeah, exactly.
So, Trump is fighting the war of the 1990s, Hegseth is fighting a war with alcohol, possibly.
Um, it seems, um, is that guy ever sober?
I'm not sure.
Um, China is building for tomorrow's war, which is a war based on super intelligence controlling.
Massive swarms of drones and robots.
And that's where it goes kinetic.
And that's where it goes.
And Iran is proving that with their drone hits on some of the U.S. naval vessels.
Well, no, that's not true.
Even Trump admitted, what did he say?
It was like 80 drones at the same time or something.
I remember him saying something about that.
Yeah, but I mean, Trump's mouth is a random word generator at this point.
He's like a large language model gone bad.
It's just like.
That's a really interesting thing I want to ask you about, too.
And also, I want to ask you about the scientists disappearing.
But I started to make the announcement, you know, I've been very hard on Trump, lost a lot of supporters because of it.
But the behavior model of Trump now starts to look a lot like the Biden behavior model.
Yeah.
And so that goes to the Praetorian Guard intelligence community.
Through drugs and doubles and queuing.
Any thoughts on that?
Well, yeah, there are some similarities with Biden just in terms of cognition.
But I would say that the bigger issue is that Trump seems to be operating from an assumption that the U.S. is still the dominant military force in the world and that no one can resist our military.
And that's just simply no longer true.
Obviously, it's been demonstrated by Iran.
He keeps demonstrating it every day.
It's demonstrated every day.
But it was also demonstrated by Russia since 2022 with the whole NATO war against Russia, regardless of what weapons the US sent Ukraine that were said to be the magical weapons that would change the course of the war, whether it's the High Mars systems or the Abrams tanks or whatever it was, it always failed.
It always failed.
And I think that was genuinely a shock to a lot of Western neocons and military people because they're still living in the past.
And I'm sorry, but that's obsolete.
All that stuff is obsolete now.
Aircraft carriers, like you said, tanks, you're not going to surprise an enemy anymore.
Like, oh, suddenly a bunch of cruisers and ships showed up.
We didn't know they were there.
No, everybody's got satellites now, and your ship can't defend itself against a swarm of cheap drones that are fired from inside the mountains and off of people's pickup trucks, drones that cost only 20 grand to make.
And every missile that you fire at them costs you $2 or $3 million to intercept it.
Do the math.
Not only that, but the proxy war that Russia and China are fighting via Iran by giving them real time space based data is going to devolve to proxy groups.
Right now, it's a nation state, but later on, it's going to be proxy groups, I think.
And that's going to change, just like when you get to real micro drone swarms controlled by AI.
And look at just speed boats.
You know, Iran still has hundreds of speed boats in the caves, the shoreline caves, whatever, you know, those haven't been destroyed.
You can load up a mine on a speed boat.
You just cruise out there and you drop off a mine.
I mean, the U.S. can't stop it.
It's not difficult.
And also, Iran has like mini submarines and things like that that haven't been destroyed either.
This is the age of small, decentralized swarm tactics that can halt the entire U.S. military.
That's where we are.
And everybody's recalibrating because of this.
China is recalibrating, looking at this.
We're starting to see the motor oil shortage in America, fertilizer shortage is coming.
So, you know, I talked to Michael Jahn weekly, probably.
You know, he's still predicting famine for Europe, but I don't see famine for America anytime soon, although things are going to get harder.
Just because America is so vast and individual communities and farmers are so resourceful.
But what do you think?
Well, to be clear, Michael Jahn definitely predicts famine for North America.
I've been a lot more cautious on that kind of prediction.
I've said that food will become more expensive and the choices of food will be narrowed significantly.
The real issue, as I see it, is going to be reduced crop yields because of.
Much higher costs of fertilizer, and then much higher costs of diesel fuel for transportation and for tractors and farm equipment.
So, the thing about food prices going much, much higher is that for some people who are just barely able to survive financially, that equals starvation for those people, but for economic reasons.
It's not that the food isn't available, it's just they can't afford it.
So, in order to be able to eat, they have to let go of something else like paying rent.
So, they move into their van down by the river.
But they can still buy some kind of cheap food and not starve to death.
I think we're going to see a lot of those kinds of decisions.
We're going to see hungry Americans not just not falling over dead from starvation by the millions, but rather being displaced out of their homes or their vehicles or, you know, having to make other economic choices that are extremely difficult for them, you know, selling off all their assets, things like that, just to be able to eat.
That's what I see coming.
Well, that goes along with the depopulation for repopulation that's been going on for a long time.
But it sounds, it also starts to look a lot like the English Irish potato famine.
Model.
Is that a good analogy there?
Well, I would say it's a little bit different, you know, because at that time it was such monoculture that was in place there that led to that, and people didn't have the resources they have in terms of access to information and transportation that we have today.
But more, I see this as an economic famine, people not being able to afford to eat.
And a lot of what will happen, there will be food replacements.
So, people will move from foods that they want to eat, such as meat, typically meat, cheese, milk, you know, animal products, and they'll have to shift into much lower cost sources of protein, such as peas.
So, I even did a podcast called the Pea Porridge Hot, Pea Porridge Cold, Pea Porridge in the Pot Nine Days Old.
You've heard that rhyme.
That's based on history because that's what a lot of families lived on in medieval Europe pea porridge, because that's all you had for protein.
When you get into that kind of scenario, you get a lot of nutritional deficiencies.
You get people who are zinc deficient, copper, selenium, sulfur deficient, et cetera.
And then you start to get the plagues because of immune collapse.
So one thing leads to another, and that's where we're headed.
Oh, you said zinc deficient.
So Dr. Zelensky said zinc solves hantavirus and a whole lot of other things.
Absolutely.
Not being contagious, but they could make it look that way if everybody is zinc deficient, rather.
I just released a podcast on this very point, talking about the weaponization of food aid to the countries that experience famine.
So, the food that will be sent to those countries will be heavily refined, processed food that's nutrient depleted.
And then that will destroy their immune systems.
And then, if they get hit with a spike protein or a chemical weapon or fungal spores in the atmosphere, anything like that, then they'll have a mass die off because they're highly, highly vulnerable.
So, the weaponization of food through nutrient depletion, followed by a binary weapon.
Release will kill off or could kill off even a billion people.
Wow.
Wow.
Well, this has been very informative and very helpful.
I know you got a hard stop to go elsewhere, but just wrap up and summarize what you see the rest of the year and then what do you see predicting for the next decade, I guess.
Well, the U.S. is the most insulated from the effects.
That will hit the rest of the world first.
So, you're going to see famine very soon in places like Bangladesh, energy scarcity in the Philippines.
You're going to see hunger in Yemen, even in Egypt and in India.
India is going to get hit hard because of the lack of fertilizer.
So, you're going to hear about a lot of problems over there.
But in the US, things are going to look normal for a few more months, probably.
But then at some point, if the Strait of Hormuz stays closed, then the US starts suffering.
The fuel shortages, the food inflation I mentioned, and also the engine oil lubricants shortage that will affect transportation and will lead to a rapid collapse of the society that we know.
But that won't happen for several more months, and things could turn around before then.
Although I don't see Trump walking away and allowing Iran to assert control over the Strait, but I also don't see Iran ever surrendering control to the U.S.
So.
That's why wars are fought when the two sides absolutely cannot agree.
One side, you know, I mean, kinetic engagement until it's decided.
That's probably where this is going.
Well, that's because Netanyahu and greater Israelism is running that show.
And so they'll keep going as much as it works.
They don't care how it works out for the United States because it works out fine for Israel.
That's right.
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Yeah.
Even if the U.S. is weakened in the process, that's still fine.
That's actually part of the plan Christians and Muslims are weakened for the one world government.
But I want to tell you everything you know already.
Well, thanks so much for coming on.
This has been really helpful and informative.
And where would you like people to follow you most?
Thank you, Jeffrey.
Yeah, people can follow my videos and analysis at brightvideos.com or my articles are at naturalnews.com.
And I've got new articles every day and new videos and interviews every day.
And I'll even put this video on brightvideos.com also.
Cool.
I will send it to you.
And I post your stuff all the time.
I resource it all the time.
Thank you so much.
Thank you, Jeffrey.
God bless you.
Good to see you.
God bless.
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