… This is a tipping point moment as we watch right now the collapse of Western hegemony happening in real time, and we are digging our own graves shovel by shovel full, and it’s all intentional thanks to President Biden and his deep state puppets.

Overnight Iran retaliated against Israel firing hundreds of drones, the US saying no we’re not going to get involved in a war in the Middle East, and then last night literally getting involved in a war in the Middle East right alongside the British and the Israelis to shoot down drones over Israel.

President Biden cut short his 50th vacation of the year to come back to Washington to order the US response in the situation room, so it’s a mess and for the last few days the world has been on red alert watching and waiting all around Iran.

So while the Western media was distracted by the death of a murderer late last week, something huge happened in Russia that no one and I mean no one covered in the mainstream press.

President Putin told the world exactly how things are about to play out with NATO’s proxy war in Ukraine and buckle up because it’s a devastating blow to the United States, to NATO, and to Western power elites like World Economic Forum and Klaus Schwab who wanted to use Ukraine as a staging ground for all of their tests like 15-minute cities, digital IDs…that’s all about to go up in smoke and somewhere Klaus Schwab is crying.

So we’ll get there in a moment, but first Western governments are going in a lockdown mode right now over what’s happening in the Middle East. Just a short time ago President Biden told Iran do not attack Israel; then Iran fired back and sent a direct warning to the United States: do not interfere, we are warning you stay out of it.

… Some big news; Iran has sent a message to the United States through the Arab countries and I’m quoting from that, “if you intervene in a conflict between us and Israel, we will attack American bases in the region.” Of course Biden got us directly involved like we knew he would, as U.S. Marine Scott Ritter told us on Friday, this is going to be big, and he was 100% correct.

So there’s going to be a retaliation, this is 100% certain; the question is will this retaliation then escalate to general war.

We know the United States doesn’t want to fight a general war with Iran.

The reason why the Obama administration signed off on the Iran nuclear deal in 2015 is that the only option we had if we didn’t capitulate on our terms regarding Iran’s nuclear program was a war that we could not win.

Every president since Obama has recognized that we cannot win a war against Iran.

So Scott was correct on that and he tweeted just this morning Ben Gurion airport in Israel has resumed normal operations there will be no Israeli response this crisis is over. Meanwhile, all of Biden’s meddling in the Middle East is pushing oil prices through the roof once again. Get ready to pay a crap ton of gas prices once again. Axios is calling it Biden’s oil jeopardy. Why. Why is a liberal website calling it Biden’s oil jeopardy? Because they can’t pin this on Trump.

This is all on Biden because Biden is a moron who blamed inflation in the United States on Putin and depleted our strategic oil reserves which are now nearly empty in order to soften the blow of inflation. He told us it’s Putin’s price hike.

Let me start with the Putin price hike. Anyone with a Forrest Gump level IQ knew that was a lie. In fact the opposite was true. Western sanctions again didn’t hurt Russia. It drove prices in the United States and Europe through the roof. Costs for everything went up but it was Putin’s fault. They hope you’d believe it but you’re not stupid. And if Biden meddles in the Iranian-Israel war that’s coming Iran will shut down the Straits of Hormuz.

A friendly reminder that the Straits of Hormuz is a 39 kilometer wide section of land around 21 million barrels of oil or 24% of the world’s total oil consumption passes through it each day and oil prices will immediately hit 130 dollars a barrel and Americans will see that immediately in their wallet.

Perfect for an election year.

So President Biden told us he was going to raid the strategic oil reserves to help lower your gas costs and combat inflation, he told us. He led the world and other countries to join with us to coordinate the largest release of oil from our stockpiles of all the countries in history. And inflation numbers came in much higher than expected this week with the latest CPI numbers showing that inflation is getting worse not better. Now the strategic oil reserve is virtually empty and inflation is going up. It was Biden’s way of stopping Putin and Biden is your friend. He’s here to help you.

But don’t worry, we’re going to refill the strategic oil reserves with no cost to taxpayers at all. Today I’m announcing I’m planning to refill the strategic petroleum oil reserve in the years ahead and a profit for taxpayers.

Today the Biden administration announced that it’s going to pull back its plans to refill the SPR the strategic petroleum reserve you know they drained that to try and bring gas prices down earlier well they’ve been trying to fill it back up but now it is way too expensive.

But of course it wasn’t just Biden the mainstream media told us that inflation is good for us and nothing to worry about they were complicit.

The inflation scare doesn’t match reality. Forbes told us inflation looks bad now but it’s pretty much sticking to the script. CNBC told us why the inflation we’re seeing now is a good thing. Only MSNBC could come up with a headline like that and inflation is your fault says the Atlantic you stupid Americans no wonder the world is dumping the US dollar.

Bottom line is gold has now entered a new multi-year bull market and is making big moves right now…this is the highest an ounce of gold has ever been. Bank of America sees gold hitting three thousand dollars by 2025. UBS sees gold hitting four thousand dollars. This is unprecedented what’s happening right now. Of course, I told you this was coming months ago. We talked about it right here on the show so let’s be strategic about this. China and Russia are buying up as much gold as they can and preparing for the next stage and this week it all happened. Number one Russia signed a brand new agreement with China.

By the way they did this while the U.S. Treasury Secretary was in Beijing. She was in town. Janet Yellen was.

And Russia flies into China and signs a new agreement on security and the economy. Unbelievable.

Now they have each other’s back in case of attacks by NATO. This is the first real military alliance against NATO in years. Number two, they also signed an economic partnership to protect themselves against western sanctions, but the biggest story is what happens next in Ukraine.

Putin told us all that the only way the war in Ukraine ends is with the destruction of the Ukrainian government, meaning there is no other way that this ends; the regime in Kiev will be done kaput finished, quoting Russia’s message to the United Nations this week, “this is how it will go down in history as an inhuman and hateful regime of terrorists and Nazis who betrayed the interest of their people and sacrificed it to their western money.”

And Zelensky and his closest circle, the only topic for any international meetings on Ukraine will be the unconditional capitulation of the kiv regime Putin said in other words it’s over it’s over for NATO it’s over for Europe it’s over for the United States you have lost pick up your ball and go home what are they going to do are they going to do that or are they going to be desperate as we talk about on the show all the time desperate people do desperate things we will be watching this very very closely over the next few weeks now that the ground has firmed up the snow has melted and Putin is about to launch a massive offensive into Ukraine.

Honey Is A Superfood [<<< Browse This Link, if None Other]

Honey is one of the most energy-dense foods in nature, in terms of absorbable calories. (Fat is more energy-dense, but isolated fat is not classified as a “whole food”). More importantly, anthropologists now believe that starchy C4 sedge tubers and honey played a significant role in our evolution. Honey, in particular, was a prime source of energy for many indigenous cultures throughout the world. And with an unlimited shelf life, it never spoils.

A few of the well known honey hunters include the Rai people of Nepal, who scale cliffs in the foothills of the Himalayas that are home to the world’s largest honeybee, Apis laboriosa. The Magars—also of Nepal—were honey hunters as well. Others include the Shenko Honeymen of Ethiopia, the Aka, Mbuti and Efe pygmies of the Congo. Honey is the favorite food of the Mbuti. At times, during the rainy season up to 80% of the calories in their diet come from honey.

In Paraguay, the Aché tribe, consider honey and bee larvae to be the second most important food in their diet, after large game meat, and at times they will consume as much as 1,100 calories from honey a day.

Other notable honey hunters include the Masai, the Hadza of Tanzania, Australian aborigines like the Aranda, the Batek of Malaysia and the Yanomami of Venezuela. The Hadza consume about 15% of their calories from honey.

Amazingly, both the Hadza and Masai co-evolved with the Greater Honeyguide bird, a wild bird that instinctively leads humans to sources of honey in exchange for honey combs (see video).

Bees are the only the only animals in nature to create enormous surpluses of food—apparently evolving to have its own honey stolen by hungry humans, and other animals.

The lengths some cultures, like the Gurung Nepalese and the Aka will go to obtain honey are breath-taking.

Note that they eat the indigestible honeycomb (beeswax) too. And interestingly, some people consider bee venom, from bee stings, to be hormetic (see apitherapy).

Rock art depicting honey collecting has been dated to 40,000 years ago—found in Africa, Europe, Asia and Australia. One of the most famous honey-collection cave paintings is “Man of Bicorp“, an 8,000 year-old Epipaleolithic painting from the Araña Caves, shown climbing lianas and gathering honey from wild bees.

Those are the cave paintings low carb Paleos, like Nora, don’t want you to see. How someone can write a book on the benefits of Paleolithic diets while also claiming every drop of honey shortens lifespans is absolutely mind-boggling.

Honey is now being investigated as an anti-diabetic agent. By this point we shouldn’t be surprised that it’s the oligosaccharides in honey that contribute to this anti-diabetic effect. But honey is more than fiber. It’s also a good source of antioxidants, and it is also being studied for its ability to significantly modulate gene expression differently than refined sugars. For example, in bees, honey up-regulates detoxification and immunity genes. Suddenly, fructose within the context of naturally occurring fiber and antioxidants isn’t quite so scary anymore. But don’t tell that to The Paleo Diet™ author, Loren Cordain, who’s team recently gave honey a big thumbs down solely because it is a good source of fructose. We know refined fructose is inflammatory, so therefore honey must be bad for you. There’s your modern Paleo™ “logic” in a honeynut-shell. [Update: see this 2014 study: Effect of honey in preventing gingivitis and dental caries in patients undergoing orthodontic treatment.]

To top it off, evidence shows that honey may have been consumed in much greater quantities than previously believed.

Honey revisited: a reappraisal of honey in pre-industrial diets, by Allsop & Miller (1996) (Free Download)

A reappraisal of the evidence from the Stone Age, Antiquity, the Middle Ages and early Modern times suggests that ordinary people ate much larger quantities of honey than has previously been acknowledged. Intakes at various times during history may well have rivaled our current consumption of refined sugar. There are implications therefore for the role of sugar in modern diets. Refined sugar may not have displaced more nutrient-rich items from our present-day diets but only the nutritionally comparable food, honey.

And it doesn’t take much digging to find paradoxes that defy Nora’s unsupported claims of death by carbohydrates. For instance, super-centenarians in the Longevity Villages and “Blue Zones” of the world eat lots of carbohydrates and legumes—basically the polar opposite of her version of Paleo™. In Bama, China and Yuzurihara, Japan they eat lots of potatoes. If you do your homework, you won’t find a single low carb longevity village. How can this be if Nora tells us that carbohydrates shorten our lives?

Another paradox we’ve seen more recently is that eating spoonfuls of prebiotic fibers seems to make people look younger and improve their body composition. Somehow eating spoonfuls of raw (prebiotic) starch appears to reduce inflammation. It seems as though fibers help reduce inflammation. Let’s keep looking.

The Secret of Honey: Fiber and Fructose

Perhaps carbophobes, like Nora, never took the time to look into what makes natural carbohydrates, such as honey, so special. But with a little bit of digging we can find some clues. A group of researchers fed honey to a group of rats and purified fructose to another group of rats to observe the difference. The honey protected the rats from much of the prooxidative effects of fructose.

Substituting Honey for Refined Carbohydrates Protects Rats from Hypertriglyceridemic and Prooxidative Effects of Fructose, by Busserolles, et al. (2002)

Because honey is rich in fructose, the aim of this study was to assess the effect of substituting honey for refined carbohydrates on lipid metabolism and oxidative stress…Compared with those fed fructose, honey-fed rats had a…lower susceptibility of heart to lipid peroxidation. Further studies are required to identify the mechanism underlying the antioxidant effect of honey but the data suggest a potential nutritional benefit of substituting honey for fructose in the diet.

Incredibly, the same researchers figured out one of the underlying mechanisms that significantly reduced the oxidative stress in the rats, but they withheld their findings so they could patent it.

US Patent#: 20060252725 A1 — Use of prebiotics for preventing or treating oxidation stress

“A subject of the invention is also the use of prebiotics as compounds with an anti-aging effect linked to an effect which protects the cells of the organism against the action of free radicals…These results indicate that the animals following the fructose diet are subjected to a significantly greater oxidative stress than that of the control animals (subjected to the starch diet) and that the addition of FOS allows significant reduction in the oxidative stress linked to the consumption of fructose.”

The patent filing reads like a study—explaining the experiments they ran to determine the antioxidant role of prebiotics in honey. Between the study and the data presented in the patent, we can see that while a purified fructose diet resulted in higer levels of inflammation, the prebiotics alongside fructose resulted in oxidative stress that was not significantly different over that of the starch + prebiotics diet. Another study in rats, the following year and using oligofructose, showed similar results. And in 2008, a third study showed that inulin protects from the harmful effects of fructose.

Purified Antioxidants Are Counterproductive

In Part I we learned that low levels of ROS and oxidative stress can activate powerful hormetic responses. We also learned that taking too many anti-oxidants may suppress the ROS signals that activate our hormetic pathways and can be counter-productive to health. Ironically, it seems that by avoiding oxidative stress, we become more fragile and susceptible to oxidative stress. The scientific community is finally starting to grasp this:

From the Gastrointestinal Tract (GIT) to the Kidneys: Live Bacterial Cultures (Probiotics) Mediating Reductions of Uremic Toxin Levels via Free Radical Signaling, by Vitetta, et al. (2013)

“…The concept of oxidative stress being a major deleterious player in all manner of situations has been massively supported by a vast literature [31,32,33]. The data presented in these reports has formed the basis for pre-clinical and clinical trials of antioxidant therapies [34,35], most of which have disappointing outcomes. We assert that the conclusion of a need for antioxidant therapy is based on misinterpretation of these data. Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are central to normal metabolism. They give rise to physiological levels of peroxide, which then acts as a second messenger in maintaining normal physiological function [36]. Thus, ROS at physiological levels are essential for health”

Therefore, it may be reasonable to deduce that a combination of antioxidants and pro-oxidants may result in a mild inflammation, or homeostasis, that provides us with hormetic benefits, such as up-regulated antioxidant status.

Given the important role honey plays for so many indigenous cultures, it’s possible that honey promotes that kind of homeostasis—a mild and hormetic inflammation without the harmful effects of refined fructose. If nothing else, the large amounts of honey many indigenous cultures consume at certain times of the year should encourage us to consider honey as yet another ideal source of carbohydrates.