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Today, we go through what is happening on the ground in Ukraine, what Russia is doing.

There's a couple of tense moments between me and Bill O'Reilly.

We disagree on Putin being crazy or crazy like a fox.

You'll hear that on today's program.

And a list of things that you can do, how this affects you, all on today's podcast.

You're listening to the best of the Blembeck program.

Oh, boy, oh, boy, oh, boy.

Today is

one of those days where we're going to try to figure out what's going on together.

Some things really bother me, don't seem right.

Let me just start with what happened at 5.50 a.m.

Thursday morning Russia time.

Putin was wearing the same suit and the same red tie that he wore on Monday as he took to the airwaves and warned President Biden and NATO not to intervene in Ukraine.

He said his plans, interesting choice of words, were to denazify Ukraine.

He continued to stick to his factually inaccurate version of Ukraine's history, saying essentially that Ukraine was always part of Russia.

His attempts here in the last few days to rewrite history at his convenience

seem to me to be something that we talked about on yesterday's program, a very calculated plan

in his own home country of working towards capital T traditionalism.

If we have time, we'll get into that again today.

If you don't know what it is, listen to yesterday's podcast.

We went deep into it.

He was misleading everybody,

you know, saying that he's not going to do any of these things.

Within hours of the speech, the Interior Ministry of Ukraine said that there had been hundreds of casualties.

CNN reported, despite Russia insisting early that they were only attacking military installations and were voting populated areas.

That's not true.

President Biden responded to Putin's attack last night, saying the prayers of the entire world are with the people of Ukraine as they suffer an unprovoked and unjustified attack by Russian military forces.

There is

this is real trouble, and there's some things that just don't make sense.

I'm going to give you just a couple of more pieces of the news, and then we're going to start talking to some experts today on what they think this means.

Our Dow,

let me look at our futures.

Our Dow futures are down about 800 points.

I know when you're talking about the loss of life, that does seem

like something you should

worry about, but the world is about to change if this continues.

The Dow is down 770 points right now.

Oil is up to almost $100 a barrel.

Your

stock markets all around the world are going through the floor.

There's no place worse than in Russia.

Russia, their stock market was cut in half.

And you have to ask yourself,

how is he going to benefit?

from this?

What is the real game?

We'll get to that here in just a little while.

Meanwhile, most Americans want nothing to do with it.

Most Americans are saying we're not going in for Ukraine.

I don't think we should either, but we should support Ukraine.

And we should also call out the devil that Putin is.

I'm tired of people making excuses for Putin.

What he is saying is not true.

Let's not be Neville Chamberlain.

However, that doesn't mean we go go and fight it.

It means we just call a spade a spade.

Ukraine is absolutely corrupt.

We know, just if you paid attention to any of our specials on Ukraine with the Biden people and his son and everybody else that was in Ukraine, we have

under the

guiding hand of Barack Obama, we have meddled in Ukraine and just

it's it's horrible horrible corruption what we have been involved in in Ukraine

We shouldn't have been there in the first place.

We should mind our own business on that.

That's not an isolationist thing.

That's a let's get out of everybody else's business, please, especially when that business is corrupt.

They are corrupt, but they are a democratic society and they do not want to go back to Russia.

Anybody who says that, I just would remind you, look up the word holodomor.

They know what happens when Russia comes into their place, and they are not interested in going back.

Gold is up

and the Chinese.

The Chinese media has leaked censoring rules on Ukraine.

The Chinese news organization, they say accidentally leaked, I don't think so, its censorship plans regarding Russia's invasion into Ukraine.

The organization said it needed to be sensitive on the matter because it would need Russia's support when we wrestle with America to solve the Taiwan issue once and for all.

I do not believe that that was a mistake, and nobody's going to be disappeared on that little mistake.

They're sending America a message.

I want to bring in Jason Buttrell, who is with us now.

Hi, Jason.

Hi, Glenn.

You and I have been talking about this for a long time.

We have spent a year on Ukraine,

and this takes both of us by surprise.

I have to hand it to the intelligence community, although I don't feel comfortable.

Something's not right here.

But the intelligence community and the Biden administration said this is what he was going to do, and he's done it.

Yeah, I agree.

It's really crazy because when you study geopolitics, you learn to analyze and look at these things from that lens.

You're taught that geopolitics is a study of maps.

It's demographics, it's numbers, it's

interests, hardline interests.

And when someone starts acting emotionally like Putin has been doing over the past really year plus, you learn to kind of put that away and say, okay, well, he's obviously after something else, which I still think there's something else involved, just like you said.

So when the Biden administration was kind of saying, you know, no, this is happening, full-scale invasion, all that, I didn't believe it was happening.

I didn't.

I was looking for something behind what was going on.

And because this all seems so irrational, but I think the intelligence community was spot on.

I've seen reports that it actually, you know, the intelligence community coming out and saying that false flag attacks would happen, that would be the preempt to them doing a full-on invasion.

I wasn't buying it.

They were were exactly right.

And the reports say that it actually delayed Putin's invasion by possibly even a week,

like they wanted to do this last week and not this week.

So the intelligence community and the Biden administration were exactly right on this.

Now, there's ways to criticize other things, which we can get to later, of what they've done.

But just a quick recap.

The media started reporting last night that the invasion was going to commence around 4 a.m.

Kiev, Kiev time.

And pretty much that was spot on.

It happened around 4.10, 4.15 Kiev time.

And it's very, very conventional from what I've been noticing.

I've been following this all night.

This is not like Crimea in 2014 with unconventional warfare.

This is a very conventional invasion.

What we saw commencing around 4 a.m.

Kiev time was airstrikes of target command and control systems.

That went as far as Kiev.

And it's a three-pronged attack coming from Belarus, coming from Crimea in the south, and coming from mainland Russia in the east.

Now, we do not know how far they plan to push this, but it is a conventional invasion.

It looks as if they will probably go further than just eastern Ukraine.

Question now is how far they will go and how far tensions will rise, especially with NATO gathering troops all along the border of Ukraine.

Okay, so let's

it looks as though he

was using conventional warfare to cut off the troops as they were kind of gathered at the borders of

the two districts that President Putin said he was going to take.

They went behind those lines and kind of cut them off so they can't fall back to

defend Kyiv, correct?

Yes, that's correct, because they know that Ukraine's strategy here is they know they're going to get overwhelmed.

So their their strategy is their mainline forces in the east,

guarding those two territories, as you said.

Their strategy is to do a tactical retreat back into the urban areas within Ukraine.

Then it turns into both a hybrid guerrilla warfare and heavy urban warfare in the large Ukrainian cities.

That is very, very bloody.

That is very, very dangerous for the Russian military as well as civilians, which Russia does not want to kill too many Ukrainian civilians because that is going to be very, very unpopular in mainland Russia.

But Ukraine's strategy here, as I said, is to get into the cities and turn this into an urban conflict and draw it out for as long as possible.

Russia wants to stop that.

And that explains why they dropped in behind the troops there.

Can they take the whole country just by air and cutting it all off?

They absolutely can take the whole country in the short term.

It depends on how effective their air assets are, and that's what we're seeing right now.

We're seeing the bomb

from the air.

We're seeing cruise missile strikes.

So, cutting off command and control all over the country and crippling Ukraine so they can eventually roll into the capital.

That will happen, is my guess, unless somebody else intervenes, which I kind of highly doubt.

But

a short-term victory is really all Russia can hope for here.

And that's another puzzling thing because I can't imagine they think they win in the long term.

In the long term, it's going to be too damaging financially and politically for Russia.

So it's catastrophic in the short term.

In the long term, I don't see how they win this unless there's some other grander strategy that we just don't know about, which could even be scarier, actually.

So

we have

some puzzling things.

First of all, Putin said he wants to denazify Ukraine.

Any idea what that's about?

Same rhetoric he's been using since 2014.

And that's directed more at the people of Russia, not anybody else in the world or Ukraine.

But he's been using that World War II sentiment to get public support to do what he's now doing.

But that's going to continue, and no doubt he's going to provide some air quote evidence that they're taking out some Nazi.

But he's drawing on World War II nationalism.

He said that there has been an ongoing genocide in Ukraine that he's trying to stop.

I mean,

this is crazy.

And that's what makes it so hard

for me when I was looking at this before to really think that he was going to go through with this.

Because usually, but Putin's not a crazy guy.

I mean, he may be now,

but in the past, he has not been.

He's been very cold, calculating.

Geopolitics and interest was always forefront in his mind.

He's not a psychopath.

I mean, well, he might be, but he, he doesn't,

he's not somebody driven by rage.

He is cold and calculating.

And when he, I mean, he's out and out evil.

He is a bloodthirsty killer who has spent a lifetime killing people.

But he's logical in it.

He's very calculated in it.

And the rhetoric, I mean, I think the Nazi stuff, the religious stuff, that's all, that's

Dugan kind of language.

Yeah, and

it's a very, very powerful weapon for Russians because

they're very much willing to suffer and to

basically take it on the chin if they have to, if that means that their country will eventually reign supreme.

It's interesting if you

If you take a tour of the Kremlin and Red Square in Russia, which I've done a couple of times, you'll be very surprised to see that in a Soviet, the former Soviet Union, the capital,

in the Red Square, it's probably like 80% churches.

There's multiple churches.

They weren't religious during the Soviet Union, but historically, during the Russian Empire, they were very religious.

Orthodoxy is very, very pivotal to Russian nationalism.

And even the Soviets would turn that up when they needed to.

But that's exactly what Putin has done in the vein of Alexander Dugan, especially in that speech that he gave last week.

That was very, very telling to a lot of us that have been looking at this, people like you and me, Glenn,

that, okay, now we know exactly what he's doing.

He's turning up that dial of nationalism to justify doing

what he's doing and possibly even more, which is scary.

Would you agree with me, and I'd like you to explore this a bit,

There is no real obvious win for Putin.

His stock market has crashed.

This is going to be horrible.

They are in the oil business.

They just made a deal with China, but that's years down the road.

They're going to shut down all of the oil exports into any Western country because of this.

So his oil is going to crash, which funds his government and his country.

The stock market is down.

Business is going to be cut off.

It's already a shambles in Russia.

What does he have to gain here?

Can you think of anything that he has to gain?

I've always thought from the beginning of this, especially when I didn't think that invasion was happening, I thought that what he was really doing was playing a game to divide and conquer NATO.

That's what I thought, and I still think that's a major part of his plan.

Taking Ukraine is also very, very important strategically for Russia to get strategic depth.

It's always been their plan was to, you know, have some buffer so they can get their capital of Moscow.

Yeah, but also the warm water port.

Exactly.

Yeah.

When he's talking about

the heart of Russia, that's true, but I don't really think that really guides him.

I think that's just an excuse he uses to

get support from home.

But I think that

it's very irritating.

I think that we're talking about Putin is not a psychopath.

I think he is very spiteful.

I think that the Russian election interference, which I don't think did anything, I don't want to say that it did, but their election interference, I think, was a direct response to Hillary Clinton and what they did to his election.

I think that

a lot of what we're doing now, I think, was a direct response to how the Obama administration and all his foreign policy elite handled the 2014 Ukrainian revolution.

I think he responds to these people directly in kind.

That's also a reason why he was willing, I think, to back off of this when Trump was there, because he knew that that was not how they operated and they weren't the ones directly responsible for what happened.

And I also think that it's ridiculous that NATO

wouldn't respond, wouldn't say, hey, look, we're not going to admit Ukraine into

NATO.

Why couldn't they say that?

NATO was irrelevant.

And the irony of this is now that Putin responding to that is making NATO relevant again.

So I think that eventually his goal is to play the long game.

Eventually, there's going to be NATO countries like Germany's not going to want to attack.

They're not going to want to send troops.

No.

That's going to cause a divide in NATO.

That's going to cause a divide between the UK and France.

They're not going to want to attack either.

And eventually this will play out to where NATO will do exactly what he said was what he wanted.

He wanted NATO to do a withdrawal.

That benefits China and everybody else that's on Russia's side.

So

his ultimate goal is the long game, divide NATO, possibly even the end of NATO, and to get strategic depth with Ukraine.

Okay, thank you very much, Jason.

I appreciate it.

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I think there's two things that we as Americans need to make very clear.

Vladimir Putin is an evil, bloodthirsty killer.

He is a totalitarian.

That does not mean the second point I'd like to make clear, that we should go to war.

Those can be separate and equal.

And

we need to support all we can, the people of Ukraine.

And I mean that as people.

Mercury One is working with Slovakia right now.

Slovakia is taking in refugees.

There are going to be people that are going to be running and escaping Ukraine, and we are looking into ways to help them.

We as people can help the people of Ukraine.

A guy who knows communism really inside and out is Michael Malis.

This lie that Putin is sharing that, you know, it's just a

Russian territory and oh, they love Russia.

Let me use one word to remind the world, holodomor.

They don't love Russia.

Michael Malas is here with us now, the author of the Anarchist Handbook and also,

dear leader.

Michael, can you, you escaped from a communist country or your family did, right?

Yeah, I was born in Ukraine.

You were born?

We were all from Ukraine.

Yeah, we were from Western Ukraine, Lvoc specifically.

Wow.

So I didn't know it was Ukraine.

So you give us perspective on what's happening.

Well, I mean, I think the problem we have with I'm going to take a little bit of a meta-approach.

The problem we have with kind of the way our media is set up is you and I are discussing a very dynamic situation.

We have very limited information.

The information we're given is often intentionally

obfuscatory, certainly from Russia's perspective.

So we're kind of shooting off the hip and people want to understand how should I look at this.

And anything you and I say is going to be a little bit, it should be taken with a grain of salt, just like anything we see in the media, generally speaking, but especially when it comes to a war situation where it's enormously advantageous for both sides to kind of keep their cards close to their chest.

I would disagree with you a slight bit.

I don't think Putin is a totalitarian.

Not every dictator is a totalitarian, but that is a silly semantic point that really is neither here nor there.

What would you call him?

Wait, wait, how would you classify him?

You could be a dictator without being a totalitarian.

He's not literally a Stalinist

or a Hitler figure.

I agree with you completely that when you're talking about missiles hitting cities, our concern should be with civilians

and making sure they're kept safe.

I mean, I think it's fair to say,

Glenn, this is the kind of thing that you and I and pretty much everyone listening to this

couldn't really expect to see in our lifetimes.

This is

something, you know, war in Europe on this level is something that was regarded as relegate to history books.

So I think we're all a bit like, what do we do now?

But thankfully,

kind of bone-chilling.

It's a firm hand of Joe Biden in the White House.

Yes.

Head of the Foreign Policy Committee.

That's why Obama tapped him.

This is how smart Obama was.

He saw this coming, so he picked Joe Biden as his foreign policy expert VP.

Now he's in the White House.

So we can rest assured.

The Ukrainian people can rest assured Joe Biden has your back.

Tell me what it's like in Ukraine.

Well, I left when I was one and a half, but my parents.

Well, as a one and a half, so it was very big.

The rooms were very large.

No, they weren't, even when you're one and a half, I assure you.

But my parents did not, you know, if they had any chance of me having a hopeful life life there, I would have remained.

But again, this was the 70s.

This was the USSR.

It was a very different time.

Ukraine, don't say the Ukraine, which is a region.

Ukraine is a country.

Ukraine is obviously much more liberalized.

But

the point you made earlier in the introduction, the level of animosity from Ukrainians to Russians, and to Russia specifically, I don't want to

is really, really high.

To the point where if you speak Russian or that is kind of a bit of a faux pas because there's such a memory of decades of oppression.

But on the other hand, eastern Ukraine does have more affinity toward Russia than Western Ukraine, which has historically more aligned with Europe.

I mean, it's the reason why we say Kiev instead of Kiev, which we've always said, because Kiev is the way the Russians have pronounced it,

if I'm not mistaken, right?

Correct, that's correct, yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

When he says he's going to denazify

the Ukraine

or Ukraine itself,

what does that mean to

people in Ukraine?

Oh, it meant that all those truckers somehow crossed the ocean.

And now they're in Ukraine.

They really kicked them out of Canada good.

I mean, it means nothing.

It's nothing.

It's nonsense.

It's complete double talk.

It was the same thing that East Germany said for years for their oppression, which is, oh, you know, we're getting rid of all the Nazis, which were kind of, they claimed was historically a specifically West German phenomenon.

How could that even been possible?

So when you're talking, when you're talking, here's the thing with Putin and just with the Russian approach.

It's kind of like saying things that are so audacious and ridiculous on its face, but it's daring you to call their bluff.

So whatever he's saying, I mean, in any time of war, you only have to roll your eyes and be like, okay, dude, this is nonsensical.

So, Michael, I know that you and I disagree on a size of government.

You say zero, I say, you know, some.

And we both disagree with going into Ukraine, I imagine,

and sending military and troops and getting involved in another war, et cetera, et cetera.

Can you explain how do you square the circle when it comes to

things like Hitler?

If we would have acted sooner

and acted with force before he went into Poland,

things might have been different.

You catch these guys early and don't give them any air to breathe.

How do you how would you deal with this in your utopian world?

Well, I don't live in a utopian world.

You live in a utopian world because, in your utopian world, you can go into someone who was duly elected, like Hitler was, and you could overthrow the government, and somehow that's not going to have negative consequences.

So, the non-utopian world I live in recognizes that there are going to be extremely evil people like Hitler.

And in order to do this, you have to make sure they are not given incentives and mechanisms to increase their power.

And the only way a Hitler can can

become a Hitler is with the government.

Without a government, you're just going to have him be a homeless painter.

So that's one thing.

I don't think anyone has or had a solution to Hitler.

Hitler happened.

So there was no good options on the table at the time, especially and most importantly, and this goes back to the person you and I hate the most in terms of America, Woodrow Wilson.

If the West hadn't been so exhausted as a result of the Great War, if they hadn't seen an entire generation lost for no reason, there would be far more appetite to take on a Hitler.

This is one of the reasons Neville Chamberlain

had his appeasement because he's like, we're not doing this again.

I can't, whatever the cost is, we're not paying it because we just paid the cost yesterday, effectively.

So in your non-utopian world, looking at our utopian world, how does a Michael Malice solve that?

Do you, if you don't want him to be a dictator, don't let him grow into things, don't give him access to things, do you cut off his access to the West?

To Hitler?

No, no, like Putin.

What would you do if you were...

Go ahead.

I don't.

I am not.

We're talking, there's a big difference between a political philosophy and theory, whether the founding fathers' vision of america my vision of anarchism or some kind of bernie sanders social democracy i don't know that any of those really matter when it comes to a situation of war that we're fighting today i'm not a military strategist i don't think i have any particular insight into geopolitics or we should sanction this region or let some rout in through the caspian sea or something like that i i don't have any good answers for you but i'm sorry no that's that's i mean i think that's one of the best best answers I have heard from anybody.

Everybody's willing to spout off.

And of course, you know, those of us who are clearly right do.

Anyway,

Michael, thanks.

Anyone who thinks

anyone who thinks that there is some kind of magic wand that's going to resolve a situation against

one of the largest countries in the world who's actually already shooting missiles into cities, I think they're just being inaccurate.

Do you think that Vladimir Putin is...

Bill O'Reilly and I just had this argument.

He thinks he's crazy.

He thinks he's

always been rational, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, but now he's crazy.

I don't think he's crazy.

I just don't think we understand what his goals are.

The whole point, the reason I wrote Dear Reader, my North Korean book, is to demonstrate how evil, rational, and logical their system is in order to further the Kim's family and their control and power.

There's nothing Putin's doing that is remotely crazy just because it's something evil or we don't understand.

Correct.

Correct.

We just don't understand what his real motives are, what his end game is.

We can look at it from our perspective and say that that's ridiculous, but until we understand him,

we don't stand a chance.

We don't stand a chance.

Thank you, Michael.

I appreciate it.

Always a pleasure, Glenn.

Take care, guys.

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Okay.

So people, my own family has written to me, what do we do?

What do we do?

What do we do?

I want you to

think about things this way.

Look, there are so many ways this

whole world can come apart.

We are looking at a very, very fragile situation all over the world.

It's not just America.

This is happening all over the world,

especially in the West.

There is a feeling in me, a friend said to me, don't run away from something, always run towards something.

And you'll know when it's time to

find that thing or that thing will appear

when the seasons change.

He said, watch the leaves on the trees, and you will know when the seasons change.

I will tell you that I think we have hit a season change.

I've been feeling it this last week, week and a half, that something is different, and

it's a season change.

We're entering a new phase.

So, some of the things that I would suggest you do, some may dismiss, but I will tell you,

we are fighting evil now.

We are.

And evil is

just rearing up its head, and it thinks it's going to win.

It doesn't know what's coming for it, but it thinks it's going to win.

I know how it ends.

We all know if you're a Christian, we all know how this ends.

It's just which side are you going to be on?

And it's going to be very easy to get lost

and get swept up into things.

So, let me give you a couple of things that we should be doing.

First of all, pray.

You should be praying and reading your Bible every day and be on your knees asking for guidance.

And listen and obey that still small voice that you hear.

That, there's nothing more important than that.

Get into groups and neighborhoods that think alike.

Find a group of friends that maybe will join you on this path

and you can help each other.

We are going to need each other if we're going to survive.

If you are all alone,

move.

Don't be the only person that is in your area and you're feeling alone.

Get out.

Find like-minded people

because the seasons have changed.

When you're preparing, think about the community as a whole.

I have a small town in Idaho that I just love.

And I moved there because it's a small town.

And they're all farmers.

And farmers know that they're going to have to take care of each other.

And right now, we are doing things as a town like we're building a smoker.

Because we know if there's a shortage of meat,

and let's say there's a shortage of power and power keeps going in and out, there's going to be a shortage that we won't be able to deal with.

So let's go learn how to smoke meat so we can smoke some beef and store some beef if it gets to that point.

You know, we didn't have a warning in 1929, really.

It wasn't, it was the roaring 20s, and then maybe a couple of years into it, a couple of years before 1929, some signs started to appear.

But it was a pretty fast crash.

We've had almost two decades to prepare.

So there's no excuse here.

We have the warnings.

You're either listening to them or you're not.

And if you're not, man, they're less stressful shows to listen to, honestly.

Honestly.

Prepare now.

And here's a couple of things you can do.

At this point, I would make sure that I had a week's worth of cash on hand.

Why?

Because

if I were Vladimir Putin and we started getting hit financially, I would unleash my team of hackers and I would shut down oil pipelines.

I would shut down

the access to our banks.

I would disrupt through hacking as much as I can.

He remember he said World War III will be fought with ones and zeros.

I don't know how prepared we are for that, but he's very prepared for that.

So we should be.

This isn't an attack against just the government.

This is an attack on us.

Make the people as miserable as possible.

So we could see, in very short order, banking holidays.

It would be rational.

If somebody is attacking our financial systems, then

they got to shut them down for a while, and it would cause great instability.

Do you have enough money just to be able to buy the things that you would need to buy so life is okay during a banking holiday?

You might want to have more

than that.

Fill your gas tanks and

keep extra gas in gas tanks.

There will be shortages.

Keep them tapped up so if you needed to go someplace, you can go.

Call your oil heating company and tap your tank off if you can, gas for heat and cooking.

Get those tanks filled now.

It'll be cheaper now

than later, but also you want to make sure if there is any disruption, you're not going into it with half a tank.

If you fill your pantry, you will thank me in a year.

If you go out and buy food today,

you will thank me in a year because inflation alone is going to go through the roof.

It will.

will.

If you can get vegetables and even canned them out of season, but you can get them now, I would get them and can them.

They're going to be harder to get.

The price of fertilizer and just having a farm is going through the roof.

These things are going to be more scarce next year.

If you...

If you can, I would have a year's worth of food supply for my family.

And if I really had money, I would plan for others as well.

We are going to need one another.

And that's why I say be in these communities because somebody's going to have something that you need, and they're going to have something

that you need, and you're going to have something that they need.

Begin to think this way.

Really, really important:

watch the other hand.

This is a very

dangerous and fragile time for freedom.

Look how fast Canada

called people terrorists and shut them down.

This is going to happen while we are not paying attention or for some other reasons.

It is vital that you get involved in your local and state politics.

You call your state reps and tell them to stop ESG standards from being used in your state.

It is so important.

These standards are pretty much what the Canadian government is doing to the truckers.

Get your state to pass a law also against a single Fed coin.

I'm going to give you a story here that I can't believe we missed

in June 2021.

The Bank of England, that's their Federal Reserve, the Bank of England has called on ministers to decide whether a central bank digital currency should be programmable, ultimately giving the issuer control over how it is spent by the recipient.

Tom Mutton, the director of Bank of England, said during a conference on Monday that programming would become a key feature of any future bank digital currency, in which the money could be programmed to release only when something happened.

You can introduce programmability.

It happens to be one of the participants in a transaction, it puts a restriction on the use of that money.

There could be some socially beneficial outcomes from that, preventing activities which are seen to be socially harmful in some way.

This is what they were talking about two years ago.

If you don't think that digital currency is coming, you're mistaken.

It is right around the corner and it could be

something like

what could be coming in response to Putin and our

cutting him off on the banks.

He will respond, I believe, in ones and zeros, and then the government will have its new virus.

It'll be a computer virus, and they'll have to protect us and shut things down.

Get your kids out of school if you can, but local schools,

if you have to have the local school, make sure you know all about it.

Again, if you're the lone voice, move now.

If you are joining the truckers here in America,

Make sure you are not following a leader.

Make sure you're following God and the peace and actions of Christ.

Get the Martin Luther King Pledge of Nonviolence and get everyone in that group to sign it.

If they will not sign it, you may be in the wrong group.

Between real crazies who want to burn the entire thing down through war or chaos, plants from the left who are Antifa, and the fact that media, the Capitol Police, and the FBI actively in one way or another want to define us as terrorists,

be very, very, very careful.

Look how fast it happened in Canada.

Remember, chaos is from the adversary.

It is what I believe Putin is creating now.

I think he's doing it intentionally, but I could be wrong.

That's only a guess.

We are not asking for chaos.

We are asking for a return to order, the constitutional order.

That is really an important difference.

If we can just keep our heads about us

and

not freak out, if we can have faith that

we have God guiding us and if we live righteous lives, if we are people of merit, as George Washington said, he will see us through.

I expect miracles to be seen in your time.

In your life, you will see clear hand of God miracles if you haven't already.

Billy Graham was right when he said, God's doing stuff with people all over the world.

And

one of these days, he's going to turn on the lights and it'll be a surprise party for Satan.

And you will see that the solution could only have come from God because it's all of these individual people standing up.

I was talking to Stu yesterday about

people

actually

having dreams or hearing from God.

I think that is a growing thing.

Don't dismiss those promptings.

Don't dismiss them.

Mike and Alyssa are always trying to outdo each other.

When Alyssa got a small water bottle, Mike showed up with a four-liter jug.

When Mike started gardening, Alyssa started beekeeping.

Oh, come on.

They called a truce for their holiday and used Expedia Trip Planner to collaborate on all all the details of their trip.

Once there, Mike still did more laps around the pool.

Whatever.

You were made to outdo your holidays.

We were made to help organize the competition.

Expedia, made to travel.