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Feb. 4, 2021 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams

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Situation Update, Feb. 4, 2021 - How to survive the valley of the shadow of death

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	Alright, welcome to the Situation Update.
	It's Thursday, February 4th, 2021.
	And of course, this is Mike Adams here from naturalnews.com.
	And I forgot to tell you that these are coming out earlier in the day than what I had warned about a few days ago.
	I thought they were going to come out in the afternoon.
	And then our editor, who's doing just an awesome job of packaging this audio and posting it everywhere, he figured out a way to work Earlier in the day in his time zone.
	And so he's actually getting these things out at sometimes six in the morning, central time, USA time, which is great because I'm recording it up to about midnight the night before.
	So it's only about six hours old often by the time this is getting posted.
	So if you want to check it, During the morning time in the USA, it should be available on brighttown.com, even though the MP3 file doesn't really get posted on Natural News until closer to noon.
	However, the MP3 file usually already exists earlier, so you can guess the MP3 file name just because it's just the date.
	And you can look at a previous day's file and just change the number to 04 instead of 03, and you can grab that MP3 file.
	Anyway, okay.
	I also want to mention just a kind of a platform note on Brighteon.
	Brighteon has really exploded in popularity lately.
	And not just, not only this podcast, which is getting daily viewership, but a lot of other videos are going viral on Brighteon as there's more censorship on Facebook and YouTube and so on.
	We are now, this is crazy, We used to be, in terms of bandwidth, we used to be paying for hundreds of terabytes per month a while back.
	Now we're paying for petabytes of bandwidth per month.
	So we, our, our bandwidth bill is insane and that's, it really is.
	The bandwidth costs are greatly outpacing, you know, any kind of revenues that we're getting, but you know, it's okay.
	Like we have sponsorships some days and so on, but it's crazy.
	A petabyte is 1,000 terabytes, and a terabyte is 1,000 gigabytes, and a megabyte is 1,000 kilobytes, and a kilobyte is 1,000 bytes, of course.
	So think about the orders of magnitude.
	What are we up to?
	Like 10 to the power of...
	What, 12 now or something?
	It's insane.
	So the good news is that the Freedom platform of Brighteon.com, thanks to you and you sharing these videos on alternative platforms, the word of freedom is getting out there.
	People are watching the videos like crazy.
	Even though all the video URLs are banned on Facebook or banned on Twitter, have you ever tried to share this podcast URL on Facebook?
	Just for fun, try that sometime and you'll get a message like, oh my god, it's the most dangerous link ever.
	The universe will cease to exist if you share that link and it's not allowed or something like that.
	And same thing on Twitter.
	So dangerous to have a podcast.
	But of course, all over Twitter and Facebook and YouTube, you can find, not that I'm saying you should, but I mean, they post, they host like child porn images and, you know, crazy inappropriate stuff.
	They have no problem with that.
	But how dare somebody have a podcast that talks about reality?
	Oh, that's the danger.
	Yes, that's the danger.
	Oh, and by the way, speaking of alternative platforms, There was some important news you need to know about.
	The CEO of Parler was just fired.
	So his name is John Matzi, and he's been fired by the Mercer family, Rebecca Mercer.
	The Mercers, in case you don't know, the Mercers are wealthy kind of rhino Republicans.
	And what it looks like happened to Parler.
	This is very sad because I had high hopes that Parler would come back as a free speech platform.
	I don't think that's going to happen.
	It looks like the Mercer family came in and bought up or, you know, invested and got a majority share of Parler.
	And that's how Parler was able to grow so quickly.
	All that money to buy all the servers and pay the programmers and everything is a very expensive deal.
	It's not just a couple of million bucks.
	Like what I've spent on Brighteon, it's like tens of millions or a hundred plus million.
	It takes deep, deep pockets to build to that kind of scale.
	Well, you know there's been a split inside the GOP. There's the RINOs, which are the Mitch McConnells and the Lindsey Grahams and so on, who are all anti-Trumpers.
	And they think they have a future because they think that the American people will forget how they betrayed the president and betrayed America on January 6th and other days.
	So they think they have this future where they can control everything.
	Oh, they're terribly wrong.
	But they've kicked out John Matzy, who was more of a free speech advocate.
	And so he's gone.
	And this is why it's very, very dangerous for any kind of alternative platform to ever take money from wealthy donors who demand a majority share of the company.
	You wonder why I don't have investors in Brighton?
	There you go.
	So many stories that I know from real people We're good to go.
	And they're out.
	And it's done.
	It's over.
	I mean, imagine Gab without Andrew Torba.
	That would be crazy because he's the guy who built it.
	Well, fortunately, Andrew Torba has not turned over control to backstabbing investors.
	So, you know, good job, Andrew.
	He's also put out a message that says that all of us who believe in free speech and who practice Christian values, we need to build our own entire ecosystem to To be able to function in this modern economy, everything from banks and payment processors to computing environments, hosting environments, domain registrars, search engines that don't censor conservatives and so on.
	So Andrew Torba has the right message.
	Go Gab.
	That's awesome.
	And in fact, there's a lot of good news of things that are happening like that.
	You have Gab out there.
	You have some of the things I talked about yesterday, you know, the Tor project for freedom of information distribution, peer-to-peer distribution systems like PeerTube is out there as well, which is a peer-to-peer video hosting platform software, open source, that you can install on your own servers.
	There's a lot more coming.
	We're building systems, and thanks to your support, we are able to do so and continue to pay the bills.
	Without needing any kind of investor money.
	Now, I don't mind investor money if they just give it to us.
	It's like, here, this is a gift.
	Take a million dollars.
	Pay your bandwidth for the next six months.
	Done.
	Okay, I don't mind that, but If they approach me and say, oh, here's 20 million and we need 51% of your platform, I say, thank you very much, but no thanks!
	Not interested in that because there's a lot of people depending on this, right?
	You and others, we're depending on Brighteon.com to be this platform where you can have freedom of speech.
	And by the way, the video transcoding is really strong now.
	It's very fast.
	The videos that you upload are processing quickly.
	And wait until you see us roll out our new platform backend infrastructure.
	Oh, it's awesome.
	We've been working on it for, I think, over a year now.
	So there's a lot of great news coming.
	And we're not going to get bought out.
	That's never going to happen.
	But we need your support.
	So you can go to brighteonstore.com.
	All those sales directly help support Brighteon.
	And you can also, of course, shop at healthrangerstore.com to help us out that way.
	We have a new line of t-shirts coming out.
	I don't know if they're live yet, but they're called The Best is Yet to Come.
	Those t-shirts are going to be available soon, and we're working on some other designs for you as well.
	The best is yet to come.
	Isn't that a great slogan to keep in mind here?
	Even though we're facing the crazy dark times, the best is yet to come.
	Why?
	Why?
	Well, because number one, we have faith in God.
	And if we have that faith, and then we're also smart, we use our community.
	We use this ability to share information with each other.
	We can overcome even the most insane levels of censorship and oppression that is being pushed by the radical left, which I'll get into a little bit today.
	So, yeah, we can get through this.
	I'm not saying it's going to be fun or anything, but we can get through it.
	And that's the function of really this podcast is to help you every day with some skills and knowledge and maybe even a little inspiration from time to time to let you know we can get through this.
	Now, I find that interesting because conservatives and Christians in many ways are a lot more positive than the Democrats and the leftists, even though they have for some temporary period of time seized power in the United even though they have for some temporary period of time seized But in their worldview things are still horrifically bad.
	And it turns out the reason that it's so bad to be a Democrat right now Well, number one, they can't blame Trump for all the problems anymore.
	They have to blame, well, themselves.
	But secondly, they're always fabricating fake hoaxes against themselves.
	They're role-playing the victim constantly.
	And it came out yesterday that Ocasio-Cortez wasn't, she was not at the Capitol building during the riots.
	And this is from Zero Hedge and some others.
	Socialist Democrat Alejandra Cortez came out as a sexual abuse survivor in an Instagram video.
	And then she berated Republicans about her horrific experience in the U.S. Capitol as a mob of Trump supporters stormed her hall and threatened her.
	She says that she was forced to hide in the bathroom in a, quote, near death experience and that the terrorists were screaming, where is she?
	Where is she?
	The problem is none of this actually happened except in her twisted head.
	This is her own fabrication.
	She was not in the Capitol building.
	She claims to have been in her office, but that's located in the Cannon Building.
	The Cannon Building is not the Capitol Building, and the Cannon Building was not breached by rioters.
	So she made it all up, which is why the hashtag has been trending all day, well, yesterday and probably today.
	Alejandra Ocasio-Smollett.
	You remember the Smollett situation.
	You know, I'm not even going to go into that, but hopefully you know what I'm talking about.
	Oh, Jesse there.
	These people, they're tormented by their own fictions of victimhood that they weave for themselves.
	It must suck to be a Democrat.
	Every day you wake up, you have to invent a new kind of persecution for yourself.
	You know, you have to play the victim role.
	That's how they do everything.
	Meanwhile, the conservatives and Christians, we don't have time to play victim.
	We're trying to build back our economy.
	We're trying to save the country.
	We're trying to run a small business, perhaps.
	We're trying to get prepared.
	For the economic apocalypse that may be coming if these Democrats stay in power for any serious length of time.
	But Democrats, every day, they wake up and they look in the mirror and they ask, how bad is it?
	How horrible is it?
	How was I harmed today?
	And then they make something up.
	But people of faith look in the mirror and say, what are my blessings today?
	I can, look at this, I can walk, I can talk, I can eat, I can put clothes on, you know?
	There's nobody banging on my door and trying to inject me with a toxic vaccine.
	I mean, not yet, anyway.
	You count your blessings.
	You say, oh, I'm living in a conservative state, perhaps, that's fighting back against the tyranny.
	You know, count your blessings.
	Hey, we're not living in communist China.
	We're not living in North Korea.
	We're not living in Cuba.
	We're not living in Venezuela.
	Not yet.
	Depending on how long Biden stays in power and destroys everything, but where we are right now, we can count our blessings, and that's the difference.
	That's the difference.
	Democrats wake up and they say, oh, poor me, I've been abused and violated today.
	And conservatives and people of faith wake up and say, thank God for this day.
	How do we make this day better?
	How do we make our future better?
	How do we use the gifts and skills that we have?
	To help create a better society for everyone.
	That's the difference.
	And we don't have to build fake nooses and put nooses around our necks and call the police and claim things.
	Someone was trying to lynch us.
	All these fake hate hoaxes.
	We don't have to spray paint Nazi symbols on our own churches.
	But Democrats do that.
	They do that.
	They get caught all the time.
	There's so many fake hate hoaxes.
	Where there are hate hoaxes, somebody spray paints their own car.
	You know, with the N-word and Nazi symbols.
	And then they call the police.
	You know, crazy white supremacists were here.
	Turns out it was them.
	And there was a camera across the street.
	Just got the whole thing on camera.
	It's them.
	That's who they are.
	So think about it.
	Democrats fantasize about being harmed and being hated.
	And you know why they do that?
	There's a psychological principle known as projection.
	Democrats, leftists, you know, the cultural leftists, they hate themselves.
	And so they project hate into the world.
	And then they claim to be victims of hate.
	In reality, they are only victims of their own dark beliefs.
	And there's a lesson in that for all of us.
	Never be a victim of your beliefs.
	If you think the world is a horrible, horrible place that is going to destroy you, then your mind will make it real.
	And Democrats prove that every single day.
	Ocasio-Cortez is proving that every single day.
	She thinks in her mind that she was hiding under a desk in a near-death experience and people were screaming, where is she?
	Where is she?
	She made that real in her mind.
	It never happened, but she believes it.
	So I ask you, What kind of approach to life would you prefer to make real?
	And even when we're facing actual censorship, even when we're facing actual discrimination, intolerance, hatred from the left, they're projecting it onto us, saying that we are intolerant.
	It's actually their intolerance.
	Even when we're facing these things, or let's say monetary inflation, or food scarcity, whatever we are facing, we still have a choice to decide how we wish to face that day.
	And I understand that not every day is good.
	I understand there are obstacles and there are setbacks, and I have them too, just like you.
	I have the same setbacks that you do.
	But we can still make a conscious decision of how we wish to approach that day and those obstacles and move forward.
	And I am so thankful to God that I live in America.
	I am thankful to God that we had four years under Trump that delayed the globalist agenda of genocide and enslavement.
	And during those four years, we were able to build amazing technologies and platforms and things that can help set humanity free.
	And I am grateful for you and your support, and I am grateful that God gave us all free will, consciousness, and the ability to choose the actions that we wish to take from this day forward.
	So let us praise God for that gift and that wisdom, and let us use that wisdom as we move forward, even through darkness, even through the valley of the shadow of death.
	Right out of the Bible.
	Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me.
	Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
	You prepare a table for me in the presence of my enemies.
	You anoint my head with oil.
	My cup runs over.
	This is the newer translation.
	Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
	I'm sure many of you are familiar with that oft-quoted Bible verse, but it's true.
	So we are facing some very real obstacles.
	We are facing, you might say, a walk through the valley of the shadow of death.
	And one of the things we'll cover today in a very practical sense is what's coming and how the Biden regime, for as long as it stays in power, is trying to initiate war with Russia.
	And how this could escalate into a nuclear exchange between the United States and Russia.
	And also why there is a risk that an EMP weapon could be detonated in America.
	And what that means for us and how we get through that.
	So I actually have an EMP checklist.
	But I wanted to explain all of that that I just mentioned before up front.
	Because I want you to know that I am not approaching this with a sense of doom.
	Not approaching it with a sense of fear.
	Approaching it with a sense of faith that we can walk together through this valley of the shadow of death and we can make it through because the Lord is with us and we're using the gifts of the Lord to prepare ourselves so that we can survive it.
	See?
	It's like, you know, the Lord doesn't want you to just pray and ignore prepping.
	You know, you still have to tend the crops.
	You still have to take care of your family.
	You still have to take care of your house and so on.
	There are practical things you must do.
	But if you do them in the context of understanding that we do have divine protection, suddenly all of your actions have far more power, more power to keep you protected no matter what happens.
	Let's jump right into that analysis.
	Some of this is going to sound doom and gloom, but again, we're just going to have to walk through this together.
	First of all, remember that when Hillary Clinton thought that she was going to rig the election and win back in 2016, Their strategy, the Clinton regime strategy, was to initiate war with Russia.
	And you may have heard me say before that there was a plan underway to set off a nuclear weapon in a U.S. city and to have the isotopes of that nuclear detonation traced to a Russian nuclear fuel stockpile.
	And you have to read the whole history of Uranium One and that whole scandal involving Mueller and so on.
	And also Obama money to Iran and Iran's weapons processing system, the whole agreement between the Obama administration and Iran, then also involving fuel from Russia and so on.
	It's a long story.
	I'm not going to get into it right now.
	But this was the plan to blame Russia.
	Because the Democrats and the globalists have long wanted the United States and Russia to have a kinetic conflict or nuclear conflict in order to weaken both countries so that China, which is the model of global control under communism and tyranny and Orwellian censorship and surveillance, high-tech surveillance and tracking, social credit scoring systems, mandatory vaccines and so on, that's the model for the globalists.
	To lock down the planet so they can carry out their genocide.
	They do want to exterminate human beings, but it's so much easier for them to get that done if everybody's locked down living under a communist authoritarian regime.
	So they want America to be weak and they want Russia to be weak and the best way to do that is to get America and Russia to attack each other.
	Now, also, there's something else happening at the same time.
	There is a global push for this Great Reset, you've heard it called, the economic collapse or the debt collapse that will cascade through the banking systems of the world, and it is being engineered on purpose to confiscate the assets of the people of the world today.
	As a way to take their bank accounts and take their land and take their homes and then force everybody into FEMA camp cities, you know, Agenda 21-style control.
	And then, once again, that allows the global genocide agenda to be much more easily accomplished because then they only have to control very small...
	A very small number of cities, which is small in terms of geography, and they don't have to control large, vast, you know, rural areas such as, you know, rural Colorado or rural Washington or rural Idaho, whatever, because that's very difficult to control, especially when the rural people are shooting back.
	That's a shout out to all of you in Idaho, by the way.
	And we'll throw Wyoming in with you there, too, because some Wyoming folks are going to shoot back as well.
	So, you have these two parallel tracks are happening at the same time.
	They want war with Russia, and they also want a rapid economic collapse.
	Now, Joe Biden is doing his best to try to initiate the economic collapse through massive government debt spending that's going to even dwarf what Trump did.
	Now, I have to back up for a second and remind you of something that I said earlier.
	A couple days ago.
	Trump also wants to collapse the fiat currency banking system, and that's why he was spending so much as well.
	But that's only because Trump wanted to roll out an honest gold-backed money system, I believe, and have money go back to being owned by the people, which would create a model of economic abundance.
	And Trump realized that the current system was so corrupt and so swampy that it had to be really kind of rebooted.
	that you couldn't fix it from the inside.
	And so I think that the last couple of years of massive money printing, especially in 2020, the big bailouts, trillions of dollars, sometimes trillions in just one month, like December of 2020, this was actually designed to accelerate the collapse of the fake currency fiat this was actually designed to accelerate the collapse of the fake
	Joe Biden wants to collapse it for a different reason, because he believes that in a collapse, they can take the guns away from the people, force people into the cities and then carry out the globalist genocide using vaccines and bioweapons and also engineered food scarcity, of course, engineered famine.
	So there are many different parties that actually want the current system to collapse.
	But they want it for different reasons because they believe they can control the aftermath of it to get the desired outcome that they want.
	So understand, there are what we would call white hat people and black hat people, all of whom want to see the current system fail.
	And the current system will fail.
	We just don't know when.
	Now, I've done some simple math on this.
	And right now, it looks like the dollar is going to be losing about 20%, or I should say up to 20%, it might only be 15%, but up to 20% of its purchasing power in the next year.
	And you're already seeing signs of it.
	You're seeing wage inflation, price inflation, especially in food, but also you're seeing fuel prices start to go up.
	Check the gas prices at your local gas station.
	What's happening?
	Also, look at cryptocurrencies that are going up, trending upwards strongly when denominated in dollars.
	What is happening?
	And product prices are going up as well.
	What's happening?
	Well, the dollar is losing value is what's happening.
	And so it's not that wages are going up, but it's not that the wage earner is doing more work or delivering more value for that wage.
	Rather, the value of the dollar is slipping, so they need to be compensated more to make the same amount in terms of purchasing power.
	So this is happening right now.
	You can verify it yourself.
	You can see that wages are rising.
	You can see food prices rising, gas prices rising, and so on.
	All that's really happening is the dollar is losing a massive amount of its value, which, again, I think is going to be about 20% in the next year.
	It may lose more than 25% in the following year.
	That would be 2022 if the Biden regime is still in power and continues on this mass spending spree.
	And we're approaching a parabolic blowout of the fiat currency dollar system where, think about Venezuela or Weimar Germany, where you start to have real hyperinflation.
	Even over the last 10 years in Venezuela, At first, the inflation was relatively small, where, yeah, prices of things might rise 20% in a year.
	But then, as the money printing accelerated from the Venezuelan corrupt government, which has continued to this day, then suddenly you started seeing maybe a 20% increase every quarter, every 90 days.
	And then, maybe every month.
	And not too long after that, it would be every week.
	And then, eventually, every day.
	And it gets to the point where prices aren't even stable by the hour.
	Now, that absolutely can happen with the U.S. dollar, even though I'm fully aware that the dollar is the world petrodollar, the world reserve currency for oil exchange, and there's a massive money base, money supply of the dollar.
	I understand that.
	But you can't keep printing trillions into that system without breaking it at some point.
	And that point, it's a mathematical formula.
	There's a curve.
	And it's a quadratic curve.
	So it has an equation that plots that curve.
	It's a quadratic curve with an upward parabolic trajectory.
	And it's going to end very badly.
	And this is all being designed.
	It's all on purpose.
	So the takeaway from this in terms of your practical actions that can save you from this is to realize that anytime you're holding dollars, and that's dollars in your pocket in cash, that's dollars in a bank account, checking account, savings account, corporate account, whatever, if it's in dollars, it's losing value every minute.
	And right now the value loss is about maybe 20% a year.
	Or coming up for this year, I think it will be.
	And then it's going to, like I said, it's going to accelerate.
	So it might be then 20% every month and so on.
	It's going to accelerate just depending on what happens.
	But if you hold dollars, you are losing every minute.
	So the strategy for this, and even if you think back to Weimar, Germany, and Venezuela, when people would get paid in that local currency, They would very quickly take their pay and try to go spend it as quickly as possible and buy food with it or buy fuel or whatever they needed to buy.
	Why would they buy immediately?
	Because the money would lose value within hours.
	So they had to shop immediately.
	So the velocity of the money went through the roof in terms of how quickly that money gets spent.
	No one wants to save money when the money is losing value.
	So there's no savings at all.
	And the future value of today's money goes to zero, which is what happens with all fiat currencies.
	So the action to take in this is to minimize, minimize, and I'll add a disclaimer, check with your, you know, I'm not your financial advisor, check with your financial advisor on what's appropriate for you.
	I don't know your financial situation.
	That's my legal disclaimer.
	But as a general principle, minimize the amount that you hold in dollars.
	Because those dollars are losing value every day.
	Instead, exchange dollars for things that hold value, such as land and gold and silver and these kinds of things that we've talked about.
	You might want to put some into a more stable cryptocurrency.
	You might want to put some into ammunition and firearms if it's legal in your state or country, wherever.
	Just transform dollars into things that are real, even stored food, for example, or building a house, or maybe buying a vehicle that you've needed to buy.
	Maybe I like to buy diesel engine vehicles because they have much, much longer lifespans.
	So you invest in a diesel engine vehicle, that might be good for a very long time, maybe 20 years.
	And so it can really be a good investment if you need that vehicle.
	And realize then that the people who are going to be really destroyed in this financial event that is coming, no matter what, it's coming.
	You can already see the math.
	It's happening.
	People that are going to be destroyed are the people who believe in the dollar.
	People who believe what the press tells them.
	Oh, don't sell dollars.
	Only anti-patriot people or unpatriotic people would do that.
	Or they might even accuse you of being anti-government.
	Remember, the Democrats weren't the anti-government for the last four years under Trump?
	They were all anti-government.
	Now, suddenly, being labeled anti-government means you're a terrorist or something.
	Isn't it interesting how they flipped the script so quickly?
	But people who buy the false narrative of the media are going to be left holding dollars when the music stops.
	And what do I mean by the music stops?
	Well, there's going to be a moment.
	You wake up one day and the government's going to say, oh, due to horrible insurrectionists, And they're going to blame, like, the Reddit WallStreetBets group or something.
	We've been attacked by Reddit, the Treasury says, and they've destroyed the currency.
	I mean, they'll have some crazy excuse.
	The Russians did it, you know?
	And then they'll say, the dollar, you're going to have to trade that in.
	Yeah, the dollar, sadly, we could not protect it against the horrible Christians that We're selling dollars.
	You know, it's going to be funny to find out what excuse they have.
	But they'll say the dollar's done for, and they'll say, for your convenience, your bank account has already been converted into Biden coins, whatever, which will, of course, be totally empty, just like Biden himself.
	Biden coins, they'll have no value, you know, but they'll have his face on there.
	Every time you...
	You get change out.
	You're like, ah!
	How did this guy get in the fake White House?
	What happened?
	Biden coins.
	And you'll lose almost all the purchasing power of your dollars.
	So there are going to be many, many Democrats.
	This is kind of the poetic justice in all of this.
	Many Democrats...
	And frankly, a lot of mainstream rhino conservatives.
	And frankly, a lot of, you know, Romans, what is it, Romans 13 believing churches who think the government is so awesome.
	And they're all going to keep all their money and dollars and they're all going to lose everything.
	But you won't because you've taken action in advance to convert dollars into things that are real.
	So you will have assets and you won't have to sell your farm.
	You won't have to sell your house.
	You won't have to move into a FEMA camp.
	You won't be homeless.
	You'll be able to feed yourself.
	You'll be able to survive what's coming when so many others won't.
	So the takeaway from this is that there is going to come a day.
	Everything in the bank account...
	Denominated in dollars will be worthless instantly.
	You will not have a chance to take it out.
	Don't think you will.
	Don't think you're gonna see the signs coming.
	Don't think you're gonna have time for me to warn you.
	It's not gonna happen.
	They're gonna do this overnight, in the middle of the night, maybe like Friday night at midnight or something.
	Bank holiday, they'll say, and then your money's gone.
	And at that time, things are gonna be dicey for a while.
	Okay, now, let's shift gears for a second and talk about then the other scheme, which is war with Russia.
	Okay, so these two things are tracking at the same time.
	We're going to get hit with a double dose of the valley of the shadow of death.
	It's going to be like the valley of multiple shadows of death.
	Coming at us.
	That's why it's so important to fear no evil.
	A lot of this is going to be, you know, just a mental game as well.
	But anyway, B-1 bombers are being deployed to Norway now for the first time with an eye on nearby Russia, says the Drive website covering this.
	The U.S. Air Force is preparing to deploy bombers to Norway for the first time.
	A detachment of B-1Bs, accompanied by more than 200 personnel, is set to arrive at the country's Orland main air station in the near future as the U.S. military intensifies its focus on the strategically important Arctic region.
	Now, recall yesterday, the U.S. sent two destroyers over that way and then a bunch of troops for a joint exercise kind of in that general area.
	So what's happening?
	The Pentagon under Biden is gearing up, I think, to try to initiate war with Russia.
	War with Russia.
	And here's how we know this.
	So you may recall yesterday, we covered this.
	In fact, we published a story on Natural News.
	Russia's super electromagnetic pulse weapon could destroy the U.S. grid, expert warns.
	So this is from Peter Vincent Prye, the executive director of the EMP Task Force on National and Homeland Security.
	And he says...
	That China and Russia have surpassed our developments in electromagnetic pulse warfare, that's EMP warfare, putting us at a serious disadvantage.
	And then where's the story about the Mach 20 weapon that Russia has a Mach 20 weapon that can deliver an EMP strike over North America?
	And then Pakistan, just to add to the fun...
	Pakistan has successfully launched a surface-to-surface ballistic missile called the Ghaznavi, which is nuclear-capable, because I guess we need more nukes in the world, with a flight range of 180 miles.
	That's not very far, but they will be able to extend that.
	So Pakistan is...
	Oh my.
	Pakistan has nukes.
	They've had nukes for a while.
	Now they're putting them on missiles that have some range.
	Yeah, this is not going to end well.
	And then India's got nukes.
	And then Iran is...
	They have centrifuges running, working on nukes thanks to Obama's funding.
	Israel, of course, has nukes.
	And we're rapidly approaching a situation where Israel is going to be forced to strike Iran before Iran attains widespread nuclear capabilities.
	So you may recall the Obama-Biden nuclear deal from 2015.
	This was the deal that the media lied to us all about.
	They said, oh, Obama just did a historic deal with Iran that will prevent Iran from having nuclear weapons.
	But if you look at the deal, it's actually a deal that allows Iran to build nuclear weapons and acquire nuclear fuel.
	And Obama even landed actual physical pallets of cash on He carried out massive international money laundering through various banks and he unleashed tens of billions of dollars for Iran to fund its nuclear program.
	And then they said that was preventing Iran from having nukes.
	So remember, Democrats always do the opposite of what they just said.
	If they say that they have a new bill that's going to protect children, no doubt it's about trafficking children or something, right?
	Because it's always the opposite with them.
	Again, they're delusional, just like AOC, you know, thinks that she was almost killed in a Capitol raid that didn't even breach her building.
	Just stunning.
	So, now that Biden is the fake president for some period of time, he's being run by Obama.
	It's basically Obama's third term.
	And there are rumors, you know, that Obama's in the basement with a microphone, and Biden has an earpiece.
	It's like, Joe, salute the soldiers.
	Salute the soldiers.
	And instead of saluting the soldiers, Joe Biden would just say, salute the soldiers, because he's a total robot.
	That actually happened, by the way.
	But many people think Obama is actually running the guy.
	Maybe that is.
	I don't know.
	That's Obama's third term.
	So the whole point of this Biden regime is to then get nuclear weapons into the hands of Iran.
	Why?
	Why is that?
	Well, you may recall, Barack Obama was a radical Muslim.
	And he slipped up a couple times in some interviews, I think with George Stephanopoulos one time, and Obama was talking about, oh yeah, I'm a big believer in my Muslim faith.
	And then George was like, you mean your Christian faith?
	And Obama said, oh yeah, my Christian faith.
	He slipped up a few times, even talking about, you know, Michael Obama.
	And he said, oh, I mean Michelle, you know.
	Little slip of the tongue there on multiple occasions.
	Well, Obama's a radical Muslim who wants Iran to destroy Israel.
	Now, you see how we're getting into some biblical end-time stuff here, too.
	Wait till we bring in Damascus.
	You know, there's some crazy things that are about to go down.
	But this is the goal, is to have America at war with Russia, and then have Iran nuking Israel, and then have the Chinese model of communism control the world while they also engineer monetary collapse and food famine to drive you into their FEMA camps where they can control you just long enough to kill you.
	And we still have to keep our faith.
	I know, it's hard, right?
	Like, that sounds pretty doom and gloom, man.
	Are you blackpilling us?
	No, I'm not.
	I'm saying we can still make it through.
	We can still make it through this.
	But we've got to be honest about what they are trying to do.
	And hopefully, hopefully the military will swoop in, assert authority that Trump granted the military, arrest Biden and the coup people, say, no more.
	We're taking America back.
	We're the military.
	We swore an oath to defend the Constitution.
	And then everybody will, you know, get on their knees and kiss the ground and praise God.
	We got our country back.
	I hope that that happens.
	But it may not for a long time.
	It may never happen.
	We don't know.
	So we've got to be prepared to walk through all these scenarios that are coming our way.
	And they want war!
	They want war.
	That gives them power.
	All right, so then on top of this now, this is a story from the Daily Wire.
	A top U.S. commander, the head of the U.S. Strategic Command, wrote a piece for the U.S. Naval Institute.
	The headline is, we must assume a, quote, very real possibility that we may need to use nukes against China and Russia.
	So wait a second.
	Wait a second.
	The U.S. Strategic Command is literally writing stories that are publicly published that say we may need to use nukes against China and Russia?
	What?
	What?
	I mean, that's called escalation, folks.
	He says, quote, a very real possibility.
	We could end up with a nuclear conflict with China or Russia.
	They know they mean Russia.
	That's who Biden, at least, is trying to get them to attack.
	Attack Russia.
	They're just provoking Russia.
	We should be glad that Putin is kind of chilling for the moment.
	It's like not easily provoked, you know?
	Because the Biden forces are trying to.
	We're probably going to set up some kind of false flag incursion into Russian territory or something, and then, you know, cry foul when Russia defends itself.
	That's how these things usually work.
	You know, I mean, it also begs the question, what are we doing over there next to Russia?
	Russia's not geographically adjacent to the United States.
	Why don't we just defend our shores?
	Why don't we defend our country against the internal threats?
	How about that?
	The enemies of the state within Russia.
	Why are we messing with Russia's western border?
	What are we doing there?
	What, protecting NATO? Come on, NATO hates America.
	NATO doesn't even pay their bills.
	Why are we protecting NATO? I don't get it.
	I mean, I know there are wonderful people.
	Who, you know, in Ukraine, for example, that don't want to be part of Russia.
	I get that.
	And maybe they need our help, but shouldn't these European countries also kind of pay their own way on their own defense systems?
	I'm sure there are U.S. companies that will sell them rockets and missiles and jet fighters and everything they need, mortars.
	I'm sure they're all for sale.
	If you go to the right expo, the World War Weapons Expo, you know, and you'll find all the high-powered politicians there.
	Oh, look, it's Liz Cheney!
	Ah, she's selling mortars to some enemy ISIS group or something.
	No, I'm baking that up, but it seems like all these...
	How do these people get so rich?
	Who are at the top of Congress.
	They're arms dealers, you know, a lot of them, basically.
	They're arms dealers.
	Or they're getting kickbacks from arms deals, I think, in many cases.
	So, given all of that, we're going to need an EMP preparedness checklist.
	And that's what I'm going to go into next here.
	But just a quick shout-out to Sean at SGTReport.com.
	SgtReport.com.
	Sean had me on for an interview.
	We had a great time.
	It was a kick-ass interview.
	You can see it.
	I know it's going to be on Bitchute probably by the time you hear this.
	And I think somebody will post it on Brighteon.
	But look for SgtReport.com.
	I'm sure he'll have that interview posted.
	It was a really good interview.
	Sean's a great guy.
	SgtReport has been targeted for censorship and You know, defamation and so on, like all of us have, but Sean has held his ground.
	He's hanging in there, like the rest of us, and he's still telling the truth.
	He hasn't sold out like, oh, I don't know, a drudge.
	No, he's still fighting the fight, so check that out at sgtreport.com.
	I also did a very interesting interview with Kristen Megan, who is a senior industrial hygienist.
	Which most people think means she works with dentists.
	But actually, no.
	She's an expert in personal protective equipment and workplace hazards protecting workers from chemical, biological, and radiological threats.
	So you can bet that was an interesting interview.
	And that will be posted in my channel, Health Ranger Report channel, on Brighttown.com, probably by Friday.
	I'm hoping by Friday.
	Maybe Saturday.
	We'll see.
	All right, so now let's get right into the EMP checklist in case this scenario happens.
	Now, this isn't a list of every physical item you need.
	Oh, I need Band-Aids and lighters and flashlights.
	No, it's not that kind of list, although I'll hit a few of the top items there.
	It's a more broad overview of the things to think about that you may face, you may need if the power grid goes down and stays down for an extended period of time.
	If an EMP weapon is detonated above North America, it's estimated that it would knock out most of the existing power grid and most of the electronics, which means, oh, iPhones would stop working.
	That right there would cause liberal cities to implode and also electronic devices, many vehicles, perhaps it's estimated would stop working.
	But the internet would definitely go down.
	So you would have no more access to the internet.
	Your computer probably wouldn't even turn on.
	You'd have no electricity.
	So no communications, no cell phones, no cell towers.
	It's going to be a crazy situation.
	And according to some estimates, at least one government report from a couple years ago estimated that within...
	What was it?
	Was it 180 days...
	Or was it a year?
	I forgot, but it was something like 80% of the U.S. population would die, according to that estimate.
	Now, you've got to understand, why do most people die in that scenario?
	Because they're living in cities, and they're not prepared at all.
	So remember, cities are artificial constructs where the water supply is imported, where the fuel is imported, the food is imported, and And so on.
	And then cities export basically human feces.
	So they export sewage, but they import food and electricity and water, things they need.
	Well, all of those things, all those imports require transportation or electricity.
	For example, a water supply to cities like Los Angeles requires electric large pumping stations.
	They are electric.
	But I think the electricity is powered by natural gas generators, by the way, for the California pumping stations there, at least for Los Angeles.
	But transporting food requires, obviously, trucks, and trucks have electronics, and trucks require fuel, which requires electric pumps to work at gas stations to refill the diesel fuel tanks, and so on and so forth.
	And by the way, a lot of the tractors that do the farming across America, They are now very, very complex tractors, and they have software, and they have operating systems, and they have updates, and they have locks and keys that are digital.
	And, for example, people who buy John Deere tractors, you have to buy a, what is it?
	It's like a support package, like a software upgrade package.
	You have to keep paying John Deere, or they won't let you start your tractor.
	Did you know that?
	Because you press the button to start it, and a screen pops up.
	It's like, oh, you don't have the latest update.
	It's like having a Tesla tractor.
	Basically, they should just say, you're screwed.
	No farming today.
	You need to download the latest update.
	Personally, I think that's crazy.
	That's why I buy John Deere tractors built in the 1970s.
	Which are awesome because you can fix them and they don't have any electronics.
	They are made out of steel and big diesel engines and everything.
	And they work.
	And they work after an EMP as well.
	That's why I buy them.
	So most of the death is going to be in the cities, and it's going to come from starvation, but also chaos.
	A lot of, obviously, violence, especially you're dealing with left-wing city people who are delusional on a good day.
	They're crazy.
	They commit violence against themselves all the time.
	Oh, no, I should say mostly peaceful violence, according to the left-wing media.
	I mean, they're burning down their fellow restaurants and shops on any given Friday or Saturday.
	Imagine what happens when they don't have the food, they don't have the electricity or the water, or they don't have internet.
	So they can't go on Twitter and complain about how horrible their lives are and make suicide threats because it's so horrible to be one of them.
	So those cities are going to collapse.
	And these are the same cities where Democrat mayors have and Democrat city councils have defunded the police.
	Oh, yes, they've defunded the police.
	So the former police officers are like, I'm out of here.
	No more jobs here.
	I'm not getting paid.
	I'm just getting screamed at, yelled at.
	Lasers shined into my eyes.
	They're throwing Molotov cocktails at me.
	Posting my videos all over YouTube.
	No thank you!
	Don't want to be a police officer in this crap hole city known as Portland anymore.
	And they move out.
	They go to some rural community where people appreciate cops, by the way.
	So think about this dynamic.
	Lights go out, Democrat cities collapse into a Kurt Russell movie, Escape from L.A., Escape from New York.
	Were those the two cities that he escaped from?
	Was there another one?
	No, I think it's just those two, right?
	It's a Kurt Russell movie.
	It's a tragic survival LARP, which means live-action role-playing, Yeah, live action.
	If you want an action, you got it.
	Just hang out in East L.A. when the lights go out, you're going to get some action.
	Oh, yeah.
	So that's where most of the deaths are going to occur.
	The deaths will not occur in very large numbers in the rural areas, but given that most people in America live in cities, that's why the overall death rate would be so high in this scenario because so many people live in the cities and the cities are not survivable.
	Especially given, by the way, that nobody can read a map anymore.
	Nobody under the age of, it seems, 40 can't read a map.
	I mean, a physical map.
	Because they all have GPS that tells them, turn right, you know, in 100 meters, fork to the left.
	But you give them a map and a compass, and they're just totally lost.
	So even if they were to try to walk out of those cities, they wouldn't know where to go.
	And I don't know if you've ever tried to walk out of Los Angeles.
	There's a whole lot of desert waiting for you, which is basically, you know, isn't it called Death Valley?
	There's a reason.
	You know, I did say that I walked through the valley of the shadow of death, but these leftists are going to be walking through Death Valley without God because they don't even believe in God.
	They're going to die in that Death Valley.
	They're going to be food for the birds.
	Because they don't even know which way to walk or how far it is or how to take care of themselves or how to filter water, you know?
	They don't know any of that stuff.
	So when I say that, oh, according to official reports, there might be 80% of the U.S. population dead following an EMP within a year, Just understand, that's not you.
	Because you're not in that crazy city scenario.
	Or at least if you are, you have a bug out plan.
	You can read a map.
	You do have a Glock for self-defense.
	You do have a camping pump water filter.
	You know where to get water.
	You've got the ability to put on a pack and hike out of there and survive.
	Most people don't.
	They don't have a clue.
	So they're not going to make it.
	But if you're living in rural America, all you have to do is survive the collapse and fend off the looters for however long it takes for them to starve.
	Now, I'm not even joking, by the way.
	I'm not trying to be flippant necessarily about this.
	This is not comedy today.
	Not trying to be, but there'll be a period of time where you'll have to defend yourself against the looters, and then there'll be a period of time where there are no more looters because they're all dead or starved to death, either shot or starved to death.
	Seriously, that's how it's going to be if this happens.
	So...
	You don't want to be mobile.
	You don't want to be moving around if you're already in a rural location.
	You do want to have strong relationships with your neighbors and your family members and a plan to defend your rural location.
	And then you're going to need to think about some other things.
	And that's the list I'm going to go into now.
	Sorry, it took me almost an hour to get to this list.
	But there's a lot of preamble to this thing.
	So number one on my list is the Bible.
	Because you do need to keep your faith strong during this entire thing.
	You have a Bible.
	You can read it.
	Number one thing you need.
	Also, by the way, if you're preparing for this possibility and you want to know who to work with, as far as neighbors or friends or family members, there's a very easy litmus test now that will help you filter out people that might be trustworthy versus people who are delusional.
	And that is just to make a comment like, oh, yeah, what do you think about The fake President Joe Biden rigging the election and stealing that, you know?
	See, that's a litmus test right there.
	You're going to get one of two reactions, right?
	Either like, yeah, that guy's a thief, and then you know that's someone who's informed.
	Or the other response is, what do you mean?
	What do you mean Trump is working with the Russians?
	Biden won it fair and square.
	And then you know those people, not such a good partner for preparedness.
	They will probably never prepare.
	Okay.
	You're also going to need some physical silver, which I covered yesterday in that podcast, so you can refer to that one, which a lot of people really enjoyed that one, by the way.
	And remember, with silver, it's not only a store of assets.
	It's also an exchange medium.
	It's actual money, but it's also concentrated medicine, so you can use silver and turn it into colloidal silver or, you know, silver first aid gels and all those things that I talked about yesterday.
	In fact, I would say you need silver more than gold, frankly.
	Silver is actually easier to use.
	Okay, then also prepare for inflation and monetary debasement.
	I talked about that earlier in this podcast, which means minimize the amount of dollars that you're holding and make sure you think ahead and convert dollars into other things that will hold value.
	You're going to need food and you're going to need the ability to grow sprouts.
	Sprouts, don't forget, alfalfa sprouts are really delicious.
	They're neutral tasting, from my point of view anyway.
	And they're quite delicious.
	Easy to grow.
	You don't need any electricity.
	You don't even need sunlight.
	So you're not farming or gardening.
	You're just sprouting indoors.
	You could sprout, you know, in your kitchen or your garage if you want to.
	And sprouts produce protein.
	And also remember, if you feed your sprouts some mineral drops, you're making your own mineral supplements in the form of living raw foods.
	And that can keep you alive.
	And by the way, there's another tip in this.
	It's kind of a funny one.
	You can buy a hand-cranked wheatgrass juicing machine.
	It's kind of a setup, kind of like a sausage maker.
	But instead of feeding deer sausage into it, you're just feeding grass into it.
	And you can get wheatgrass juice out of that machine.
	And you can buy these online.
	In a pinch, you could juice grass.
	And it would probably keep you alive.
	Because it's got a lot of protein in it.
	And if you don't think that grass can keep you alive, ask a cow.
	Cows are very heavy creatures, I know, because I've got plenty around me where I am.
	And I've got donkeys, as you know, and I've got goats.
	And you know what they all have in common?
	They all eat grass.
	That's right.
	They eat lots and lots of grass.
	Now, they can handle the fiber of the grass cells, which is very fibrous, and their digestion systems are set up differently from yours.
	So I'm not saying that you should eat grass, but rather juice the grass and drink the juice.
	And this can help keep you alive in a huge way.
	And this is true among most types of grasses, but check out what you have in your yard or your area.
	Make sure it's safe for you to consume that grass juice if you had to in an emergency.
	However, as far as I'm concerned, I would much rather eat sprouts because grass tastes nasty.
	And if I'm in a survival scenario and I'm having to drink grass juice, that means I have failed to plan.
	It's like you'd be chugging that down.
	Oh my God, why didn't I plan ahead?
	This is awful.
	I'm drinking grass juice.
	It's like licking the bottom of a lawnmower.
	This is horrible.
	Your face looks like a goat.
	It's awful.
	Something's gone horribly wrong if you have to juice grass.
	You have failed the plan.
	But it can keep you alive.
	And also there's another tip, by the way.
	If you don't have a wheatgrass juicer, Something that you can do to fend off starvation in a real emergency is you can chew on the grass and chew the juice out of it and then spit out the fibers.
	So you're juicing it in your mouth.
	It's a lot of work.
	You've got to have some strong teeth and jaws to make that happen, like chewing your cud all day, but it can help keep you alive.
	Sure would be a good idea to have some stored pinto beans and some wheat berries and some oats and corn and lentils and some salt and all those kinds of things so you don't have to eat grass juice all day.
	Yeah, it'd be a good idea to have some stored food.
	Okay, in preparation for all of this, In case the power doesn't go out, but there is instead extreme censorship, be prepared for that censorship by installing the Tor browser.
	Like I've said, that's at torproject.org.
	That's T-O-R, torproject.org.
	This is the censorship-resistant dark web that uses so-called.onion domain names.
	And it's used by many publishers, such as the New York Times, the BBC, and others.
	Even DuckDuckGo has a.onion search website for DuckDuckGo.
	I don't know if you knew that.
	We're going to be publishing Our.onion websites for natural news and also eventually brighteon.com.
	So you'll be able to go to the dark web and see banned videos, censored videos on brighteon.com through the Tor browser.
	We're working on that.
	Okay, also as you prepare for all this, don't forget about your own fitness and nutrition.
	This is a bad time to get sick.
	This is a bad time to be type 2 diabetic, especially if you can do something about it now.
	Most type 2 diabetics, initially, it's caused by a combination of drinking liquid sugars, high fructose corn syrup, for example, and not getting enough physical exercise.
	These things are reversible.
	Many, many type 2 diabetics can reverse their condition and no longer need insulin.
	Not all of them, but many of them, especially in the early stages.
	Now, it's different for type 1, of course, which is an autoimmune disorder, but most people are type 2.
	So let's say that you're type 2 and you need insulin.
	Ask yourself this question.
	Could you come up with a plan to boost your fitness, even in gentle ways, maybe walking or swimming or whatever you can do, walking on a treadmill, for example, or using a stepper?
	Could you boost your exercise and fitness?
	Could you drop some body weight, perhaps, which typically helps with your insulin sensitivity?
	And could you change your diet to avoid all refined sugars and start eating more healthful whole foods that are also rich in minerals that help support blood sugar levels, such as chromium and magnesium, for example?
	If you could do those things now, then you could probably, again, I'm not your doctor, I don't know your specific situation, but you or maybe a family member could probably get off of insulin and Which is very important in a collapse because insulin has to be refrigerated, right?
	And all type 2 diabetics know this.
	And if you don't refrigerate the insulin, it goes bad, stops functioning as insulin, and then you have a real problem.
	So what could you do in your life right now, even in terms of cardiovascular heart disease or respiratory dysfunction?
	What could you do to get a little more fit?
	Drop a few more pounds of body weight.
	Get a little more active.
	Boost your cardiovascular recovery.
	You know, increase your strength because you're going to have to do a lot of physical work in the collapse scenario.
	So this is a good time to train sensibly.
	Don't overtrain to where you injure yourself because that's obviously the opposite of what we're trying to do here.
	You don't want to end up in a hospital with a torn ligament or something.
	They'll probably try to vaccinate you.
	So just be sensible about it, but boost your health and nutrition.
	Next item on the list.
	Have you stocked up on antibacterials and antiseptics?
	Emergency forms of medicine or emergency antibiotics?
	Many people in collapsed scenarios, they die from simple infections.
	Simple infections.
	Get a little scratch on a finger or something, it gets infected, and then they can die from that infection.
	You're not going to be able to just go to the hospital, go to the emergency room and get some antibiotics in many cases.
	So, do you have povidone iodine?
	Do you have hydrogen peroxide?
	Do you have isopropyl alcohol?
	Do you have other forms of common antiseptics such as bleach, for example?
	There are many different antiseptics out there.
	You can buy most of them at your local pharmacy or grocery store.
	They're pretty darn cheap.
	Make sure you have a good supply of those.
	And iodine, again, is one of them.
	And if you buy dietary iodine, remember it's dual use.
	Dietary iodine, such as what's called nascent iodine, is designed to be taken internally, which can also help protect you from the radioisotopes of nuclear fallout, such as iodine-131, by the way.
	So it protects your thyroid from that iodine-131 exposure.
	But also it can be used topically.
	So if you have a wound, you could treat it with some iodine on the wound in an emergency medicine situation to help stop infections.
	It's also a good idea to grow aloe vera.
	I use aloe vera gel as a topical ingredient.
	And it's also good for consuming in smoothies.
	A lot of people don't know this, but if you take an aloe vera leaf and you fillet it, you take off the skin and that brown sap kind of resin that's in the outer leaf, you take all that off and you end up with just this gel.
	It's like gel pack.
	It's an aloe vera leaf gel pack.
	Throw that in a blender and blend it up with some bananas.
	And what else?
	You know, peanut butter, whatever.
	Make a delicious smoothie out of it.
	Drink that.
	Guess what that does?
	Aloe vera helps your blood carry more oxygen.
	It enhances the functionality of hemoglobin.
	And so if you lose blood in an accident, the blood you have left will be able to carry more oxygen and keep you conscious and keep you alive.
	But also you'll have more More rapid recovery from physical exertion when you are eating aloe vera.
	Plus, aloe vera gel can be packed onto burns and wounds.
	Again, I'm talking about an emergency situation.
	I'm not saying this is a replacement for going to the emergency room if you can get there.
	But I'm talking about ditch medicine, collapse of society, Mad Max.
	You know, if someone cut your arm, you know what I would do?
	I would, like, say a big gaping wound on my arm.
	But I've got the bleeding under control because they didn't get an artery, let's say.
	It's on the outside of the arm.
	What I would do, I would clean the wound.
	I'd put some iodine on it.
	After I clean it, pack it with aloe vera gel, put a bandage on it.
	Maybe a bandage that's been sprayed with some colloidal silver.
	And just pack it and keep it tight and let that heal.
	Because aloe vera is antibacterial, and so is the iodine, and so is colloidal silver.
	You can do all this yourself, but you've got to have, obviously, the iodine.
	So it's good to have some of that on hand.
	I don't mean to keep taking too much time on that.
	Here's another very important item to have in your possession right now, whether the EMP happens or not.
	It is an encryption storage device that has a keypad on the device itself.
	You can buy these.
	They're little thumb drives that have keypads or hard drives that have keypads, and they use hardware-based encryption.
	And the company that makes these is called A-P-R-I-C-O-R-N Of encryption.
	And by the way, no, they're not a sponsor.
	I'm not paid to plug them here.
	I use their products for security.
	We use it for corporate security.
	So what you can do with this is not a software-based encryption system.
	It's hardware-based encryption.
	So you can put your secure files on these devices.
	You can have a copy of your passport.
	You can have a scan of your ID or a scan of your birth certificate or what have you.
	So if you lose your documents, you have an electronic copy on this encrypted device.
	So if this device were to be lost or stolen, nobody else could access those documents.
	And this may be very important if there's a really aggressive censorship crackdown.
	You know, what if the government declares this podcast, the situation update, is contraband?
	You know, along with, let's say, broccoli seeds, because they don't want you growing broccoli.
	You know, you're going to be like a seed smuggler.
	And as you're smuggling your seeds, you know, because home gardening will be illegal, then you're smuggling this podcast, let's say.
	Oh, it's an adventure.
	It's a daring time.
	If you have it encrypted and it's a password, it's like an 8-digit or 16-digit password, they can't get the files.
	And if they try to hack into the drive, the drive self-destructs the data.
	So check that out with Apricorn devices.
	They do work.
	I'm using them right now.
	Okay, make sure you have some sprouts on hand.
	I should say sprouting seeds.
	Make sure you have an EMP-proof container.
	And you need to learn how to make an EMP-proof container out of an aluminum trash can.
	And this is something I've been intending to do.
	I was going to make a video about this and put it up on prepwithmike.com where I have a lot of other videos of things to do.
	But I never got around to this.
	So I think I'm going to do this video this weekend, since I'm not doing podcasts on Saturdays and Sundays.
	I'm really going to work to make that video for you.
	But basically, you need an aluminum trash can.
	And then you have to have a container inside that has insulative properties.
	And then you're going to put your electronics inside that container, inside the trash can.
	And then you're going to seal the trash can, put the lid on, which is also aluminum.
	And you're going to use metallic tape around that to seal the whole thing together.
	And the idea is that when the EMP happens...
	The EMP wave is transmitted around, it flows around the outside of that trash can, and that electromagnetic pulse doesn't reach the electronics inside.
	And then inside, you could have, let's say, a backup encrypted hard drive of all your important documents and financial records and things like that.
	And you could also have maybe...
	A backup of your Bitcoin wallet, where you have an extra $10,000 stashed away in Bitcoin, which, frankly, after an EMP probably would be worth zero, but you don't know what circumstances are going to happen.
	This is about not putting all your eggs in one basket and having different avenues here.
	But you might put a night vision device in there.
	So you'd have night vision after an EMP, which would be extremely valuable.
	You might have an electronic calculator in there.
	You might have a GPS system that might still function.
	Who knows?
	So any kind of electronics, you might have a little laptop computer that still works, which would be pretty rare and pretty valuable in that scenario.
	Okay, you get the idea.
	Let's see.
	You also need to get relocated to a red county and a red state away from the cities.
	That's kind of obvious at this point.
	Have a bug out plan in place, even if you're already in a red county, because you don't know what's going to happen locally, or if there's going to be some kind of weapon attack, such as a nuclear attack that might drift radioisotopes into your area, forcing you to such as a nuclear attack that might drift radioisotopes into your area, forcing So always have an alternate location ready to bug out to that is stocked with at least the basic supplies that you need.
	I'm also a big proponent of non electric transportation, which means a bicycle or my favorite is a quadricycle.
	A quadricycle.
	I don't know how you pronounce it.
	If it's a bicycle, wouldn't it be a quadricycle?
	It just sounds funny.
	But I do have...
	I own several of these quadricycles, and I've tried different brands, and some of them have worked, and some of them haven't.
	But I posted a video up on prepwithmike.com that is a brand of a bike that works great.
	It's got four wheels.
	You sit, obviously, in the middle.
	And the thing is, you can't tip over.
	You're sitting comfortably in a recumbent position.
	And I don't know about you, but I don't like a hard bicycle seat wedged between my legs.
	That's just not my idea of a wonderful post-apocalyptic mode of transportation.
	I don't need that kind of abuse.
	In the crotch region, that's not...
	No, I would rather walk.
	So these bikes are really comfortable and they have baskets so you can haul things, which is really important.
	So let's say in a post-collapse scenario, your community might set up a local barter system because trade is going to be crucial for survival.
	You need to trade things.
	And so you might ride the bicycle to the barter Place, you know, and then you barter something.
	Maybe you're bringing something like sprouts, you know, because you planned ahead and bought sprouting seeds.
	Or maybe you have a working pair of night vision goggles, which are worth fortunes now.
	And you're trading that and then whatever you got, you know, fresh milk from a farmer, fresh eggs.
	And, you know, obviously you're going to carry that back home and deal with that.
	So you can haul things with it.
	This reminds me, though, to remind you to make sure you have a functioning rifle with ammunition where legal.
	I think that in a post-collapse environment, obviously everybody's going to have to be able to defend themselves, and just having a Glock is not enough.
	Not enough!
	And I don't know if I've mentioned this.
	A lot of new listeners here in the last month or so, you may not know that I've spent many, many years training in firearms and combat tactics with former Special Forces operators who are great, great guys.
	And between that and the drills that I've done for the last decade, I've got about 5,000 hours, I've estimated, in firearms training.
	Combat training and drills training and so on.
	Everything from rifles and pistols and long-range shooting.
	Not so much shotguns, but certainly competent in shotguns and competent in AK-47s, but mostly AR-style stuff.
	The reason I mention all that is because pistols are a joke.
	When it comes to military combat, why soldiers don't use pistols to take ground and hold a strategic building location.
	They're not using pistols.
	Those pistols suck.
	The ammo is slow.
	You know, typically the ammo is only like 1,200 feet per second.
	Slow, you know, they're not accurate.
	The barrel is really short, like a four-inch barrel on a typical Glock.
	You can't get much accuracy out of that.
	Actually, just for fun, sometimes after we finish training, Some of my buddies and I, we would stand on a hill and we would try to hit targets like 100 yards away with our Glocks.
	And you have to really arc them.
	You have to arc them up.
	But we could get some pings on the steel targets with some 9mm rounds, but it was just for fun.
	You would never actually try to hit something with a pistol at 100 yards in a survival scenario.
	That would be a very difficult shot.
	But with an AR-15, it's a no-brainer.
	It's a no-brainer.
	You can put rounds within a 3-inch circle easily, even better, with an AR-15 rifle.
	So rifles are what people need to defend themselves against looters and raiders and, I don't know, Maybe invading communists or something.
	Who knows what kind of scenario it is.
	And this is why the Biden regime is going to want to try to take away your rifle.
	And there's a simple answer to that, and it is just no.
	No.
	No, no, no.
	You don't take the rifle.
	See this right here?
	It's called the Second Amendment.
	It says, shall not be infringed.
	What part of that phrase do you not understand, you crazy, insane Democrats?
	Shall not be infringed means you go away now.
	Shoo, shoo, get away.
	I'm keeping my rifle.
	Thank you very much.
	I'm defending my home, defending my family, defending my property, defending my country, perhaps, because we're going to keep our firearms.
	We're going to keep our Second Amendment rights.
	Never give up your rifle.
	You give up your rifle.
	You're done for.
	It's over.
	You've lost your country.
	You're going to get looted, raided, You know, burned out, whatever.
	Keep your rifle.
	If you want to keep your life, keep your rifle.
	And you better have more than one, probably, too, because sometimes they do fail.
	Okay, a couple other things to consider.
	It's not a bad idea to have a little bit of cash, just a little bit.
	Maybe $1,000 in cash or something.
	In a post-collapse scenario, cash will temporarily be used as a means of exchange.
	But that's only good for the short term.
	Pretty quickly it'll shift into junk silver coins and then silver rounds and then gold coins or other systems of exchange such as using ammo for barter.
	But cash can help you in the short term, especially if you need to get back home.
	Maybe the lights go out while you're at work or on the road or something.
	You could use cash to help get yourself back home.
	All right, here's something else you might find a little bit odd, but there's a reason behind this.
	Consider getting a mechanical typewriter and a mechanical adding machine.
	You can buy these on eBay, it turns out.
	And they actually work, I know, because I've bought several.
	And they're pretty cool.
	Some of these mechanical typewriters, I mean, you have to put ink on the ribbon.
	But have you ever thought about, in a post-collapse scenario, how would you...
	How would you write up documents or communicate by Pony Express or whatever?
	How would you do that?
	Well, most people don't have typewriters anymore.
	They have computers and printers and not even printers so much these days.
	So they're just going to end up writing by hand.
	And frankly, I think half the people living today have forgotten how to write because they never have to anymore.
	And they don't teach cursive writing to children in schools anymore.
	They don't even know how to read cursive.
	It's like, what is that?
	Is that some Sanskrit?
	What is it?
	So get yourself a mechanical typewriter and a mechanical adding machine.
	In case you're engaged in commerce of some kind, maybe you're raising free-range chickens like I do, and maybe I'm bartering the chicken eggs at the local market, trading chicken eggs for whatever, you know, bacon, wild hog bacon or something, and you're going to need a little mechanical adding machine To sit there all day and run all the transactions, or I guess get good with math and a piece of paper and a pencil pretty quickly.
	So those are some good things to think about.
	And they're also fun, historical items in some cases.
	Get yourself a gravity water filter that works without electricity.
	Get yourself a hand-cranked radio.
	Again, I'm not going to focus on the equipment here so much, but these are just some basics.
	Get yourself a CB radio as well.
	And one of those Baofeng radios for simple communication.
	Well, a couple of them so you can communicate with your family members in your own house or on your own property.
	Now, one final thing in all this.
	That's kind of the list right there.
	But just in case you think that maybe, okay, let's say there's not going to be an EMP attack.
	So you might think this sounds like overkill.
	Well, guess what?
	These things help you survive a financial collapse.
	Or martial law, military martial law in America, or war with China, or an invading enemy force landing in the United States and trying to take us over.
	But also, guess what else they help you survive?
	They help you survive the Green New Deal.
	Which is the crazy, insane idea pushed by delusional AOC who thinks she's being mobbed and attacked every day.
	She's also convinced herself that combustion engines are bad because they go bang, bang, bang.
	Those are the pistons.
	Bang, bang, bang.
	Chitty, chitty, bang, bang.
	AOC is afraid.
	Anything that goes bang, she hates guns and she hates engines and they want to ban engines and they've convinced some car companies, such as General Motors, which is a globalist, I don't know, how do you even describe these people?
	Just some globalist Marxist corporation now.
	They're going to abandon combustion engines by the year 2035, according to their current announcements.
	They're going to abandon them.
	Because they've convinced themselves that electric cars are going to take over the world and that electric cars are clean.
	And it was really funny to see General Motors spokesperson Kristen Zimmerman.
	She was in a video touting the new GM electric car setup, whatever it is.
	And she was asked, where does the energy come from to charge electricity?
	And she, on camera, she was saying, well, it comes from the building.
	She was pointing to the building behind her.
	It comes from the building.
	And the reporter's like, yeah, we know that.
	Well, where does the building get the electricity?
	Because you see, leftists never consider the next step up the line.
	It just comes from the building.
	There's just electricity coursing through the building like magic.
	It's like mana or something.
	It's like magic.
	Or it's like, I guess, in their views, like black magic or something.
	Just electricity sprouts out of nowhere and it comes into the building.
	So anyway, she was asked, well, where does the building get the electricity?
	And she answers this and it turns out, it comes from the local power company.
	And the power company guy was like, oh yeah, that's like 95% coal.
	Oh, okay.
	So you mean, basically, your clean energy cars, your electric cars are coal-powered cars, is what you're actually saying.
	They're powered by coal.
	You know, they will never answer that question, honestly.
	Oh, no, they're not powered by coal.
	They're powered by electricity.
	Well, where does the electricity come from?
	Well, we don't know.
	It comes out of the sky.
	Lightning.
	Yeah, it's powered by coal, folks.
	But there's a bigger problem.
	Oh, and when they try to ban combustion engines, remember, they're going to destroy the entire global economy if they really push this, and they're going to destroy farming.
	Because, of course, farming, since we've been talking about tractors today, do not forget tractors run on diesel.
	There are no battery-powered tractors that grow 1,000 acres of corn, that plant the corn and harvest the corn and till the soil and all the things they do.
	They're not powered by batteries.
	They wouldn't make it for an hour.
	It takes a lot of energy to grow food, it turns out.
	Lots of energy.
	So, if they push this, they're going to cause food famines.
	But there's an even bigger problem.
	And it's called lithium.
	So lithium is an element that's used to make batteries for electric cars.
	And it turns out that lithium, there isn't enough lithium in the world to To supply even a fraction of what would be needed for the batteries if they were to make all cars electric cars.
	And mining lithium destroys the environment.
	That's right.
	It uses an enormous amount of water.
	And so there was a story on Zero Hedge talking about this.
	It used a lot of water, approximately 500,000 gallons per ton of lithium.
	So in Chile's Salar de Atacama, mining activities consume 65% of the region's water.
	What?
	Two-thirds of the water in the whole region is taken up in mining lithium?
	And it's having a big impact on local farmers who grow quinoa and herd llamas in an area where some communities already have to get water driven in from elsewhere.
	So wait a minute.
	Wait a minute.
	It's using two-thirds of the water in Salar de Atacama?
	Well, how are they going to scale this up by a factor of a thousand?
	There's not enough water anywhere, I mean where there's lithium, to mine enough lithium to make all the cars electric cars.
	And even if you did that, They'd all be powered by coal anyway, so you'd have to have more coal coming into the power plants.
	The demand on the electric grid would massively expand.
	All of a sudden, the electric grid would fail.
	You'd have to build up massive new investments in grid substations and transmission lines and all of this in order to charge everybody's car with coal power.
	And remember, Democrats think this is an awesome idea.
	It just tells you how insane they truly are.
	Like, this is great!
	Let's all burn more coal.
	And let's overload the power lines.
	And let's shut down farming and starve to death.
	And then we can hide under our desks and claim to be victims!
	That's the way Democrats think.
	Remember, every morning they get up and look in the mirror and say, how can we make our lives worse?
	And this is what they come up with, the Green New Deal.
	They've figured it out.
	Let's promise to base the entire future economy of transportation on a rare mineral that's in a short supply that nobody can get without destroying farming.
	And they call this a solution.
	And they say you're racist because you don't like it.
	Because you understand cause and effect, supply lines, science, elements, lithium.
	Lithium.
	Oh my.
	So this doesn't even bring into the picture the fact that electric cars, typically they'll have an electric motor on each wheel.
	So if you have four wheels in a typical passenger car, you have four electric motors.
	Four electric motors that are generating electromagnetic pollution.
	Very powerful electromagnetic pollution.
	Probably millions of times more powerful with emissions compared to cell phones.
	I mean, you know, different wavelengths and so on, but still electromagnetic pollution.
	And then you are sitting in the middle of that whole mess.
	So let me get this straight.
	So the green people, Who say they don't want pollution.
	They want to build cars that expose drivers and passengers to massive electromagnetic pollution while they're burning more coal to power that electromagnetic pollution.
	While they're overloading the power lines and destroying farms in South America because they're using all the water to mine lithium to make the batteries that have to be exchanged every few years.
	So they're filling landfill with lithium batteries and old cars and so on, devastating the world with this harebrained idea.
	And they think this is so awesome, they've convinced General Motors to switch over to this system.
	Now you tell me, is it wise or not?
	Is it wise to prepare for a global collapse knowing that these are the morons who are in charge at the moment?
	Yes, you should absolutely prepare for a systemic global collapse because these people, not only are they suicidal, they are morons.
	They are absolute morons.
	They don't understand where electricity comes from.
	They don't understand mining.
	They don't understand energy.
	They don't understand economics.
	They don't understand money, finance, nothing.
	Elements.
	They have no idea how anything works.
	Which tells you the education system has been entirely successful at making sure that no one learns anything.
	Yeah, they'll graduate students out of the system, but they don't know anything.
	Except how to be a victim, which is, of course, the only skill required to be a Democrat now.
	How to be a victim.
	And so the big upshot to all this is if you think there's a risk that Russia might nuke America, or if there's a risk that China might nuke America, don't worry.
	People like AOC are already nuking America.
	They're causing more economic devastation than any other world power could even imagine.
	They're gonna kill our farming system.
	The Russians couldn't do that.
	The Chinese couldn't do that.
	They're gonna make people starve to death, and they're gonna call it victory.
	And that's if you survive the wave of mandatory vaccines, by the way.
	And mandatory, you know, six masks required on all forms of public transportation.
	If you survive the next COVID-21 bioweapon funded by Fauci, endorsed by Bill Gates, distributed by Pfizer, whatever, you know, if you survive all that, don't worry.
	They're going to crash your money, steal all your dollars, and then shut down the farms while claiming to be green and sustainable.
	That's Democrats.
	They think people voted for them?
	No, they didn't.
	They didn't win.
	They had to cheat, and they had to build the razor wire fences.
	They had to have troops.
	They had to defend the Capitol building from you, from the people.
	They fear the people because they know that they're hurting the people.
	And when the people figure all this out, which is coming, because the pain is coming...
	There's going to be backlash like you've never seen.
	We're talking, I don't know, secession, uprisings, maybe civil war.
	I don't know what form it's going to take, but it's going to be ugly, and I warn you about that up front.
	But I also promise you we can get through this.
	Why?
	We have superior knowledge of reality.
	We know how these things work.
	We can plan in advance.
	We can prepare.
	We can be more self-reliant.
	We can survive off-grid because we know all this.
	And yes, we have faith.
	We have faith.
	So yeah, we're all going to walk together through the valley of the shadow of death.
	It's going to be all kinds of craziness coming our way.
	We can still make it through.
	We can make it through because, you know, they can impeach Trump.
	They can't impeach all of us, can they?
	We're Americans and we're burrowed in.
	We are here.
	We occupy our land, our country.
	They're not going to be able to get us out of here.
	Without a fight, you know, we will defend our families and our homes and our communities and our country and so on.
	And I mean that politically and also in terms of preparedness and survival.
	So that's what I'm going to continue to do here each day, bringing you another episode of Situation Update, which we're almost done with today, to help you really follow what's happening, where things are headed, but also prepare for To survive all of this.
	And also then bring you resilient, redundant systems of information distribution so that we can continue to communicate even as systems go down.
	Because maybe this is the right day to say this, but it's a line from the Terminator.
	I think Terminator 4.
	If you can hear this, you are the resistance.
	And maybe resistance isn't the right term.
	If you can hear this, you are the survivors.
	You are the future of the human race.
	Because the people who aren't listening to this kind of information, the people who aren't preparing, the people who don't know what's coming, they won't make it.
	They won't be here.
	When appropriate, we'll pray for them, pray for their souls, but we will have to move forward without them.
	And honestly, some of those people may be your family members, may be your friends, may be your neighbors.
	You're going to have to learn to move on without them because you can't force people to prepare.
	You can't even force them to be aware.
	They have to make that choice, and most people are refusing to make that choice.
	They're still going to live on the system, the very system that's going to destroy them.
	So that's the summary for today.
	Hope you found it valuable.
	A lot of good information in here.
	I'll do my best to bring you more information every day.
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