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WW3 Update | The Failing World Order w/ Alex Krainer
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Alex Krainer, a former hedge fund manager and author of three books, joins us today to talk about the craziness going on in the world.
Links to Alex's work:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/NakedHedgie
Web: https://thenakedhedgie.com/
I-System Trend Following: https://isystem-tf.com/
Substack: https://substack.com/profile/21365744-alex-krainer
Download his two books on trading here: https://isystem-tf.com/about/
Grand Deception: The Truth About Bill Browder, the Magnitsky Act, and Anti-Russian Sanctions: https://www.redpillpress.com/shop/grand-deception-bill-browder-magnitsky-act-russian-sanctions/
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Introduction with Guest Alex Crainer
00:00:01
Speaker
Welcome back to the Connecting Minds podcast, Christian Jourdanoff here. Today we have our returning guest, Alex Crainer. Alex, thanks for coming back, Boro. Hey, it's my pleasure, Chris. Always good to connect again. And warm greetings from Monaco to all the viewers and listeners.
00:00:21
Speaker
Yeah, man. Great to have you on. It's been, I don't know, I guess six, seven months or so since we last spoke. Is that right? Or maybe, maybe less. I don't know. Maybe it was April, May, maybe, maybe less. Just time is a blur. You know, kind of, especially when you have a small child to me, like every day, every day it's extremely vibrantly unique and different, but it also feels like the same thing every day. So I don't know.
Personal Reflections and Global Concerns
00:00:50
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I don't know what's going on.
00:00:51
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But yeah, let's talk about, I guess, what's interesting to me is what the hell is going on in the world. I know you would be much more informed than myself because maybe for the last year or so, I've kind of decided to just plunge myself into my health work for the most part. And I've been doing less research on other events and stuff like that. And to be perfectly honest, I've been feeling a lot happier.
00:01:19
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a lot less like the world is ending. Even the last time we spoke, I was probably coming out of some kind of depression that I was in last year over the apocalypse, World War III, the population, and so on and so forth. So do you want to kind of give us your view of what
Analyzing the Gaza and Palestine Conflict
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the sort of stuff that's going on going around Gaza and Palestine. What is in the grand scheme of things? What is going on there? What piece of the puzzle are we looking at there? Some of the things that are going on, we will never know, because I strongly suspect that this was planned and provoked this, you know, the
00:02:06
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the 7 October 2023 terror attack by Hamas on Israel. And the reason why I suspect that it was provoked and planned is because I have now seen four different testimonials from Israeli soldiers or members of the Israeli intelligence
00:02:35
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and one of them is actually a personal friend of mine with whom I spoke about this, who has said that it's just simply not possible that this magnitude of a failure just happened.
00:02:51
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and that Hamas terrorists were able to breach Israeli border in 15 places and rampage around for seven or eight hours. They told me, my friend who was part of the Israeli intelligence working at the Gaza border,
00:03:17
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She told me that they knew every little thing that Hamas was doing, that they had 100 human assets in Gaza, close to Hamas. They knew everything.
Israel's Response and Alternative Actions
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We also know that the Israelis had warnings from the Egyptian intelligence that something would imminently happen.
00:03:45
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from the US intelligence that something would imminently happen. I have found an interview on Al Jazeera by Hamas's number two, who is actually stationed in the West Bank. I forget his name right now.
00:04:06
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He gave an interview to Al Jazeera in September, so less than a month. I think it was 12 September that this interview aired, less than a month before the attacks. And he was talking about them actually actively planning attacks in Israel.
00:04:30
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And these attacks were planned for, depending on who you asked for, for a year or even two years. And so there was, there was, there was a whole series of unlikely failures that made it possible for this to happen, which kind of leads you to the conclusion that they let it happen.
Geopolitical Strategies and Planned Conflicts
00:04:56
Speaker
And they let it happen because what they are doing now and what are we, 22 October, they've been bombing Gaza for what, 12, 13 days, about a thousand bombs a day. They've killed thousands of people in Gaza, 4,000, 5,000 people. It's hard to keep up. That this is what they wanted to do, that this is exactly what they wanted to do.
00:05:23
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They launched attacks into Lebanon, they launched attacks into Syria multiple times. It's almost as if they want to escalate things to the max, that they want to precipitate some kind of a regional conflagration. And, you know, if they're doing something that risky, that reckless and destructive,
00:05:48
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then there has got to be some kind of a rationale behind it. It's not random because, you know, Israel, let's face it, Israel does have other options. They did have other options. For example, there was a group of terrorists that attacked Israel on 7th October. Well, they were Hamas militants.
00:06:09
Speaker
Okay, so one of the things that Israel did was they cut off water, fuel, food, medicine, electricity to Gaza, and then they started bombing. Could they not have done the same, cut off water, fuel, electricity, medicine, fuel, food, and then said, okay, now you're gonna hand over the ones who did this,
00:06:38
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And we want an independent investigation and we want Israeli investigators and international investigators to be on the team, to go into Gaza, to find these people, to apprehend them and to bring them to justice, right? That was an option. And, you know, if you cut people off from food and water and fuel and electricity, then, you know, they might say, OK, you can have these people.
00:07:04
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What they've done was horrible and we're going to help you identify them and arrest them and bring them to justice in Israel. But
Western Powers and Middle East Orchestration
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they didn't even ask for that. They just went straight on for maximum damage. And so to my mind, there has got to be a rationale of why this is being done. And I tend to
00:07:34
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try to see the thing not just as a conflict between Palestinians and Israelis, because this has been going on for a very long time, but in the broader scheme of things. And it seems to me that the event strangely coincided with A, the West finally
00:07:59
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realizing that their whole gambit in Ukraine has failed. And that right now there's not even a theoretical chance of them salvaging Ukraine. And Ukraine was extremely important to them. The Polish president said that if we lose Ukraine, we lose the world for generations.
00:08:28
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Their whole scheme, their global world order that they were going to expand and make it the new world order has actually collapsed on them. So they needed to open a new front. And then at the same time, the government of Benjamin Netanyahu was in deep, deep trouble. And he himself was
00:09:00
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in a short order would have been swept out of power and almost certainly ended up in prison. So it was, you know, it's kind of convenient for him. And then I think that opening the second front in the Pacific against China, it seems to me that they changed their mind. And the reason why I think that is because
Financial Leverage and Geopolitical Shifts
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through the summer, we had a whole series of
00:09:31
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visits between American, you know, diplomats and that, you know, they went to China to talk to China and a lot of it was very, very bizarre. You know, they were giving very, these very strange statements, very bellicose statements, Blinken went there, made a mess of things. And then right after him, Janet Yellen went there and that was bizarre because
00:10:00
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We don't really know what was decided there. She was there for four days. I think she didn't meet with Xi Jinping, but she met with other government officials, with the Ministry of Finance and others. And neither the Chinese nor the American gave any clarification of what all that was about. So we are obliged to read between the lines. But it seems to me that
00:10:30
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China has financial leverage over the United States. That is, they still own something like seven, $800 billion worth of US bonds. And the United States is in a fiscal mess. American government is getting deeper and deeper into debt. This month they added
00:11:01
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I think $500 billion in the space of 18 days. So the public debt is at almost $34 trillion. It's over $33 trillion, close to 34. Interest rates are going up. So the debt servicing cost is rising.
00:11:28
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They blew, we don't really know how many billions in Ukraine, they say 115, whatever, but I think it's more than that because I remember a Reuters article when the US government was saying something like 90 billion, the Reuters article said something like 160 billion. So it's probably more than what we know. And none of it went well.
00:11:58
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So if they would escalate in China over Taiwan, then there was the risk that A, they already knew that militarily they couldn't win, but B, China could just dump all of the US Treasury bonds, which would collapse its price, which would
00:12:20
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further increase the interest rates on the markets. And it would oblige the Federal Reserve to just simply print dollars and monetize US debt out of thin air, which brings back inflation. So it's a whole mess. And I think that consequently maybe opening a new front in the Middle East was the preferable option.
00:12:50
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And there they have their little lap dog. Israel has their own lap dog there in the region, which is Hamas. And I suspect that the war and the carnage that we're witnessing now were planned and orchestrated. Another reason why I think this is because of what we know about Hamas, that Hamas is
00:13:21
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is the creation of Israeli secret services of the Israeli government. We know that they receive funding from Israel, from the United States, from Qatar. And obviously I know the one who pays the piper calls the tune. And so I think that the inner sanctum, the top
Influence of Western Agencies on Hamas
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leadership of Hamas
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are Western agents. They're wrapping themselves in the flag of Islam, whatever. And I think that a lot of people in Gaza who are members of Hamas as a political party and as their military wing are probably young men who earnestly want to break out of that open-air prison.
00:14:19
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But the, you know, the top of the pyramid are Western agents. So they will give directives probably in response to whatever they coordinate with, with the, you know, the Mossads, the CIA's, the MI6's of this world. And so at this point in time, detonating a war in the Middle East,
00:14:50
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was convenient to Netanyahu, to the Americans, to NATO, to quite a few parties in the West. So that's why I suspect that this is a planned, contrived attempt to destabilize the Middle East.
00:15:15
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to draw, to turn it into a wider regional war because everything that the Israeli government is doing is aimed at doing that. If you wanted to precipitate a wider regional war, then you would do exactly as the Israeli government is doing. And then you have the Western powers like the EU, Great Britain, France, and the United States who are
00:15:45
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On two occasions, shot down the United Nations resolution calling for a ceasefire. The White House gave their employees and the media instructions not to mention the words ceasefire,
00:16:08
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de-escalation, things like this. So it's very, very weird that they actually don't want to de-escalate. They don't want, how do you call it, a ceasefire and a mellowing out of the tensions. And now we see that Joe Biden is trying to use
00:16:37
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the US support for Israel as a Trump card to get funding for Ukraine. So, you know, they, they made the big package of a hundred billion dollars, which then turned into a hundred and five billion dollars because hey, you know, like if you're asking for a hundred, why not ask for a hundred and five, throw in just another five billion. What's that for a good measure? Yeah.
00:17:00
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and put it in a single package so that you give something to the supporters of Israel, you give something to the supporters of Ukraine, you throw in a little something for the border in the south and so in those 105 billion dollars everybody finds something interesting for themselves and then you try to
00:17:27
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prolong the agony of Ukraine with what they're planning to give Ukraine another 60 billion. So it all seems extremely strange. And I find it absolutely revolting that in the whole process, the people of Palestine and the people of Israel are being just used as cannon fodder, as sacrificial pawns. And it's as though people who are orchestrating these things
00:17:56
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absolutely don't care. And we know that they don't care because we saw how
Decline of Western Powers and Emerging Challenges
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the whole pandemic thing went in Israel. They used them as lab rats. Netanyahu was boasting about using Israel as the largest, I forget his words exactly, but he was boasting about this in the World Economic Forum, how Israel was going to be the largest live experiment for the mRNA vaccines and so forth.
00:18:24
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not a care in the world about what if this is actually harmful to my people. So he has shown his color that he's a loyalist to this globalist cabal, which is running the world into the mess that it is today. But anyway, these are all the reasons why I think that
00:18:50
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Things are not what they seem. We will probably never know the full truth because this is one of those awful events that people don't really own up to. Meaning, you know, people still pretend like they don't, they're not comfortable about talking about 9-11 what happened then. And people are still not comfortable talking about who assassinated John F. Kennedy or Robert F. Kennedy, MLK, you know, this is all,
00:19:20
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the stuff that, you know, the elephant in the room that you must pretend not to see. And so I think that the events in Israel will probably fall in that category. They're gonna contrive the official account that nobody really believes, but everybody's gonna go on pretending that that's what it was. Never forget and never mention anything about
00:19:45
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what happened actually yes yes exactly exactly and um okay anyhow you know as awful as all that sounds i i'm actually optimistic about where we're going because what we see is you know the the the ongoing collapse of the
00:20:10
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of the old systems, old structures of power, you know, the imperial colonial structures of power ruling the West who are now losing control of the situation. And, you know, they're opposed by most of the rest of the humanity. You know, we saw that. I think that just a few years ago, no, I mean, maybe just a year ago or two years ago before Joe Biden was in the White House.
00:20:40
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The idea that, you know, the president of Egypt, the president of the Palestinian Authority and Jordanian king would actually snob the president of the United States who flew over and he was going to go to Amman in Jordan to meet with the Jordanian king with the
00:21:04
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President Al Sisi of Egypt and the Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority and all three of them said, like, no, we don't want to talk to you. You know, that that these so, you know, what it tells you is that they're they're losing the loyalty and and respect of much of the rest of the world. And then on top of that, they have three major powers that are now
00:21:28
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opposed to them in real ways, being Russia, China, and Iran.
Public Resistance and Loss of Authority
00:21:36
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And so, you know, somebody's sitting at the table with a pair of twos, and they've lost all their chips. And now it seems to me that their only hope is to overturn the table and create such a mess that maybe they can somehow squeeze their way out intact.
00:21:58
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A new world order is coming and it's not going to be their order. And I think it's going to be better for everybody involved, except for the globalist cabal, the banking oligarchy in London and on Wall Street. So you don't think it's a controlled collapse? You think they are collapsing? No, no, I think they are collapsing. I think that's
00:22:28
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I think that's obvious because not only are they losing on the geopolitical plane, they are also being increasingly aggressive with their domestic populations. You know, we see this knee jerk
00:22:54
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reflex to more and more aggressive censorship. They're trying to silence people who tell the truth. They're forbidding protests against this and against that. It really seems that they've lost the plot.
00:23:18
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and that the world is turning against them.
Diminished Influence of Global Institutions
00:23:21
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Look, Germans, the Brits, the French, they forbid demonstrations in support of the Palestinian people. And you have an absolute flood of people in British, in French, in German cities.
00:23:41
Speaker
demonstrating in support of the Palestinian people. They say, oh, these are Hamas supporters. I don't think anybody is really a Hamas supporter. Anybody who's paying attention wouldn't support Hamas, but they do support the Palestinian people nonetheless. And the fact that the government's forbid it, well, so what are you going to do about it? You're going to arrest like 100,000 people. What are you going to do? So, you know, they're losing
00:24:10
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They're losing authority at home and their security, their hold on power largely depends on our compliance. They cannot force millions of their people, millions of French, British, Germans, Italians, Spaniards,
00:24:34
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You cannot force them to do what they don't want to do. You have to kind of sell them a story, sell them a narrative and kind of coerce them into compliance. But if that doesn't work, then you lost. So they're losing the war games and they're losing control at home.
00:24:56
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They overplayed their hand and even the most asleep people are starting to ask questions nowadays. Yes, exactly. They overplayed their hands massively and in a way that makes them look extraordinarily stupid. And then, you know, you lose respect. Well, remember World Economic Forum just a few years ago, there were these powerful people who met in Davos and
00:25:25
Speaker
Then they pronounce their, you know, plans and agendas and this and that and whatever. And we were all just, you know, every January watching it, what's going to come out of the World Economic Forum. And now they've become a laughing stock. And now there's a lot of people who used to go to the World Economic Forum who don't want to be seen there anymore.
00:25:48
Speaker
So I think the whole thing is rapidly coming apart and the way they're reacting to it with panic and with this frenzy, it seems to me that they're even accelerating their own demise.
Alex's Sub-stack and Positive Outlooks
00:26:08
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Yeah, I've noticed you have a lot of positivity in your sub-stack. I don't know, is it a newsletter? I don't know what that thing is called. But if you guys haven't subscribed to Alex's sub-stack, make sure you
Skepticism on CBDCs and Implementation Issues
00:26:25
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subscribe. His articles are really top notch. And Alex, I noticed your
00:26:30
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You are quite positive recently. You were talking about CBDCs, why they have no future. And that's one thing I'm thinking to myself, God, when this stuff comes, I'm going to have to resist for as long as possible. So I'm thinking, I'm already thinking, how am I going to barter
00:26:55
Speaker
for eggs and stuff like that. I get like basic necessities from a family. And I'm thinking to myself, I'm pretty handy. People need some handy work around their homes. I'm going, that's how I'm going to get my eggs and my tomatoes and stuff like that. What do you think? I, okay. So my article is. My, my contention is that CBDCs will fail.
00:27:26
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And the reason why I think that is because, okay, so let's first differentiate between CBDCs and electronic money, because electronic money is the stuff that we already have. You know, you use your credit card instead of cash, you're paying with electronic money. And so, you know, it's one thing if they try to deprive us of cash by forcing us all to use only electronic money, and that's bad.
00:27:55
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But CBDCs are a different thing. You know, CBDC stands for Central Bank Digital Currency. They're issued by central banks, right? And every individual and every company would have an account with the central bank. So no longer your, you know,
00:28:22
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Bank of America or, you know, Bank Paribas or Credit Suisse, whatever it may be, but an account with your country's central bank. And then they would eliminate the banks altogether. So, you know, going back to the Soviet system, this is what they had in Soviet times, except it wasn't electronic, it was cash. These currencies are intended to be programmable.
00:28:52
Speaker
That's the thing. And they wanted to attach like a whole system of permits and quotas and restrictions that they could, that they could restrict your access to your money because maybe you overstepped your carbon quota. You remember they were going to have individual carbon trackers.
00:29:19
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or you're not compliant with your vaccine schedules or whatever. Whatever rule they decide they're going to implement, then they could coerce you to comply by restricting your access to your own money.
00:29:38
Speaker
Or they could say, you may only from now on, you can only have a hundred grams of protein per week. And then if you try to buy that second burger or, you know, cricket burger, then they say, no, next week, maybe. So that's what they, that's what their intent is. And, you know, I spend a number of years in my life working on, uh,
00:30:06
Speaker
on development of relatively complex software systems. And so I have had firsthand experience in how extraordinarily difficult it is to build
00:30:22
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quality, robust, functional systems that are well-designed, that function smoothly, that are easy to maintain, and that have an evolution. There's a life cycle to that. It's very, very difficult. And what they're trying to build is simply insanely ambitious.
00:30:48
Speaker
And so I've been saying this for quite a while that this is never going to happen because the whole thing is demented. If you think that you're going to have control over hundreds of millions or billions of people and you're going to be implementing these rules about how much of this or that they can have and they have to have vaccines and not this and
00:31:10
Speaker
Did they have a speeding ticket? It's just crazy. This is never going to happen. And then you have to keep it secure. You have to keep it safe from hackers. I mean, forget it, Christian. It's just simply science fiction and we are light years away from it. And then, you know, I just recently learned that this year we had this, actually they ran
00:31:39
Speaker
their first large-scale test case of introducing a CBDC in Nigeria.
00:31:47
Speaker
And apparently, Nigeria was chosen by somebody in the Biden administration. And I think that the reason why they chose Nigeria is because it's a large market, 200 million people. But most of the people there don't have bank accounts. So there are no complex records that you have to transfer from banks to the central bank.
00:32:11
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And so they went with this. And well, it started with the referendum in Nigeria, where they asked people whether they want CBDC. Ninety nine point five percent of the people said no. And then the president of Nigeria issued an executive order saying like, well, we're doing it anyway. Never mind what you think, plebs, whatever you want. We're doing it anyway. And then, you know, the the central bank governor
00:32:42
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He was in charge of the project, but he got top-notch advisors from the IMF and from the World Economic Forum and from another organization called
Failed CBDCs and Alternative Markets
00:32:58
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I forget administration for industry and technology, something like this. And they chose this hyperledger architecture. This really was supposed to be a case study of success for CBDCs. So they gave it their best. The whole thing imploded in the space of 108 days.
00:33:27
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And they went hard. They announced that everybody had to convert all their Nairas. Naira is the name of the Nigeria currency. Returned to the bank, converted into Inaira, this new CBDC.
00:33:48
Speaker
And they gave them like a date by, you know, and after that date, all the NIRAs were worthless. You could only use the E-NIRAs. It created complete chaos in the country. It destroyed a lot of businesses because, you know, people didn't really, you know, about 20% of people converted their money. Others didn't. And then from one day to the next, the paper cash became worthless. You couldn't use it anymore.
00:34:16
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And people didn't have anything else. So the businesses that depended on most of the small businesses around the country went bust. They had to shut down because people didn't have money to pay for anything. They couldn't transact.
00:34:31
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And then people invented using matchsticks in other ways. People patched up. They started creating alternative markets and entrepreneurs gave people longer credit lines to pay back later. And the economy kind of
00:34:50
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resurrected itself slowly, but this whole experiment failed and it failed miserably. And in large part, because of the problems that I was talking about, it's extremely difficult to do this. And what happens if you try to force people into something that's unclear, inconvenient, overly restricted,
00:35:17
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people reject it, they start forming gray markets and blame black markets. And what happens there is that, you know, these black markets start to evolve very rapidly, because they're, they're catering to the unmet needs in the in the in the, you know, let's call it legitimate
00:35:37
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government sanctioned markets. And they also become very attractive to the people and to the entrepreneurs, you know, because they function like real free markets. So whatever people need, some entrepreneur is going to think like, well, this is a way for me to make money. And then they, you know, they bring it to the market and people know that they can find it there. And so, you know, if you if you do that,
00:36:02
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The next thing that happened is that the government fiscal position goes from bad to a lot worse because they don't collect any taxes on black market transactions. So it's a huge problem for the government and this is why the governments cannot tolerate a failed system for more than so long because they cannot fund the government agencies
Nigeria's CBDC Failure and Consequences
00:36:25
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anymore. They cannot pay the government employees anymore. They cannot pay the pensions anymore. So it's like a whole massive train wreck.
00:36:33
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And so it failed in 108 days. The president of Nigeria was wiped off the political map in the very next elections, in the first election since introduction of this CBDC. And the governor of the central bank ended up in prison. Wow. Okay, they arrested him. And now I'm not sure if he's still in prison, but he was arrested.
00:37:03
Speaker
Then he was released for a few days after, I think he was in prison for seven days, then they released him, but then they re-arrested him. And the last time, this was in June of this year, and last thing I heard he was still in prison, but you know, somebody told me that he was since released, but I'm not sure that he was. So the whole thing was a failure. And now
00:37:27
Speaker
You know, obviously the best know-how and the best technology that was at disposal of the World Economic Forum and IMF and all these, you know, ghouls, obviously didn't do what they hoped it would do.
00:37:45
Speaker
And now they lost confidence, you know, and not only that, but it's going to be very difficult for them to persuade another government and another central banker to try to do the same because, you know, who wants to lose the next election and which central bank government wants to risk going to prison. And, you know, in some countries, they might get a death sentence for doing stuff like that.
00:38:10
Speaker
So it's going to be very, very difficult for them to regain credibility. Obviously, this Nigeria story hasn't been publicized a lot.
Community Connections and Traditional Skills
00:38:20
Speaker
And, you know, like when I published my article, I had people write back, you know, the feedback was, oh, my God, you know, like I'm I like read everything. I read the news all the time.
00:38:34
Speaker
I never heard of this Nigeria case. How is that? Well, obviously, they're trying to make it go away because it's massively embarrassing. And it's also making the whole idea of these CBDCs extremely unattractive to everybody. So I, you know, Christian, I don't think this is going to happen.
00:38:53
Speaker
anytime soon. I think it's very good to be a handyman and I think it's very good to connect with your community and to be useful to your community. I think that's probably one of the most important ways in which any one of us can have it easier through a crisis that is obviously coming our way.
Impractical Technologies and Societal Impact
00:39:20
Speaker
But I think that CBDCs are not
00:39:25
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going to be the major part of the problem that we're going to be facing. Yeah, I also can do sports massage. That's another thing I'm qualified in. Lots of qualifications. Can do lots of things, man. I can sing lullabies, whatever you need. But no, what you said about software in general, because I've worked in the software industry as well, it is literally, and we talked about this before about AI and
00:39:56
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what a flop that is gonna be is and it already is you know but um yeah it's the the thing about so if you look at the body it's a complex system but it's a self-regulating system yes there's a lot of inputs and outputs that you can modulate and but if you look at the systems
00:40:17
Speaker
they're building, they're not complex, they're complicated. And in there lie the seeds of their own destruction. Because if you
00:40:35
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Demoralize people or you you know take their freedom away eventually. They're just gonna give up following your your orders your plans and like the whole They they think they're gonna have Robots executing this these these plans for them, but I think all that stuff with those robot dogs and whatever I think a lot of that is Just scaremongering scaring the people into compliance. Oh, yeah
00:41:05
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Yeah, those robot dogs are also a good example. I mean, that's such a dumb thing. I mean, you know, it has to be charged. It has to have a battery. It's so vulnerable. You can throw a blanket over it. You can spray paint the sensors. I mean, there's so many different things that you can do.
00:41:32
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And they keep spending these billions and billions on solutions that are so complicated, such overkill, so unnecessary, because I think the whole system is predicated on spending large amounts of money on pipe dreams, on unicorn ideas. Urocracy as well. Yeah. Yeah. And you know... RD.
00:42:00
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Yeah and one of my favorite, somebody told me this, that apparently when NASA was preparing their astronauts to go into space,
00:42:16
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Then one of the, one of the problems that they had is that, you know, the pen, the classic pen doesn't really work unless there's a gravity that makes the ink go down. NASA spent like a million dollars developing a pen that works in gravity free environment. The Russians took a pencil.
00:42:40
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And it's not because the Russians are clever and Americans are stupid, but because in the United States and in the West collectively, all these bureaucracies are strongly inclined to spend a lot of money.
00:42:59
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just spend. Because if you don't spend all of your budget, the next year, your budget might be smaller. So people are like, spend all this money on like invent. And then when people who want money, who want grants and funding for their R&D and project, then they come up with these fantastic ideas. And the bureaucrats in power think like,
00:43:21
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oh cool i guess i could spend money on this and i was like here's money develop a weightless pen for a million dollars because if you say like well we can just go with the pencil then like no no no no no no we have to spend money
00:43:37
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Yeah, man. And so, you know, we end up we end up with a lot of silly stuff like robot dogs and and these even these, you know, like there was a big thing about a couple of years ago, if you remember, when Amazon and DHL and UPS, they all got on this bandwagon about drones delivering parcels. Yeah. Do you remember that? That was going to be a big thing.
00:44:03
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She's gonna order something and the drone is gonna just drop it on your driveway. Yeah. Did you receive any parcels by drone? This was 10 years ago, by the way.
00:44:16
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Maybe longer. You never saw that, right? It just went away. But they spent hundreds of millions of dollars on that. Maybe billions. I don't know. And do you think those are clandestine sort of military operations test, you know, research like NASA was doing for rockets and whatever else?
00:44:38
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I wouldn't give them that much credit, you know, they'll be too clever. I kind of don't think so. But you know, it's probable that the military is paying attention to all these things. And if, if by some mistake, they develop something clever, then, you know, they, they're gonna get their claws into it. Sure. And then I also, you know, like, I'm following this guy with, you know, this, this, this, this jet man, I forget what it's called.
00:45:09
Speaker
There's this guy who always has stuff on LinkedIn and elsewhere. I think this is a British military development, but he has these jet engines in his arms and on his legs and then he flies for real. Nice. And it works. And I actually saw them once here. I'm sitting in Monaco and they were doing those exercises over the sea. He was flying around or somebody was flying around in that thing.
00:45:39
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Amazing. Well, you know, honestly, that would be so useful if you somehow were able to grow a third and a fourth arm. Because, you know, when you're flying with that thing, both of your arms are busy. What are you going to shoot a gun with?
00:46:00
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So, you know, what's the point of and then they say like, oh, yeah, it will be very useful for rescue in the mountain because you can fly up to, you know, whoever needs rescue. Yeah. Well, and then what are you going to do? How are you going to bring them down? I mean, it doesn't matter just so long as we get to spend a lot of money and pretend how many.
Future of Functional and Aesthetic Technology
00:46:23
Speaker
How many products are there? And they're telling you, oh, it's like, you know, Musk's neural link. And oh, with this thing, like the four people on Earth that have like a very debilitating condition where they can't like move or speak or something.
00:46:41
Speaker
those four people will be better off with this technology that Elon Musk is developing out of the goodness of his heart. And all of these technologies, you know, your mobile phone, even if you turn it off, it can still communicate with the cell tower. But that's just in case you get lost in the woods or up in the mountain and we need to track it down. It's for your safety.
00:47:08
Speaker
It's like, yeah, sure. You spend a pajillion dollars putting these things into our clothes. Because you just want to make sure I'm okay. You want to make sure I'm out in the woods, a bear hasn't mowed me to death. You want to hear my heartbeat? They want to rescue you before anything goes wrong. Yes, I know. It's very convincing.
00:47:30
Speaker
Thanks, Samsung. From Korea, too, you're going to fly over from Korea on a jetpack and rescue. I don't know how they're going to coordinate that. Yeah. And you know, I could go on because I keep, you know, I'm like, I love technology, but I love technology that's genuinely useful.
00:47:53
Speaker
that's simple to use, that's easy to maintain, that doesn't break the day the warranty expires, and that somebody can fix. Because nowadays, whatever you buy, the day it starts functioning, all you can do is throw it away and buy a new one. I'm tired of that.
00:48:18
Speaker
I use the minimum that I use and for everything else, if it has to be plugged in an outlet, I'm not interesting, unless it's essential. I had a coffee machine, I threw it out, I used the old Italian mocha thing. You still love those. It works forever, it makes great coffee much better.
00:48:45
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these, you know, all these wireless devices. Yeah, nevermind. I bought my kids a hoverboard hoverboard, you know, oh, wow, I got snookered into buying that because it kind of looks cool when you see them. And my kids wanted one. So I was like, Okay, fine. Christian, it didn't last five months. She's and after five months, it wouldn't charge anymore.
00:49:13
Speaker
And there's no way to fix it. You got to get the new model. So you have to get a new one. But anyway, you know, I.
00:49:24
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I think that even this part of our evolution and development is going to go in a better direction now because I think that people are starting to realize that this is no way to go. You need things that work and you need things that work reliably and that you don't have to worry about whether whatever company is selling this thing, if they go bankrupt tomorrow that you're screwed and no way to replace, no way to repair, no way to buy.
00:49:54
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spare parts. And I think that the entrepreneurship of the future is going to be not complicating things, but simplifying things, you know, catering to real needs with reliable solutions.
00:50:14
Speaker
Yeah, since I've had a kid, this has been such a bane in my life, but most of the children's toys being plastic. These products, not only are they creating fields all around us, everything plugged in. I'm not a gadget guy.
00:50:35
Speaker
But I do have an EMF meter. Yeah, so I measure like when I was setting up my office here, I want to be far because there's, you know, devices plugged in for work, chargers, everything else. I wanted to make sure I'm far enough from the field. And, you know, just the way even we build houses,
00:51:00
Speaker
I remember my wife was having severe insomnia last year and she was after the breastfeeding and messed up her circadian rhythm and she was so sensitive, so sensitized that I measured around her head where she sleeps and a plugged in lamp that wasn't even on was creating a field where her head was on the pillow and I unplugged that lamp and
00:51:26
Speaker
It improved, her sleep improved, right? So these things, people think, oh, you know, these invisible, these invisible EMFs, are they in the room right now that you're talking about? It's fucking radiation, man. It's radiation. And we're constantly being exposed to unnatural light, blue light at night.
00:51:50
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not enough light during the day, electromagnetic fields of various kinds, and then everything we touch, all our devices are fucking plastic. And everybody has been sort of led into believing that now my bottle is BPA, therefore it's safe, but most people don't know that BPA, it's Bisphenol A, A is in alphabet, A is in ABCD,
00:52:18
Speaker
Bispheno-S is what they use now a lot in Bispheno-F. So there's an alphabet of very similar compounds, and these ones that are replacing the old ones, the BPA, are actually in some experiments shown to be even more toxic and hormonally disrupting to the thyroid testes, estrogen, testosterone, metabolism, all that stuff.
00:52:43
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And my kid being exposed to these things is really painful because we can't just use puzzles and blocks of wood. Kids like pianos and keyboards and things that make noise that you want to throw out the window. So I really hope you're right that we move to the future of just simplicity but beauty as well.
00:53:04
Speaker
If you look at old stuff, there's an antique shop here nearby, and every time we stop when we go, because I'm just marveling at the exquisiteness of stuff made by simple people with no technology, simpletons. If you look at how they work metal and wood, if you put a chisel or a
00:53:29
Speaker
Some two two for woodworking in the hands of most people today that they were just going to butcher that block of wood or whatever you give them you know people had skills and the things were beauty and I remember Max Egan was talking about that when they were building buildings back in the day.
00:53:46
Speaker
It's not like beauty was an added extra, but beauty was considered a function. So you're not just making a function of building a room with walls, a window, whatever else. It has to be beautiful because it serves a function, which is quite an interesting way to look at it. Yes, I think that's very important.
00:54:10
Speaker
Well, wasn't it Dostoyevsky who said beauty would save the world? And I think that we have to move in that direction. We have to consciously put beauty into things that surround, you know, a home is where you spend most of your lives.
Modern Stress and Lifestyle Challenges
00:54:25
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The most precious time in your life you spend in your home, you know, the time you share with your family.
00:54:31
Speaker
Shouldn't it be beautiful? Shouldn't you be surrounded by beautiful objects? Not crap, you know, not like cheap crap produced somewhere for 10 cents from plastic and God knows what. My children. I absolutely agree. And then we have to, you know, we have to, uh, revive all those skills and you know, they can be revived. I mean, you know, if we had them, if we had them a few generations ago, then we can bring them back.
00:55:01
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Yeah. And so I think that we have to move in that direction again, and we can. We have no choice when the electricity stops, right? Well, I don't think that the electricity needs to stop. I mean, maybe it won't stop. But regardless, it doesn't mean that we have to, just because we have electricity, that we have to
00:55:29
Speaker
now mass produce junk. We can still, you know, build beautiful things. And, you know, I just saw recently a YouTube clip about some Italian guy, some guy in Italy, who exactly, you know, in this line of thinking, felt like, well, how come people made these extraordinarily beautiful marble sculptures?
00:55:54
Speaker
And today we don't anymore. So he himself, I don't know if he was self-taught or somebody instructed him, but he himself devoted himself to making sculptures out of marble. And they're absolutely beautiful. And that's just one guy on his own, his own initiative.
00:56:16
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And so, you know, all of those things, you know, carpentry and calligraphy and painting and sculpting and writing music and, you know, writing books and stories and dramas and all of that stuff, you know, we have that in us. If we, you know, invest time and energy and passion into it and then it can all come back.
00:56:43
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And to be able to do that, you need to be in a fairly low stress environment. I think if you look at the Renaissance, it was a relative time of peace. And I think maybe that's probably one of the biggest reasons that the stuff achieved during that period could happen. It wasn't during the time of Black Death, pestilence, or whatever the plague.
00:57:10
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So I think we're purposely being.
00:57:16
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put into a stress state by all the things we do, you know, having to work for a living, traffic, news, fashion, movies. Just look at the kind of movies people watch, man. Who would want, like, listen, not judging. I never even liked to watch films in general. But the last thing I would put on is a horror, some type of scary movie.
00:57:43
Speaker
Why in the hell would you want to add extra stress on yourself when you've already stressed beyond anything, something like your grandparent or especially your great grandparent could imagine? That's how we're living, like cortisol levels, stress hormones are through the roof in our society. Yes. And now in addition to all that, we're being absolutely saturated with
00:58:14
Speaker
with the horrors of war, with political leadership that they all seem like lunatics in charge of our future. And so obviously that's making people anxious. And then for some magical reason, some dark magic, it seems that making a living is becoming harder and harder for everybody.
00:58:42
Speaker
Why is that? Why should that be? We're phenomenally productive. The earth is still growing crops and we can still raise animals and fish and make stuff.
00:58:59
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Why is it that it's getting harder and harder to have a good life and to afford nice things? Isn't that strange?
Health Trends and Nutrition Transformation
00:59:08
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Because the world is overpopulated, Alex, of course, and the global warming, of course. Ah, yes, the climate change. Yes, you're right. I forgot about that one. Yeah, it's because of the overpopulation and climate change. That's why. Yes. And California. But then also, you know, we have democracies, right?
00:59:26
Speaker
So we should be able to have things that we want in life, right? Most people don't want war. Most people want, you know, safe neighborhoods, good education for their children, nice schools, libraries, parks, clean streets, right? Low crime. They don't want,
00:59:53
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war all the time. They don't want war at all. Most people don't want any war at all. But somehow, in spite of us having democracies, all of these nice things that we want, we can't have them, but we get war all the time and we get rising crime and our streets are filthy and the infrastructure is falling apart.
01:00:17
Speaker
Why is it? And also why is none of these compounds being used in plastics and all these products, why is there never one that's been isolated that has a positive effect on human metabolism, like it will enhance brain function, reduce anxiety?
01:00:36
Speaker
How in the hell are they all freaking deleterious? Yeah, that's strange. That's very, very strange. And I think that that is also one to think about because it's, you know, I have for a very, very long time been avoiding altogether all products that come from large corporations, you know, like Nestle and Unilever and Procter and Gamble, things like this. Sure. And why?
01:01:04
Speaker
So my ex-wife and I have tried for a very long time to have children. And it took us eight years. Wow. And in those eight years, you know, we've we've done a lot of research, we've read a lot of stuff. And at some point I started suspecting that they're deliberately poisoning the supplies, you know, that they're deliberately injecting these things that, you know, that cause you hormonal imbalances and this and that and
01:01:32
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And then, you know, at one point, we, we completely cleaned up our diets. And I, we took out all of those, you know, like shampoos, head and shoulders and cold, Colgate toothpaste and everything and replace them with, you know, small production, organic things. And then, and then eventually we did conceive, but you know,
01:02:01
Speaker
Yeah, it makes you wonder, it makes you wonder, you know, why are we, why are we surrounded by toxins? Is this just a random accident of things? Or is it?
01:02:20
Speaker
You know, is it, is it part of the depopulation agenda? I don't know. That's it. And so many of these things are actually estrogenic as well, which Rex, not just obviously not just female, but male health as well. Yes. Yes.
01:02:37
Speaker
So, and what's interesting, because in my new book that I'm writing at the moment, what is even more fascinating is how does almost everything that becomes mainstream, even health wise, seem to be a freaking, basically a scam. Basically it does the opposite of what it's supposed to do. Now the big, the older age is the fasting.
01:03:00
Speaker
and the intermittent fasting. And that is actually, when you scrutinize it more deeply, that is actually quite harmful to the body. It's actually quite stressful. Low carbohydrates, ketogenic diets, very stressful to the body. Intense exercise, very stressful to the body.
01:03:21
Speaker
So many things. And then we're demonizing sugar and carbohydrates when the first thing when you go into like, let's say you have an accident, you're hospitalized, the first thing they do is put you on a glucose drip.
01:03:36
Speaker
So we're demonizing sugar, we're demonizing carbohydrates and like your body, you will fall into a coma and die if you can't maintain your blood sugar, even for like a minute. Well, you'll fall into a coma if you can't maintain it and then you'll soon die if you can't, you know, so it's that important. Well, okay.
01:04:02
Speaker
I have some experience with this because in 2007, I discovered that I had this thing called chronic inflammation. What markers did they test? Sorry? What markers did they test to identify that? Nobody tested anything, Christian.
01:04:26
Speaker
I, I figured that out by doing my own research. And then I found a thing online called diagnose me. It's some kind of a, some kind of an expert system that, you know, you pay them something, 20, $30, whatever it is. And then they run you through a questionnaire of, I think three or 400 questions. They ask you everything about everything. And then they,
01:04:56
Speaker
After a couple of days, you get a report on your health. And in my case, the report came back saying that I have chronic inflammation, 100%. And it said that the only way of treating chronic inflammation is through nutrition.
01:05:17
Speaker
And so through further research, I found that the number one generator of inflammation is sugar and alcohol and white grains, refined grains, white bread, white pasta, white rice, all of that. And so what I did
01:05:43
Speaker
is that I radically changed my diet. So I completely threw out sugar, I threw out white grains, and I focused on fresh vegetables, fresh fruits, and only organic meat, fish, and eggs. Yeah, but fruits have sugar. Sorry? Fruits have sugar though. Fruits have sugar.
01:06:06
Speaker
Yes. Well, fruits have sugar, so let's say that... That's what I'm talking about. I'm not talking about eating white sugar. I'm not talking about eating white sugar. I know people think when you say carbs, they probably think you mean generally
01:06:21
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pasta and white bread and when you say sugar they mean table sugar but I eat now I mostly eat honey and some fruit and you know lactose from milk and I honestly don't think sugar is causing inflammation. It can be it can be in my case Christian it's very obvious. It's it's it's very obvious to me because when I change my diet my my health state change
01:06:52
Speaker
spectacularly in the space of two weeks. So like I had a whole series of
01:07:00
Speaker
symptoms that I thought were normal, that they were just part of the way my body worked. They all went away. Everything went away. I felt literally like I got a body of a 24-year-old back again. I could go and have a very intense workout, you know, a squash game, a football game, whatever. And the next day, I felt no consequences. And then, you know, I have certain reactions
01:07:30
Speaker
that I notice immediately. You know, for example, dandruff. I was part of the way I was. I always had a little bit of dandruff here or here, you know? And so when my diet is clean, it goes away. If I eat some cookies or even if I eat like
01:07:52
Speaker
dried fruits, which I used to think that maybe dried fruits would be okay, you know, like dried figs, dried apricots, comes right back. Like I see it almost almost immediately. So I've also noticed that honey is okay. Honey, I can have honey and I don't see consequences, but sugar
01:08:16
Speaker
it immediately comes to me. And I even tried, you know, I tried things like, like raw maple syrup, you know, great seed maple syrup. It doesn't work. I get inflammatory reactions right away. And so I had to throw that out as well. But honey, honey, I can, I can eat with, with, you know, and it doesn't, it doesn't cause any, any symptoms to return.
01:08:41
Speaker
It sounds like you might have some underlying gut dysbiosis potentially with candida overgrowth. It could be. It could be. I know that some years ago, I probably picked up like some kind of a fungal infection, you know, which is
01:09:04
Speaker
you know, somewhere blowing somewhere around my body. And then, you know, like if my immune system is down, I feel that there's something. But generally, you know, the more I keep my diet clean, the more I avoid refined carbohydrates and sugar, the better it is.
Gut Health Advice and Personal Projects
01:09:31
Speaker
And then, yeah, that's so important. Fruit, fresh fruit is fine. Dried fruit doesn't work. Anyway, you know. So yeah, it looks like you also might be reacting to the histamine in the dried fruit. So definitely sounds like some type of gut stuff. I can give you a nice cleansing protocol if you want. If you have a few minutes after we can talk, I can give you a gut protocol that
01:09:59
Speaker
Actually, it can really clear up once. Most people are actually, not most people, but many, many people are living with some kind of imbalance and a quick spring cleaning. People start to tolerate foods more. Some people start sleeping better, just have better overall functioning. So it's, dude, I do it twice a year.
01:10:22
Speaker
I do every spring and every autumn. And even now I started my kid on the anti-parasite protocol I do. Even my dog is getting this really nice anti-parasite protocol. It's like farmers always knew they have to deworm their animals every year.
01:10:39
Speaker
think some farmers do it twice a year. And we used to do that as well. It's just another one of those things that we've lost with our over medicalised, over structured, you know, protocols that only treat symptoms as opposed to preventing things from happening in the body. Yeah, yeah. Yes, I agree with that. Alex. Yeah.
01:11:05
Speaker
Tell us, if you want, tell us what you're working on, what can we expect from you in the future as we wrap up today? Oh, God, I'm working on a lot of things. Well, one of the smaller things that I'm working on, but it's kind of important to me, is I've been writing an article about how the war in Ukraine came about, where it originated, how it got escalated.
Censorship and Alternative Platforms
01:11:35
Speaker
and what is the broader agenda and the broader context of it. I wanted to make it a very condensed, very packed article. I thought I was gonna have a three to five page thing. Now I'm on page 24 and I still don't see the light at the end of the tunnel, but it's a very important story because this,
01:12:02
Speaker
the flow of history actually bent around that war and bent in ways that are absolutely dramatic that, you know, this is going to be a big one in the history books in the future. And then, you know, I'm also working on a couple of other things. I'm planning to restart my YouTube channel that is, you know, like I haven't posted anything in over a year.
01:12:33
Speaker
which is terrible because this was one of the things on my New Year's resolution. I haven't gotten around. Well, make it next year, bro. Listen, don't even bother. Alex, don't even bother. They're going to shadowband you, bro. What's the point? Yes, apparently somebody told me that I was already shadowbanned on Twitter. I wouldn't be surprised, man.
01:12:58
Speaker
But it doesn't do it on YouTube. If you just mirror it on other platforms, you're a thought criminal. Just do it. Mirror it on.
01:13:07
Speaker
Rambo and the other ones then just when people come on YouTube just tell them or have a thing and banner just telling them about all the other platforms you're on so at least you get some some people moving on there because you know yes I was thinking about nobody's use now yeah yeah I was thinking so what you think that Rambo is the best
01:13:33
Speaker
I'm not really on, I mean, I have a couple of Rambo channels, but I think it's a good one, yes. But they're a public company, so I obviously as well is good, but I wouldn't trust anybody anyway. And when a company becomes public like Rambo, nothing against the company, they look great. Rockfin also looks great, but it just,
01:13:57
Speaker
Nowadays, if something becomes big enough, yeah, I wouldn't put on my X1 basket. That's the most important thing. Yeah. Yes. Yes. I think Rockfin, they only accept Rockfin only accept, you know, people with a substantial following. So maybe that would be the best one for you. Sam Tripoli is on there. A lot of the guys are on there. They can help help promote your
Importance of Truthful Information and Resilience
01:14:21
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channel. It would be pretty cool if you did that, bro.
01:14:24
Speaker
Yeah, cool. No, I, you know, I have no illusions. I know that, you know, I heard from from other content creators, they said that there's no there's absolutely no censorship on Rumble. But of course, you know, if Rumble becomes big enough and successful enough, then, you know, they're going to force them. They always, you know, you get the tap on the shoulder and, you know, remember what happened to Parler. Parler became sort of
01:14:54
Speaker
Parler became a very popular alternative to Twitter. And then they destroyed it. They simply destroyed them because they wouldn't, you know, they wouldn't go along with censorship. And now they, I don't know if it even exists. I think it exists, but nobody goes there because the whole point was having, you know, having the ability to speak freely. But anyway, you know, that's fine.
01:15:21
Speaker
So long as we're able to squeeze out the truth and push it out there and keep the open discourse going, because I think that the truth will make us free. And I think that the way for us to
01:15:41
Speaker
to prevail in this struggle is to simply speak out, research, analyze, try to understand what's going on, share it, discuss it, pick up information and wisdom from other people who do research. And I think that collectively we're growing smarter, we're growing much, much more difficult to manipulate and to push into these insane
01:16:07
Speaker
imperial projects, and I think that for as long as we do not capitulate and succumb, we win.
01:16:20
Speaker
Yeah. They know they can demoralize you to the state where you become rich, learned helplessness and then, you know, your putty in their hands. So they're going to keep pushing, but... Yeah, they're trying everything they can to demoralize us. And I think that we must not let them.
Metaphor of System Collapse and New Growth
01:16:41
Speaker
And I want to finish on that note, you know, because I really want to share this.
01:16:48
Speaker
Because this is exactly the time of profound distress and profound sadness about things that are going on in the world. And I just always go back to that Confucius thought that when a large tree falls, it falls with great noise and destruction.
01:17:17
Speaker
But seeds, they grow in silence. Creation is silent. And so what we're observing in the world today is exactly the collapse of the old systems.
01:17:30
Speaker
And that is creating a lot of this noise and destruction. But at the same time, there's hundreds of millions of us, billions of us who are those seeds. And I think that for as long as we cultivate the seed that we are by growing wiser and better informed and
01:17:56
Speaker
braver and more daring, we are moving the world in the right direction. So we shouldn't be mesmerized and captivated by all this destruction. We need to continue doing what we're doing. We need to continue speaking out, not complying with idiotic mandates and rules and regulations.
01:18:17
Speaker
And just simply claim our birthright. We have the right to be here. We have the right to travel. We have the right to free speech. Not because somebody gave it to us, but because it is our birthright. Nobody has the right to take it away. So we don't wait and ask for anybody's permission. We just claim it by doing it.
Exploring New Content Creation Avenues
01:18:37
Speaker
You know, if I want to say something, I just say it, right?
01:18:40
Speaker
And so we have to keep on doing that, put one foot in front of the other, and there's a hell of a lot more of us than there is of them. And all of this mess that they're creating is smaller in power, orders of magnitude smaller in power than the growth and the creation that we can, you know, engender bottom up.
01:19:10
Speaker
Beautiful set, bro. Beautiful set. I know I said it last time, I remember, but I will repeat it one more time in case now is the right time. I told you before, if you want, I can help set you up with the Sankaster, teach you how to create an account, create a podcast, and literally you can record, whether you want to record video or not, you can record, post produce and publish
01:19:40
Speaker
within minutes of finishing recording, you can have a platform instead of writing long ass articles that people will read and forget 20 minutes later. You can do a podcast bro if you want to.
01:19:54
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If you want to set up that platform, that's another cool thing because you will have a lot of content. Again, video or not, if you want to do video, if you're just talking about subjects that you're passionate about at the moment, then you have a video that you can upload to YouTube, Rumble, whatever else. It's so easy. It's so fast. I don't write articles anymore. You know what I do?
01:20:18
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I record something about a topic that I want to talk about. I then create a page on my website with the name, why I don't eat nuts and seeds or grains. And then I paste that video in embedded. It's on the podcast. It's on the website. Instead of an article, people don't read as much as before. They listen, they watch. So anyway, just saying it, Alex, in case you need help, in case you want to, in case you feel like it's the time,
01:20:47
Speaker
Maybe your new year's resolution will be to start a podcast. Keep that in mind, bro. Maybe it's going to be 2024.
Alex's Social Media and Publications
01:20:54
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And if not, we have to align with the stars. All right, Alex, let the listeners know about your books and your services and where they can find you, Twitter, all that stuff.
01:21:08
Speaker
I'm easy to find on Twitter, on X. My handle is at nakedhedgy. I write a sub stack, Alex Craner's trend compass. And my books, yeah, I wrote three.
01:21:26
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Two of them are on, you know, risk management, investing, trading, commodities, stuff like that. And both of them are available as free downloads from my website, isystem-tf.com. That's Isystem trend following.
01:21:46
Speaker
And the reason why they're free is not because they're crap, because one of them was awarded as the number one best book about commodities for investors and traders for 2021 and 2022. The reason why I'm giving them away as free downloads is because freaking Amazon de-platformed me, stole all my royalties for three years, and then continued selling one of my books for $900 a copy.
01:22:14
Speaker
absolute pirates and I, you know, like what do I do? So I just put both my books, both my business titles on my website free of charge because I just cannot stand that Amazon, you know, first they robbed me and then they, you know, sell my stuff to people and cut me out. I mean, that's just outrage. Anyway, and then my third book, which is a geopolitical treatise about the relationship between Russia and
01:22:43
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And the West, called The Grand Deception, is available, unfortunately, only from the pages of the red pill press, because also Amazon banned the book already in 2017. Because it contains stuff that you're not supposed to know.
01:23:02
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Yeah, that's about that. And then for people who trade, who invest, they can check out my trend compass newsletter. I generate trading signals through my trend following model and that goes out every working day. And one month is always free of charge and no strings attached of any sort.
01:23:26
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Awesome. Well, Alex, thank you so much, bro. This was fun. Chris, it was a pleasure as always. And until the next time. Yes.