Oct. 14, 2020 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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| We are moving into a time of great poverty in America with mass homelessness by the millions. | |
| We will see tent cities across the country like we haven't seen since the Great Depression. | |
| I wanted to share a couple of personal things with you. | |
| I've mentioned this maybe once before. | |
| My grandparents on my father's side lived in a tent after the Great Depression. | |
| My grandmother, who was born in 1917, and she is now 102, she's still alive and is an incredible writer. | |
| And an avid reader, and she has this amazing sense of humor. | |
| It makes me understand where I got those traits, reading and writing and making jokes about reality. | |
| She's still doing that at age 102. | |
| So anybody wishing that I might retire soon should rethink that. | |
| According to my grandmother, I've got like 50 years still to go. | |
| I'm only halfway through this run. | |
| I don't know. | |
| We'll see. | |
| She's got great longevity. | |
| I don't expect to live that long. | |
| But the point is, I've come from a family that knew what poverty was like. | |
| And when I graduated from college... | |
| My wife and I moved to Taiwan, and before we got things going there, we lived in real poverty. | |
| I mean, we were down to our last 100 NT, which is a new Taiwan dollar, and it comes in 100 NT bills. | |
| And at that time, 100 NT was worth about four US dollars, and that's all that I had at one point. | |
| That's what I had in my pocket. | |
| And I was using as a blanket. | |
| I mean, we had a very low-end apartment. | |
| It was very basic, almost bordering on creepy. | |
| And I couldn't afford blankets, but I had brought a coat with me that I had from college, from going to college in the Midwest where it was cold. | |
| So I had a wool trench coat. | |
| And this wool trench coat is what I use as a blanket for many months. | |
| Until we got things going. | |
| And I know what it's like to be poor. | |
| So when I see the poverty that's coming, I understand. | |
| I know what it's like to have so little money that you have to live on rice and eggs and soy sauce. | |
| That's what we did. | |
| My wife and I, we lived on rice and eggs for a while, a little while. | |
| And then we used our innovation and And we got things going. | |
| And one of the things that I did, we were living in Taipei at the time, and I graduated from college with a degree in technical writing. | |
| I've always been gifted with the ability to write and to communicate. | |
| So I went to trade shows there. | |
| And one of the trade shows was called Computex, I think. | |
| And it was a computer trade show in Taipei at the Taipei Trade Center. | |
| Which was right off of, I think, Shin'i Lu or Shin'i Road in downtown Taipei or maybe a little bit on the east side of Taipei. | |
| And I would go through the show and I would pick up brochures of all the Taiwan companies that were doing computer hardware and software. | |
| And a lot of Taiwan companies were making motherboards and computer cases and some were making software games for children. | |
| And monitors. | |
| There were a lot of monitor companies like ViewSonic and so on. | |
| Taiwan has always been very innovative in the area of computers and technology. | |
| And so I would pick up all those brochures, and I took those brochures back home to my apartment in Taipei. | |
| Where again, I was sleeping with a trench coat as a blanket and living off of eggs and rice. | |
| And I would sit there and I would do corrections. | |
| I would correct the spelling and grammar of all these brochures. | |
| And then I would take those corrected brochures and I would put a cover letter on it that said, Hi, I'm Mike Adams. | |
| I have a technical writing service. | |
| I can help you make all of your documentation and all of your brochures and all of your manuals, promotional materials, whatever. | |
| I can help you have that in perfect English. | |
| I would put that in an envelope and sometimes mail that to those companies, other times to drop it off in person. | |
| At the time, this was the early 1990s, there weren't very many Americans in Taipei, so it was kind of unusual for a tall white guy like me to walk into Taipei. | |
| The office of a Taiwan computer company. | |
| So it would get noticed. | |
| I would walk in and like, whoa, this is a big, tall white guy here. | |
| What's he doing? | |
| And I would hand them this envelope. | |
| It says, I can help you be more professional. | |
| I can help you sell more motherboards. | |
| I can help you reduce your customer support costs because people will understand your user guides. | |
| And within a very short period of time, I was rolling in so much income that I was able to pay off all my credit card debt and I graduated with I think about $20,000 in credit card debt. | |
| Because I'd been living on credit cards while I was in school. | |
| I paid off all of that. | |
| And eventually, I even paid back money to my parents who had loaned me some money for college and so on. | |
| And so I was rolling in lots and lots of revenue and then ended up working for... | |
| A computer virus software company there. | |
| And so I learned all of that. | |
| I learned that culture. | |
| That's when I learned to speak Mandarin Chinese. | |
| And I was riding in taxis all over town and giving them instructions in Chinese and ordering food in Chinese, you know, everything. | |
| And not to say there weren't some challenges living in Taiwan. | |
| I never lived in a big city like that. | |
| But I went from poverty to entrepreneurship. | |
| And in that process... | |
| I learned a couple of interesting things. | |
| Number one, making it when no one helps you is, number one, very hard. | |
| But number two, character building. | |
| I wouldn't be who I am today. | |
| I wouldn't have the Health Ranger story. | |
| I wouldn't be as successful as I am now unless I had gone through poverty. | |
| So when I look at what's going to happen to the American people, I see it in two different ways. | |
| Yes, massive poverty is coming. | |
| A massive wave of homelessness and starvation is coming. | |
| And a lot of people will suffer. | |
| There's no question. | |
| But I also know that out of that... | |
| Will come the strength that it takes to turn this country around. | |
| In other words, America has become lazy and pathetic in so many ways. | |
| People have become used to everything being easy. | |
| And that is what leads to collapse. | |
| America is going to have to go through a hard time in order to find that inner courage, that creativity and strength, like what I found when I was on my last dollar, well, NT dollar in Taipei. | |
| The desperation of destitution will lead you to great courage because you have no choice. | |
| If you don't find the strength to find a way to be relevant to society and find a way to add value to society and market your services or products or ideas, then you will freaking starve to death. | |
| That's what I was facing in Taipei. | |
| Starving to death, essentially, having no food. | |
| And I was really thin at that time, by the way, so I didn't have a lot of extra calories to go around. | |
| And out of that struggle is where I found that personal character that has driven me to this day. | |
| And I think America has to go through much the same thing. | |
| The downside to that is that a great number of people will suffer, and many people will never find the courage to do something great. | |
| Many people will not survive this. | |
| And I'm not pretending that they will. | |
| There will be many casualties of this. | |
| There will be people who literally starve to death or people who end up on the streets living in cardboard boxes. | |
| And the rest of us in society must do our part to help those individuals as much as we can. | |
| I believe in helping local churches and then encouraging those churches to support the homeless and so on. | |
| That's my plan. | |
| I've actually stockpiled food to donate to churches for that purpose. | |
| Looks like I may have to activate that plan very soon to start handing it out because the food banks are being overrun. | |
| But as a nation, you can't achieve greatness from laziness and life being too easy. | |
| And America has had several generations now of life being too easy. | |
| The money has been easy. | |
| Right now, people are sitting at home collecting money for not even working. | |
| That's bad for society. | |
| It's bad for the culture. | |
| It will breed ineptitude and laziness and weakness. | |
| And what makes countries great is the aggregate greatness of the individuals, the creativity, the entrepreneurship, the drive to succeed, the courage. | |
| The willingness to take a risk, the willingness to invest in your plan, your ideas, yourself, like what I did when I went out there and grabbed all those brochures and just started correcting everybody's grammar. | |
| I wasn't getting paid to do that, but I believed in the idea, a simple idea at the time, but the idea that maybe these companies would like their brochures to read in good English, you know, not broken English like we're all used to coming out of China, for example. | |
| And it turns out it was a great idea. | |
| And America has to go through the same rebirth process, I think. | |
| America is about to experience extreme poverty. | |
| But out of that, it can find strength. | |
| And I'm not even saying that the United States of America as a nation will continue as we know it. | |
| It'll probably break apart. | |
| But even when it does, the new nation states, like the Republic of Texas, for example, will need that resilience that I'm talking about. | |
| We will need people to get off their butts and learn to work and learn to produce, learn to engage with ingenuity and creativity and ideas, and not just sit at home and be a welfare queen or king or a drag queen, for that matter, with all the drag queen story hour stuff going on in Texas. | |
| Society has become too lazy and too pathetic. | |
| We need hard times to give us strength for us to force us to find that strength. | |
| And so I know this because I have lived it. | |
| And when I talk about people going through poverty and living in a tent or living in a cardboard box, I wasn't far from that myself. | |
| But even if I had been forced into that, I know I could have survived it. | |
| Because I know that there's always something you can contribute to society to add value, even if it's as simple as washing dishes or flipping burgers. | |
| You know how many restaurants would love to have somebody who would just show up on time and wash dishes and not complain and not show up drunk or high? | |
| If you just wash dishes, you can have an income. | |
| It's not glamorous, but it's an income. | |
| We've got to return to a culture of people willing to work Instead of everybody demanding free handouts all the time because that's no way to have a nation. | |
| but I think America can be great again if the people are willing to get off their butts and exercise their greatness. | |
| Thank you for listening. | |
| Mike Adams here, the health ranger natural news.com. | |
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