On today's show, Alex Blumberg talks about the latest in the ongoing crisis between Ukraine and Russia, PayPal backtracking on a hate speech policy, and the possibility of World War 3. Plus, Alex talks to a Harvard professor who has a PhD in nuclear warfare.
00:00:31.000Unless you want to argue there's a third party trying to instigate war, it makes perfect sense that Ukraine is going to try and cut off Russia from Crimea and try and take Crimea back.
00:00:37.000In response to this, Vladimir Putin launched 84 missiles peppering the entire country.
00:00:43.000About forty of them, at least the reporting I saw, were intercepted.
00:01:04.000Donald Trump is warning about it again, saying that we need to stop this now.
00:01:09.000We need to negotiate, he's offered help in the past, that we may be entering World War 3 and we have no time to waste.
00:01:16.000Now back on the domestic front, we have big news that I have to address, and that's PayPal.
00:01:21.000Because you may have seen the news that PayPal launched this policy where if you engage in hate speech or misinformation, they can fine you, charge your account $2,500.
00:01:30.000They quickly backtracked after Elon Musk and some other PayPal, a former president of PayPal, called them out and said everyone should just shut their accounts down.
00:01:44.000Because we can see on our end, the people who still use PayPal, even though we've gotten off the website, we've lost a decent amount of users.
00:01:51.000And we're getting emails from people saying, that's it, the final straw, they're switching over.
00:02:58.000And in all honesty, my apologies in that it's a fairly rudimentary website with limited tech because we don't have, you know, 200 million subscribers like Netflix or anything like that.
00:03:09.000But, if you haven't already, head over to TimCast.com and become a member.
00:03:13.000Utilize Parallel Economy for two reasons.
00:03:20.000This is Dan Bongino, co-founder of this company.
00:03:23.000If we can get more and more users onto Parallel Economy, help them expand, grow, and become a bigger portion of the market share, then we can actually push back against these ESG garbage corporations.
00:03:53.000from Harvard was on underground nuclear defense shelters and field fortifications for NATO troops, so it's the topic today, but I wrote it decades ago, and even then it was politically incorrect To talk about the limited use of nuclear weapons, and we saw this again on Thursday when President Biden said that, you know, you can quote him here, And that's what the Democratic Party has been saying for decades, but it's just not true.
00:04:22.000If Russia were to use a nuclear weapon on the battlefield against Ukrainian troops, we would be crazy as the United States to escalate that to a strategic nuclear exchange with Russia.
00:05:05.000But in bad times we turn into survival community.
00:05:07.000Our members come out to stay alive and get out of cities and suburbs where if the grid is go down, I mean if Russia does an EMP attack on us, our grid is toast.
00:05:23.000So our members will come to our rural locations where we're equipped to, you know, survive long-term with food and water, but also all our members have weapons as well as our staff so we can defend ourselves against marauders and survive anything.
00:05:38.000This is going to be really interesting.
00:05:39.000I'm excited for this conversation about marauders and survival.
00:05:49.000This is going to be a very important one.
00:05:51.000My name is Luke Rudkowski of WeAreChange.org and today I'm wearing a t-shirt which represents how war is a racket, showing of course the king and queens having dinner while of course the pawns kill each other off.
00:06:02.000And that, to me, is the true reality of war.
00:06:04.000No one wins them except the special interest.
00:06:06.000If you like the shirt, you can get it on thebestpoliticalshirts.com.
00:06:43.000I just want to say, Ian, if we made a sci-fi cartoon about the future, about a guy named Alexander who gets a spaceship and goes and conquers Earth's Minor, that'd be pretty epic space Epic.
00:07:37.000The German embassy in Kiev was hit by Russian airstrikes on Monday, German media outlet Bild reported.
00:07:42.000However, the building has not been in use since the war broke out, the foreign ministry said.
00:07:46.000Russian-born journalist and political scientist Sergei Sumlemy, now based in Berlin, tweeted about the attack, asking for Chancellor Olaf Scholz and other German officials to issue a response to the airstrike.
00:08:07.000Does this mean that Germany is now going to use this as some kind of casus belli, declare war, or is it meaningless?
00:08:15.000Well, specifically, it was their visa office, and it looked like a lot of these strikes weren't for their intended targets.
00:08:21.000There was one inside of a playground when Russia, of course, was making a speech saying that this was specific strategic attacks against the infrastructure of Ukraine.
00:08:30.000The German embassy isn't really infrastructure of Ukraine, but there's a lot of other things happening behind the scenes.
00:08:36.000I don't think Germany is going to be doing anything with this.
00:08:39.000I think Germany right now also is having a major bullet shortage.
00:08:43.000I think that also is something we should be keeping a close eye on, but there's a lot of other things happening with Belarus right now, with Poland telling their citizens to leave Belarus right now.
00:08:53.000Poland is also checking their bunkers right now to make sure that they're up and running and that they're running properly.
00:08:59.000So a lot of other things are happening and this is just episode one according to the former Ukrainian president Medvedev of many episodes to come when it comes to these larger strikes that Russia is going to be launching on Ukraine.
00:09:41.000I think what we've seen from NATO for the most part has just been acting like they're not involved, but basically supplying the overwhelming majority of weapons, strategy, intelligence, everything.
00:09:54.000Now we do know, last week there was a report by The Intercept that U.S.
00:09:57.000special operations are underway in Ukraine.
00:09:59.000So at what point is this just World War III?
00:10:03.000Well, there's a big concern that the escalation will continue, and it's kind of odd, but the worse it gets for Putin, the worse it really gets for U.S.
00:10:12.000security, because he's losing the war, clearly, doing poorly.
00:10:17.000Prospects aren't good for him, so he's a desperate dictator, and he doesn't want to get killed off, knocked out of power, so he's got to change the situation.
00:10:26.000And to do that, he's got to do one of a couple things.
00:10:28.000He could use nuclear weapons in the Ukraine.
00:10:32.000I think it would destroy a lot of Ukrainian forces.
00:10:35.000But there is a risk that, you know, it could go to not just using them on the battlefield, but using them near the border where the supplies are coming in from Poland and Germany and U.S.
00:11:01.000We'd, of course, be massively damaged, but it would hurt Russia tremendously.
00:11:06.000So I think he's more likely to do something like release a virus clandestinely in the United States and West Europe.
00:11:14.000Something that's not like COVID, but something like human-to-human transmissible avian flu, 60% lethal, highly transmissible, and at that point... 60%?
00:11:23.000Avian flu, if a human gets avian flu, it's not directly transmissible now, but your tax dollars were used in gain-of-function research to develop human-to-human transmissible, mammal-to-mammal transmissible versions of avian flu, which is 60% lethal to humans.
00:11:41.000And if he releases that virus, and the way to do that was published in open source literature a decade ago, and so if Russia releases a human-to-human transmissible form of avian flu, it'll spread like mad, and at that point, who cares about Ukraine?
00:12:08.000They're sending tons of money off to Ukraine.
00:12:10.000Most Americans can't even point to it on a map, and we're wondering why it is we are actively involved in a border dispute with Russia and Ukraine.
00:12:17.000I kind of have a little different perspective than you drew just a little bit because I think we're in the stage where not all options have been kind of used here I think this conflict is going to be going back and forth now with the winter coming to Ukraine a lot of the forces are going to be stalled.
00:12:32.000And I think it's going to be like that for a very long time.
00:12:35.000I think that the concept of Kissinger limited perpetual war is something that we truly face the reality of, and I see Putin having a lot more options at the table before going nuclear, before even going bioweapon, before even going, you know, full crazy madman as people describe him in the media.
00:12:54.000Before doing that, I think there's other conventional weapons of war that he could release.
00:12:58.000There's other attacks he could do on the Ukrainian infrastructure.
00:13:02.000And I think he's going to be using those methods first, even though the threat of nuclear war is serious, but I think it's less probable than a more aggravated, bigger escalation on the ground, from my perspective.
00:13:14.000I don't think Putin's yet begun to fight.
00:13:17.000I think what we've seen, it's like ground forces in the east, now with these missile strikes over Ukraine, I think if Putin wanted to, he could unleash substantially more destruction on the country if he really felt he had to.
00:13:29.000Yeah, like what we did in Afghanistan and Iraq was nowhere near even an inkling of the capability we had of destruction.
00:13:36.000Because we didn't want to destroy it, we wanted to conquer it.
00:13:38.000And he doesn't want to destroy Ukraine, he wants to conquer it.
00:13:42.000Yeah, well, General Petraeus was on recently saying that, you know, he thinks that Russia's in an absolute no-win situation there, and it's getting worse for them.
00:13:49.000And I tend to agree with that assessment, that Russia has clearly lost this war in a conventional fight.
00:13:55.000Them mobilizing isn't going to do anything near term.
00:13:59.000And their troops just are not motivated for understandable reasons.
00:14:02.000They're not defending Russian homeland, they're invading another country.
00:14:06.000And so the situation is bad for Putin.
00:14:08.000It's also horrible for him on the home front.
00:14:38.000What's the over-under for small tactical nuclear weapon?
00:14:42.000What's the betting odds, in your opinion, for this bio-weapon?
00:14:46.000What do you think is most likely by percentage?
00:14:48.000I think Putin, if he, the smartest, most effective thing he could do would be to get a distraction that takes Ukraine off the map and gets our support, both the U.S.
00:14:57.000and the Western European support, eliminated quickly.
00:15:00.000And, you know, what he did over the weekend?
00:15:02.000Well, he's got more, now more Western arms coming into the Ukraine.
00:15:36.000And you know, we are not going to be sending arms to Ukraine, certainly I do more military forces into NATO.
00:15:42.000If we're dealing with a pandemic that's killing off our population and worse, it's unleashing loss of law and order as people are trying to survive.
00:15:51.000And you've got massive marauding going on across the United States and millions dying from that.
00:15:57.000How do you if Putin were to release a virus?
00:16:00.000What's to stop Russia from getting hit by it?
00:16:02.000Eventually it would spread, but spread a lot more slowly if they release it over here.
00:16:07.000Not a whole lot of air flight going into Russia right now from the United States or Western Europe.
00:16:39.000Everyone else comes down in power and prestige.
00:16:42.000And North Korea now isn't so much at the bottom.
00:16:45.000They're a country that survived the mess.
00:16:46.000I'd rather be in North Korea than South Korea when there's an international pandemic of avian flu spreading.
00:16:52.000But what people sometimes don't take into account is clean water, the ability to wash yourself with soap and clean water and how that can help you overcome a disease.
00:17:00.000So like people in North Korea that are literally sometimes eating other people because they're starving might end up being much sicker from a disease even if there's less of a load in the environment because they don't have access to the same kind of treatments that we do.
00:17:14.000Correct, but if that virus kills off most of South Korea and North Korea can evade it, they can now take South Korea after the virus has died out when the people are dead in South Korea.
00:17:26.000Just really quick, is there anything you're seeing from an intelligence report that suggests that there's a probability that this is going to happen?
00:17:32.000And again, what's the probability from 0 to 100 that you think this is going to happen?
00:17:36.000Well, I'm a former intelligence officer, so nothing I say tonight will be release of classified information.
00:17:42.000In terms of probability, I mean, Nassim Taleb wrote the most important valuable book I've ever read in my life, The Black Swan, The Influence of the Highly Improbable, and he trained you not to talk in probabilities.
00:17:53.000How can I talk about the probability of something that's never happened before?
00:17:56.000There's no statistical evidence for me to use.
00:17:59.000So it's, you know, it's expert guesstimation is the honest term for it.
00:18:04.000But you know, you can reason from people and from past situations.
00:18:08.000And Putin, former KGB agent, an absolutely ruthless man, you know, he knows about the power of bioweapons.
00:18:14.000They've had him in the Soviet Union, their biological weapons program in the Soviet Union had like 60 to 80,000 people working in it.
00:18:21.000They develop all kinds of agents, and we in the United States continue to do, as I said, gain-of-function research, where we demonstrate it and then publish the results on how to create a mammal-to-mammal contagious, we were using ferrets, version of avian flu, 60% lethality, and we published it.
00:18:41.000So everyone all over the world, if they want to know how to do it, They've learned it.
00:18:46.000So he's got the ability to do this and it's a smart thing for him to do and then if he does it clandestinely, he doesn't get punished.
00:18:52.000But we also got reports that Putin was allegedly terrified of COVID and that he kind of insulated himself away from other people.
00:18:59.000The way Russia kind of handled COVID I think would also have an impact on that because they didn't really do that good of a job.
00:19:05.000They did have very strict lockdowns and mandates.
00:19:08.000They didn't really work just like anywhere else.
00:19:10.000Do you see that kind of playing into this larger decision?
00:19:14.000And we don't have to get into, you know, obvious intelligence reports and classified information, but do you think it's more likely than a small tactical nuclear weapon?
00:19:22.000I think a limited use of battlefield nuclear weapons is a highly likely thing and I think release of viruses highly likely both in there be there's no way for me to estimate the probability.
00:19:32.000I'm not even sure Putin would know at this point unless he's already made the decision and issued the order.
00:19:36.000What would battlefield nuclear weapons look like?
00:19:38.000Like what's an example of one and how would it play out?
00:19:41.000Well, a battlefield nuclear weapon, I distinguish between battlefield use, theater use, which is more like a longer range strike into, for example, the eastern parts of the Ukraine near the border of Poland, for example.
00:19:54.000But battlefield use is limited to attacking other combat troops.
00:19:57.000It's probably going to be an airburst, not a ground detonation.
00:20:00.000They don't want the fallout coming into the Russian territory.
00:21:10.000So, if they do that, and he gets away with it, now what's going to happen to nuclear non-proliferation?
00:21:14.000Because we've told all our NATO members, and Japan, and so many countries, we will protect you with our nuclear umbrella, and it's not believable.
00:21:22.000It's never been credible, and this will prove that it's not credible.
00:21:26.000That we will not use nuclear weapons, most likely, even to defend our allies in Ukraine, you know, thus far is not a NATO member, not an ally we have to defend.
00:21:35.000I've been saying basically this for a while and I've had a lot of people argue with me that I said mutually assured destruction is just, that's not true.
00:21:42.000This idea that, I suppose the idea is if Russia decides to nuke D.C.
00:21:49.000will fire back at Moscow or something like that.
00:21:51.000But what I was saying is that this idea that the use of nuclear weapons in general results in everyone just firing nukes and blowing everybody up.
00:21:58.000In fact, there's one really obvious reason why NATO will not nuke back in the war.
00:22:18.000So theoretically, if Russia moves too far into Ukraine, say in the eastern region, then maybe they'll use nukes there, but they'd be effectively losing by doing it, cutting off their nose to spite their face.
00:22:28.000Well, a couple things I worry about here is that we're in a desperate situation.
00:22:33.000I think the Russians, in some instances, are desperate.
00:22:35.000I think the Ukrainians are also desperate here, and they know that they're facing a lot of very tough odds here.
00:22:41.000They have a lot of support, but at the end of the day, Russia still has a lot more manpower.
00:22:50.000I think this is more significant than we're... that of course is not being talked about here.
00:22:56.000I think in this desperation we shouldn't rule out the possibility of someone staging an attack or staging an incident that would escalate this situation and possibly get other countries involved here.
00:23:06.000Right now we have Belarus do a joint military task force with Russia.
00:23:10.000They're mobilizing on the Ukrainian border.
00:23:12.000They've been mobilizing for a couple months now.
00:23:14.000But I think we're in a situation where the history of previous world wars is rhyming and what happened then was other countries got involved and I think there's a big possibility that Ukraine in their desperation or Russia in their desperation could stage an event that could be the galvanizing event that could launch a bigger conflict here that would move beyond this proxy war between Russia and the United States.
00:23:53.000So you've got a corner dog, a guy who's desperate, wants to retain power, and we should not be provoking him.
00:24:01.000I'm glad to support Ukraine if we can, but we should not be pushing Russia and Putin, a desperate man, into a situation where he feels like the only way I'm going to stay alive and stay in power is to knock the U.S.
00:24:13.000and Western European support out of Ukraine.
00:24:16.000And I do that either with escalating with nuclear weapons, which is really risky for me because they could eventually retaliate with nuclear weapons against me, or I could be smart about it and just release a biological agent that starts a horrible pandemic in the US and West Europe.
00:24:31.000Now, I just want to talk about this biological agent because, you know, you bring it up a couple times.
00:24:37.000In the 1957 to 1958 avian flu pandemic that killed two million people, and they say it's not as effective as a bioweapon because the host usually dies and transmission is less likely when we have such a very strong virus.
00:24:49.000Do you have any counter evidence or is there a new type of thing that you know about from your work in intelligence That says that this is going to be different than the 1957-1958 avian flu pandemic.
00:25:00.000Sure, that's a very low lethality virus.
00:25:02.000I mean, it's worse than avian flu, but you're talking about like 1% lethality.
00:25:06.000For example, the so-called misnamed Spanish flu back at the end of World War I, 1919-1920 time frame.
00:25:47.000I mean, gain-of-function research, you get a virus, you get something as lethal as an avian flu, but you engineer it to have a two-week delay in symptom onset.
00:25:58.000I mean, I've been talking about transmissibility and lethality, but Tim, you just brought up the third really bad thing.
00:26:03.000If it's got a latency period where I'm contagious, I'm spreading the virus, but I don't have any symptoms yet, Then you're really, really screwed over.
00:26:13.000We were talking about this last week that, you know, look, nuclear weapons, the advent of which was over 80 years ago.
00:26:20.000You get this report published in 1938.
00:26:22.000I can't remember who shouted that out.
00:26:44.00015, 20 kilotons, nothing compared to the nukes that they currently have today, especially with MIRVs, when they have multiple warheads.
00:26:52.000But bringing that up, I mean this is old technology.
00:26:54.000You'd have to imagine they've developed different and new capabilities in modern warfare that we don't know about and we won't know about until they do.
00:27:02.000I think, fair point, biological weapons seems to be the route to take.
00:27:06.000Yeah, who knows what Peter Daszak and the CIA are doing with Echo Health Alliance with Dr. Fauci's funding still as they got funded again.
00:27:13.000But I think there's also another important aspect You know, viruses usually don't spread well without any kind of symptoms.
00:27:19.000Sneezing, coughing is how viruses usually spread.
00:27:22.000If they develop something new, I don't know, but this would be end of the world.
00:27:26.000You launch a bioweapon, it's going to affect everyone.
00:27:33.000Just from my assessment, my research, I do think smaller escalations, more attacks on the infrastructure in Ukraine, and I think Yeah, yeah, but hold on.
00:27:49.000We're not, like, I don't know if this is what you're saying, but my view is not that Putin right now is just like, eh, flu.
00:27:55.000No, he goes with artillery, he goes nuclear artillery, he goes tactical nukes.
00:28:00.000In the event of total desperation, when with US involvement getting too heavy, and his conventional methods not working, and his escalation not working, I think I would agree that someone, maybe it's Putin, maybe it's not, someone's going to try and knock out the US economy, either by, you know, well, I would assume a clever way to hit the United States clandestinely, as you mentioned, is a bioweapon.
00:28:22.000And remember back in March, the Russians were putting out propaganda saying, hey, the US has these biological weapons programs in the Ukraine.
00:28:31.000And why in the world were they doing it?
00:28:47.000The only logical reason for the Russians to do that is because they're trying to set the stage for saying, hey, these biological weapons are coming out.
00:29:08.000We're building bio labs to make weapons.
00:29:11.000Well we signed the treaty saying we would not use biological weapons in warfare and I think and I think we're following that but you know I think it's very probable that people could do that and he could be doing it tomorrow.
00:29:22.000Well, if you remember, in Ukraine, the U.S.
00:29:24.000corporate media and political establishment first said, there's no bioweapons, there's no biolab facilities in Ukraine.
00:29:29.000And then the Secretary of State, Under Assistant Secretary, came out and said, there's medical facilities in Ukraine we got to get to immediately before the Russians get to.
00:29:37.000And everyone's like, yeah, we're doing research there.
00:29:41.000trying to take a virus and make it the most lethal, the most dangerous virus that we can in the name of science, even though many scientists argue that there hasn't been any gain-of-function done for any kind of scientific discovery, but predominantly done to have bioweapons out there.
00:29:56.000So when you look at the United States, Barack Obama banned gain-of-function research.
00:30:01.000Donald Trump, for some reason, allowed it to happen, and that's when Dr. Fauci, Peter Daszak, EcoHealth Alliance went to Wuhan, China, and then started to do the COVID bat coronavirus research
00:30:12.000there. Now they're doing it again under Joe Biden, but now they're doing in Myanmar, Laos, and
00:30:17.000Vietnam. Again, Peter Daszak doing gain-of-function research on COVID coronavirus. I don't
00:30:22.000know if you heard of these, but this is something eye-opening. And of course, there was also
00:30:26.000similar gain-of-function research being done in Ukraine as well. Well, let me for a second defend the
00:30:31.000gain-of-function research as I've already, you know, attacked it.
00:30:34.000But the reason we do it is also avian flu is naturally mutating all the time.
00:30:40.000And biologists have been warning us for a long time now, congressional testimony even, saying avian flu will probably mutate to be human-human transmissible, even if humans aren't screwing around with it, trying to deliberately do that.
00:30:55.000So that's why we're doing the gain-of-function research on avian flu.
00:31:05.000So they're doing the gain of function research because we want to have a human-human transmissible form of avian flu now so we can develop vaccines for it.
00:31:16.000I could understand the argument for it, but that's not what they're doing.
00:31:18.000They're doing coronavirus research that has no probability of ever realizing in real life because of natural circumstances.
00:31:29.000Yes, so I have this tweet from Tulsi Gabbard calling out Victoria Nuland saying, quote, Ukraine has biological research facilities which in fact we are quite concerned that Russian troops may be seeking to gain control of.
00:31:40.000We are working with Ukrainians on how they can prevent any of those research materials from falling into the hands of Russian forces should they approach.
00:31:49.000We have a quote from Victoria Nuland that there are biological research facilities in Ukraine, that there was emails released from the Hunter Biden laptop, which were confirmed by the Daily Mail and the New York Post, that he was working on getting some funding, which went to, I think it went to a third party and then to these labs.
00:32:06.000I don't think he was directly working with the labs, but now we're talking semantics.
00:32:10.000The question is, Am I supposed to just trust the U.S.
00:32:13.000is the one not doing this, and Putin, of course, is the unrepentant evil who is doing it?
00:32:19.000Or am I supposed to look at this and just be like, it's war.
00:33:59.000has labs that are making dangerous pathogens, it's not a question of whether or not we can argue the semantics over it's weaponized or a weapon or the intent was to make it a weapon.
00:34:12.000has labs in Ukraine that are dealing with and advancing dangerous pathogens.
00:34:16.000Well, I don't know what they were working on there, if it was a dangerous pathogen or not, but every country around the world has biological research.
00:34:23.000The CRISPR technology, the bioengineering technology, it's all over the world.
00:34:50.000If a guy was making dynamite in his garage, would we say he's not making weapons?
00:34:55.000No, he could be using it for good or bad purposes.
00:34:57.000We don't know what he's doing it for, what his intention is, but he builds a lab to make dynamite, he's going to get arrested and charged.
00:35:03.000It's inevitable that we are going to have pandemics.
00:35:05.000I had an article published in the American Interest back in 2016 called The Age of Bioengineered Pandemics and Collapse, because we cannot stop this.
00:35:49.000There's a documentary out right now called Grid Down, Power Up that gives you all the explanation of how our electric system is a disaster waiting to happen.
00:35:59.000Any enemy could exploit to take us down, and the estimate from that congressional study was that when the electric grid goes down, and they're talking about an EMP event that takes out the transformers that take a long time, very difficult to replace, the estimate was you could lose 90% of the US population dead.
00:36:20.000Not just because of, you know, there's no electricity, there's no food production, there's no water systems.
00:36:25.000Also because people aren't just gonna, you know, stay at home and, you know, quietly, politely die.
00:36:30.000They're gonna go out to steal food and water to survive.
00:36:33.000You'll have massive loss of law and order, massive marauding.
00:36:45.000The Johns Hopkins biological experts have testified over and over before Congress, warning about avian flu, warning about bioengineering, but there's no votes in prevention and preparedness.
00:36:58.000And so we're left in the position where there was another documentary by, I think it was Vice, called While the Rest of Us Die.
00:37:05.000So they've got Mount Weather, they've got Raven Rock, all these places they can survive, but the rest of us, there's nothing being done for us.
00:37:15.000I have a million things I want to bring up right now that I have jotted down, so hopefully I'll get to all of them.
00:37:19.000I think the United States military-industrial complex would be foolish not to develop weapons that other countries are developing as well.
00:37:25.000I think from a strategic point of view, it wouldn't make sense for the United States not to engage in this.
00:37:30.000You said a lot of the research is being done to help people to prevent and create vaccines, but the United States had an official biological weapons program where they weaponized anthrax, Q fever, and many others previously before.
00:37:43.000What evidence do you have that they stopped?
00:37:45.000And as you previously mentioned, you said that the United States is doing this to help people, this gain of function is to help people, but We just talked about the COVID coronavirus.
00:37:55.000Why were they doing that research when there was no natural ability for that virus to be realized in human life?
00:38:01.000Why were they officially doing that project when there was no particular need for it?
00:38:18.000I'm sorry, I have to push back on that.
00:38:20.000Let me do number two before you... So the number two thing is, we have nuclear weapons.
00:38:25.000So if Putin does release a biological weapon against us, and we know it's Putin, can prove it's Putin, our responses will nuke the hell out of you.
00:38:54.000What if the US, you're right, they are abiding by this treaty, and so in fact the bioweapons research was happening in a country like Ukraine, which is not a NATO or EU member state.
00:39:11.000The Secretary of State, Undersecretary, officially launched that there's biological research facilities in Ukraine.
00:39:17.000Why would the United States not do that program domestically?
00:39:20.000Why would they choose a poor country that's known for corruption, To do scientific experiments that are known to be dangerous.
00:39:26.000That sounds the alarms to a lot of people who are saying this is circumstantial evidence that they're doing this biological dangerous research in their country not to have any fallout or responsibility here in the United States.
00:40:00.000Now, whether or not you want to argue it's a weapon or not is the intent of the person behind it, and if you can't read their mind, what's the point?
00:40:06.000Yeah, this is the thing about white phosphorus they used, the American military used in Fallujah in 2004.
00:40:27.000Yeah, but it was also an incendiary weapon, so just because you call it research for prevention doesn't mean that it's not also potentially going to wipe out the population.
00:40:36.000I don't even care about the term research.
00:40:38.000If they are doing gain-of-function research, they are producing dangerous pathogens, period.
00:40:43.000Now whether or not... Look, like I mentioned, Alfred Nobel was shocked to discover he was the merchant of death when his obituary was accidentally published.
00:40:50.000Was he an inventor of a powerful weapon?
00:40:55.000And that's why he came out was like, I got to do this Peace Prize thing.
00:40:57.000But again, if somebody if a guy if the US government said we're gonna be doing we're gonna be built putting up a bunch of plants that build explosives.
00:41:06.000Yeah, the word weapon is a pejorative.
00:41:08.000Right, or just call them explosives, call them biological pathogens, call them chemical agents, you know, but whether or not they're weapons is irrelevant.
00:41:21.000government needs explosives for construction, mining, clearing debris, so we're going to create a bunch of factories that make a variety of explosives.
00:41:47.000I think it's kind of similar to the situation in Lebanon when you had all the buildup of that fertilizer.
00:41:52.000The fact of the matter was it's a time bomb waiting to happen, waiting for a spark, you know?
00:41:56.000I think no matter what, there still is fertilizer building up, there still is a situation that's arising, and it's only a matter of time before something kicks off that causes a, you know, a calamity.
00:42:50.000You know, come on, guys, keep your eyes open for Putin is dropping biological agents on his own people, but he's doing it in Ukraine first.
00:43:16.000It's not as bad as that image of when Joe Biden was raising his fists and then people put the collapsing market behind them all in red as that meme.
00:43:25.000But we're at a two-year low now, and the stock market has dropped below the levels it was at before Biden became president.
00:43:31.000So I don't want to make this one political.
00:43:33.000I want to make this one, this segment, talking about the collapse of the economy more personal for individuals.
00:43:38.000And ask, you know, ask you, Drew, as we are watching an economic downturn, we're seeing inflation, we're seeing gas prices now go up.
00:43:46.000My question is, if this trajectory continues, for whatever reason, be it the war or whatever, what happens to the average person's life?
00:43:53.000You know, so, you know, you as somebody who runs Fortitude Ranch, this recreation and survivalist community, you had to have done all the research in your middle-of-the-class nuclear family, economy hits, what does their life look like and how bad can it get?
00:44:08.000Well, you know, a lot of people are calling for the recession, so there could be losses of jobs coming, although thus far that hasn't really happened, higher prices.
00:44:16.000But the thing that's really going to hurt people next year is food prices, not just because of normal inflation everywhere, but because of the lack of fertilizer, since they come largely from the Ukraine and Russia, and we're not getting those.
00:44:28.000And there's predictions of not just higher food prices, but in some parts of the world you're going to have famine next year, because food production is going to be way, way down.
00:44:39.000And there have been other contributing factors, stupid government policies trying to stop fertilized use in some ways for environmental reasons.
00:44:48.000But the world is facing a bad famine situation next year, assuming something worse doesn't happen, like releasing a virus this year.
00:45:41.000Let's say it's either a nuclear strike, let's say it's a virus or something happens.
00:45:45.000The average person in the United States, what do you think their day is like when the grid gets hit or when the gases are gone or what happens in the worst case scenario?
00:46:02.000And any kind of disaster or collapse, your police protection will go down.
00:46:08.000Because, number one, the priority is to protect the elected officials, the mayors, the governors, everyone else.
00:46:14.000So, police normally doing patrols in your neighborhood, some of them will be called back to increase protection and care for government officials.
00:46:23.000You're near Mount Weather here, I won't give out your exact location, but you're not far from Mount Weather.
00:46:34.000And I googled and I can't find why, but they've already got massive facilities and they're expanding them for government officials, but there's nothing done for civil defense is gone in the United States.
00:46:47.000And the thing that makes me the maddest is there's not even the warnings.
00:46:50.000Government should be issuing warnings to people about situations like the coming food price jump that we're going to experience, the likelihood of famine because of the, again, the Russia-Ukraine situation.
00:47:06.000It's all about current issues and winning votes and debates that, relative to life and death, are trivial.
00:47:13.000All right, my favorite city in all this, New York City.
00:47:15.000What happens when the grid gets hit, when the food stops flowing?
00:47:18.000It'll be, it'll be, there used to be a saying in the preparedness industry, you know, 48 hours to animal, you know, and 48 hours, it'd take 48 hours for people to realize how bad it's getting and then they turn into their animal instincts and they would kill to survive.
00:47:33.000I think it's more today, probably more like 48 seconds or 48 minutes to Hannibal because people are aware now that when the grid goes down for example again you ought to watch grid down power up documentary when the grid goes down immediately there is no water system flowing so people are going to start filling their bathtubs everyone does that so within five minutes waters municipal water is gone there's no five minutes yeah if everyone starts filling your bathtub and there's no pumping going on
00:48:03.000So there's three days' supply in an average supermarket.
00:48:06.000That'll be gone in the first hour or two.
00:48:08.000People are going to run to the grocery store.
00:48:10.000They're either going to pay or, more likely, they'll just start looting.
00:48:13.000And I think violence will start in the first hours.
00:48:17.000People stealing and potentially killing to survive.
00:48:20.000Because they're going to figure out, hey, there's no way you can survive in New York City without an electric system or there's a bad pandemic.
00:49:00.000I'm talking about national loss of the electric system and national pandemic that's all over the place.
00:49:06.000So this is what I mean to say is when people have faith, the government exists, aid is coming, they're chill.
00:49:13.000But if something happens where people, their confidence has to be rocked.
00:49:17.000So my view is, I don't know about the first hour, I think a lot of people, the smart people, Maybe not even necessarily smart, but the more cutthroat.
00:49:23.000They're gonna go out and they're gonna get whatever they can as fast as they can.
00:49:26.000I think most people in New York are gonna be looking around confused and just shrug.
00:49:30.000I gotta tell you, man, I love telling that story of when I worked for Fusion and the fire alarm went off and everybody just sat around staring at it.
00:49:36.000As soon as the alarm went off, I got up and left the building.
00:49:38.000And then people only left the building when the fire department actually ran in with their gear.
00:49:45.000The grid's gonna go down, they're gonna go, oh, the power's out.
00:49:48.000I gotta tell you this, a second story.
00:49:49.000I was working for Fusion, and I'm in New York, and the power goes out, and the alarms go on saying everyone remain calm and remain in the building, and I was like, no thanks, and I left.
00:49:58.000I'm like, apparently there was a flood, there was a leak that hit something electrical and created a huge risk of fire, but they were like, no, no, no, everyone stay calm, just keep doing your thing.
00:50:45.000There's a lot of obese people in the United States.
00:50:47.000I think they have a lot of extra fat that they're going to, of course, depend on.
00:50:51.000And I'll think they're probably going to TiVo American Gladiators or some sports balls and then let their fat whittle away and start some fasting.
00:51:01.000That's not by their choice, but obviously it all depends on, there's a number of scenarios happening.
00:51:07.000I wanted to ask you, Drew, from all your work, especially with intelligence, what do you think is the most likely scenario and situation, especially after coming out of COVID, that could lead to the worst case scenario?
00:51:18.000What do you think is the most impactful, the most likely situation?
00:51:22.000Well, at Fort Hood Ranch, we actually track 50, we call them, trigger events that could lead to a collapse.
00:51:27.000And the ones that we rate as, you know, ignoring Ukraine right now in the current situation.
00:51:31.000But overall, we rank a pandemic, a really bad pandemic, as the most likely event that's going to happen.
00:51:39.000And, you know, we've had biologists warning us that we're actually overdue for a really bad pandemic.
00:51:44.000The influenza ones tend to come in cycles.
00:51:49.000And it's so easy to do man-made, and it's so likely that a country like North Korea, or Iran, you know, we're the great Satan to Iran, and again, you know, will the virus spread back to the country that releases it?
00:52:02.000Yes, but before I release the virus, I can develop vaccines clandestinely, so it won't hurt me when it comes back, or it won't hurt the people I care about in my country if I'm Iran or North Korea.
00:52:51.000When the Spanish flu then emerges, I think it was in the United States, but then it was seen in Europe with all the fighting, so that's how it got its name.
00:53:00.000When this starts spreading, it does make its way back to China, but they already had immunity to it from the weaker virus that had hit them.
00:53:07.000So I think what would actually happen is a smart country produces two versions, a very weak version and a very strong version.
00:53:13.000They give themselves the weak version first, then the strong version is released.
00:53:17.000So when it does come and hit them, mortality is minimal.
00:53:19.000But the point is, this technology, this ability has never existed before in human history.
00:54:56.000Publicly he says, I did not think that, you know, 500 people who would have died, the loss of life was worth what we would be retaliating for or something to that effect.
00:55:05.000However, around the same time that the U.S.
00:55:08.000launches this fleet to go conduct an airstrike, a refinery in Philadelphia explodes.
00:55:14.000I asked some of my hacker buddies, what is the likelihood that in response to the U.S.
00:55:22.000engaging in a military operation, Iran conducted a cyber attack against a refinery, blowing it up, and we know they did it, so we backed off.
00:55:30.000They told me it was very, very low, not very likely, however possible.
00:55:43.000So my thing is, that was just one example of a scenario where I see this and I'm like, could it have been that they, the cyber attack blew up the petroleum refinery?
00:55:51.000So then Trump seeing that vulnerability cancels the attack knowing it's going to lead to a greater escalation in cyber warfare?
00:55:58.000Again, I'll stress, my expert buddy said they don't think that was the case based on how it went down.
00:56:02.000But thinking about that, there have been many circumstances where we've seen various industrial facilities get, you know, have fires start abruptly.
00:56:11.000And the answer is, Sometimes fire start.
00:56:13.000Are we hyper focused on this and now we're assuming it's going to be a cyber attack or are we in a normalcy bias that we cannot see that we are actually under attack when we are?
00:56:26.000And then there's a lot more threats, too.
00:56:29.000The threat of nanotechnology, some new technologies we keep coming out with.
00:56:33.000You know, you were talking earlier about unintended consequences.
00:56:36.000A lot of people working with nanotechnology are concerned about that.
00:56:39.000Elon Musk is always talking about artificial intelligence.
00:56:43.000And I think the artificial intelligence threat is very much there, but not in the normal way you see in a movie where the computer becomes, you know, thinking and evil.
00:56:52.000The bigger threat from artificial intelligence is some terrorist group or a nation, you know, North Korea has tremendous cyber capability, actually programming and releasing a virus, you know, instructing computers Maximize human death through the means you've got.
00:58:01.000His hedge fund, you know, makes its success based on trying to understand how the world is, how things are developing.
00:58:08.000So, again, on trigger events, 30% chance of a war with China.
00:58:12.000That could be a nuclear war with nuclear strikes on the homeland.
00:58:16.000That leads to a collapse because our society is so fragile, so government dependent, and there's just a lot of bad people.
00:58:22.000And one other thing, you know, I've never seen this anywhere in print or in the media, but a huge threat and vulnerability we face in the United States is the 1.5 million Americans in jail.
00:58:34.000One and a half million Americans in jail.
00:58:37.000So when there's a pandemic, a 60% lethal pandemic, do you think guards are going to go to work and risk?
00:59:07.000So you can have one and a half million Americans, most of them aren't bad criminals, but a lot of them are who are in jail and they have absolutely no preparedness.
00:59:28.000They've got to go out and steal from other people, probably kill them in the process to survive.
00:59:33.000No one ever talks about that. Our government is not getting us prepared for events that experts say are inevitable.
00:59:41.000I disagree on the prison thing though. Prisons would be one of the safest and most secure places to remain.
00:59:47.000So if you're there, you've got a bunch of guys, you've already got gangs, so if there's no more guards, there might be a lot of infighting.
00:59:57.000If that is the case, the end result is going to be someone who owns a fortress now.
01:00:00.000They may go and maraud, but they're going to use the prison as like a fortress base of operations and control it.
01:00:08.000So they are instantly going to be armed, Armored and determined and have facilities and it's it's gonna be night.
01:00:16.000It's it's look I'll say it's worse than you're you're predicting prisoners will get out and go maraud They're gonna have a fortress base of operations with weapons and then you know They're gonna go out and go on their patrols and you probably I mean, maybe you'll notice they're wearing prison clothes But it's not gonna matter guys with guns are gonna come up and say you work for us now we control this massive fortification so you can't even get to us if you wanted to and That's a worse scenario than I had imagined.
01:01:13.000I gotta tell you, I see these videos- I'm sorry, I see these photos, these stories about Mount Weather.
01:01:18.000Am I really supposed to believe that Raven Rock, Mount Weather, these facilities are the legitimate facilities for our government when we all know they exist?
01:01:29.000So our bomber was 100 at full capacity.
01:01:31.000Not that they're going to get a bomber over it.
01:01:33.000Yeah, but taking out an underground fortified facility is not easy.
01:01:37.000You have to have tremendously good accuracy.
01:01:39.000I grew up in Lincoln, Nebraska, 60 miles from off at Air Force Base Strategic Air Command headquarters, you know, one of the top nuclear targets.
01:01:47.000I remember reading one day that the accuracy of Russian-Soviet missiles is about 50 miles.
01:01:54.000Although that's great, they're going to aim it off and they're going to hit me and Lincoln.
01:03:01.000The government is very secretive, especially about their other facilities that they don't talk about, that there's no pictures of, that there's no talking about.
01:03:09.000There's a lot of underground facilities that the United States has been investing in.
01:03:13.000There's a reason the Pentagon has secret clandestine black budgets.
01:03:17.000There's a reason why so much money is missing from the federal coffers, because a lot of times they're spending it on a lot of top-secret projects that are underground facilities that they have already implemented that no one even knows about.
01:03:51.000so they can whisk them off there and they've got fantastic facilities.
01:03:55.000They even have media rooms so the congressmen can continue to transmit to their constituents and not lose votes if there's another election, I guess.
01:04:04.000But they have fantastic facilities where they'll stay alive and nothing is done for the rest of us.
01:04:09.000You know, we're don't even give us warning.
01:04:11.000Hey, you might want to do your own preparations.
01:05:18.000There just aren't many of them compared to people.
01:05:21.000If a lot of people start breaking the law, start looting, start doing whatever they want to do, you cannot stop them.
01:05:28.000So people have realized that, you know, you really do need preparedness.
01:05:31.000People can get out of control, can do violence, and you cannot put it down.
01:05:35.000There's not enough police or even military folks to do that.
01:05:39.000One of the funniest things ever was when the pandemic started and a bunch of liberals were lining up outside of gun stores to buy guns for the first time and the best thing to emerge from it was the gun store, I think it was in California, where they were like, the guy makes a video saying, stop complaining to me about why you can't buy a gun.
01:06:15.000You walk in, you gotta fill out your federal background check, but uh, you know, the first time you do it, I think, everyone I've seen, the first time they've tried, they've been held up a little bit for a day or a couple days.
01:06:25.000But then after that, it's like, you walk in, you can get it, you can carry it right out, conceal it, whatever, and take care of yourself.
01:06:47.000Where, in the first day, when a collapse happens, nobody has any idea what's going on.
01:06:51.000They have food in their fridge, it starts running out, they go and look around, people are confused.
01:06:55.000By the second day, all the food's probably gone, taken.
01:06:57.000Within a few days, anything that was perishable has perished, there's some canned goods left, and now people are really hungry and really thirsty, and looking around, wondering what's going on.
01:07:38.000So if you've got a survival community, or if you've got an RV park, you've got a ranch, and you think, hey, I could have a nice survival facility here, you can now build one, and we will help you do it through our franchise approach, because we can't keep up.
01:07:54.000If anyone's interested in working on our staff, or the staff of a franchisee, you know, if you want to contact fortituderanch.com on our website.
01:08:02.000We're looking for more people, but we can't keep up with demand.
01:08:05.000There's one other point I wanted to make is the other reason why preparedness has had a bad image is that stupid show Doomsday Preppers, which made preppers look like idiots.
01:08:14.000Well, the reason they did that is the first rule of prepping is don't tell anyone you're a prepper.
01:08:53.000Yeah, we got a lot of former military.
01:08:55.000We have some intelligence officials, but largely it's, you know, business people and people who are smart and educated, and they don't talk about it.
01:09:03.000They keep it confidential, but the demand is growing, growing, growing, and we can't keep up, so we're looking for more staff and more franchises.
01:09:10.000How many government officials do you have contacting you for your services?
01:09:14.000And Guilty Pleasure, I really like that show that you mentioned, because it was really fun to watch.
01:09:25.000I mean, even at the state level, you know, the state patrol provides protection for the government in the normal course of duty, and they'll do a lot more when there's a collapse.
01:09:57.000We used to be, it used to be, you know, sometimes we would have a hard time getting doctors and we had four doctors at Fourth Ranch Colorado.
01:10:02.000I don't need four doctors there, but a lot of them have joined since the pandemic.
01:10:07.000When you guys are franchising, how does that work?
01:10:09.000How do you get involved with someone that has space that wants to become a franchisee?
01:10:13.000I think on our website there's information on it, but basically we're going to provide you the training, the operations manual, help you design your facility, and make it possible for you to be part of the 14 Ranch system.
01:10:24.000And you will be part of our system, because our system is again, we're a survival community, but we're also a recreational facility.
01:10:30.000So you can be a member in West Virginia, but you can go to our lake property in Wisconsin, you come to a high mountain desert in Nevada, come to Texas, and you know go to San Antonio, and the attractions down there.
01:10:43.000So you have a home fort where your stuff is and where you try to get in a collapse.
01:10:47.000But again, if you're, if you're a West Virginia member, but you know, you're doing the Tim show out in California and the shit hits the fan and you can't get back to West Virginia, you can go to Nevada and we'll take care of you there.
01:10:58.000And a franchise would be the same way.
01:11:01.000So your members have the right to, you know, they'd be home forting at your place, but they could use any of the Fort Hood Ranch facilities.
01:11:08.000But if things get bad, you got to go work in the field.
01:11:11.000Our members understand that, you know, it's a vacation place.
01:11:54.000We defend our private property in a collapse.
01:11:57.000But let's say we're now, you know, five years into a collapse.
01:12:01.000The surrounding homes have all been abandoned.
01:12:03.000You gotta have scout patrols go out and start looking for, seeing what's going on, and, you know, I imagine you guys would not be offensive, but what if there's abandoned land, you need it for grazing or expansion, because now you got more people are coming, or you've signed on more village members, I suppose, or let's say it's even 15, 20 years, you're gonna have more people, more kids, you're gonna need to expand.
01:12:23.000Well, we actually haven't thought that through to be honest with you, but you know, we're hoping that the recovery would start within a year or two if it's a really bad pandemic and eventually we're hoping that some law and order will return.
01:12:35.000But if not, you know, we'd have to deal with whatever it is.
01:12:37.000That's why all of our ranch management, we're former military officers and enlisted folks who have good background and good judgment.
01:12:43.000And then our membership is a really well-educated, good people.
01:12:48.000So we've got a core of people, you know, 100 plus people at every location.
01:12:52.000We could do whatever we need to do in a responsible manner to survive and then to recover after things improve.
01:12:59.000Two more questions about the franchising.
01:13:00.000One, it's for-profit, the company's for-profit?
01:13:03.000And then if someone opens up a franchisee location, are they doing all the hiring and taking all the profits themselves or are you guys supplying the funds for them to do hiring and then you take They do.
01:13:15.000The only difference is, you know, unlike a typical franchise where, you know, your customers are kind of your customers, if you join Fortied Ranch, you're part of the whole system.
01:13:22.000That's kind of a key advantage we offer is, again, you may not be able to get back to your own fort.
01:13:27.000You may want a vacation in another location.
01:13:30.000Members are all in one system, but it is your property, your 14th Ranch location, your business, you hire, you fire, you supervise.
01:13:37.000And then do you pay like a franchise licensing fee or something?
01:13:40.000Yes, there's a franchise fee to join and then a percent of royalties like any other franchise.
01:13:55.000We'd be up on ham radio, so we've got our frequencies and times of day that, you know, at this time and this night, we're on this frequency, so we can connect.
01:14:02.000So, for example, back to the doctors we've got.
01:14:04.000I mean, we've got, like, you know, cancer experts at some place.
01:14:07.000We've got OBGYN, you know, Birthing doctors at another, but at night, mainly use HF radio at night with better bouncing off the signal.
01:14:16.000So at night, you know, the doctors can confer.
01:14:34.000Let's jump to the story from Insider and get into the meat and potatoes here of this PayPal story.
01:14:39.000Insider reports PayPal falls after weekend blowback over misinformation policy that would fine users $2,500.
01:14:47.000The stock fell 6% on Monday, following the company's botched acceptable use policy update.
01:14:54.000The company faced backlash after its updated policy included a fine of $2,500 for a variety of things, but it included hate speech against marginalized groups and spreading misinformation, and it said, at PayPal's sole discretion to determine.
01:15:07.000Meaning, they could just be like, you said the sky was blue?
01:15:13.000So this resulted in PayPal coming out and being like, no, no, no, it was an error, it was an error, it was a mistake.
01:15:18.000So the first thing I want to say, because this affects us, several months ago we took PayPal off TimCast.com and we knew something like this was coming.
01:15:26.000We've seen too much ESG in banking institutions, too much censorship.
01:17:00.000And PayPal has been doing this for a very long time.
01:17:03.000They have been weaponized for the benefit of the political state for a very long time, including originally, from what I remember, going after Julian Assange, freezing his ability to be able to collect money online.
01:17:18.000They partnered with the SPLC, a discredited horrible organization that of course was sued successfully many times for defamation and slander of individuals that they attacked politically.
01:17:29.000So PayPal does not have the best interest.
01:17:32.000I already switched mine to an alternative.
01:17:35.000I'm switching to more alternatives because the free market It is where it's at and PayPal has had a dominance in the space.
01:17:42.000Some people have said that they are a monopoly.
01:17:44.000I kind of agree with them because a lot of people have been politically shut off from PayPal and are unable to do a lot of banking online because of that larger target put on their backs artificially by PayPal.
01:17:58.000If anyone wants to know, Vanguard, BlackRock, and State Street own about 18% of PayPal.
01:18:41.000What I see with this is, you know, we've been talking about nuclear war and everything.
01:18:44.000What I see here is, I don't know if civil war is the right word, but some kind of, look, it's policies like this, that if they were to effectively implement, would result in some kind of, I don't know, insurgency.
01:19:00.000If we keep censoring people, if we keep shutting down businesses, if the DOJ is continually going after only one political faction, eventually you get some kind of disruption and fighting and destabilization in the United States.
01:19:13.000So I guess my question to you is, do you think that there is a potential with the expansion of these kind of policies into civil war or revolutionary kind of insurgency and fighting within the country?
01:19:25.000Again, we talked about Ray Dalio earlier, you know, earlier this year, mentioning that he thinks there's a 30% chance of civil war after the next presidential election.
01:19:33.000If it's close, especially, the losing side may say, you know, I don't buy it.
01:19:39.000And especially if they continue to be so split in policies and philosophies.
01:20:10.000I don't see, you know, a civil war like our civil war.
01:20:14.000I just don't think the military would get involved in that.
01:20:17.000I don't think they would fight and something like that.
01:20:19.000So I don't see that kind of a civil war, but I can certainly see states like Texas and, you know, I personally believe that the Constitution In my reading of it is that you don't have to, you know, you're not forced to stay in forever.
01:20:33.000And that's just been a Supreme Court has tried to make some decisions since then.
01:20:37.000But the Supreme Court made a made a decision in mid 30s that basically said, you know what?
01:20:45.000Congress, you can pass whatever you want and spend whatever you want.
01:20:48.000The Supreme Court basically nullified the Constitution, at least the 10th Amendment in the mid-30s, and then they proceeded to do other things.
01:20:55.000So there's nothing in the Constitution that says the state has to stay in the Union forever.
01:21:55.000I'm talking about for military and foreign policy, not for domestic policies.
01:21:59.000Wouldn't that be ironic, though, to have some U.S.
01:22:03.000states succeed and go back and join the Commonwealth?
01:22:06.000I don't, that one seems like a long shot, but I do see a possibility of what people refer to as national divorce or peaceful divorce.
01:22:13.000But here's the thing about the PayPal stuff.
01:22:15.000It's a big example of how we're getting into this dangerous authoritarian period.
01:22:19.000The fact that a financial institution would say, we can take money from your business, from your account, regardless, if you say things we don't like.
01:22:41.000But maybe these these alternatives are inevitable.
01:22:46.000You know, when Facebook was engaging in all this censorship at the height of 2020 or 2018 and 2019 into 2020, a lot of people were saying, don't worry, an alternative will emerge eventually.
01:22:58.000But I also kind of think just Facebook is kind of just dwindling as it is with younger people and TikTok is getting picked up, which is even worse.
01:23:06.000So I don't think there's always a solution in that the market will provide.
01:23:10.000But we are seeing, at least when it comes to PayPal, the market here hit them by 6%.
01:23:17.000That's the optimistic thing that as much as things are getting bad, this PayPal's backlash, I'll say this looks like a de-escalation in terms of all this stuff.
01:23:25.000Well, they reversed the policy, which speaks volumes.
01:23:29.000I mean, for them to come out with a bold policy saying that they're going to steal Grandma's purse in the middle of the night as she's walking down the street is a pretty egregious move for the crime of wrong-thinking.
01:23:40.000It's absolutely wild that they could try to justify stealing and theft like a government would from its citizens.
01:23:47.000As a form of punishing people for thinking incorrectly.
01:23:50.000And I think, yes, it's optimistic that they reversed it, but it's also pretty crazy that they thought that they could get away with this.
01:23:58.000That's another part of this that we need to understand here.
01:24:02.000They thought that this was okay, which is absolutely insane.
01:24:06.000And this shows you how far they go when it comes to mind control and when it comes to policing the thoughts of American citizens to the point where they're like, we're just going to take it all.
01:24:16.000Oh yeah, get it in my head for a minute.
01:24:34.000I would love nothing more than to see the United States split apart in a civil war, because that's the biggest threat to my global takeover.
01:25:07.000I think they're looking at going public, which means BlackRock's going to own them pretty soon.
01:25:11.000I don't know when that's happening, or they've been talking about it since 2021.
01:25:14.000People are going to take that clip of you saying you want to spread your seed everywhere.
01:25:17.000Yes, I want to spread, I want to inseminate the world with my fiat crap.
01:25:22.000But it looks like Ethereum, which is also kind of on a path to fiat, unfortunately, with their transition to proof of stake now instead of proof of work.
01:25:30.000It doesn't matter who's making the currency, it matters who has it.
01:25:35.000I mean, I'm an Ethereum fan, and there are other great blockchains and cryptocurrency.
01:25:40.000Bitcoin was, you know, applauded for being the first, but it's not a very good one.
01:25:44.000And it wasn't expected to be, it was just to prove the concept.
01:25:46.000But there are a lot of great cryptocurrencies, which could, I mean, Zelle is an alternative to PayPal, just doing it with your Zelle and your bank.
01:25:54.000But the long-term evolution could well be cryptocurrency that is controlled by no one other than people using it.
01:26:01.000So the Ethereum, their new process to confirm a block of data and to lock it in.
01:26:07.000You know, you're just, it's people like me, I'm one of them now.
01:26:10.000I have some of my Ethereum, I've pledged to go to their system.
01:26:14.000So it's not like I'm pledging US dollars or fiat currency, I'm pledging Ether.
01:26:20.000I heard some rumors that some people on the Ethereum network were working with the World Economic Forum and their vision of a centralized currency.
01:26:51.000But Ethereum can be printed indefinitely as it's currently standing, which means that, you know, if enough- Inflation happens fast enough, you're just going to see an escalation and a fiat explosion of Ethereum 2.
01:27:02.000They could always evolve it, create a fork, create Ethereum 3 that's actually deflationary by nature, which I think is the future of crypto.
01:27:09.000It's a crypto that, as long as it sits there, it's constantly degrading in value.
01:27:13.000You have one today, you're losing 0.001% of that every day, so you're encouraged to spend it.
01:27:24.000And just to add to your point, the BlackRock CEO came out not so long ago, and he said this Ukrainian war could be used to, quote, accelerate the use of central bank digital currencies.
01:27:34.000So these Fed coins, these coins orchestrated by the Federal Reserves and central banks, are already being implemented in places like Canada and Australia.
01:27:44.000Federal Reserve is talking about implementing one here in the United States.
01:27:48.000So a lot of people foresee A deliberate brought-on economic calamity that's engineered here in the United States in order to bring on these centralized digital currencies which of course will track trace and database and also create a social credit score like system that will track how much carbon you produce that will of course also punish you for your wrong political thoughts.
01:28:09.000This is what PayPal is probably working on on the back end.
01:28:12.000This is what the Federal Reserve is already working on and implementing in many other countries which should scare the utter crap out of everyone paying attention right now.
01:28:20.000I think it's inevitable that the writing's been on the wall since maybe the 1980s.
01:28:24.000Really, since the Federal Reserve formed and realized, yo, we're just going to inflate this thing until we can't anymore.
01:28:29.000They have to have some future vision of what it's going to become, and it doesn't surprise me that it's a global, trackable currency that's digital and can be shut off with the flip of a switch.
01:28:38.000Where did you see that they said Ethereum would be like that global currency?
01:28:41.000Let's see if I can find an article about it.
01:28:52.000You mentioned it was the first in, best dressed.
01:28:55.000So it's not necessarily the best one, but it came in looking good and it worked.
01:28:58.000But the best thing about it is that it's truly decentralized and many of these other cryptos are centralized in some capacity.
01:29:05.000There was some controversy with a particular coin I'm not going to mention because it's proprietary, but people were shocked to discover that they increased the volume when they said they couldn't, and they did!
01:29:13.000Because when you have centralized digital currency, they can control it.
01:29:42.000Ethereum provides the possibility for an infinite supply.
01:29:44.000What'll happen is you'll be, like you were saying, you're staking the Ethereum, which means that you put some into a node, and then that node generates interest.
01:29:51.000I think it's actually, this I don't know exactly if it's written into the code of the Ethereum 2 itself, that it auto-generates interest, and so it's set to expand at a certain rate.
01:30:00.000But what'll happen is we'll each have our own nodes, people will probably start selling you little boxes you plug into your wall, and you Tap into you with your phone and your Ethereum is going to be on your wall, which is dangerous because someone can steal that.
01:30:10.000So then we'll create these like bank nodes that are like 10 miles away in a very secure location.
01:30:15.000There's a node that you can port into with your phone where all your Ethereum is stored, collecting you interest.
01:30:20.000And then there'll be, maybe there'll be a master node in Bank of International Settlements in Switzerland.
01:30:24.000Who knows where they're going to put the master node, but eventually they'll start noting up and then re-centralize the thing.
01:30:54.000But Ethereum, And as it advances more, can do really fast processing and can be used for something like a cryptocurrency that you use every day of life that is not controlled by a bank.
01:31:05.000It's controlled by the Ethereum blockchain.
01:31:07.000But if a bank owns 51% of the chain, or if a cabal of people owns 51%, it's not likely, but it is a possibility.
01:31:17.000And I think we should resolve every contingency when we're planning a future of global currency.
01:31:23.000If it can be done, it may very well be done.
01:31:25.000So we should watch out for people taking control of the nodes.
01:31:29.000You can track everybody, you know, with Bitcoin.
01:31:32.000I believe the Ethereum chain, it's all publicly available as well, right?
01:32:21.000This sings the praises of it, and all of a sudden they're like, this is our way out of the machine.
01:32:25.000And the machine is just like, ooh, we love that everyone's adopting this universal digital currency that can track every move you make.
01:32:31.000Another reason why the World Economic Forum and the global monetary system doesn't like Bitcoin but they prefer Ethereum is because Bitcoin's energy intensive, the mining process requires that you have a GPU plugged into a wall, it's burning a lot of coal or whatever, your power, whereas the proof-of-stake stuff, it's just...
01:32:47.000The digital code on some node somewhere is just repopulating and adding new gain.
01:32:54.000It doesn't require any mining electricity.
01:33:54.000And if the grid's down but you can still contact me, I know that, you know, you own 15 Fortitudes and you are entitled to join Fortitude Ranch.
01:34:04.000Because when the shit hits the fan for Fortitude Ranch, And everyone wants to join.
01:34:09.000We've got a page ready to come up on our website that says we're no longer accepting cash memberships.
01:34:14.000You can only join with Fortitude tokens because people have bought them in the past.
01:34:19.000Part of the allure is if you own Fortitudes, you're not a member of Fortitude Ranch, but we will give you priority to join over cash buyers.
01:35:34.000He says, be corporations part of the stakeholder economy.
01:35:37.000Help make sure that your money is going to the local economy and fight shareholder primacy.
01:35:42.000It also ties the mission statement to the corporation, even with other owners' investment.
01:35:48.000Yeah, you could like, that's what I was talking about, like nodes, like 10 miles away where like 10,000 people are hosting their money, then you could withdraw taxes from the node to finance surrounding projects and stuff, localized taxing and things like that.
01:36:49.000We've got I think Timcast IRL has like 300,000 subscribers on rumble and My Timcast channel has like 300,000 I think as well my Tim pool channel doesn't so we just we're moving that segment over the Timcast one more than most of the subscribers are but it's cool to see that There's actually some rivaling happening to YouTube.
01:37:08.000The fact that I've got hundreds of thousands of subs on this platform makes it a viable platform to keep using.
01:37:12.000If YouTube wants to play dirty games, the market shall provide.
01:37:16.000Not a guarantee it's not the best, but, you know.
01:37:19.000But that being said, that's why we use Parallel Economy.
01:37:22.000Shout out Dan Bongino, who I think is doing more than most when it comes to actually building a parallel economy and pushing back on the censorship, because Rumble and Parallel Economy are huge I think, here's what we need.
01:37:35.000We got a brick and mortar location coming soon for something.
01:37:38.000It's gonna be a hangout, venue, club, games.
01:37:41.000I'm hoping that Parallel Economy can actually set up pay terminals so that we can use them for our general payment processing as well, because we need stores to start doing that stuff.
01:37:48.000Then you can't get silence censored or shut down for what your business is.
01:37:53.000And if you use the Public Square app, which will show you a list of businesses that support American values, all of those businesses should also be using Parallel Economy.
01:38:46.000There are people who have signed up to simcast.com using PayPal.
01:38:49.000These are people who are probably not super fans of the show, but they're fans enough to be like, yeah, you know, I'll sign up, I'll support the guy.
01:38:57.000They don't really pay attention that much.
01:38:58.000When they cancel their account, they don't come back to the website and re-sign up.
01:39:02.000Those are customers that we have to try and email and ask, be like, hey, did you still want to be a member?
01:39:06.000So when we lose that money, because PayPal published a false statement, I think they're responsible and they should have to pay the damages to every single business because of that error.
01:39:16.000You don't get to like, you know, if you're a repairman and you're coming to fix my window and then you break it, you gotta pay for it.
01:39:28.000If you're putting on a show and one day the venue's like, and we're not letting anyone in that isn't 6'7 or has green hair or didn't get their vaccine, then you as like a performer that has tickets bought and then you lose all this money on your tickets, all these refunds, you can probably go after the venue for that.
01:39:44.000You book a show at a venue, people are buying tickets, and the venue comes out and announces they're taking everyone's tickets away at their own discretion, so people rip their tickets up and leave and demand refunds.
01:39:54.000And now I'm left with no money because the venue comes out and says, no, no, no, no, that wasn't a real statement, that was fake.
01:39:59.000And I'm like, okay, well, now that my show's ruined and my business has been destroyed because of what you just did, you gotta pay.
01:40:14.000All right, President Irina Vladimirovna says, one of the things related to the World Economic Forum You Will Own Nothing shtick that I don't see many people talking about is the insane amount of subscription-based services like Spotify.
01:40:27.000I recently bought a custom Zune so all of my music is kept offline and safe.
01:40:32.000Good idea, because people are buying their way into communism.
01:40:58.000And so once a month we get a thing, like we have 30 employees, we have this 12,000 square foot facility, So we gotta, you know, we gotta keep the bathroom stocked up.
01:41:08.000There's automated subscription processing, and then in 20 years, when Amazon owns every single business, you will have a subscription to Amazon for your services, and you won't realize it, but you will have bought your way into Congress.
01:41:19.000The tactic is like, we'll give you 10% off if you subscribe for a monthly purchase.
01:41:23.000And then when you forget that you're subscribed that one extra month, it pays off the 10% gain that you had.
01:41:28.000And they're just hoping people forget.
01:41:30.000And that's the danger for businesses is it's good to have an accountant going through all the order lists every time, every month, so that you're not accidentally ordering things you don't need.
01:43:22.000How are you supposed to negotiate with a group of people that are like that?
01:43:24.000When they're just like, I don't know, I don't care, I won't watch him, and you're dumb.
01:43:29.000What do you do, like, you were in the military, I don't know if you worked with conflict resolution much, but like, if you're up against, like, the Taliban, how do you end up negotiating?
01:43:36.000You just take one of their leaders and you give them a lucrative bribe to negotiate with the entire group?
01:43:41.000The military doesn't really get into the negotiation.
01:43:43.000It's supposed to be the State Department handling that, so...
01:44:54.000has not been holding Iran back from their nuclear weapons program, and there's a lot of concern that Saudis are worried about that, but they want oil prices to go up, and Russia's helping them on that, so they're playing their economic interests, and Iran is an ally of Russia, and they're doing what they've got to do to protect their own self-interest.
01:45:34.000Biden's going to be sending air defense.
01:45:36.000So when the news reports come out and they're like, Putin's forces are routed and retreating, I'm like, you know, he's fighting like a military alliance.
01:45:45.000Granted, I do think it's all propaganda.
01:45:47.000And I think Russia's probably doing better in certain areas than you'd ever find out because they're not going to come out and be like, yes, all of our troops are losing.
01:46:45.000It's going to be a long time for them to build that force up, and it's not a ready-to-go force.
01:46:49.000And they're going to continue to go badly, which is why the risk of them escalating the nuclear weapons use Or some other retaliation against us like a bio-attack is very real now.
01:47:00.000Alright, insert name here says YouTube is giving zero TP notifications now.
01:47:05.000I have to deliberately search for you.
01:47:07.000Also, shameless plug for my friend who released a poetry book, Our Little Black Book by Ren Ivy for some distraction.
01:47:13.000And almostLastJedi says YouTube have reached a new low.
01:47:17.000As well as not getting notifications, I got unsubscribed today.
01:47:20.000Wonder why I couldn't find the livestream.
01:47:23.000And, uh, today was one of those days where Ian reminded me at the last minute, the thumbnail doesn't go up.
01:47:28.000When we launch the livestream, the thumbnail is a grey block.
01:47:32.000And I have to immediately then re-upload the thumbnail.
01:47:34.000Otherwise, people scrolling through don't see it, and they wonder why it is they're not seeing it.
01:47:39.000It's because YouTube is playing dirty games.
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01:48:43.000Let me put it in a way that people who don't trust government might understand better.
01:48:47.000Like, for example, the preparedness committee, a lot of people say, oh, FEMA's going to do concentration camps against Americans.
01:48:53.000And that's been out there a lot, and it's absolute nonsense.
01:48:56.000The people who work for FEMA are largely good people.
01:48:59.000And if there was some massive conspiracy of FEMA concentration camps, if there was some program where the U.S.
01:49:05.000is secretly developing biological weapons, a lot of people would have to be involved in doing that, and the secret would eventually get out.
01:49:14.000If we had a biological weapons program, you would know about it.
01:49:20.000You don't have a lot of faith in the confidence of people in government, then why would you think that they can carry out some vast conspiracy, some brilliant conspiracy, and keep it secret?
01:49:54.000government isn't capable of these kind of organizational feats, then why would I assume that there's any effective intelligence or armaments happening or honest reporting as it pertains to Ukraine?
01:50:30.000can't operate, the government doesn't have the capability to operate, say, camps that they would use to bring people to in the event of some kind of crisis or catastrophe, then, I mean, you're assuming the government is incapable of doing something.
01:50:41.000I'm saying there is no FEMA plan in a kind of collapsed situation to round up Americans and put them in concentration camps.
01:50:47.000There is no plan that, you know, we're going to invite in United Nations troops to take over the country.
01:50:53.000You hear nonsense like this all the time.
01:50:56.000And, you know, even if it's legitimate, even if you believe it might be true, you probably don't trust government officials, so you shouldn't trust that there is a capability for them to, one, organize something like this, and then, two, to carry it out and to keep it secret.
01:51:09.000So don't worry about ridiculous sounding government conspiracy theories.
01:51:24.000They lied about the Vietnam War, the Gulf War I, Gulf War II, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan.
01:51:28.000They lied about so much, why would they not be lying now?
01:51:32.000And I think it's best to be skeptical of government and to quote, and to just quote Ronald Reagan here, I think the most terrifying words on the planet are, I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
01:51:42.000I've been criticizing government throughout your program, you know, the avian flu research that was, not so much that it was done, the fact that they published it.
01:51:50.000That's what bothered me the most about it, was publishing the how do you make avian flu mammal-to-mammal ferrets and their research, but human-to-human transmission.
01:52:00.000I'm not a huge fan of government, but the conspiracy theories of, hey, we've got FEMA concentration camps are in the war, our United Nation troops are going to be invited in to take over the country, or that we're developing biological weapons, it's not... Was it a conspiracy?
01:52:15.000Was it a conspiracy when the United States interned Japanese people in camps?
01:52:20.000So why would you say it's impossible to happen when it happened before?
01:52:24.000I'm saying there is no FEMA program to set up concentration camps against Americans or to bring in United Nations troops.
01:52:30.000I run into people who believe that and it's just nonsense.
01:52:33.000What you ought to believe in is real threats like Russia using nuclear weapons, like a biological agent, like human-to-human Transmissibility.
01:53:41.000If something bad happened, George W. Bush already signed National Security Presidential Directive 51, meaning they have the intention to do it, if they so wanted.
01:54:00.000But to say that the US doesn't have a plan for it, perhaps, but they've expressed intent, if need be, the facilities and the individuals, if they need be.
01:54:12.000So the president's changed quite a few times since George Bush.
01:54:15.000So you're saying that somehow during all these presidential No, no, no, hold on.
01:54:25.000National Security Presidential Directive 51 is an executive order that does exist and was updated by Barack Obama.
01:54:32.000In the event of a catastrophic loss of life or damage to the US as the result of an incident that occurs anywhere on the planet, The president has the authority to essentially introduce a new government to supersede the current one, a new constitutional government, and create a national continuity coordinator who would oversee the new mono-government that exists.
01:54:59.000Now, the point is, this executive order exists.
01:55:04.000The president, this was in 2007, I believe, asserted the authority to basically overwrite existing law due to a major emergency and the need for continuity of government.
01:55:15.000It's been challenged because people say, well, it's never been challenged.
01:55:18.000The challenge to it is that it's never actually faced Supreme Court scrutiny, so they don't think it would fly.
01:55:23.000However, in the event of a catastrophic event affecting the government, who's going to bring it to the Supreme Court?
01:55:29.000The point is, Barack Obama updated it.
01:55:32.000It is a component of the federal government and the executive branch, although many people do challenge its authority.
01:56:01.000There is the intention for the government to wipe out people's laws, you know, wipe out the laws, enforce a new law at their own discretion to remove undesirables.
01:56:10.000There is the capability to do it, and there are the facilities to do it.
01:56:14.000So if people are concerned it may happen, look, If somebody, you know, is stacking up dynamite in front of a building and they say, don't worry, we have no intention of blowing it up and they're lining the building with it and they're like, I've got a real concern, you might do that.
01:56:26.000They can be like, nobody here wants to do that.
01:56:49.000government even spread radioactive waste inside of the United States.
01:56:55.000There's historical documented cases of the government doing large biological testing, especially even with radiation, on unsuspecting American public.
01:57:04.000So why would you ever believe that that is not ever possible ever again?
01:59:54.000I assume if it's Amazon and they were talking about it, yeah.
01:59:56.000I went to that one in Seattle and we did a little stunt where we proved it's really easy to just take whatever you want without paying for it.
02:01:22.000We've got a lot more fun stuff to talk about, a lot of creepy stuff to talk about, because you know how it gets a little spicy on the members-only show.