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ovies on the same screen. We think we're looking at the same thing, but we're interpreting it as completely different movies. And you see it in all kinds of contexts. But one of the ways you know if your movie is the right one — and I hesitate to even say right. Let me adjust that. Not the right one. Some movies predict better. That doesn't mean you're right. It just means you predict better for s…

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know the details of this situation, and so it's like we're just guessing at this point. But how perfect is this that it happened in Minnesota, right? And it happened during the George Floyd trial. It's a little too perfect.

Now does this sort of thing happen so often that of course it was going to happen in Minnesota, of course during the Floyd trial, because it happened so often? Yeah, I'm just confused about whether it's the simulation just giving this to us because it wants some riots. I don't know. It's weird.

Here's another scary story. It turns out that Afghanistan is becoming a hotspot for making meth, because there's a plant that grows there wild and plentiful which they've recently learned they can turn into meth. Now the way you make meth in the United States is you might take illegally gotten over-the-counter Sudafed or whatever it is, and you boil it down and you add chemicals and you cook it until you've created meth. But it turns out there's a simple way that uses just household chemicals, and you don't need any kind of special meth lab. And you just take this plant and you can chemically turn it into meth fairly easily.

And apparently there's reports that maybe Iran or China was helpful in teaching the locals how to do this. Thank you, China. Thank you, Iran. I don't know if that's true, but who knows. But now there's going to be an enormous meth wave that will hit this country, and it's coming. I don't see anything that would stop it, because apparently the plant just grows wild. So you couldn't even bomb the farms where it grows because it's just growing in the mountains everywhere. So this is bad. We'll see what happens there.

Have you noticed that most of our major news stories have a weird element to them, which is that it makes somebody rich? Start looking for this pattern and see how often you see it. For example, in the news would be the George Floyd situation. Who does that make money for, especially if it goes in the direction of a riot, which seems guaranteed at this point? Who is that good for? The news business. The news industry will make way more money if there's a riot. And does their news coverage seem exactly designed to create exactly the situation that would be profitable for the news? Yes.

Now could that be a coincidence? Well, it could be. How about the virus? Is there anybody who will get rich off the news that there are new variants of the virus and you might have to take vaccinations forever, and you know it's not the beginning or the end of the vaccinations, your vaccinations just forever? Does anybody make any money from that? Yeah, pharma, right? So there's somebody making billions on the virus. That's a big story.

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about all the stories about China ramping up in the South China Sea and Iran building nukes and everything? Well, the entire military-industrial complex makes money from that. What about climate change? Well, you've got all the green businesses would make money on that. Now here's something you need to know about the news business. As the profits for the news business shrink, they go from being i…

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