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March 14, 2018 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams

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Why your money will VANISH in a collapse!

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	Mike Adams.
	I saw a big alarmist article the other day.
	By the year 2100, the oceans are going to rise 1.5 inches.
	The Health Ranger Report.
	I'm thinking to myself, one and a half inches?
	That doesn't wipe out coastal cities, okay?
	It's time for the Health Ranger Report.
	And now, from naturalnews.com, here's Mike Adams.
	Welcome to the special report from Collapse.News.
	It's called a comprehensive list of real things that won't vanish in the next great financial collapse.
	You can find the list on Collapse.News.
	Just go to that website, Collapse.News, which covers really the collapse of everything that's collapsing, which seems to look like more and more things.
	Much of the world is collapsing around us, like the trust in government, trust in the banking system, trust in the media.
	But also the financial infrastructure that has held our world together or perhaps defrauded our world for the last, what, since, what was that, 1913, the creature from Jekyll Island, Ed Griffin?
	So anyway, welcome to this list.
	I want to have a serious discussion with you about how...
	How well off are you going to be when the financial system really does collapse?
	And the easy way to answer that question for yourself is to ask, how much of your savings or assets exists only in digital electronic form?
	In other words, if you log into your bank in a web browser and you see these numbers, From your bank account, you have your savings account and you see the numbers.
	Oh, there's, you know, $5,625.
	That's not real, folks.
	It's illusory and it will vanish instantly in a banking collapse.
	And that kind of vanishing has happened Many, many times throughout history when your assets, even before they were electronic, they were recorded on paper, but you couldn't touch them.
	You didn't possess them.
	So this money that your bank says you have because they give you a little digital number on a screen, is that really your money if you don't have it in your possession?
	If you don't control it, if you don't possess it, if you can't touch it, is it really...
	What is yours and does it really exist?
	And the answer is absolutely not.
	And most people, this is especially true in America, most people keep their savings, their checking accounts in this virtual electronic format.
	Because that's all they know.
	They've never even really thought about that, and they also keep it in U.S. dollars, which is a very bad idea as well, because they've never thought about having a checking account in a different currency or doing anything to reduce their currency risk in the U.S. dollar collapsing by spreading their assets around into other currencies that might alleviate some of that risk, or even perhaps buying Certain kinds of options on currencies in order to eliminate currency risk.
	But that's a more advanced kind of strategy.
	I wouldn't recommend just jumping into that or you could end up doubling your risk without knowing it.
	But in terms of real things that don't vanish when the banking system collapses, this is where you need to start looking around your room, your house, your office, and it's important to have things that I call barterable.
	I don't know if that's an official word or not, but barterable is the way you should start looking at things around you in your life.
	What do you have that's barterable in a collapse scenario?
	Because those are the things that have real value.
	And some of these things may actually surprise you, and I'll give you a couple of tips and strategies on how to safeguard those things as well, because that's also very important.
	Make sure that they're not taken from you, because they are physical things.
	So how do you safeguard those things?
	I'll talk about it.
	First of all, a lot of people know that gold and silver are real assets.
	They have real value.
	Gold is sometimes difficult to exchange because it's such a high value for such a small physical mass.
	And that's why you have silver.
	Silver breaks down more easily into smaller units of value compared to gold.
	So it's good to have a combination of both.
	And it's good to have these in formats that are immediately recognized like, you know, U.S. Mint coins that everybody recognizes instead of some odd coin from South Africa or something that people are like, what?
	What is that?
	You want to have coins that are universally recognizable.
	It's also a decent idea to have a little bit of spare cash, even though we know that the US dollar will likely collapse at some point.
	In a semi-collapse, or a state of war, for example, or in the aftermath of a big natural disaster, The U.S. dollar as cash, you know, green paper money, could actually continue to be accepted by a lot of people for some period of time or maybe always.
	So it's not a bad idea to have a certain amount of your cash in cash, like physical paper money, but don't overdo it because when the dollar does collapse, there will be probably a mandatory trade-in announced where everybody's supposed to bring in their cash and swap it out for the new currency That rips you off to the tune of like 90 cents on the dollar, by the way, and that's the way it's always been done, or historically has been done.
	Just look at the history of every country in South America, like from Ecuador to Venezuela to, I don't know, Chile and Bolivia.
	I mean, just...
	Heck, Mexico, for that matter, closer to home there.
	Just look at the currency.
	Zimbabwe.
	Let's go over to another continent.
	Zimbabwe.
	Look at the history of financial collapses in Europe centuries ago and the controls on gold, limitations on even transporting gold without permission of the king, and so on.
	If you really review human history, the financial history of collapses, you'll find that gold and silver...
	We're always where people ran to hold value, including nations, including kings, including central banks.
	And I find it astonishing that right now the mainstream media and the central bank takes to the airwaves to tell us, oh, gold is useless.
	You don't need any gold.
	And yet the central bank is stockpiling thousands of tons of gold.
	I'm always wondering, if you think gold is so useless and doesn't have any value, why are you hoarding it?
	Why do you have a vault of gold, supposedly?
	Although it hasn't been audited in a long time.
	It might be missing, for all we know.
	But forget about just holding paper gold, you know, that contracts on gold.
	You should actually hold quite a bit of physical gold, physical silver, if you want to be safe during all of this.
	Now, gold and silver are very portable, as is, by the way, art.
	Now, I don't recommend investing in art unless you know exactly what you're doing, and if you do, only buy museum-quality pieces, which personally I don't do because I don't know anything about high society art, so I don't mess with that.
	I'd rather have cases of ammo, personally, because I know what those are worth.
	And they're more usable than art in a self-defense scenario or community defense or what have you.
	But a lot of people invest in art because art holds value, especially, again, museum pieces of famous artists over time.
	And they're portable.
	So you can, if you have to get out of Dodge, you can take your gold with you, you can take your art with you, and you can even take with you deeds to the land that you own.
	This is important.
	I want to have a quick discussion about this.
	Land, personally, I think land is one of the best things to own for a collapse or a prevention strategy, anticipating collapse, because land doesn't vanish, obviously.
	And land is very hard for people to steal from you, except in a war or revolution, such as what happened in Cuba, you know, a few years back.
	A lot of landowners who are living in America today, they escaped Cuba, they still hold the deed to land in Cuba, and they very well may still get it back for their children or grandchildren once the Cuban society is overthrown yet again.
	That's not guaranteed, but at least they hold deed to that land back.
	But the government there stole the land from the people, and that is one way that your land can be taken from you, by a coercive, or a government in act of coercion against its own citizens, or an invading enemy force, of course, taking over your land and just seizing it from you.
	But by and large, land holds its value, and this is especially true if land is farmable land.
	If you've got good soil, And especially good water sources.
	So I would like to tell you that if you're looking at land as a place to put some of your electronic money, in other words, if you want to convert electronic money, which can vanish instantly, into land, which doesn't vanish instantly, usually, then look for land that has a water source on it, because water, long term, water is going to be one of the most valuable resources, almost like liquid gold.
	We're going to see water wars, we're going to see water shortages, We're going to see a lot of issues surrounding water.
	And if you can find a piece of land with a natural spring on it, that's almost worth ten times as much as a stream or a river running through it.
	So look for, if you can find it, an artesian well or something like that, natural spring.
	On a piece of land is very, very valuable.
	I wish I had a piece of land like that.
	But they're rare, so hard to find, and the location may not be exactly what you want.
	Nevertheless, in terms of other things, I've mentioned ammo.
	That's a great choice for portability, holding value, and also being practical.
	So you've got ammo that you should buy calibers that are common calibers for pistol, rifle, and even perhaps some shotgun ammo.
	Although the rifle ammo is the most important for community defense or national defense.
	Wars are never won with shotgun shells.
	Wars are not won with pistols.
	Wars are won with rifles.
	So keep that in mind.
	And in terms of rifle rounds, probably the two most common rounds in the United States would be what's called the 556 or sometimes referred to as.223.
	Which is the AR-15 round, and then the other round is of course the.308, which is also called the 7.62 mm.
	It's a metric measurement, as is 5.56 for the AR-15.
	But anyway, the 7.62x51 round It's used in a lot of sniper rifles that police teams use and so on.
	And some battle rifles as well.
	So it's a very useful round.
	Go out to about 600 yards, maybe 800 if you really, really push it.
	But that's pushing it.
	In any case, ammo is always a good choice, obviously, only if it's legal in your area.
	And it is heavy.
	So if you're more on the older side and maybe can't lift a lot of heavy things, then go with gold and silver because that's a lot lighter in terms of Mass per value unit, then, is ammunition.
	Okay, lastly, well, I want to remind you, go to Collapse.News for a more comprehensive list of all of these things.
	Now I want to remind you then, how do you defend all of these things?
	And there are really a couple of strategies that are highly effective here.
	One is, have some of your assets that are portable and that you can take with you if you have to bug out.
	So again, the deed to your land you can take with you even if you have to temporarily abandon your own land.
	Gold and silver you can take with you.
	Diamonds, if you have, I don't know, valuable jewelry or something like that.
	And even art, as I mentioned, things that you can take with you.
	You can also take some firearms, you know, take your rifle, or just use it and don't leave.
	If you can defend your place, maybe you don't have to bug out, right?
	So that's another possibility.
	But if you do have to leave, make sure you have some of your assets in forms that are portable.
	Now, some people would say that Bitcoin is one of these assets, and they may be correct, but Then again, Bitcoin is all electronic, so if we're talking about a possible collapse of the electronic infrastructure, Bitcoin's not going to really be accessible in that environment, at least not temporarily.
	So that's something you might want to think about, although it's probably not a bad idea to have a small percentage of your overall portfolio in Bitcoin for a number of reasons that I'll cover perhaps in another future podcast.
	The other idea is what's called micro-caching, which is hiding small caches of your supplies in different locations.
	It could be locations either in your house or around your immediate property.
	It could be if you have a larger piece of property A lot of land.
	It could be micro-caching, hiding things in different places across your land.
	And you can buy these, what are they called?
	They're like PVC cylindrical tubes that are waterproof.
	I forgot the name of them, but you can bury things in them.
	Some kind of vault, I think they're called, like a burial vault.
	And you can put gold and silver, cash, ammo, even documentation like a copy of your passport, copy of your driver's license, things like that.
	You can put those in the vault.
	You can bury them.
	If you don't put metallic objects in there, they're very difficult to detect by anybody.
	So you might want to make yourself a little secret treasure map of where they are.
	Maybe write down GPS coordinates.
	Maybe...
	40 paces past the cherry tree on the right.
	I mean, whatever you want to do so that you can find your buried stash, right?
	Like a little pirate map, you know?
	Okay, so, well, if you're microcaching, you should keep in mind that...
	Burying is one idea, but also there are ways to hide things within your building or the building structure.
	I've mentioned a few of these before, and obviously I don't mention every idea I have because I can't give away all of my own little best caching secrets, but there are some good ones where you can store gold coins or silver coins, for example, in the bottom of a pot of stew that's frozen in the freezer, for example.
	You can take apart your refrigerator or freezer door, and you can hide your stash in there.
	Basically, everything that drug dealers use to hide their drug stash, you can even buy books, I think, about how to hide your stuff.
	And probably drug dealers are really good at that.
	Maybe if you know a drug dealer, ask them where they would hide their stuff.
	I don't know.
	Maybe they won't tell you.
	In any case, you can take apart appliances.
	You can remove...
	Sometimes you can take a door.
	There's actually space inside a door, inside the actual door itself, a hollow space.
	You can sometimes remove a section of wall and put something in it between the 2x4s and then re-drywall your wall and repaint it and it just looks like a finished wall but you've actually got stash in there.
	You may have seen that in Hollywood movies as well.
	I saw one movie one time where...
	Someone had dug a hole in the floor and they'd put a bunch of firearms and ammo under the floor, and then they had actually poured concrete over that hole with, I guess, some kind of a lid, and then they had refinished the floor.
	And in order for them to access their stash, they had to take a sledgehammer to the concrete.
	That's an interesting idea.
	You can also...
	There's something to be said about hiding stuff in places that is very difficult to physically get to in a short period of time.
	For example, I know someone who hid a bunch of stash in a little burial area underneath a giant rainwater tank.
	This was in Ecuador, by the way, and a lot of Americans down in Ecuador, they had some extra stash of some kind, and some of them got their stuff stolen, so people were coming up with really interesting ways to hide things, and one guy put a stash under a big rainwater tank, so in order to even get to the stash, you'd have to drain the entire tank and then move the tank, and then you could get the stash, so It's kind of like a delay on a safe, you know?
	You ever seen those signs where you're in a, I don't know, a restaurant or something, and it says, you know, we can only open the safe once every 20 minutes.
	Well, if you bury your stash under, I don't know, 10,000 pounds of water, it might take you hours to get to it, and that's another strategy.
	Yeah, right.
	The bottom line is, diversity is the overall strategy to all of this.
	So it is important to have some funds in electronic form so you can transfer them quickly if the banking system happens to still be working.
	But it's also important to have bug-out items, physical objects that you can take with you.
	And then again, to have other objects that you might micro-cache in storage locations.
	And that doesn't even have to be at your property.
	You could make an agreement with a friend where you're going to store some stash at your friend's property and they're going to store some stash at your property.
	So you're both diversifying more.
	And diversification is the key here.
	You want to have your stuff more distributed where it's very hard for someone to steal.
	It's very hard to lose everything if your house burns down.
	You know, it's another thing to think about.
	Fire or earthquake or some kind of natural disaster, hurricane, tsunami, whatever.
	Are you going to lose your stuff?
	I mean, your really valuable stuff.
	That's a very important question.
	What if someone breaks into your home, puts a gun to your head and says, take me to your safe and empty your safe?
	You should be able to do that and comply with them, empty the safe, give them the stash and still have a lot of other stash somewhere else.
	So you're able to comply and maybe they don't even shoot you, which would be a great outcome.
	All you got to do is say, no problem.
	I'll give you access to everything.
	No questions asked.
	You know, here you go.
	I'm going to open the safe.
	There you go.
	And beg for your life.
	I don't know.
	Might work.
	Or just have a big 12-gauge Remington right there so that the guy comes to your door and tries to put a gun to your head and you reply with some buckshot or something, some double-lot steel balls at high velocity, whatever it takes.
	Again, there are a lot of different strategies here, so you've got to plan for all the possibilities.
	So you've got to have a diversification into different types of assets, which could include, by the way, tractors.
	I like to have a tractor.
	I like to have land that can be used to grow food.
	I like to have storable seeds.
	I like to have storable food.
	I store some sanitizers.
	You know, like povidone iodine, different forms of iodine, good for medicinal use and so on.
	Lots of different things.
	But you've got to think about this and kind of spread it around.
	I guess the rule of thumb here is don't put all your eggs in one basket because there's a lot of risk going around right now.
	There's a lot of risk of systemic failure.
	There's a lot of risk of war.
	There's risk of civil unrest.
	There's a lot of risk in the system right now.
	And it's pinballing around, bouncing off the walls.
	It's probably going to emerge somewhere in a very devastating situation.
	Risk of a nuclear exchange with Russia or North Korea.
	There's a risk of a solar flare.
	You know, there's a risk of an EMP attack.
	It's a risk of war with China.
	There's all kinds of crazy risk in the system right now.
	And if you come out of this over the next, let's say, 10 years, and you still have 100% of the assets that you started with today, you're doing good.
	Because the name of the game is going to be don't lose your assets.
	Don't even try...
	Well, this is my personal opinion.
	I'm not even trying to invest anything and have any kind of return whatsoever because I'm not in the stock market.
	I'm not in the bond market.
	I'm not a speculator in real estate.
	Nothing.
	I'm into all hard assets that survive and that keep their value.
	But if you can get through the next 10 years and not lose a substantial amount of your money, you're going to be way ahead of everybody else.
	Most people are going to lose big time.
	They're going to lose their pensions.
	They're going to lose a lot of their savings.
	They're going to lose their currency that's in dollars.
	They're going to lose their virtual checking account money that's in a bank that craters.
	A lot of people are going to lose a lot of what they think is money, but it really isn't money.
	It's just electronic.
	It's almost like fairy dust currency, and it's going to vanish very quickly, leaving them with nothing because they did not diversify.
	So diversification is the key.
	As always, keep it legal.
	Whatever, you know, when I recommend firearms or ammo, obviously I mean if it's legal in your area.
	Obviously, I'm not telling you to break the law.
	If you're stashing stuff, do so in a way that's safe.
	Make sure that you don't compromise the structural integrity of your home, for example.
	Make sure you don't cause a fire by cutting into power lines inside your walls.
	Things like that.
	Just use some common sense on all of this.
	Be safe, be smart, and be prepared.
	I guess it's a Boy Scout podcast, basically.
	Be prepared.
	It's the Boy Scout's motto.
	Huh, maybe they were on to something.
	All right, I hope you found this valuable.
	Check out the complete list at Collapse.News.
	My name is Mike Adams, the Health Ranger.
	You can find more of my podcasts at HealthRangerReport.com.
	And lastly, one more website that you might find useful is called Survival.News.
	And along with, well, Gear.News.
	It's about survival gear.
	Those two websites give you a lot of information about practical tips and how to, you know, reviews of products and so on.
	They can help you survive almost anything.
	And most of these websites, of course, will not be online when it all hits the fan.
	So you've got to visit them before it hits the fan.
	Maybe print out the articles that you think are useful or burn a CD-ROM locally, you know, with the web pages or whatever.
	Do what you gotta do to capture this stuff to your local computer so that you don't end up losing access to all of this when you desperately need it.
	Anyway, be safe and be prepared.
	That's the Boy Scouts motto.
	Take care.
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