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Feb. 22, 2021 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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Situation Update, Feb. 22, 2021 - Disconnecting from complex systems before the global collapse stri
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Okay, welcome to the Situation Update for Monday, February 22nd, 2021.
Mike Adams here.
Thank you for joining me.
Wow, we have a brand new week, a brand new Monday.
Sunny, warm weather now in Texas and much of the central United States that was hit with that storm last week.
What a difference!
Pretty incredible.
I feel like I have a new lease on life after surviving last week.
And over the weekend, we transitioned from a third world existence into, once again, a first world existence.
And sure is awesome to have a power grid that functions.
Never take that for granted again.
But now, as I mentioned in the last couple of podcasts, what we experienced was a very small sample of what is yet to come for all of us.
I'm talking about systemic catastrophic collapse on a global scale in the financial sector.
And you can see it's all about to happen.
We don't know exactly when, but I have some very specific...
Well, you could take them as recommendations or just things to investigate for yourself to see if it's a fit for you.
But I'm going to mention some things today that might save people a lot of pain and suffering and a lot of financial loss because of what's about to come.
But first, let me mention some of the evidence that's out there.
Michael Burry, who's famous for being the person behind the big short, he shorted the subprime mortgage market back in 2006, I believe is when he started.
He bet against the big banks as he was running an investment fund, and he made, I don't know, billions of dollars for his clients by realizing that the mortgage, the subprime mortgage market was a house of cards.
It was completely fraudulent.
And it had no standing.
I mean, it was all total fraud, and it was going to fall, and eventually it did fall, and you know the rest of the story.
Watch the movie The Big Short if you haven't yet.
It's a very important movie to watch.
Well, the same person, Michael Burry, he's now saying that we need to watch out for hyperinflation, Weimar Germany style in the United States, because the money printing machine is continuing to crank out money at an astonishing pace. because the money printing machine is continuing to crank out Also, John Rubino, who is the creator of dollarcollapse.com, and he's someone that I've had on as a guest several times.
In fact, he's scheduled for another interview, I think.
In fact, I think I had him scheduled last week, but I had to cancel because, well, the power grid had failed.
So we're going to interview Rubino again here shortly, but Rubino is out there saying really much the same thing that he's always said, but suddenly people are paying attention.
Rubino says, we're in the everything bubble right now.
And by everything, he means bonds are in a bubble.
Real estate is in a bubble.
Cryptos are in a bubble.
We'll talk about that in a second here.
And also, of course, the stock market is in a bubble.
And some of the signs that we are about to experience a major systemic catastrophic crash are that you've got everyday people with no special knowledge or training Who are playing with GameStop investments or other stocks.
They're on the Robinhood trading platform and they all think that they're geniuses because they're getting rich by buying stocks that are all being pumped up by the fiat currency printing machine known as the Federal Reserve.
And when you start to get everyday people who have really no special investment experience or knowledge, when they all jump in and think that they're all making money and that everybody can get rich and that everybody should mortgage their house and buy stocks, then...
You know the crash is very, very close because we saw this in 1999 before the dot-com crash.
We saw this in 2007 before the subprime collapse and we're seeing it now.
It's the exact same pattern and the outcome from all this is not in question.
It's going to be a catastrophic collapse.
It will probably be partially engineered Because this is an engineered takedown of the system, which is something that Catherine Austin Fitz from the Solari report has been warning us about.
It's an engineered takedown.
The globalists want to collapse the system.
They want to be able to confiscate all of the wealth from people.
And one of the ways that they're doing that, as Catherine Austin Fitz warns, is they're convincing people to buy Bitcoin.
And Bitcoin is a non-existent virtual thing, and people are pouring money into it thinking they're getting rich.
So they're pouring fiat currency into Bitcoin and seeing the Bitcoin price go up.
But when Bitcoin, when the rug is yanked out from under Bitcoin, something that Catherine warns about, people will be left with nothing in the real world.
And as Catherine says, you should be or people in general should be investing not in a virtual thing like Bitcoin, which she calls a pump and dump scam, but rather investing in supporting local farmers, building local infrastructure, buying farmland. building local infrastructure, buying farmland.
And she points out that Bill Gates is buying farmland.
And why is it that the globalists of the world, the wealthiest people are buying land and the everyday common people are buying virtual coins that don't exist and can vanish in an instant?
Why is that?
Well, as she says, it's all in her conclusion.
It's a brainwashing scam to get people to build their own prisons.
And she describes cryptocurrency as a prison system, a financial prison that the globalists are going to roll out, that they control.
In fact, in many ways, they already control Bitcoin.
Now, just for the record, by the way, I'm not anti-cryptocurrency.
I love the idea of decentralization.
I've talked about that many, many times, and I've even talked about the utility of various cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, by the way.
I also predicted Last year, when the COVID crisis hit, I said that I believe Bitcoin would go up in value.
And I've repeated that prediction many times, and I think it will continue to climb for quite some time.
It could easily hit $100,000 per Bitcoin.
But as Catherine says, and I second her on this point, smart people who are playing in the Bitcoin casino...
When they realize gains in Bitcoin, they're taking those gains out by selling Bitcoin and then buying things like farmland.
And if you're fortunate enough to be able to time the market in that way, take your earnings out and convert it into real things like purchasing physical gold or physical silver, physical land, and so on, then that's smart.
You got out of the virtual system and into the real world, and it's the real world that's going to save you.
Because even as I said about last week with the power grid failure in Texas, what's the value of Bitcoin when the grid is down?
Oh, it's zero.
Good thing I don't own any Bitcoin anymore because I sold it a couple of years ago for gold.
And you might say, well, you missed out on the upswing in Bitcoin price.
Well, guess what?
The upswing is not real until you sell it.
So...
You know, real gold is better than virtual coins.
It's kind of like owning coins in a role-playing game, like an online role-playing game.
Your wallet is awesome in the game, but that's not real until you convert it into something real.
And what's real?
You know, food, farmland.
Bill Gates understands this point.
They're trying to push the common people into giving up their money to buy into something that isn't real while the globalists are buying real property.
They're loading up on gold.
They're loading up on silver.
They're buying real things.
They're buying oil harvesting contracts in Texas and other places.
They are developing real things.
So that they control energy and the food supply.
And then Bill Gates comes along and says, oh, by the way, nobody should be eating beef ever again.
You should all be eating veggie fake meat.
And he's going to buy up all the farmland just to make sure that no one can really grow beef, you see.
That's how they're going to force you into their soylent green FEMA camps.
Where, yeah, you'll have virtual coins there, all controlled by a government wallet.
And if you speak out against the Biden regime, there'll be an automatic fine deduction from your virtual wallet.
That's how it's going to work.
Oh, and if you don't get vaccinated, they'll block access to your wallet.
You'll lose all your money unless you agree to everything the government wants you to do and think and say.
That's how they're going to control everybody.
It's super obvious at this point.
So if you're throwing your life savings into cryptocurrencies, just really have a strong second thought about that.
Is that a wise move?
You need to be very, very careful about that.
Now, by the way, since we're talking about finance here today and preparedness, note that the cryptocurrency online wallet company called Coinbase Is currently valued now at $100 billion.
That's the insanity that we're looking at.
$100 billion.
That means they're more valuable than the CBOE. They're more valuable than the NASDAQ and other major financial exchanges.
And what does Coinbase deal in?
Well, cryptocurrencies.
How is it worth $100 billion?
Well, that's what people are willing to pay for it at the moment because all the money printing is lowering the cost of money.
There's free money floating around everywhere.
And the globalists and the banksters are buying into the cryptos in order to make the price go up and create A FOMO panic.
Now, FOMO is fear of missing out.
FOMO. FOMO panic is when people see something skyrocketing and suddenly they want to buy in so they don't miss the surge that they think is going to make them super wealthy forever.
So right now, Bitcoin is over $50,000, which is not surprising.
And that's great if you bought in a couple years ago at $1,000 or less.
But if you're buying in now at $50,000 because you read an article, and there was an article on Zero Hedge about this, that said one bank believes that Bitcoin is going to $4 million per coin.
So if you could spend $50K and get back $4 million...
If that were true, it would be amazing.
So a lot of people are doing that, thinking they're going to get, you know, what, 40, 80 times return on their money or whatever it comes to.
It's insane.
It's not going to $4 million.
Catherine Austin Fitz is correct that at some point, once they've completed the pump and dump scam, the governments of the world are just going to outlaw Bitcoin and yank the rug out from under everybody.
And it's going to really, really plunge at some point.
And again, I'm not anti-Bitcoin at all.
Very much pro-cryptocurrency and pro decentralization.
It's just that there's a mania at work again.
It's very obvious.
I can see it clear as day and it's a dangerous time to be buying in to the cryptos.
But it's also a dangerous time to be buying into a lot of stocks.
And it's a dangerous time to buy into bonds in many ways as well.
So the question is, where do you put your money that has a store of value?
And all that we're seeing right now with the coming hyperinflation of the currency, the massive money printing, all the assets are going up, up, up, up, which is exactly what happened in the 1920s in Germany, by the way.
Everybody was doing well.
All the businesses were making more money.
All the stocks were going up and everybody thought, this is awesome.
It's like the tulip bulb mania.
What was that?
The Dutch tulip bulb mania in Germany.
The 1600s, I think it was.
And everybody thought they were getting rich because tulip bulbs were valued at what would be today hundreds of thousands of dollars in some cases.
So everybody had tulip bulbs.
I'm talking about physical actual bulbs for tulips.
You know, that you plant in the ground in the spring and you get pretty flowers.
They had these sitting in their homes and they thought each one was worth, you know, thousands of dollars or tens of thousands of dollars equivalent.
And everybody thought they were filthy rich.
But it turns out tulip bulbs aren't really worth that much in the real world.
And the whole thing collapsed and people lost all that investment money and it was over.
In the same way, or a similar way, Bitcoin's actual real-world presence can vanish in an instant if the power goes off or if regulators outlaw it and people can lose everything in an instant in Bitcoin.
Whereas if you're into physical things and you're stacking silver or gold or acquiring land, you know, all these things I've been talking about, then Bitcoin Those things don't vanish.
You know, land doesn't just vanish overnight unless the government seizes it with eminent domain or, I don't know, a giant earthquake causes your land to vanish into a giant sinkhole or something.
But that's pretty rare in terms of, you know, farmland and so on.
That rarely happens.
For the most part, land is still there.
And so that's why the globalists are buying land, because they know that all these other systems are going to crater and fail.
All right, now, when these systems fail, and I believe now it's closer to us than ever, because it's clear that the Biden regime and the central banks that are backing him have no discipline whatsoever, and they're going to have a final money printing blowout.
And right before the whole thing crashes, everybody's going to think that they're doing awesome, or at least people who are in the flow path of the easy money.
And you're going to see people who think they're going to retire on stocks, but they've never converted it to something real.
So all their so-called wealth is just numbers on a screen.
It's going to get crazy.
You're going to think you're missing out.
Because your neighbor is going to be telling you something like, oh, you should join Robinhood and you should invest in these five stocks.
They've gone up ten times.
Like Coinbase, its value doubled in the last few weeks, for example.
You know, 100% gain in less than a month.
You're going to see more and more stories like that.
And you're going to think you're missing out and you're going to want to buy in.
Don't buy in.
These are FOMO panics.
This is mass hysteria.
This is the madness of crowds.
And it's going to end badly.
And when it does end, it's only going to be those who are holding the physical things that actually will make it through.
Now, for the rest of the people, it's going to be catastrophic way beyond anything that we saw with the Texas blackouts and the infrastructure failures, not only in Texas, but other states as well during the deep freeze last week.
You're going to see a loss of transactional capabilities across all businesses when the dollar collapses and the credit markets seize up and the banks all go on holiday.
It's like Ted Cruz flying to Cancun.
The banks are on holiday.
Yeah, they're in Cancun and they're not open in your neighborhood and the ATMs don't work and you can't get money out because they've already claimed it.
It's called a bail-in.
They did a bail-in.
They took your money.
That's coming.
But the transactional capability loss that will happen across the entire economy simultaneously is not going to be one state like Texas.
It's going to be everything from Hawaii and Alaska all the way to the tip of the East Coast and the Southeast, Florida, all the way down into the Florida Keys.
I mean, it's going to be the whole country that We'll have a loss of transactional capability, which means...
No ATMs functioning.
No bank accounts functioning.
No food.
Grocery stores can't buy food.
Grocery stores can't sell food.
Credit cards won't function.
Food stamps won't function.
Gas stations won't be able to buy gas or sell gas.
Transportation and trucking companies won't be able to move goods across the country because, again, there's no transactional capabilities.
The whole system will freeze.
As Jim Rickards calls it, ICE 9.
ICE 9.
It's a...
It's a reference to the locking up, the freezing of the entire system and how it spreads from one bank to another and one business to another.
The whole system will be frozen for some period of time.
It will be catastrophic and it is coming soon.
I don't know when, but soon.
When that happens, it's going to be kind of like a systemic infrastructure failure in the sense that Your local electric company won't even know how to charge you for electricity.
How will they continue to provide you with a product, i.e.
amps, you know, electricity, that you can't pay for because the transactional capabilities have crashed and burned?
How will the power companies purchase coal or natural gas?
How will they engage in futures contracts for energy?
When the entire system has cratered?
This is a very, obviously, big question.
So everything that failed in the blackouts in Texas is going to fail, and even more, in the coming financial collapse.
And what failed in Texas during the blackouts?
Well, let's see.
Roads and transportation failed.
Grocery deliveries failed.
So the food supply failed.
Cell towers failed.
911 emergency services failed.
Let's see.
Well, electricity failed.
Of course, water failed.
Even talking municipal water supplies.
Also, bandwidth and internet services failed.
And then everybody was closed, too.
So you couldn't go to the bank.
You couldn't get business done.
Everything shut down.
So that's just a small little glimpse of what's coming.
Except it will be everywhere all at once.
What this means is that we're all going to need to be prepared in advance because there will be no warning.
This will happen maybe on a Friday night or a Sunday night.
You're going to wake up one morning and all finances will be frozen.
The dollar will be worthless or near worthless.
This is all going to happen without warning.
It means you're going to need food and water as if you were preparing for a blackout or a hurricane or something like that.
You're going to need all those things in place.
And you're going to need more than what we needed in Texas.
And as I mentioned in my own podcast, even I wasn't fully prepared.
Not as prepared as I wish I had been.
Not as prepared as I was in my own mind.
I thought I was way better prepared, but some of my preps failed.
Thank goodness most of them worked and I was able to get through.
But even I didn't do as good a job as I should have.
I will now, by the way.
I'm never going to get caught without hundreds of gallons of drinking water in barrels ready to go.
I'm never going to get caught without at least 1,000 gallons of diesel fuel and a kerosene heater.
I'm never going to get caught without fresh batteries in my tractor ready to go to turn on the generator and all these other things.
There are many more things that I will do now, but most people won't do them.
I'm never going to get caught without sufficient cash, just in case you need cash.
Because cash will continue, even in a financial collapse, cash will still work for a while.
You'll still be able to get some services with a $100 bill because the value of that money is in the minds of the people.
And it'll take a while for that value to evaporate.
Until that day comes, you'll be able to trade with dollars.
And then maybe junk silver coins or silver rounds or ammunition or other things.
There'll be a lot of barter going on, but it's going to be a very difficult existence for most people.
And it will likely, the system will stay down for much longer than a bad Arctic freeze.
It will stay down for weeks or months later.
And it's not clear how it's going to come back or how many people will starve to death in the meantime.
And that's where this is going.
And many of the cities of America will crumble.
They will fail.
They will collapse into lawlessness and chaos.
Many cities are almost there already.
Los Angeles, Detroit comes to mind.
East St.
Louis, for example.
There are a lot of cities that are almost there right now.
It's just gonna get accelerated at the right moment.
You know, Seattle, Portland, pretty much everywhere there were riots all last year.
It's gonna be bad.
Now, here's the...
Here's the big gotcha in all of this.
Many infrastructure systems in America, when they get taken down, it's very difficult to bring them back online and bring them back to a functional status.
So you may have seen some of the stories about the Texas blackouts last week that said, according to ERCOT, that Texas was seconds or minutes away from a total collapse of That would have required months to get power back online.
Months.
Like six months.
Can you imagine living in Texas without power for six months?
And the reason they gave for this is that in a catastrophic collapse, when they're really not managing it well, there's too much demand for power.
And as they said, some of the equipment just catches on fire.
It burns up.
And the equipment's gone.
Like substation equipment.
You know, I don't know, connecting power systems.
I don't know how it all works because I don't work in that industry.
But apparently a lot of these systems, if you have too much demand, it overwhelms the system.
It just burns up everything.
And then you're screwed because you can't just turn it all back on all at once.
Number one, your hardware is gone and you have to reorder that hardware.
A lot of it made in China.
And China may decide not to export to Texas because China doesn't like Texas trade policies or something like that.
Because we've lost a manufacturing base in America.
So America's infrastructure is far more fragile than you think.
And it's not just the power grid.
It's also bridges and roads and buildings in some cases.
But it's also the water system.
The water supply lines.
Remember what happened in Flint, Michigan?
A couple years ago when they switched the water from one source to another source and the new water had a different pH, a lower pH, slightly more acidic, and the new water then was stripping lead out of all the pipes because the pipes were so old that Maybe a hundred years old when they used to make them out of, you know, lead.
Well, I mean, a lead alloy, a lot of lead in the pipe.
Iron plus lead, in other words.
And suddenly the water in the city was a hundred parts per million lead and it was mass poisoning everybody.
Remember that?
Well, guess what?
That same problem exists for most of the entire eastern half of the United States.
Basically everything east of the Mississippi.
And the more east you go, the older the infrastructure gets.
Because, well, that's the infrastructure that's been there longer.
You know, the east coast was developed first.
And you look at the infrastructure in cities like Boston and New York.
And major cities of New Jersey and Massachusetts and so on and Connecticut, it's falling apart.
Just falling apart.
And it won't take long when the system begins to shut down.
It won't take long for catastrophic collapse to move from sector to sector to sector.
For example, bridges will start failing because no one can maintain them anymore because the cities can no longer make payroll because there's no transactional capabilities to pay anybody.
Pension payments all stop.
Who's gonna work for the city for free and not get paid?
Well, nobody.
Who's gonna work for the government for free and not get paid?
Nobody.
Well, maybe some of them will work for free just because they love the power, you know, like New York Governor Cuomo.
Who's a gangster.
Finally, the Democrats are seeing that.
Have you noticed?
They're finally realizing Cuomo is a crazed, mafia-style gangster who threatens people all the time.
Yeah, we've been mourning about that for years.
The Democrats never saw it until just now.
Amazing.
The guy's a murderer, you know, with COVID and the elderly patients in the nursing homes.
But anyway, Cuomo's going to be overseeing a collapsing city.
Well, I mean, technically, de Blasio is going to be overseeing the collapsing city, and Cuomo is going to be overseeing an entire collapsing state.
And he's not going to be the only one.
It's going to be very bad.
A lot of systems cannot recover.
For example, when you shut down refineries for a certain period of time, it's very hard to bring them back online.
You shut down nuclear power plants, hard to bring them back.
If you shut down the trucking industry, and you fire people from trucking jobs because you can't pay them, We're good to go.
Some of the collapse that takes place is long-term collapse.
In fact, we got a little hint of that with the COVID lockdowns last year.
Think about all the restaurants that they put out of business.
Those restaurants aren't all magically coming back, are they?
Because it's very difficult.
Once you shut down a restaurant and you send everybody home, you have to fire or lay off all the workers.
Well, a lot of them Do other things or move away or find other jobs.
You can't just turn the lights back on one day and say, hey, all the waiters and cooks and the hostess and everybody, come on back to work.
They're no longer there.
They've moved on to other things.
Society is a living, breathing, economic, delicate web.
And when you pause that whole system because of a financial collapse, The system goes to something like a blue screen of death in Windows, and it has to be rebooted.
And you know what happens when the blue screen of death hits you?
That's the favorite Bill Gates feature of Windows.
He loves it, the blue screen of death.
We should call it the blue screen of depopulation.
You lose all your work, don't you?
You lost the document you were working on, the spreadsheet, the email you were typing up.
It's all gone because you got the blue screen.
And then what do you have to do?
You have to do a hard reboot.
And your system tries to reboot.
Sometimes it never reboots.
It's like, ah, cannot boot from drive C. It's corrupted.
You just lost your whole operating system.
That's a good metaphor for what can happen across society with this kind of systemic collapse that's coming.
Now, what does this mean for you and I and how we can survive all of this?
Well, I learned a lot of things last week.
I did a podcast yesterday about the 15 things I learned.
And one of the things I learned is that we have to have more back-to-basics types of systems, super low-tech systems that Because the things that we depend upon are not going to be able to function.
For example, you probably have an HVAC system that heats and cools your home or your business or your office.
We do as well.
Well, those systems, they all require replacement parts all the time.
Not just the filters, but, you know, circuit boards and fans and compressors and Copper pipelines and coolant.
All these things have very, very long supply lines.
You try to get a new circuit board for your, I don't know, carrier air conditioner.
Where does that circuit board come from?
It's probably made in Japan or Europe or China.
Which means it's coming from halfway around the world to get to you, and that's never going to happen when the entire transaction system craters and no one can pay anybody for transportation.
You're not going to get spare parts.
So everything that's complex, and this is why I always said I like to buy the old John Deere tractors because they're very simple.
They don't have circuit boards at all.
Basically no electronics on them except for Lights and relays, you know, solenoids, very simple parts.
But you're not going to be able to get complex parts for much of anything.
The complexity of society will collapse.
In fact, there's a book on that that I've mentioned before.
I think it's called The Collapse of Complex Societies.
I'm just going from memory on this, but I think the author is Tanner.
It might be Tanner.
Yeah, maybe Joseph Tanner.
I don't know.
Anyway, The Collapse of Complex Society is kind of an academic book.
It's a very dense read, by the way.
But that's what this is talking about.
It's going to collapse back down to a very basic type of system.
Well, the current population that we have in America and in Europe and in Canada and Australia and many places can't The population can't live on a low-tech society with a focus on agriculture, you know, an agrarian existence.
It can't support the current populations.
And that's why 70 to 80, maybe 90% of the people will die.
Because there won't be enough food.
Because all of the amplification of human labor that comes from specialization of farming and tractors with parts, circuit boards from other countries, all these long supply lines, and also the abundance of cheap fuel in the form of diesel fuel and so on, which comes from functioning refineries, which have to have a functioning power grid, which has to have cheap coal delivered constantly, which has to have a banking system to pay the coal sellers.
And they have to meet the payroll for the people that work at the coal mining company and all these things.
Long, long supply lines, highly complex, highly subject to collapse.
At the end of the day, it's going to come down to a very, very simple society.
And in that simple society, most people living today will be gone.
And Bitcoin will be worth zero in that scenario, by the way, and so will the dollar.
But land will have value, and simple low-tech solutions will also have value, such as rainwater catchment systems, gravity flow systems, off-grid systems, low-tech.
Even solar panels will have some value in that system because they can harvest sunlight energy and charge 12-volt batteries and so on.
But if you want to be able to live in a sustainable way, you'll need to have very simple off-grid type of systems.
And one of those, I mentioned this word yesterday, is earth tubes.
What are earth tubes?
Well, earth tubes are a way to heat a greenhouse in the winter using the warmth of the earth, or they're a way to cool your house in the summer using the coolness of the earth.
Compared to the outside ambient temperature.
So earth tubes are very low-tech and very simple.
It's probably why nobody promotes them, because there's no special equipment to sell with them.
There's nothing to service.
There's no pumps.
There are no compressors.
There are very few moving parts.
Basically, this is so simple.
Basically, you have like a...
You bury a thousand foot trench and you have to have obviously a lot of land to do this.
And the length of the trench depends on how much cooling energy you need.
And it could be zigzag or whatever.
And you bury basically drain pipe at a depth of about 10 feet.
So you need an excavator or a trencher.
You need to dig down and you need to lay all this pipe in there.
And this pipe makes a loop that comes back to your house.
So you're going to need basically two holes in your wall.
And in one hole, which would be the hole where you're forcing air into these tubes, you're going to put an inline fan.
And it would be smart to put this high fan.
Up in one of your walls so that it's blowing hot air, you know, which rises, blowing hot air into this tube system.
So you put a fan in there and you're just forcing hot air into it.
Well, the hot air goes through these tubes and travels along the thousand feet or however many feet you have.
And the temperature of the earth down at a 10-foot depth is typically around 50 degrees Fahrenheit.
It varies a little bit, you know, based on where you are.
But give or take, we'll call it 50 degrees Fahrenheit.
So let's say you have 80-degree air from your home and you're forcing it into these tubes.
The air is going to get cooled.
Because the tubes are cool, some of the moisture is going to condense as well, so it's being dehumidified.
And after it goes through that 1,000-foot journey of that tube, it's going to be returned to your house as cool 50-degree air.
And what kind of machinery do you need to make this thing work?
I mean, once you get it installed, what do you need?
Oh, just a fan.
Just a fan.
Yeah, you need some electricity, but all you need really is a fan.
Fan is pretty low-tech.
It's just a motor with blades on it.
And that's pretty easy to get.
You don't have a long supply line of circuit boards from Japan.
Fans are also very inexpensive.
You can buy these cylindrical greenhouse fans, venting fans, for $20 online at greenhouse supply places.
Or you can get really good ones for $50 that are even stronger.
And That's how you cool your home with earth tubes.
You can look it up on YouTube.
There's a bunch of videos there.
I'm going to be putting these in in a pilot project, by the way, so I'll report how well it works or doesn't work.
Some of these projects fail.
Some of them work.
I've tried a lot of different interesting approaches to sustainable off-grid living.
And not all of them work.
But I'm going to try this, do a little pilot project, because I want to be able to cool my home in the summer, in Texas especially, without having an air conditioner.
Wouldn't that be a valuable thing in a collapsed society?
Because I could collect energy from solar panels when the sun is shining.
And when the sun is shining, that's when the house is hot.
On a cloudy day, it's usually cooler.
So when you have more solar energy, that's when you need more fans blowing through the earth tubes to get more cool air.
So it's kind of a self-regulating system.
In fact, you can get 12-volt fans that are greenhouse fans, 12 volts.
And I've done this before.
You can direct wire them to a 12-volt solar panel.
I mean, not even any controller or anything.
When the sun comes out, the fan starts blowing.
When the sun sets, the fan stops.
Because it's just directly connected to the solar panel.
Period.
That's a super low-tech, super simple system.
And I can find some wire somewhere, you know, some old used jumper cables or speaker wire or something.
I can find some wire to rig that thing up.
No problem.
And the solar panels don't have any moving parts either, so that can work.
You see, that's just an example.
Earth tubes.
One kind of system.
Rainwater catchment.
And in fact, if you go back a couple of years, remember when I announced the mini farm food rising grow box?
What was that?
It was a non-electric food growing system.
And I think the website for that is still foodrising.org or foodrising.com, either one.
I haven't been there in a long time.
But we still sell those systems too at healthrangerstore.com.
Probably sell a lot of them this spring.
But anyway, they are non-electric off-grid food grow systems that use suspended...
What's the best way to say this?
The root systems that develop from the plants, you can grow basil, tomatoes, green peppers, all kinds of lettuce, all kinds of stuff, herbs.
The roots become hybrid roots.
Part of them are suspended in the air and the rest of the roots are suspended in the water, which is the nutrient solution, and it doesn't need any circulation pumps.
So it's not a hydroponic system.
And it's not an aeroponic system.
It's a hybrid of both of those systems that uses no pumps, no electricity, but you do have to fill water and you have to provide nutrients, obviously, which is calcium and magnesium and trace minerals for plants, the fertilizer that is soluble in the water.
So that system, that's something that I put out a couple of years ago and it's something that I've used ever since.
And it's a very low-tech system.
Some of the parts we 3D print, by the way, with a special polymer, a little 3D printer.
Well, it's actually a bank of 3D printers, but they're getting old too, come to think of it.
Probably need to upgrade those to a better technology.
But anyway, I've always been about these low-tech systems.
And we all need to be thinking about this.
How are we going to survive when the supply lines collapse?
How are we going to make it through?
Where are you gonna get water and food and shelter?
You know, cooling and heating as needed.
Where are you gonna get all that?
Now, it would be awesome if you lived on the side of a mountain and you could drill a cave into that mountain and live in the hillside like a little hobbit home or something.
That's always constantly 50 degrees or 55 degrees, and all you needed was a little heat to supplement that, which is pretty easy to generate some heat with a little wood stove or something like that.
That would be great.
But most people don't have that.
Most people, they live in a home that's fully exposed to the elements.
It's going to get hit with the heat of the summer and the coldness of the winter.
And there's some insulation, but it's not enough.
And it takes a lot of energy to maintain a livable temperature.
And if you turn off the power system, most homes and apartments and buildings in America become unlivable within 72 hours.
Unlivable.
As something that people just discovered in Texas.
Why were they moving out of their homes and sleeping in their cars?
Because the car still worked.
The car had heat, at least as long as they had fuel.
And that was running out too.
But that's why people did that.
Because you couldn't sleep in a 40 degree home, right?
And by the way, if those homes got cold enough, and many of them did, then the pipes burst.
And see, that's an example of when the collapse happens, You get the blue screen of death effect, which is a catastrophic failure that takes a lot of time to recover from.
That's burst pipes because you couldn't heat the house.
And so then bringing the whole house back online and all the plumbing back online requires a lot of effort, a lot of spare parts, which again comes to long supply lines.
And by the way, people don't think about where their food comes from either.
Food comes from long, long supply lines from all over the place to get to your local grocery store.
You know, I'm a fan of bananas and avocados.
I drink them every day in smoothies.
And I know that even though avocados come from California and other places across the United States, most bananas come from Ecuador, where I used to live.
And that's a lot of road miles on bananas.
If things go bad with a financial collapse, I'm probably going to have to go banana-free, which would be hard for me.
That's the only addiction that I have.
I don't smoke.
I don't drink.
I don't do drugs.
But I'm kind of a banana addict.
Must be like part monkey or something, I think.
I'll have to tell monkey works about that.
I'm an actual part monkey.
I prove it every day at the grocery store.
But it's going to be tough for me to go without bananas.
I might go bananas without the bananas.
Bad joke.
So, by the way, there's a reason why I planted bananas on my ranch in Texas.
And they have produced bananas!
Like edible, actual, small, finger-sized bananas.
But probably not this year, not after that deep freeze.
I think those plants died all the way down to the ground level.
They're going to have to restart.
The blue screen of death came for the banana plantation this year.
That's for sure.
But, you know, the question is, where's your food going to come from?
The things that you like to eat.
The citrus crops were wiped out in the storms in Texas.
And that's the number three citrus producer in the country.
California has had the COVID lockdowns, shutting down a lot of the agricultural activity there.
There are droughts.
There are weather problems.
There are going to be floods this year.
There are going to be locust plagues this year.
No question about it.
These things are coming.
The food supply is going to be more difficult to acquire.
So where can you get food locally?
This is what Catherine Austin Fitz was talking about.
She said, why are you buying Bitcoin?
You should be buying a membership in a local CSA, you know, community supported agriculture.
You should be maybe spending money at your local farmer's market to support local farmers.
So they will grow more food that you could get locally.
That's how you invest in sustainability, not by just purchasing some virtual thing that doesn't even exist or even buying stocks on the New York stock exchange.
It's just numbers on a screen.
That's not going to help you get food and water in a collapse.
Not at all.
Build local infrastructure.
Invest in local infrastructure.
Support your local community.
Support your local small businesses.
Instead of buying everything on Amazon.com.
I know it's tough.
I have the same challenge too.
Now, anytime that I'm looking to buy something that I think I might buy on Amazon, I really try hard to buy it somewhere else.
And I've discovered a lot of online retailers for that reason.
Oh, speaking of that, I just bought a lithium car battery from a company called, what is it, Antigravity Batteries, I think?
They make the first lithium-ion regular car battery.
And they're really expensive up front, but they last 10 years, and they have way more cranking amps, and so they're a lot more sustainable than lead-acid batteries, and they weigh less than half of what a lead-acid battery weighs.
You know how heavy the lead-acid batteries are.
And also, I don't like to be buying lead, because lead's a toxic heavy metal.
So I decided to try this.
I'll let you know how it goes.
I think it's an expensive battery.
I'll give you that.
It's a lot of money for this battery.
But I wanted to check out this technology.
I think it's like $900.
I know.
You're like, why would you spend that much money on a car battery?
Well, because I want my car to start, you know?
I want to support that company with that breakthrough technology to see how this works.
And also I can share the news with you and tell you whether it works or fails.
So, you know, we can all benefit from this experience.
I'll be the experiment for you, okay?
I'll have one hand on a lithium-ion battery and the other hand shoving bananas down my throat to catch up with my banana quota for the day.
How about that?
And I'll just tell you how it's going.
But basically, I'm trying to find ways to support other businesses so we have more diversity of A business ecosystem.
I don't want the world to be run by freaking Jeff Bezos and the Google tyrants and the Zuckerbergs of the world.
That's not the world I want to live in.
I want to have a thriving local agricultural scene, thriving local businesses, and I'd rather source things locally.
That is the answer to sustainability.
And believe me, anybody who wants to live through what's coming is going to have to start thinking the way I'm describing here right now.
You need to grow food.
You need to support local farmers.
You need to support local businesses.
And you need to simplify.
Simplify as much as you can.
And that means getting away from complex systems with long supply lines and lots of very delicate parts that are very likely to fail.
And, for example, think about this earth tube thing that I mentioned.
Again, all you need is a fan.
You can have cool air.
But to make that work, you need a lot of land.
So this is one more reason to think about living in a rural area.
So you have the land to do that and to be sustainable.
What about the way you're building your home?
Is your home being built in a sustainable fashion?
Could you build your home closer to the earth?
Because earth tubes are really about getting you closer to the temperature of the earth.
Could you build your home closer to that?
Could you have How about home?
Slightly underground home.
Maybe a hillside home or an earth-bermed type of home with soil on one side or something.
These types of structures are naturally, they need very little cooling and very little heating.
Different types of construction that you can use for this, of course, but I mean, it's expensive.
I'm not saying it's affordable.
But these are the things that are going to save you.
As our system collapses.
Remember, the financial system is coming down.
There's no question in my mind that that's going to happen.
And when it does, you're not going to be able to get parts for anything complex.
I mean, even, you know, bicycles are going to be very, very useful.
That's why I did that review of that quad bike.
The review's up on prepwithmike.com if you want to check it out.
It's a video review.
I found this quad bike company.
It's like a little human-powered vehicle.
You sit in the recumbent seat and you pedal it and it's got gear shifters, I think Shimano gear shifters.
It's got four wheels and it's got a little basket in the back.
It's pretty awesome.
You can just sit back and pedal.
You're never going to tip over if that's a concern of yours.
You're never going to tip over because you're already sitting kind of low and it's got four wheels.
But most importantly, you also don't have a bike seat wedgie up your crack also the entire time, which is not a fun way to engage in transportation.
That's one type of banana I don't like.
You know, they call it a banana seat.
Like, really?
The people who built banana seats, did they ever look at male anatomy at all?
I don't know.
Maybe it's just me, but that's...
That's not my idea of a comfortable afternoon, is sitting on a banana seat, pedaling away, hunched over, with my wrists hurting and my neck bent up so I could see the road in front of me.
That's the average racing bike.
It's an ergonomic nightmare.
So that's why I like this human-powered vehicle that I have on the video.
You just lay back.
You can chill out.
You can pedal.
You can coast.
It's a lot of fun.
It's fun just to ride around with that thing.
But if you need to haul wood or move things around or ride to the local farmer's market in the middle of a collapse, sure is better than walking, isn't it?
Riding a bike and putting the food in the basket and riding back home, isn't that way more fun than walking down the road with heavy buckets that you have to carry?
You know, there's a reason why you see films, the National Geographic pictures, women in certain African nations, they carry water on their heads.
That's not a form of art.
That is a practical, energy-saving move.
It's actually less energy to put a load on top of your head than it is to carry it with your arms.
The women who do that are very smart, actually.
Yeah, it takes a little practice.
Not to spill, you know, the bucket of water on your head, but it is the most calorically efficient way to carry water, which is a matter of survival for those African women, by the way.
That's why they do it.
See, a lot of Americans look at that and they're like, what?
Why don't they just carry it in their hands?
Because it takes more energy.
And they're living very close to the edge of a breakdown in terms of food scarcity, you see.
Even walking long distances.
It's a very calorically efficient process of travel, being a bipedal organism walking on two feet instead of on four.
It takes more energy to go a distance with four feet compared to two feet, even if we're talking about two different creatures of the same body mass, for example.
Let's say there's a lion out there that weighs the same as you, But you walking on two feet, you're more efficient traveling distances than the lion is traveling the same distance because it just takes more energy for four feet.
Interesting thermodynamics and metabolic caloric truths here.
But this matters when it comes to not starving to death.
And you're going to have to do a lot of work in a collapse scenario.
So it's about managing energy, like I said yesterday.
Where does your energy come from?
How do you efficiently handle the basics that you need during this coming collapse?
How are you gonna grow food or acquire food in a way that uses less energy than what you get from the food?
What types of foods are you gonna grow, in other words, that have a net gain in calories?
Such as potatoes and so on.
And bananas, come to think of it.
That's my survival plan.
In a nutshell.
In a banana peel.
Yeah, seriously, I can do fine with whey protein, bananas, and water.
That's about all I need.
I'll be fine.
Alright, so I'm about to wrap this up, but just think about when this collapse comes, all the people who are currently focused on Bitcoin, Or GameStop.
Or their favorite tech stocks.
Oh, I own Tesla, they'll say.
And it's made so much money!
All those people...
When the music stops and their computer screen goes dark, they're going to back away from the keyboard and look around their apartment and it's going to be freaking empty of everything that matters.
They're not going to have the food, the water.
They're not going to have a bucket for carrying water.
They're not going to have a firearm for self-defense.
They're not going to have any silver coins or any cash because their whole world was lived through that screen.
Thank you.
Thank you.
And then they're going to die from starvation or violence or, you know, infectious diseases or whatever.
It's not going to be a pretty picture for, you know, probably 200 plus million people in the United States alone.
So my final thought for today, and perhaps a homework assignment for you if you choose to accept it, is, you know that saying where they say, hey, keep it real.
You know, you're about to go on stage or something and say, Dude, keep it real!
I've had people say that to me before a speech.
Keep it real!
Like, no one has to tell me that.
I'm always keeping it real.
Everything comes from authentic life experience, you know, everything I talk about.
But it's a saying, you know, keep it real.
Well, I'd like you to keep that in your mind, but say, make it real.
Whatever you're doing, With finances or planning or your living location or even your mental focus.
What are you focused on?
You focus on things that are real or things that are fake?
You know, entertainment, fake news, distractions and so on.
Whatever you're doing, make it real.
Make it count in the real world.
And a good way to test yourself on that is to say, if the power went off today...
And the banking system collapsed and the whole system collapsed.
What do I have that's real?
And where do I have it?
You know, what's real here?
And look around.
As Steve Quayle says, if you can't touch it, you don't own it.
And touching your computer monitor doesn't really count as touching your bank account money or your stock investments or anything like that.
That doesn't count.
If you can't touch it, you don't own it because you don't really control it.
This is why I've even warned people about, hey, if you have gold in a safe deposit box at the bank, you don't really own it.
The bank owns it.
You put it under their custody and they can seize it.
And they will.
They will.
They will bail in every safe deposit box.
And they'll just take all the gold and diamonds or whatever people keep in their safe deposit boxes.
Oh, and one final thought here.
Previously, I had mentioned that U.S. Treasuries would be one of the last safe investments.
It's just a place to keep assets where they wouldn't lose very much compared to inflation.
At this point, I have to say, I no longer even trust treasuries.
I don't trust them at all.
So I know a lot of people who've been investing in treasuries on a 30-day rotating schedule so they could make a decision every 30 days to get out of those treasuries and put that money somewhere else.
You may want to look into doing that.
I mean, I don't know what's right for you and your financial situation, but see if it's possible that it makes sense for you to get out of treasuries and into something real, something physical, something, obviously, that can survive a total financial collapse.
Now, the one caveat in all this is that I've known this collapse was coming since 2008.
I knew that when they covered up the housing bubble, the subprime mortgage bubble, I knew that they had only kicked the can down the road, so to speak.
They've only delayed the crash.
And so I've repeatedly warned about this over the years for the last 12 plus years at this point.
But I've always said that I don't know when this is going to happen.
And that's still the case.
I can't name a date anymore.
But I do know that we're seeing signs that it is growing much closer now than ever before.
And some of the signs are very alarming.
And I think this is why Michael Burry and others are warning about hyperinflation and systemic collapse.
And, you know, John Rubino again, dollarcollapse.com.
Why does he have that domain name?
Because he saw that the dollar was going to collapse.
And he's had that domain name for, I think, over 10 years, like much longer than that.
So he's seen it coming too.
But he would also tell you, as I'm saying, we don't know when.
But it's going to be a black swan type of event, probably, that triggers it.
And so we won't be able to predict it.
It's not going to happen in a linear projection fashion.
It's going to happen spontaneously in a way that's unpredictable, something that none of us see coming.
And it will be all of a sudden when it does happen.
So you won't be able to pull your money out of the bank as it's happening.
It'll be too late.
It'll already be done.
It's just like last week when the power went out in Texas.
At that point, it was too late for people to prepare if they weren't already prepared.
When the plumbing broke and the city water stopped working, if you didn't already have your water set aside, it was already too late at that time.
So the only preparedness that counts is the preparedness that happens when you don't yet need it.
Think about that as the takeaway thought of the day.
Again, the only preparedness that counts is the preparedness that takes place when you don't yet need it.
Because when the moment comes that you do need it, you won't be able to prepare.
It's too late at that point.
All right?
By the way, I'm investigating a lot of really interesting technologies here that may offer some off-grid decentralization solutions.
Fuel cells, for example.
Ammonia as a store of energy that's much safer than hydrogen.
A lot of new developments.
Reverse fuel cells.
Things like this that could be truly revolutionary.
In terms of off-grid living, self-reliant, you know, off the grid.
Energy storage systems that could convert wind and solar power into actual stored ammonia, for example, that can be used to power fuel cells.
I'll be talking about that in the days ahead, but also I'm planning on purchasing some pilot systems, some fuel cell systems, and I'm going to be doing the EarthTube project and some other things.
My goal is to To be the lab rat for you here, I'm going to try many of these different things that reflect the principles I'm talking about here.
Low tech.
No complex parts, if we can avoid them.
Things that work without a power grid.
Things that work even after an EMP, for example.
I'll be reporting on these things all throughout the year.
And that's what I'm going to bring you in the podcast, plus, you know, of course, some daily news headlines as appropriate.
But I'm really focused on solutions for off-grid living and sustainable living and getting away from these systems because the systems are coming down, folks.
The systems are coming down.
And I don't know how much time we have remaining, but I don't think it's long.
I'd be surprised if we have even two years remaining before this whole thing falls apart.
I'd be surprised.
But who knows?
Maybe they have a way to roll out some bailing wire and just keep it together a little bit longer.
But I doubt it.
We'll see.
But thank you for listening.
And thank you for your support.
Please visit my online store, healthrangerstore.com.
For our storable food solutions there, as well as nutritional products, all lab tested.
Thank goodness our lab is still functioning after last week.
That was a real question, but we have these very expensive UPS systems.
For all of our lab equipment.
Yeah.
I mean, imagine paying $5,000 for UPS. That's what we have done.
I think one of them was more than that.
Just to protect the lab equipment from power problems.
Anyway, lab is functioning.
The food is clean.
It's all tested.
That's what we're offering at healthrangerstore.com.
Food and supplements and personal care products.
And our colloidal silver...
Gel, our first aid gel, will be back in stock shortly.
It's made from Texas rainwater, essential oils, and colloidal silver at 40 ppm plus.
It's a great product.
You'll love it.
I'll let you know when it's back in stock, but it's really close now.
Would have been in stock last week, except for the storms.
But thank you for your support, and I'll bring you more information tomorrow.
It's all going to be about solutions, how we get more self-reliant, and get ready for the collapse that's coming.
Thank you for listening.
I'm Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, and I'm the author of Survival Nutrition.
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