2:30:38 All right, getting back to my topics here. I wanna bring your attention to let's see the Pentagon's desperate doomed plan to turn Ford and GM into weapons factories that's the title of my second story that i have there on natural news if you scroll down there is another infographic there but I want to bring people's attention too So it was reported yesterday by the Wall Street Journal that Trump, or the White House is approaching US automakers and saying hey. Let's see if we can convert your auto factories into weapons factories. So number one this is a huge red flag that this war is going to be much larger and last much longer so that the plan is That you're gonna try to take these car factories that are already behind China
2:31:27 In terms of lack of automation, lack of innovation, lack of battery technology etc. And you're gonna try to then churn out weapons because we don't have enough because we're running out of weapons gave a bunch of weapons to Ukraine they burned them all up fighting Russia that didn't work gave a bunch of weapons to Israel they use them all bombing hospitals in Gaza gave a bunch of weapons to the Gulf state nations They burned them up, especially the air interceptors trying to stop Iran's incoming drones and missiles. And also that didn't work and then we've spent weeks bombing Iran just basically using up whatever munitions were left or close to it. So the panic in the Pentagon of The White House is that we don't have enough weapons remaining and we need to make more stuff so That's what you're seeing in the middle zone here on this infographic is let's see if we can make more stuff, more weapons but
2:32:22 The problem with all of this is it's not 1945, folks. It's not the 1950s. The United States of America isn't the industrial base of the world any longer We were post World War II, we could make anything. I mean that's how we won World War II essentially is we kept making stuff and shipping it over to the Europeans so they could use it or our troops can use it fighting the Nazis but we can make ships all kinds of supply ships filled with supplies an ammunition boots and artillery rounds tanks everything else
2:32:59 We don't do that anymore. That's long gone, China does that. China makes the robots, China makes the drones, China makes the automobiles. China has the largest GDP in the world larger than the United States by far at this point and it's been that way for a couple of years now but China has the manufacturing automation which allows China to churn out things like hypersonic missiles at $100000 each Whoa, that's a dirt cheap price. The US couldn't build a hypersonic missile for under $10 million probably. A hundred thousand dollars per missile? Yeah China can do that because they have incredible automation. China can churn out humanoid robots or dog robots which can be... They could mount rifles on the backs of the dog robots you've probably seen some of those videos
2:33:51 They can turn those out by the millions if they want to. They can churn out drones, including kamikaze drones combat drones by the millions we can't do that now granted I love the innovation that we do have with the small companies in America that are still making drones or making knives, swords or modern weapons. We still have artisans in America just not like it used to be. We don't have very many machinists and people who know how to make things and when it comes to making ships for the Navy Did you know that China has 200 times more naval shipyard capacity than the United States? 200 times. That's why the US Navy is contracting with South Korea to make some of our ships, cuz we don't have the ability to make them in America. So Trump going to Ford and saying hey Ford, why don't you make
2:34:47 I don't know, armored personnel carriers let's say. That's my guess. I don't know what he said exactly but or maybe go to GM and say can you make drones? Can you make artillery shells? Can you make whatever here is the problem and I own and run a large manufacturing facility. I know about quality control our lab as ISO accredited our facility is GMP Certified by the way, I know about this stuff. We in America we don't have a culture of quality Like Japan, for example. Toyota is a good example of that there's something called the Toyota way. Japan is meticulous about quality and supply chains. Japan will take every part from every supplier that comes in to make a Toyota and they will subject that part to laboratory testing. They'll use like ICPMS mass spec
2:35:44 with some acid to dissolve a metal part and then get the atomic breakdown of the elements to make sure it's at the right amount of nickel. It's the right amount of chromium, Toyota will test everything and that's why Toyota has quality even if it's assembled in America. It's still subject to Toyota supply chain quality control which is extensive and this has actually been Much of the great success of Toyota over the years is its quality. Well, in my view Ford doesn't have that you know the Ford F-150 Lightning was a total joke I think they even cancelled making that electric truck because it completely sucked and it wouldn't tow anything but there are other manufacturers in America That are just as bad I mean I've had these experiences myself
2:36:34 For example, let's take John Deere. It's a beloved American brand goes back what generations? I mean my grandfather would go by John Deere tractors for his farm and that's how I learned to use tractors was riding on old John Deere back in the 1970s. Well when I went to buy a John Deere compact track loader because it's a big machine you can use it for all kinds of ranch products and shredding and moving dirt and things like that I had only 75 hours on that machine before the entire left driver, the sprocket that drives the tracks. The entire left side of that thing broke just broke off 75 hours. That's considered almost brand new for a compact track loader any of you in construction? You know what i'm talking about? That whole thing broke off
2:37:23 And of course that was a warranty repair, I had to get John Deere to come out and fix it which they did. To their credit they fixed it and they told me that the cost to fix it was like thousands of dollars. And I said well what was the problem? Why did the whole sprocket fall off? They said well, It looks like nobody tightened the 24 bolts in the factory that hold this thing together. What do you mean they didn't tighten the bolts In the factory? You mean I've been driving around with an untightened sprocket for 75 hours and it just went kerplunk today. Yeah, that's pretty much what happened. That is an American quality control problem right there
2:38:00 Toyota wouldn't do that. Toyota would tighten the freaking bolts, you know? They would have a checkbox who tightened the bolts what time were the bolts tightened how many foot-pounds of tightness were on the bolts You know and there would be a signature and there would be a check box And there would be no probably a video camera like I saw you tighten the bolts right That's Toyota and increasingly China is moving in that direction in terms of their own quality as well in America At least in my experience, and look I love my country but our quality ethic is just not there anymore. In America it's like did you tighten the bolts? Yeah sure i did! And while they're smoking crack in the back alley whether they're working at Boeing or John Deere or Ford or wherever yeah smoking crack and uh tighten the bolts yeah in your head you tighten the bolts
2:38:48 And then it gets shipped, and then the customer gets it and it just falls apart. Which also released a bunch of hydraulic fluid all over my forest floor. That's another story. This is the problem in America so not only do we already have military weapons that frankly largely do not work Do not work The F-35 is famous for this It's a piece of junk right barely flies the toilets don't work on the USS Gerald R Ford. You would think that you could build a sewage system because, Sewage runs downhill and you would think you could at least have a sewage system that works but no, after $15 billion on a floating bio sludge hauler now. You can't even get the toilets to work that's insane and also they couldn't get the toilet to work on the Artemis spaceship that reportedly flew around the moon recently. And so the astronauts had to go in their own astronaut diapers. Can you imagine 10 days in an enclosed capsule with
2:39:52 Like three or four other astronauts all crapping themselves for ten days and you can't open the windows. Boy, yeah they are heroes for enduring that let me tell you I couldn't wait to get back to Earth need some fresh air but we can make toilets work in this country it's unbelievable no matter what the cost no matter how many billions they can make toilets work Are you telling me that were gonna make weapons now? That are going to compete with Russian weapons, the advanced Russian hypersonic missiles. The Kinzhal missiles, the Oreshnik missile system that is it's like a generation ahead of anything the US builds or what about Russia's electronic warfare systems? Or their air defense systems there are generation more advanced than anything in the U S and in China It's the same story their weapon systems are becoming increasingly capable
2:40:43 Far more advanced swarm technology of drones while we're still bragging about, we made a drone that can drop a grenade. That might have been news a decade ago that's not news in 2025 or 2026 I mean give me a break so my point is You can go to Ford and you can say, let's make some weapons. You're going to have to retool the whole factory. You're going to have to somehow find skilled workers which practically do not exist anymore because we don't have machinists. We don't have very many skilled welders anything like that. I mean, we have a few but not many It's a lost skill set for America. So then Ford, in my opinion will be churning out weapons that don't work which is pretty much where we are right now so instead of having no weapons that don't work will have more weapons that also don't work and That's supposed to be the plan of how to beat China Which brings me to the most important point here this is all about going to war with China
2:41:40 And the shutting off of oil from Venezuela to China was a key part of this. Now, the shutting off of the Strait of Hormuz is it's a try to interdict oil going to China well China gets oil from a lot of countries, by the way. It's not just out of the Persian Gulf and also China is allies with Russia and Russia can provide China with gas and oil in fact They have a pipeline that they're building from the Yamal Gas fields in northwestern Russia That's that pipeline is gonna go through Mongolia right into the northern industrial cities of China And that's gonna carry I think 50 billion cubic meters of gas to China every year
2:42:17 Instead of Europe, so Europe's industry is collapsing. China's industry is going to have cheap affordable I mean affordable high volume energy to be able to power their factories and power the creation of polymers and chemicals And all of the byproducts of hydrocarbons which includes everything from resins and adhesives and paints and coatings Everything you can imagine that's all gonna be coming out of China plus they have the rare earths So you're not gonna be able to strangle China by cutting off their oil supply. That's a fantasy, you're not gonna be able to strangle China. All you're gonna do is force China to have new supply chains or to develop more things themselves. For example we thought in America that we could
2:43:02 Halt China's advancement in AI technology by banning the export of microchips to China and Banning the export of UV lithography equipment out of European countries to China You know, that's the equipment that you use to make microchips and we thought oh, that's great. We're gonna we're gonna just block China They'll never be able to make microchips Yeah well The problem with that is China has got a zillion engineers and math experts And you know, you saw them in your college class if you went to college. These are the people that were beating you in all the math classes and they went back to China and then they built
2:43:40 advanced AI systems like DeepSeek. And they built advanced physics and materials engineering, and now they've built UV lithography equipment over the next few years are going to be rolling that out China is going to make its own microchips Huawei has invented amazing microchips that the West didn't think were even possible. So this whole idea of saying all we're going to strangle China and that's how we're going to remain dominant and keep the petrodollar all powerful for It's delusional. It is not going to happen What you should do is trade with China You should trade with Russia, you should trade with Iran
2:44:18 If you want to have peace and abundance in a real golden age for America, you should trade with all of these countries around the world. Instead of bombing them and threatening them and sanctioning them and committing piracy on the high seas by raiding their tanker ships. It's always hilarious to me to hear Marco Rubio or Pete Hexeth talk about well that what they're doing is illegal but when we do it it's totally legit like when we commit piracy on the high seas are bombed buncha boats thats totally legit I mean, even JD Vance the other day admitted that what Iran has done in blocking the Strait of Hormuz is economic terrorism. And then he said well two can play at that game so we can be economic terrorists too. They're just openly admitting what they're doing this is not going to work folks it's going to thrust America into poverty and currency collapse and that's my concern here. So don't misread anything I'm saying here today
2:45:14 I love my country, I love America and I want it to succeed. And when I'm down on American quality and the insanity of what the Trump administration is doing right now is not because I hate my country's because I love my country. I want my country to do well. I want the American people to live in abundance and wealth and to have technology and innovation. The only way to do that at this point is to trade with the world not too coercive threatening bomb I mean, that's my thesis here for today. And we're on the wrong path that's gonna end up with the US being completely impoverished with the currency collapsing and the American people dumpster diving for food and living in a third world nation. In fact if you wanna see a preview of what's to come from America just go to any airport in America it looks like a collapsed Third World Airport right now almost any airport. It's crazy
2:46:09 When I was living and traveling in South America, I saw a lot of run down like dumpster airports there. Now that's America. The potholes don't get repaired the bridges can't get fixed. Here we are what was it? Was it Baltimore when that bridge got torn down or run into by a barge where are we like a couple years now that thing isn't even rebuilt Where Iran, we bombed that bridge in Iran. That bridge is almost functioning again did you know that? They fixed that bridge in days! We can't fix a bridge in years What's wrong? What happened to American ingenuity and innovation, and the can-do pioneer attitude that made us the greatest country in the world at one time. But now we are a failing empire, and the people running this empire in my view are on the wrong path. And we need to strongly encourage them to make a U turn you should make peace with Iran You should divorce
2:47:09 AIPAC and Israel that's driving us in the wrong direction on every single policy. You should make peace with Russia, and China and Brazil make peace with the world then reinvigorate our own education system And start churning out the level of engineers and architects and brilliant minds that America has proven itself to be capable love That's the way that we make America great again, not by bombing everybody else into oblivion and punishing and sanctioning everybody else. But rather by turning our expenditures and investments domestic so that we invest in the American people, we invest in our own infrastructure. We should have railroads that aren't a total joke of the world.
2:47:54 We should have high speed rail in this country. We don't have any high speed rail, we have old clickety clack practically steam locomotives running around. I mean it's a joke honestly it's a joke to the whole world what has happened to America? We can still turn it around but it's gonna take some real effort in order to do so and I don't see any political willingness to be able to do that yeah they're showing a graphic the S&P 500 rallies to all time high yeah Fake stock market valuations don't create abundance. And manipulation of gold and silver markets, manipulation of oil markets that doesn't create abundance. So just because you log into a web page and you see numbers on your screen so I'm rich because I own this stock. I own this portfolio and the numbers are higher. That doesn't mean anything when the great taking comes they just take it from you just like that you
2:48:50 You don't even have your name on the shares of those companies. They'll just declare force majeure and take everything, the great taking there will be bank bail ins and ultimately they're gonna try to switch you over to a CBDC bailout where you give up all your autonomy, your privacy, you give up all your power over your own money by participating in a CBDC system that's what's coming so How do you resolve all of this? Decentralize your life. Own gold and silver, own some private crypto not Bitcoin but privacy oriented crypto grow as much of your own food as you can pay off your debts if you can don't take on a bunch of new debts Don't become dependent on the system Own the title to your house and your land have stored diesel
2:49:42 because it's becoming extremely valuable. Learn skills, know how to do things that matter to make yourself more self-reliant, more independent and resilient against systemic breakdowns that are coming. That's the answer and that's what I teach every single day. And well let me mention this we've got 50 000 books available that you can download for free at books.brightlearn.ai You can download all the books for free. We've got 250 audio books that are also free now, just MP3 files no DRM nothing nope no copyright protection to download and learn. Learn the skills you need learn about how to build things how to gather sunlight and have your own off grid energy supply. Learn and grow and you can make it through all of this that's my positive message here at the end of today show. You can make it through
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