Mentor Sessions EP 106: Broken Country Filmmakers Mira Metter & Mike Werry on Canada's Collapse, Healthcare, Housing, Taxes and Government Control

Canada used to be the envy of the world. Now people are asking whether they can survive here, let alone raise a family. Mira Metter and Mike Werry, the director and producer of the documentary Broken Country, spent months traveling the country to find out what broke and when. Their verdict a year later: not one thing they covered in the film has gotten better.

They break down why Canadian hospitals run at 100 to 120% occupancy when 80% is considered safe, why roughly 20% of Canadians have no family doctor, and how a country of 40 million ended up with fewer MRI machines than Pennsylvania. On housing, prices have climbed about 375% in 20 years, going from roughly 2.5 times annual income in the '90s to 9 times nationally and 19 times in Toronto and Vancouver.

We also get into rising taxes, immigration policy, censorship bills and cameras turned off in Parliament, the federal government's own 2040 social mobility scenario, Alberta and Quebec separatism, and why this is a warning for Americans watching the same policies at home.

Chapters:

0:00 - Intro

0:52 - Canada From Envy Of The World To Survival

3:33 - What's Wrong With Canadian Healthcare

4:00 - Hospitals Running At 100-120% Capacity

5:29 - 20% Of Canadians Have No Family Doctor

6:42 - Fewer MRI Machines Than Pennsylvania

7:20 - Hospitals Funded On Last Year's Patients

10:03 - Healthcare Worked Until The Early 90s Cuts

12:37 - Canada's Hidden Two-Tier Healthcare

15:43 - Rural ER Closures Costing Lives

20:31 - Can Canadian Healthcare Be Saved

24:08 - ER Doctors Abused And Burned Out

26:12 - Addiction, Homelessness And Housing

27:03 - Housing From 2.5x To 19x Income

27:55 - Housing Up 375% In 20 Years

29:03 - How Housing Got Dumped On Cities

31:01 - Rent Eating Half Your Paycheck

33:49 - The Five-Year Mortgage Renewal Shock

35:12 - The Money Printing Behind It All

43:20 - Can Housing Ever Correct Without Breaking The Banks

48:01 - How Canada's Government Failed

49:36 - Safe Supply And The Opioid Crisis

52:30 - Censorship Bills And Cameras Off In Parliament

55:43 - Government-Subsidized Media

58:31 - Bill C-22 And Digital Privacy

1:01:38 - The 2015 Immigration Shift

1:06:54 - Youth Unemployment And Temporary Foreign Workers

1:09:55 - Entrepreneurs Leaving For The US

1:11:31 - Wasted Resources: Ring Of Fire, LNG, Hydro

1:17:10 - Walking Away From The US Trade Deal

1:19:46 - Does It Get Worse Before It Gets Better

1:20:52 - The Government's Own 2040 Warning

1:22:39 - Alberta And Quebec Separatism

1:25:52 - A Wake-Up Call For Americans

1:26:50 - Not One Thing Has Gotten Better

1:28:45 - Where To Watch Broken Country

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Mentor Sessions EP 105 | Max Hillebrand & Ben Perrin on GrapheneOS, White Noise, Local AI, KYC-Free Bitcoin and Privacy Guerrilla Warfare

If you click next, next, next on mainstream tech, your privacy is fucked. But Max Hillebrand (White Noise, Marmot protocol, author of The Praxeology of Privacy) and Ben Perrin (BTC Sessions, Sovereign Sessions) argue the tools to route around surveillance have never been better. With an old laptop, an AI agent, Nostr and Zapstore, you can now build and ship a freedom tech app without knowing how to code.

From there, they walk through a practical privacy stack: Pixel phones running GrapheneOS (8, 9 or 10, not the 11), Linux laptops, password managers, paying privately with gift cards and prepaid cards, Wasabi Wallet and peer-to-peer Bitcoin, Zapstore, Tor VPN, Amber and White Noise for encrypted messaging, local AI and trusted execution environments, self-hosting on an old laptop, quantum risk to encryption, and why privacy matters for honest price discovery.

Timestamps:

0:00 Cold Open

0:41 Privacy Guerrilla Warfare: Can We Route Around the Grid?

2:37 Build an Anonymous App Without Coding

6:19 Why Your Data Is So Valuable

7:38 Google Maps and Your Location Data

9:40 GrapheneOS, Organic Maps and Linux

10:53 Is the Privacy UX Gap Closing?

15:23 Moving the Cultural Needle on Privacy

20:12 Starting a Private Device Setup

24:46 OS-Level ID Verification

25:41 Best Pixels for GrapheneOS: 8, 9, 10, Not the 11

27:05 Linux Laptops and Operating Systems

28:54 Face Scan vs PIN

30:27 Passwords and Password Managers

32:19 Paying Privately With Gift Cards and Prepaid Cards

35:07 Spending Bitcoin Through Friends

37:13 Wasabi Wallet and On-Chain Privacy

38:21 Getting Bitcoin Without KYC

41:38 Zapstore, Tor VPN, Amber and White Noise

48:00 How the Marmot Protocol Works

55:52 How Disappearing Messages Work

57:57 Private AI and Running Local Models

1:01:29 Talking to Your AI Agents Through White Noise

1:07:37 Private Cloud AI With Maple and PPQ

1:08:43 Trusted Execution Environments: Cypherpunk Magic

1:14:35 Self-Host Your Data on an Old Laptop

1:17:14 Is Quantum a Threat to Encryption and Bitcoin?

1:25:09 The Economic Case for Privacy

1:29:00 Ben's Blond Streak Disguise

1:29:55 Where to Find Max, Ben and White Noise

Tools mentioned: GrapheneOS, Organic Maps, Debian, Qubes OS, Pop!_OS, Omarchy, Framework, Apple Lockdown Mode, KeePass, Silent.Link, Bitrefill, Coincards, Garmin Pay, Wasabi Wallet, Lightning, Hodl Hodl, Bisq, RoboSats, Zapstore, Tor VPN, Obscura VPN, Amber, White Noise, Marmot protocol, MLS, Nostr, Nostr VPN, FIPS, Routstr, Cashu, Fedimint, Bionic, Maple, PPQ.ai

Max Hillebrand (Nostr only): https://towardsliberty.com

White Noise: https://whitenoise.chat

Sovereign Sessions (tutorials): https://youtube.com/@SovereignSessions

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Mentor Sessions EP 104 | Jim Rickards & Simon Dixon on the petrodollar, who runs the world, the AI bubble, dollar collapse, gold vs Bitcoin, stablecoin bank runs and frozen bank accounts.

Two wars, a quiet Russian diesel deal, and a $2 trillion AI build-out that one of these guests calls the greatest bubble in history. James Rickards and Simon Dixon sit down to map who is actually calling the shots in the Iran and Ukraine conflicts, and what it means for the dollar, gold, and your Bitcoin.

Rickards war gamed finance as a weapon for the Pentagon, advised the CIA on financial threats, and was general counsel at Long Term Capital Management when the Fed stepped in. In this conversation you'll learn why he argues the debasement trade is nonsense and the dollar is getting stronger, why China's yuan can't become a reserve currency, and why he believes an unregulated stablecoin bank run could trigger a panic in the Treasury market.

Simon Dixon pushes back with the view that war is the product, that the petrodollar is being quietly renegotiated as China becomes Saudi Arabia's main oil buyer, and that both gold and Bitcoin matter in the programmable control grid he sees coming. You'll also hear a sharp breakdown of the AI bubble, why superintelligence won't be achieved, and the latest supply-chain attacks on hardware wallets.

⏱️ Timestamps:

0:00 - Intro

0:33 - Who Is Calling The Shots In These Wars

2:33 - Who Really Controls Ukraine's Leadership

3:38 - Why Iran Has No Exit Strategy

6:46 - US-Russia Deal That Could End Two Wars

9:25 - Why Only China Russia And US Matter

12:16 - Simon Dixon: War Serves The Power Structure

15:13 - Midterms Weapons Shortages And Trump Agenda

18:46 - Seventy Years Of Petrodollar Monetary History

23:47 - Bigger Picture Above Trump And World Orders

26:19 - Why The Debasement Trade Is Nonsense

29:05 - China's Gold Reserves And Yuan Limitations

32:08 - Using Inflation To Solve The Debt Problem

33:09 - Petrodollar Shift From Saudi Arabia To China

49:26 - Two Trillion Dollar AI Infrastructure Bubble

55:42 - Why Superintelligence Cannot Be Achieved

56:11 - Ice-Nine Freezing Accounts And Redemptions

1:00:06 - Rickards Bitcoin Casino Chip Metaphor Explained

1:01:08 - Stablecoin Bank Run Risks On The Horizon

1:03:55 - Simon Dixon Stablecoins Versus Bank Deposits

1:26:48 - Hardware Wallet Attacks Targeting Self Custody

1:31:49 - Simon Dixon New Book Game Of Money

🔗 Links & Resources:

James Rickards newsletter - https://rickardswarning.com

Simon Dixon on X - https://x.com/SimonDixonTwit

This one is for the people trying to make sense of the whole board at once, not just the headlines. If that's you, join us live for the next Mentor Session and drop your take on war-is-the-product vs the-dollar-is-fine in the comments. We read them.

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