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  • Miriam Putnam | A Million Dollars and Not One Test | Part 1 of 2
    There is no blood test for bipolar disorder. That is what our guest tonight will tell you. No scan for schizophrenia. No biological marker anywhere in medicine that proves a human being is depressed. She found that out after 20 years of looking, and she calls it the biggest lie in America hiding in plain sight.
    Her mother was the healthiest person in the house. Supplement packs. Yoga before anyone in that town had heard of it. A preacher's daughter who read her own black box warnings and asked her doctors why she should swallow something carrying that label. Nobody ever answered her.
    Then three people she loved died inside a single year. Her marriage came apart. She was moving through menopause. And the system called all of that an illness.
    What followed was hospital after hospital after hospital, across two decades. The family had the best insurance money could buy. Glass offices looking out over the Pacific. Infinity pools. They spent close to a million dollars. At one point they hired private investigators just to find her.
    Miriam Putnam was 19 years old, standing in a hospital room, arguing on her mother's behalf, when a doctor turned to her and said that if anyone in this family has the gene, it's you.
    She lost her mother. She says her mother died of a broken heart.
    And then, years later, it came for her. Seizures. Sleep gone. Nothing showing up on any blood test. And doctors reaching for the same category they had used on her mother.
    Tonight she tells us what she found in the years between. What she believes is actually happening inside 80 to 90 percent of the people we call mentally ill. The 300,000 American children under the age of five she says are medicated tonight. The four states she counts that have banned electric shock. And what she says is still being done to children behind closed doors.
    She calls herself a professional garbage disposal. She has a framework, a lineage, and a warning.

    This is Part 1. Part 2, and all 886 interviews going back to 2008, are at https://veritas7.com/subscribeveritasplus.php
    1 hr 4 min
  • Ronald W. Chapman II, Esq., LL.M. | Nobody Disappears Anymore: 90,000 Cameras, a Vanished General, and the Lawyer Who Beats the Feds | Part 1 of 2
    On the morning of February 27th, a retired two-star general walked out of his home in Albuquerque and vanished inside 54 minutes. He left his phone. He left his glasses. He left every device that could have tracked him. More than 700 homes were canvassed. Drones, dogs, helicopters, infrared, the FBI. No sighting. No direction of travel. Nothing.
    The man who ran the Air Force Research Laboratory disappeared into a gap that nobody has closed.
    Chapman has spent his career forcing the most powerful government on earth to prove itself. In the federal system, fewer than one out of every 100 defendants is acquitted. By age 40 he had won roughly 150 of them. A federal judge called him the most talented trial attorney seen in 20 years on the bench. He once defended a physician accused of causing 11 deaths, and won by exposing the man who decided what killed them.
    Tonight he takes us somewhere harder. Into a private network of more than 90,000 cameras that scans 20 billion vehicles a month without a warrant, and the officer who used it to hunt one woman across 83,000 of them. Into a government program to record the whole of a human life, shut down on the exact day a college website launched and quietly did it for us. Into the money that sat inside an off campus Harvard laboratory studying how belief spreads through a crowd.
    And into something rarer than any of it. A truth seeker who took a story his own audience desperately wanted to believe, and dismantled most of it on camera, because the evidence would not hold.
    He draws a line between a pattern and a collage. A pattern is built from real repetition. A collage is just things laid side by side until your eye invents the rest.
    Somebody out there is counting on you never learning the difference.

    This is Part 1. Part 2, and all 886 interviews going back to 2008, are at https://veritas7.com/subscribeveritasplus.php
    1 hr 13 min
  • Ryan Dalton | Epstein: The Price of Silence | Part 1 of 2
    On a Saturday in April, two men stepped onto a private island in the Caribbean. Only one of them left on his own terms. The other was found by police bound in duct tape, his face covered, held in a concrete room the staff there call the dungeon.
    That island belonged to Jeffrey Epstein. And the man who swam for the boat that day is a former Special Agent with the United States Department of State.
    Dalton has spent his entire life on this. At 18 he watched a cartel man strike a woman in a Mexican border town and it set the course of everything after. He helped rewrite 29 laws in Tennessee. He built software that helped police recover more than 150 children. He carried a badge into crisis zones on three continents and stood post for three Secretaries of State. The State Department handed him its highest honor three separate times.
    Then he walked away, took a tool Washington has used quietly for decades, and handed it to the rest of us.
    It is called Closed Horizon. Fund a question you need answered. Pay the person who answers it. Encrypt every word so completely that the company running the exchange can't read a single thing moving through it.
    For six years this country was given two options. He killed himself, or somebody killed him. Dalton read the same record and asked whether the question was framed too narrowly. What if Jeffrey Epstein walked out of that building alive.
    More than $54,000 sits in that reward pool tonight, put there by ordinary people who looked at the lifted suicide watch, the falsified logs, the cameras that failed at exactly the right moment, and decided the story doesn't close.
    Tonight we go through all of it. The passport under another name. The 577 million dollars moved days before. The handwritten pages he reads as an escape plan. The island. And the question underneath every one of them. When somebody knows, what finally makes them speak.

    This is Part 1. Part 2, and all 886 interviews going back to 2008, are at https://veritas7.com/subscribeveritasplus.php
    1 hr 13 min
  • Jeremy Ryan Slate | Rome Fell and Nobody Noticed: The Three Failures That End Every Empire and the Men Who Rewrite the Record | Part 1 of 2
    In the year 284, a loaf of bread in Rome cost 15,000 percent more than it had a lifetime earlier. The silver coin that bought it had been quietly hollowed out until almost no silver remained in it at all. And the people carrying those coins to market got up, went to work, paid their taxes, and told themselves everything was fine.
    Nobody in Rome ever woke up and announced that the empire was over.
    Our guest tonight has spent his life studying that silence. Jeremy Ryan Slate earned his master's degree studying the propaganda of Rome's first emperor. The machinery that convinced an entire civilization it still lived in a republic, long after the republic was gone. He studied at Oxford. He built a media company out of nothing. And he has become one of the most listened to voices connecting the fall of Rome to the world outside your window right now.
    He calls it the Roman Pattern. Three things, he says, happen every single time a civilization comes apart. The money gets hollowed out. The borders stop meaning anything. And the people in charge stop thinking past the next election.
    Tonight we take that pattern apart, piece by piece.
    We go inside the Praetorian Guard. The protectors who murdered an estimated 17 of the emperors they were sworn to defend, and who once auctioned the throne itself to the highest bidder. We go into the crisis of the third century, when 27 men claimed the empire in 50 years, and almost nobody teaches it. And we ask how much of Roman history is even true, when fewer than one in 10 Romans could read, and every writer who could was writing for a man who could have him killed.
    Then we ask the question underneath all of it. If collapse is slow, and quiet, and completely ordinary, how would any of us know we were already living inside one?
    Slate has an answer. You may not sleep especially well after you hear it.

    This is Part 1. Part 2, and all 886 interviews going back to 2008, are at https://veritas7.com/subscribeveritasplus.php
    1 hr 11 min
  • Dean Kinzer | Coins of Collapse: What 2,000 Years of Debasement Reveals About Power, Propaganda, and the Fall of Empires | Part 1 of 2
    Tonight on Veritas our special guest is Dean Kinzer. He's an ancient coin expert and a decorated Iraq War veteran. What he's discovered might fundamentally shift how you understand power and collapse.
    When currency was invented around 650 BC, counterfeiting started immediately. That's civilization: trust breaking down the moment systems are created. Dean Kinzer holds that truth in his hands. He's holding 2,000-year-old coins that document empires rising and falling.
    In the Roman Empire, you can see collapse in metal composition. A denarius under Augustus was 90-95 percent silver. Under Gallienus 250 years later? Bronze with silver plating. Worthless. The economic decline is visible in your hand. Evidence of systemic failure, tangible. And Dean argues that pattern is repeating now.
    During the Crisis of the Third Century, 26 emperors ruled in 50 years. Rome fractured. Plague killed 20 percent of the population. Emperor Valerian was captured by the Persians, the first Roman emperor taken alive. Aurelian reunified the empire in five years, then was assassinated by his own subordinates. What happens when individual leadership tries to fix a corrupt system?
    Dean inherited his father's collection: an ordained minister's tribute pennies and widow's mites. Coins from the time of Christ. The Pontius Pilate Prutah. His father never had anyone to share that with. So Dean built that expertise.
    Dean walks us through 2,700 years of coins and collapse cycles. Why Constantine's decision extended an empire by 1,100 years. Why Diocletian's Tetrarchy might have been genius. And why the coins people are burying right now might be the most honest thing they do about what's coming.
    Prophecy through history.

    This is Part 1. Part 2, and all 886 interviews going back to 2008, are at https://veritas7.com/subscribeveritasplus.php
    1 hr 13 min
  • Allan Paul Roberts | Eleven Pillars. One Year Later. Which Ones Are Still Standing? | Part 1 of 2
    One year ago he sat in this chair and named 11 pillars he said were being pulled down on purpose. Borders. Banking. Food. Energy. Faith. He told us a digital currency was coming. He told us the banks would break. He told us the men who move the world would never be touched.
    A year has passed. This month, the digital dollar was banned by law in this country, and the power to freeze what you own moved quietly into private hands. Gold doubled. Silver went from 30 dollars an ounce to 80. A member of the royal family was arrested. The president of the World Economic Forum resigned. A former prime minister was criminally charged.
    So what happens to a warning when the world starts answering it?
    Roberts is the author of The Globalist Plan to Collapse Everything to Usher In a New World Order. He wrote it in three and a half months, after an experience at four in the morning that he still cannot fully explain. He filled it with more than 100 QR codes, so that nothing in it has to be taken on faith.
    Tonight we walk back through all 11 pillars with 12 months of evidence on the table. The ones he called right. The ones the world moved on. And the ones that went somewhere nobody predicted. We talk about what it means when the machinery you spent a year warning about ends up in the hands of people you trust.
    This is not a victory lap, and it is not the same warning shouted louder. It is an honest accounting of what is actually in front of us, from a man willing to be graded on his own work.
    If you have been waiting for someone to check the scoreboard without flinching, stay right where you are.

    This is Part 1. Part 2, and all 886 interviews going back to 2008, are at https://veritas7.com/subscribeveritasplus.php
    1 hr 21 min
  • Allan Paul Roberts | Eleven Pillars. One Year Later. Which Ones Are Still Standing? | Preview
    One year ago he sat in this chair and named 11 pillars he said were being pulled down on purpose. Borders. Banking. Food. Energy. Faith. He told us a digital currency was coming. He told us the banks would break. He told us the men who move the world would never be touched.
    A year has passed. This month, the digital dollar was banned by law in this country, and the power to freeze what you own moved quietly into private hands. Gold doubled. Silver went from 30 dollars an ounce to 80. A member of the royal family was arrested. The president of the World Economic Forum resigned. A former prime minister was criminally charged.
    So what happens to a warning when the world starts answering it?
    Roberts is the author of The Globalist Plan to Collapse Everything to Usher In a New World Order. He wrote it in three and a half months, after an experience at four in the morning that he still cannot fully explain. He filled it with more than 100 QR codes, so that nothing in it has to be taken on faith.
    Tonight we walk back through all 11 pillars with 12 months of evidence on the table. The ones he called right. The ones the world moved on. And the ones that went somewhere nobody predicted. We talk about what it means when the machinery you spent a year warning about ends up in the hands of people you trust.
    This is not a victory lap, and it is not the same warning shouted louder. It is an honest accounting of what is actually in front of us, from a man willing to be graded on his own work.
    If you have been waiting for someone to check the scoreboard without flinching, stay right where you are.

    This is a preview. Members hear the full interview and the complete archive at https://veritas7.com/subscribeveritasplus.php
    23 min
  • Dr. Arturo Solis Herrera | Human Photosynthesis: We Run on Light | Part 1 of 2
    Dr. Arturo Solís Herrera is a surgeon and an eye doctor from Mexico who spent 12 years staring into the eyes of 6,000 patients, chasing an answer no one could give him. Why, he wondered, do the three great causes of blindness still take people's sight the same way they did 100 years ago, no matter how heroic or expensive the treatment? Somewhere in the tiny blood vessels of the optic nerve, he saw something the textbooks never explained. And when he finally understood it, it reshaped how he saw the eye, the body, and the origin of life itself.
    His claim is simple to say and almost impossible to accept. He says the pigment we call melanin, the same dark molecule that colors your skin and your hair, is doing something inside every cell of your body that we were taught only plants can do. He says it takes in light, it splits water, and from that split it pulls oxygen, hydrogen, and energy. He calls it human photosynthesis. And if he is right, then the oxygen keeping you alive in this moment may not be coming from the air in your lungs at all.
    Tonight he will tell us why he believes the whole purpose of breathing is to carry a poison out of the body. He will explain why he thinks the real cause of nearly every disease is one broken reaction, hiding in plain sight since the beginning of time. We will talk about batteries that could run for 100 years, walls that stay cool in brutal heat, and soil that could one day wake up on Mars. And we will ask the harder question underneath all of it. If one country has already granted him a patent, and one man has spent 30 years insisting we are made of light and water, why has the rest of the world looked away?
    Prepare to question everything you thought you knew about the breath in your chest.

    This is Part 1. Part 2, and all 886 interviews going back to 2008, are at https://veritas7.com/subscribeveritasplus.php
    1 hr 17 min
  • Dr. Arturo Solis Herrera | Human Photosynthesis: We Run on Light | Preview
    Dr. Arturo Solís Herrera is a surgeon and an eye doctor from Mexico who spent 12 years staring into the eyes of 6,000 patients, chasing an answer no one could give him. Why, he wondered, do the three great causes of blindness still take people's sight the same way they did 100 years ago, no matter how heroic or expensive the treatment? Somewhere in the tiny blood vessels of the optic nerve, he saw something the textbooks never explained. And when he finally understood it, it reshaped how he saw the eye, the body, and the origin of life itself.
    His claim is simple to say and almost impossible to accept. He says the pigment we call melanin, the same dark molecule that colors your skin and your hair, is doing something inside every cell of your body that we were taught only plants can do. He says it takes in light, it splits water, and from that split it pulls oxygen, hydrogen, and energy. He calls it human photosynthesis. And if he is right, then the oxygen keeping you alive in this moment may not be coming from the air in your lungs at all.
    Tonight he will tell us why he believes the whole purpose of breathing is to carry a poison out of the body. He will explain why he thinks the real cause of nearly every disease is one broken reaction, hiding in plain sight since the beginning of time. We will talk about batteries that could run for 100 years, walls that stay cool in brutal heat, and soil that could one day wake up on Mars. And we will ask the harder question underneath all of it. If one country has already granted him a patent, and one man has spent 30 years insisting we are made of light and water, why has the rest of the world looked away?
    Prepare to question everything you thought you knew about the breath in your chest.

    This is a preview. Members hear the full interview and the complete archive at https://veritas7.com/subscribeveritasplus.php
    23 min
  • Samuel Chong | The Thiaoouba Prophecy Returns: Nine Days on the Golden Planet and the Knowledge Earth Wasn't Ready For | Part 1 of 2
    In 1987, a French-born landscaper living near Cairns, Australia, claimed he was taken from his bed in the dead of night, carried through a doorway in space, and delivered to a planet of gold and impossible color. He stayed nine days. He came back changed, grieving, and certain. He spent the rest of his life trying to make us believe him, and then he died on a quiet island in Vietnam, homesick for a world he saw only once.
    The man's name was Michel Desmarquet. The book he left behind is called Thiaoouba Prophecy, and tonight it returns in a brand-new edition, carried forward by the one man who spent $2,000 of his own money to track Michel down before he passed.
    Chong did not just read this book. He flew across the world on the strength of a single printed photograph, found the bungalow on his second try, and sat with Michel twice. And on those visits, Michel told him things he wrote down nowhere, things Chong says he is still not permitted to repeat, because we are not ready to hear them.
    Tonight, we go looking for what is behind that locked door. The first humans, who arrived here by craft. The being placed inside the body of a man we think we know. A warning that our machines are racing ahead of our souls. And a quiet promise about a return that Chong is allowed to hint at, but not fully name.
    Is this the most important book ever smuggled back from another world, or the most elaborate dream a lonely man ever had? Tonight we press on every seam, we ask the questions no one else will ask, and we find out how much of it holds.
    Bring your curiosity. Leave your certainty at the door. This is one of those nights at Veritas where the floor moves under your feet.

    This is Part 1. Part 2, and all 886 interviews going back to 2008, are at https://veritas7.com/subscribeveritasplus.php
    1 hr 15 min

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What if everything you were taught was designed to keep you from asking the right questions? VERITAS is one of the longest-running independent interview shows in the world -- 886+ episodes since 2008…

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